“This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.”

The opening of the Obama Center has brought Barack Obama back into the spotlight, although he offers nothing new. He will be in the pocket of the oligarchy for the rest of his life, and that means he…

“George Washington/Slave-owner general/Ironic that the father of this country Should be a slave owner/The father of this country a slave-owner.”

Douglass called the Fourth of July a hollow mockery in 1852, and nothing has changed except that the empire is now more corrupt, more unequal, and more at war than the founders imagined.

The same U.S. military that kidnapped President Maduro is now directing earthquake relief in Caracas, and if Haiti is any guide, that aid is really just a Trojan Horse for plunder and control.