The Madness of John McCain by Justin Raimondo

It is impossible to know what is in McCain’s heart. There may be a purely ideological explanation for his changing viewpoint. But what seems to account for his evolution from realism to hopped-up interventionism is nothing more than sheer ambition. This was the case in 1983, when he defied the Reagan administration over sending U.S. soldiers to die at the hands of a Beirut suicide bomber, and in 1999, when the cry went up to take on Slobodan Milosevic. He was positioning himself against his own party, while staking out a distinctive stance independent of the Democrats. It was, in short, an instance of a presidential candidate maneuvering himself to increase his appeal to the electorate—and, most importantly, the media.

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‘Novo’ kot relikvija vrednot - Aleš 

 Kdaj se je pripetilo? Kdaj nas je globalizacija, silni vpliv t.i. »amerokapitalizma« naredil za brezumne konzumente, brezglave potrošnike absolutno vsega, kar nam ZDA, njihova kultura, takšna in drugačna industrija, kot popolno »perpetuum mobile« orodje za delovanje tako značilne dialektike kapitalizma, vržejo kot »kost sestradanemu psu«? Kdaj je edina naših vrednot postala tista, ki govori, »da je vse kar je novo, tudi boljše, za tisti nepomembni trenutek večnosti celo najboljše, saj, prav kmalu sledi še novejše, boljše-najboljše…« ? Kam drvimo? Zakaj nenehno hlepimo po nečem novem, četudi je staro še vedno tukaj? In še vedno je dobro…

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