Carl Herman

“There are three scales of intelligence, one which understands by itself, a second which understands what is shown it by others, and a third which understands neither by itself nor on the showing of others.” ~ Niccolò Machiavelli . The Prince , Chapter XXII, page 172 (London: Oxford University Press, 1913) Translated by Ninian Hill Thomson After 41 years of civic activism to end empire-imposed poverty , history-endured , and Orwellian-illegal Wars of Aggression started with lies known to be lies as they were told , and have truth in media and education , I conclude the role of the awake has been to offer fundamental choices to We the People for standing for virtue or kneeling to evil in either willful complicity or willful disconnection from our Brothers and Sisters’ enslavement as work animals, “food” and sadistic entertainment for evil.   I do my best to artistically represent the human condition here . The cost of Earth’s ongoing tragic-comic psychopathic empires...

“2,000 years from now, will students of ancient history ask, ‘Do we have to know what the United States was for the test?’”  ~ paraphrase of Professor Rufus Fears “It is no use trying to escape their arrogance by submission or good behavior. Robbers of the world, having by universal plunder exhausted the land, their drive is greed. If the enemy be rich, they are rapacious; if poor, they lust for domination. Neither rule of the East nor West can satisfy them. Alone among men, they crave with equal eagerness poverty and riches. To plunder, slaughter, seize with false pretenses, they give the lying name ‘empire.’ And where nothing remains but a desert, they call that ‘peace.’ ” –  Tacitus, The Agricola and the Germania (analyses here , here ) The United States is the most dangerous illegal rogue state empire in human history. Among the damning facts: People around the world view the  US as the greatest threat to peace ; voted three  times more dangerous...