CIA is a private corporate owned intelligence service and they don't only work for the US.

War between the States: Typical ploy used in Europe. Support both sides, produce a largely false issue--in this case, slavery--and spark hostilities ("Divide & Conquer" principle). BAM, you have a war which destroys families, erodes freedom, and generates millions for the bankers. The main purpose of the 14th Amendment, incidentally, was the guarantee of repayment of war debts to the international bankers. The second purpose was the institution of a second-class form of American citizenship, no longer based on state citizenship.

The quote is so true. Did he really live 324 years?

Marx was writing in an era when men erected great edifices to ideas and puffed out their chests. We are living in a post-linguistic, post-factual era. Strangely enough, this comports with the way our universe actually works, proving that adage about politics making strange bedfellows. Since the 1920s physicists using increasingly sensitive instruments to make observations based on thought experiments of the kind that allowed Newton to formulate his laws of gravitation and motion which was a complete closed system for sending probes to Mars, Venus, and eventually men to the moon. However on larger scales and much smaller scales Newton's world view has been supplanted twice, first by Einstein and then by the Copenhagen Interpretation out of which our current Observer-created Multiverse is the most comprehensive model of the way things really work. Though it is by no means a complete picture; in fact it strongly suggests that there is no objective reality. Hence: facts have fallen in stature. They are now seen as merely points of view. Opinions. And everyone is entitled to their opinions in America. So says the founding documents, which we might consider re-applying where they've weakened or broken down entirely. I don't hold out much hope for this project to come from anybody in elected office - and certainly doubt very strongly that a plurality could be mustered to support passing any of the first 10 Amendments which were once crucial to the very existence of the USA at the birth of the nation. We are blessed to live in one of the few countries ever founded on good ideas. Only the kabuki show of politics (which exists for us as a Universe which can only count up to 2: polemical thinking is not just the norm, it's very hard for people to imagine how much ill has been created by false dichotomies...when there are far more than 2 points of view, versions of events, realities. For America it's close to 300,000,000 - the number of individuals with nervous systems and magnificent brains of whom it is said "All men (& women) are created equal and endowed with liberties." Not just "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" but in fact any activity - so long as it hurts no one else nor damages or destroys the property of another or others - is nobody's business but yours, yours, and mine. We've got a problem then since 3 million (1 out of every 100) fellow "sovereigns" sits behind bars...over half for committing consensual crimes where they are both perpetrator and victim. This is foolishness and it infantilizes the population in a state of victimhood, blaming others, and not taking personal responsibility. Before the Declaration of Independence the Colonists were not sovereigns -- there was only one sovereign, King George of England. In the world view then current your soul belonged to God and your body belonged to the King or Queen. Unless we grow up and reclaim our adult status we will see more and more of our rights-responsibilities viewed with suspicion. For now it's unconventional forms of intoxication such as marijuana. Tomorrow it will be guns. For certainly if we are not to be trusted with controlling our own states of mind and what we choose to put in our bodies then it can and will be argued very soon that the same is true of firearms. Where does it end: totalitarianism, Authoritarian Dictatorships of One or of a Cabal (also called a Cartel) of corporations whose loyalty to the U.S. Constitution is nil. Here's the good news: you matter. In fact it all hinges on you.... Good luck and we'll regroup after hopefully destroying the Death Star.

Why is it so hard to fathom the notion that the state also includes what the U.S. was founded upon, and what is right about government (and not just what doesn't work about government)? A little more balanced thought & criticism here please.

A little less harranging, politicizing and polarization of the obvious jaded messaging please (capitalism & imperialism = good; socialism & communism = bad)!

Spoken like the one world government statist that he is--"a government official will protect you." Actually, I'd rather take care of myself, thank you. If I were dependent upon CLINTON to help me, I'd have to wait for him to pull his pants back up, first.

abrham lincoln is a great person he set all the slaves free and any body that thinks we should still have slaves is wrong!