Endurance

Every community has its political theatre, aided and abetted by local media. Coloring outside the box is not encouraged.

With the evisceration of investigating reporting in mainstream news, citizen journalism has filled the gap, helping communities make sense of things. Often the only ones willing to expose local corruption in local politics, citizen journalists are routinely attacked by their investigative targets, as well as actively marginalized by their less courageous fellow citizens.

Weathering the disappointments from the complacent, mediocre, and silent is tiring, but enduring the betrayals by petty tyrants and provincial pundits can be discouraging to all but the stalwart. If you want to have a voice in public affairs, you have to fight for it. Color outside the box.

As Glen Greenwald reports, Hillary's Zionism is no laughing matter. As U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary fought hard against the UN publication of a report which documented widespread Israeli war crimes in Gaza. In response to Hillary's criticism of Obama for not attacking Israel's enemies, saying she would be more militaristic, Greenwald understandably asks what could be more militaristic than bombing seven Muslim countries repeatedly?

As Greenwald observes, "She does not even acknowledge, let alone express opposition to, Israel's repeated, civilian-slaughtering bombing of the open-air prison in Gaza."

Man got to have a code.
--Detective Bunk Moreland, The Wire

Liberalism -- like all doctrine -- is comprised of beliefs founded on faith, that is in turn based on unproven, sometimes outdated, assumptions.

Native American clans -- symbolized by totems (i.e. Eagle, Bear, Wolf, Beaver and Swan) -- are representative of universal values (i.e. courage, strength, cunning, industry and beauty), that are distinct from wide-spread virtues (i.e. ethics, honor, integrity, decency and nobility), all of which are institutionalized in American Indian special societies (i.e. gourd, medicine, protector, shaman and warrior).