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Cirsium

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1. "We can't avoid seeing ourselves"
Sun Jan 4, 2026, 07:58 PM
Sunday

We are the "bad guys." That is a tough realization for many.

Trump is "as American as apple pie."

Despite the mounting evidence of abuses that many predicted would be the inevitable by-product an illegal war, waged by troops infused with racism and arrogance, with no rules — the pundits, politicians and their flunkies have taken off on a campaign to convince the American people and the world that it’s all an “aberration, a few bad apples.”

But while Americans might be in denial, the rest of the world is not.

As H. Rap Brown–now Jamil Al-Amin, serving life in a Georgia jail–said, “Violence is as American as apple pie.” So is torture.

If Malcolm Were Alive
Kevin Alexander Gray
https://www.counterpunch.org/2004/05/19/if-malcolm-were-alive/

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