Paul Craig Roberts March 31 2013
In America truth is offensive. If you tell the truth, you are offensive.
I am offensive. Michael Hudson is offensive. Gerald Celente is offensive. Herman Daly is offensive. Nomi Prins is offensive. Pam Martens is offensive. Chris Hedges is offensive. Chris Floyd is offensive. John Pilger is offensive. Norm Chomsky is offensive. Harvey Silverglate is offensive. Naomi Wolf is offensive. Stephen Lendman is offensive. David Ray Griffin is offensive. Ellen Brown is offensive.
Fortunately, many others are offensive. But how long before being offensive becomes
being “an enemy of the state”?
Throughout history truth tellers have suffered and court historians have prospered. It is
the same today. Gerald Celente illustrates this brilliantly in the next issue of the Trends
Journal.
Over the past 35 years I have learned this lesson as a columnist. If you tell readers
what is really going on, they want to know why you can’t be positive. Why are you telling
us that there are bad happenings that can’t be remedied? Don’t you know that God
gave Americans the power to fix all wrongs? What are you? Some kind of idiot, an anti-American, a pinko-liberal-commie? If you hate America so much, why don’t you move to Cuba, Iran or China (or to wherever the current bogyman is located)?
The ancient Greeks understood this well. In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the prophetess who no one believed despite her 100 percent record of being right. Telling the truth to Americans or to Europeans is just as expensive as telling the truth to the Greeks in ancient mythology.
In America and everywhere in the Western world or the entire world, telling the truth is
unpopular. Indeed, in the USA telling the truth has been criminalized. Look for example at Bradley Manning, held for two years in prison without bail and without a trial in violation of the US Constitution, tortured for one year of his illegal confinement in violation of US and international law, and now put on trial by corrupt prosecutors for aiding “enemies of the US” by revealing the truth, as required of him by the US military code. US soldiers are required to report war crimes. When Bradley Manning’s superiors showed themselves to be indifferent to war crimes, Manning reported the crimes via WikiLeaks. What else does a soldier with a sense of duty and a moral conscience do when the chain of command is corrupt?

And so it is. You are perched on the cusp of something grand. You are but a mindset away from the glorious realization of your fondest hopes and dreams. It is this cusp which hugs the borderline between a dysfunctional world and another world of prosperity and balance; one, an existence of strife and illusion, with the other a paradigm of abundance and truth. You walk along the the border of war and peace. Starvation and fulfillment. Hatred and friendship. Slavery and soveriegnity. Blindness and clear seeing. Which one shall it be, you wonder? Whatever shall be the end result? Why, it is entirely up to you, of course, and the first step is in the choosing.
It’s a no going back choice, if made from the Heart and Soul.
When we are not living our true existence we may become seemingly lost, betraying our self. When we experience discouragement we often overlook our true value. Sometimes we take a misstep and aimlessly follow an ill-suited path. When all seems tilted, volatile or cataclysmic we must trust that all is in perfect order.
Blessed One, your courage to choose to incarnate in the physical during these times is not only appreciated, but supported on many levels. You are continuously surrounded by the Love of past, present and future. When you observe the natural world around you, you will see indications of your own nature. The cycles, the inter-dependence and the separation of form and function are but a few examples. Yet as you observe the unseen, you are connecting with the energy of Love, utilizing the heart of your Being to procure information that is then processed within the brain. The 3rd eye does not connect, it defines into a format that relays information. Your heart Knows the tree is a form on Earth and formless beyond. Your 3rd eye reduces that connection into understanding through vision, words or emotions. Have you felt the Love of a tree? They stand patiently awaiting your hug, awaiting the opportunity for the embrace of connection, a nurturance that nature naturally exudes. Receive that nurturance every chance you get.
Darkness… absence of light?
To contradict accepted beliefs or official propaganda is to stand alone. Totalitarianism goes after the thinkers, intellectuals and journalists first. It is estimated that 