ensnaring hares with scary bears (oh, my!)

it's astonishing how many sentient persons

are caught in the snares
of the latest Russian scare,

brought to us by the very people
who crushed
the independence of the sixties,

subverted the dreams of Latin America,

opened the clouds of hell
above Southeast Asia,

and condemned large swaths
of the Middle East

to rediscovering the stone age,

the dependably duplicitous CIA,

with the righteously remunerated,
self-aggrandizing encouragement

of their insatiable enablers

those virtuous beacons of truth,
the Times and the Post,

and the Party that pretends
to be Democratic.

now this league of lesser,
more effective demons

is condemning the
Great Strutting STrumpet's

outrageous crop
of dead disruptors.

not for being a despicable gang

of disastrous,
disassembling dissemblers,
no.

for communicating with the Russians

and attempting to interrupt
the eternal pounding
of nuclear war drums.

(and just when our Nazi bedfellows

were so handily installed in the Ukraine,

throwing over yet another

displeasingly independent election,

consigning yet another
population to penury,

at the very same time
our nooses are strung
so invitingly

around those inherently evil people
born in Russia, Iran, and China,

and the skyrocketing
profits of Armageddon

beckon so brightly
from the glossy pages
of self-indulgent,
suicidal prospectuses.)

this talking with,
instead of threatening,
the Russians,

who've embarrassed our terror spin
once again

(by actually taking territory AWAY from ISIS),

was perhaps the ONLY tattered shred
of questionable evidence

that the 45^th corporate representative

of the insanely profitable military machine

wasn't intent on destroying

every vestige of humanity
his piggy eyes can see.

but no president since Eisenhower

has successfully waylaid
the war plans,

er…"foreign policy",

of the Deep State's
feed-me-Seymour,
regime-changing,
border-bashing,
"exception" pivoting
(from sea to oily sea),

threat-inventing,
peace-circumventing,
un-elected and irremovable,
heedless-headed
hydra
of "Defense".

and they're NOT going to let it happen now.

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there can be all kinds of dissension

amoungst the Empire's minions.

(indeed, as Noam Chomsky points out,

that's how the rumours of Democracy spread.)

but stepping away
from a lockstep subservience

to the manifestly infested,
unquestioned myth

of America's
divinely predestined
Right to Rule the World

is NEVER tolerated.

that is, in fact, why Martin Luther King

was taken from us.

of course the Russians,

and every other government capable of it,

spy on each other.

all diseased people
who feel the need to lead

turn out to be paranoid.

it's quite the nature of the beast.

and this unrelenting insistence
on secrecy
(thus preempting
the unthinkable situation
of an honestly informed Citizenry)

coupled with
an exponentially expanding,
virtually limitless
eavesdropping on us

is the precedent
our very own
"transparency president" set
(at an astronomical, "1984"-shaming level).

but blaming our fiasco of an election

on Boris and Natasha,

notwithstanding its fashionable nod

to McCarthy's apple-pie,

with-us-or-against-us,

righter-than-white tradition,

is a desperate and pathetic slap
of last ditch projection.

a refusal to face
what several decades

of bipartisan defunding
of the commons

was all about.

a denial par excellence

of the quadrennial circus'

descending death rattle

dearth of choice.

an acrobatic avoidance

of the 'Democratic' un-Democratic
primary race,

the FBI's final-hour,
branch-breaching sneak attack,

and the graceless coup de grace

of Hillary casting aspersions

on the very people she needed

to cast swing votes
for her.

if it's so upsetting to contemplate

the latest hatching of
congenitally disingenuous,
purchasable persons

discussing invariably
hidden-from-their-people

inter-conspiratorial relations

with their Russian counterparts,

why wasn't there a REVOLUTION

when the courageous,
recovered acolyte

(Edward Snowden),

that fugitive from American-style "justice"

held at bay by 'liberal' yapping hounds,

informed us that President Obama

(he who chased him to the ends of the earth)

was sharing all of our private and personal,

constitution-protected
communications and data

with the "five eyes"

(the national spy outfits of Britain,
Australia, New Zealand, and Canada)?

can it be that this

ridiculously misplaced thing
called 'patriotism'

(this fear-based grist
for manufacturing walls
between human beings)

only gets offended,
or swells into deputized censors

when the 'foreigners'
raising our
eternally vigilant eyebrows

don't speak English?

funny, that.

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- Evan Hawthorn, the 26^th of February, 2017