A country hijacked

Over the course of the the last 8 plus years we have heard many complaints about the lack of solid reporting from the mainstream media and how they have acted like cheerleaders for the corporate interests that they serve. Well this is nothing new. I just finished reading JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters. The book documents how President Kennedy went from being a Cold Warrior to a Peace advocate and how this profound change caused the real powers behind the USA to become so threatened that they had to take " Executive Action" against our President. Being only 8 years old at the time I vaguely remember the shock his assassination caused but accepted the reported events as truth as this was all my eight year old mind was capable of. The book reports many shocking facts suppressed by our government and the Warren Commission who's duty it was to get to the bottom of it. Well if you are of the opinion that they did then maybe we are living in a country full of eight year olds.

To return to my opening point about the mainstream media; much is made of a speech JFK gave at American University. The main theme of the speech was how he wanted to begin a journey toward peace and an end of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. This included the eventual total disarmament of our respective nuclear arsenals. This fact did not sit well with the military-industrial complex. This powerful speech which was widely reported around the world and especially in the Soviet Union was greeted with enthusiasm and hope by the people of the world yet was barely reported on in America. Now think about the continued build up of nuclear arsenals and war we have all lived with these past 26 years. Ask yourself what would life be like if our country had not been hijacked on Nov 22, 1963. I urge you to read the speech I have linked to and seek out this book to see for yourself what could have been.