{"id":119539,"date":"2014-05-20T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T07:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=93b3015841c8399a7787ae381087bf4e"},"modified":"2014-05-20T07:33:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T07:33:00","slug":"kerry-at-yale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/kerry-at-yale\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry at Yale"},"content":{"rendered":"
Kerry at Yale<\/b><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
by Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
On May 18, he returned to his alma mater. He’s class of 1966. He was a mediocre student. He barely managed to graduate. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He got four freshman year Ds. His cumulative four-year 76 numerical rating barely avoided failure. Gentlemen C’s got him through.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He was Yale’s featured Class Day speaker<\/span><\/a>. He addressed graduating students. His mother stressed integrity.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“Integrity, John,” she said. His father said “diplomacy was really being able to see the world through the eyes of someone else, to understand their aspirations and assumptions.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Two important lessons Kerry never learned. He’s vying for Washington’s worst ever Secretary of State dishonor. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He fronts for imperial lawlessness. He’s an unindicted war criminal. He represents America’s dark side. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He mocks legitimacy. He shames the office he holds. He’s mindless of rule of law principles. He’s a serial liar. He’s a moral coward.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He’s deplores peace. He’s brazenly hawkish. He’s indifferent to human suffering. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He relishes spoils of war. He’s what Paul Craig Roberts calls a “two-bit punk.” More on what he said below.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
In November 1984, he was elected Massachusetts junior senator. He succeeded Paul Tsongas. He stepped down for health reasons. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
On January 2, 1985, he took office. For over 29 years, he supported US imperial lawlessness. He was Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
On February 1, 2013, he became America’s 68th Secretary of State. Its top diplomat. Its front man for ruthless power.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His style reflects bullying, bluster and Big Lies. His job involves telling other nations who’s boss. Explaining Washington rules. Demanding compliance or else.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His estimated net worth exceeds $300 million. He’s a billionaire through his wife’s wealth. She’s heir to the Heinz fortune.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Kerry’s Senate voting record was deplorable. He was Israel’s man in Washington.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He supported NAFTA, Big Media, welfare reform, Plan Columbia, Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF\/September 2001), the USA Patriot Act, its 2006 and 2011 reauthorizations, and annual national defense budgets for war.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He endorsed war on terror lawlessness. He backed Bush’s imperial aggression. He supported Obama’s war on Libya. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He favors ravaging and destroying Syria. He’s for targeting Iran next. He’s administration Ukraine agenda front man. He supports illegitimate fascist putschist rule.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Earlier he backed Bush’s No Child Left Behind scheme to privatize public education.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He endorsed energy policies benefitting Big Oil, Obamacare, reduced food stamp funding, and freedom threatening cybersecurity legislation among other undemocratic measures.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He favors doubling special forces death squads. He wants them deployed globally. He wants their role in America’s war on terror enhanced.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He wants greater US military strength. He wants it better able to wage global wars. He wants stepped up intelligence gathering. He favors tougher anti-terrorist policies. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He supports offensive national missile defense. He’s against cutting nuclear weapons below START levels.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He’s brazenly anti-Russian. He’s hostile to Moscow\/Beijing ties. He has close Wall Street ties. He and George Bush are Yale grads.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He was president of Yale’s Political Union. He belonged to Skull and Bones. So did Bush, his father, and grandfather.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
In 1832, it was founded. Throughout most of its history as an all-male secret society. Women were excluded until selectively admitted in the 1990s. Its headquarters building is called the Tomb.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Alumni include former presidents, Supreme Court chief justices, CIA officials, cabinet members, congressmen, senators, business leaders, and other prominent members of society.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Hundreds of living ones remain. S&B is Yale’s elitist secret society. Members are carefully vetted.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It’s more than a club. Fifteen members are chosen annually. It may be America’s most elite network. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Inductees are considered potential future business, government, legal, and other type prominent leaders.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Its alumni have enormous influence. They run America. They’ve done it for years. Dominant S&B alumni families control it. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They include Bush, Bundy, Harriman, Lord, Phelps, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, Taft, and Whitney, among others. Inter-marriage is encouraged.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
One observer calls it “an international mafia – unregulated and all but unknown.” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Its agenda reflects New World Order dominance. It wants personal freedoms compromised. Ceremonial silence is sworn.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Bonesmen automatically advance to positions of power. They’re expected to serve prominently. Former members financed Hitler. Current ones are fascists. They’re neo-Nazis.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Many Bonesmen have close Wall Street ties. At least a dozen are linked to the Fed. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They control America’s media, prominent legal institutions, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Trilateral Commission.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Silence is Skull and Bones’ golden rule. Bonesmen are sworn to secrecy. They reflect the worst of America’s dark side. Kerry is current Exhibit A.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His Class Day address ignored his imperial agenda. It substituted lies for vital truths. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He pretended support for peace, civil rights, popular needs, immigration reform that matters, and environmental sanity.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He ludicrously called what happened after he graduated a “daring journey of progress played out over years, decades, and even generations.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“On the world stage,” he said, “you will not escape it\u2026We see huge, growing populations of young people in places that offer little education, little economic or political opportunity.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He fabricated concern for “do(ing) more to coordinate an attack on extreme poverty, provide education, opportunity, and jobs\u2026”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He stressed “refus(ing) to accept the downsizing of America’s role in a very complicated world.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He told class of 2014 Yale grads: “Your job is to disturb the universe.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He pretended for better, not worse. He meant furthering US dominance. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Enforcing Washington rules. Targeting outliers for removal. Eliminating major rivals. Waging war on humanity.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He ludicrously claimed “most of the rest of the world doesn\u2019t lie awake at night worrying about America\u2019s presence.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“They worry about what would happen in our absence\u2026(W)hat makes America different from other nations\u2026is that we are united by an uncommon idea\u2026”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“(T)hat we\u2019re all created equal and all endowed with unalienable rights.” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“America is not just a country like other countries. America is an idea and we. All of us, you – get to fill it out over time.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“At Yale, we say your degree admits you to all its ‘rights and responsibilities.’ ” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“It means we need to renew that responsibility over and over again every day. It’s not a one-time decision.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Kerry urged keeping faith in government. Remain hopeful. Stay active. Find solutions. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Keep “faith with the ability of institutions to do big things when demanded.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It bears repeating. Kerry ignored America’s dark side. His lead role. His criminal agenda. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His war on freedom. His hawkishness. Disdaining peace. Supporting wrong over right. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Defending the indefensible. Failing as America’s top diplomat. Remaining unaccountable. His policies risk potential global war. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Yale’s class of 2014 includes students from 61 countries. Vietnam among others. Ones America ravaged and destroyed. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They know America’s dark side best. Likely Kerry’s lead imperial role. His support for wealth, power and privilege. His lawlessness.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His deplorable human rights record. His support for wrong over right. His disdain for what matters most.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
New grads can make a difference. Doing so requires making right choices. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Hopefully one is being Kerry’s worst nightmare. Being opposite his imperial madness. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Being on the right side of history. Wanting societies fit to live in. Supporting peace, equity and justice. Governance of, by and for everyone.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Endorsing right over wrong. Doing it because it matters. Spreading the word. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Urging others to do the same thing. Beating Kerry and like-minded scoundrels at their own dirty game.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

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Kerry at Yale<\/b><\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
by Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
On May 18, he returned to his alma mater. He’s class of 1966. He was a mediocre student. He barely managed to graduate. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He got four freshman year Ds. His cumulative four-year 76 numerical rating barely avoided failure. Gentlemen C’s got him through.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He was Yale’s featured Class Day speaker<\/span><\/a>. He addressed graduating students. His mother stressed integrity.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“Integrity, John,” she said. His father said “diplomacy was really being able to see the world through the eyes of someone else, to understand their aspirations and assumptions.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Two important lessons Kerry never learned. He’s vying for Washington’s worst ever Secretary of State dishonor. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He fronts for imperial lawlessness. He’s an unindicted war criminal. He represents America’s dark side. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He mocks legitimacy. He shames the office he holds. He’s mindless of rule of law principles. He’s a serial liar. He’s a moral coward.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He’s deplores peace. He’s brazenly hawkish. He’s indifferent to human suffering. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He relishes spoils of war. He’s what Paul Craig Roberts calls a “two-bit punk.” More on what he said below.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
In November 1984, he was elected Massachusetts junior senator. He succeeded Paul Tsongas. He stepped down for health reasons. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
On January 2, 1985, he took office. For over 29 years, he supported US imperial lawlessness. He was Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
On February 1, 2013, he became America’s 68th Secretary of State. Its top diplomat. Its front man for ruthless power.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His style reflects bullying, bluster and Big Lies. His job involves telling other nations who’s boss. Explaining Washington rules. Demanding compliance or else.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His estimated net worth exceeds $300 million. He’s a billionaire through his wife’s wealth. She’s heir to the Heinz fortune.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Kerry’s Senate voting record was deplorable. He was Israel’s man in Washington.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He supported NAFTA, Big Media, welfare reform, Plan Columbia, Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF\/September 2001), the USA Patriot Act, its 2006 and 2011 reauthorizations, and annual national defense budgets for war.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He endorsed war on terror lawlessness. He backed Bush’s imperial aggression. He supported Obama’s war on Libya. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He favors ravaging and destroying Syria. He’s for targeting Iran next. He’s administration Ukraine agenda front man. He supports illegitimate fascist putschist rule.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Earlier he backed Bush’s No Child Left Behind scheme to privatize public education.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He endorsed energy policies benefitting Big Oil, Obamacare, reduced food stamp funding, and freedom threatening cybersecurity legislation among other undemocratic measures.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He favors doubling special forces death squads. He wants them deployed globally. He wants their role in America’s war on terror enhanced.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He wants greater US military strength. He wants it better able to wage global wars. He wants stepped up intelligence gathering. He favors tougher anti-terrorist policies. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He supports offensive national missile defense. He’s against cutting nuclear weapons below START levels.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He’s brazenly anti-Russian. He’s hostile to Moscow\/Beijing ties. He has close Wall Street ties. He and George Bush are Yale grads.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He was president of Yale’s Political Union. He belonged to Skull and Bones. So did Bush, his father, and grandfather.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
In 1832, it was founded. Throughout most of its history as an all-male secret society. Women were excluded until selectively admitted in the 1990s. Its headquarters building is called the Tomb.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Alumni include former presidents, Supreme Court chief justices, CIA officials, cabinet members, congressmen, senators, business leaders, and other prominent members of society.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Hundreds of living ones remain. S&B is Yale’s elitist secret society. Members are carefully vetted.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It’s more than a club. Fifteen members are chosen annually. It may be America’s most elite network. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Inductees are considered potential future business, government, legal, and other type prominent leaders.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Its alumni have enormous influence. They run America. They’ve done it for years. Dominant S&B alumni families control it. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They include Bush, Bundy, Harriman, Lord, Phelps, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, Taft, and Whitney, among others. Inter-marriage is encouraged.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
One observer calls it “an international mafia – unregulated and all but unknown.” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Its agenda reflects New World Order dominance. It wants personal freedoms compromised. Ceremonial silence is sworn.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Bonesmen automatically advance to positions of power. They’re expected to serve prominently. Former members financed Hitler. Current ones are fascists. They’re neo-Nazis.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Many Bonesmen have close Wall Street ties. At least a dozen are linked to the Fed. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They control America’s media, prominent legal institutions, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Trilateral Commission.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Silence is Skull and Bones’ golden rule. Bonesmen are sworn to secrecy. They reflect the worst of America’s dark side. Kerry is current Exhibit A.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His Class Day address ignored his imperial agenda. It substituted lies for vital truths. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He pretended support for peace, civil rights, popular needs, immigration reform that matters, and environmental sanity.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He ludicrously called what happened after he graduated a “daring journey of progress played out over years, decades, and even generations.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“On the world stage,” he said, “you will not escape it…We see huge, growing populations of young people in places that offer little education, little economic or political opportunity.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He fabricated concern for “do(ing) more to coordinate an attack on extreme poverty, provide education, opportunity, and jobs…”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He stressed “refus(ing) to accept the downsizing of America’s role in a very complicated world.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He told class of 2014 Yale grads: “Your job is to disturb the universe.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He pretended for better, not worse. He meant furthering US dominance. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Enforcing Washington rules. Targeting outliers for removal. Eliminating major rivals. Waging war on humanity.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
He ludicrously claimed “most of the rest of the world doesn’t lie awake at night worrying about America’s presence.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“They worry about what would happen in our absence…(W)hat makes America different from other nations…is that we are united by an uncommon idea…”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“(T)hat we’re all created equal and all endowed with unalienable rights.” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“America is not just a country like other countries. America is an idea and we. All of us, you – get to fill it out over time.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“At Yale, we say your degree admits you to all its ‘rights and responsibilities.’ ” <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
“It means we need to renew that responsibility over and over again every day. It’s not a one-time decision.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Kerry urged keeping faith in government. Remain hopeful. Stay active. Find solutions. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Keep “faith with the ability of institutions to do big things when demanded.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It bears repeating. Kerry ignored America’s dark side. His lead role. His criminal agenda. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His war on freedom. His hawkishness. Disdaining peace. Supporting wrong over right. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Defending the indefensible. Failing as America’s top diplomat. Remaining unaccountable. His policies risk potential global war. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Yale’s class of 2014 includes students from 61 countries. Vietnam among others. Ones America ravaged and destroyed. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
They know America’s dark side best. Likely Kerry’s lead imperial role. His support for wealth, power and privilege. His lawlessness.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His deplorable human rights record. His support for wrong over right. His disdain for what matters most.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
New grads can make a difference. Doing so requires making right choices. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Hopefully one is being Kerry’s worst nightmare. Being opposite his imperial madness. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Being on the right side of history. Wanting societies fit to live in. Supporting peace, equity and justice. Governance of, by and for everyone.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Endorsing right over wrong. Doing it because it matters. Spreading the word. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Urging others to do the same thing. Beating Kerry and like-minded scoundrels at their own dirty game.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

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