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No Joy to the World This Christmas
By Stephen Lendman
12-25-13
How can there be with wars raging out-of control! Who's celebrating while mass slaughter and destruction persist?
No Christmas cheer this year for billions. No Feliz Navidad. No happy holiday. No Wise Men spreading good will.
No silent, holy night. No decking the halls. No herald angels singing. None heard on high.
No coming all ye faithful. No telling it on the mountain. No merry gentlemen resting. No peace on earth coming upon a midnight clear.
No most wonderful time of the year. No having yourself a merry little Christmas. No holly jolly one. No wishing you one in times of war, injustice and human suffering. Imagine them on an unprecedented scale.
No frosty the snowman fun. No winter wonderland. No jingle bells joy. No auld lang syne.
No Christmas 2014 to remember. No Santa on his sleigh. None coming to town. No gifts for billions.
No peace with war winds raging. None with growing global human misery. America is Scrooge writ large. It's the Grinch that stole Christmas.
Scoundrel media editors claim otherwise. They support the worst of all possible worlds. They pretend aggressive wars are liberating ones.
They claim nations are destroyed to free them. They call imperial dominance democracy.
They glorify wars in the name of peace. Humanitarian intervention and responsibility to protect (R2P) mask ravaging one country after another. Mass slaughter and destruction reflect it.
They call plunder economic development. They pretend Christmas 2014 reflects peace and good on earth.
They ignore what matters most. They turn a blind eye to America's imperial savagery. Unprecedented human misery reflects it.
It persists globally. They sweep it under the rug. They air brush it from history. They ignore reality. Hypocrisy and indifference substitute.
New York Times editors headlined "This Day of Good Cheer." They called it "the most joyous and the most richly seasonal."
"Christmas can seem, somehow, outside the sequence of the ordinary year," they said.
How can it be when billions endure poverty, unemployment, hunger and homelessness? Millions more suffer the scourge of war.
Festiveness doesn't top their agenda. Survival matters most. Christmas is no different from other days. It's not a day off from human misery. It doesn't stop mass slaughter and destruction.
Not according to New York Times editors. It's "a day of good cheer," they said. It "comes to life on just this one holiday."
It's "enough to be here today," they claim. How can it be when unprecedented human misery overwhelms it?
Washington Post editors headlined "The Christmas story, still captivating the world."
A decades earlier radio program was called "The Greatest Story Ever Told." It related biblical narratives. It was popular at the time. It inspired a Hollywood film by the same name.
One Bible story remained popular, said WaPo editors. It's "a tale of universal appeal." It's "a story of love and triumph over adversity and also of humility, of the good to be found in the most modest of circumstances."
It reflects the spirit of Francis of Assisi, they said. He preached "reverence for all living things." He created the first manger creche.
His "living Christmas story was taken up in many towns and villages." They created their own manger scenes. They reflect the seasonal spirit.
"Their basic appeal lay in their warmth, humanity and simplicity." It's an "enduring reflection of...'comfort and joy,' " said WaPo editors.
For whom they didn't explain. For billions it doesn't exist. Human misery is their daily reality. WaPo editors substituted illusion for unconscionable human suffering.
By Stephen Lendman
12-25-13
How can there be with wars raging out-of control! Who's celebrating while mass slaughter and destruction persist?
No Christmas cheer this year for billions. No Feliz Navidad. No happy holiday. No Wise Men spreading good will.
No silent, holy night. No decking the halls. No herald angels singing. None heard on high.
No coming all ye faithful. No telling it on the mountain. No merry gentlemen resting. No peace on earth coming upon a midnight clear.
No most wonderful time of the year. No having yourself a merry little Christmas. No holly jolly one. No wishing you one in times of war, injustice and human suffering. Imagine them on an unprecedented scale.
No frosty the snowman fun. No winter wonderland. No jingle bells joy. No auld lang syne.
No Christmas 2014 to remember. No Santa on his sleigh. None coming to town. No gifts for billions.
No peace with war winds raging. None with growing global human misery. America is Scrooge writ large. It's the Grinch that stole Christmas.
Scoundrel media editors claim otherwise. They support the worst of all possible worlds. They pretend aggressive wars are liberating ones.
They claim nations are destroyed to free them. They call imperial dominance democracy.
They glorify wars in the name of peace. Humanitarian intervention and responsibility to protect (R2P) mask ravaging one country after another. Mass slaughter and destruction reflect it.
They call plunder economic development. They pretend Christmas 2014 reflects peace and good on earth.
They ignore what matters most. They turn a blind eye to America's imperial savagery. Unprecedented human misery reflects it.
It persists globally. They sweep it under the rug. They air brush it from history. They ignore reality. Hypocrisy and indifference substitute.
New York Times editors headlined "This Day of Good Cheer." They called it "the most joyous and the most richly seasonal."
"Christmas can seem, somehow, outside the sequence of the ordinary year," they said.
How can it be when billions endure poverty, unemployment, hunger and homelessness? Millions more suffer the scourge of war.
Festiveness doesn't top their agenda. Survival matters most. Christmas is no different from other days. It's not a day off from human misery. It doesn't stop mass slaughter and destruction.
Not according to New York Times editors. It's "a day of good cheer," they said. It "comes to life on just this one holiday."
It's "enough to be here today," they claim. How can it be when unprecedented human misery overwhelms it?
Washington Post editors headlined "The Christmas story, still captivating the world."
A decades earlier radio program was called "The Greatest Story Ever Told." It related biblical narratives. It was popular at the time. It inspired a Hollywood film by the same name.
One Bible story remained popular, said WaPo editors. It's "a tale of universal appeal." It's "a story of love and triumph over adversity and also of humility, of the good to be found in the most modest of circumstances."
It reflects the spirit of Francis of Assisi, they said. He preached "reverence for all living things." He created the first manger creche.
His "living Christmas story was taken up in many towns and villages." They created their own manger scenes. They reflect the seasonal spirit.
"Their basic appeal lay in their warmth, humanity and simplicity." It's an "enduring reflection of...'comfort and joy,' " said WaPo editors.
For whom they didn't explain. For billions it doesn't exist. Human misery is their daily reality. WaPo editors substituted illusion for unconscionable human suffering.
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