
It is easy to severely criticize the state of many things in the United States of America: the US President and Congress
bowing to the demands of the national security community to exempt their $ 1 trillion (US) spending from sequestration mandates. The demise of Detroit, Michigan and another round of
water shut-offs scheduled for April that will affect nearly 100,000 residents (the Detroit bankruptcy case judge’s ruled that residents have no inherent right to clean water). The geopolitical
brinkmanship with Russia and China that, if pushed too far, could lead to World War III. The odious double standards applied to “leakers” of classified military and intelligence information js repulsive: former US Army general and CIA director David
Petraeus gets no jail time for passing off military secrets to his lover Paula Broadwell, yet former CIA analyst John
Kiriakou gets two years in federal prison.