{"article":{"id":264294,"heading":"Kerry at Yale","author":"Stephen Lendman","created":"2014-05-20 07:44:53","modified":"2014-05-20 07:44:53","last_modified":"Tue, 20 May 2014 14:44:53","article":"<p>Kerry at Yale <br><br> by Stephen Lendman <br><br> On May 18, he returned to his alma mater. He's class of 1966. He was a mediocre student. He barely managed to graduate.  <br><br> He got four freshman year Ds. His cumulative four-year 76 numerical rating barely avoided failure. Gentlemen C's got him through. <br><br> He was Yale's featured Class Day speaker. He addressed graduating students. His mother stressed integrity. <br><br> \"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.\" <br><br> Two important lessons Kerry never learned. He's vying for Washington's worst ever Secretary of State dishonor.  <br><br> He fronts for imperial lawlessness. He's an unindicted war criminal. He represents America's dark side.  <br><br> 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. <br><br> He's deplores peace. He's brazenly hawkish. He's indifferent to human suffering.  <br><br> He relishes spoils of war. He's what Paul Craig Roberts calls a \"two-bit punk.\" More on what he said below. <br><br> In November 1984, he was elected Massachusetts junior senator. He succeeded Paul Tsongas. He stepped down for health reasons.  <br><br> On January 2, 1985, he took office. For over 29 years, he supported US imperial lawlessness. He was Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman. <br><br> On February 1, 2013, he became America's 68th Secretary of State. Its top diplomat. Its front man for ruthless power. <br><br> His style reflects bullying, bluster and Big Lies. His job involves telling other nations who's boss. Explaining Washington rules. Demanding compliance or else. <br><br> His estimated net worth exceeds $300 million. He's a billionaire through his wife's wealth. She's heir to the Heinz fortune. <br><br> Kerry's Senate voting record was deplorable. He was Israel's man in Washington. <br><br> 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. <br><br> He endorsed war on terror lawlessness. He backed Bush's imperial aggression. He supported Obama's war on Libya.  <br><br> 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. <br><br> Earlier he backed Bush's No Child Left Behind scheme to privatize public education. <br><br> He endorsed energy policies benefitting Big Oil, Obamacare, reduced food stamp funding, and freedom threatening cybersecurity legislation among other undemocratic measures. <br><br> He favors doubling special forces death squads. He wants them deployed globally. He wants their role in America's war on terror enhanced. <br><br> 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.  <br><br> He supports offensive national missile defense. He's against cutting nuclear weapons below START levels. <br><br> 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. <br><br> He was president of Yale's Political Union. He belonged to Skull and Bones. So did Bush, his father, and grandfather. <br><br> 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. <br><br> Alumni include former presidents, Supreme Court chief justices, CIA officials, cabinet members, congressmen, senators, business leaders, and other prominent members of society. <br><br> Hundreds of living ones remain. S&amp;B is Yale's elitist secret society. Members are carefully vetted. <br><br> It's more than a club. Fifteen members are chosen annually. It may be America's most elite network.  <br><br> Inductees are considered potential future business, government, legal, and other type prominent leaders. <br><br> Its alumni have enormous influence. They run America. They've done it for years. Dominant S&amp;B alumni families control it.  <br><br> They include Bush, Bundy, Harriman, Lord, Phelps, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, Taft, and Whitney, among others. Inter-marriage is encouraged. <br><br> One observer calls it \"an international mafia - unregulated and all but unknown.\"  <br><br> Its agenda reflects New World Order dominance. It wants personal freedoms compromised. Ceremonial silence is sworn. <br><br> 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. <br><br> Many Bonesmen have close Wall Street ties. At least a dozen are linked to the Fed.  <br><br> They control America's media, prominent legal institutions, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Trilateral Commission. <br><br> 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. <br><br> His Class Day address ignored his imperial agenda. It substituted lies for vital truths.  <br><br> He pretended support for peace, civil rights, popular needs, immigration reform that matters, and environmental sanity. <br><br> He ludicrously called what happened after he graduated a \"daring journey of progress played out over years, decades, and even generations.\" <br><br> \"On the world stage,\" he said, \"you will not escape it&hellip;We see huge, growing populations of young people in places that offer little education, little economic or political opportunity.\" <br><br> He fabricated concern for \"do(ing) more to coordinate an attack on extreme poverty, provide education, opportunity, and jobs&hellip;\" <br><br> He stressed \"refus(ing) to accept the downsizing of America's role in a very complicated world.\" <br><br> He told class of 2014 Yale grads: \"Your job is to disturb the universe.\" <br><br> He pretended for better, not worse. He meant furthering US dominance.  <br><br> Enforcing Washington rules. Targeting outliers for removal. Eliminating major rivals. Waging war on humanity. <br><br> He ludicrously claimed \"most of the rest of the world doesn&rsquo;t lie awake at night worrying about America&rsquo;s presence.\" <br><br> \"They worry about what would happen in our absence&hellip;(W)hat makes America different from other nations&hellip;is that we are united by an uncommon idea&hellip;\" <br><br> \"(T)hat we&rsquo;re all created equal and all endowed with unalienable rights.\"  <br><br> \"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.\" <br><br> \"At Yale, we say your degree admits you to all its 'rights and responsibilities.' \"  <br><br> \"It means we need to renew that responsibility over and over again every day. It's not a one-time decision.\" <br><br> Kerry urged keeping faith in government. Remain hopeful. Stay active. Find solutions.  <br><br> Keep \"faith with the ability of institutions to do big things when demanded.\" <br><br> It bears repeating. Kerry ignored America's dark side. His lead role. His criminal agenda.  <br><br> His war on freedom. His hawkishness. Disdaining peace. Supporting wrong over right.  <br><br> Defending the indefensible. Failing as America's top diplomat. Remaining unaccountable. His policies risk potential global war.  <br><br> Yale's class of 2014 includes students from 61 countries. Vietnam among others. Ones America ravaged and destroyed.  <br><br> They know America's dark side best. Likely Kerry's lead imperial role. His support for wealth, power and privilege. His lawlessness. <br><br> His deplorable human rights record. His support for wrong over right. His disdain for what matters most. <br><br> New grads can make a difference. Doing so requires making right choices.  <br><br> Hopefully one is being Kerry's worst nightmare. Being opposite his imperial madness.  <br><br> Being on the right side of history. Wanting societies fit to live in. Supporting peace, equity and justice. Governance of, by and for everyone. <br><br> Endorsing right over wrong. Doing it because it matters. Spreading the word.  <br><br> Urging others to do the same thing. Beating Kerry and like-minded scoundrels at their own dirty game. <br><br> Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net<\/a>.  <br><br> His new book as editor and contributor is titled \"Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.\" <br><br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/a> <br><br> Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com.  <br><br> Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network. <br><br> It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs.  <br><br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.progressiveradionetwork.com\/the-progressive-news-hour\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.progressiveradionetwork.com\/the-progressive-news-hour<\/a> <\/p>\n","contact":"lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net","link":"sjlendman.blogspot.com","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Kerry","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2014\/05\/264294.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}