If I were here on a green card, I could be arrested for posting this article. Or for anything at all. Or for nothing.
If I were Palestinian, I could be deported to the killing fields of Gaza for the crime of acknowledging that they exist. Or for the crime of being Palestinian.
You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.
Every time I see another hot take about how Palm Sunday is a protest (?) and Jesus was there to free the Jews from the Romans (please stop) I’m going to reshare this—sorry!
I am reading the very enlightening - and nauseating - book, “Operation Gladio: the Unholy Alliance between The Vatican, The CIA, and The Mafia”, Williams, Paul L. It would appear that the CIA was funded through the sale of heroin and cocaine, received and sold from and by members of the mafia at the time, and banked and laundered through the Vatican’s personal bank. It is a highly cited book with names of the folks involved.