Language rendered meaningless

November 10, 2025

“Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.” Shakespeare, Henry IV

Jeffrey Sachs has been extraordinarily successful in making us aware of the continuous and deliberate torture of the English language by the US political leadership in pursuit of its centuries long desire to rule the world. Like Humpty Dumpty, they have misused language to that end.

They inherited that damnable propensity from the British who finessed the art in their rule of a globe spanning empire by dividing humanity at every turn.

A stomach-turning example given by Sachs was the declaration by the farcical recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize Barack Obama that the Third World country of Venezuela constituted an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to US national security. This poor Third World country, thousands of kilometres from the US, with the largest oil reserves on the planet, which the US intends to take, is somehow a threat to the most powerful country on the planet. Voltaire was right when he reflected that a person “who is entitled to make you absurd is entitled to make you unjust.” Amen to that!