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Sometimes we get so wrapped up in the trivia of insurrections and coups and racists claiming to be antiracists conducting a reign of terror under the sponsorship of global corporations that these petty outrages distract us from the deeper crimes, crimes perpetrated in the culture against the truth. A friend of mine the other day […]

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As I read the headlines and the occasional news story on the progress of the so-called migrant caravan coming up from Mexico, I cannot help but sense that we are but spectators to a well-orchestrated script or screenplay.

Unless I’ve missed some seminal event apart from the collapse of the Venezuelan economy, there is no driving natural or humanitarian calamity that is driving this group of Central American migrants to the American border. Apart from the preceding, which would be expected to result in an unorganized but populous stream of refugees, this caravan presents the appearance of planning, organization, and facilitation. To all accounts, the goal appears to be the American border. To be sure, it would not surprise me in the least that some of that number truly have been or are in dire straits, just as I’m sure that some are opportunists and paid collaborators as well. But I fear that a substantial number are being used as pawns in a larger game play to force a confrontation.