More importantly, Biden appears to be a figure head that has little affect on policy, while the alphabet agencies and their many intel blob subsidiaries conducted a silent coup and have been running the US’s affairs disastrously behind the “Joe Biden” wooden Indian. Going further, it’s become obvious that Biden’s rule is at the behest of an oligarch class, who are now in a panic. All we hear is that the donors have decided this or are going to replace Biden, and it becomes clear that the so-called democracy story we’ve been subjected to is nothing but an elaborate con.
Meanwhile, all the concern over Biden’s fitness to run against Trump raises a larger question. Is Joe Biden competent to serve out his term which ends in January 2025?
What’s infuriating is that Biden’s condition was obvious to anyone not ensconced in the “Blue bubble”. Yet after Biden’s debate performance everyone seems to be shocked. I’ve come to believe that Biden was chosen as the Democrats’ candidate in 2020 precisely because he was already senile and therefore completely controllable. The Democratic Party, deep state and shadowy oligarch cabal that calls the shots wanted someone who’d do whatever they demanded on domestic and foreign policy fronts.
Of course they’re circling the wagons. The elite will do everything to cover up for their knowledge of Biden’s senility. Acknowledging that they knew about this would leave little doubt in the minds of many that the 2020 election was actually the elite’s latest coup.
And what about the other branches of government? Well Congress, if Representative Thomas Massie is to to be believed, has an AIPAC babysitter ensuring their compliance with Israeli interests. And the Supreme Court’s latest rulings should leave little doubt as to their subservience to capital.
So much for the myths we learned in civics class about separation of powers and the virtues of a representative republic.
In light of Biden’s debate performance the deep state conspiracy theory seem way more plausible. If the president and congress aren’t running things, then who is?
The US doesn’t do diplomacy. Instead we send in the gunboats or, to be precise, the aircraft-carrier-battle-groups.
Like everything else these days the price of a modern aircraft carrier is astronomical. America’s latest carrier class, the Gerald R. Ford, costs $13 billion per unit. And so far, the entire Ford program has cost taxpayers $120 billion.
Due to the cost of the Ford-class carriers and the rest of America’s gold-plated weapon systems this imperial behavior has reached its pull-by-date. Advances in missile and drone technology allow a poor country like Yemen to essentially close the Red Sea to Israeli bound traffic. Conflict is, at the base level, about bang-for-the-buck, and when adversaries like the Houthis can fire hypersonic missiles and suicide drones that cost a fraction of expensive American carriers, the sort of gunboat force projection is a thing of the past.
Another reason is due to our Middle East proxy–Israel. The balance of forces in the world is shifting in favor of the Axis of Resistance as the entire Global South is appalled by this genocide and appalled by the American empire’s collusion in that genocide.
And we’re also seeing that due to the stupidity of the managers of the U.S. empire, which of course is dominated by Zionists, that the war in Ukraine is actually playing out in favor of Palestine. As they attack Russia with long-range weapons, Russia is going to be offering similar long-range weapons to other forces, including presumably the Axis of Resistance. And there have been some reports along those lines. The Houthis, who are happily messing with Israel-related Red Sea shipping and even US naval vessels, have proven that insurgents, armed with drones and missiles can deny the effective use of carrier-battle-groups.
But, of course, the Pentagon hasn’t gotten the memo, or if they did they are resistant to change because the US military/industrial/complex (MIC) doesn’t do defense they do corporate enrichment and stock buybacks.
What’s ironic is that advances in missile technology is nothing new. By the 1980’s Soviet missile development had changed the calculus of Cold War conflict. US naval doctrine mandated carrier-battle-groups staying well away from Europe in the event of conflict due to the lethality of Soviet anti-shipping missiles.
And here we are, back to the essential conflict between neoconservatism and neoliberalism. The American (MIC) was originally conceived as a make-work program to prevent a recurrence of the Great Depression after WWII ended. However, beginning in the 1980s, private equity was used by MIC insiders to buy Federal assets for pennies on the dollar and load them up with debt to resell them to the public in order to enrich insiders. Wages were cut and production processes ‘streamlined’ in the companies bought by private equity, thereby erasing the public benefit of the MIC, such as it was. Neoliberal myopia went so far as to outsource military production to China, (go figure). And now, the same neocon politicians and intellectuals who thought outsourcing a great idea are today declaring China to be enemy number one.
And now the chicken have come home to roost. A new report warns that the United States is incapable of producing essential, high-tech weapons without continuing support from China: “If we were in a war with China and it stopped providing parts, we wouldn’t be able to build the planes and weapons we needed,’ he said.
A startling report released earlier this year revealed Chinese firms have a stranglehold across 12 critical technologies that are vital to US national security, including nuclear modernization, hypersonic and space technologies.“
The problem for gunboat diplomacy is that it’s impossible to manage an empire with neoliberalism as your operating system.
Update: Heterodox economist Michael Hudson writes–“Wars could only be financed by running into debt, because populations would not support wars if they had to pay immediately the taxes needed to defray their full costs on a pay-as-you-go basis. But the commercial consequences of war debts would burden the economy and slow its economic growth, ultimately driving the nation bankrupt.”
I’m fascinated by the history of ideas and ideologies, and no ideology has captivated me quite like neoliberalism. In our secular era, ideologies, like neoliberalism, with its admonishment that there is no alternative, take on articles of faith. Indeed, neoliberalism’s technocrats, market fundamentalists, and liberal authoritarians have all the trappings of religious deities.
Similar to the study of religions the best way to examine the history of ideas and ideologies is by reading source documents, articles and books. A lot of reading. The internet makes sleuthing far easier than poring over dusty religious manuscripts in the catacombs.
Thanks to the erudite and prolific Alastair Crooke, I have new insights into neoliberalism. “In 1970, Zbig Brzezinski (who was to become National Security Adviser to President Carter) published a book entitled: Between Two Ages: America’s Role in the Technetronic Era.
In it, Brzezinski wrote: “The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society…dominated by an élite, unrestrained by traditional values…[and practicing] continuous surveillance over every citizen … [together with] manipulation of the behavior and intellectual functioning of all people … [would become the new norm].”
Sound familiar?
Brzezinski further argued that “the nation-state as a fundamental unit of man’s organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state”.
David Rockefeller and the rest of the Trilateral Commission, a loose confederation of national security and financial elite, seized on Brzezinski’s insight to represent the third leg to ensuring the hegemony of the American empire. The other two legs were control of oil resources and dollar supremacy.
And, here we are. What Brzezinski, Rockefeller and the rest of the technocratic neoliberal elite plotted has become our reality, and average citizens are not thrilled about it. (See Brexit, Trump’s surprise 2016 election, the rise of the “populist Right” the Yellow Vests, and the latest European election results, etc.)
Kind of how the average Catholic wasn’t all that thrilled about the Spanish Inquisition.
Brzezinski’s book, a valuable source document, confirms the basic dishonesty of neoliberalism’s promise. Neoliberalism has been disastrous for America’s political economy, as austerity, privatization, and deregulation have led to crippling wealth and political inequality. More insidious though equally damaging, neoliberalism has also created a sort of cultural sickness; hyper-individualism and the ever-present narratives of deservedness, productivity, and merit have infiltrated our psyches, warping our sense of self, how we view others, and how we move through the world. It’s no surprise that we are facing loneliness and suicide epidemics, that overwork and burnout are commonplace, and that our society has become atomized.
Brzezinski’s, Between Two Ages, like Lewis Powell’s infamous Memo, provides a clear window into elite thinking. After the turmoil of the 60’s with multiple demands for democratic participation there was a “crisis of democracy”. These documents demonstrate that democracy was for the oligarchy and freedom was to be reserved for capital.
The US has been at war with Russia for over a hundred years. Technically it started out as a war against the Soviet Union, but the enmity remained after we defeated the godless communists.
There was a brief interlude during WWII when we joined forces against Hitler and the Nazi’s but even before the war was over US officials like Alan Dulles were already plotting further conflict. Today we treat Russians worse than the Soviets during the darkest days of the Cold War. We ban Russian musicians, artists, athletes, literature, impose sanctions, insult the President of Russia, and foment war.
Like many observers, Putin was under the illusion that the US were against the USSR for ideological reasons. He thought, “Sure, they dislike communism, like any good capitalist would.” He believed they would be happy now that Russians are enjoying the fruits of private ownership. But it turns out that the Brits and Yanks were never interested in theory. They hated the communists because they kept Russian commodities out of Western bankers greedy hands. Now that it is Putin who is defending the Russian state, the global banking system has declared him to be the man of evil.
Russian author, Israeli Shamir contends that the antipathy towards Russia can be traced to the City of London and British bankers, specifically Lord Rothchild. In my study of history, I’ve come around to that point of view, in that when the US assumed the British empire at the end of WWII, England and especially the bankers in the City of London, were secretly controlling it.
The main problem for the capitalists in the US and Great Britain was that the Soviet Union and the communist bloc prevented them from accessing their resources, labor and markets. Thus when the Wall came down the West wasted little time pilfering post USSR Russia. Its enterprises were intact even if suffering from underinvestment. And not only did the Yeltsin government enable the plunder, but many well-placed Russians believed the con that neoliberal shock therapy would be salutary, so there was no pushback.
Another reason for the support for privatization was the fact that well placed Russian oligarchs were poised to plunder Russia. And, who were the Russian oligarchs who seized all of the state controlled wealth in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s demise? Shamir call them the “Dirty Seven [semiboyarshina] oligarchs who seized control of Russia during Yeltsin’s feeble rule. They all were more or less Jewish, and their solidarity and destructiveness could only compete with their ruthlessness and greed. These seven men practically destroyed millennium-old Russia. They pauperized its people, reduced its industry to ashes, they sold the factories for scrap; they stole all private bank holdings. They even ruined Russian democracy when they shelled Parliament in 1993 using Yeltsin’s tanks, and then, with the assistance of American advisors, by faking the re-election of President Yeltsin in 1996.”
The dirty little secret behind all of the hatred for Russia and Putin is that losing all that fabulous Russian wealth outraged the oligarchs and their western banker allies. This is why they call Vladimir Putin “the bloody tyrant”, because he took away the Russian oil and gas, gold and wheat that they felt they deserved. It’s nothing personal, it’s just business, similar to other countries and rulers who thwart US designs for imperial control.
The foreign policy establishment in the US always saw the present proxy war in Ukraine war (which can be traced to 2014) as a way to bleed Russia of resources. They only understand a unipolar world which revolves around Washington, Wall Street and the City of London. The goal in Ukraine was less to take back the Russian speaking territories for the fascist regime in Kiev and more to unite Europe in a single goal of endless war while establishing a repressive regime in both the USA and Europe for the foreseeable future.
It appears that George Orwell was correct in that–“Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.”
But, but, the idea that Jewish bankers in the City of London control the world is just a conspiracy theory, like lizard people, right?
In a recent poll young Americans were pessimistic about their future, describing the US as a declining empire led by bad people. “Young voters overwhelmingly believe that almost all politicians are corrupt and that the country will end up worse off than when they were born,” according to new polling from Democratic firm Blueprint obtained exclusively by Semafor.
They are not wrong, and it’s surprising how fast the American empire is melting, almost like the Wicked-Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz when Dorthy doused her with water.
And as far as bad people, the Biden Administration is chock full of them. Maybe the Israeli genocide in Gaza caused glitch in the Matrix? Or that the Biden administration has reset the doomsday clock to 90 seconds to midnight through their deranged Ukrainian proxy war? Or that this type of delusional thinking is virtually universal among US foreign policy elite?
And Trump seems to have been educated by the deep state on the realities of the American empire. The best thing about his 2016 presidential campaign was his harsh and all too accurate criticism of the neocon loons and their deranged foreign policies but Russia-gate and two impeachment attempts later he seems to have gotten the message. His new hat might as well be spelled MAEGA for make American empire great again.
So the young-un’s are right to be concerned. The only problem is that the maniacs mismanaging the American empire did not get the memo, or if they did they are disregarding it and doubling-down.
Here’s President Biden’s recent interview with Time. “Is America still able to play the role of world power that it played in World War Two, and in the Cold War?” Biden: “Yes, we’re planning even more. We are, we are the world power.”
See what I mean?
Furthermore, the powers-that be are past any sort of accountability and I’m increasingly concerned that they will resort to violence inherent in the latest police crack-down on the college protests. Then there’s the creeping censorship, surveillance and heavy-handed authoritarianism. In the latest manifestation, on June 3rd the State Department forced former Marine intelligence officer, Chief UN weapons inspector, journalist and author Scott Ritter off a plane headed to Russia by way of Istanbul and confiscated his passport. His crime? Ritter has been an activist who calls for dialogue, negotiation and diplomacy to avoid wars. He’s a fervent critic of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, and was planning on speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, in Russia.
What gives me hope is that more and more young Americans are seeing through the propaganda narrative of the US as a “bright shining city on the hill”, spreading democracy and freedom. The US empire needs us to consent to nonstop militarism and war, so it propagandizes us into thinking this is normal and anyone who questions them is un-American or some kind of freak. It appears that young Americans have now grasped that instead the US is a murderous empire directly aiding Israeli genocide in Gaza while risking a nuclear war with Russia so that a small segment of plutocrats can maintain power.
How much loyalty should young Americans, or any Americans have for such an empire?
It’s become apparent that the pious rhetoric about “liberal democracy” and “rule based international order” is simply a cover story for the promotion and ferocious defense of neoliberal capitalism. And, to paraphrase Mark Fisher–“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of neoliberalism.” In fact, the maniacs who manage the empire appear prepared to end our world rather than surrender to a multi-polar one.
Update: I’m off on a mountain biking adventure. Here’s couple articles that elaborate on my thesis.
And, Craig Murray’s: The Drive for War, where he states: “In the West, any deviation from any point in the architecture of neoliberal beliefs is a challenge to the entire system, and thus must be eradicated.”
America is run by people who are both evil and stupid, and they are acting on the associated impulses, attempting to reestablish a unipolar world dominated by the United States, and doing so in a fashion that is maniacal and bound to end in catastrophic failure of some sort.
Then there’s our neoliberal-economic operating system, which admonishes that there is no society only individuals, resulting in a selfish and cruel environment dominated by assholes.
It’s no wonder I’m crazy and I bet so are you.
Perhaps we have reached the end state of neoliberalism that was always destined to be fascism. I’ve always thought that fascism is when liberalism reaches crisis, where oligarch control of the society can no longer be hidden under the comfortable veneer of a representative democracy, and more extreme measures must come out into the open to enforce their control.
Does this sound familiar?
The crucial development is that the US imperial dominance is in rapid decline and our ruling elites are panicking at their obvious loss of influence and legitimacy. How will they hold on to power?
They certainly aren’t going to regain legitimacy by giving voters what they want and with sensible, realistic economic and foreign policies so they have to be authoritarian. All of this has made the possibility of using violence and brute force more likely in relation to many situations. Most recently, of course, militarized police have swarmed campuses to help quell largely peaceful student protests over the war on Gaza.
Back to that crazy thing. Looking around it’s become apparent that we are dealing with an epidemic of trauma in this country on both a personal and collective level. People are traumatized by Covid, the crazy inflation, our dysfunctional healthcare system, the failure of educational and religious institutions, the endless war and genocide our government is supporting. The fucking 2024 presidential election, where both choices are odious. Add to that increased isolation from other people which predates Covid, as we’re increasingly trapped in our own tribal siloes. Everything is falling apart and one has to be braindead not to recognize it. We are on our own, indeed, and much worse off for it. We feel helpless and powerless, adrift in a mean world.
Update: In this milieu, creating community is a revolutionary act. If we’re honest, it will be up to us regular folks. Lets get to it.
I’m going to miss my senator Mittens. Not because he’s a good legislator, in fact he’s terrible, but because he blurts out things our feral elite keep on the down-low. When Mittens ran for president in 2012 against Obama he told a heckler who was bitching about the domination of the US political process by corporations–“Corporations are people too, my friend”. And in a private fundraiser he complained that “47% of Americans are takers”.
Mittens is retiring because his feeling were hurt by MAGA voters, but his story is illustrative. Mittens is portrayed as a “sensible centerist” Republican but the only reason that he’s portrayed as “slightly more moderate” is that he came out against Trump. What’s ironic is that private equity vampires like Mittens helped create the economic devastation that made a Trump presidency possible. Donald Trump’s value to the American people in 2016 was in shining a light on the political and economic power in the US that has impoverished the majority of us.
Mittens is nothing if not shameless. He epitomizes the financialization of the American economy, where an ethic of “productivity” was replaced by one of “looting.” Romney’s career at Bain Capital is an example of this phenomenon. His father got rich building cars at American Motors. Mitt made his millions buying existing companies—such as a now-defunct Toys R Us,—loading them down with debt, then collecting profits and management fees even as workers were turfed out onto the street.
Does Romney sound like a “maker” or “taker”?
I’ve long wondered at the motivations of our leaders. Is it money, ideology or blackmail that keeps the evil flowing? Mittens is representative of a certain kind of striver that seems to make up a sizable portion of our putative elite. Many of us strive because it gives us a certain kind of pleasure. Whether we strive for good or bad unfortunately seems to be highly choreographed. In earlier days, the most intelligent strivers among the 0.1% were to be found in the Ivy League schools ergo the CIA and FBI recruited from them almost exclusively. The theory was that if you caught them young and indoctrinated them well then they will take their places in the deep state.
Mittens and the so-called “sensible centerists” that manage the American empire have never met a war of foreign intervention that they haven’t cheered on. These are the same class who promoted the Iraq WMD and Russia-gate frauds, which were both politically motivated, state-sponsored, psy-ops. Their implied goals were to deceive the American public into supporting the foreign policy goals of the deep state. And they have all been rewarded and advanced by lying endlessly about terrorists, spies and fake threats to the republic. It’s illuminating that no one from the FBI or CIA has been arrested or charged for the Russia-gate fraud.
What’s striking is the shrill doubling down of support for Israel by the US political and media classes. In his latest reveal, Mittens, said that banning TikTok has such strong support in Congress because the social media platform has hurt Israel’s public relations battle. “Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down, potentially, TikTok or other entities of that nature,” Romney said at the McCain Institute this past Friday. “If you look at the postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative to other social media sites, it’s overwhelmingly so among TikTok broadcasts.”
The official justification for targeting TikTok is the thus far unfounded allegation that it’sa Chinese spy tool because its parent company, ByteDance, is based in China. But Romney’s comments suggest the real purpose of the renewed push to ban the app after a similar effort failed years ago was to censor news coming out of Gaza and pro-Palestinian content.
And it’s not just Mittens, our political system has been sabotaged. For years the corporate media has been running a series of clueless articles wondering why Trump won the 2016 election, and why Americans continue to support him. Trump won because Republicans like Mittens are presented as respected job creators and a moral counterpoints to the president, while in reality they’re both criminals who’ve looted the republic under the watchful eye of the corporate media. Trump also won because of the behavior of the so-called opposition party.
The ultimate takeaway is that Mittens can pose as a “sensible centerist” because the Biden Administration and the Democratic Party also support the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Despite conventional, bi-partisan opinion America’s fulsome support for Israel is a fatal weakness.
The rest of the world can witness how a small country in the Middle East and a Zionist diaspora controls US foreign and economic policies. At the UN, the United States has used its veto to prevent ceasefires, aid and even a savage genocide, despite the rest of the world being in virtual consensus against it. Washington’s unconditional support for Zionism is not negotiable, albeit unpopular and controversial. Two-thirds of Americans want the government to force Israel to agree to a ceasefire, but this sentiment is being ignored.
Israel is presently attacking Rafah, the latest chapter of Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza. The Rafah invasion comes shortly after Congress approved the largest military aid package to Israel in US history. In an attempt to massacre Palestinians in the dark and silence those who speak up against genocide, Israel has expelled Al Jazeera, while the United States has potentially banned TikTok, clamped down on antigenocide protests on its campuses, and passed a new McCarthyite bill aiming at criminalizing criticism of Israel in the United States under the guise of fighting antisemitism.
Confronted by college protests against Israeli genocide, our ruling elites respond by angrily lashing out. Indeed, these actions reflect desperation and a touch of panic. What else can one say when Senator Tom Cotton posts: “These little Gazas are disgusting cesspools of antisemitic hate, full of pro-Hamas sympathisers; fanatics and freaks”?
And in response to a potential International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Bibi Netanyahu, a bunch of senators, led by Cotton, claim that a threat to Israel’s sovereignty is a threat to American sovereignty. That is effectively a claim that Israel is a part of the United States, or that the United States is a part of Israel.
I mean, what the fuck?
At this point it’s imperative to discuss the neoconservatives who effectively operate as a 5th column influencing US foreign policies. Neoconservatism is better described in general as a complex interlocking professional and family network deployed to recruit the sympathies of both Zionists and non-Zionists in harnessing the wealth and power of the United States in the service of Israel. Since 9/11 the US has waged wars across the Middle East that by any honest appraisal seem to be in service of Israel. They certainly haven’t made America safer or respected, not to mention the costs of lives and treasure. I’m certainly not in favor of starting more wars but our elite inform us that China is actually our arch enemy and we need to confront them. And, just to play devils advocate, imagine that instead of using those trillions of dollars to set the Middle East ablaze we used it to rebuild our manufacturing infrastructure so that it would actually be possible to wage a war with China instead of realizing that much of our critical high-tech electronic components that make up modern weapons is made in China? Whoops. Or, hear me out as I know this is crazy talk, imagine that if instead of endless war, we had used those trillions of dollars to do what the Chinese have done with their Belt and Road infrastructure projects across the developing world, as a way to win friends, security and trade?
Even if most Americans remain blissfully unaware of such realities, other countries have taken notice. Perversely, America’s ironclad support for Israel has united all our enemies. As one Chinese scholar, describes the new security arrangement between Russia, China and Iran: “This time, the barbarians are facing a 5,000-year continuing written civilization, armed with Sun Tzu’s Art of War, Mao thought, Xi’s dual circulation strategy, Belt and Road, BRICS, renminbi digitalization, Russia and China unlimited, the world’s most powerful manufacturing industry, tech supremacy, economic powerhouse, and the backing of the Global South.”
China, Iran and Russia are using the Zionist stranglehold over Washington to begin rapidly improving their own reputations at the expense of the US’ diplomatic standing. Global approval ratings for China and Russia are rising throughout the world, thanks in part to their hardline stance against Israel, willingness to legitimize Hamas, and their leadership in advocating for Palestinian state.
Then there’s the fact that Russia and China have substantially increased their military cooperation with Tehran since tensions with Israel have increased suggests that applying special pressure to the Zionist regime is not inconsequential blowback, but part of a grand strategy to strike at the true heart of the American empire.
There is evidence that some American policy planners understand this. Four months before the TikTok ban, the US Envoy for Combating Antisemitism Aaron Keyak expressed fear that the Chinese could use the app to promote anti-Israel sentiment and discredit American institutions by pointing to the role Jews play within them.
Keyak’s fears are not groundless. In recent years, Chinese celebrities, academics, journalists and state officials have started openly discussing Jewish power as the hidden language needed to understand why America and its liberal vassal states behave as they do. One lengthy article in the Chinese language version of news outlet Global Times titled “Do Jews Control The United States?
It’s not like this is a mystery. Some years ago a former senior AIPAC official once boasted to a friendly journalist that if he wrote anything on a simple napkin, within 24 hours he could get signatures of 70 Senators to endorse it, and the political power of the ADL is equally formidable. Therefore it was hardly surprising that last week an overwhelming bipartisan 320-91 majority in the House passed a bill broadening the meaning of anti-Zionism and antisemitism in the anti-discrimination policies of the Department of Education by codifying the definitions used in our Civil Rights laws to classify those ideas as discriminatory.
The last few weeks of Washington’s activity have been particularly unhinged: expanding FISA surveillance, $95 billion in weapons for Israel and Ukraine, violently suppressing peaceful protests against Israel, a sudden ban on a social media app used by 150 million Americans, and so on.
This does not look like a well thought out plan. Perhaps Xi and Putin have finally discovered Washington’s Achilles Heel: not the threat of nuclear war, not de-dollarization, but isolating Zionism, and by extension Israel. Furthermore, the US Congress and the Israel Lobby campaign against critics of Israel is bringing into stark relief the question of who controls the US regime.
It’s become blindingly obvious that Israel’s parasitical relationship with its host is hastening the end of the American empire, and the “seize ever-increasing power over the US and force America to do Israel’s dirty work,” has passed its expiration date, because the US empire is no longer what it once was—in large part due to the damage Israel has inflicted on it.
The student protest against Israeli genocide in Gaza have forced our feral elite to take their mask off, and what we are witnessing is monstrous. The fulsome US support of the genocide Gaza is simply indefensible. And the students sense this and are incensed by it.
The students at American universities are protesting an Israeli genocide that reaches new heights of savagery on a daily basis, but the establishment, including President Joe Biden, is painting peaceful protests on college campuses against the genocide as hotbeds of hatred and antisemitism. There’s a method to the charge of antisemitism as we’re supposed to focus on the college protesters rather than our vital ally–Israel–that murders 15,000 children, destroys hospitals, and hides bodies in mass graves. The IOF uses Lavender, an AI target-selection algorithm to drive their killing machine, for God’s sake!
And just when you think Israeli behavior has reached a new low there’s another outrage. Israel has escalated from sniping Palestinians running to get food and supplies from aid deliveries to leaving food-can-like explosives about to explode when starving children open them.
The student protesters are dangerous not because they disrupt campus life or engage in attacks on Jewish students, in fact many of those protesting are Jewish, but because they expose the abject failure by the ruling elites and their institutions to halt genocide, the crime of crimes. Student protesters across the country exhibit a moral and physical courage — many are facing suspension and expulsion — that shames every major institution in the country. Especially Congress, who’ve reverted to a McCarthy level of Kafkaesque hostility. It’s high time to inquire if our congress-critters represent America or Israel?
Indeed, two-thirds of Americans want the government to force Israel to agree to a ceasefire, but this sentiment is being ignored. These students watch, like most of us, Israel’s live-streamed slaughter of the Palestinian people. But unlike most of us, they are putting themselves at incredible risk by protesting. It’s important to understand how powerful their voices and protests are as a potent counterpoint to the moral bankruptcy that surrounds us.
Not one university president has denounced Israel’s destruction of every university in Gaza. Not one university president has called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire. Not one university president has used the words “apartheid” or “genocide.” Not one university president has called for sanctions and divestment from Israel. Instead they’ve called in the police. Columbia calling on the police effectively paved the way for other universities to do so, most notably University of Texas and Emory. The result is videos of “security” forces brutally throwing students, media workers and even professors to the ground.
Our feral elite and their congressional marionettes have their priorities. “The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a bill that conflates criticism of the modern state of Israel with antisemitism and will mandate that definition be used by the Department of Education when enforcing federal anti-discrimination laws. The bill can and will be used to crack down on pro-Palestine protesters at college campuses across the country, who have been falsely labeled ‘antisemitic’ despite Jewish students participating in the protests.
Remember kids, this is happening within a political climate in which the Israeli government publicly announces that “antisemitism” includes charging Israeli war criminals for extensively documented war crimes.
Once again, Orwell would stand gobsmacked at the sheer audacity of the propaganda.
And now it’s not just antisemitism. The Biden Administration is now openly stating that the student protesters are simply pawns of Russia, China and Iran. It’s the classic trope of “outside agitators”. These insane justifications are happening even as Israel’s prime minister openly calls for the the US government to crush the protests by any means necessary.
The short-sightedness of the US and Israeli governments is astonishing. Their repression is ensuring that a big portion of an entire generation of Americans – including its next elite – will view Israel as a genocidal, apartheid state.
For the rest of the world, America’s moral authority, what little remained, is toast. They understand that the genocide is the desired goal of the US. No other explanation is remotely plausible. There’s no way to believe that Joe Biden is trying to restrain Benjamin Netanyahu, while simultaneously arming and funding Netanyahu and using U.S. forces to fight alongside him. Biden is making no effort to restrain Netanyahu. Biden fully supports the genocide. Biden is not being outplayed by Netanyahu. He is actively abetting Netanyahu and shares with him the objective of full Israeli occupation of Gaza after the Palestinian people are killed or expelled into Sinai.
The mask has come off and we are seeing the iron fist.
Update: Police are in the process of violently arresting the student protesters at university campuses across the country following multiplestatements from President Biden attacking the students as “antisemitic” for opposing the Israeli genocide he and the US government have been enthusiastically facilitating in Gaza.
Update 2: Here’s what Glen Greenwald has to say: “If this were in Russia or Iran — a police force of this size deployed against students protesting the state’s war policies — it’d be universally denounced as evil tyranny.”
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