When major media echoed
Obama’s “winding down” military operations in Afghanistan it merely repeated
Viet Nam era lies . As that war became so costly that it could only be
continued at bargain rates, the USA removed some of its troops and turned the
major killing responsibility over to the Viet Namese. “Changing the color of
the bodies” enabled mind managers to proclaim that hostilities were “winding
down”. They actually continued for several more years until defeat was so
imminent we were forced out before cracking the nation’s social and financial structure.
Now, we’re told
that troops who weren’t there when Obama took office would soon come home,
leaving more troops there than before he was elected and switching the policy
to automated robot killings. This drone assassination technique has had great
success at murdering innocent people when an errant robot hits families having
dinner instead of cults plotting terror. Is this change we can believe in or
the imperial status quo pursued under a multi-cultural president? We can only
shudder at how long it may take a hacker to turn one of these things around and
send it back to its point of origin.
As murderous peace continues
in Iraqistan and the depressing
recession continues ending at home, the president of nimble talk and spineless
walk proclaims change in policy towards Israel; he will separate his scraping
from his bowing. This is wildly lauded by those desperate to find something to
praise in a failed regime which owes its future to the nearly imbecilic
opposition. When Netanyahu treats the American congress like an AIPAC meeting
and that congress behaves as a wholly owned subsidiary of corporate Israel,
Americans need to wonder why they put up with such nonsense and how much longer
it will be tolerated by the rest of the world, if not nature itself.
The Libyan slaughter
continues as the European hit team trying to perpetuate the white man’s empire
are running into the cost of warfare as their societies show signs of crumbling
from within. Workers fight savage cuts to public spending while their privately
controlled governments kill Libyans to maintain their former control of Africa.
Under Khadaffi, the latest in a demonized line of leaders of former colonies
, Libya became a prosperous country with the highest standard of living on the
continent. It has played a major role in attempting to organize the former European
dominated region into an independent member of what passes for an international
community controlled by very few nations and even fewer banks. While
hagiography may overdo his virtues, the delirious propaganda about the Libyan leader should come from people wearing
propeller beanies and drooling on themselves. Unfortunately, they look like
typical class servants to power as they spout incredible tales of terror that
have less relation to reality than do the ravings of a Fox TV commentator. The revival
of a Reagan era script that called Khadaffi a madman bent on global destruction
should clarify the foreign policy of presidents as allegedly different as
arch-conservative Reagan and arch-liberal Obama: There is no difference.
The system is the
same, whether represented by a speech reading flunky from the old all-white
school or a speech reading flunky from the new half-white academy.
The global rule of
finance capital has brought the system closer to collapse than it ever was
under industrial-productive domination. While
the devastation of environments owes its beginning to the profit accumulation
lust of private capital, production at least created commerce that benefited
some, though always at the expense of others. Nevertheless, the rising material
status of a growing middle class in many nations could help cover the blight on
global conditions that were the cost of this advance. But under financial rule
profiteers greatly decline in numbers as their obscene wealth grows, inequality
increases and those formerly able to enjoy some benefits of material production
are reduced to buying the goods and services of survival on credit. This contradiction
between a shrinking minority that expands its wealth at the expense of a
growing majority that pays for it with debt and poverty is leading to social
explosions.
Outside the castles
and casinos of affluence masses are beginning to create the most dangerous
threat minority rule has ever faced: democratic majorities threatening to take
control of political, economic and natural environments. Nothing terrifies the
imperial rulers more and present vicious attacks on pubic spending in the
developed states and on disobedient regimes in the developing ones are signs of
their terror.
Citizens of the USA
are threatened with more devastation of what pitiful social services remain in
order to assure growing wealth for a minority and continued wars all over the
world. Even supposedly untouchable programs like Social Security are menaced by
a president afraid he may be thought not pragmatic enough to be refinanced by
his masters. But his disgraceful performance is exactly what they hired him to
give.
In Europe, Africa
and across the Arab world social desperation is bringing on an aroused
population demanding transformational and not simply rhetorical change. The
level of desperation here in the USA has hardly reached a point of total social
breakdown, but if the conscious desire
for democracy doesn’t come soon and create a majority out of minorities, it
will. Motivated humanitarians who try to reach Gaza with compassionate letters
of support would be better advised to descend on Washington DC with letters of contempt.
Attention needs to be focused on the imperial center from which not only Israel
but the entire axis of domination originates. It is long past time for the
American people to take action, and that action should begin and end right here
in the USA.
email: fpscott@gmail.com
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