The Problem With Mass Deportation To "Shithole" Capitalist Extraction Zones

 "Before talking about cracking down on undocumented people here, why can't there be a discussion about the United States' role in fueling migration abroad. There's something really unfair to me about the United States having policies that destabilize countries, crippling sanctions that force people to leave . . . If you look at all the countries that are the source of migration you can trace their history and see a huge role of U.S, meddling. For example, take Central America. The United States has been propping up dictators there, supporting death squads, for large parts of the twentieth century. Haiti, since its foundation, the U.S. has been meddling with it, because Haiti was the first free country of this hemisphere, a country of freed slaves who revolted against their French colonizers. And France and the United States have been punishing Haiti for that ever since. Any discussion to me about dealing with people fleeing these counties needs to deal with the U.S. role in destabilizing them to begin with. And some sort of efforts to address that. It's not fair to help destroy foreign countries and then when people flee to basically punish the people that are trying to build better lives for themselves."

-----Aaron Mate, Useful Idiots, January 27, 2025

 

Someone needs to tell Saagar Enjeti of Breaking Points that U.S. sponsored disasters leading to mass migration are not a relic of the Reagan years, as he has somehow convinced himself is the case. Many U.S. sponsored coups (and coup attempts) are quite recent, as can be seen below:

2002 - present - Venezuela.

Unsuccessful U.S. coup against an indigenous revolution opposed to U.S. imperialism. Hugo Chavez was briefly overthrown in 2002, then returned to power by a popular uprising. Washington has never stopped trying to overthrow the Venezuelan government ever since.

2004 - Haiti. 

Successful U.S. coup against champion of the poor Jean Bertrand Aristide, who was hustled out of the presidential palace in his pajamas by U.S. Marines and deported to Africa. A hideous reign of terror persists down to the present.

2008 - Bolivia. 

Unsuccessful U.S. coup against President Evo Morales, a strong critic of U.S. imperialism.

2009 - Honduras. 

Successful U.S. coup against Manuel Zelaya. Coup plotters were trained by Washington at Fort Benning, Georgia, which is known in Latin America as "the school of coups" thanks to the bloody achievements of its graduating classes.

2010 - Ecuador.

Unsuccessful U.S. coup against socialist President Rafael Correa, a principled critic of U.S. imperialism.

2012 - Paraguay.

Successful U.S. coup against Fernando Lugo, whose fondness for liberation theology's "preferential option for the poor" (i.e. decent treatment) was an affront to wealthy investors and national security state fanatics.

2018 - Nicaragua.

Unsuccessful coup attempt against the government of Daniel Ortega, a key leader of the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution.

2019 - Bolivia.

Successful overthrow of socialist Evo Morales.

1959 - present - Cuba.

U.S. invasion of the island at the Bay of Pigs failed in 1961. Sore losers, U.S. imperialists have tried everything to destroy the Cuban revolution ever since.

 

New Year? We Need A Whole New World

 

 

 

 

Late in 2024 a board member of an American health insurance company was murdered by an American privileged class member who instantly became a semi-folk hero for taking direct action against one of many despised aspects of a private profit political economy which in the case of health insurance kills, maims and consigns to misery many who cannot afford to pay their rates. On the very first day of 2025 an American of less privilege murdered 14 innocent people just out celebrating and innocently becoming victims of the same system that got the health insurance executive killed though there was much less sympathy for the military veteran guilty of the crime because his murder of innocents was the result at least in part of hatred for America’s long assault in defense of Israel but directed against not only Palestinians, in the most murderous sense, but all the people of the middle east who are reduced to “terrorists” because unlike the U.S, Israel and other western powers, their retaliatory violence is taken by people usually not wearing uniforms and working for a murderous group acting as armies, navies and other titled members of  western, usually American murder brigades.

 

Whatever the class background of the American assailants they were both taking personal actions against individuals for the actions of a political economic system taking more lives and destroying more of nature every second of every minute of every day. With massive profits accumulating faster than ever for a smaller and smaller group of humanity and in ever greater amounts so that while these enormous profits sustained by attacks on humanity and other parts of nature innocent people are manipulated by anti-social media thought control into believing individual villains are responsible, whether fantastically wealthy people like the health insurance board member or ordinary folks just out celebrating a new year beginning and innocently losing their lives in the process.

 

This as a new regime was about to be sworn in with many thinking the new corporate CEO, or president, is different from others because this time a human practing artificial intelligence will be taking office. Just as in the case of previous presidential murderers credited with being very bright people or murderous nuts, depending on which anti-social media channel is being watched, while the president has far more responsibility in allegedly running the collapsing mess of American and global capitalism he she or it is no more responsible for the system than the December or January murderers. It started, long before any of us were born and if we don’t stop it soon we may all go the way of those victims.

 

As for our alleged democracy, in the just completed as in mostly every election in history the non-votes outnumbered either those for winner Trump or loser Harris.  This quote from someone alleged to be among the brightest people in history sums it up:

 

‘”…What we see at work is not an expression of the sentiments of the American people; rather it reflects the will of a powerful minority which uses its economic power to control the organs of political life

 

Albert Einstein

Einstein on peace pg. 343

 

And perhaps most clearly this part of a song lyric by the Rolling Stones from back in the 60s:

“spare a thought for the stay at home voter

whose eyes perceive such a strange beauty show

a parade of grey suited grafters

a choice of cancer or polio”

 

The British songwriters clearly saw the spectacle from a different class perspective but were clearly commenting on the same murderous farce.

 

 

Calling the multi billion dollar marketing exercise in voting that supposedly runs the country “our”democracy would be like the domestic slaves of our bigoted history citing their forced servitude as clear evidence of their ownership of the plantation. After all, they lived at a much higher material standard than the field slaves who picked the cotton and suffered the worst physical abuse. The domestics were still slaves but suffered mentally far more than physically and like tens of millions of middle class Americans now who buy into the psych market to find personal peace, they could be assured that their own shortcomings, not a bestial system of slavery, was responsible for their problems. That, while fully knowing that most of them were the sons and daughters of the slave master and mistress who owned them for sexual favors as well as market profits from the cotton they picked, meals they served and countless other favors they performed for their owners.

 

Now we have mass murdering demublicans calling for republicrat Trump to be imprisoned for business swindles and other common market crimes which are the foundation of most financial wealth accruing to a tiny minority while a vast majority pays for destroying life and other nature while being lied to by news and lulled by market forces.  The veteran killer of new years day was an example of the most extreme outcomes of training people to kill, against most human impulse or wishes, leading to far more crimes less horrible than his but equally the outcome of degenerate teaching of anti-humanity to human beings taught to believe it is supposed to be normal if not heroic to murder people. The situation grows more dangerous for humanity and not just the imperial west currently falling apart under the fading control of America due to the imperial military power of a mass murder machine more dangerous than ever before. In fact, many who claim expertise in knowledge of nuclear capabilities claim the danger of a nuclear holocaust is greater than ever before.

 

Meanwhile, innocent millions blame other innocent millions for the horror threatened by a tiny percent of humanity: the ruling class powers of international capitalism, head quartered mostly in The U.S.A.

 

The world is changing rapidly and a new global order is being born among the majority of humans on the planet who are learning to work together to bring about a truly new world no longer under the murderous domination of any imperial power, As citizen consumers who sustain that power we have the greatest responsibility to join the human race – the one and only race despite fictionally created alleged “racial” differences among us – and join the majority in creating a democratic global population before our tiny minority destroys all of us. Capitalist private profits for some need to come after, long after the assurance of public good for all. Happy 2025?

 

How To Raise Public Confidence In Science

"Take private profit out of the picture and replace it with public benefit, engage science without lawyers and maybe create drugs safe for almost everyone. And if I get sick from a drug spare no expense at finding one that will make me better. If I drop dead, apologize and see to my family's survival without me."

                                                ----Frank Scott

 

Amen to the above, a far more sensible reaction to Covid than extravagantly emotional insistence that the virus was part of a deliberate plot to impose a universal police state. The idea that, except for "dictator" Anthony Fauci, one might have enjoyed full civil liberties while an aerosolized virus killed millions of people around the world would be too ridiculous to refute if the consequences weren't so serious.  Suffice it to say that in the U.S. one could barely feel any authoritarian presence at all during the so-called lockdowns, which U.S. cell phone data show to have barely existed in reality.

The real issue with Fauci and scientists in general is that they, like us, unconsciously embrace the contradictions of capitalism, saying nothing about capital-driven deforestation and factory farming, which sharply accelerate the rate of viral evolution and therefore pandemics. Add to this decades of mostly silence about neo-liberal austerity that saw the U.S. outsourcing the production of N95s, eliminating hospital redundancy, shredding public health budgets and attendant pandemic response plans, and you have the makings of our recent Covid disaster. THIS, not conspiracy theories, is what we should be focused on, much more than the alleged "suppression" of anti-vaxxers, who should be sharply criticized, but not suppressed.

Of course Anthony Fauci had to worry about the public health consequences of idiotic commentary about the virus, lockdowns, vaccines and treatment. The more that ignorant or malicious information spreads and is taken seriously, the more people sicken and die unnecessarily. Without a culture of criticism about how capitalism is a pandemic-producing system, there is not much else Fauci could have done except damage control on the circulation of destructive ideas.

The people who suffered by far the most are the more than a million American dead who only died because capitalism left us unprepared for a pandemic, not those saying "open 'er up!" almost from the moment pandemic response measures were put in place.

The failure to offer replacement income was the biggest problem, not the lockdowns or vaccine mandates.

The way out is what Frank Scott offers in the quote above - a system of public profit, which would eliminate lawyers from the discussion, and more importantly, make "Big Pharma" much more transparent and at least nominally a public institution. 

It will take a long time for anyone ensnared in anti-vax propaganda to see that this is indeed the way out. The problem for them, however, is that the Covid era's sharp spike in excess deaths dates from 2020, when the pandemic hit, not 2021, when mass vaccinations began. Also, excess deaths rose in tandem with case increases throughout the pandemic, not with vaccinations.

What we would need to establish that the vaccines are more injurious than Covid itself is proof of the existence of Covid vaccine injury units in hospitals (with injuries and deaths allegedly in the millions, these units should exist in abundance), an academy of science that endorsed not getting vaccinated against Covid, a professional medical association that said the vaccines were too dangerous to take, a virology or immunology department at a medical research university that recommended remaining unvaccinated, etc. 

None of this exists. 

On lab leak, suffice it to say that among scientists the issue was laid to rest long ago because the facts don't fit the theory, which isn't really a theory but a paranoid obsession.

Extremely improbable, though not outright impossible, a lab escape of the virus would have to have involved two leaks, as there were two lineages of SARS-CoV-2 that emerged. One lab worker would have had to have gotten infected, left the lab, crossed the river, traveled to the Wuhan wet market and infected someone there. Then, on a separate occasion, a different lab worker would have to have repeated this. That two workers could do this without infecting anyone else in the lab or on the way to the wet market is extremely unlikely. Also, it's just weird that a lab leak would produce an epicenter exactly in the place where we would expect an animal spillover to occur. There were far more populated sites in Wuhan than the wet market, and one of those sites should have been the epicenter had the virus escaped or been leaked.

They tested the lab workers at the Wuhan lab for the presence of SARS antibodies and none had them. An Australian scientist who worked at the lab confirmed that no one was sick during the relevant time period. Also, none of the bats used in the lab were found to have had SARS.

There's never been a novel virus leaked from a lab. Also, the genetic complexity of SARS-CoV-2 is a problem. There's no highly similar virus that could have served as a kind of template for creating SARS-CoV-2.

A lab leak represents the idea that Fauci-haters most want to believe, not the idea that best accounts for known facts.

 

 

Make Mass Murder Moral Again - The Hegseth Circus

"You think we're so innocent?"

                                       -------Donald J. Trump

We at Legalienate were deeply shocked to learn that our country's prospective next "Defense" Secretary (Pete Hegseth) is a philandering sexual predator and drunkard with a poor record at conducting organized bloodletting according to the rules. What is this world coming to when we can't count on our top officials to demonstrate squeaky clean personal conduct while leading us into highly ethical mass slaughters abroad that drain the national treasury and return our sons and daughters to us in body bags? Even when we conduct righteous massacres by proxy, as we all too often do these days, what chance do we have to "Make America Great Again" if we can't have full moral confidence in the top leaders of the Pentagon's world-wide killing machine? 

Equally alarming is the news that Hegseth may not believe women are equal to men in wholesale butchery according to the rules. What impact might this vicious misogyny have on our overall fitness and willingness to engage in mass slaughter? Might it not undermine our national tradition (i.e., "greatness") of filling up graveyards with all those who get in the way of U.S. capitalism promoting a "favorable investment climate," most notably political activists, union organizers, whistleblowers, and environmentalists? One shudders at the mere thought of a loss of American resolve to plunder and murder with abandon.

Not that there hasn't been notable comic relief to the proceedings. A big shout out goes to Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma) for providing a generous dose, pointing out that his fellow Senators are just as guilty as Hegseth regarding infidelity and showing up to work drunk, so what's the big deal? 

A poignant Christian reminder that we're all moral scum, so enough already with waxing high-minded about ethics.

Carter's Egyptian-Israeli "Peace"

The Egyptian-Israeli "peace" that Carter negotiated was the death warrant for Lebanon. By removing Egypt - the strongest Arab military - from the anti-Israel alliance, it guaranteed Israel a free-hand in the North, where the Jewish state had had plans to attack dating back to the 1950s. Once Carter helped secure Israel's southern flank, Menachem Begin was free to attack Lebanon, which he promptly did, culminating in the June 1982 invasion (on a surge of Pentagon arms imports), that devastated that country and convinced a young Osama bin Laden that only mass murder of Americans would ever change U.S. Middle East policy. In his memoirs Born Again Christian Carter described Israel as "ordained by God," while he admitted to having no special affinity for the Arab countries. So he was very much not a neutral arbiter from the start.*

The Palestine Liberation Organization, the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people at the time, was excluded from the negotiations, guaranteeing that peace would not be forthcoming. To retrospectively describe this guarantee of further war as an achievement of peace is revisionist history that does not accord with the facts, though, of course, it does accord with U.S.-Israeli doctrinal fantasies. But we shouldn't be supporting those.

*Golda Meir was amazed to witness Carter's credulous belief in the Bible as a source of historical insight on a visit to the Holy Land in 1973, and laughed right in his face. See Lawrence Wright, "Thirteen Days In September - Carter, Begin, and Sadat At Camp David," (Knopf, 2014) p. 6

For more detail on Carter as president see, "Jimmy Carter Dies, Leaves Horrifying Legacy," Legalienate, December 29, 2004

Trump Contradicts Himself On The H1B Visa

 "Nobody knows the system better than me. I know the H1B, I know the H2B, nobody knows it better than me. I know the H1B very well and it's something that I frankly use and I shouldn't be allowed to use. We shouldn't have it. Very, very bad for workers."

-----Donald Trump, 2016

"As we speak we're finalizing H1B regulations, so that no American worker is replaced ever again. H1Bs should be used for top, highly-paid talent to create American jobs, not as [an] inexpensive labor program to destroy their jobs."

-----Donald Trump, 2020

 

". . . we have to have the most competent people in our country. We need competent people. We need smart people coming into our country. We need a lot of people coming in." 

-----Donald Trump, 2024

 

Source: David Doel, "Cyber Truck Bursts Into Flames Outside Trump Hotel," The Rational National, January 1, 2025