The government shutdown, whether it causes a minor economic
bleep or major economic explosion, is another indicator of the larger crisis of
global capital. This emergency is especially critical at its U.S. headquarters
where a deteriorating situation has factions fighting for control and calling
upon the gods of creation, madness or both in backing their efforts. This is a
further sign of what international events
- and some public response - may be showing more clearly.
The American people finally said no to an attack on a
foreign country, Syria, and in the process added to the well-deserved decline
in reputation of their president. This expression of the public’s opposition to
its usual knee-jerk support of murderous foreign policy may not seem like much
to pessimists who never see anything but doom and defeat, thus playing into the
hands of ruling power. But that power is worried far more than they are by
current events and it may be closer to the truth.
Present matters are causing great concern for the ruling
minority and should bring great hope to the potential democratic majority they
most fear.
The stature of the USA has been sinking for a long time but
foreign policy failures are coming closer together and involve nations and
their leaders not only standing up to american threats but doing so very openly
and on a global stage. Putin of Russia seemed to rebuke a spoiled child when he
admonished Obama for his weak imitation of Reagan/Bush in referring to America
as an exception among nations, and while his take-down of our master
race/chosen people place in the world may have shocked the few remaining fans
of the president it helped the real international community to see the former imperial
dominator as well as its flip-flopping leader, with new eyes. And to understand
that his bi-polar performance, one moment bragging bully the next pleading
victim, was not just driven by personal shortcomings but far more by the
contradictions of the failing empire he has been employed to maintain. It’s no
longer possible for even a more competent employee of capital to do that
job.
Given much less publicity but even more stern a dismissal of
American arrogance was Brazilian president Rouseff’s justifiable trashing of
the U.S. policy of disrespect towards her people and government in the NSA
eavesdropping case. And while refusing to meet with diplomatic protocol by
canceling a visit with the fading leader of a fading empire, she also
articulated global desires for better life not just her nations but also the world’s
poor. Her words were dismissed by media lapdogs here as a “tirade” against
america, but rest assured that the global community to which she really spoke was
more than receptive and even jubilant at a national leader getting into
America’s face and expressing open disgust with its policies and attitudes.
Even the new Iranian president who has political
stenographers madly tweeting about how moderate he is compared to Ahmadinejad
often seemed to be speaking to a child when addressing America. Fully aware that
whether he was talking to an infantile idiot or a senile simpleton, the
creature was armed with enough weapons and political warheads to destroy much
of the planet, he still not only supported Syria ridding itself of chemical
weapons but also called for Israel to dump its unmentioned-in-polite-international-hypocritical-circles
nuclear weapons. In fact, nothing Rouhani said was different in essence from
anything Ahmadinejad had ever said; only the slant and spin of mind control
media made him sound different, in its usual fashion of taking quotes out of
context or excluding the most substantial quotes entirely.
And while the Israeli president of America’s Israeli caucus
hectored his underlings to continue support for destruction of Iran, the newly
weakened USA leadership has been forced by circumstance to move diplomatically
and for the first time openly act in opposition – however limply- to its Zionist
sub-government.
Perhaps most in line with a newer and more general stance of
open defiance, the Venezuelan president western profiteers thought would bring
relief from Hugo Chavez accused American diplomats in his nation of consorting
with its internal enemies and plotting insurrection. He boldly tossed them out
of his country, publicly shouting, “ Yankee go home” in English as he slammed
the door. The tumultuous applause from a global majority may not have been
heard in America but likely resonated in the ears of a few billion other
inhabitants of the planet.
This growing attitude around the world is another sign of a
sinking empire, but actions for radical change at home need to become even more
urgent to truly make a difference. The expression of opposition to the
incredibly hypocritical charges against Syria were a sign that attitudes are
changing here in America. Unfortunately, they need to change at a quicker pace.
While many joke that the wretched Democratic Party secretly finances the
Republican Party in an attempt to look good by comparison to something, the
public wisely seems to be losing any faith in either of the two parties of
capital. But many still worship at the throne of wealth and power having been
force fed since childhood the myths of pleasure for everyone with market
control in the hands of small minorities and public control of anything meaning
pain and suffering. The Ayn Rand worshipping market fundamentalists and others who
become sexually aroused watching films of money piling on top of money are not
really that different from those who ridicule them while extolling the virtues
of private control of markets which make small minorities wealthy beyond belief
while millions sink into despair and poverty in order to finance those private profits
with their enormous social loss.
It is the minority
rule of capital that must be changed, not the particular servants and stylists
it employs to carry out its policies. Whether those employees wear suits,
dresses, dashikis or saris, if they adhere to the domination of the market
under private minority control they are against democracy and part of the
problem. The rest of the world seems to be getting closer to that fact and we
in America need to join them.
