The Alien Presence Is Capitalism

"The demonization of the forces of change, agents of alien ideologies, traffickers in cocaine, Marxism, and other drugs, requires the previous flushing out of historical memory. In reality, the alien presence in America is capitalism (emphasis in original), which was not invented by Manco Cápac or Moctezuma, but imposed from outside and above by sixteenth-century invaders from Europe. The Conquest commercialized American life, imposed the so-much-in-exchange-for-so-much, while the Church proffered by divine order the law of profit and the law of fear: if you obey your reward will be in heaven; if you disobey hell will punish you. On the other hand there is no older tradition in America than the communitarian mode of production and way of life (emphasis in original). In addition to being the oldest tradition, the community is also the most persistent and the most obstinately vital, despite having suffered unceasing persecution for the last five centuries. It may well be said, then, that socialism comes from within and from below, from the most authentic and profound depths of the memory of our lands. 

 

"In the same sense, it's worth mentioning that democracy was not a novelty that the barbarous Indians received from the European monarchies or from its civilized Inquisition (emphasis in original). Outside of Cuzco and Tenochtitlán, which were centers of hereditary despotism, the chronicles of the epoch describe revealing anecdotes that took place in a number of places: the Indians asked who elected the king of Spain or the king of England, because they elected their leaders in assemblies - in which women, it should be said, also expressed their opinions and voted."

 

 

-----Eduardo Galeano, "We Say No - Chronicles 1963-1991," pps. 216-17 

Israel's 77th Birthday: Recalling A History of Horror

Zionist efforts to remove the Palestinian Arabs from their land long predated Hitler's rise as a historical figure. In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson's King-Crane Commission reported back from the region that, "No British officer consulted by the Commissioners believed that the Zionist program could be carried out except by force of arms . . . only a greatly reduced Zionist program should be attempted . . . and then only very gradually initiated." The Commissioners called for a serious modification of existing plans for unlimited Jewish immigration culminating in Jewish statehood. Regarding Britain's 1917 Balfour Declaration, which had promised the Jews a home in Palestine, King and Crane wrote: "A national home is not equivalent to making Palestine into a Jewish state nor can the erection of such a Jewish state be accomplished without the gravest trespass upon civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities." At the time, "existing non-Jewish communities" were Christian and Muslim Arabs constituting 93% of Palestine's population.

 

During the course of the King-Crane Commission's inquiry, Jewish representatives had not concealed their ultimate hope of dispossessing the Arab inhabitants of Palestine by various forms of purchase, in spite of the fact that ninety percent of the latter were completely against surrendering their land to the Zionist project. "To subject the people so minded to unlimited Jewish immigration and to steady financial and social pressure to surrender the land would be a gross violation" of Wilsonian principle, the Commissioners wrote, "and of the people's rights, though it be kept within the forms of law." Leaving aside the dubious equation of Wilsonian principle with self-determination, it is safe to say that overriding a 93% indigenous majority with whatever forms of pressure can hardly be described as an exercise in democracy. 

 

Sadly, the gross violation the Commissioners warned against occurred, and Israel was founded, but commentary in the U.S. has almost completely ignored the peculiar history behind the event. To wit: a largely irreligious people reclaimed land after an absence of two thousand years based on fantastical Biblical texts few of them believed in; Jehovah's carvings on a Tablet in the Bronze Age became the basis of Near East politics in the 20th Century; a "Jews-only" state bent on conquest and expansion was hailed as a model of democratic socialism with unique sensitivity to morality and human rights. Zionist leaders embarked on an "in-gathering" of the Jewish Diaspora and plotted the exodus of Jews from lands they had lived in for centuries while intoning the words Hitler had used in carrying out the Holocaust: "You are not a German, you are a Jew - you are not a Frenchman, you are a Jew - you are not a Belgian, you are a Jew." 

 

The heart of the problem was and remains a serious and deliberate confusion of nationalism with religion. Organized Jewry, a staunch supporter of separation of Church and State outside the Holy Land, condoned their union in Israel, demanding the loyalty of Jews everywhere, whether or not they identified themselves as such. Diasporan Jews supported Israel out of religious duty, though they may or may not have been aware of what Zionist ideology actually entailed. Jewish identity became the basis of Israeli citizenship, with political debate naturally centering on the vexing question, "What is a Jew?" Since Jews, like most people, have a mixed ancestry, Jewish supremacist myth-makers buttressed weak territorial claims with appeals to historical continuity, blurring distinctions between Hebrew, Israelite, Judean, Jewish, and Judaism, while forestalling recognition that these were different people at different times in history with different ways of life. Neither the Jews nor these varied forebears ever constituted a race or even a distinctive pure ethnic grouping, and since Judaism had been of declining significance for most Jews for some time, it quickly became clear that Jewish identity was to be as arbitrary as it was convenient for Israel to have it. Not surprisingly, only Palestinians can't belong.

 

Inevitably, Israel's birth was traumatic. In November 1947, a Washington-dominated U.N. passed a resolution awarding over 56% of the land of Palestine to 650,000 Jews, who represented just a third of the population and owned some 6% of the land. Britain, its empire near collapse, began withdrawing from its colonies the following Spring when its mandate over Palestine expired. As the British pulled out, Zionist armies attacked Arab villages, driving out roughly three-quarters of a million Palestinians in the process of forging a Jewish state with a sizable Arab minority, the latter forced to choose between exile and perpetual discrimination. 

 

The fundamental injustice in the new state was rooted in the divorce of citizenship from territoriality. Jews around the world had rights in the Jewish state, but there could be nothing like full human rights for non-Jews and only the most limited progress towards a just society. The Jewish National Fund purchased lands on behalf of the Jewish people, from which non-Jews were necessarily excluded. According to official Israeli figures 92% of the state's surface prior to June, 1967 was restricted to Jewish use - in perpetuity. Palestinians had no claim on the land they had lived on for centuries.

 

Israel acted to guarantee a permanent Jewish majority while establishing the exclusivist institutions that statist Zionism called for. A huge effort was made to attract the Jewish Diaspora to Israel, while expelling as many Arabs as possible. Jews were ceaselessly reminded of the dangers of anti-Semitism and the hopelessness of assimilation. At the same time, and long before Menachem Begin and the Likud bloc took power, Israel's Labor Party gradually incorporated a supranationalist "Greater Israel" movement into its program, preaching expulsion to the Arabs, fear to Diasporan Jews, and reflexively accusing anti-Zionist Gentiles of anti-Semitism.

 

The Zionist triumph placed a borderless Jewish island in a sea of angry Arabs. Expansionism and new frontiers were its by-products, and war was quite inevitable.

In the seventy-seven years since Israel came into existence as a Jewish state it has not only taken hold of the land but also the structure of opinion and commentary in the West, in such a way that the Palestinians have been quite literally obliterated as a people with any claim to rights or historical continuity. At the same time, the history of Israel that has produced this appalling result has likewise been obliterated, especially in the United States. It is nearly impossible to find mainstream commentary referring to Israel's assassinating children at will, bulldozing homes, bombing schools and hospitals, uprooting orchards, arresting, deporting, and torturing anyone posing a "threat" to Jewish supremacy, and locking an entire people in a giant, outdoor cage. On the contrary. Everything is carefully filtered through the lens of "little Israel," victim of eternal anti-Semitism, in which Palestinians are congenital terrorists yearning to kill Jews, especially children. The fact that Israel introduced terrorism against civilians to the region, that it originated in conquest, that it has repeatedly invaded and occupied its neighbors, and was instrumental in instigating the blood-drenched disaster in Iraq, never rises to perceptibility in the U.S. media or in American political discourse. In the official optic Israel bears no responsibility for "terrorism" and is, in fact the victim of the peoples it occupies and kills.

 

Every media comment about Hamas or Hizbollah or Iran invokes a cartoon-like fantasy of total despotism, infantile rage, and savage violence, all targeted at "us," the good people who save Jews from gas chambers and otherwise pursue our charmingly harmless lives in a world devoid of illegitimate authority and oppression. Never is there the slightest hint that "extremist Islam" caused us absolutely no harm until Washington backed Jewish supremacy over Arab lands, overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran (1953), planted permanent military bases near the holiest sites of Islam, and murdered hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children with economic sanctions. And all this was before the neo-cons engineered the invasion and dismemberment of Iraq.

 

 
Seventy-seven years on it is more than time to recognize that "little Israel" is a permanent disaster fully capable of ringing down the curtain on the entire human race. Racist, nuclear armed, violently delusional, it seeks in the name of "security" to destroy any and all resistance to Jewish domination. Though success on these terms is impossible, the attempt to succeed can only yield a succession of unprecedented horrors.

Russia, the Defeat of Nazism, and the Collaborationist West

 On May 9 Russia welcomed twenty-seven heads of state from around the world to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the conclusion of the Great Patriotic War, which ended in victory over the Nazis, one of the greatest achievements in Russian history, and one that would make any nation justly proud.

 

The United States likes to portray the defeat of Nazism as a glorious U.S. achievement, with a nod to British, Canadian, Australian, French and a few others for their supporting roles. This ignores the central fact that the Wehrmacht had been ground nearly to pulp by the time the U.S. invaded Normandy on June 6, 1944, an event that 80 years of Hollywood fantasies have attempted to transform into the key battle of the war. In reality, however, this much-delayed opening of a second front in the European war occurred when Hitler's troops had been reduced to mostly children and old men, the military-aged soldiers having perished in gargantuan numbers on the Eastern front. Tens of millions of Soviet soldiers and civilians were also killed there, a large majority deliberately starved by Hitler, who looked to eliminate Slavic peoples and re-populate their territories with a civilized master race of "Aryans."

 

U.S. mind-managers have dispatched this Russian agony to Orwell's memory hole, along with the suffering of the Chinese, who lost about half as much as the USSR (but still an enormous total) on the battlefield, in horrendous camps, and in "scientific" laboratories that treated them like experimental rats. British, French, and American losses, especially civilian deaths, were but a tiny fraction of these. 

 

The ferocity of the battles fought in Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad, and Kursk defy description, and are well beyond the West's impoverished moral capacity to even begin to apprehend. Three million Nazi soldiers invaded the USSR with the launching of Operation Barbarossa on June 22, 1941.*  This represented eighty percent of the German Army, almost all of whom were either killed, captured, or wounded over the subsequent three years. Meanwhile, the USSR not only fought the invading Germans, but also ardent Nazi-supporters in Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria, along with other European countries that facilitated German military operations and replaced fallen German soldiers in battle.

Both Churchill and FDR accepted that it was the USSR that defeated the Nazis. Western supplies helped, but it was the heart and determination of the Red Army that brought the Nazi beast down.

After the war, the Western powers obscured this story with a fanciful tale of being the most heroic human rights champions in history. But it was actually the Red Army that shot anti-Semites while Western myth-makers re-invented the Jew-haters as anti-Communist freedom fighters worthy of admiration.

Renewing the Cold War it had initiated in 1917 in reaction to the Bolshevik Revolution, Washington imposed a "cordon-sanitaire" in order to erradicate Communism in Western Europe, a broadly-defined demon class that included major elements of the wartime anti-fascist resistance and trade union movements while those who had accommodated Nazism or gone into hiding faced no such exclusion.

Today's inheritors of collaborationist Europe have re-doubled their attacks on Russia with economic sanctions and anti-Russian "human rights" tribunals, all in the name of a "never again" anti-genocide crusade that lacks even the slightest pretense of concern for Israel's ongoing extermination of the Palestinian people. 

 

Our problems go far beyond Donald Trump.

 

 

*Harry Truman stood up on the Senate floor the following day and recommended that the U.S. role in the war should be to help the Russians when Germany was getting the upper hand and Germany when Russia had the advantage, thus helping eliminate both populations to the greatest extent possible. 

Source:

"Victory Day: Rescuing the Truth," La Jornada, May 10, 2025 (Spanish)

For more on the U.S. role in WWII, see:

 

"How The U.S. Really Reacted To Nazism," Legalienate, 8/20/17

"75th Anniverary of the Defeat of Nazism," Legalienate, 5/9/20

"Mythology and Reality in World War II," Legalienate, 8/15/10

"False Savior - FDR," Legalienate, 4/15/09

U.S. Troops In Mexico?

President Donald Trump has offered President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico U.S. troops to help combat organized crime in Mexico. The offer came in a recent phone call between the two heads of state, and the offer was sharply rejected by Sheinbaum, who reminded the U.S. president that "we can share information but we are never going to accept the presence of the U.S. Army on our territory."*

 

Trump is doubling down on militarizing the handling of drug trafficking, assigning all blame for the fentanyl crisis to China and countries south of the U.S. border with Mexico. He has declared the drug cartels "terrorist organizations," and equates drug trafficking and illegal immigration with military invasion, i.e., outright war, which gives him wartime powers, or so he believes. In line with this, he's cutting $163 billion from budget allocations for education and social services, raising military spending $375 billion, and flooding the border with U.S. soldiers, all part of an effort to accelerate his mass deportation campaign. 

 

Attempting to solve the complex problems of drug trafficking and consumption as though they were features of a Hollywood action movie susceptible to easy solution by generous doses of gratuitous violence is beyond ludicrous. As the late Edward Said observed, Hollywood productions are a form of science fiction with relevance to no one's actual life, which is why the Hollywood-like "war on drugs" has had no discernible impact on eliminating the drug trade, though it has contributed substantially to horrifying bloodshed and major human rights violations. Recall that under the U.S. Army's two-decade long occupation of Afghanistan heroin trafficking soared to record levels.

 

In official Washington, political thinking about drugs and almost everything else has yet to reach beyond adolescent fantasy.

*In the war of 1846-8, the United States invaded Mexico on the false pretext of self-defense, robbing half its national territory, which later became California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, half of Texas and Colorado, and bits of Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Wyoming.

Sources:

 "U.S. Troops In Mexico: Not Now, Not Ever," La Jornada (Spanish), May 4, 2025

John Gibler, "Mexico Unconquered, - Chronicles of Power and Revolt,"(City Lights, 2009) p. 121

 

 

50th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War

 After two decades of savage U.S. efforts to impose imperial control over South Vietnam, the effort collapsed in April 1975.

 

Columns of refugees and routed troops packed the roads twisting out of the hills and rubber plantations toward the marshy flatlands around Saigon. Barefoot villagers, bands of soldiers with their boots rotting off, lost children wailing for their parents, parents screaming for their children, wounded men caked with dried blood and filthy bandages, creeping trucks, buses, and herds of water buffalo, oxcarts lumbering along on wooden wheels, all paraded past the wreckage of burned-out tanks and scattered corpses rotting in the fields by the roadside, fleeing the advancing bombs and shellfire announcing Ho Chi Minh's imminent victory. 

 

At the U.S. Embassy, a desperate crowd of Vietnamese interpreters, army leaders, bartenders, colonial bureaucrats, and stool pigeons, rushed the gates waving letters from American employers, stateside lovers, or distant American acquaintances who used to know someone in their extended family.  

 

Saigon was no more.*

To General Thieu and his henchmen, President Ford offered sanctuary in the United States. To the young Americans who had not been able to bring themselves to kill for such gangsters, he offered the choice of permanent exile from the U.S. or imprisonment. On the Vietnamese people he imposed a trade embargo, a veto on their entry into the United Nations, and a refusal to negotiate the unresolved issues of the war.  

The imperialist credo was thus fulfilled: those who have been arbitrarily punished, are punished anew. 

After two decades of Western terror, retribution deaths were near zero. The much predicted Communist bloodbath did not materialize, and Hanoi created nothing worse than re-education camps for those who collaborated with the U.S. in killing millions of their fellow Vietnamese. 

This remarkable display of restraint passed unnoticed in the U.S. media, which preferred to denounce Communist indoctrination methods. Those who Washington employed to engage in wholesale torture and massacre of their countrymen were portrayed as innocent victims forced to endure the agony of political lectures. 

The hundreds of thousands of orphans, junkies, prostitutes, and maimed survivors the U.S. left in its wake, whom the Vietnamese somehow had to rehabilitate as they struggled to overcome a shattered economy, devastated ecosystem, and demolished social order, were ignored and quickly forgotten.**

 

As for the meaning of it all, the New York Times remained utterly clueless: 

 

"There are those Americans who believe that the war to preserve a non-Communist, independent South Vietnam could have been waged differently. There are other Americans who believe that a viable, non-Communist South Vietnam was always a myth . . . A decade of fierce polemics has failed to resolve the quarrel."

Of course, while the war raged, Americans surged into the streets in record numbers to protest that the U.S. had no business meddling in the internal politics of Vietnam, regardless of the prospects for "success." This position, re-iterated endlessly at rallies, protest marches, and teach-ins, was never heard in official circles, nor was it ever given a hearing on the editorial pages of the New York Times.

U.S. hands off other countries.

To the Times' editors, these words were incomprehensible.***

 

U.S. military and government leaders were no more insightful. A U.S. Air Force general said that the important lesson of the war was that, "We could have won the war if political factors had not entered in," perhaps a reference to the failure to use nuclear weapons, which both the Eisenhower and Nixon administrations had considered doing. Secretary of State Dean Rusk blamed the "loss" of Vietnam on the "impatience" of the American people, adding that a future Vietnam-style war would require censorship. "You can't fight a war on television," he lamented. General Maxwell Taylor contended that success required the banning of dissent, counseling that any president would "be well advised to silence future critics by executive order."

 

With millions killed and Indochina in ruins, President Ford urged Americans to forget. "The lessons of the past," he implausibly advised, "have already been learned . . . and we should have our focus on the future."****

Sources:

*Marvin Gettleman, Jane Franklin, Marilyn Young and H. Bruce Franklin, eds., Vietnam and America: A Documented History, (Grove Weidenfeld, 1985) pps. 266-70; Michael Parenti, The Anti-Communist Impulse, (Random House, 1969) pps. 206-7

 

**Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, (South End, 1979) pps. 28-9 

 

*** Raphael Salkie, The Chomsky Update: Linguistics and Politics, (Unwin Hyman, 1990) pps. 131-2 

 

****Lawrence Wittner, Cold War America: From Hiroshima To Watergate (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1978) p. 389 

  

Empire's End: Trump Endorses Sending U.S. Citizens To Banana Republic Gulag

"Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice."

              -----Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

 

President Donald Trump has endorsed sending "the worst of the worst" criminals (i.e., anybody he so labels, regardless of what the facts show) to a foreign gulag for life whenever he sees fit. Trump revealed this view during a meeting with Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele at the White House, where both men agreed nothing should or would be done to retrieve Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who ICE agents kidnapped and mistakenly sent to Bukele's notorious mega-prison CECOT due to what they called an "administrative error" last month. Trump labeled Garcia a MS-13 gang member and Bukele gratuitously proclaimed him a "terrorist," though there is no evidence he was even a criminal, much less a political actor using violence to force changes in government policy. In any event, neither president sees any reason to try to correct the error and return Garcia to his life and family in the United States, so he continues to rot in a Salvadorean prison.

Trump's interpretation of presidential power to justify such outrages is the one U.S. presidents always use:  that we are at war with evildoers and so are obliged to toss aside trivialities like the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In the latest iteration of this farce Trump has stripped away the rights of foreign workers, natural residents, and even naturalized citizens, with birth citizens soon to be persecuted for thought crimes, another venerable American tradition. When questioned about the legitimacy of his self-serving views, Trump asked without irony if there were any reason to regard U.S. citizens as a special class deserving of protection, regarding it as self-evident that once he labels U.S. citizens or anybody else "criminal," they deserve to be treated as sub-human. Clearly, the president sees no reason to acknowledge that U.S. law enforcement has the dual purpose of punishing criminal conduct and protecting individual rights, with the latter responsibility being the more important of the two, since without rights the state itself becomes boundlessly criminal, and no one can escape being victimized by its crimes on a constant basis. Indeed, the president may not even understand these responsibilities.

It is easy enough to mock Trump's buffoonish approach to governance, but this only misses the forest for the trees.* All of U.S. history shows that the law has only the most tangential relation to power, and is promptly cast to the flames whenever authority or profit is at stake. The USA really was founded on slavery and mass extermination, with the presumed legitimacy of the first written into the Constitution itself, and official justification of the latter codified (preposterously) in the Declaration of Independence as self-defense against "merciless Indian savages." It took the law centuries to ban slavery while a century-and-a-half later it still hasn't provided even the merest pretense of legal justification for the robbery of Indian lands, upon which the very existence of the United States depends. 

So president Trump should properly be seen as the culmination of a process of contempt for human rights, not an aberration from a tradition of upholding them. He is able to use ICE as his personal kidnapping force only because George W. Bush invented the agency out of thin air as part of his modest ambition to "rid the world of evil." He may get away with dispatching U.S. citizens to a foreign dungeon because Obama already got away with murdering a U.S. citizen on foreign soil. He can attract support for making America "great" again by seizing Greenland or annexing Canada because our schoolbooks and media mouthpieces have long taught us that U.S. conquest and expansion are by definition glorious.

In other words, bringing down Trump, which more and more people want to see done, may require that we repudiate the long tradition of Trumpism that preceded his rise to power, that is, if we really intend to get rid of arbitrary rule. 

 

After all, if George W. Bush could rig intelligence to show that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and then destroy Iraq on that false pretext, why can't Trump rig intelligence to show that Iran has nukes and later bomb Teheran? If McKinley could grab Puerto Rico, Cuba, Hawaii, and the Philippines, why can't Trump take Greenland and the Panama Canal? If John F. Kennedy could invade Cuba and Vietnam, why can't Trump invade Mexico?

Trump's rule by executive fiat is the consequence of what the French sociologist Emile Durkheim once identified as "anomie" - literally normlessness - a state of intellectual vertigo owing to a complete lack of coherent expectations regulating conduct. We have arrived at this state of affairs because a long line of U.S. leaders and their media propagandists have obliterated rationality with double-talk and lies, leaving Trump an intellectual black hole that allows him to "govern" by authoritarian impulse.

The only potential plus in all this is that power weakens as legitimacy erodes, and the whims of an ignorant narcissist are provoking massive discontent.

And thus the U.S. empire implodes with gathering momentum.

 

 *The Democratic Party, ever-eager to indulge yet another bout of Trump Derangement Syndrome, does not care about due process in principle any more than President Trump does, as their "always believe the woman" dogma clearly demonstrates. The two parties differ only in how to prioritize the groups treated with official contempt.

A Capitalist Running Capitalism?

 

 

A Capitalist Running Capitalism?    

 

It becomes clearer to more people everyday that Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” maneuvering and shaping market forces into being beneficial towards humanity has become a massive force of waste and destruction visibly giving humanity the finger in far more than symbolic ways. One of the materially obvious ones is Donald Trump once again being president of the United States. Some LibCons and ConLibs rejoice but most capitalists are near terrified, along with a general public manipulated but for once almost equal to a ruling class though only in fear.

 

The center of global capitalism has been imperial America since the end of the second world war and that ruling power is nearing its finish which cant come too soon and may mean ultimate destruction if it doesn’t happen soon enough. But this happening is not a matter of fate but of human action taken on behalf of humanity’s survival. Unfortunately, under the near total control of anti-social corporate media, millions of decent citizens are reduced to calling the American minority owned and operated society “our” democracy, totally swallowing the notion that being able to vote defines democracy.

 

When reminded, or just as likely learning for the first time, that the all encompassing boogie man Adolph Hitler came to power under supposed democratic election rules and not by shooting his way into power, as infantile political science teaches from grade school through college, they accept the notion that his evil was so great and powerful nothing could stand in his way. Much as naïve Americans think Trump winning an election for the second time was anti-democratically arranged by fascists who somehow materialize when things are going wrong anywhere and everywhere that capitalism rules. The lesser evil form of capitalism that ran the nation and much of the west after the end of WW2 was known as capitalist social democracy and it made life better for a broad section of the working class so that ruling wealth and their professional class servants would not face the danger of revolutions such as happened in Russia and China and were threatened in growing numbers of nations. That phase ended later in the 20^th century and became a return to alleged free market and austerity politics that saw much freedom for a minority class of capital and growing degradation for the great majority as previous government programs at least partly aimed at people who needed help mostly reverted to help for wealth to become more wealthy and in the inspired capitalist religious faith able to invest and thereby create more jobs and prosperity for the great unwashed, as advertisers and politicians often referred to the public.

 

Screeching about fascism without pointing out that it is the logical extreme of the system when it is in trouble as always neglects the basic point that the only connection between Hitler fascism in Germany and alleged Trump fascism in America is capitalism. In its local and global forms it is sinking into bloody degeneracy that humanity can see more clearly than ever, whether in Israel, Ukraine, Yemen or dozens of other places in Africa and Asia and Europe. Naturally, consciousness control works harder than ever to distract, misinform and lie, still successful among a shrinking number of mortals but failing fast among the majority paying for the wretched outcome of a tinier minority than ever lavishing in wealth while growing millions suffer physically and mentally.

 

 

 

 

Decent, well meaning and sincere Americans who refer to “our” democracy miss that it is a market commodity in which a we get what they pay for minority pays for and a majority suffer as parishioners at the Capitalist Cathedral where prayers are about as useful as belief in the hypocrisy that passes for “our” democracy. Our true belief and acceptance of the faith needs to end soon or all of us – true believers, agnostics, atheists, members of the WGAS minority and others – will pay the ultimate price of dying in a nuclear war, at worst, or suffer a slower death as nature in all its form succumbs to minority rule that reduces humans, earth, air and water to profit making consumables. Trump’s seeming blundering represents marketing at its near extreme with failure looming larger as does hope for humanity.

 

 

 

 

Voting is easier-and as meaningless as ever if not more so - than at any time in our crippled history. All one had to do was fill out a postcard and mail it postage free to have the right to vote for an employee or well-meaning stooge for capital. Black vote white vote testicle vote vagina vote etc. the voter is guaranteed unaffordable housing and healthcare while being allegedly represented by moral disgraces who rush to bury their faces in the crotch of banking, finance, Israel and the military murderers who make our alleged democracy smell like a combination of social vomit and political excrement. 

 

Trump’s assault on business as usual horror has introduced new techniques to do the same thing: create profits for a shrinking minority while increasing losses for the majority, which has reduced the upper professional class to near hysteria and their subjects to worse. Instead of the usual form of society being run for capitalism by its upper servant class it has an actual capitalist acting as CEO of the bloody corporation, this one having an ego beyond measurement accompanied by an intellect almost incapable of magnification. Yet while reducing most to panic he has pleased many by making sounds of peace in Ukraine even while increasing the menace of possibly the most insane, stupid, dumb thing imaginable: war with china.

 

The wider and more populated world is being brought closer by capital’s demise and this while the minority west is facing economic ruin and further social disgrace. Trump is a further sign of the end of empire and the hopeful beginning of a global population united by common interest that all of us should be assured of food, clothing and shelter before anyone can have so much more than is needed for survival as is the current case, with billionaires making more money while mass murder goes on in Palestine/Israel and more American live in the streets while our pets are guaranteed creature comforts and health care while more American humans suffer than during what was called the great depression. Since that time depression has become a moneymaker for the psych business but humanity will cheer up once it/we works together, for a change. Maybe we’ll ultimately thank Trump for helping to bring about the end of capitalism and the beginning of global democracy. Whatever and however, we need to unite as members of the one and only human race and speed up the process.