by Ghassan Kadi
My American friend Roger is a staunch Democrat supporter. He is in his seventies and has always voted Democrat.
Him and I have had countless discussions over the many years that we have known each other. His paternal roots are Arabic and he sees himself to be on the “left” side of politics, anti-Israel lobby, anti-Empire, but of late, him and I have not been able to see eye-to-eye on the Trump-Clinton race to the Whitehouse issue.
He is with the view that Obama has inherited a financial and military disaster and did the best he could, and that he should not be blamed for his failure to “perform” as many did after his elaborate and successful “yes we can” slogan. He supported Obama-care and other domestic reform policies, and this is perhaps where Roger and I stop to agree and start to disagree.
Many, including Roger, look at the appalling record of the Republican American Party and try to paint a tainted image of it. The party that is affectionately called the Grand Old Party or the GOP by its own staunch supporters certainly has enough such records to put it up there with charges of global mayhem and genocide. The GOP has given birth to monsters; people like Nixon, the Bushes, and of course, who can forget Dr. Kissinger? McCain is another character that comes to mind; one that no thinking man could trust with a dog, a Federal Senator who commands self-given authority that no one seems to be able to either understand the mandate of, or challenge.
At the end of the infamous line Republican line, well at least thus far, enter Donald Trump. And what a character he is? Need one say more?
God forbid if this article may be read like a defense of the GOP. The GOP is run by the rich and the privileged, and as described by George W. Bush himself, by “the haves and have more”. It is the party of Dick Cheney who saw in Iraq an opportunity to generate contracts for Haliburton. If tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis had to die for him to achieve his objective, he would not and did not blink.
This is the party that condones and feeds Christian Zionists. It is the party that has huge control over the media. It is the party that runs the world like it is a business enterprise.
Sadly, and whether the rest of the world likes it or not, until the current global status quo changes, no political party in the world affects the rest of the world like the ruling party in the United States. Whilst elections in other countries are by-and-large domestic affairs that affect domestic politics of the country concerned, American elections have implications that are not only domestically bound, but have a much further global reach that encompasses every corner of the world.
As a non-American, personally, I am much more concerned about the wider global implications of American politics than the domestic ones. This is not to say that I am indifferent about America and the American people. As a matter of fact, not only do I have close friends who live in America, but also close family members there, and I have grave concerns for all mankind in every corner of the globe, by my interest in American politics remains focused on foreign policy matters; and to this effect, I am only able to relate to the choice between the major two American parties from the perspective of their foreign policies.
As America insists to be the world police and the unrivalled superpower, a stature many Americans are refusing to accept that they have already lost, it must accept what comes with it and concede that the rest of the world is hoping that the American people will choose the better candidate as the new president; or should I say the one who is less harmful to the world.
In between Donald and Hillary, who fits the less-harmful bill? This is the question.
Enough has been recently said about Hillary’s health to write a horror novel. Her “mini-strokes” and “alleged” recent case of pneumonia have made headlines as big, if not bigger than her infamous hidden emails, allegations of involvement in the murder of an American Ambassador and even selling arms to ISIS. Very recently however, the issue of the emails is resurfacing again, and very late in the campaign, perhaps late enough to serve Hillary with a knock out.
However, her zeal to reach the Whitehouse seems to have been in her mind even before Bill’s (her husband) Monica scandal back in 1998. Hillary was prepared to publicly support Bill, appear to “forgive” him and move on, because she had a bigger fish to fry; the Whitehouse. She somehow managed to hush down all other sex offence allegations against Bill, all the while, and hypocritically, trying to score mileage from similar allegations against Trump.
Her unabated lust for power will not stop at anything for as long as she ends up at the helm, the first female American President, even if she has to be Commander In Chief from behind the control button of a wheelchair.
There are even observations and allegations that many people who have campaigned against her have died under suspicious circumstances. Whether this mystery is going to be taken up by main stream media just on the eve of the elections to serve her with yet another under-the-belt knock out remains to be seen.
Her uncontrollable laughs and hysterical facial expressions leave many questions unanswered.
In between the two front runners Donald and Hillary, it is hard to say that she presents herself as the sane and rational choice.
Is there a party-based distinction on foreign affairs matters? Perhaps now, but not historically.
For some reason, the American Republican Party is seen as the party of the hawks and the Democrats are seen as the doves. But are they?
To answer this question in an unbiased manner, we ought to look back at history. Notwithstanding the colourful history of the GOP, the Bushes; father and son, Cheney, the NeoCons and Co., what is really the history of the American Democratic Party?
A few landmark historical decisions make it very clear. So let us start with current events before we dwell into recent history that some might have chosen to forget.
The “War On Syria” was the brainless child of the so-called “Arab Spring”, a spring that was heralded by the visit of an American President to Cairo and a speech he made to Sunni Muslim clergy at Al-Azhar University. The President’s name is Barak Obama, and he is a Democrat. Obama’s speech was a subtle endorsement for the Arab street, and to be specific to the Sunni Muslim Arab street to rise.
The Maidan phenomenon and all the events that followed in Ukraine, the anti-Russian sanctions, escalations and intimidations and the creation of a very volatile situation in Europe; a situation that remains hot and of unpredictable consequences, have all been orchestrated by the same President; Obama….a Democrat.
Last but not least, the current tension in the South China Sea is also the outcome of the same President, the incumbent Democrat; Barak Obama.
Now, let us not forget that President Obama is a Nobel Prize laureate; ironically for peace.
The American involvement in the Vietnam War started under the tenure of the sweetheart Hollywood-star like American President; JFK. It reached its climax during the LBJ administration. Both Kennedy and Johnson were Democrats.
But all of the above monstrosity is dwarfed by dropping the A-Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Many strategists have argued over the last seven decades as to whether or not President Truman had no other choice to end the war quickly, but those arguments do not change the fact that two; not one, atom bombs were dropped on cities. It is pertinent to note here that the Manhattan Project generated two types of bombs, “Little Boy” (used in Hiroshima) and “Fat Man” (used in Nagasaki). It doesn’t take a genius to at least suspect that the American administration wanted to test the two types and that therefore, in their eyes, destroying Hiroshima alone was not enough.
That said, and even though no A-Bombs were dropped in Western Europe and specifically on Germany, the brutality that civilians in German towns and cities have suffered were simply acts of vengeance and many of them had no military gains to achieve.
Harry Truman was not a Republican. He was yet another Democrat.
But haven’t we forgotten the other Democrat sweetheart of the Whitehouse? The almost saint-in-waiting? The smiling Colgate-ad President Jimmy Carter.
Many see that Carter had an impeccable record of being a humanitarian of the highest degree. As a matter of fact, credit must be given to him for his post-presidency peace campaigns, and specifically for standing up for the Palestinian people and for not being silenced by the Israel lobby.
However, in reality, it was during the Carter administration that Al-Qaeda was created under the blessing and auspices of the USA. It was a criminal with a twisted mind aka Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter’s National Security Advisor, who actually established the first Jihadist army. In his narrow-minded and short-sighted vision, he thought that the best way to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan was to support and train Islamist fighters to rise against the “infidel” Communists. And even though the plot eventually generated ISIS, a monster that turned not only against the hand the fed it but also against the whole world, to this date, Brzezinski maintains that he came up with a genius master plan. Once again, Carter and Brzezinski were both Democrats.
And now, it is Clinton who is beating up the drums of war against Russia and China.
Americans may have their legitimate preferences that would make them go either for Trump or for Clinton. Supporters of each team can and do provide huge lists that make their candidate of choice the better one. Arguably, one of them could well be better for America; the truth is that as a citizen of the world, and as mentioned before, I am more interested in a President who is better for the rest of the world.
Whether Trump will trump up the military after an election win is anyone’s guess. But Clinton is beating the drums of war already. To this effect, and as we stand today, on the international arena, she is the hawk; not Trump.
Americans who are disenchanted by wars must realize that this time around, the choice to vote Democrat is an endorsement of her war aspirations.
Americans with two minds as to which way to go on the 8th of this month ought to remember that whatever their personal, local and/or domestic issues are, the USA will not win a nuclear war against either Russia or China; let alone both combined.
Those swinging voters who easily vote for either major party depending on an array of factors, should hopefully discern that this time that a vote for Clinton is a vote for war.
If some have never voted for the GOP in the past, and more so are physically unable to vote for Trump, and/or if others are disenchanted by both major parties or actually never voted before, and if they regard both candidates as equally farcical, one would wonder as to what are waiting for to vote outside the two major parties? What caliber of Democrat and Republican candidates are such reluctant American voters waiting for to vote for a third option?
Some argue that a vote for the Greens is a wasted vote because the Greens will never make it into the Whitehouse, at least not in the foreseeable future, but in reality, any vote that does not endorse Hillary Clinton is not a wasted vote.
Very well put, and I agree with every word.
Katherine
Breaking news.
Nalyvaichenko the former Head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) preparing terror act in subway of ukranian city of Kharkiv. Main purpose of this act is to creating the causes to blame Russia for creating unstable situation in Ukraine. Second goal is to show this act as a revenge for The Murder of Motorola. It is supposed that this action is fully supported by United States of America.
Interesting image….commander in chief pressing the button from her wheelchair…..metaphor in my mind is Davros the creator of the Darleks——destroy, destroy, destroy.
Neither of the two main candidates are even remotely qualified to be elected President of the United States.
Having written that, what other choices do the American electorate have? I shall attempt to write a parable in the hope it provides an answer.
“Once upon a time, there lived a people in the kingdom of Ka-Ching. This land was controlled by King Avarice and his two sons who constantly competed for the attention and affection of their father. The name of the oldest was Prince Demos and his younger brother, Prince Remos. Demos originally found favor with the hoi polloi while Remos cared more for the bankers and merchants since they were wealthy and had in their possession many items of material value.
Now the king was not a dictator per se, he granted his people the right to decide for themselves certain privileges given to them by creating a system known as the “four year stone cast”. What the citizenry would do is on November 8th of the quadrennial year, they wore blindfolds and cast a stone painted ‘blue’ or ‘red’ into the great Pool of Moral Fairness which was a small pond located on the palace grounds. Only a blue or red colored stone was allowed to be thrown. At night, the king’s servants would dive down into the pond and retrieve the stones and count them. The next day, the king would decree across the great land who was the winner based on the tally of which of the two colored stones was greater. As time passed, the people started to identify themselves as strictly blue casters or red casters, since the king awarded privileges based on the outcome of the tally.
Demos wanted to show his father he should be the next leader and so he declared himself the leader of the blue casters. He hoped the king would recognize he stood for his subjects. When Remos found out, he issued a royal order that he was the leader of the red casters who secretly favored the wealthy, cared little for the general citizenry and did not identify with them at all.
This competition for power became more intense when the Court Jesters Guild was hired by both brothers to whip up partisan talk among the masses. The guild used an ancient instrument known as ‘political science’ to convince the population which brother better served them.
After many years, the privileges awarded to the subjects by the king were sparse and of little value. When the blue casters won the tally, the people were given opportunities to borrow credits from the wealthy against the few possessions they had but attached with the credits was a covenant called ‘interest and penalties’ for which the people has no way to pay both the credit and the parasitical charges associated with it. The people became impoverished.
When the red casters won the tally, the people were again allowed to borrow credits with the same result. After a while, it became clear to both the blue casters and the red casters they were being robbed by the stone cast system under the pretense of receiving rights that would benefit them. The system was rigged, a great swindle put upon the subjects of the king. It was obvious that Demos had sided with his brother Remos and made an agreement to share power funded by the wealthy and promoted by the Court Jesters Guild.
As long as the people participated in the stone cast system, the personal treasuries of both princes would be enriched at the expense of the people. This delighted King Avarice and he was pleased his spawn were so clever and knew after he passed on, the legacy of his reign would be sustained.
But wait! The people actually started to think the forbidden thought to not go to the Pool of Moral Fairness every four years to cast their stones since nothing ever changed. And that’s what they did.
Well the King became outraged, how dare his subjects remained in their houses and not show up. He called all the court jesters together and told them to devise a plan to get the people to the pool. The jesters began a constant barrage of communication in every village and hamlet. The message was clear, if the people did not cast their stones the kingdom would perish and all would be lost.
But the people refused, “It is a lie, the whole system is a lie. All the benefit goes to Prince Demos and Remos and the royal treasury. We are left destitute.”
The moral of my story is this; to vote is to give the scepter of power each of us holds in our hand to those who are most undeserving of it. Stay home on November 8th, let the political system collapse so new guards for our liberties and freedoms can step forward who are not part of the corrupt Democratic or Republican party system. Don’t be afraid America; be brave, fearless and resolute. We have little to lose and much to gain. It’s the only way to save our republic.
Trump is very qualified to the the USA president, both based on his policies and his life as a successful businessman. That is unlike the average politicians that is a career politician and never done anything in his or her life’s except accepting bribes.
Here are an example of Trump policies. Every single policy is gold and a few of them pretty much puts and end to globalist rule in USA if implemented.
On the economy:
“Change has to come from outside our very broken system.”
“We’ve doubled our national debt to $20 trillion under President Obama.”
“Nearly 1 in 4 Americans in their prime earning years isn’t even working.”
“I am asking the American people to dream big once again.”
“Will withdraw the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
“Will cancel every un-Constitutional executive action, memorandum, and order issued by President Obama.”
“We will cancel all federal funding of sanctuary cities.”
“The veterans will finally be taken care of properly.”
“If we follow these steps, we will once more have a government of, by, and for the people.”
On Obamacare:
“Fully repeal ObamaCare and replace it with health savings accounts.”
On education:
“We are going to end Common Core.”
On tax reform:
“Tax forms will be greatly simplified.”
“When they know there are consequences, our companies will stop leaving the United States.”
On voter fraud:
“1.8 million dead people are registered to vote. And some of them are voting.”
“2.8 million people are registered in more than one state… 14% of non-citizens are registered to vote.”
“According to Pew, there are 24 million voter registrations in the United States that are either invalid or significantly inaccurate.”
“Just been learned on video that the violent protests at some of my rallies…were caused by paid DNC & Clinton campaign operatives.”
On immigration:
“We’re going to suspect immigration from terror-prone regions.”
On Hillary:
“Hillary Clinton should have been precluded from running… but the FBI and the Justice Dept. covered up her crimes.”
“Hillary Clinton is not running against me. She’s running against change.”
“HillaryClinton is… running against all of the American people and all of the American voters.
In terms of actual political measures that Trump would propose and/or enact, he listed the following six:
“A Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.”
“A hiring freeze on all federal employees.”
“A requirement that for every new federal regulation, 2 existing regulations must be eliminated.”
“A 5-year ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government.”
“A lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government.”
“A complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-22/trump-lays-out-his-plan-first-100-days-office-here-are-highlights
Mr. Trump has never served in any capacity of government administration, whether in a hamlet, town, parish, county, state or at the federal level. He has no experience working with government bureaucracies beyond the average businessman. He has never been an ambassador to another sovereign nation or been a board member of any public or private corporation other than affiliated with his own businesses.
Trump’s appeal to the public is based on his success as a television celebrity, his brashness, charisma and popularity due to the overt egotistical manner in which he challenges the political status-quo and their stale platforms that serve their cronies and financial backers more than the American people. Trump presents a persona that he is his own man who cannot be threatened or intimidated by his opposition, the national media and even the political party that grudgingly nominated him as their candidate for president. He projects an internal strength and will necessary to overcome the many obstacles he would face when working with the U.S. Congress on the business of running the country.
His platform is raw, direct and exposes many of the failings the federal government. However I believe his demeanor and lack of patience will move him to make rash decisions especially dealing with the U.S. Congress, Wall Street, federal courts unions, corporate lobbyists, the U.S. Military and influential social service and religious groups. As far as foreign policy, he will want to ‘win’ every trade deal possibly at the expense of statesmanship in relations with other nations.
To summarize, Trump surrounds himself with ‘yes men’ as he lives for the excitement of being the ‘top hat’ token in the game of monopoly who rolls loaded dice if he can get away with it. He lacks the skill for the long contest as he is easily bored and needs the ‘fix’ of glitz and glamor to feel alive.
Clinton? – Her legendary duplicity and incompetence could fill an entire shelf in the Library of Congress, ’nuff said.
The President of the United States must have a sense of balance and show congeniality and compassion when called for but also demonstrate strength through a keen intellect on many different matters concerning domestic and foreign issues. A chief executive who uses threats, veiled or direct is a weak leader who hides behind the fasces of his office instead of negotiating attainable goals through consensus. He must be able to draw upon the palette of skills life has given him to paint a picture of success for the nation and his presidency.
Mr. Trump is not the right leader for America at this time and of course his opponents are nothing more than field horses needed to round out the race for appearance sake.
For what it seemed at the beginning an objective analysis, then, finally, it is not, since you finished developping only on the Democrats criminal record, naming only that of the Republicans, as like passing through, forgotting naming even some Republican monsters, like Rumsfeld, to finish discarding the vote for third parties, as a waste.
Never is a waste not voting for a candidate who does not meet a minimal of moral requirements.
Voting to third parties can achieve a interesting number of congressmen/women to oppose/ block certain crazy policies or to call those in power for accountability.
Another option would be rejecting voting in mass, because of the unappropiate character of the candidates, so as to get repeating elections until more decent candidates result for the people to choose.
This article is about the gruesome foreign policy of both the Dems and Repubs. However, the Dems have generally been better than the Repubs regarding social programs, health care, financial regulation, and protection of the environment than the Repubs. Therefore, would it not be better to vote for Trump for fewer wars and for the Dems for Congress for better social policy?
Not really, they are both equally awful and for the reason that both are ruled by the same oligarch class. Obama for example created Obamacare, a catastrophe for the healthcare.
There really is no importance in putting a division line between republicans or democrats on such policies.
The democrats are however worse in the sense that they are 100% controlled by the globalist, there is not a speck of hope that any anti-globalist candidate will ever arise in the democrats, their supports are either voting cattle that can barely read and dont know anything about policies or they are follow blown culturalmarxist who spend their time ranting agains tthe “white christian heterosexual patriarchy” and funding BLM and La Raza, even Sanders which was suppose to be the anti-gobalist democrat choice made hyper-racist statments such as “White people cant be poor” that despite there being 18 million poor white people in USA more then blacks or hispanics. The republicans leadership is of course equally corrupt, but its base, is conservative and anti-globalist. And as Trump shows, there is still hope for a real candidate arising from the republicans.The republican party also does not have the retarded “superdelegates” system were one of the elites in the democratic party gets 10 000 votes, which of course makes it impossible for any anti-globalist candidate to ever be elect inside the democrats.
Very good article.And lets not forget it was Bill Clinton (with Hillary’s advise) that bombed Serbia.And though many forget,during his regime,constantly bombed Iraq,any chance he got.As a way to say “we can,so we will”.There are “devils” in both parties, Its just that “this time”,the worse devil appears to be Killary.
One word “entrainment”.
It has become a very well paid science in population management/control.
Harakiri by the infected guaranteed.
Catherine Austin Fitts nails it far better then I can.
https://youtu.be/CM9tM9LN6hI
Interesting article for me, personally, because Ghassan’s Arab friend, a US Citizen and voter reminds me of voters in general, and immigrants in particular, in this election, whose attitudes are more interesting than in past elections.
In general, Americans are getting a scary choice that they absolutely deserve, because the vast majority of them are superficial and happy to imbibe the Kool-Aid their TV and MSM have served up to them, all of their lives, and then to be complainers. It’s fundamentally a problem of infantilism, the refusal to grow up and take responsibility.
This infantile, superficial condition has been socially engineered by the elites continuously, since the inception, with the result being the election of mostly lousy chief executives who serve their cronies, not the General Welfare clause in the pre-amble to the Constitution.
The few exceptions were mostly individuals that were able to mobilize an awakened consciousness in the popular mood, almost solely due to CRISIS conditions. Without the crisis, it’s back to sleep, for the sheep.
Many of them adopt the false left /right model the Arab friend adopted, because that superficial fairy tale story for credulous children is put out there, for mass manipulation, along the lines of a phony dialectic that explains nothing about the hidden puppet strings behind most figures on the political stage. Only in a crisis do many break profile, and they often do so in a way that is hard to predict, and is somewhat chaotic and error-filled. But at least you have some movement and possibility to break the hypnosis of the most awakened among them, during a crisis.
Last month I was in the home of two muslim families from India, living in a West coast city. The younger husband expressed fear of Trump and preference for Hillary based on one stupid issue alone: Trump’s supposed hostility to law-abiding Muslims inside the US already.
Earlier, I had gone through 911 with his brother-in-law, a slightly older mentor of the younger man, covering material he had not been aware of, although both had generally the right instincts in that regard. When I explained to him that the big and immediate issue is war or peace between nuclear powers, not “the Wall” he got the point and conveyed that reality to the younger man. Hopefully it will sink in. Many sheep, however, do not think, even when given ample opportunity to do so, and are other-directed by some outside authority (media, the Imam in the local mosque, friends, etc) not any internal, self-directed compass of higher reason than those mostly undependable outer influences.
The other situation, also in October, last week was Afro-Americans. Upscale ones in one house were all for Hillary. Both are renters. The first made money and lost their million dollar house in 2009 and a lot of money trying to save it and their credit, unsuccessfully. But make money good money now. For now.
The other, a Section 8 tenant, woman, with a whole gaggle of related people visiting at once. Break a little ice and they were ALL for Trump! Rebellious. Unpredictable. More emotion than discernment involved. Articulate? Not in the least. But for Trump.
Yes, if you want to see voting patterns by genders and race you can look here, bsaed on voting patterns it is no suprise that globalists want massimmigraiton into white countries.
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Ronald McDonald or Lucretia Borgia?: In the Long Run, We Are all Dead
Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed
More fun in the Indispensable Nation: As we have all heard by now, according to Hillary, ardent of becoming National Basilisk, half of Trump’s supporters are evil and the other half losers, deplorables all. That is, she holds half of Americans in contempt. Unsurprisingly she said this in New York, which is barely America, and to a convention of sexual curiosities.
I frankly think her admirable. As she coughs, staggers, convulses, lies, pilfers, sells favors and lapses into intermittent confusion, she still has the courage to tell America that she loathes half of it. That´s candor.
Give her credit for consistency. She is always mendacious, firmly in the pockets of Wall Street, Israel, the Neocon hawks, and the arms industry, never having accomplished anything on her own, always riding Bill’s coattails, having a disastrous record as SecState, always for sale. With her, we know what we will get. With Trump, it’s a roll of very weird dice.
Ah, the Donald. While he unmistakably displays various presidential qualities–he can walk up stairs by himself, and his eyes usually point in the same direction–there is indeed a certain aleatory quality to the man. God knows what he might do. He shoots from the hip, saying all sorts of loopy but interesting things. Interesting if you live somewhere else. He talks unflatteringly about the other sex near open mikes, instead of away from them like everybody else.
The Donald merely makes me nervous, while Hillary makes me want to take poison. It is the difference between an acid trip and death by sinus drainage. His truly great strength is that he is not Hillary. The election is really a contest between placeholders for conflicting interests, for different views of the world. Few would want either if there were another choice.
Hillary’s attitude toward America has for years been implicit in our ruling class in New York. Having little in common with the rest of the country, they speak of most of it as Flyover Land, a realm of intellectual darkness and barbarism separating Manhattan and Hollywood. So far as I know, this is the first time the elites have had the confidence, if not necessarily the judgement, to say it plainly.
Let’s not delude ourselves. America is ruled by the Five Cities, Boston, New York, Washington, Tel Aviv, and Hollywood. The rest of us just pay taxes. The heart of the beast is New York, the Ivies being its nursery and Washington its storefront.
To a practicing curmudgeon, the presidential contest is amusing but unimportant. Hillary will win, whether she wins or not. She is just the wave front of deep and fast-flowing currents of decay that cannot be stopped. Trump may try, but he cannot succeed. We live in a dying culture and, soon, a diminished country. It cannot be saved.
Not true? Add up the bits and pieces. We laugh in horror, some of us, primarily the older, at the decline of schooling, the courses like Batman and the Struggle for Gender Equity. Comic, yes. Yet in aggregate these constitute an academic and civilizational collapse both profound and irreversible. Enstupidation does not happen in a healthy country. Who even wants to reverse this onrushing night? Not the universities, nor the teachers unions, nor a professoriat gone as daft as the “students,” nor the banks battening on student loans.
It is over. Hillary may start wars in her six months before going into a sanatorium. Trump may build walls. But the rot will go on. Tell me why it won’t […]
Full article:
http://fredoneverything.org/ready-ronald-mcdonald-or-lucretia-borgia-in-the-long-run-we-are-all-dead/
Well, that’s Entertainment by Fred Reed and pretty funny!
Gives me a chance to use a new texting meme, abbreviation, or whatever: LMAO.
Just learned it yesterday. These things help me be more refined in general company. I did a search and in seconds it was explained to me. As it will be to you, if you’re as unhip as me and unable to communicate with a steady stream of such abbreviations permeating your communications.
But SERIOUSLY:
“Tell me why it won’t….”
Here’s why: One of the seven Universal Principles. I think it may be Rhythm that I am thinking of. Which interacts with Polarity, as in opposites. There is an oscillation between high and low, dry and wet, hot and cold, etc,etc BUILT IN to nature, to the Universe, in fact. The swing of a self-correcting pendulum.
Failure to comprehend the invisible presence of this principle makes people overly euphoric in an up cycle and overly pessimistic in a down cycle. Both are short -sighted and most often, the wrong emotions to have if you are a willful, creative human being, that is. Reality is not linear. It is cyclical, if we can see far enough ahead.
And far-sightedness is better than short-sightedness, and willful potency is better than impotent fatalism.
“We’re all dead in the long run, no matter what!” ???? “So what else is new, (Reed)!” ,would be my reply.
The issue is whether you use your time and will, your present body and brain to attempt to evolve your consciousness and that of other human beings, or whether you are a dead weight on the process, unconsciously, stupidly, immorally choosing devolution. That’s the fundamental choice confronting every wakeful, biologically normal human being, whether they are aware of that choice or not.
So Reed made me laugh, but no, he’s not a good example to emulate.
Re “Lucretia Borgia”
I don’t have a TV so haven’t really been following a lot of things or actually seen these two people speak very much. But while watching a Youtube video I saw multiple passages of Clinton, “answering” questions, haranguing while stabbling the air with her “gun” finger—much uglier than Trump’s “pointing” behavior.
I was shocked. Even in her “normal” mode she is horrifying. A totally dead face and eyes, disdainful expression. Her laughs are even worse. Her harangue about the terrible behavior of the horrible people who are supporting Donald Trump — this woman wants to be president of all?
By comparison, Trump looks positively presidential! At least he seems to be a normal Homo sapiens. Not sure what Hillary is.
Actually watching her for a few minutes reinforces my decision not under any circumstances to give her my vote. I do think Republican at the top and Dem lower down the ticket makes some sense.
Katherine
I agree with Kadi’s thesis: whichever of Trump or Clinton will result in less US aggression is the world’s, if not the US’s, preference. I also agree with his attention to the original sin of the US atom bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But that had less to do with Truman’s being a Democrat — FDR probably wouldn’t have — than with Truman’s being an an ignorant curr. Would that be Trump or Clinton? We really don’t know.
Kadi’s discussion of the atom bombings is flawed by an historical error. “It doesn’t take a genius to at least suspect that the American administration wanted to test the two types…” This overlooks that the plutonium bomb had already been tested in the New Mexico desert on 16 July 1945. (All sentences beginning “It doesn’t take a genius…” are dubious.)
Rather silly remark. The plutonium bomb had not been tested on a city full of people…
You are confusing moral testing with physical testing. The moral test, to drop an atomic bomb on a city full of people, was already taken on 6 August 1945. The USA failed that moral test, and the failure lasts forever. There is no second moral test to drop a plutonium atomic bomb on a city full of people after the first moral failure with the uranium atomic bomb.
Physical testing is another matter. The test on 16 July 1945 showed that the plutonium bomb worked. If it worked in the desert it would work to incinerate a city full of people, barring Divine Intervention which, note, did not occur. The successful physical test of the plutonium bomb also, to some degree, increased confidence in the uranium bomb.
Kadi meant physical testing, and he made a factual error.
GK
“but in reality, any vote that does not endorse Hillary Clinton is not a wasted vote.”
Depends what you want, to see clinton, and the zionazi far right elected, or are really against this total freak show.
If one votes for any candidate except for one who has the only serious chance of preventing a clinton win, one effectively is voting for clinton. IE: if you are serious about preventing a clinton win, you vote Trump, if not, you recommend others. It is that simple.
There are other errors in this article, especially historical and current event distortions based upon zio-gay media propaganda that also need attending to, but I’ll have to get back to this later. Cats are hungry…
There is a brilliant article in the unz review, called:
My point is that this stigmatization campaign is part of a much larger ideological project, one that has little to do with Trump, or Jeremy Corbyn, or their respective parties. Smearing one’s political opponents is nothing new, of course, it’s as old as the hills. But what we’re witnessing is more than smears. As I proposed in these pages back in July, political dissent is being gradually pathologized (i.e., stigmatized as aberrant or “abnormal” behavior, as opposed to a position meriting discussion). Consider the abnormalization of Sanders, back when he was talking about “banks,” “global elites,” and other things that matter, or the media’s portrayal of British voters as racists in the wake of the Brexit referendum. And, yes, the charges being leveled against Trump, much as we might despise the man. Anti-Semitism, inciting violence, paranoid conspiracy theorizing, insurrection, treason, et cetera — these are not legitimate arguments one needs to counter with superior arguments; they are symptoms of deviations from a norm, signs of criminality or pathology, which is increasingly how the corporate ruling classes are dismissing anyone who attempts to challenge them.
http://www.unz.com/article/the-pathologization-of-dissent/
article says: “Look, I’m not defending Donald Trump, who I consider a self-aggrandizing idiot and a soulless huckster of the lowest order, and whose supporters include a lot of real anti-Semites, and racists, and misogynists, and other such creeps.”
That’s wrong — he is not of the lowest order but more in the middle, similar to a great number of people (especially business owners or managers) I’ve run into, and fairly typical of quite a few other Americans. These sort of people, and the bigots, etc., are everywhere, often much worse than Trump.
One can defend Trump in many areas without defending his faults, especially in comparison to most politicians and members of the ruling class — even they are not so open about it. In the US predatory system of fake ‘meritocracy’ based on privilege and deception, should we expect even normally moral people to rise to the higher levels of wealth or power? Of course not — it’s the sharks and vampires who thrive in such a system.
Let’s not fall for the propaganda of setting Trump as atypical or any worse than the rest of them.
This is definitely an ugly choice of candidates as we all know, and it will still hurt to pull the lever for Trump. Like many readers on this blog, my main concern is a for sane foreign policy. Therefore, the choice is obvious.
A vote for Trump will be a vote against my friends. Many of whom may have questionable immigration status. These are good, hard-working people that I care about. Trump threatens them. But do presidents always implement their bombastic “campaign promises”? ie Bush Sr. no new taxes.
A vote for Hillary is a vote for the continual empowerment of the neocons and the war party, who will continue their dangerous provocation against Russia, re-fuel their deception ops in the Middle East bringing more chaos and death, and set us up for the third world war.
I disagree with how you frame this because I come from a different perspective. No disrepsect intended.
I take a macro view of an issue and convert to micro and vice versa sometimes to try to stay objective.
Immigration: Do you live in a house? Does it have walls and a door with a lock? As head of that house is it not your responsibility to ensure those who are supposed to live in that house are safe? Do you lock your door at night? Do you verify who you let in and keep people you don’t know or don’t want out? Is that not your right? Does that make you racist to enforce it?
I do know what you mean though. I am from Texas and have friends as well which would be umder that threat. What bothers me is no intelligent debate on the issue. As a kid I worked in the fields in the summer for extra money. They had migrant worker visa system back then that worked. Think it was most 12 months here and 4 back there. The workers liked it actually and they had legal rights and protections here with that visa.
War: listening to our media the drumbs beat strong. Seems only thing dems and repubs agree on is we need to get into Syria and save them from Evil Russia. We will be treated as liberators of course. Same playbook as last time and every time. No assurances Trump can stop that unless American people actually start pushing back on current narrative.
There is still a chance that Trump can backtrack on what he promises. Maybe he doesn’t understand the full power of the deep state yet and back down. Who knows? That’s what I take from the article but we certainly know who backs Hillary. The overriding concern for me is global war. Immigration and the culture wars won’t mean much anyway on the path we’re on.
So called “progressives” are lost or clueless this election cycle. The resistance to empire is coming from the right this time around whether it is intended or not, or whether this resistance is real. I don’t know, but I’m willing to give it a chance because I see no other options and the stakes are high like you said.
I will forever give Trump cred for sticking it to Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard when he said, “All the guy wants to do is kill people and go to war…even though he knows it’s not working..I actually feel sorry for him.”
Also,
Trump has spoken truth to corruption not heard since JFK and that sitting president was assassinated. I would argue private citizen has had a more positive effect on our country in that regard than any of our other “respectable” leaders combined.
For that I am already thankful and give him my support.
God bless wikileaks and other brave souls for putting their lives on the line for truth. RIP to those who have fallen along the way as well.
And to The Vineyard amd Saker as well!!
Thank you for what you do
Actually, Trump doesnt threaten any good working immigrant. Quite the opposite, he supports them. You should read less MSM, if you are going to vote, atleast know what you are voting for an against. Trump only oppose illegal immigration.
This is the best choice of candidates USA has have for decades, and I’d say this is actually the first time americans have had a choice in decades. Here are a few of Trumps policies for his first 100 days in office.
On the economy:
“Change has to come from outside our very broken system.”
“We’ve doubled our national debt to $20 trillion under President Obama.”
“Nearly 1 in 4 Americans in their prime earning years isn’t even working.”
“I am asking the American people to dream big once again.”
“Will withdraw the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
“Will cancel every un-Constitutional executive action, memorandum, and order issued by President Obama.”
“We will cancel all federal funding of sanctuary cities.”
“The veterans will finally be taken care of properly.”
“If we follow these steps, we will once more have a government of, by, and for the people.”
On Obamacare:
“Fully repeal ObamaCare and replace it with health savings accounts.”
On education:
“We are going to end Common Core.”
On tax reform:
“Tax forms will be greatly simplified.”
“When they know there are consequences, our companies will stop leaving the United States.”
On voter fraud:
“1.8 million dead people are registered to vote. And some of them are voting.”
“2.8 million people are registered in more than one state… 14% of non-citizens are registered to vote.”
“According to Pew, there are 24 million voter registrations in the United States that are either invalid or significantly inaccurate.”
“Just been learned on video that the violent protests at some of my rallies…were caused by paid DNC & Clinton campaign operatives.”
On immigration:
“We’re going to suspect immigration from terror-prone regions.”
On Hillary:
“Hillary Clinton should have been precluded from running… but the FBI and the Justice Dept. covered up her crimes.”
“Hillary Clinton is not running against me. She’s running against change.”
“HillaryClinton is… running against all of the American people and all of the American voters.
In terms of actual political measures that Trump would propose and/or enact, he listed the following six:
“A Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress.”
“A hiring freeze on all federal employees.”
“A requirement that for every new federal regulation, 2 existing regulations must be eliminated.”
“A 5-year ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government.”
“A lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government.”
“A complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-22/trump-lays-out-his-plan-first-100-days-office-here-are-highlights
Agree on the whole with your analysis Ghassan although, perhaps I have a Higher opinion of Trump and am more Disgusted by Killary!
Very good article.
I mean no offense but, I enjoy reading articles from outsiders looking in and how far off base they are about what is going on here.
First, the Democrats vs Republicans narrative is gone in this election. Republican establishment has been missing in action during all of this and actually worked against their now candidate. The hate Trump about as much as the Hillary crowd. Proof of that is RNC has spent $0 on campaigning for Trump. And, likewise, Trump has raised $0 for RNC. The only Republicans that support Trump are those that came in on the now dead Tea Party platform. Republican establishment is MIA in this election and that should make you wonder.
This election boils down to do you support rampant corruption in the government which has become out of control to the point that there is no coherent policy coming from the most powerful (judged by combination of soft and hard power) on earth? There are no other issues because if the path of continued expansion of corruption is chosen, any promise the government makes to anyone about anything cannot be trusted at all.
Would you for 1 second trust anything HRC says without knowing who paid what to Clinton foundation to carry whatever promise to completion? Could Russia or Chima trust a single word Hillary “mistranslated easy button” Clinton says? Only those that paid can have any assurances and she will kill and destroy entire nations to fulfill the paid promises. SincecI have not paid her I know where I stand.
As I have alluded to before at The Vineyard, there is nothing typical about this election. It is a fight to the death between some of those that are not corrupt against the vast corruption which has become so powerful as to control all branches of government. Many Americans are aware of this, and what may suprise you, they support it because it keeps their current gravy train going.
Which leads me to the point of how divided our country really is now. Baby boomers are kinda pissef but, they just want to retire with what is left of social security and they don’t really give a damn about if there is anything left after. They paid their dues like sheep their whole life and want their payoff. Millennials are much the same way. They paid 3x as much for their shit education and don’t have much to show for it. Also, they are “too smart” to accept a regular job so their future is shitty without gov intervention to help them out at someone else’s expense. Which leaves my group, generation x. We grew up when US still built things and good jobs were to be had for anyone with good skills and work ethic. We are not really found of either baby boomers or millennials. Both are kinda dead weight and not bringing that much to the table as a whole. Gen X’rs are screwed up themselves as they raised those millenials to be soft and whiny.
Anyway, US looks more like the Soviet Union of the past then does present day Russia which explains to a large degree why there is a strong Putin following here. We have not had good leadership in quite a while and the, American male is getting emasculated in the day to day American lifestyle. To the point that women who should be offended by Trump are not nearly as much so as gets portrayed in our media. I site proof of this by Latina Magazine pole I saw with 87% of Hispanic Women supporting Trump. Crazy right? A group that should be doubly offended by Trump overwhelmingly supporting him. HRC had 2%. This was with 4000+ votes. Why? Because Hispanic women have heart. They love their babies and when Trump said No, it is not ok to rip a defenseless baby from their mother’s womb days before they are born, women respected that. He defended their honor as mothers, something maybe their own men may not do.
Men are drawn to Trump because he says he will bring manufacturing back to the US. We don’t really pay attention to much as to how he will do it. So many men can’t make or fix anything anymore it is ridiculous and they are not as good at the administrative type jobs that are left as women are. Women’s strength is multi tasking and keeping up on all the details. Men’s is gritty determination to see a single hard task through to completion. Men want those jobs back, there was a lot of pride in them.
I qualify the above with a further division. The intellectual elite. They are as powerful here as they have ever been. They don’t have to feel like less of men because they can’t fix or work on anything. They are our thinkers supposedly but, they all are taught the same thing and have very little creative thoughts to bring to the table. They are copycats and plagerizers both in their work and their personal lives. For their education, they still have poor social skils and a surprising amount of them have taken to wearing beards since it is so mainstream now you can so that without having a manly job and not get laughed at.
Back to the premise of the title of the article. You cannot speak to the known and unknown of Trump and Hillary without touching on the American psych. There are layers of division going on in the US and also groups with common ground you would not normally suspect. Whether this is by design for an upcoming “American Spring” or an inevitable evolution of a young nation I do not know. What I do know about America, is that it truly is exceptional in many ways. If we have a crazy election, we can do it to a point few can ever top. If our government gets rocked by a corruption scandal, I have full faith we can out do Brazil on that. Being on center stage ups your game. If we screw up, we can do it bigger than anyone. And when we smell blood in the water, we go after it like few others do. Alot of blood is in the water and I think this is just the beginning and will not stop by a long shot a week from now.
The renewed FBI investigation could (I wish that it should) lead to the exposure of the vast octopus-like conspiracy to plunder and ultimately to dismantle Russia. The article of Thierry Meyssan “E-mails – Hillary Clinton and the Muslim Brotherhood”, @http://www.voltairenet.org/article193924.html addresses just one of the tentacles:
“The reprise of the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private e-mails no longer concerns questions of security, but rather acts of skulduggery and cheating which could be as serious as high treason…
Huma Abedin is a US citizen who was raised in Saudi Arabia. Her father is director of an academic revue – of which, for many years, she was the sub-editor – which regularly prints comments from the Muslim Brotherhood. Her mother is president of the Saudi association of female members of the Brotherhood, and worked with the wife of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. Her brother Hassan works for Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the religious authority of the Brotherhood and spiritual counsellor of Al-Jazeera….
Mrs. Abedin is not the only member of the Obama administration linked to the Brotherhood. The US President’s half-brother, Abon’go Malik Obama, is the Treasurer for the Brotherhood’s missionary work in Sudan, and also President of the Barack H. Obama Foundation. He is under the direct orders of thSudanese President, Omar el-Béchir. A Muslim Brother is a member of the National Security Council – the highest executive position in the United States. From 2009 to 2012, this was the case of Mehdi K. Alhassani. We do not know who succeeded him, but the White House denied that a Muslim Brother was a member of the Council until the proof surfaced. A Muslim Brother, Rashad Hussain, is also US ambassador to the Islamic Conference. The other Brothers who have been identified occupy less important functions. However, we must name Louay M. Safi, a current member of the Syrian National Coalition and ex-advisor to the Pentagon…
the Clinton Foundation had employed Gehad el-Haddad as director for his «Climate» project – he is one of the world leaders of the Brotherhood, and had until that time been director of a Koranic TV programme. His father was one of the co-founders of the Brotherhood, when it was created by the CIA and MI6 in 1951. Gehad left the Foundation in 2012, when he became the spokeman for candidate Mohammed Morsi in Cairo, and then the official spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood world-wide.
Given that all the jihadist leaders in the world have either come from the Muslim Brotherhood or the Sufi Order of the Naqshbandîs – the two components of the Muslim World League, the Saudi anti-Arab nationalist organisation – we would like to know more about Mrs. Clinton’s relations with Saudi Arabia and the Muslim Brotherhood….”
You have missed the Qatari Connection of the Muslim Brotherhood.
I would like point at Sheika Mozah Al Missned, and even her mother as the very top of female Muslim Brotherhood organizations and nets around the world.
In other order, but related also, Francois Hollande’s campaign was financed by Qatar. With this yoy have easier to draw the whole picture if who are behind both , the so called “Syrian opposition” ( a bunch of Muslim Brothetrs+former employees of Western/Gulf-Arabian Peninsula Oil ) and the demonization of Russia, specially of her legitimate intervention in Syria, going to the extent to call for a special court for war crimes for Russia and Syria by the same actors.
These same actors do not mention their war crimes by their illegitimate support of ISIS and presence not only in Syria but besides in Yemen, Mali, Lybia, Sudan, Somalia and so on…
Perhaps, one day, Americans will achieve the kind of freedom that Kazakhstanis enjoy…
Americans Have Less Access to Justice than Botswanans … And Are More Abused By Police than Kazakhstanis
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/11/americans-have-less-access-to-justice-than-botswanans-and-are-more-abused-by-police-than-kazakhstanis.html
“Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes it’s laws” — Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/Federal%20Reserve%20Scam/quotes_on_the_federal_reserve.htm
Clinton or Trump makes no difference.
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/council_on_foriegn_relations.htm
@ Katherine 12:50 pm Re “Lucretia Borgia”
There seems to be some indication that parts of the establishment, FBI and old intelligence community are reacting against Hillary. Pam Martens had an article about elements of the FBI reaction
http://wallstreetonparade.com/2016/10/clintons-are-under-multiple-fbi-investigations-as-agents-are-stymied/
Also for whatever is worth, Steve Pieczenik is saying some pretty strong things regarding the reaction in the “intelligence community” of which he has been part on and off, and which, according to him, are behind Assange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov5kvWSz5LM
The left and the right are owned by Citibank and HSBC. Any other analysis is low brow intellectual.
As the CEO of this organization, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barrack Obama is our President and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way. To compensate for these increases, our prices would have to increase by about 10%.
But since we cannot increase our prices right now due to the dismal state of the economy, we will have to lay off sixty of our employees instead. This has really been bothering me since I believe we are family here and I didn’t know how to choose who would have to go.
So, this is what I did. I walked through our parking lots and found sixty ‘Obama’ bumper stickers on our employees’ cars and have decided these folks will be the ones to let go. I can’t think of a more fair way to approach this problem. They voted for change……I gave it to them.
I will see the rest of you at the annual company picnic.
About US involvement in Viet Nam, Kadi writes: “The American involvement in the Vietnam War started under the tenure of the sweetheart Hollywood-star like American President; JFK. It reached its climax during the LBJ administration. Both Kennedy and Johnson were Democrats.” The point is understood, however, that wasn’t really when it started. It actually started in 1945, prior to the end of WWII. And who was our President then? Another Democrat?
In 1945, the US was already gearing up for the Viet Nam conflict. They were staging weapons and materiel of war; they were getting ready for something, and it wasn’t about stopping the dominoes of communism in SE Asia, and making the world safe for democracy. It was about business, and about resources, it was the military/ industrial complex on the move, to fill the vacuum of French colonial failure to secure the region.
Well said (although it’s “He and I,” not “Him and I”).
I’m going for Trump because my feeling is, better the devil we don’t know than certain doom.
I do point out that, for all his flaws, Trump may well be the best alternative we can get under the current system. Over the years there have been many decent people, on the left and the right, who would have challenged the corrupt status quo. Pat Buchanan, Howard Dean, Ralph Nader, Jill Stein… but they were trashed in the unified corporate press, which focused only on their personal foibles and ignored what they were saying on the issues, they were made to appear ridiculous and then ignored… Only a wild man like Trump, who has no shame and whose outrageous statements were impossible for the press to ignore, could have stood a chance. So yes Trump is a gamble, but in desperation a gamble is often the best strategy…
Oh, and the image of HRC as a Dalek (Davros, specifically) really resonates with me. Obliterate!
No one could have said it better than George Washington on the dangers of political parties that were starting to take shape when he wrote his farewell address back in 1796. He was more prophetic than Nostradamus. [Political Parties]…”they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.” I suggest all to read his address.
One has to be a total idiot to take at face value this bs… Hope you get reimbursed handsomely.
I am assuming that by ‘bs’ you are referring to your own post.
It is the only ‘bs’ I have seen here in the last few hours.
Your post serves as an example of what comments must be like in the CIA-controlled mass media –
if such are still allowed.
They say that ‘brevity is the soul of wit’, your post is the exception which confirms the rule.
Hillary has already served as president for two terms. The word from Secret Service, etc is Bill was largely ineffective and simply did whatever Hillary told him anyway… bomb Serbia, etc.
An interesting article by the respected analyst Ghassan Kadi on the campaign for the U.S. war presidency. Poor George, his American friend and the liberal supporter of the Democrats and reform! Speaking of Clinton, Ghassan is pitiless: “Her unabated lust for power will not stop at anything for as long as she ends up at the helm, the first female American President, even if she has to be Commander In Chief from behind the control button of a wheelchair.”
Factually correct (the comment about U.S.’s involvement in Viet Nam beginning in 1945 is historically correct too) and a serious warning. This is a campaign for a war presidency, it affects not only the American but the world’s people, but there are some vital issues in the realm of “the known and unknown” that must also be soberly considered:
(1) Both the Democrats and Republicans as political parties, even bourgeois political parties, are destroyed or in the process of being destroyed. Finance capital reigns behind parties and candidates marketed as brands. Monopoly in politics, as in economics..Capital however is not homogeneous, and as a result there are factions, whose rivalry has become open. The old arrangements of two parties of the rich contending and colluding no longer exist. This is especially evident in this campaign where the destruction of both parties can be seen. Many Republicans, including the Bush family, have openly come out against Trump.
It also confirms that the new arrangements are being sought. They involve not political parties, but individuals selected for the presidency and a “public life” centred on the presidency.
(2) At present, the endorsements and financial backing for Clinton indicate the ruling circles have rallied around her as a war president. Meanwhile, media continue efforts to discredit Trump. Trump is not so open as Clinton in warmongering, but neither was Obama as open as John “bomb, bomb Iran” McCain.
But another thing: take into account that Trump’s national security adviser is James Woolsey, one of Washington’s most outspoken promoters of U.S. war and aggression in Iraq and the Middle East. The appointment belies illusions about Trump’s alleged non-interventionism and populism.
Former CIA director under William Clinton, Woolsey was an architect of the Iraq War and is now involved as a member of the Strategic Advisory Board of Genie Energy, a New Jersey-based monopoly whose Israeli subsidiary Afek Oil & Gas announced on October 8, 2015 that it found a huge oil reservoir on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. This discovery is significant for two reasons. First, the Syrian Golan Heights belongs to Syria. Israel has set up military field hospitals (similar to the ones that Turkey has set up) for the terrorist gangs fighting to overthrow the government of the Syrian Arab Republic. That same year Israeli military engineers overhauled the 45-mile border fence with Syria, replacing it with a steel barricade that included barbed wire, touch sensors, motion detectors, infrared cameras, and ground radar, putting it on par with the Wall Israel has constructed in the West Bank. Second, Israel has since then signed contracts with Turkey to supply it with natural gas, its other major source being the offshore of Gaza in a field belonging to Palestine. Some analysts suggest this is the major reason for Israeli aggression against Gaza.
According to its website, “The Strategic Advisory Board of Genie Oil and Gas advises management on strategic, financial, operational and public policy matters.” Ostensibly its role is to “advise” of strategic geopolitical rivalries, which are to taken into consideration in the American monopoly’s operations. It brings together a rogue’s list of Anglo-American imperialists, including Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States during the George W. Bush administration and CEO of the world’s largest oilfield services company, Halliburton, before becoming Bush’s “shadow president” in 2001. Genie shares a director in common with the Anglo-Turkish company Genel Energy PLC, which works in Iraqi Kurdistan and Malta, banking dynasty scion Nathaniel (“Nat”) Rothschild.
Woolsey was most recently in the news as one of the CIA experts summoned by Anderson Cooper to CNN on July 15 to discuss the military coup in Turkey then underway. Woolsey ridiculed it as “amateur” while inadvertently mentioning that he had been in Istanbul the previous summer for six months, as if on holiday. Woolsey is deeply involved in the Middle East, and has put himself in a position to profit personally from the wars he was and is now promoting.
(3) Alternatives can no longer be framed within this dysfunctional system à la “none of the above.” The whole electoral process is being exposed as undemocratic, yet it is supposedly the source of change. It is essential for progressive Americans to escalate work to strengthen the independent political movement of the people for rights and an anti-war government.
(4) The call to Make America Great is an effort to whip up U.S. chauvinism so as to disinform the anti-war movement and fight for rights. Make America Great is to counter the growing consciousness that so long as the monopoly rulers remain in power, genocide, state racism and government impunity will characterize the U.S.
(4) At the September 7 “Commander-in-Chief” forum broadcast from an aircraft carrier stationed in New York City, Donald Trump went out of his way to say he had secured the support of 88 generals and admirals. Clinton also often comments on the support she has in the military and intelligence agencies. This public display of contention within the military and between the military and presidency is indicative of the difficulties the rulers face in preserving the union and preventing a hot civil war. The old arrangements, where Congress and political parties functioned and served to help resolve conflicts, no longer exist.
The concern of open conflict within the military and other police agencies and between them and the presidency is sharply evident in this election. The vying factions among the rulers are willing to use these authorities, such as that of the military, against the presidency.
The presidency, and its police powers, is increasingly the sole source of power. It is in part for this reason that there is so much emphasis on the president as Commander-in-Chief and not as civilian with social responsibility to the people.