Look Homeward, Hegemon Part 1:
Cold War 2.0 Abroad, Cold Civil War Between the U.S. Government and the American People
by American Kulak
Introduction: We want to start by thanking The Saker for giving us the opportunity to publish a series of articles for this community that looks at the late, great American Empire from a slightly different perspective. While most Vineyard readers come to this website looking for analysis of the war in Ukraine or conflicts in the Middle East, we felt it would be useful to take a look at dysfunctional or ‘Empire of Chaos’ spreading American foreign policy, as a reflection of the accelerating socio-economic collapse one sees in the American ‘homeland’.
For those Saker readers already living in the United States or ‘awake’ to the alternative media, some of what we publish here will be old news. But since so much of the Saker’s readership comes from all over the world, we hope this piece will shed new light for foreigners on the growing crisis of American economy, society and governance, that will soon permanently ‘close the window’ for aggressive U.S. policies worldwide However, over the next several years, these social pathologies make Washington MORE of a threat to the American people and the world.
Since the relationship between American aggression abroad and police militarization and violence at home is a broad topic, and has been discussed since the Vietnam War triggered rioting and social upheaval across the U.S. and Western Europe during the 1960s, we felt this vast topic needed to be narrowed down to comprehensible causes and effects. We also feel it’s necessary to categorize the topic of American ‘collapse’ into four broad categories:
1) economics — primarily the looming end of the dollar’s world reserve currency status
2) growing ethnic tensions, linked to the decline of opportunities for the lower and middle classes, enflamed by widely publicized police brutality and deaths or injuries in police custody. However, this discourse must come with the caveat that, regardless of blacks and whites agreeing that race relations have deteriorated since President Barack Obama took office in public opinion surveys, nearly all groups of Americans are increasingly mistrustful of the federal government No new presidential Administration in 2017 is likely to change that
3) societal shifts along the ‘bread and circuses’ ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ decadence lines that keep the majority of the population docile or indifferent to their fate
4) ecological/sustainability crises
The United States and its leading allies ‘won’ Cold War 1.0 in 1989-91, or at least the Soviet system ‘lost’ by conceding its own demise. The 1990s saw new and emerging markets of labor and natural resources opening up in Russia, China and across Eurasia. This benefited the Empire, its richest individuals, and perhaps the so-called ‘1%. It did not raise living standards for most of the American people.
This time around, given the facts we’re laying out in this series, we fully expect the U.S. to ‘lose’ Cold War 2.0, even if the American people won’t realize the costs their government has inflicted upon them, until it’s too late.
– The Kulak
From Kiev to Baltimore: ‘Whataboutism’ vs. ‘AfroMaidans’, and Deadly Force for Me Uncle Sam to Stop Insurrection But Not For Thee, Governments Washington Doesn’t Like
It was late April and police cars and businesses were burning in Baltimore, Maryland, a mere 60 kilometers northeast or one hour’s drive from the White House in Washington D.C. Residents of the city’s African-American supermajority neighborhoods were angry about the death of Freddie Gray Jr., a 25-year-old black man, while in the custody of Baltimore police, two weeks before. When Freddie Gray died in a coma from spinal injuries he sustained during transport in the back of a police wagon, hundreds of residents began to protest outside the West Baltimore police station. After several nights of peaceful demonstrations from April 18 to 25, agitators in the crowd began smashing windows and looting businesses like McDonalds and pelting police officers with paving stones. Several policemen were injured. At least two photojournalists with clearly visible press credentials were also beaten by Baltimore police.
The use of social media, like Twitter, by unknown provocateurs on April 27, threatening a ‘Purge’ riot, referencing a series of Hollywood horror films about a nationwide declaration of violent anarchy, created a pretext for Baltimore police in full riot gear to shut down public and school bus transportation for students at the predominantly black Frederick Douglass High School. Numerous high school and college campuses in the area were also shut down as police were pelted by black youths with paving stones around the Mondawmin Mall and Metro stations, with police throwing stones back at the rioters. A CVS pharmacy was set on fire after the employees had evacuated and a fire hose to extinguish the blaze was punctured by provocateurs. More businesses, many of them with local or black owners, were looted. That evening a Baltimore Orioles major baseball game at Camden Yards was postponed. The next day, April 28, Maryland National Guardsmen rolled into the city with Humvees and a curfew was declared, ending the riots. Maryland National Guard troops left the city and the curfew was lifted a week later.
According to Christopher Miller, a former editor for the Kyiv Post and US Peace Corps volunteer in the Donbass, Russian media was “loving the Baltimore riots”.1 In an article for the website Mashable that squeezes in Miller’s pro-Kiev regime dispatches from Ukraine between mental fluff like “The Most Unforgettable ‘Mad Men’ Fashion Moments” or “The French Fry Burger Bomb is Here to Clog Your Arteries”, he complained:
<blockquote>As the world watched TV screens and Twitter streams showing Baltimore in chaos, Russia’s propaganda machine got to work exploiting the unrest with what is known locally as “whataboutism.”
In the Soviet era, any criticism of the Motherland — such as human rights violations or censorship — was met with a ‘what about…’ in an attempt to redirect attention away from Moscow.
Baltimore’s protests were used in the Russian media as a comparison with the situation in Ukraine, where protesters in February 2014 ousted the country’s Moscow-leaning president, Viktor Yanukovych, after three months of deadly clashes with security forces.
For the Kremlin, unrest in the U.S. — starting with Ferguson last year — is an opportunity to heave mud at Washington for its support of Ukraine’s pro-Western Maidan protests…</blockquote>
Miller’s piece went on to say that RT’s In the Now program2 misled viewers by omitting that there was “virtually no looting in Kiev” and “it was the police who first assaulted protesters in Kiev overnight on Nov. 30, 2013, kicking off the period of unrest. In nearly 10 minutes of video, the program does not show one instance in which police in Kiev attack protesters.” This claim that the Maidan did not involve any theft or looting of property, is disputed by Moscow State University lecturer Mark Sleboda. He tweeted that members of his family witnessed the victorious ‘Maidan self-defense’ fighters forcefully evicting the owners of apartments requisitioned for their ‘heroes’ in Kiev, during the weeks following Yanukovych’s violent ouster.2
If Miller wants to accuse RT of downplaying the actions of the Berkut, it’s fair to accuse him in response of avoiding the topic of protester initiated violence against policemen and the Maidan coup, leading to all sorts of looting and re-distribution of assets, including the ‘reiding’ attempts by Maidan paramilitaries and post-coup ‘volunteer battalions’ against businesses. It’s also fair to ask Miller if insurrection in the Donbass justified Kiev’s use of bombs, shells and missiles against the peoplewho live there, and whether Yanukovych would’ve been justified in using similar collective punishments against the people of Lviv for being the first in Ukraine (well before Crimea) to take over government buildings, declare independence from Kiev and to loot arsenals of weaponry. (Although we concede the question is probably moot since no soldiers or pilots from Donbass would’ve obeyed such criminal orders from Yanukovych in January or February of 2014, whereas individuals from western Ukraine, brainwashed on the cult of Galicia-n supremacy that is svidomite Ukrainian nationalism, have seldom demonstrated qualms about attacking eastern Ukrainians using indiscriminate weapons).
Since we know that New York City Police dismantled the encampments of the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement, citing numerous purported health and safety violations and petty crimes committed around the activists’ spaces, we don’t have to imagine how American cops would deal with a peaceful ‘Maidan’ in New York City or Washington D.C. Nor do we have to imagine how American cops would react to being bombarded with Molotov cocktails or having their shield lines assaulted with swords, metal rods, chains, spears and being shot with pepper spray or pistols at point blank range, like the Berkut riot policemen were for weeks.
As Mashable’s Christopher Miller and other U.S. journalists know very well, if Americans tried to repeat Maidan-ist tactics against American riot police, they would be mowed down in a hail of police gunfire. Or at least shot with ‘non-lethal’ rubber bullets, if tear gas failed to disperse the mob.
There’s also the issue wherein Ukraine the military refused to disperse the violent fighters on the Maidan, and only provided the Berkut with a single armored vehicle which was burned out with a mass Molotov cocktail barrage. The attack on the troop carrier was proudly shown on Right Sector’s recruiting videos released after the ‘Maidan Revolution’3. Whereas American state National Guard and federal military units would have no compunction about deploying troops, machine-gun equipped Humvees, and armored vehicles to quell any ‘Maidan’ style civil unrest, as in Baltimore or during the 2005 aftermath of hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
Race, the ‘War on Drugs’ and the American ‘Casino Gulag’ Prison Industrial Complex
This issue of force and how far American police can go in militarizing themselves with assault rifles, tear gas or stun grenade launchers, body armor and armored vehicles, is hardly an abstract one. Much like the debate over NSA mass surveillance, it cuts to the heart of Americans’ attitudes towards and ‘trust’ in their government. It also is an area where the alternative media has made great strides in ‘waking people up’ to the growing power of the federal government in local, county and state law enforcement agencies, through the so-called ‘war on drugs’ and ‘war on terror These have involved the federal government ingiving out grants and slightly used Department of Defense equipment, like Humvees or MRAPs (mine resistant armored personnel carriers) to police and sheriff’s departments.
Last year’s photographs and video depicting black protesters holding up their hands saying, “Don’t shoot” confronted by lines of riot police equipped with military style-body armor and assault rifles during protests over the killing of another young black man by police in the St. Louis, Missouri suburb of Ferguson, brought the police militarization debate into the mainstream media.4 As did the smothering death of Eric Garner, a black man who was arrested by a white cop for the victimless ‘crime’ of selling individual cigarettes, in lieu of heavily taxed, ‘nanny state’ cigarette packs or cartons in New York City.5 As did the massive manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers after the Boston bombing, in which militarized police units pointed guns at peaceful, unarmed Bostonians, while locking down the city in search of a single skinny teenager.6 The subsequent grand jury conclusions, that the white police officer, who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, acted in self-defense during a struggle, or that Freddie Gray Jr. had a long rap sheet of drug arrests, prior to his death in police custody, for which six police officers have been indicted, have not changed the growing perception that American police are increasingly violent and out of control towards the public they ‘serve and protect’.
One stunning statistic reveals that American police are more likely to kill and to be killed than their peers in every developed country. This spring, the ‘liberal’ ThinkProgress organization reported that more Americans were killed by police officers in the month of March 2015 than the total number of Britons who died at the hands of policemen throughout the entire 20th century (presumably including the violent years of ‘the Troubles’ in Northern Ireland). Another shocking statistic, indicating that the U.S. is a significantly more violent society than other very large, populated nations, comes from Asia,
“China, whose population is 4 and 1/2 times the size of the United States, recorded 12 killings by law enforcement officers in 2014.”7
To be sure, American blacks and some Latinos have been wary of the police for decades. The so-called ‘war on drugs’ has a hugely disparate impact on the arrest and incarceration rates of young black males, which contributes to America having the highest incarceration or former inmate rate on the planet — at least outside of the Seychelles North Korea. As of late 2011, nearly 1% of the entire U.S. population of over 300,000,000 Americans (0.94%) was living behind bars in some capacity, in either federal or state prisons. The percentage of U.S. adults under correctional supervision, meaning in jail, on parole or probation is nearly 3% (2.9%). In 2009 non-Hispanic blacks accounted for 39.4% of the total U.S. prison and jail population (841,000 black males and 64,800 black females out of a total of 2,096,300 males and 201,200 females)8. This compares to self-identified non-Hispanic blacks making up just 13.6% of the American population in the 2010 U.S. Census.9 According to Antonio Moore, in his Huffington Post article, “there are more African American men incarcerated in the U.S. than the total prison populations in India, Argentina, Canada, Lebanon, Japan, Germany, Finland, Israel and England combined.”10
In 2009, America’s oldest political magazine The Nation reported that corporations that utilize sub-minimum wage (because taxpayers are picking up the cost of food and housing inmates, whose earnings are held in escrow) prison labor include notable names like “ Walmart , Eddie Bauer , Victoria’s Secret , Microsoft , Starbucks , McDonald’s , Nintendo , Chevron Corporation , Bank of America , Koch Industries , Boeing and Costco Wholesale .”11 The Nation article says that since a change in federal laws in 1979, prison labor has provided American corporations with a cheap, local substitute for outsourcing ‘sweatshop’ style labor to Third World or overseas countries, where wages and transportation costs are rising. This state of affairs had led RT host Max Keiser, a vocal critic of the private prison operating Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) to declare that the U.S. is operating a ‘casino gulag’ economic model.12 Others who have criticized American’s lucrative ‘prison industrial complex’ include the anti-war writer Chris Hedges.13
Beyond the Color Line: An Increasingly Predatory, Heavily Armed State Impacts Us All
For decades, most Republican politicians, with the ‘tough on crime’ GOP dominant at the state and local government level across the South and Western parts of the U.S., did not have to address these facts. Or at least, conservative leaning magazines and think tanks provided a slew of statistics, showing that African-Americans were more likely to interact with the criminal justice system, because they committed a disproportionate share of the drug and violent crimes in America. Occasionally, such statements would be carefully prefaced by repeating the late Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s prescient warnings that the ‘Great Society’ programs launched in the 1960s would undermine the black family, leading to generations of young black males raised without fathers.14
The Rodney King beating and subsequent LA Riots, with whites and Koreans often on one side and blacks on the other, reinforced the impression among many white Americans that the police may have gone too far at times, but the thin blue line was the only thing standing between them and a violent ghetto culture. The combination of ‘white flight’ to the suburbs and urban crime waves of the late 1960s to the early 1990s, built up geographic and mental barriers between white and black American interactions with the State and law enforcement. There were also hints — though always kept at bay by the opropribium of the supposedly ‘liberal’ mainstream press — that the disparate outcomes in education and incomes between white and black America were primarily due to average IQ or innate cultural characteristics in books such as Charles Murray’s The Bell Curve (though in fairness to Murray, he seems to have backed away from the emphasis on alleged racial disparities in IQ with his more recent book Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010).15
However, distrust of government and law enforcement among American whites increased during the 1990s, with the Brady Bill gun control laws of the Bill Clinton presidency and a series of violent incidents involving ‘anti-government’ groups or individuals. The standoff between the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) and Branch Davidian sect leader David Koresh over his alleged illegal arms stockpiles in 1993 ended in the fiery deaths of scores of women and children, in a blaze likely started thanks to the BATF’s negligence. A 1992 standoff between Randy Weaver and armed federal agents became a scandal for the U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI in Congress after Weaver was acquitted of murdering federal officers. The federal trial publicized the ugly fact that an FBI sniper named Lon Horiuchi shot and killed Randy Weaver’s wife Vicki as she held their child in her arms.16
Civil asset forfeiture, on the rise since the ‘war on drugs’ exploded in the 1980s, has led to police or county sheriff’s departments routinely seizing cash and using it to fund operations or big ticket weapons and equipment purchases.17 This has broadened mistrust of the police and sheriff’s departments across class and racial lines. Many white conservatives and libertarians now believe the practice of seizing cash during traffic stops without any proof that’s it is related to the drug trade or any charges being brought against the owner is not only government theft, but part of a larger ‘war on cash’ by the State eager to force all transactions into the banking system. Furthermore, the rise of SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) team raids together with the war on drugs, and the profusion of armed federal agents such that even the Department of Education has a SWAT team, have fueled concerns that America’s federal and local law enforcement agencies have in effect become a domestic standing army..18
While some of these concerns were ameliorated or downplayed during the presidency of George W. Bush from 2001 to 2008, they have accelerated during President Barack Obama’s time in office, as the economy has stagnated and fears about Washington imposing some sort of martial law or repressive crackdown after an economic collapse, have grown. So has a general contempt for abusive authorities at all levels. The recent string of ugly police incidents involving the brutal use of lethal force, tasering or beating suspects, or shooting fleeing suspects in the back, have prompted at least one white right wing blogger, who goes by the handle Vox Day (aka Theodore Beale)to label numerous blog posts with the handle‘#NWAWasRight19 (referring to the late 1980s group N—ers with Attitude’s infamous rap song ‘F— the Police’)20.
How We Achieved a More Angry, Impoverished and Divided America: Decades of Stagnation and Decline for the Middle and Working Classes
The same de-industrialization and offshoring of the U.S. economy that turned a once thriving metropolis like Detroit, which blacks had flocked to from the South during WWII, into a bankrupt dystopia, effected people of all races. But the hardest hit individuals were often black and white males without higher education. The easy credit expansion that accompanied President Richard Nixon’s decision to take the U.S. off the gold standard in 1971, the expanding welfare rolls of the 1970s and the warfare state that President Reagan’s deficit-spending fueled military build-up heralded in the 1980s, in retrospect, can all be viewed as attempts by the elites to buy social peace.
It is no accident that both rates of union membership and median weekly wages, adjusted for inflation, peaked in the early 1970s, which suggests that, aside from the Internet, safer automobiles and cheaper electronics, American living standards have stagnated or declined in the past four decades21 (other economists argue the U.S. middle class stopped growing sometime during the 1980s or as recently as the late 1990s tech bubble bursting, following the so-called post-Cold War ‘peace dividend,’ that was actually dirt cheap labor and oil from the newly opened post-Communist world led by Russia and China).
Post-1965 mass immigration, particularly from Asia and low-skilled labor from Latin America, created more competition for U.S.-born low-wage laborers and construction tradesmen, regardless of their race. Even the so-called ‘sexual revolution’, the spread of contraception, promiscuity and the easing of abortion laws can be seen as contributing to the decline of female preferences for a working-class male wage earner as head of household. This process started in the black community and later spread to white and Hispanic communities. According to pro-life demographers, the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion Roe v. Wade left the U.S. with a 55 million person-sized vacuum of unborn, aborted human beings22 that immigrants have filled in the past 40 years).
The so-called ‘war on drugs’, which dramatically expanded after the ‘turn on, tune in, drop out’ counterculture, successfully infiltrated and co-opted the anti-Vietnam War movement by the late 1960s, is viewed by Marxists and Ron Paul/Lew Rockwell libertarians alike, as tool for corporatist American elites to maintain social control over the lower classes, particularly the black underclass. The fact that people of good will, coming from completely disparate ideological starting points, can come to remarkably similar conclusions about the Drug War, and its disparate impact on poor blacks and whites alike (particularly with the ‘meth’ epidemic in rural and predominantly white parts of the U.S.), shows the erosion of the fake ‘Left/Right’ paradigm. This is the ‘Democrats vs. Republicans’, ‘liberals vs. conservatives’ dialectic that the elites have used for so long to keep Americans divided. However, even with the increasing prevalence of ‘awake’ citizens, potent weapons of mass distraction remain in place to keep the vast majority passive and docile.
If weaponizing illegal drugs like crack cocaine and incarcerating hundreds of thousands for dealing or using them is how the elites try to keep urban, predominantly black areas under control, the management of white middle class people facing diminishing career prospects has been a more tricky matter. One answer has been the explosion in white Americans hooked on SSRIs and other prescribed anti-depressants/psychotropic drugs.23 There is a great deal of evidence that such drugs, particularly when prescribed to veterans, already suffering from post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD), have contributed to a higher suicide rate.24
Other tools that the elites have successfully used to divide America’s white majority and minorities alike, has been the so-called ‘culture war’ issues of gay marriage, abortion and feminism. The ‘bread and circuses’ also includes mega-church and dumbed down or dispensationalist, End Times obsessed Christianity. Then there’s mass quantities of free Internet porn (to divert young men from young women who cannot possibly match the fantasies available online), and endless celebrity news (primarily to distract or brainwash young women with impossible expectations of themselves and the men in their life) and sports for the men (until the economic crisis finally started to bite in recent years, spending on the NFL, Ultimate Fighting, and other pro sports had grown every year).Add these trends together, and you have a society that’s more atomized, and where people attend church and talk to their neighbors less than ever before.
It’s the Economy (and the Internet) Stupid that ‘Waking People Up’ to the Power Structures of Our Country and Planet
In the defense of American elites and corporate decisions to offshore numerous jobs, CEOs, business media and individuals alike have all argued:
1) By the 1970s and 80s the American automobile and other manufacturing industries faced stiff competition from an increasingly globalized world. The U.S. had enjoyed a superb period of growth, while most of the world’s manufacturing nations were still recovering from World War II in the 1950s. Thus, the ‘Happy Days’ America of previously unimaginable prosperity for a vast middle class of the 1950s and Sixties was an unprecedented situation. Like the Soviet Union, that America it never existed before in history and it never can return.
2) Private sector unions and their guaranteed for life pensions had become obstacles to retooling or rebalancing automotive and other concerns to stay competitive. Today this argument has expanded into the notion that government unions and Americans’ pension/health care obligations are creating an unsustainable debt burden on the taxpayers and future budgets, from the local to the federal government level. This is in part because no one back in the 1930s, when Social Security was established, expected recipients to live as long as they do today, while Medicare and Medicaid did not exist.
3) Corporations were, and have remained, under enormous pressure from shareholders and the threat of ‘leveraged buyouts’ from the 1980s on, to cut labor costs.
4) Neither the government nor the private sector can be blamed for the decline of the traditional American work ethic, the willingness to save money rather than buy ‘stuff’ on credit, and ‘family values’.
5) A growing share of Americans are no longer educated for a 21st century work force, but mal-educated or heavily indebted for their college degrees, while still feeling entitled to the middle class lifestyle of their parents or grandparents. Not enough Americans study statistical math, engineering, hard sciences or computer science to meet the demand for these fields.
Each one of these statements contains some element of truth, but also could spawn numerous rebuttals, or at least replies that can show how elite decision making and ‘Third Way’ corporatist models influenced individual and family decisions. One of my favorites is ‘what IT worker shortage?’ when it comes to the perennial demand by Microsoft for more H-1B visas so it can import Indian IT workers to replace generally older but teachable Americans in this field. Or the obvious economic law of supply and demand recognition that we cannot all become well paid doctors, engineers, or celebrities. We also have questions as to why Germany can credibly maintain a middle class based on manufacturing but the U.S. has chosen not to do so, but to ship enormous amounts of manufacturing jobs overseas.
We also left off item number 6), no one said global growth could last forever or that the resources of this planet are inexhaustible or sufficient for every adult to attain a lower to upper middle class American equivalent life style. This is what Dr. Mikhail Khazin and other Russian economists, who have contributed essays to The Saker and Ft. Rus blogs, mean when they say that the current Anglo-American globalist economic model has exhausted itself.25
For the sake of not making this a 5 or 10,000 word essay, we will save these arguments for another time. Suffice to say, decades of government and corporate decisions, as well as the failure to achieve 1960s dreams of full racial integration, have led the U.S. to this simmering point. The USA is more poised for mass social unrest than at any time since the height of the Vietnam War, or even since the 1861-65 Civil War which killed nearly one million Americans. Such social unrest, whether the elites like it or not, is bound to have consequences both for their perceived legitimacy at home and their ability to promote themselves as champions of ‘democracy, human rights, rule of law,’ abroad.
Regardless of Christopher Miller and other Establishment media complaints about ”whataboutism”, the task of the U.S. government posing as a force for freedom or prosperity is going to be complicated by not only RT, but other foreign media. The domestic alternative press will keep reporting the truth about American decline and acceleration towards an authoritarian police state. The anger America’s elites spread through their mouthpieces about RT is in part, a fury over having the same tactics of emphasizing social problems in dissidents they use against Russia and China turned on the United States.
The pressure to ban or at least demonize RT, as well as the calls for banning ‘trolls’ and instituting other controls over the Internet, through the backdoor of copyright trawling and alleged infringement takedowns of content, are not coincidence, they are a consequence of the global economic crisis that began in 2007-2008. Nor is it coincidence that newly re-elected British Prime Minister David Cameron recently floated a trial balloon for more aggressive censorship in his country, stating: “For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens ‘as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone. It’s often meant we have stood neutral between different values. And that’s helped foster a narrative of extremism and grievance.”26
While First Amendment jurisprudence will make enforcing whatever Cameron has in mind for Britain difficult in the United States, we’re convinced such statements could just as easily be uttered by a Sen. John McCain or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In our opinion, Mr. Cameron is declaring a war on free speech, and so will any American politician who follows his Atlanticist lead. This, in terms of the elites’ cold civil war against the populations of the Empire, is an equivalent in our view to Nikita Khrushchev saying, ‘we will bury you’, as all ‘extremist’ and ‘grievance’ based narratives are now potentially in the digital and off-line crosshairs of the Anglo-American State.
The elites, of both the military-intelligence ‘deep state’ complex and high finance, know America is in deep trouble. They know this because the real numbers that are harder to fake or ‘channel stuff’, like the Baltic dry index or the number of able bodied people out of the work force, are flashing bright red that a major downturn (actually the second wave of the crisis that began in 2008) is around the corner. They know, despite their own propaganda about the rising stock market and 5 ½ percent U.S. unemployment that great upheavals are coming. If they cannot simply institute Chinese-style Internet controls on the pretext of some shocking bigger than 9/11 event (the recent threats by ISIS to obtain and detonate a nuclear bomb on American soil would be a perfect pretext), then they must accomplish the next best thing. This is to dominate the web with misinformation, manipulate websites via disavowed denial of service attacks, and harass or divide the alternative media in the real world.
To summarize the domestic and international situation — not only is the U.S. government waging a new Cold War abroad with Russia and China, but there’s abundant evidence it’s also entering a ‘cold war’ with large parts of the American population — labeled in North Americas as in Europe as so-called ‘extremists of the Left and Right’. As during the first Cold War, with the rise of what President Dwight Eisenhower called ‘the military industrial complex’,27 the external ‘Cold War 2.0’ is supplementing the post-9/11 ‘War on Terror’ as justification for enhanced government power at home. Consider:
- The U.S. is in a second Cold War with Russia and China it initiated in Syria, Ukraine and now with the ‘pivot to Asia’, in order to defend the dollar’s world reserve currency status. The aim of the ‘Empire of Chaos’ approach as Asia Times journalist Pepe Escobar calls it is to scuttle the rise of a Eurasian trade zone competitor and delay the adoption of the Chinese yuan as a U.S. dollar replacement in trade. This iswhy Washington has not been so concerned with military victory or avoiding a default in Ukraine as with keeping the conflict going and Russia as the ‘bad guy’. The New Evil Empire whichmust be sanctioned by European allies that would otherwise be integrating with Eurasia. Domestic opposition, however feeble, to the U.S. arming or continuing to subsidize the Kiev regime is damaging to this goal, though Washington’s real worry is growing opposition to its Ukraine and Russia sanctions policies in Europe,28 to which American dissent can only marginally contribute.
2) Washington is increasingly trying to justify its hold over European and Asian allies, and the military underpinnings behind the U.S. dollar, by citing Russian, Chinese and Iranian ‘threats’ and ‘aggression’. Constant rotations of forces through Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and war hysteria/propaganda, complete with made-up or exaggerated naval and aerial altercations,29 as well as downplaying of provocative NATO actions (eg Estonia Day parades 60 miles from downtown St. Petersburg)30 and covert (mercenaries and weapons)31 support for the Kiev regime are part of this effort. Washington is in essence pursuing a strategy of provocation, daring Russia or China to lash out and justify its rhetoric labeling them as aggressors.
3) Washington claims the government and leading U.S. banks and corporations are under constant and growing cyber-attack from said enemies, with whom federal and deep state elites tell the media ‘we’re already at war’. Such cyber-attacks from nation state adversaries or lone wolf and organized terror attacks from the (un)Islamic State, Washington inexplicably never can or never will decisively defeat, provides a marvelous environment for fear-mongering and power-grabbing by the feds
4) The federal government, encountering growing skepticism towards much of what it does and dissatisfaction with the economy from all sides in the U.S., from ‘Occupy’ ‘leftists’ to a resurgent right wing libertarian, Constitutionalist and heavily armed ‘patriot’, ‘prepper’ or ‘liberty’ movement, is adopting a siege mentality
5) Increasingly militarized police and integration of federal and local law enforcement, the massive purchases of ammunition and paranoid reports put out concerning ‘domestic extremists’ by the Department of Homeland Security, plus growing attempts to acculturate Americans to being searched at airports, on highway checkpoints, on trains, and at sporting events, are all reflections of a government initiating a cold ‘civil war’ with its population. All while accusing government critics, rather than the State, of being the paranoid or ‘conspiracy theorist’ party (in a classic case of projection or accusing the adversary of doing what he himself does and justifies).
In future contributions to the Saker’s blog, we’ll discuss the upcoming JadeHelm2015 exercise and how it — after fourteen years of war — has eroded trust in the most trusted institution left standing in America, the U.S. military.
We’ll also look into the increasing hysteria emanating from leading online propagandists for the American ‘deep state,’ regarding the future of the United States — and their own very revealing anger over not being trusted by fellow Americans. All of these are signs that while we don’t believe America is at serious risk of a ‘hot’ civil war, a cold civil war between the elites, their high-level specialist servants and the vast majority of the population is upon us, and indeed is gaining momentum.
End notes:
1 http://mashable.com/2015/04/29/russia-rt-baltimore-ukraine/
2 https://twitter.com/MarkSleboda1/status/598542455173193728
3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Inu_-0dcSU
4 http://www.newsweek.com/how-americas-police-became-army-1033-program-264537
5 http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Eric-Garner-Death-Chokehold-Investigation-272043511.html
6 http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/48566461810/america-we-need-to-talk-about-the-boston
7 http://thefreethoughtproject.com/american-cops-killed-people-month-march-uk-entire-20th-century/#fTOcVAfVYh9USJ76.99
8 http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=2200
9 http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf
10 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/antonio-moore/black-mass-incarceration-statistics_b_6682564.html
11 http://www.thenation.com/article/your-valentine-made-prison
12 http://www.maximumtheory.com/blog/tag/corrections-corporation-of-america/
13 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_prison_state_of_america_20141228
14 http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_3_black_family.html
15 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/books/review/charles-murray-examines-the-white-working-class-in-coming-apart.html
16 http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/weaver/spenceletter.html
17 https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-police-practices/asset-forfeiture-abuse
18 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dennis-j-kucinich/police-militarization_b_5687598.html
19 http://voxday.blogspot.com/search/label/NWA%20was%20right
20 http://genius.com/Nwa-fuck-tha-police-lyrics
21 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/guest-post-why-middle-class-doomed
22 http://www.lifenews.com/2013/01/18/55772015-abortions-in-america-since-roe-vs-wade-in-1973/
23 http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-psychiatric-drug-crisis
24 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/01/us-military-suicide-epidemic-veteran
25 http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/04/khazin-global-recession-will-exceed.html
26 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/britain-is-too-tolerant-and-should-interfere-more-in-peoples-lives-says-david-cameron-10246517.html
27 http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html
(YouTube video of Eisenhower’s full speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWiIYW_fBfY and excerpt with context from historians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg-jvHynP9Y)
28 http://www.cepolicy.org/publications/anatomy-info-war-how-russias-propaganda-machine-works-and-how-counter-it
29 http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/may/14/russia-nato-twenty-feet-from-war/
30 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-26/provocation-nato-conducts-military-maneuvers-300-yards-russias-border
31 http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-25/out-my-face-please-why-are-us-soldiers-mariupol
thanks American kulak and The Saker
comprehensive analysis
If you wanted an illustration for the article, this would be perfect.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/expd/17648562416/in/photostream/
Good think piece.
I think America as a dream is over. It has turned itself into a nightmare.
The polity is powerless. Ignorance is supreme. Work is debased. All the foundations are desecrated and shredded.
Eating its own is one description.
It can only march into its own form of fascism. That is historic imperative.
Collapse is what we hear for the endgame. No. It will be big powerful and dangerous weapon of chaos, this country gone to hell.
The challenge is to stay out of its gunsights and video crosshairs.
It will take nearly all the other nations of the globe to deal with it.
The colonist were warned that government was the threat. That fragile organism post-1789 had to be changed every five years, warned Jefferson. He meant emptied of all the participants. Start all new. Or Tyranny would result.
Tyranny is out there running amok across the landscape.
Good work, AK. Thanks for shining a light into the shadows falling on the nation.
Yep…appropriate
” America as a dream is over”
‘The American dream’ was a silly (Jewish) Hollywood invention.
I take your remark as simplistic. Hollywood packaged the dream as common sense marketing of their product. That was 150 years after the Nation was formed, 300 years after people running from tyranny and looking for religious freedom came to the New World.
If you look at everything through slit lens of anti-zionist POV, you miss 99% of the picture.
Ugo Z. go to Native Americans with your perspective. Find them and talk to them.
and have a look at the names of the owners of the slave ships in case you have any further doubts.
The ‘American Dream’, as Hollywood brainwashing theme, was indeed a Jewish invention, as Hollywood has always been a Jewish cottage industry. The older versions of American ‘Exceptionalism’, ie ‘Manifest Destiny’, ‘One Country under God’, even the pretense that the Americans had inherited the mantle of ‘God’s Chosen People’ from the Jews, were products of earlier delusions of American supremacy, before the Jewish take-over of the commanding heights of politics, business, the MSM. This take-over is a fact that needs to be acknowledged if the state of the USA today is to be understood, and its future actions anticipated.
Most of those producers and big film makers and stars were Russian jews
Hungarian Jews
Something else that’s strange about Hollywood is how they telegraph what they are doing before it happens in movies and tv shows.. Minority report and xfiles the lone gunmen for instance.. But almost every major events is tested to see its acceptance to the public at large before it is implemented kind of like the people think its not real but only a movie. How quaint that they were holding a drill about aircraft crashing onto the WTC that day when it happened. Its like these guys are so sure about their power that they think if they don’t brag about it before hand, then it just don’t have the effect. The people though high educated are rather dumbed down. Like selective breeding where critical and analytical thinking are tossed out. Also why recently the US is finding it difficult to keep their advantage in development since many people have decided to stay home or go elsewhere.
If you want to know what’s going to happen, watch ‘The Simpsons’
mmiriww, the supreme example of the Zionazis’ firm belief in their utter impunity is surely the ‘Celebrating Israelis’, seen by locals filming the WTC attacks as they occurred, from across the water in Liberty State Park in New Jersey, and celebrating, mocking (of course!) and dancing with joy as 3,000 people died. After apprehension by the police, and after being locked up for 71 days, during which time US police determined that two were Mossad agents, they were simply released, flew back to Chosenstan, and appeared on Israeli TV where one or two admitted they were in Mossad. Of this amazing feat of spitting in the Amerkan slaves’ faces, no word is ever dared to be mentioned in the ‘Free Press’. As far as I can see they don’t bother to even do their usual thing of inventing some ridiculous excuse for their behaviour.
For a few more interesting details concerning The Five Celebrating Israelis see
http://www.israeli-connections-to-911.com
So that was the reason migrants flocked to the New World? Bull! Don’t believe the hype!
On David Letterman’s last week of programing he had Howard Stern and Don Rickles on the show. He immediately identified Stern as a fellow Jew and spent most of his time talking to him-then looked over at Dave and said wait till we elect a Jew President. I have a problem with Zionism not Jews especially a host of American Jews who have spent a life time fighting oppression and actively engaged in dissent. And they used to call American elites WASPS. They are a vanishing entity in America..thus the rise of racial bigotry.
After the extermination of the Native Americans and the theft of half of Mexico, the ruling US plutocracy was left with the greatest endowment of natural resources anywhere. Deep, vast, rich soils, endless forests, mineral and fossil fuel riches, mighty rivers, navigable for thousands of miles. So, with the assistance of millions of savagely exploited African slaves and millions more indentured white labourers and wave after wave of the wretched of Europe, similarly exploited, they created a gigantic industrial power-house. Then, after WW2 destroyed much of the rest of the advanced world, the ruling US elite set to to craft an eternal, unchallengeable, global Empire.
Alas, from the 1970s onwards, Free Market capital does what it invariably does, it stagnates as the return on investment diminishes. Like all parasite castes and tribes, the ruling US elite, being insatiably greedy, decided to increase global exploitation, hence the rise of the Washington Consensus of globalised exploitation, privatisation, bitter austerity etc, imposed after the debt trap set in the 1970s was sprung by Volcker’s massive interest rate increases. The social progress made in the poor world after de-colonialisation was eradicated, never to return.
At home the trade unions were extirpated, and median wages have stagnated ever since. The parasites, preferring the higher returns from speculation, shifted investment to the financial apparatus (‘incidentally’ further entrenching Jewish power and control over that of the old WASP elites)which has come to dominate the US economy more and more. Stagnant wages were met by more members of households being forced to enter the ‘labour market’, yet household income too has stagnated since 2000, while debt is now ionospheric and utterly unpayable, and black and Hispanic household wealth has fallen by 50% since 2008.
Inequality has ballooned, the very top of the distribution growing ever more greedy and arrogant. The ‘good society’ and ‘middle-class Amerka’ have evaporated, infrastructure crumbles, education collapses, tens of millions work for poverty wages, jobs are precarious, demeaning and dismissal on the Bosses’ whim is a constant threat. Yet, with the relentless brainwashing that is such a feature of US society (along with an ever-narrowing range of acceptable opinion, as corporate totalitarianism grips the MSM)the serfs still imagine themselves ‘Exceptional’, the envy of lesser breeds in lesser states, and billionaires-in-waiting. One really wonders how long the immiseration of the 99% and the enrichment of the 1% can go on, before there is some sort of revolt, but the para-military police death-squads will be ready, willing an able to protect wealth and power. If it was not for the immense human suffering that is inevitable, you’d say that the USA, after hundreds of years inflicting death, destruction and suffering on billions, thoroughly deserves everything that is coming.
A fine and sobering assessment. But the Native Americans were not completely exterminated. From the great frozen north to the bottom of Argentina, Native America still lives. Millions still live. The old ways were not forgotten. Many elders have simply receded away from the modern world of the USA. Waiting for the doomed experiment to fully collapse. They won’t be pulled under with the sinking ship. When the collapse completes its course, when Black Elk’s Blue Man is finally dead, then real magic will be seen in the world again.
that’s right. Native Americans know how to live off the grid.
The indigenous Australians, still treated to today in the most abominable and viciously racist manner imaginable, will just go ‘walkabout’ again, while the planet heals itself after the Exceptionals have finished desecrating it-and destroying themselves.
A Canadian Commission into the treatment of First Nations people concludes that the Government of Canada practiced a policy of Cultural Genocide of the native peoples. ( As well as killing thousands in so called residential schools) Calls for Reconciliation-It should be global news. We are all First Nations Now!
but do those people that you so eloquently described? This east vs west meme is getting to me. Workers of the World Unite!
Is the european dream not over? In fact you can count the number of nations not dominated by oligarchs and .01 elites on the fingers of one hand. The organized criminal cartel that that rule the roost are acting on a worldwide basis. The looting of nations and recreating a feudal lifestyle for the majority of the worlds populace by the organized criminals know not national boundries. Those who focus primarily on amerikas future should wake up and widen their horizons. America solely is not the head of the beast.
Not even feudal. The serfs at least were tied to the land and had tenure access to the mode of production and a slice of the surplus. We were FREED remember. No ties, no obligations, nothing save your labour power to sell on the market in competition with billions of others while dominated by less than .000000000000000000000000000001% of the population.
Centralised governments are always a risk, but capitalism, especially “oligarcical” capitalism (where it always seems to end up) seems to be the ultimate problem -I mean, “big capital” is dominating all of theese gov:s and politicians, “capitalist democracy” is truly a perverted joke, so of course it has worked as effective propaganda for a long while…
Accumulate Accumulate Accumulate…it is the alpha and the omega of the capitalist system.
Karl Marx to which we can add concentration.
Thank you Larchmonter and thanks to the Saker team English editor/s who went over this piece and corrected our typos.
Has anybody here read Stephen Kings book “Needful Things” ? I have and I couldnt help but notice a strong comparison between the US governments behaviour worldwide and that of Leyland Gaunt, the proprietor of the “shop” Needful Things from which the book derives its title.
Considering that Gaunt turns out to be a malignant demon interested only in sowing discord and destruction wherever he goes does give one food for thought. I highly recommend people to read this.
Have you seen the movie? Max von Sydow is hilarious as Old Scratch.
Thanks for this AK, I look forward to future posts.
As worrying as it is it’s good to stay informed.
Excellent piece, highly intelligent and at the same time very ”readable”. More the pity that this will go unnoticed by our so-called free media.
TTIP/TPP represents a move to ‘corporationism’ as known to Mussolini, or what can also be described as international fascism.
The “Karl Marx of Fascism”, Pareto, who Mussolini learnt from, and also happened to help define much of modern western economics, said that free trade must not be limited by the state, and specifically, between states.
Mussolini said that the idea could go international when three conditions are met,
A single party/chain to bind together economic and political discipline.
Supremacy of the state in all the energy, interests and hopes of a people.
A lived in period of the highest ideal tension.
All 3 are pretty much in place already, and TTIP/TPP would seal the deal with regard to point one.
The removal of rights would fit nicely into this, as anyone that protests against corporations having more power than voters can easily be deemed a ‘terrorist’, just like the older empires called anyone a ‘barbarian’.
The false flag events like Sandy Hook are intended to take guns away from the American people, if you do even the most cursory research you discover they are a total joke. James Holmes being represented by the mother of a Sandy Hook victim, with 2 people from Columbine on the jury too?
By demonising gun owners they can disarm the people, leaving them as the sole monopoly on violence in the US.
Sadly if you mention any of this to a normal person they think you are stupid.
Sandy Hook was not a false flag event; it is a ridiculous assertion and position. Not only that, by clinging to this absurdity you diminish the real false flag events such as 9-11.
What are the distinguishing features of a “real” false flag event?
Excellent work, American Kulak! Can’t wait for the sequels.
The old saying – ‘Tell me who your friends are and I’ll tell you who you are’ never been more right.
-Barack Obama was hosting the royal rulers of the six Persian Gulf Arab states in Washington. First there was the VIP treatment and photo-ops on the White House’s South Lawn, then a fireside chat in the Oval Office, followed by a private meeting at the president’s mountain retreat at Camp David in Maryland, some 100km north of the capital.-
While pandering to the most repressive regimes on Earth with the finest American hospitality last week, President Obama came out with some outlandish, ludicrous statements.-
Right now and for the past nearly seven weeks, the Saudi-led Gulf states have been pounding the people of Yemen day and night with American-supplied warplanes and bombs, including internationally banned cluster bombs that kill everything in their blast radius. Thousands of Yemeni women and children have been slaughtered in this US-backed campaign against the poorest country on the Arabian Peninsula.
Yet Obama regaled the Arab tyrants in Washington last week, saying that the US and the sheikhdoms are the “cornerstone of peace, stability and security in the Middle East.”
The president added: “The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary friendship and relationship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt [in 1945].”
Read more here:Obama and the Royals: Human Rights Aren’t a Concern, When Oil is at Stake.
By Finian Cunningham :http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20150517/1022246658.html
Read more: http://sputniknews.com/columnists/20150517/1022246658.html#ixzz3aZTjA7lb
Uncle Obama is quite a specimen, isn’t he? He thoroughly enjoys pissing on his supposed ‘constituency’, too, nowhere more enthusiastically than with the TPP. A once in a century psychopath, dissembler and confidence-trickster.
Actually he knows most Americans are stupid. They reelected this conman again. One thing I have learnt, actually had to accept is that one can be especially qualified in a certain field but is a stupid moron. Some of the brightest minds who developed science died broke. So you cant equate excellence in one field as being intelligent. If some highly learnt moron can classify dolphins as stupider than a goldfish, I think I am qualified in saying all this as there is no doubt I am smarter than goldfish. For these people even in this day and age can be blind to reality I am not sure how intelligent they are. And if they have any intelligence how they think nuclear war is winnable and iphone part deux will be out by end of the war.
I saw a movie where they were using people who were in debt and could not pay as forced workers by making their brain do things for corporate productivity.. Maybe they have invented such things to add to the water supply..
They did demonstrate memory transfer in rats. Remote controlling cockroaches.. So what is reality?
To be fair,the choices offered were horrible (even worse than Obama). No positive change is possible through elections in the US.The system makes a candidate have to be in bed with the oligarchs to have any chance of winning elections.So you end with a choice between the axe murderer and the serial killer.Leaving the voter (if you even vote) thinking “now which one won’t steal as much. And I can survive being ruled by them”.
When he had special forces assassinate that sixteen year old Somali “pirate” the writing was on the wall for me. Those people’s fishing water and means of subsistence is being destroyed by global capitalism that is why they are out there.
The USA has already lost Cold War 2 simply because if it prevails in the struggle the consequences will be more disastrous than if it collapses.
Thank you for this great piece of information. I see my country the Netherlands heading the same way. Takes some more time but the same tactics are used here.
As a fellow Dutchman I have to dissagree with you on two very important aspects. Private gun ownership and that of the repressive police apparatus.
Sure we too are ‘circling the drain’ as George Carlin once perfectly described but a societal collapse here due to economic and or social issues would come with much less fireworks as opposed to the U.S in my humble oppinion.
Somehow I secretly wish for it as it would hopefully mean the abondonment of the EU and our path to self-governance once again.
BTW, the U.S government knows full wel the collapse will one day be inevitable, hence the infamous nationwide FEMA camps
The u.s is going home
The above link is merely a sneak preview of the western imperialist/capitalist apologist response to your article, never the less I feel the irony really is in the chorus of “be careful what you wish for, you just might get it all” as this in many ways sums up the current american geo-political condition intertwined with its international foreign policy in which your article does an admirable job of laying out that which has been sown and what is waiting to be reaped….
Never the less I have a few quibles with your analysis, for instance here:”Even the so-called ‘sexual revolution’, the spread of contraception, promiscuity and the easing of abortion laws can be seen as contributing to the decline of female preferences for a working-class male wage earner as head of household, first in the black and later white and Hispanic communities (Roe v. Wade also, according to pro-life demographers, left the U.S. with a 55 million person-sized vacuum of unborn, aborted human beings22 that immigrants filled).”
1st such a result is derived from an improper designation of “working class” from income size, this distorted concept is one of the great non-partisan idealogical myths perpetuated to this day by the u.s in particular and subscribed to many degrees by their allies in the west.
2nd the sexual revolution also compromises an increase in the fight for sexual equality in all aspects of social life, choice of partner and sexual freedom is only one aspect and it ads only to the ludicrous nature of this assertion even sans anti-abortion wako commentary to focus on the most tawdry, superficial elements of this revolution like an echo of the bread and butter of corporate media.
Which is a bit disconcerting when you then highlight the corporate co-opting of the counter-cultural movement related to drug culture, but don’t lay out that this is only one of the latest in what has been a concerted effort to co-opt such movements since the rise of the USSR!
The 20th century has seen the rise in the “science” of corporate state media trying to simultaneously define what is the left/right paradigm and hide of course the true class suppression and actual lines of struggles that the working class has fought for against the blatant lies, inequality and atrocities that seethe under the surface of the western narrative.
Never the less the western world continues to be the largest benefactor from this history in which social pressure to be wealthy and the actual distribution of this wealth and social infrastructure has been partitioned to the white majority for far longer in western society then what has been available to the black population, hence the skew in preference of partner is in fact economic as the american welfare state rose to its heights in the 70’s that a large section of black american men can offer black women the ideal of the “american dream” of a “middle class” income to achieve social status already occupied by the majority of white women since the 50’s while the welfare states dismantling makes a one income earning household an actual myth by the late 80’s for the majority of all peoples in the u.s.
The west lays dreaming
Your following points about Germany “credibly” supporting such a middle class with an industrial base only highlights how much vested interest that america’s allies have in this idealogical discourse so much so that it can be considered a major pillar of western idealogy and benchmark to start from when sizing up their competitors and pawns….
And that is why we come to this contradiction of over a year the u.s supporting the Fascist reactionaries in Kiev only to now see the americans change their tune to try to throw down this recent legacy to help support what they want to see happen in Macedonia, but it wasn’t the USSR or Russia that bombed the former Yugoslavia into fragments of national contradictions, though the Mac’s peoples grandparents were fighting partisans against the Nazi’s, the u.s’s success in crippling Serbia has made it a very poor boogeyman to inspire the ignorant bullies and psychotic opportunists to hide their self interest behind and instill fear in the masses with.
No the u.s needs all the anti-fascist solidarity from its past and present that it can muster to stop Russia from increasing its share of the European gas market via MAC, unfortunetly this also goes against many of its allies interest’s and literally in the eu’s backyard and with Ukraine pretty much out of its control I don’t think the eu will be able to stomach more instability from another colour revolution.
Not to mention the u.s cannot hide very well the recent history of it’s ascending to the heights of a police state that your article has still for the most part highlighted very well.
I think the quote from David Cameron is very telling.
“For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens ‘as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone ”
“We will leave you alone”…….. he is of the permanent ruler class,whose arrogance is clearly illustrated by obtaining an overall majority,with a mere 37% of the vote.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2015/results
Conservatives 36.9% = 331 seats
UKIP 12.6% = 1 seat, same story for the Greens.
Greens 3.8% = 1 seat
SNP 4.7% = 56 seats
This is Not a democracy, it is a cynical gerrymander,an Autocratic bureaucracy of vested interests,much like the rest of the ‘west’.
The ‘Civil asset forfeiture laws’,’Money laundering laws’,’Indefinate duration sentencing laws’,secret trials are all in effect here as in the US.
This is not a tolerant society,it has always been ultra conformist, regimented and brutal.
So called bw-itish justice,bw-itish values and bw-itish fairness has been BS fed to the masses after WW1,who did not even have the vote!.
Since universal suffrage…..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_suffrage
The ruling parties have been very careful to avoid genuine reform, prefering to maintain a Conservative/Labour system or Democrat/ Republican version as the most suitable model for tyrrany.
Since WW2, succesive governments have done everything they could to destroy organized labour,reduced the homogenised population to a minority and package the new serfdom as ‘La Dolce Vita’ paraphrased in britain as “live now! pay later”.
There is no ‘built in’ Mechanism for change, politicians who break election promises cannot be re-called.
Once the election is over all ‘the nasty stuff’ they had planned can be revealed….and there is no choice,so eventual rebellion is mitigated by monitoring social media.
Make no mistake, wether you live in the US ,Britain or France the government is really your enemy…but it is the hand that feeds and as such always has the upperhand.
Here, just as the US,’going off the grid’ is viewed with suspicion,using cash is still acceptable for now,but carrying more than an ‘acceptable’ amount without a ‘good’ reason might land one in trouble.
The vileness and repressions in the US that AK writes about only emphasize what has always been the social condition for the poor or weak.
“Do as you are told or else” ….”move along ..move along”
Recently Cameron has been making noises about 911 truthers being radicals,just as in France and Germany even serious historians cannot question the Zionist version without losing liberty and wealth.
The SNP win in Scotland is truly a win for the people and I am very happy for them to finally wake up and smell the coffee.
Thanks for the analysis AK.
This is not important that who has won the election, the most important thing is “Who has counted the ballots”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Somebody should look at this very important point. Rehearsal for the election was already made many years ago regarding to the Bush family in Florida and nobody is taking this into consideration.
90% of the elections around the world are frauds and nothing else
That’s 36% of the 66% that bothered to vote, ie 24% of the electorate, after which Cameron, a vicious thug, drops the Mr. Nice Guy pretense and goes straight on the attack promising yet more harassment of the underclass. To get a handle on Cameron’s psychopathology, remember that he used to drag his poor, disabled, son about, before his election in 2010, to proclaim how well he understood the plight of the disabled and their carers-itself a lie as he undoubtedly left that work to his wife or paid carers. Then, after getting power in 2010, the disabled and their carers were amongst the first groups targeted for vicious cuts in expenditure and assistance. The man is a nasty pig, like all his ilk. They revel in sadistically abusing the weak and powerless.
The USA has already lost Cold War 2 simply because if it prevails in the present struggle the consequences for mankind will be more disastrous than if it collapses.
Thank you American Kulak.
Dear The Saker,
Looks like the Russians have stopped US using their territory to Afghanistan – that”s going to cause a whole heap of probs:
http://fortruss.blogspot.ca/2015/05/americas-new-russian-trap-in-afghanistan.html
and
Peskov: Nuland did not meet with representatives of the Kremlin
Such a meeting was not warranted or expected, in accordance with proper protocol, as Nuland is entirely too junior-ranking to deserve that level of attention (ouch! :) well that put her in her place). Instead she and her colleague David Rubinstein met with two Russian deputy foreign ministers. The meetings did not appear to lead to any breakthroughs, the two sides characterized the exchange of views as “direct.” The most positive outcome of the talks appears to be Nuland’s new-found desire to engage in more frequent discussions with the Russian government, which represents a departure from the policy of isolation.
http://ria.ru/politics/20150518/1065219146.html
Rgds,
Veritas
John Kerry/Cohen, Victoria Nudelman and David Rubinstein-are there any goyim left in Uncle Obama’s administration at all?
You may find this interesting:
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (Englisch)
by George Packer
30years of destruction of the US society; a very sad book.
U.S. housing starts skyrocketed more than 20%?in April, the second biggest jump in history and permits are at a seven year high. See Zero Hedge today.
But for years guys like Orlov and other Kremlin propagandists have been telling us the U.S. Economy is about to collapse.
Meanwhile, the Russian economy is contracting and inflation is running in the high double digits:
http://fr.sputniknews.com/points_de_vue/20150508/1015976880.html
Oh gee, thanks, you put a link in French. Anyway another story, in English, from only 2 days earlier, says inflation is down for the first time in months and expected to keep falling — there was a blip caused by higher prices when the counter-sanctions first went on.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-inflation-slows-in-first-decline-in-months-1430921319
The housing “boom” turns out to be a catchup from a big slump. The 20.2 off the lower base is only equal to o16.8% of the original (pre-slump) figure so it is a net increase of .1%.
“Last month’s 20.2 percent jump in starts was the biggest since February 1991. Construction slumped 16.7 percent in February as harsh weather prevent developers from starting new projects.”
It is not the biggest number of new starts in 7 years — it is the biggest percentage increase. If you get blizzards, or a gasoline strike, so almost nothing gets built for a month, then next month, back to normal l, will be 100% increase. Means nothing.
Look at other indicators for economy health — 100 million people have no jobs (a lot of them would like to have) that is 100 million not spending, that is other jobs being lost. Called a downhill spiral…..
Oh… I’m sorry… it was only 16%. How horrible!
In the 90 million Americans not in the labor force, that is Americans in age of working but not doing so, did you guys ever consider that millions of them are students at the graduate, post gradual and doctoral levels (that’ll keep you out of the official labor numbers for years) and that millions of them are retired? Like my 50 year old neighbor who did not listen to doom and gloomers, put his money in equities in 2009-10 and was able to retire last year?
Unless I misunderestimate something math is not your forte.
Unless I have misunderestimated current reality math is not your forte.
Students don’t count as ready willing able to work. And of those who are they are only counted as such for six months before they are taken off the list-American data is more rigged than the former USSR. Those who are working are either working part time or in jobs that they are over qualified for and take just to survive. REAL unemployment rates in the USA are higher than during the great depression only better hidden through such ameliorating factors such as food stamps, unemployment insurance welfare for those states who have it and the millions who out of despair have opted for a life of grinding poverty on Social Security. They call it the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.
Virtually the only piece of good economic news in months, so Anon drags out ‘Old Glory’ and starts a-squawking, USA! USA! USA!. Keep sippin’ the Kool-Aid, sweet-heart.
Together we are strong. Join us!
SOUTH FRONT
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k6946SPxPzY
Dmitry Orlov predicts increasing rebellions within the belly of the American Beast, similar to the uprisings in Ferguson and Baltimore.
One that thing that America has always hated and feared is rebellion from the Black and Brown underclass that it has subjugated since the spawing of the United Snakes–from the slave rebellions in the era of chattel slavery to the urban rebellions of the 20th and 21st Century.
It’s time for the American Civil War 2.0.
America’s Achilles’ Heel
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2015/05/americas-achilles-heel.html
People who don’t understand American society always think there will be an uprising from Black and Brown downtrodden folks. The reasons are many, but those people burn down their own sectors, but rarely reach across the borders of their neighborhoods to threaten the neighbors.
Two major reasons: they live in rental buildings and have grudges against landlords, and the neighbors have personal firearms.
In the last riots (which is what ideologues tend to deny by calling them class uprisings) in LA the rioters were faced with armed Korean shopkeepers and landlords on their rooftops. The rioters made a wide turn away and went north to burn out other sections.
Newark, Baltimore, Detroit, etc, in the sixties and later it was the same pattern.
Coconut Grove (Miami), and others—the pattern is rage, destruction in place, but not an uprising challenging authority.
Americans simply never take over government or physically challenge it. They riot, burn down their own assets and cry about their loss.
The major reason may be that they don’t see an possibility in success or they have no affinity with the concept of revolution. The American Revolution was idealized, a tea party in costumes of Indians. The latter day “voter revolt” termed Tea Party emblematic. It was primarily over budget deficits, wild corrupt spending by Congress. It’s flag was from the Revolution, but one that is called a Naval Flag, Don’t Tread On Me. So it was not the Red and Black of revolution.
Americans just don’t think that way.
They aspire to an iPhone, Apple Pay, a latte at Starbucks, a new self-driving car, a job where they have no responsibility and permits to park where they want and a pass for the Diamond Lane.
They don’t really want to vote for anything or anyone. They don’t join political parties.
They consume. That’s about all. Give them 64 ounce slushies and a wide straw and they’ll give you their vote.
And I can tell you this: if anyone comes to my neighborhood with bad intentions, he and his fellows will face an onslaught of firepower from my neighbors, most of whom are non-white. It runs deep, self-defense with guns of all sorts. That’s the American spirit.
Of course, I belong to the NRA. Second Amendment rights. Protects home. Conceal Carry. Protects person. Self-reliance. All legal. Always obey the statutes. Those are the social values of the taxpayers. Rule of Law.
The enemy is the government. Another American reality.
Typical American gun cult type. Starts off claiming the black and brown folks (“those people”) do nothing but burn down their own neigborhoods, as if corporate businesses and police cars belong to “those people” (that his taxes help pay for). Doesn’t consider burning corporate businesses, destroying police equipment, attacking police, and general destruction of revenue streams to be “challenging authority.” Doesn’t offer any definition of what challenging authority is.
Then continues to snivel in the direction of “those people” who do nothing but “consume,” (gun market is a consumer item) then tops it off with an impotent internet message board threat about if “those people” come into his neighborhood, he’ll hope to indulge in some cowboy and indian fantasy. Counts on “those people” to not show up with incendiary devices to his neighboorhood while they sleep (toast). Counts on “those people” not to catch people like him off guard (he will be). Ignores that many of “those people” are career criminals and are very familiar all kinds of weapons and how to apply them against something other than paper targets that don’t fight back. Is that also the American spirit?
In one breath says the government is the enemy, and then says obey the law that the government writes.
I knew a guy just like this. Government is the enemy. Rants about “those people”. Had a safe full of guns at his house. He went to his law abiding corporate job and came back to find some of “those people” broke in and stole his whole arsenal. Calls the police (the enemy) for help. Police steal some of his belongings to “swab for DNA,” no doubt the joke of the day for them. None got caught. They could have easily came back and blew him away with the weapons he bought, perhaps even end up collecting the insurance money for the stolen items.
Not trying to be inflammatory; just offering a rebuttal. For those who don’t understand American gun culture, it generally revolves around the idea of being a lone warrior or group of cowboys with a gun, defending against hordes of savages trying to steal their women and children, where the cowboys must go forth and exterminate the savages and subdue nature. Look for the character type if you watch American movies. American science fiction movies substitute the savage hordes with insect creatures (Aliens). It’s a one big make believe fantasy with no reality attached to it.
Either way, long on bluff and talk. Short on action (except symbolic “open carry,” which “those people” would get killed if they tried. Wrong skin color. Routinely killed for carrying toys). Once “those people” really get going, and they will, American gun “owners” will be little more than an arms depot, shooting, stabbing or arson victim, and their cowboy and indian fantasies will not go as planned. If they do manage to shoot and even kill one of “those people,” they are marked for life, if not arrested (depends on state). “Those people” are very good at dealing with what they perceive to be collaborators with the state, and lay waste to them routinely.
NRA? You mean the organization that was screaming fo gun restrictions once “those people” actually began to take up arms against a tyrannical government, actually obeying the second ammendment? Guess that’s not the American sprirt.
Not trying to be inflammatory either, just a rebuttal to your rebuttal. For all the flaws in NRA patriots arguments, he’s closer to reality than you are. For one thing, the threat you keep so much faith in (“those people”/ hardened criminals, true anti-American hordes etc), has never successfully challenged the American system or its faithful adherents like NRA guy. It’s a fact, “those people” only hurt themselves with all that rioting. The police vehicles etc that get burned only serve to enhance and reinforce the police state, the losses are written off and charged to those same people, while the police state tightens its grip at their expense and replaces the cars with APC’s and mine resistant armored trucks. The NRA guy on the other hand, lives to a ripe old age (have you seen the average age of these guys? They generally outlast “those people” by a wide margin, which makes their paranoia all the more ironic), enjoy their lives and freedoms in relative comfort, and find their biggest worry is how to bequeath all that arsenal to their offspring without the government taxing them. My point is, NRA guy’s delusion results in a long prosperous life, while the truly dedicated anti-government types end up impoverished or dead at a young age. Judging strictly by the results, it’s more profitable to not pick a fight you can’t win.
Never said anything about if being effective (it isn’t). If it were kept up long enough it could be, but either way the targeting would have to change. But it is a challenge to authority, and the lost revenue and time is not coming back. The point is that they actually do something. If the NRA people had successfully challenged the system (they haven’t; they are a part of it) they’d be dead, jailed, or victorious. They’ll live long because they don’t do anything.
I disagree wholeheartedly. What I admire most about American’s is the self organizing that goes on at the local level for every cause from animal shelters to weight watchers to environmental causes to soup kitchens. Contrary to the myth of the rugged individual American’s have always been joiners belonging to some form of outside social activity or another. This runs throughout American history from Barn raising and crop harvesting to church meetings and witchhunts. Look at any disaster in any town and you will see American’s self organizing to get back up and running. If they could get together on 5 issues on the national level a genuine social transformation would take place. The day may come sooner than anyone realizes-especially the bosses who think they have their mechanisms of social control down pat.
American social movements get absorbed very rapidly and converted into a pro-regime agenda (environmental, anti-war, tea party libertarians, disasters absorbed by FEMA and ultra corrupt red cross) One of the few exceptions so far has been non-violent blockades (very effective) but they are decentralized and too small to intercept. Most small activist groups, however, are plagued with horizontal hostility. Another problem is that they often times become echo chambers and mere social clubs.
Classic examples are the environmental and anti war movements. Only in America will you have an environmental movement and anti war movement, and pollution gets worse and there are more wars than ever. Can organize but can’t deliver.
Can the tens of millions of poor White and trailer-park trash, the remnants of the Amerkan ‘middle-class’, join in the rebellion too? Or will they be used as shock-troops against the non-Whites. As fomenting civil war and internecine hatred has long been a favourite US tactic, as seen in Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan etc, this would be a truly ironic outcome. The word Nemesis comes to mind.
Already happening and most likely will increase. Not going to be organized though and will appear and be mostly criminal activity. Copper theft (sabotage, National security threat declared by FBI), alternative economy (larger than “lawful”), non-violent blockades (ports, rails, terminals), an uptick in crtical infrastructure attacks (telecom, electrical, etc), and corporate negligence (rail disasters, plant explosions); all of these things constitute the physical results of a rebellion, where the target is US economy. These things have been costing US economy at least tens of billions of dollars annually (port shut down stalled US economy in first quarter this year.) US regime has to run faster and faster just to stay in the same place as a result.
Only possibility of shock troops against non whites are law abiding gun market consumers, but they are impotent and just fine with cannibalizing black and latino prison slave labor while they indulge in cowboy fantasies and welfare checks. They are statistically more likely to sell their guns once they are on the economic butcher block, accidentally shoot others and/or themselves, and or have their guns stolen; rather than use them against the regime and its laws that they abide by. The fighting Americans march on while they collaborate with the regime and type on keyboards. Never mattered.
Horsefeathers!
Could you enlarge on that opinion? perhaps with some facts and figures? which section are you having problems with? thanks.
It’s his favourite Marx Brothers’ movie. Mine is Duck Soup.
Night at the Opera!
The first time I crossed the bridge from west palo alto to east palo alto to get on the freeway was shocking. In the west its million $$$ mansions from stock options working at oracle and the like. In the east its thousand $$$ boxes from sweeping the streets and collecting garbage. I never thought I would see such a sight. It was a short cut to get to Fremont and this right in the middle of silicon valley. Everyone I saw was a Black or Hispanic and no cops in sight. Cops are usually present near the dividing lines but not inside the neighborhoods. The entire thing made me question the equal opportunity for blacks line. Because such a situation should never occur unless it was on purpose. I am sure you can see similar situation in orange county and Hollywood. Where ever there are rich white neighborhoods, nearby there is a depilated service oriented ghetto.
More:
I grew up in the Fremont area.I’m old enough to say that before their was even a “Union City”,their was only a small Mexican barrio called Decoto.These were 2nd and 3rd generation farm workers,as the surrounding area was all agricultural.Across the freeway was the small town of Alvaraldo.This was mostly the Filopino farm workers.Maybe some were lucky enough to work for the huge General Motors plant.Well,at least until it shut down.These people bought homes and worked hard.I can still name half a dozen of my Mexican friends that died in Vietnam.These are true Mexican Americans.
I haven’t been back there for a number of years but the last time,what I saw was that American thing called a melting pot.Their were people from China,India,Vietnamese,Iraqis,African Americans,you name it.I really loved that aspect of the area.Of course,now also their are gangs and such which makes it harder to like,let alone live there.
As for Palo Alto,yes east Palo Alto,a ghetto,west Palo Alto,well just say Stanford University…..
I am reminded of Mark Twain’s comment about a certain religious text — If you took out all of the and it came to passes’ you would be left with a paphlet.
Or Chief Joseph of the Nez Pierce —The white man weaves the wind.
‘Sorry to be unimpressed. It seems meant well.
Sow the wind, then reap the whirlwind.
This essay by American Kulak (wealthy farmer?) opens up a necessary discussion of the state of the American state.
Predictably:
1. The essay begins and ends with serious complaints about American government domestic and foreign policy. It details some economic problems and, hints at a decline of Liberty.
2. American Kulak hesitates to identify the illness that plagues America, and through America, the world.
3. Therefore, the cure is not approached. The American Kulak has advanced in tandem with the electoral propagandists of the American Democrat gang. He has approached the working level of imperialist Senators Warren, and Sanders, and the small misdirection ‘Left’ whose job it is, through complaining and pronouncing sympathy (for the devil- excuse: wrong song), for the poor, and the working class, to mobilize them to support the political process, and by doing that, support American exceptionalism (that Russian President Vladimir Putin has already decisively criticized more than a year ago).
The solutions will not come from the “Occupy Nothing” or “Tea Party” appendages of the 2 Professional Wrestling political gangs. No cure from the Marxist Lemonists. The official ‘opponents’ appear only when ordered to. The Occupies and Lemonists want the sheeple to vote for Clinton 2, and the Teas wish for a Bush 3 vote. Two dimensional, defeatest, mis-directional efforts from the official opposition (missing verb). Or, how to get nowhere – fast.
Where is even a brief description of the American political system?
The weakness of the Kulak’s thesis is here: “1) The U.S. is in a second Cold War with Russia and China it initiated in Syria, Ukraine and now with the ‘pivot to Asia’, in order to defend the dollar’s world reserve currency status by scuttling the rise of a Eurasian trade zone competitor and delaying the adoption of the Chinese yuan as a dollar replacement in trade. This is in part, why Washington has not been so concerned with military victory in Ukraine as with keeping the conflict going and Russia as the ‘bad guy’ that must be sanctioned by European allies that would otherwise be integrating with Eurasia. Domestic opposition, however feeble, to the U.S. arming or continuing to subsidize the Kiev regime is damaging to this goal, though Washington’s real worry is growing opposition to its Ukraine and Russia sanctions policies in Europe,28 to which American dissent can only marginally contribute.”
I beg to differ:
The Anglo/American/Zionist Oligarchs desire nothing more than total military victory in the Ukraine, Syria, and the rest of the world. That is the core of their efforts. The Oligarchs have been stalled, and somewhat set back by successful resistance, from Vietnam, to the Georgian events, to Egypt’s refusal to disintegrate, to the Palestinian resistance, to the Militia of Novorossiya, to the liberation of Crimea. The war is on!!!
Kulak continues:
“4) The federal government, encountering growing skepticism towards much of what it does and dissatisfaction with the economy from all sides in the U.S. from ‘Occupy’ ‘leftists’ to a resurgent right wing libertarian, Constitutionalist and heavily armed ‘patriot’, ‘prepper’ or ‘liberty’ movement, is adopting a siege mentality”
Read my lips!!!
“growing skepticism” What? There is no growing opposition within the West European and American body politic to the imperialist Oligarchs. The people are heavily (and successfully) brainwashed. That is the conundrum. There can be no opposition, without opponents. Did not Euclid say something to that effect? And it would help if there would be voiced some helpful political suggestions, as to just What Must Be Done – to cure the disease.
These are my numbers:
1. The United States is no longer a Constitutional, Democratic Republic! It lost that in the back seat of a car on November 22, 1963. (sexual inuendo intended for light relief)
2. The coming electoral circus features Bush 3 versus Clinton 2, with some Hollywood and Media efforts to ratchet up some interest among the Sheeple, and to better promote the farce around the planet.
3. Any hint of a cure for the worst plague in history is prohibited, and the Occupy Nothing, and Tea Party, and remnant CIA Marxists are nothing, if not obediant.
There are no short cuts, moral or political, to the advance of human liberty through the establishment, or restoration of one, two, many Democratic Republics!
We’ve got nothing else to sell. No Charge – It’s on the house (as we say in Brooklyn).
IMAGINE
The people are not heavily and successfully brainwashed. The people are discouraged and disheartened and increasingly aware of the forces arrayed against them, especially young people who are, apart from the uberrich (and even their youth I would not disparage across the board) disenfranchised, denied a job, an education, healthcare and the like. Edward Snowden is a hero; Putin is a hero; not Obama, not Clinton, not any Democrat or Republican – none of them are heroes but simply the minions of the corporatocracy.
The people voted for Obama when that vote was considered to be an anti-Bush vote. Anti Bush and what he stood for. Obama could have been a Putin style man of the people – it was he that betrayed that trust, and we all know it.
Don’t call us sheepie and denigrate our innate intelligence. We are human beings like everyone else, caught in this machinery now, this machinery of corruption. Since the Bush nightmare, and even before in Reagan years, in the time of Vietnam, in the civil rights era, with the election of John Kennedy, Americans have tried to be good citizens of the world. And that’s what we still want to be. Not exceptional; just good citizens of our country and the world.
The forces of greed have made a shambles of that, but they cannot last. We will outlast them.
Yes Obama was elected to put the war criminals in Jail along with the Wall Street Banksters as far as the people were concerned they were looking for Justice and got more of the same and worse instead. What is left other than social transformation the term I use for the R word in case anyone isn’t aware of it.
RR
The United States was a “Constitutional, Democratic Republic” until the coup of 1787 that overthrew the Articles of Confederation and brought forth the mechanism allowing for an unencumbered executive (dictator). The so-called Founding Fathers were traitors and knew it. Once the 1787 constitution was in place, there was nothing to stop the amassing of wealth and power by elites as the Outlaw Empire has always been an Oligarchy, aside from 1776-1787.
Reads like wishful thinking to me, especially the part about growing opposition in the U.S., etc.
The western governments have mastered crowd control and other forms of manipulation and nothing will change. Nothing.
Funny that new all-time highs in the bourses all over the west will greet American Kulak’s piece today.
By the way, Zero Hedge has been promoting this idea of an imminent collapse for seven years now, with the economy and markets improving every single day while doing so, but wasn’t Zero Hedge founded by a Russian…?
Bottom line is, there’s propaganda from all sides folks. It’s not just Americans and Europeans doing it.
All the oligarchs, through their media and networks, lie to us, regardless of where they are from.
Do you folks seriously believe there are any differences between American, British, Russian and Chinese oligarchs?
Please… :D
The first three categories of oligarchs are Jewish, or controlled by Jews or in alliance (for now) with the Jews. As far as I can tell, Jewish penetration and control in China is far less marked, hence the international Zionazi elite’s drive to ‘bring China down’.
I think you better re-check your understanding of Chinese history since WWII. You might be surprised to learn just how deeply indebted to American finance capital the entire modern Chinese system is. Those capitalists laid the foundations of today’s China and married it to the American consumer based market system. Read about the immortals and Zbigniew Brzerzinski and his acolytes and you’ll understand just what a complicated world we live in.
Read a little more deeply and you find that those free economic zones only applied to two provinces and are not meant to be permanent. Time will tell however judging by the fact the most in the Chinese Communist Party are made up of professionals such as engineer’s, doctor’s, scientists of all sorts and only get promoted up the party rank through merit I believe that The Revolution is far from over. Coupled with Russia’s military might the cold war which started with the death of FDR and never ended as far as the West is concerned, will see the triumphalists on their knees begging or like so many bankers this past decade jumping from their penthouse windows. Putin is perhaps the greatest humanitarian the modern world has ever seen, he is a genuine straight arrow and JinPing appears just as genuine. Time will tell but the fabled phoenix looks set to rise again. America meanwhile with 19 trillion in debt has doubled down on full spectrum dominance and at least among the elite they cannot see any other option. Of course this does not bode well for the people’s day in the sun-The EU MUST break from the Atlanticists and even still the odds of ww3 remain at 2 minutes to midnight. Russian war plans include asymmetrical warfare which will wipe the USA from the face of the earth so all the first strike nonsense and hope to win is simply wishful thinking. The American people still cry out for justice no matter the colour of anyone’s skin-will history bring forth the man with enough character to do what has to be done? Namely-simply adhering to the Constitution-no revolution no mass marches no big changes just living by the law of the land would go far in restoring America to Sanity-will history bring forth such an individual? If ever their was a time it is now.
There has been for some time a national sabotage effort in America that heavily undermining the American economy, and therefore the American government. It isn’t advertised as such, of course, but it is still happening. The FBI some time ago called copper theft a national security threat, and for good reason. The lost revenue from train delays, power outages, etc is costing billions. Alternative non state black market economies are now worth more than the “aboveground” economies. Continued theft on already frail infrastructure will accelerate the irrelevance of the US regime. Continuing financial trickery (Bernie Madoff) is another sector of damage to the US economy, that is the functional equivalent of a sabotage effort, much like the French resistance to the nazis. This time, however, it is being done by hundreds of thousands of different people hwo have no relation to each other, rather than some kind of organization.
The attacks have been getting more fierce, too. The US power grid — the holy grail of targets — is attacked once every four days. Trains are being derailed, power lines are being destroyed, communications are being disrupted, substations destroyed, fertilzer plants exploded, not only through actual attackers, but also through corporate neglect. People who are complaining about “nothing being done” and failing to mention this are either extermely ignorant or speaking only for themselves when it comes to doing nothing.
The fact is that insurgencies are waged by people already outside of the regime’s law, and that certainly is the case in America. The fact that it is legal for “law abiding” Americans to “own” guns gives one an idea of just how harmless the law abiding are. When they consider themselves to be law abiding citizens, this effectively means they will offer no resistance. American gun owners have been proven to be impotent hot air who have turned weapons into a shopping item that makes them feel better about themselves. If they were all disarmed it wouldn’t matter, because, by their own definition, they wouldn’t break any of the regime’s laws anyway.
The more the impotent do nothing gun owners talk about fighting tyranny, the more likely they are to do nothing. Most if not all of them are physically incapable, drunk and on drugs, weak willed, and fantasize about things they’ll never do. They shouldn’t be considered armed — that would imply that they are actually capable of attacking. They have weapons in their houses, but that’s about it. Worse than worthless. If they were capable, the US regime would not exist. If they are disarmed — and they will get herded out just like Boston did — it wouldn’t matter because criminals will be the ones actually fighting and continuing to fight.
Great. Another Jade Helm reference. More US regime personell killed in helicopter crashes. More of them raping each other. And more suicides. And now we have this garbage article making them appear stronger than they are. If this does end up being the start of a civil war, the Americna economy will collapse within short order and everyone except those outside the law will perish. America is not a war society, they are a commercial society. All a civil war will end up being is a massive case of lost revenue. Budgets will be demolished, pink slips will be raining, and mass suicides — already happening but at an artificially low level due to drug concoctions — will occur. What’s left of the already pathetic infrastructure will completely crumble, and, oh, did you notice half of the US is standing by to destroy their own water supply? (drought) DId you notice that their fracking scam — which hasn’t even made one cent — is standing by for rapid decline? Did you notice that the Americans have nothing to offer except turning everything into garbage?
America has been a corrupt and demonic entity from its very inception, and it now produces the most corrupt people to ever exist. They are an already dead people and are the equivalent of a spasming corpse that just happens to walk. Let them burn to the ground and let their cries go unheard forever. Their negligence has brought the entire planet to the verge of extinction. Their death will be a chance for everyone else to live. Let the Empire of Garbage burn like the trash it is.
Jade Helm is about moving and redistributing and prepositioning military equipment all around the United States. The very same thing happened in the decade preceding the Civil War, under Buchanan and Secty. of War, Jeff Davis, who shipped cannons from northern military installations to the industrial-poor South, just in time for the “cold war” over the Fugitive Slave Act and other serious disagreements between North and South to heat up and go red hot. It was Southerners who fired first, because they conveniently had something to fire with. Stop moving stuff. What is this, the “Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things?” from Monty Python. For bored aristocrats? Maybe some bored banksters want to finance another civil war in the U.S., but this time around, actually make some money off of it.
There’s no such thing as British Northern Ireland. It’s the foreign-occupied six counties of north-eastern Eire. Irish national territory not yet under Irish control. Unfinished liberation business.
American Kulak says:
“The so-called ‘war on drugs’, which dramatically expanded after the ‘turn on, tune in, drop out’ counterculture successfully infiltrated and co-opted the anti-Vietnam War movement by the late 1960s”.
With all due respect.Without the counterculture,their wouldn’t have been much of an anti-war movement!That’s an extremely biased and shallow statement.Otherwise a pretty good overview of things.
Veterans were the initiators of the anti-war movement. Counterculture only got involved once they got their draft notices; when it started affecting *them*. Either way, the Vietnamese won, and any symbolic counter-cultural activities contributed marginally at best.
As Chomsky related, the first anti-Vietnam War protests he attended in Boston were characterised by more police than protestors, and the protestors were glad they were there, because it stopped the protestors being lynched by mobs of patriotic Amerkan jingos.
The unusual thing is how the 5 eyes and some of europe are also cracking down on civil liberties and dissent. They are in lock step, just as in the financial machinations since the crisis of ´08 and perhaps long before.
When Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas, and Bush the guv of Texas, they were in section 6 of the HUD administration. (Housing and Urban Development). The assistant secretary at HUD, was calling in the paperwork to find out how in the world they were losing 1.2 Billion dollars a year. Then the Edwin Murrah federal building blew up in Oklahoma City. All the paperwork was lost. Much like WTT7. I would not recommend working when financial documents are stored for the duration of the transformation of the united states.
The Bush and Clinton crime families are deep in the cocaine boom of the 80´s, which was pumped into inner cities to destabilize poor communities (EL Toro Airforce base TX and Mena AK), to reap great financial gains and buy influence, and also to destroy communities with drugs, when regular folks would flee, they would scoop up properties dime on the dollar, then move the drug and shooting to another community, gentrify, sell and repeat. The players in these housing frauds were institutional investors, like the Harvard Endowment.
We are certainly in apocalyptic times, in the sense of an unveiling. The internet is one of the vehicles of this unveiling. It is also a tool that could be used to make governments and finance extremely transparent, and less prone to corruption. Its a game changer.
So in the US we are being run and bought out by organized crime. The move jobs abroad was a done deal in the 90`s. I don´t see why that is such a big deal. We don´t need full employment, we need to work less, and get back to cultural pursuits and making things of beauty that are useful. If we simply taxed wealth, instead of workers, we could give everyone a monthly stipend. With free education, we would have an explosion of creativity. If one´s basic needs were met, we could do what we love.
Its going to be a messy breakdown, for sure. But everybody knows its coming. Its time to let go of isms of the past, and deal with the karma of theft and mayhem that the colonizing countries have done. The US and Europe owe a great deal to the world at large. The elites decided that they could´t keep colonization going, so they turned to economic exploitation with cover stories, now they can´t keep that going, and I´m sure there are competing plans on how to control the re set. So far, it seems like the hottest consumer market is in armaments. the first Gulf war was in part an arms show. Sewing chaos and war is such a cynical, evil thing to do. American citizens do not want to conduct these wars.
I think the US should de federate somewhat, like the USSR did. The regions are so different, a breakdown into local control would be good in many ways. Even if it just morphed into a country without bases all over the world and fantasies of empire, that could be a very good thing all round. There are better ways to structure our financial systems, all of our institutions, and they are so corrupted, I don´t hold much hope for incremental change.
One other factor is health and mental health. The US is in the middle of a huge genetic experiment. Glyphosate and GMOs are ruining the gut biota and immune systems widely. With gut dysbiosis, we see huge problems with mental and physiological health. Our regulatory systems have been captured by industries who display no concern for human health and suffering. There is money to be made off of chronically sick people under privatized systems.
It will be interesting to see how things transform, but I have a lot of faith in the young people, and folks in general. This will be perhaps the first really global revolution, or re set.
Robin, while you mentioned the GE/glyphosate Holocaust in your admirable contribution, that insane catastrophe, driven by corporate capitalist Evil, is but a tiny microcosm of the whole ecological catastrophe. We are on the brink of rendering this planet uninhabitable for our species, and all the higher other species too.
Thank you Mulga. Yes, they are destroying our basis of life. All of these military actions and reaping of resources is undermining our life support system, our lovely planet. I do think much of the Ukraine crisis is a fight over whether it goes GMO or not. If Russia and China stand up to Monsanto, that will help us in the west to ban GMOs. One point, of all of the dead zones in the world´s oceans, only one has fully recovered. It was due to Russia´s economic crash, they stopped using fertilizers and pesticides, and the ocean recovered. Also, the only healthy reef in the Caribbean is around Cuba, where they have the best organic system in the world.
Robin, I saw an, as ever, excellent documentary by Cousteau pere, years ago, where he went to Cuba. He met Fidel, and reported Cuba’s reefs in excellent condition, in contrast to the rest of the Caribbean, because the Cubans used fish-traps rather than long-lines and trawling and other disastrous techniques used in the ‘Free World’.
Lots of good additions to the OP, although too many inane comments. The general crisis continues to build, and I see 2020 as a fateful year. Public distrust of institutions is at an all-time high, and it’s just possible the Propaganda System’s magic won’t be enough to sideline Sanders’s presidential bid. In a speech today at the Coast Guard Academy, Obama said the US is guilty of “dereliction of duty” regarding Climate Change, but he didn’t have the courage to admit he’s the #1 derelict. Of course, there’re many areas where his dereliction admission applies, besides being the planet’s #1 terrorist. From the standpoint of the Public Interest, Obama is clearly the worst ever president–yes, worse than W. I’m willing to bet Obama gives KSA the green light to bomb the Iranian aid ship bound for Yemen so the long sought after war with Iran can begin. If that happens, 2020 will have arrived early.
Great macro-analysis, I like that you kind of lay out the problems in a broad sense while admitting there’s many rebuttals to any of the points presented, shows a sense of modesty and acknowledgment that the issues are complex, convoluted, inter-connected, and can be analysed in many ways. I would just add that as far as tools TPTB are employing to fight the info war, I think the future Google “truth-based” search engine needs to be addressed, especially as it relates to independent/alternative media. That said, this is a great start imo and I look forward to coming pieces. Also I believe the timing is just right to really delve into this topic.
A short video on the Google plan from the angle of how media deals with science, but certainly it parallels with politics and any other controversial subject.
https://youtu.be/be1W32qQy_k
Thank you. Excellent and in my opinion, an “on point” analysis.
Let’s not forget that it was VP Biden with whom Yanakovich consulted and was told by no means to use force to sweep the Maidan protestor’s from the streets of Kiev, while operation Gladio Style sniper’s soon opened fire upon both police and protestor’s, actions reminicinet of Syria, Libya and so many other special ops perpetratied by Gladio from the Aldo days forward. If this is not enough also recall that it was Warran Buffet who declared that “there was a CLASS WAR going on and HIS SIDE was winning” after Occupy was raided in the middle of the night and disbanded. And how can we forget that not a SINGLE BANKSTER went to jail for causing the subprime crisis that saw about a third of US wealth transferred to the .0001% of American’s who own the place. The only way out for American’s is to go through their own Spring-with mass traction demands for employment, rebuilding of infrastructure, free post secondary education, affordable housing and health care all backed up by a GENERAL STRIKE-especially at the ports and other transportation hubs where the cheap goods are brought into the country. A simple 1% tax on all Wall Street and other trading venues would cover a great deal of these costs and it is only fair that these sales are taxed just as so many others are. The civil war began with the war on drugs, was escalated with the war on terror and only will continue to do so as returning veterans make it home from the Middle East-that is if they don’t kill themselves for the abominable crimes they have been encouraged to commit against their “sub-human” “enemies”. Another hope lies with the Bolivarian Revolution and the large Spanish speaking population in America who have not been trained with the knee-jerk reaction to the word socialism to be followed by the inevitable “…it doesn’t work” which has been deeply ingrained in the political “unconsciousness” of the American people, and you yuppie greens who have not been educated to view socialism as a “rationally planned, democratically administered…” mode of production and reproduction of the species. Here superstition like the invisible hand is given precedence over rational thought. As if corporations don’t plan. HA a decade behind closed doors with $500.00 an hour lawyers knocking out the TPP is not planning? What is?
Is my first time at this site and I absolutely loved the article. Laid out neatly and very easy to read and understand. Will be steering as many people as possible to it. Thanks.
On the issue of “hot war” in the U.S. I would like to suggest that it is doubtful that the matter will end before such a solution is tested. The U.S. Civil War went so far. The South, I believe, did not really expect to have to fight. It was wrong. It is likely that those who think that a long period of domestic peace in the U. S. cannot end are simply not thinking clearly. The situation in the U.S. in the early 1860’s, bad as it was for contemporary people in the U.S., shows nothing like the potential for unavoidable, murderous peril evidenced in the current situation, yet it lead to a major war.
The U.S. and its population are already in a situation which would be considered fantastic 10 years ago and impossible 20 years ago by most. The current situation in the U.S., until recently, is the stuff of science fiction, knockoffs of George Orwell, and a subject for study by some thoughtful people with an historical bent who study long term historical trends. One should spend some time with Ostwald Spengler on the end of Modernity for inspiration to address the possibilities. The most extreme possibilities can be expected to gain currency and to be acted upon as the current historical period progresses.
Consider the following quote from http://www.deagel.com/country/forecast.aspx?pag=1&sort=GDP&ord=DESC. This website suggests that the population of the U.S. will fall from over 300 million to about 65 million due to economic collapse in the next 10 years. It specifically excludes pandemics and nuclear war. I have considered these questions for many years but this particular model caught me by surprise. Please read.
“The key element to understand the process that the USA will enter in the upcoming decade is migration. In the past, specially in the 20th century, the key factor that allowed the USA to rise to its colossus status was immigration with the benefits of a demographic expansion supporting the credit expansion and the brain drain from the rest of the world benefiting the States. The collapse of the Western financial system will wipe out the standard of living of its population… The population will be hit so badly by a full array of bubbles and ponzi schemes that the migration engine will start to work in reverse… leading to the demise of the States. This unseen situation for the States will develop itself in a cascade pattern with…devastating effects for the economy. Jobs offshoring will surely end with many American Corporations relocating overseas… We see a significant part of the American population migrating to Latin America and Asia… the death toll will be horrible. Take into account that the Soviet Union’s population was poorer than the Americans… The ex-Soviets suffered during…the 1990s with a significant death toll and the loss of national pride. … When pensioners see their retirement disappear in front of their eyes and there are no servicing jobs you can imagine what is going to happen next. At least younger people can migrate. Never in human history were so many elders among the population. In past centuries people were lucky to get to their 30s or 40s. The American downfall is set to be far worse than the Soviet Union’s one. A confluence of crisis with a devastating result.”
Whether this particular version of American disaster is true in whole or in part one should expect such claims to unnerve and incite a stressed population as they become more aware of economic disintegration and struggle to find a solution. Even more alarming prognostications are sure to come. What happens if the great majority of the population becomes convinced they are living under a government that means to destroy them?
“…while we don’t believe America is at serious risk of a ‘hot’ civil war, ” So long
as it stays “cold” the system will totter along for some time as the “deep state”
is now a virtual class all by itself and commands the loyalty and paychecks of
millions of employees. The system, unless it is violently disrupted, will pretty
much lock down the population under its iron heel by the end of this year
certainly…
I will observe in closing this. Police openly beat and kill people in public
daily and those watching DO NOTHING…not a single thing….
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