The verdict is in and it’s unanimous in certain quarters —like the mainstream media, democrat officials and elected politicians, out of work democratic politicians (Claire McCaskill is one), lefty think tanks and pundits— Donald Trump is disqualified from becoming president. Why? Because he’s a liar (the more earnest ones add pathological for extra oomph). Post […]
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The silly season is upon us as November approaches, and the rhetoric from both sides goes from simmer to
boiling. For those of you who still believe that progressives hold the key to righting the ship of state, it appears that train has left the station with
nary a progressive politician onboard. Here’s their message to the faithful.
Read it and weep: “With our support and voice, progressives may persuade and enable President Biden to achieve more progressive policy objectives during his
second term and prevent a fascist takeover.” Wait a minute, wasn’t that his mandate for the first term? As far as the eye can see the Biden foreign policy
gang has managed to destroy Ukraine, is complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and has stirred up a hornet’s nest with its troop deployment within
striking distance of China. At home the situation is equally dire — privatized healthcare making the U.S. the most expensive and least effective healthcare
system in the world, the cost of a college education spiraling out of control ($100,000 annually for some colleges). No surprise then that undergraduate
college enrollment has dropped 8% from 2019 to 2022, with declines even after the pandemic hullabaloo faded. Then there’s 43.2 million students coping with $1.6
trillion of student debt “owed” to a greedy bunch of banks, private equity companies and sadly even their own government. In the richest country in the
world, 38 million Americans are living below the poverty line, the highest overall poverty rate among advanced economies. Adding another notch to their
belt, Americans surpass the rest of the well-to-do world in income inequality. Worse still by early 2023, 14% of U.S. children went to bed hungry. Will a second
Biden administration address these critical problems and many others bedeviling our lives? It seems likely that a second Biden term will only compound the
catastrophic mess of the first —more war, more foreign aid bloopers, littlehelp for the 78% of Americans who are living paycheck to paycheck [Payroll.org].
To find out how bad it really is and how the “party of the people” has left true believers out in the cold, check out Progressives Make Merry While Democrats Set the World on Fire.
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The man whom liberals saw as the second coming seven years ago, a title he abandoned when personal considerations intruded, rightly pointed out “…When half of older Americans have no retirement savings and millions of senior citizens are living in poverty, our job is not to cut Social Security…[but] to expand…[it] so that every senior citizen in America can retire with…dignity…” [Bernie Sanders] Maybe present day retirees will be unscathed by the greed of the richest Americans, but as the empire’s declining economic and social prospects make clear, younger Americans are poised on the edge of a slippery slope as they approach the “golden years”. Already the United States is circling the drain. While social security systems around the globe pay out 57.9% of their workers’ earnings in retirement benefits, the richest country in the world pays out 41%. The elites tell Americans benefit cuts are the only way preserve the system. “Liar, liar pants on fire. The truth is if they paid their fair share including the income that doesn’t get counted, the present Social Security system could last another 75 years. Want to know some of the tricks of the trade elites use to hoodwink the rest? Check out “Social Security: The Little Engine That Couldn’t”.
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When did American leaders’ love affair with Israel start? Once the State of Israel declared its independence in 1948. President Truman recognized it in 11 minutes. Perhaps it won’t surprise you to know that virtually every other president since 1948 has shown the same slavish devotion. What makes Israel so irresistible to U.S. politicians? In a word: money. Not only does it make the world go round, it’s a job creator and preserver for politicians. President Biden is a prime example. He became president on the strength of over $5 million of Israel lobby money since 1990. How do you reward such generosity? If you’re Joe Biden in your 50 years as senator and president, you “shower Israel with unquestioning support, even when its behavior elicits bipartisan outrage.” [Branko Marcetic, Biden biographer]. It’s not just the president who is corrupted by Israeli lobby money. According to a study done by The Guardian in December 2023, Congressional backers of Israel in the war in Gaza received more money from pro-Israel donors than those whose support was considered lukewarm. How has Israel repaid such generosity? In 1982, 241 marines died in a payback attack for US complicity in one of Israel’s murderous rampages in Lebanon. That rampage may be forgotten but the 1967 bombing of an American ship, the Liberty, in broad daylight murdering 34 American should never be. Not only the crime but the coverup. Read all about it in “Why Do I Love Thee, Israel?”
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The U.S. empire is on the horns of a real dilemma. While its wars keep multiplying, its warm bodies to fight them keep dwindling. The Pentagon predicts that in 2024 the U.S. will have its smallest military since WWII. As a matter of fact, 77% of 17 to 24-year-olds couldn’t enlist if they wanted to (and most of them don’t) due to mental or physical health conditions, chiefly drug abuse, or being overweight. It’s even worse than you think. Almost three-quarters of American adults would not join up even if war was imminent. In case that isn’t enough bad news, here’s a real stunner: the results of a Gallup poll in June, 2023 showed confidence in the U.S. armed forces at record lows, with only 60% of American adults expressing either “a great deal” or “quite a lot of” confidence. The military is only .04% of the population and is dwindling yearly. Why aren’t more young Americans drinking the Koolaid and signing up in droves when most branches are offering bonuses up to $50,000. Here’s the answer straight from the horse’s mouth. In a defense department survey, over half of eligible recruits “think they’re going to be physically or emotionally broken after serving,” What they didn’t mention was how badly they will be treated if they do come home with physical or mental disabilities. Waiting months or years to get the financial assistance they were promised and need or having to battle to even get health insurance from an ungrateful America. If you want to know one way to solve this abomination, check out The Empire Stubs Its Toe with a Bad Case of the Enlistment Blues
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The whole world is watching the U.S. provide unconditional support for Israel whether supplying arms, obstructing ceasefire resolutions in the UN or talking tough defending Israel’s slaughter of at the latest count 21,000 innocent Palestinians (40% of them children) and the destruction of their land. This is how U.S. president Biden sees it: “In the wake of Hamas’ terrorist attack —brutal, inhumane—…we will continue to have Israel’s back as you [Israel] work to defend your people. We will continue to work with you…to prevent more tragedy of innocent civilians… Today, tomorrow and always…[Joe Biden after October 7]
The rest of the world doesn’t agree. “The world’s patience with us [the U.S.] and our arrogance and presumption is coming to an end.” [Chas Freeman] In a recent UN vote in the General Assembly for a ceasefire 153 countries (representing 89% of world’s population) voted yes for a cease fire. Just 10 countries (5% of world’s population) voted no. Since the U.S. is 4+% of the world’s population, less than 1% of the world’s people are on the side of the U.S.
At home, the majority of the American people are clamoring for their government to stop their complicity in Israel’s war crimes.
It’s simple really when you think about it. America’s moral leadership of the world has crumbled. The empire is teetering on the precipice of decline having lost the patience and respect of the entire world by its unwavering support of Israel, a nation that has gone mad on its own excesses and is viewed by most of the world as an outlaw state.
Why did U.S. leaders decide to join Israel on the dark side? You’ll find the answer in The Whole World is Watching
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With war criminals growing like weeds in the good old U.S., we fix our gaze on the most prolific Henry Kissinger. Want to remove a democratically elected leader who threatens to upend the privileges of the country’s elites? Henry Kissinger is your boy. As he did in Chile in 1973, where he oversaw a military coup that led to the deaths of Chilean President Salvador Allende and Commander in Chief General Rene Schneider. Or how about his cheerleading the atrocities of the Argentine military junta with these words of encouragement — “if there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly.” Genocide was another one of Henry’s favorite things. And he got plenty of opportunity to hone his craft while he supported genocides in Cambodia, East Timor and Bangladesh. And let’s not forget the civil wars in South Africa, the coups and death squads throughout Latin America. All of them came with Kissinger’s seal of approval. Difficult to imagine but most estimate his murder spree extinguished the lives of three million around the world. To read more of this chronicle of an American official whose depravities have become the play book for US actions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Venezuela and countless other countries who have felt the heavy hand of US militarism, check out “A US War Criminal Bites the Dust”
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Could it be that the Covid pandemic was Act 1 of a get rich quick scheme that defies all odds? While over one million ordinary Americans died, vaccinated or not, nine new vaccine-billionaires were created. 613 million vaccines that Uncle Sam paid (actually overpaid) for went into American arms. What choice did we have? Send our kids to school? They had to be vaccinated. Go to work? We had to be vaccinated. Take a trip on an airplane? Need proof of vaccination. Shop at the grocery store? Make sure you’re vaccinated and oh yes, put on your mask. The vaccine makers promised transparency, but they wanted 75 years to be transparent. The FDA and CDC kept changing the narrative. It all came down to one simple fact —maybe the vaccine won’t keep you from getting Covid but our buddies at big pharma will make out like gangbusters. Three years later and we learn not only that the FDA approved Covid boosters based on the results of a trial that included only 20 mice and 50 humans, but the findings of over sixteen studies, one at the University of Chicago Medical School and another one at the Cleveland Clinic were unanimous: Covid sufferers were no more likely to infect others than those who didn’t have Covid and “individuals who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection are unlikely to benefit from Covid 19 vaccinations.” Make of it what you will, but check it out and decide for yourself in “Scam of the Century”.
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Media reports have become the canary in the coal mine. “US State Department report details damning failings around chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal.” [CNN, June 2023]; “Hawaii Officials Were Warned Years Ago That Maui’s Lahaina Faced High Wildfire Risk.” [Wall Street Journal, August 12, 2023]; “WHAT US TAXPAYERS ARE GETTING FOR THEIR MONEY IN UKRAINE —American taxpayers are financing more than just weapons. We discovered the U.S. government’s buying seeds and fertilizer for Ukrainian farmers… and covering the salaries of Ukraine’s first responders – all 57,000 of them.” [CBS NEWS, 9/24/2023] The drumbeat gets louder, its message harder and harder to ignore. The empire is in a hell of a mess. At home its people are suffering. They are angry, resentful, and discouraged. What happened to the land of the free, the greatest democracy in the world? What has replaced it? The national security state, a paramilitary outfit that calls itself the law enforcement arm of the government. Although all it enforces is a new regime of censorship, a narrow window of acceptable speech, and an emphasis on identity politics. When was the last time you heard the media bring up mounting student debt ($1.8 trillion and rising], the astronomical rise in housing costs (more than half a million Americans experienced homelessness in 2022), childhood poverty (11 million children live in poverty, 14% of them children of color) and other indicators of American decline. Instead war has become the topic du jour. Forget about Vietnam, Korea, Iraq and Afghanistan. This time it will be different. Except it won’t be, will it? It’s a grim read but an important one. In “Adieu Mother Empire” we spell out the perils of living in a declining empire.
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No, President Bush, the rest of the world doesn’t hate us for our freedoms. They hate us because we are an imperial nation committed to stalking other peoples’ lands for the oil and mineral reserves we crave and after a U.S. assisted coup installing a “friendly” tin pot dictator to do our bidding. A succession of presidents Bush, Clinton, Obama and Biden to name the most recent have patted themselves on the back for orchestrating a coup or two. It all works out in the end: the US gets what its elites want and the victims get years of autocratic rule until the dictator pisses off the U.S. and is replaced with another U.S. puppet (Noriega in Panama is a good example). With 800+ military bases around the world and a military industrial complex besotted with the plunder of other country’s resources, the world has become the victim of a capitalist bully determined to bring it under its umbrella. While the U.S. rampages around the world creating death and misery wherever its jackbooted military goes, it persists in thinking that same world is its oyster. How delusional to ignore the evidence in plain sight of the depth of ill will roiling nations who are tired of the U.S. interfering in its business. “Yankee go home.” Not that America doesn’t have a lot of family business to take care of. Our major cities are getting hollowed out — homeless people sleeping under every bridge while the bridges themselves are crumbling, citizens in East Palestine afraid to go back to their polluted homes, the onslaught of crooks from Blackrock and similar vulture firms rushing into Maui to buy ruined homesteads on the cheap, while the USG gives billions to Ukraine and $700 to each Maui resident. If you really want to know why they hate us, check out “Why Do They Hate Us?” and wince.
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