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Conservative Home : Lord Ashcroft: My focus groups in Florida. “Trump's tapped into something really down and dirty in

Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:47:34 +0000

Lord, you've got it right, that a Revolution (you mention Reagan's) CAN be NON-violent --- and only a "Political Revolution"! You should clue-in the NYT (and many of the others in the media): Here’s my comment to the NYT article by Ashley Parker, “Some Trump Voters Warn of Revolution”: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/28/us/politics/don... “The New York Times and Ashley Parker, in this NYT article (and on CNN this morning) are doing a great and dangerous disservice to the American people in ‘ginning-up’ the “dark fear … of violence” that Revolution is inexorably violent. The First (and only successful) American “Political Revolution against EMPIRE” 240 years ago was initially and attempted to stay a NON-violent Revolution in separating from the British Empire for very justifiable, and very carefully articulated, reasons —- as defined in our ‘Declaration of Independence’ from EMPIRE. Just as Bernie Sanders’ well inspired, but weak and incomplete, “Political Revolution” (although missing an ‘object’) —- “against what? Against WTF? Bernie” —- was partially focused on firing a; loud, sustained, public, but peaceful “Shout (not shot) heard around the world”, which “coulda been a contender” if Bernie had completed the non-violent progressive ‘action sentence’ to ignite a Second American “Political Revolution against Empire” —- this time against this Disguised Global Capitalist Empire that has ‘captured’, controls, and merely ‘poses’ as our formerly proud and sometimes progressive ‘experiment in democracy’. I hate to be a Paine, but, “Give me Liberty from Empire, or Give me Death” Thank you, Lord BTW, Lord, --- you're a damn good writer, Alan

http://countercurrents.org/ : Donald Trump And The Collapse Of The Western Empire By Ugo Bardi

Tue, 19 Apr 2016 20:22:39 +0000

Many Americans, if they have any curiosity at all, probably think that any old fashioned societies that collapsed were just stupid. And yet although most would laugh at the Easter Inlanders and think, "how could they be so dumb to waste all their efforts and resources just to build those big statues, when it gained nothing (even for the chiefs) and cost them all to die and their pleasant South Seas civilization to collapse?" After all, modern Americans might say, "what's the value in those old fashioned dumb big statues?" Yes the collapse of Easter Inland was horrific as Jared Diamond notes in his epic work: "The Easter Islanders’ isolation probably also explains why I have found that their collapse, more than the collapse of any other pre-industrial society, haunts my readers and students. The parallels between Easter Island and the whole modern world are chillingly obvious. Thanks to globalization, international trade, jet planes, and the Internet, all countries on Earth today share resources and affect each other, just as did Easter’s dozen clans. Polynesian Easter Island was as isolated in the Pacific Ocean as the Earth is today in space. When the Easter Islanders got into difficulties, there was nowhere to which they could flee, nor to which they could turn for help; nor shall we modern Earthlings have recourse elsewhere if our troubles increase." But the drive for Empire and the emoluments and symbols of Empire-builder power are no less stupid in America and the Disguised Global Capitalist Empire --- HQed in and merely 'posing' as our former country today. The Easter Islander Chiefs' largest statues were at least physical monuments and real things, whereas money today is merely symbolic and the collection of the biggest pile of electronic money today doesn't even really exist ---- and yet we the average people are allowing our entire world to be destroyed just so that the < 0.01% deci-billionaires can collect the most of this electronic mirage which doesn't even exist. So who's stupid now?

http://countercurrents.org/ : Three Years Of Confronting Western Propaganda By Andre Vltchek

Sun, 14 Jun 2015 03:12:12 +0000

To correct and paraphrase the old saying, "The enemy of the Empire oppressing all my brothers must be all of us" Against the minute ruling-elite singularity of sovereignty by this one disguised global Empire we must all reestablish the democratic sovereignty of we the people. The long division of people by Empire equals negative infinity.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : ISIS: An Inside Job?

Wed, 27 May 2015 17:07:53 +0000

While Justin may well be correct when he says, "the Islamic State metastasized in Syria", the far more important and dangerous metastasis happened in the US when, over the last decade our former country 'metastasized' into this current and first truly Disguised Global (crony) Capitalist EMPIRE, which is only 'posing' as, and HQed in, our former democratic Republic. The disease of Republics is the cancer of Empire --- and this one is a massive Global tumor of "Cancer, the Empire of all Maladies" in the final stage/phase of Empire. As Zygmunt Bauman hauntingly puts it, “In the case of an ailing social order, the absence of an adequate diagnosis…is a crucial, perhaps decisive, part of the disease.”13 Berman, Morris (2011-02-07). Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire (p. 22). Norton. Kindle Edition. The spread of uncontrolled Global Capitalism is indeed the Final Phase of Empire. "The U.S. state is a key point of condensation for pressures from dominant groups around the world to resolve problems of global capitalism and to secure the legitimacy of the system overall. In this regard, “U.S.” imperialism refers to the use by transnational elites of the U.S. state apparatus to continue to attempt to expand, defend, and stabilize the global capitalist system. We are witness less to a “U.S.” imperialism per se than to a global capitalist imperialism. We face an EMPIRE of global capital, headquartered, for evident historical reasons, in Washington." [Caps substituted for italics in the original] Robinson, William I. (2014-07-31). Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity (p. 122). Cambridge University Press. Kindle Edition.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : ISIS: An Inside Job?

Wed, 27 May 2015 16:44:07 +0000

The phrase in that Defense Intelligence Agency analysis that Justin quotes as "similar to what transpired in Libya when Benghazi was chosen as the command center for the temporary government” --- instantly made me similarly think that Goebbels might well have said the exact same thing to Hitler in 1940 about the Nazi Empire's captured and "Occupied" France: "Mein Fuhrer, we could disguise our Nazi Empire in France when Vichy was chosen as the command center for the temporary government.” Just sayin --- history does repeat itself, particularly when 'Occupying" Empires try to disguise their 'Empire nature'. But, of course, Secret Agent 008, infamously, but emphatically, said, while bombing civilian women and children in Libya, "We're NOT there for Empire" --- just as the Land Shark in the SNL skit answered when asked, "Who's there?" outside Gilda Radner's apartment door, "It's NOT the Land Shark"

News From Antiwar.com : Obama Demands Congress Renew Patriot Act

Wed, 27 May 2015 16:23:30 +0000

The only way to EFFECTIVELY protest NON-violently is to publicly, loudly, and continually; ''call-out', expose, and educate Americans that the US is acting like an EMPIRE abroad and TYRANNY at home. Signs and protesting needs to be focused on 'shouting-out': "Stop the EMPIRE" "OCCUPY THE EMPIRE" END ELITIST EMPIRE END TYRANNY! Terminate TYRANNY Liberty, democracy, equality, justice Over Violent/Vichy Empire

Information Clearing House - News you won't find on CNN : No Alternatives to US Empire: Bernie Sanders and the 2016 Elections :

Mon, 4 May 2015 10:43:02 +0000

Emanuele is absolutely on-target regarding the Empire. Not only is "Black Culture Not the Problem", but the black community, being the most politically conscious in America, is the leading 'Answer' to the Disguised Global Capitalist/hustler Empire that has been keeping most Americans thinking that they live as 'citizens' in any kind of functional democracy and keeping them deluded, propagandized, and blind to the fact that they are being treated as, and oppressed as, virtual 'subjects' of this not-so-virtual Empire that is only 'posing' as our formerly democratic Republic. Fortunately for us, and unfortunately for the Previously disguised Empire, many other groups are catching on to what the black community understands in its DNA, and experiences all too often under this Empire. Every day, larger groups such as; the poor, the unemployed, the working poor, the slipping middle classes, and the 47% that Romney said the system (of Empire) could ignore ARE fast beginning to see, experience, and understand, like the black community, that they are essentially 'subjects' of an Empire and not citizens of any kind of functional democracy. Empire (including this modern and innovative disguised dual-party Vichy-political facade of an Empire) is on the wrong side of history as more Americans realize this truth.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Hillary the Hawk

Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:49:17 +0000

AS I commented on the NYT article, "Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation on Uranium Deal with Russia": The Clintons are strong believers in what Francis Fukuyama once naively called "free market capitalist democracy" in his pivotal work, "The End of History" --- and they are also strong believers in what Tom Friedman naively promoted as "globalization", and Thomas Barnett not so naively called "The Pentagon's New Map", which more accurately should have been titled "The Global Empire's New Map". However, the Clinton's, although positioned politically to be shakers and movers in the global arena of forging the Disguised Global Capitalist Empire were not able to be among the money 'players' --- but were very possibly the best positioned couple in the world to facilitate, and help disguise the birthing of this Disguised Global Capitalist Empire merely 'posing' as, and HQed in, our former country. Thus, it might be quite accurate, if not polite, to say that Hillary became a grandmother earlier to something more significant, and less cute, than Chelsea's daughter, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky. Liberty, democracy, justice, and equality Over Violent/Vichy Empire, Alan MacDonald Wells, Maine

Antiwar.com Blog : Obama Might Unwittingly Lead U.S. to a Decade of Peace

Wed, 15 Apr 2015 14:02:30 +0000

The Disguised Global Capitalist Empire merely 'posing' as, and HQed in, the US does not depend on its 'comparative advantage' of militarist-sector of hard power for world domination --- but on its financial-sector (and somewhat lesser corporate-sector) of the Disguised Empire to gain and maintain world domination --- which is uniquely accomplished through both its "EXORBITANT PRIVILEGE" [Eichengreen, Barry], and this transnational disguised Empire's leverage of the hidden 'comparative advantage' of being able to quietly make more short-term profits by producing more 'negative externality costs' than the rest of the world, and dumping its 'negative externality costs' on "others" outside the Empire --- which means not only in other former countries, but inside the Vonnegutian 'granfalloon' of the US..

News From Antiwar.com : Obama Raises Stakes in Netanyahu Feud

Sun, 22 Mar 2015 16:00:20 +0000

Netanyahu and Obama are just the political puppet WWF actors in this Empire drama. The nature of that Enduring and Unbreakable Relationship: The enduring and unbreakable relationship between the US and Israel is most accurately described as the relationship between the metropole/HQ of the Disguised Global Capitalist Empire (only 'posing' as Vichy America) and its critically important border-fort of Empire, "Vichy Israel". Of course, adhering to such an enduring relationship is much more dangerous for the 'border-fort' of the DGCEmpire than for the metropole of the Empire.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Netanyahu, the George Wallace of the Middle East

Sun, 22 Mar 2015 15:58:34 +0000

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Why Do American Weapons End Up in Our Enemies' Hands?

Sat, 21 Mar 2015 21:37:53 +0000

This is but one of the 'innovative' plans/programs that are DESIGNED to allow various segments of the Disguised Global Capitalist Empire, such as weapons makers 'Merchants of Death', Wall Street banks, oily coporations, and others to make phony profits by dumping the negative externality costs of death causing weapons, deadly hype debts, and environmental destruction to be 'gamed' with the profit pump of dumping hidden costs and pocketing what look like normal capitalist profits. In fact, the most innovative and creative thinking now in the US HQed Disguised Global Capitalist Empire is to come up with ways to dump negative externality costs on others quietly, so as to launder and make faux-profits strictly by socializing the hidden costs to governments, the general population, and into the environment. The most innovative and creative work is now identifying and focusing on areas that have not already been tapped as negative externality cost dumping schemes.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : Loving America Means Letting It Go to War

Sat, 14 Mar 2015 20:15:26 +0000

Over the entire course of history, essentially no people living in the metropole of an Empire (either knowingly or not) have ever escaped massive financial and bodily suffering when the Empire collapses. Within our memory of the 20th century's two world wars of Empires, the people of the British Empire, the French Empire, the German/Nazi Empire, the Japanese Empire, and finally the Russian/Soviet Empire have all suffered massively whether the Empire in which they suffered as 'subjects' was an overt or covert, a visible or disguised, aggressor Empire. The American people have not yet suffered as 'subjects' and victims of the Disguised Global Capitalist Empire in which they passively live --- but there is precious little time for the people who wrongly think of themselves as 'citizens' of the country previously know as America to break their passivity and organize together in solidarity and love to end this last Empire on earth peacefully.

News From Antiwar.com : Obama Declares Venezuela a 'National Security Threat,' Orders Sanctions

Wed, 11 Mar 2015 02:16:49 +0000

Certainly sounds like he thinks of himself as some kind of Emperor of the World, eh? But in reality Obama is just hired help as a Faux-Emperor/president installed in the nominal HQ of this Disguised Global Capitalist Empire, which is just 'posing' as the country previously known as the US. And Obama was auditioned and pre-selected for this 'role' he is playing because, "Nobody Does it Better" in terms of convincing people that they live as 'citizens' in any kind of functioning democratic Republic, when they are actually mere 'subjects' of the Disguised Global Empire that has them all by the throat. Just listen to the lyrics: "Nobody Does It Better" "Makes us feel sad for the rest" "We weren't looking but somehow he found us" "How'd he learn to do the things he does" Yes, Secret Agent 008 (and 012) is certainly licensed to kill for this Disguised Global Capitalist Empire --- but he's a hired puppet of the Empire not its Emperor. "The U.S. state is a key point of condensation for pressures from dominant groups around the world to resolve problems of global capitalism and to secure the legitimacy of the system overall. In this regard, “U.S.” imperialism refers to the use by transnational elites of the U.S. state apparatus to continue to attempt to expand, defend, and stabilize the global capitalist system. We are witness less to a “U.S.” imperialism per se than to a global capitalist imperialism. We face an EMPIRE of global capital, headquartered, for evident historical reasons, in Washington." [caps added] Robinson, William I. (2014-07-31). Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity (p. 122). Cambridge University Press. Kindle Edition.

News From Antiwar.com : US Strategy in Syria in Tatters With Moderates' Collapse

Fri, 6 Mar 2015 18:21:19 +0000

Jason, I wrote this same comment to Bill Van Auken (WSWS) regarding his similar article on the same insane US Empire war strategy: Yours is an excellent article on the seeming insanity of the US imperialist (qua EMPIRE) war policy in the Middle East and beyond. I continue to be disappointed and confused as to why no honest media sources, like WSWS and Antiwar, do not explain to the American (and global) working-classes that Thomas Barnett's 2004 Naval War College strategy and book, "The Pentagon's New Map" (which could have more honestly been titled, "The Global Empire's New Map") lays out this entire imperialist criminal war plan throughout the whole Middle East across the 5000 mile swath from Mauritania to very boarders of China and Russia (as is now obvious in Ukraine) to capture, control, and "Occupy" all of these 'GAP' countries in the 'crescent of instability' --- as part of this Disguised Global Capitalist Empire's ultimate scheme illegally employing our former country's soft and hard powers. This Empire controlling our former country must be diagnosed, exposed, and excised like the cancer that it is: "The U.S. state is a key point of condensation for pressures from dominant groups around the world to resolve problems of global capitalism and to secure the legitimacy of the system overall. In this regard, “U.S.” imperialism refers to the use by transnational elites of the U.S. state apparatus to continue to attempt to expand, defend, and stabilize the global capitalist system. We are witness less to a “U.S.” imperialism per se than to a global capitalist imperialism. We face an EMPIRE of global capital, headquartered, for evident historical reasons, in Washington." [caps added] Robinson, William I. (2014-07-31). Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity (p. 122). Cambridge University Press. Kindle Edition.

Antiwar.com Blog : Who's the 'Low Life Scum:' Kissinger or CODEPINK?

Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:35:19 +0000

Watching the 'Peace Group' Code Pink peacefully and totally non-violently publicly 'expose', call-out, shame, and confront Henry Kissinger, George Schultz, and many of the other war criminals, Wall Street crooks, murderers, treasonous political shills, and media whores of the Disguised Global Capitalist Empire, this "Empire of Chaos" (as Pepe Escobar calls it), this 'Empire of the Global Elite', and this highly integrated (but well hidden) six-sectored; corporate, financial, militarist, media/propaganda, extra-legal, and dual-party Vichy-political charade of the Global Empire, which has taken-over, 'captured' and now almost fully "Occupies" our former country as its nominal global HQ, more effectively than the earlier Nazi Empire ever dreamed of disguising its 'capture' and "Occupation" of France with the crude Rel 1.0 and only single party Vichy facade of government will NOT be able to hide anywhere on this earth when the Second American Revolution erupts and is even more successful than the first in 'excising' Empire from not only our country, but from the earth ---- for the simple reason that the people will control the paramount powers of the US government and be able to; find them, arrest them, put them on trial, prosecute them for their sociopathic crimes against humanity and our country, imprison them and 'claw-back' all looted wealth they stole from our 'commonwealth', and then celebrate "Democracy coming to the U.S.A." (as Leonard Cohen sings). However, what Code Pink did in the corrupt Congress of this EMPIRE merely 'posing' as our former country, (and a vastly increasing number of aware, courageous, and committed American citizens will overwhelmingly do in the near future) is to NON-VIOLENTLY do to arrogant sociopaths, war criminals, Wall Street looters, corrupt political whores, and bureaucratic 'tools' of the EMPIRE like Kissinger and Schultz will be a more reasoned, non-violent, and a slow-motion version of what the American colonial 'subjects' of the British EMPIRE did to the Red Coats employed by the supposedly divine rights of KING George, and what the suffering peasants did to Tsar Nicholas and the core elite of the Russian EMPIRE --- but without guns (and with truly democratically enforced LAWS of 'the people')!. But unlike what the title of Christopher Lasch's final work, "The Revolt of the Elites" might seem to imply for any who have not read it --- that the Elite might achieve a Revolt against the masses of 'the people' --- Lasch's well reasoned and projective narrative is more realistic than Fukuyama's initial mistake of "The End of History", and instead envisions and correctly describes the true Revolution of human history as a turning away from both the neoconism of the 'R' Vichy party and the neoliberal-con game of the 'D' Vichy party of this same global EMPIRE, and rather evolving peacefully to a social philosophy compatible with great humanist social philosophers and thinkers as diverse as; Adam Smith, Karl Polanyi, Karl Marx, Martin Luther King, Antonio Negri, et al. and away from any bureaucratic and hierarchical structures common to all Empires. Rather the broad and inclusive blending of progressive populism (and “Popular Resistance”) that started to take hold in our country, more than a century ago, against the elitist era of 'Imperialism' (and EMPIRE), which the Empire initially submerged, suppressed, and expunged from the real American History by enforcing public school history texts which claimed in chapter titles (and teaching guidelines) that “The Age of Imperialism”, supposedly ended by WWI. People as diverse as; General Smedley Butler, FDR, Howard Zinn, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Wallace, MLK, Gore Vidal, Michael Hardt, Hannah Arendt, et al. knew that the supposed end of the “Age of Imperialism” in history books was perhaps the biggest lie in our real history, and perhaps world history --- but most of the honest and average American public had no idea of this, until now! And, NOW, they, 'the people' of America are learning this truth and are starting to throw open their collective 'blacked-out windows' and shout, “we're not going to take it anymore” from this damn disguised EMPIRE. Yes, this building and soon coming tsunami of progressive populist Revolution of 'the people' of the earth against the all-too-continuing “Age of Disguised Global Capitalist (and Elitist) Empire” is gathering strength and will finally, and non-violently, crush this last form of deceitful EMPIRE on OUR earth. [As another Code Pink supporter just reminded me in her reply to my comment here, "we only need to 'speak' (not fight) truth to power" against this damn disguised EMPIRE. And she is right, speaking 'truth to power' against a Global Elite Capitalist Empire which thinks its Disguise is solid will kill it merely by 'exposing' the truth that the Empire exists and that it is the proximate CAUSE of all our other subordinate 'symptom problems']

Antiwar.com Original Articles : US Foreign Policy Goes Retro

Fri, 30 Jan 2015 04:12:28 +0000

In this way EMPIRE is identified as the deadly glue that sticking us with all these problems, crimes, injustices, offenses, and oppressions that has hand-cuffed us to a world that we are all in solidarity committed to change in a peoples' rRevolution against the common global empire. Then (and only then) might we Americans have a chance of igniting a successful Second American Revolution against EMPIRE --- which was so clearly, compellingly, simply, and obviously understood by our fore-fathers far more than it is by Americans today: Perhaps 2015 will be the start of a new "Revolutionary Summer" in America? "The British ministry and the Continental Congress were, in fact, looking at the crisis from different ends of the same telescope in ways that accurately reflected their contrasting political assumptions. The British approach was decisively imperial, top down from George III, through Lord Germain, to all those converging ships and men. The American approach was decidedly republican, bottom up, dependent upon broad-based popular consent from that enigmatic entity called “the people.” To repeat, nothing so sweepingly democratic had ever been attempted before, for the quite sound reason that a poll of the people was almost assured to produce a muffled or divided response or, worse, a chaotic cacophony. What seems most historically significant, at least in retrospect, is how true each side was to the core values it claimed to be fighting for. It was the coercive power of an EMPIRE against the consensual potency of a fledgling (democratic) republic. History seldom provides pure embodiments of such contrasting political alternatives, but in the summer of 1776 they were both on display" [caps added] Ellis, Joseph J. (2013-06-04). Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence (pp. 49-50). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Antiwar.com Original Articles : US Foreign Policy Goes Retro

Fri, 30 Jan 2015 04:11:33 +0000

Regarding Foreign Policy: Unfortunately, Pepe Escobar [in this attached article at RT, http://rt.com/op-edge/226719-empire-saudi-usa-kin... ] is several steps ahead of even the most aware and so-called progressive/socialist 'alternative' US web-sites and public intellectuals in diagnosing, deeply understanding, and trying to 'expose' and educate people to the Disguised Global Capitalist EMPIRE, this "Empire of Chaos", this 'Empire of the global Elite', and this highly integrated (but well camouflaged) six-sectored; corporate, financial, militarist, media/propaganda, extra-legal, and dual-party Vichy-political charade of Global Empire, which has taken-over, 'captured', and now nearly fully "Occupies" our former country as its nominal global HQ --- and which Global Empire employs the use and abuse of the uniquely super-power status of the "U.S. state apparatus" (soft and hard powers) for the exclusive interests of their (not our) EMPIRE: "The U.S. state is a key point of condensation for pressures from dominant groups around the world to resolve problems of global capitalism and to secure the legitimacy of the system overall. In this regard, "U.S." imperialism refers to the use by transnational elites of the U.S. state apparatus to continue to attempt to expand, defend, and stabilize the global capitalist system. We are witness less to a "U.S." imperialism per se than to a global capitalist imperialism. We face an EMPIRE of global capital, headquartered, for evident historical reasons, in Washington." [caps added] Robinson, William I. (2014-07-31). Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity (p. 122). Cambridge University Press. Kindle Edition. Wake-the-**ck-up folks. The Second American (successful) Revolution against EMPIRE will never start until at least 3% of you understand this, and start publicly 'exposing' and 'calling-out' this empire as an EMPIRE. If only 3% of the American 'subjects' of this disguised EMPIRE, knew that they are 'subjects' (and not citizens) under the boot of this Disguised Global Capitalist EMPIRE then we would be getting somewhere with the necessary Second American Revolution (against EMPIRE) instead of just flapping their mouths, writing powerless comment complaints, and protesting about the HUNDREDS of subordinate 'symptom problems' like; expanding wars, vast income inequality, Wall Street looting, domestic spying, environmental destruction, .... all the way down to marriage equality and pot legalization ---- all of which 'divisive and distractive' subordinate 'symptom problems' in our overall "ailing social order' are CAUSED by the EXACTLY same cancerous causal tumor of PRECISELY ONE SINGULAR disease; EMPIRE. American enslaved and media/propaganda-deluded people have to understand that they are mere 'subjects' and manipulated peons of an EMPIRE --- and they need to understand that as Job #1 ---- or this will really be the "Final Phase of EMPIRE". As Zygmunt Bauman hauntingly puts it, "In the case of an ailing social order, the absence of an adequate diagnosis"is a crucial, perhaps decisive, part of the disease."13 Berman, Morris (2011-02-07). Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire (p. 22). Norton. Kindle Edition. IF the DOZENS of supposedly left progressive anti-war, environmental, human rights, justice, and other 'identity issue' web sites instead of 'dividing' and 'dissipating' their influence across HUNDREDS of different little subordinate 'identity issues' and subordinate 'symptom problems', were to focus every article on 'exposing' and 'attacking' EMPIRE for 'causing' the wars, and 'causing' the massive income inequality, and 'causing' the destruction of our environment, and 'causing' Yemen women and children to be killed by drones, and 'causing' the domestic spying on all Americans, and …........ 'causing' all of these deadly and oppressing crimes of EMPIRE, would instead tie together all these 'symptom promblems' to the underLYING disease of the damn deadly disguised global capitalist empire, THEN each of the many 'symptom problems' could be addressed by people who are attuned to each specific issue --- and yet the common thread of understanding that an Empire is the sick structure which is the common causal problem that needs to be understood and confronted.

News From Antiwar.com : Chaos in Sanaa May Be South Yemen's Chance to Secede

Tue, 27 Jan 2015 01:34:02 +0000

Washington, that's a fantastically revealing quote form Ron Suskind's book --- only rivaled by Mittens 'Private Equity Pirate' Romney's secretly recorded campaign promise to, "not give a shit about 47% of Americans". I'm thinking that I could make a bundle with "Fuck the 47% says Romney" bumper stickers for the 2016 campaign. Does this fucking elitist dolt not realize that if he has the arrogance to run in 2016 that things like such a bumper sticker will continually drag his sorry arse through the streets??

News From Antiwar.com : Chaos in Sanaa May Be South Yemen's Chance to Secede

Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:42:12 +0000

Yes, John, you are precisely correct --- that so-called democracy as it exists today in what many still call 'our country' is not only a "smokescreen", as you say, but a smokescreen, disguise, camouflage, mask, etc. of this Disguised Global Capitalist EMPIRE, which has 'captured' and now almost fully "Occupies" our former country as its nominal HQ of many other aligned former countries mistakenly called democracies, and of the multitude of transnational organizations and corporations that together constitute the cancer of global Empire: "The U.S. state is a key point of condensation for pressures from dominant groups around the world to resolve problems of global capitalism and to secure the legitimacy of the system overall. In this regard, “U.S.” imperialism refers to the use by transnational elites of the U.S. state apparatus to continue to attempt to expand, defend, and stabilize the global capitalist system. We are witness less to a “U.S.” imperialism per se than to a global capitalist imperialism. We face an EMPIRE of global capital, headquartered, for evident historical reasons, in Washington." [caps added] Robinson, William I. (2014-07-31). Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity (p. 122). Cambridge University Press. Kindle Edition.