I understand all you have said, David. It is the system in the USA that creates these monsters from the likes of Johnson onwards. All warmongers extraordinary and it is they who have created the standard climate we have just seen in this circus election and for all Presidential candidates since 1963.
However, once upon a time, you didn't have Israelis with their heavy bankrolling of candidates, 86% that bow to the Star of David or Bibi, your choice. That's the disgrace.
If you are familiar with Australia as well, both candidates now the image of the other. Graft soon to be a standard component as in the USA and with a one-sided grovelling relationship to the likes of Trump. Save us.
Two party politics is the danger.......everywhere.
Have you ever seen a more ridiculous way to determine a government than the current system where through PACS and graft centres like AIPAC and straight out open publicly aware bribery, a country of 330 million can end up two people running for office, allowing those two people to populate their senior ranks with militarists, warmongers, often criminally minded advisers for 48 months and who can, as a result, make that country into a hated state. The USA has dome it. No improvement since JFK, Lyndon Johnson setting the standard.
They also allow dual citizenship, promote wars and hegemonic pursuits and 329,999,999 people go on with life for 4 more years while he can do almost anything imaginable, as is the case today.
The USA today, owned lock, stock and barrel by a foreign, hated , stolen state of 9 million people.
So much for the US Constitution, once a lauded document, rightly so. But no more. Just two examples......freedom of speech, a joke in some states; freedom of choice for women, varying from state to state and with the current President bashing the idea to death one day and sitting on the fence the next.
Mostly I'm with you, except for the suggestion that what's wrong with US foreign policy is that Israel has too much of a voice. That's only because their interests coincide with the imperial interests. The deep state that rules the foreign policy of the US--of which the military industrial complex is a key member, and the CIA likely sits at the top--commits plenty of crimes all over the world without the instigation of Israel...and it neither answers to the will of the US people, whose opinions are irrelevant, nor are our needs considered. A great deal of effort is invested in manipulating our opinion, so that we don't find a way to rise up and throw them all out. But as long as we aren't united, what we think does not matter.
Imperial interests may be served (if inconsistently) by our bolstering of the state of Israel, but this support also does the U.S. incalculable harm. The severe beatdown we'll get if we try to attack Iran at Israel's behest will exponentially speed up the death of this empire. I would welcome it if so many people were not expected to fall victim to the ensuing conflagration. Lockheed Martin and Raytheon will make out like bandits--pretty much the whole point in the minds of Congress and other constituents of the death machine--but a broken world chaotic beyond repair will make life difficult even for the oligarchs of a warmongering empire. Empires have usually understood that they could not afford for unlimited hatred of them to flourish, which is why so many tolerated the diversity of their conquered lands. As with many other lessons, this is one the U.S. has failed to learn, so it pays for a genocide with nary a thought to the inevitable blowback.
Some ideas and examples of what can be done in individual states: Oregon health authority suspended covid vaccines; North Dakota banking system, state owned, state run banking system helps its people survive climate disasters. Their banks are doing very well. Let the revolution begin!
Some ideas and examples of what can be done in individual states: Oregon health authority suspended covid vaccines; North Dakota banking system, state owned, state run banking system helps its people survive climate disasters. Their banks are doing very well. Let the revolution begin!
I understand all you have said, David. It is the system in the USA that creates these monsters from the likes of Johnson onwards. All warmongers extraordinary and it is they who have created the standard climate we have just seen in this circus election and for all Presidential candidates since 1963.
However, once upon a time, you didn't have Israelis with their heavy bankrolling of candidates, 86% that bow to the Star of David or Bibi, your choice. That's the disgrace.
If you are familiar with Australia as well, both candidates now the image of the other. Graft soon to be a standard component as in the USA and with a one-sided grovelling relationship to the likes of Trump. Save us.
Two party politics is the danger.......everywhere.
Have you ever seen a more ridiculous way to determine a government than the current system where through PACS and graft centres like AIPAC and straight out open publicly aware bribery, a country of 330 million can end up two people running for office, allowing those two people to populate their senior ranks with militarists, warmongers, often criminally minded advisers for 48 months and who can, as a result, make that country into a hated state. The USA has dome it. No improvement since JFK, Lyndon Johnson setting the standard.
They also allow dual citizenship, promote wars and hegemonic pursuits and 329,999,999 people go on with life for 4 more years while he can do almost anything imaginable, as is the case today.
The USA today, owned lock, stock and barrel by a foreign, hated , stolen state of 9 million people.
So much for the US Constitution, once a lauded document, rightly so. But no more. Just two examples......freedom of speech, a joke in some states; freedom of choice for women, varying from state to state and with the current President bashing the idea to death one day and sitting on the fence the next.
Where did you find someone like him?
Mostly I'm with you, except for the suggestion that what's wrong with US foreign policy is that Israel has too much of a voice. That's only because their interests coincide with the imperial interests. The deep state that rules the foreign policy of the US--of which the military industrial complex is a key member, and the CIA likely sits at the top--commits plenty of crimes all over the world without the instigation of Israel...and it neither answers to the will of the US people, whose opinions are irrelevant, nor are our needs considered. A great deal of effort is invested in manipulating our opinion, so that we don't find a way to rise up and throw them all out. But as long as we aren't united, what we think does not matter.
Imperial interests may be served (if inconsistently) by our bolstering of the state of Israel, but this support also does the U.S. incalculable harm. The severe beatdown we'll get if we try to attack Iran at Israel's behest will exponentially speed up the death of this empire. I would welcome it if so many people were not expected to fall victim to the ensuing conflagration. Lockheed Martin and Raytheon will make out like bandits--pretty much the whole point in the minds of Congress and other constituents of the death machine--but a broken world chaotic beyond repair will make life difficult even for the oligarchs of a warmongering empire. Empires have usually understood that they could not afford for unlimited hatred of them to flourish, which is why so many tolerated the diversity of their conquered lands. As with many other lessons, this is one the U.S. has failed to learn, so it pays for a genocide with nary a thought to the inevitable blowback.
Some ideas and examples of what can be done in individual states: Oregon health authority suspended covid vaccines; North Dakota banking system, state owned, state run banking system helps its people survive climate disasters. Their banks are doing very well. Let the revolution begin!
Some ideas and examples of what can be done in individual states: Oregon health authority suspended covid vaccines; North Dakota banking system, state owned, state run banking system helps its people survive climate disasters. Their banks are doing very well. Let the revolution begin!