Listen to a reading of this article: The western political/media class has suddenly resurrected the phrase "Axis of Evil" in recent days to refer to the increasing intimacy between Russia and China, just in time for the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
I agree-- the real "axis" is the incestuous relationship of the DNP, GOP, and MSM in this country where words matter little and acronyms mean everything. Sadly, the fault lies with the public who are complicit. But now, China and Russia are teaming up, offering the world a democratic rather than hegemonic order. So, the US is running scared. Hence, the rhetoric which recalls WWII propaganda.
As I write in my article, "Tomorrow's War Today". Russia and China are fighting tomrrow's war. The US, yesterday's war.
"A year before he died, Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote:
"Potentially, the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran, an 'antihegemonic' coalition united not by ideology but by complementary grievances."
Julian, thanks for the link. Nice to see someone digging into reality. Most seem clueless to just how complicit they are to the dangerous aggression of the USA, and this complicity extends to those allies who continue to genuflect to our moronic leaders even as they hurt their own citizens in the process.
From a distance of time, it is starting to look to me like US/Germany/Japan was the original "axis of evil" (axes?) and now they just have more lackeys and are more open about it. The Nazis were, and are, warmly embraced by the US and the UK, not Russia or China.
American capitalists funded German fascists until we were forced into the war. As soon as it ended, we brought lots of Nazis into the fold & Japan became our dear friend and trading partner. The long game was always about defeating communism because it scares the hell out of the super rich, who are the real "axis of evil."
After WW II the US moved German Nazis to the US to launch the NASA project.
Since 2014, the US is using Bandera (NAZI) followers in UkroNazistan to kill ethnic Russians, Polish, Hungarians and Romanians.
The US and UK created ISIS out of thin air to take over West Asia.
Zbigniew Brzezinski created Al-Quaeda out of thin air in 1980 when he was adviser of Jimmy Carter (1976-1980) because he wanted to destroy the USSR. Bin Laden was sent to Afghanistan to fight with the Mujahedins (aka Taliban today!!).
In fact, Bin Laden was still in contact with the CIA until July 2001 - the last time he met with them in Dubai. That's why when they said that he was responsible for 9/11 I just laughed because I knew he was scapegoated with a false flag attack that had been planned under Clinton. Bush just happened to be the president in 2001.
On September 12, 2001, a plane left Reagan Airport carrying ‘the Bin Laden family’ to safety; the plane landed at Tel Aviv Airport and 80 Israelis disembarked.
The list of right wing dictators the US has backed is indeed a very long one. Part of the forgotten history of our wars in Korea and Vietnam is that we were backing right wing military dictators, not democracies. Same re: Taiwan and numerous other instances around the globe.
Hey, please don't leave Australia out of the 'Axis of Evil' groupings. We have one too.
Caitlin wrote.......
'On Tuesday former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told Fox News that Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are "two dictators that have said they are unlimited partners," asserting that "This is the new Axis of Evil, with Iran being their junior partner."
With the new and deadly and frightening and costly white / western nuclear submarine arrangement called AUKUS (Australia, UK and the US) we have our very own "Axis of Evil" too, with little downunder Australia being the "junior partner", as above. There must always be a “junior partner"
Why?
The US needs the northern parts of Australia to be the target for whoever it is we are spending 360 billion dollars on to fight, yet again under US direction. Not the land on mainland USA,..........no sir, but mainland Australia.
He's a clever and devious President that fellow Biden.
'No bombs on our land, thanks very much, says Biden. These Aussies are so thick, let's use Australian land. If it's the football season they won't even notice. The fact that they surprisingly even signed this one-sided agreement (all for USA's benefit) clearly shows that they aren't too bright.'
AUKUS 😂 yep 👍🏼 Albo is the USA’s Aussie puppet this term in office.
If here’s a change of government next election ... Dutton will dutifully follow suit.
I believe Chinese officials are intelligent and wise and would do well to maintain a positive open dialogue with our government.
It’s in both our countries interest.
We must be prudent and not drawn into the negative narrative the US continues to preach to the world about China.
On another topic related to self-determination and leadership, Albanese hasn’t shown the courage to negotiate his fellow Australian Julian Assange release. Therefore I have no faith in anything he proposes.
I would like to think that a country like China sees a long term benefit in being patient and in maintaining a dialogue with whoever is sitting in Canberra.
Oh, I had assigned Australia to "lackey" status! Actually, it is pretty obvious that the US considers all the rest of the world as its lackeys. Including its own people. We are set against each other using the never-ending "campaign" season. And other divisive "issues". Never-ending hate and fear of whatever the other happens to be each week. Trump! DeSantis! Drag queens! Socialists! Meanwhile, those poisoned folks in Ohio are not regarded any differently than the dead and injured in any other country are. They will merely be campaign fodder, like everything else here in the US.
Only a well informed populace can stop it. You, Caitlin are showing us what we're up against. I'm not reading/listening to MS or social media, so hearing from you and the Duran about the insane propaganda spewed daily by the collective west and absorbed without question by our virtuous citizen/consumers keeps me on my toes, and speaking to others (when possible)
This you should read /listen to understand what "axis of evil " is about.
Right from the start of the summit, the speeches by both Xi and Putin drove the NATO crowd into a hysterical frenzy of anger and envy: Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova perfectly captured the mood when she remarked that the west was “foaming at the mouth.”
We are a deeply stupid society. Our grandparents would be ashamed of us. It seems to me that the left has become particularly pernicious. I always thought lefties were people who engaged in fantasy, but now they have become Realpolitik warmongers. I like the older version better.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz personified Hillary's DNC™ LLC during Matt Taibbi's inquisition, daring to defend the US' 1st Amendment, free press, actually journalism, whistleblowers & government regulators trying to do their jobs. One sequence, more like Roland Freisler's Volksgerichtshof than 40's McCarthyism will defeat ANY Democrat, ever to run; obviously the woman who'd INSTALLED Trump in 2016 & her DMFI/ UDP Super PAC crushing every GREAT Black, female REAL Democrat candidate (mostly, in blue collar Marcellus districts?) is just a coincidence, as Democrats enforce FAR WORSE neoConfederate Jim Crow, catastrophe capitalism feeding frenzy legislation on us ALL.
No, power attracts sociopaths the way catnip attracts cats.
Give any institution or movement power, and even in the leadership is not (yet) sociopathic, they will be soon, or they will be quickly replaced by others who will do whatever it takes to get and hang onto power.
And THIS is why I wouldn't trust China. Its leadership is certainly behaving MUCH better than that of the US now--but if it gets to where the US is a real, defeated hasbeen, and China the undisputed world leader, it may start imposing a different kind of deal on the Third World.
They are not the “third world” - that is itself the broken mindset and worldview of the capitalist colonial countries.
It’s 2022 and people had better start understanding that there are 7-8 billion people on the planet, lots of different ways of life, lots of different ideas about how societies and economies should be run. Everyone has agency. They are not supposed to be slaves to the US. And it’s bizarre to assume that they dont know their own self interest and the must be slaves or patsies to China.
China is a very large, fast ageing middle income country with very little power to protect any kind of force abroad. Their foreign policy is not about colonising other continents - its about finding win-wins. That mentality is what frightens the north atlantic colonial alliance, which is all zero-sum.
Actually it's 2023 and there are 8 billion people--whether "everyone has agency" is a question. Doesn't seem like it. Sure, at the moment China is behaving in a friendly, win/win fashion. I just wouldn't count on that continuing if over the next couple of decades, the US slips down into a weak hasbeen and China becomes ascendant. Power corrupts. China has been an imperial power before--I don't believe different peoples have different personality types--different cultures, yes. In any case, the people have little to do with it. It isn't because of demands of the US people that the US acts like a belligerent tyrant globally, though we are relentlessly propagandized so we will keep quiet about it.
Rather than look askance at China's tame international behavior, why not look at how your country used to be democratic, and has been hijacked by those adept at growing money. Imagine the worst that a Chinese empire would entail. That is what your country is today for most people on the Planet.
Exactly. It's quite telling that the people expressing "I wouldn't want to live under China" usually live in the US or one of its lapdogs that does shit to others, not to themselves.
The "power corrupts" axiom would be at play in that scenario as well, and the world would have to deal with it if it developed, which, as Feral Finster stated, is less likely than what is now occurring with the unhinged manic U.S. foreign policy.
Mary—this is “what-aboutism” in its worst form—you're blaming another country for doing what we have done when they haven’t even done it yet!!! And your acting like your omniscience is so powerful that you can see into the future and therefore warn us all that we are wrong because you say so. Get a grip.
That’s why China is advocating a multipolar world. Where power is shared and my welfare is dependent on your welfare, I’m more apt to exercise any power I have to the benefit of both. Its a pretty good solution to the patriarchal obsession with dominating EVERYTHING. The Chinese have had several thousand more years of patriarchal rule than we—the US—have and they have learned a few things. The US is still enamored with patriarchy—especially the women!!!! —- and demand a unipolar world where only WE get to exercise power. Moreover, the Third World, because of China and Russia, are more able to resist American dominance and grow strong in their own right. Hence, Lula in Brazil, and BRICS and Venezuela still on its feet and still in possession of its oil! All of these things make for shared power and therefore a diplomatic approach to Foreign policy, not the gunboat diplomacy that the US has been practicing since Teddy as its built its Super power, unipolar imperialistic nastiness.
I agree with all this except--especially the women? Are you talking about the likes of Hilary Clinton, Samantha Powers, Condaleeza Rice, etc.? They are hardly typical. You can point to the Obamas and Clarence Thomas and a few others to say black Americans are terrible too but the fact that the powerful can find some women, some blacks, some browns, to defend their ugly system doesn't make those people representative. Although we don't have the gender gap on issues of warfare that we used to.
They actually cared about the American populace up until Ralph Nader left. He said it himself in so many words, that they had become the very thing they had been fighting against. I saw what they did to him and the darkness closed in on us all as they openly violated his constitutional rights and therefore ours!
Yes! I was supporting his presidential candidacy. Are you referring to when he was thrown out of the audience (with a ticket) to watch the debates? The same was done to Jill Stein years later. Great show of Democracy, eh?
Exactly! I at the time did not know he was running for the presidency until I saw a video stream of his attempts to be involved in the presidential debates. They used the State Troopers of Maryland as a security for a private company (whatever national network was hosting it at the time) which is a direct violation of the states own constitution! This shows how effective their subversion is because I admire Ralph Nader and had I known he was running I certainly would have voted for him.
Oh and by the way they tied him up in court for years trying to just bleed him out financially. And Jill Stein was handcuffed in a basement for 8 hours! They (Republicans and Democrats) are making her pay back over 100000 dollars for campaign funding which is meant for a third party or fourth party etc. which how is this controlled by any party! They are as corrupt a group of criminals as you can ever find!
That's a really good point. I'm of the generation that saw the Bernie option get crushed and kicked to the side, got to remember the same thing happened to Nader just a few years before. The Left option in the USA has an odd tendency to get sidelined, cheated, jailed, or assassinated.
The history of trade unionism is a great example of how the left was coopted, nipped in the bud. Samuel Gompers founded the AFL (American Federation of Labor), and he was, at once, opposed to wage slavery, and anti-communist. He supported America’s wars and fought against peace protestors. In the 2016 Primaries, my local (IBEW) endorsed Hillary Clinton! When labor unions are in lockstep with oligarchy and tyranny of the wealthy, you know democracy is dead.
Bernie getting cheated and treated by the MSM as a pariah during the 2016 and 2020 primaries are what did it for me. But getting more acquainted with history has shown me this is par for the course. MLK's assassination. JFK/RFK's assassination. McGovern getting sidelined. Henry Wallace getting sidelined. Eugene Debbs getting put in prison. The People's Party/Populist Party getting crushed back in the 1890's. The violence, blacklisting and McCarthyism against the labor movement. Unless we get REALLY well organized, they're going to keep doing this.
Do you think we were smart before? When was humanity ever smart? We are, were, will always be apes than can be influenced by sound and color to commit mass murder in the name of and invisible person.
All of the sounds and colors come at us in a rapid pace creating anger, frustration, outrage at other groups of apes. Our previous generations were enormously stupid allowing industry and governments to hurt everyone. Our health care system is owned by Frankenstein monsters experimenting with us. We are now on the verge of completely annihilating ourselves with nuclear bombs. We were there before and we are here again.
Sorry, we have never been the smartest species at any time on this planet.
I am beginning to think aliens invented all of these toys, gave them to us and we are one big experiment that they watch laughing their asses off.
I'm a little more optimistic. We are clever but not always able to act in our collective long term interest. We've always been violent but the modern notion of ethnic cleansing and genocide is indeed modern. Coming into being with the advent of monotheism and larger competitive tribalism. What evidence we have of more primitive peoples does indicate some violence, but the kind of systematic kill by category I think anthropologists will argue is a much later development. The kind of warfare observed among less developed peoples when the West colonizers came into contact was let's say a very different kind of warfare. It would not have occurred to Native American tribes or many other primitive peoples to surround an enemy village, starve them into submission, napalm bomb them, and then kill or enslave the whole population. Genocidal settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing is a much more modern phenomenon.
There are specific instances in history of genocide, as far back as cro magnon man. Ghengis Khan was certainly a genocidal maniac. Tribes and societies have been attacked and wiped out forever. We just seem more efficient.
We live in a very thin veneer of civilization. A long winter power outage will certainly prove what kind of society we have. I say within a month or sooner people in large cities will be killing each other for food and within a year as food.
Western society is so messed up we will be lucky to last a year of gard times. The French are burning their country to the ground over a 2 year pension reform.
I dont say that it is unjust the government but it is now more and more people who are more violent.
This may sound controversial. But were Ghengis Khan and the Mongols really 'genocidal'? I've listened to the hardcore history series on the Mongols. I think they were really just extremely brutal conquerors and pillagers, not genocidal. To be genocidal, you need an ethnic cleansing program in your ideology. From what I understand, the Mongols would give cities the opportunity to surrender. And if the city surrendered, they'd get sacked, but people would live. Unlike if they didn't surrender, then they'd all get killed. This is not genocidal behavior. Genocidal is when you plan to kill them all regardless and resettle the land (see US treatment of Native Americans, Nazi plan for the East). Remember too that the Mongols ruled China for quite a while. Did they engage in murderous ethnic cleansing of the whole Chinese population when they ruled China? No. They did not. This is much like Ceasars conquest of Gaul. Very bloody, but no plan to entirely remove the Gaul population. Bloody conquest is very different from a racial or ethnic cleansing plan to kill them ALL and repopulate their land with exclusively OUR people. And it is absolutely not something every human tribe has ever done. Many or most tribes in human history could never even conceive of such an act. Here in the US though (and a few other countries), we like to convince ourselves that genocide is some kind of universal human attribute, when it absolutely is not.
Maybe you missed the part where they conquered a city, went back a couple of days later and completely wiped them out. Seems genocidal to me. In that same series, the attack on Baghdad was particularly ferocious, where the destroyed historical libraries, art and cultural centers. Set humanity back a few hundred years scientifically. Created the Nomadic cultures of the middle east drove societies into the hills of Afghanistan where they remain today.
And when the Mongols ruled China, did they have a genocidal settler colonial program? They ruled China for a decent amount of time. All I am saying is - brutal pillage is very different from a genocidal program.
Thing is, here the good ole U.S. of A, my grand parents would have loved this warmongering. My grand parents AND parents were the generation “that won the War”. And boy howdy did they think their shit don’t stink. War is in the blood of imperialists and in ‘Merica, everyone is an imperialist, even tho they don’t think so. It’s our lifestyle and we’re taught from jump that it is patriotic instead of idiotic. I’m guessing that in the English “empire” the same pertains. The apple don’t fall far from the tree.
What lefties are you talking about? Even FDR wasn't really a lefty. He was forced left by militant left grassroots labor and unique circumstances of his time. No lefties have ever actually held national level power in the US.
I prefer Huey P. Long, who was a pacifist who was in favor of a wealth tax and an income cap, and who delivered concrete material benefits to working class people, all in the face of an entrenched political opposition that did not hesitate to use bribery, blackmail and when necessary, outright violence to achieve its goals.
Also, Long was never endorsed by the KKK, which in the Louisiana of that time was like fighting a war without the Pentagon. When KKK Imperial Wizard Hiram Evans announced plans to campaign against Long in 1934, Long declared "that Imperial bastard will never set foot in Louisiana," threatening that Evans would leave the state with "his toes turned up." "And when I call him [some KKK leader] as a 'son of a bitch' I am not using profanity, but I am referring to the circumstances of his birth!"
Exactly. But he was facing down his class which was incredibly powerful with the Robber Barons at the end of the last Century. He took them to the woodshed as much as he could, especially since he had a corrupt Supreme Court which struck down much of his program. When he tried to reform the Supremes, he was accused of “packing the court” and the people resisted. I personally think he did an amazing job of building a coalition to overcome the power of the oligarchs then, but we let it go under Clinton and never even knew that our selfish, sanctimonious, comfortable existence lead us to act like the upper classes we are here blaming for all our woes, and pursue policies that tore apart the FDR coalition because it put more money in our pockets. We have met the enemy and it is us. Now what are we going to do? I listen to the kids and support the unions!!!
Nonsense? I 100% agree that the Dems are realpolitik warmongers. But Left? Nothing about the democrats has had a whiff of Left policies for over 50 years. Don't fall for their 'woke' signaling. This is the Party that signed NAFTA, the 1994 crime bill, the repeal of Glass-Steagall, gave us a private corporate health care plan, and when given the reigns of power keeps giving the surveillance state, the cops, and the military more and more money.
While this is very true there have been the few that did the right thing such as Ralph Nader. As a prime example we would not have seatbelts in cars as he had an all out battle with the automotive industry over that.
Dear USA. YOU ARE LITERALLY SUPPORTING, FINANCING, ARMING ACTUAL NAZIS, SO JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP.
PS. The sooner your empire crumbles, the better it will be for all those who don't want their countries bombed back into the Stone Age, in the name of your type of democracy.
I agree with you, but I don’t think shutting the fuck up works. It’s screaming out in rage that can actually change things. But I agree that we should not expect to be able to dictate solutions to other countries or to pick apart other strong and successful countries in the mistaken idea that WE have a foreign policy position that needs to be heard. What’s that old song? “He can’t run his own life, I’ll be damn if he’ll run mine!”? I believe we need to and are turning the spotlight towards our own failures and irresponsibilities as citizens in an effort to see our way through to a solution. We have no business checking other countries. Unless they are Canada—our felator of great enthusiasm.
I am actually surprised by how many people are aware of the amount of corruption in the government like this idiot displayed here. I don't have social media accounts and avoid them as they are an invasive virus that consumes all your data so for the first time I clicked your link to the spewing of crazy talk by this nut job and found almost all the people in the comments section were wide awake and know what they are hearing is pure bullshit! This really gives me some hope. I think your getting through to far more people then just show up here so keep going girl!
Has congress, which is supposed to take care of improving the lives of the American people that vote them in directly, ever taken a self assessment of what they are doing?
It’s insane that they keep going around looking for other countries to destroy them, ignoring their failings at home. And insane that their own electorate allows this endless diversion and does not in any way hold them to account for conducting a sham exercise in what is an utterly failed democracy:
I love how you can see everybody who is on the list, the moment a new narrative hook is rolled out. These $&@#'s must actually receive a shotgun email. The globohomo mailing list. Eventually they'll correct this... its too damn obvious. For now though, it's a hilarious part of the Big Clown Show.
Any country that opposes--however slightly--the Anglo-American Evil Empire is ... evil.
This is the Anglo American worldview.
It could be Iraq, Iran, North Korea.
Or now China, Russia, Iran.
Or even Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua.
It makes no difference.
What Americans and their war criminal allies like Australia, UK, Canada, Europe, etc. cannot stand to admit is that they are the true Axis of Evil, as their nations have been waging serial wars of aggression for decades--wars that are all founded on deceptions like Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, humanitarian intervention, or a fake War against Terrorism.
This Anglo American Axis, for instance, has either bombed or invaded nations like Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, and other nations since the end of the First Cold War--slaughtering nearly a million people as a consequence.
Yet, the Anglo Americans possess the arrogance to promote themselves as defenders of freedom or democracy no less.
For all their vilification of Official Enemy states, what the Anglo Americans and their axis allies truly fear is this: the world will see that their version of "Freedom and Democracy" is nothing more than a propaganda mask for the Anglo-American Evil Empire itself.
Sometimes you've just got to give the "bully on the playground" a black eye in order to make him stop bullying others. The US is starting to get its "black eye" by other nations ignoring its "leadership" and grouping together into more profitable and cooperative ventures like the BRICS movement. Let's just hope it doesn't take an actual fight, that is a global military conflict, to give the US the black eye it deserves and needs to become more humble.
The definition of "authoritarianism" is misapplied constantly by the West and its minions: it has to do with investing authority illegally: special interests and manipulation of law. Who's guilty of authoritarianism? Well, what about the countries whose minions knowingly presented a false case to the UN in 2003 for the purpose of destroying Iraq and killing I million people, and injuring possibly 3x that number? Right. The US and UK, with the approval of Palau, I think. Who engineered a coup on Ukraine in 2014, then a sovereign nation, and turned it into a dangerous Nazi oriented lackey of the West? And on and on, in that vein. I cannot bear to even look at the bland, deceitful, ugly faces of G.W Bush and Blair: they can never be forgiven their crimes. The concept of Hell, ugly as it is, is the default environment for such as these. Nothing else seems appropriate in a world that would even consider their "normalization".
The real axis of evil is the Democrats, Republicans and MSM. Of course, they must deflect such truth.
I agree-- the real "axis" is the incestuous relationship of the DNP, GOP, and MSM in this country where words matter little and acronyms mean everything. Sadly, the fault lies with the public who are complicit. But now, China and Russia are teaming up, offering the world a democratic rather than hegemonic order. So, the US is running scared. Hence, the rhetoric which recalls WWII propaganda.
As I write in my article, "Tomorrow's War Today". Russia and China are fighting tomrrow's war. The US, yesterday's war.
"A year before he died, Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote:
"Potentially, the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran, an 'antihegemonic' coalition united not by ideology but by complementary grievances."
https://open.substack.com/pub/julianmacfarlane/p/tomorrows-war-today?r=1flmbk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Julian, thanks for the link. Nice to see someone digging into reality. Most seem clueless to just how complicit they are to the dangerous aggression of the USA, and this complicity extends to those allies who continue to genuflect to our moronic leaders even as they hurt their own citizens in the process.
From a distance of time, it is starting to look to me like US/Germany/Japan was the original "axis of evil" (axes?) and now they just have more lackeys and are more open about it. The Nazis were, and are, warmly embraced by the US and the UK, not Russia or China.
American capitalists funded German fascists until we were forced into the war. As soon as it ended, we brought lots of Nazis into the fold & Japan became our dear friend and trading partner. The long game was always about defeating communism because it scares the hell out of the super rich, who are the real "axis of evil."
After WW II the US moved German Nazis to the US to launch the NASA project.
Since 2014, the US is using Bandera (NAZI) followers in UkroNazistan to kill ethnic Russians, Polish, Hungarians and Romanians.
The US and UK created ISIS out of thin air to take over West Asia.
Zbigniew Brzezinski created Al-Quaeda out of thin air in 1980 when he was adviser of Jimmy Carter (1976-1980) because he wanted to destroy the USSR. Bin Laden was sent to Afghanistan to fight with the Mujahedins (aka Taliban today!!).
In fact, Bin Laden was still in contact with the CIA until July 2001 - the last time he met with them in Dubai. That's why when they said that he was responsible for 9/11 I just laughed because I knew he was scapegoated with a false flag attack that had been planned under Clinton. Bush just happened to be the president in 2001.
On September 12, 2001, a plane left Reagan Airport carrying ‘the Bin Laden family’ to safety; the plane landed at Tel Aviv Airport and 80 Israelis disembarked.
The list of right wing dictators the US has backed is indeed a very long one. Part of the forgotten history of our wars in Korea and Vietnam is that we were backing right wing military dictators, not democracies. Same re: Taiwan and numerous other instances around the globe.
Hey, please don't leave Australia out of the 'Axis of Evil' groupings. We have one too.
Caitlin wrote.......
'On Tuesday former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told Fox News that Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are "two dictators that have said they are unlimited partners," asserting that "This is the new Axis of Evil, with Iran being their junior partner."
With the new and deadly and frightening and costly white / western nuclear submarine arrangement called AUKUS (Australia, UK and the US) we have our very own "Axis of Evil" too, with little downunder Australia being the "junior partner", as above. There must always be a “junior partner"
Why?
The US needs the northern parts of Australia to be the target for whoever it is we are spending 360 billion dollars on to fight, yet again under US direction. Not the land on mainland USA,..........no sir, but mainland Australia.
He's a clever and devious President that fellow Biden.
'No bombs on our land, thanks very much, says Biden. These Aussies are so thick, let's use Australian land. If it's the football season they won't even notice. The fact that they surprisingly even signed this one-sided agreement (all for USA's benefit) clearly shows that they aren't too bright.'
Spot on, Joe. We aren't.
AUKUS 😂 yep 👍🏼 Albo is the USA’s Aussie puppet this term in office.
If here’s a change of government next election ... Dutton will dutifully follow suit.
I believe Chinese officials are intelligent and wise and would do well to maintain a positive open dialogue with our government.
It’s in both our countries interest.
We must be prudent and not drawn into the negative narrative the US continues to preach to the world about China.
On another topic related to self-determination and leadership, Albanese hasn’t shown the courage to negotiate his fellow Australian Julian Assange release. Therefore I have no faith in anything he proposes.
Spot on again, Madonna.
I would like to think that a country like China sees a long term benefit in being patient and in maintaining a dialogue with whoever is sitting in Canberra.
Oh, I had assigned Australia to "lackey" status! Actually, it is pretty obvious that the US considers all the rest of the world as its lackeys. Including its own people. We are set against each other using the never-ending "campaign" season. And other divisive "issues". Never-ending hate and fear of whatever the other happens to be each week. Trump! DeSantis! Drag queens! Socialists! Meanwhile, those poisoned folks in Ohio are not regarded any differently than the dead and injured in any other country are. They will merely be campaign fodder, like everything else here in the US.
Only a well informed populace can stop it. You, Caitlin are showing us what we're up against. I'm not reading/listening to MS or social media, so hearing from you and the Duran about the insane propaganda spewed daily by the collective west and absorbed without question by our virtuous citizen/consumers keeps me on my toes, and speaking to others (when possible)
Love the Duran!
This you should read /listen to understand what "axis of evil " is about.
Right from the start of the summit, the speeches by both Xi and Putin drove the NATO crowd into a hysterical frenzy of anger and envy: Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova perfectly captured the mood when she remarked that the west was “foaming at the mouth.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57428.htm
We are a deeply stupid society. Our grandparents would be ashamed of us. It seems to me that the left has become particularly pernicious. I always thought lefties were people who engaged in fantasy, but now they have become Realpolitik warmongers. I like the older version better.
Simple. Liberals turned into warmongers, censors and security state bootlickers, the moment they were offered the whip hand.
Beautifully stated!
Chirrup!
Debbie Wasserman Schultz personified Hillary's DNC™ LLC during Matt Taibbi's inquisition, daring to defend the US' 1st Amendment, free press, actually journalism, whistleblowers & government regulators trying to do their jobs. One sequence, more like Roland Freisler's Volksgerichtshof than 40's McCarthyism will defeat ANY Democrat, ever to run; obviously the woman who'd INSTALLED Trump in 2016 & her DMFI/ UDP Super PAC crushing every GREAT Black, female REAL Democrat candidate (mostly, in blue collar Marcellus districts?) is just a coincidence, as Democrats enforce FAR WORSE neoConfederate Jim Crow, catastrophe capitalism feeding frenzy legislation on us ALL.
https://www.racket.news/s/america-this-week
Are you saying they are assholes?
No, power attracts sociopaths the way catnip attracts cats.
Give any institution or movement power, and even in the leadership is not (yet) sociopathic, they will be soon, or they will be quickly replaced by others who will do whatever it takes to get and hang onto power.
As Lord Acton famously posited, power itself, is the enemy.
"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern."
Ol' Lord Acton knew a thing or two.
And THIS is why I wouldn't trust China. Its leadership is certainly behaving MUCH better than that of the US now--but if it gets to where the US is a real, defeated hasbeen, and China the undisputed world leader, it may start imposing a different kind of deal on the Third World.
They are not the “third world” - that is itself the broken mindset and worldview of the capitalist colonial countries.
It’s 2022 and people had better start understanding that there are 7-8 billion people on the planet, lots of different ways of life, lots of different ideas about how societies and economies should be run. Everyone has agency. They are not supposed to be slaves to the US. And it’s bizarre to assume that they dont know their own self interest and the must be slaves or patsies to China.
China is a very large, fast ageing middle income country with very little power to protect any kind of force abroad. Their foreign policy is not about colonising other continents - its about finding win-wins. That mentality is what frightens the north atlantic colonial alliance, which is all zero-sum.
Actually it's 2023 and there are 8 billion people--whether "everyone has agency" is a question. Doesn't seem like it. Sure, at the moment China is behaving in a friendly, win/win fashion. I just wouldn't count on that continuing if over the next couple of decades, the US slips down into a weak hasbeen and China becomes ascendant. Power corrupts. China has been an imperial power before--I don't believe different peoples have different personality types--different cultures, yes. In any case, the people have little to do with it. It isn't because of demands of the US people that the US acts like a belligerent tyrant globally, though we are relentlessly propagandized so we will keep quiet about it.
Rather than look askance at China's tame international behavior, why not look at how your country used to be democratic, and has been hijacked by those adept at growing money. Imagine the worst that a Chinese empire would entail. That is what your country is today for most people on the Planet.
Exactly. It's quite telling that the people expressing "I wouldn't want to live under China" usually live in the US or one of its lapdogs that does shit to others, not to themselves.
Right. China's history shows that as soon as it rises it goes around the globe to smash things and enslave peoples. Unlike enlightened Europeans.
Thank you!
I wouldn't trust anyone with power.
That said, China's geography makes it harder for China to project power, relative to the US.
What do you mean?
The "power corrupts" axiom would be at play in that scenario as well, and the world would have to deal with it if it developed, which, as Feral Finster stated, is less likely than what is now occurring with the unhinged manic U.S. foreign policy.
Mary—this is “what-aboutism” in its worst form—you're blaming another country for doing what we have done when they haven’t even done it yet!!! And your acting like your omniscience is so powerful that you can see into the future and therefore warn us all that we are wrong because you say so. Get a grip.
That’s why China is advocating a multipolar world. Where power is shared and my welfare is dependent on your welfare, I’m more apt to exercise any power I have to the benefit of both. Its a pretty good solution to the patriarchal obsession with dominating EVERYTHING. The Chinese have had several thousand more years of patriarchal rule than we—the US—have and they have learned a few things. The US is still enamored with patriarchy—especially the women!!!! —- and demand a unipolar world where only WE get to exercise power. Moreover, the Third World, because of China and Russia, are more able to resist American dominance and grow strong in their own right. Hence, Lula in Brazil, and BRICS and Venezuela still on its feet and still in possession of its oil! All of these things make for shared power and therefore a diplomatic approach to Foreign policy, not the gunboat diplomacy that the US has been practicing since Teddy as its built its Super power, unipolar imperialistic nastiness.
I agree with all this except--especially the women? Are you talking about the likes of Hilary Clinton, Samantha Powers, Condaleeza Rice, etc.? They are hardly typical. You can point to the Obamas and Clarence Thomas and a few others to say black Americans are terrible too but the fact that the powerful can find some women, some blacks, some browns, to defend their ugly system doesn't make those people representative. Although we don't have the gender gap on issues of warfare that we used to.
They actually cared about the American populace up until Ralph Nader left. He said it himself in so many words, that they had become the very thing they had been fighting against. I saw what they did to him and the darkness closed in on us all as they openly violated his constitutional rights and therefore ours!
Yes! I was supporting his presidential candidacy. Are you referring to when he was thrown out of the audience (with a ticket) to watch the debates? The same was done to Jill Stein years later. Great show of Democracy, eh?
Exactly! I at the time did not know he was running for the presidency until I saw a video stream of his attempts to be involved in the presidential debates. They used the State Troopers of Maryland as a security for a private company (whatever national network was hosting it at the time) which is a direct violation of the states own constitution! This shows how effective their subversion is because I admire Ralph Nader and had I known he was running I certainly would have voted for him.
Oh and by the way they tied him up in court for years trying to just bleed him out financially. And Jill Stein was handcuffed in a basement for 8 hours! They (Republicans and Democrats) are making her pay back over 100000 dollars for campaign funding which is meant for a third party or fourth party etc. which how is this controlled by any party! They are as corrupt a group of criminals as you can ever find!
"That's Numberwang"
That's a really good point. I'm of the generation that saw the Bernie option get crushed and kicked to the side, got to remember the same thing happened to Nader just a few years before. The Left option in the USA has an odd tendency to get sidelined, cheated, jailed, or assassinated.
Not to mention Sanders' habit of kissing the hand that slaps him.
The history of trade unionism is a great example of how the left was coopted, nipped in the bud. Samuel Gompers founded the AFL (American Federation of Labor), and he was, at once, opposed to wage slavery, and anti-communist. He supported America’s wars and fought against peace protestors. In the 2016 Primaries, my local (IBEW) endorsed Hillary Clinton! When labor unions are in lockstep with oligarchy and tyranny of the wealthy, you know democracy is dead.
That's for sure!
Doesn't it though!
Yes indeed, the Nader thing was a huge, huge eye-opener, for me anyway.
Bernie getting cheated and treated by the MSM as a pariah during the 2016 and 2020 primaries are what did it for me. But getting more acquainted with history has shown me this is par for the course. MLK's assassination. JFK/RFK's assassination. McGovern getting sidelined. Henry Wallace getting sidelined. Eugene Debbs getting put in prison. The People's Party/Populist Party getting crushed back in the 1890's. The violence, blacklisting and McCarthyism against the labor movement. Unless we get REALLY well organized, they're going to keep doing this.
Do you think we were smart before? When was humanity ever smart? We are, were, will always be apes than can be influenced by sound and color to commit mass murder in the name of and invisible person.
All of the sounds and colors come at us in a rapid pace creating anger, frustration, outrage at other groups of apes. Our previous generations were enormously stupid allowing industry and governments to hurt everyone. Our health care system is owned by Frankenstein monsters experimenting with us. We are now on the verge of completely annihilating ourselves with nuclear bombs. We were there before and we are here again.
Sorry, we have never been the smartest species at any time on this planet.
I am beginning to think aliens invented all of these toys, gave them to us and we are one big experiment that they watch laughing their asses off.
I'm a little more optimistic. We are clever but not always able to act in our collective long term interest. We've always been violent but the modern notion of ethnic cleansing and genocide is indeed modern. Coming into being with the advent of monotheism and larger competitive tribalism. What evidence we have of more primitive peoples does indicate some violence, but the kind of systematic kill by category I think anthropologists will argue is a much later development. The kind of warfare observed among less developed peoples when the West colonizers came into contact was let's say a very different kind of warfare. It would not have occurred to Native American tribes or many other primitive peoples to surround an enemy village, starve them into submission, napalm bomb them, and then kill or enslave the whole population. Genocidal settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing is a much more modern phenomenon.
There are specific instances in history of genocide, as far back as cro magnon man. Ghengis Khan was certainly a genocidal maniac. Tribes and societies have been attacked and wiped out forever. We just seem more efficient.
We live in a very thin veneer of civilization. A long winter power outage will certainly prove what kind of society we have. I say within a month or sooner people in large cities will be killing each other for food and within a year as food.
Western society is so messed up we will be lucky to last a year of gard times. The French are burning their country to the ground over a 2 year pension reform.
I dont say that it is unjust the government but it is now more and more people who are more violent.
This may sound controversial. But were Ghengis Khan and the Mongols really 'genocidal'? I've listened to the hardcore history series on the Mongols. I think they were really just extremely brutal conquerors and pillagers, not genocidal. To be genocidal, you need an ethnic cleansing program in your ideology. From what I understand, the Mongols would give cities the opportunity to surrender. And if the city surrendered, they'd get sacked, but people would live. Unlike if they didn't surrender, then they'd all get killed. This is not genocidal behavior. Genocidal is when you plan to kill them all regardless and resettle the land (see US treatment of Native Americans, Nazi plan for the East). Remember too that the Mongols ruled China for quite a while. Did they engage in murderous ethnic cleansing of the whole Chinese population when they ruled China? No. They did not. This is much like Ceasars conquest of Gaul. Very bloody, but no plan to entirely remove the Gaul population. Bloody conquest is very different from a racial or ethnic cleansing plan to kill them ALL and repopulate their land with exclusively OUR people. And it is absolutely not something every human tribe has ever done. Many or most tribes in human history could never even conceive of such an act. Here in the US though (and a few other countries), we like to convince ourselves that genocide is some kind of universal human attribute, when it absolutely is not.
Maybe you missed the part where they conquered a city, went back a couple of days later and completely wiped them out. Seems genocidal to me. In that same series, the attack on Baghdad was particularly ferocious, where the destroyed historical libraries, art and cultural centers. Set humanity back a few hundred years scientifically. Created the Nomadic cultures of the middle east drove societies into the hills of Afghanistan where they remain today.
And when the Mongols ruled China, did they have a genocidal settler colonial program? They ruled China for a decent amount of time. All I am saying is - brutal pillage is very different from a genocidal program.
Thing is, here the good ole U.S. of A, my grand parents would have loved this warmongering. My grand parents AND parents were the generation “that won the War”. And boy howdy did they think their shit don’t stink. War is in the blood of imperialists and in ‘Merica, everyone is an imperialist, even tho they don’t think so. It’s our lifestyle and we’re taught from jump that it is patriotic instead of idiotic. I’m guessing that in the English “empire” the same pertains. The apple don’t fall far from the tree.
What lefties are you talking about? Even FDR wasn't really a lefty. He was forced left by militant left grassroots labor and unique circumstances of his time. No lefties have ever actually held national level power in the US.
I prefer Huey P. Long, who was a pacifist who was in favor of a wealth tax and an income cap, and who delivered concrete material benefits to working class people, all in the face of an entrenched political opposition that did not hesitate to use bribery, blackmail and when necessary, outright violence to achieve its goals.
Also, Long was never endorsed by the KKK, which in the Louisiana of that time was like fighting a war without the Pentagon. When KKK Imperial Wizard Hiram Evans announced plans to campaign against Long in 1934, Long declared "that Imperial bastard will never set foot in Louisiana," threatening that Evans would leave the state with "his toes turned up." "And when I call him [some KKK leader] as a 'son of a bitch' I am not using profanity, but I am referring to the circumstances of his birth!"
Yep, Huey another great example.
Huey P. Newton, of Black Panther fame, was named after The Kingfish. His parents were from Louisiana.
Exactly. But he was facing down his class which was incredibly powerful with the Robber Barons at the end of the last Century. He took them to the woodshed as much as he could, especially since he had a corrupt Supreme Court which struck down much of his program. When he tried to reform the Supremes, he was accused of “packing the court” and the people resisted. I personally think he did an amazing job of building a coalition to overcome the power of the oligarchs then, but we let it go under Clinton and never even knew that our selfish, sanctimonious, comfortable existence lead us to act like the upper classes we are here blaming for all our woes, and pursue policies that tore apart the FDR coalition because it put more money in our pockets. We have met the enemy and it is us. Now what are we going to do? I listen to the kids and support the unions!!!
Nonsense
Nonsense? I 100% agree that the Dems are realpolitik warmongers. But Left? Nothing about the democrats has had a whiff of Left policies for over 50 years. Don't fall for their 'woke' signaling. This is the Party that signed NAFTA, the 1994 crime bill, the repeal of Glass-Steagall, gave us a private corporate health care plan, and when given the reigns of power keeps giving the surveillance state, the cops, and the military more and more money.
While this is very true there have been the few that did the right thing such as Ralph Nader. As a prime example we would not have seatbelts in cars as he had an all out battle with the automotive industry over that.
Brilliant!
Ignorant is better than stupid
Dear USA. YOU ARE LITERALLY SUPPORTING, FINANCING, ARMING ACTUAL NAZIS, SO JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP.
PS. The sooner your empire crumbles, the better it will be for all those who don't want their countries bombed back into the Stone Age, in the name of your type of democracy.
I agree with you, but I don’t think shutting the fuck up works. It’s screaming out in rage that can actually change things. But I agree that we should not expect to be able to dictate solutions to other countries or to pick apart other strong and successful countries in the mistaken idea that WE have a foreign policy position that needs to be heard. What’s that old song? “He can’t run his own life, I’ll be damn if he’ll run mine!”? I believe we need to and are turning the spotlight towards our own failures and irresponsibilities as citizens in an effort to see our way through to a solution. We have no business checking other countries. Unless they are Canada—our felator of great enthusiasm.
I may have spelled felator wrong but you get the picture?
The real Axis of Evil: Banking, MIC & Health/Big Pharma Industry. (Bonus Evils: Food industry, Media and the Uniparty.)
I am actually surprised by how many people are aware of the amount of corruption in the government like this idiot displayed here. I don't have social media accounts and avoid them as they are an invasive virus that consumes all your data so for the first time I clicked your link to the spewing of crazy talk by this nut job and found almost all the people in the comments section were wide awake and know what they are hearing is pure bullshit! This really gives me some hope. I think your getting through to far more people then just show up here so keep going girl!
Maybe we could confound this usage by referring to the "Western axis" or the "Western power axis" or the Nato axis in our posts.
I like that idea!
Has congress, which is supposed to take care of improving the lives of the American people that vote them in directly, ever taken a self assessment of what they are doing?
Its pretty ugly:
https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/society-at-a-glance-2019_soc_glance-2019-en
It’s insane that they keep going around looking for other countries to destroy them, ignoring their failings at home. And insane that their own electorate allows this endless diversion and does not in any way hold them to account for conducting a sham exercise in what is an utterly failed democracy:
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf
Of course. It worked the last time.
Further proof that our leadership class has in fact learned from the War On Iraq, but the wrong lessons.
I love how you can see everybody who is on the list, the moment a new narrative hook is rolled out. These $&@#'s must actually receive a shotgun email. The globohomo mailing list. Eventually they'll correct this... its too damn obvious. For now though, it's a hilarious part of the Big Clown Show.
I remember "horse dewormer" tweeted by the FDA ... everywhere the next day. BTW pharma, CDC, FDA all had the same PR firm! Imagine that.
"Horse-paste" from Fox to Amy Goodman, same day, same bemused sneer? Like "BernieBros," "RooskiBots" or WMD.
Any country that opposes--however slightly--the Anglo-American Evil Empire is ... evil.
This is the Anglo American worldview.
It could be Iraq, Iran, North Korea.
Or now China, Russia, Iran.
Or even Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua.
It makes no difference.
What Americans and their war criminal allies like Australia, UK, Canada, Europe, etc. cannot stand to admit is that they are the true Axis of Evil, as their nations have been waging serial wars of aggression for decades--wars that are all founded on deceptions like Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, humanitarian intervention, or a fake War against Terrorism.
This Anglo American Axis, for instance, has either bombed or invaded nations like Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, and other nations since the end of the First Cold War--slaughtering nearly a million people as a consequence.
Yet, the Anglo Americans possess the arrogance to promote themselves as defenders of freedom or democracy no less.
For all their vilification of Official Enemy states, what the Anglo Americans and their axis allies truly fear is this: the world will see that their version of "Freedom and Democracy" is nothing more than a propaganda mask for the Anglo-American Evil Empire itself.
Sometimes you've just got to give the "bully on the playground" a black eye in order to make him stop bullying others. The US is starting to get its "black eye" by other nations ignoring its "leadership" and grouping together into more profitable and cooperative ventures like the BRICS movement. Let's just hope it doesn't take an actual fight, that is a global military conflict, to give the US the black eye it deserves and needs to become more humble.
There IS an Axis of Evil threatening the security of other nations and propping up dictators. It's the US, UK, Australia and the EU.
The two presidents of "Axis of Evil " ( Xi and Putin ) bid farewell in a poignant manner.
Xi: “Now, there are changes that haven’t happened in 100 years. When we are together, we drive these changes.”
Putin: “I agree.”
Xi: “Take care, dear friend.”
Putin: “Have a safe trip.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57428.htm
The definition of "authoritarianism" is misapplied constantly by the West and its minions: it has to do with investing authority illegally: special interests and manipulation of law. Who's guilty of authoritarianism? Well, what about the countries whose minions knowingly presented a false case to the UN in 2003 for the purpose of destroying Iraq and killing I million people, and injuring possibly 3x that number? Right. The US and UK, with the approval of Palau, I think. Who engineered a coup on Ukraine in 2014, then a sovereign nation, and turned it into a dangerous Nazi oriented lackey of the West? And on and on, in that vein. I cannot bear to even look at the bland, deceitful, ugly faces of G.W Bush and Blair: they can never be forgiven their crimes. The concept of Hell, ugly as it is, is the default environment for such as these. Nothing else seems appropriate in a world that would even consider their "normalization".