Was it always this way?

Was it always this way?

“It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are incapable of fulfilling this duty use the smokescreen of war to hide their failure and, in the process, line the pockets of a select few – the same ones as always; the only ones who profit when the world stops building hospitals and starts building missiles,” Spanish PM Sanchez said.

 

-      A lone battle: Why is Pedro Sánchez the only European leader to take on Trump?, Guardian

 

Many observers thought Canada was turning to a principled foreign policy, championing universal liberal values such as democracy, justice, human rights and the rule of law. It seemed as though Canada was coming to the defence of a rules-based order, and this was helping it regain significant international prestige.  So it came as a shock when Carney offered immediate support to an illegal U.S.-Israel war of aggression against Iran on Feb. 28.

 

-       Respecting international law depends on who breaks it: Why Canada backed the war against Iran, The Conversation

 

By Gregg Wall (3-7-2026)

If anyone had any doubts about where PM Carney stood… ethically, morally, politically… all doubt was erased this week.   On the 28^th of February Carney came out with full throated support for Team Genocide’s latest war with Iran… where the spirits of 160 Iranian school girls were promptly dispatched & released by American bombs and munitions.  Carney, on world tour, drumming up trade, backpedaled and qualified his endorsement “with regret”, saying international law must be respected, only to backpedal yet again, stating he would support the Americans if called upon (in some capacity).  Carney appears to have missed the obvious contradiction of calling out the end of the rules-based order/international law last January at Davos and asking the Americans & Israelis to abide by same in their latest assault upon the planet.

Carney... the Goldman Sachs bankster, Central Banker extraordinaire, and Brookfield private equity chairman… has been showing his cards now for some time: elected by Trump; kowtowed to Trump ever since; dealing with Alberta’s far-right government; cutting deals with the oil patch – just this week giving Alberta charge over O&G regulatory matters; trashing environmental and green standards on behalf of American owned Alberta O&G; passing C-5 which basically trashed rules, regs, and fast tracked corporate control, domination, and violence over Canada.  What a guy.  So, it should have surprised no one that Carney endorsed 160 souls of children wafting up to the heavens, now “with regret.”  

Into the void and the vacuum left by Carney, and his coalition of middling powers, charged the PM of Spain, Mr. Sanchez, who earned Trump’s rage for not supporting Netanyahu’s latest war efforts by forbidding US bases in Spain from being used to bomb Iranian targets.  PM Sanchez said “No To War.”  Trump knows that he needs the EU, Canada, and Five Eyes nations more than he’s let on and immediately threatened Spain with the elimination of trade.  Fortunately for Spain, it does very little, or relatively little trade with the Americans.  Macron and Starmer also pushed back on Trump’s latest conflict.  Rebellion and dissent are contagious.  As for Trump, he slides lower and lower in the polls: his economy is shambolic, his tariffs a disaster, DOGE a failure, debt and deficits soar, and affordability and gas prices are about to become a huge headache for the failure in the White House.  And the ghost of Epstein is everywhere.  Dems in Congress appear to be sharpening their knives, zero interest in acknowledge the duopoly’s laundry list of failures, but sharpening their knives… the Ides of March is so very close.  November is so very far away.  Every day new chaos, new hell as Trump desperately attempts to shake the Epstein files.  

 

 

Prime Minister Mark Carney, right, signs a memorandum of understanding with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in Calgary, Alta., on Nov. 27. (Credit: Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press files) 

 

Was it always this way?   Have nation-states always kowtowed to the American government?  Have U.S. allies always backed off repeatedly on taxing American tech behemoths, went along with the United States' latest war or Middle East assault, latest land & resource grab, greater theft of oil and gas resources, terms of trade dictated by U.S. multinationals and Wall St.?  If we Google that question, that answer is affirmative, going back to WW2.  To be sure, America doesn’t always get its way, but my guess is America gets its heavy-handed way more often than not.

Why would any nation, middle power or great power, tolerate U.S. hegemony that has devolved into tyranny over time, culminating in Donald Trump?  What are the opportunity costs for Europe and Five Eyes nations, the foregone jobs & tax revenue, the industries it doesn’t dare encroach upon for fear of upsetting the United States, the money spent on the military at U.S. direction, the debt and deficits to fund military spending at U.S. direction… knowing full well that money could be better invested and spent elsewhere or saved for a rainy day?  The tech industry the Americans forbid Canada and Europe from starting up, under the guise or premise that it’s a threat to national security?

America has been blessed, and cursed by a great many gifts, not the least of which is exorbitant privilege, a great and wonderful stolen land that it has poisoned.  All that, and a voter base that has been thoroughly brainwashed into believing socialism is bad, bootstraps and rugged individualism are good.  This, as America’s billionaire class owe their vast wealth to endless socialism, government… debt, deficits, and money printing… and economic, fiscal, judicial, monetary, regulatory, and tax policy capture and control. 

And there’s the U.S. military which sucks up a greater and greater percentage of discretionary spending.  Americans have been fed the narcotic of exceptionalism… and yet, Americans see, that we are anything but exceptional.  No, we are losers.

There are signs of dissent, signs of rebellion everywhere… from Minnesota to the Capital of Spain, Madrid, and of course, BRICS.  Trump and the oligarchy… Adelson, Musk, Thiel, in particular… are in a race against time.  But the public doesn’t share the oligarchy’s dreams of technates, spheres of influence, billionaire autocracy, freedom cities, global domination and control.  And the public certainly does not support Israeli/Zionist occupation.  We’ve arrived: twilight's last gleaming, the sun setting on an empire that is long past its prime, a bankrupt empire the majority of the American people increasingly regret every waking moment.  For Americans, the empire is ever present, often unnamable for many, a dark presence, watching & waiting, a nightmare, seen in grocery store aisles and gas stations with skyrocketing prices, soaring rents, the cryptic knowledge that the nation is completely off the rails and terminal.  The pain and suffering delivered to other nations, rebounds and returns home, as blowback, payback, retribution.  The Super Bowl flyovers, the star-spangled deceit, and the mutilated bodies of US service personnel returning in flag draped caskets… courtesy of a U.S. government, oligarchy, & two-party leadership that could not possibly care less.  What the trash in the White House refers to as “losers.”

And yet, the resistance carries on.  And on that note, let’s praise the courage and the will of PM Sanchez.

Let’s celebrate dissent & rebellion, let’s celebrate the word, NO, the Iranian people that Trump pretended to care about.  Let’s acknowledge the Iranian military that will not go quietly into that good night, let’s celebrate the ticking of the clock, the soaring U.S. national debt, and yes, even the clown in the White House - who foolishly hastens us all to the end of a lie. 

Copyright JM Hamilton Publishing 2026

Ethical & Moral Collapse

Ethical & Moral Collapse

 

UNITED NATIONS, May 23 (Reuters) - United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Friday said Israel has only authorized for Gaza what "amounts to a teaspoon of aid when a flood of assistance is required" and again signaled that the U.N. won't take part in a new U.S.-backed distribution plan.

 

-             Israel has only authorized a 'teaspoon' of aid for Gaza, UN chief says, Reuters

 

Gregg Wall (5-24-2025)

 

How many innocent babies, children, and women lie dead in Bibi Netanyahu’s Gaza concentration camp & morgue?  Aljazeera says at least 61,709 dead, 17,492 of these children, with 111,588 injured, as of February 3, 2025; but Trump, attempting to rationalize a future Trump Plaza - Gaza and a real estate boom, places the body count much higher, suggesting several hundred thousand dead, perhaps closer to 500,000.  That was mid-February.  For Trump, the number of dead is reason to complete the job of ethnic cleansing, not halt it... paving the way for a real estate developer’s dream & profits.  Gazans are starving now, in an entirely engineered and manufactured crisis.

 

The lies, misinformation, and bodies surrounding the West’s genocide in Gaza are piling up so fast and so high, it’s challenging to keep track.  But one thing can be counted on:  Western leaders continue to support mass murder, fund and support the State of Israel’s pogrom, with intelligence, logistics, material support, and military equipment.  And the Western corporate media, particularly the United States press, has come down almost universally on the side of the Israeli government.  Even America’s Palantir is said to be planning and organizing bombing raids and drone strikes… atrocities that would have, should have ceased long ago but for the complete ethical and moral collapse of the West. 

 

Just this week, Monday to be precise, Messrs. Carney, Macron, and Starmer… leaders of Canada, France, and the UK, respectively…  came forward with condemnation and threats to take “concrete steps” if Israel did not stop its military offensive and starvation campaign inside Gaza.  The leaders also took the opportunity to express support for formal recognition of Palestine and a two-state solution.  But as is often the case, the words ring hollow.  Why not announce recognition of Palestine, why not announce immediate support for splitting the State of Israel and Palestine in two or along U.N. recognized borders, along with a demand at the U.N. for an international peace keeping force?  The banker, Macron, has made plenty of observations about Israeli and Western barbarism before, expressed concerns, made recommendations with zero, or limited, follow through against the Israeli government (against Bibi’s reign, who is wanted for war crimes in the Hague).   

 

This week, here in Canada, the Globe and Mail tried to put a political spin on PM Mark Carney’s & friends’ condemnation and threats.  Carney, also a banker – see a pattern, was praised by the Globe and Mail (G&M) for showing independence from the United States and not toeing the Trump, Netanyahu party line.  The paper went onto to note, Carney will likely have scored points with the Global South, namely Brazil and South Africa, and greased the skids for election to the UN Security Council.  Who knows, G&M went onto to note:  ... “it‘s possible that Mr. Carney’s decision was also based on humanitarian concerns – that he was picking a fight on behalf of children and other helpless civilians.”  Gee, cast in this light… it’s as if the point of the entire exercise, from Team Carney, Macron, and Starmer, was about absolving themselves from obvious war crimes and scoring political points with the right countries and organizations.  Saving children and women, that’s an afterthought.

 

And in the UK, a country that has been providing air and weapons support for the American/Israeli genocide all these many months, was said to have held up on condemnation for political reasons.  Namely, that the Labour party had faced allegations of antisemitism during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership (which in retrospect, now looks increasingly like a smear campaign directed at, and to remove, the lefty, Corbyn).

 

In response to international pressure, Israeli leadership let less than ten trucks cross the border initially, at the same time the UN reported 14,000 babies are on the verge of starvation and death.  As of Friday, the Israeli government now claims about three hundred trucks have been permitted to cross into Gaza, after eleven weeks of Israeli blockade, but the UN claims only a third of those truck have actually delivered to warehouses and the trucks allowed in amount to a “teaspoon,” versus the aid that is required to turn the situation around.  Meanwhile, the bombing, murder, and mayhem from the United States and Israel continues.  The Israeli government and its military leadership are so unhinged that warning shots were fired at international diplomats, including Canadians, visiting the Jenin refugee camp.

 

Lost in all this was the thousands of Israeli citizens, and thousands of pilots, reservists, and troops protesting Bibi’s war and genocide, some refusing to serve.  Lost in all this is the majority of Israelis, now, want the hostages brought home and the war… ahem, genocide… to end, many fearful that Israel is now a pariah state.  There is rebellion brewing in Israeli society but one would not know this from American politicians and many of the American press, who still trot out the AIPAC/ADL party line, to wit: Israel has right to defend itself against terrorism and do you condemn Hamas.  No few in number repeating some of the vitriolic rhetoric used inside the Israeli Knesset itself.  Trump, of course, promised to end the war on the campaign trail but has supported Bibi’s ethnic cleansing campaign, since entering office.  And the latest wrinkle, just as Carney, Macron, and Starmer raised their voice this week and the media started to criticize the Israel gov, two employees of a Jewish Museum in Washington were gunned down.  Beyond a doubt a deplorable and repugnant act, but the American MSM and Netanyahu used the event, to once again conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism, as cover for America’s and Israel’s war crimes in Gaza.  Netanyahu has accused Carney, Macron, and Starmer of fueling antisemitism.

 

So just to recap, three world leaders (members of the G7) went on the offensive this week against the Israeli government and called out the campaign in Gaza and the West Bank, simultaneously, Western media seemed increasingly willing to criticize Israel’s genocide & draw attention to the man-made famine inside Gaza… moreover, Western diplomats were shot at this week by Israeli soldiers.  Israeli society also appears to have turned the corner, with the majority supporting an end to the war and bringing the hostages home.  And out of the blue comes the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers and the news cycle, seemingly, turns 180 degrees on a dime.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conveniently left out of all this by the American & much of the Western press, but widely covered in the Israeli MSM, are the events leading up to Oct 7 itself: Bibi’s fourteen years of support for Hamas; how Bibi, on trial for corruption charges and facing possible prison, had the most to gain from Oct 7; how the Hamas attack was launched from the Gaza concentration camp, under the Israeli government’s oversight, supervision, & control; how the Israeli government knew and was repeatedly warned of the pending attack for a up to a year in advance; and how Israel murdered its own under the Hannibal directive on October 7^th.  Arguably, the end goal of all these events was to stir up Israeli public support for destroying Palestinian homes & livelihoods, the pogrom aimed at Palestinian women & children, and annexing Gaza…  and with the aim, the clearest goal of all, propping up Netanyahu on the Israeli throne.  That’s right, so much of this ocean of blood is about gratifying the egos of diseased, old, white men.  All this, with blind deference by the American government, from the Biden and Trump administrations.

 

The world is watching, the complete ethical and moral collapse of Israel, the United States, and the West.  Bibi & the Western MSM uses the term, antisemitism, like a weapon to keep Western leadership in line, with the same expertise that the Israeli gov and artificial intelligence sends drones into Gaza to murder starving women and children in tents.  The term, antisemitism, has been completely weaponized by the entirely corrupt American and Israeli governments and Western MSM.  As for the tens of thousands of victims, including the two Israeli staffers, it’s clear that this is the natural outcome of a radical, white supremacist ideology called Zionism… a hate based belief system, not unlike America’s de facto policy of Manifest Destiny, colonialism, and hatred of indigenous peoples, globally, that goes on to this very day (but was clearly self-evident at the nation’s founding).  

 

Antisemitism has been deliberately conflated with Zionism and anti-Zionism, especially by the American and Israeli governments, so that allegations of same issuing forth from Netanyahu’s, Trump’s, or Biden’s mouths have been rendered a mere propaganda tool, a verbal assault weapon designed, purely, to keep the public & world leaders deferential and in full support of the Israeli state.  That is to say in some instances and some contexts, the word, antisemitism, has been rendered virtually meaningless.  The term, antisemitism… in the context of being used by Christian charismatics & evangelicals… likewise is used to provide cover, support, and drive fear for the continuation of the mass murder that is being live streamed throughout the world for going on two years.  And in American and Israeli leadership’s mind, strengthen the Zionist state.  (In the case of the extremists in America’s fascist, Christian charismatic & evangelical denominations, all of this is supported with the goal of bringing about the end times, the second coming.  Ideas and a genocide that are diametrically opposed to the teachings of Christ.  Christ would not condone the mass murder of women and children… is America’s evangelical Christian community insane?)

 

Make no mistake about it, real antisemitism, like all racism and islamophobia, is disgusting and must always be condemned.

 

However, condemnation and protest against Zionism, itself, like American & Western barbarism and colonialism, is entirely legitimate and should be encouraged, not attacked (which is why Trump’s crackdown on 1A and the Constitution are obscene).  Anti-Zionism, as the world is quickly discovering, is inevitable, given the ever-growing list of crimes and ever-rising body count of women & children inside Gaza and the West Bank and throughout the Middle East.  (By the way, none of this is news.  Analysts and scholars... like Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate, Norman Finkelstein, Erin Galvin, and Rania Khalek, and many other brave souls... have been condemning Zionism for abuse and as a fascist movement.  And they are one hundred percent correct.)

 

Antisemitism… along with Islamophobia, misogyny, & racism… must always be condemned.  And no small measure of the antisemitism that afflicts the world is the outcome of the American and Israeli governments’ deliberate policies in Palestine.  Arguably, the goal of antisemitic blowback is the de facto policy of the Israeli government, again to provide legitimacy or rationalization for decades of colonialism, genocide, and the Zionist project.  Antisemitism, fostered and produced by the State of Israel and the United States, as a direct result of government policy, leaves some of Jewish patrimony with the belief that Israel and Zionism are all that can be counted on and is their salvation.  Therefore, completing the cycle, the circle of Zionist violence.  In brief, Netanyahu uses racism directed at Jewish people as a weapon, a cudgel to keep Western leadership controlled and in line and to keep the Israeli public and those of Jewish ancestry fearful and in line.  But used in this capacity, dripping with misappropriation and hate, coming from both the American and Israel governments, ultimately, charges of antisemitism are no more powerful than Hitler or white supremacist ravings about Jews or “the other.”

 

At the end of the day, Zionism is political ideology no less virulent than white supremacy and right-wing nationalism, that uses antisemitism, Jewish people, the Holocaust, and the Jewish faith as shield for its colonial projects, extremism, & violence.  As such, it is time for the American, Israeli, and Western governments to be held fully accountable by the world, so that the plague of antisemitism and racism does not spread further.

 

And it’s time for world leaders… like Messrs. Carney, Macron, and Starmer… to actually walk the walk and not merely, talk the talk (for purposes of political expediency and to provide a smoke screen to hide their own special brand of cowardice).  Nothing less than the moral degradation & disintegration of the Western world, and any claims to moral superiority, are on full display… claims that are presently burning on the ash heap of history.

 

Finally, Israeli Zionists are not the only ones to claim victim status… take a look around, from White Supremacists to Conservatives and Christian evangelicals… many “leaders” are quick to sell fear & victimization as way to keep the flock frightened and in line, build up a political or religious following, and strengthen the leader's hold over their followers.

 

Copyright JM Hamilton Publishing 2025

Reagan and Thatcher on the ropes… Throughout the West, the Center cannot hold

Reagan and Thatcher on the ropes… Throughout the West, the Center cannot hold

 

The president came into the debate with a low bar to clear, and he stumbled. He was flat. He was rambling. He was unclear.

 

About midway through the debate, the Biden campaign said that the president was battling a cold - an attempt to explain his raspy voice. That may be so, but it also sounded like an excuse.

 

-             Analysis: Biden's incoherent debate performance heightens fears over his age, BBC

 

By Gregg Wall (7-6-2024) 

 

The summer is getting warmed up here in Alberta, the Stampede is on, the skies are the deepest blue, and I’m wondering why I am inside writing this piece today.  Probably because this is about as close as I will ever come to gloating.  Neoliberalism, the center, the corporatist, the establishment are being rejected in Western democracy, after Western democracy… and its obituary is long overdue.  Odd, how nearly 4.5 decades since 1980, Reagan and Thatcher’s heyday… the public is calling out the biggest scam ever perpetrated, collectively, on the West:  trickle-down; supply-side economics; neoliberalism; globalization; the death cult surrounding the Western economies (aka necroeconomy); and Western political duopolies acting as a front for oligarchy.  More specifically in America and parts of Europe, the hyper-financialization of cannibalized economies that have seen businesses turned into the walking dead, innovation and jobs crushed in an orgy of corporate consolidation, and the economy & opportunity absolutely wrecked for the overwhelming majority of citizens (economies now dependent upon endless rivers of government debt and war spending).  All of it is being rejected.  Not all voters may fully grasp the mechanics of it all, but they do know the establishment has failed them, as wealth and wage inequality have soared.

 

No wonder the public is enraged, as they should be.  U.S. politicians and some European capitals have stripped public services, crammed austerity down everyone’s throat, and allowed families and labor to be preyed upon by banks, cartels, monopolies, and utilities.  Meanwhile, as Washington holds up the middle digit to the American public on reform… it sends billions and billions to a country too corrupt to join NATO, and another country engaged in genocide (and yet, Israel is so rich from US taxpayer largesse that it enjoys socialized medicine, free college, and socialized or subsidized housing).  

 

And what an interesting two weeks, it has been: 

 

Biden is imploding before our very eyes.   Seems that insiders, the Biden administration, EU allies, high profile donors have known Biden had a problem for the last four years… but Biden means cushy jobs for the democratic party, free defense and military for Europe, and donors have spent millions and millions to keep their boy propped up.  It would be a shame to see that investment head south.  And yet, it appears that some donors are finally willing to cut their losses and donations.  Nobody likes to see elder abuse.  Abuse where we pile on a job & responsibilities -- that would crush the strongest of younger individuals -- onto an octogenarian, who is struggling to utter a complete sentence.  All because it’s not PC to acknowledge the obvious, Biden clearly has no business being in the White House.  But before we leave this topic, there is something more.  There is something completely contemptuous about a two-party system, in an alleged democracy, that continuously ignores the demands of the American people, whether it be for: Medicare for All, a ceasefire in Gaza, a pause in endless wars and the resulting austerity, taxing the rich, or Biden fulfilling his 2020 campaign promises (which Biden has largely failed to deliver).  Not to mention, the simple request from the American people for Biden to simply, go away.  So, someone less corrupt and with a real opportunity to defeat Trump can run.  Biden has been a catastrophe for the United States, and most importantly, the long-suffering American people for nearly four miserable years.

 

After all, Biden and his generation are the ultimate testament to American fascism: America has built up the presidency and this garbage two-party system, as infallible, exceptional, unimpeachable, with delusions of grandeur, a nation hypnotized, sedated with endless propaganda & lies.  Americans, thankfully, are waking up to the fraud that is duopoly. 

Across the pond, fourteen long, miserable years of Tory rule came crashing down… but fear not, the Labour party has purged all progressives and lefties, the financial press/establishment gave Labour the seal of approval, and it looks like Prime Minster Starmer will deliver more of the same: endless supply-side welfare for the rich, privatization fraud, maintain the trickle-down tax code, and continue failed neoliberalism.  Meanwhile, the voting public can take temporary satisfaction from the fact they kicked out the Tories, but as important, this election was marked by record low voter turnout.  So enough of the public showed up to reject repugnant Tories, while a huge swath of the British voters didn’t bother to show at all, essentially rejecting the establishment, the duopoly, and the oligarchy the duopoly reports into.  Essentially, a double win for the British people.  Low voter turnout is outstanding: it demonstrates that the public is increasingly onto the charade that is the two-party system.  Starmer already looks like a one term wonder, a deer in the headlight, a caretaker administration that will care little for the public, continue to take for rich, and give to the rich.  And Starmer’s ready-made excuse for not properly funding public services that have been gutted, like the NHS?  Sir Starmer will, of course, lean on that old standby, the national debt run up to provide welfare for the rich. Sorry folks, we can’t afford it.

 

France has a big election this weekend, and Macron has performed so poorly in the first round of voting that his establishment, corporate party will only appear on the ballots of half the voting districts, per France 24.  The populist-right & LePen are all set to make significant gains and could end up calling the shots in parliament.  The populist-right is closely followed by the populist-left, with Macron and his coalition trailing a very distant third.  There is some talk of a coalition between the left and Macron’s far-right coalition to keep the populist-right, Ms. LePen’s party and coalition, out of power.  No matter how it plays out… as with America, Canada, Germany, and the UK… French citizens clearly have had it with endless austerity coupled with the endless transfers of wealth to corporations, the uber-wealthy, and politicians.  France is another country where voter turnout is exceptionally low.  A sure sign, that for many French citizens, democracy, neoliberalism, and privatization are abject failures.  

In an update, French voters broke with recent trends and showed up to the polls Sunday: rejected the far-right establishment, Macron (2nd place), rejected the populist far-right, Le Pen (3rd place), and elected the populist- left, Melenchon (first place).

 

Before wrapping this up, I think SCOTUS (or America’s Supreme Court) deserves a paragraph.  This court has gone absolutely crazy, engaged in activities like pulling rulings out of thin air with no basis whatsoever in the Constitution, to writing legislation from the bench, to engaging in highly aggressive judicial activism & power grabs.  These are the very same activities that conservative jurists, like Robert Bork, use to decry and rant about when more liberal courts were in power.  Except now, this rabidly right-wing court is busy turning the presidency into dictatorship… many have argued, correctly, that the president is already a de facto dictator… and destroying what little remains of a captured regulatory state.  SCOTUS even legalized corruption at the state and local levels of government.  If anybody is looking for rhyme or reason for the court’s rulings, follow the money.  If it benefits capital, if it benefits corporate America’s or the oligarchy’s bottom line, the odds are exceptionally high, the Roberts court will side with the court’s ultra-wealthy benefactors.  

 

And the sliver of light in SCOTUS’ recent rulings?  If, when, should a future liberal court return to power… this fascist court has, with its own special blend of judicial activism, clearly demonstrated that the U.S. Constitution is a living, breathing document.  Moreover, strict constructionism and threading the judicial needle with America’s ancient colonial history to justify constitutionality is no longer necessary but in fact, all but dead. 

 

 

And it’s all beginning to unravel… as I recently argued, we are at or near the tipping point.  Forty-four years of greed, laissez-faire, looting corporate and nation state credit lines, endless for-profit wars, and an evil necroeconomy are beginning to blowback on the establishment.  The public is waking up: they know Western democracy is a sham, they know political duopoly is a cul-de-sac, and they know the reason they can’t feed their children and keep a roof over their head is due to systemic class warfare waged by economic royalist, a complicit political class, bankers and monopolies.  For the moment, the public’s biggest problem is options.  It’s highly satisfying to throw one corporate political party to the curb and highly discouraging to be forced to elect a corporate clone party, or controlled opposition, in protest.  At the moment, the public seems keenly interested in the populist-right political parties that play up division, hatred, xenophobia (as mass migration gets underway)… but it won’t be long before the public comes to realize these populist-right political parties are only delivering more of the same: more necroviolence visited upon the public and their children for the enrichment of the same cadre of mafia at the tippy top.  The public increasingly knows the endless ping-pong game within the two-party system is a dead end.  And support for third parties and third-party formation will be critical and crucial for real change, if change is to happen via democracy.  Many appear to have given up on democracy altogether.  Hence, low voter turnout in the UK. 

 

Ultimately and to hammer the point, this leaves the public with one, or a mix, of several solutions: create & support third parties that truly are responsive to the public’s needs, the power of organized labor - to exact reforms and change, dictatorship, and revolution.  The overthrow of crony democracy itself. 

 

This, as political violence is heating up.  There are some that believe revolution is unthinkable, but clearly… judging from the taxpayer money flooding into cop cities, mass incarceration, and defense… the establishment is equally worried.  Moreover, the establishment demonstrates no desire to cleanup and reform.  One thing is clear, in the words of Fredrick Douglas, power concedes nothing without a demand. 

 

Copyright JM Hamilton Publishing 2024