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

The Kids Lead the Way

The Kids Lead the Way 

 

It’s all very sketchy and deeply unsettling.  Americans are living through a time of great evil, a considerable amount of which emanates from our own government, the duopoly, our elected representatives, and the oligarchy.  Americans, therefore, have a duty to speak, to march and be heard.  Power concedes nothing w/out a demand. 

 

In times of great evil, we no longer have the luxury of remaining civil… in our discourse and protests.  We must call out great evil for what it is, frequently and often.  The wealthy and their henchmen, corrupt politicians addicted to power and the corporate MSM… count on & rely upon our civility, as cover and to hide their crimes of civilian genocide, mass murder of children, and endless profits from endless wars. 

 

Nothing less than immediate cessation of all hostilities & the immediate creation of the State of Palestine should be called for by all world leaders.

 

-       Genocide & the Fall of Western Credibility, By Gregg Wall (October 28, 2023)

 

 

By Gregg Wall (5-11-2024)

 

For many it’s been a really dark period.  The entire episode, since October 7, has been both eye-opening and galvanizing… millions and millions who were once pro-Israel or maybe ambivalent have had to rethink everything (in the face of Western corruption, certitude by Western elites surrounding the righteousness & right to commit mass murder, and repugnant Zionist leadership).  Genocide and the mass murder of children tends to have that effect.  An outfit called AIPAC Tracker, on X, names names and how much politicians have taken in from Israel and it's not pretty:  POTUS Biden $11.2 million; Senator Rubio $1.0 million; Senator Schumer $1.7 million; Rep Jefferies $1.3 million; Senator Fetterman $244K; Trump $1.0 million; Senator Graham $1.0 million and the list goes on and on.  Can you say, ‘compromised’? (One has to love the audacity of paying Israel $300 billion, since 1948, only for Israel to turnaround and buy the U.S. congress with American taxpayer money, or is that antisemitic to say?)  And without variation, in lockstep, Team AIPAC dutifully repeats their talking points over and over, as if they were members of the Israeli government.  I can barely stomach the American MSM news organizations but if you tune in, they too, parrot the same narratives, long discredited: the right to self-defense, no matter how disproportionate the response; Hamas must be brought to justice (no matter the thousands of women and children murdered by Israel and the U.S., no matter that Hamas is less than 1% of Gaza), and the lie to end all lies, anybody who disagrees with Bibi is an antisemite.  Trust me, given the damage the PM has done to America and Israel, Bibi - and his cabinet and billionaire sponsors - are the greatest antisemites on the planet (although Biden certainly is making a major contribution).

 

All this, despite, as reported in Haaretz, Bibi Netanyahu (aka Mr. Hamas) is trusted by less than 5% of the Israeli population.  All this, despite the fact, that Biden has consistently plumbed the depths of abysmal public approval ratings, and Congress has an approval rating of 13%.  Looks likes the crooks in the political class, in Israel and the United States, have a great deal in common. 

 

Meanwhile, the steady stream of devastation, destruction, murder, and great violence are jaw dropping.  No wonder congress wants to kill 1A, the Constitution, civil liberties, and social media (especially TikTok).  And still, congress, who can never seem to find a dime for the American people, shovels billions and billions at the genocide in Gaza and the war in the Ukraine, $95 billion in the latest authorization.  (The national debt is out-of-control, to such an extent the IMF is issuing warnings).  And the congress completely ignores the fact that Bibi funded, supported, and underwrote Hamas for fourteen years.  That Hamas operated inside Bibi’s Gaza prison camp. That ultimately, per Israeli press, Bibi was the beneficiary of the October 7^th attack.

 

Just how corrupt and racist are the members of congress?  Well, they are perfectly okay funding and authorizing a genocide, at last count some 35,000 souls, with approximately 10,000 more unaccounted for, and 14,000 children dead.  Absolutely wretched.  Of course, this doesn’t stop the Senate from demanding that the International Criminal Court not issue arrest warrants for Netanyahu and assorted thugs in Bibi’s cabinet.  In terms of ICC charges, as Israeli leadership goes, so goes the congress that is funding this entire nightmare.  This also doesn’t stop the Biden Admin from indicating - in a pending report - that Israel has not violated international law, when Politico goes on to write the administration contradicts itself, hedges, and says that Israel has violated international law???

 

And then there’s the absolute contempt that drips from members of congress for peace protestors, students, college kids, who have made the simple demands for a ceasefire (along with the majority of Americans, including 80% of democrats) and that university endowments divest from defense contractors… hardly radical stuff.  And the response from federal, state, and local governments, many of them run by Dems: goon time, police state hooligans, violence, mass arrests, and like Israel’s response in Gaza, a complete militarized overreaction by the American establishment against peace protestors & very young adults.  Unvarnished thuggery. 

 

And congress and America have not seen anything yet.  Wait until the kids discover the American economy and good jobs have been hollowed out, liquidated, offshored, and consolidated into America’s totalitarian monopolies & utilities.  Wait until they discover systemic racism is embedded throughout the U.S. economy and healthcare and life itself are rationed.  Wait until the kids learn they’re indentured into trillions in national debt:  $39 trillion and counting for Wall St bailouts, corporate welfare, endless war, empire, colonialism, propping up the stock market, the perpetuation of the necro-death-economy.  All so that repugnant boomers can be filthy rich.  When people have nothing, are deep in debt, and they are systemically preyed upon, blowback inevitably occurs.  And what will a pampered and privileged gerontocracy’s/kleptocracy’s response be then? 

 

Cop city?  What happens when the establishment starts locking up white kids and young jews merely for protesting, The United States of Racism and Greed… our failed necroeconomy?  Or for stealing a loaf of bread? 

 

It’s ugly and it adds up to what many have known for some time, the United States is no more a democracy than China or Russia… and at least China doesn’t run around the globe attempting to backstop their economy with endless war, murder, and colonial subjugation and violence, so a few can cash in. 

 

 

 

 

 

It's really not fun to write about this every day.  I wish things were different.  I wish America was exceptional instead of tyrannical.   I wish America was indispensable instead of its leadership feared and loathed by the Global South, and yes, by America’s citizens.  I would love to believe the propaganda, the fairy tales, and lies we were all raised on… but increasingly that America no longer exists, if it ever did.  The middle class has been buried in a shallow grave.  It’s different when you are white and male. Although my life has been no picnic, I look at how blacks, gays, minorities, and women are treated in the U.S. and it’s absolutely disgusting.  And the folks America bombs to death overseas because they are brown or black skinned, and possess resources coveted by Western multinationals and oligarchs …  it’s why I celebrate every time I see erosion in America’s failed status quo (because I want to see the United States do well, I want to see the United States get better, reformed… I want to see all Americans do better).  But like a twelve-step program, American elites and the political class won’t even acknowledge the country is badly managed and that we have serious, serious problems. 

 

It all rolls up to a complete lack of accountability, arrogance, and avarice.

 

And the bright spots?  The young adults laying it on the line on the campuses, who have been radicalized by boomers, debt, many witnessing first-hand how their parents scrape by, the necroeconomy, an alleged democracy that continuously ignores the needs of the American people, corruption and racism that is built into the Great American Death Machine.  Outside agitators?  Really?  Who needs outside agitators to radicalize the kids when we have entirely corrupt state & federal governments, billionaires, the outside agitator of the State of Israel, imperious Washington, and greedy Wall St.? 

 

What other disinfectant and sunlight is coming this way?  The long prayed for arrest warrants from the ICC… may they come and soon, and may the warrants not be limited to the Israeli government.  More positive energy?  The fear that has finally taken hold of the Biden Administration, as it dawns on the party that Biden is toast and the Chicago Dem convention is likely not going to be the party they planned.  Did these idiots really believe they can murder thousands of innocent children, alienate their political base - repeatedly, blow off entirely their 2020 promises, and get away with it?  

 

It's 2016 all over again, and even snot-nosed Hillary is lurking around… like the bummer she is.  I don’t know whose decision it was to bring Hillary onboard Biden-Harris 2024 but Hills is the kiss of death.  A woman scorned, like Bill, by the American people and for very good reason.

 

And the final bright spot… the UN voted Friday, sidestepped the U.S., and started to further recognize Palestine.  Long, long overdue and a slap in the face to the United States government and every Western lackey government that follows America’s lead. 

 

Selah.

Copyright JM Hamilton Publishing 2024