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The corporate coup d'état and collapse of American democracy began long before Trump. He is simply snuffing out what remains.
The Christian fascists and oligarchs gleefully handing Donald Trump his sharpie and executive orders are not making war on the deep state, the radical left or to protect us from “antisemites.” They are making war on verifiable fact, the rule of law and the transparency and accountability that is only possible with a free press, the right to dissent, a vibrant culture and a separation of powers, including an independent judiciary.
All of these pillars of an open society, as I detail in my book “Death of the Liberal Class,” were degraded long before Trump. The press, including public broadcasting, academia, the Democratic Party, a corporatized and banal culture, a judiciary that serves the billionaire class and a Congress bought by lobbyists, have been disemboweled. They are easily picked off. Few want to rise up to defend them. They sold us out. Let them die.
“The loss of the liberal class creates a power vacuum filled by speculators, war profiteers, gangsters, and killers, often led by charismatic demagogues,” I wrote in “Death of the Liberal Class” in 2010. “It opens the door to totalitarian movements that rise to prominence by ridiculing and taunting the liberal class and the values it claims to champion. The promises of these totalitarian movements are fantastic and unrealistic, but their critiques of the liberal class are grounded in truth.”
Fascism is birthed by a bankrupt liberalism that has surrendered its traditional role in a capitalist democracy. It no longer ameliorates the worst excesses of the ruling class and the empire by instituting incremental and piecemeal reforms. It scolds and moralizes the disenfranchised workers it betrayed.
Media outlets prioritize access to the powerful more than truth. They amplified lies and propaganda to propel us into a war on Iraq. They lionized Wall Street and assured us it was prudent to entrust our life savings to a financial system run by speculators and thieves. Life savings were gutted. They fed us the lies of Russiagate. They slavishly cater to the Israel lobby, distorting coverage of the genocide and university protests to demonize Palestinians, Muslims and student protestors. They dance to the tune of their corporate advertisers and sponsors. They render whole sections of the population, whose misery, poverty, and grievances should be the principal focus of journalism, invisible.
I'll stop there before I let you go on to read the rest yourselves. That is unless you read before you observe my remarks of course. If you even have the respect for me, the other members, or yourself, to read at all before applying statements within ignorance of narratives and contextual delivery. It's likely I'll forget some of what clutters my mind as I comment on the above. But it's all something I've brought up here many times before.
But first allow me to add a couple points before I address the above. As Hedges points out, again, addressing some of what brought us to this point in time? Have you played a part in it? I know I surely have myself. My true full awakening didn't come until 2016. And if you correlate awake with woke, you haven't been paying close attention. Yea, like many of you I've known for decades something wasn't right. It began for me with Ross Perot. Then I was virtually hit upside my head by a 2X4 by Bernie Sanders. Maybe a steel pipe is more accurate. As I wondered through the Internet finding material to combat his opponent during his fake run for presidency, I found myself in a small world of unbiased news sources that ended up helping me deal with the delusional reality I'd been fighting to support before hand for years that brought me this new pain in my life. Ultimately it gave me a new cause. To support history, truth, and facts, that have been twisted and deceptive for me for my entire life. Every aspect of my life. You have no clue how deeply entwined into my life I've been effected by betrayals. That's a long story though. But I'm as close to mastering the recognition of betrayal as one can be. To the point where I now know we can largely betray only ourselves with poor judgments and decisions. And within the political arena, we have the ability to significantly decrease betrayal. But it takes work like the process I went through in 2016. Genuine, self intellectual, fortitude, towards discovery. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to do it either. You simply have to find the right types of people who lead with the information that correlates history with current information which provide the linking of facts and or sensible conjecture.
*For reference Frayed Bear: For me the following 2 quotes from Caitlin Johnstone's report are far more telling than commenting on the pissant performances of Genocidal Joe & Treacherous Trump -
"This is the dystopia we were warned about. It’s not some ominous threat looming on the horizon. It’s here. We are being psychologically manipulated at mass scale into consenting to the most nightmarish atrocities imaginable. Children’s bodies are being shredded to bits right in front of us. And when you turn on the TV you see famous people laughing and making jokes with fake plastic grins, babbling about vapid nonsense. This is the dystopia. It isn’t on its way. It’s here."
And
"To see it with eyes that are free from the cataracts of propaganda conditioning, with hearts that are free from the calluses of desensitization. Waking the public up is less about whistleblowers, FOIA requests and investigative journalism at this point than it is about finding creative and artistic ways to get people noticing the information that’s already public."
Me: Right. I get it. But I first have to get the attention of people who over several years of my posting that refuse to come to terms with the fact that this isn't a party issue. Suggesting as much as I can that it's a systematic issue within western governments. We have to break down that barrier within a significant amount of people yet who are trapped in that managed existence. And hope that as I extend this leading agenda that they'll actually read the articles provided that outline the message I'm attempting to project that detail the evidence of what I speak. Which another problem is getting them to actually read the articles to apply a sense of intellectual thought to all our issues. To many still don't get that yet either.
From a previous Johnstone post: [agnostic.com]
And this video of Hedges that I've posted in the past a number of times that apparently needs to be addressed again.
I'll address the video now though before I go back to the other aspects on the initial beginning. Just recently as yesterday Trump apparently is cutting off funding for public radio {NPR and PBS} Hedges addresses this in the article and this video. I've addressed it on a number of times. You can add the BBC to this also. These are radio entities that are firstly, widely, advertised as publicly funded stations. That's their first deceptive attribute. They are also widely funded by corporations, governments, billionaires, and other MSCMs. That basically makes it impossible for them to claim they are independent media sources. This funding doesn't come with any sense of independence. It comes with a large degree of expectancy of agenda driven delivery. You can correlate this with the funding ending of USAID and NED, and a few other areas. Where we are delivered a controlled narrative of their positive workings while the crimes they commit are hidden in which you'll only discover those through genuine independent sources. Trump and his administration hasn't themselves fully exposed the crimes of these entities. Just the biasness as reasoning. The crimes within these agencies will not be addressed, no one held accountable. They're simply distractions. In regards to these radio stations, their crime is the amount of dis/misinformation they deliver towards support of the capitalist agendas. Which Hedges also addresses in the article. They're collaborate in betraying us every bit as much as our representation does. And they have no party reference as Trump suggest it does. Or does/did the USAID or NED. They each work/ed well for those they were intended to work for. It isn't and wasn't us! The same program of agendas will continue with or without them.
In regards to the Johnstone article, and a couple of others I've posted more recently. I'm seeing more people who I've butted heads with before who seem to apparently be more acceptable of my post. I've witnessed movements in the past where I was hoping to see more people turning tides that went backwards shortly after. Hope falling wayside. I hope the past 4 years have provided an wakening in regards to the correlated policies related to the Biden administration compared to the incoming Trump administration which should be exposing much higher senses of concern. That these aren't any longer party issues. That we can now sensible go back over the past 5 decades or so and correlate the parties and politicians to each other as Hedges projects in the article. It really goes back much further though. Small steps are good for now!
Of course I forgot to comment on the other stuff. It's getting late for me on a day off, so, in short. All the other aspects in all that are areas we were to believe that Trump is at war with. When in fact, they're all working quite well in delivering much of everything he needs to pull off his chaotic adventures. Intelligence agencies, judicial system, the democratic party, military. There's no genuine attempt to end the lawlessness, pressure to apply the constitution or bill of rights, hold people accountable for crimes and unethical practices.
The shooter in Washington waited nearly 10 minutes after the attack before police arrived — then declared he did it ‘for Gaza.’
But watch how the Western media will now flood the world with headlines mourning two individuals, while remaining deafeningly silent on 40,000 Palestinians slaughtered, thousands of children starved, and war crimes that continue daily. When a single act of desperation is weaponised into global propaganda, yet genocide is framed as ‘self-defence’ — that’s not journalism. That’s complicity.
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It sounds a very reasonable opinion to me that complicity be concluded if " a single act of desperation is weaponised into global propaganda, yet genocide is framed as ‘self-defence’ — that’s not journalism. That’s complicity."
I'm more interested in the makeup of the shooter. True motive. While a narrative of him having shot 2 embassy staffers is being pushed in the media. They weren't staffers. Look up the definition of staffers for a government staffer for embassies. They were working class individuals working within the embassy. They held no responsibility for the actions going on in Gaza or against the Palestinians. It's highly unlikely they held any resemblance of the quality of attributes an embassy staffer mush hold to perform such duties. He shot 2 innocent people as though they were part of the causes of genocide and war. While those who support such were untouched. Why!?!
@William_Mary Seriously? I suspect that there are very few if any Israeli passport holders who are not complicit in the Palestinian genocide. For nearly 80 years Mossad operatives have been murdering people worldwide with impunity & frequent applause. Rabbis have been inciting Jews to genocide & "revenge" on all non Jews by claiming the Jews are God's chosen people for 3000 years - here's one of the latest -[hshidayat.wordpress.com]
@William_Mary the attitude of Jewish society led by its women who supposedly according to their religion are head of the family (does this explain the abnormally high incidence of rape & sexual violence against women in Israel?)
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@William_Mary however ffollowing receipt of the following opinion today your questioning may be justified.
@William_Mary and further information just received that an Haaretz poll published last week showed:
82% of Işraelis supported forced expulsion of Palestinians
65% of Işraelis supported a modern day enactment of Amalek - this means killing every man, woman, child and even animal.
3.56% supported expulsion of 'Israeli' Arabs
This is not a Netányahu problem
This is Işraelis causing a world problem.
@William_Mary and further: apparently another psycopath
@FrayedBear It's a societal structure issue just like in all western societies. For decades before the 80s, Israelis and Palestinians still lived as neighbors who basically had no problems with each other and shared life together. As Palestinians began to be pushed out and walls built, the questioning was present. Manufactured falsehoods behind a facade of racist representation and manipulative media over the decades along with fascistic structural changing laws, those generations of those who questioned were pushed into a background of silence and many have died off. A period of terrorist actions added complications to the issues. I refer back to my statements of how organizations proclaiming support for Palestinians over the years in regards to that period took the wrong type of actions as a means of confrontation. Purposely? Or agenda driven through manipulation by design through collaborations? Once total separation was thoroughly accomplished on a vast degree, controlled agenda narratives became the weapon towards the means to proceed with what we see today. Watch the video I posted today. It plays a part of the foundation I'm speaking about. Few of todays younger generations have no recollection of history to apply to the chaos of today. Historical facts are controlled and manipulate to ensure this.
Careful observation recognizes the same atmosphere happening in all western societies today. Where a number of our societies experienced hard terrorist acts as the middle east was in the heights of chaos. Terrorist attacks in western countries. After the first Trump win in 2016 for the US, it began a string of soft terrorism acts. Currently we're witnessing a sense of a soft terroristic environment within the arena of protest in all western societies. Only it's against those speaking out in dissent as western societies are going through the same scenario Israel went through beginning around the 80s. Again, fascistic laws are changing the course of reactions to structural crimes and unethical practices. Where a vast, significant, amount of our populations are mixed and confused by information control such as the Vietnam era. We're divided! Where many are manipulated and drawn from recognizing where to direct their attention. While only a sliver of us truly understand where the real problems exist. As in the video, we're a microcosm of the population united with only a microcosm of genuine alternative investigative journalism. Some of us fear to speak out because we can lose everything if we do. People ARE losing everything today for doing so. Also mentioned in the video. Gabor Mate's statement really put it in a nut shell.
Having been sanctioned & largely sent to Coventry by American members of this site I'm delighted to share this report with you:
A Global Uprising Against Israel… While the Arabs Remain Absent
A profound and tangible shift is underway in the global stance toward Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza. Though this change comes belatedly—more than 19 months into the aggression—it is undeniably significant. It signals a turning point: Israel is starting to lose its international backers, and the cost of this war is escalating beyond what Tel Aviv anticipated.
Many countries that once supported the Israeli occupation are now changing course. Most notably, the European Union, Britain, France, and Canada have moved beyond mere political condemnation. They are now pursuing real punitive actions against Israel. Britain, for instance, is considering recognising Palestine as an independent state. It has also imposed sanctions on settlers and settlement projects in the West Bank, summoned the extremist Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely, and suspended free trade negotiations with Israel.
Just hours before these announcements from Britain, France, and Canada, Spain and six other European nations made similar moves. Spain’s Prime Minister declared his country’s intention to help end Israel’s blockade and starvation war on Gaza—a statement that prompted Netanyahu’s government to suddenly agree to allow humanitarian aid into the besieged territory.
This dramatic pivot in international attitudes stems from a growing global awareness: Netanyahu’s war has become a reckless, aimless campaign. Despite months of excessive force, the Israeli army has failed to rescue even a single hostage through military means. Every freed individual was released through negotiated deals with Hamas—not force.
Even more telling, Israel has achieved none of the three core goals Netanyahu announced at the war’s onset on October 8, 2023:
The world—including Israel’s staunchest allies—can no longer defend or ignore the collective punishment and starvation campaign being waged. Even Tel Aviv’s most reliable partners now see the war as futile, lacking any strategic benefit. Its continuation not only undermines Israel’s own security, but jeopardises regional stability, with the threat of uncontrolled escalation looming larger each day.
A Tragic Absence: Where Are the Arabs?
In the midst of this unprecedented global momentum, one glaring and painful truth emerges: the Arab world is absent—politically, diplomatically, and morally.
This international pressure on Israel came just days after the Arab League summit held in Baghdad, which produced no action, no resolution, and no unified stance. The Arab states failed to take any collective decision, nor did any single government act independently to counter or deter Israeli aggression.
Even more troubling is that capitals with direct ties to Israel have gone out of their way to preserve those relations, despite the mounting death toll, starvation, and devastation in Gaza.
While the West slowly awakens to the magnitude of Israel’s crimes, the Arab regimes—with all their resources, influence, and proximity—remain on an extended vacation from political responsibility.
A deal was long ago struck with Arab oil countries. They get protection and in return they sell us oil as companies extract their oil with western technology. The US government sells our oil off to other countries. It's ass backwards to accomplish particular agendas within a controlled environment. Western governments also sell them weapons to help in wars against dissenting Arab nations when needed. While they agree to also stay out of any confrontations against dissenting Arab nations that the west wages war with, for what ever reason. Obviously, that usually is geared towards more resources.
It can get quite interesting in the near future though as these Arab oil countries are currently holding talks with Russia and China. I'm fairly certain there is some significant blowback coming from within their citizenships in regards to the Palestinian issue.
Shahid Bolsom - the coming collapse to corporate slavery or anopportunity for a new world?
Sorry. But this needs its own singular post with commentary. Which I'll do, if you don't mind this weekend. But let me state just from the few minutes I did put into it. We've went through this after WWll. The message highly correlates with the agenda I've been attempting to share here since 2017. Relative to the message that the WSWS and the SEP have been delivering for decades. Which has never been more imperative as today. And we drastically need more people to get with that program! To evolve. Or we'll continue down the path he's talking about.
@Marionville recently posted a quote that I have had to use, as this platform now censors my ability to post original lead items on any group, a quote on dignity. My response has been to use a written statement by Winston Churchill to Joseph Stalin in September 1943 :
Exactly. And what a wonderful seque into your quote for May 8 & 9 posts. The quote is from a letter written by Winston Churchill to Joseph Stalin. “I shall take the occasion to repeat tomorrow in the House of Commons what I have said before, that it is the Russian army that tore the guts out of the German military machine and is at the present moment holding by far the larger portion of the enemy on its front,” the British wartime leader wrote on September 27, 1944.
Trump & Starmer's recent obscene attempts to rewrite history identify not only their own perverse delusional propaganda but the dignity of all who died or suffered because of the WWII fascists now being lauded by Trump and Starmer along with the current day fascist legatees in USA, UK, Israel & Ukraine.¹
"“What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but ..." also the dignity of each of us. We lose dignity if we tolerate the intolerable”…………Baltazar Gracian.
¹ Prime Minister Keir Starmer's opening remarks at the White House press conference.
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"And it was so good to see the bust of Winston Churchill back in its rightful place just a moment ago."
@William_Mary I found the following article to have far more veritas than much of the obscenity currently espoused in current Western thinking.
@FrayedBear and the very same case can be made in regards to the war against the Japanese. That war was also basically over when the USSR went into China to battle the Japanese' million man army. The US and Britain were hoping that the Japanese would strongly weaken the USSR, making it easier to attack the USSR. But as on the western front, the USSR ended up handing the Japanese their asses.
@William_Mary just to hand this -
And here is a direct response to American arrogant diplomatic failure & racism:
A video showing the enticement, subsequent deaths & wounding of invading Israeli IDF squad in Rafah a few days ago but unlike Israeli videos showing gory bodies & mutilations this simply shows all going black as the building that the invaders are in explodes & collapses on them -
Strategic Message: The Resistance Remains Embedded and Unbroken
This ambush is not just a tactical success — it is a message to the world: Rafah is not a safe zone for the occupier. Even under siege, Gaza’s resistance remains agile, fortified, and deeply rooted in its terrain — above and below ground.
As the occupation ramps up its brutality in Rafah, targeting displaced families and civilian shelters, the Al-Qassam Brigades demonstrate that they are neither outgunned nor outmaneuvered. In fact, their ability to draw occupation troops into ambushes reflects an advanced level of strategic discipline and battlefield intelligence.
Final Thought: The Earth Will Not Be Quiet Under Their Boots
As the world watches Rafah under fire and Western leaders remain complicit, the resistance in Gaza continues to write history in the language of courage. This is not a battle between two armies — it is a confrontation between colonial machinery and indigenous faith, between iron injustice and a people whose hearts burn with the fire of truth.
Al-Qassam’s message is simple:
We may be outnumbered, but we are not outwilled.
This land recognises its sons — and buries its invaders.
Posted by William_MaryFrayedBear just brought my attention to a video that I need to study and do a post on.
Posted by William_MaryA symptom of perception management. The program was completed when the vast amount of the American citizenship became compliant to the delivery of MSM information. [consortiumnews.com]
Posted by William_MaryIt rarely never fails.
Posted by William_MaryIf You Wish Someone a Happy Memorial Day, You Fail to Understand Its True Meaning The mythology perpetuated at Memorial Day benefits no one save the militarists and war profiteers.
Posted by LufahyuMedia Sources; people from all walks and ideologies peruse a variety of source material available on the Internet, some more reliable than others.
Posted by joy2loveThe Neuroscience of Illusion - Scientific American
Posted by CherokeemanBlessings y'all.
Posted by Archeus_LoreA good meme for religious people to see . . . .
Posted by William_MaryIt has been questioned if Einstein actually made this statement.
Posted by William_Mary“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.
Posted by William_MaryHowever we have an escape-------[wsws.org]
Posted by William_MaryKeep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.
Posted by William_MaryThis fairly explains our political woes within our citizenry when it comes to the voting process that's managed within only 2 parties with their perceptions managed by propaganda designed to support ...
Posted by William_MaryI can pretty much apply this thought to just about everyone who has attempted to challenge my agenda here in this group, and my comments on social media in regards to our political arena.
Posted by William_MaryBy Apr.
Posted by William_MaryThe working class holds the strength to change the world for a better society for everyone. We just need to refuse to remain indoctrinated into their manufactured delusional reality.