What have we become?
What have we become if to survive in our so-called “free world” we must turn a blind eye to cold-blooded genocide, must arm ourselves to oppose our major trading partner, must support a contrived war to defeat an adversary that no longer exists, (lest its new form otherwise achieves its potential) must sanction some and not others, trade with some and not others, and now must, yet again, be silent as another sovereign nation is brazenly plundered for its wealth.
Trump’s attack on Venezuela is not a “police operation” against a criminal “fugitive,” nor is it part of an “escalating pressure campaign” against a hostile regime. It’s none of the things that the White House and our media claims, faithfully copying and pasting stories supplied by the New York Times, CNN and the Washington Post .
Blithely asserting the right to “run” Venezuela and “take” the country’s vast oil reserves, in a textbook example of the 19th century colonialism, Trump’s actions brazenly violate international law and numerous entrenched conventions. And all of it whitewashed by our media in euphemistic pseudo-legalese, to impress those gullible enough.
With Trump not only flouting the US Constitution but no longer even pretending that this is about anything other than the theft of another country’s resources, bragging that U.S. oil companies will begin “taking a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground,” what does it say about us that we accept such brigandry ?
How, in God’s name, have we allowed ourselves to be swayed by the dribblings of a scurrilous misogynist, the associate of a convicted paedophile and a creature so altogether odious that, in any other context, we wouldn’t be seen dead with him?
Brandishing his big black marker, Trump, the unabashed narcissist, has changed the US Constitution from; “We the People…” to now read. “ME the People”!
When can we expect those we have entrusted to defend the principles we claim to represent, to stand up and say something? Or is it simply a matter of us being too gutless ourselves, too intimidated, too craven, to break ranks, step forward and say; “The Emperor has no clothes!”
Well he has to make a lot of noise to distract from his very close relationship with the former de facto Israeli ambassador to the United States.
Turning a blind eye to genocide in Syiia leads to turning a blind eye to genocide in Gaza.
Before Netanyahu began bombing hospitals in Gaza, Putin began bombing hospitals in Ukraine.
One thing leads to the other, blood on your hands.
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As Mariupol came under Russian attack, Ukrainian AP video journalist Mstyslav Chernov and his colleagues risked their lives to show the world the truth of the war — including the bombing of a maternity hospital. Watch an excerpt from “20 Days in Mariupol,”….
The award-winning documentary “20 Days in Mariupol” follows Chernov as he and his Ukrainian AP colleagues become trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol, struggling to continue their work documenting atrocities of the Russian invasion. The last international journalists remaining in the city as Russian forces close in, Chernov, photographer Evgeniy Maloletka and field producer Vasilisa Stepanenko captured what become some of the most defining images of the war: dying children, mass graves — and the maternity hospital bombing.
The problem is in the outmoded distribution of political power. The UN has the veto vote and is always crippled when it comes to vital and world changing decision making and action. It looks as though the UN might have to be bypassed and a new organization installed with the planet’s whole ecology on the table for review.
Malcolm, I think you focus on the Orange idiot too much. Reality is that he is a continuum, he is following a well trodden path from all recent presidents. He takes his cues from the oligarchs who are all neocons as are the deep state. The Orange idiot is a mere frontman.
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Trump allows the republican party to maintain a clean pair of hands as it uses him to fight its increasing demographic irrelevance. Projections indicated that voting rights suppression and gerrymandering of political districts would no longer be enough to keep it in power. Trump appears on the scene almost on cue. It needs to be remembered though that German business interests in the 1930s also found a front man for their fledgling political party they thought they could easily control.
The headstone on humanity will read ‘They seemed like a good idea at the time’. Great piece @ M.E.
Watch these two films. If you dare.
Idiocracy
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
and
Bokeh
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3722062/