Eat the rich" --from Aerosmith's "Eat The Rich" (Joe Perry, Steven Tyler, Jim Vallance)
Another 4th of July is on the near horizon, and as a life-long, reluctant citizen of The American Empire, I claim my right to criticize and reject a warped capitalistic system, which had its origins in unbridled genocide and slavery. From atop my pillar of righteous indignation, I reject the economic fiasco which thrives upon a never-ending procession of wars for profit, which conducts routine acts of population reduction, ethnic cleansing, and wholesale theft of resources at the expense of huddled masses of lesser people in foreign lands, and which does so with impunity, proudly proclaimed exceptionalism, and alleged divine guidance.
Gekko: The sociopathy of money incarnate. In a nation that venerates Ayn Rand and her argument that selfishness is a virtue, anything goes.
The quintessential capitalist pig, Gordon Gekko, nailed the truth when he proclaimed that the U.S.A. was a malfunctioning corporation. My country of origin and residence is indeed a corporation. A corporate conglomerate. My national, state, and local politicians are required to be corporate whores, or find employment elsewhere. Allegedly elected by and for the people, the only people served are those who buy their allegiance and write their laws. Gekko believed that the U.S.A. was malfunctioning, because it wasn't being run efficiently enough to maximize profits. I see the malfunction as being a country, claiming to be a beacon of freedom, which has taken the low road to fascism. Wall Street and Washington, D.C. are one in the same. Clinton is Raytheon, Bush is Exxon-Mobil, Obama is J.P. Morgan Chase, Trump is...well, Trump; seamlessly completing the merger of state and corporation. Gekko was obviously a big fan of fascism. Me, not so much.
The U.S. Empire is drunk on consumption, addicted to international theft and bullying through war, regime change, bribery, assassination, false flag events, and economic sanctions. The militarism of Empire exists through the creation of imaginary threats and fabricated enemies. Islam, Isis, Al Qaeda, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Syria. It matters little who the enemy is to an economy which feeds upon terror, chaos, and war. But the beast of capitalism has a soft underbelly, and those of us who pay attention to such matters now have reason to believe that Empire's days are numbered. The weapons of war in the U.S.A. are built to enrich the manufacturers, and are likely to be inferior and ineffective in comparison to those of Russia and China, which are built without a profit motive, and with actual warfare in mind. Forget the fact that, by some estimates, the U.S. Empire outspends the rest of the world combined. Rather take a look at the salaries of the CEOs of weapons manufacturers, and the bribes taken by our elected officials for approval of insipid weapons systems. Empire's bark is likely to be much fiercer than its bite. After all, it was unable to even win little wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, or Iraq. Or more likely, perpetual chaos has been the original intent after all. War for the sake of war profits, with the concept of actual victory in battle being so last century.
The U.S. Empire is drunk on consumption, addicted to international theft and bullying through war, regime change, bribery, assassination, false flag events, and economic sanctions. The militarism of Empire exists through the creation of imaginary threats and fabricated enemies. Islam, Isis, Al Qaeda, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Syria. It matters little who the enemy is to an economy which feeds upon terror, chaos, and war.
JOHN R. HALL, Senior Contributing Editor John R. Hall is a street-trained agnotologist with an advanced degree in American Ignorance. Other hats include: photojournalist, novelist, restaurateur, mountaineer, grocer, nurseryman, and janitor. He’s written three novels which have been read by almost nobody: ‘Embracing Darwin’, ‘Last Dance in Lubberland’, and ‘Atlas fumbled’. An untrained writer and college drop-out, he began his short career in journalism writing the ‘Excursion’ column for The Jackson Hole News & Guide. More recently he penned the ‘Left Column’ for The Molokai Island Times; appropriately on the island once known as a leper colony. John currently resides, writes, and protests injustice in the shadow of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, and walks among the spirits of those who once occupied the 79 Disappeared Pueblos. Read more John Halls’s articles. 
The U.S. Empire is drunk on consumption, addicted to international theft and bullying through war, regime change, bribery, assassination, false flag events, and economic sanctions. The militarism of Empire exists through the creation of imaginary threats and fabricated enemies. Islam, Isis, Al Qaeda, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Syria. It matters little who the enemy is to an economy which feeds upon terror, chaos, and war.
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Bloody brilliant overview. Thany you sincerely.
And let’s not forget that most often it is non-white, non-christians who become the enemies, victims, the exploited of the crusaders who must conquer, subjugate and destroy the other…. The endless need to consume and gorge on resources begins with the most innocent and defenseless victims of all: animals: Genesis 9:1-3 “The fear and dread of you shall rest on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the air, on everything that creeps on the ground, and on all the fish in the sea; into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be… Read more »