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by CJ HOPKINS

So the neoliberal ruling classes are putting on a little revolution, to which you and I are cordially invited. The occasion is the takeover of the United States by Vladimir Putin and his Manchurian President or the official launch of the Trumpian Reich, whichever hysterical scenario you prefer. Dress is casual. Children are welcome, as this is a strictly non-violent uprising, which will take place on the weekends, mostly, so as not to interfere with school or work. Colorful signage and puppets are encouraged, but you can leave your gas mask and welder’s gloves at home, as there won’t be any tear gas canisters or rubber bullets coming your way. Oh, and it will definitely be televised.

The rebellion began on January 21, the day after Trump’s inauguration, when the nation’s capitol was stormed by thousands of militant liberals in pink woolly hats. Michael Moore and Madonna were there, as was John Kerry, and his dog, apparently. Expletive-laden speeches were delivered. Virtue was signaled. Selfies were taken. Requiems for Saint Obama were sung. Notwithstanding the totally unthreatening nature of the whole affair, according to Charles “The Withering Gaze” Blow, Resident Guerrilla Fighter at The New York Times, this was the birth of a new “dissident” movement. “This was an uprising! This was resistance!” The Withering Gaze cried out from the barricades, or from his offices high above midtown Manhattan. Much of the mainstream media concurred. “The Women’s March will spark the resistance!“The Guardian assured its Jacobinian subscribers. “The Resistance Rises!” proclaimed Time‘s new cover. CNN featured “The Twitter Resistance.” Rolling Stone introduced “The Leaders of the Resistance,” a coalition of grassroots activists, NGOs, and business interests, but mostly it was the Pussy Hat People that were being marketed as the movement’s vanguard.

Which, all right, credit where credit is due to the organizers of the Women’s March. Calling it a “Women’s March” (a) imbued it with a grassroots aura, (b) obscured the larger power struggle between the neoliberal establishment and the neo-nationalist Trump regime, and (c) rendered it impossible to criticize without coming off as a misogynist creep. What kind of monster, after all, would want to criticize millions of women dressed as vaginas and other reproductive organs for “being proactive about women’s rights,” and “joining in their diversity,” and so on, because they accidentally happened to organize their protests in a way that perfectly aligned with the aims of the global neoliberal establishment, which is relentlessly delegitimizing Trump for reasons that have nothing to do with women? Imagine, if they had called it a “Liberals’ March,” or a “Deep State March,” or a “March to Restore the Democrats to Power as Soon as Possible.” It wouldn’t have been anywhere nearly as effective, in terms of framing the official narrative.

The “Resistance” sprang into action again in response to Trump’s “Muslim Ban” this weekend. Following word that he had ordered a blanket entry ban of people from a list of seven so-called “countries of concern” (that the Obama administration had identified in its Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015, and stripped of Visa Waiver Program privileges), Michael Moore blew his Twitter horn, summoning thousands of outraged protesters to Terminal 4 of JFK Airport to militantly assemble in a designated area (so as not to impede the normal flow of traffic) and completely shut down an adjacent parking lot. The protests spread to airports throughout the country and “sparked “fury and anguish around the world,” according to the Sunday edition of The Guardian (which, as of approximately 08:30 this Sunday has gone to Emergency Live-Tweet mode to cover every fascistic twist in this evolving Fall of Democracy story).

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Now, before any Trumpward-leaning readers get too excited about where I’m going with this, I should probably state for the record here that I regard the man as a dangerous idiot, made even more dangerous by the fact that his program appears to be primarily the work of Steve Bannon, who is not an idiot and is much more dangerous. I’m imagining Bannon slouched on a couch in his lair in the White House this Sunday morning, sporting his signature impish grin as he scans the reaction of the mainstream media to his latest perfectly calculated gambit. The man knows exactly what he’s doing. With a stroke of Trump’s pen he has simultaneously reassured his neo-nationalist base that Trump’s promises were not just empty threats and provoked the media and urban liberals into an understandable but mindless frenzy of unfocused anti-Trump “resistance.” This is a textbook insurrectionist tactic that Bannon has been employing with alarming success.

[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hat kind of monster, after all, would want to criticize millions of women dressed as vaginas and other reproductive organs for “being proactive about women’s rights,” and “joining in their diversity,” and so on, because they accidentally happened to organize their protests in a way that perfectly aligned with the aims of the global neoliberal establishment, which is relentlessly delegitimizing Trump for reasons that have nothing to do with women?

The reason he has been so successful is that the Trump regime and the neoliberal establishment are playing to two entirely different audiences. The Trumpians are playing to “flyover country,” not just nationally, also internationally. For reasons I’ll get into in more detail shortly, many of these non-urban working class folks are not real thrilled with Globalism and are responding to Trump’s neo-nationalist message. The neoliberal elites are playing to their base, most of whom are no less misguided than the folks they deride in “flyover country.” This is mostly due to the identity politics that have been part and parcel of neoliberal ideology for going on the last fifty years, and is why the so-called “resistance” to Trump is centered around issues like racism and misogyny, rather than any kind of cogent reading of the global political dynamics at play here.

This is the problem with identity politics when divorced from a broader political discussion and over-simplified for mass consumption. By occupying the conceptual territory where any deeper or more threatening analysis of political dynamics might take place, it prevents the formation of such analysis. It answers the question “Who is fighting who?” in advance of the question being asked, in order to prevent it being asked.

So who is fighting who in this case, if it’s not as simple as the forces of Love fighting the forces of Racism and Hate? Well, here’s one way of looking at it …

What we’re experiencing throughout the West at present is a neo-nationalist insurrection against Globalism. An “insurrection” because global Capitalism is a global-hegemonic system. It has no viable external enemies. People, unhappy with how Capitalism has been restructuring their lives since the end of the Cold War, and aware that power has been gradually shifting from sovereign nations to supranational entities, multinational corporations, international institutions, and so on, are reaching for the only alternative on offer, Neo-nationalism, in one form or another. Which is what the Trumpians and the Brexit gang are promising, a halt of the spread of global Capitalism and the restoration of national sovereignty.

The neoliberal ruling classes, naturally, would like to prevent this from happening. Which, make no mistake, they are going to do (although they may let Trump, Bannon, et al. go ahead and have their War on Islam to finish destabilizing the Middle East first). What is being marketed to us as the “resistance to Trump,” technically, is a counter-insurgency operation … the global neoliberal establishment quashing the neo-nationalist uprising. But that kind of thing doesn’t sell very well. What sells much better is Hitler hysteria, neo-McCarthyite propaganda, and emotionally loaded trigger words that short circuit any kind of critical thinking, words like “love,” “hate,” “racism,” “fascism,” “normal,” and of course “resistance.”

The irony is, the actual resistance (if the word “resistance” still has any meaning) is the one being waged by the neo-nationalists, who are in fact resisting something, namely Neoliberalism, which is clearly the dominant force in this equation. This doesn’t make them any more righteous, unless you’re in favor of racism, sexism, theocracy, and other such despotic values. “Resistance” is not a virtue in itself. Its virtue depends on who is doing the resisting, and what they’re resisting, and on various other sociopolitical and historical factors that won’t fit into a tweet or a sound bite.

In any event, the quandary folks on the Left are currently facing is twofold: (1) how to oppose the Trumpians, and other neo-nationalist insurgencies, without serving the interests of Neoliberalism; and (2) how to oppose Neoliberalism without serving the interests of the Neo-nationalists. Which is more or less a classic Zen koan designed to make one’s head explode.

Both the neoliberals and the neo-nationalists know this, and will be using it to pressure us into joining their camps. Until this insurrection is neutralized, and the Trumpians are either removed from office or tamed (which at this point seems rather unlikely), the Neoliberal Liberation Army will be barraging us on a daily basis with news of the imminent end of everything and histrionic entreaties to “resist.” Meanwhile, Bannon (who will continue to run things while Trump obsesses over the size of his whatever) will be relentlessly pushing his agenda forward. The scary thing is, he is obviously smart enough to know that his insurrection is doomed if the fight remains merely on the economic level (i.e, trade deals, bringing back jobs, et cetera). He understands the global economy, as do the rest of Trump’s Goldman Sachs team. Which means it probably won’t be all that long until the War on Islam gets officially launched, as there’s nothing like a war to unite a country … and manufacturing military ordnance at home won’t screw with the price of people’s smartphones.

Hopefully, by the time that war begins, The Withering Gaze and the Pussy Hat People (most of whom had zero qualms about Obama bombing seven Muslim countries to serve the interests of the neoliberal establishment that has been aggressively restructuring the Middle East since the end of the Cold War with total impunity) will have morphed into an actual revolutionary army, one that doesn’t get decommissioned whenever a Democrat moves into the White House, but I kind of have my doubts about that.

This essay is crossposted with Counterpunch, where it originally appeared.

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By Mark Taliano

Dateline: Global Research, January 26, 2017

Did the Women’s March, billed as the biggest protest in U.S history, appear prominently on corporate news? If it did, then the death industry Establishment approves of it. MSM promotes war.

Did the Women’s March oppose Trump? If yes, then it is misdirected. Hillary Clinton is among the most powerfully misogynist politicians in Washington. She supports Wahhabism, Sharia law, death and destruction in her criminal foreign policy words and deeds. When Muammar Gaddafi was murdered, and Libya destroyed by NATO forces supporting al Qaeda troops, she rejoiced, “We came, we saw, he died”.

Clinton and her neo-con cabal support all the terrorists in Syria and beyond. The terrorists in Syria seek Sharia Law and sectarianism, and ruin, and pillage, and rape, and plunder of a democratically-elected secular, pluralist country. Linda Sasour, a march organizer, even feigned support for Sharia law on a tweet:

This misrepresentation of extraordinarily misogynist Sharia law appears to be a nuanced gesture of support for NATO’s terrorists in Syria, who impose Sharia law on hapless Syrians in occupied areas.

Marwa Osman, a political analyst and lecturer at Lebanese International University (LIU) responded on Facebook : “Someone strap her to one of those “aid” packages and throw her over Idlib. She will love sharia law there.” (Idlib is a hotbed for head-chopping Western-proxy terrorists in Syria.) And Australian artist Diane Mantzaris questioned:

Where were #WomensMarch protesters when Obama and Hilary’s trained funded and armed terrorists brutalised Syrian and Iraqi women and sold them into sex slavery? When pregnant women were eviscerated, their stomachs cut open with swords and their unborn babies ripped out and hung from trees?

The Obama administrations dirty war on Syria IS a war on Women.

Syria and her allies are still fighting cleaning up after your inability to look at the bigger picture to see past their cruel war, their cruel sanctions, their genocidal brutality inflicted on women and their families, you and your small minded life in a bubble ignorance, a compliant product of the administration you support. TAKE A WALK!

Clinton and the Democrats supported and orchestrated illegal foreign government- change operations as policy. In Honduras, Clinton et al. destroyed the democratic government and replaced it with a suite of narco dictators and their death squads. One of their most recent hits was indigenous leader Berta Caceres.

Where were #WomensMarch protesters when Obama and Hilary’s trained funded and armed terrorists brutalised Syrian and Iraqi women and sold them into sex slavery? When pregnant women were eviscerated, their stomachs cut open with swords and their unborn babies ripped out and hung from trees? The Obama administrations dirty war on Syria IS a war on Women. Syria and her allies are still fighting, cleaning up after your inability to look at the bigger picture to see past their cruel war, their cruel sanctions, their genocidal brutality inflicted on women and their families, you and your small minded life in a bubble ignorance, a compliant product of the administration you support. TAKE A WALK!

So the feminist opposition was controlled and approved by the media and the Establishment. The CIA, in concert with the oligarch –drenched Establishment was also quite likely trying to foment a “color revolution” -type operation. The predominant color was pink (a Pink Revolution?). Reportedly, pink hats with ears were the fashion statement of the day – pussy hats? All of which recalls the Pussy Riot caper, which was likely a CIA operation to demonize Vladimir Putin. It also ties in with the girls from FEMEN, at least one of whom was at the Odessa massacre in the Ukraine, an illegal neo-Nazi-infested coup that is destroying Ukraine at this moment, thanks in large part to neo-con Victoria “F *** the EU” Nuland.

The march failed so far in the sense that Trump is President, but it succeeded in the sense that a pacified population could let off steam and publicly disapprove of Trump. I don’t follow MSM so I don’t know all the stories invented about Trump apart from golden showers or whatever the allegation was. But Trump says he wants peace with Russia, and he talks about dissolving the NATO terror organization etc., which is preferable to war criminal Hillary’s threats against Syria and Iran and the world.

Meanwhile, amidst the spectacles, the distractions, and the controlled-opposition, the slaughters, and beheadings, and genocide continue apace overseas. Voices from what remains of the “progressive movement” are barely audible, and the “Left” has been almost completely coopted.

The Establishment and the oligarch class couldn’t be happier.

The original source of this article is Global Research

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by Ann Garrison

If you watched it on TV, the Women’s March on Washington seemed to be a Democratic Party, Hillary-Is-My-President affair. “It was all about protection and equal opportunity for women and all racial and religious minorities, but that didn’t include protection from predatory financial institutions, from all intrusive spying, or from sacrifice to foreign wars for resources and global hegemony.”

“Michael Moore urged everyone to start calling their Congressional reps every single day, and run, at the very least, for Democratic Party precinct delegate.”

I didn’t show up for the Womens’ March on the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration. I didn’t go to DC or join the local Oakland and San Francisco manifestations. I was way too sick to go anywhere, but I hadn’t been planning to anyway. What were we going to protest? That Donald Trump won the election? That Hillary lost? That Trump’s in Putin’s pocket? That Trump is a pussy grabbing, wall building, climate change denying, health care abolishing, tax dodging, shit spewing, demagogue [3]? That his campaign nevertheless struck a chord in the heartland that Hillary’s did not and enabled him to win the electoral college? That he promised to withdraw the U.S. from the Trans Pacific Partnership? (As he did within his first few days in office.)

Were we to protest because Trump wants to create a Muslim registry? That’s not good, but Bush did that; it was called the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) or INS Special Registration. Obama maintained it until December 22, 2016, when he dismantled it so Trump would have to start over.

Were we to protest because Trump might withdraw U.S. troops from Europe’s borders with Russia? During the week of the inauguration, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reassured [4] us that President Obama had greatly reduced the risk of that by deploying thousands more troops to Norway and Poland on his last two days in office, meaning that there are now more troops deployed in Europe than at any time since World War II. “Here’s the question,” Maddow said, “Is the new president gonna take those troops out? After all the speculation, after all the worry, we are actually about to find out if Russia maybe has something on the new president? We’re about to find out if the new president of our country is going to do what Russia wants once he’s commander-in-chief of the U.S. military starting noon on Friday. What is he gonna do with those deployments? Watch this space. Seriously.”

“Chris Hedges described the march as ‘tepid,’ but said that this is how movements start and that it might grow into something larger.”

Even if I hadn’t been sick, I was disinclined to march, but I switched on the broadcast reporting, alternating between CNN, MSNBC, Democracy Now, and a raw video livestream, so this is my response to the broadcast spectacle, not to the event as experienced in the streets. A number of my friends who were in the streets were elated by the size and energy of the crowds and say they had a more radical, more promising experience than what I saw broadcast. Chris Hedges, speaking to TruthDig, described the march as “tepid,” but said that this is how movements start and that it might grow into something larger. Not necessarily, but he thought it had it possibilities of growing into a more radical challenge and I hope he’s right.

I hadn’t expected to be much interested in the broadcasts for the same reasons I was disinclined to go, but I was immediately mesmerized by what a carefully staged and confined spectacle it was, by what it accepted and what it didn’t, at least as broadcast. The most glaring exclusions were opposition to U.S. wars, to the NSA’s spying on our every phone call and our daily lives, and to the Wall Street financialization schemes that led to the 2008 crash, the bank bailout, the foreclosures and the destruction of middle class wealth, including half that of the Black population. [5]

CNN and MSNBC had one overriding concern: whether or not the Democratic Party could harness all this energy into wins in 2018 and 2020, or whether it would simply dissipate like Occupy and the Tea Party. Democracy Now made no attempt to force that framework on it, but included no alternate analysis either.

“The most glaring exclusions were opposition to U.S. wars, to the NSA’s spying on our every phone call and our daily lives, and to the Wall Street financialization schemes.”

The speakers who came to the podium all appeared to assume that the half million or more people present were all members of the Democratic Party and no one was more excited about this than filmmaker Michael Moore. He urged everyone to start calling their Congressional reps every single day, to make it a part of their morning routine, as soon as they’d made the coffee. He urged them to run for local office, city council, school board or, at the very least, Democratic Party precinct delegate.

However, something happened as Michael Moore was putting the finishing touches on his vision that we all fix our sights on pushing the old Democratic leadership aside — despite all the good things they’ve done — and taking over the Party. When he started a sentence with, “And when we take over the DNC. . . ,” Ashley Judd suddenly burst on the stage, rudely interrupting him, and starting her overwrought “I am a nasty woman” performance. Before she was done she had saluted a long list of other heroic “nasty women,” including not only Hillary Clinton but also Condoleezza Rice.

Michael Moore did not say “Excuse me, Ashley, but I haven’t finished explaining how we’re going to take over the DNC.” Instead he tried to save face by saying, “Oh my God, here’s Ashley Judd.”

Here’s a list of other choice moments created by a few of the other speakers:

America Ferrera: “It’s been a heart-rending time to be both a woman and an immigrant in this country. Our dignity, our character, our rights have all been under attack, and a platform of hate and division assumed power yesterday. But the president is not America. His cabinet is not America. Congress is not America. We are America. And we are here to stay.”

What’s wrong with that? America Ferrera is the daughter of Honduran immigrants. She endorsed Hillary Clinton in the primaries and general elections, first in 2008, then in 2012. The overthrow of populist Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya engineered by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not change her mind. Neither did the ensuing flood of Hondurans desperately trying to cross our borders to safety, most of all children.

Gloria Steinem: “I’ve been thinking about the uses of a long life. And one of them is that you remember when things were worse. We remember the death of the future with Martin Luther King, with Jack Kennedy, with Bobby Kennedy, with Malcolm X. Without those deaths, for instance, Nixon would not have been elected and there would not have been many of the wars that we have had.”

Huh? These assassinations of the 1960s brought on the wars that destroyed Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and very nearly Syria? The ongoing 15-year Afghanistan War?

Madonna and her ilk demonstrated the infuriating ignorance and pathetic naivete of these multimillionaire celebrity “activists”. Hillary Clinton—”the Good”—did not win the election? Hillary??!! WTF! (Madonna’s net worth is put at $500 MM.)

Madonna: “It seems as though we had all slipped into a false sense of comfort that justice would prevail and that good would win in the end. Well, good did not win this election but good will win in the end. (sic) So what today means is that we are far from the end. Today marks the beginning, the beginning of our story. The revolution starts here. The fight for the right to be free, to be who we are, to be equal.”

A ‘false sense of comfort” that “good” [Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party] could have won this election and will in the end?

Van Jones: “When Barack Obama went flying away in that helicopter, I felt like something beautiful was dying. And I felt that something that we had all worked for and that we had all given our hopes and our dreams to was dying. And yet, with every breakdown, a breakthrough is possible, and today, because of you, something beautiful is being reborn in America. Something beautiful is being born right here and right now.”

The Democratic Party has obviously eaten Van Jones’s brain.

Those notably absent from the stage included:

Chris Hedges, author of many books and fierce critic of the Democratic/Republican Party duopoly

David Swanson, Executive Director of World Beyond War and author of “War Is a Lie”

Ellen Brown, founder of the Public Banking Institute

Glen Ford, critic of capitalism, US wars, and the “Black Misleadership Class”

Glenn Greenwald, journalist who, with Edward Snowden, revealed that the NSA has left us nowhere to hide from its spying on all our communications and even our daily lives

Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate, who called for immediately halving the military budget and instituting a “Green New Deal” to create sustainable infrastructure and employ all Americans

Michael Klare, critic of the U.S. war in Syria and the NATO buildup on Russia’s border

Naomi Klein, critic of disaster capitalism and pending climate destruction

Ralph Nader, public interest lawyer and activist and three time Green or independent candidate for president

In many ways, the event resembled the Democratic National Convention, which Counterpunch Editor Jeffery St. Clair called “a neutron bomb of identity politics.” It was all about protection and equal opportunity for women and all racial and religious minorities, but that didn’t include protection from predatory financial institutions, from all intrusive spying, or from sacrifice to foreign wars for resources and global hegemony.

Nor did it include any concern for the protection of women, families, and nations targeted by U.S. wars, drone assassinations, and covert destabilization. I don’t know how the Womens’ March organizers and/or donors so carefully confined protest, but it was very confined, at least in the broadcast spectacle projected from the stage in Washington D.C.

I’m sure there were more radical off stage expressions in local marches and in D.C., but that’s what I saw on TV. I hope Chris Hedges is right that it might contain the seeds of a more fundamental challenge.

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The Resistance and Its Double

by CJ HOPKINS

This essay is crossposted with Counterpunch, where it originally appeared.

C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright and satirist based in Berlin. His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) and Broadway Play Publishing (US). He can reached at his website, cjhopkins.com, or at consentfactory.org.

Women’s March for Misogyny?

OpEds
By Mark Taliano

Did the Women’s March, billed as the biggest protest in U.S history, appear prominently on corporate news? If it did, then the death industry Establishment approves of it. MSM promotes war.

Copyright © Mark Taliano, Global Research, 2017 / Global Research is a fraternal organization.

Mark Taliano is a retired high school teacher. Currently he is a writer and activist residing in the Niagara region.

The Women’s March in Washington D.C., as Broadcast [1]

by Ann Garrison

“Michael Moore urged everyone to start calling their Congressional reps every single day, and run, at the very least, for Democratic Party precinct delegate.”

“Chris Hedges described the march as ‘tepid,’ but said that this is how movements start and that it might grow into something larger.”

“The most glaring exclusions were opposition to U.S. wars, to the NSA’s spying on our every phone call and our daily lives, and to the Wall Street financialization schemes.”

The perils of false equivalencies and self-proclaimed centrism

BY GLENN GREENWALD

The Resistance and Its Double

by CJ HOPKINS

This essay is crossposted with Counterpunch, where it originally appeared.

C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright and satirist based in Berlin. His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) and Broadway Play Publishing (US). He can reached at his website, cjhopkins.com, or at consentfactory.org.

Women’s March for Misogyny?

OpEds By Mark Taliano

Did the Women’s March, billed as the biggest protest in U.S history, appear prominently on corporate news? If it did, then the death industry Establishment approves of it. MSM promotes war.

Copyright © Mark Taliano, Global Research, 2017 / Global Research is a fraternal organization.

Mark Taliano is a retired high school teacher. Currently he is a writer and activist residing in the Niagara region.

The Women’s March in Washington D.C., as Broadcast [1]

by Ann Garrison

“Michael Moore urged everyone to start calling their Congressional reps every single day, and run, at the very least, for Democratic Party precinct delegate.”

“Chris Hedges described the march as ‘tepid,’ but said that this is how movements start and that it might grow into something larger.”

“The most glaring exclusions were opposition to U.S. wars, to the NSA’s spying on our every phone call and our daily lives, and to the Wall Street financialization schemes.”

The perils of false equivalencies and self-proclaimed centrism

BY GLENN GREENWALD

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By Mark Taliano