JOHN VAROLI—At that time, however, the U.S. government couldn’t exert the full potential of imperial might and total social control that the ruling class today in Washington wields. Thanks to the rise of the modern digital society, the dictator’s dream of total surveillance and concentration of power are a few clicks away. The U.S. ruling class literally has at its disposal all the levers needed to manipulate and control.
CLASS ANALYSIS
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Eric Zuesse’s Dispatches: Why the U.S. Regime and Its Colonies Hide the Reality from their Public
by eric zuesse26 minutes readERIC ZUESSE—The first fact that they hide is that though elections are a NECESSARY part of any democracy, elections throughout the U.S. empire are only for PR purposes, to fool the deceived public to think that an election is a SUFFICIENT condition in order to BE a democracy. That ridiculous lie is universal throughout the U.S. empire — despite its ludicrousness. For example: Did you know that each of the two political Parties in America, the DNC and the RNC, is a closed self-appointing private club, which has no obligation to its voters — much less to the entire public — and so it can and sometimes does ignore vote-counts in its primary ’elections’, whenever it wants to?
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PEPE ESCOBAR—Michael Hudson once again has reminded everyone with a brain that the running NATO warmongering show has nothing to do with peaceful internationalism. It’s rather about “a unipolar U.S. military alliance leading toward military aggression and economic sanctions to isolate Russia and China. Or more to the point, to isolate European and other allies from its former trade and investment with Russia and China, making those allies more dependent on the United States.”
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EDITORS—The team demonstrates that far too many Democrats have become members of a cult inured to facts or reason, and which in this case will happily and stubbornly go down with the Biden ship. Apparently, not even Biden stalwarts like Rob Reiner can inject a measure of common sense. Their attitude almost guarantees another Russiagate—and worse than that as the country descends into a terrain that not even the ruling class managers are sure to control.
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ERIC ZUESSE—Domestically, America’s aristocracy are united against the public (their consumers and workers); and, so, their internal policies are united — Republican versus Democratic, or conservative versus liberal, as one — but differ only on their proposed ways of implementing this “neoliberal” domestic policy. However, on foreign policies, they are virtually 100% united on expanding yet further their empire, with virtually no difference on this “neoconservative” foreign policy — which is extraordinarily aggressive — to capture all countries that haven’t yet been brought into their ‘alliance’ (as being colonies of the U.S. empire).