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"Dictatress of the world": A prophetic 200-year old warning is ignored to our peril

Draft of the Declaration of Independence presented to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia on June 28, 1776. (painting by John Trumbull, 1819)


Until the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the Western world was a grim place. Power was concentrated in the hands of a small group of megalomaniacs who never had enough wealth and power. They exploited their own people and often waged war against neighbors in order to acquire even more power and wealth.

Indeed, by far the most fundamental problem that the American Founding Fathers faced was how to prevent a group of people from concentrating power in its hands and establishing a dictatorship.

Building a radically new form of government is precisely why we speak of the American Revolution and not merely the War of Independence. The true revolution is found in American political philosophy.

While the first shots in the anti-colonial war against Great Britain were fired in 1775, the U.S. political system today was only established and ratified in summer 1787 at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.

The Founding Fathers devised an ingenious solution to mitigate the inherently dangerous and corrupt nature of state power. At the Constitutional Convention they unveiled the concept of the separation of powers: Vital state responsibilities are divided among competing branches of government. Each checks the power of the others, making a dictatorship very difficult to engineer.

In addition, power was further divided by a federal system, whereby each state had the authority to rule in its jurisdiction according to the will of the local population. This brilliant system suited the young United States, which in 1787 stretched almost 1,500 miles along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, from frigid Maine to subtropical Georgia.

Truly it’s a fearful thing to fall into the hands of Man, the most dangerous predator on Earth. The Founding Fathers understood this loathsome fact about human nature. So their goal was to build a new Republic that would restrain state power and offer people some protection, even in an imperfect system with severe growing pains (and which exploded into civil war in 1861).


John Quincy Adams at home in Massachusetts; photo 1843, by Philip Haas


The above phrase uttered by Adams before the House of Representatives is well known, but scholars rarely quote what he said next. Here’s more of his speech, which helps us to understand the moral predicament of U.S. foreign policy today.

“[The U.S.] goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.
She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
She is the champion and vindicator only of her own…
“[The U.S] well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence,
she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.
The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force....
She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit....”

Those prophetic words were said 200 years ago and are well known today to our foreign policy elite. However, they deliberately ignore and disregard Adams’ warning. Clearly, the temptation of power and wealth are too great. Foreign adventures are very profitable for the American ruling class. Just look at the conflict in Ukraine.

In the 1960s the U.S. went abroad ‘in search of monsters to destroy’ and became ensnared in the quagmire of Vietnam that killed roughly a million Vietnamese. Then in 1990, and in 2001, we invaded the Middle East ‘in search of monsters’ (First Gulf War, the War on Terror) and left many countries in that region in even more chaos, poverty, and despotism, destroying the lives of millions of people.

U.S. crime. My Lai massacre iconic photo (March 1968)


It’s high time that we Americans face the bitter reality. The Republic is dead. We should now speak of the American Empire. Our era is reminiscent of the end of the Roman Republic more than 2,000 years ago.

Yes, one can argue that America’s first steps toward empire began with the conquest of northern Mexico in the mid 1840s, or with the war against Spain in 1898 and the brutal conquest of the Philippines and Puerto Rico, as well as the Kingdom of Hawaii.

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.

Perhaps the most important lever is control of the media and the ‘narrative’. These tools allow the ruling class to fabricate any reality, and then that fake reality is weaponized as a means to cement political, economic and social power.

Who is this ruling class? Since 2001 and the Orwellian named “War on Terror”, control of U.S. foreign policy has been centralized in an unholy alliance of powerful interests: the military-industrial complex, the national security state, major financial conglomerates, major media corporations, and Big Tech.



Decades ago, General Butler (1935) and President Eisenhower (1961) warned about the danger of the military-industrial complex. But today, the concentration of vast power in the hands of our ‘Party of War’ in Washington is unprecedented. The inclusion of the resources of Big Media and Big Tech is what’s different. Now, they can subvert democracy and freedom in the U.S. and across the globe with ease.

In my youth, any journalist who wanted to make a name for himself/ herself relished the opportunity to challenge the government. Today, American journalists are fearful and aware that such criticism can end one’s career. Self-censorship is now the first rule of journalism. But even worse, many journalists eagerly embrace and publish whatever they’re fed by the White House and ‘anonymous’ government sources.

A free and independent media has always been the main bulwark against dictatorship. But today, most media companies gladly collude with the federal government. And so, we need to face a harsh reality — western nations are becoming totalitarian. If there’s no freedom of thought and press, then a country can’t be considered “free”.

Don’t forget — Nazi Germany was one of the world’s most educated, cultured, advanced and prosperous nations. That didn’t prevent Germany from becoming totalitarian. And of course that regime had a bloodlust for foreign conquest. So don’t think that it can’t happen in the U.S.

There comes a point in life when you just can’t stand by and watch more wars and atrocities committed with our taxes, in our name, and cynically in the name of ‘freedom and democracy’.

So, my fellow Americans, and especially those of you who serve the government: Please think very carefully about what type of country you want to leave your children. You were born into a free and democratic America. Don’t you want to leave that same country to your children?

Let’s find a way to break the Party of War’s stranglehold on power, and let’s stop going abroad in search of monsters to destroy.



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Eric Zuesse’s Dispatches: Why the U.S. Regime and Its Colonies Hide the Reality from their Public

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Truman: probably the worst president ever, although in criminality he has robust competition.


Why the U.S. Regime and Its Colonies Hide the Reality from their Public 

The central reality ever since Harry S. Truman started the Cold War on 25 July 1945has been and is that the U.S. Government is determined to capture Russia in order to culminate and satisfy the craving that America’s billionaires (who control the U.S. Government via their ‘news’-media, think tanks, and other propaganda-agencies) have, to achieve the world’s first-ever all-encompassing and unchallengeable global empire (it’s called “U.S. hegemony”). Just months after Hitler died with that dream for Germany’s Government, Truman took up this banner for America’s Government. It’s too ugly a fact for the empire to allow the public to know. This fact explains not only the U.S. regime’s secretly protecting thousands of ‘former’ Nazis and hiring them for work against the Soviet Union (which had no similar program of hiring Nazis to work against the U.S.), but also the nearly a hundred post-WW2 coups and over 130 U.S. military invasions and occupations of countries throughout the world after WW2 — clearly the world’s most aggressive country ever, with the only possible exception having been Hitler’s Germany. But within the U.S. empire (the U.S. and its nearly 50 colonies), it is unknown because strictly prohibited to assert and even more strictly prohibited to document (think, for example, of the thousands of ‘classified’ documents from 1945 to 1955 — more than 65 years ago — that still are hidden by the U.S. Government and its satellites, and of the uncounted thousands of others that have been released only recently and so heavily expurgated as to be virtually uninterpretable). Why does the U.S. Congress not pass a law forcing the U.S. Government to publish ALL documents in its possession that are more than 30 years old? Why don’t its ‘allies’ do it? And they have the nerve to call themselves democracies! (And to call the nations they aim yet to conquer ‘autocracies’ or ‘dictatorships’!) Only fools can trust such hypocritical regimes, because these Governments lie about themselves vastly more than other Governments do — they have to do it in order to remain in power ‘democratically’ (meaning with elections).

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? And it consists of representatives of the mega-donors, and is funded by billionaires and their agents including lobbyists. For example, these are the reasons why Bernie Sanders, whom no billionaire donated to, actually never had a chance to win the Democratic Party’s nomination, regardless of what the voters wanted. It’s all for show, and the show must go on.

The second fact they hide is the falsehood of the belief that a multi-Party Government is necessarily more democratic than a one-Party Government is. By hiding the falsehood of that allegation, they falsely allege that they themselves ARE a “democracy” because they have multiple Parties (representing different factions within the aristocracy). The ridiculousness of that falsehood is now painfully evident in the indisputable fact that in both the U.S. itself and its main colleague the UK, the two Parties that vie for power — Democrats versus Republicans, and Labour versus Conservative — are indistinguishable from one-another on the key ideological matters:each of the four Parties is the very embodiment of neoliberalism in domestic policies and of neoconservatism in foreign policies. The liberal billionaires and the conservative billionaires are solidly both neoliberal and neoconservative. And ALL billionaires are both neoliberals and neoconservatives (which is why our Governments are). That’s a “democracy”? It is instead a voracious empire, which is ruled on behalf of its billionaires — not of the public.

A regime of "democracy" that is all form and no substance. A cunning oligarchy that relishes empty symbols devoid of real power. Like Barack Obama.


317 miles away, Kotka Finland is now America’s fallback position, 507 miles away. This is real geostrategy, not the fake stuff (such as Annie Jacobsen’s potboiler Nuclear War: A Scenario, which provides an extremely unlikely scenario for WW3’s start, which presumes there’s no imperialistic intent on the part of America’s Government — it’s just nice people making mistakes — and so, her book is, to that extent, divorced from reality — this being the reality that is hidden throughout the U.S. empire).

A personal friend, a U.S. veteran, emailed me today saying, 

Because of Ukraine funding which includes medical care for their wounded, American veterans are being denied health care.

Biden instituted a hiring freeze at VA facilities [see about that here] which has led to appointments for emergency critical care to be 6 months wait or longer which in some cases guarantees death.

I have personal experience in this area, as I am a disabled veteran and found this to be not only true but to get my VA doctor to take a phone call required me calling my member of congress and having her intercede.

When he called back he said to not even try to get care and to use my civilian insurance (which I and very few others am lucky enough to have) and go to a hospital emergency room.  

Of course, Emergency room care costs 12 to 18 times as much as a visit to a retail health clinic, eight to 12 times as much as a visit to a doctor’s office and six to seven times more than an urgent care visit. So: America’s healthcare system is by far the world’s least efficient, because the Government is incredibly corrupt, which is the way things are in any aristocracy, and America is extremely so.

It’s just not being reported to the public, though the signs of it are. For example: on 7 November 2023, Axios headlined “U.S. health outcomes worse than OECD nations on most measures”, which was actually an understatement of the facts:

The U.S. performs worse than the average developed nation on 77% of health status indicators like life expectancy, obesity and opioid mortality rate, according to an Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development report.

Why it matters: U.S. health spending as a share of gross domestic product yet again far outpaces the other 37 OECD nations while the country continues to have poor outcomes, the OECD Health at a Glance 2023 report shows.

By the numbers: The U.S. ranks 33 out of 38 OECD countries for average life expectancy, after recording one of the largest decreases between 2019 and 2021.

Virtually the only thing that all U.S. billionaires demand from their Government is for it to spend vastly more on ‘defense’ than all other countries do (which means to cut necessary services to the public). And, on top of that, they want it to spend more on healthcare than any other country does. They’ve invested heavily in those sorts of things, and are more concerned about their profits than they are about the country they live in.

The Democrats blame the Republicans, and the Republicans blame the Democrats — and neither blames the billionaires, who actually run both.


BONUS FEATURE


By Eric Zuesse

Why George Clooney, Peter Welch, and the New York Times, Are dangerous


 

Liberals in general, and Hollywood shitlibs in particular, cannot be taken seriously, except as dangerous obstacles to a more genuine democracy.


I opposed the invasion of Iraq by Bush in 2003 — which destroyed that country — even before it was perpetrated. George Clooney, Peter Welch, the New York Times, and other liars or fools of liars, did not.

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bombing of Libya by Obama in 2011 — which destroyed that country — even before it was perpetrated. George Clooney, Peter Welch, the New York Times, and other liars or fools of liars, did not.

I opposed the U.S. arming of Al Qaeda in Syria in order to overthrow Assad in 2012 by Obama — which destroyed that country — even before it was perpetrated. George Clooney, Peter Welch, the New York Times, and other liars or fools of liars, did not.

I opposed the U.S. coup that was perpetrated in 2014 by Obama, Clinton, and Biden, against Ukraine in order to place U.S. missiles there to blitz-nuke The Kremlin — which destroyed Ukraine — even before it was perpetrated. George Clooney, Peter Welch, the New York Times, and other liars or fools of liars, did not.

George Clooney says of our present neoconservative-in-chief, “I love Joe Biden. As a senator. As a vice president and as president. I consider him a friend, and I believe in him. Believe in his character. Believe in his morals.” I do not, and I would never sink so low as to say such a thing as that.

Peter Welch says of our present neoconservative-in-chief, “I have great respect for President Biden. He saved our country from a tyrant. He is a man of uncommon decency. He cares deeply about our democracy. He has been one of the best presidents of our time.” (He thinks that Obama was the best.) I do not, and I would never sink so low as to say such a thing as that.

The New York Times says that we must vote for Biden because Trump is supposedly even worse: “HE IS DANGEROUS IN WORD, DEED AND ACTION: DONALD TRUMP IS UNFIT TO LEAD”. Instead, they want us to vote for the most corrupt President in all of U.S. history.

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We are NATO. And we’re comin’ to get ya

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We are the world. We are the people. We are NATO. And we’re comin’ to get ya – wherever you are, whether you want it or not.

Call it the latest pop iteration of the “rules-based international order” – duly christened at NATO’s 75thbirthday in D.C.

Well, the Global Majority had already been warned – but brains under techno-feudalism tend to be reduced to mush.


Stoltenberg NATO

J. Stoltenberg—careerist merchant of mass murder.


So a gentle reminder is in order. This had already been stated in the first paragraph of the Joint Declaration on EU-NATO Cooperation, issued on January 9, 2023:

“We will further mobilize the combined set of instruments at our disposal, be they political, economic, or military, (italics mine) to pursue our common objectives to the benefit of our one billion citizens.”

Correction: barely one million, part of the 0.1% plutocracy. Certainly not one billion.

Cut to the 2024 NATO Summit Declaration – obviously redacted, with stellar mediocrity, by the Americans, with the other 31 assorted vassal members duly assenting.

So here’s the main 2024 NATO “strategic” trifecta:

  1. Forceful imposition of extra military spending on all members.
  2. Massive hyping up of the “China threat”.

As for the theme song of the NATO 75 show, there are actually two. Apart from “China Threat” (closing credits), the other one (opening credits) is “Free Ukraine”. The lyrics go something like this: it looks like we are at war against Russia in Ukraine, but don’t be fooled: NATO is not a participant in the war.

Well, they are even setting up a NATO office in Kiev, but that is just to coordinate production for a Netflix war series.

Those malignant authoritarians

The outgoing epileptic slab of Norwegian wood posing as NATO Secretary-General – before the arrival of his Dutch Gouda replacement – put on quite a performance. Highlights include his fierce denunciation of “the growing alliance between Russia and its authoritarian friends in Asia”, as in “authoritarian leaders in Iran, North Korea and China”. These malignant entities “all want NATO to fail”. So there’s much work to do “with our friends in the Indo-Pacific”.

The joint declaration directly blames China for fueling Russian “aggression” in Ukraine: Beijing is described as a “decisive enabler” of the Kremlin’s “war effort”. NATO scriptwriters even directly threaten China: China “cannot enable the largest war in Europe in recent history without this negatively impacting its interests and reputation”.

To counter-act such malignity, NATO will expand its “partnerships” with “Indo-Pacific” states.

Even before the summit declaration, the Global Times was already losing their cool with these inanities: “Under the hype from the U.S. and NATO, it seems that China has become the ‘key’ to the survival of Europe, controlling the fate of the Russia-Ukraine conflict like a ‘decisive power.’”

The tawdry rhetorical fest in D.C. definitely won’t cut it in Beijing: the Hegemon just wants “to reach more deeply into Asia, trying to establish an ‘Asia-Pacific NATO’ to help achieve the U.S.’ ‘Indo-Pacific Strategy.’”

Southeast Asia, via diplomatic channels, essentially agrees: with the exception of bought and paid for misguided Filipinos, no one wants serious turbulence across Asia-Pacific like NATO has unleashed across Europe.

Zhou Bo, senior fellow at Tsinghua University’s Center for International Security and Strategy and a retired PLA officer, also dismissed the Indo-Pacific shenanigans even before the summit: we had an excellent exchange about it late last year at the Astana Forum in Kazakhstan.

Whatever happens, Exceptionalistan will remain on overdrive. NATO and Japan have agreed to establish a “highly confidential security information” line, around the clock. So count on meek Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to enhance Japan’s “pivotal role” in the building of an Asian NATO.

Everyone with a brain from Urumqi to Bangalore knows that the motto across Asia, for the Exceptionalists, is “Today Ukraine, Tomorrow Taiwan”. The absolute majority of ASEAN, and hopefully India, will not fall for it.

What is clear is that the NATO at 75 circus is absolutely clueless and impervious to what happened at the recent SCO summit in Astana. Especially when it comes to the SCO now positioned as a key node in bringing on a new, Eurasia-wide collective security arrangement.

As for Ukraine, once again Medvedev Unplugged, in inimitable style, delivered the Russian position:

“The Washington Summit Declaration of July 10 mentions ‘the irreversible path of Ukraine’ to NATO. For Russia, 2 possible ways of how this path ends are acceptable: either Ukraine disappears, or NATO does. Still better, both.”

In parallel, China is conducting military exercises in Belarus only a few days after Minsk officially became a SCO member. Translation: forget about NATO “expanding” to Asia when Beijing is already making it clear it is very much present in NATO’s alleged “backyard”.

A declaration of war against Eurasia

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.”

The 2024 NATO declaration actually is a renewed declaration of war, hybrid and otherwise, against Eurasia – as well as Afro-Eurasia (yes, there are promises of “partnerships” advancing everywhere from Africa to the Middle East).

The Eurasia integration process is about geoeconomic integration – including, crucially, transportation corridors connecting, among other latitudes, northern Europe with West Asia.

For the Hegemon, this is the ultimate nightmare: Eurasia integration driving Western Europe away from the U.S. and preventing that perennial wet dream, the colonization of Russia.

So only plan A would apply, with absolute ruthlessness: Washington – literally – bombed Russia-Germany integration (Nord Stream 1 and 2, and more) and turned the vassal lands of frightened, discombobulated Europeans into a potentially very dangerous place, right beside a raging Hot War.


NATO AXIS OF EVIL


So once again, let everyone go back to that first paragraph of the January 2023 EU-NATO joint communiqué. That’s what we’re facing today, reflected on the title of my latest book, Eurasia v. NATOstan: NATO – in theory – fully mobilized, in military, political and economic terms, to fight against any Global Majority forces that may destabilize Imperial Hegemony.


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The Structure of America’s Aristocratic Class

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Oracle's owner multibillionaire Larry Ellison: Prominent zionist with deep links to the "national security" machine.  Many other Silicon Valley potentates sport similar profiles.


The four centers of America’s ruling class are the Democratic Party’s super-rich in California, which is the high-tech-and-Hollywood, or Silicon Valley (venture capital) and propaganda, center; versus the Republican Party’s super-rich in Texas, which remains the fossil-fuels center; plus both Parties’ super-rich in Virginia near DC, which is themilitary-industrial-governmental complex, or basically the weapons-producing and lobbying center; plus the greater NYC metropolitan area including Greenwich Connecticut, all of it comprising the megabanks and private investment funds for billionaires and centi-millionaires, which is the center for finance, opposite to the venture capital network around Stanford University in California — the old money versus the new money. (However, actually, much of the billion-dollar-plus personal individual wealth even on the West Coast is second-generation or older inherited fortunes; and, so, the only differences between America’s and Europe’s aristocracies are nominal ones, such as America’s using no official titles such as “Duke,” “Earl,” “Lord,” or “Sir.” It is just as much an aristocracy, or “ruling class,” though having no need of a monarch.)

When the U.S. Government acts internationally, such as diplomatically or militarily, these people, America’s super-rich, are the individuals whom it is representing, and to whom their subjects contribute taxes so as to fund those operations on behalf of their aristocracy in order to earn the public honor of serving in and for this neoliberal-neoconservative Government.

“dispensable”; only the imperial nation is not — and, of course, any nation that is outside the empire is a target of the empire to be brought into the empire by means of subterfuge, subversion, sanctions, coups, and — where necessary — invasions; so, they are even worse off than the colonies are.)

much greater specificity than theyhave yet done. Nonetheless, even with FDR, it was still a work-in-progress, right up till the time of his death. But, regardless, I believe that China and Russia will be more successful in The West at promoting their shared vision for the future international order if they will present it as being more in accord with what the inventor of the U.N. (FDR) had planned (and you can see additional details on that here), than is the weakened version of it (the U.N. as a powerless talking-forum), which was instituted under his successor, President Truman’s, leadership. In the BRICS, SCO, and EEU, as they move forward, they will need to either press to reform the U.N. into what had been FDR’s intention for it, or else to replace it by creating that outside of and in competition against the U.N. but taking more seriously than the U.N. does, the text, meaning, and definitions, in its international laws, so that those can become suitable for the type of U.N. (the global democratic federal republic of sovereign nations — the full-fledged international government of all nations) that FDR had been aiming to create in order to outlaw and replace all empires, so as to prevent any future World War.

There will be no way to reform the existing and highly institutionalized imperialistic international world order except by either reforming or replacing the existing U.N. If the detailed legacy of FDR on this is not to be cited as the historical foundation for this, then what would be? Whatever it is, must be stated, no longer ignored, because otherwise it will have no historical foundation and will therefore fail.



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