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The Empire and its vassals are playing the old "divide-and-control" game, the deliberate creation of chaos, to retain their dominance over Eurasia and the rest of the world.

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Brian and Angelo are cautious regarding recent events in the Middle East. They believe the US Hegemon (with Israel's conscious or objective assist) may be playing intricate and highly devious games to detonate a regionwide conflagration. Hamas, for one thing, may have been chosen by Israel and the US to play a divisive role among Palestinian factions, while maintaining the image of a fanatical anti-Israeli threat, eventually even allowing Oct. 7 attacks to permit Israel and the US to flatten Gaza, and provoke Iran and other members of the anti-Zionist/imperialist alliance to step in, thereby justifying, again a reasonable "response" that would destroy Iran and the forces resisting Western hegemony. In that sense, Oct 7 would be analogous to 9/11, a pretext to launch a vast imperialist campaign. 
 
It's clear that the US is using a highly hypocritical strategy. They want it to look like the US did not want to have a major war but they could not restrain Israel and finally had to join in to protect Israel. That's why the media are now painting Israel as an out-of-control bad guy. A player that might even use nuclear weapons (supposedly against the US advice!) to secure its goals.  Ultimately, in all major fronts, from the EU and Ukraine to Palestine and China, the Hegemon is seeking to detonate conflicts, cause chaos and major wars, as the only way to brake or stop the global drift to multilateralism, cooperation and sovereignty. Sovereignty, after all, is essential. Without controlling their own governments, without controlling their borders and information space, nations cannot operate with true independence. That's why Washington will rather burn a whole region to the ground, destroy entire economies, than accept a non-Hegemonic status. 

China, highly dependent on outside energy sources, is vulnerable to American-engineered disruptions in the Mideast.  If the US set off a war that severed the normal flow of hydrocarbons, Beijing might find itself in a tight spot despite their access to Russian energy. Eventually, Beijing may have to respond to US provocations and jump into the trap. She better be ready for it, as Russia clearly was, and the same goes for Iran. 

ANGELO GIULIANO is a leading independent geopolitical analyst residing in Hong Kong.

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Terrorism is a tactic of the elites

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I did a quick elaboration this morning of some related thoughts after learning about a recent terror attack in Pakistan on a Chinese engineering convoy.

The West (aka the capitalist class) is increasingly embracing the tactic of terrorism to attack their rivals and to do their best to keep global development and prosperity from threatening their domination and control.  A Chinese convoy working on a huge infrastructure project in Pakistan was recently attacked, killing five Chinese engineers.  Al Qaeda of course is resurgent and is "all of a sudden" active in Yemen as IS continues to destabilize Afghanistan.  For years now, terrorists have been murdering soft targets including teachers, police, and other civil servants in Myanmar, in order to destabilize that country and deny China the opportunity to bring development and prosperity.  Of course "terrorists" (Western backed proxies) continue to murder in Russia and Iran and as the imperialists find themselves more and more under threat without any viable options, they will turn to terror tactics to a much greater degree than they already do.

I submit that the inculcated conceptualization of autonomous terrorist groups existing and violently pursuing their radical agendas while the West tirelessly works to track them and protect innocent people (you know, the basic understanding of "terrorism" as spread by Hollywood and the State Department on a daily basis) is absolutely false and entirely detached from objective reality.

Terrorism is the tool of the elites.  Those that the West calls "terrorists" but do not actually control (like Hezbollah, the IRGC, and the Houthis) of course are not terrorists at all.  They are popular groups that resist Western imperialism and who fight against Western backed terrorists (like AL Qaeda and IS).

In reality, terrorism is not a spontaneous grassroots uprising of disenfranchised violent "extremists", far from it.  Actual terrorism is a top-down tactic waged against the masses by the wealthy elite.

In a certain sense, "terrorism" is the modern manifestation of the axiom of the billionaire class that (as robber baron Jay Gould aptly asserted) "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half."  International terrorism including the nazi variation that exists in Eastern Europe and the Narco Terrorists that exist in Central and South America, are absolutely tools of violence and destabilization used by the elites, in order to destroy legitimate governance, political stability, and economic progress.

So what we have here are two competing conceptualizations of reality.  One is false, entirely disconnected from reality, and existing solely to confuse the masses and perpetuate the status quo.  This is the conceptualization generally known as "liberalism".  The other conceptualization is based on the foundational reality of oppositional class interests and the class struggle that results.  A class struggle that today manifests itself in the struggle against Western imperialism.

We need to recognize and understand that liberalism is an empty and false ideology designed and proliferated for no other reason than to obfuscate the primacy of class struggle and to keep people from accurately comprehending the paradigms that truly drive policies, strategies, and real world events.

Liberalism invents false paradigms and false conceptual frameworks.  Liberalism tells silly dishonest stories (like authoritarianism vs. Democracy, liberal values vs tyranny, rule followers vs. rule breakers etc, etc) in order to disguise reality and pretend that there is no such thing as a global capitalist class that sees the masses as a threat to their interests and who need to be constantly attacked with propaganda, disinformation, mass incarceration, and genocide when necessary.

Meanwhile, the paradigm of class struggle provides the most accurate explanation for why things are as they are.  The lens of class struggle allows the masses to see through the lies of liberalism and to accurately perceive reality as it truly exists. In reality, terrorism is not a spontaneous grassroots uprising of disenfranchised violent "extremists", far from it.  

Actual terrorism is a top-down tactic waged against the masses by the wealthy elite.  Alternatively, resistance to elitist exploitation and subjugation, is not terrorism at all.  One must work to do their best to discard their liberal indoctrination in order to know the difference between these entirely different phenomena which liberalism seeks to lie about and manipulate.

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3/8/2024 Episode 60 of Blowback: Exposing Imperial Decline with special guest Christopher Black

Biden state of the Union kicks off with belligerence toward Putin and Russia, boasts of endless support. He is seconded in the EU by Ursula von der Leyen, who praises Ukraine as victim of brutal Russian

Aggression, claiming Russia has destroyed hospitals, kindergartens, civilian residences, etc. (Atrocity propaganda). Von der Leyen’s malignant fantasies, usually slandering Putin ("he sacrificed the country to save himself! ”), have, like most charges hurled by the West, no basis in reality.whatsoever. “Putin is wanted for war crimes, and he will pay justice.." (sic) shouts Ursula, without caring to specify. “And there is a courtroom In The Hague waiting for him, my friends…”). So it’s Putin who needs to stand before a criminal court, not Biden, Blinken, Netanyahu and his entire cabinet of sociopaths. Ursula and Biden typify what passes for statesmanship in the West. 
 
The roundtable wonders where you can begin to sort out the lies, as almost every sentence uttered by Western officials is a lie. Chris Black notes that the denials that the West already has its own soldiers fighting in Ukraine is a big lie. It’s well known that NATO soldiers under a variety of subterfuges not only train but man much of the weaponry sent by the West to Ukraine. Brits and Americans are known to operate Himars and Patriot batteries, for example. And German tankers, in uniform, have been found in German tanks. 
 
A high point of the episode is a discussion about climate change. Chris Black is extremely pessimistic,
Believing that the assertion that climate change is a hoax needs to be reexamined carefully. The idea this is a hoax has become popular, of all places, notes Black, among the world’s left, and progressive statesmen, which may be a huge miscalculation. Leaders around the world keep talking about this issue but do little, with Russia and China doing the most, but still not enough, and the West doing the least, or next to nothing. We are at a point where a few more degrees may spell the death of all life on this planet due to the collapse of agriculture and plant life in general, says Black. 

Ben Toth replies that a Russian scientist recently advised Putin that humanity had a “Window” of about 10,000 years to solve this problem. This may be wildly optimistic. In Siberia the problem may be extreme, as permafrost (thought to be “eternal”) is now melting away at ever faster rates, in the process releasing methane. Indeed, Siberia's problems affect not only Siberians. Scientists have found that melting permafrost in Siberia is releasing five times the amount of methane than was previously thought. And methane is a particularly potent greenhouse gas (GHG) -- it is considered 20 times more damaging as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Many are calling this dangerous feedback loop “The Methane Bomb”. 
 
The solutions so far tried are pitifuly inadequate. The retirement of hydrocarbns as fuel for transportation and other energy needs is more symbolic (and deceitful) than real.  “Electric vehicles” derive their electricity mostly from burning coal and petroleum. And solar panels take enormous surfaces to make a contribution, are not
Biodegradable, and have a short utility life. Meanwhile, the so-called “Greens” are engaged in stupid politics almost everywhere. In Germany, especially, besides backing enmity toward Russia and warmongering that guarantees wars, highly pollutant events, they forced the shutdown of nuclear plants, the cleanest of all available energy sources, obliging a fallback to dirtier fuels, like coal. The ultimate solution lies with nuclear fusion,
but that is still far off in the future. 
 
While the West’s hypocritical approach and fake “capitalist solutions" to climate change remain a big obstacle to actual progress, the left should not belittle climate issues, dismissing it as some kind of hoax, but insist on an urgent, well-funded, reliable system of collaborative research and international action. More misleadership, as seen particularly throughout the West, may mean the end of the world. 

PS/ Dust off your Wittgenstein.

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The Massive Unforgivable Criminality of the U.S. Government

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Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan urging Netanyahu to use better optics in the mass murdering of Palestinians. Actually both parties, the Biden admin and the Israeli government, are shameless and certifiable war criminals. These trips and handshakes are just a minuet for the gullible.

The Massive Unforgivable Criminality of the U.S. Government

On December 13th, I submitted to all news-media “U.S. will be forever damned for its solitary support of the U.S.-Israel ethnic cleansing of Gaza”, and almost none published it, perhaps because that article compares today’s U.S. Government (as well as Israel’s) to Hitler’s Government of Germany (and exposed the hypocritical concern by the U.S. and its colonies or ‘allies’ (such as Israel, and the nations in Europe) for the Gazans today, as compared to what had been their hypocritical concern for Europe’s Jews during the Holocaust), and because the censorship in today’s news and news-commentary in the U.S. and its ‘allies’, is now comparable to what it was in Hitler’s Germany, where the censorship was almost total. (But in today’s version of Hitler’s — which was the original form of — nazism, it’s not conservative, but instead liberal, which means adding, to that extreme conservatism of the former type of fascism, a mere patina of liberal hypocrisy today, so as to more effectively fool the masses of dumb people, who trust such a liberal-nazi Government.)

Much of the hypocrisy regarding the conflict in Gaza is based upon Israel and other U.S. colonies, falsely alleging that the conflict in Gaza began when Gazans invaded Israel on October 7th, when, in fact, it actually began back in 1948 when Israel was founded by fascist Jews (called “Zionists”) stealing the land from, and slaughtering, non-Jews, so as to clear the land in order to bring in Jews from the Christian European countries that had been slaughtering Jews and that didn’t want Jews. So: Zionists in Palestine slaughtered not the nazi European Christians who had slaughtered Jews, but instead slaughtered the native residents of Palestine — and the U.S.-and-‘allied’ countries support what Israel is doing (partly in order to redirect the blame for the Holocaust onto Muslims, though Muslims had had nothing to do with it). The attack by Gazans on 7 October 2023 was merely a reaction and act of desperation against Israel’s decades-long nazism against Palestine’s non-Jewish residents. It was an act of self-defense against nazi Jews, and it pales in comparison to the bald-faced ethnic cleansing that the U.S.-Israel alliance is now perpetrating against Gazans in continuation of what the Israel-U.S. alliance has been doing to Palestinians ever since 1948. Elimination of 2.3 million Gazans will be possibly the biggest crime since the Holocaust.

For whatever reason, America’s President, Joe Biden, continues pouring yet MORE hypocrisy onto what I had documented in my December 13th article (which the U.S.-and-‘allied’ press hide from their public). So, on December 14th, the New York Times headlined “Washington Urges Israel to Scale Down Its War in Gaza: The call for a more targeted phase in the war appeared to be the most definitive effort yet by the United States to restrain Israel in its retaliation against Hamas for the attacks it led on Oct. 7.” They reported that,

Biden administration officials want Israel to end its large-scale ground and air campaign in the Gaza Strip within weeks and to transition to a more targeted phase in its war against Hamas, American officials said Thursday.

Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, met with Israeli leaders on Thursday about the direction of the war. Mr. Sullivan did not specify a timetable, but four U.S. officials said Mr. Biden wants Israel to switch to more precise tactics in about three weeks. The officials asked for anonymity to discuss the president’s thinking.

American officials have made that timeline clear to their Israeli counterparts in recent days, the latest step in a gradual move by the administration to communicate that American patience with widespread civilian deaths is running out.

“I want them to be focused on how to save civilian lives — not stop going after Hamas, but be more careful,” Mr. Biden said on Thursday after a speech on prescription drug costs at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.

They know that Israel has already gone past the point of no return and are committed to the extermination of Gazans unless some way can be found to expel Gazans into Israel’s desert if not into Egypt’s desert to starve and die there. But they pretend that America isn’t jointly, with Israel, to blamefor this ethnic cleansing, because, as Israel’s Jewish News Service reported on November 27th:

Israel’s dependence on the United States was stated bluntly by retired IDF Maj. General Yitzhak Brick in an interview earlier this week.

“All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it’s all from the U.S. The minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting. You have no capability. … Everyone understands that we can’t fight this war without the United States. Period.”

this one in 2021) which condemn racism and xenophobia. (Here was the General Assembly vote on that one, with only America and Israel voting against it. Biden was then the President, but America’s post-WW-II nazism has been bipartisan, at least since the 1980s.) The post-WW-II U.S. Government’s pro-nazism is, by now, actually routine, such as when it lied its way into invading and destroying Iraq in 2003, and Syria since 2011, and Libya in 2011, and many other nations, and also perpetrated numerous coups, such as the coup in Ukraine in February 2014, which started the war in Ukraine that Russia finally responded to by invading Ukraine in February 2022 — all of which U.S. invasions and coups the U.S.-and-allied press (and ‘history’-books) lied about at the time, and still do lie about, even today. And, so, even today, around half of the U.S. public still supportthese nazistic wars and coups in the name of ‘defense’ of ‘democracy’ — even after all those decades of having been lied-to by the Government and its press. And, meantime, the U.S. and its ‘allies’ go to rot, while their billionaires blossom. This is the way that all fascisms are.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s new book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.

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Biden delivers remarks on the U.S. response to conflicts in Israel and Ukraine — 10/19/23

“Hamas and Putin…both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy…Hamas’ stated purpose for existing is the destruction of the state of Israel and the murder of Jewish people. Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people. Hamas uses Palestinian civilians as human shields, and innocent Palestinian families are suffering greatly because of them.” —President Biden October 19, 2023

On October 19th President Biden gave an Oval Office address. He was desperately trying to convince the nation to support his $105B military and humanitarian aid package for Israel, Ukraine and border efforts. His focus was on the wars between Israel/Hamas and Ukraine/Russia.

Biden’s presentation was ahistorical, based upon supposition, personal bias and just wrong. One of Biden’s constant underlying themes as he champions support for these failing efforts is that by supporting Israel and Ukraine, we’re supporting “democracy”. One of the prevalent talking points about Israel is that it’s the “only democracy in the Middle East”.  First off, there are many democracies in the Middle East, including Turkey and Algeria. As for the settler colonial state known as Israel, it is not a democracy. It is defined in its declaration of independence as a "Jewish state”. Thus, all authorized political parties must acknowledge Israel as the state of the "Jewish People", meaning you cannot be elected to the Knesset (Parliament) if you call for a secular state for all its citizens. It seizes Palestinian land and destroys Palestinian homes, villages and towns without judicial review. If you are Palestinian living in the “Occupied Territories” , there is no democracy. In fact, democracy, freedom of self-determination and freedom from extra-judicial detainment and murder are a major part of what Hamas is fighting for.

Ukraine is also not a democracy. The current conflict was not “unprovoked” as President Biden loves to claim. The US overthrew the democratically elected government of Viktor Yanukovych in the Maidan Coup in 2014. The actions fomented by the US put an end to democracy in Ukraine. As author and columnist Branko Marcetic writes, “…understanding it is critical to understanding the ongoing standoff over Ukraine…” Dr. Jeffrey Sachs writes, “There were in fact two main U.S. provocations (to the conflict in Ukraine). The first was the U.S. intention to expand NATO to Ukraine and Georgia...The second was the U.S. role in installing a Russophobic regime in Ukraine by the violent overthrow of Ukraine’s pro-Russian President, Viktor Yanukovych, in February 2014.”

On November 29th, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer gave an impassioned 45-minute speech on the floor of the Senate during which he decried the rise of antisemitism in the US and Europe and pushed for support for the Biden administration’s Israel support package. Schumer said, “No matter where we stand on the war in Gaza, all of us must condemn antisemitism with full-throated clarity wherever we see it...” He also said, “From October 7, 2023 in Southern Israel to 2018 at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh to 1999 at the Los Angeles JCC…to 1492 in Spain, 1394 in France, 1290 in England … the Jewish people have been humiliated, ostracized, expelled, enslaved, and massacred for millennia.” The first problem with his rhetoric as well as Biden’s is the conflict in Occupied Palestine did not begin on October 7, 2023.

Schumer is correct. All of us must condemn antisemitism. However, that’s not what this 75-year struggle is about. Schumer, Biden, Blinken, et al are trying to conflate or equate the Palestinian struggle against Zionism (a racist political ideology) with the historic struggles of Jews and Judaism (one of the three Abrahamic religions). Blinken said recently in Israel, “If you’ll permit me a personal aside, I come before you not only as the United States Secretary of State, but also as a Jew.” Biden is on record as saying, "I don't believe you have to be a Jew to be a Zionist, and I am a Zionist." The Palestinian struggle is anti-Zionist, anti-oppression and anti-genocide. It’s not antisemitic. Contrary to the dominant rhetoric, the two are not the same.

Just as we must condemn antisemitism in all of its forms, we must also condemn genocide, apartheid, the dehumanization of Palestinians and collective punishment. This is what the settler-colonial government of Israel has been inflicting upon the Palestinians for seventy-five years with the help of the US. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is on record as saying, “We are fighting against animals, not people…” Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is on record saying there was “no such thing as a Palestinian” because “there is no such thing as the Palestinian people”. Palestinian people are “an invention” of the past century. This in in direct contradiction to the Balfour Declaration of 1917, “His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine…” Take note, the “homeland” is in Palestine not Israel.

During his speech in the Senate, Schumer specifically called out the phrase " from the river to the sea," saying it alarms Jewish people to hear it used. This phrase is not a call for extermination, it is a call for freedom and equality among all inhabitants of the region. When does the sensitivities of Jewish people outweigh the genocide of Palestinians? This differs from the first Zionist claims of ‘a land without a people for a people without a land’ which ignores and/or denies the very existence of the people that are indigenous to the area. This sounds eerily reminiscent of South African apartheid (and Israel was one of the largest supporters of South African apartheid) and the US genocide of Native Americans.

"Just as we must condemn antisemitism in all of its forms, we must also condemn genocide, apartheid, the dehumanization of Palestinians and collective punishment. This is what the settler-colonial government of Israel has been inflicting upon the Palestinians for seventy-five years with the help of the US..."

Schumer also added that because many of the incidents targeting Jewish people have come alongside left-wing demonstrations against Israel, liberal Jewish people "are feeling singled, targeted and isolated." If this is true, why are “left-wing” organizations such as Jewish Voice for Peace, American Council of Judaism and IfNotNow speaking out in support of Palestine? Are they not Jewish enough for Senator Schumer? This is a not so veiled attempt by Schumer to turn the opposition to the genocide and atrocities being committed against the Palestinians from a moral imperative to a political discussion.

Stefanie Fox, Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace, has criticized Schumer’s speech. “At a time when white supremacists and white nationalists take advantage of this moment to sow confusion and promote antisemitism, Islamophobia and racism, misstating what antisemitism is harms all of our work for justice and endangers our communities…This is reprehensible.”

Schumer said that his “heart breaks for the thousands of Palestinian civilians who have been killed or are suffering in this conflict.” If that’s true, Senator Schumer, and not some trite talking point in a failed attempt to show balance, then the solution is very simple. Stop rallying support for and voting to fund the apartheid and genocide of Palestinians. Stop voting to send US taxpayers dollars (in violation of American law) to Israel. Why don’t you stand in the Senate and oppose Israel’s National Security Minister Itamir Ben-Gvir handing out assault rifles purchased from the US to settlers in the West Bank so they can murder Palestinians?

Now, one of the Zionists' main problems is that Israel is losing support for its oppression from all corners of the world. Israel’s asymmetric and disproportionate response to the Resistance is bombing the world into reality. As with the 1972 photo of Phan Thi Kim Phuc often referred to as “the napalm girl” that helped to turn world’s opinion against the Vietnam War, images of people suffering (mostly women and children) before and after Israel’s war declaration are turning their support towards Palestine. AntiWar.com reports, the latest poll from Data for Progress found that 61% of American voters support the idea of the US calling for a “permanent” ceasefire in Gaza and a general de-escalation of violence, including 76% of Democrats, 49% of Republicans, and 57% of independent or third-party voters.

As Miriam Makeba aka “Mama Africa” sang about in “Piece of Ground”:

“White man don't sleep long and don't sleep too deep

Or your life and your possessions, how long will you keep?

For I've heard a rumor that's running around

That the black man's demanding his own piece of ground”

The tide is starting to turn from supporting apartheid in the Occupied Territories. What was previously a blind eye is now being focused on the genocide. Biden, Blinken, Schumer, et al have to lie. Otherwise, how do they sell genocide, ethnic cleansing and war crimes to the American people and the world? They are entitled to their opinions but not their own facts.

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