Jimmy Dore Dispatches: Senator unwittingly reveals Ukraine War is a scam, and much more
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BOMBSHELL: Ukraine All About $$$$ Says Senator Lindsey Graham!
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Probably jockeying for a position in the Trump administration, Lindsay Graham, US Senator for South Carolina, and one of the most revolting and depraved politicians ever produced by the US ruling elites (and we know this establishment produces some real prizes) admits that much of the reason for the Ukraine war is plain old conquest and plunder. With a view, of course, of triggering regime change in Moscow and later capturing and dismantling Russia. (This has been the West's wet dream for at least 75 years if not longer). Graham is salivating about $12 trillion in mineral riches in Ukraine, resources, he proclaims, that should never go to "Putin" and China, but be exploited by the West.
Video of a Palestinian boy in Gaza has gone viral in which he says members of his family were shot and killed by American soldiers during the recent raid to recover Israeli hostages. The boy says the soldiers were definitely not Israeli, and in addition to killing his brother they also shot him in the finger, tied his hands behind his back and put out a cigarette on his neck. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss an early video featuring U.S. marines getting excited about fighting in Gaza.
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John Mearsheimer: a Liberal Advocate for Mindless Barbarism (pardon the redundancy)
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Mearsheimer cheerfully holding forth on his realpolitik before a congenial audience.
Let’s begin with some necessary context. Most readers are going to be familiar with John Mearsheimer. He is a widely celebrated critic of Western diplomacy. His interviews and lectures are among the most popular on social media and he travels regularly, across the globe, sharing his framework on international relations with large audiences who typically hold him in extremely high regard even when they don’t agree with him. As a critic who has been somewhat marginalized by the establishment press, he still manages to get invited to many mainstream platforms including powerful think tanks, prestigious universities, the biggest podcasts, and other respected international venues. Ultimately, Mearsheimer asserts that his theory of “great power politics” is the most authoritative way to understand “how the world works.”
Mearsheimer is famous for his theory on international relations known as “Realism”. Here he is, in his own words describing his theory:
“Realism is a theory of international politics that privileges power. It says power is the currency of international relations and states are mainly concerned, not exclusively but mainly concerned, about the balance of power and they want to maximize the amount of power they have. The best situation is to be a hegemon in the system, now why is that the case? The argument that I make is that if a state operates in a world where there's no higher authority that can rescue it if it gets in trouble and one can never know what the intentions of another state are today and certainly cannot know what their intentions will be in the future and that rival state may be very powerful in that world, you want to make sure you are much more powerful than all of your Rivals because again if it turns out that the intentions of another state are malign and that state is really powerful and you get into trouble there's no higher authority you can turn to so in a world like that it makes eminently good sense to be as powerful as possible, indeed to be the hegemon in the system. But of course, all states understand that basic logic and the end result is that you get a competition for power I call that security competition and sometimes that security competition results in war so that's the basic argument that I lay out.”
Here's more Liberalising from Mearsheimer:
“Every human being has a moral compass and at the same time they have a set of interests. Sometimes that set of interests and the moral compass are lined up and you can pursue a policy or take action that is morally correct and maximizes your chances of satisfying your political or economic goals. But then there are those cases where your moral compass points in one direction and your interest compass points in the other direction and then the question is what do you do. And there are going to be cases where people do what their moral compass says they should do but as we both know from studying history there are lots of cases where people put aside what is morally correct according to their own compass and instead pursue policies that are morally incorrect but satisfy their own political or economic interests.”
Well, who can argue with conventional wisdom like this? I mean ok, I guess in a very abstract and useless way, such observations are truish, but if one is actually trying to explain reality in order to improve it, such “insights” are of no value whatsoever. On the other hand, Mearsheimer’s theoretical framework of international relations has resulted in a scathing criticism--an indictment really--of Western foreign policy especially as it pertains to Israel and Russia. It is Mearsheimer fierce and effective criticism of the West’s truly abysmal policies towards these two countries, that has resulted in his marginalization by the establishment press and has made him such a highly revered superstar in the alternative media.
I enjoy listening to Mearsheimer because he is a self-defined “realist”, who still maintains a lot of credibility within the Western establishment (notwithstanding his marginalization by their press) and he states truth that is typically verboten to say, especially to large mainstream audiences. For instance, Mearsheimer, with a matter-of-fact gravitas that is extremely effective, declares that Israel is an apartheid state. He will denounce the powerful Israel lobby as not good for the United States and not good for Israel. With regards to Russia, Mearsheimer denigrates the Western policy of unnecessary agitation and provocation, and according to his framework, Western policy towards Russia is self-defeating and counterproductive.
The French capture of Constantine, the capital of Constantine province in Northeastern Algeria in the early 1830s, eliminated most of the forces seeking to reinstate the Regency of Algiers, a tributary kingdom of the Ottoman Empire. This allowed the French to concentrate on their battle with the stronger nationalist forces under Abd Al-Qādir in the West and Center. France's extremely brutal conquest of Algeria (1830—1903) is a typical example of Western colonialism in action. According to several historians, the methods used by the French to establish control over Algeria reached genocidal proportions, with war, famine and disease leading to the deaths of between 500,000 and 1 million Algerians within the first three decades of the conquest out of an estimated population of 3 million.[11][12][70] French losses from 1830 until 1862, were 480,000 total dead (civilians and soldiers).[10](Painting by Horace Vernet).
These are all correct takes and again, these truths are delivered with such eminent gravitas that it is truly refreshing and a joy to hear him make, especially in establishment venues where one really gets the feeling that he is speaking indisputable truth to power. (Mearsheimer's "loyal criticism" of today's imperialist adventures reminds us of many "pragmatic" critics of the protracted Vietnam War, people who concentrated their fire on the "wrong-headedness" and "ineptitude" of the methods and policies being implemented by the American hegemon to achieve its objectives, but never on the obvious injustice and moral criminality of the whole enterprise.)
Mearsheimer’s barbarous liberalism demands perpetual confrontation, conflict, and war and I worry that too many people are buying into this BS and believe that great power politics, might makes right, and the subordination of morality to political and economic interests are natural, inevitable, and something we need to resign ourselves to.
But despite Mearsheimer’s eminent reputation, the tremendous respect which he commands, and his accurate and scathing indictment of Western foreign policy, his framework is surprisingly shallow and lacking in even a basic grasp of “how the world actually works”. Why do I say this and what do I mean? For starters, Mearsheimer is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal who seemingly has never even heard of the concept of class. There are innumerable instances throughout history of seemingly inexplicable behavior that the lens of liberalism is incapable of explaining. Only when one adopts the lens of oppositional class interests and class struggle does history even begin to make any sense. The same is true regarding contemporary reality. Trying to understand, much less explain reality without acknowledging the prime influence of oppositional class interests, is like trying to explain a tidal wave to someone that doesn’t even know what water is (hat tip to Jeff J Brown for this simile).
The same is true regarding contemporary reality. Mearsheimer seems oblivious to the fact that the West is run by an establishment of wealthy elites, who see the masses of workers as a threat to their wealth, power, and privilege--masses who must be constantly attacked by propaganda that is designed to indoctrinate and render them ignorant, confused, divided, and ultimately disenfranchised from the political process.
So, even though Mearsheimer’s theory results in many good takes and accurate criticisms regarding the policies of Western imperialism, it is severely lacking and limiting in its ability to explain motives or predict future behavior. Without doubt Mearsheimer is trapped in the limiting liberal orthodoxy of the nation state paradigm and terms like imperialism, and class struggle are entirely missing from his framework.
This fact limits his ability to explain otherwise inexplicable actions, but worse than this, his facile and superficial framework which purports to authoritatively explain “how the world works” really does nothing other than project mindless and hypocritical liberalism on to other societies and other governments that long ago, had the common sense to abandon such useless ideologies to the trash heap of history. Liberalism is nothing but the self-serving ideology of the wealthy elite, and its purpose is to allow the elites to maintain their wealth, power, and privilege against the oppositional interests of the working-class masses who desire actual representation instead of the pseudo democratic façade, offered by liberalism, which only exists to conceal the mask of capitalist class dictatorship.
China knows all too well the evils of Western liberalism as they suffered under it for over a century before they finally liberated themselves. Yet Mearsheimer, trapped in his “great power politics” “nation state” paradigm simply can’t conceive of advocating for anything other than an all-out effort by the US, to “contain China”. Why? Because his liberal mind can’t conceive of China as being any less evil than the United States. Mearsheimer doesn’t oppose the West’s proxy war against Russia on moral grounds. Quite the contrary, as we have seen, morality does not enter the realist equation. No, Mearsheimer attacks the proxy war against Russia on “realist” grounds. Why is it bad from the perspective of the “realist” approach to initiate a proxy war against the Russia? Not because nearly a million Ukrainians will die, not because the US ought to learn how to live and cooperate with other countries through an enlightened system of good neighborliness and peace through mutual prosperity and development. No, these things have no place in liberalism or in Mearsheimer’s realist foreign policy. The US was wrong to initiate a proxy war with Russia *because it drove Russia and China closer together thereby making it more difficult to destroy our “peer competitor” China*.
In the liberal world inhabited by John Mearsheimer, the powerful must always wage war against the weak, lest the weak rise up to take their place. This is the barbaric approach of liberalism which Mearsheimer works overtime trying to convince everyone is natural and inevitable. Mearsheimer’s barbarous liberalism demands perpetual confrontation, conflict, and war and I worry that too many people are buying into this BS and believe that great power politics, might makes right, and the subordination of morality to political and economic interests are natural, inevitable, and something we need to resign ourselves to. I reject this with every fiber of my being as does the 100 million-strong communist party of China. Socialism is the ideology of enlightenment that says we can do better as a species than the perpetual war and exploitation the West has offered the world for most of the past 200 years. It’s dinosaurs like Mearsheimer that need to be refuted before they infect the younger generation with their mindless barbarity. Socialism is the answer. But socialism must be worked for, struggled for, developed, and nurtured. It is never easy to overcome the dictatorship of capital but it is possible and absolutely necessary as the alternative is to leave things in the hands of the barbarians.
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UKRAINE THE CLIENT STATE – WHY THE FUTILE TERRORIST ATTACKS KEEP COMING
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UKRAINE THE CLIENT STATE - WHY THE FUTILE TERRORIST ATTACKS KEEP COMING
Garland Nixon Garland dives deep to explore the nature of Ukraine and the Ukraine War ("the Ukraine Project", as US neocons call it). For starters, Garland affirms that Ukraine is not so much a nation, let alone an independent, sovereign nation, as Western propaganda claims, as a tool of the West to harm and irritate Russia so as to provoke the conditions for social turmoil that could usher in the overthrow of Vladimir Putin. Ukraine is not making the critical war decisions, notes Garland, and this is especially true for the deployment and use of advanced weapons, whose use is decided and implemented entirely by NATO.
The ultimate end is to remove Russia as a great, peer power blocking US global domination, and the same goes for China and other powers such as Iran, Brazil, and others that may aspire to independent action and sovereign multilateralism. The strategy being used by the West is constant terrorism and war. Having lost the war in Ukraine, a huge humiliation, the West is clearly engaged in a campaign of indefinite terrorism inside the Russian Federation and its BRICS allies. In this effort, the West relies on numerous "assets" cynically created over the years, chiefly ISIS, al-Qaeda and other extreme jihadists. These groups were first created by the West "to give Russia its own Vietnam" in Afghanistan, a criminal policy first developed under Jimmy Carter and intensified under Reagan. The fact that ISIS an its branches are controlled by the CIA, MI6 and other Western intel services is clear and documented. Besides, a simple look at history shows a curious fact: these Arab extremists, once fully backed by Saudi Arabia, have never attacked Israel, nor for that matter the US, or other major colonising powers of the West.
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Now the fight against anti-semitism is being weaponised as a new sanctimonious McCarthyism.
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Things to keep in mind...
Neo-Nazi ideology has become one of the main protagonists of political and social life in Ukraine since the 2014 coup d'état. Meanwhile, fascist ideology and blatant lies also permeate the consciousness of most people in the West. Those in the comfortable top 10%, the "PMCs" (Professional Managerial Class), are especially vulnerable. They support and disseminate such ideas. They are the executors of the actual ruling class' orders, those in the 0.001%, who remain largely invisible. The PMCs are the political class, the media whores, the top military brass, some people in academia, and the "national security/foreign policy" industry honchos. Push back against these unethical, contaminated people with the truth while you can.
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‘I apologise on Gaza. You were right and I was wrong’
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INTERVIEW: ‘I apologise on Gaza. You were right and I was wrong’
George Galloway MP Apr 8, 2024 People in the US now understand that people in Palestine need justice, says Garland Nixon. ‘I’ve lost count of the number of Democrats who tell me they’ve changed their minds on Gaza’. The media are now trying to make us believe that this entire colossal bloodthirsty massacre, this genocide in broad daylight, is just the handiwork of a criminally deranged Netanyahu, but, in reality, this a ruse, a fraud, to cover up an even uglier reality, that the vast majority of the people in Israel are fully implicated in this crime and have been for almost a full century, since the first Nakba in 1948. Zionist Israel is a terminally sick nation.
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Apr 5, 2024 US policymakers have sought to use Israel as a proxy to provoke a full-scale war with Iran for years. - While the US attempts to distance itself from Israeli provocations and atrocities including attacks on embassies and the killing of aid workers, the US is chief in enabling Israeli in continuing to carry out such attacks. - Just as the US created a large-scale conflict in Ukraine to reassert itself over Europe, it is attempting to use conflict to reassert itself in the Middle East and at a minimum prevent the region from uniting and moving out from under Western hegemony. - The window of opportunity for the US and proxies like Israel to fight and win a military conflict against Iran and its allies in the region is quickly closing, thus efforts are being made to provoke such a conflict sooner rather than later. - Even in US policy papers in 2009, it was admitted that Iran would likely ignore US-Israeli provocations, including air strikes on Iran itself, meaning that the possibility of a false flag attack blamed on Iran to usher in Washington’s desired war is a possibility.
Which Path to Persia?
Few things prove better the malignant and arrogant nature of the US imperialist machine, than think tank papers like these, authored by morally degenerate careerists with degrees from the top universities in the West.
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