Most of this planet's human residents have a pretty good idea of what the USA is. If only they were US residents. The most misinformed are here with me, living in the putative land of the free and the home of the brave.
You might think that pictures of a flattened girl's academy would take a bit of the burnish off the home of the brave claim, but not yet for most of us. Too, one might think that shooting citizens for exercising their first amendment rights to free speech and assembly might make us dubvious about whether freedom really does flourish over this land, but indoctrinated propaganda dies hard.
The first target for my blame cannon is the national news media. Timely disclosures of our drastic loss of military hardware are not relayed. There is no attempt to allow us to see these events from a different perspective: say human. A long and distinguished culture, that of the Persians, is defending its existence without lashing out indiscriminately against American citizens. Our media owes us this perspective and also an accounting of the decades of imperious interference in Iranian governance over the span of my 73 year life. But the purveyors of violence, our military industrial corporations underwrite and frankly dictate the news for our consumption.
The cannon should next point at our education policy. We do not teach our own history to our children, nor do we seek to correct our own misinformed views.
Our most pressing problem is the cherished document that shackles us to injustice: The Constitution. It protects wealth and power, which is not me, and not you, dear reader.
I want to believe multipolarity and some sense of fairness is possible but I actually observe the empire failure is in outdated means while the financial centre of gravity is the main stage event. This looks more to me like the holders of power are just shrugging off military failure and slaughter of proxies while their main efforts are focused on creating notional value and power outside the reach of the common human. The tools at the disposal the power structures have never been so omnipresent, insidious and concentrated.
Terrific article, by the way. My view is as a suvivor of American cruelty we taught to Israel via the bloodlines of the British imperialist. I'm what's left of two genocides who can't find any genealogy of my family's existence from being crushed under the boot of the American empire. I don't hate America. I just see it for what it really is without the rose colored glasses and the slop the media, music industry, Hollywood, and Washington D.C. aka Babylon 2.0 dish out.
Trump is only the symptom of the disease that effects the USA. I've seen it in all my jobs (retired now), when someone pulled a gun on my family for road rage, when I visited Europe & saw American arrogance & entitlement (the people thought we were European from our skin color. We didn't correct them). We are Israel. Arrogance, hubris, ignorance, entitlement, thievery, & cruelty & death to the weak. (What do you think Covid was for as those 40 biolabs in Ukraine). We'd rather build weapons for profit to kill the innocence than give sustenance to the homeless, college bound, or typical family for health insurance. Because we, too, were founded on genocide. 90 million Indigenous American & their food called Buffalo. 60 million by most estimates. America has been at war 98% of our existence but we aren't a "civilization" like Iran, China, or Russia. Were a motley crew of what we criticize. I've worked for all sides. The entitlement & arrogance of the rich. The arrogance of the left who wanted to punch me the face for not watching "An inconcentent truth" & ordering McDonalds. The "right" who claimed there "holy" for going to church on Sunday but didn't know the first thing about God or the teachings of Christ. Our downfall won't be like the downfall of a civilization who are united in their history, religion, or heroes. We worship false gods who build idols to themselves or masturbate on stage to cheers from the crowd. What did God do with those idol worshippers? Enslaved them for 400 years. Karma takes a while to come around.
"The United States, by contrast, has used the opportunity to bare its imperialist, capitalist teeth."
I feel bad for the fans, but at least they get to go home. Iimagine having to depend on a wage for your survival in this hell hole.
Your last line is good about Americans doing something to accelerate the collapse of Zio Imperialism at home. I would add though that your summons should be specifically addressed to the American wage slaves, not just "Americans". As one insude the beast, I can say that the pandemic to present period has in fact destroyed the illusions of most workers here. Most workers however were already strongly opposed to Imperialist wars. Now millions can also identify Israel as uniquely evil and see clearly it's critical role in driving most of the Imperialist war in the ME. I think the issue is, as you say, what is the American worker to do about it. That is the question that needs to be answered now. The answer also implicates all Western workers. Do workers in Canada, UK, Germany, France have any responsibility to do something about it? Aren't their governments also Imperialist genocidal supporters of Israel? Do those wage slaves have agency or are they just waiting for American workers to do something? Do those workers support the American wage slaves as their comrades against Imperialism or do they think America is just one great evil that should be wiped off the map, workers and all? Frankly, defeating Imperialism is a cooperative international task and cannot be done by one set of workers in one nation, although workers in America will be critically important in the effort.
In sum, Lenin's question remains. Most workers know what the problem is generally, now what are they to do about it? How can they defeat Zio Imperialism?
Settle down. What we have is at best an agreement to agree, which hasn't even been signed yet.
Fat lot of good Russia's attempts to be nice got it. Within a couple of days of the Ukraine War, Russia was kicked out of most international organizations, hell they got kicked out of europvision.
Israel conducts a daylight genocide in Gaza and another in Lebanon and hardly anyone raises a peep. The United States treats soccer players and referees from countries it doesn't like a criminals, and nobody withdraws their participation in protest. Hell, FIFA continues to fawn on Trump like he was the inventor of soccer, the game's biggest sponsor, and Pele, all rolled into one.
Indeed it is collapsing. The ungliness of what this country supports, culminating in this live streamed genocide, has gotten so extreme that it can no longer be hidden behind false pretenses. Not even the world cup could hide it!
The world needs to see an end to the cancerous colony and a return to power of the natives, for the sake of the millions afflicted in and around it.
Let the ugly empire experiment of natalisum, genicide, imparalisum, division, and hate have the most accelerated death because its existence as a concept and paradigm needs to end for life to sprout from the rubble of its oppression.
Most of this planet's human residents have a pretty good idea of what the USA is. If only they were US residents. The most misinformed are here with me, living in the putative land of the free and the home of the brave.
You might think that pictures of a flattened girl's academy would take a bit of the burnish off the home of the brave claim, but not yet for most of us. Too, one might think that shooting citizens for exercising their first amendment rights to free speech and assembly might make us dubvious about whether freedom really does flourish over this land, but indoctrinated propaganda dies hard.
The first target for my blame cannon is the national news media. Timely disclosures of our drastic loss of military hardware are not relayed. There is no attempt to allow us to see these events from a different perspective: say human. A long and distinguished culture, that of the Persians, is defending its existence without lashing out indiscriminately against American citizens. Our media owes us this perspective and also an accounting of the decades of imperious interference in Iranian governance over the span of my 73 year life. But the purveyors of violence, our military industrial corporations underwrite and frankly dictate the news for our consumption.
The cannon should next point at our education policy. We do not teach our own history to our children, nor do we seek to correct our own misinformed views.
Our most pressing problem is the cherished document that shackles us to injustice: The Constitution. It protects wealth and power, which is not me, and not you, dear reader.
I want to believe multipolarity and some sense of fairness is possible but I actually observe the empire failure is in outdated means while the financial centre of gravity is the main stage event. This looks more to me like the holders of power are just shrugging off military failure and slaughter of proxies while their main efforts are focused on creating notional value and power outside the reach of the common human. The tools at the disposal the power structures have never been so omnipresent, insidious and concentrated.
Terrific article, by the way. My view is as a suvivor of American cruelty we taught to Israel via the bloodlines of the British imperialist. I'm what's left of two genocides who can't find any genealogy of my family's existence from being crushed under the boot of the American empire. I don't hate America. I just see it for what it really is without the rose colored glasses and the slop the media, music industry, Hollywood, and Washington D.C. aka Babylon 2.0 dish out.
Trump is only the symptom of the disease that effects the USA. I've seen it in all my jobs (retired now), when someone pulled a gun on my family for road rage, when I visited Europe & saw American arrogance & entitlement (the people thought we were European from our skin color. We didn't correct them). We are Israel. Arrogance, hubris, ignorance, entitlement, thievery, & cruelty & death to the weak. (What do you think Covid was for as those 40 biolabs in Ukraine). We'd rather build weapons for profit to kill the innocence than give sustenance to the homeless, college bound, or typical family for health insurance. Because we, too, were founded on genocide. 90 million Indigenous American & their food called Buffalo. 60 million by most estimates. America has been at war 98% of our existence but we aren't a "civilization" like Iran, China, or Russia. Were a motley crew of what we criticize. I've worked for all sides. The entitlement & arrogance of the rich. The arrogance of the left who wanted to punch me the face for not watching "An inconcentent truth" & ordering McDonalds. The "right" who claimed there "holy" for going to church on Sunday but didn't know the first thing about God or the teachings of Christ. Our downfall won't be like the downfall of a civilization who are united in their history, religion, or heroes. We worship false gods who build idols to themselves or masturbate on stage to cheers from the crowd. What did God do with those idol worshippers? Enslaved them for 400 years. Karma takes a while to come around.
Good article, Nate.
"The United States, by contrast, has used the opportunity to bare its imperialist, capitalist teeth."
I feel bad for the fans, but at least they get to go home. Iimagine having to depend on a wage for your survival in this hell hole.
Your last line is good about Americans doing something to accelerate the collapse of Zio Imperialism at home. I would add though that your summons should be specifically addressed to the American wage slaves, not just "Americans". As one insude the beast, I can say that the pandemic to present period has in fact destroyed the illusions of most workers here. Most workers however were already strongly opposed to Imperialist wars. Now millions can also identify Israel as uniquely evil and see clearly it's critical role in driving most of the Imperialist war in the ME. I think the issue is, as you say, what is the American worker to do about it. That is the question that needs to be answered now. The answer also implicates all Western workers. Do workers in Canada, UK, Germany, France have any responsibility to do something about it? Aren't their governments also Imperialist genocidal supporters of Israel? Do those wage slaves have agency or are they just waiting for American workers to do something? Do those workers support the American wage slaves as their comrades against Imperialism or do they think America is just one great evil that should be wiped off the map, workers and all? Frankly, defeating Imperialism is a cooperative international task and cannot be done by one set of workers in one nation, although workers in America will be critically important in the effort.
In sum, Lenin's question remains. Most workers know what the problem is generally, now what are they to do about it? How can they defeat Zio Imperialism?
Settle down. What we have is at best an agreement to agree, which hasn't even been signed yet.
Fat lot of good Russia's attempts to be nice got it. Within a couple of days of the Ukraine War, Russia was kicked out of most international organizations, hell they got kicked out of europvision.
Israel conducts a daylight genocide in Gaza and another in Lebanon and hardly anyone raises a peep. The United States treats soccer players and referees from countries it doesn't like a criminals, and nobody withdraws their participation in protest. Hell, FIFA continues to fawn on Trump like he was the inventor of soccer, the game's biggest sponsor, and Pele, all rolled into one.
Indeed it is collapsing. The ungliness of what this country supports, culminating in this live streamed genocide, has gotten so extreme that it can no longer be hidden behind false pretenses. Not even the world cup could hide it!
The world needs to see an end to the cancerous colony and a return to power of the natives, for the sake of the millions afflicted in and around it.
Not soon ENOUGH. we should ALL be tired of this mess
Our power collapsed a LONG time ago.
Let the ugly empire experiment of natalisum, genicide, imparalisum, division, and hate have the most accelerated death because its existence as a concept and paradigm needs to end for life to sprout from the rubble of its oppression.
On point, timely, welcome!