Election Of New House Speaker Means Greater Slaughter of Palestinians and Escalation Of War Against Russia In Ukraine

Joe "The Butcher" Biden has made clear that his top priority- indeed his one and ONLY priority- is funneling billions of dollars of U.S. bombs and rockets and other weapons to Israel to massacre thousands more Palestinians (as of today Israel has murdered over 6,800 Palestinians in Gaza- over 2,000 were children- and 100 in the West Bank) and to keep using Ukrainians as cannon fodder in the U.S. proxy war against Russia.

Every year Israel receives around $3.8 billion in free weapons from the U.S. Biden's "package" for war that he so urgently wants passed that he went on national television to propagandize the nation about it, would provide $14 billion in additional free money for Israel. Supposedly "only" $10 billion of that is for more bombs for Israel to destroy Gaza. That means the equivalent of over two and a half years of Israel's "normal" quota of weapons will be given to the Israelis in one fell swoop as a "supplement" so they can wreak greater havoc. Israel has bombarded numerous UN facilities, murdering UN personnel, as well as the hospitals and clinics of Gaza. The U.S. and the other nations of "the West," that is, the WHITE nations, all support this to the hilt. (No doubt there's a bit of racism behind this.) The U.S. and its stooges adamantly oppose any ceasefire. They want Israel to exact a Nazi level of retribution against the Palestinians for Hamas daring to attack Israel on October 7. That mandates a ten-to-one kill ratio. Since they now claim that 1,400 Israelis were killed on October 7, that means a minimum of 14,000 Palestinians have to die. Israel in the last few weeks has doubled the number of Palestinians hostages in its prison gulag, to 10,000. It's army and "settlers" are conducting a full-scale pogrom in the West Bank, murdering

Palestinians and destroying their homes, their crops, their property, in an intensification of the "ethnic cleansing" they began with terror in 1948.

But merely killing the Palestinians in Gaza isn't enough. Israel has long hungered to make all the land "from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River" into The Land Of Israel. This necessitates "cleansing" the land of the Palestinians. So several days ago Israel ordered the depopulation of the entire northern half of the tiny Gaza strip, where 2.3 million souls are already crammed in. For good measure, it is bombarding those fleeing.

Ultimately, with food, water, fuel, electricity, and medical supplies cut off, Palestinians will face annihilation by disease and starvation, which is how the Germans (who these days are big backers of Israel) murdered millions of Soviet prisoners of war in World War II. Some predict that Israel will try and drive the Palestinians of Gaza into Egypt's Sinai desert. That's a desert, so millions of people cannot survive there. In a cynical charade, U.S.apparatchiks spoke of how they were "developing a plan" to get aid to Gaza. After about a week and a half of this political Kabuki theater, designed to try and obscure the vicious and barbaric actual policies of Israel and its U.S. patron, a smattering of trucks that had been sitting in Egypt for weeks with desperately needed supplies was allowed into Gaza by Israel- BUT NO FUEL ALLOWED. This stunt was again reminiscent of the public relations ploys of the Third Reich, which staged carefully curated tours of concentration camps for the Red Cross with cleaned-up prisoners threatened beforehand not to depart from the script. To his credit, UN Secretary General António Guterres keeps demanding a half to the barbarism and opening up Gaza for relief supplies. This has made him invisible in most U.S. media and prompted vituperative denunciations of him by Israeli officials, who are demanding his resignation. (The U.S. is undoubtedly already sharpening its knives for him.)

As for Ukraine, on top of the $100 billion or so in weapons the U.S. has given to the Kyiv regime to fight Russia (plus arms and ordnance from the Europeans) Biden is demanding another $60 billion in armaments for that war which the U.S. did almost everything possible to provoke. The remainder of the total $106 billion war package is for Taiwan. The U.S. is determined to prevent a Chinese regime takeover of Taiwan. (I do think it would be terrible for the people of Taiwan to be absorbed into the Chinese totalitarian system of rule. Unlike so many on what is broadly terms the "left," I don't do analysis based on simplistic anti-Americanism. There are, after all, other sources of evil in the world besides the U.S., although of course the U.S. is the most powerful source of evil.)

With the GOP (Gang Of Plunderers) finally finding one among their number in the House they can all agree to like, the horror show for the Palestinians is just beginning, and the meat grinder in Ukraine will chew up more bodies.

So for anybody who thinks it was a bad thing that the U.S. House of Representatives was in a state of paralysis, you didn't do much thinking at all.

 

The Face of Sheer Evil

 

 

Trump Forces Biden To Show Up At Autoworkers' Picket Line

Donald J. "Jackass" Trump operates on instinct. Thus much of what he does is impulsive. The vast majority of what he says are for an immediate advantage and represent no actual commitment. The amazing thing is that so many people fall for his obvious emotional manipulations year after year. They never learn from experience, or from facts. 

The UAW (United Auto Workers Union) is currently conducting a series of rolling strikes against the facilities of 3 car companies: General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler). Trump did what he so often does, opportunistically and completely insincerely pretending to side with the workers. (All his policies, his actual actions, while president, were pro-capital and anti-worker, just as his entire business career has been anti-worker, including wage theft and racial discrimination.) He has repeatedly manipulated various groups of workers this way. (Remember his loudly braying bullshit promises to coal miners?)
 

 

But merely spouting off and once again pretending to be a defender of the working class was enough to force president Joe Biden to schedule a trip to have his picture taken at a UAW picket line. (Previously the White House maintained a determined silence on the question of whether Biden would show up at a picket line in a display of solidarity.)

Biden has rebranded himself as "the most pro-union president in modern history." (Notice that qualifier, "modern history.") Given that U.S. presidents almost all represented capital, not labor, such a boast isn't saying much. In fact, just saying it makes him one of the most "pro-union" presidents in history. The only labor-management dispute he actually took action in, as opposed to just making pronouncements, was the railroads, in which he used Federal power to force the workers to swallow a crappy deal that still leaves them very overworked and with no right to sick days.

The current UAW head, Shawn Fain, is a genuine labor leader, not a self-serving, corrupt betrayer as so many union heads in the U.S. have been. He has no use for Trump, and Trump as usual with people who resist being his sycophants, verbally abuses Fain. Trump is supposed to go to Detroit (but not necessarily to a UAW picket line, where he won't have a controlled crowd who he can rely on to cheer him) on September 27. BIden is scheduled to beat him to the punch and join a UAW picket line for the media to document on September 26, to publicize his claim to being The Most Pro-Union President. (TM).

Another one of Biden's reelection shticks is "Bidenomics," whatever that is. Unfortunately for Biden and the Democrats, that buzzword isn't having the desired effect. Democratic politicians and Biden cabinet members publicly boast of Biden's legislative results and cite economic statistics constantly. So far it seems the public doesn't hear them. The latest poll has 30% of respondents approving of Biden's handling of the economy, 64% disapproving. [1] Which is unfair, since the president of the U.S. doesn't control the economy- the Federal Reserve, which sets interest rates, and Congress have far more effect on the economy.

Biden spent decades in the Senate spearheaiding legislation that harmed average Americans, especially the working class, to give more power and wealth to the finance industry- banks and credit card companies. He saw to it that by law, student debt cannot be discharged in bankruptcy. It can follow a person to the grave. 

He took the lead in pushing through draconian "anti-crime" laws that targeted the lower classes, especially African Americans, who he accused, in what should be an infamous speech on the Senate floor, of potentially hitting his mother in the head with a lead pipe. [2] He was a staunch opponent of so-called "forced busing," meaning school integration. His closest allies and avowed best friends in the Senate were the worst Southern segregationists.

And while mentioning The Crimes of Biden, we can't omit one of the worst things he did that has caused and is still causing lasting damage: the elevation to the Supreme Court of the mediocre, corrupt, bitter, extreme reactionary Clarence Thomas. As the Senator who chaired the Judiciary Committee for Thomas' confirmation hearings, Biden blocked corroborating witnesses for Anita Hill from testifying, and privately advised Democratic Senators not to believe Hill. This enabled Thomas to be narrowly confirmed by the Senate. [3] 

Regarding Thomas' corruption: he has received millions of dollars worth of favors and gifts from billionaires while a high court "Justice," which he kept secret. Thomas lives the life of a multimillionaire for free, courtesy of his billionaire patrons, whose economic interests he protects at the court.

 Invariably, I have noticed, extreme reactionaries and fascists are personally corrupt. Since they completely lack normal moral values and are unrestrained in their behavior, this seems  inevitable. Samuel Alito, the other most extreme reactionary on the tyrannical high court, has also been exposed as corrupt. We owe gratitude to ProPublica for exposing the venality of these two evil people.

But reactionary Democrats doing a political burlesque pretending to be progressives is typical of them. They are absolutely shameless about it. When he was Governor of New York state, the rightwing bully and sexual miscreant Andrew Cuomo once asserted that HE was the MOST progressive politician in the state!

In my experience, 99 times out of 100, when you scratch a liberal, you find a reactionary right under the surface.

1] ABC News/Washington Post poll just announced as of this writing.

2] See the video, "Biden's Racist Rant Promoting One of His Numerous Crime Bills," In the video, Biden refers to blacks as "they" and "them." I don't think he meant Albanians or Martians. To broaden and deepen your political and historical understanding, you need to view more videos at the Jason Zenith channel.

3] Biden's despicable role in Thomas' elevation to the dictatorial high court was documented years ago in the book "Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas," by Jane Mayer and  Jill Abramson. Both were reporters at The Wall Street Journal at the time.

Mayer went on to become a staff reporter at The New Yorker uber bourgeois magazine, and  Jill Abramson became the first female top editor at The New York Times, the self-styled power establishment "newspaper of record." So these two cannot be dismissed as leftwing "conspiracy theorists." And yet this information has been completely suppressed by "the" media, by simply never mentioning it. Thus another taboo truth. 

For a series of articles exposing the corruption of Thomas and Alito, go to the ProPublica website.

"World Leaders" Is A Propaganda Term For Country Bosses

We've been subjected to much blather about "world leaders" as the political class that rules countries meets at the UN to orate. This propaganda term is used ubiquitously in media. It is absurd. How many of the politicians who rise to the top political positions in their nations are inspirational leaders whose people are their followers? It is a conceit by politicians, and the propaganda systems use this term to support the political rulerships of their respective countries.

Here's another example of how propaganda media use the word "leader" to twist reality and gaslight people. Corporate bosses are NEVER "bosses" in capitalist media. They are always and only "leaders." The word "boss" is reserved for labor union officials. There are "union bosses," but no corporate bosses, no business bosses. So if you're a worker, your boss isn't your boss, he/she is your Leader, and you are inspired to follow! Your boss is a union official, if you're even in a union. 

This dishonest charade serves to hide the fact that corporate bosses are powerful rulers. In the United States and other countries, the governments are the servants of powerful corporations. After World War II the U.S. created entire organizations to enforce the power of U.S. corporations to exploit other nations. For example, the CIA exists to overthrow governments that don't serve U.S. corporate interests.

A "World Leader:"

                    Is he your leader? Do you follow him?

 

Larry Summers Attacks Biden Regime For Upholding Rule of Law

 There he goes again. The guy who helped cause the financial crisis of 2008, Lawrence "Larry" Summers, attacked the Biden regime for merely weakly starting up enforcement of Federal anti-trust law after decades of none or virtually no enforcement! Here's what this eminence grise of high finance, an accomplice to Bill Clinton's destruction of Glass-Steagall and other safeguards which led directly to the 2008 debacle, just said, quoting a report on the radio propaganda network of Michael Bloomberg Billionaire: "Larry Summers is warning that the Biden administration's crackdown on mergers is almost like a war on business." 

Well hey, Larry, what do you expect from those "Socialist" Democrats!

Among Summers' other crimes: when he was president of Harvard University, he publicly opined that there were fewer women in science because they just weren't as SMART as men. Thanks for sharing your sexist insight with everybody, Larry the Lout!

1st Commandment of Summers: "Thou Must Not Interfere With Capitalists!"

How The U.S. Uses Food As A Weapon In The Ukraine War

 Specifically as a propaganda weapon.

Western propagandists and politicians and imperialist apparatchiks want us to believe that Russia wants to starve Africans. They expect us to believe that Putin wants to use food as a "weapon" against the very African nations Russia is keen to keep neutral in the proxy war the U.S. is waging against Russia in Ukraine. Why in hell would Putin want to alienate those nations that have remained neutral in the NATO war to wreck Russia? It's as absurd and dishonest as Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda, completely ludicrous.

U.S. and Eurostooge media propagandists keep falsely "reporting" that "Russia pulled out of the [grain] deal." No, the "deal" expired, and Russia declined to renew it, for the very good reason that the deal WASN'T HONORED. Russia was double-crossed. (As the U.S. and its Eurolackeys have repeatedly double-crossed Russia again and again since defeating the Soviet Union in the Cold War.) The deal was that both Ukraine AND Russia would be allowed to export grains. Russia honored its side of the bargain, even though it was blocked from exporting.

Western imperialists claim Russian grain exports weren't banned, but this is deceptive. Russian grain exports weren't specifically banned, but they were effectively banned because Russia was and is barred from international payment systems by "Western sanctions." That is to say, by U.S. diktat. The U.S. controls the international financial system and payments mechanisms. So international trade is extremely difficult without U.S. permission. The world is under the yoke of a U.S.-controlled system of trade and finance. This is part of what is euphemised as "the international order." What it is is a system of U.S. global domination.  

Russia has made clear they will join a new agreement if this time they are not double-crossed. That is blocked from public consciousness by Western propagandists (aka "journalists" or "reporters") state apparatchiks like U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken (who repeatedly attacks Russia for "using food as a weapon" and allegedly starving people) and politicians.

The ones using food as a weapon are the U.S. and its satrapys. They are using it as a propaganda weapon to claim evil Russia wants to starve Africans.

Russia has responded to the U.S. refusal to permit a fair deal by shelling Ukraine regime food warehouses. At least that's what Western propaganda agencies claim. Given how mendacious so much of their "news" has been- they wanted us to believe Russia sabotaged its own undersea gas pipeline, that for months it shelled its own troops at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine, and other absurdities- unfortunately we can't take for granted the accuracy of any "reportage" by Western propaganda outfits. These propagandists' jobs are to make Russia look as evil as possible, the the Kyiv regime noble freedom fighters. We the people are the targets and victims of their propaganda barrages.

 Postscript: I actually wrote this several weeks ago. Today the propagandists are still gaslighting the public about this issue. For example, on NPR, loathsome propagandist Greg Myrie yammered on and on about mean Russia causing hunger, while carefully omitting Russia's completely valid complaint, and the REAL party responsible for the impasse- the U.S., which refuses to allow Russia to sell its grain.

Why Trump's Support INCREASES With Each Criminal Indictment And Civil Lawsuit Defeat

 It's really quite simple, contrary to the head-scratching perplexity of power establishment media mavens and politicos of the ruling two-party cartel.

The answer, is psychological.

Reactionaries have a persecution complex- even though they are a powerful, privileged group in most countries.

Trump's supporters, and those who gravitate towards him like iron filings attracted to a magnet, are reactionaries. A core part of the psychic makeups of reactionaries is a strong feeling of being unfairly victimized. Here are just a few of innumerable examples.

In the U.S., rightwing media is an unending stream of imaginary grievances that "conservatives" have. They present themselves as a persecuted, marginalized group. Given the dominance of reactionaries in America, this is delusional in the extreme.
 
Another example: the Nazis of Germany. "Aryans" were horribly victimized by Jews. This is why Jews had to be eliminated.

So by loudly presenting himself as a victim of unjust persecution, Trump plucks hard on this basic string within the reactionary psyche. That doesn't mean he doesn't really feel himself to be a victim. He has had such an extraordinarily privileged life, during which he has gotten away with virtually all of his misdeeds and crimes, that he probably really believes being finally, at long last, being called to account for something is persecution. Also he is a guilt-free, conscience-less narcissist. ( I'll tell you someone who thoroughly believed his own propaganda- Adolf Hitler. But he may have been more sincere than Trump.)

Trump instinctively plays directly to this psychological affinity with his "base," the deep-seated delusion that they are being victimized by gays, trans people, immigrants (just the "non-white" ones) and oh- whisper this one- Jews. And above all, by "Liberals" "the Left" "socialists" and even "communists." (Trump uses those terms.) Trump has repeatedly proclaimed to his mobs of supporters regarding his criminal indictments that "They're not just coming after me. They're coming after you."  Thus does he reinforce the shared sense of victimhood with his "base."

Another thing that Trump's fans find appealing is his overt boorishness. It appeals to their anti-social nature. Ronald Dion DeSantis and the GOP generally also tap into that attitude with demonization of "wokeness," which refers to awareness of social injustice. That in turn is an evolution from the theme of gleefully attacking "political correctness," which is code for basic decency and consideration for the feelings of others who aren't straight white males and anti-feminist women.

So what accounts for the upsurge of support for Trump whenever there are legal attempts to call him to account for his crimes is his vociferous insistence that he is a victim of unjust persecution. That resonates deeply in reactionary psyches.

 

              "How DARE you indict Me for My crimes!!"

                          Is this the face of a criminal? (Yes.)

All this is just a natural progression for the Republican Party, which has manifested all the nastiness, political savagery, take no prisoners attacks on Democrats, charges of "treason," posturing as the REAL Americans and more patriotic than thou, since at least the immediate aftermath of World War II. Go read up on the career of Richard Nixon, and you'll see what I mean. The totalitarian nature of the GOP (Gang Of Plunderers) is revealed by its attitude that their rivals, the Democrats, are illegitimate. They painted Democrats as "fellow travelers" of Bolshevism if not as treasonous agents of communism during the 1940s nd 1950s (Nixon branded his first political rival for office, Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas, as "the pink lady".) Through Newt Gingrich's deligitimization of Democrats during the Clinton regime to Mitch McConnell's goal of making Obama's term in office a "failed presidency," it's just one more step to Trump proclaiming that Democrats stole the 2020 election.

Through all this, the Democrats either turned the other cheek or played defense. Meanwhile "the media," the corporate oligarchical propaganda system, studiously played dumb. Being "neutral" is what they pretend is objectivity. But ACTUAL objectivity means describing reality accurately.

Which is not something anyone should rely on propagandists to do.

I Heard The Newa Today, Oh Boy...

 I woke up today at 6 am. It's "Presidents Day" in the U.S., a national holiday in honor of two Big Deal U.S. presidents, Washington and Lincoln. (All you need to know about them to be a Good American is Washington was "Father of the Nation" and Lincoln "freed the slaves." And don't ask any questions.)

I turned on the radio at 6:02 am (Eastern Standard Time) and what came out of the speaker was Joe Biden, saying this:

"America stands with you, the world stands with you. Kyiv has captured a part of my heart, I must say."

Then the nice NPR lady propagandist started speaking and I turned it off. (NPR, National Public Radio, is a U.S. government-created radio network.)

Biden was speaking in Kyiv, we're told it was a "surprise visit." 

The part about "the world stands with you" is a bald-faced lie. Biden knows that Africa, Latin America, and most of Asia, including China and India, most definitely are NOT supporting Ukraine, as the U.S. demands they do. Most of "the world" wants no part of the U.S. jihad against Russia.

The U.S. demands that every nation on earth adopt ITS foreign policy. It is right now threatening China not to supply "lethal weapons" to Russia. Every propaganda outlet in the U.S. uses that exact phrase, "lethal weapons." Not once has any of them described the U.S. and NATO weapons funneled to Ukraine, billions of dollars worth, as "lethal." Maybe they just tickle the enemy.

The power establishment's media has been bathing all our brains in non-stop Hate Russia Love Ukraine propaganda since October 2021, months before the Russian invasion of Ukraine- an invasion the U.S. apparently intended to provoke. So I've had more than enough of the propagandists' and politicians' guff.

Don't get me wrong. I don't think Russia's invasion was justified. But it was definitely provoked. 

We're supposed to think this is a uniquely horrific war. But countries have invaded other countries probably thousands of times over the past thousands of years. And we're supposed to have amnesia about the numerous times the U.S. has invaded other countries, and the uncountable atrocities and war crimes it has committed.

All this propaganda is meant to stoke popular outrage and hatred for Russia.

Deconstructing the mendacious propaganda about the situation in Ukraine is beyond the scope of this essay. I will just repeat that the invasion of Ukraine is not justified. Moreover, a famous statement attributed to Tallyrand is appropriate here: It is worse than a crime, it is a blunder. That is, Putin has well and truly put his country in a worse position than before. And as happens so often in Russian history, the Russian people suffer from the ineptitude of their rulers.