BENEFITS OF EQUALITY

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EDITED AND HOSTED BY THE GREANVILLE POST I would like to announce the publication of a book which presents evidence supporting the thesis that elimination of excessive economic inequality makes societies happier and better .
The book may be freely downloaded and circulated from the following link : The Age of Reason , or the Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas during the 17th to 19th centuries @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for cosmic phenomena demonstrated that reason is better than superstition .
Diderot 's Encyclopedia and the writings of Voltaire and Rousseau paved the way for the end of Feudalism , the end of the theory of the Divine Right of Kings , and the liberation of serfs and slaves throughout the world .
In England , John Locke was expressing the spirit of the times when he wrote : “ Men living together according to reason , without a common superior on earth with authority to judge between them , is properly the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of equality , wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal , no one having more than another ; there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species , promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature and the use of the same facilities , should also be equal amongst one another without subordination or subjection ... ” Locke 's ideas were reflected in the wording of the American Declaration of Independence : “ We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with certain inalienable Rights , that among these are Life , Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness .
- That to secure these rights , Governments are instituted among Men , deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ... ” Sadly , these ideals do not hold in the United States today , and perhaps they never did .
Although years of slavery were ended after the Civil War , and dispite the efforts of the Civil Rights Movement , racisim is widespread today , and in fact US President @ @ @ @ @ @ @ racist platform .
During his term of office he has been a racist in both word and deed .
Recently many American cities have erupted in protests over the senseless killing by police of yet another black man - George Floyd .
The country is deeply divided .
It seems to be possible for nations , and the majority of their citizens , to commit the worst imaginable atrocities , including torture , murder and genocide , while feeling that what they are doing is both noble and good .
Some understanding of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by watching the 3-part BBC documentary , `` The History of Racism '' : The series was broadcast by BBC Four in March 2007 , and videos of the broadcasts are available on the Internet .
Watching this eye-opening documentary can give us much insight into the link between racism and colonialism .
We can also begin to see how both racism and colonialism are linked to US exceptionalism and neocolonialism .
Looking at the BBC documentary we can see how often in human history economic greed and colonial exploitation have been justified @ @ @ @ @ @ @ almost unbelievable cruelties committed against the peoples of the Americas and Africa by Europeans .
For example , in the Congo , a vast region which King Leopold II of Belgium claimed as his private property , the women of villages were held as hostages while the men were forced to gather rubber in the forests .
Since neither the men nor the women could produce food under these circumstances , starvation was the result .
Leopold 's private army of 90,000 men were issued ammunition , and to make sure that they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the army was ordered to cut off the hands of their victims and send them back as proof that the bullets had not been wasted .
Human hands became a kind of currency , and hands were cut off from living men , women and children when rubber quotas were not fulfilled .
Sometimes more than a thousand human hands were gathered in a single day .
During the rule of Leopold , roughly 10,000,000 Congolese were killed , which was approximately half the population of the region .
Today the world spends @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) every year on armaments .
This vast river of money , almost too large to be imagined , is the “ devil 's dynamo ” driving the institution of war .
Politicians notoriously can be bought with a tiny fraction of this enormous amount ; hence the decay of democracy .
It is also plain that if the almost unbelievable sums now wasted on armaments were used constructively , most of the pressing problems now facing humanity could be solved .
Because the world spends almost two thousand billion dollars each year @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many people make their living from war .
This is the reason why it is correct to speak of war as an institution , and why it persists , although we know that it is the cause of much of the suffering that afflicts humanity , and that we live under the constant threat of an all-destroying thermonuclear war .
Money from wealthy oligarchs in military.industrial complexes buys the propaganda of the mass media and the votes of politicians .
Numbed by the propaganda , citizens allow politicians to vote for obscenely bloated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enriched , and thus the circular flow of money continues .
Excessive economic inequality is at the root of the problem of war , as well as the loss of our democratic institutions .
The poor suffer most in the COVID-19 pandemic The poor are suffering most from the COVID-19 pandemic .
While the rich can isolate themselves in comfort , working people with no savings are faced with the choice between risking their lives in unsafe work-places or starvation because of lack of income .
Here are quotetions from a recently-published article @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : While 41 Million People Lost Jobs Due to Covid-19 , US Billionaires Grew Nearly $ 500 Billion Richer ” , Common Dreams , May 28 , 2020 : “ Billionaire wealth is surging at the same time that millions face suffering , hardship , and loss of life .
This is a grotesque indicator of the deep inequalities in U.S. Society .
“ Statistics released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Labor show that with 2.1 million new unemployment claims filed last week , a staggering 40.7 million Americans have lost their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as mass layoffs induced by the coronavirus pandemic continue .
“ During that same 10-week period , according to a new analysis by the Institute for Policy Studies ( IPS ) , the combined net worth of America 's billionaires soared by nearly half a trillion dollars , bringing their total wealth to $ 3.4 trillion.
” The Green New Deal can simultaneously address the climate crisis and the problem of excessive economic inequality .
In this context , it is interesting to look at the social and economic systems of the Scandinavian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Denmark and Iceland .
In these countries the contrast between the rich and poor has been very much reduced .
It is almost true to say that poverty has been eliminated in these countries .
At the same time , the Scandinavians have strong policies to address the climate emergency .
Thus Scandinavian successes are a counter-argument to those who say that the Green New Deal can not be put into practice .
The Scandinavian countries also rank very highly on the Global Happiness Index and the Human Development Index , thus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ achieve a happy and sustainable world , we urgently need to decrease excessive economic inequality , both within and between nations .
Other books and articles about global problems are on these links I hope that you will circulate the links in this article to friends and contacts who might be interested .

Please make sure these dispatches reach as many readers as possible. Share with kin, friends and workmates and ask them to do likewise.
EDITED AND HOSTED BY THE GREANVILLE POST
BENEFITS OF EQUALITY
by John Scales Avery
A new freely downloadable book
I would like to announce the publication of a book which presents evidence supporting the thesis that elimination of excessive economic inequality makes societies happier and better. The book may be freely downloaded and circulated from the following link:
http://eacpe.org/app/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Benefits-of-Equality-by-John-Scales-Avery.pdf
Ideals of the Enlightenment
The Age of Reason, or the Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas during the 17th to 19th centuries. Sir Isaac Newton's rational explanations for cosmic phenomena demonstrated that reason is better than superstition. Diderot's Encyclopedia and the writings of Voltaire and Rousseau paved the way for the end of Feudalism, the end of the theory of the Divine Right of Kings, and the liberation of serfs and slaves throughout the world.
In England, John Locke was expressing the spirit of the times when he wrote: “Men living together according to reason, without a common superior on earth with authority to judge between them, is properly the state of nature... A state also of equality, wherein all the power and jurisdiction is reciprocal, no one having more than another; there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species, promiscuously born to all the same advantages of nature and the use of the same facilities, should also be equal amongst one another without subordination or subjection...”
“`But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of licence... The state of nature has a law to govern it, which obliges every one; and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.”
Locke's ideas were reflected in the wording of the American Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...”
Sadly, these ideals do not hold in the United States today, and perhaps they never did. Although years of slavery were ended after the Civil War, and dispite the efforts of the Civil Rights Movement, racisim is widespread today, and in fact US President Donald Trump was elected on an openly racist platform. During his term of office he has been a racist in both word and deed.
Recently many American cities have erupted in protests over the senseless killing by police of yet another black man - George Floyd. The country is deeply divided.
Racism, colonialism and exceptionalism
It seems to be possible for nations, and the majority of their citizens, to commit the worst imaginable atrocities, including torture, murder and genocide, while feeling that what they are doing is both noble and good. Some understanding of how this is possible can be gained by watching the 3-part BBC documentary, ``The History of Racism":
http://www.africaspeaks.com/reasoning/index.php?topic=8708.0;prev_next=prev
The series was broadcast by BBC Four in March 2007, and videos of the broadcasts are available on the Internet. Watching this eye-opening documentary can give us much insight into the link between racism and colonialism. We can also begin to see how both racism and colonialism are linked to US exceptionalism and neocolonialism.
Looking at the BBC documentary we can see how often in human history economic greed and colonial exploitation have been justified by racist theories. The documentary describes almost unbelievable cruelties committed against the peoples of the Americas and Africa by Europeans. For example, in the Congo, a vast region which King Leopold II of Belgium claimed as his private property, the women of villages were held as hostages while the men were forced to gather rubber in the forests. Since neither the men nor the women could produce food under these circumstances, starvation was the result.
Leopold's private army of 90,000 men were issued ammunition, and to make sure that they used it in the proper way, the army was ordered to cut off the hands of their victims and send them back as proof that the bullets had not been wasted. Human hands became a kind of currency, and hands were cut off from living men, women and children when rubber quotas were not fulfilled. Sometimes more than a thousand human hands were gathered in a single day. During the rule of Leopold, roughly 10,000,000 Congolese were killed, which was approximately half the population of the region.
Oligarchy and war
Today the world spends almost two trillion dollars ( $ 2,000,000,000,000) every year on armaments. This vast river of money, almost too large to be imagined, is the “devil's dynamo” driving the institution of war. Politicians notoriously can be bought with a tiny fraction of this enormous amount; hence the decay of democracy. It is also plain that if the almost unbelievable sums now wasted on armaments were used constructively, most of the pressing problems now facing humanity could be solved.
Because the world spends almost two thousand billion dollars each year on armaments, it follows that very many people make their living from war. This is the reason why it is correct to speak of war as an institution, and why it persists, although we know that it is the cause of much of the suffering that afflicts humanity, and that we live under the constant threat of an all-destroying thermonuclear war.
Money from wealthy oligarchs in military.industrial complexes buys the propaganda of the mass media and the votes of politicians. Numbed by the propaganda, citizens allow politicians to vote for obscenely bloated military budgets, the oligarchs are further enriched, and thus the circular flow of money continues. Excessive economic inequality is at the root of the problem of war, as well as the loss of our democratic institutions.
The poor suffer most in the COVID-19 pandemic
The poor are suffering most from the COVID-19 pandemic. While the rich can isolate themselves in comfort, working people with no savings are faced with the choice between risking their lives in unsafe work-places or starvation because of lack of income. Here are quotetions from a recently-published article by Jake Johnson entitled “'Grotesque': While 41 Million People Lost Jobs Due to Covid-19, US Billionaires Grew Nearly $500 Billion Richer”, Common Dreams, May 28, 2020:
“Billionaire wealth is surging at the same time that millions face suffering, hardship, and loss of life. This is a grotesque indicator of the deep inequalities in U.S. Society.
“Statistics released Thursday by the U.S. Department of Labor show that with 2.1 million new unemployment claims filed last week, a staggering 40.7 million Americans have lost their jobs over just the past 10 weeks as mass layoffs induced by the coronavirus pandemic continue.
“During that same 10-week period, according to a new analysis by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), the combined net worth of America's billionaires soared by nearly half a trillion dollars, bringing their total wealth to $3.4 trillion.”
Equality, happiness and renewable energy in Scandanavia
The Green New Deal can simultaneously address the climate crisis and the problem of excessive economic inequality. In this context, it is interesting to look at the social and economic systems of the Scandinavian countries, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland.
In these countries the contrast between the rich and poor has been very much reduced. It is almost true to say that poverty has been eliminated in these countries. At the same time, the Scandinavians have strong policies to address the climate emergency. Thus Scandinavian successes are a counter-argument to those who say that the Green New Deal cannot be put into practice.
The Scandinavian countries also rank very highly on the Global Happiness Index and the Human Development Index, thus demonstrating the benefits of equality,
To achieve a happy and sustainable world, we urgently need to decrease excessive economic inequality, both within and between nations.
Other books and articles about global problems are on these links
http://eacpe.org/about-john-scales-avery/
https://wsimag.com/authors/716-john-scales-avery
I hope that you will circulate the links in this article to friends and contacts who might be interested.
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thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-05--Why do Westerners assume all African-Americans are leftists?

The explanation is simple – Ice Cube is not a leftist : he may analyse certain aspects of the US socio-political landscape supremely well , but publishing such dehumanising trash shows how very limited his leftism reaches .
We can excuse Ice Cube , perhaps , because he was an African-American who grew up amid such dehumanised , brutalised , murderous conditions , but there is no excuse for Cave Bitch .
Those aforementioned conditions were ( and still are ) truly record-level bad in human history , and I don ’ t think that is appreciated properly .
I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ incarceration , CIA-fed crack cocaine , the state ’ s refusal to establish security and the stray bullets from military-grade weapons ( to name just some of these record-level bad issues ) has done exactly as the US 1 % intended : it has turned many in the African-American community into the most dedicated capitalists , as they are too desperate to have time for the long march required to achieve leftism .
These conditions explain why hip-hop is the way it is , but it does not mean hip-hop is not overflowing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of hip-hop don ’ t want to honestly explain its abundant , incredibly anti-leftist , pro-capitalist , reactionary , trash lyrics – it prefers to falsely think of it as “ woke ” and artistically vanguard .
Sure it is – for a bankster ideology in the US bankocratic system .
The problem of assuming classes of identities , not minds and ideologies The progression of Western fake-leftism from the 20th to 21st century has shown that many Western fake-leftists believe that identity politics has firmly established that any minority opinion – be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , etc .
– is inherently “ woke ” , instead of being merely worthy of no longer being ignored .
At some point conversations such as this article need to be had : agreeing that historic repression of minority voices had tragic consequences , but also agreeing that minority individuals can be just as fascistic , capitalist and politically backward as any White Westerner .
The idea that this needs to be explained , LOL , makes me feel as if I am writing to the reader as if he or she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sorry !
But is it not totally clear that writing “ Being Black doesn ’ t make you a real leftist ” needs to be said ?
I have certainly never read it in any American media .
These ideas are instinctively known by all good people , and this ideology is openly trumpeted in the “ all are welcome ( except reactionaries ) ” social unity which is social-ism .
The Black misleaders do their job It should be instructive to see how many Black mayors have totally abandoned the lower classes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Atlanta ’ s pathetic scolding and defense of CNN , after it was righteously attacked by protesters , is a perfect example of how being African-American does not automatically translate into leftism .
In Chicago ex-corporate lawyer Mayor Lori Lightfoot did what Paris does for every protest – send all the police resources to defend the rich areas .
What added insult to ( expected ) injury , however , was the way she tried to deflect the constant criticisms from local aldermen and community leaders by saying that as a Black woman @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by the allegations that her administration prioritised protecting downtown over poor minority communities : Lightfoot has , via the political dishonesty of US culture , been apparently led to believe that her black skin makes her not only immune from criticism but somehow prevents her from politically doing anything against the Black or poorer classes .
These exact criticisms ( like here ) were echoed by Black leftists such as those at Black Agenda Report : News , commentary and analysis from the black left .
I note that authors from Black Agenda @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Iran ’ s PressTV , but to look for them in the Western MSM is to look in vain .
Oh it certainly is a rebellion !
But how can a rebellion succeed amid such cultural dishonesty about politics ?
Many in America assume that the youth class will lead the struggle ; or the Black class ; or the gay class ; what they fail to realise is that their politics continues to be dominated by biology and not ideology .
This is why it is fake-leftism and not modern in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ who oppose leftism on moral and political grounds have such contempt for leftism – they have been misled about what real leftism truly is !
One would assume I would find it difficult to talk with right-wing Westerners – not really : we can always agree to criticise the Western fake-left , at least .
For leftists the class struggle and the struggle to redistribute wealth and power is the longest battle ; for Americans overcoming lowly ethnic division ( something Americans believe is more of their “ exceptionalism ” : they ignorantly @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for almost every nation ) is the highest aim one can aspire to .
They fail to see what a great achievement this would be for solely their 1 % : even if America can achieve that racial healing about which their “ best and brightest ” citizens dream of every night with their heads on their pillows – it will cost the 1 % none of their money and power .
The rebellion in America is indeed a “ rebellion ” and not mere “ riots ” because the latter totally negates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the existence of these ideas must not be denied .
I can ’ t imagine how any individual could possibly have the barest handle on what is going on if this is just viewed as empty rioting… .
The destruction of the CNN lobby was not looting , but political ; the destruction of a local clothing store in a poor area – even if owned by non-Blacks – is not political but mere crime .
Burning down a police precinct is a political expression of “ down with the system ” ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ store is not “ down with the system ” but mere crime .
French protesters set some trash cans on fire , sure , but overwhelmingly their targets are political : over and over they target for destruction banks , real estate agencies , sexist advertising , government properties , corporate symbols , etc .
All we can do is look on a case by case basis at each violent act in America recently and then judge if the violence had political justification or not .
However , it ’ s totally clear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ here .
And that ’ s just like hip-hop : there can be a lot political there , but also a lot of reactionary , selfish , destructive , greedy garbage .
Now do I think that this rebellion is going to lead to a revolution , coup or major political changes ...
Absolutely not – that ’ s laughable .
The US ?
!
Neo-imperial Rome ?
!
However… one must humbly concede that revolutions can never be predicted .
And it is true that – for the very first time in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US and the West is on the cusp of years of no longer avoidable stagnation , stagflation , chaos , burst bubbles , social disaster and open social discontent .
The Great Lockdown , LOL… man… what a total disaster and miscalculation by Western capitalist-imperialists .
Was James Brown a reactionary fascist for supporting Nixon ?
No , but there is zero doubt that he was definitely anti-leftist .
Black skin doesn ’ t guarantee leftist ( or even merely “ liberal ” ) political beliefs and actions any more than it guarantees @ @ @ @ @ @ @ well – both of these are racist , stupid , prejudiced and anti-leftist notions , of course !
I recently took on another sacred cow of the Western fake-left in The Great Lockdown : The political apex of US single Moms & Western matriarchy ?
I am not against the world ’ s matriarchs any more than I am against the world ’ s Blacks ( including Iran ’ s ) : both articles simply sought to remind that only God is perfect – everyone and everything else is subject to fair socio-political @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some corona common sense ?
Here is my list of articles published regarding the corona crisis .

This is part of a series of dispatches by correspondent Ramin Mazaheri
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There is no political reconciliation possible to be had between these two contradictions. The only thing Ice Cube supporters can do is ignore it or rationalise it, but that is more typically dishonest US political talk.
This is also why people who oppose leftism on moral and political grounds have such contempt for leftism – they have been misled about what real leftism truly is! One would assume I would find it difficult to talk with right-wing Westerners – not really: we can always agree to criticise the Western fake-left, at least. And the main vehicle for fake leftism continues to be the Democrat party and its universe of politicians and media shills.
This is also why people who oppose leftism on moral and political grounds have such contempt for leftism – they have been misled about what real leftism truly is! One would assume I would find it difficult to talk with right-wing Westerners – not really: we can always agree to criticise the Western fake-left, at least. And the main vehicle for fake leftism continues to be the Democrat party and its universe of politicians and media shills.
Take, for example, one of hip-hop’s founding fathers – Ice Cube. He was a voice which articulated exceptionally clearly the political failures and crimes of American society which we saw personified in the 1992 Rodney King Los Angeles Rebellion. But, on the other hand, in 1993 he would write songs like Cave Bitch , which is an atrocious, racist, misogynist, irredeemably reactionary & fascistic diatribe against White women.
In fact the modern African-American community has been so brutalised, dehumanised and rendered desperate by America’s innumerable reactionary structures that a significant proportion of US Blacks could not be more dedicated to upholding the most virulent capitalist ideals – this could not be more easily proven simply by pointing to hip-hop music. We cannot stress enough how often jaw-droppingly reactionary, fascistic, Scarface-capitalist political ideals inundate modern African-American culture today via hip-hop music.
People who do not view politics primarily through the lens of race see this immediately: US “liberals” – in their non-leftist and latent racism – are obsessed with the “African” in “African-American”; Blacks are Americans, and Americans are often hugely, hugely anti-leftist.
A fatal flaw of US leftists (and especially the far, far more numerous US fake-leftists) is that they often assume that Blacks are leftists because they are more likely to suffer from poverty, governmental neglect & oppression and racism both casual & institutionalised: it is assumed en masse that black skin makes one “politically hip”. (So then why did the hippest African-American ever, James Brown, support Nixon ?)
The reasons many Americans assume all African-Americans are righteous leftists are manifold, but all are based around ignorance: ignorance of what 20th century leftism is, ignorance of (due to segregation) any African-American culture they cannot watch on TV, and the ignorance produced by deliberately refusing to discuss politics honestly.
But being poor, or being Black, and even – shockingly to American “liberals” – being poor and African-American does not mean one has the post-1917 political values which constitute modern leftism.
Looting can indeed have political motivations and messages, and I’ll get to that later, but the looters looting their own poor neighborhoods are not leftists – those looters are motivated by, in the overwhelming majority, poverty. Nobody with money ever risks looting except a tiny fringe percentage.
The explanation is simple – Ice Cube is not a leftist: he may analyse certain aspects of the US socio-political landscape supremely well, but publishing such dehumanising trash shows how very limited his leftism reaches. We can excuse Ice Cube, perhaps, because he was an African-American who grew up amid such dehumanised, brutalised, murderous conditions, but there is no excuse for Cave Bitch.
Those aforementioned conditions were (and still are) truly record-level bad in human history, and I don’t think that is appreciated properly. I think many fail to realise that mass incarceration, CIA-fed crack cocaine, the state’s refusal to establish security and the stray bullets from military-grade weapons (to name just some of these record-level bad issues) has done exactly as the US 1% intended: it has turned many in the African-American community into the most dedicated capitalists, as they are too desperate to have time for the long march required to achieve leftism. These conditions explain why hip-hop is the way it is, but it does not mean hip-hop is not overflowing with reactionary & anti-leftist ideas.
Admirers of hip-hop don’t want to honestly explain its abundant, incredibly anti-leftist, pro-capitalist, reactionary, trash lyrics – it prefers to falsely think of it as “woke” and artistically vanguard. Sure it is – for a bankster ideology in the US bankocratic system.
The problem of assuming classes of identities, not minds and ideologies
The progression of Western fake-leftism from the 20th to 21st century has shown that many Western fake-leftists believe that identity politics has firmly established that any minority opinion – be the holder Black, female, gay, etc. – is inherently “woke”, instead of being merely worthy of no longer being ignored. At some point conversations such as this article need to be had: agreeing that historic repression of minority voices had tragic consequences, but also agreeing that minority individuals can be just as fascistic, capitalist and politically backward as any White Westerner.
The idea that this needs to be explained, LOL, makes me feel as if I am writing to the reader as if he or she was a child – I am quite sorry! But is it not totally clear that writing “Being Black doesn’t make you a real leftist” needs to be said? I have certainly never read it in any American media.
Similarly, “Being White doesn’t make you a fake-leftist”.
These ideas are instinctively known by all good people, and this ideology is openly trumpeted in the “all are welcome (except reactionaries)” social unity which is social-ism.
The Black misleaders do their job
It should be instructive to see how many Black mayors have totally abandoned the lower classes of all colors. The mayor of Atlanta’s pathetic scolding and defense of CNN, after it was righteously attacked by protesters, is a perfect example of how being African-American does not automatically translate into leftism. In Chicago ex-corporate lawyer Mayor Lori Lightfoot did what Paris does for every protest – send all the police resources to defend the rich areas. What added insult to (expected) injury, however, was the way she tried to deflect the constant criticisms from local aldermen and community leaders by saying that as a Black woman she merited the right to be offended by the allegations that her administration prioritised protecting downtown over poor minority communities: Lightfoot has, via the political dishonesty of US culture, been apparently led to believe that her black skin makes her not only immune from criticism but somehow prevents her from politically doing anything against the Black or poorer classes. These exact criticisms (like here) were echoed by Black leftists such as those at Black Agenda Report: News, commentary and analysis from the black left. I note that authors from Black Agenda Report have for years regularly appeared on Iran’s PressTV, but to look for them in the Western MSM is to look in vain.
Oh it certainly is a rebellion! But how can a rebellion succeed amid such cultural dishonesty about politics?
Many in America assume that the youth class will lead the struggle; or the Black class; or the gay class; what they fail to realise is that their politics continues to be dominated by biology and not ideology. This is why it is fake-leftism and not modern in the slightest.
This is also why people who oppose leftism on moral and political grounds have such contempt for leftism – they have been misled about what real leftism truly is! One would assume I would find it difficult to talk with right-wing Westerners – not really: we can always agree to criticise the Western fake-left, at least.
For leftists the class struggle and the struggle to redistribute wealth and power is the longest battle; for Americans overcoming lowly ethnic division (something Americans believe is more of their “exceptionalism”: they ignorantly fail to realise this is an issue for almost every nation) is the highest aim one can aspire to. They fail to see what a great achievement this would be for solely their 1%: even if America can achieve that racial healing about which their “best and brightest” citizens dream of every night with their heads on their pillows – it will cost the 1% none of their money and power.
The rebellion in America is indeed a “rebellion” and not mere “riots” because the latter totally negates the political ideas at play, and the existence of these ideas must not be denied. I can’t imagine how any individual could possibly have the barest handle on what is going on if this is just viewed as empty rioting….
The destruction of the CNN lobby was not looting, but political; the destruction of a local clothing store in a poor area – even if owned by non-Blacks – is not political but mere crime. Burning down a police precinct is a political expression of “down with the system”; burning down a Mom and Pop convenience store is not “down with the system” but mere crime. French protesters set some trash cans on fire, sure, but overwhelmingly their targets are political: over and over they target for destruction banks, real estate agencies, sexist advertising, government properties, corporate symbols, etc. All we can do is look on a case by case basis at each violent act in America recently and then judge if the violence had political justification or not. However, it’s totally clear: there’s a lot political here. And that’s just like hip-hop: there can be a lot political there, but also a lot of reactionary, selfish, destructive, greedy garbage.
Now do I think that this rebellion is going to lead to a revolution, coup or major political changes... Absolutely not – that’s laughable. The US?! Neo-imperial Rome?!
However… one must humbly concede that revolutions can never be predicted. And it is true that – for the very first time in my life – I think that the US and the West is on the cusp of years of no longer avoidable stagnation, stagflation, chaos, burst bubbles, social disaster and open social discontent. The Great Lockdown, LOL… man… what a total disaster and miscalculation by Western capitalist-imperialists.
Was James Brown a reactionary fascist for supporting Nixon? No, but there is zero doubt that he was definitely anti-leftist. Black skin doesn’t guarantee leftist (or even merely “liberal”) political beliefs and actions any more than it guarantees that one is funky and can dance well – both of these are racist, stupid, prejudiced and anti-leftist notions, of course!
I recently took on another sacred cow of the Western fake-left in The Great Lockdown: The political apex of US single Moms & Western matriarchy? I am not against the world’s matriarchs any more than I am against the world’s Blacks (including Iran’s): both articles simply sought to remind that only God is perfect – everyone and everything else is subject to fair socio-political reproaches.
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Corona contrarianism? How about some corona common sense? Here is my list of articles published regarding the corona crisis.
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Capitalist-imperialist West stays home over corona – they grew a conscience? – March 22, 2020
Corona meds in every pot & a People’s QE: the Trumpian populism they hoped for? – March 23, 2020
A day’s diary from a US CEO during the Corona crisis (satire) March 23, 2020
MSNBC: Chicago price gouging up 9,000% & the sports-journalization of US media – March 25, 2020
Tough times need vanguard parties – are ‘social media users’ the West’s? – March 26, 2020
If Germany rejects Corona bonds they must quit the Eurozone – March 30, 2020
Landlord class: Waive or donate rent-profits now or fear the Cultural Revolution – March 31, 2020
Corona repeating 9/11 & Y2K hysterias? Both saw huge economic overreactions – April 1, 2020
(A Soviet?) Superman: Red Son – the new socialist film to watch on lockdown – April 2, 2020
Corona rewrites capitalist bust-chronology & proves: It’s the nation-state, stupid – April 3, 2020
Condensing the data leaves no doubt: Fear corona-economy more than the virus – April 5, 2020
‘We’re Going Wrong’: The West’s middling, middle-class corona response – April 10, 2020
Why does the UK have an ‘army’ of volunteers but the US has a shortage? – April 12, 2020
No buybacks allowed or dared? Then wave goodbye to Western stock market gains – April 13, 2020
Pity post-corona Millennials… if they don’t openly push socialism – April 14, 2020
No, the dollar will only strengthen post-corona, as usual: it’s a crisis, after all – April 16, 2020
Same 2008 QE playbook, but the Eurozone will kick off Western chaos not the US – April 18, 2020
We’re giving up our civil liberties. Fine, but to which type of state? – April 20,
2020
Coronavirus – Macron’s savior. A ‘united Europe’ – France’s murderer – April 22, 2020
Iran’s ‘resistance economy’: the post-corona wish of the West’s silent majority (1/2) – April 23, 2020
The same 12-year itch: Will banks loan down QE money this time? – April 26,
2020
The end of globalisation won’t be televised, despite the hopes of the Western 99% (2/2) – April 27, 2020
What would it take for proponents to say: ‘The Great Lockdown was wrong’? – April 28, 2020
ZeroHedge, a response to Mr. Littlejohn & the future of dollar dominance – April 30, 2020
Given Western history, is it the ‘Great Segregation’ and not the ‘Great Lockdown’? – May 2, 2020
The Western 1% colluded to start WWI – is the Great Lockdown also a conspiracy? – May 4, 2020
May 17: The date the Great Lockdown must end or Everything Bubble 2 pops – May 6, 2020
Reading Piketty: Does corona delay the Greens’ fake-leftist, sure-to-fail victory? – May 8, 2020
Picturing the media campaign needed to get the US back to work – May 11, 2020
Scarce jobs + revenue desperation = sure Western stagflation post-corona – May 13, 2020
France’s nurses march – are they now deplorable Michiganders to fake-leftists? – May 15, 2020
Why haven’t we called it ‘QE 5’ yet? And why we must call it ‘QE 2.1’ instead – May 16, 2020
‘Take your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty public servant!’ That’s Orwell? – May 17, 2021
The Great Lockdown: The political apex of US single Moms & Western matriarchy? May 21, 2021
I was wrong on corona – by not pushing for a US Cultural Revolution immediately – May 25, 2021
August 1: when the unemployment runs out and a new era of US labor battles begin – May 28, 2021
Corona proving the loser of the Cold War was both the USSR & the USA – May 30, 2021
Rebellions across the US: Why worry? Just ask Dr. Fauci to tell us what to do – June 2, 2021
Protesting, corona-conscience, a good dole: the US is doing things it can’t & it’s chaos – June 3, 2021
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thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-05--Tucker Carlson bares his fangs

Tucker Carlson bares his fangs

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Tucker bares his fangs on the wrong side of history By D. Robert Chrétien & Patrice Greanville Le Matinale What do the mobs want ?
That is the question .
AS part of the more cultured layer of the bourgeoisie 's official `` conservative section '' ( as opposed to `` liberal '' , even though they are all conservative and reactionary , superficial differences depending on the issues and the misdirection necessary according @ @ @ @ @ @ @ host Tucker Carlson is now , consistent with his media platform 's reactionary political posture , sputtering a great deal of vitriol at the apparently outrageous notion of `` defunding the police '' .
Alternatively painting the protesters as a somewhat enigmatic `` mob '' and `` rioters '' ( also a loaded word ) , in terms of their fuzzy goals , he 's nonetheless on firmer ground when he argues the protesters are also evidently being used by the Democrats and their legion of shills to attack Trump .
It 's @ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` The most privileged in our society are using the most desperate in our society to seize power from everyone else . ''
Well , about that he may be right , partially right , that is , since no one can fully control social explosions of this kind at this incipient stage .
Steer , maybe .
Control , not that easy .
But time may give the edge to the Democrats and their machinations , since spontaneism , that is , leaderless and non-clearly programmatic revolts , have a painfully short @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Occupy reminds us of that , if nothing else .
In the recent past , Tucker has been a voice of contrarian reason among rightwing yahoos , `` outlefting '' the pseudo left on various occasions ( which is fairly easy when there is no real left at all or merely a caravan of phonies , opportunists and cowards marching under the misnomered Democrat label ) so this time , when push comes to shove , either because he has stretched the leash too far , or out of genuine conviction , he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consistent with what his bosses and public expect .
If so , that is not to be celebrated since Carlson reaches a working class audience that needs and deserves a rational , honest , and nuanced analysis of what the current popular outburst is all about .
For an educated man , Tucker seems to forget that something as socially critical as the state 's repressive forces may need re-examination from time to time , and history demonstrates that this does happen in almost all societies , `` advanced '' and industrialised as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , as well as in those still mired in structural poverty .
This has been true ever since Louis XIV created the first urban police force to maintain order in Paris , a development assisted by the installation of street lights , gaining his city the famous appellation of Ville Lumière .
Further , it is also axiomatic that , at any given time , the tasks assigned to the police in a capitalo-feudal society , protection of big private property ( the foremost function ) , the containment and neutralisation of crime @ @ @ @ @ @ @ judicial definitions by which it executes these functions , will all be set by the ruling class , which naturally , with some variations according to culture and history , will always establish priorities guaranteeing its own survival and the extension of its enormous and stifling privileges .
It 's also noteworthy that the size of the police and its authorised behaviour will reflect the degree of actual equality and effective social justice existing in society , and most crucially , the level of fear of the people among the ruling elites , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wishes to take society to maintain and enlarge its enormous advantages .
The American `` nation state '' has been defunct as an organic entity for some time , the precise date of its demise subject to debate , maybe it took to its deathbed right at the end of WW2 , or perhaps much earlier , by the end of the Civil War , when America had already successfully flexed its imperial muscles against weaker nations ( Ulysses Grant himself wrote he had been revolted by the cowardice and injustice implicit in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he participated ) but it is clear a monstrous parasite , the amoral and therefore sociopathic transnational corporate empire , has been in command for a very long time .
Many Marxists , on the most tenuous margin of America 's consciousness had warned about this over the years , But such reality has become more clear and irrefutable as American power diminishes and the habitual corruption , obscene violence , and inequality engendered by capitalism , turn increasingly inward , making the capitalist metropolis , ironically , more like its long victimised @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and other revolutionaries predicted , the chickens are indeed coming home to roost and a severe awakening is bound to happen , nay , it is happening already , as witness the multiracial crowds marching in the wake of George Floyd 's cold-blooded murder in broad social media daylight .
Let 's backtrack for a moment now and observe that , as even conservatives have often proclaimed , a just society is a peaceful society , and that , to quote Napoleon , you can do many things with bayonets , but not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a regime based on force , however , dissimulated , is a regime whose instability—let alone inherent illegitimacy— will require constant and probably rising levels of violence to deter challenges , but which , in the end , will fall no matter how cleverly the folks at the top of the power pyramid play their devious cards .
A society exhibiting grotesque levels of social , economic and political inequality is a society that requires a very large—indeed a bloated—police force to keep the masses at bay .
In excruciating poverty , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you , not to mention institutionalised poverty aggravated by pervasive racism , crime will fester , as deviancy and a general disregard for the law will necessarily approach the norm .
We do n't need complicated statistics to show that crimes of violence and crimes against property , the most feared by all strata , are almost always faithful correlates of the socioeconomic condition of the population in question .
Thus , ask any cop , how much violent crime they have to deal with in affluent neighborhoods .
While invisible , white @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bewildering sort inherent in the ruling class and their hirelings may be off the charts in those communities , the richest the worst , visible crime is practically nil .
We should add that the systemic violence and constant theft that defines capitalist labour relations is also well kept under a luxuriant blanket of pervasive distraction and lies , the widely administered tranquilising soma for the clueless millions .
In sum , in a society where equality prevails , justice will likely prevail , too , and democracy will flourish .
The police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to wither in time .
This is obviously not America these days , or perhaps ever , so , as the injustices mount , the police keeps growing in numbers and militarisation tactics and mentality .
Is there an exception then to the rule that the sheer size of a police force betrays the level of inequality and non-democracy existing in a society ?
The answer is yes , and that applies to nations suffering from foreign meddling in their affairs , with the object of , as it is clinically put these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for example , usually create large police forces , but the origin of the phenomenon is not in the revolutionary DNA ( as the right ceaselessly proclaims ) but in the vicious , unrelenting efforts of the counter-revolutionaries and their powerful foreign allies to destroy the revolution and restore the unjust status quo ante .
Something that normally opens the door to a bloodbath .
From the French Revolution on down , to the Russian , Chinese , Korean , Vietnamese , Cuban , Chilean , Nicaraguan and now Iranian and Venezuelan revolutions @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , this has been the case , the irrefutable record , even if several of these nations have come up with their own way of defending the revolution from internal and external enemies , by using peoples ' militias , for example , instead of a more conventional security architecture .
Which begs the question , could the historically biggest dispenser of criminal `` meddling '' in the modern world , by far the US empire , itself be the target now of some `` foreign '' induced social turmoil ?
The Democrats @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for purely partisan , short-term and disgusting ends , have peddled this view for years , ever since Trump ascended to the throne , but the evidence has been sparse , tangential and evidently fabricated .
In the current clime of turmoil and confusion , vermin like Obama advisor Susan Rice—a black American , mind you—and her warmongering allies have not wasted a moment to suggest the disturbances are the product of Russian interference in our affairs , which , like Russiagate , is as ridiculous and cynical a charge as it gets @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from reaching millions of clueless souls in Democrat media like MSNBC , CNN , etc , and its associated social media .
For his part , and quite predictably , given his signature lack of finesse , Trump has wasted no time either , proclaiming that the disturbances are not so much a product of deeply entrenched repugnant inequities in the American system , but surely the work of foreign provocateurs , or terrorists , like `` Antifa '' .
Both parties—Trump and the venal and devious Democrats— conveniently assume a primary lie @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , rather a cascade of lies to make tis fly : that ( a ) domestic conditions are so peaceful and filled with justice and equanimity that people need a foreign agitator to alert them to their own oppression .
By this logic , any social outburst can be ascribed not to the ruling class that created and enforces such disgusting conditions , but to evil `` outside agitators '' ; ( b ) that the American people—preternaturally stupid or gullible— will blindly follow a foreign version of US reality they can barely @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pursuit of a rectification they do n't need .
So , Tucker , you may be damn right about the cynicism of the Democrats and their feigned loyalty to Blacks and the oppressed in general , but you must look more deeply into the roots and manifestations of social violence before issuing blanket condemnations that can only inflame further the threat presented by Trump 's penchant for brute force to restore `` law and order '' , a law and order regime of oligarchic dominance that has squandered its legitimacy and the trust @ @ @ @ @ @ @ century of repeated betrayals .
Maybe you can still inject a modicum of truth in your narrative , and explain to the Fox audience that the people 's anger is justified , and that only a government of corporate tyrants can justify the kind of police currently in place all over America .
Clearly , both have to be extensively reconfigured before America can look again in the mirror without disgust .

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Tucker bares his fangs on the wrong side of history
By D. Robert Chrétien & Patrice Greanville
Le Matinale
What do the mobs want? That is the question.
AS part of the more cultured layer of the bourgeoisie's official "conservative section" (as opposed to "liberal", even though they are all conservative and reactionary, superficial differences depending on the issues and the misdirection necessary according to their pre-assigned roles)—Fox News host Tucker Carlson is now, consistent with his media platform's reactionary political posture, sputtering a great deal of vitriol at the apparently outrageous notion of "defunding the police". Alternatively painting the protesters as a somewhat enigmatic "mob" and "rioters" (also a loaded word), in terms of their fuzzy goals, he's nonetheless on firmer ground when he argues the protesters are also evidently being used by the Democrats and their legion of shills to attack Trump. It's all about Trump, says Tucker. "The most privileged in our society are using the most desperate in our society to seize power from everyone else." Well, about that he may be right, partially right, that is, since no one can fully control social explosions of this kind at this incipient stage. Steer, maybe. Control, not that easy. But time may give the edge to the Democrats and their machinations, since spontaneism, that is, leaderless and non-clearly programmatic revolts, have a painfully short life. The relatively easy dissolution of Occupy reminds us of that, if nothing else.
In the recent past, Tucker has been a voice of contrarian reason among rightwing yahoos, "outlefting" the pseudo left on various occasions (which is fairly easy when there is no real left at all or merely a caravan of phonies, opportunists and cowards marching under the misnomered Democrat label) so this time, when push comes to shove, either because he has stretched the leash too far, or out of genuine conviction, he's touting a line that is regrettably consistent with what his bosses and public expect. If so, that is not to be celebrated since Carlson reaches a working class audience that needs and deserves a rational, honest, and nuanced analysis of what the current popular outburst is all about.
For an educated man, Tucker seems to forget that something as socially critical as the state's repressive forces may need re-examination from time to time, and history demonstrates that this does happen in almost all societies, "advanced" and industrialised as is typical of "the West", as well as in those still mired in structural poverty. This has been true ever since Louis XIV created the first urban police force to maintain order in Paris, a development assisted by the installation of street lights, gaining his city the famous appellation of Ville Lumière. Further, it is also axiomatic that, at any given time, the tasks assigned to the police in a capitalo-feudal society, protection of big private property (the foremost function), the containment and neutralisation of crime, etc., and the rules and judicial definitions by which it executes these functions, will all be set by the ruling class, which naturally, with some variations according to culture and history, will always establish priorities guaranteeing its own survival and the extension of its enormous and stifling privileges. It's also noteworthy that the size of the police and its authorised behaviour will reflect the degree of actual equality and effective social justice existing in society, and most crucially, the level of fear of the people among the ruling elites, and the overall direction the ruling class wishes to take society to maintain and enlarge its enormous advantages.
The American "nation state" has been defunct as an organic entity for some time, the precise date of its demise subject to debate, maybe it took to its deathbed right at the end of WW2, or perhaps much earlier, by the end of the Civil War, when America had already successfully flexed its imperial muscles against weaker nations (Ulysses Grant himself wrote he had been revolted by the cowardice and injustice implicit in the War against Mexico, in which he participated) but it is clear a monstrous parasite, the amoral and therefore sociopathic transnational corporate empire, has been in command for a very long time. Many Marxists, on the most tenuous margin of America's consciousness had warned about this over the years, But such reality has become more clear and irrefutable as American power diminishes and the habitual corruption, obscene violence, and inequality engendered by capitalism, turn increasingly inward, making the capitalist metropolis, ironically, more like its long victimised periphery. Yea, as Malcolm X and other revolutionaries predicted, the chickens are indeed coming home to roost and a severe awakening is bound to happen, nay, it is happening already, as witness the multiracial crowds marching in the wake of George Floyd's cold-blooded murder in broad social media daylight.
Let's backtrack for a moment now and observe that, as even conservatives have often proclaimed, a just society is a peaceful society, and that, to quote Napoleon, you can do many things with bayonets, but not sit on them. This means that a regime based on force, however, dissimulated, is a regime whose instability—let alone inherent illegitimacy— will require constant and probably rising levels of violence to deter challenges, but which, in the end, will fall no matter how cleverly the folks at the top of the power pyramid play their devious cards. A society exhibiting grotesque levels of social, economic and political inequality is a society that requires a very large—indeed a bloated—police force to keep the masses at bay. In excruciating poverty, as any reader of Sociology 101 will tell you, not to mention institutionalised poverty aggravated by pervasive racism, crime will fester, as deviancy and a general disregard for the law will necessarily approach the norm. We don't need complicated statistics to show that crimes of violence and crimes against property, the most feared by all strata, are almost always faithful correlates of the socioeconomic condition of the population in question. Thus, ask any cop, how much violent crime they have to deal with in affluent neighborhoods. While invisible, white collar crime and antisocial offences of a bewildering sort inherent in the ruling class and their hirelings may be off the charts in those communities, the richest the worst, visible crime is practically nil. We should add that the systemic violence and constant theft that defines capitalist labour relations is also well kept under a luxuriant blanket of pervasive distraction and lies, the widely administered tranquilising soma for the clueless millions. In sum, in a society where equality prevails, justice will likely prevail, too, and democracy will flourish. The police role will be small and may tend to wither in time. This is obviously not America these days, or perhaps ever, so, as the injustices mount, the police keeps growing in numbers and militarisation tactics and mentality.
Is there an exception then to the rule that the sheer size of a police force betrays the level of inequality and non-democracy existing in a society? The answer is yes, and that applies to nations suffering from foreign meddling in their affairs, with the object of, as it is clinically put these days, regime change. Revolutions, for example, usually create large police forces, but the origin of the phenomenon is not in the revolutionary DNA (as the right ceaselessly proclaims) but in the vicious, unrelenting efforts of the counter-revolutionaries and their powerful foreign allies to destroy the revolution and restore the unjust status quo ante. Something that normally opens the door to a bloodbath. From the French Revolution on down, to the Russian, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Cuban, Chilean, Nicaraguan and now Iranian and Venezuelan revolutions, to mention but the most notable, this has been the case, the irrefutable record, even if several of these nations have come up with their own way of defending the revolution from internal and external enemies, by using peoples' militias, for example, instead of a more conventional security architecture.
Which begs the question, could the historically biggest dispenser of criminal "meddling" in the modern world, by far the US empire, itself be the target now of some "foreign" induced social turmoil? The Democrats, to their eternal damnation, and for purely partisan, short-term and disgusting ends, have peddled this view for years, ever since Trump ascended to the throne, but the evidence has been sparse, tangential and evidently fabricated. In the current clime of turmoil and confusion, vermin like Obama advisor Susan Rice—a black American, mind you—and her warmongering allies have not wasted a moment to suggest the disturbances are the product of Russian interference in our affairs, which, like Russiagate, is as ridiculous and cynical a charge as it gets, none of which prevents this scum from reaching millions of clueless souls in Democrat media like MSNBC, CNN, etc, and its associated social media.
For his part, and quite predictably, given his signature lack of finesse, Trump has wasted no time either, proclaiming that the disturbances are not so much a product of deeply entrenched repugnant inequities in the American system, but surely the work of foreign provocateurs, or terrorists, like "Antifa".
Both parties—Trump and the venal and devious Democrats— conveniently assume a primary lie, an insultingly condescending lie, or, rather a cascade of lies to make tis fly: that (a) domestic conditions are so peaceful and filled with justice and equanimity that people need a foreign agitator to alert them to their own oppression. By this logic, any social outburst can be ascribed not to the ruling class that created and enforces such disgusting conditions, but to evil "outside agitators"; (b) that the American people—preternaturally stupid or gullible— will blindly follow a foreign version of US reality they can barely recognise, risking life and limb in pursuit of a rectification they don't need.
So, Tucker, you may be damn right about the cynicism of the Democrats and their feigned loyalty to Blacks and the oppressed in general, but you must look more deeply into the roots and manifestations of social violence before issuing blanket condemnations that can only inflame further the threat presented by Trump's penchant for brute force to restore "law and order", a law and order regime of oligarchic dominance that has squandered its legitimacy and the trust of the people after more than a century of repeated betrayals.
Maybe you can still inject a modicum of truth in your narrative, and explain to the Fox audience that the people's anger is justified, and that only a government of corporate tyrants can justify the kind of police currently in place all over America. Clearly, both have to be extensively reconfigured before America can look again in the mirror without disgust.


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thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-06--Venezuela, Minneapolis, Iran, Europe – Trump’s Last Gasps of Collapsing World Control – Or is it?

EDITED AND HOSTED BY THE GREANVILLE POST There comes a time when shooting around in circles just hits walls , bullets splinter off sidewalks , and shatter a window here and there .
But people are in safety .
They watch from a distance and with self-assurance .
Venezuela has received five tankers from Iran loaded with hydrocarbons – petrol gas , additives – shipped through a totally US-militarized Caribbean Sea , amidst warnings of attacks and retaliations – and as usual , sanctions ’ no end ’ .
How much more sanctions can a country get ?
There is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fearlessness – confidence and dignity .
Knowing your rights .
That ’ s what makes the whole difference .
Granted , the tankers were escorted by the Venezuelan Navy and Air Force ; especially through Venezuelan waters .
And they made it undisturbed to the port of El Palito , a small Venezuelan port run by Venezuela ’ s state oil company PDVSA .
The American shooting didn ’ t take place and the event was not televised .
Another aggression against Venezuelan sovereignty is the Bank of England ’ s withholding totally @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Venezuelan gold , deposited voluntarily by Venezuela in times of trust – as part of Venezuela ’ s reserve funds .
With oil prices collapsed , Venezuela decided to use part of her gold reserves to purchase medication and food to counter the disastrous corona effects .
Venezuela claimed the gold deposited at the Bank of England ( BoE ) which offers gold custodian services mostly but not exclusively to developing nations ; and so , does the New York FED and the Bank for International Settlements ( BIS ) in Basle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ banks considered safe and trustworthy .
These are legal arrangements under which the depositing country may withdraw the funds at any time and at will .
Venezuela has a sovereign right to claim these funds without any explanation or justification .
The BoE refused , claiming the Government of Nicolas Maduro was not the legitimate government recognized by the UK .
Can you imagine – if any government decides to confiscate funds from another government , because they don ’ t like its leadership -- - where would we end up ?
– @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
We are already there .
The Anglo-Zionist world makes its own rules and decides over and above any international law .
And the spineless European puppets follow their cue .
It is high time that this matrix collapses and gives way to a civilization that recognizes the values of democracy , justice , basic ethics and human rights .
In this case , Venezuela explained that the money is needed to buy food and medication to counter the nefarious effects of COVID-19 .
The UN , intervening on behalf of Venezuela , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ money .
That gesture or action by the UN is in itself an act of ‘ independence ’ by the UN against the US , for whom the UN otherwise does the bidding .
But to no avail .
The BoE didn ’ t release the Venezuelan-owned gold .
As a compromise , Venezuela suggested that the funds be handed over to UNDP ( United Nations Development Program ) which would buy vital food and medication for Venezuela .
Already at the end of 2018 , Venezuelan Finance Minister Simón Zerpa and Central @ @ @ @ @ @ @ London to demand that Venezuela be allowed to take the gold back to Venezuela .
In January 2019 , the BoE refused the request .
All it said publicly was that it did not comment on customer relationships .
However , the real reason was clear .
The US-trained and self-proclaimed , US supported Juan Guaido , an Assembly member , who was never elected – who never faced a presidential election – asked Downing Street that the gold was not to be returned to the legitimate Maduro Government which Washington , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the blue and without any legal reasons declared illegitimate .
What a world !
– Imagine that some 40 or 50 countries in the world would decide that Donald Trump and Angela Merkel were illegitimately in their high offices .
Well , you laugh .
It would never happen .
Under pressure from Washington , and her own neofascist government , the UK and her central bank didn ’ t budge .
The case was brought on May 14 , 2020 , to a Court in London .
A Venezuela-favorable judgement is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ go to the International Court of Justice in The Hague .
Will the ICJ have enough backbone to decide against Washington ?
That remains to be seen .
It would be another sign that Trump ’ s last trumps are gone .
On yet another account , the Trump Administration has seized all Venezuelan assets in the US , including in 2018 , the CITCO refinery and gas station network , in a further attempt to hurt their self-made archenemy , socialist Venezuela .
CITCO ’ s assets in the United States , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , plus about 30 billion dollars of annual revenues .
CITCO covers about 10 % of the US domestic gasoline market .
Overall Venezuelan assets confiscated – or more accurately described as stolen – in the US and overseas are estimated at about 50 to 70 billion dollars .
In addition to other strangulating sanctions and coercive actions by Washington against Venezuela , just think what these illegally US-appropriated funds could do to ease living conditions of Venezuelans whose hardship has exclusively been brought about by Washington and Washington ’ s coercion of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , especially Europe – to economically sanction Venezuela .
A hardship being exacerbated by the Covid-19 crisis .
Mind you , Venezuela has done no harm , has never threatened any of the countries that follow the US dictate on “ economic sanctions ” .
Yet , through this all , Venezuela remains calm , non-aggressive , non-conflictive , self-assured and survives ; and Venezuela has actually mastered the Covid-crisis better than most of Latin America .
According to WHO , as of 4 June Venezuela registered 1819 confirmed cases and only 18 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ resistance and self-determination is extraordinary .
It is THE recipe for success and for overcoming western oppression .
This autonomy and Iran ’ s undisturbed solidarity and sovereign action to help Venezuela with oil tankers despite the US threats , are signals to the world that Washington ’ s empire is crumbling .
Or , as Andre Vltchek pointedly says in his article about the brutal police murder of Mr. George Floyd , “ The World Can not Breathe !
” Squashed by the U.S. – A Country Built on Genocide and Slavery @ @ @ @ @ @ @ finally see what few of us have been repeating for years : The entire world has its neck squashed by the U.S. boot .
The entire world “ can not breathe ” !
And the entire world has to fight for its right to be able to breathe !
” ( https : //www.globalresearch.ca/world- can not -breathe-squashed-usa-country-built-genocide-slavery/5714728 ) .
Let ’ s add to this : And the entire world is no longer afraid to stand up and defend and fight for their rights .
This “ fight ” is increasingly a battle @ @ @ @ @ @ @ % - the rich and powerful psychopaths wanting to control ever more of the globe ’ s resources .
With every day this battle is turning more in favor of We , the People .
The worldwide corona-lockdown and the yet unfathomable social and economic calamity of uncountable unemployment , famine and misery – unheard of in human history – is unwittingly shocking the billions of victims worldwide into an awakening that the masters behind the crisis , behind the nonsensical lockdown , behind the power and control thirst - the Gates , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , may not have anticipated .
The ruthless killing of George Floyd has set in motion a series of riots throughout the US – affecting some 150 US-cities .
Admittedly the riots are largely financed and organized by Soros & Co. ( see https : //www.naturalnews.com/2020-06-02-antifa-plans-purge-of-suburbs-homes-starting-tonight.html ) with the objective of a broad military lockdown .
Though , these unrests will likely gain their own dynamic , as the wave spreads to Europe and possibly also to the Global South .
While the generous financiers of Antifa , Black Lives Matter and other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ objective the militarization of the west , dynamics of an awakened people may derail the diabolical psychopaths ’ goals and ring in a new set of societal values .
The resisting forces and perseverance of the people of Venezuela , Cuba , Iran , let alone , Russia and China , have magical power .
Never mind the physical losses of stolen assets , of economic sanctions , of attempted humiliation by the neoliberal western alliance breaching contracts and agreements at will , i.e .
the Iran Nuclear Deal , several disarmament agreements @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new wave of spiritual and universal consciousness gains , far outpace these losses .
The forces of Light may overcome the Darkness which has engulfed humanity over the last 5,000 years – laying the foundation for a new society with values of equality and peace for a common future for mankind .
Peter Koenig is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization .
Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst .
He is also a water resources and environmental specialist .
He worked for over 30 years with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ around the world in the fields of environment and water .
He lectures at universities in the US , Europe and South America .
He writes regularly for Global Research ; ICH ; New Eastern Outlook ( NEO ) ; RT ; Countercurrents , Sputnik ; PressTV ; The 21st Century ; Greanville Post ; Defend Democracy Press ; The Saker Blog , and other internet sites .
He is the author of Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst .
He is also a water resources and environmental specialist .
He @ @ @ @ @ @ @ World Bank and the World Health Organization around the world in the fields of environment and water .
He lectures at universities in the US , Europe and South America .
He writes regularly for Global Research ; ICH ; New Eastern Outlook ( NEO ) ; RT ; Countercurrents , Sputnik ; PressTV ; The 21st Century ; Greanville Post ; Defend Democracy Press ; The Saker Blog , and other internet sites .
He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War , Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe .
He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution !
- Essays from the Resistance Peter Koenig is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization .

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Peter Koenig
There comes a time when shooting around in circles just hits walls, bullets splinter off sidewalks, and shatter a window here and there. But people are in safety. They watch from a distance and with self-assurance.
Venezuela has received five tankers from Iran loaded with hydrocarbons – petrol gas, additives – shipped through a totally US-militarized Caribbean Sea, amidst warnings of attacks and retaliations – and as usual, sanctions ’no end’. How much more sanctions can a country get? There is an immune system, called sovereignty and fearlessness – confidence and dignity. Knowing your rights. That’s what makes the whole difference.
Granted, the tankers were escorted by the Venezuelan Navy and Air Force; especially through Venezuelan waters. And they made it undisturbed to the port of El Palito, a small Venezuelan port run by Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA. The American shooting didn’t take place and the event was not televised.
Another aggression against Venezuelan sovereignty is the Bank of England’s withholding totally illegally some US$ 1.2 billion worth of Venezuelan gold, deposited voluntarily by Venezuela in times of trust – as part of Venezuela’s reserve funds. With oil prices collapsed, Venezuela decided to use part of her gold reserves to purchase medication and food to counter the disastrous corona effects.
Venezuela claimed the gold deposited at the Bank of England (BoE) which offers gold custodian services mostly but not exclusively to developing nations; and so, does the New York FED and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basle and several other international institutions and central banks considered safe and trustworthy. These are legal arrangements under which the depositing country may withdraw the funds at any time and at will.
Venezuela has a sovereign right to claim these funds without any explanation or justification. The BoE refused, claiming the Government of Nicolas Maduro was not the legitimate government recognized by the UK. Can you imagine – if any government decides to confiscate funds from another government, because they don’t like its leadership --- where would we end up? – Well, there is not much guessing. We are already there. The Anglo-Zionist world makes its own rules and decides over and above any international law. And the spineless European puppets follow their cue. It is high time that this matrix collapses and gives way to a civilization that recognizes the values of democracy, justice, basic ethics and human rights.
In this case, Venezuela explained that the money is needed to buy food and medication to counter the nefarious effects of COVID-19. The UN, intervening on behalf of Venezuela, has requested the BoE to return the money. That gesture or action by the UN is in itself an act of ‘independence’ by the UN against the US, for whom the UN otherwise does the bidding. But to no avail. The BoE didn’t release the Venezuelan-owned gold. As a compromise, Venezuela suggested that the funds be handed over to UNDP (United Nations Development Program) which would buy vital food and medication for Venezuela.
Already at the end of 2018, Venezuelan Finance Minister Simón Zerpa and Central Bank President Calixto Ortega, travelled to London to demand that Venezuela be allowed to take the gold back to Venezuela. In January 2019, the BoE refused the request. All it said publicly was that it did not comment on customer relationships. However, the real reason was clear.
The US-trained and self-proclaimed, US supported Juan Guaido, an Assembly member, who was never elected – who never faced a presidential election – asked Downing Street that the gold was not to be returned to the legitimate Maduro Government which Washington, the UK and other EU members, out of the blue and without any legal reasons declared illegitimate. What a world! – Imagine that some 40 or 50 countries in the world would decide that Donald Trump and Angela Merkel were illegitimately in their high offices. Well, you laugh. It would never happen.
Under pressure from Washington, and her own neofascist government, the UK and her central bank didn’t budge. The case was brought on May 14, 2020, to a Court in London. A Venezuela-favorable judgement is however unlikely. The case will then go to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Will the ICJ have enough backbone to decide against Washington? That remains to be seen. It would be another sign that Trump’s last trumps are gone.
On yet another account, the Trump Administration has seized all Venezuelan assets in the US, including in 2018, the CITCO refinery and gas station network, in a further attempt to hurt their self-made archenemy, socialist Venezuela. CITCO’s assets in the United States, are estimated at about 8 billion dollars, plus about 30 billion dollars of annual revenues. CITCO covers about 10% of the US domestic gasoline market. Overall Venezuelan assets confiscated – or more accurately described as stolen – in the US and overseas are estimated at about 50 to 70 billion dollars.
In addition to other strangulating sanctions and coercive actions by Washington against Venezuela, just think what these illegally US-appropriated funds could do to ease living conditions of Venezuelans whose hardship has exclusively been brought about by Washington and Washington’s coercion of its so-called western allies – alias vassals, especially Europe – to economically sanction Venezuela. A hardship being exacerbated by the Covid-19 crisis. Mind you, Venezuela has done no harm, has never threatened any of the countries that follow the US dictate on “economic sanctions”.
Yet, through this all, Venezuela remains calm, non-aggressive, non-conflictive, self-assured and survives; and Venezuela has actually mastered the Covid-crisis better than most of Latin America. According to WHO, as of 4 June Venezuela registered 1819 confirmed cases and only 18 deaths.
Venezuela’s strength of resistance and self-determination is extraordinary. It is THE recipe for success and for overcoming western oppression. This autonomy and Iran’s undisturbed solidarity and sovereign action to help Venezuela with oil tankers despite the US threats, are signals to the world that Washington’s empire is crumbling.
Or, as Andre Vltchek pointedly says in his article about the brutal police murder of Mr. George Floyd,
“The World Cannot Breathe!” Squashed by the U.S. – A Country Built on Genocide and Slavery: Now more and more people can finally see what few of us have been repeating for years: The entire world has its neck squashed by the U.S. boot. The entire world “cannot breathe”! And the entire world has to fight for its right to be able to breathe!” (https://www.globalresearch.ca/world-cannot-breathe-squashed-usa-country-built-genocide-slavery/5714728).
Let’s add to this: And the entire world is no longer afraid to stand up and defend and fight for their rights.
This “fight” is increasingly a battle of the 99 % against the 1% - the rich and powerful psychopaths wanting to control ever more of the globe’s resources. With every day this battle is turning more in favor of We, the People.
The worldwide corona-lockdown and the yet unfathomable social and economic calamity of uncountable unemployment, famine and misery – unheard of in human history – is unwittingly shocking the billions of victims worldwide into an awakening that the masters behind the crisis, behind the nonsensical lockdown, behind the power and control thirst - the Gates, Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Soros and Co., may not have anticipated.
The ruthless killing of George Floyd has set in motion a series of riots throughout the US – affecting some 150 US-cities. Admittedly the riots are largely financed and organized by Soros & Co. (see https://www.naturalnews.com/2020-06-02-antifa-plans-purge-of-suburbs-homes-starting-tonight.html) with the objective of a broad military lockdown. Though, these unrests will likely gain their own dynamic, as the wave spreads to Europe and possibly also to the Global South. While the generous financiers of Antifa, Black Lives Matter and other protest organizations may have as their clear objective the militarization of the west, dynamics of an awakened people may derail the diabolical psychopaths’ goals and ring in a new set of societal values.
The resisting forces and perseverance of the people of Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, let alone, Russia and China, have magical power. Never mind the physical losses of stolen assets, of economic sanctions, of attempted humiliation by the neoliberal western alliance breaching contracts and agreements at will, i.e. the Iran Nuclear Deal, several disarmament agreements with Russia – and more – the new wave of spiritual and universal consciousness gains, far outpace these losses. The forces of Light may overcome the Darkness which has engulfed humanity over the last 5,000 years – laying the foundation for a new society with values of equality and peace for a common future for mankind.


thegreanvillepostbiasrating--2020-06-06--Washington’s Hong Kong Hypocrisy Backfires

he mass protests raging across the United States over the police killing of yet another African-American man have had the salutary effect of exposing Washington ’ s rank hypocrisy in international relations .
In particular , before the gruesome death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers on May 25 , President Donald Trump and Congressional lawmakers were building a provocative campaign of vilification against China .
That campaign was related to groundless claims that Beijing had engaged in an alleged cover-up of the coronavirus pandemic .
U.S. efforts to undermine China were given added impetus after Beijing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new security law in the semi-autonomous city state of Hong Kong .
Beijing says the new security law is aimed at quelling long-running protests in Hong Kong against China ’ s sovereignty over the former British colonial territory .
Those protests have been tolerated by the Chinese authorities for over a year despite the loss of lives and rampant damage to public property .
It is also suspected that Washington and London have exploited the disturbances by giving encouragement to the protesters .
Britain ’ s premier Boris Johnson ’ s offer this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ million Hong Kongers is a glaring example of interference in China ’ s internal affairs .
The Trump administration and bipartisan voices in Congress have been ramping up threats to impose economic sanctions on Beijing over alleged human rights violations in Hong Kong .
How quickly unforeseen events can alter the political landscape .
This week , the world was shocked by the scale of military-police powers deployed against peaceful protesters in the U.S. For the second week running , millions of citizens have come out in demonstrations against police brutality and systematic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ states have seen multi-racial protests demanding justice over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25 .
Floyd ’ s callous death was but the latest in a long list of police homicides against African-Americans .
Some of the protests have turned violent , partly as a result of wanton police aggression backed up by heavily armed National Guard troops .
There is also a big factor of general frustration among the populace and opposition to the massive social inequality under American oligarchic capitalism .
The racist , brutish police are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ plutocracy .
Night-time curfews have been imposed in cities across the U.S. And when protesters refused to comply with curfew outside the White House in Washington DC on Monday , they were teargassed off the streets .
Trump emerged from a secure bunker to mount a photo-op in which he posed to have the authority of the bible .
( You could hardly make this absurdity up . )
Trump ’ s threat of sending in combat troops to break up civil protests has been slammed by critics at home and around the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. Constitution .
Trump ’ s move smacks of an emerging military dictatorship in supposedly the world ’ s self-proclaimed beacon of democracy .
Even former Pentagon chiefs have come forward to condemn the heavy-handedness , no doubt betraying apprehension over the speed of America ’ s descent into authoritarianism , amid fears among the political class that the situation is stoking a general revolt against the federal government .
What is rather amusing , however , is how various U.S. media outlets , including the New York Times and National Public Radio @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the moment ” of U.S. disturbances and riots to portray the turmoil as “ another sign of American hypocrisy and decline ” .
That is a reference to how the events in the U.S. have featured prominently in Chinese media .
But not just in China .
Many other media around the world have also been following the mayhem and unrest in the U.S .
The implication of China cynically exploiting U.S. riots for propaganda purpose is therefore entirely misplaced .
The plain truth is that the world has been shocked by the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ an unarmed man ; by the relentless repetition of such barbarity against African-Americans in a country which evidently has an endemic racial problem ; and the world has been aghast by the gratuitous wielding of military powers to crush subsequent peaceful protests .
It is not “ propaganda ” to point out that in addition to the above malignancy , Washington has a chronic problem of hypocrisy as shown by its arrogant attempts to lecture China over Hong Kong .
( And not just China , but every other nation on the planet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , America should put its own house in order before presuming to have the sanctimonious right to admonish others .
American hypocrisy is as old as the state itself , built as it is on the genocides of native people and African slavery .
But what is new , and this is a welcome development , is how Washington ’ s presumed moral superiority is increasingly seen around the world to be a figment of its own self-regarding imagination .
That dawning realization scuppers American moralizing and interference in other nations .

T
he mass protests raging across the United States over the police killing of yet another African-American man have had the salutary effect of exposing Washington’s rank hypocrisy in international relations.
In particular, before the gruesome death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers on May 25, President Donald Trump and Congressional lawmakers were building a provocative campaign of vilification against China. That campaign was related to groundless claims that Beijing had engaged in an alleged cover-up of the coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. efforts to undermine China were given added impetus after Beijing announced plans last month to apply a new security law in the semi-autonomous city state of Hong Kong.
Beijing says the new security law is aimed at quelling long-running protests in Hong Kong against China’s sovereignty over the former British colonial territory. Those protests have been tolerated by the Chinese authorities for over a year despite the loss of lives and rampant damage to public property. It is also suspected that Washington and London have exploited the disturbances by giving encouragement to the protesters. Britain’s premier Boris Johnson’s offer this week of issuing British passports to three million Hong Kongers is a glaring example of interference in China’s internal affairs.
The Trump administration and bipartisan voices in Congress have been ramping up threats to impose economic sanctions on Beijing over alleged human rights violations in Hong Kong.
How quickly unforeseen events can alter the political landscape.
This week, the world was shocked by the scale of military-police powers deployed against peaceful protesters in the U.S. For the second week running, millions of citizens have come out in demonstrations against police brutality and systematic racism. Some 400 cities across 50 states have seen multi-racial protests demanding justice over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25. Floyd’s callous death was but the latest in a long list of police homicides against African-Americans.
Some of the protests have turned violent, partly as a result of wanton police aggression backed up by heavily armed National Guard troops. There is also a big factor of general frustration among the populace and opposition to the massive social inequality under American oligarchic capitalism. The racist, brutish police are seen as the enforcers of a corrupt plutocracy.
Night-time curfews have been imposed in cities across the U.S. And when protesters refused to comply with curfew outside the White House in Washington DC on Monday, they were teargassed off the streets. Trump emerged from a secure bunker to mount a photo-op in which he posed to have the authority of the bible. (You could hardly make this absurdity up.)
Trump’s threat of sending in combat troops to break up civil protests has been slammed by critics at home and around the world as an unlawful breach of the U.S. Constitution. Trump’s move smacks of an emerging military dictatorship in supposedly the world’s self-proclaimed beacon of democracy. Even former Pentagon chiefs have come forward to condemn the heavy-handedness, no doubt betraying apprehension over the speed of America’s descent into authoritarianism, amid fears among the political class that the situation is stoking a general revolt against the federal government.
What is rather amusing, however, is how various U.S. media outlets, including the New York Times and National Public Radio, have reported on Beijing “seizing the moment” of U.S. disturbances and riots to portray the turmoil as “another sign of American hypocrisy and decline”. That is a reference to how the events in the U.S. have featured prominently in Chinese media. But not just in China. Many other media around the world have also been following the mayhem and unrest in the U.S. The implication of China cynically exploiting U.S. riots for propaganda purpose is therefore entirely misplaced.
The plain truth is that the world has been shocked by the heinous action of U.S. police officers against an unarmed man; by the relentless repetition of such barbarity against African-Americans in a country which evidently has an endemic racial problem; and the world has been aghast by the gratuitous wielding of military powers to crush subsequent peaceful protests.
It is not “propaganda” to point out that in addition to the above malignancy, Washington has a chronic problem of hypocrisy as shown by its arrogant attempts to lecture China over Hong Kong. (And not just China, but every other nation on the planet.)
As the old saying goes, America should put its own house in order before presuming to have the sanctimonious right to admonish others.
American hypocrisy is as old as the state itself, built as it is on the genocides of native people and African slavery. But what is new, and this is a welcome development, is how Washington’s presumed moral superiority is increasingly seen around the world to be a figment of its own self-regarding imagination. That dawning realization scuppers American moralizing and interference in other nations.