WAR FEARS ARE again intensifying as the United States puts additional pressure on Russia
by reinforcing a U.S. naval squadron in the Black Sea. The squadron,
now reportedly of three vessels, is said to include a Marine
expeditionary unit, a newly added guided missile destroyer (USS Truxton), a guided missile frigate (USS Taylor) and an amphibious-operations command ship (USS Mount Whitney). An accompanying submarine escort, if any, would typically be unannounced, its existence most likely classified Top Secret.
While U.S. Navy sources claim the frigate and the command ship were dispatched to render aid if terrorists attacked the Winter Olympics at Siochi, Robert Parry's ongoing disclosures of USian sponsorship and funding of the Ukrainan neo-Nazi coup suggests the squadron was more likely pre-positioned in the Black Sea to provide support for the new regime in Kiev.
Though
I respect Parry's work, I reject his (perhaps obligatory) suggestion
Obama has lost control of his government to a neocon cabal. As I said on
the associated comment thread, “the pre-inaugural immediacy of (the
president's) transformation from Obama the Orator to Barack the Betrayer
tells us he was the neocons' Manchurian Candidate (actually the
Neoconian Candidate) from day one – that his 2008 “change we can believe
in” campaign was the biggest Big Lie ever fed the U.S. electorate. Now
it seems to me just as likely Obama is again demonstrating his signature
deviousness, painting himself as the good guy, no doubt in hope of
salvaging the 2014 elections, which as of now are a looming Republican
landslide – not because of GOP popularity, but because of the
bottomless, throw-the-bastards-out unpopularity of the treacherous
Democrats. Meanwhile the “my advisors did it” excuse is as old as
politics itself...”
Whether
ordered by the president or by his ever-more-openly aggressive cabinet
and general staff, the naval squadron's reinforced presence undoubtedly
intensifies the perceived magnitude of the Ukrainian coup's challenge to
Russia's centuries-old policy of maintaining a warm-water seaport – that
is, one not closed by winter ice – with year-round access to the
Mediterranean and the world's oceans. The port in question (see map
accessible via the link in the first paragraph) is Sevastopol,
in the now-contested Crimea. Despite Russia's huge land mass – she is
by far the largest country in the world – Sevastopol is her only
warm-water port. Not only is it headquarters of the Russian Black Sea
Fleet; it is of growing commercial importance and a favorite summer
resort for Eastern Europeans.
Because
the United States has so many warm-water ports, there is no possibility
of a directly analogous threat – nothing as legitimately alarming to
the U.S. as the Ukrainian coup is legitimately alarming to Russia. But a
coup installing a hostile government in Mexico, perhaps backed by the
People's Republic of China and threatening reconquista
of California, would surely be regarded as equally provocative,
particularly given the naval and port facilities at San Diego, Los
Angeles and San Francisco. Such a hypothetical scenario should thus help
clarify why Russia is so troubled by the Ukrainian situation. (My
apologies to overseas readers for these brief lessons in third-grade
geography and sixth-grade world history, but we USian Empire subjects
are so oppressed by deliberately imposed ignorance, I felt the review
was essential.)
Meanwhile,
USian mass media remains notably silent on the geopolitics of the
Ukrainian Crisis – so much so the apparent censorship, by which Josef
Goebbels would be delighted, seems not only methodical but maliciously
warmongering. That's why we should be profoundly thankful to Parry on
the Left and Patrick Buchanan on the Right. Parry's work has provided
most of the source material for my commentaries, and Buchanan's
debunking of Hillary Clinton's outrageous denunciation of Russian
President Vladimir Putin as a latter-day “Hitler” is compelling in its own right, particularly for its wealth of historical information.
As
to Hillary herself, I have long assumed she is a female George Bush in
Democratic disguise – far more intelligent than Bush of course, probably
even brighter than his ideological successor Obama, but with the same
I-wanna-be-Emperor-of-the-World complex that now seems to be the
defining quality of presidents and presidential candidates from both the
Democrat and Republican factions of the one Ruling Class Party. Hence
my (slightly edited) comment on Parry's alarming report of the “'we-hate-Putin' hysteria” being ginned up throughout the USian Homeland:
The
ugly truth about Hillary, who is not only a neocon but a Christian
theocrat, is revealed by Jeff Sharlet on pgs. 272-277 of The Family: the
Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power (Harper: 2008).
Sharlet reports Hillary secretly collaborates with the notorious Sam
Brownback and his fanatical ilk to impose Biblical Law by “tunneling
beneath” the constitutional wall between church and state.
That said, Hillary's Hitler analogy is clinically interesting because it is a classic psychological projection of the USian Empire's “American Century” agenda of global conquest. In this context, the so-called military “withdrawal” cited by a poster below is a Big Lie because it never voluntarily occurs until conquest has ensured the triumph of capitalism and its enslavement of the indigenous population.
Thus, just as Putin notes, the USian Empire has assumed the role of international aggressor that characterized the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis. Indeed, had the Bankers Plot of 1934 succeeded in ousting President Roosevelt, the U.S. would have been the fourth Axis partner.
Thus too the genocidal (and therefore definitively neo-fascist) social-service cuts now sponsored by both ruling parties – actually one party of two names. Cuts in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment compensation etc. are undoubtedly intended to kill those of us who no longer exploitable for profit. Killing by neglect rather than in death camps merely avoids the odium of the latter.
That said, Hillary's Hitler analogy is clinically interesting because it is a classic psychological projection of the USian Empire's “American Century” agenda of global conquest. In this context, the so-called military “withdrawal” cited by a poster below is a Big Lie because it never voluntarily occurs until conquest has ensured the triumph of capitalism and its enslavement of the indigenous population.
Thus, just as Putin notes, the USian Empire has assumed the role of international aggressor that characterized the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis. Indeed, had the Bankers Plot of 1934 succeeded in ousting President Roosevelt, the U.S. would have been the fourth Axis partner.
Thus too the genocidal (and therefore definitively neo-fascist) social-service cuts now sponsored by both ruling parties – actually one party of two names. Cuts in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment compensation etc. are undoubtedly intended to kill those of us who no longer exploitable for profit. Killing by neglect rather than in death camps merely avoids the odium of the latter.
Could
this – the fact a major war would exterminate vast numbers of workers
rendered permanently jobless by the for-profit downsizing of the USian
Homeland economy – be another reason the empire has so radically
escalated its warmongering? Before you answer, remember the One
Percenters, who include Hillary and her ilk, all assume they will be
protected by their own posh, heavily fortified bunkers – that their
obscene wealth will thus keep them safe from bombs, radioactive fallout,
disease, famine and all the other horrors of thermonuclear war. We on
the other hand will be abandoned – just as the African-American
residents of New Orleans were abandoned after Katrina – to live or die
as fate and happenstance decree.
***
Insurance-Company Atrocities in Obamacare: an Anthology of Horrors
Truthout's
William Rivers Pitt – a man I often scorn for his refusal to admit that
disciplined socialism is the only adequate response to capitalism's
ever-intensifying savagery – has written a Pulitzer-class exposé of what
Barack the Betrayer enabled when he killed public-option health care
and thus indentured the entire U.S. population to the vampires of the
for-profit insurance mafia. Entitled “Worse than the Mob: the Insurance
Industry Is Organized Crime,” his detailed and heart-wrenching report of
the devastating injuries Obamacare inflicted on his wife will of course
win no USian journalism award nor ever be published in any mainstream
USian journal. Hence – though I did not comment on its associated thread
because there was nothing I could say beyond an emphatic “please read
this” that in context would have been redundant – I am linking it here.
It is well done, a work of which Pitt and his publishers should damn
well be proud, as fine a piece of truth-telling as I have witnessed in
this lifetime.
***
Outside Agitation on Other Websites: a busy week – the usual first-of-the-month chores drawn out by the fact I am too poor to own an automobile but reside amongst voters who despise mass-transit users in a region that officially disdains mass transit – with my time squandered accordingly on herky-jerky buses. Nevertheless...
“Lets Make Capitalism a Dirty Word” Carl Gibson of Reader Supported News
details the hardships capitalism maliciously inflicts on the 99 Percent
and triggers an interesting discussion-thread to which I contribute
three posts. The first repeats statements I've made many times: “All
defenders of capitalism are either deluded or dishonest. Precisely as
defined by its messiah Ayn Rand, capitalism is infinite greed elevated
to maximum virtue – the rejection, with malice aforethought, of every
humanitarian precept our species has ever articulated. It is therefore,
as proven by its anti-humanitarian and anti-environmental depredations,
the closest approximation to absolute evil yet manifest on
Earth...(that's why) capitalism's momentum is always toward
ever-more-vicious tyranny.” The second refutes a poster who seemed to
idolize Hitler and Nazism. The third, refuting a capitalist disciple,
poster notes an increasingly obvious truth about all such discussion
threads: “Interesting how class war manifests even here on this website:
the obvious division between those (few) who have profited via
capitalism and therefore defend it, versus the masses, we the
now-permanently impoverished proletarians and peasants who are
capitalism's victims and angrily seek its replacement.”
***
“Four Ways to Evolve Beyond Capitalism”
Alas, Gibson's sequel to the above piece carefully avoids any mention
of socialism, a failure that, to my mind, discredits him. In fact it
suggests he is yet another apologist for the status quo and possibly a
clandestine operative for the (increasingly desperate) Democratic Party.
I respond accordingly (the comment slightly revised for posting here):
“A growing third party already exists, and precisely as Mr. Gibson
suggests, it is 'building power first at the local and county level.' It
is called Socialist Alternative. It has defeated huge odds to elect
Kshama Sawant to the Seattle City Council, and it is increasingly active
in many other U.S. cities. Its website is here.
By its cutting-edge leadership in the campaign for a $15-per-hour
minimum wage, SA is already a huge factor at the national level. It has
scared Obama into trying to restore the Democratic Party's humanitarian
image and has even frightened a few Democrats into joining its '$15 Now'
campaign.”
LB/9 March 2014
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