What this neocon propagandist whose job is to regurgitate CIA disinformation at the Bezos Post is not telling you is that Yemen is suffering through the worst humanitarian catastrophe on Earth, even worse than Syria
And the Nazi-esque US empire is responsible for unleashing both
When he is not lobbying for more murderous US military intervention in the Middle East, the Washington Post's resident neocon CIA stenographer @joshrogin amplifies the Trump admin's fake news and conspiracies to blame China for the US coronavirus disaster thegrayzone.com/2020/04/20/tru…
Other Nazi-esque crimes against humanity committed by the US empire that this warmongering Jeff Bezos employee won't ever mention:
-slaughtering 3 million Vietnamese
-eradicating 20% of North Korea's population
-killing 1 million Iraqis in a war he backed
And when I say the US empire is Nazi-esque, I'm not being hyperbolic:
The leader of one of the most violent neo-Nazi terror groups, called The Base, was a Pentagon contractor and worked with U.S. special forces on targeting and "counterterrorism" vice.com/en_us/article/…
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Crucial point by prominent Palestinian scholar Joseph Massad:
"The claim that the Israel lobby controls US policy in the Middle East amounts to absolving the US of responsibility for its imperialist policies".
The US empire has always violently opposed anti-colonial struggles.
The US gov't has been an "implacable enemy of all national liberation groups".
"Why the US would then support Palestinian national liberation absent the Israel lobby is something this argument fails to address"
Blaming the Israel lobby for the Iraq War is absurd
The invasion of Iraq follows a consistent US imperial policy since WWII of overthrowing Third World states that control their national resources, land, oil, minerals
See: Iran in 1953, Guatemala in 1954, Venezuela & Iran today
Far-right billionaire oligarch Peter Thiel, a CIA-linked FBI informant who has funded Donald Trump and his "MAGA" allies, also funded a spy company that hacked WhatsApp. forbes.com/sites/thomasbr…
Libertarianism nearly always turns into fascism, because libertarians and fascists value private property and capital above human life.
Libertarians eventually realize that, to save capitalism, democracy must be destroyed. Pinochet is the textbook example
All US presidents for decades (both Republicans & Democrats) have waged nonstop war, in Korea, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, etc.
The US has killed MILLIONS. But I guess foreign lives don't matter.
"There is absolutely no place for political violence in oUr deMoCrAcy"
Every single US president is an imperialist sociopath with zero concern for lives outside of the US (and little for people in the US too). They are all guilty of war crimes, and have killed MILLIONS of people in recent decades.
Seeing them condemn "political violence" is surreal
In this important speech, the director of the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University notes:
-US-China "competition" is "ideological"
-The US wants to subordinate China
-"The socialist path led by the CPC is the unchangeable path for China" eastisread.com/p/yao-yang-on-…
This influential Chinese economist explains how the Reform and Opening Up started by Deng was pivotal to develop the productive forces, after a time of destructive ultra-leftism. But China went too far to the right by the 2000s, so it's shifting left again eastisread.com/p/yao-yang-on-…
"Excessive financialization hollows out real industries". China is countering this by using state-owned bank lending to "prioritize manufacturing and high-tech industries".
"The goal of [China's] new era is high-level socialism", better income distribution, and common prosperity
China's economy is bigger than official GDP statistics indicate, because it uses a measurement system based on manufacturing production, under-counting services.
US GDP data, meanwhile, is distorted by expensive "services" like imputed rent and legal fees asiatimes.com/2024/06/whats-…
"The affordability crisis in Western economies, the US in particular, is largely driven by inflation of necessary services – rent, healthcare, education, childcare – not by manufactured goods"
When those costs go up, US GDP goes up.
This is why "number go up" is not always good
This point is so crucial: Costs of healthcare, education, housing, and childcare have skyrocketed in the US, which makes GDP go up, but it also makes average people's standard of living worse, especially because real wages have not caught up.
This chart shows why it's nonsense to talk about "inter-imperialist rivalry" in the 21st century. Monopoly finance capital is concentrated to an unprecedented degree.
There is one imperialist system, centered in the USA. Its heart is Wall Street. Its blood is the US dollar.
Capitalists from all over the world store their wealth largely in US dollar-dominated assets. The US hosts 60.5% of the total value of global stock markets. 40+% is owned by foreign investors.
The US government is dedicated to protecting the wealth of the global capitalist class
Imperialism is a system, not a mere set of policies. The US created the global financial system, based on its currency, centered in its capital markets
The most important mission of the 21st century is to replace it with a New International Economic Order