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Brace yourself: a tsunami approaches.

While we squabble over which side is winning this losing battle to lead the country, there is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it doesn’t bode well for the future of this country.

Anytime you have an entire nation so mesmerized by the antics of the political ruling class that they are oblivious to all else, you’d better beware.

Anytime you have a government that operates in the shadows, speaks in a language of force, and rules by fiat, you’d better beware.

And anytime you have a government so far removed from its people as to ensure that they are never seen, heard or heeded by those elected to represent them, you’d better beware.

We’ve got to get our priorities straight if we are to ever have any hope of maintaining any sense of freedom in America.

As long as we allow ourselves to be distracted, diverted, occasionally outraged, always polarized and content to view each other—rather than the government—as the enemy, we’ll never manage to present a unified front against tyranny (or government corruption and ineptitude) in any form.

Mind you, by “government,” I’m not referring to the highly partisan, two-party bureaucracy of the Republicans and Democrats. Rather, I’m referring to “government” with a capital “G,” the entrenched Deep State that is unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and has set itself beyond the reach of the law.

This is the hidden face of a government that has no respect for the freedoms of its citizenry.

So, stop with all of the excuses and the hedging and the finger-pointing and the pissing contests to see which side can out-shout, out-blame and out-spew the other.

Enough already with the short- and long-term amnesia that allows political sycophants to conveniently forget the duplicity, complicity and mendacity of their own party while casting blame on everyone else.

This is how evil wins.

This is how freedom falls and tyranny rises.

This is how good, generally decent people—having allowed themselves to be distracted with manufactured crises, polarizing politics, and fighting that divides the populace into warring us vs. them camps—fail to take note of the looming danger that threatens to wipe freedom from the map and place us all in chains.

The world has been down this road before. We are at our most vulnerable right now.

The gravest threat facing us as a nation is not extremism but despotism, exercised by a ruling class whose only allegiance is to power and money.

We’re in a national state of denial, yet no amount of escapism can shield us from the harsh reality that the danger in our midst is posed by an entrenched government bureaucracy that has no regard for the Constitution, Congress, the courts or the citizenry.

No matter how often the team colors change, the playbook remains the same. The leopard does not change its spots.

Scrape off the surface layers and you will find that nothing has changed.

The police state is still winning. We the people are still losing.

In fact, the American police state has continued to advance at the same costly, intrusive, privacy-sapping, Constitution-defying, heartbreaking, soul-scorching, relentless pace under the current Tyrant-in-Chief as it did under those who occupied the White House before him (Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc.).

Consider for yourselves:

  • Police haven’t stopped disregarding the rights of citizens.
  • SWAT teams haven’t stopped crashing through doors and terrorizing families.
  • The Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security haven’t stopped militarizing and federalizing local police.
  • Schools haven’t stopped treating young people like hard-core prisoners.
  • For-profit private prisons haven’t stopped locking up Americans and immigrants alike at taxpayer expense.
  • Censorship hasn’t stopped.
  • The courts haven’t stopped marching in lockstep with the police state.
  • Government bureaucrats haven’t stopped turning American citizens into criminals.
  • The surveillance state hasn’t stopped spying on Americans’ communications, transactions or movements.
  • Congress hasn’t stopped enacting draconian laws.
  • The Department of Homeland Security hasn’t stopped being a “wasteful, growing, fear-mongering beast.”
  • The military industrial complex hasn’t stopped profiting from endless wars abroad.
  • The Deep State’s shadow government hasn’t stopped calling the shots behind the scenes.
  • And the American people haven’t stopped acting like gullible sheep.

So you can try to persuade yourself that you are free, that you still live in a country that values freedom, and that it is not too late to make America great again, but to anyone who has been paying attention to America’s decline over the past century, it will be just another lie.

After all, the German people were not oblivious to the horrors taking place around them. The warning signs were definitely there, blinking incessantly like large neon signs.

“Still,” historian Robert Gellately writes, “the vast majority voted in favor of Nazism, and in spite of what they could read in the press and hear by word of mouth about the secret police, the concentration camps, official anti-Semitism, and so on.”

The German people backed Hitler because for the majority of them, life was good.

In a nutshell, life was good because their creature comforts remained undiminished, their bank accounts remained flush, and they weren’t being discriminated against, persecuted, starved, beaten, shot, stripped, jailed and turned into slave labor.

Life is good in America, too.

Life is good in America as long as you’re able to keep sleep-walking through life, cocooning yourself in political fantasies that depict a world in which your party is always right and everyone else is wrong, and distracting yourself with bread-and-circus entertainment that bears no resemblance to reality.

Life is good in America as long as you don’t mind being made to pay through the nose for the government’s endless wars, subsidization of foreign nations, bloated workforce, secret agencies, fusion centers, private prisons, biometric databases, invasive technologies, arsenal of weapons, and every other budgetary line item that is contributing to the fast-growing wealth of the corporate elite at the expense of those who are barely making ends meet—that is, we the 99%. 

Life is good in America for the privileged few, but as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, it’s getting worse by the day for the rest of us.

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ABOUT JOHN W. WHITEHEAD

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His most recent books are the best-selling Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the award-winning A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, and a debut dystopian fiction novel, The Erik Blair Diaries. Whitehead can be contacted at [email protected]. Nisha Whitehead is the Executive Director of The Rutherford Institute. Information about The Rutherford Institute is available at www.rutherford.org.

 

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The Hanging of the American Empire on the Israeli Scaffold – Beijing and Moscow Attend the Show

    BY Lama El Horr

 

China, Russia, Iran and a large number of countries in the South are challenging head-on the distribution of roles by Washington, the self-proclaimed scriptwriter, who systematically assigns the role of loser to its geopolitical rivals, while taking on the role of “Good King Savior”.

The stakes are high. If global players accept the roles assigned to them in the new American scenario, the Western oligarchy under American leadership will preside over world affairs for decades to come. But if the players refuse to conform to this scenario, then they will hinder the emergence of the world Washington dreams of. Clearly, this second option has been chosen, which explains the crises that are tearing several regions of the world apart.

Washington’s latest scenario

The manufacture of consent through intimidation is a classic of the American genre

To force its geopolitical adversaries to don tailored suits, the United States uses a tried-and-tested method: intimidation. This sometimes takes the form of politico-military interference and coercive unilateral measures, sometimes psychological warfare.

The Atlanticist assault on the alternative order to American hegemony forms the backbone of the story. As in all tragic works, a charge of fatalism announces the coming conflagration from the outset.

The scenario devised by Washington unfolds on both a horizontal and vertical level. Horizontal, because the tensions, crises and confrontations involving Washington and its geopolitical adversaries coexist on the international stage (G7 vs BRICS, NATO vs Russia, Israel vs Iran, USA vs China). Vertical, as the United States prioritizes its assault on anti-hegemonic forces by practicing a Russian doll strategy: nested figurines are dismembered one by one, in the hope of progressively weakening the final target, China.

In this vertical strategy of dismemberment, Russia, along with Germany and the rest of the EU, was the first act. In West Asia, Iran and its Axis of Resistance allies are, as we are witnessing today, the second act. What’s more, as evidenced by the growing US military presence in the Indo-Pacific region, preparations are well underway to set the third act in motion, and flank a China that is supposed to have been weakened upstream by the prior dismemberment of its strategic partners.

The second act of the scenario: dismembering the Axis of Resistance

The second act is being played out right before our eyes, in West Asia. Washington has conceived this act as a great bullfighting spectacle, in which the Axis of Resistance represents the bull to be slaughtered, and Iran, the bull’s lung. The aim is to weaken the beast, targeting every member of its body: Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Iran…, until it is put to death. Several bullfighters are involved in this effort: Washington, London, Israel and the European Union, but all act under the orders of a chief bullfighter, the American matador – who often camouflages himself behind Israeli arrows.

One scene in particular stands out in this second act: that of the “technological Judas”. Without realizing it, the bull carries his own dagger, concealed in a bracelet around his horns, hooves, flank… This is what gave rise to the episode of pagers and walkie-talkies, the Israeli-American state terrorism that stabbed Lebanon in the back on September 17 and 18, 2024.

This scene of the “technological Judas”, unequivocally forbidden by the most elementary international law, had been integrated, secretly and in advance, into the second act of the American scenario. Your technological companion suddenly starts stabbing and mutilating you, in the streets, pharmacies and stores of the city – of all cities – and off the battlefield. There’s no doubt that this scene sets a precedent for the trampling of human rights and the laws of war – but also of the right to war, the only means of resistance against oppression.

For it must be remembered that Hezbollah and its allies in the Axis of Resistance are guilty, in the eyes of Washington and its Israeli accomplice, of providing assistance to a people who have been suffering ethnic cleansing and genocide for over a year.

The functions of the “technological Judas” in the American scenario

In the Israeli-American scenario, the “technological Judas” episode has several functions. First and foremost, it aims to cast doubt on the ability of the Axis of Resistance, and Hezbollah in particular, to continue supporting the Palestinians. In view of the increasingly painful blows dealt to Israeli forces by the Lebanese party and its regional allies, we can already say that this gamble is lost. The pagers’ terrorist operation against political and military members of Hezbollah, and the assassinations of its leading figures, foremost among them Hassan Nasrallah, have increased tenfold the determination of the Lebanese resistance and its regional allies to fight alongside the Palestinians.

The hijacking of technology for terrorist purposes was also intended to intimidate Beijing, Moscow and their southern partners, by attempting to undermine the security credibility of Chinese supply chains. At the same time, by adopting an analogy of reasoning – “We did it, so China will do it too” – the US is using this terrorist operation to justify an intensification of American technological decoupling from the Chinese economy. Here again, the gamble seems lost, as calls to convert to Chinese technology have poured in like a boomerang in the wake of this terrorist operation.

On the other hand, the fact that Iran has finally retaliated against the many Israeli aggressions suggests that there is close strategic coordination between Teheran and Moscow. While these two key states on the Eurasian axis had put off finalizing a strategic partnership agreement (to appease Washington?), it would appear that the evolution of Teheran-Washington and Moscow-NATO tensions, which reflect growing US hostility towards Teheran and Moscow, has accelerated the finalization of this partnership, which is due to be signed at the forthcoming BRICS summit in Kazan.

There is no doubt that the pager episode was also intended to warn Washington’s partners who were not sufficiently docile to the desiderata of NATO, QUAD, the Pentagon or the US State Department. Countries such as India, Turkey, Algeria and Brazil may have felt tacit pressure to conform to the US strategy of containing China and boycotting Russia and Iran. But even beyond these emerging powers, Washington’s aim was to instill fear on a global scale about other technological products whose manufacture depends on Washington and its allies. – The manufacture of consent through intimidation is a classic of the American genre.

Ultimately, the most important thing to remember about this episode of kamikaze technology is that, to maintain their domination of the world, the United States and its satellite countries are now acting without any red lines – legal, diplomatic, human or ethical. That’s the extent of the danger facing our world.

Contemporary challenges must be met collectively

This stalemate in the resolution of global crises is an opportunity to recall the fundamentals: the rules of coexistence between the great powers are not laid down in the bellicose communiqués of NATO, the Pentagon or the US Department of State, but in the United Nations Charter, which constitutes the only legitimate contract supposed to govern relations between states.

Recent events in the Middle East have revealed the Western bloc’s penchant for unbridled obscurantism, and its refusal to deal with the rest of humanity in a civilized manner. These actions will undoubtedly mark the annals of a decadent West, which now knows only how to defend its interests through deception, plunder and mass crime. This is thanks to the unscrupulous media, whose sole role is to coerce the masses by presenting as white what is indisputably black. It is hardly surprising, then, that a Netanyahu can give free rein to his sadism, while a Georges Ibrahim Abdallah spends his 41st year in prison for daring to embrace the Palestinian cause.

This must spur the world majority, led by China and Russia, to stand up more united than ever against American imperialist domination – which is not only illegitimate, since it is repudiated by two-thirds of the international community, but also endangers the very survival of humanity. The contributions of India, Turkey, Algeria and Brazil are indispensable.

If the United States and its allies are capable of committing genocide on camera, of planting bombs in telephones, radios, solar panels or scooters, on the scale of an entire country, then what’s to stop us thinking that they’re also capable of booby-trapping planes, trains, boats, cars and elevators? What’s to stop us thinking that they’re also capable of creating pandemics, or even inserting poison into pharmaceutical vaccines? What’s to stop us thinking that they are also capable of hijacking the functions of agriculture, water and the food industry, if this helps them to harm their adversaries and establish their domination of the world by force?

Hanging from the Israeli scaffold, the fledgling American Empire is committing suicide in the public square, and few would dream of saving it: “If the US continues to have the ability to construct a unipolar world order, then this world order will be the worst that human society has ever seen. People must have a clear understanding of this.”

 

Lama El Horr, PhD, geopolitical analyst, is the founding editor of China Beyond the Wall, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”

 

https://journal-neo.su/2024/10/16/the-hanging-of-the-american-empire-on-the-israeli-scaffold-beijing-and-moscow-attend-the-show/

 

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