Trump’s Henchmen Keep Calling Their War Slut President A Peacemaker

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

Trump campaigned on being a president of peace and continues to stake his personal reputation on big talk about peacemaking, but in terms of concrete action he’s just as much of a warmonger as the psychopaths who came before him.

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The US State Department has renamed the US Institute of Peace the Donald J Trump Institute of Peace, proclaiming that it did so “to reflect the greatest dealmaker in our nation’s history.”

“President Trump will be remembered by history as the President of Peace,” tweeted Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the announcement.

Earlier this year the president’s intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard made a similar social media post, tweeting that “President Trump IS the President of Peace. He is ending bloodshed across the world and will deliver lasting peace in the Middle East.”

This would be the same President Trump who has bombed Somalia more times in the last year than presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama did in their combined twelve years in office. 

The same President Trump who is bombing boats in the Caribbean and openly ramping up for a disastrous regime change military intervention in Venezuela at this very moment, with his Chairman of the Joint Chiefs declaring that Americans can expect a coming war “in our neighborhood”.

The same President Trump who has spent an entire year pouring weapons into the horrific US proxy war in Ukraine despite promising throughout his entire campaign to end the conflict on day one.

The same President Trump who helped Israel incinerate Gaza for months before suckering the world with a fake “ceasefire” deal which as of this writing has seen at least 373 Palestinians murdered by Israel in just two months since taking effect, while a nightmarish surveillance system is constructed around the survivors.

The same President Trump who risked a horrifying escalation in the middle east by bombing Iran.

The same President Trump who slaughtered hundreds of civilians in his murderous bombing campaign in Yemen earlier this year.

The same President Trump who spent all year ignoring the UAE-backed genocide in Sudan until he was given a nudge by none other genocidal Saudi tyrant Mohammed bin Salman.

The same President Trump who spent his entire first term advancing the longstanding agendas of warmongering DC swamp monsters by starving Venezuela, backing Saudi Arabia’s genocidal atrocities in Yemen, ramping up cold war escalations against Russia which paved the way to the conflict in Ukraine, imprisoning Julian Assange for exposing US war crimes, staging brutal regime change ops in Iran, occupying Syrian oil fields with the goal of facilitating regime change, assassinating General Soleimani, and expanding the US murder machine around the world.

This rhetoric about Trump being the “President of Peace” is just that: rhetoric. It’s words. This administration has been taking credit for resolving a bunch of conflicts it either made up, didn’t help resolve, or was an active belligerent in, while in actual reality turning the gears of the imperial war machine as rapidly as any other president the United States has ever had.

Trump campaigned on being a president of peace and continues to stake his personal reputation on big talk about peacemaking, but in terms of concrete action he’s just as much of a warmonger as the psychopaths who came before him. 

There is no basis to continue to support Trump if you are opposed to war. You can support him because he “triggers the libs” or “fights wokeness” or whatever other dopey culture war reason you want if that’s what you’re into, because he absolutely does feed into that nonsense. But if you support him because you think he’s making peace, draining the swamp, or sticking up for the little guy, you’re just plain delusional.

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Power & Market
How the American Government Used Protestantism to Block Communism in Latin America

BY Victor Gonzaga

It was at the height of the Cold War that the CIA and the American government — fearing the weakening of the capitalist bloc in Latin America due to the influence of Liberation Theology in the southern part of the continent — began subsidizing Protestant missions, mostly of Pentecostal denomination, with the intent of diluting Catholic presence and preventing the spread of Marxist ideals through religion.

Declassified CIA documents, State Department memoranda, and USAID (United States Agency for International Development) contracts indicate that, between the 1950s and 1980s, the US used Protestant missions as part of a counterinsurgency strategy.

But for what reasons were such measures taken? First of all, it is necessary to understand why the Catholic Church allowed “Marxist” interpretations of the Scriptures to gain space within its own structure.

Historically, it was the Church — with its rationalist doctrine propagated by Saint Thomas Aquinas, the late scholastics, and many others — that shaped a Europe, where natural law and private property became pillars of the social order. The influence of this rationalism can be perceived even today in the Austrian School of economics: from Menger, with his notion of subjectivity, to contemporary libertarians like Rothbard, who reinforced natural law and the centrality of private property.

The decisive change, however, would come only in the 20th century, more specifically in 1962, with the Second Vatican Council. On this Council alone, hundreds of books — favorable and critical — have been written and continue to be written. It suffices to say that, in it the Church adopted a more “liberal” stance regarding interpretations of the Sacred Scriptures, opening space both for pseudo-Protestant readings, such as those of charismatic groups, and for political approaches, like that of Liberation Theology.

Even though, a few years earlier, popes like Pius XII and Leo XIII had publicly condemned communism and applied automatic excommunication to those who supported it, the post-conciliar clergy—moved by a “pious zeal” in relation to the Council and its teachings—stopped acting against the theologians of LT, who were already spreading throughout Latin America. Even John Paul II—often remembered by conservatives as one of those responsible for the decline of socialism in Europe—never issued a specific excommunication or applied decisive sanctions against LT. Some leaders of the movement, like Leonardo Boff, suffered punishments, but there was never a definitive doctrinal condemnation.

In this scenario, during the Cold War, various Pentecostal hubs, supported by the US, began to emerge precisely in regions where LT had the greatest influence. The Campus Crusade for Christ (now CRU)—founded by Bill Bright and clearly anticommunist—received support from American embassies in Brazil during the military dictatorship, including the “Here’s Life” campaign in 1974, coordinated with consular officials to promote a depoliticized Christianity. The CIA also funded networks like Trans World Radio and HCJB in Ecuador, which broadcast anticommunist sermons to areas dominated by Liberation Theology. Materials from the USIA (United States Information Agency) labeled liberation theologians as Marxists and were distributed to religious leaders.

These initiatives are seen today as one of the main reasons for the growth of Protestantism in Latin America relative to Catholicism. Currently, the most popular Protestant variants are associated with the so-called “Prosperity Theology,” [CAPITALISM + RELGION] which, despite the controversies, is the one that attracts the most followers in Latin American Protestantism, emphasizing material prosperity as a divine promise.

Despite the results, the consequences of the constant growth of Protestantism in Latin America do not justify definitive peace. The Protestant doctrine, unlike the Catholic Thomistic one, lacks the rational foundation from which Austrian liberals draw. In contrast, evangelical churches increasingly adopt a more momentary position, which makes the evangelical movement in politics extremely dependent on the situation the right finds itself in. Contrasting with the religion-politics order that Catholicism promoted in Europe, Protestants end up at the mercy of politicians to adopt political movements. The definitive solution to the evils of communism lies in rationalism, the fruit of Catholicism and Austro-libertarianism, which walk in accordance with human instinct, its nature, and private property. Only these values can guarantee social order and freedom.

https://mises.org/power-market/how-american-government-used-protestantism-block-communism-latin-america

OF COURSE, IN THE MISES FRAMEWORK, COMMUNISM IS EVIL... BECAUSE...

YES WE KNOW, COMMUNISM PREVENTS INDIVIDUALS FROM AMASSING WEALTH LIKE BOURGEOIS SCROOGES. WE KNOW SOME PEOPLE ARE LAZY, THOUGH THEY TAKE AN EQUAL SHARE FOR LITTLE CONTRIBUTION. WE WORK OUR BUTT OFF AND RESENT THESE. LOOK AT CHINA TODAY. NO-ONE IS HAPPY AND NOTHING GETS DONE.... AND UNLIKE AMERICA, NO PEOPLE HAVE THE FREEDOM TO SLEEP OR DEFECATE IN THE STREETS. AND PEOPLE CAN GO FROM A TO Z IN A NASTY FAST TRAIN, UNLIKE CAPITALIST AMERICA WHERE PRIVATE ENTERPRISE IS GREAT, INCLUDING SCAMMERS AND PUSSY GRABBERS IN THE NEW YORK TUBE.

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