The freedom bubble

I have no idea who will win the US election. (This was written before the results began to arrive). But there are many of us who have had enough hypocrisy from the American establishment, whether led by Democrats or Republicans. We are now witnessing the decline of the US dominated post Cold War global order. Trump is a convicted criminal, extortionist, insurrectionist and rapist. His defenders in the US Supreme Court include shamelessly corrupt Justices who violate their own code of ethics. They also function as a Catholic theocracy no better than the Ayatollahs, as they have far wider scope for doing harm. The American political culture is self-centered to the extent of being obsessive and narcissistic. Their ruling class is sabotaging its own institutions: that’s a clear sign of political decline.

Noam Chomsky – The Crimes of U.S. Presidents (Eisenhower to Clinton)

US Spending on Israel’s Military Operations & Related U.S. Operations: Oct 7, 2023 – Sept 30, 2024

GAZA casualties, live statistics

America’s leaders have inflicted immeasurable harm and violence to the rest of the world, meddled in elections, caused what they call ‘regime change’ and defended democracy only when it suits their interests: you won’t find any American instigated ‘regime change’ in Saudi Arabia or Israel. For all those Americans who are aggrieved at the loss of an election, please think about the mountain of grief your political leaders have inflicted upon Gaza, the number of refugee camps, schools, hospitals, ‘safe areas’ etc., bombed with weapons supplied by your government. Will anyone take responsibility for the grief of thousands of children traumatised by amputations, loss of parents, and starvation? Had these cruelties been inflicted upon even a tiny fraction of Americans, how would you have reacted? Do you think it is right to set the clock of responsibility to whatever date is convenient to you or your shameless leaders?

Trump will do to America what America has done to many countries in the rest of the world, from Iran (1953), Vietnam, Chile, Bangladesh and Argentina to Grenada, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Palestine. The list is very long. The Democrats will try and slow down the disintegration a bit. But whosoever wins, the American establishment’s aim is world domination, not democracy and freedom. Their arms manufacturers make money off mass murder. I am well aware of the crimes committed by communist regimes; and make no excuses for them. That’s another long story.

The Biden Administration has presided over the cold blooded murder of over fifty thousand Palestinians (the figure could be 186 thousand according to The Lancet); and is complicit in genocide. It has given nearly $ 23 billion in military aid to Israel over the past 12 months. It’s hands are dripping with the blood of thousands of innocents, and they still talk as if they’re defenders of democracy. In fact they are defenders of genocide: take a look at the UN definition. All the leading American politicians are blatantly racist, they’re not even ashamed about it. Bill Clinton campaigns for Harris in Michigan, and when asked about the tens of thousands of Palestinians killed, says he’s “not keeping score”. Which means, if you think about it, that if you have a brown skin, he couldn’t give a damn how many of you are slaughtered.

What an utterly shameless man. Clinton seems to be trying to lose it for the Democrats. Worse than their electoral impact, those words from a former president point to a deep malaise in the American soul, an inability to feel viscerally the deaths of 17,000 brown children, a classification of them not as people with mothers, fathers, siblings and futures, but as an inconvenience to be swept under the rug. He and the entire phalanx of American leaders across the spectrum all talk as if history began on October 7, 2024, when even school history books could tell them that Gaza and the West Bank are populated by Palestinian refugees, who have lived under occupation as stateless people since 1967. That the 1948 UN plan for the partition of Palestine was never allowed to be implemented; and 760,000 Palestinians were pushed out of their homes and villages in 1948, by sheer terror and violence.

America aspired to greatness, and there are millions of decent and peace-loving Americans. There are thousands of students who have resisted American imperialism, from the Vietnam war to the slaughter of Palestinians. I salute them all. But they have been overrun by a bloodthirsty establishment which President Eisenhower warned them about. The MAGA movement will drive American arrogance into the ground. It’s only a matter of time. The bubble has burst.

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