- What is Behind Gen. Mark Milley's Righteous Race Sermon? Look to the New Domestic War on Terror. By Glenn Greenwald from his weblog on Substack. Without impugning the general's rather sudden change of ideology, Greenwald concludes his article with this insightful statement:
Whatever else is true, it is creepy and tyrannical to try to place military leaders and their pronouncements about war off-limits from critique, dissent and mockery. No healthy democracy allows military officials to be venerated to the point of residing above critique. That is especially true when their public decrees are central to the dangerous attempt to turn the war posture of the U.S. military inward to its own citizens.
But could it be that we don't have a "healthy democracy"? And, all our government institutions are fake? If we Americans ever wake up, our real masters might decide that it is time for outright authoritarian rule, or fascism. Perish the thought! So, to continue our peace of mind (def.) we must continue to pretend.
- 💥How the U.S. Military is Preparing for World War III, Climatic Conflicts, & Domestic Invasions by Rainer Shea from Internationalist 360°. This is a best post because of my commentary which follows:
Although Shea draws among very important "secret" documents to argue his case, in my opinion, he draws the wrong inferences about preparing the American population for WWIII.
In this new world of globalization created by neoliberalism, the transnational capitalist directors of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire will lose too much if a global nuclear war breaks out, and it is bound to do so if major powers resort to violence. Such a conflict will see the loss of most of their enterprises that sustains so much of their wealth and power.
The Empire directors have specialized in manipulating the populations under their control via propaganda and psy-ops. They have constructed an Empire through the use of the combination of these methods combined with outright violence. But because a global nuclear war would destroy most of their assets, they won't opt for a global war--except in only one situation. They will only do so as an act of desperation when they come to the realization that they will lose their Empire--which is a very real possibility. Excepting the latter condition, they will keep on what they have excelled at in the past: comprehensive propaganda and psy-ops to manipulate populations under their control in order to preserve and advance their private ownership and control of the economy. The latter will be combined with the new high-tech surveillance methods to eliminate or manage the many dissenting voices.
However, I think that long before the Empire directors will be in a desperate situation, the previously unthinkable climate crisis will be in the advanced stages. Because they will be a radically new situation, and I won't and can't predict what will happen, except it will ultimately end with the extinction of humans and most other species.
- Thoughts on the Future Relations between the US and Israel by Vladimir Odintsov from New Eastern Outlook.
- Terrified Washington resorts to piracy as it loses grip over West Asia by Aram Mirzaei from "The Saker" blog. My reaction: I can't believe the figure of only 29% of Americans trust corporate media based on my reading of alternative media reports and personal observations during the recent pandemic.
- Lethal Heat Hits the Planet by Robert Hunziker from Dissident Voice.