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Why does the US support Israel? A geopolitical analysis with economist Michael Hudson

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The US is run by Capitalists, not politicians and certainly not the voters.  Capitalism largely controls Western countries to a greater or lesser degree.  The reason the US and it's satellite countries attack China is because Capital cannot control China.  In the US, Capital sits above government, in China government sits above Capital.  Capitalists in the West don't like that.

The top 300 billionaires in the USA have enormous influence over politicians and the direction of the politics of the country.
The top 300 billionaires in China have zero influence over China's Politburo, zero.  
You can set up a company in China, become very successful, become a multi billionaire but that gives you no leverage over the government.
That sticks in the throats of US, UK and Israeli Capitalists



For a number of years now, US corporations of various stripe have been pushing the boundaries of power.
The old order that countries had laws, justice systems and could hold Capital accountable is under pressure from today's Capitalists in the US, UK and Israel. They are making so much money, more than some small countries, they believe they are bigger than countries and should not have to answer to them or be bound by their laws.
They can largely act with impunity in the USA, they want that freedom from accountability across the world wherever they operate.

Smash the lot of them.

How the World Sees America, With Adam Tooze

There’s this quote from the Italian theorist Antonio Gramsci that has been making the rounds a lot over the past few years. It goes, “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

There’s also a looser translation of that last line that you hear sometimes: “Now is the time of monsters.”

It sure feels like the time of monsters. It sure feels like a time of morbid symptoms. In our last episode, we talked about how Davos last week seemed to be this wake-up moment for the world when Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, said in his speech, “We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.” You then turn on the TV, and you watch agents of the American government killing protesters on the streets of Minneapolis.

I cannot think of a week when it has felt clearer that not just the old order is dying but that the old order is dead. I cannot think of a week when it has been more obvious that there are monsters.

In our last episode, I spoke to the foreign-affairs scholar Henry Farrell about how the way America operates in the world has changed and what we have done to rupture this order. For this episode, I wanted to turn to the forward-looking question: What, if anything, is struggling to be born here?

Adam Tooze is a historian at Columbia University. He is a thinker about and chronicler of crisis. The Guardian recently called him the “crisis whisperer.” He has written a number of books about moments when systems fall apart and new orders emerge. Among them is “Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World.” He’s got an excellent Substack, Chartbook, and he had a front-row seat to the chaos of Davos last week, even moderating this very controversial panel that included Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary.

But Tooze has also been on a personal quest to try to understand the role of China in all this. And I really think you cannot understand what has been happening in American politics over the past 10 or 15 years without getting a better, clearer sense of the pressure China’s rise is exerting on the reality of our country and also the minds of policymakers and leaders. (...)

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Dubya's Carl Schmitt crawled out from under his Atlanticist rock

The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing today of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province. They were terrorized by heavily armed American execution squads for decades. It would not come as a shock to any of the students I teach in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants and kill with the same impunity and lack of accountability. What the rest of us are facing now, is what Aimé Césaire called imperial boomerang. Empires, when they decay, employ the savage forms of control on those they subjugate abroad, or those demonized by the wider society in the name of law and order, on the homeland. The tyranny Athens imposed on others, Thucydides noted, it finally, with the collapse of Athenian democracy, imposed on itself. But before we became the victims of state terror, we were accomplices. Before we expressed moral outrage at the indiscriminate taking of innocent lives, we tolerated, and often celebrated, the same Gestapo tactics, as long as they were directed at those who lived in the nations we occupied or poor people of color. We sowed the wind, now we will reap the whirlwind. The machinery of terror, perfected on those we abandoned and betrayed, including the Palestinians in Gaza, is ready for us.

Israel Boosts Funding To Propagandize Americans

 R_P wrote:

Whatever the purpose was... and how da friggin' prostate did YOU know what it was ? - Or have the guts to say what your - - - totally private - - - observation was and how that came about in your mind, while you were pleasureseekingly clutching your virgin calfs?

I’m watching you from the shadows