The United States’ strategic pivot toward Asia in 2011 signalled a fundamental realignment in global geopolitics, driven by China’s ascent as America’s principal peer competitor.
What a brutal (but reasonable) analysis. I read Sy Hersh to find out what the real deep state (CIA, NSA, LMT, NOC, LHX) is up to, and he was the first one to out that Biden auth'ed the destruction of Nordstream 2. It's breathtaking in that it was essentially an act of war against our "ally" Germany.
The events you describe are indeed happening, however I do wish people would stop referring to this as "the US did this" or "the EU did this". Such a narrative isn't helpful because it camouflages who the actors are calling the shots. Those same actors are also doing their best to create chaos within the USA itself as end-stage capitalism pits monopoly against monopoly and the hedonists who are in power do whatever is necessary to maintain that position to the detriment of the Average American, who now has more in common with Russian and Chinese citizens than they do with their own political leadership. The American Empire is in decline. American leadership knows it and like a drowning man will take "it all down" in a desperate, useless attempt to hang on for just a bit longer.
In an interview with George Galloway, Chris Hedges identifies the Corporatist and the Oligarchs.
The "corporatists" still invest in manufacturing. The Oligarchs set up financial (FIRE) instruments that privatize everything so they can charge monopoly rents (rentier).
Hedges explains the moral emptiness of the super wealthy and gives us permission to hate them more than we do. This is not limited to just the American rich.
Aaron Good, in his book "American Exception: Empire and the Deep State", and in his many YouTube videos and podcasts, tells us the history of the "oligarchy". How it arrived on the Mayflower and has plotted and connived to establish Capitalism that only serves their interests.
This is where things get really complicated because there are so many actors that can be identified as members of the "Deep State", or "The Oligarchy", of "The Aristocracy", or "The Powers That Be (TPTB)". This is may be why most authors amalgamate them all in to "The USA" because once you start down the rabbit hole it becomes impossible to keep the players straight.
So I'm going to try... (these labels are more or less mine)
There are the "Boston Brahmins", the people who descended from those who arrived on the Mayflower, sometimes referred to as American Aristocracy. Their religion tells them they are rich because God loves them, no matter what immoral actions they might take to achieve or maintain wealth.
There are the "Jewish Supremacists" (Norman Finkelstein's label after he decided "Zionist" was misleading.) Again, this group just "knows" that God wants them to be rich. They fund ADL/AIPAC and are the "front" that controls Congress. The "Boston Brahmins" are more than willing to let this group be the ones exposed to the public believing that if "the shit hits the fan", the American Public will hold "the Jews" responsible and leave them alone.
There is the "Jewish Mafia", which is not to suggest that other criminal organizations are not involved, but Meyer Lansky (the founder of Murder Incorporated) created Las Vegas to launder the drug money the gangs collected. Harry Truman gave him a Presidential Medal of Freedom medal in a secret White House ceremony. I hope this illustrates how convoluted the "Deep State" is.
There are the rogue agencies, which include offices inside the CIA and FBI which operate outside of the law. Aaron Good has YouTubes which explain how this group collaborated with Mossad (again financed by the "Jewish Supremacists" to murder JFK.
Alexander Vindman is an example of someone who belongs to a "rogue agency". His testimony against Trump was the "Deep State" fighting amongst itself to force Trump to comply with their wishes and continue the assault on Russia.
Brian Berletic has dozens of videos explaining "continuity of agenda". He goes into great detail on how the Rand paper on "extending Russia" was written by the "Deep State". It did not matter who was President. The war in Ukraine was going to happen.
Coleen Rowley is one of the honest FBI agents who has come forward to attempt to expose the rot within the agency.
I'm barely scratching the surface here. The situation is infinitely more complicated.
Some will denounce this as "Just a Conspiracy Theory" as if conspiracies somehow don't exist. There is no simple way to explain the criminal, immoral associations arrayed against the "rest of the world".
I just hope that writers will stop saying "The USA did <something>" because most Americans just want to get along with the rest of the world. They are ignorant of the powers arrayed against them. When Iranians chant "Death to America" they don't understand the nuance behind that chant. That allows American political leadership (and here we have to once again say AIPAC) to mold that chant into a threat against the guy who lives in his 2 bedroom house in Mankato Minnesota who just wants to make enough to pay off the mortgage on his home and maybe send his kids to college.
I can't offer a label to reveal who these criminals are. Hopefully someone else can.
You are absolutely right that the US has internal contradictions between the ruling capital owning class and the working majority. However, it is the ruling class that dictates the foreign policy for the country as a whole. Until the proletariat in the US is able to organize in a way that meaningfully challenges to the oligarchs, their voices will not be heard.
My attempt was to dissect "Capital" into its component parts.
Who is Labor suppose to rebel against?
"Capital" is way too nebulous.
There may be some "Capitalist" (Warren Buffet perhaps?) who would be on Labor's side.
If you continue to speak in "glittering generalities", I don't think you'll accomplish your goal.
Name names.
Don't allow yourself to be distracted. The "No Kings" protest (another is suppose to happen on 17 July) was organized by Ezra Levin of Indivisible. However Ezra is a Jew who apparently got most of his funding from George Soros. Soros is a supporter of Israel.
Capital isn't any single individual, it's the system of class dictatorship. The core contradiction stems from ownership. People who own capital dictate to those who sell their labour for a living.
How labor builds real power (it’s not screaming at kings):
Neighbors doing mutual aid builds material interdependence.
Coworkers workplace discussing grievances translates into a union that can strike.
Tenants document landlord neglect and file a collective housing lawsuit.
This is the dialectic:
Quantity (daily mutual aid) -> Quality (class consciousness) -> Force (organized labour). This doesn't happen overnight, and meaningful change won't spring from any single event. It's a process of building a labour movement that takes time and sustained effort.
Your protest example proves the point that ad hoc protests change nothing. But when tenants in one apartment block withhold rent together? That’s capital named (e.g., 'BlackRock Unit #3B'), targeted, and beaten.
What a brutal (but reasonable) analysis. I read Sy Hersh to find out what the real deep state (CIA, NSA, LMT, NOC, LHX) is up to, and he was the first one to out that Biden auth'ed the destruction of Nordstream 2. It's breathtaking in that it was essentially an act of war against our "ally" Germany.
The events you describe are indeed happening, however I do wish people would stop referring to this as "the US did this" or "the EU did this". Such a narrative isn't helpful because it camouflages who the actors are calling the shots. Those same actors are also doing their best to create chaos within the USA itself as end-stage capitalism pits monopoly against monopoly and the hedonists who are in power do whatever is necessary to maintain that position to the detriment of the Average American, who now has more in common with Russian and Chinese citizens than they do with their own political leadership. The American Empire is in decline. American leadership knows it and like a drowning man will take "it all down" in a desperate, useless attempt to hang on for just a bit longer.
In an interview with George Galloway, Chris Hedges identifies the Corporatist and the Oligarchs.
https://www.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/1iih9yj/chris_hedges_the_corporatists_vs_the_oligarchy/
The "corporatists" still invest in manufacturing. The Oligarchs set up financial (FIRE) instruments that privatize everything so they can charge monopoly rents (rentier).
Hedges explains the moral emptiness of the super wealthy and gives us permission to hate them more than we do. This is not limited to just the American rich.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ-OSJ7J64w
Aaron Good, in his book "American Exception: Empire and the Deep State", and in his many YouTube videos and podcasts, tells us the history of the "oligarchy". How it arrived on the Mayflower and has plotted and connived to establish Capitalism that only serves their interests.
This is where things get really complicated because there are so many actors that can be identified as members of the "Deep State", or "The Oligarchy", of "The Aristocracy", or "The Powers That Be (TPTB)". This is may be why most authors amalgamate them all in to "The USA" because once you start down the rabbit hole it becomes impossible to keep the players straight.
So I'm going to try... (these labels are more or less mine)
There are the "Boston Brahmins", the people who descended from those who arrived on the Mayflower, sometimes referred to as American Aristocracy. Their religion tells them they are rich because God loves them, no matter what immoral actions they might take to achieve or maintain wealth.
There are the "Jewish Supremacists" (Norman Finkelstein's label after he decided "Zionist" was misleading.) Again, this group just "knows" that God wants them to be rich. They fund ADL/AIPAC and are the "front" that controls Congress. The "Boston Brahmins" are more than willing to let this group be the ones exposed to the public believing that if "the shit hits the fan", the American Public will hold "the Jews" responsible and leave them alone.
There is the "Jewish Mafia", which is not to suggest that other criminal organizations are not involved, but Meyer Lansky (the founder of Murder Incorporated) created Las Vegas to launder the drug money the gangs collected. Harry Truman gave him a Presidential Medal of Freedom medal in a secret White House ceremony. I hope this illustrates how convoluted the "Deep State" is.
There are the rogue agencies, which include offices inside the CIA and FBI which operate outside of the law. Aaron Good has YouTubes which explain how this group collaborated with Mossad (again financed by the "Jewish Supremacists" to murder JFK.
Alexander Vindman is an example of someone who belongs to a "rogue agency". His testimony against Trump was the "Deep State" fighting amongst itself to force Trump to comply with their wishes and continue the assault on Russia.
Brian Berletic has dozens of videos explaining "continuity of agenda". He goes into great detail on how the Rand paper on "extending Russia" was written by the "Deep State". It did not matter who was President. The war in Ukraine was going to happen.
Coleen Rowley is one of the honest FBI agents who has come forward to attempt to expose the rot within the agency.
I'm barely scratching the surface here. The situation is infinitely more complicated.
Some will denounce this as "Just a Conspiracy Theory" as if conspiracies somehow don't exist. There is no simple way to explain the criminal, immoral associations arrayed against the "rest of the world".
I just hope that writers will stop saying "The USA did <something>" because most Americans just want to get along with the rest of the world. They are ignorant of the powers arrayed against them. When Iranians chant "Death to America" they don't understand the nuance behind that chant. That allows American political leadership (and here we have to once again say AIPAC) to mold that chant into a threat against the guy who lives in his 2 bedroom house in Mankato Minnesota who just wants to make enough to pay off the mortgage on his home and maybe send his kids to college.
I can't offer a label to reveal who these criminals are. Hopefully someone else can.
You are absolutely right that the US has internal contradictions between the ruling capital owning class and the working majority. However, it is the ruling class that dictates the foreign policy for the country as a whole. Until the proletariat in the US is able to organize in a way that meaningfully challenges to the oligarchs, their voices will not be heard.
My attempt was to dissect "Capital" into its component parts.
Who is Labor suppose to rebel against?
"Capital" is way too nebulous.
There may be some "Capitalist" (Warren Buffet perhaps?) who would be on Labor's side.
If you continue to speak in "glittering generalities", I don't think you'll accomplish your goal.
Name names.
Don't allow yourself to be distracted. The "No Kings" protest (another is suppose to happen on 17 July) was organized by Ezra Levin of Indivisible. However Ezra is a Jew who apparently got most of his funding from George Soros. Soros is a supporter of Israel.
Kind of convoluted isn't it.
People showed up
People screamed
People went home
Nothing change.
Sure, let’s dissect 'capital' concretely:
It’s the factories workers run but don’t own.
The algorithms that replace their jobs.
The rent that bleeds their wages dry.
The debt that chains them to exploitative jobs.
Capital isn't any single individual, it's the system of class dictatorship. The core contradiction stems from ownership. People who own capital dictate to those who sell their labour for a living.
How labor builds real power (it’s not screaming at kings):
Neighbors doing mutual aid builds material interdependence.
Coworkers workplace discussing grievances translates into a union that can strike.
Tenants document landlord neglect and file a collective housing lawsuit.
This is the dialectic:
Quantity (daily mutual aid) -> Quality (class consciousness) -> Force (organized labour). This doesn't happen overnight, and meaningful change won't spring from any single event. It's a process of building a labour movement that takes time and sustained effort.
Your protest example proves the point that ad hoc protests change nothing. But when tenants in one apartment block withhold rent together? That’s capital named (e.g., 'BlackRock Unit #3B'), targeted, and beaten.