Art requires the use of imagination, but so does political and social analysis. But imagination is just a first step; it proves nothing.
Evidence is required. But imagination rules out nothing from the start. If one cannot imagine an hypothesis or a scene – no matter how seemingly implausible – to be possibly true, one will leave it unexamined or unwritten. As Graeme MacQueen, the author of the crucial book, The 2001 Anthrax Deception, and much else, put it:
Suppose our imaginations can embrace the possibility that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated by elements in the U.S. government. In that case what do we do next? There is no mystery. Once the imagination stops filtering out a hypothesis and allows it into the realm of the possible, it can be put to the test. Evidence and reason must now do the job. Imagination cannot settle the question of truth or falsity any more than ideology, morality, or “common sense.”
We know that in the case of the attacks of September 11, 2001 that this is precisely what did not occur. Various hypotheses were ignored and emotional patriotism held sway. The script had been written in advance and the good and bad characters chosen. “It was another Pearl Harbor, bin Laden did it from his cave in Afghanistan, it seemed like a movie, etc.” And those anthrax attacks were claimed to be second stage terror attacks of these monsters, except that it turned out this wasn’t so and that the anthrax came from a U.S. government lab. MacQueen proved in his book that this was so and that the anthrax attacks were directly linked to the those of September 11, later showing through meticulously logical and evidence-based research that both were inside jobs.
Even today, this conclusion is hard for most people to accept, for the conclusion they started with – what was planted in their brains – precluded imagining another hypothesis. To do so was considered too outrageous – an impossibility that offended the patriotic heart.
And of course the Bush administration’s lies steamrolled any skepticism, the Patriot Act was quickly passed, and endless U.S. wars of aggression ensued, both preceding and following Colin Powell’s Academy Award performance at the United Nations. But he too was an honorable man.
They too are honorable men.
So if you sat with your mouth agape in shock at the dog and pony show in DC between Trump, the reality TV actor, and Zelensky, the comedian, who became Ukraine’s president and Trump’s apprentice in 2019 during Trump’s first term, let me suggest a bizarre possibility at a time when the bizarre has become commonplace.
Across the spectrum of opinion on the mainstream and alternative media, it is assumed without question that what took place on Friday, February 28, 2025 between Trump and Zelensky, ably assisted by Vance, should be taken at face value – in other words, as real.
The political reactions to that shouting match are what one would expect.
The Democrats are outraged that Trump (and Vance) would bully and humiliate an heroic ally who has been fighting a valiant war against the evil Russians and Putin.
Thus Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders, toeing the party war line, had this to say:
Trump criticizes Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country who is courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he aligns himself with Putin, the dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years. Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.
And on the Republican side, Senator Lindsay Graham, while calling the meeting “a complete disaster” but urging continued support for the war for “democracy,” said he was never more proud of Trump:
What I saw in the Oval office was disrespectful and I don’t know if we can ever do business with Zelensky again.
These reactions have been repeated ad infinitum. They are equally absurd propaganda in the service of the U.S. elites’ Repubmocratic tandem team of imperialists.
And then there are the reactions of utter shock from all corners who call this fight an historic and a diplomatic turning point to be immortalized.
It is hard, I know, to hear an unbearable possibility: But suppose it were a performance, not just in the sense that Trump and Vance set Zelensky up, but as a coordinated reality TV show in which all the principle actors were performing from a script whose goal was the opposite of all the subsequent interpretations. A script that allowed for some improvisation, as comedians like Zelensky and reality TV stars like Trump are adept at. Improvisations that may have gone a step too far and elicited outbursts that tarnished the performance but did not derail the overall goal of showing that the puppet-apprentice serves at the whim of the show’s host, and despite all the loot showered upon him, he could still be fired and replaced with another puppet, as the play would proceed under a new name.
As Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in Thus Spoke Zarathustra: “There are unconscious actors among them, and involuntary actors; the genuine are always rare, especially genuine actors.”
If it sounds hyperbolic to entertain such a thought, I agree. Yet I assume you would agree that we are living in hyperbolic and vertiginous times, a society of the spectacle, as Guy Debord called his famous book. A time when acting is promoted as the pinnacle of the professions, a skill requisite for spy craft, stagecraft, and political craft in equal measure.
A meaningless coincidence it no doubt is, but the famous shout down of Zelensky by Trump and Vance and Zelensky’s responses just “happened” to occur 48 hours before Hollywood’s self-celebration of the Academy Awards.
Of course I have no evidence for this hypothesis and it might sound as if I have come unhinged. But wouldn’t it serve common sense to entertain it as an alternative interpretation when hyper reality has become commonplace and the realization that we have been ruled by con men and fraudsters is widely accepted?
Over the same 48 hours, the Trump administration, that is allegedly antiwar and deeply affected by all the deaths in Ukraine, has had Secretary of State Marco Rubio expedite the shipment of $4 billion in military aid to Israel to continue its savage slaughter of Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, et al. Rubio said this is part of the $12 billion Trump has approved in arms for Israel since he took office 42 days ago. Antiwar.com has reported:
The statement came a day after the statement [sic] department approved three separate arms deals for Israel worth nearly $3 billion, which includes a huge number of 2,000-pound bombs. The biggest sale, which will likely be funded by US military aid, includes 35,529 MK-84 or BLU-117 2,000-pound b[sic]ombs and 4,000 I-2000 Penetrator warheads.
Israel has used heavy bombs in strikes on residential buildings that have killed hundreds of civilians. It has also weaponized the bombs as chemical weapons after finding that dropping several of them on tunnels releases deadly carbon monoxide gas.
As I have written previously, there is far more to consider when you hear clapping for Trump’s plans to “end” the U.S. proxy war against Russia. You can end the overt war and continue the covert.
As the Roman poet Virgil, drawing on Homer and Greek mythology, tells us in his great poem The Aeneid, that after a fruitless ten year siege of Russia – I mean Troy – the Greeks built a huge wooden horse at the request of Odysseus, the “wily” one, within which they hid Odysseus and his armed men. The Trojans, believing they were being gifted, wheeled the horse into the city, only to be shocked when in the night the Greeks emerged from the horse and destroyed Troy.
So to paraphrase a few lines from Bob Dylan about my speculation here – Don’t fear if you hear a foreign sound to your ear, it’s alright, reader, I’m only wondering – Who holds the joker in this “card game”?
I sense, said Laocoön in The Aeneid, “some crookedness is in this thing.”
We now live immersed 24/7/365 in some bizarre version of Debord’s “Society of Spectacle” meets Kafka. A surreal world in which the distinction between what is “real” and what is “phantasy” is not only rationally impossible to differentiate – but perhaps has even ceased to exist for practical purposes. That bleak assessment has been my growing “sense of things” at least since the rollout of the British “Skripal affair” theatre of the absurd slapstick death/comedy psyop back in 2018. In the brave new world of “post-modern intelligence operations” it would appear that “making sense” is not simply irrelevant – but rather something to be avoided at all costs if possible.
The populace today are left to “choose sides” between the free-floating amorality and over the top carnival barker showmanship of Trump and the equally amoral, pathetic, pearl clutching, simpering, virtue signaling of the Democratic Party elites. For those of us disinclined from migrating to either pole of this TINA option – we are left with an ever smaller circle of friends and family with whom we might speculate about and discuss such world events without risking causing deep offense or alienation. Leaving us to find refuge where we can among the small world of heretics and other madmen who might be so impolite as to dare suggest that perhaps both – “the emperor (and the empire) respectively – have no clothes.”
Christopher BLACK who wrote in 2020 (in the context of NATO’s devious “Defender Europe” exercise):
As for INTERNATIONAL LAW, it is NOWHERE TO BE SEEN. The preparations for war by NATO are a violation of the UN Charter and the fundamental principles of international law contained in it. They are War Crimes under the Nuremburg Principles and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, because they are PART OF THE CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT, AND PREPARATIONS for, a WAR of AGGRESSION AGAINST RUSSIA …
… The UN cannot act to prevent this because the Security Council, neutered by its own structure cannot act. The ICC continues to be an irrelevancy. And since, in the absence of a world government with policing powers,
INTERNATIONAL LAW relies on a shared sense of MORALITY, ETHICS AND HUMANITY to be effective. The TOTAL NEGATION OF MORALITY by the leadership of the United States and the NATO countries has led to a breakdown of international law. Thugs, gangsters and pirates recognise no laws, and we live in a world where these are the people that are now in power in the West.
Source: https://www.globalresearch.ca/operation-barbarossa-ii-setting-stage-war/5703197 Feb 2020
In a civilised society the “accused” must have the right to defend himself, to explain his motives and his intentions. President Putin was denied that right.
From Putin’s statements on Feb. 24,2022:
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/67843/videos
,, (Putin talks about the grave violations of International law by the US: illegal wars against Belgrad, Libya, Iraq and Syria)
“Of course the question is not about NATO itself. It merely serves as a tool for US foreign policy.[a Trojan Horse in Europe – I agree] The problem is that in territories adjacent to Russia – which I have to note is our historical land – a hostile “anti-Russia” is taking place.
• Fully controlled from the outside it is doing everything to attract NATO forces and obtain cutting-edge weapons. For the US and its allies it is a policy of containing Russia with obvious geopolitical dividends.
• For our country it is a matter of life and death. (15:46)
A matter of our future as a nation. This is not an exaggeration. It is not only a very real threat to our interests but to the very existence of our state and its sovereignty. It is the red line about which we have spoken on numerous occasions. They have crossed it. This brings me to the situation in the Donbass.
• We can see that the forces that staged the coup in Ukraine in 2014 have seized power and are keeping it with the help of ornamental “election” procedures and have abandoned the path of peaceful conflict settlement.
FOR EIGHT YEARS, for eight endless years we have been doing everything possible to resolve the situation by peaceful political means. Everything was in vain.
As I said in my previous address, you cannot look without compassion at what is happening there. It became impossible to tolerate it [War crimes by UAF documented by on the ground independent journalists like Eva Bartlett].
We had to stop the atrocity, the genocide of the millions of people who live there and who pinned their hopes on Russia, on all of us. It is their aspirations, their feelings and pain of these people that were the main motivation for us to recognise the independence of the Donbass people’s republics. [pretext for more US sanctions)
I would like to additionally emphasize the following: Focused on their own goals the leading NATO countries are supporting the far-right nationalists and Neo-Nazis in Ukraine. Those who will never forgive the people of crimea and Sevastopol for freely making a choice to reunite with Russia will undoubtedly try to bring the war to Crimea just as they have done in Donbass: By killing innocent people just as punitive units of Ukrainian nationalists and Hitler’s accomplices did during the Great Patriotic War. They have also openly laid claims to several other regions of Russia.
If we look at the sequence of events and the incoming reports the showdown between these groups and Russian forces cannot be avoided. It is only a matter of time. They are getting ready and waiting for the right moment. Moreover they went as far as trying to acquire nuclear weapons (Discovery of plutonium stored at Saporoshje power plant) We will not allow this to happen.
I have already said that we accepted the new geopolitical reality after the dissolution of the USSR (see Jack Matlock – peaceful transition)
We have been treating all post-Soviet new states with respect and will continue to act in this way. We respect their sovereignty as proven by the assistance to Kazakhstan when it faced tragic events in terms of its statehood and integrity.
However, Russia cannot feel safe, develop and exist while facing a permanent threat from the territory of today’s Ukraine.
Let me remind you that in 2000 we used our military to push back against terrorists in the Caucasus and stood up for the integrity of our state. We preserved Russia. In 2014 we supported the people of Crimea and Sevastopol. In 2015 we used our armed forces to create a reliable shield which prevented terrorists from Syria from penetrating Russia. This was a matter of defending ourselves, we had no choice. The same is happening today. They did not leave us any other option for defending Russia and our people (only the one we are forced to use today).
In these circumstances we have to take bold and immediate action. The people’s republics of Donbass have asked Russia for help. In this context, in accordance with Art. 51 (chapter 7) of the UN-Charter and with permission of the Russian federal council, and in execution of the treaties of friendship and mutual assistance with LR and DR, ratified by the Federal Assembly on Feb.22, I made a decision to carry out a special military operation. The purpose …is to protect the people who, for eight years now, have been facing humiliation and genocide perpetrated by the Kiev regime.
To this end we will seek to de-militarize and de-nazify Ukraine as well as bring to trial those that perpetrated numerous bloody war crimes against civilians, including against citizens of the Russian federation.
It is not our plan to occupy the Ukrainian territory. (20:35) We do not intend to impose anything on anyone by force. At the same time we have been hearing an increasing number of statements from the West that there is no need anymore to abide by the documents setting forth the outcomes of WW II (as it was signed by the totalitarian Soviet regime).
…The current events have nothing to do with a desire to infringe on the interests of Ukraine or its people. They are connected with the defence of Russia from those who have taken Ukraine hostage and are trying to use it against our country and our people. I reiterate- we are acting to defend ourselves against the threats created for us and from a worse peril than what is happening now.
(To the people of Ukraine) I am asking you (however hard it is) to understand this and to work together with us so that we can turn this tragic page as soon as possible and to move forward together without allowing anyone to interfere in our affairs and our relations .. I believe in our common future….23:26
“We all know that having Truth and justice on our side is what makes us truly strong … (or goal is) building a reliable, secure future)
Mr.Curtin, what are your thoughts on this? (grateful for a reply)
PART II
Everybody who has listened to what President Putin said (and his corresponding actions) since the “Budapest Memorandum” (violated by President Obama and the UK) knows that Mearsheimer is right.
Jeffrey Sachs has also “spilled the beans” in no uncertain terms recently at the European Parliament.
And what did Trump say to PZ during the “heated exchange” at the end? (Z absurdly claiming “we have been on our own from the beginning of the war”
“If you did not have our military equipment this war would have been over in two weeks!”.
Trump is right, of course but this is only a “half-truth”. This war would never have started without the United States. It was one of the MOST PROVOKED wars in modern history (and the clandestine role of the UK is even more sinister).
Brian Berletic has created a time-line to show how Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden – all of these “administrations” violated agreements, withdrew from important treaties (ABM (2001-Bush) , INF-2019-Trump), fomented hostility toward Russia in the Baltic States and especially in Ukraine; they (via NATO) also promoted Neo-Nazi paramilitary gangs (including the indoctrination of kids in summer camps similar to the “Hitler Jugend”, turning them into extremists and Russia-haters;
On the question: Why would the US support Nazis in Ukraine? (with a Jewish president as moral cover) see this:
Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican Party (Russ Bellant) – I believe it is available online as pdf
The US (and the UK) did everything they could to increase tensions between Ukraine and Russia and also between the EU and Russia (the old game of Divide et Impera)
(On EU brain-dead “leadership” a French pearl of wisdom:
Savoir si Ursula dispose d’un cerveau est une question en soi!”
(Emanuel Todd)
So armed with this knowledge, how could anyone demand that PZ (the Ukrainians) SHOULD BE “THANKFUL” for what the US did for them?
HOW CRAZY is this? How stupid must one be to assume that the mighty US is pouring billions into a “crappy” (totally corrupt, run by oligarchs) country thousands of miles away without getting anything in return? But nobody present in the Oval Office on Feb.28 could stand up and say out loud what is “unthinkable”:
The United States is not a “force for good”, it has not illegally interfered in the internal affairs of dozens of countries (for decades) to “protect” democratic values (by ostensibly removing a tyrant from power) but to “protect” the profits and economic power of its plutocracy and to maintain its global dominance (As Patrick Lawrence recently stated here after the US presidential elections: “the imperium was not on the ballot”)
I am not doubting Trump’s good intentions to end the bloodshed in Ukraine (he condones the Zionist terror in occupied Palestine!!!) but to present his efforts for a ceasefire and for an end of the fighting without the “imperial” context is unacceptable and misleading. Zelensky spat out all the “classic” lies about President Putin but nobody in the room challenged him – how could they? (The demonizatin of Putin is now the biggest impediment to their attempts at diplomacy)
He was just repeating all the nasty, “hate speech” talking points the USUK have fed him for the purpose of vilifying the Russian president and project THEIR OWN GUILT – as BLAME – on him (the role of victim and perpetrator is reversed, just as it is in Israel).
The “moral authority” of US/NATO/EU is the greatest PSYOP ever constructed.
And Trump voters have no idea what “America first” really means…
Last not least – Guess who will organize the financing of the “reconstruction” of Eastern Ukraine? BlackRock (the “money party” that recently won the German elections – personified by CDU-leader Friedrich Merz who was for years deeply involved in “engineering” a profitable political environment for the ultra-rich clients of BlackRock in Germany (which pay no taxes because the names of the shareholders are not known – see Werner Rügemer)
Sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-RyOaFwcEw
https://off-guardian.org/2017/03/24/what-americas-coup-in-ukraine-did/ VIDEO & article)
https://rumble.com/v6p11s3-the-us-eu-division-of-labor-to-continue-confronting-russia-and-china.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp (Brian Berletic)
https://rumble.com/vwxxi8-ukraine-on-fire.html Great documentary (with Oliver Stone)
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/02/05/ukraine-the-inevitable-war/?mc_cid=7c60b5d320&mc_eid=868c0dc63a
My comment is very long (I do not belong to the “twitter” generation) so I divided it into two parts but I would be honoured if it could be published on this site. I agree with Mr.Curtin about the “piece of theatre” but in a different way:
The political charade that took place in the Oval Office between Trump and Zelensky was at the surface an entertaining spectacle but it should have led to a much different public reaction.
It is a pity that the great British dramatist Harold Pinter is no longer with us because he could have used the surreal dialogue that ended in a “heated exchange” and used in in a play, perhaps called: ‘THE ART OF BEING UNGRATEFUL (genre: theatre of the absurd).
The big “apple of discord” presented to us on TV, was ostensibly Zelensky’s lack of gratitude for the “generousness” of the US, the “350 billion dollars given to Ukraine” as PT never tires to point out. Based on this notion his un-submissive behaviour (dismissing the idea of diplomacy with Russia as doomed to fail) was interpreted as disrespectful toward the USG. At first glance and without any political context this “How dare you” attitude seems to be justified but at closer inspection it is totally absurd.
The whole charade only works with the right “framing” which in turn requires a Total Inversion of Reality and (in the end) a falsification of history:
Here are the tenets of the US “Holy Foreign Policy Faith”:
• The US spent billions of dollars to “defend Ukraine against Russian aggression”.
• Its motives for this huge commitment are based on fundamental moral principles (support for democracy and independence abroad)
• The sole guilty party in this violent conflict is Russia / President Putin (“Vladimir the Terrible”) who has megalomaniac designs to conquer other Eastern European states (and lately the whole of Europe must be afraid, too; even the Danish PM talks about their “security” being threatened by Russia)
• After three years of a “needless” war, PT now announces he wants to “end the savage conflict in Ukraine; millions of Ukrainians and Russians have been needlessly killed or wounded in this horrific, brutal conflict with no end in sight” (latest speech to Congress)
But the “talks” and press meetings never surpass the intellectual and semantic level of a 10yr old child (“I want to get it done”) because the “dinosaur in the room”, the real geopolitical context must not be mentioned.
All you need to know is that Putin is “a killer and a terrorist” who invaded Ukraine because “nobody stopped him” and PZ did his best to lecture the POTUS about how underestimating Putin’s alleged menace now will haunt the US later “You don’t feel now but you will feel it in the future” (Trump: You don’t dictate to us what we feel!)
Vance: (in reply to Zelensky’s scepticism about diplomacy with Russia) … We are trying to “prevent the destruction of your country”.
This sounds very noble and surely deserves gratitude, doesn’t it? But first we must ask:
What are the REAL CAUSES of this war and of the organised destabilisation of Ukraine (visible) since the overthrow of the democratically elected President Yanukovich and the artificial “Maidan” uprising in 2013/ 2014?
Many articles have been written about the ugly truth, one of the most prominent analyses was provided to us by Professor Mearsheimer (another one from Jack Matlock
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/02/15/the-origins-of-the-ukraine-crisis-and-how-conflict-can-be-avoided/ )
and his conclusions are clear and based on facts: (it contains one error – “the liberal order” scam and he totally omitted the “Nazi” element)
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/causes-and-consequences-ukraine-crisis-203182 JUNE 23, 2022
“The United States is principally responsible for causing the Ukraine crisis and the Biden administration has reacted to the outbreak of war by doubling down against Russia. Washington and its Western allies are committed to decisively defeating Russia in Ukraine and employing comprehensive [llegal] sanctions to greatly weaken Russian power. The United States is not seriously interested* in finding a diplomatic solution to the war, which means the war is likely to drag on for months if not years”.
(*Not “seriously” interested is an understatement, US diplomacy = pure hypocrisy)
Mearsheimer also points out that regarding the dominant media narrative (Putin’s evil, imperial ambitions threaten Europe) “repeated over and over in the mainstream media and by virtually every Western leader, there is NO evidence to support it.”
The uprising in the Donbas was not orchestrated by Russia, it was the result of subversive activities and economic “reforms” demanded by the US: Ukraine was forced to DECOUPLE economically from Russia and as the Donbas region was most dependent on exports to that market, it was (together with the US orchestrated overthrow of Yanukovich whose “party of the regions” had the greatest support in the East) the catalyst for the separatist eruption in Donbas, which in turn was the necessary precondition for the militarization of Ukrainian society against Russia. (In the poorest country in Europe (minimum hourly wage USD 1.50) military expenditure rose from 1.6 percent of GDP in 2013 to 3.3 percent in 2015 and 3.2 percent in 2021)
A key element of the MINSK II agreement (which Ukraine VIOLATED ) was that Ukraine would adopt a federal constitution that would let the Russian speaking entities elect their own leaders the way citizens of American states elect their governors. (In Ukraine everything was controlled by Kiev and with the “ultra-nationalists” (Russia-hating, racist, Nazi ideology) being put into power by the US the Russian minority became the new “Untermenschen” (like the Jews in Nazi-Germany they were totally dehumanized and stripped of their human rights but they fought back).
The (hostile) eastward expansion of NATO (not membership but stationing of missiles and NATO troops) and several “exercises” (see Black below) was the main provocation for Russia. The strategy was set in motion at NATO’s annual summit in Bucharest in April 2008, when the alliance announced that Ukraine and Georgia “will become members.” A deliberate crossing of the “reddest of all lines” for Russia. (End of Part I)
Phenomenal observations, Pandora. Just reading the text without even going to any of the links, I learned lots, but mostly confirming what I have already discerned from the patterns of history and hypocrisy. Churchill was perhaps the greatest war criminal the West ever produced and his desire in 1945 to re-arm the Germans to fight Russia (Operation Unthinkable) was demonic. There comes a time when even the generals themselves grow weary of slaughter and destruction. Perhaps that is all we can hope for – though the Gracchi, like the Kennedys, could not defeat the Establishment.
Much of your thesis relies on the fact that Ukraine broke the Minsk 2 agreement. This is not the case. The separatists holding firm in the Donbas regions plotted to rig the local elections there (by holding Primaries) whilst continuing to roll tanks etc in to the region, rightly stopped by Kyiv/Minsk Trilateral contact group (which included Ukrainian, Russian and OSCE representatives).
Well, I wrote elsewhere:
“Does it not occur to anyone that it’s a piece of theatre, a misdirection? The US never cared about the Ukraine any more than it ever cared about any of its ‘allies’. Trump is a bully but so what? Every single leader of the US has been a bully and its teacher was the British Empire, the biggest bully of them all. So while everyone is mesmerised by Trump’s theatrics the business of Empire goes on.”
Donald Trump the fascist is doing a deal with Putin’s bonapartist regime to carve up Ukraine in which the working class will be enslaved after having been used as cannon fodder to push NATO’s borders further east.
The European Union warmongers are determined to foment the war to get their share of the booty after havng been swindled by Trump. To that end the EU seeks to hi-jack Ukraine into the EU which Russia has already accepted in principle; this despite EU membership being at the center of NATO’s Maidan putsch in 2014 which later provoked Putin’s invasion.
Once again the working class pays for imperialist war, proving that there is no progressive side in this conflict. Putin was never an anti-dote to NATO imperialism, but always sought a deal at the expense of the working class. That is now in the making.
You are right Edward !! And I think that people should accept the fact that the institution of the government, (the state) has been created by thieves, by oligarchic mafia cartels many thousands of years ago with the sole intention of stealing the wealth and resources of all countries of the world. That’s why I really believe that only a liberation of governments (thieves) can liberate mankind from the evil existence of states, of governments.
And let no one think, at any time, that there can be a good and honest government in the world, it is impossible for a government to be at the service of humans to be honest and good. That’s why the anarchist thinker Bakunin said that if you give power to the most honest revolutionary he will turn into an oppressor criminal and thief.
All governments have always been at the service of the ruling class, of the powerful classes, who have always had power. Since the slave regime, the feudal regime, much more so in the capitalist regime that became powerful 500 years ago, 90 percent of countries work living in misery, while a minority – the one that became the owner of everything – accumulates money and power.
The governments of the United States, whether of the so-called Republican or Democratic parties, since 1776 or 1783 have had governments at the service of the big producing businessmen, just as since 1850 they have been governments ridden by the producers of arms, the promoters of wars and invasions, by the Yankee investors who have investments. Call Reagan, Bush Obama or Trump; as well as in Mexico Alemán, Salinas, Fox or López Obrador, have been at the service of capital, looting and corruption
I hate the Trump administration, but I applaud that it is being screwed, making governments that are very corrupt like Mexico’s tremble. A great cynic like Salinas Pliego makes me laugh when he says that “I am not going to pay taxes because experience says that governments steal all the money”. I laugh when Trump demands that politicians linked to drug trafficking be sent to him. I think they will send him 500 led by all the former presidents of Mexico and characters like Monreal, the so-called “corcholatas” and many governors.
In Mexico there should be no elections and governments because they are a farce that the government itself accommodates in figures after the carrying; that the billions they squander serve to create jobs. Can you imagine how many jobs would have been created with the billions of pesos that were squandered on health, education and the fight against corruption that worsened in the Obradorista six-year term? Won’t they be ashamed of this collapse in health and education? If the population had a conscience, they would have kicked the officials out of their offices by now.
The High Priest of Mythmaking:
https://www.opednews.com/populum/diarypage.php?f=Philip-D-Zelikow-The-Myt-by-Saman-Mohammadi-110325-341.html
Barnum and Bailey were amateurs by comparison.
Question is: When does the sick circus leave town Ed?