Politics of the Pandemic

The COVID19 virus has been spreading fast within the US, and is out of control. Right now, the US has the largest numbers of infections and deaths. This number is growing.

Trump’s handling of the fallout has been abysmal, and he is having a hard time.

He has been lashing out at everyone, when he himself has done much to leave the US unprepared for dealing with the results of this corona virus outbreak.

Two years ago, Trump dismissed officials and specialists tasked with emergency pandemic response and cut their funding.

In October of 2019, Trump removed a CDC representative from China, leading to a break in communication and cooperation when it came to viral outbreaks such as this.

At the beginning of January of this year, when China warned other nations that it is facing a contagious and dangerous mass-spreading virus, Trump brushed it off, told everyone that there is nothing to worry about, and started hurling insults and accusations against China.

In November of 2019, the US intelligence agencies warned of a possible risk of a mass-viral outbreak in China. The report has been buried, for unknown reasons.

Trump has ignored science and sound advice from specialists, then went over their heads with his own broken ideas.

By doing so, Trump wasted about two months that could’ve been used to prepare to deal with this outbreak. 

Instead, Trump went on a murder spree against Iranian and Iraqi officials. Such are Trump’s ‘priorities.'

Because of his shortsightedness, the rate of infections spread quicker than it would have, and as a result more people will die.

In the midst of all this, Trump has also passed more sanctions against Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela, preventing these countries from getting help during this pandemic and causing infections to rise. These are criminal acts of murder which must be condemned.

Faced with mass-criticism, failures, and embarrassment, Trump has started lashing out at everyone and everything to deflect attention from his incompetence.

He has been more concerned about his image and the financial aspect of this crisis than the actual people out there being affected. As long as he and his rotten family clan is fine, he couldn’t care less, it looks like. He just wants to play politics and win the next election.

And in this spirit, Trump wants to lift the restrictions on movement and self-quarantine ASAP, regardless of all the warnings from professionals who say that it is too soon to do so, and that it could lead to more infections.

Trump recently cut WHO (World Health organization) funding. The reason he gave for this was that WHO ‘conspired with China and didn’t alert countries soon enough about this outbreak,’ a notion that is not true.

This is Trump in a nutshell. Whenever something doesn’t work out the way he wants, even if it is due to his mistakes and bad judgment, he immediately looks for a scapegoat. This is the behavior of an inept loser.

The man has made himself look like a complete fool. His so-called countermeasures are too little, too late, and mostly wrong.

It is each nation's leader’s responsibility to coordinate the containment of this outbreak. Blaming others and threatening them is not going to help.

Trump’s incompetence and failure to act in time is one problem. But another is the miserable, for-profit healthcare system in the US that prices too many people out of getting the medical help they need. This is certainly a major cause of why this virus is spreading so fast within the US.

All this COVID19 mayhem has battered the US economy, which has still not recovered from the damage caused by the 2008 economic crisis.

It has been kept afloat with printing money, recycling debt, and other tricks and gimmicks since then.

For all its puffery and pontifications, the US has turned out to be the sick man of the world.

And where is NATO? Why isn’t it out in full-force, setting up field hospitals, treating the infected, distributing masks and ventilators, and disinfecting everything in sight?

It seems NATO is only good at putting on meaningless, for-show military exercises, and the US defends only when there is money to be made off weapons sales.

When it comes to a pandemic, none of these F-35 fighter planes and other weaponry does anyone any good.

Did NATO not plan for such scenarios? This is a serious operational failure on its part.

And where is the so-called ‘unity’ of the EU? It seems like everyone is out for themselves, grabbing ventilators and face masks from under each other’s nose.

We are witnessing the utter uselessness and failure of all these western institutions and the ‘Trans-Atlantic consensus.’

All this feel-good propaganda, PR spin, and billions spent have been for nothing. There is no unity. There is no common defense. It’s all a sick, pathetic, and insanely expensive joke.

If, and when this pandemic is over, it would behoove the rest of the world to stop listening to the US, and keep a greater distance from it. Clearly, the US is ran by incompetent nutcases who don’t know what they’re doing.

While Russia and China are helping countries, without resorting to insults, ridicule, blame and false accusations, the Trump regime is caught in a temper tantrum of its own making, which makes the situation even worse. The US is the laughing stock of the world.

The result of any Russian and Chinese help for countries affected by COVID19 will undoubtedly be an even nastier, more bitter and vindictive US establishment. They see it as an affront and as a betrayal to have the Russians and the Chinese help anyone. US egos have been severely bruised, and Russia and China must be ready for a round of sanctions and other dirty tricks the likes of which they have never seen after this COVID19 emergency passes. Russia and China made the US look weak and ineffectual in front of the world, and this just will not be allowed. The US has a mortal fear of looking weak. This is what drives its terrible, misguided, emotionally-charged decisions and murderous policies worldwide.

After this COVID19 epidemic settles down, whenever that will be, the world also needs to reassess its policies and priorities. The stale old profiteering off the bottom, and divisive scare-mongering to sell weaponry is no longer viable.

But this is a tall order. What will most likely happen is that the failing western establishment will regroup, pretend that they did a great job and pat each other on the back, ignore and quickly forget all their errors and failures, their representatives will make grand speeches about ‘unshakable bonds,’ and will go back to business-as-usual. They will most likely not even bother with any type of reforms and plans to prepare for a future pandemic.

Already, the EU is exploiting this situation to fleece member-states, saddle them with huge loans, instead of actually helping. The Trump regime is doing the same-stuffing trillions into the pockets of big banks, corporations and the wealthy-while most of the citizenry gets peanuts and crumbs.

The so-called stimulus plans Trump has touted are not good enough to bring the US economy back on track. Neither are those of the EU.

Politicians also need to stop using this pandemic as an excuse to realize their legally and morally questionable self-serving pet-projects.

First off, they need to postpone any and all upcoming elections, and refrain from manipulating public laws and eroding peoples’ rights for political gain.

Second, they need to listen to the recommendations of epidemology and public health experts and carry them out in the best and quickest manner possible, without any attempts at upstaging, whining and politicking. Lives are at stake here.

The public must also remain alert to what their governments are doing, because it is in such crises as this that governments monopolize power at the cost of personal freedoms under the guise of keeping people safe. Governments must be especially watched during such times as these, and held to account for everything they do.

This virus has exposed fundamental weaknesses not only in the US and the rest of the west, but it has exposed the weakness of capitalism itself.

A system which puts profits above the welfare of the general population is simply not sustainable and will lead to serious failures, including the loss of human life- as we can now see.

There have to be serious, major changes made in the ways countries conduct themselves and in their policies and interaction, or else this situation will repeat itself; and it will repeat. Human history is full of pandemics. It is just a matter of when.

In such troubled times as these, cooperation-not confrontation-must be the norm.

Dark Side of the US Civil War

The popular notion prevailing in US history is that the ‘right side’ won the civil war. 

All sort of puffery and victor’s history has grown around this conflict. That it was fought to free the slaves, that the Union victory proved that the Confederacy had no legal basis, ending with the verdict that the country was somehow better off afterwards. 

These are all lies, myths, and romantic kitsch that ignores reality and consequence; as any history written by the victors tends to be.

Judging by the 155 years of history since 1865, this verdict is, at best, questionable.

We today have the benefit of reflection based on a long historical record since 1865, something those who fought, died or survived the war did not have.

We can look at a century-and-a-half of events and see how the victory of the Union in the Civil War has affected US behavior. And the facts are not as rosy as those who proclaimed their ‘victory’ made it appear.

The victors, as well as many US politicians and citizens up to today, reached the wrong conclusions and assumptions about the civil war.

These on-going conclusions and assumptions must be debunked.

First, war does not solve problems. It creates new ones, or at best appears to end them in the eyes of the deluded victors only. The US has continued to reach these same incorrect assumptions and conclusions with all its wars up to the present.

The old Southern slave-owning aristocracy gave way to a new, and a much more malign banker/industrialist aristocracy which created a new and more insidious kind of slavery: debt slavery.

This new aristocracy of vermin like J.P. Morgan, Samuel Chase, and John D. Rockefeller created new and worse problems, and the legacy of their rotten ideas and behavior still plague the country, and the world, to this day.

These civil war-spawned banksters bought their way out of having to fight in the war, and made their fortunes on the war by way of government contracts. J.P. Morgan started his fortune by selling defective rifles to the US government. Other ‘captains of industry’ made their fortunes along the same crooked lines.

The civil war introduced some very bad ideas into US politics, governance and economics. Government contracts for shoddy equipment at exorbitant prices, war crimes, erosion of constitutional and political rights, war profiteering, the Federal Reserve, permanent income taxes, periodic man-made economic crises, incorrect notion that war can solve national and international problems, disregard for, and suppression of, the self-determination of others by violent force are just some of the viruses that the civil war bred within the US political, social and economic psyche. Abraham Lincoln made possible all this aberrant and destructive behavior for the next 155 years, up to today.

The Union victory unleashed upon the world people and events that would’ve never existed and bothered the US or anyone else, if the Confederacy was left alone. From that Union victory ran a long chain of abuses and disasters-wars, economic depressions, and social unrest that culminated in the financial crisis of 2008.

Lincoln wanted to unite the US and the Confederacy by force, but he ended up destroying two nations. He inadvertently, and through profound ignorance laid the framework for future problems and grave mistakes by successive US elected officials, and handed over the ‘united’ nation into the hands of some of the most greasiest and conniving con-men, fanatics, and zealots whose acolytes and progeny are mismanaging the US to this day.

The end that Lincoln got was the best and kindest one that could’ve been given to him, considering the destruction he has wrought for future generations all over the world. He deserved far worse for his colossal sins.

The man was a disaster for the US. He was the Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Donald Trump of his day. He displayed the same opportunism, hypocrisy, and reckless stubbornness of all three.
 
The union victory in the civil war led directly to later excesses and crimes of the US in places all over the world. 

All the regime changes, meddling in other nations affairs, wars based on false flags and lies, interventions, support of cruel regimes, crimes against humanity in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yugoslavia and elsewhere, current deliberate sanctions and economic terrorism against Iran and Venezuela, sanctions that are starving people and creating more victims in the wake of the COVID19 virus; all this foul behavior had its genesis during the Civil War, and has been rationalized and weaponized by the ‘victors.’

The war against the South was a war of aggression. Because even though the Southern states insistence on keeping the misguided and unnecessary institution of slavery alive for themselves was one of the main reasons for their secession, it was nevertheless a violation of their rights to force them to give their slaves up. 

During the American Revolution, the Southern states approved the US Constitution and joined the Union only after they were guaranteed their political and property rights, including their ownership of slaves. This was the deal under which they agreed to be a part of the Union in the first place.
 
By threatening to make slavery illegal, and thereby interfering with their property rights and livelihood, the Federal government violated this deal. So the Southern states had the right under the constitution to secede. Their reasoning had legal weight, if not a moral one. But the Federal government has never been concerned with morals.

As far as the institution of slavery goes, it was a stupid idea in the first place to bring native Africans to North America. It was a damnable mistake of epic proportions which created serious and unnecessary problems for the US up to today.

Those who pontificate about the civil war being fought to ‘free the slaves’ are just fools regurgitating old and stale feel-good Union propaganda of that time.

No. The civil war was not fought to free the slaves. It was fought to unite, by force and violence, a part of North America that wanted to go its own way.

The Emancipation Proclamation only applied to slaves in the South, and Lincoln himself only announced it as a propaganda ploy to strategically undermine and weaken the Confederacy, hoping that the slaves would rebel and fight for the Union side. The long-term welfare of the blacks was not considered.

There is no greater proof of this than Union soldiers who deserted after they found out that they were fighting and dying to ‘free niggers.’ That is not what they signed up for.

If the Confederacy was left alone, slavery within it would eventually disappear as the 20th century neared, as it would become a national embarrassment. Simple farm automation would've rendered slavery inefficient and unnecessary. The problem would be handled one way or another, without millions of dead.

The civil war formally ended slavery a little earlier at best, but it did not make the lives of the ex-slaves any better afterwards. Racism and discrimination against them continued. And they no longer had the protection of their masters, as shitty as slave life was.

The civil war was a destructive war that did not have to be fought. The Confederacy did not start it. The Confederacy was simply interested in secession and being left alone to carry on its own affairs. It on multiple occasions offered the Union an end to hostilities, if the Union recognized it and pulled back its troops. The Confederacy hoped that there would be a mediated settlement, and even hoped that a defeat of Lincoln in the election of 1864 would bring to power someone who would be willing to negotiate an end to the war and a peaceful co-existence between the two countries.

The Confederacy did not aim to take over the entire US, and overthrow its government.

The name civil war is a misnomer. It wasn’t really a civil war, and it wasn’t a rebellion. It was separation, and the Southerners were separatists.

This Southern desire for independence was suppressed by the Union forces, which went on to erode constitutional rights, and after the war proclaimed that secession is now ‘illegal,’ a premise that itself is a violation of the constitution. 

So much for the Constitution being a ‘living’ document. Far from it, this living document was seriously wounded in 1865 by the ‘victors’ who purported to be its most valiant defenders. Those who followed them administered further stabs.

As for the Southerners, they to this day feel a sense of defeat. This has not yet gone away from their minds.

So how do they offset this shame?

By joining the US military forces, the same US military force which destroyed their ancestors home and country, and which deploys them to all corners of the world, killing and terrorizing natives in their beds.

No amount of waving the flag, and bombing Iraqis, Afghans and others will ever erase the loss of their ancestors country, and make up for it.

By joining the US military, Southerners have spat on the graves of their ancestors, and have cast their lot with the very Union monsters who terrorized their great-great grandfathers and grandmothers 155 or so years ago; and in the same manner as they are now terrorizing people thousands of miles away. That it was all ‘a long time ago’ is no excuse, and never, ever will be!

The legacy of the civil war is one of violated constitutional rights, mass-murder, a ‘might makes right’ victor’s mentality and incorrect lessons learned, and the beginning of rampant and destructive US militarism in the West and abroad for the next 155 years.

The demonic skills and inventions learned by the Union side during that war were used against the Indians in the west with horrible effect, and against countless millions everywhere else in the world since.

This same mistake was repeated by the foolhardy Winston Churchill in the 1940s when he decided to engage in war everywhere against the Germans to ‘save’ the British Empire. But his stubbornness had the opposite result. Churchill won his war, but lost the empire.

The civil war should not be celebrated and romanticized. It was a disgusting, needless blood-bath of wanton destruction. The only ones who revel in its legacy are the interventionists and war-mongers who see in it a warped justification for profit and domination of others.

When one looks at the bombed-out and burnt ruins of Atlanta, GA and Columbia, SC after Gen. 'Tecumseh' Sherman laid both cities to waste on his marches, one can see the ruins of Fallujah, Baghdad, and many other cities destroyed by US military airstrikes. The excuses, rationalizations and propaganda is all too similar, too. It seems US citizens have forgotten how it is to have your country destroyed and left to fend for itself.

Does it need a reminder?

Bio-Warfare?

The world has been gripped by the COVID19 ‘Coronavirus’ outbreak early this year, with stores, venues, cities, and entire countries being shuttered to contain the outbreak.

But when taking into consideration where it started, Wuhan China, which is the country’s main logistics and transportation hub, it looks like the work of someone who may not like the growth of China’s economic and military power. 

The US tops the list here.

Also, Iran has been hard-hit by this virus.

So we have two thorns in the US back-side hit with a malignant virus that is causing the deaths of civilians and politicians.

The US is being tight-lipped about its so-called ‘patient zero,’ the first person infected with the virus in the US. How, and when this person got infected, as well as their identity remain a secret.

It is not absurd to think that the US may have launched this virus covertly in China in order to cripple the country’s economy and cause political and social unrest.

The US has been trying to knock down China’s growing power using all sorts of means, sanctions, blockades and tariffs; but to no avail. China is too big to knock over, so the US is desperate.

Those who think that this is nonsense because the US regime would not risk infecting its own, do you really think the US regime cares?

It does not matter to them how many people die. It does not matter to them if 2, 200, 2,000, or 200,000 US citizens die. If the US can achieve a major geopolitical victory over some adversary out there by deploying a virus, then the US regime will do so. The ends justify the means. For them, it’s like investing a couple of thousand dollars and getting a couple of million back.

This virus outbreak, and the fear associated with it, is also a great opportunity for scumbags and con-men of every stripe and color to make off like bandits.

We should not be the least bit surprised that after this CV outbreak settles and goes away, that we find that things have changed. Expect loss of rights, privileges, MONEY, and the realization that the rich somehow got much richer, and the poor got much poorer. The great theft is all going on right now, as this is being written, and no one is paying attention because they’re too busy hunting down hand sanitizers and face masks.

Such public health emergencies are a great opportunity for unscrupulous people to get away with all sorts of crap.


Someone once said, don't let a good crisis go to waste.

It is also a golden opportunity for economies struggling with massive, un-payable debt (like the US) to go into an economic meltdown and fleece the public once again. But this time, they don’t have to worry about angry mobs descending on Wall St. in protest, as the CV19 outbreak will justify the economic downturn and dampen any and all tempers.

The situation is much more dangerous now than it was 10 years ago during the economic crisis. As the threat of disease keeps people scared, emotionally drained, and distracted, their defenses will be down. They will not see the forest for the trees. This creates the prefect opportunity for a much worse economic reckoning.

And this may be the chief reason for this so-called ‘CV19 outbreak.' Another global economic crisis was on the horizon, but if it happened normally, without a convenient excuse, then people would riot and possibly worse. The powers-that-be were too worried that they might find themselves out of power and out of luck. So they cooked up a distraction that will justify everything they do, and everything that happens. And the people will accept it, and love the authorities for ‘protecting’ them.

After all, many more people die of the regular flu each year. Ebola has been a constant threat for decades, and is much deadlier than CV19. More people die of common infections each year than have died from CV19.

CV19 isn’t really all that deadly. Those most susceptible to dying from it are people with pre-existing conditions and ailments, and old people. The young and healthy recover. Most people who were infected and quarantined have recovered. The virus has claimed very little lives; in the single digit percentage.

If this outbreak isn't tamed by the end of May, then many countries will undoubtedly suffer significant economic losses due to suspended business activity, trade, and tourism. Italy will be on the hardest hit, but others will be, too.
 
It remains to be seen what happens in the coming weeks and months, but everyone should watch what’s going on in the world, and not just be distracted by the CV19 outbreak. Because governments and shady characters may be doing even more damage to you than this virus ever could.

The Pan-Arab Ideal

Since 2011, the US, along with its NATO and Gulf Arab state and zionist cohorts has been trying to overthrow Syria’s government.

To that end, they have enlisted the assistance of dangerous, Islamist fanatics as their proxies.

The US regime with its cohorts have trained, armed, and encouraged these head-chopping, liver-eating nutcases to wreck Syria.

They almost succeeded, but by 2013, the Syrian Arab Army begun turning the tide. After Russia joined Syria in 2015, the western and zionist-sponsored proxy militants have been virtually decimated, along with ISIS.

Today, the only significant pocket of militant resistance is in the Idlib province, where there is currently a campaign by the SAA to liberate it from the control of militant gangs, who are being assisted by Turkey and western countries.

Looking at the landscape in the Mideast, it is clear that Syria is the only remnant of secular, Pan-Arab nationalism remaining.

The rest of the Arab states are either ruled by degenerate terror-supporting oil-soaked autocrats-the chief among them being Saudi Arabia,-or corrupted, beaten-down, more-or-less secular governments in Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and elsewhere who have succumbed to US/zionist control, and suffer under it.

The Ba’athist ideal of Arab societies, free from western and zionist colonialism and control has suffered a lot of setbacks due to sectarian infighting, as well as US infiltration of certain governments in the region with offers of weapons, cheap credit, and other ‘assistance’ in return for rooting out any socialist and communist parties and progressive movements from among them.

Chief among these was Iraq during the Saddam Hussein era. Saddam Hussein was a US darling during the 1980s when the US sought to use Iraq against Iran. Having failed in that endeavor, the US decided that Saddam was no longer viable. And so begun a 13-year run of crippling sanctions, illegal no-fly-zones, false accusations of WMD proliferation, and other economic and military punishment against Iraq by the US and its cohorts that in 2003 culminated in the illegal invasion, occupation and destruction of Iraq which continues to this day.

There is no doubt that without US, European and zionist interference and their malign activities over the decades, most, if not all of the Arab states would’ve progressed into modern, mostly secular or religiously moderate states, and their people today would be significantly more prosperous and happier.

But the US, Europe and the zionist entity never liked the idea of Pan-Arab nationalism. They considered it an enemy that had to be fought. Such an ideal would’ve prevented these three imperialist powers from exploiting the region for nearly free-of-charge, and from having things their way. They also did not want any of these Arab states developing anything better than what these three had, especially when it came to any sort of military/technological parity.

For all their croaking on about freedom, democracy, and free elections in the Arab world, the US, along with the Europeans and the zionists don't really want this, and never did. This is just PR-talk reserved for just the Arab countries that dare to defy the west and their zionist allies.

If these Arab societies were given real democracy and allowed to participate in free elections, the first thing they'd do is vote out the pro-US autocrats out of power and show the US the finger. They'd kick the US out of their countries and the region in less than a week.

By doing everything they could to destroy Pan-Arab secular nationalism, the three imperialist powers made possible the emergence and growth of fanatical and dangerous Islamist terrorist groups and organizations. They helped create them; deliberately or inadvertently.

As long as the three imperialist powers retain their control over the Arab world, and prop up their unpopular sectarian, autocratic regimes and puppets, the Arab world will continue to suffer and will never be modern. These Arab regimes are just the play-things of the west and the zionists, to be discarded when convenient. This is the future of all these pro-western/zionist Arab regimes. This is how the US and their cohorts in the EU and zionistan want it.

This is the reason behind all of Trump’s and Pompeo’s trips to the Mideast, and the entire courtship and coddling of these Gulf Arab autocrats-to keep them weak and subservient, and in line.

This is why Syria is so important. It is the only remaining nation that is holding onto the original, Pan-Arab, nationalist secular ideals promlugated by Michel Aflaq, the founder of the Ba’athist movement.

Michel Aflaq

This ideal must be protected and defended by any means necessary. All forces that preach and support these ideals must be given assistance of any sort.

The alternative is a nightmare of US/NATO/zionist/wahhabi control, and the total loss of all freedom and sovereignty by Syria.

This cannot be allowed to happen.

Here We Go Again!

We are in another US presidential election year, and the same old people within the US establishment are once again up to their old tricks.

Trump, smarting from his impeachment acquittal seems to think that all his past sins and crimes have been excused as well, and he has also developed a strong sense of entitlement to whatever he wants.

He thinks that he has the election pretty much sown up.

However, the simple fact is that if the rotten and dysfunctional Democratic party bosses didn't railroad Bernie Sanders in 2016, and forced Hillary Clinton upon the electorate as the front-runner using their entire bags of tricks, lies, fraud and manipulation to do so, then Bernie would've easily been elected and Trump would be sitting in his NYC tower right now; getting ready to file yet another bankruptcy, or hosting some Miss whatever beauty pageant somewhere.

But the Democrats still did not learn their lesson, and have been busy trying to artificially promote the flaky and obscure homosexual Pete Buttigieg (a fitting last name), as their favored presidential front-runner, and again, over the genuinely more popular Bernie Sanders; this time deploying some shady caucus vote-counting smart phone app funded by pro-israeli personalities that rigged the results in gay Pete's favor. Surprise, surprise!

After their last debacle, the Democratic Party bosses still have not gotten over their identity politics fetish, and are pushing cheap and shallow social fads and labels instead of focusing on the real and tangible problems and concerns of the US working class, the economy, and all other societal problems plaguing the US.

To add to their problems, the Democrats have been using Trump's useless phone call to a Ukrainian clown against him to score political points-without success- and are once again regurgitating the same disproved 'Russiagate' clap-trap.

By doing so, they are unwittingly aiding and abetting Trump.

Why didn't the Democrats go against Trump's illegal act of recognizing occupied parts of Palestine as part of the Zionist entity? Why didn't they go against Trump's targeted, extra-judicial murder of Iranian Gen. Soleimani? Or Trump's bombings of Syria based on fraudulent chemical weapons lies and doctored OPCW reports?

There are so many real impeachable high crimes committed by Trump up to this point that the Democrats could have a field day with, and which neither Trump or the Republicans could just brush off. But the Democrats choose to ignore it all!

It's like the Democrats are holding a royal flush in their hand, but instead of playing it, they ask for another card. The Democrats are allowing the same old game to continue instead of winning it at the first opportunity. Sad.

By employing these worn-out canards and failed strategies, the Democratic Party is only shooting itself in the foot.

It almost seems like the Democrats want Trump to get re-elected. They've been doing everything for him lately except holding his d*** while he pees.

And this is quite sad, because Trump is a reckless, arrogant individual and not a good president. He has obvious intellectual and emotional shortcomings and would be easy to defeat, provided that the opponent running against him is decent enough.

But if the Democrats end up selecting a mediocre candidate to run against the mediocre Trump, people are going to go with the mediocrity they already know.

It remains to be seen what happens in the coming months. 

Will the Democrats once again sabotage themselves by kicking a genuinely popular candidate to the curb, launch more inane accusations against Trump that will backfire, or will they allow the people to finally have their say? Will Trump bungle something, lose more popularity and be defeated?

If the Democrats truly want to hurt Trump, then it would be best for them to step back, stop the impeachment and Russiagate and any other gimmicks, and let the man hang himself politically by his own hand. He's a fool, and will eventually do it, so let him. Don't interfere and inadvertently make him look like an innocent, wronged victim. He's neither.

He deserves to lose for the many disgusting things he has done. So let him lose fair and square.

However, expecting anything new and normal from the Democrats is also a tall order. They are an establishment party, after all, and vary very little from the Republicans. And the establishment will not allow anyone to be elected that threatens their interests. Just ask John F. Kennedy. 

For the US is a country far too damaged by diseases caused by its own profound mistakes, failures and contradictions. It can only be studied as an example of what not to do in national governance; it can be studied as a malignant growth is studied in a laboratory.

Steal of the Century

Trump and the zionist PM Nothingyahoo announced their long-awaited ‘Deal of the Century’ to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Touted by Trump as a ‘great deal,’ it is only so for the zionists.

The Palestinian authority has already called it a dead-end, and in the words of The Dotard himself, ‘A bad deal.’

This deal is about Palestinians accepting and legalizing zionist occupation, land theft and murder. It is about getting zionist war criminals and human rights abusers permanently off-the-hook for their crimes.

If the Palestinians accepted this deal, life for them would’ve undoubtedly gotten a lot more difficult in the future. Look what happened after the Palestinians signed the Oslo Agreement in 1993. Zionists used it to expand and entrench their occupation by stealthy means, and life for Palestinians got even worse.

As a result, Palestinians have less land and resources, and are even poorer than they were. This is what agreements with the zionists and their US benefactors got them, and will get them: more misery.

This so-called ‘Deal of the Century’ does not address the basic aspirations of the Palestinians. It takes political and economic independence off-the-table. It cuts the best land away from the West Bank and gives the Palestinians desert in return.

It does not matter what Nothingyahoo and Trump say and do. They cannot solve the Palestinians’ problem because the 'Jewish question' has still not been settled.

Zionistan is a fake, artificial, virtual state. It's existence is precarious and tentative at best, and conditioned on US and EU patronage and welfare payments. The Zionist army is a shadow of its former self and can no longer hold its own against a serious opponent.

Because as things stand, the zionists have a problem.

Zionists would absolutely love to just unilaterally annex what’s left of the West Bank and Gaza. However, this would mean absorbing 2 million Palestinians into the zionist state.

If the zionists just annexed the rest of Palestine, they could no longer keep those 2 million Palestinians behind fences and walls. They could no longer subject them to military repression. They would have to give them basic rights and freedom to move about. This would create two dangers for the zionists.

One would be that many angry, militant Palestinians would be free to roam the zionist state taking revenge on their oppressors.

The second danger, and one that the zionists are afraid of the most, is that these Palestinians would be free to settle into jobs, open businesses, marry, have children, and eventually outnumber the Jews. Then, they will basically vote the zionists out.

Add to this the on-going ICC (International Criminal Court) action against the zionists, as well as economic losses due to boycott movements which seek to cut business off from the zionist entity as long as it occupies the Palestinian territories.

The zionists can ignore the ICC, and refuse its jurisdiction as much as they want. But it is still bad PR for the zionists to have their abuses and crimes dragged out into the daylight in public to be seen by anyone, and they are nervous about this. 

The zionists also would not be able to openly discriminate against Palestinians wholesale, as that would catch the attention of the world, and bring forth more trouble for the zionist state. Left-wing Israeli Jews would also cry foul against any attempts at treating all these Palestinians as second-class citizens. Repressing and abusing Palestinians within the occupied territories is one thing; but doing the same within one state is another story.
 
This is the zionist dilemma; they want to annex those territories, but do not want the 2 million Palestinians that go along with it since that would tip the demographic balance of the zionist state in favor of non-Jews. Demography is stacked against the zionists, as Palestinians will out-number them in 15-20 years.

This is why nothingyahoo and his ilk are so desperate for a deal. They have to 'lock in' the Palestinians into a self-imposed, zionist-controlled jail before their numbers grow too large.

This so-called ‘Peace Plan’ is just a desperate and shoddy way to cement legal control of the Palestinian territories for zionist benefit, while keeping the 2 million Palestinians caged up within a zionist-created Bantustan.

The only other way for the zionists to get all of Palestine under their control, and not have to worry about the Palestinians, would be in the midst of a regional war. A war would give them the perfect opportunity to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians in some way under the guise of 'fighting terrorism,'self-defense' or just lie by saying that the Palestinians 'left by themselves,' like the zionists lied in 1948.

This deal is a no-go. It is a rip-off, and a farce. It cannot, and will not work.

And signing deals with Donald Trump is not be a good idea. Just ask the Iranians and the Russian about Trump’s ability to honor agreements.

The zionists will never, ever give Palestinians anything. If the Palestinians want to be free, and want their land back, they will have to fight for it, tooth and nail. All those who sympathize must help them.

Trumpian Blowback

The accidental shooting down of the Ukrainian plane by Iranian air defense systems has resulted in the deaths of 197 people.

US threats of airstrikes against 52 cultural and government targets put Iranian air defenses on hair-trigger alert, which led to this tragedy.

This is the result of 1.5 years of zionist-inspired Trumpian recklessness and provocations. There is absolutely no way this tragedy would've occurred, if Trump was a normal and responsible leader and honored the JCPOA. Walking away from it led to this tragedy. 

Trump definitely bears responsibility for the death of approximately 263 people, directly or indirectly, within just the past few weeks. Quite a record!

Trump's policies and actions for the past few years are borne out of desperation. Failing and illegally-embattled individuals and countries tend to disregard laws- even their own-more and more over time. This is why the US regime ignores laws and walks away from treaties. 

It is having a hard time coping with losses and failures brought on by its own delusions and faulty policies, miscalculations, and coming to terms with the limits of its own power.

Every president has to make himself look 'tough' to audiences in order to win an election. The military industrial complex takes full advantage of this posturing to enrich themselves at taxpayers expense. Trump's irresponsible posturing has been a boon to them.

The US ruling establishment seems to be suffering from some political-psychological trauma brought on by The Iranian Revolution of 1979. The US establishment, after multiple generations, has refused to come to terms with the loss of its influence and control over Iran, and the fact that the Iranians-whom the US views as an inferior people-have managed to successfully keep the US at bay for over four decades now; and not only has Iran survived, but thrived.

The US hegemon is unable to reconcile and accept this loss. This is the source of all the malign treatment the US establishment has been engaging in against Iran to this day.

Iran is a victim of US perfidy, and has been since at least 1953. All of Iran’s actions since then have been done in self-defense to preserve its independence against the US and its rotten allies.

The US regimes past and present seem not to understand the concept of cause and effect.

US invasion of Iraq led to the rise of ISIS.

US/EU support of Maidan in Ukraine in 2014 led to the tragedy of MH17, among other blowback.

Trump's exit from the Iranian nuclear deal, which was working and which Iran was in full compliance with, ultimately led to the shoot-down of the Ukrainian passenger plane.

The blood of these people is on his hands, more than it is on the hands of Iran. Iran shot the Ukrainian plane down accidentally; Trump ordered the killing of Gen. Soleimani deliberately.

Trump better think about what his temper tantrums have led to before he tries anything again.