There is a show, a spectacle, that is put on for the public. But where does power come from in the capitalist world? It comes from money. It doesn't matter what percent of the population approves or disapproves of a policy. As long as the media, academia, the security apparatus and the politicians stay bought--and under capitalism they will--policy is determined by those with money. They determine the message, the school curriculum, who gets hired, who gets fired, who gets heard, who is ignored, who gets promoted, who gets appointed, who the major candidates are, and who the cabinet and the judges will be. They determine the lies and the propaganda that are fed to the populace over and over and over again until the nonsense is thoroughly imbedded in their brains as unquestionable truth. That's it. Now we've come to an inflection point. Money can do pretty much anything in capitalist society. But can it direct that society to commit suicide? Can it push the buttons of the Empire such that it embarks on a war that all the generals and all the admirals and the entire intelligence apparatus know it will definitively lose with catastrophic military and economic consequences? That, it seems to me, is the question. And we're going to find out the answer very soon.
Despite the sincere intentions, this elaborate essay is a good example of reductionist confounding of social psychopathy (the Israeli Zionist project) with individual psychopathy. Replace Netanyahu with any of the previous prime minsters of the Zionist entity and the outcome would not be substantially different. For instance, would anyone with knowledge of Israel’s history really think that if Ariel Sharon was the PM now, the behavior of the psychopathic entity would be fundamentally different? The problem is much much deeper than one despicable terrorist when the whole nation is constructed on the basis of rabid settler colonial plunder and terrorism!
Who is in charge? The billionaires that control both governments (US and Israel). People like Musk, Adelson and Soros. They drive the agendas. Remember what Musk tweeted recently to Maduro of Venezuela, "we will coup anyone we want". Notice how Musk used the pronoun "we" not they, or the government.
I fear that with this mention of “structural” and “ephemeral” power, you miss the nature of what is going on.
The Zionist entity isn’t a Middle Eastern state separate from the U.S. and bribing its political figures. The Zionist entity is literally inside the U.S. itself. Throughout U.S. government, oligarchy, business management, academic institutions, cultural institutions, the top strata is heavily occupied by Israeli dual citizens and/or those who despite having U.S. passports frankly see themselves as ethnically loyal servants to the cause of the Zionist entity.
It’s not merely bribery. That there is structural power!
Sometimes people pinpoint AIPAC…. but for instance when Starbucks owners support the genocidal forces, that’s structural power.
When Blinken a 2nd generation Zionist with a stroke of a pen removes Zionist terrorists from the U.S. government terrorism and sanctions list and hands them bombs free of US congressional approval that is not bribery, that is a son of the cause exercising structural power.
When the British Arab President of Columbia University is forced by the rich US Zionists on the university board to summarily expell and call in police on student protestors, that is structural power.
When museum boards stuffed with Zionists refuse to display any artistic works that protest Israeli genocide that is structural power.
Well and truly parsed, Patrick. One minor quibble... In the history of empires it is not at all unique for a force in the periphery to challenge and exert control over the center. The Roman Empire in its decline, which the American one indisputably is, was repeatedly ignored, and then overthrown by provincial generals. It became routine, in time.
Otherwise, we must hope Israel's Psychopath in Chief's tenure, and--why not say it?--life, is ended before millions are incinerated for him and his rotten, illegitimate, Nazi state.
Netanyahu did not travel to the U.S. to speak to congress.
He went there to give top secret instructions to Israel’s servants in the Biden-Harris administration as to what they should do after Israel’s upcoming planned assassinations. Such as sending 20 billion more in weapons for mass murder, and sending over aircraft carrier and missile ships to point at Iran.
The congressional appearance for adoration was completely secondary. Not why he went there.
Horrific Sick world! ALL Western democracies are putting pressure on Iran not to strike back yet NONE are put on Israel the Genocidal, Apartheid State to stop bombing schools, massacring defenseless children who are already starving! Israel DNA and behaviour does not belong to the Middle East, it belongs in so called democratic world of EU and US. These psychopaths who not only steal, lie but also rape and spread fake propaganda must be brought to justice and HANGED. Bring on the Guillotine for child killers and rapists! If not for ALL Zionists! Free the world from Zionism.
BS; the US is fully occupied, as is most of the West, even before the WZO got us to fight their 2 world wars. Not until we end the world-wide zio occupations can power be wrested from the psychopathic zio organization. This of course does not absolve the entire DC cabal —traitors to the core. Along with local whores for who are on the zio payroll. And Kamala? Who are you kidding? She is what she has to be, to be installed: thoroughly zionized! 🤢
I guess I'll have to subscribe to the New Yorker magazine again to find what I'm looking for on the magazines archives from maybe 13 or so years ago about the Israeli spy, Johnathon Pollard, who served 30 years behind bars from a life sentence for funneling Top Secret Pentagon info back to Israel when he worked there and was eventually caught. But in the New Yorker article, the one paragraph I do remember clearly, is "That freshman Congressmen and women, are told, once they take office, that if they want to run for reelection, any Bill or Item which is about Israel, which comes up for a vote, to vote "YES", and if they don't vote for the bill or object to it for whatever reason, they will be smeared in the media by the powerful AIPAC Lobby and will lose in the next election." Case in point: The three Congressional people who recently lost because they were against the Holocaust in Palestine and the control the Jewish Lobby has on the prostituted U.S. Congress, including the White House who long ago sold their souls for "thirty pieces of silver" like Judas.
Richard V said it well! Money talks, and AIPAC knows whose palms to grease!
“The latter, indeed, is incapable of invading even Lebanon or Iran without the assurance of American backing.”
Really? Israel is incapable of invading Iran? That’s pretty genius! lol 😂. Sorry, but stating such obvious facts so meekly is just hilarious. Israel can’t even defeat Hamas or sustain an invasion of defenseless Gaza without embarrassing losses. Invade Lebanon or Iran? Not even the US and all its NATO vassals could invade Iran without getting wiped out. If they could, they would’ve done so after 40 plus years of boisterous paper tiger threats. The best they hoped for were attempts at regime change and look where that’s gotten them since the 1979 Iranian revolution.
Look at the map of Israel from 1947 to today. This land thievery of the Palestine people and the resulting illegal settlements has caused all these problems ( there is an illegal settlement in the Golan named after Trump!). Just watch. There will be Zionist condos for sale in the Gaza in 5 years and Jared Corey Kushner will be the lead salesman.
bloody staggeringly brutal times, your fine thought a treasure, what a difficult piece to write, one's heart revolts, revulsion with the collusion of what should NEVER have been....
There is a show, a spectacle, that is put on for the public. But where does power come from in the capitalist world? It comes from money. It doesn't matter what percent of the population approves or disapproves of a policy. As long as the media, academia, the security apparatus and the politicians stay bought--and under capitalism they will--policy is determined by those with money. They determine the message, the school curriculum, who gets hired, who gets fired, who gets heard, who is ignored, who gets promoted, who gets appointed, who the major candidates are, and who the cabinet and the judges will be. They determine the lies and the propaganda that are fed to the populace over and over and over again until the nonsense is thoroughly imbedded in their brains as unquestionable truth. That's it. Now we've come to an inflection point. Money can do pretty much anything in capitalist society. But can it direct that society to commit suicide? Can it push the buttons of the Empire such that it embarks on a war that all the generals and all the admirals and the entire intelligence apparatus know it will definitively lose with catastrophic military and economic consequences? That, it seems to me, is the question. And we're going to find out the answer very soon.
So true
Despite the sincere intentions, this elaborate essay is a good example of reductionist confounding of social psychopathy (the Israeli Zionist project) with individual psychopathy. Replace Netanyahu with any of the previous prime minsters of the Zionist entity and the outcome would not be substantially different. For instance, would anyone with knowledge of Israel’s history really think that if Ariel Sharon was the PM now, the behavior of the psychopathic entity would be fundamentally different? The problem is much much deeper than one despicable terrorist when the whole nation is constructed on the basis of rabid settler colonial plunder and terrorism!
Who is in charge? The billionaires that control both governments (US and Israel). People like Musk, Adelson and Soros. They drive the agendas. Remember what Musk tweeted recently to Maduro of Venezuela, "we will coup anyone we want". Notice how Musk used the pronoun "we" not they, or the government.
Precisely.
Congress are lackeys. Oligarchs like the Pritzkers, Waltons, Rockefeller, Fords, Musk, Bezos, Gates etc, tell them what to do.
I fear that with this mention of “structural” and “ephemeral” power, you miss the nature of what is going on.
The Zionist entity isn’t a Middle Eastern state separate from the U.S. and bribing its political figures. The Zionist entity is literally inside the U.S. itself. Throughout U.S. government, oligarchy, business management, academic institutions, cultural institutions, the top strata is heavily occupied by Israeli dual citizens and/or those who despite having U.S. passports frankly see themselves as ethnically loyal servants to the cause of the Zionist entity.
It’s not merely bribery. That there is structural power!
Sometimes people pinpoint AIPAC…. but for instance when Starbucks owners support the genocidal forces, that’s structural power.
When Blinken a 2nd generation Zionist with a stroke of a pen removes Zionist terrorists from the U.S. government terrorism and sanctions list and hands them bombs free of US congressional approval that is not bribery, that is a son of the cause exercising structural power.
When the British Arab President of Columbia University is forced by the rich US Zionists on the university board to summarily expell and call in police on student protestors, that is structural power.
When museum boards stuffed with Zionists refuse to display any artistic works that protest Israeli genocide that is structural power.
It’s structural power you are dealing with.
Well and truly parsed, Patrick. One minor quibble... In the history of empires it is not at all unique for a force in the periphery to challenge and exert control over the center. The Roman Empire in its decline, which the American one indisputably is, was repeatedly ignored, and then overthrown by provincial generals. It became routine, in time.
Otherwise, we must hope Israel's Psychopath in Chief's tenure, and--why not say it?--life, is ended before millions are incinerated for him and his rotten, illegitimate, Nazi state.
Your optimism is appreciated. Thank you.
Netanyahu did not travel to the U.S. to speak to congress.
He went there to give top secret instructions to Israel’s servants in the Biden-Harris administration as to what they should do after Israel’s upcoming planned assassinations. Such as sending 20 billion more in weapons for mass murder, and sending over aircraft carrier and missile ships to point at Iran.
The congressional appearance for adoration was completely secondary. Not why he went there.
People need to wake up.
Horrific Sick world! ALL Western democracies are putting pressure on Iran not to strike back yet NONE are put on Israel the Genocidal, Apartheid State to stop bombing schools, massacring defenseless children who are already starving! Israel DNA and behaviour does not belong to the Middle East, it belongs in so called democratic world of EU and US. These psychopaths who not only steal, lie but also rape and spread fake propaganda must be brought to justice and HANGED. Bring on the Guillotine for child killers and rapists! If not for ALL Zionists! Free the world from Zionism.
BS; the US is fully occupied, as is most of the West, even before the WZO got us to fight their 2 world wars. Not until we end the world-wide zio occupations can power be wrested from the psychopathic zio organization. This of course does not absolve the entire DC cabal —traitors to the core. Along with local whores for who are on the zio payroll. And Kamala? Who are you kidding? She is what she has to be, to be installed: thoroughly zionized! 🤢
I guess I'll have to subscribe to the New Yorker magazine again to find what I'm looking for on the magazines archives from maybe 13 or so years ago about the Israeli spy, Johnathon Pollard, who served 30 years behind bars from a life sentence for funneling Top Secret Pentagon info back to Israel when he worked there and was eventually caught. But in the New Yorker article, the one paragraph I do remember clearly, is "That freshman Congressmen and women, are told, once they take office, that if they want to run for reelection, any Bill or Item which is about Israel, which comes up for a vote, to vote "YES", and if they don't vote for the bill or object to it for whatever reason, they will be smeared in the media by the powerful AIPAC Lobby and will lose in the next election." Case in point: The three Congressional people who recently lost because they were against the Holocaust in Palestine and the control the Jewish Lobby has on the prostituted U.S. Congress, including the White House who long ago sold their souls for "thirty pieces of silver" like Judas.
Richard V said it well! Money talks, and AIPAC knows whose palms to grease!
“The latter, indeed, is incapable of invading even Lebanon or Iran without the assurance of American backing.”
Really? Israel is incapable of invading Iran? That’s pretty genius! lol 😂. Sorry, but stating such obvious facts so meekly is just hilarious. Israel can’t even defeat Hamas or sustain an invasion of defenseless Gaza without embarrassing losses. Invade Lebanon or Iran? Not even the US and all its NATO vassals could invade Iran without getting wiped out. If they could, they would’ve done so after 40 plus years of boisterous paper tiger threats. The best they hoped for were attempts at regime change and look where that’s gotten them since the 1979 Iranian revolution.
Gordian Knot is named LBJ. His relationship to Israel. His Imperial Presidency. Operation Cyanide. https://archive.org/details/israelssecond911
07:13: Kennedy Peace versus Israeli Conquest
44:10: Israel's Operation Cyanide and Plans for a Nuclear Attack on Egypt
1:03:44: Israel's First 9/11 and the War of Terror
01:31:04: Do We Live in a Democracy?
01:53:17: Israel's Puppet Show
01:54:19: Israel's Second 9/11 and the U.S./Israeli Genocide in Gaza
Look at the map of Israel from 1947 to today. This land thievery of the Palestine people and the resulting illegal settlements has caused all these problems ( there is an illegal settlement in the Golan named after Trump!). Just watch. There will be Zionist condos for sale in the Gaza in 5 years and Jared Corey Kushner will be the lead salesman.
Bowman and Bush were vulnerable to challenges for reasons having nothing to do with Israel. Zionist money finished them off.
thank you!
bloody staggeringly brutal times, your fine thought a treasure, what a difficult piece to write, one's heart revolts, revulsion with the collusion of what should NEVER have been....
It is so obvious for people outside the USA.
Israel OWNS the USA because of the reprehensible man called BIden