American Empire

"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in might, while the strong do whatever they can and the weak suffer whatever they must."
― Thucydides c.400 BC

Hillary Emails Reveal True Motive for Libya Intervention, Foreign Policy Journal, Brad Hoff, Jan 6 2016

Horace Campbell on US Disregard for Black Lives, from “War on Terror” in Africa to U.S. Army Widow at Home, Democracy Now, Oct 24 2017

It is undisputed that the citizens of the Roman Empire so selfishly craved their bread and circuses that they neither understood nor cared about the consequences of their financial, political and military masters plundering the wealth and resources of other sovereign peoples to make the Roman elite rich and the Roman people comfortable. Voting was a formal holdover from the days of a once vibrant Republic which de facto died when the elite gained control of the candidates for public office.

With sympathy for all four Americans who recently died in Niger, the outrage we are experiencing is seriously and fundamentally misunderstood and misguided.

• The reason those men died is that they were legionnaires for the American Empire ... mercenaries engaged in subjugating the poor and black citizens of Niger for the benefit of western oligarchs and the clueless citizens of their empires.
• Furthermore [as noted in the links above], it is well documented in State Department emails that France is a co-conspirator with the American Empire in the intentional destabilization and colonization [divide and conquer] of the African continent which "the West" began in earnest with the Clinton-orchestrated overthrow of Gaddafi in Libya who [the elite rightly feared] was going to further the economic liberation and unification of the African nation states by issuing a gold and silver backed pan-African currency for commerce in and with Africa to replace the fiat currencies [the Euro and US$] which western empires have long used to enslave foreign peoples.

Surprise, Surprise

Trump lied twice

• once when he told Serviceman La David T Johnson's widow, Myeshia, that La David "understood what he was signing up for"
• and again when he denied saying that.

Of course, Johnson did not understand that he was agreeing to become a mercenary who in his case happened to die subjugating blacks in Niger.

But the real tragedy here is that the American media and voters do not understand [or care about] the real story behind Johnson's death ... the rise and fall of the American Empire ... because they are too busy with their own bread and circuses ... getting obese as they broadcast and watch internet news and reality entertainment starring Donald Trump [and a host of other celebrities] on their big flatscreen TVs.

Post Scripts

Those precious few with an inquiring mind that has reached dialectical maturity need only consider the recent Arab Spring or the current struggles for independence in Catalonia and Kurdistan ... which our politicians and media seldom discuss and never analyze ... to see that the decentralized republic and the totalitarian empire are thesis and antithesis that will be forever locked in history's Hegelian conflict to see which will destroy the other. And before YOU place YOUR bet, consider this:

"God wills men to be free."
attributed to Henri-Frédéric Amiel

The Great Oops

oops - a natural exclamation of dismay or surprise at doing something awkward
― [OED 1933]

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov


When Fed  Czar Yellen recently admitted that inflation and wages are a "mystery" because they are not rising as expected after decades of unparalleled monetary manipulation, anyone who still believes the Fed knows what it is doing should have broken out in a sweat.

However, ignorance is not a sin ... unless it is willful ... which in this case it is. Why? Because money is the oldest and remains the most important social medium by which individuals reliably communicate accurate information about themselves with one another in real time with real economic and political consequences. It is more important than the printing press, radio, TV or the internet. And this means money directly and powerfully influences virtually every facet of individual and communal action across the globe and across the generations.

It also means that when money is subverted into political propaganda by modern central banks, pervasive economic and political destruction is set in motion and spreads with no breaks to stop its descent into deviancy.

One of no less stature than Keynes himself said this about the hubris of those who believe they are wizards who can pull monetary levers behind the curtains to manage human action with confidence that they are collectively omniscient and understand the full consequences of their actions:

"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. ... Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."

Modern day politicians and central bankers have tinkered with and fallen prey to the demons of central planning and they are dragging the population of the world down to hell with them.

You owe it to your progeny [if not to yourself] to get educated ... and to act forcefully ... because you can no longer claim ignorance ... you have become aware of the greatest crime in world history [yes I mean that] ... for you have seen The Great Oops.