Pence and his master |
Richard Mellor
Afscme Local 444, AFL-CIO retired
There is no limit to the staggering arrogance of the present US administration and some of its front line mouthpieces. Mike Pence, one of the main figures in the cabal, and if you notice, some of them rarely smile, has a few choice words to say about China, Nike and the US National Basketball Association (NBA).
There is no limit to the staggering arrogance of the present US administration and some of its front line mouthpieces. Mike Pence, one of the main figures in the cabal, and if you notice, some of them rarely smile, has a few choice words to say about China, Nike and the US National Basketball Association (NBA).
The Chinese are becoming “more
aggressive and destabilizing” says this employee of Trump Inc. and
lambasted Nike for “checking its social
conscience at the door” and kowtowing to Chinese officials. This is
incredible given that his master, the US Predator in Chief, had no problem
sending weapons of mass destruction to the Saudi’s. Trump’s justification for
selling billions of dollars of US built weaponry to well known beheaders and
misogynists whose illustrious leader Prince
In 2018, corporations
spent $3.42 billion on lobbying
in 2018 according to the Center for Responsive Politics. For the uninitiated
who might be unfamiliar with the term, “lobbying” means bribing politicians in
order to ensure they vote in a way that benefits corporate interests and
profits. The two capitalist parties that have dominated US political life for
over a century, Republicans and Democrats, are both owned and financed by the
same corporate interests. The US Congress is but a committee for defending and
expanding the interests of the 1%.
I should clarify that this criticism is not a defense of the
Stalinist regime in Beijing. I am simply
pointing out the hypocrisy here. The vast majority of the workers of the world
recognize that it is the US state machine and its massive military that is the
most de-stabilizing force in the world. at the moment. It's predatory invasion of Iraq has destroyed it as a nation state. Its military presence in Africa is
considerable despite it not being officially at war with any country
there. The US killing Baghdadi was wiping out its own former friend. In his excellent book, When Google
Met Wikileaks, Julian Assange said of the Grenada invasion that the US was not
there to corner the nutmeg market. And we see where Assange is now. It is not
for rape or accusations of rape that Assange is under lock and key. We have a
rapist (and a racist) in the White House, some American values there.
US workers and the middle class is paying for the policies
of US imperialism but at some point, the ideological dam that immigrants, the
poor and greedy workers are the cause of our declining living standards,
crumbling infrastructure, poor health care, transportation and so on, will be
breached.
Fire crosses Carquinez Strait |
As I write this, from afar, my beautiful state of California
is once again on fire. One of the main causes of course is unplanned growth and
other factors, one of them being the state’s private energy company Pacific Gas
and Electric. As a firm owned by investors who expect returns should, public
safety is not given the same consideration as profits and PG&E as it is
more commonly known, should be taken in to public ownership. The present fires
are only 15 miles from where I live and I live 20 minutes from San Francisco. I
spoke to a friend last night whose niece had moved in with him temporarily
evacuated due to the fires 50 miles north. Another described how her throat was burning die to smoke.
As I stated in an earlier post, there is much to be excited about
as there are uprisings against capitalism and market violence throughout the
world. On all continents (Antarctica excepted) youth and workers are resisting
austerity and profit making and the wars that accompany it.
It is not as if the situation is not ripe for a global
revolutionary process to arise that can send the capitalist mode of production
and the political infrastructure on which it rests in to the garbage can of
history to borrow a much used phrase.
Contrary to what some well meaning people believe, leadership is
crucial.
I was in Dublin Ireland recently and a number of young
people I spoke to had never heard of James Connolly, Liam
Mellows, James Larkin or other heroic figures of Irish working history just as
most US workers have never heard of Eugene Debs, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn or Big
Bill Hayward. In 1919, the workers of Seattle controlled that city through a 5
day general strike and a committee of 100. This history is hidden from us. Our
socialist roots are hidden from us. They have to be re-learned but in times of
great upheaval we learn quickly
What is happening in Chile, Iraq, Lebanon, Uruguay and
throughout the world will strike the US
with a vengeance as the war US capitalism wages daily against its own working
class is becoming intolerable. The US working class will enter the world stage
with a vengeance at some point. Of that we can be sure.
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