Richard Mellor
As I write, a ceasefire has been agreed to between Israel and Hamas. This was predictable and it will be interesting to see who claims responsibility, butcher Biden or the sexual predator, slumlord and con man US president elect Donald Trump.
One thing workers need to grasp clearly is that Trump, who I am sure will claim responsibility for the deal, is acting primarily on behalf of the Israeli's as the genocide is threatening the Zionist Apartheid state, costing lives, conflict within Israel itself and raising the nation to pariah state internationally. Trump, like most western politicians does not consider Palestinian lives as important as Israeli's. Palestinians can't protect US imperialist's interests in the region. And it's quite possible, the Zionist settler state won't be able to either in the immediate future.
As I think about this human catastrophe that has been made possible by the US, taxpayers that have (against the will of many of us) funded it, it makes me think about how bosses treat workers. The US political system and its functionaries in the Congress are mass murderers. But beyond that, their record, given their supposed job description, has been a miserable failure.
Afghanistan was a disaster. As Norman Finkelstein pointed out, it took the US trillions of dollars and over 20 years to "Replace the Taliban with the Taliban.". Iraq has been a disaster as the US taxpayer again was forced to fund an illegal war against a people that never threatened us or harmed us in any way to remove a former ally, Saddam Hussein, who dared to challenge US imperialism's rile book in the Arabian peninsula.
And Vietnam? Three million dead Vietnamese and many children being born deferred today due to the US use of chemical warfare again the people and their food supply (think dead Bison when you consider. this tactic. It's not new) that also killed US troops. Some 67,000 US workers died in yet another war where the US exited in defeat and some dying 4o years later due to the chemical warfare.
If workers were to fail so dismally in our duties as employees in the workplaces we don't control, we would not last too long. And US prisons are filled with hundreds of thousands of workers abandoned by capitalism, not much tolerance in the ruling class when it comes to workers, savaged by the market are forced in to crime. Many of the incarcerated are now fighting fires for $ a day.
Last month, Biden asked Congress for another $8 Billion to fund the genocide. I wonder now if we can get that back and put it to good use here in the US. Maybe build some more schools and fire stations.
Or it could be used in Gaza to help the victims, as long as the Zionists don't get hold of it.
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