Loren Bliss: Dispatches from Dystopia

Patti Smith Lauds Dylan; JesuNazis Target Disabled People

 

MOST OF MY efforts this week are focused on completing a 2500-word analysis of a Trump/Pence decision that necessitated far more research than I initially estimated and will probably be posted later today or sometime early Friday.

Hence the brevity of today's Dispatches, with my heartfelt thanks to TigerLille for sending me the URLs of Patti Smith's profoundly evocative Bob Dylan story and the report on Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' suspension of Trump's malicious ouster of transexuals from the imperial war machine.

 

THOUGH I DESPISE DISASTER PORN, THIS HURRICANE HARVEY REPORT contains valuable information about the impact of climate change, particularly on the coastal regions of North America.

 

WHITE SUPREMACY IN ACTION: THE BLACKLISTING OF COLIN KAEPERNICK: “To watch America’s structural racism at work, one need look no further than the National Football League (NFL) and its treatment of nonviolent unorthodoxy as expressed by Colin Kaepernick going to one knee during the national anthem in support of the unacceptable thought that black lives should matter as much as anyone else’s. Of course, that’s still a relatively new idea in the United States, dating from 1863 in law and still not fully accepted in much of the country.” William Boardman at his best,  including in the comment thread.

 

HOW U.S. NAZISM MAINSTREAMS THE EXTERMINATION OF DISABLED PEOPLE: an important Rewire analysis by s.e. smith  (lower-case letters as in original byline).

LB/30 August 2017

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How Capitalism Maliciously Strangles Human Potential

 

FORMER TRUMP HONCHO SAYS IMPEACHMENT WILL TRIGGER CIVIL WAR. Roger Stone, a top Republican adviser to the Trump/Pence campaign, threatens any member of Congress who might vote for impeachment, warning they "would be endangering their own life."

(Note: I selected this as the lead item in today's Dispatches because Stone's comments exemplify – more convincingly than anything I have hitherto heard or seen – the extent to which the Trump/Pence Regime lays bare the true horror of what the United States has become since the coup of 22 November 1963. To envision what Stone predicts, imagine the battles of 1861-1865 fought with modern military technology – nuclear weapons included. And don't for a minute imagine anything could stop the Trump/Pence reincarnation of the Confederacy from seizing U.S. aircraft, ships and weapons, exactly as the original Confederacy seized all the U.S. military bases and supply depots in the states that seceded. See for example here [scroll down to “Prelude”]. See also the far more detailed [albeit pro-Confederate] account of the Confederacy's economy here.  )

 

WHY “THE GLORY OF WAR” NEEDS TO BE STRIPPED OF ITS “L”: an anti-JesuNazi Southerner, the descendant of a Confederate soldier, reflects on reality then and now.

 

NAFTA STATUS REPORT TRACES IMPORTANT HISTORY OF USIAN CAPITALISM, including how the One Percenters' “forty-year war on workers” reveals the profit motive of which Nazism is invariably the ultimate expression.

 

USIAN CAPITALISM'S TRUE MALEVOLENCE PROVEN BY MINIMUM-WAGE CUTS inflicted by state governments' preemptions of wage-setting authority. An unusually uncensored revelation of Capitalist maliciousness. Another is here. (Given the givens, especially the underlying moral imbecility, I cannot but wonder: how much more will the Trump-Pence Regime cut our already Obama-shrunken food stamp, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security stipends?)

 

JESUNAZI TRANSPHOBIC HATEFULNESS IS NOW OFFICIAL USIAN POLICY. But this Mainstream Media report merely confirms what most of us already know while suppressing the real story: who amongst us – impoverished people, old people, disabled people, gay people, lesbian people, bisexual people, non-white people, non-male people – will be next? Who is next in line to suffer the Trump/Pence Regime's precursor to the total nullification of one's citizenship? (I don't know the answer, but the question sure as hell needs to be asked.)

 

TRUMP-PENCE HUD PLANS TO HURL MILLIONS MORE INTO HOMELESSNESS. The headline tells most of the story. The comment thread is enlightening too.

 

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY IS BEING DISAPPEARED down white supremacy's academic Orwell Hole.

 

FIRST NATIONS SYMBOL SUFFERS COLLATERAL DAMAGE FROM NAZISM. Squabbling begins  over continued display of non-Nazi swastikas.

 

FREEDOM-FROM-RELIGION WIN SURE TO BE UNDONE BY GORSUCH COURT. This overly optimistic report  doesn't say so, but given the already undeniable Supreme Court triumph   of the Trump-Pence Regime's JesuNazi agenda, that's the inevitable fate of the Ninth Circuit Court's decision against a Bremerton, Wash. theocrat.

 

A SUPERB – AND SUPERBLY READABLE – ESSAY ON MARXISM I heartily recommend to anyone  regardless of their level of Marxian curiosity, knowledge and understanding. Pivotal question: why were 19th Century workers so quickly able to comprehend what we of the 21st Century so often find incomprehensible?  

LB/27 August 2017

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Will We Awaken to the Malevolence of 21st Century Nazism?

 

SANDERS/CLINTON “PROGRESSIVE” CRINGES AT THE GESTAPO-LIKE REALITY of the zero-tolerance USian police state. She is obviously ignorant of – or clinically delusional about – its pre-9/11 Democratic (sic) Party origins. (Note how the linked data obviously validates the suspicion 9/11 was the Reichstag Fire equivalent with which the Ruling Class responded to Congressional  rejection of its earlier effort to suspend what remained of the liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.)

 

WHY THE GESTAPO TACTICS? IT'S TO DEFEND WHITE SUPREMACY, STUPID – because the Ruling Class recognizes any challenge to racism is a challenge to Capitalism and therefore a challenge to USian hegemony. That's why our overlords demand anti-racism be oppressed by every means possible. That's also why historian Paul Street's “Lesson on Slavery for White America” is the answer to Melissa Byrne's whine about Gestapo tactics. In addition, it's  maybe the most important historical exposé you'll ever have a chance to read. It's also why I not only urge you to read it, but excerpt from it here:

[T]he present and future so-called 'free market' is very much about what and how much [the capitalists] bring to that market from the past...Even if U.S. capitalism was being conducted without racial discrimination...and it is not (see my own discussion here—there would still be the question of all the poker chips that white America (superrich, white capitalist America, in particular) has stacked up on its side of the table...It is long past time for a monumental payback—paid out of giant taxes on the absurdly rich top tenth of the very predominantly white U.S. 1 percent, which owns as much wealth as the bottom U.S. 90 percent...We shouldn’t charge lower- and working-class whites a penny for the sins of slavery. American racial oppression...(see Edmund Morgan’s classic 1976 study “American Slavery, American Freedom ”)...has undermined working-class and poor whites’ willingness and ability to join with blacks and other nonwhites...to wrest a durably decent living and a democratic society from the wealthy few...[U.S.] racism [is] so doggedly persistent that the mild phrase “black lives matter” is somehow controversial more than half a century after the passage of the Civil Rights Act...

 

TRUMP, OBAMA EQUALLY FASCIST, BUT COVERAGE HIDES THE TRUTH. Eric Zuesse of Global Research shows us how the Capitalist propaganda machine covered up Obama's fascism as deftly as it exposes Trump's fascism.  With this and this  as additional corroboration.

 

REMOVING RACIST STATUARY IS THUS NO MORE THAN PICKING A SCAB from a cancerous lesion and calling it cured.

 

AND BANNON'S DEPARTURE FOSTERS YET ANOTHER DELUSION even if it is not another characteristic act of deception maliciously perpetrated by the Trump-Pence Regime.

 

BUT WHICH IS THE MOST POLITICALLY EFFECTIVE BIG LIE? Will the JesuNazis succeed in hiding their genocidal agenda behind the Republican Party label?

 

IN MUCH THE SAME VEIN, SAM HUSSEINI REMINDS US OF THE UGLY TRUTHS that lurk behind the Big Lies of “liberty and justice for all.”

 

AS THE JESUNAZIS AND THE OTHER FASCISTS INTENSIFY THEIR ATTACKS, “we are quickly reaching the point of escalation in which it’s foolish to not start thinking about worst-case scenarios.” “We can choose to be a nation of democratic principles that embraces equality and the rule of law, or we can escalate the current conflict in favor of greater violence, and war in the streets. The choice is between barbarism and humanity. We can’t have both.”

 

BANNON THREATENS IMPEACHMENT IF TRUMP RELENTS ON RACISM. Maybe this is the real reason for Bannon's resignation – to gain enough distance to hurl horse-turds of invective should the president slacken his white supremacist hate-mongering.

 

DE-NAZIFICATION SUCCEEDED IN GERMANY; WHY DOES IT FAIL IN THE US? A proper question asked by Politico's Joshua Zeitz, the answer gravely flawed – as most comment-thread contributors point out –  by the writer's blatantly dishonest refusal to acknowledge either the crimes of the USian-mandated sanctuary given Nazis in West Germany or the de-Nazification achieved by East Germany in a far more relentless unforgiving campaign assisted by the Soviet Union. Hence, in response to Zeitz's lies of omission, the historically corrective necessity of this report,  which also exemplifies how only Marxism comprehends the total evil of Capitalism, the ultimate form of which is Nazism.

 

WE OFTEN FORGET HOW TRANS PEOPLE LIVE IN A HOSTILE COUNTRY. Especially for African-American trans people, it is a realm more like Nazi Germany than most of us dare acknowledge.

 

WHICH IS WHY WE THE (WHITE) PEOPLE NEED BLACK LEADERSHIP – African-American feminist leadership in particular – now more than ever.

 

MEANWHILE, THE VIEW FROM NORTH OF THE KOREAN DMZ is far different from anything we have been conditioned by Big Lies to imagine.

 

SUPREME COURT JUSTICE CALLS SOCIALISM “THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE.” Harlan Fiske Stone opposed socialism only because “he believed the judicial system could be reformed and empowered to protect the public from the tyranny of corporate elites.” More vital USian history rescued from the Orwell Hole,  this time by the inimitable Chris Hedges

LB/23 August 2017

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Racism and Resistance: Humans vs. JesuNazis, Boston vs. Charlottesville, a Five-Day Anthology of Reports and Analyses

 

40,000 BOSTONIANS MUSTER ON THE COMMON to emphatically say no to Nazism. The Boston turnout was part of a nation-wide anti-JesuNazi mobilization (but given the immunity of Nazism to pacifist opposition, how effective will it actually be)?

 

THE NAZIS' MORAL IMBECILITY WAS ALREADY OBVIOUS. The Trump-Pence Regime was warned three months ago of looming JesuNazi violence. But then Trump's lawyer voluntarily endorsed the president's racism.  And – murderously anticipating Charlottesville – the Republicans were already pushing legislation to weaponize vehicles and thereby legalize JesuNazi vehicular assaults against humanitarians.Though some Republicans still vainly try to disassociate themselves from the ongoing carnage.  (Thanks to AJM for sending me the last of these four links.)

 

WHAT IS RACISM AND CAN IT BE CURED? Robert Parry says racism is blindness. But I who spent many boyhood years living amongst racists in the South say it's a cancerous form of religion and ideology hybridized to incurable hatefulness – the very hatefulness that is now metastasizing throughout the nation.

 

NAZISM – AND WHITE SUPREMACY IN GENERAL, IS ALWAYS VECTORED by the Capitalists' inconceivable [and inconceivably toxic] wealth.  The Trump-Pence Duopoly has long been recognized by the Ruling Class as smugly, even snugly in the JesuNazi camp.

 

HENCE JESUNAZISM IS NOW AS “AMERICAN AS APPLE PIE,” the hideous truth expressed by USian policy whether last week in Charlottesville or three years ago in the Ukraine. In this context, Obama himself is the ultimate white racist – “white” not only as a racial construct but also as an ideological construct.” `How bad is it? Witness both the deliberately genocidal policies of austerity and the maliciously racist brainwashing imposed on First Nations people, each a harbinger of the deadly wretchedness the Capitalists are now imposing on us all. That's why Hillary would have been just as bad – if not worse.

 

AS ALWAYS, NAZIS BEHAVE AS NAZIS. (DID YOU EXPECT OTHERWISE?) Hence the zero-tolerance prosecution of people brave enough to destroy racist symbols. (Note by contrast the taxpayer-funded police protection granted racism's defenders.) And let us not forget the ever-intensifying JesuNazi attack against women.

 

NORMALLY I WOULD NOT WASTE SPACE ON HILLARY'S CO-CONSPIRATORS, BUT this story of a top Hillaryite operative – an African-American woman descended from Confederate Slavemaster Robert E. Lee – embodies too many classically USian ironies to pass up. (With thanks to the reader, a person anonymous by choice, who sent me the link.)

 

APROPOS RACIST IRONY, THE BEST ONE-LINER THUS FAR ON THE NAZI'S USE of Tiki torches is from a longtime friend, Graphic Artist/Cultural Critic Brian Weaver: “White supremacists carrying Tiki torches at the Charlottesville white nationalist Nazi rally, is some kind of high irony that I’m sure they don’t understand.” (No URL publicly available.)

 

WHERE I LIVE, THE NEWS IS SO CENSORED WE HAVE TO LOOK ELSEWHERE to find out what is happening in our own locale, as in these intensifying grievances amongst Tacoma Teamsters without whose labor the corporate seaport would die. There is also the growing resistance to the apocalyptic potential  of a liquid natural gas plant – a too-little/too-late gesture of futility because the facility has already been fully approved. Thus if nothing else the LNG protest exemplifies how bourgeois leadership diverts and thereby squanders radical impulses that could far more fruitfully be directed elsewhere, as in defending mass transit, expanding abortion-clinic defense or mobilizing for tenants rights. (The News Tribune, the local McClatchy feifdom, is pay-walled with the same malicious effectiveness McClatchy employs in busting its unions [scroll down], which means most of us on the True Left are too impoverished to read it on line. News coverage by local broadcast media is worse than inadequate, and our only sure access to TNT is via the public libraries, access to which is itself restricted by local public transport hatefully diminished by white supremacist suburbanites.)

 

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Thinking and Writing: Begun as a Letter to a Friend

 

THE NEW YORKER DARES ASK IF WE ARE FACING CIVIL WAR, thereby repeating and further disseminating the question we of the Real Left began asking at least four months ago. Hence the following, from a letter originally written in response to a comment posted by friend and reader: l

In truth, Doro, I think we are indeed facing another civil war. Nazis (and fascists in general) cannot be reformed. As the Soviet Union so clearly understood, they can only be neutralized – whether by life imprisonment in the inescapable isolation of a Siberian labor camp or immediate execution. General Sherman correctly reached a similar conclusion about the Confederates before his invasion of Georgia and South Carolina, hence the now-legendary mercilessness of his march to the sea. The question, as in the civil war of 1861-1865, is whether We the People have the courage and stamina to do what must be done.

Meanwhile the Trump/Pence Regime with its JesuNazi agenda has given anti-minority violence a degree of respectability unknown since Hitler's ascent to power in the early 1930s. The Nazis have long been lurking in our national shadows – we gave tens of thousands of them sanctuary from the Red Army after World War II – and these foreign-born Nazis we invited into our homeland then of course merely added their European Machiavellianism to reinforce the murderous scheming of our own home-grown Ku Klux, Confederate and Christian Identity brands of Nazism.

In the past, our national governments (and some state and local governments as well), had managed to keep the resultant can of human garbage at least partially lidded. But now what in essence has happened is the incipiently Nazi South has risen again – and this time it has won, capturing not just the federal government but a vast array of state and local governments as well. As a consequence, the struggle We the People face today – against a regime that is ever-more-openly tyrannical – more closely approximates the Revolution of 1776 than the first civil war.

But even that analogy falls apart when we consider the weaponry our enemies have acquired by their conquest of the federal government – weaponry that includes the neutron bomb, designed to exterminate the entire population of even the largest city while leaving all its physical structures, banking, manufacturing and transport capabilities intact for immediate resumption of Capitalist profiteering. And do not think for a moment our JesuNazi overlords would hesitate to employ such weapons us. They do not regard us as human; they view us as the subhumans they must necessarily employ in their quests for profits – subhumans they hope someday to entirely replace with robots.

For the first time in our species' history, we face not just the prospect of self-extinction, but the very high probability we will not only make ourselves extinct, but reduce our Earth to a bug planet in the process -- which I must confess sometimes makes me wonder if the seeds of patriarchy sown 6,000 years ago by talking snakes, burning bushes and fiery wheels were not the interstellar, Kochroach equivalents of the smallpox-saturated blankets with which our European ancestors began their genocidal "cleansing" of North America. For it is unquestionably patriarchy – from which Capitalism and its historically inevitable metamorphosis into Nazism are each directly descended – that has brought us to this terrible impasse. And whom will be the ultimate beneficiaries save the cockroaches and whatever advanced intergalactic Kochroach collaborators they might indeed have.

That said, I view the future from a perspective based on the fact I am 77 years old and slowly dying of congestive heart failure. Because I do not see any way We the People can possibly overcome the Ruling Class superiority in technologies of surveillance and apocalyptic weaponry, I am not optimistic. Though I suspect I will survive a few more years, I am grateful I will probably not live long enough to learn just how unspeakably awful life on this planet will become for those of us who are not part of the obscenely privileged white One Percent. Indeed my death-blow will most likely be dealt me not by my disease itself but by the Trump-Pence Regime's intentionally genocidal reductions in Medicare and Medicaid, which are continuing via administrative means even as deliberate Congressional misdirection focuses our attention elsewhere.

Meanwhile Doro I empathize with your yearning to be reborn as a parrot. But in the intensifying darkness that now overshadows us all, I doubt the wings of any psittacine – or even an arctic tern (whose annual pole-to-pole-and back migratory odyssey totals 44,000 miles) – could fly us to sanctuary. The awful truth is there are now no sanctuaries from Capitalism – especially from Capitalism as it expresses its ultimate sadism via Nazism – remaining anywhere on this planet.

Our species has already divided into two global factions, one side led economically (and therefore ideologically) by the steadily more powerful People's Republic of China, the other by the ever-more-tyrannical USian JesuNazi Empire, the veritable Fourth Reich. And there is nowhere in this planet that cannot be obliterated by Capitalism's thermonuclear arsenal. But we cannot always accurately foretell the future. Our greatest ally in this truly terminal struggle against JesuNazism may prove to be Mother Nature herself, which means there is always the possibility some unforeseen evolution of human consciousness or twist of environmental fate will empower us to achieve the victory that now so often seems so impossibly far beyond our reach.

Nevertheless – no matter if our cause seems hopeless – we must continue to fight. To surrender to JesuNazism (or any other brand of fascism) is to deny the beneficence of our species' communistic instincts – instincts of cooperative solidarity  that for at least 200,000 years have defined us as human. (Though I will always sneer at the imbecility of bourgeois hope that defines Yes Magazine's editorial policy, its is nevertheless sometimes a source of invaluable information.) Will we then remain true to our species' humanitarian potential? Or will we betray it – and ourselves – by siding with our deadliest enemies? The challenge voiced by the old traditional song of Working Class militancy, “Which Side Are You On,” defines our quandary today as clearly as it did nearly a century ago.

LB/17-21 August 2017

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Can USian Whites Be Shamed into Suppressing the Fascists?

 

ACLU CAN'T DISTINGUISH LYNCH MOBS FROM PEACEABLE ASSEMBLIES: There's no question about the willingness of the minority population and even some Working Class whites to take the necessary ameliorative action against the fascists – “fascists” used here in its broadest sense, to include the JesuNazis and all the other violent reactionaries the Trump-Pence Regime is elevating to national legitimacy. But the majority of apparently non-fascist whites, especially those of the professional and managerial castes, seem too cowardly – or too clandestinely compliant – to do more than hide behind First Amendment rhetoric that refuses to distinguish between peaceable assemblies and lynch mobs, thereby enabling the lynch mob  that tried to beat an African-American man to death and murdered Heather Heyer, whose memorial service was held in Charlottesville, Virginia Tuesday night. (With thanks to Tigerlille for the “Cops refused to protect synagogue” link.)

CITIZENS UNITED DEFENDER ACLU FOUGHT TO ENABLE NAZI VIOLENCE: The great paradox of democratic process is its inherent self-destructiveness. And nothing illustrates that paradox more vividly than the American Civil Liberties Union, which fights to destroy the democratic process in the name of defending it, whether as amicus curiae in the Citizens United case or defender of the Nazis' right to march (and murder) in Charlottesville.

WE RECOGNIZETHE JESUNAZISM FESTERING AT THE TRUMP-PENCE CORE, BUT Sun Tzu tells us there is no such thing as too much knowledge about one's enemy. Hence the relevance of this, this, this and this.

 

THE NEED FOR UNYIELDING RESISTANCE TO THE FASCISTS is ever more obvious. But the question is whether our resolve will continue to grow  and foster new acts of resistance (with thanks to a reader who chooses to remain anonymous for the link) – or will resistance dwindle as it did in the wake of the killings at Kent State University and Jackson State College? Obviously I hope our movement will intensify, and just as obviously, I will contribute as best I can to its intensification.

 

WHICH IS WHY I REMAIN A PROUD MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL WRITERS UNION, an emergent leader in the anti-fascist resistance, especially in raising money to pay the medical bills of the Charlottesville wounded.

 

MEANWHILE THE GESTAPO-MINDED TRUMP-PENCE REGIME tightens its stranglehold on our liberty by continuing to demand the identity of everyone who accessed the inauguration-protest website even once. Why else – but in preparation for a Nazi-Germany-caliber mass arrest of dissidents – would the regime demand such information?

THE WHITE-SUPREMACIST WAR ON USIAN MASS TRANSIT CONTINUES, first as noted here in Washington state,  now as has become obvious in New York City.

A REVEALING MOMENT OF GLOBAL RESEARCH TRUTH ON NORTH KOREA shows us another demented dimension of USian fascism in action.

 

THE GNARLIEST ANTI-FASCIST VIDEO I HAVE YET SEEN contains the gnarliest anti-fascist comment I have yet heard: “screaming about your rights as an American while rockin' the Confederate flag is like arguing against gay marriage with a dick in your mouth.” (Scroll down the linked text to the bottom video.) Indeed for its anti-depressant effectiveness, it nearly equals this.

LB/16 August 2017

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EXTRA: More Coverage of the Battle of Charlottesville

 

TRUTHDIG SCOOPS THE WORLD ON PHOTOS OF THE NAZIS RUNNING AMOK in Charlottesville, Virginia. Thanks to the courage and skill of New York Photojournalist Michael Nigro, we get a closeup look at the murderous malignancy of the uniquely USian JesuNazism spawned by Capitalism in its historically inevitable metamorphosis into fascism.

Nigro's emotionally wrenching pictures include glimpses of the Nazi vehicular assault that crushed 32-year-old Heather Heyer to death.

These images also show us how the (predominantly white) local and state cops encouraged the murder and mayhem by refusing to intervene against the Nazis, thus revealing the fascist sympathies that infect far too many of the nation's federally militarized police.

But most importantly, what these photographs show us is the vision of USian terrorism than until now was mostly witnessed only by people of African-American, Hispanic or First Nations origins. What we see in so many of these frames is the true face of our species' most deadly enemies, the white-supremacist/Christian Identity terrorists whose ideological ancestors ruled the Confederate States of America, then ruled the German Third Reich and now seek to subjugate our own homeland with a high-tech version of their irremediably bigoted despotism.

Let us never forget the bitter truth this new Nazism's sneeringly sadistic perpetrators – every one of them a cancer cell of terminal hatefulness in human disguise – personify the menace We the People and our allies hoped we had eliminated 72 years ago in what the Occidental world labels the Second World War.

But tragically it seems not even the inconceivable 26.6 million deaths of Soviet men, women and children – more than enough corpses to ring the earth at its 24,901.55-miles of equator – was a martyrdom sufficient to cleanse our planet of the Nazis and their fascist kindred.

(Note how the unforgettable grief twisting the faces of women at Kiev reaches across the boundaries of race, nationality and time to establish an eternal family of those who mourn fascist atrocities whether at Charlottesville or anywhere else in our beleaguered planet.)

Meanwhile We the USian People in our misguided tolerance have betrayed even our own 838,000 Union Army and World War II dead  – each forever extinguished life formerly possessed of the same physical, emotional and intellectual awareness that defines each of our own selves. We have also betrayed the 41 murdered men and women of both races who gave up their lives for the Civil Rights Movement. 

And we whites are undoiubtedly the worst offenders. Most of us have ignored the warnings by Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. and Fred Hampton and Bobby Seale and Angela Davis and James Baldwin and Cornel West and Leonard Peltier and Abu Jamal and so many others.

We have allowed the Nazi vermin to multiply and metastasize, perhaps terminally, throughout our own body politic.

Now because of our former passivity we ourselves must undertake the hard, often dangerous, too frequently fatal work of rebuilding our own political household.

May the martyred Heather Heyer become a Muse of our revolutionary awakening and perseverance.

LB/14 August 2017

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Battle of Charlottesville Update: At Least 3 Dead, 35 Wounded

 

JESUNAZIS, ZIEG-HEILING TRUMP, WORK THEMSELVES INTO HOLOCAUST MODE. An uncharacteristically honest Mainstream Media report on today's most indicative story, complete with an unusually outspoken Mainstream Media editorial,  shows the Ruling Class is beginning to shit its proverbial pants in the face of the civil war its Trump-Pence electing treachery is breeding.

 

MURDERED WHITE WOMAN WAS PROTESTING NAZIFICATION. I reluctantly link the Yahoo report because it is the one source I could find that includes photographic portraits of the late Heather Heyer and her African-American comrades.

 

MEANWHILE TOO MUCH OF THE LEFT CLINGS TO SUICIDAL ANTI-GUN IDEOLOGY, ignoring the lessons taught by the Black Panthers, the Deacons for Defense and the many activists who have quietly armed themselves against the definitively murderous JesuNazis and fascists in general.

 

COUNTERPUNCH PUBLISHES 3 VITAL CRITIQUES OF THE USIAN LEFT for not being sufficiently analytical or far enough Left, here,  here  and here. Best quotes are from the second and third URLs respectively. Luciana Bohne: “Fascism has many faces, but the most constant is that of the supremacist delusion that the West is the carrier of “universal values” and that, as exclusive interpreter and custodian of these values, the West is obligated to act as watchdog of democracy and human rights throughout the globe...This is the terrifying message of one nation 'uber alles.'” Rob Urie: “ (N)eoliberalism has long been a subtext of White nationalism. If social outcomes reflect individual capabilities, goes the theory, then group social failures result from aggregated individual failures— from some ‘defect’ that characterizes individuals as members of that group. This is the theoretical basis of ‘scientific racism’” – in other words, why the “super-predator” Clintons are as much white racist swine as any Ku Klux Klanner.

 

NEW POLL SHOWS REPUBLICANS DEEPLY DESIRE MORE DESPOTISM, no surprise to those of us who acknowledge Capitalism's irresistible momentum toward JesuNazism and fascism in general.

 

WHILE NEW EVIDENCE IN THE ABU JAMAL CASE PROVES AGAIN THE DESPOTISM that already defines the United States as the de facto Fourth Reich.

 

AS DOES THE SECRET POLICE RAID ON ANTI-DAPL ACTIVISTS at a Catholic Worker collective in Iowa

 

THE TRUMP-PENCE REGIME'S ESCALATION OF ITS WAR ON DISABLED PEOPLE,  evidenced by its newly revealed but unsurprising withdrawal of a lawsuit the previous regime filed.

 

AND THE JESUNAZI-DRIVEN TRUMP/PENCE COURTSHIP OF APOCALYPSE, as exposed by Americans United and denounced in the civilized world.

 

ALL SUCH TYRANNY BOLSTERED BY ONGOING DEMOCRATIC (SIC) TREACHERY as exemplified by Barbara Lee and Tulsi Gabard  and the party's gloatingly pro-Wall-Street sabotage of the Sanders campaign. The latter – the epitome of the breathtakingly brazen Big Lie in Obama's “change we can believe in” – is the target of a revealing but probably doomed Florida lawsuit.

 

PUBLICATION OF CIA MEDIA-CONTROL EXPOSÉ BLOCKED IN U.S: though the headline tells the story, more details are here.

 

TERMINAL CLIMATE CHANGE IN ACTION: All-time-record 10-inch rainfall floods New Orleans,  prophesying the doom of all coastal cities.

 

SMALL VICTORIES FOR WOMEN IN ALASKA, WASHINGTON STATE, BUT each was facilitated by the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), which – lest we be deceived by its progressive facade – was an amicus curiae supporter of Citizens United, the most devastating judicial blow ever struck against USian civil liberty.

 

BRIEF BUT CONTEMPLATIVELY IMPORTANT READING, an open letter from James Baldwin to Angela Davis  I inadvertently omitted from the last Dispatches. (The Newsweek cover Baldwin cites is here.) When oh when will we embrace such rightfully revolutionary leadership – especially now in this era of ever-more-brazen JesuNazi murderousness.

LB/13 August 2017

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A Potpourri of Liberal Treachery, JesuNazi Atrocities, Relevant Book Reviews and Small but Promising Triumphs

 

WE KNOW IN OUR HEARTS CAPITALISM IS DEATH AND REVOLUTION IS SURVIVAL, and now Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams have written a book entitled Creating an Ecological Society: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation to articulate this emotional truth so many of us feel but for many reasons find it difficult to verbalize. In response, Ron Jacobs has penned one of the most compellingly provocative book reviews  I have ever read anywhere on any subject.

 

SEPARATELY BUT IN OBVIOUS SYNCHRONICITY WITH MAGDOFF AND WILLIAMS, author Chris Wright cites Peter Kropotkin to argue that the looming apocalypse proves communism is the only true morality. 

 

PREDICTABLY, WITH SUCH IDEOLOGY BECOMING COMMONPLACE, a smug coterie of corporate and academic aristocrats  are now enough terrified by the prospect of proletarian vengeance, they have launched what is thus far the most breathtakingly deceptive scheme I have yet encountered to co-opt the revolution and thereby perpetuate not just Capitalism but their own medieval authority within it.

To do so, they've followed the Democratic (sic) Party's practice of hybridizing progressive-sounding rhetoric with irredeemably bourgeois conceptualizations of New Age individualism – think “the audacity of hope” and “change we can believe in.” Thus, like the Democrats, they deftly conceal their underlying tyrannical intent. But unlike the Democrats, these perpetrators of oppression have refined their messaging to an intellectual and emotional counter-revolutionary toxicity that in its seductiveness may have no counterpart in human history.

Disclosure: as the editor-in-chief of Art Direction magazine c. 1984-1986, I was often called upon to pass judgment on advertising and public relations campaigns – and this campaign is by far the most diabolically effective such effort I have ever encountered. Josef Goebbels would be not just proud but ecstatic. Which is probably why the usually ideologically savvy editors of PopularResistance.org were duped into publishing it.  (Scroll down to the comment thread for absolute proof – in the perpetrators' own words – of their counter-revolutionary intent.)

 

A SIMILAR ALBEIT LESS SOPHISTICATED COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY DECEPTION is evident in the aristocratic sponsorship of the fight to preserve the small presence of transsexual people in the Imperial war machine.“

 

MEANWHILE, HATEMONGERS AND COUNTRY COPS TEAM UP to further the New Holocaust.

 

RACIST HOMOPHOBIC VIGILANTES BURN A WHITE OKLAHOMA MAN'S HOUSE and garage to terrorize him for being openly gay and continuing to reside in an all-white neighborhood after adopting an African-American child as his son.

 

AND THE TRUMP-PENCE REGIME CONTINUES TO ERADICATE the Civil Rights gains we made in the 1960s and 1970s, thereby fulfilling its vile promises to its JesuNazi constituents.

 

NOT SURPRISINGLY, ANOTHER UNIONIZATION CAMPAIGN DIES in the irremediably subjugated South, the UAW rejected overwhelmingly by the (mostly African-American) workers it was intended to empower and protect.

 

USIA'S EVER-MURDEROUS GLOBAL EMPIRE BUDGETS AT LEAST $49 MILLION to exterminate socialist democracy in Venezuela.

 

RUSSIA AND CHINA EMERGE AS THE NEW GLOBAL PEACMAKERS, trying desperately – and possibly with some success – to stave off the threat of nuclear war on the Korean peninsula as the Empire escalates its warmongering even in that potentially apocalyptic powder-keg environment.

 

USIAN HEALTHCARE WORKERS HAVE BEGUN DISCOVERING THEIR POWER to win better care for their patients and overthrow Capitalism's implicitly genocidal privilege-of-wealth healthcare by replacing it with genuinely humanitarian healthcare as a human right.

 

THEN THERE'S THE WEIRD STUFF YOU SOMETIMES STUMBLE ON while you're doing research,  such as this interview with Mark Ames, whose (2005) book about rage murders in USian schools and workplaces claims these violent acts are, in effect, failed revolts.

 

PLUS THE VITAL REVIEW OF A WORK THAT SHOWS HOW CAPITALISM, given half a chance, will inevitably father fascism. Entitled Big Business and Hitler, this book is relevant not only because of its unprecedented disclosures, but because it refutes the false, aristocracy-protecting analyses of how Hitler came to power, which closely parallel the equally false, equally aristocracy-protecting analyses of how the Trump-Pence Regime came to rule the USian Empire.

LB/9 August 2017

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Germany Confirms It: Trump "Far Worse Than Expected"

 

(Longtime readers please note that in many Dispatches updates, links to older material are provided as background. New readers might find these older links useful, possibly even vital, in understanding the significance of the new material.)

 

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FROM CIVILIZATION'S PERSPECTIVE, TRUMP'S MALEVOLENT BARBARISM is “far worse than expected.” The linked der Spiegel report confirms, in a generalized sense, much of what I predicted immediately after the Ruling Class oh-so-deftly manipulated the Trump/Pence Regime into the White House.

 

WHICH ADMITS THE NEED FOR AN ANTI-USIAN INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE: though the der Spiegel report does not say it outright, it implicitly raises the prospect of an all-Europe, eventually global alliance of civilized peoples and nations to fight against the JesuNazi savagery that now threatens not only the survival of our species, but the survival of Earth as anything more than a bug planet. Such an alliance would most assuredly provide one of the four prerequisites to successful revolution –  that is, the support of a major foreign power (scroll down to “History shows us...”). But not so fast with the false hopes: can anything stop the JesuNazis' scheme to nuke the whole world – which they believe is necessary  to bring their Sadomasochistic Savior and Messiah of Malignancy back to Earth?

 

TEACHABLE MOMENTS WITHIN THE TRUMP-PENCE TYRANNIES: the one most important lesson being hammered into our (allegedly) conscious minds by the Trump/Pence Regime – not just by its own unapologetic tyranny, but by the breathtaking betrayal increasingly evident in how the Democratic (sic) Party's ever-more-obvious Big Lie of opposition  put the JesuNazis in the White House – is that We the People no longer have any friends at all amongst those who govern on behalf of Capitalism. Just as – precisely because our Capitalist overlords no longer hide the fact they consider us the enemy – so must We the People learn to consider all Capitalist governance the enemy. Indeed our survival depends on it. The sooner we recognize the ugly truth that one-party Capitalist despotism lurks behind the Big Lie of the USian two-party system, the sooner we will be able to replace it with real (i.e., socialist) democracy.

 

BUT EVEN THOSE WHO KNOW BETTER CLING DESPERATELY, and often with compelling eloquence,  to the Big Lie of USia as the land of “liberty and justice for all.” Such fools hold to the ludicrous notion Trumpcare was somehow magically defeated by public protest – this in a land wherein We the People have long been reduced to absolute powerlessness. In Capitalist truth – the embittering truth so many of us yet reflexively deny – the outcome was decided solely by the health insurance lobbyists and their manifest skills at legal bribery and psychological arm-twisting. To believe otherwise is as absurd as the equally self-defeating belief the USian Anti-War Movement – not the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese People's Army – won the Vietnam War. But here again we encounter the disheartening lesson that rebellion requires individual and collective courage – a quality that has been almost completely eradicated from the USian people save amongst the Empire's violently persecuted minorities. 

 

HENCE THIS LIST OF NEW AND OLD PROOFS OF OPPRESSION, with the latter included as vital background. Among the most glaringly relevant examples are the imposition of Obamacare (which from its inception was intended to perpetuate –  precisely as its suddenly increased popularity is doing – healthcare as a privilege of wealth  rather than a human right); the genocidal intent that underlies the Trumpcare threat (which is already forcing people to flee the United States); the total-surveillance state (which with its federally militarized cops and myriad secret police agencies is specifically intended to ensure the religiously mandated savagery of Biblical Capitalism remains forever revolution-proof);  and of course the 2016 Presidential Election itself (which with the Democratic [sic] Party's now-undeniably fake campaign –  not even Hillary could have been that egotistically stupid – was the last [ultimately terminal] act in the great charade of USian “democracy”). No surprise, the script is playing out precisely as (euphemistically) outlined in the Powell Memo's blueprint for the metamorphoses of USian Capitalism into its unique form of fascism, JesuNazism.

 

THAT SAID, THE BEST ANALYSIS OF HOW THE TRUMP-PENCE TICKET WON – he “blew smoke up our asses” – was voiced by a woman in West Virginia we'd all probably love to have a beer with. 

 

BUT THAT DOESN'T DIMINISH THE EVER-EXPANDING ROSTER OF ATROCITIES the Trump-Pence Regime is committing against any and all of us who are not armored by weaponized wealth. The newest such assaults are described here (with thanks to a reader for the heads-up); here; and here. This last link is to the best report yet on Google's new, implicitly white supremacist suppression of all Leftist commentary and criticism.

 

ATOP THAT, SESSIONS THREATENS US WITH HOW EASY IT IS TO BE VICTIMIZED for being openly LGBTQ.

 

WHICH EXEMPLIFIES WHY THE JESUNAZIS LOVE TRUMP-PENCE TYRANNY just as much as they love their Divine Sadist and his looming imposition of zero-tolerance theocracy, a subset of which is the genuinely horrifying emergence of Chief Justice Clarence Thomas as the regime's primary legal influence.

 

THOUGH ON THE (EVER-DWINDLING) POSITIVE SIDE OF THE POLITICAL LEDGER, there remain a few doggedly persistent efforts to (falsely) reassure us the Trump-Pence Regime will not eradicate all the (very few) remaining vestiges of our (alleged) democracy. These include the burgeoning but probably doomed fight against the price-gouging inflicted on us by the prescription drug lords; an indisputably doomed effort to federally legalize marijuana; a pathetically optimistic essay based on the cruel delusion the JesuNazis might allow the recognition of healthcare as a human right; next a Ralph Nader piece expressing one of our most desperate hopes that, unintentionally, shows why all hope is absurd; and, lastly, Oliver Stone's truthfully eloquent, personally inspiring but nevertheless politically impotent rant against the monumental deceptions by which the Empire is attempting to justifying its hostility toward Russia.

 

THUS, EVER TRUE TO THE MANDATES OF EXISTENTIAL ANGST, we close today's Dispatches with contrasting absurdities: on the one hand the notion that under the total-surveillance, militarized-police jackboots of JesuNazism – and never mind the induced failure of Occupy – We the (Ever-More-Oppressed) People might be allowed to organize our own political party; on the other hand the notion that an arrogantly upscale Colorado cathouse represents the ultimate in women's liberation.

 

NEVERTHELESS, I STILL BELIEVE “WE SHALL OVERCOME.” BUT TO DO SO, we damn well have to acknowledge the terrible Machiavellian brilliance of our enemy and our own monumental failure to grasp the near-infinite magnitude of his oppressiveness, a malevolent force that is all the more difficult to comprehend precisely because it has no precedent in our species' entire 200,000-year history. For only when we have come to truly know our enemy will we able to find the spaces, mental and physical – or more correctly internal and external – in which to evolve genuine revolution.

LB/6 August 2017

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USian Capitalism amidst Its Metamorphoses into JesuNazism: a Deepening Despotism Built on Death, Deception and Despair

 

READER ALERT: In what is obviously another act of politically motivated censorship, HotMail will no longer transmit Dispatches. This is the second incident of retaliation by service providers, as America On Line (AOL) email began locking out of Dispatches transmissions several months ago. Despite the aggravation, I take this as an inadvertent compliment: clearly this material is frightening some of our corporate overlords.

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CAPITALISM AND JESUNAZISM AS CHOREOGRAPHIES OF SUICIDE: today's Dispatches open with another bitingly relevant essay by Chris Hedges that in one way or another embodies the message implicit in all of today's news items.

I link to Hedges' work so often not only because this long-declared socialist eloquently and informatively journeys ever further to the (real) Left, but because I am increasingly convinced he may be the greatest USian nonfiction writer of this era. If indeed our species has any future at all, he will at the very least be honored as the most courageously outspoken English-language essayist of the early 21st Century.

Implicit in all his work is acknowledgment of the infinitely damning and therefore often emphatically denied truth the common denominator of our present-day human consciousness is despair.

Nor does Hedges flinch from the obvious but even more forcibly suppressed corollary that if we are to make the revolution that is necessary to preserve our species and save our Earth from reduction to a bug planet – that is, if we are to overthrow capitalism – we must find a way to make revolution an assertion of affirmation rather than a frenzy of destruction.

 

DESPOTISM AS DEATH (1) – THE MILITARIZED COPS to whom we the people are the enemy continue to run amok, especially now that their murderous brutality is publicly endorsed and applauded by Trump. The first of these two linked reports includes a partial roll-call of the dead, an ancient ritual that in the thealogy of my Pagan Celtic ancestors was an invocation of the Morrigan in her aspect as Goddess of Retribution. Meanwhile because of escalating police violence against people of color, women and LGBTQ folk, the NAACP advises against visiting the state of Missouri or even traveling through it.

 

DESPOTISM AS DEATH (2) – GENOCIDAL DENIAL OF HEALTHCARE: As cannot be said too often, the Trump/Pence Regime's opposition to Obamacare, Medicare and Medicaid is a byproduct of its fanatical Christianity. That's why Trump's threats – which are ultimately threats to murder us all by denying us the care that keeps us alive – are to be taken as seriously as any death threat from a known serial killer. How many times must it be said: this is not a policy dispute. It is religious war, a doctrinally motivated effort to impose genocide.

 

DESPOTISM AS DEATH (3) – MENTAL ILLNESS REDUCES US TO THROWAWAY PEOPLE (a passage from the linked text): “Under the current neoliberal order, our mental health is subordinated to the needs of the market. On the one hand, the government and big business sell us the idea of happiness and wellbeing, a kind of consumerist dream where we seek our personal fulfillment through a well-paid job and a happy relationship, furnished with consumer goods as markers of our success. On the other hand, when the capitalist system fails to deliver on our dreams and goals, we are encouraged to blame ourselves for our failure to succeed. But if we begin to crack psychologically, then we find there are few psychological services available to help.”

The linked report also describes the efforts of Marxian psychologists to combat Capitalism's often-sadistic victimization of people who are mentally ill. An otherwise thoughtful and thought-provoking essay by Hazel Croft, it unfortunately omits any mention of the pioneering work by the late David Smail, with whom I briefly corresponded just after the turn of the century. Though not Marxian per se, Smail nevertheless argued that much of what is defined as mental illness must be understood as the result of wounding by the savagery of Capitalism.

While Croft focuses entirely on the plight of mentally ill people in Great Britain, her text is nevertheless a relevant introduction to the infinitely worse conditions  here in the USian Homeland, where chronic mental patients were amongst the first victims  of Capitalism's regression to the malevolence that defines its transition into fascism.

Now, with entire USian governments increasingly captive by the JesuNazis, there is a grotesque likelihood governmental policy will increasingly reflect the JesuNazi viewpoint: that mentally ill people are cursed by god and should thus be exterminated. Which – given the popularity of JesuNazism amongst cops as evidenced here, here  and here – puts a horrible new light on the fact nearly 50 percent of those killed by the police are mentally ill or mentally disabled.

 

DESPOTISM AS DECEPTION (1) – MORE “CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN”: The Democratic (sic) Party continues to rely on various and sundry Big Lies in its deliberately ineffectual and therefore undeniably bogus effort to recapture Congress next year. One of the Democrats' more obviously self-defeating tactics is its open recruitment of avowed misogynists, a ploy that has already prompted a properly angry petition campaign from the feminist group We Are UltraViolet.

 

DESPOTISM AS DECEPTION (2) – A SUBSET OF DECEPTION IS CENSORSHIP. Its Big Lie is its implicit denial of the existence of the targeted information. It is also an atrocity against human consciousness, the deliberate imposition of ignorance by the withholding of vital information, precisely as Google is now doing. Note too the vendetta against Dispatches by the email services HotMail and AOL as reported above. Nor are films exempt from this radical increase in unapologetic censorship, all of it fostered by Capitalism's metamorphosis into fascism.

 

DESPOTISM AS DESPAIR – INDICATIONS OF OUR PRESENT MINDSET: a Spanish journalist writes poignantly of our desperate need for an antidote to fear and hatred. An older report links belief in a punitive god – one of the defining dogmas of JesuNazism – to increased anxiety and mental illness. And I argue that our radically declining voter turnout – only 14.95 percent in Tuesday's Washington state primary elections – is itself a symptom of the emotional abyss into which Capitalism has hurled us. Because the lack of turnout is a kind of vote – its message is “none of the above” – it bodes very badly for any electoral relief from JesuNazism next year.

 

DESPOTISM AS FANATICISM – GLIMPSES OF THE THEOCRATIC MALIGNANCY at the core of the Trump-Pence Regime: The JesuNazis believe Trump rules by divine right. And their White House Bible-study classes bolster their malevolent zealotry  even as they claim prayer is more effective than the Secret Service at protecting the president. (Huge thanks to Tigerlille for sending me the latter two items.)

 

LASTLY, IN EXULTANT DEFIANCE OF JESUNAZI HOMOPHOBIA, here's how the aristocracy celebrates diversity: a high-society gay wedding so lavish it's covered by Vogue, which if nothing else proves that even under Capitalism, the Ruling Class can sometimes set a culturally useful example. (Many thanks to the reader – she prefers her identity be kept secret – who thoughtfully emailed me this link.)

LB/3 August 2017

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