Changement de régime aux USA : pour que rien ne change

The Deep State’s Stealthy, Subversive, Silent Coup to Ensure Nothing Changes
By John W. Whitehead
Cette tentative du 6 janvier par les soi-disant insurgés de renverser les résultats des élections n’était cependant pas le véritable coup d’État. Ceux qui ont répondu à l’appel du président Trump à marcher sur le Capitole n’étaient que les boucs émissaires/idiots utiles, manipulés pour créer la crise parfaite pour l’État profond - a.k.a. l’État policier alias le complexe militaro-industriel alias l’État techno-corporatif alias l’État de surveillance - pour s’investir et prendre le contrôle. ... afficher la Suite ...
le véritable coup d’État a eu lieu lorsque notre gouvernement «du peuple, par le peuple, pour le peuple» a été renversé par un État militariste et techno-entreprise axé sur le profit qui est de mèche avec un gouvernement «des riches, par l'élite, pour les entreprises». the real coup happened when our government “of the people, by the people, for the people” was overthrown by a profit-driven, militaristic, techno-corporate state that is in cahoots with a government “of the rich, by the elite, for the corporations.”
We’ve been mired in this swamp for decades now.
Every successive president starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt has been bought lock, stock and barrel and made to dance to the Deep State’s tune.
Enter Donald Trump, the candidate who swore to drain the swamp in Washington DC. Instead of putting an end to the corruption, however, Trump paved the way for lobbyists, corporations, the military industrial complex, and the Deep State to feast on the carcass of the dying American republic.
Joe Biden will be no different: his job is to keep the Deep State in power.
Meanwhile, the police have been transformed into extensions of the military while the nation itself has been transformed into a battlefield. This is what a state of undeclared martial law looks like, when you can be arrested, tasered, shot, brutalized and in some cases killed merely for not complying with a government agent’s order or not complying fast enough. This hasn’t just been happening in crime-ridden inner cities. It’s been happening all across the country.
So you see, January 6 and its aftermath provided the government and its corporate technocrats the perfect excuse to show off all of the powers they’ve been amassing so assiduously over the years.
I’m referring to “government” with a capital “G,” the entrenched Deep State that is unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and has set itself beyond the reach of the law.
The gravest threat facing us as a nation is not extremism but despotism, exercised by a ruling class whose only allegiance is to power and money. ... cacher le texte ci-dessus ...

Nationwide Dementiafest: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone
Dans un pays de 328 millions d'habitants, celui qui vient d'être élevé au sommet est littéralement l'un des pires êtres humains de toute la population. C'est la «démocratie» qu'on vous dit qu'elle est attaquée.
Obama a fait campagne sur l'espoir et le changement et n'a rien livré d'autre que l'oppression néolibérale et le meurtre de masse impérialiste. Biden a fait campagne sur "Va te faire foutre, non" et les gens pensent qu'il va en quelque sorte livrer quelque chose de positif.
People are so cute. ... afficher la Suite ...
The majority of the people who rightly say Black lives matter give zero fucks about the people of color who are being butchered by the US empire in the Global South right now. Mass media punditry trains people to only values the lives in their own part of the world.
Being an anti-imperialist in this society is like being the black sheep of the family who never gets invited to holiday dinners because she always brings up the fact that Uncle Larry is a child molester.
There are already at least three likely 2024 presidential candidates against whom the Democratic candidate would be the lesser evil: Mike Pompeo, Nikki Haley, and Tom Cotton. This system is designed to feed you an endless river of evil so that you are floating in evil all the time no matter how you vote.
he way to stop the rise of right wing extremism and conspiracy theories is to end government corruption and government secrecy, not to implement authoritarian measures under the banner of fighting terrorism. This is obvious to everyone who isn't an idiot.
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To stop fascism they'll roll out Patriot Act 2, secretly implement more FBI programs, surveil, censor, militarize, anything except change the conditions which feed into the rise of fascism.
Because their rule depends upon those conditions.
And because they're fine with fascism.
Trust in the plutocratic media is at an all-time low and our ability to network and share information is at an all-time high. We absolutely do have a window to wake each other up from the propaganda and create a healthy world. But internet censorship is creeping forward, so means it must be soon. ... cacher le texte ci-dessus ...

Baghdad on the Potomac: Welcome to the Blue Zone
By Pepe Escobar *****
Un excellent texte, humour et cynisme

Despite What You Heard, There Was No Peaceful Transition
A critical look at Biden’s first Executive Orders set against the backdrop of Operation Peaceful Transition in Washington, DC.
by Eleanor Goldfield
Ceux qui s'empressent d'acclamer le départ d'un élitiste raciste, sexiste et belliciste de la Maison Blanche ont rapidement accueilli un nouvel élitiste raciste, sexiste et belliciste. Ceux qui ont critiqué Trump pour avoir amené plus de créatures des marais dans le marais plutôt que de le drainer applaudissent Biden pour ses diverses nominations au cabinet, ignorant la porte tournante de la corruption et de l'oppression qu'elles représentent. ... afficher la Suite ...
Of the 15 new executive orders that aren’t merely a light Trump-eraser, they herald the return of the classic Democratic practice of sprinkling progressive-tasting garnish around deep systemic problems.
Biden, the master-mind of the ’94 crime bill, has no interest in advancing racial equity. He’s never cared about the plight of people drowning in debt – or drowning in rising floodwaters – and he doesn’t care now.
To celebrate our so-called return to a democracy we’ve never had with a decency that is at best shallow, and at worst a conniving cover-up for crimes against humanity speaks of a belief in American exceptionalism that is neither warranted nor helpful.
Walking around DC on Inauguration Day, I felt like I was touring a vast military exhibition –
 Operation Peaceful Transition (as I’ve come to call it) was in full swing, with all the irony of previous imperialist missions like Operation Iraqi Freedom
 Mutual aid groups set up 24-hour rolling shifts to address emergency requests and to share information about everything from checkpoints (potentially life-changing information depending on your immigration status) to local POC-owned restaurants to order food from.
Meanwhile, Biden stood at perhaps the most protected podium in the world, speaking of hope, unity, leadership, peace, and a brighter future. These are two worlds disconnected. We the people are literally barred from his world, and he has no interest in entering ours.
There is no such thing as a peaceful transition in a city with more troops than both Iraq and Afghanistan. There is no peaceful transition for the black and brown folks displaced in the fastest gentrifying city in the nation. There is no peaceful transition for a city with a higher maternal mortality rate than Syria.
The revolving door of imperialist capitalist preservation turns again. But there is nothing peaceful about it. And the hope that flows from the twisted tongues of our politicians is not hope for the people.
Our hope lies in the roots – in these communities that bustle and build in the shadows of empire. It lies in the crowns of trees where tree-sitters block the way of pipelines. It lies in solidarity – in growing everything from garlic in community gardens to growing networks of interconnected local aid groups. ... cacher le texte ci-dessus ...

The Two Faces Of The US Empire
By Caitlin Johnstone
L'événement d'inauguration de Biden / Harris sera une célébration étoilée s'étalant sur cinq jours sans précédent, une orgie vertigineuse d'excitation dans un empire oligarchique meurtrier ayant un nouveau visage derrière la réception après avoir promis aux riches donateurs que rien ne changera fondamentalement. ... afficher la Suite ...
This comes at a time when Americans are now reporting that they trust corporations more than they trust their own government or media, when pundits are gleefully proclaiming in The New York Times that “CEOs have become the fourth branch of government” as they pressure the entire political system to smoothly install Biden, when the leading contender for the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division is an Obama holdover who went from the administration to working for both Amazon and Google, and when Americans are being paced into accepting an increasing amount of authoritarian changes for their own good.
Just like any other two-faced monstrosity, the face you will see depends on where you are standing.
If you live in wealthy western nations, or in the US itself, you are mostly presented with the first face.
Freedom and Democracy™?. Capitalism is totally working. You can trust these guys to run the world. News at eleven.
If you live in the Middle East, Asia, or in the Global South, you are far more likely to encounter the second face. The blood-spattered face. The face of murder. The face of tyranny. The face whose actions amount to nothing other than an endless war on disobedience, where any government which tries to insist on its own national, military, resource, commercial or financial sovereignty is smashed into the dirt by any means necessary until it either collapses or complies.
The empire needs both faces. Without the murder face, it could not exist as an empire. Without the grinning face, the public would never consent to the murder face.
People who inhabit the hub of a murderous empire are historically unaware of its horrific nature. In the old days that was because information was easy to restrict access to. Today it's because information is easy to manipulate and distort.
Humanity will not know health and harmony until it knows truth. Until we collectively come to a lucid reckoning with what's going on in our world, in our nations, in our society, and in ourselves. The movement toward a healthy world is a movement toward becoming aware of things we previously were not aware of. In this case, as a first step, this means collectively seeing behind that grinning plastic mask to the churning death machine underneath. ... cacher le texte ci-dessus ...

Votre soupir de soulagement est ancré dans l'illusion:
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix -- Caitlin Johnstone
Ahh enfin L'Amérique revient à la normale: le centre d'un empire à l'échelle du globe qui encercle la planète de bases militaires et détruit toute nation qui désobéit tout en inondant le monde entier de propagande pour soutenir ses crimes,.. sans tweets grossiers.
Les Américains veulent croire que Trump était uniquement pervers comparé aux récents présidents, car ils veulent croire que leur gouvernement deviendra beaucoup moins pervers lorsqu'il partira. ... afficher la Suite ... C'est du délire et nuisible.
La seule façon de trouver la présidence de Trump remarquablement horrible est de (A) réduire considérablement l'ampleur des crimes de Bush et d'Obama et (B) croire que les vies étrangères n'ont pas d'importance. Dire que Trump était le pire président, même depuis le début de ce siècle, c'est dire que vous êtes une personne de merde.
Tant de Trumpers m'ont dit qu'il libérerait Assange. Ils étaient sûrs à 100% que Trump allait être réélu, allait drainer le marais, mettre fin aux guerres et libérer Assange. Il n'a fait aucune de ces choses. Si tel est votre cas, veuillez revoir votre vision du monde et changer radicalement vos habitudes de consommation de médias.
Affirmer que Trump voulait pardonner à Assange mais que les républicains l'ont menacé, c'est simplement dire que Trump voulait combattre l'establishment, mais l'establishment lui a dit non.
C'est tellement fou comment le département d'État a été dirigé par un homme encore plus méchant et dégoûtant que Trump, et maintenant cet homme quitte ses fonctions sans que les médias de masse ne lui aient accordé la moindre attention critique.
Il est facile d'applaudir Martin Luther King Jr quand il est mort, quand il existe en tant que légende et que vous n'êtes pas mis en présence d'aucune de ses imperfections et controverses. Si vous voulez savoir si vous auriez soutenu King à son époque, ne regardez pas King. Regardez si vous soutenez Julian Assange ou non.
Julian Assange a fourni de nombreuses révélations explosives sur les méfaits des puissants, mais aucune n'est aussi explosive que la révélation que les États-Unis et leurs alliés emprisonneront et tortureront les journalistes qui dénoncent des crimes de guerre américains.
(Your Sigh Of Relief Is Grounded In Delusion: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Ahh at long last America is returning to normality: the hub of a globe-spanning empire which rings the planet with military bases and destroys any nation which disobeys it while propagandizing the entire world into supporting its murderousness, without rude tweets.
Americans want to believe Trump was uniquely evil among recent presidents because they want to believe their government will become significantly less evil when he leaves. This is delusional and harmful.
The only way to find Trump's presidency remarkably awful is to (A) greatly diminish the scale of Bush and Obama's crimes and (B) believe foreign lives don't matter. Saying Trump was the worst president, even since the turn of this century, is saying that you're a shitty person.
So many Trumpers told me he'd free Assange. They were 100% certain Trump was going to get re-elected, drain the swamp, end the wars, and free Assange. He did none of these things. If this is you, please overhaul your worldview and drastically change your media consumption habits.
Arguing that Trump wanted to pardon Assange but Republicans threatened him is just saying Trump wanted to fight the establishment but the establishment told him no.
It's so crazy how the State Department has been led by a man who is even more evil and disgusting than Trump, and now that man is leaving office without the mass media having given him any critical attention at all.
It's easy to applaud Martin Luther King Jr when he is dead, when he exists as a legend and you don't have to meet any of his imperfections and controversies. If you want to know if you would have supported King back in his day, don't look at King. Look at whether or not you support Julian Assange.
Julian Assange has provided many explosive revelations about the malfeasance of the powerful, but none so explosive as the revelation that the US and its allies will imprison and torture a journalist for exposing US war crimes.) ... cacher le texte ci-dessus ...

The American Abyss
A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next.
By Timothy Snyder
Lorsque Donald Trump s'est présenté devant ses partisans le 6 janvier et les a exhortés à marcher sur le Capitole des États-Unis, il faisait ce qu'il a toujours fait. Il n'a jamais pris la démocratie électorale au sérieux ni accepté la légitimité de sa version américaine.
Même lorsqu'il a gagné, en 2016, il a insisté sur le fait que l'élection était frauduleuse - que des millions de faux votes avaient été exprimés pour son adversaire. ... afficher la Suite ...
People believed him, which is not at all surprising. It takes a tremendous amount of work to educate citizens to resist the powerful pull of believing what they already believe, or what others around them believe, or what would make sense of their own previous choices.
Members of Congress who sustained the president’s lie, despite the available and unambiguous evidence, betrayed their constitutional mission. Making his fictions the basis of congressional action gave them flesh.
Post-truth is pre-fascism, and Trump has been our post-truth president. When we give up on truth, we concede power to those with the wealth and charisma to create spectacle in its place. Without agreement about some basic facts, citizens cannot form the civil society that would allow them to defend themselves.
Truth defends itself particularly poorly when there is not very much of it around, and the era of Trump is one of the decline of local news. Social media is no substitute: It supercharges the mental habits by which we seek emotional stimulation and comfort, which means losing the distinction between what feels true and what actually is true.
Post-truth wears away the rule of law and invites a regime of myth.
Like historical fascist leaders, Trump has presented himself as the single source of truth. His use of the term “fake news” echoed the Nazi smear Lügenpresse (“lying press”); like the Nazis, he referred to reporters as “enemies of the people.” Like Adolf Hitler, he came to power at a moment when the conventional press had taken a beating; the financial crisis of 2008 did to American newspapers what the Great Depression did to German ones. The Nazis thought that they could use radio to replace the old pluralism of the newspaper; Trump tried to do the same with Twitter.
Thanks to technological capacity and personal talent, Donald Trump lied at a pace perhaps unmatched by any other leader in history. For the most part these were small lies, and their main effect was cumulative. To believe in all of them was to accept the authority of a single man, because to believe in all of them was to disbelieve everything else. Once such personal authority was established, the president could treat everyone else as the liars; he even had the power to turn someone from a trusted adviser into a dishonest scoundrel with a single tweet.
The force of a big lie resides in its demand that many other things must be believed or disbelieved. To make sense of a world in which the 2020 presidential election was stolen requires distrust not only of reporters and of experts but also of local, state and federal government institutions, from poll workers to elected officials, Homeland Security and all the way to the Supreme Court. It brings with it, of necessity, a conspiracy theory: Imagine all the people who must have been in on such a plot and all the people who would have had to work on the cover-up.
Trump’s electoral fiction floats free of verifiable reality.
On the surface, a conspiracy theory makes its victim look strong: It sees Trump as resisting the Democrats, the Republicans, the Deep State, the pedophiles, the Satanists. More profoundly, however, it inverts the position of the strong and the weak. Trump’s focus on alleged “irregularities” and “contested states” comes down to cities where Black people live and vote. At bottom, the fantasy of fraud is that of a crime committed by Black people against white people.
It’s not just that electoral fraud by African-Americans against Donald Trump never happened. It is that it is the very opposite of what happened, in 2020 and in every American election. As always, Black people waited longer than others to vote and were more likely to have their votes challenged. They were more likely to be suffering or dying from Covid-19, and less likely to be able to take time away from work. The historical protection of their right to vote has been removed by the Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling in Shelby County v. Holder, and states have rushed to pass measures of a kind that historically reduce voting by the poor and communities of color.
When Senator Ted Cruz announced his intention to challenge the Electoral College vote, he invoked the Compromise of 1877,
 The Compromise of 1877 — in which Rutherford B. Hayes would have the presidency, provided that he withdrew federal power from the South — was the very arrangement whereby African-Americans were driven from voting booths for the better part of a century. It was effectively the end of Reconstruction, the beginning of segregation, legal discrimination and Jim Crow. It is the original sin of American history in the post-slavery era, our closest brush with fascism so far.
Right now, the Republican Party is a coalition of two types of people: those who would game the system (most of the politicians, some of the voters) and those who dream of breaking it (a few of the politicians, many of the voters).
 The breakers, in this arrangement, provide cover for the gamers, putting forth an ideology that distracts from the basic reality that government under Republicans is not made smaller but simply diverted to serve a handful of interests.
At first, Trump seemed like a threat to this balance. His lack of experience in politics and his open racism made him a very uncomfortable figure for the party; his habit of continually telling lies was initially found by prominent Republicans to be uncouth. Yet after he won the presidency, his particular skills as a breaker seemed to create a tremendous opportunity for the gamers. Led by the gamer in chief, McConnell, they secured hundreds of federal judges and tax cuts for the rich.
Trump was unlike other breakers in that he seemed to have no ideology. His objection to institutions was that they might constrain him personally. He intended to break the system to serve himself — and this is partly why he has failed. Trump is a charismatic politician and inspires devotion not only among voters but among a surprising number of lawmakers, but he has no vision that is greater than himself or what his admirers project upon him. In this respect his pre-fascism fell short of fascism: His vision never went further than a mirror. He arrived at a truly big lie not from any view of the world but from the reality that he might lose something.
Yet Trump never prepared a decisive blow. He lacked the support of the military, some of whose leaders he had alienated. (No true fascist would have made the mistake he did there, which was to openly love foreign dictators;
 Trump could make some voters believe that he had won the 2020 election, but he was unable to bring institutions along with his big lie.
The lie outlasts the liar. The idea that Germany lost the First World War in 1918 because of a Jewish “stab in the back” was 15 years old when Hitler came to power. How will Trump’s myth of victimhood function in American life 15 years from now? And to whose benefit?
Trump is, for now, the martyr in chief, the high priest of the big lie. He is the leader of the breakers, at least in the minds of his supporters. By now, the gamers do not want Trump around. Discredited in his last weeks, he is useless; shorn of the obligations of the presidency, he will become embarrassing again, much as he was in 2015. Unable to provide cover for their gamesmanship, he will be irrelevant to their daily purposes.
Cruz and Hawley seem to be running for president. Yet what does it mean to be a candidate for office and denounce voting? If you claim that the other side has cheated, and your supporters believe you, they will expect you to cheat yourself. ... cacher le texte ci-dessus ...

Despair, depression, and the inevitable rise of Trump 2.0:
Glenn Greenwald tells RT his Biden administration prediction
By Chris Hedges and Glenn Greenwald
Biden est «quelqu'un qui a soutenu à plusieurs reprises le militarisme et l'impérialisme» et «l'un des principaux défenseurs de l'invasion de l'Irak», a-t-il lui-même déclaré. Sur le plan intérieur, Biden est «un fidèle serviteur du secteur des cartes de crédit et de la banque» et «l'architecte du projet de loi sur la criminalité de 1994», ce dernier étant accusé d'avoir considérablement augmenté le taux d'incarcération des hommes noirs aux États-Unis. ... afficher la Suite ...
“Democrats are very good at creating a brand that is radically different than the reality, but essentially the Democratic party serves militarism, imperialism, and corporatism,” he said. “That’s who funds them, that’s what they believe in. It’s why you see neocons migrating so comfortably back to the Democratic Party, why you see Bush and Cheney operatives cheering for Joe Biden, why Wall Street celebrated when he picked Kamala Harris.”
“It’s not a coincidence that after eight years of Obama and Biden, we got Donald Trump,” he said. “Obviously, if you go back and do exactly the same thing that the ‘Obiden’ administration did for 8 years, which is what Biden’s preparing to do, any rational person has to expect the same outcome
The American middle class, Greenwald predicted, will “continue to be destroyed,” while companies “that have no allegiance to the US” will continue to outsource jobs.
After what Hedges called a “third term of the Obama administration,” Greenwald warned that Biden could set the stage for a “smarter, more stable version” of Trump to take power. ... cacher le texte ci-dessus ...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56210.htm
The Rubble of Empire
Doctrines of Disaster and Dreams of Security as the Biden Years Begin
By Rebecca Gordon
How can you tell when your empire is crumbling?
They’re signs that some of the same factors that fractured the Roman empire back in 476 CE (and others since) are distinctly present in this country today — even in California, one of its richest states. ... afficher la Suite ... I’m talking about phenomena like gross economic inequality; over-spending on military expansion; political corruption; deep cultural and political fissures; and, oh yes, the barbarians at the gates.
American Doctrines from Monroe to Truman to (G.W.) Bush
Monroe: The first of these was the Monroe Doctrine, introduced in 1823
Corruption So Deep It Undermines the Political System: Suffice it to say that the man who came to Washington promising to “drain the swamp” has presided over one of the most corrupt administrations in U.S. history. Whether it’s been blatant self-dealing (like funneling government money to his own businesses); employing government resources to forward his ree+lection (including using the White House as a staging ground for parts of the Republican National Convention and his acceptance speech); tolerating corrupt subordinates like Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross; or contemplating a self-pardon, the Trump administration has set the bar high indeed for any future aspirants to the title of “most corrupt president.”
Suppose we found a way to convert the desperate hunger for ever more, which is both the fuel of empires and the engine of their eventual destruction, into a new contentment with “enough”? What would a United States whose people have enough look like? It would not be one in which tiny numbers of the staggeringly wealthy made hundreds of billions more dollars and the country’s military-industrial complex thrived in a pandemic, while so many others went down in disaster.
This empire will fall sooner or later. They all do. So, this crisis, just at the start of the Biden and Harris years, is a fine time to begin thinking about what might be built in its place. ... cacher le texte ci-dessus ...

Coup, Coup, Kachoo...
By Paul Edwards
Histoire de l'interventionnisme US
Les coups d'État, on peut le dire, c'est nous. Notre gouvernement les exécute tout le temps. C’est, avec la guerre unilatérale et non déclarée, son effort «diplomatique» préféré. Il s'y est mis sur le tard pour adopter la tactique mais a parfait les efforts de subversion et de destruction des régimes au-delà de ce que l'on croyait possible.
Donc voilà, nous avons beaucoup à craindre. Mais ce n’est pas un coup d’État de Trump. ... afficher la Suite ...
Well, we have much to be fearful about. But it isn’t a Trumpian coup. And it isn’t Russia or China. Or Iran… Or Communists, or Socialists, or Antifa, or Proud Boys, or BLM, or Q Anon…
What should fill you with terror, shake your soul, give you night sweats and hurt your heart, is the appalling truth that we are all trapped in a system that cares nothing for its people or the world they inhabit, and that that people, facing looming manmade and natural catastrophe, hasn’t the courage and wisdom to save itself. ... cacher le texte ci-dessus ...

Non-MAGA Activists Caught in Social Media War as Twitter Begins Purge
Almost immediately after the Twitter purge began, a number of non-Trump accounts began to face lock outs, suspensions, and even deletions.
by Alan Macleod
Presque immédiatement, un certain nombre de comptes non-Trump ont commencé à rencontrer des problèmes: ... afficher la Suite ... la journaliste pro-Assange Suzie Dawson a été exclue de son compte, le compte du site Web de partage de fichiers éducatifs Sci Hub a été suspendu et le profil du podcast Red Scare a été supprimé. D'autres personnes ont commencé à exiger que les comptes associés aux gouvernements vénézuélien et chinois soient également supprimés des plateformes de médias sociaux. ... cacher le texte ci-dessus ...

By ‘Force and Fraud’: Is This the End of the US Democracy Doctrine?
The storming of the US Capitol has global repercussions, not least among them is the weakening of the self-serving definition of democracy, especially when it comes to justifying war.
by Ramzy Baroud
Historiquement, les États-Unis ont défini et redéfini leur mission dans le monde sur la base de hautes maximes spirituelles, morales et politiques, en commençant par la «Manifest Destiny», puis le combat au communisme, pour finalement servir de défenseur des droits de l’homme et de la démocratie dans le monde. ... afficher la Suite ... The latter was merely a pretense used to provide a moral cover that would allow the US to reorder the world for the sake of expanding its market and ensuring its economic dominance.
 the democracy ‘fraud’ that Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, et al carried out in Iraq in 2003, was a mere repetition of numerous other fraudulent military campaigns carried out around the world. The ‘protectors of democracy’ became the very men responsible for its undoing.
Unquestionably, the storming of US Congress will have global repercussions, not least among them the weakening of US hegemonic and self-serving definition of what constitutes a democracy. Is it possible that the US democracy doctrine could soon cease to be relevant in the lexicon of US foreign policy conduct, one that is predicated, per Paine’s logic, on “force and fraud”? ... cacher le texte ci-dessus ...

Psycho Pompeo Exits With Nary A Scratch Of Media Criticism On Him
Caitlin Johnstone
So in practice the US ended up with two war departments: the DoD and the State Department. Which is why you've seen the nation's Secretaries of State becoming more and more jingoistic and psychopathic, to the point where some sort of antisocial personality disorder is really a job requirement for the position. Hence Psycho Mike.
... afficher la Suite ... I wish humanity a pleasant sigh of relief on Pompeo's exit. Please enjoy it as much as possible until the Biden administration does whatever horrifying things it's going to do, and until the eldritch monster re-emerges from the sea. ... cacher le texte ci-dessus ...

Lee Camp: America Condemns One Violent Mob While Celebrating Another
Where is the corporate media’s disgust for the courtesans of corporate destruction that wreak violence on Americans daily?
by Lee Camp
Is allowing tens of thousands to die of preventable illnesses from our garbage healthcare system not violence?
Is allowing 15 million to lose their healthcare during a pandemic and ... afficher la Suite ... therefore fear going to the hospital when they get sick not violence?
Is imprisoning millions of people for years for non-violent crimes not violence?
Is locking up political prisoners like Steven Donziger, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Reverend Pinkney, Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, Leonard Peltier not violence??
Is dropping a bomb every 12 minutes on innocent people in countries thousands of miles away not violence??
Is arresting, beating, and persecuting those who try to give those people houses not violence? And bulldozing the homes — is that not violence?
Is causing the deaths of tens of thousands of Venezuelans via economic warfare not violence?
Is creating an opioid epidemic by pushing pills on desperate people, ultimately leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands not violence?
And then arresting those who stand up and fight back against the pollution, against the pipelines, against the factory farming, against the war industry —IS—THAT—NOT—VIOLENCE?
It’s violence on a breathtaking scale, far greater than what was done at the Capitol and far greater than any of us will witness in person. And yet large scale corporate-endorsed violence, death and destruction is not only allowable, it’s celebrated, it’s furthered, and promoted. Oil company documents show that they tell cities that oil spills are good for the economy.
 The subsidies paid to factory farms encourage them to produce heaping mountains of food and dairy and meat even if they can’t sell it all in our market economy. So they throw it out or bury it. Giving it to those in need would take too much time and effort.
Our mainstream media are blanketing the airwaves with talk of how the violent insurrectionists must be punished, and while they are not wrong, the criminal behavior those same talking heads and “reporters” ignore speaks volumes. All violence is not equal. Some of it is profitable and protected. Some of it is the American way. ... cacher le texte ci-dessus ...

We Need a New Media System If you sell culture war all day, don’t be surprised by the real-world consequences
By Matt Taibbi
Au moment même où un groupe de personnes a pris d'assaut le bâtiment du Capitole mercredi dernier, les sociétés de presse ont commencé le processus de tri et de marchandisation de l'information ... afficher la Suite ... qui est depuis longtemps devenu la norme dans les médias américains. Les entreprises de médias travaillent à rebours. Ils demandent d'abord: "Comment notre groupe démographique cible veut-il comprendre ce qui vient de se dérouler?" Ensuite, ils choisissent à la fois les mots et les faits selon ce qu'ils veulent souligner. ... cacher le texte ci-dessus ...

Baby Social Media
By Automatic Earth
And just like that, Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg belatedly found they had fallen on their own swords, as these were already sticking out of their backs. Let’s see it as poetic justice.
Replacing Facebook won’t happen overnight. But ... afficher la Suite ... if access to it is cut in large parts of the world, it could happen faster than you think. As for Twitter and WhatsApp, oh well, dime a dozen. They can kill Parler, but already large numbers of people are switching over to Signal and Telegram. Can’t kill ’em all, @jack.
And while you’re at it, add Apple and Amazon. It’s their ties to intelligence services that make these companies the most threatening. In the US, this is too far advanced to stop now. But in Europe, there may still be a chance.
No, the biggest threat is their algorithms used to spy on you and me to "optimize" us as victims clients for their advertizers. That's why this is not just about Facebook and Twitter, but certainly also about Google. These are virtual monopolies we're talking about.
This is a big fight when it comes to liberty and personal space. And if you don’t fight it now, you’ve already lost. ... cacher le texte ci-dessus ...