As Trump's world domination plans go into overdrive, managing editorMichelle Pinidiscusses the collapse of international law, the silencing of those who speak out and thepowers that fueled an Antisemitism RC.
THE SO-CALLEDrule-based order has finally collapsed.
While it can be argued that this happened some time ago, never before has the self-appointed defender of the free world openly admitted resorting to kidnapping and murder, solely for the purpose of stealing oil.
You may be thinking, but thats what most recent conflicts have been about. Sure, but even George W Bush at least was dignified enough to pretend otherwise during the War on Terror, with a huge "weapons of mass destruction" backstory, which was bought by much of the Western world.
These days, the convicted felon in the White House, who has so far paid no discernible price for his crimes, shamelessly admitted that the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, CiliaFlores de Maduro, during which approximately 100people were killed in blatant violation of international law is all about the oil. Venezuelan officials have said a large part of Maduro's security contingent was killed "in cold blood".
In any reasonable universe,such brazen bullying would be beyond anyone's wildest imaginings,butinsanity notwithstanding, TrumpsaidVenezuela will turn over 30 to 50 million barrels of oil to the U.S., which:
Of course, Trump has also spun some story about the whole of Venezuela being a drug cartel or some such flagrant fantasy, but surely everyone except the Kool-Aid-addled MAGA supporters, who inexplicably got him re-elected, stopped listening to his inane ramblings around the time he incited the Capitol riots? We're not sure if anyone is tracking the lies since his re-election, butaccordingto The Washington Post, Trump's false or misleading claims during his last term in office ran to 30,573.
As Chris Hedges recently explained on theChris Hedges Report:
Hedges added:
Indeed, there is already sizable disaffection with the U.S. within South America, going back toChe Guevaraand building over many years and numerous U.S. political interventions in that continent, so this latest and indefensible attack may well backfire on the Godfather state.
We cannot even expect the latest disgustingand violent oil-grab to be America's last act of aggression in a month. There hasn't even been time for the people who died in theU.S. attack on Venezuela to beproperly identifiedandTrump is already talking up his next step in world domination this time in Europe.
Trump has indicated that the U.S. will take Greenland one way or another, with the White Houseannouncingon Tuesday:
It is important to point out, however, as Chris Hedges also reminded us in arecent interviewwith IA, that Trump is only the symptom and not the actual disease the disease is the"corporatecoup d'tat in slow motion".
The disease is the amplification of the power of the wealthy elites, who control the money and therefore the narrative, who engineer an environment where a crazed despot can be propelled to the highest office on the planet. An environment where violence begets more violence and gangsters for that is what they are who worship only profits, rule by seemingly unstoppable force and pillage the worlds riches, answerable to no one.
Closer to home, those who support the gangsters continue to ignore the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza, any acts of terror waged by white people, such as the attack on a Christchurch mosque by a white Australian terrorist, and rampant injustices, such as those waged against Robodebt victims.But theycry tears of bloodabout one heinous terrorist act in Bondi, demanding royal commissions and possibly the return of the guillotine for all those who didnt have a crystal ball to foresee thetragic event.
And now, Prime Minister Albanese has caved in andannounceda Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. It is important to say here that the murderous actions of the father and son terrorists oninnocent victims in Bondi were simply monstrous. But it is difficult to understand how a royal commission can explain or prevent such events.
Indeed, it is difficult to understand how an enquiry focused specifically on antisemitism, but which ignores Islamophobia, for instance,can prevent future terrorist acts against Jewish or non-Jewish people, or do anything but provide further leverage to those political actors that havesought to exploita tragic event in order to divide us.
And another journalist and activist,Murray Hunter(a long-standingIA contributor), meanwhile, is the latest Australianarrestedand facing criminal defamation charges in Thailand for 'criticisingMalaysias Communications and Multimedia Commission's role ininternet censorship and alleged intimidation of Malaysian citizens'. Because in this new world order, speaking up about oppression catapults you to the status of public enemy number one (think Julian Assange), which can only be dealt with by ensuring you are swiftly gagged.
In Australia, gagging is not alwaysachieved by gaoling people but can also be attempted in a multitude of other ways, such as dismissal (as in Antoinette Lattouf's case) or protracted legal battles (as in the case of MaryKostakidis).
As a nation of only 27 million people, we may not realistically be able do much about a gangster statewith a deranged madman at the helm, who has access to the nuclear codes and piratesthe worlds riches, solely for the benefit of said gangsters.
We may not, on our own, be able to stop another gangster state, which enjoys the protection racket spoils of its alliance with theformer gangster state, while it proceeds to wipeout an entire native population in Gaza.
We may not even be able to prevent the illegal arrest of our own citizens overseas.
But surely we can stop pretending all this is okay and at least call it out. We can certainly sever any obvious ties with the main gangster state, beginning with the AUKUS deal.
We could stop aiding and abetting the genocide by taking tainted money for the sale of armaments to Israel, or uranium to the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, Canada, France, the United Kingdom or anywhere at all.
And we could definitely make a lot of noise, at every opportunity, when one of our own, such asMurray Hunter, is arrested for the crime of calling out oppression. Lets hope, unlike Julian Assange, Murray doesnt have towait a decadefor his freedom.
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