eric zuesse

ERIC ZUESSE—America’s media appear to be assuming that the electorate doesn’t understand that America is now the global-warfare state, whose plan for its future is to restore American manufacturing by increasing even further the nearly a trillion dollars a year that the Government and its colonies (such as in NATO) pay to its armaments companies to buy weapons and military services. On October 16th, The Hill and Yahoo News headlined “Opinion – Hegseth’s call to ‘prepare for war’ comes not a moment too soon” and helped to whip up war-fever against China by reporting that, “China’s regime is engaged in the fastest military buildup since the Second World War, it is trying to sanctions-proof itself, it is stockpiling grain and other commodities, it is calling up reservists and seizing factories making products for civilians…”

ERIC ZUESSE—Billionaires (and the ultra rich everywhere) believe themselves to be one of the word’s BEST people; they believe that a person’s wealth MEASURES how much that person is contributing to the world. This means that they are better than other people because they are wealthier than other people. So, it is ‘right’ that they hire and fire billions of people — they are ‘superior’ to other people, as they tend to view things.

This means that they don’t believe in each person having the same rights as everyone else does; they believe that it’s good that in a capitalist economy a person’s rights depend upon that individual’s wealth — the more wealth that a person has, the more rights that person has ‘earned’. Rights are to be earned — NOT otherwise. And, so, it is good, not bad, that WE — the ‘best’ people — control the Government for ALL people.

ERIC ZUESSE—Many experts on international affairs are expecting Trump soon to launch an outright military invasion of Venezuela that’s based on his Administration’s lies that Venezuela is more of a source of illegal drugs into America than Colombia and Mexico are.

On 26 January 2018, the UN independent expert Alfred de Zayas was headlined “UN Independent Expert: Sanctions Must be Terminated and Economic War Must End”. He said that America’s economic blockade and sanctions against Venezuela are what has impoverished its people — not Venezuela’s Government. And now the Nobel Committee, which gave their 2009 Peace Prize to U.S. President Obama, is giving this year’s to Machado in order to help Trump get Machado to become Venezuela’s President. Perhaps that Committee figured that giving it to Trump would be too blatant, because his fascism is widely known, whereas Machado is very little known outside of Veneuela and the Washington Beltway. Giving that Prize to Trump would have crashed the Nobels altogether.

CRAIG MURRAY—”If you thought RAF [Royal Air Force] jets were owned by the RAF, think again. The RAF squadron [was] targeted for a repaint [his euphemism for a defacement] by Palestine Action due to its [the UK Government’s] involvement in supplying [weapons to] Israel’s genocide, does not in fact belong to the RAF at all. It belongs ultimately to Polygon Global Partners LLP, a Hedge Fund.”

ERIC ZUESSE—Most of Ukraine’s oligarchs live in Geneva (like Kolomoyskyi), London (like the Tymoshenkos’ daughter, Yevhenia), NYC, Rome, and other Western cities, and they tend to stash their money in secret bank accounts in tax-haven countries, not only in order to avoid paying taxes, but also in order to make more difficult their being successfully sued by each other, for violating handshake business deals that had helped them to become so rich. After all, illegal contracts cannot be enforced by any legal government (since they’re illegal, and have secret illegal terms). Thus, other means than written contracts — handshake deals — are resorted to between these aristocrats.