CHRISTIAN PARENTI—Trump described his foreign policy as “America First,” thus tapping into a more-than-century-long strain of American isolationism, or conservative anti-war sentiment. But his attacks on American empire were not ideologically coherent. He hated NATO but he loved Israel. He increased pressure in Cuba, but did the opposite with North Korea. He increased the military budget even as he attempted to withdraw troops all over the planet. His reasoning, when given, was crassly transactional.
CLASS ANALYSIS
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ROGER BOYD —To understand where the Western elites are in accepting the new reality we can peruse the pages of their major mouthpiece journals and the work of their bought-and-paid-for academics and public intellectuals. I will regularly cover such work as a way of assessing whether or not the Western elites are still struggling in denial or are showing some ability to move on and accept the new reality.
The journal Foreign Affairs, published by the Rockefeller-created Council on Foreign Relations, provides just such a vantage point from which to view the current state of mind of the US capitalist oligarchy.
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SIMPLICIUS—When it comes to Rasmussen’s report, it’s clear that the ‘super elite’ serve to become pillars of influence-making in society, acting as the enforcement guardrails to further manage and regulate the interests of the most exclusive managerial class, tied to the old banking families. In short: it’s a well-oiled, highly-selective pipeline which continually funnels the “right people”—ambitious, but malleable and servile to globalist interests—to the top.
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Garland Nixon and Rainer discuss what the US ruling class may be hatching for the American people as it maneuvers to cling to power at any cost while the Empire crumbles across the globe. The Empire is probably bringing home the sordid methods of mass repression they have employed in a multitude of countries. The headlines sum it up nicely: COUNTER INSURGENCY – US IMPERIALISM GOES TO WAR WITH ITS CITIZENS. Everyone should take note.
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EDITOR—Garland and Joti Brar unmask the largely hidden face of the ruling elite, a tiny, obscenely rich segment of humanity that uses a “Mandarin class” (corporate execs, politicians, military figures, media flunkies, etc.) to run the world for them.