IMPERIALISM

SERGIO RODRIGUEZ GELFENSTEIN—In the strict sense, Moreno is just a simple traitor. But it should be noted that his behavior as governor has maintained the stamp of what he has always been but cleverly concealed. In fact, his political career in public administration began under the corrupt government of Abdala Bucaram, who was removed from office, and continued years later during the not so innocent governments of Gustavo Noboa and Lucio Gutierrez.

Like a giant and lethal parasite, the US MIC (miltary-industrial-complex), which also includes its powerful propaganda arm, the mainstream media, currently more than half of our published budget. To justify itself, and serve the agendas of the ruling caste of billionaires that really own America and its politicians, it manufactures threats and wars all over the planet. And this is not a secret: Many Americans are quite aware of this, but feel helpless to do anything about it. Call it the capitalist/imperialist disease: the ultimate form of cancer. 

All empires, no matter how solid and invincible they seem, ultimately fail and collapse. Usually victims of their own hubris, which opens the doors to over-reach, and colossally corrupt elites mostly bent on feeding on the imperial carcass till the bitter end.Corupt “democracies” are normally a nightmare to their own citizens, but a corrupt global empire [we are repeating ourselves can be a nightmare to everyone alive, both near and far.

CHRISTOPHER BLACK—Reasonable people ask what can be done about the aggressive policies of the United States leadership. Russia and China talk about containment of the threat, renew calls for peaceful diplomacy, support dialogue with Iran to reduce the imminent danger of war in the Persian Gulf, with Venezuela, with respect to all the nations attacked occupied or threatened by the United States. But the Trumps and Obamas, the Bushes and Clintons of the American world, respond with all the more arrogance and fall all over themselves as to who among them is the most bellicose, the most ready to go to war to “make America great again, the most able to “support the spread of democracy,” that is, their rule over the world.