Habib Siddiqui

  Dear All,   Trump-Rubio military adventure in Venezuela has triggered an explosion of analyses and commentaries, serious or simply mantra-like.  I have watched and compiled a short list of these discussions which I think shed light on the fundamental issues, regarding the run-away US imperialism, the imperialism that is arrogant enough to wield its unchecked power, but not confident enough to claim itself as "Empire".   I have closely followed the US foreign and domestic policy making since its rival USSR collapsed in the early 1990's.  I wasn't a fan of the Soviet Union.  During my 24 formative years growing up in Burma - I don't call my country Myanmar for 2 reasons:  language-wise it is patently false (I won't get into this) and it was changed by the junta in 1989 to whitewash the bloodbath it triggered in its crackdown of nationwide uprising that took place in 1988, one month after I left the country for California.  We nickname...

  The ruling class of the United States, severed from a fact-based universe and blinded by idiocy, greed and hubris, has immolated the internal mechanisms that prevent dictatorship, and the external mechanisms designed to protect against a lawless world of colonialism and gunboat diplomacy. Our democratic institutions are moribund. They are unable or unwilling to restrain our ruling gangster class. The lobby-infested Congress is a useless appendage. It surrendered its Constitutional authority, including the right to declare war and pass legislation, long ago. It sent a paltry 38  bills  to Donald Trump’s desk to be signed into law last year. Most were “disapproval” resolutions rolling back regulations enacted during the Biden administration. Trump governs by imperial decree through Executive Orders. The media,  owned  by corporations and oligarchs, from Jeff Bezos to Larry Ellison, is an echo chamber for the crimes of state, including the ongoing  genocide ...