That Donald J. Trump is a
two-time elected US President speaks volume about the American Society and its
democracy.
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Compete or Die in Capitalist non-Society, or Beat Up the
Weak and the Vulnerable while keeping the very political-economic-social system
that deprives you of life's essentials.
"Thatcher told us 'the method is
economics, the object is to change the soul'. She wasn't just saying there is
no society, she was saying she wants to destroy society - to tear apart the
bonds that keep us together. And she did so very successfully, by destroying
the labour movement, by centralising authority within the state, and by
crushing protest.
The other part of this project was the privatisation agenda. Thatcher
privatised pensions and social housing in an attempt to tie peoples’ prosperity
to their housing and pensions wealth instead of wages. The idea was to make us
stop identifying as workers, who struggle together to fight for their
interests, and start identifying as mini capitalists, who see their prosperity
as tied to the same financial markets that generate wealth for those at the
top."
"It’s no coincidence that Mussolini was a
former socialist. The imagery he deployed is similar to that used by the trade
union movement. Historically, the labour movement has used a raised fist as a
symbol of their power - because one finger is easy to break, but a closed fist
is much harder.
But Mussolini’s fascist movement differed from the labour movement in that it
made people feel powerful not by taking on the strong who are actually
exploiting them, but by encouraging them to take on the weak. Instead of
fighting back against a fundamentally broken system, fascists will retain a
capitalist economic model that benefits the rich at the expense of workers,
while encouraging workers to redirect their rage onto those beneath them in the
social hierarchy."
- Grace Blakeley, political economist, Marxist thinker, and
political commentator, UK, 19 Sept. 2025
Powerlessness, Rage, and the Rise of the Far Right
Read her full essay here:
https://substack.com/@graceblakeley/p-174002188
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https://substack.com/@maungzarni/note/c-194324747?r=7gw7
This is a must-listen. The EU is a US dependency or a cluster of
vassal states.
Once the Master decides it is no longer of use to the new
American strategic goals European importance to the world diminishes.
Europe's deeply stupid,delusional and hypocritical politicians
continue to bark their empty normative rhetoric of democracy, sovereignty and
all that, in the face of Russia's military victory in Ukraine, which was
effectively egged on as a democracy and gradually turned into Washington's
proxy.
The EU played a second fiddle in this funeral march. Now both
European underlings and Ukraine are fucked a big time. You play spineess
witless poodles to the US Empire and wallowed in a false sense of security and
even self-importance.
Ultimately, the 🇺🇸 is
the world's most criminal entity, by any objective judicial yardstick.
Empirically, anything Washington has touched has in due course turned into
death, destruction and dust. We have in Asia Washington's barking poodles of S.
Korea, Taiwan, Japan and PHILIPPINES. They apparently are led or
misled by politicians who prefer their American serfdom as opposed to finding
ways to reconcile and rebuild anti-imperialist ties with China.
It was China that had suffered Japanese Fascist military
occupation and genocide.
These prickly Asian actors will eventually reignite the big war
in the so-called Far East Asia. The Americans are safe, utterly unconnected to
their sites of proxy wars, be they in Ukraine or the Baltics or Asia, including
West Asia where they have destabilised and/or destroyed half a dozen Arab
and Muslim countries.
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WHAT CHAOS WILL TRUMP UNLEASH IN 2026?
The evidence of 2025
suggests a president who is alternately reckless and bored
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President Donald Trump speaks to
guests during a New Year’s Eve event at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach,
Florida. / Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.
One of my favorite
anecdotes occurred sometime after 9/11 when Tony Blair, the prime minister of
Great Britain, joined in with America’s declaration of war against terrorism.
The brilliant playwright Harold Pinter, who would be a bitter and prolific critic
of the ensuing war, was invited to respond before the House of Commons. He
began his talk with a tale from British history during a wave of terror in
Ireland.
“There’s an old story about
Oliver Cromwell. After he had taken the town of Drogheda, the citizens were
brought to the main square. Cromwell announced to his lieutenants: ‘Right! Kill
all the women and rape all the men.’ One of his aides said: ‘Excuse me,
General. Isn’t it the other way around?’ A voice from the crowd called out:
‘Mr. Cromwell knows what he is doing!’”
In Pinter’s telling, the
voice of support from the crowd was Blair’s. Today it could and would come from
the lips of Vance, Bondi, Hegseth, or Noem. Never has a modern American
president been surrounded by such self-important sycophants and a Republican-led
Congress with little gumption. Trump’s lack of interest in nonmilitary briefing
papers and his obsession with social and political gossip has moved from
information known by a few to standard operating procedure.
The Marx Brothers aspect to
all of this comes in the crudely staged televised Cabinet meetings that consist
of Cabinet members competing with each other for the most extravagant
compliments for the president. Disregard for details is one way to describe his
lack of interest in facts that could affect the daily life of the vulnerable
around the world.
How do you feel about
Donald Trump ordering the US forces to conduct bombing raids on seven nations
last year—Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Syria, Nigeria, Somalia and Venezuela—without
significant complaint from the Republican-led Congress?
Do you think that he really
knows the issues, all of the pros and cons of such warfare? America’s leading
newspapers—the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington
Post—have done their part, but the president could not care less.
Can it be that in some cases he is acting in an international crisis, dropping
American bombs and conducting airstrikes on behalf of a fellow billionaire or a
corrupt foreign leader and future investor?
His domestic policies have
had nothing to do with making life in America better for all. Trump’s hiring of
Elon Musk to slash the federal workforce is now written off as a failure, but
it also did real damage. Even more toxic have been the similar, and far more
widespread and permanent efforts of Russell Vought, the Senate-approved
director of the Office of Management and Budget, to push hundreds of thousands
of federal employees out of office. And then there are the racist
policies—there is no other word for it—of Stephen Miller, the White House
deputy chief of staff and major supporter of the Trump-approved national effort
to use the National Guard and local police, along with immigration officers, to
subject undocumented migrants and other foreigners who have overstayed their
visas or arrived illegally in the United States to deportation without due
process.
There have been abuses in
border control and the monitoring of illegal immigrants, including the shameful
separation of very young children from their detained or deported parents.
Trump has remained unmoved
by the domestic chaos stemming from his immigration policies, just as he has
remained unmoved by the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza as the Israeli
government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continued its policies of
collective punishment in response to the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023.
Was he just obdurate or was
in thrall to the possibility of future billion-dollar private investments in
Gaza and the Middle East? Was it about good public policy or money?
The same questions have to
be raised about his motivations regarding the war in Ukraine. He invested
enormous time and energy early last year in dealing with oil and natural
gas-rich Vladimir Putin in an attempt to end the war between Russia and Ukraine
but has apparently lost interest because the going got hard. In recent months
bombing, missile, and drone attacks have been causing increasing damage to both
sides. There was a recent wave of optimism that I wrote about last month but
that moment seems to have passed. American officials involved in peace talks
are increasingly dispirited. The battered Russian troops have made gains on the
ground, and the Russian Army aims to recruit a new wave of four hundred
thousand troops in 2026.
There has been no
significant public word from Trump about this moment, as a chance for a
meaningful settlement. Is Trump bored or is it that the opportunity for a
financial killing has slipped away?
A recent series of reported drone
attacks that may or may not have been perpetrated by Ukraine on one of the
official state homes of Russian President Vladimir Putin—there was no word of
Putin’s whereabouts at the time—prompted Sergey Lavrov, the longtime foreign
minister, to return to harsh talk again about the Nazi influence inside the
Ukrainian army and issue a blunt message to Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelensky: “Keep up the terrorist attacks and there’ll be no negotiated
settlement, but a settlement will be arrived by arms and dictated by Russia.”
If Trump has lost political
and economic interest in the war, there are other Americans who have not.
Jack
Matlock, a former ambassador to Russia, told me a few months ago that Zelensky
is beholden to the Ukrainian neo-Nazis known to still have enormous influence
in the Ukrainian army. His point to me then was that Ukrainian land seized by
Russian forces since the war began in 2022 would have to be given up to get a
settlement. “That,” Matlock said, “is probably going to require a different
Ukrainian government because Zelensky will probably be assassinated by the
neo-Nazis if he makes such a deal.”
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Project Esther, the right wing plan to crush the Palestinian
freedom movement and other social movements, relies on silencing voices in the
public sphere.
We’re already seeing censorship online, criminalization of
activists, reputation smearing and doxxing of public figures speaking out in
support of Palestine, and punishing academics.
The goal is to silence the movement and they’re getting away
with it. If we don’t act now, we’ll see these same tactics used against any
other issue area the government may disagree with.
Post 3 of 4. Stay tuned for the fourth strategy being used to
attack our movements.
And check out www.WhatsProjectEsther.org
to see what else we’ve uncovered.
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