Trump's America and the extractive institutions that destroy societies from within. Where the extraction goes first and what happens when the laboratory comes home.
you said it perfectly "The war on Iran is Washington's Suez moment, the point at which the gap between imperial self-image and imperial reality becomes impossible to manage"... we are losing on all fronts
All the political analysts and economic analysts across the world can talk as much as they like about global European and British (birthing US) colonialism and its capitalist system, the supremacy ideology baked into and normalised into every aspect of global human life that has kept it going, and STILL none of them, none of us understand how mrderous colonialism is inside and outside what is called the imperial core.
One article by Sean Griobhtha blows all these cute little debates out of the water.
He cuts down Mr Mearsheimer’s “we should have brought peace to the Middle East” or Caitlin Johnstone and Hasan Piker’s well intentioned cry that the west is abandoning it's “liberal democratic values”.
He shows them and us all up as clowns in an ugly existence that started long before he was born and has been grinding human bodies at industrial scale, turning mostly working class boys into mrderers of women and babies, children, for decades and centuries.
Extract: "The dead still visit him in his sleep; the woman most often, the one who whispered “baby” before she died with his knife in her heart, the one who turned out to be carrying a child she would never bear. His government has a name for what was done to her, and to her husband, and to the roughly fourteen hundred human beings he killed and helped kill in the span of thirty days while Americans were snug in their beds with visions of “power, glory, and sugarplums in their heads”...
The first cruelty is obvious — that the same legal architecture which authorized the killing also claimed the right to own and delete the killer.
But the second is the one that should keep a citizen awake. The erasure of this one man was not improvised malice. It was not a vindictive major exceeding his authority on a bad day, though there was a vindictive major. It was the small, intimate, personal terminus of a machine that was designed."
you said it perfectly "The war on Iran is Washington's Suez moment, the point at which the gap between imperial self-image and imperial reality becomes impossible to manage"... we are losing on all fronts
I agree. And it's not about Gaza only: the book is oblivious of colonialism and imperialism altogether!
Kamantha Müller
@africanrightingpen
All the political analysts and economic analysts across the world can talk as much as they like about global European and British (birthing US) colonialism and its capitalist system, the supremacy ideology baked into and normalised into every aspect of global human life that has kept it going, and STILL none of them, none of us understand how mrderous colonialism is inside and outside what is called the imperial core.
One article by Sean Griobhtha blows all these cute little debates out of the water.
He cuts down Mr Mearsheimer’s “we should have brought peace to the Middle East” or Caitlin Johnstone and Hasan Piker’s well intentioned cry that the west is abandoning it's “liberal democratic values”.
He shows them and us all up as clowns in an ugly existence that started long before he was born and has been grinding human bodies at industrial scale, turning mostly working class boys into mrderers of women and babies, children, for decades and centuries.
Extract: "The dead still visit him in his sleep; the woman most often, the one who whispered “baby” before she died with his knife in her heart, the one who turned out to be carrying a child she would never bear. His government has a name for what was done to her, and to her husband, and to the roughly fourteen hundred human beings he killed and helped kill in the span of thirty days while Americans were snug in their beds with visions of “power, glory, and sugarplums in their heads”...
The first cruelty is obvious — that the same legal architecture which authorized the killing also claimed the right to own and delete the killer.
But the second is the one that should keep a citizen awake. The erasure of this one man was not improvised malice. It was not a vindictive major exceeding his authority on a bad day, though there was a vindictive major. It was the small, intimate, personal terminus of a machine that was designed."
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/the-legal-erasure-of-a-man
excellent analysis