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How Fascism Took Control in the U.S.-&-Allied Countries

By Eric Zuesse

https://theduran.com/how-fascism-took-c ... countries/

August 7, 2023

It was done by deceit. An excellent example of this is America’s Barack Obama.

U.S. President Obama did more for U.S. armaments firms (whose sole or main market is U.S.-&-allied Governments) than any other U.S. President in recent decades. He ran the coup in Ukraine in February 2014 that turned Ukraine’s government from being neutralist to being rabidly anti-Russia https://archive.is/cU1oa so that America would become enabled ultimately to place its nuclear missiles only 317 miles away from The Kremlin for a blitz annihilation within just five minutes. https://archive.ph/ACfa2

That led to massive new arms-purchases by NATO countries. Obama also illegally tried but failed to overthrow the very-popular-among-Syrians leader of Syria and so invaded that country and destroyed it. https://archive.ph/VSDqw

He did the same to Libya, but was more successful at it.

And, being a fascist who served his country’s billionaires instead of its public, he secretly told Wall Street’s top banksters, on 27 March 2009, https://archive.is/E4fDe#selection-1197.0-1211.79

My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks. You guys have an acute public-relations problem that’s turning into a political problem. And I want to help. But you need to show that you get that this is a crisis and that everyone has to make some sacrifices. I’m not out there to go after you. I’m protecting you. But if I’m going to shield you from public and congressional anger, you have to give me something to work with on these issues of compensation.

By analogizing these billionaires to poor Blacks in former times who had been chased with pitchforks and lynched by bigot-gangs, Obama turned both ethics and history upside-down. America’s super-rich had much to thank him for. https://archive.is/RqmT7

On 21 April 20134, I headlined “Is The Obama Administration the Most Corrupt in U.S. History?”. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ZNbpG

Then, on 24 January 2014, I headlined “Why Won’t Obama Go After Criminal Bankers?”. https://web.archive.org/web/20230807133 ... _b_4661086

He had the worst record on governmental whistleblowers of any U.S. President ever. On 15 April 2013, Marcy Wheeler headlined

War on Whistleblowers: How the Obama Administration Destroyed Thomas Drake For Exposing Government Waste;

https://archive.is/xzANA then, on 16 March 2015, Spencer Ackerman and Ed Pilkington headlined

Obama’s war on whistleblowers leaves administration insiders unscathed.

https://archive.is/2RreY

Obama was hugely rewarded: the world’s most-admired person! https://archive.md/ieiUI

In 2009, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his rhetoric. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace ... sentation/

On 26 July 2023, America’s National Public Radio propaganda operation headlined

Nobel Peace Prize Winners Say Ukraine Needs More Weapons to Prevail Against Russia,

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/26/11903054 ... ainst-russ and reported Michelle Keleman’s interviews of the three intensely anti-Russian pro-Ukrainian ‘peace activists’ who had won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, and they all were urging the U.S.-and-allied Governments to send more, and more lethal, weapons to Ukraine, in order to defeat Russia so as to establish ‘peace’ there, in the land that the 2009 Nobel-Peace-Prize winner Obama had actually destroyed, and that his V.P. Biden now is President destroying even more.

But all U.S. Presidents in recent decades have likewise been fascists, and so too are all of the leaders of U.S.-allied Governments.

The armaments tycoon and inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel, https://archive.is/wqgV0 very appropriately founded the Nobel Prizes, in the deceptive and tax-avoiding spirit of what they call “philanthropy,” which is the belief that billionaires do a better job of controlling public works than their inferiors, the public’s Government, possibly can achieve. After all, their inferiors were born to be controlled — not to be in control. Prizes such as this are intended to serve the aristocracy, not really the public. After all, the public deserve to be controlled by the aristocracy, their born or ‘self-made’ masters.

Unlike during the times of Mussolini and Hitler, when they were openly and boldly bragging about their supremacism, today’s liberal fascists lie about it and pretend to be pro-democracy.

Fascists took control by adding hypocrisy to their other, and older, lies. This is how they decimated the political left — by pretending to care about, and to have sympathy for, leftist issues.

So: all that remains in Western ideology now is conservative fascism versus liberal fascism. BOTH sides serve only the super-rich.

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RFK Jr.’s Campaign Collapsing Over Israel Issue

By Eric Zuesse

https://theduran.com/rfk-jr-s-campaign- ... ael-issue/

August 8, 2023

The only Presidential candidate in either Party who proclaims himself to be against Biden’s determination to conquer (regime-change) both Russia and China, is RFK Jr., who has, by now, committed himself also to insisting that Israel is NOT an apartheid nation, and that Israel’s military NEVER targets non-combatants, and that Israel is a democracy not only for Jews there but also for Arabs there, and that Iran must be regime-changed in order to protect Israel.

RFK Jr. appears to have great passion and personal conviction for all of these pro-Israeli and anti-Palestinian and anti-Iranian views, which seem inconsistent with one-another. On the one hand, he pretends that America has a moral necessity to go to war against Iran if need-be in order to protect Israel; and, on the other hand, that America must avoid all wars (such as in Ukraine and in Taiwan) that aren’t necessary in order to protect the American people. He hasn’t said why he thinks that America has an existential national-security interest in protecting Israel.

He insists that a President must use the military ONLY to protect the American people, but that in the case of Israel, America’s President has a separate and independent obligation to protect Israel’s people — or at least Israel’s Jewish population. But he never says why.

The progressive and consistently anti-imperialistic American Jew Max Blumenthal is one of America’s best investigative journalists and also happens to disagree strongly with RFK Jr. about both Israel and Iran — and Palestinians — and is requesting RFK Jr. to do an interview with him, as RFK Jr. has already done with numerous other journalists. RFK Jr. took him up on that offer, but then, without explanation, changed his mind and rejected it.

This interview, if it never occurs (the very lack of it), will sink his campaign. If it will occur, then it could sink his campaign, but maybe it won’t, and maybe it would help him if he shows an intellectual virtue which until now he has appeared not to have, which is an open mind — one that’s able to change when it encounters realities that contradict it. If he continues to say no to Blumenthal’s request, then he’s far less intelligent than a lot of people have thought he is — because that decision could actually destroy his entire campaign by exposing his internal inconsistencies, which will then become an open and growing wound on his campaign that will bleed it to death.

He claims to be opposed to censorship; but, if he continues to say no to a journalist of Blumenthal’s calibre, then he’s censoring-out from his campaign any credible progressive information and viewpoint regarding Israel, and the issue of Israel will then grow and grow in his campaign, until it either sinks him or else frees him to project a rational and internally consistent position (something he doesn’t now have) — a positon that he’ll be able honestly to defend. To continue to say no would be pouring contempt upon all who — like myself until now — have been supporting his candidacy. We will not be treated with such contempt coming from a candidate whom we support — a candidate who claims that truth is his only guide, but who displays that that assertion about himself is actually itself a lie.

One can see and hear RFK Jr. now losing any chance to win the Democratic nomination unless he’ll do this interview and aces it — with an honest position on Israel. Posted here below is a 24-minute video that makes this point very clearly — he’ll need to change his position on Israel in order to stand any realistic chance of becoming the Democratic Party’s Presidential nominee, and he will have to do this very soon: