Voting for Empire is the Sole Option for
Democrats and Republicans
By
Peter Phillips
May
07, 2016 "Information
Clearing House"
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The
presidential primaries offer a single choice
for both Democrats and Republicans to vote
for empire and permanent war. This year’s
entertainment spectacle, what we call
democratic elections, is a particularly
gross circus of meaninglessness,
misinformation, sound bites, and lies. Both
parties are in support in the continuation
of the US/NATO global empire of permanent
war and the protection of the capital of the
global 1%. Even Bernie Sanders calls for
drone strikes and continued war on Isis and
other evil terrorists.
Neo-fascists, racists, and misogynistic
people are finding new voice with Donald
Trump’s presidential bid. Neo-conservatives
and fundamentalists found hope with Ted
Cruz. Moderates, liberals and women see
Hillary Clinton as a chance for Supreme
Court balance and gender equality, and
left-leaning liberals are cheering for
democratic socialist Sanders to save our
economy by breaking up big banks and
restoring trust in government.
The
mobilization of millions of young people in
support of Sanders offers them a hope of
real change, similar to the false hope
millions expressed eight years ago. None of
the candidates above offer any solutions for
the permanent war on terror, US/NATO
presence in 130 countries, massive wasteful
spending on arms, neo-liberal economic
policies, governmental austerity, global
refugees, and human rights for the three
billion people living on less than $3 a day.
None of the above suggests reinstatement of
Habeas Corpus, an expanded Bill of Rights,
complete electronic privacy, full
governmental transparency, or the bail out
of the $1 trillion student loan debt.
The
US/NATO global empire is primarily in
service to the Transnational Capitalist
Class (TCC) not the people of the United
State or the installed President in
Washington. These few thousand people
controlling global capital amount to less
than 0.0001 percent of the world’s
population. The TCC, as the capitalist elite
of the world, dominate nation states through
international treaty agreements and
transnational state organizations such as
the Work Bank, Bank for International
Settlements, and the International Monetary
Fund. The TCC communicates their policy
requirements through global networks such as
the G-7, G-20, and various non-governmental
policy organizations like the Word Economic
Forum, Trilateral Commission, and the
Bilderberger Group. Presidents and
Presidential candidates listen to the TCC or
they will not be allowed into office. Rigged
elections, assassinations, and October
surprises are in the tool kit of the TCC and
deep state powers.
The
TCC represents the interests of several
hundred thousand millionaires and
billionaires who comprise the richest people
in the top one percent of the world’s wealth
hierarchy. A few thousand inside the TCC
manage over $100 Trillion of capital.
Ironically, this extreme accumulation of
concentrated capital at the top creates a
continuing problem for the TCC, who must
continually scour the world for new
investment opportunities that will yield
adequate returns (7-10%).
The
TCC are keenly aware of both their elite
status and their increasing vulnerabilities
to democracy movements and unrest from the
bottom. As a result of these class
insecurities, the TCC works to protect its
structure of concentrated wealth with
military might. Protection of capital is the
prime reason that NATO countries now account
for 85 percent of the world’s defense
spending, with the US spending more on
military than the rest of the world
combined. Fears of rebellions motivated by
inequality and other forms of unrest push
the US/NATO global agenda in the war on
terror. Mass media owned by the TCC
continues to promote the fear of terrorism
as a form of hegemonic mind control.
The
concentration of global capital, permanent
war, and deliberate destabilization of
economies is designed to pit working people
against each other and protect global
capital. The ultimate goal of capital is the
building of a privatized neo-feudal police
states, where individual countries are
population containment zones and capital is
free to go unrestricted anywhere in the
world.
Democracy-occupy movements are emerging as a
counter to centralized global capital.
Knowing the war on terror is a fraud
designed to keep us quiet is one step
towards challenging the 1%. We need to
collectively seek solidarity with working
people worldwide in an unrelenting movement
for democracy, human rights, peace, and
equality.
Peter
Phillips is a Professor of Political
Sociology at Sonoma State University and
President of Media Freedom
Foundation/Project Censored.
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