OldGlory1951 Loc: Burien, Washington

How Much Longer Can the U.S. Remain a Superpower?

People wave as a U.S. f**g flies on the dashboard of a "mine resistant ambush protected" (MRAP) vehicle heading to Kuwait in 2011. (Lucas Jackson / AP)

Having already violated every tenet of international law in its proxy jihadist war against Syria, including the seizure of one-third of the country, the United States invoked a Non-Law, a Law That Never Was, to justify its missile strikes against fictitious “chemical warfare” facilities. Syrian President Assad “k**ls his own people,” said Trump, leader of the nation whose police k**l more of its “own people” than any country except (fellow white settler state) Brazil, and whose prisons entomb one-quarter of all the world’s inmates. (One out of every eight prisoners on the planet is an African-American.)

On the Saturday morning after the bombs fell in Damascus and Homs, Omalii Yes**tela, chairman of the Black Is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and R********ns, held a press conference in St. Louis to denounce Washington’s aggression. “If you can use that justification,” said Yes**tela, “that, somehow, the Syrian state is attacking its own people and, therefore, the U.S. can rain missiles, along with France and England, on Syria, then what would prevent Russia from attacking the United States because of all the people that the United States is k*****g in our communities, all of the starvation that is imposed on our communities, the fact that more than a million Africans are lumped up in prison?”

In his post-strike statement, President Trump called chemical weapons “uniquely dangerous”—as if such uniqueness provided legal justification for Washington’s act of war. But the United States has been poisoning “its own” Black people for generations. “They talk about chemical warfare, but books have even been written about how crack cocaine was introduced into the community through the CIA—the same CIA that’s involved in murdering people in Syria and other places around the world,” said Yes**tela.

The United States began in smallpox-infected blankets and mountains of Native American scalps-for-bounty, and remains true to its genocidal imperatives. “We live in a country today where people are living in concentration camps that are euphemistically referred to as Indian reservations. What is it that would keep another country from attacking the United States based on that?” asked Yes**tela.

Imperial Shriek

The fading empire refuses to accept the humiliation of defeat of its jihadist proxies, the head-cutters Washington and Saudi Arabia have nurtured as a foreign terror legion since deploying them against a l*****t government in Afghanistan and its Soviet ally almost 40 years ago.

The billions in cash and arms that flowed into jihadist structures in Syria and Iraq since 2011 equipped and financed an al-Qaida army (al Nusra) mighty enough to absorb and dominate a menagerie of other murderous Islamic factions, and to finally birth ISIS, the death cult caliph**e. But the Syrian Arab Army, with the help of Russia, Iran, and its Shia neighbors in Lebanon and Iraq, is now on the cusp of retaking the bulk of its national territory—except for the vital region of its oil fields, upon which the U.S. military sits like flies on s**t.

Aside from the remaining head-h****rs, Washington’s only indigenous ally in Syria is an army of Marxist Kurds who were among the prime victims—and fiercest resisters—of the American-sponsored jihadist onslaught. For years they were tacit allies of Syria’s government—whose secularism they share—in the struggle against the U.S.-sponsored barbarians. But Don Uncle Sam made them an offer of protection-or-else that they believed could not be refused, and the Kurds are now pawns—as is the whole planet, in a sense—to Washington’s quandary: How does the world’s sole Superpower remain in a region where it is despised, after its proxy forces have been defeated? And if it cannot remain, is it any longer The Superpower?

Washington is answering this imperial existential question the only way it can, with its awesome war machine, oiled by lies that no one believes outside the western corporate information bubble. There was no chemical attack by Syria, this month or last April or in August of 2013. All lies, but derivative of the much bigger lies that sought to justify the U.S.-Saudi-Turkish-French-British (and, of course, Israeli) war against, first Libya, and all but simultaneously, Syria: that these were civil wars, rather than naked imperial aggression.

Huge lies require powerful megaphones to mold the minds of the host country population, the only people that can (theoretically) shut down the U.S war machine without firing a shot. The Iraq war so repulsed the U.S. public, it became politically impossible for George Bush to “stay the course,” or for Pentagon planners to contemplate another large-scale American invasion of the region. The only alternative was an enormously beefed-up al-Qaida to wage holy terror wars that the corporate media would dutifully “report” as civil wars of an “Arab Spring.”

Most w***e A******ns bought into the lie because they wanted to: imperial-mindedness is white privilege on a global scale. B****s have historically opposed U.S. militarism, but they acquiesced to Obama’s aggressions and neutered their own peace politics because they wanted to—in deference to the Black family in the White House.

But Obama-Time is over; the spell is broken. Donald Trump is the sum of all Black fears and loathings, an arch r****t who is perceived as rendering the entire planet unsafe for people of color. B****s are primed to oppose all of his policies, foreign and domestic. Black people are the only U.S. group that shares the general global distrust of U.S. foreign policy motives. Moreover, Black America is inherently skeptical of U.S. power structures, because Power in the U.S. has always lied about Black people—and about people of color elsewhere in the world.

As Omali Yes**tela said of Trump’s “flimsy excuse” for bombing Syria: “It’s all fabrication, and we have been victims of such fabrications for 400 years in this country.”

Glen Ford is the executive editor of Black Agenda Report. He can be contacted at Glen.Ford@BlackAgendaReport.com.


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We all have to get along, even if we don't always agree. This Middle East Crisis, has got to end!! or America will be washed down the Tube. I can't stand Power Hungry People!!!!!. We all got to stand together, instead of Butting Heads and destroying our own Country. Be you Black, White, or any other Race, this is your country and we all need to stand together and protect our country. I am a Mixed Breed, and i am proud. We need to all stand together and keep America at the Top!!!!or she will become a Sinking Ship, and Outsiders(Other Countries will destroy us . Now I am asking Y'all, how do y'all feel, about America Sinking Away?

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

We'll be one as long as we need to...which won't be much longer.

woodguru

The title brings a stark reality home, the US is quickly losing it's position of respect as the world's first echelon democracy.

Russia is systematically undermining democracy in several countries, and doing it openly and putting millions of dollars into backing the anti democracy platforms, the ones that use hatred and bigotry as a division.

The rest of the world has a better understanding of the dangers of destroying a county's democracy, we seem to be the blind i***ts.

China made overtures at the idea of changing the world monetary standard to another currency. There were intricate policies in play to protect our status as the world's leader and our currency being the standard.

This country has made so many destabilizing moves from being looked to by the rest of the free world as the respected that it's hard to believe it could happen. We have altered out trade relationships with Canada and Mexico, China always willing to step in and fill voids. Russia has driven this wedge, and no other president has ever been so pro Putin as to allow this to happen. Even now we are involved in positions in countries under strife where Russia is allied with the opposition and undermining our efforts.

We do need to stand together against the most serious threat, which is Russia. Hard to do when we have a party of alt patriots who would rather have Putin as president than a democrat.

OldGlory1951 Loc: Burien, Washington

YUP!!!! I AGREE!!!! with You!!!! BigMike.

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

What do the angels repeatedly say? Fear not!

God is doing a number on our corrupt institutions. Good for Him! Go God!

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

Um...whoooo was making money from the Russians hand over fist during the last administration?

Anyone?

Anyone?

The hag and her greasy partner in crime.

Ya...we know who his veep would have been if she'd won.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

I do find it interesting that the US condemns other nations for doing what it itself is doing. Russia invaded and annexed the Crimea claiming it was protecting itself, you know "national defense"................which has been our rationale for invading and occupying Afghanistan, and Iraq, bombing Libya, Yemen, Syria and who knows what all else we're doing in secret.

National defense covers a lot of ground, and almost ANYTHING can be designated a national defense concern...................but the rest of the word aren't i***ts, and know when they're being snowed. What would the Defense Department do with it's huge budget, if we left the Middle East entirely? You can be sure of one thing; it won't be returning any of the tax payers money - because - if there aren't any wars to justify keeping the money - someone will find some more "national defense" concerns that need to be taken care of.

vernon

One more Obama type presiden and that will be the end.

LurkingTom Loc: North Dakota

The United States hasn't been a super-power for many decades....

BigMike Loc: yerington nv

Doesn't matter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRg_8NNPTD8