When I lived in the US, I occasionally was shocked listening to right wing talk shows like those of Bill ORiley & Sean Hanity or the vulgar non-sense of Howard Stern and Jerry Springer. Holywood movies glorified violence and vilified Arabs and Muslims. Owners of the corporations that ran these media had two agendas: making money and helping Zionism. Now Foxnews owned by Zionist Murdock is even outflanked on the right by Newsmax and One America News (essentially fascist in orientation)! It is vey sad. Palestinian and other Arab Ametricans who were/are visible or tried to do something were targeted. I was one of those. If you want to read a little about this, see http://qumsiyeh.org/thecaseisclosed/ and the below from fellow academic Thomas Nagy who decided to leave the (perhaps hopeless) USA to live abroad in 2003. I left the US in 2008 not because of pressure but because I thought I could serve humanity better in Zionist occupied Palestine than in Zionist occupied USA. In retrospect, that was the best decision of my life. But I still care about the US where I have family and thousands of friends and followers.
The mass movements like Black Lives Matter remind us of the movements
in the 1960s that did change the US (after much turmoil). But the
establishment gurus learned from these things and are certainly far more entrenched
today than say at the time of Nixon and Kissinger. Obama’s first appointment
as president elect was for Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, a bigoted Zionist who
put Israel interests ahead of US interests. That is why in 8 years, the Obama administration
bombed many countries in the Arab world. Biden selection of anti-BLM Zionist VP Kamala Harris and his selection of a Zionist Jewish chief of staff were expected (he could have
chosen at least Elizabeth Warren as VP a bit more moderate). Biden proudly
proclaimed himself a Zionist. If he actually assumes office (a 60-70% chance
and not just because of Trump but also his health condition) he will be worse
than Obama. The moneyed intersts win either way. But the calamity facing the
USA today is far worse than when Obama took office. Over 160,000 new infections
per day and an economy that is drowning in debt (government, corporate, and individual).
The US currency can no longer sustain itself based on the fiction of the strength
of the US economy (an economy based on imperial control of world economy that is
already dissolving). China and Russia are rising. If you missed it, just last
week China led the formation of the largest free trade block on earth
(comprising 30+% of the world economy and 16 countries in Asia plus Australia
and New Zealand but minus the USA!!). The US paper tiger is still able to twist
arms of countries like Bahrain, UAE, and Saudi Arabia but that is only because
they are run by brutal uneducated dictators who do not care about the will of the
people or even know how to read history to understand its trends. What is
needed in the US is a system change so that politics respects the will of the people.
The 350 milion US citizens should not be forced by a trigged system to chose “the
lesser of two evils”! The majority of citizens would not want the US to remain
the “biggest pervayor of violence in the world” (words of Martin Luther LKing
Jr). They do not want billions of their tax money going to Israel. Why not give
them the right to vote on such things? The 13.5 million Palestinians and 6.2 million
Israeli Jews should also be given a fair chance to vote for the form of
government they like here in a post apartheid era. I am sure the majority
wouldvote for a secular democracy with real checks and balances like the ones
found in some northern European countries. Since my last question to readers
generated many good responses posted in the comments section at the blog (http://popular-resistance.
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Nagy was number 6, I was number 5 on Pipe's list-Mazin
Why I am leaving this Country: Daniel Pipes and the Failure
of Democracy in America
by Thomas Nagy
07/30/03
It is instructive to know how the wonderful democracy that
the U.S. is exporting through its own very real WMDs actually works. There are
worse governments than the US democracy, but surely there are better ones, and
US democracy is not worth exporting or imposing on anyone except the most
desperate.
It is necessary to give the context to my small, modest
insight into the reality of American democracy.
It has to do with Dr. Daniel Pipes. Dr. Daniel Pipes is a
rather belligerent fellow who has been wonderfully successful in intimidating
the vast majority of US professors into near total silence despite: (1) two
major wars that are getting progressively worse (from the official US
viewpoint), (2) a threatened nuclear war with North Korea that has the potential
of killing us all, down to the cockroaches that have amazing resilience to
radiation, and (3) a domestic economic crisis spinning out of control thanks to
the insane quest for world dominance and the maniacal looting of the US by the
chums of Bush, the First and Bush, the Second.
The case of such a gem of free enterprise as B2's Kenny Boy
Lay[1] of Enron infamy comes readily to
mind, but you could point to a great number of other pirates of gangster
capitalism who have, quite simply, cheated the American people out of life
savings or merely stolen a big chunk of their retirement money.
So one might suspect that all is not well. Indeed.
The good Dr. Pipes identified the six leading university
professor villains in the US. I'm number
6 in a column [2] in the New York Post, a newspaper that is perhaps just a few
steps up from pure trash, but one which is widely read and distributed. I can get it easily here in Washington, D.C.
In the column, Pipes falsely accused me, among other things, of providing aid
to the Saddam regime.
B2's nomination of Pipes to the U.S. Institute of Peace
[3] is rivaled only by B1's naming of
Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.
Now here comes my modest insight into how government really
works in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Foolishly, I thought this truly bizarre nomination would
afford me a chance to clear my name and end or reduce my harassment (Pipes had
called for adult supervision for the six evil professors). Since Pipes
nomination by B2 required the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate, I asked to
be a witness in a public hearing. I asked for three minutes and a chance to put
documents into evidence that would restore my good name and show the greater
suitability of Pipes for the CIAs assassination bureau (I'm sure it has a more
noble name) rather than the US Institute for Peace.
At first, I thought, Gosh the system of democracy can work,
because I thought I had an agreement with the staff of the ranking member of
the Senate[4] Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions[5] , the
committee to which Dr. Pipes nomination had been sent, for a 3-minute testimony
and a chance to submit documents.
After hearing nothing further from Senator Edward Kennedy[6]
's office for weeks, I discovered that there had been a misunderstanding.
Goodbye to any chance of being a witness, goodbye to a chance to submit
documents into evidence, goodbye to a chance to clear my name and end the
harassment.
That misunderstanding was hard to accept, but it was nothing
compared to step 2 of the workings of what baby slayer with sanctions former
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has called the indispensable democracy.
Committee Chairman Sen. Judd Gregg [7] (R-NH) decided against a hearing for my
accuser, but instead opted for an executive hearing on July 23rd evidently
without witnesses or documents. Its now possible that Sen. Gregg's committee
and the Senate itself could fly Pipes though to his anointment like a
stealth bomber through radar without any scrutiny. There
goes any meaningful advice and consent. Technically, the Senate, using tricks
like executive sessions, could give its advice and consent based on no
witnesses and no evidence. How democratic! Is this a great country or what?
This is a microcosm of how the greatest and longest lasting
democracy in history (etc., etc.) works. If one dare speak of even the
possibility of a defect in the operation of Camp X-Ray, or putting Pipes into
such a position
of honor and trust, then the totally corrupt committee system
of Congress that would make any tyrant blush can block criticism total power,
but with the appearance of fairness.
Members of Congress disguise this disastrous blemish by
using pompous phrases like, I'd like to thank my distinguished colleague, the Chairman
and thank him for allowing me time to speak. The committee chairman may permit
other members to speak, but the chairman runs the whole shabby show: agenda,
witness list you name it.
The rest of the hypocrites properly worship the chairman in
the hope that if they live long enough, they will, one day they become a god
(oops, I mean committee chairman). So much for democracyvery sad, very tragic,
very disastrous to the people of the US and the world.
So unlike the movies, I don't get my day in court.
Continuing to teach in the US is no longer an option for me,
particularly since evidently I will have no chance to clear my name before
Congress.
So I am moving to Canada in a few days where I will apply
for citizenship and try to rebuild my 20-year university career in a
functioning democracy.
I think Canada's secret is simple: a small, peace
keeping-oriented military; a small weapons industry; no empire to rule and no
countries to conquer. (Sending trigger pullers to Afghanistan was an
aberration. Canadian troops die if they must but as peace keepers, not as
killers of essentially defenseless people.)
I hope to die in Canada and atone for my stupidity and
culpability in paying taxes to the most well-oiled killing machine in history,
the United States of America, by teaching peace studies and promoting pacifism,
which I think is the only force powerful enough to overcome Americas super
weapons.
References
1.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/enron/story/0,11337,638645,00.html
2. http://www.danielpipes.org/article/923
3. http://www.usip.org/
4. http://www.senate.gov/%7Elabor/index.html
5. http://www.senate.gov/%7Elabor/index.html
6. http://kennedy.senate.gov/
7. http://www.senate.gov/%7Egregg/
The executive sessions issue is just one of many many problems with the so-called US "democracy". These problems range from lobbies, lack of transparency (on the deals made with these lobbies also with Congress representatives), lack of accountability of the executive branch (i.e. does the US president ever appear before Congress for questioning sessions?), the monopoly of the two large parties (or rather duopoly) of the political scene, the collusion of the corporate controlled mainstream media with all these politicians and not giving other candidates (like the Libertarians or Greens for example) a platform to speak [i.e. How many Americans know that there were still other presidential candidiates on Election Night that they could still vote for?], and many other issues.
ReplyDeleteIt is difficult to see how this incredibly corrupt system can be fixed.
Mazim, I am still so well remembering your speaking to our Democracy for America group in Norwalk, CT...a brave warrior for justice. You had previously impressed me with your posts while you were on the faculty at Yale. Like you I have also left the American Empire and taken my talents and anti-Zionism to live and work in China for the last ten years. I. too, have been victimized by the Zionist juggernaut for my anti-Zionism and was dropped from Facebook without a reason given and with no appeal when my online heroes, the Tamirs were attacked and arrested and I said if the international community will not protect the Palestinians living under Israeli occupation then there should be an organizing of instruments of defense delivered to them in this ongoing humanitarian emergency. With ten days of that post I was shut down by Facebook and lost more than 3,000 followers who I had provided with almost daily videos and reports on the slow motion genocide perpetrated by the Israelis and their Zionist supporters in the USA and elsewhere. Many of those followers were Filipinos who I had befriended in my work in their country training career and life design counselors. I subsequently learned that Facebook reported me, admitting that I had not violated any laws, to an American agency who in turn reported me to the Philippines Department of Justice and their Immigration Bureau causing me to be denied entry to their country even though I had admitted to the country five times even after being falsely reported and always denied a hearing despite by even going personally to the Immigration Bureau to get a hearing to clear my name. I was aware that Netanyahu and Zuckerberg had met in the fall of 2017 and this violation of my rights began in January, 2018. I have no doubt Israeli psyops is behind my silencing by Facebook and the odious behavior of the Philippines Department of Justice. When denied entrance to the Philippines in February, 2019 I was returned to China with no paperwork indicating the reason for this and the Philippines has never informed China Immigration as to the reason despite 3 hours that evening of their attempts and still hasn't. Through intermediaries with the office of President Duterte I was to be admitted but turned down that offer unless I had the opportunity to clear my name. The Zionists, according to in depth undercover reporting by Glenn Greenwald's The Intercept have documented the extensive Israeli psyops operations to discredit and ruin the reputations of those of us who support the BDS movement and who favor a one state secular Palestine. I believe my mother country is beyond repair, the recent election results showing Trump getting over 73 million votes, a 47% share of the voting population even after four years of basically fascistic policies. The American Empire must collapse and be rebuilt along compassionate and humanitarian principles with all the baggage of its past genocide and racism and imperialistic wars and regime change policies cleansed from its ways of operating. American Exceptionalism must be brought to its knees and replaced with a fundamental regard for universal human rights and a system that far better distributes wealth and power in the service of greater happiness for all the people. I welcome RCEP and the rise of the East Asian emerging economies as another step along the way to a world rallying to preserve life in all its glorious manifestations.
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