Washington
Insıghts sier, stupider than others, the prosecution rests. What happened at the Capitol was a tantrum of the rabble not remotely resembling an effort to take over the country, QED. Americans are self-absorbed, and much given to exaggeration. And very fearful… Well, we have much to be fearful about. But it isn’t a Trumpian coup. And it isn’t Russia or China. Or Iran… Or Communists, or Socialists, or Antifa, or Proud Boys, or BLM, or Q Anon…
What should fill you with terror, shake your soul, give you night sweats and hurt your heart, is the appalling truth that we are all trapped in a system that cares nothing for its people or the world they inhabit, and that that people, facing looming man made and natural catastrophe, hasn’t the courage and wisdom to save itself. CT Paul Edwards is a writer and filmmaker in Montana. Contact him at hgmnude@bresnan.net
Caitlin Johnstone
What ‘democracy’ is under attack?
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o stop the exacerbation of Trumpism the talking heads are recommending internet censorship, regulations on media, new domestic terror laws, literally anything they can possibly think of except changing the conditions which gave rise to Trumpism. —————— The most imminent threat to US democracy is not Russia, nor fascist insurrectionists, but the fact that US democracy is entirely fictional. Saying US democracy is being threatened is like saying Grinches are a critically endangered species. —————— The previous president inter-
vened in the primary to appoint his right-hand man as his chosen successor. That successor will be installed in a five-day, starstudded celebration surrounded by a sea of barbed wire and heavily armed soldiers. What “democracy” is under attack, exactly? —————— No, the Capitol riot was not “karma” for America’s international coups and regime change interventions. Karma would be the US actually reaping what it sows. Karma would be the US government toppled and replaced with a foreign puppet regime, and millions of Americans killed. Karma would be tens of millions of Americans displaced by
widespread violence. Karma would be the US becoming a failed state where people are again sold as slaves. Karma would be nuclear bombs dropped on US cities. Karma would be Americans starved to death by crushing sanctions. Karma would be America’s forests soaked with Agent Orange. Karma would be mass executions of Americans in sports stadiums. Karma would be massacres of entire towns: men, women and children. Karma would be foreign soldiers raping and killing civilians with impunity. Karma would be foreignbacked extremists mutilating Americans to death and publicly displaying their corpses. Karma for US interventionism would be for America to collapse and burn in chaos and torture. That would be “karma”. That would be the chickens coming home to roost. I am not saying it would be a good thing if this happened. It most definitely would not. I am saying the US must cease brutalising the world. —————— We now know for a fact that monopolistic Silicon Valley megacorporations can be pressured by the plutocrat-controlled political/ media class to silence political factions online. Good thing there’s no way this can possibly go wrong. —————— When you realize that corpora-
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