JASON MILLER: Slaves to the "Free Market" Unite

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Can Humanity Make a Stand Against the Ruthless Onslaught of Capitalist Imperialism?

By JASON MILLER -- World News Trust

Relentlessly delivering the triphammer blows of a youthful Mike Tyson, America’s imperialist ruling class of wealthy and corporate elites has been pummeling the poor, minorities, and the working class with impunity for years.

As some of my readers have aptly pointed out, America and its White Christian patriarchy do not have a historical monopoly on abuse of power or exploitation of “lesser people.” It is also true that Anglos have been victimized at various points in history. Yet the United States exists and thrives almost solely because it obscenely exploited Africans to attain economic power and committed genocide against North America’s indigenous people to obtain and expand its territory.

While other nations and races have committed similar atrocities throughout history, Anglos have suffered persecution, and slavery and the Native American genocide are in the past, the actions of the United States and its White patriarchal society were still morally reprehensible. Furthermore, many of the beneficiaries and descendents of the perpetrators remain unrepentant. Recent polls and events also indicate that about a third of Americans still support an entrenched American power structure that flourishes by practicing exploitation and conquest.

The United States is not the only nation currently committing brutalities and injustices, yet Washington is home to a government that claims to be the ultimate moral authority on the globe. While invading and occupying nations that posed no threat to them, slaughtering innocent civilians, and torturing suspected enemies, the United States continues to mouth empty platitudes about spreading freedom and democracy, pompously lecture other nations on human rights, and hypocritically determine which nations are too “evil” to be trusted with nuclear technology.

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[Kagemusha]

1. As much as I'll make criticisms of the West...

I haven't exactly forgotten that Russian and Chinese communism didn't work out so well and didn't result in a utopian society. And last I checked a lot of brown and black people kill each other in dark corners of the world long after "Anglos" have departed.

And with all due respect, the United States is hardly the only nation to mouth empty platitudes. Europeans specialize at it, even while the US resents them all the more for doing that and quietly helping with CIA renditions.

For that matter, I find the use of the word "Anglos" to be overly restrictive. Is this some reference to the tribe of the Angles? What happened to the Saxons? The Normans who became only belatedly seen as "English"? Just pointing out how broad-brush rants end up merely being fun for the ranter without doing much of anything.

[bemildred]

2. Well said.

We are all alike as peas in a pod, and would do better to admit it, rather than always blaming the absence of utopia on this or that cultural/ethnic group. It is certainly true that governmental reforms are needed, in the US and elsewhere, but that said we are all in this together.