Biden casts 3rd UN veto allowing Israeli genocide in Gaza to continue

 

Biden casts 3rd UN veto allowing Israeli genocide in Gaza to continue

No surprise President Biden cast his third veto in the UN Security Council to prevent a full, permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Biden’s depraved support of Israeli genocide in Gaza has no limits. Over 25,o00 tons of US weapons have contributed to over 100,000 deaths and injuries, displacement of nearly 2,000,000 Palestinians and destruction of nearly all medical, educational and cultural institutions. The appropriate word for all that? Genocide.

President Biden ludicrously claims his veto was cast because it interfered with the US ceasefire plan and efforts to get aid to beleaguered Palestinians. Biden’s first reason is ghoulish. His plan calls for a temporary ceasefire to get all the hostages out, after which Israeli ethnic cleansing, with unlimited US aid, can resume till complete. His second reason is preposterous The UN accurately states Israel blocks virtually all aid from reaching sick, starving and wounded Palestinians.

President Biden may not be in mental and physical decline severe enough to prevent his functioning as president. But his enabling of Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza for 5 months now, makes Biden’s moral decline a disqualifier for further serving as president.

 

Julian Assange is Biden’s Navalny

Julian Assange is Biden’s Navalny

The Biden administration, supported by its sycophantic corporate media, became hyperbolic upon hearing of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny’s death in a Russian prison last week. President Biden declared “Make no mistake, Putin is responsible for Navalny’s death. Putin is responsible.”

The ‘tell’ Biden used by every governmental prevaricator is ‘Make no mistake’, which translates to ‘Don't dare disbelieve me.’ Dick Cheney made that tell the foundation for his lying America into attacking Iraq in 2003. Regarding Navalny, Cheney would be proud of Biden.

Putin may very well be responsible for Navalny’s death. But Biden’s provocative statement is pure propaganda designed to stoke hatred of the Russian leader who has Biden flummoxed by his role in degrading US unipolar dominance of Europe, if not the whole world.

Most Americans don’t know, due to governmental and media censorship, that Alexei Navalny is no democratic Thomas Jefferson. He first gained prominence at Putin’s right flank, advocating for the 2006 Russian March, an annual far right gathering banned by Putin’s government. Navally opposed free immigration to Russia. He supported Russia’s intervention against Georgia on behalf of South Ossetia in 2008. In 2012 he even urged Russian integration with Eastern Ukraine, a policy now at the heart of US billions weaponizing Ukraine in the Russo Ukraine war.

If Putin did destroy Navalny, it could simply be standard policy practiced by strong leaders worldwide to disappear a political threat.

Speaking of threats to strong leaders, US presidents Bush Jr., Obama, Trump and now Biden, have all engaged in a grotesque assault on press freedom with their ongoing destruction of Australian journalist Julian Assange. Their beef? Assange had the gall to publish classified documents demonstrating US war crimes in Iraq. He’s been imprisoned for 11 years now, the last 4 in a London prison awaiting extradition for trial in the US. If extradited to the US, Assange faces up to 175 years in prison for publishing documents provided to him by a source, a standard journalistic practice.

If Assange is extradited, tried and convicted, America can say goodbye to our venerated press freedom, albeit one which has largely given up its freedom to curry favor to whoever controls the government.

But before any Assange conviction occurs, it’s more likely Julian Assange will go the way of Alexei Navalny, eventually dying in prison after years in psychological torture by the US for practicing the most sacred duty in a so called free society.

If Assange does join Alexei Navalny as a former troublesome thorn pricking brutal leaders, it would truly be fitting if his obit was written by Franz Kafka.

Biden, voter disconnect on Ukraine aid widens

 Biden, voter disconnect on Ukraine aid widens

President Biden continues to run away from US public opinion that negotiations, not weapons, are required to end the US proxy war against Russia in Ukraine.

A recent Harris/Quincy Institute poll showed 70% of Americans want a negotiated peace. That is up from 57% a year ago. Ignoring public opinion, Biden demands another $61 billion in weapons for Ukraine, without any negotiations, to maintain a war lost on Day One...725 days ago.

Biden, his Democratic Congress, and Democratic voters now constitute the premier US war party. They’ve snatched that dubious title from Republicans who held it for decades. During the recent Senate vote on Biden’s $61 billion weapons boondoggle for Ukraine, 48 or 51 Democratic Senators voted YES compared to just 22 of 48 Republican Senators. In that same Harris/Quincy Institute Poll, 46% of Republican votes favor immediate end to US weapons for Ukraine compared to just 17% of Democrats.

With 336 days left in his term, President Biden remains determined to squander US treasure likely to get another 400,000 Ukrainians soldiers killed, further destroying Ukraine. In the process, he appears equally determined to hand the White House keys to the GOP.

America never was the indispensable nation

 America never was the indispensable nation

Richard C. Longworth, in his Chicago Tribune op-ed ‘Is America still the indispensable nation?’ ponders whether America will remain the world’s indispensable nation much longer.

His concern is that for the first time in the half century of polling by the Chicago Council of Global Affairs, a majority of Republicans think the US should stay out of world affairs. Longworth adds it is reinforced by GOP leadership which is jeopardizing continued US funding of Ukraine’s war against Russia.

The resulting US pullback from world dominance, Longworth frets, will produce “global anarchy, a power vacuum drawing in any number of nations, many of them nuclear-armed.”
It somehow escapes Longworth, a former Tribune foreign correspondent and current distinguished fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, that the world has largely moved on from subservience to US world dominance. Nearly half the world’s population are now in BRICS and SCO, the two non-aligned geo-political blocks that have largely neutralized US unipolar leadership. They include most nations outside of Europe and North America seeking distance from US hegemony.

Rather than threaten “global anarchy”, every American, Longworth included, should welcome a US pullback from endless immoral wars and regime change operations that have destabilized countless countries, killing, maiming and displacing millions of innocents in the process.

Since 1945, America may have been the dominant world superpower, but it has never been indispensable. An America engaging in war and regime change worldwide from over 800 military bases in 70 countries is the least indispensable nation on the planet.