Kosovo or Kurdistan? The U.S. “Pivot to Asia” and the Geopolitics of “Rohingya-Land”

Rohingya-Land?

ABSTRACT

Kosovars and Kurds represent two poles along the continuum of identity, nationalism, and self-determination as mediated by U.S. geostrategic goals. The Rohingya, most of whom are Muslim, like Kosovars and Kurds, have their identity intact. But, as a part of its “Pivot to Asia,” how might U.S. geostrategic goals in the region use the Rohingya nation while it struggles for recognition and self-determination? And what policies could the state of Bangladesh implement to blunt the effects of those goals? These are the questions this paper seeks to answer.

We begin with the one constant with which all countries big and small must contend: the foreign policy of the United States of America (U.S.). The world witnessed the U.S. create a state— as the Serbs would say, from the heart of Serbia—the Republic of Kosovo. Despite its characterization by some as a “narco-state” and its lack of universal international recognition, its biggest champion is the United States and that affords it positions in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and a growing economy since its unilateral declaration of independence from pro-Russia Serbia in 2008.

The desire of the Kurds for statehood has not fared as well. Divided among Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, Kurdish goals for recognition and self-determination have been used by the U.S. to deadly effect. In its latest effort at regime change—in Syria—the U.S. dangled the prospect of the creation of Kurdistan and enlisted Kurdish help in the armed struggle against Syria’s President, Bashar Al-Assad—until U.S. regional priorities changed, leaving the well-armed, battle-tested Kurds with several difficult choices. Kurdistan remains a dream.

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Kosovo or Kurdistan: The U.S. “Pivot to Asia” and the Geopolitics of “Rohingya-Land”

Kosovo or Kurdistan? The U.S. “Pivot to Asia” and the Geopolitics of “Rohingya-Land”

Abstract

Kosovars and Kurds represent two poles along the continuum of identity, nationalism, and self-determination as mediated by U.S. geostrategic goals.  The Rohingya, most of whom are Muslim, like Kosovars and Kurds, have their identity intact.  But, as a part of its “Pivot to Asia,” how might U.S. geostrategic goals in the region use the Rohingya nation while it struggles for recognition and self-determination?  And what policies could the state of Bangladesh implement to blunt the effects of those goals?  These are the questions this paper seeks to answer.

We begin with the one constant with which all countries big and small must contend:  the foreign policy of the United States of America (U.S.).  The world witnessed the U.S. create a state— as the Serbs would say, from the heart of Serbia—the Republic of Kosovo.  Despite its characterization by some as a “narco-state” and its lack of universal international recognition, its biggest champion is the United States and that affords it positions in the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and a growing economy since its unilateral declaration of independence from pro-Russia Serbia in 2008.

The desire of the Kurds for statehood has not fared as well.  Divided among Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran, Kurdish goals for recognition and self-determination have been used by the U.S. to deadly effect.  In its latest effort at regime change—in Syria—the U.S. dangled the prospect of the creation of Kurdistan and enlisted Kurdish help in the armed struggle against Syria’s President, Bashar Al-Assad—until U,S. regional priorities changed, leaving the well-armed, battle-tested Kurds with several difficult choices.  Kurdistan remains a dream.

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Cynthia McKinney is an international peace and human rights activist, noted for her inconvenient truth-telling about the U.S.war machine.  She was held for seven days in an Israeli prison after attempting to enter Gaza by sea and traveled to Libya during U.S. bombing and witnessed the crimes against humanity committed against that country’s people.  In addition to Libya, she has traveled to Cuba, Syria, Russia, Iran, Pakistan, and as she puts it: “Wherever U.S. Bombs are dropping or U.S. sanctions are biting.”  She is the author or editor of three Clarity Press books:  she has written one book Ain’t Nothing Like Freedom and edited The Illegal War On Libya and the 2018 book, How the U.S. Creates Sh*thole Countries.  She holds a B.A. from the University of Southern California, an M.A.L.D. from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a Ph.D. from Antioch University.  Cynthia McKinney is a former U.S. Congresswoman and Green Party nominee for President of the United States.

India’s Annexation of Kashmir Is No Surprise

Ambassador Jamil Khan
Cynthia McKinney, Ph.D.
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India’s Annexation of Kashmir Is No Surprise

Is Modi Setting Up South Asia for Chaos?

Ill winds are blowing in South Asia and by the time they settle down, an entirely new political landscape could be in full view.  India’s annexation of Jammu and Kashmir is only the latest in a series of Modi moves that demonstrate that change is in the air.

India’s annexation of Jammu and Kashmir comes as no surprise and, quite frankly, is in keeping with India’s behavior after the British Colonial period ended in 1947, when the so-called “Princely States,” semi-autonomous regions within “British India,” were given the choice of acceding to the newly-created state of Pakistan or the newly-independent state of India.  “British India” consisted of today’s countries of Pakistan, Kashmir, India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.  Afghanistan, Nepal, and Bhutan remained untouched by the British or any other Western European colonial powers.  Jammu and Kashmir was only one of many “Princely States” whose future was not decided at that time of the British exit as colonial master:  the fates of Nagaland, Assam, Manipur, and Sikkim—all eventually incorporated into the Republic of India—were presages of what was to come for Jammu and Kashmir.  The state of India took these actions without regard to the feelings of the local people and as a result, had to fend off secessionist movements that have only just now begun to subside.  The difference between these areas and Jammu and Kashmir is that the Muslim majority Jammu and Kashmir had the support of Pakistan at the United Nations and other international forums.  Thus, Modi’s India has struck a match to the kindling that was always Jammu and Kashmir.  The problem for India is that it has smoldering fires already lit on several other fronts.  The problem for the region is that this is not the only fire now burning.  First, Modi’s India’s smoldering fires.

Narendra Modi came to power as a “genocidaire:”  someone who has in the past incited genocide.  In February 2002, a train caught fire carrying Hindu pilgrims in India’s state of Gujarat.  Modi, Chief Minister of the state at the time, blamed the Pakistanis; a pogrom ensued with hundreds of Muslims dying and over 200,000 Muslims losing their homes.  Culprits committing horrendous acts against Muslim Gujaratis claimed that Modi told the police to stand down for three days while the rampage continued.  Babu Gajrangi, one of the conspirators, admits that Modi toured the Hindu areas and told him, “Well done.”  Gajrangi further states that Modi arranged to get him out of jail.  The New York Times “Timeline” of the incident states that “a top state official” who was later murdered stated that Modi ordered officials to take no actions against the perpetrators, resulting in thousands of cases being dropped despite eyewitnesses.  Paving his way to the Prime Minister’s office, in 2012, Modi’s chief assistant was charged and convicted and is currently serving a 28-year sentence in prison.  In all, 31 were convicted of murder.  Despite encouraging his subordinates to genocide, Modi escaped all charges.  Unfortunately, Modi has done nothing to stop the religious violence since he became Prime Minister.

In addition to the direct violence taking place between Hindus and Muslims in India—which is supposed to be a secular state according to its Constitution—Muslims are being subjected to new laws that affect their right to practice their religion and to live, according to the 2019 Report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom.  The Report specifically mentions forced conversions, cow slaughter laws, and vigilante groups.  Moreover, Muslims in Modi’s India, just like the Muslims in Myanmar, are being asked to prove their citizenship for India’s new National Register of Citizens (NRC).  President of Modi’s Hindu Nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Member of Parliament Amit Shah stated that India is now ready to accept Hindu refugees from any country and give them Indian citizenship even if they are not included on the Citizenship Registry.  Further, the Citizenship Amendment Bill of 2019 which was introduced into parliament in January 2019, stated that Hindus, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs, Parsis, and Christians from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh would be accepted into Indian citizenship.  If this sounds eerily familiar, it should.  It is the existing policy of Israel to accept any Jew from anywhere as a citizen of Israel and the U.S. taxpayers, through a line item in the annual State Department authorization bill, pay for Jewish resettlement to Israel.

It should not come as a surprise, then, that Modi’s India has partnered with Israel and the U.S.A. in an unprecedented scale compared to its past.  India, a co-founder of the Non-Aligned Movement and trusted Russian ally, has reversed its positions under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, even refusing to support Palestine at the United Nations and cementing its relationship with Israel with arms deals, agricultural programs, and cultural exchanges.  India has also signed three important agreements with the Pentagon, upgrading its military relationship with the U.S.  Narendra Modi could prove to be as destabilizing for South Asia as U.S. President Donald Trump has been in the global arena.  Additionally, the Trump Administration has named India its “Major Strategic Partner” in the “Indo-Pacific,” defined by the Trump Administration as the area starting in Western India extending to the West Coast of the U.S.  No wonder ISIS—just another one of the many U.S.-manufactured terrorist outfits—is turning its attention away from West Asia and toward India.

By providing a major grievance for the Muslim majority population of Jammu and Kashmir, and all of the Constitution-minded Indians of every faith, Modi’s India, with its more than 184 million Muslims, and new partnerships with the U.S. and Israel could be in for more than it bargained for.  After all, Pakistanis have little to show for their generations of loyalty to the U.S.  This explains why Pakistan, under its new Prime Minister, Imran Khan, is now looking to all of its neighbors in the region for peaceful solutions to the region’s problems.  Without a steady hand for peace in India, and with even deeper penetration of the region by the U.S. and Israel, “The Great Game” of U.S. geostrategy shifts to South Asia.  Thus, we believe that the U.S. “Pivot to Asia” is a pivot to South Asia—and that could have dire consequences for the entire Continent.

It is perceived in most Muslim majority countries that the new covert strategy of this India-U.S.-Israel nexus is aimed at neutralizing the only Muslim-majority nuclear state—Pakistan—through various diplomatic and non- diplomatic scenarios, with the possibility of full-blown military action.  After all, in 1971, India and Israel joined to Balkanize Pakistan and create the Muslim-majority state of Bangladesh.  Overt attempts to Balkanize Pakistan once again, by dismembering Baluchistan, seem to be at the top of India’s agenda, although Pakistan appears to have taken strong counter measures to prevent such an outcome.

By annulling Articles 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution, India has annexed Jammu and Kashmir and now non-Kashmiris are allowed to move into Kashmir, buy property, obtain state employment, and live there.  Modi’s India has set the stage for large-scale ethnic cleansing or worse.  Moreover, to arrive at these conditions, India has quite possibly disregarded international law, including the United Nations Charter and Article 49 of the Geneva Convention, pertaining to protections of civilian populations.

Depriving Kashmiris of their inherent special status rights granted during pre- and post-partition of India will, undoubtedly, encourage an even more massive military deployment by India—which has already begun.  Kashmiris, who have fought for their independence for generations, are not about to forego their right to self-determination.  Kashmiri leaders have already started giving distress calls to the world community, especially to Muslim states, to protect them from the human rights violations that are sure to come.  We believe that Modi, who has already presided over one genocide, is fully prepared to preside over another.  In such an atmosphere, it is clear that Modi’s India, with its ascendant Hindu Nationalist ideology—HINDUTVA—will spur underground movements, not only in Kashmir, but also in the entirety of the country.  Unless Modi’s India immediately returns to a semblance of secularism, India could very well spin out of control.

As for the region, Bangladesh, on the other side of India, is playing host to one million Muslim Rohingya who fled persecution in majority-Buddhist Myanmar.  And Myanmar is engulfed in internal, low-intensity warfare from its own 135 ethnic groups trying to build self-determination in a post-colonial setting and within the idea of a single nation.

We encourage responsible actors in the international community to stop this deadly spin before it’s too late.

Retired Ambassador Jamil Khan served the Islamic Republic of Pakistan as Ambassador to Libya, United Arab Emirates, and served the United Nations for almost a decade.  Cynthia McKinney, Ph.D. served in the United States Congress for more than a decade, ran for President under the Green Party banner in 2008.

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The “Purple Revolution:” U.S. Hybrid Warfare Coming Home To Roost?

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The “Purple Revolution:”
U.S. Hybrid Warfare Coming Home To Roost?

“Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness.  Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Even as President Donald Trump ramps up the U.S. regime change machinery to “take care of” Venezuela, Syria, Iran, Nicaragua, and Julian Assange’s Ecuador, it very well could be that the U.S. regime change machinery has already been turned inward against him! The apparent Democrat versus Republican “Public State” display masks a much more sinister (and potentially violent) Deep State clash. The only question not asked is how far will each of the contending factions go to win? I believe the Samson Option has been activated and that could very well mean that the contending factions are in a fight with each other to the death. Meanwhile the U.S. war machine continues to crush countries, creating “Sh*thole” countries in its death march. Other countries must understand what is happening inside the U.S. in order to better guard against any more hostile or belligerent U.S. actions toward them and to take advantage of any coming imbroglio that could serve as a distraction to their own targeting. People inside the U.S. must formulate a strategy to make themselves players in this deadly match, so that they might become the arbiters of the U.S. fate. And of their own.

Donald Trump is seen as a disruptor to the plans of the currently ascendant global elite and their U.S. empire building. Even Gareth Porter asks if Trump is a threat to the U.S. global empire. If not, he certainly is a threat to the empire builders. As President, Trump has threatened to pull U.S. troops from Afghanistan, South Korea, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), North Africa. He has threatened to pull the U.S. from the World Trade Organization (WTO) and more! Porter writes:

“Trump’s attacks on the system of the global U.S. military presence and commitments have gotten far less notice. He has complained bitterly, both in public and in private meetings with aides, about the suite of permanent wars that the Pentagon has been fighting for many years across the Greater Middle East and Africa, as well as about deployments and commitments to South Korea and NATO. This has resulted in an unprecedented struggle between a sitting president and the national security state over a global U.S. military empire that has been sacrosanct in American politics since early in the Cold War. “

According to Porter, when the military state asked Trump for more troops in North Africa, Trump outlandishly reportedly asked for “justification.”

According to Philip Giraldi, candidate Trump put off the usual Washington, D.C. “swamp” of lobbyists during the 2016 Presidential campaign. He wrote:

“But there is one significant difference between Trump and the “establishment,” be they Democrats or Republicans that has not been highlighted. I would suggest that quite a lot of the depth and intensity of what we are experiencing is actually about Israel. Trump is the first high level politician aspirant within living memory to challenge the notion that the United States must stand by Israel no matter what Israel does. Even while affirming his affection for Israel, he has said that Washington must be even handed in its efforts to bring about peace between Israelis and Palestinians, implying that Tel Aviv might have to make concessions.

Trump has also added insult to injury by delinking himself from the blandishments of Jewish political mega-donors, who largely call the tune for many in the GOP and among the Democrats, by telling them he doesn’t need their money and can’t be bought. His comments have challenged conventional interest group politicking in America and have predictably produced a firestorm reaction in the usual circles.”

Already, President Trump has done more by threatening to remove U.S. troops from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria than all of the Congressional votes on U.S. wars made by the so-called independent “progressive” standard-bearer and Hillary Clinton-supporting Senator Bernie Sanders. Trump, according to Porter quoting Bob Woodward on the Trump Presidency, told his national security team, “We should just declare victory, end the wars and bring our troops home.”

Thus, in my opinion, President Trump is certainly a threat and disruptor to the current world order, that has a decision-making process that he describes as a “swamp” and that produces a system that Trump claims is “rigged.” I believe that only those who personally benefit from the current system (combined with those who don’t know how the current system operates) could possibly disagree with this assessment. I also believe that the efforts to dislodge Trump, seen and unseen, have some of the characteristics of hybrid warfare. Thus, quite possibly, the United States is in a position of having a hybrid war game played against its current leader by its own military/police state. The last President to amass this combination and array of enemies with this level of celebrated vitriol was President John F. Kennedy, whose brains were blown out in broad, open daylight for all the world to see, 55 years ago on November 22, 1963.

Moreover, I believe that a marriage of convenience and mutual interest between the Democratic Party has been “arranged” in desperate “Deep State” circles, the manifestations of which could portend poorly for the people of the U.S. and the change that the people voted for when they elected Trump to the Presidency. That such a marriage has taken place was evidenced uniquely in the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings that took on a surreal air as the Supreme Court nominee was targeted by attempted rape allegations when he was a teenager and by sexual assault allegations as a young college student. Other alleged victims gained attention from the press and from press accomplices in the Democratic Party. What the Democrats in Congress failed to do was question Kavanaugh on the substantive policies that he approved, was aware of, or remained silent on that supported the erosion of the U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights: the approval of torture under the George W. Bush Presidency, the Department of Justice coverup of information regarding the death of Hillary Clinton confidant, Vince Foster. I believe that the Senate Democrats refused to tackle these real issues because, in the end, they are complicit in these policy decisions. Or know that higher powers than them want them and so chose to fight Kavanaugh on the fuzzy memories of a drunken teenager and a few now-mature women-but-then young women.

If my hunch is correct, then this marriage of convenience will show its evidence in new and disturbing ways. The entry of George Soros into domestic U.S. politics—in a huge way—is one line of evidence that points to a new trend that could spell trouble as well as present new opportunities for the people of the U.S. Add to that the disturbing rise of the CIA/intelligence marriage into the Democratic Party by way of its Congressional candidates. Moreover, when speaking of her election loss, Hillary Clinton declared the “Purple Revolution.”

Given what we now know of its contours in the 2018 midterm elections, during which many Democratic Party candidates sported purple clothing, inquiring minds want to know what might this “Purple Revolution” really mean and if it is a cause for worry.

But, before we explore the significance and the presence of George Soros in domestic U.S. politics in 2018, let’s take a look at who George Soros is to others around the world.

George Soros’s Involvement in Politics Elsewhere

From Senegal to Cote d’Ivoire, throughout Africa and beyond, the name of George Soros is synonymous with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), regime change, and so-called “color” revolutions. George Soros is a Hungarian national who has been banned from Hungary and who has filed a lawsuit in order to regain the right to enter his country of birth. But actually, Russia was the first country to outlaw Soros-financed NGOs. This came after leaked documents indicated that Soros was behind an effort to effect regime change in Russia against Putin. A search for those documents revealed that they seem to have been wiped from the internet. Despite that, stories about the leaked documents have not. Take, for example, Sputnik’s “Leaked Memos Show that George Soros Plotted to Oust Putin, Destabilize Russia.” The article ends:

“The memo was followed up with what was called “the Russia Project” which called for identifying and organizing opponents to Putin, advancing principles of globalism, and undermine Russia’s image in the lead up to the Sochi Winter Olympics.”

Thus, for much of the world, George Soros IS Mr. Regime Change, Mr. Color Revolution—working hand in hand with certain U.S. Deep State players. Honing all that global experience for what was dubbed by the Hillary Clinton Presidential campaign as the “Purple Revolution,”—the coming together of Republican majority (red) states and Democratic Party blue states under the leadership of the Clintons. When Hillary lost, some began to wonder if the color revolution technique, used to devastating effect in other parts of the world (like Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine), was finally about to come home to roost.

George Soros Interviewed

George Soros, born Gyorgy Schwartz in Hungary in 1930, is currently a U.S. citizen. CBS News’s Scott Pelley, on the U.S. network’s popular Sunday evening show, “60 Minutes,” described Soros as a man who “amassed billions through ruthless business decisions only to turn around and give away most of his fortune to advance his own personal philosophy.” Pelley continues, “He can move world financial markets simply by voicing an opinion or destabilize a government by buying and selling its currency. . . . But now George Soros is worried. He thinks the global economy is coming apart at the seams and that the world needs to be protected from people like George Soros.”

Soros made his billions as the co-founder of The Quantum Fund, a hedge fund that has returned an average of thirty percent to investors each year since its founding in the 1970s. With a background as a Hungarian Jew, Soros admits to helping the Nazis confiscate property from other Jews. He states in the interview that his rationale is that had he not done it, someone else would have served in that role. On this point, he is probably correct. Sadly.

Scott Pelley continues in describing Soros: “He can move world financial markets simply by voicing an opinion or destabilize a government by buying and selling its currency. . . . But now George Soros is worried. He thinks the global economy is coming apart at the seams and that the world needs to be protected from people like George Soros.” According to 60 Minutes, Soros has been blamed for the financial collapse of Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, and Russia, all within the span of just two years! Soros admits that his intervention in Thailand did make the situation “catastrophic.” He also admits that he made “in excess of a billion dollars of profit” speculating on British currency that he did not own. Malaysia’s Prime Minister in the 1990s and again in 2018, Tun Dr. Mohamad Mahathir, said that Soros was punishing ASEAN countries for admitting Myanmar (Burma) into that regional organization—at a time when the U.S. was punishing Burma’s military rulers—pre-Aung San Suu Kyi.

Despite having been born in Hungary, currently, Soros is persona non grata there. The Soros-founded Central European University (CEU) was recently shut down by Hungarian authorities. The anti-Soros sentiment stems from Soros’s pro-migration stance and the feeling held by some Hungarians that Soros and his Open Society Foundations is bringing open borders and millions of African and Asian migrants into Europe. However, the attack on Soros-funded non-governmental organizations is seen as a larger attack on civil society by some in Hungary. Nonetheless, CEU is currently trying to negotiate with the government of Hungary, but is prepared to shut its doors in Hungary and move to Vienna for the 2019-2020 academic year. In June 2018, Hungary’s parliament passed the “Stop Soros” law which makes it illegal to help undocumented immigrants. Soros’s Open Society Foundations no longer operates in Hungary, having left in August 2018, transferring its Hungary-based operations to Germany.

Countries React To George Soros’s Interventions

In 2015, Russia banned Soros-funded NGOs from disbursing grants to Russian NGOs as a threat to Russian state security. Soros-funded Open Society Foundations and Open Society Institute were named in the Russia ban. The Russian Parliament also named the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy on its list of “foreign agents.” At a press conference with President Trump in Helsinki, Finland, Russian President Vladimir Putin called Soros’s name after addressing U.S. media allegations that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections to the detriment of Hillary Clinton. Putin’s sly, tongue-in-cheek response was that surely no one would accuse George Soros, the private individual, of acting on behalf of the U.S. state. (But, of course, leaks of important internal Soros documents demonstrate just that!). On Austrian TV, Putin said, “Mr. Soros interferes in affairs all over the world.” He went on to say that when discussing Soros’s actions against certain countries, the U.S. responds that Soros has nothing to do with U.S. policy; so his response to allegations of Russians interfering in the U.S. election is that the actions of Russian nationals, or even dual citizens, has nothing to do with the Russian state.

More recently, the new government in Italy has also taken a swipe at Soros. Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini rejected Soros accusations that his political party, The League, was financed by Russia. What is the reason that so many Europeans dislike George Soros? Part of the explanation could be found in his position on migration and the role of Soros-funded organizations in what Europeans call the “Migration Crisis.”

Soros describes himself as “one person who at one time engages in amoral activities and the rest of the time, tries to be moral.” He also states that he is in business to make money and that he does not care about the social consequences of his work. This reminds me of Roger Ver, CEO of bitcoin.com, who recently said that the means are the ends, saying: “The means are the ends. There is no unethical way of achieving ethical goals and there is no ethical way of achieving unethical goals. So every step of the way, you need to be doing the right thing.” Clearly, George Soros would disagree.

George Soros: Weaponizing Migration?

First of all, I have to remark on the irony of Europeans (and the U.S.), who carried colonialism, neocolonialism, and neoliberalism from their shores to the rest of the world—oftentimes to the detriment of other peoples, cultures, and civilizations, without regard to how many were killed in the effort—and enforced by soldiers and bombs—being offended by migration. But, more than ironic is the trans-Atlantic migrant “trade” of people rushing away from the “Sh*thole” countries that European and U.S. policy has created. However, with that having been said, there is something distinctly different about this wave of migration that makes it appear to be an orchestrated “crisis.”

The epicenter of the European migration crisis is Italy and is financed by NGOs that receive support from Soros and his Open Society Foundations (OSF). This large-scale human trafficking is fueled largely by U.S.–European–Israeli foreign policy that destroys African and Asian countries and turns them into “Sh*thole” countries. Recently, speaking at the European Council of Foreign Relations, Soros reportedly stated, “The idea of Europe as an open society continues to inspire me. . . . Now, to remain a reality, it will need to reinvent itself.” A leaked OSF document—which has since vanished from the internet—explained that migration across borders was to become the “new normal.” Thus began the global phenomenon that basically weaponizes people who flee deprivation and worse across borders. Think the European migrants and think the Rohingya of Myanmar—to which I will come shortly.

Italy’s new Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, Matteo Salvini, made the following accusation: “Soros Wants to Fill Italy and Europe with Migrants Because He Likes Slaves.” According to Pew Research, over one million African refugees have migrated to Europe since 2010! GEFIRA, an organization that publishes articles “from the European Perspective” decided to investigate the mysterious source of funding that, all of a sudden, seemed to make massive migration into Europe a possibility for hundreds of thousands of Africans and Asians able to move from their war-torn countries, especially after the destruction of Libya. Here’s what was found: “NGOs are smuggling immigrants into Europe on an industrial scale.” GEFIRA found that there are seven NGOs that are primarily involved in the massive human trafficking operation reminiscent of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade when one views photos of the ships and the utter deprivation of the migrants. Among those seven NGOs are Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) and Save the Children. That at least one of the organizations has close links to whatever the current iteration of U.S. mercenary outfit, Blackwater, is today, because it has changed its name several times. GEFIRA concludes that open borders activists are facilitating these massive population shifts around the world. GEFIRA traces these migrant flows to organizations financed directly or indirectly by Open Society Foundations. On the GEFIRA chart above, you will notice that the organizations financed directly by Open Society Foundations are in green; Italian NGOs financed by OSF are in blue; and organizations that share some projects with OSF are in purple. The Soros-financed, pro-open borders migrant network includes trusted media outlets like Democracy Now!, human rights groups like Human Rights Watch, political advocacy groups like MoveOn.org.

Now, consider how the Rohingya issue could be utilized by someone(s) to pressure both Bangladesh and Myanmar. Very few in Bangladesh have forgotten the U.S. request to place a military base not too far from where the Rohingya are currently encamped. Soon, one is not surprised to find George Soros circling around the very wealthy Myanmar state. Felix Haas, a German national who currently lives in Myanmar, identifies Open Society network organizations and individuals as part of a network of manipulation for the purposes of stripping Myanmar assets. In his Report, he names George Soros as someone who characterizes Myanmar as a “Long-Term Investment that Paid Off.”

In addition to Haas, Asia watcher, Tony Cartalucci, writes that the situation in Myanmar is precarious largely due to efforts to “Balkanize and then dominate” from outsiders an already-divided population. In an article entitled, “The Fruits of Globalization: Regression, Destitution, Domination—Globalists Grind Development to a Halt in Myanmar (Burma),” Cartalucci observes that the neoliberal prescription for elsewhere in the world is the same for Myanmar: “Division, Destitution, Then Foreign Domination.” Now, if that sounds familiar, it’s because that particular neoliberal, globalist prescription is exactly what was facilitated through NAFTA and other so-called trade agreements championed by the Clintons and President Obama and reviled so much by Trump’s “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) supporters. With Central American migrants currently massing on the U.S. border, might the U.S. be Soros’s next color revolution playground? With advocates in both Europe and the U.S. helping undocumented migrants become non-citizen voters, imagine all of the chaos, manipulation, and “divide and rule” mischief that can be created in these countries for decades to come.

George Soros’s Involvement in US Politics

As a U.S. citizen, it is not only his right, but also his responsibility to involve himself in the political life of his country. George Soros opposed the Presidency of George W. Bush and supported John Kerry and other Democratic Party candidates. A Soros-linked organization, Americans Coming Together, was fined over $700,000 for campaign finance violations. That can’t happen now because of two 2010 Supreme Court decisions; George Soros’s considerable wealth can be put to work recreating the U.S. into his likeness.

A Vast NGO Network Affecting U.S. Policy?

Astroturf, first innovated in 1965, is a type of synthetic grass first used by the Houston Astrodome for its professional athletic games. “Astroturfing” an issue in U.S. politics, then, is “the practice of masking the sponsors of a message or organization, to make it appear as though it originates from and is supported by grassroots participants” and is reflective of public opinion. The purpose of “astroturfing” an issue is to persuade policy makers (and public opinion) in order to achieve a particular policy outcome. By definition, astroturf is artificial. And thus, policies that are based on astroturfing are usually deep in special interest support and shallow in public support. Special interests are the array of immediate private beneficiaries of selected public policies. Astroturfing has as a goal the creation of enough public support (or chaos) for (or against) a particular policy so that public opinion either supports the desired policy outcome or is indifferent to it, thus allowing policy changes to occur with little resistance. Sadly, for policy making in the U.S., especially when big money interests are involved, astroturfing has become a way of life in Washington, D.C. and in all of the 50 U.S. states. Nothing short of election and campaign finance reform (and in the wake of the controversial Citizens United Supreme Court decision that opened the floodgates of special interest money into the U.S. political system), maybe even only Constitutional amendment will stop it.

Thus, there exists a vast NGO network that supports the work of full- and part-time non-corporate activists whose policy inputs are critical to leveling the process. When Trump campaigned saying that the system is rigged, he quickly added that he had worked with policy makers and understood how the U.S. political game was played. His “The system is rigged” became a favorite line during the campaign because average, ordinary folks have long known that something was terribly wrong in a system that no longer served them. Although they might not have been able to articulate exactly the ways in which the system was rigged. Although, with the clamor for term limits, I think the people were pretty sure that it had something to do with the way elections were administered in the U.S.

However, in January 2010, the Supreme Court held that the Constitution prohibits the government from limiting independent communications expenditures which the Court considered to be “speech” and thus, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution. This opened the floodgates for the kind of speech that drowns out smaller, unmegaphoned voices. Then, again, just a few months later, a federal court decision made the system even more rigged by allowing the creation of Super PACS. Super PACs can raise unlimited funds from any source and then spend those sums for independent political activity, including advocacy either for or against political candidates. According to OpenSecrets.org, as of October, 18 2018, there were over 2,200 Super PACs registered with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) reporting almost $1 billion having been raised with expenditures of under $470 million. There are over 5,000 PACs registered with the FEC. For example, according to Open Secrets, the National Beer Wholesalers Association gave federal candidates just under $3 million in the current 2018 election cycle. Thus, money and big money are ubiquitous (and necessary?) in U.S. elections and political campaigns. Combine this with a closed-loop neoliberal economy and fewer and fewer “ordinary” Americans without billionaire backing will be able to become elected officials in the U.S.

In 1988, Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky gave us “Manufactured Consent,” describing the role of the mass media in creating beliefs that become behavior. By the same process, it is also possible to manufacture dissent. And that’s basically what politics has become today in the U.S. where the winners and losers on any given issue duke it out through their consent and dissent manufacturing processes all financed by one or two wealthy self-interested donors. The structure of the U.S. political influence system is such that the biggest players, then, are not the ones whose policy rectitude contributes to the common good . . . no! U.S. politics is now all about the money—and the more money you have, the longer you can play on the field. Unfortunately, this is true in just about every sphere of life in the U.S.: from justice (prisons have become a profit center, skewing outcomes in favor of the wealthiest) to agriculture (how else could cloned meat be deemed healthy??) to health care which is also a profit center because there’s more money in illness than in good health! It should surprise no one then that the U.S. life expectancy rate is going in the opposite of the desired direction. Under neoliberal policies, where everything becomes a profit center for those lucky enough to be winners in a dog-eat-dog environment, there is no such thing as “the common good.” In my opinion, there is no longer anything like “One Man, One Voice.” And, as a result, as it stands today, I believe it is certainly possible for one group of like-minded, extremely wealthy persons to sit in one room at one table and completely control the outcome of every election in the U.S. The U.S. currently is hardly a democracy. And this is consistent with the understanding of former President Jimmy Carter who said exactly that when he pronounced the U.S. an oligarchy. Have we already had one regime change and the people didn’t notice it? Even worse, could the U.S. regime change machinery, honed to perfection against other countries around the world, actually be put to use inside the U.S.? Could that also happen while very few notice?

What’s Different About the 2018 Elections?

Well, politics in the U.S. has undergone a seismic shift with the election of Donald Trump. Instead of the globalist perspective, he has repeatedly chanted, “America First, America First.” Many in the U.S. Congress claimed not to know even what that meant! Those with a “globalist” perspective were also the ones who had pursued the interminable wars. Their perspective, since 2001, had become the “new common sense” of U.S. policy. Wars against mostly Muslim-majority countries became commonplace. “Radical Islamic Terrorism” became the new excuse for erosion of civil liberties as the War on Drugs had been before September 11. Consent was manufactured; very few dissented. However, Trump’s campaign articulated everything that was wrong with the so-called Globalist point of view and Trump, the billionaire, was viewed as a Populist: thus setting the stage for a globalist rejoinder to his win. I believe that what we are seeing is the crystallization of this duality and its Public State leaders are Trump, for the Populists, and Hillary Clinton and Senator Chuck Schumer for the Globalists. In the U.S., we have long had the special interests with which to contend. Nowadays, those special interests have names: like the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Haim Saban, Robert and Rebeka Mercer, Pierre Omidyar, and George Soros. Money has become so concentrated, mired in neoliberal capitalist wealth inequality that is not supposed to be noticed or mentioned, and now it’s time for political power to become just as concentrated.

So, the battle lines have been drawn. And because Trump told an unspoken truth during his campaign, descriptively describing the rigged system as it works against the average folks and how Washington, D.C. politics is nothing but a “swamp,” he helped to set the stage for the epic battle that has come.

But really, in my opinion, it all goes back to Drs. Scott and Turchin. Viewed in their way, there is much more at stake than just Democrats versus Republicans winning an election. I believe the very character of the U.S. polity is at stake.

  • A Soros-funded PAC donation of over $1.5 million to support an African-American District Attorney candidate in San Diego;
  • More than $1 million to support the African American Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia;
  • More than $1 million to support the African American Democratic nominee for Governor of Florida;
  • Support for Ayanna Pressley, Democratic nominee for U.S. Representative in Massachusetts who defeated incumbent Mike Capuano in the Party’s primary;
  • National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) whose members participated in the #CancelKavanaugh protests;
  • ACLU, whose members participated in the #CancelKavanaugh protests;
  • Human Rights Campaign, whose members participated in the #CancelKavanaugh protests;
  • Planned Parenthood, whose members participated in the #CancelKavanaugh protests;
  • The lawyer for Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh’s accuser, is Vice Chair of a Soros-funded organization, Project On Government Oversight;
  • The Center for Popular Democracy, a Soros-funded organization, organized opposition to Kavanaugh’s confirmation and paid bail for those arrested for disrupting the proceedings;
  • An organization formed specifically to oppose Kavanaugh received funding from Soros–backed organizations.
  • Media Matters for America, a $13 million dollar Soros-supported influence organization that produced a 49-page manual of strategy to defeat Donald Trump either through impeachment or at the ballot box in 2020;
  • $133 million for Black Lives Matter and associated organizations with a significant chunk of that coming from Soros-related organizations;
  • George Soros is a contributor to a $50 million fund, created by 7–10 wealthy donors–to dig dirt on President Trump colluding with the Russians to win the 2016 election so that such an investigation can continue beyond that of Special Counsel Robert Mueller for the purpose of sharing said findings with the F.B.I.;
  • Perhaps the most damning of all possible examples of manufacturing dissent comes from the original eye witness who saw Kavanaugh protesters receiving stipends.

Initiated by the unexpected Trump victory, I believe now that everything is up for grabs. And in 2018, George Soros is on the playing field in a big way—in the way that he best knows. According to Open Secrets, he has donated more than $200,000 directly to Congressional candidates in the 2018 election cycle. (In the scheme of things, that’s peanuts. However, it’s the indirect donations that are important, and the NGO support.). Here is some of what we know so far of Soros’s political financial contributions:

Perhaps the strangest twist of all for the Democrats is the number of former intelligence agents who ran for Congress in 2018 as Democrats. It seems that the Democratic Party is verily trying to live up to its label by veteran journalist and former Black Panther Party member, Glen Ford, who now runs the Black Agenda Report (BAR) news magazine, as the “more effective of two evils.” Apparently, the Democratic Party has undergone a fundamental transformation and the tell-tale sign of that is its fielding former intelligence operatives as Democratic Party candidates for Congress. James Hohmann first drew attention to the phenomenon with his October 2017 article in the Washington Post—itself owned in part by the C.I.A. Patrick Martin took the bait and delved deeper into this unprecedented “whatever-it-is.” His two-part investigation begins:

An extraordinary number of former intelligence and military operatives from the CIA, Pentagon, National Security Council and State Department are seeking nomination as Democratic candidates for Congress in the 2018 midterm elections. The potential influx of military-intelligence personnel into the legislature has no precedent in US political history.

“If the Democrats capture a majority in the House of Representatives on November 6, as widely predicted, candidates drawn from the military-intelligence apparatus will comprise as many as half of the new Democratic members of Congress. They will hold the balance of power in the lower chamber of Congress.”

In the end, in a follow-up investigation, Martin found that eleven Military/Intelligence candidates won their elections for Congress under the Democratic Party banner.

Bruce Dixon, BAR co-founder, writes that the Democratic Party is about to “pimp” progressive voters once again and correctly asks: “So what will we get when and if a 2018 blue wave sweeps a Democratic majority into Congress?”

Democrats are flush with cash, rolling in the dough, according to Bloomberg, who pronounces this as “uncharted territory,” when a system driven by cash has so much cash available for Democratic Party challengers to Republican and certain Democratic incumbents. The Democratic Party has become the champion for open borders, undocumented entry into the U.S., no immigration law enforcement, elimination of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and even for allowing noncitizens to come into the U.S. and vote in U.S. elections. It just seems that the Democratic Party is ideologically bankrupt and Soros ideology—along with the hefty Soros pocketbook—is just good enough for them. Add to that, the increase in the level of political violence in the U.S. with one Republican Congressman already having been shot at a friendly inter-party baseball game practice. Democratic Party leaders have already actually called for marching and bleeding, if necessary, against Trump.

Danny Haiphong, writing for BAR, calls it the “Deep State” takeover of the Democratic Party and asserts that the C.I.A. is “taking the American political apparatus into its own hands.” None of this should be taken lightly.

Even the President and at least one Republican Member of Congress are expressing concern about what this all means. The implications of this in terms of the integrity of the U.S. polity, like separation of powers and the checks and balances system of the U.S. government, go both wide and deep

I believe the people of the U.S. should be asking themselves did they get what they bargained for in the 2018 elections? Or did they get more?

Weaponizing Social Media

While Soros might not like FaceBook and Google, the organizations he funds are ready to use social media in order to bring down the Trump Administration. Soros characterized Russia as a “mafia state” and described President Trump as “a danger to the world.” Thus, it would not be surprising that Soros-funded organizations seek to use social media to destabilize the Trump Administration. And that is exactly what is happening. A document leaked to the media written by a Soros-funded NGO has this to say about its mission:

“Trump will be defeated either through impeachment or at the ballot box in 2020;
The balance of power will shift back to Democrats. We will measurably impact US Senate, and State Legislative races;
We will free ourselves from solely relying on the press. Our robust digital program will reach voters directly online.”

This forty-nine page “private and confidential” document goes even further and describes exactly how the Trump Administration will be brought down and the Soros-funded network of NGOs that will do the job.

Racialized election violence has long been a part of the U.S. election scene. Going forward, political and election violence in the United States should come under more intense scrutiny.

Populism Versus Globalism: The Real Fight?

Just as the unipolar world with the U.S. as global leader has come under attack by a resurgent multipolar thrust led by Russia, China, Brazil, India, and to a lesser degree, South Africa, the unipolar faction strikes back locally, inside each country, taking advantage of cleavages (or creating them). Thus, the struggle inside the U.S. also mirrors a global struggle for multipolarity that boils down to identity. This struggle intensified after attempts to bring Russia into the unipolar fold as a colony for the U.S. failed. Russia’s truculence set the stage for the internal U.S. dynamics at play today. GREXIT, BREXIT, ITALEAVE, PODEMOS in Spain, all were harbingers of the struggle now in the U.S. and, like them, is a reaction to grossly exacerbated income and wealth inequality in each country. The situation in the U.S. is also similar. There are clear winners and losers in neoliberal globalism—but the winners are not the average citizens. This should be seen as a struggle between the majority of average citizens of the U.S. who have been hurt by the past neoliberal policies and the minority of citizens who are neoliberalism’s winners. In other words, the 99% versus the 1%. And, without the muscle of the U.S. to push the rest of the world, the globalists’ dream will have to be deferred. Thus, the outcome of the struggle in the U.S. has implications for the global restructuring that had been underway, in terms of concentration of power (the globalists’ preference) or decentralization of power (the non-globalists’ preference).

In a review of the book, The Internationalists, the Rothschild-owned The Economist opines that “Donald Trump’s America First doctrine explicitly repudiates [liberal internationalism]” or globalism as it is called in some circles. Alarmingly, The Economist writes that “The liberal order of the past 70 years is under threat.” And, echoing George Soros, The Economist identifies Donald Trump as that threat.
On October 23, 2018, Trump declared himself a “nationalist” which resulted in yet another round of his condemnation by the U.S. press: with allegations that Trump was sending “dog whistles” to White Nationalists. Imagine the state of U.S. politics when a President is condemned for being pro-U.S.!

It should come as no surprise that George Soros does not like nationalism and believes in his internationalist cause. In a January 2018 interview, he blamed Putin for the smears against him and said that he will redouble his efforts through his organizations. Quoting an interview with Financial Times (that is behind a pay wall), Business Insider writes that Soros reportedly said, “I think you can say I’m quite lucky with my enemies. It makes me feel more than ready to fight back and stand up for what is right.” Well, President Trump identifies them as a threat to U.S. military readiness. Trump supporters view them as a threat to their livelihoods and quality of life.

Hybrid Warfare

Much has been written about Hybrid Warfare. I won’t endeavor to reproduce that here because that is not my objective. Instead my goal was to explore whether or not hybrid warfare had been or could be deployed inside the United States, itself. Despite the U.S. being a master at this type of warfare, Dr. Hal Brands writes that the United States might not be “fully prepared” for this type of warfare. He concludes that succeeding in the “Gray Zone” of Hybrid Warfare requires more than just money and resources; he writes, “It is a matter of orienting ourselves organizationally and conceptually for the challenge.” That is exactly what this paper attempts to do.

Regime change without tanks is one form of hybrid warfare. It can involve states and non-state actors. It can also involve state military actors assuming the identity of a non-state entity. Al Qaeda, ISIS, Daesh, Boko Haram, Al Shabab are all non-state actors created or aided by certain states to further the state’s geo-strategic or ideological objectives. Dr. Christina Lin writes about U.S. use of the White Helmets to further its regime change operations in Syria. Dr. Rod Thornton writes that Russia is using “non-violent asymmetric means” against NATO. He writes:

“The Russian military can and is using non-violent asymmetric means to considerable strategic advantage against NATO. They are, wherever one looks, destabilising and manipulating to good effect. Given this continuing situation and the strategic results that are patently being produced in NATO countries, why would the Russian military need to consider the conventional use of force? What utility does it have?”

Seems a lot more like the pot calling the kettle black, to me. The important point to make here is that regime change is a form of hybrid warfare and the easiest entry point is in destabilizing discriminated-against minority groups. This means that every state that is not a nation-state, is subject to the tactics of hybrid warfare. Defending against such tactics is a topic for another day. But in brief, it would consist of:

Maintaining an adequate defense arsenal so that conventional and other outright conquest is avoided;
Maintaining a worst-case-scenario means of public communication;
Acknowledging and then resolving the grievances of disgruntled minority groups inside the country;
Understanding modernization without Westernization and the importance of holding on to cultural roots in order to minimize cultural invasion.

As has been noted before, today’s tools for hybrid warfare can be as simple as SMS text messages on ubiquitous cell phones, the internet, smartphones, Twitter accounts, other social media accounts, cyber warfare (including trojan horse viruses and worms) and most importantly, actors willing and trained to act. Intibah Kadi explains how Western governments used social media as a Hybrid Warfare tool in Syria:

“Western governments have outlaid millions for this purpose and countless allied agencies are involved across various languages and media, from actual military personnel managing multiple fake characters to other programs targeting online socio-political activism, even to the extent of online publications being created and “discovered” that appear as belonging to ISIS.”

I remember when a host of ISIS twitter accounts were traced back to the U.K. government that claimed that it had no control over who used its IP addresses! I was in Libya and remember when members of the “media” used their twitter accounts to relay bombing targets to the Pentagon/NATO.

Hybrid Warfare tactics can also be as convoluted as ensuring a steady supply of Chinese Uighyrs and facilitating them to make their way to Syria to fight for U.S.-backed regime change in that country. This, of course, provides a double-edged sword to the U.S. when the time comes to activate these seasoned fighters for the battle in China, their home country. The 9/11 terrorist attacks could also fall into the category of Hybrid Warfare.

With that having been said, there is not one better suited for waging Gray Zone Hybrid Warfare than George Soros. He is perhaps the most experienced; but the U.S. political system is so captured by the billionaire class, that anyone willing to spend his or her money for the task, could upend U.S. politics by implementing a slow and deliberate plan.

There is no one better suited for leading a Gray zone warfare effort than George Soros. But, George Soros is not the only one who can weigh in on this struggle and affect its outcome while the fight is being waged inside the U.S. In 2018, the United States has more billionaires than “China, Germany, and India combined.”

Conclusion

“The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War


In this paper, I have tried to outline some of the recent phenomena that have become more visible since the unexpected victory of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton. I have also attempted to outline a few ways in which the U.S. political system is transforming before our very eyes, but that very few people in positions of authority are discussing. I have tried to demonstrate that the entry of George Soros in a big way into the domestic politics of the U.S. since Trump’s victory is also materially different in potential than the involvement of oligarchs who want this or that specific policy adjustment for their businesses. These policy adjustments could be small (tax breaks, for example) or huge (wars). These policy adjustments could also be ideologically driven (support for Israel, for example). These policy adjustments, generally speaking, encourage power consolidation within the existing regime. I believe that George Soros’s interventions, could, however, transform the U.S. polity—as his interventions have done or attempted to do in other countries. But transform it into what? Hence the question asked by many, does George Soros intend regime change color revolution inside the U.S.?

The current set of circumstances inside the U.S. presents distinct threats as well as opportunities for other countries. I would like to turn to this topic at another time in our discussion.

As for me, I believe the hybrid war for control of the United States has already begun.

Rich White Kids . . .

Drunk, Promiscuous, with Absentee Parents?  Is This What U.S. “Leadership” is All About?            

By Cynthia McKinney, Ph.D.

As I read about the smear campaign being conducted by Democratic Party operatives using Dr. Christine Blasey Ford aimed to impugn the character and career of Judge Brett Kavanaugh and scupper his Supreme Court confirmation process, inevitably stained and poor first impressions spew from the pages tabloid-like accounts – including photographs of the accused and his accusers’ respective pasts as: drunks, sexually promiscuous, and brazen hedonists whose amoral lifestyles were buttressed by their inattentive and indulgent absentee parents.

The secondary education debauchery depicted in reports of Kavanaugh’s detractors contrast sharply with how I was raised.  In Atlanta, I attended a private Catholic high school, but knew well the wantonness of the “elite behavior” of privileged high school kids.  Wanting the best for my son, I made it a personal mission to see that he attended private, non-denominational “elite” schools in the U.S. and abroad.  But, I prepared him for what was to come in the same way that my parents prepared me.

Blasey and Kavanaugh, through no fault of their own, are the victims of a culture that enshrines laissez-faire absentee parents who mindlessly leave their children behind when they go on their own vacations, pursue their careers, take long business trips, and fraternize with friends at social events, etc.; and, also, these affluent, latch-key-parents shower their ethically and morally unmoored children with cars, cash, contraceptives, and credit cards which, in turn, are used to purchase alcohol, prescription drugs, illegal drugs, and bad companions.

As a high schooler, my parents NEVER left me home alone when they traveled out of town.  Moreover, I couldn’t even go to ANY house party—period—without my parents calling and actually speaking to the host parents, and, of course, as a parent I did the same with my son’s “house parties.”  

Most African Americans who attend White elite private enclaves of privilege, learn from their responsible parents that they can NEVER do what their White classmates do.  And so, most of us in such positions, don’t.  I know I certainly didn’t.  Moreover, I continued to admonish my son about the realities of his life, even into post university graduation and throughout law school.  All the law enforcement racial disparity statistics bear fruit when one bothers to search, thus rendering what I’ve read about from the wild lifestyles of both Blasey Ford and Judge Kavanaugh and others is just beyond my comprehension to ever eng in for any reason; however, the documents that I have read are wholly consistent with what I have observed in the conduct and character of offspring of the so-called elite, both in my generation and that of my son.

Smear or not, one thing here is clear: privilege.  A certain no-holds-barred-debauched lifestyle is in full view; no wonder the U.S. is in decline if this is to what we entrust leadership and guidance of our society.

A multitude of corruptions on the personal level results in poor values on the societal level

There are two double-standards in evidence today in relation to the Democratic attack using Blasey as a foil against Kavanaugh:

First, it is clear that every Trump Republican male is now vulnerable to an orchestrated Profumo-styled scandal hit job wherein political enemies will embark on vitriolic crusades of biographical-dumpster-diving seeking to unearth and resurrect all and any rumor, lie, hearsay, and unsubstantiated character flaws without interest in facts or genuine witnesses.  In the age of #METOO, sexual allegations without foundation and outside the due process of law could well become the new normal – and now, a new allegation of drunken sexual behavior erupts against Kavanaugh from his college years—except that the new “witness,” herself, admits that she was too drunk to know if what she thinks happened actually did happen.  Clearly, we are witnessing a well-orchestrated, pre-meditated political drive-by shooting.  I’ve been there and I know exactly what that looks like.

Second, the Democrats, in their desperation to derail a Supreme Court nominee who has been investigated six times and who has dozens of  women testifying to his reliability, seem to be oblivious to their own vulnerability to similar attacks.  Beginning with the Clintons, both alleged to have engaged in an unsavory relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and Joe Biden, now being challenged about videos showing him groping children on stage, there is no end to the number of Democratic “elites” vulnerable to similar attacks.  (What makes them elite is that they do illegal and licentious things and get away, with impunity, year after year while winning the blessing of media and political allies).

I cannot explain the rationale of parents who tolerate, if not encourage, such behavior from their children or who fail to realize that their laxity as parents instills in their children a radical, morally-relativistic judgment system of thought and behavior—sure to create personal and social problems.  Let’s be honest with ourselves:  The simple fact is that the children infected with acute “affluenza” come from elite families, and they rarely face any consequences for their immoral, illegal, or unethical  behavior.  But, you see, that’s where character comes in–because should one have to personally face the consequences of ethically- or values-deprived behavior before knowing that such behavior is wrong?  This multitude of corruptions of values and ethics on the personal level results in debasement of values and ethics on the societal level.

They’ve always been able to have their “youthful indiscretions” and rarely be hurt by them. I’m arguing that this is the kind of behavior on display that brings us full circle to where we are today with a society that is corrupt at every level, debasing of our humanity in every way, cutthroat politics that mean nothing except to those who win the prizes, and a civilization–if you want to call it that–in tatters.

One thing is for certain:  had Blasey Ford exercised her good judgment and said “No” to the invitation to go to a private home with three young boys, she would not have even been in a position to have this happen to her.  Even her ability to have a #MeToo moment now, is, in a way, a continuation of her privileged position in society.

Incredibly, there is no #MeToo moment for that multitude of women who do exercise good judgement and who then bear the bruises of assault; and if they’re Black, they don’t even get to “Stand [Their] Ground.”

 “Six Ways To Sunday . . .”

I now have some context for Chuck Schumer’s “Six Ways To Sunday” comment.  Knowing full well what has been sown, the U.S. Deep State knows how to reap its harvest bountifully.  Along with all of the other real and manufactured divides in this country, I also see a sexual divide being laid on top of the already well-planted gender divide.  The Black community has long been experiencing this too, through the usurpation of our culture by the popularization of “Gangsta Rap” and “Thug Life.”  Thanks to the long trail of individuals responsible for the debacle of D.C. unfolding today, the costs to U.S. society at large will be as high as they have been for the Black community.  Before the U.S. can fully recover, not only will we have to devise an effective way to bridge the extant social divides in this country, we’re also going to have to learn a way to bridge the man woman divide that is being created.

As I’ve said so many times before that I’m tired of saying it now, “Stop it when they’re doing it to us or they will surely do it to you.”  Thus, once again, the Deep State gets its way and the people of the U.S. are the ones who pay.

The Hillary faction of the U.S. Deep State just unleashed a “double tap” on the Trump faction. 

From all of the foregoing, at least one thing is clear:  Not only does the U.S. need a “Revolution of Values” as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said; the U.S. needs better parents and better leaders.  

Drain the Swamp.

*Photo Credit:  WikiHow

Cynthia’s Foreword in “We Will Not Be Silenced” Published by AK Press

As criticism mounts over Israel’s violation of Palestinian human rights and international law, campaigns to silence and repress those who speak oout against Israeli apartheid and US complicity have grown alarmingly. Scholars have been denied jobs, refused tenure and promotion, rejected for funding, and expelled from institutions, while student organizations have faced harassment and sanctions. We Will Not Be Silenced offers thirteen powerful, firsthand testimonials from scholars and students whose struggle to defend their academic freedom and freedom of speech has garnered widespread public and international attention.

Includes chapters by David Theo Goldberg and Saree Makdisi, Terri Ginsberg, William I. Robinson, The Irvine 11, Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton, Rabab Abdulhadi, David Delgado Shorter, Persis Karim, Joseph Massad, David Klein, Nadia Abu Al-Hajj, Max Geller, Lisa Rofel, and Steven Salaita.
“These testimonials provide a stunning and all too familiar portrait of the extent to which the forces that suppress free speech and academic freedom are at work in the US university system to stifle those who would call for social justice in Palestine. . . . These voices must be heard.”  Bishop Desmond Tutu
Read the entire press release from AK Press here

Cynthia’s Chapter On The Imperative For Peace Is Published In The Book “A World Beyond Global Disorder” By Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Book Announcement     A World Beyond Global Disorder: The Courage to Hope   

Cambridge Scholars Publishing is pleased to announce the publication of A World Beyond Global Disorder: The Courage to Hope, edited by Fred Dallmayr and Edward Demenchonok.

A world which, like ours, has been ravaged by some sixty wars in recent decades, can rightly be described as the scene of global disorder. Even today, the same world is traumatized by hot and cold wars, proxy wars, and repeated outbursts of blood-filled mayhem, not to mention the threat of a nuclear holocaust unleashed by big power rivalries. These are not mere statistics, but wounds in the body of humanity, calling for healing and reconciliation. In biblical terms, human beings are not meant to be the owners or the destroyers of the world, but rather its custodians or caretakers.

This collection is a summons to responsible care-taking, and it approaches the subject from an intercultural perspective in a variety of fields, including religion and politics. The topics covered range from accounts of major global calamities today to explorations of possible political, economic and societal reforms, and to the invocation of basic religious and philosophical resources needed for the recovery of a world beyond global disorder.

To read a full summary of the book and to read a 30-page sample extract, which includes the table of contents, please visit the following link:  http://www.cambridgescholars.com/a-world-beyond-global-disorder-2

To see the full press release from the publisher, visit this link:  A World Beyond Global Disorder announcement April_2017