In this regard, US `teachers` were more successful than any other. Cld War was ab that. `Teaching` americans that soviet ideology is evil and their holy succeeded beyond `teachers` wildest dreams.

Once that was accomplished, `teachers` such as generals, fbi-cia, courts, congress, media people had a freedom to do any crime they chose to commit and vast number of people sanctifying or approbating them.

Of course, moses, jesus, and mohammed have deceived even more people; so, US finishes in fourth place.
But who knows? It might one day become numero uno! And especially if overwhelming number of commenters, analysts, and reporters continue to dwell solely on symptoms and disconnectedly from all other or any other symptom.
Had we not noticed that that`s what msm media does: pick on a person or an event-symptom only.
Goldman-sachs, bail out, `failure` in iraq, denial of medical care are mere symptoms. The cause or causes lie elsewhere. tnx

The same dogma fuels wars and oppression today. Perhaps not all initiators of this evil believed what they preached but it did serve their aims.

The question is, how ab 98% of americans cannot see this obvious fact? The fact that they are looked dwn on by own people and forced to look dwn on or depreciate other peoples or nations?

So, i suggest we confront the FIRST CAUSE and then its symptoms; which wld include our loss of palestine, iraq, af-pak and disproportionate influence of a handful of `jews` and other superich individuals.

Let`s not miss the fact that division of people of iraq, afgh`n, et al into less-valued and more-valued acts and acted against best interests of all people.
Thus one neeeds to confront amirs, aghas, kings, princes, sheikhs, imams, mullahs as much godlman-sachs, ceo, `zionists`, warlord.

They all maintain the first cause! tnx

First of all, we shld posit all the salient traits of socalled zionism or, to save time, call it ‘zionism’. Its first and most profound trait is its connection to all land theft; being peculiar in some aspects of such panhuman behavior.

I want to make clear why confronting Zionism is of key importance to mobilization. Bozh is correct to describe Zionism as “land theft” but my point is will that inspire people to speak out and mobilize. IMO I think not. In fact this is also why the pseudo-Left’s dishonest “war for oil” canard is so ill-effective. The reason being is that one can JUSTIFY both land and resource theft on nationalist ground. If Americans believe land and resource theft are needed for its survival then the citizenry could be made to rally behind it. The Cold War for example served NATIONALIST aims as well as resource theft that decimated the Native Americans and justified slavery.

However what I think bozh misses in my approach is that RACISM has been a key struggle within the United States and while many analysis like the say that the Civil Rights movement was a “failure” it did ALTER attitudes about RACE. This aspect is still present in the United States body politics 40 years later. This is why it is IMPERATIVE to openly express Zionism’s to its RACIST underpinnings. In 2010, racism is considered to be REPUGNANT and Zionism is NOT associated to U.S. national interest — which is essentially the point of Mearsheimer and Walt.

Zionism lack of association to U.S. national interest is a major reason that Zionists had to enlist Christians into their ranks and expand itself via religiosity. However the weakness of this strategy makes Zionism VENERABLE.

Confronting Zionism and correctly associating Zionism to the trillion dollar wars in the Middle East will demoralize and weaken its connection to militarism. In other words without Zionism it takes away THE main U.S. justification for the maintenance of its war machine. It also opens the door to question the financialzation of the U.S. economy as well and Capitalism overall.

In addition confronting Zionism would display to minorities that the Left is SERIOUS about confronting ALL FORMS of Racism — not just only when it is political convenience and when its suits a particular group or just for show. It would definitely solidify the Left enabling the Left to tackle bigger and broader issues in a radical and trustworthy manner.

This is why it is high time to PURGE the left of the Chomskyites who have for the past 40 years kept activists in a state of profound confusion.

Theft of land, subjugation-expulsion of conquered peoples, etc., is a trait u’l find in all conquests. Severity of repression of and warfare, crimes, against the conqurees varies in each conquest.
EG, conquest in america or palestine differs in the amount of cruelty magyars or bulgars may have inflicted on their respective conquerees, moravians and slavs of present-day bulgaria.

One also cld compare a conquest of 3k yrs ago with world pop at 10mn or whatever and a conquest now with world pop at 6bn or 7 bn.
Zionism sans single quotes indicate only its uniqueness and not at all the sameness or similarities bwtn that kind of theft of land with other theft of lands.

Only now are we ready to talk ab zionism, americanism, germanism, japanism, russism! And we wld see thievery, deception, cruelty, oppression just ab everywhere and over the last 7 or 8k yrs.
tnx

This article really ties ALL the thread together in an absolute NON-BIASED manner. Many on the pseudo-Left clearly would obfuscate the influence that Zionism has today on driving U.S. militararism and well as its growing influence on the FIRE sector. The psuedo-Left perfers the label “corporations” which is really too broad a term but broad enough to obscpure Zionist influence. Confronting Zionism means confronting militarism. This is the weak spot and the area where the Left could make a real dent in the empire. The U.S. has always struggled with racism and Zionism is no different. This is why it is important to confront such pseudo-Leftist such as Noam Chomsky who in fact has done more harm to prevent a real confrontation of Zionism thus in other words has helped to MAINTAIN U.S. militarism.

Also Petras provides an excellent analysis of the class dynamics of China. Class is why U.S. favors the rich and the FIRE sector. Such a similar dynamic that could derail China’s efforts as well. I found this to be rather interesting. I found Petras analysis of China not to be one-sided and well balanced.

In the long run however the U.S. is not in good shape and until there is an ideological shift its trajectory is heading for a downward spiril. It is definately a time and opportunity for radical thinking and analysis.

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Kenny’s comment is as usual nonsensical. He starts by asserting two mutually exclusive propositions in the same sentence, first praising Petras for recognizing the US Empire’s limitations, then claiming Petras believes it to be omnipotent. In actuality neither proposition accurately reflects what Petras’ article says.
In this piece Petras makes a detailed assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the empire-building strategies being pursued by the Established Imperialist US and the very different one being pursued by the Chinese state. Nowhere does Petras state, claim or imply that the US is “omnipotent”. Indeed, his view is just about the exact opposite; his essay lays out in detail exactly how and why the US State is less powerful than the image presented in the US “mainstream” media & conventional political discourse.
Readers should pay close attention to what he says about the confluence of the US military/industrial establishment and the US financial establishment with the Zionist political power apparatus.
Which reminds me: yesterday I ran across an article attacking those who like Petras work to expose the true lineaments of the Zionist Power Config., which was much more plausible than any of the, er, “stuff” certain trolls continue to post here on DV. So excuse me while I locate it; I’ll try to post the strongest portions on this thread, then endeavor to deconstruct them. This seems like a much fairer way to proceed than to keep picking on the likes of Kenny and allies:)

It seems to me that we can build only two structures of society: ideally socialist-egalitarian one and the other asocialist-inegalitarian.

Of course, there are sevarl countries whose societies are not as inegalitarian as that of india or US. But which way are they headed? tnx