American Regime: 10 reasons why America is now a "Regime"
We are constantly seeing and hearing our American media use the word
"Regime" these days. So exactly what is a "Regime"? Apparently it is
whatever you want it to be.
Whenever Wall Street and/or War Street want to vilify a country that
disagrees with their policies of occupation and exploitation, they
always begin their vilification program by calling that country's form
of government a "Regime".
Here are some examples: Syria is a "Regime" -- even though it has a
constitution, holds elections and almost all Syrians support its
president, Bashar Assad. Gaddafi in Libya also operated a "Regime" --
even though his government offered the kind of free education and
healthcare benefits to its citizens that most Americans can only dream
about. Cuba was (and still is) considered a "Regime" in the eyes of
Wall Street and War Street. Putin also runs a "Regime" -- even though most
Russians today support him totally.
In reverse, Saudi Arabia is not a "Regime" -- even though the House of
Saud uses torture, suppresses dissent, beheads people, treats women
badly, brutally invades other countries and supports Al Qaeda and ISIS.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41834.htm
The House of Saud has spent over a trillion $$$$ of its enormous
petro-dollar wealth over the last half-century on killing people and
being despotic. Just imagine what the Middle East would look like right
now if the Saudis had chosen butter instead of guns. What a waste.
And yet Saudi Arabia is still not considered to be a "Regime" by American media. https://candobetter.net/node/4421
Israel never gets called a "Regime" either -- even though it
supplied Iran with weapons back when Khomeini was holding Americans
hostage and it kills Palestinian children with impunity, foments wars
whenever possible, runs secret torture prisons, is a neo-colonialist in
the worst sort of way, appears to even be anti-Jewish, uses 9-11 to its advantage and
has notoriously corrupt leaders. http://buchanan.org/blog/our-next-mideast-war-syria-15984
And now America seems to have become a "Regime" as well -- even though
nobody ever dares to call it by that name. But if it walks like a duck
and quacks like a duck....
Here are at least ten reasons that cause me to suspect that Wall Street
and War Street are running a "Regime" here in America too:
Reason No. 1: Torture. Black sites. Rendition. Indefinite detention of Americans. Stuff like that. Our tax dollars at work.
Reason No. 2: No one is ever allowed to examine (let alone question) election
results or voting machines here in the USA. Remember GWB, for
instance? Never legally won an election in his life! Or take those new
voter restrictions that have suddenly become so popular in the Ol' South. You
would expect something like that in the old Soviet Union or in the bad old days of Jim Crow -- but not
here, not now. And yet here it is.
http://evergreenedigest.org/bb-king-and-our-blatant-racial-revisionism-south-still-denies-roots-americas-music
http://evergreenedigest.org/bb-king-and-our-blatant-racial-revisionism-south-still-denies-roots-americas-music
Reason No. 3:
Spying on its citizens. NSA. The Patriot Act. Snowden and Manning
are being persecuted for spying -- while FaceBook, Google and NSA get a
free pass. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/06/were-citizens-not-subjects-we-have-the-right-to-criticize-government-without-fear
Reason No. 4:
Ferguson. Baltimore. Zuccotti Park. Oakland. Military tactics used
to violently suppress the American underclass if they dare to complain
that their jobs are all disappearing, their children's education sucks
eggs and their tax dollars are being spent on military adventurism in
foreign lands instead of on infrastructure here at home.
Reason No. 5:
Congress! Government for sale. Widespread corruption. The Koch
brothers' and K Street's yard sale of our politicians -- all bought on
the cheap. A solder in Afghanistan once told me that, "The only
difference between corrupt politicians in Afghanistan and corrupt
politicians in America is that corrupt politicians in America pass laws
to make their corruption legal and Afghan politicians do not." (Also see Reason No. 9)
Reason No. 6:
No daycare! I just threw that in because I'm now babysitting my
wonderful three-month-old granddaughter so that my daughter can go back
to work. Even Iraq under Saddam Hussein had free daycare! Even Cuba
under Castro.
And when Sofia goes off to kindergarten in five years, then I'll
finally be able to go back to being a war correspondent again -- knowing
for certain that the American "Regime" will still be subsidizing
despots and Endless War in the Middle East even five years from now.
What a waste.
Reason No. 7:
Media suppression. You think that you might have some good ideas about
telling truth to power around here? Then don't expect to get a job
with the New York Times or the Washington Post any time soon. Shades of
the old Pravda.
Reason No. 8:
Cops and the military (again). Peaceful protests are suppressed here
just like they are in Occupied Palestine. Rubber bullets and tear gas R
Us! Our cops recently used tear gas on protesters even here in my own
hometown. And then there are all those poor countries abroad that have
been Blitzkriegged by our very own Luftwaffe and then invaded by our
very own Storm Troopers. I could drone on and on about that!
Reason No. 9:
Our Supreme Court. Scalia would feel right at home in Nigeria or
Haiti. There's not a single corrupt corporate take-over that he doesn't
like.
I rest my case.
