Saigon 1975 , Baghdad 2019 !

The invasion and occupation of Iraq - Bush's War - was the biggest blunder in US history , totally destabilizing the Middle East. Saigon 1975 , Baghdad 2019 . " When will they ever learn... when will they ever learn ". NO SUPPORT FOR US IMPERIALISM or ISRAELI ZIONISM in WORKING CLASS AMERICA !

American embassy attack in Baghdad

Palpable EVIL in daily news headlines - SCIENCE - another " god that failed "

As a democratic socialist I think - whatever your preferred philosophical views- social SANITY depends on respecting the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization . I am well aware that organized Christianity has an embarrassing history here. But my state of Rhode Island is famous for supporting FREEDOM of religion .

 Human religious instincts , the FAITH IN GOD of both ordinary people and brilliant intellects, will not disappear with any political order that would call itself " officially atheist " and PERSECUTE religion. Militant materialists ( dogmatic followers of Marx call themselves " dialectical materialists ") will never persuade the very MASSES they would lead to worship blind MATTER IN MOTION, or rejoice in " what hydrogen atoms can do after 13 billion years " ( " Cosmos " and Carl Sagan ) .

Separation of Church and State is imperative in any democracy . But what we see now in the United States , under a false illiberal liberalism , is a growing contempt and active hostility to people of FAITH. It DOES affect the moral atmosphere of the nation. There is no moral instruction in empty atheism .

Any socialist movement that would daily mock religion - the faith of millions, Protestants , Catholics, Muslims , Orthodox Jews - will only marginalize itself or be deformed into a dark force for totalitarianism.

Some fanatical sectarian Marxists cannot forgive me for suggesting that they build bridges to Christians and Christianity , stop this endless bashing of devout Catholics and the Catholic Church. If they had ANY roots in the real working class they would have succeeded in becoming a MASS MOVEMENT a century ago.

How can any honest thinker not see the fatal HUBRIS in the New Atheism and godless Marxism ?
Clearly in the 20th century even SCIENCE is a " god that failed ".

Centuries ago Catholic theology condemned " intellectual pride ". A famous psychiatrist - a traditional liberal , Karl Menninger- wrote a book aptly titled " Whatever Became Of  Sin ".

How can anybody read daily news headlines and not feel palpable EVIL ?

Odd couple - Chris Hedges in chummy WSWS interview with Marxist cult leader David North

I read that- NO SURPRISE - Chris Hedges has also been smeared as " anti-Semite " for not brainlessly supporting Zionist Apartheid Israel . For criticism of ZIONISM I have been banned even on Brown University's " Brown Daily Herald Web Site " . I have also been banned - SURPRISE - on Socialist Equality Party cult leader David North 's World Socialist Web Site as their unwelcome " resident Catholic , anti-Semite , fascist ".

I have also been banned on NPR 's WBUR web site . I had observed that NPR USA is a virtual social club for " liberal " Zionist Jews.

After suggesting that Iran had as much right to nuclear weapons as Zionist Israel I was also banned on ABC on line . And I am hardly a NAME in social media with " influence ". I just speak my mind as an INDEPENDENT democratic socialist.

Also NO SURPRISE Comrade GREAT LEADER of the SEP , David North , is also one enterprising Jew , the owner of a NON-UNION publishing company . I can imagine one H.L. Mencken getting a chuckle out of this Marxist CAPITALIST turning Leon Trotsky's Fourth International into a MAKE A BUCK swindle.

A while back Chris Hedges had a chummy interview with David North on his WSWS. The topic for discussion was FREE SPEECH THREATENED ON THE INTERNET !

Christians not ashamed of calling themselves Christians do not need false friends among obnoxious New Atheists or God -hating sectarian Marxists.

100 years after the over glamorized Russian Revolution VANGUARD PARTIES are a sick totalitarian joke. There is certainly no market for the " dictatorship of the proletariat " among the American working class. Nor will they line up for tickets to visit any future " Museum of Atheism " in a land that still calls itself FREE .

" Greater Israel " orders US military to stay in Iraq !

Yes, American capitalism and American imperialism ( BREAKING NEWS , CRISIS IN IRAQ,chaos and angry mob at American Embassy ) need only a very moral person in the White House to represent as THE PRESIDENT the most ugly and ruthless and brutal ruling class on the planet earth . THEY call this regime " OUR democracy ".

Find one serious Democrat Party presidential candidate with a WORLD PEACE agenda on New Years Eve 2019 .

Find one Democrat presidential candidate not fawning over Zionist Apartheid Israel - whatever its latest crimes against humanity ?

Has Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the US military not to pull out of Iraq ? In whose interest were they there in the beginning ? The invasion and occupation of Iraq ( Israel sent no combat troops as a dear ally of the United States ) was the greatest foreign policy blunder in American history.

This morning shades of Saigon 1975 in Baghdad , Iraq 2019 .
We democratic socialists tell the US ruling class and its Zionist creep ally Apartheid Israel : " YOUR INTERESTS ARE NOT WE THE PEOPLE's INTEREST ".

Find one " peacenik " Democrat Party leader ! The DNC has been promoting that HATE RUSSIA , New McCarthyism now since Harpy Hillary was defeated in the 2016 presidential election.

And don't expect that phony " socialist " Zionist Bernie Sanders to make any difference in US foreign policy . Nor will Bernie Sanders make himself a formidable foe of OUR capitalist " American Way of Life ".

I wish for an H.L. Mencken revival in American journalism

Anti-Zionist Jews like Noam Chomsky , the late Howard Zinn, Norman Finkelstein are censored and blackballed by their tribe in the mainstream news media .
Just trust Chuck Todd and Senator Chuck Schumer .
At least Zionist Jew Alan Dershowitz sounds like a competent lawyer !
I wish for an H.L. Mencken revival in American journalism. He had what novelist Ernest Hemingway said was so essential for any good writer : " a built in , shock proof , SHIT detector "

Why would poor blacks seethe with anti-Semitism ?

The mainstream news media talk as if HATRED or anti-Semitism were self-explanatory. It defies even old fashioned British rationalism . A black person living in a New York City slum apartment owned by a " liberal " Jew could very well seethe with ethnic resentment .

A Palestinian living in a bombed out neighborhood in Palestine is accused of anti-Semitism ? Really now ? That Palestinian should be ashamed of himself - not only is he a wretch he is one of those deplorable HATERS .

Anti-Semitism epidemic ? Just don't ask any JUST CURIOUS questions ! Especially if you are a PROFESSIONAL journalist .

Is mental illness a hate crime ? Anti-Semitism in Harlem or just hopeless exploitation and oppression ?

ANTI-SEMITIC ATTACKER: I'LL GET YOU Five people were injured Saturday night when a man armed with what appeared to be a machete burst into a rabbi's home in a New York City suburb and slashed at people attending a Hanukkah celebration, before running out screaming "I'll get you." The suspect, who has been identified as Grafton E. Thomas, is in custody. [HuffPost]

             The man's family says he has a history of neglected mental illness. Is mental illness a hate crime ?    In the USA today of decaying capitalism  mental illness is far more of an epidemic than anti-Semitism , especially in the big city hells .

                  But the main stream news media simply must promote its corrupt narratives: like President Donald Trump is the root of all evil in " OUR democracy ". 

                 I speak as a democratic socialist who voted for  Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Rhode Island Presidential Primary - with no regrets .

               Anti-Semitism in Harlem ? Or just hopeless exploitation and oppression ? My favorite Malcolm X quote : " Show me a capitalist and I'll show you a blood sucker "  .

HATRED does not explain " hate crime " . What explains HATE ? ANY " professional " journalists today introduced to the ABCs of sociology ?

[Thomas' family said in a statement Sunday night that Thomas has "a long history of mental illness and hospitalizations" and that his attorney, Michael H. Sussman, had been instructed to seek "immediate mental health evaluation of Grafton."

The family said Thomas has "no known history of anti-Semitism" and was not a member of any hate groups.

"We express our deepest concern and prayers for those injured physically and otherwise deeply affected by the events of Saturday night and our family's earnest yearning for their well being," the family said.]

Rediscovering Somerset Maugham as a short story writer

In recent months I rediscovered Somerset Maugham as a great short story writer . Yes, dozens of read Maugham stories convince me that he was indeed a literary genius and a gift to all humanity.

What never gets dated is a good STORY . He always SEES people of all classes and ethnic groups. No false optimism about human beings , no false sentimentality , very real COMPASSION and TOLERANCE . A great writer's instinct for a STORY . One of my favorite novels is still Maugham's " Of Human Bondage " .

I noticed the two volume set of his Collected Short Stories at the Cellar Stories used book store in downtown , Providence, Rhode Island. Better buy it soon before New Years Day.

Some suggested modest reforms for American capitalism

William Greider’s Blistering Critiques of Capitalism Will Be Sorely Missed

The cause of social justice in capitalist America needs all the honest truth tellers out there. No rational socialist will be an obstacle to any humane reforms . But so rotten is decaying capitalism that it does seem beyond any substantial reforms . This system can only be defended by lies and brutality .

PRODUCTION FOR PROFIT can only breed social insanity. The inherent " benevolence " of American capitalism is daily promoted in horrendous radio and TV commercials - and SICK , SICK , SICKO Hollywood movies.

Here I suggest one modest reform : does every football , baseball , and basketball star so quickly have to be a multi-millionaire ? Would a billion dollar lottery ticket make any sense in " The Sane Society " ?

Cannot checking slum landlord greed do wonders for the nightmare homeless plague in our big cities ?

Can the Pentagon War Crimes Machine at least stop making nuclear submarines ? Are they an effective weapon against Islamic terrorism , against scattered ISIS lunatics ?

Cannot the Pentagon military budget be effectively put on rations ? Beginning with a mass firing of all the brainless, recruited , VOLUNTARY human robots , most of the MANIAC officer corps ? THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE !

No factual basis for alleged anti-Semitism ?

Discussion on HistoryNewsNetwork  

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Anti-Semite?

I just bought a used paperback copy of Alexander Solzhenitsyn " Gulag Archipelago " for $1:50 . His chapter titled " The Loyalists " was for me particularly interesting. How toxic is political GROUP THINK even today . 

So many sectarian Marxist parties- decades after 1917- resemble the daffy Church of Scientology with some permanent , deified GREAT LEADER surrounded by devoted socialist " Clears " . THE PARTY is always right . To be shunned by THE PARTY is psychic death .

 The Russian Revolution did make hatred for Christianity most respectable from the very beginning . A Trotsky biography of the young Lenin speculates if Lenin really did spit on a crucifix . As credible a scholar as Winston Churchill had observed that there were a disproportionate number of militant atheist Jews in Lenin's Bolshevik Party. 

The biggest mistake of Soviet era " communism " was to make THE STATE " officially atheist ". How much moral evil followed from that ?

Who else in today's " progressive " Democratic Party in the United States is bashing Christianity more than secular Zionist Jews? And Jewish ACLU celebrities ? And Hollywood producers with the moral authority of Harvey Weinstein ( producing according to Catholic News numerous anti-Catholic films ) .

 These same Jews now show a moral blindness for Zionist Apartheid Israel . And how many militant atheist Jews constitute the inner circle of many Marxist socialist parties today ? Even in the British Labor Party they are fanatical about sniffing out any trace of " anti-Semitism " in the ranks or worse in the leadership . To what degree were they responsible for the recent defeat of Labor and Jeremy Corbyn ?

Whatever the TRUTH about Jews and Russian communism in recent decades their idolatry for modern Israel has corrupted their once sensitive social conscience.
And in the mainstream news media in the United States Anti-Zionism is daily equated with anti-Semitism . So  the opinion that Zionist Jews control this media is just a neo-Nazi , paranoid BIG LIE ?
For making honest observations about Jews in the news I have been BANNED on a number of web site - even Brown University's " Brown Daily Herald ". Even on NPR stations which appear to be nothing less than a social club for ambitious Zionist Jews. How dare I assert that Iran has as much right to a nuclear arsenal as Zionist Apartheid Israel ! And that an exclusive JEWISH state is a mockery even of bourgeois democracy ?

INNOCENT patriotism as for Albert Camus : " loving one's country in justice "

There is a definite INNOCENT patriotism in which one naturally believes in his or her country and its IDEALIZED form of government . The French writer Albert Camus - a NOBEL PRIZE winner - wrote about loving his country IN JUSTICE.

I have been around too long to believe that American capitalism and American imperialism are compatible with social justice . Nor is the " American Way of Life " as suggested by radio and TV commercials compatible with the " The Sane Society " ( socialist psychiatrist Erich Fromm 's book is still relevant today ) .

What we don't need is a Stalinist VANGUARD PARTY revival led by some permanent Great Leader with his legion of " Clears " as in the daffy Church of Scientology ". It all ends with the inevitable " Gulag " as in communist Russia- and not long after THE REVOLUTION .

There must be on the Left respect for the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization . And no psychotic " war on God " !

They were still loyal to THE PARTY - the TRUE BELIEVERS 

Has TRUTH-DIG stopped boldly digging for TRUTH ?

Has TRUTH DIG stopped boldly digging for TRUTH ? I was a " critical supporter " of " socialist " Democrat Bernie Sanders back in 2016. I did vote for him ( with no illusions ) in the Rhode Island Democrat Primary which Sanders won shocking the local OLIGARCHS.

Sanders went on to endorse Harpy Hillary Clinton - and after she and the DNC had conspired to sabotage his milk toast " political revolution ".

The HATE RUSSIA New McCarthyism began with smears of the supporters of Bernie Sanders.
Sanders is an enigma, to be sure. He could be a FORCE in History if he called for a third party, say an American version of the British Labor Party .

So far ALL the presidential candidates of the Democrat Party talk as if WORLD PEACE is now an irrelevant cause. And there is the usual fawning on Zionist Apartheid Israel . Any critical intelligence and moral sense applied to present day Israel earns you the " anti-Semite " smear. I KNOW !

I witnessed that Bernie Sanders " magic " at Roger William's Park on a sunny April day in 2016. There was an estimated crowd of 7000 there .

As a democratic socialist I think a militant socialist has as much chance to survive and PREVAIL in the Democrat Party as the proverbial snowball in hell.

When he makes sense Bernie Sanders has my sympathetic ear . But I must prepare for a shock : Bernie" Loser" Sanders endorsing Joe Biden for president in 2020. The OLIGARCHY triumphs once again !

 Bernie Sanders rally in Roger Williams Park, Providence , R.I.

WHO authorized a proxy war against post-communist Russia ? WE THE PEOPLE ?

No surprise here : Senator Lisa Murkowski is in good standing with the Israel Lobby . Who else is promoting the HATE RUSSIA, New McCarthyism ? Who else is slobbering over the un-elected National Security Police State ? The CIA , the FBI , the Pentagon War Crimes Machine ? " Progressive " Democrats , of course !
How many working class Christian Americans feel heartfelt moral and cultural ties to the Ukraine of all places ? With its first " friend of Israel , Zionist Jew president ? WHO authorized this character to wage a proxy war against post-communist Russia ? WE THE PEOPLE ?
Don't think for a moment that Zionist Jews don't control the mainstream news media in the United States . Now THAT is an Orwellian THOUGHT CRIME in 2019 .

Guess WHO is promoting the HATE RUSSIA, New McCarthyism ?

The generic Left is ignoring this aspect of the Trump impeachment circus . The whole farce IS political. Now Senator Lisa Murkowski wants her Republican Party to rise above politics ( and do the wrong thing ? ). In the past three years when did the Democrat Party ever rise above politics ? Politics USA is always CLASS politics, always IMPERIALIST , MILITARIST politics . All the " liberal " Democrats have been slobbering over the UN-ELECTED shadow government of the United States , the National Security Police State , slobbering over FBI, CIA bureaucrats , uniformed officials of the Pentagon War Crimes Machine . Join them ?


This Senator Lisa Murkowski -no surprise - is in good standing with the Israel Lobby collectively determined to nullify the 2016 presidential election . NEWS clip :
[ “There are about 6 million Jewish people living in America, so as a percentage it’s quite small, but in terms of influence its quite big,” Farage said. Farage seemed to question why Israel was not facing election-meddling accusations, saying Israeli groups “have a voice within American politics” but “I don’t think anybody is suggesting that the Israeli government tried to affect the result of the American elections.”]
Did not the Kafkaesque Trump impeachment hearings look and sound like Old Yiddish Theater soap opera ? How many working class Christian Americans have heartfelt moral and cultural ties to the Ukraine of all places, now celebrating its first Jewish, friend of Zionist Apartheid Israel president ? Who in the USA authorized this character to wage a proxy war against post-communist Russia ? WE THE PEOPLE ? Guess WHO is promoting the HATE RUSSIA, New McCarthyism ?

Try telling this to respectable Zionist Jew slum lords in New York City

To Understand Trump, You Must Understand His Cult

To what degree has the profession of psychiatry in the USA been corrupted by Ayn Rand Thought and uncritical support for Zionist Apartheid Israel ?

Their greatest crime against humanity was the de-institutionalization of the mentally ill more than a half- century ago. Accepting capitalism and imperialism and the American Way of Life they have no solutions for the everyday evils of decaying capitalism.

For example : how many homeless people are mentally ill ? How many people are made mentally ill by homelessness ? But the biggest obstacle - the elephant in the room - to solving the mass misery homeless problem is sacrosanct PRIVATE PROPERTY right . 

Try telling that to respectable Zionist Jew slum lords in New York City !

Thank God for Maxine Waters !

To Understand Trump, You Must Understand His Cult

Just about ALL Marxist sectarian parties today - " Marxist " , " Leninist " , " Trotskyist " - competent scholars have studied and documented them as CULTS - invariably with an untouchable , permanent " Great Oz " GREAT LEADER with an inner circle of TRUE BELIEVER " Clears " so sadly like the pathetic " Church of Scientology ". The GREAT LEADER of the WORLD PROLETARIAT usually has a very private capitalist bank account . And a nasty thug security staff.
More food for thought :

[Maxine Waters says Trump will invite Putin to the White House ...
https://www.foxnews.com › politics › maxine-waters-says-trump-will-invite-...
1 day ago - Maxine Waters, D-Calif., warned Friday that President Trump will invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House if the Senate ...]

So you see if we don't IMPEACH TRUMP NOW he will even invite Russia's Vladimir Putin into the White House. The scandal for " OUR democracy " ! Thank God for Maxine Waters !

No more " godless communism " to oppose in Russia

If any American politician is in the service of a foreign power it is Zionist-in-Chief Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer. He SAID that he wants to be Apartheid Israel's " guardian angel " .
And how can the Ukraine " business " interest any American citizens but belligerent Zionist Jews promoting " Greater Israel ". Fawning over Ukraine's first Jewish president - how dare Trump deprive him of millions of U.S taxpayer dollars for even a day in fighting an undeclared proxy war against Vladimir Putin's wicked post communist Russia . No more " godless communism " to oppose in Russia. But godless American capitalism and imperialism- together with "Ayn Rand Thought " in Zionist Israel still want to rule the world.

Let the 2020 election decide the fate of President Donald Trump

Like every American citizen paying attention to this IMPEACH TRUMP melodrama Chris Hedges no doubt feels the pressure of conflicting inner voices. The individuals who are presently thinking mostly lucidly and most morally about " Hitler " Trump , " White Supremacist ", Trump, " Misogynist " Trump are those NOT attached to the Republican Party or the Democrat Party or to the sectarian, cultish Marxist Left.

Toxic personal hatred for Trump is stupefying probably just less than half the American voters. No " democracy " can survive a STUPID civil war. The mainstream news media is feeding an irrational state of mind . Reap the wind and you will sow the whirlwind. You might read that in " Christianity Today ".

It is only sanity to let the 2020 election decide the fate of President Donald Trump. He too is just a moment in time. NONE of the presidential candidates of the Democrat Party inspire the spirit of personal sacrifice or martyrdom . Certainly not capitalist , imperialist lackey Joe Biden. In the Ukraine he and his son represented BOTH American capitalist corruption and the Pentagon War Crimes Machine.

In fact, Vice President Biden in the Ukraine reminded me of Henry Kissinger's dirty operation in Chile decades ago against their Marxist president Salvador Allende - ( CIA assassination job ) .

How dare any foreign leader scumbags- like Vladimir Putin - meddle in " OUR democracy !

Zionist Senator Chuck Schumer is NOT an agent of a foreign power ? ( like Trump ? )

INDEPENDENT MINDS should have some say in American politics ! Public schools and Higher Education USA no longer teach the art of critical thinking . So those high priced diplomas are mostly useless in the long run .

Harvard Law School continues to mass produce SHAMELESS professional enemies of the common people.

There is not a journalist or an editor in the mainstream news media USA who is not a miserable bought and sold LOST SOUL hack. Watching TV news for a minute is now intolerable for me. Do those BREAKING NEWS performers take a graduate course in phoniness ? I wonder. The prize goes to Meet- the -Press- Phony-in Chief " Rabbi" Chuck Todd .
How can I not honor a loyal son of " Greater Israel " so ?

NOTE : the chief editor of the Providence Journal here, Alan Rosenberg, just presented the Zionist-in-Chief boss of the New York Times , Mr. Sulzberger,  the Hero of the First Amendment Award ( after ex -PROJO publisher Stephen Hamblett ) .

 Since Trump's election in 2016 BOTH newspapers have only spread the HATE RUSSIA , New McCarthyism with the daily BIG LIE -one "BOMB SHELL " headline after another. " OUR democracy " cannot wait for the 2020 election ?

You must complain to Senator Chuck Schumer about this . But he said he wants to be Apartheid Israel's " guardian angel " ( yet Trump is the agent of a foreign power ? ).

Why " Christianity Today " can't wait for the 2020 election to remove President Trump

It is intellectually dishonest to talk about some sinister " Trump cult " without noting FASCIST tendencies in the Democrat Party. Talk about lock step, brainless GROUP THINK !

This headline throws light on " Christianity Today " siding with the neo-liberal and Anti-Fa Trump impeachment mob:

[The Case for a 'New Christian Zionism' | Christianity Today

https://www.christianitytod... › june-web-only › case-for-new-christia...
Jun 22, 2017 - Christians have never been certain about what to do with Israel. This is certainly the case today. On the one hand, many mainline Protestants ...]

Not for nothing the recent Trump impeachment circus over our poor dear NATO ally, the Ukraine - with its first Jewish president - sounded and looked like an old Yiddish Theater soap opera.

How can that rat in the White House delay -for one day - billions of dollars to the Ukraine to fight an undeclared proxy war against wicked , post-communist Russia ? IMPEACH TRUMP ! ( yes, right away ) .

Counter lethal global warming with Carl Sagan's " NUCLEAR WINTER " ?

To Understand Trump, You Must Understand His Cul

The brainless GROUP THINK of the anti-Trump RESISTANCE ( which includes a lot of phony " socialists " ) fails to see how the Democrat Party, slobbering over the Founding Fathers and the American Constitution ( best defended by DEEP STATE , the FBI , the CIA , the Pentagon War Crimes Machine ? ) is promoting the HATE RUSSIA, New McCarthyism propaganda preparation for nuclear World War III .
Phony socialists are just as odious as phony liberals. ( by the way , are there any ACLU offices in Apartheid Israel ? )
What will thermonuclear war do to counter " global warming " , lethal climate change ? Bring on NUCLEAR WINTER ? ( recall Carl Sagan of " Cosmos " fame ) .

Zionist mainstream news media crucifying " Hitler " Trump as a Christmas present to the politically correct mob ?

To Understand Trump, You Must Understand His Cult

The Zionist controlled mainstream news media in the United States also knows the power of " Greater Israel " bank accounts. It is presently crucifying this LEGITIMATE president as a Christmas present to the politically correct mob .

What working class, Christian Americans resonate with the Stalinist New Atheism of the Anti-Fa Left ? And I am a long time independent democratic socialist .

Where oh where is that 60s radical passion for FREE SPEECH rights ? They won't even let conservative Ben Shapiro speak on college campuses. True " democrats " know that the OPPOSITION also has heart felt and thoughtful opinions about the way the world should be run.

Only in face to face dialogue with " the enemy " is it even possible to find TRUTH , FACTS , or just correct errors of perception or judgment