End of Empire?

TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 23 Sep 2024

Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service

22 Sep 2024 – I wrote this after watching this shocking [must see] video that explain things to you about what humanity is up against and illustrate the urgency of the situation [And if you want to know about the linked ongoing genocide and ecocide, just visit http://ongaza.org].

Unless Kamala Harris reverses course and suspends arms shipments to Israel  used in genocide, Trump will win the election because critical Muslim, Arab and progressive voters in key swing states will not vote for genocide party A. They will not vote for genocidal party B (Republicans) now run by the megalomaniac Trump who is willing to burn the world for his ego and to prevent the Mossad from releasing damaging tapes they have on him (Epstein/Maxwell produced). In either case, the US is likely finished as an empire unless its public wakes up as they did during the 1960s.Many of us had predicted this a while back but the speed of the decay is stunning which gives a risk of a global war to save the Empire (a losing proposition in areas of high tech WMDs). It is not just related to over 1.2 million COVID19 US deaths or to a $35 TRILLION in government/national debt (much of it to countries like China and Japan and much of it for wars done for the lobbies) or the corporate and personal debts. It is not just that the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world with two million citizens behind bars. It is also due to NATO taken over by irresponsible leadership that is getting us closer to a global war (see this analysis https://youtu.be/yDWaRO88ezA). It is also that the political system had the illusion of democracy (democrats and republicans exchanging seats and positions) while key actors (Federal reserve system of rich bankers and lobbies like the Zionist-Israeli lobby) actually manage the system.

More and more people also now increasingly realize that the so-called “justice system” is really dysfunctional and serves the rich and powerful. Lower level courts sentence black individuals to harsh sentences while exonerating white racist killers and mid level system that allows corruption to go on (e.g. by rich people like Trump, Sheldon Adelson, Haim Saban, Roger Stone, Les Wexner) to the supreme court. The Republican controlled Supreme Court ruled that actions by the president while in office are not subject to law/prosecution. Even free speech and attempts to boycott rogue states like Israel (an apartheid genocidal state) is now forbidden by law in many states and in some federal regulations.  That war on truth and justice in the west is carried in parallel with the actual genocidal war on our people (Palestinians and Lebanese and others) to cleanse the land and resources coveted for the Empire sans its indigenous people).

The Orwellian theatres of the absurd notwithstanding, the new world order is not turning out the way it was planned. The neocon Zionists of the 1990s plans included “securing the realm” and strategies that predicted an event like 11 Sept 2001 would help them to secure a “new American Century”, the pre planned invasion of Iraq etc. They have all backfired. While the senile king of Saudi Arabia incoherently tried to read a text prepared for him attacking Iran and his murderous son was enjoying booze and women on his $100 million yacht, Iran, China and Russia where defying Israeli occupied Washington (e.g. on the illegal economic war on Iran and Syria), interlinking their economies, military cooperation and more.

Times are indeed changing. Trump may win the elections but this will only accelerate the demise of the US power. Here is why he may win (in order of importance): 1) the Zionist lobby wants him to win elections to complete successes in bolstering Israel (and ensure the lobby is above the law and beyond scrutiny), 2) Harris courting of the lobby and supporting genocide undermines any remnant of illusion progressives, 3) Trump and his circle will do anything to win, 4) the American public is not allowed to hear all facts and the public can be manipulated by mainstream media and social media to vote for lesser of two evils based on fear propaganda (hundreds of millions spent on advertisements), 5) the Democrat party is corrupt and worked hand in glove with republicans against allowing other parties.

While I do not mourn the impending demise of the empire, I do feel sad for the economic deprivations that will come in the next few years in a land that I lived in for over two decades (before I returned to Palestine) and that I love (people, nature, etc). I would wish for the pain to be minimal and for better and quicker rebuilding in a far more sustainable and equitable way. The main danger after the election, is of a global war launched to defend Zionism and allow it to build an empire in Western Asia. The Israeli/Zionist Apartheid and ongoing genocide (in Palestine) remains the Achilles heel that exposes Western Hypocrisy just like Western support for South African Apartheid provided in the 1980s.

Let us (re)imagine and plan a world of multilateral cooperation, sustainability and equality and work extra hard to achieve it before it is too late and cockroaches inherit our planet. It is more urgent now than ever and it is an existential struggle for all humanity.

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Mazin Qumsiyeh, associate professor of genetics and director of cytogenetic services at Yale University School of Medicine, is founder and president of the Holy Land Conservation Foundation and ex-president of the Middle East Genetics Association. He won the Raymond Jallow Activism Award from the national Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee in 1998. He is co-founder and national treasurer of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, and has written extensively about the Middle East. Qumsiyeh is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment, author of Sharing the Land of Canaan and Popular Resistance in Palestine, a professor at Bethlehem University and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History in Bethlehem. http://palestinenature.org

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