GOVERNANCE BY ADVENTURISM .....

The Webster dictionary defines adventurism as "improvisation or experimentation as in politics, military or foreign affairs in the absence or in defiance of accepted plans, and disregard of accepted standards of behavior".  There's no denying it, the entire world today is living through a major reshuffle of the balance of power and the centres of influence.

The US and some of its presumed allies, militarily and economically practically dominated the geopolitical and economical scene of international politics for the past century. The show is changing as some new or at least reemerging powers are now in ascendance, while some like Europe is in decline as an international influence and their divisions while pursuing their economic independence from the US.

America is plunging into a deeper isolation and chaos following Washington's bizarre policies toward its allies and competitors, plus a very egotistical stand vis-a-vis its interests and economical goals and choices of allies and partners. It's all personal, and not in the interests of the nation or the world.

Take for instance the relatively new emancipation of the BRIES, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, where all our reactions to them came in some regime change in Brazil, re empowering the army and the Evangelical right. The Shanghai cooperation organization, the Asian infrastructure bank, the Eurasian union, and all individual Asian power houses, like Japan, South Korea, Taiwan are all seeking more independence from the US. And more so from a present administration that is not offering any type of reassurance or long term alliance of any type.

Strategies to build new replacements to the classic Western/American control of shipping routes and naval domination that are becoming semi obsolete, by the fixed realities of building huge faster and cheaper land roads and adapting new ports in practically all strategic parts of the glob, further weakening the total domination of international trade by the US. The old Western/American military domination of most of the world under the strategy of insuring various countries security is eroding, as its demand of creating continual wars is not economical to the welfare of the West.

The US Dollar as an irreplaceable and unique currency for international trade, exchanges and reserves is being lost slowly and surely. And the banking messaging and control SWIFT system is itself being bypassed and maybe eventually replaced by most of the above mentioned countries. Even by some of our traditionally most trusted European partners, like Germany, France and Great Britain, when dealing with our fictional and delusional tariffs against the world and sanctions against Iran, Russia, China, Turkey, Pakistan, Venezuela and Cuba, plus an array of other small players. Even the Palestinian authority and the UN agencies serving the people got their share of revenge and punishment .

We always had the tendency of dominating the whole show, but the Trump administration pushed the game to new dangerous levels. So instead of the game being America facing the world, the scene is turning into "the world facing America" I don't think it's in our best interests economically, monetarily or militarily to play this game, under the pretense of our presumed total power and supremacy.

We have lost more wars lately in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, to name a few, that creating new ones in Iran, Venezuela and north Korea are definitely not safe for the country or the world. Unless it's a point to prove our arrogance and ignorance and start again reviving the old adage of the "ugly American".  While a large segment of the American population is evolving politically and socially and globally, some who are headed by pure demagogy and false pretenses, religion, fear and pseudo patriotism remain stubbornly steady.

We are still being played systematically by fascist leaderships, only capable of destruction and poor judgment for their egoistical survival. our only allies left, constitute of some rogue neo fascist crazy leaders, like Netanyahu and MBS. destroying their countries and everyone near them. Another good way to name adventurism is; "It is a willingness to experiment and behave irresponsibly especially to obtain unfair advantages in politics or business, actions or attitudes regarded as reckless or potentially dangerous.
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NEW SPEAK IDEOLOGY ......

We owe the term "Newspeak" to George Orwell chilling portrait of the totalitarian state; 1984. In recent times, newspeak ideologies and tactics are a sure recurrent and being reinvented and reenacted in many spots around the world. The US is a blatant and obvious example, Israel and all other theocracies like Iran, Saudi and aspiring Turkey, even some smaller entities like Lebanon, they all are headed solidly into the total manipulations of newspeak.

The many ultra right emerging political movements all through Europe, Brazil and India are all using and applying all forms of newspeak language, tactics and ideologies. Governed by an all ultra right machine, including the media, the religious hierarchies, the army and executive branches of government, plus a well greased ultra conservative war vehicle.

All these together rely heavily on religion and religious blindness to spread their power and dominance, always encouraging views such as "All associations and governing bodies not loyal and controlled by the righteous leaders or the elite club and the pious elements are a danger to the state, to their neighbors and selves. In these days Venezuela, Cuba and the under illegal occupation Syrian and Palestinian lands are all justified and fall clearly within these newspeak tactics and language.

These are not truth seeking, but power seeking words and acts, words that take more aim in bringing others down than in raising themselves, and when these acts and arguments fail as invariably sometimes they do, newspeak reverts back to old adage and dogmas of white supremacy, pure faith and blind obedience, plus the very much in use lately "Judeo/Christian" and Western civilization heritage.

The newspeak and its tactics that tend to elevate literal theism, savage capitalism, corporate elitist mentality, perpetual warring, are progressing into very dubious and dangerous political alliances, internally and internationally, and shape them all as the political force, the governing machine, capable of progress and economically viable. All of course at the expense of the majority of the citizenry forming the middle-classes and poorer segments of the population, their social benefits and popular projects.

Unfortunately all religious theocracies, like the Evangelical majority in the US and other parts, the Zionist's Hebraica of Israel, and the Muslem clerics in more than a few places, invariably put themselves readily in the service of these extreme demagogues, and become the leading engines of these political takeover and its new language and false ideologies.

Loyalty to family, Church, country, our values and our way of life, obedience, are all words to hide and camouflage the newspeak language, and its own philosophy, only to automatically classify the adversary. Specific terminology as in fake news, enemies of the people, left liberal, terrorists, Islamists and immigrants are invariably nowadays terms of abuse, lies and synonym of hatred.

These newspeak powers are trying individually and collectively to seriously debunk all social, tolerant and liberal achievement of many decades of the last century and the new one. To destroy every positive human advancement in social, intellectual, scientific and even at all levels of climate change, only to gain power over public and private life.

Should the world return and revisit philosophies of governance where the tight relationship between the theological and the political were the norms, where the political is subservient to the theological and our nations are governed by fanatics commanded by fascism and Godly inspiration, in some places we already have them, as in Vise-president Pence, Secretary Pompeo, Mr. Netanyahu, the Ayatollahs in Iran, Mr. Erdogan in Turkey, and the ultra right movements sprouting all over from Brazil to Europe, and brexit UK to Hungary and Eastern-Europe to most of the Middle-East. All of them aspiring and almost ready to espouse fascism openly or discretely, further enrich the elite, and dream of conquering the world. 

Was it not that the word "Fascism" have been too condemned after world war two, but who knows, in our times the power of newspeak could easily overcome and fascism could become a lovable word again.  Will our politicians come up with some prohibiting legislations to prevent a possible and probable chaotic and very destructive war in  the  Persian  golf !!! I wonder . 
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ASSUMING DIVINE ROLE AGAIN AND AGAIN ....

For thousands of years, Sapiens and more so the male side of them, aspired to play actively the role of God here on earth, and to regulate according to their imagination all relations between all men, between all women, and between the two genders, separating them according to men's powers and wishes.

Religions were created and theocracy got elevated, dominating social laws and rules, with all different monotheistic or other denominations and sects. All using the same imagination in enacting or asserting God's attributed desires. One of the major rules attributed to God and adopted by all constitutions and judiciary legislations was and still is murder and the killing of others, intentionally, accidentally individually or collectively.

Exceptions to these as in wars were always exempted, and in our modern times war crimes are defended by all rules and powers behind them, even in the most advanced democracies. But individual crimes are still considered as some of the gravest and most punished by Godly or civil laws. Maybe confirming the famous Stalin words, "The killing of one individual is a grave crime, while the killing of thousands is a statistical affair".

As in the past few months and even years, and more so with every election year here in America, we see the debate about abortion rise and ignite between all types of accusers and defenders, but if we think it correctly, we could reach the decision that the alleged atrocity and the labeling of murder doesn't actually stick, except for the Godly playing pretense.

Different societies in the country, as elsewhere throughout the world, give a living human being his or her legal status, his or her name, his or her social position only after the moment of birth and never before. I still have to see one legislation that admits a 10, 15 or 20 weeks old foetus in her mother's womb any official status or even a name. It is strictly still a matter between the mother, possibly her parents and partner on one side and God and his techniques to instill life in it and make it functional on the other side.

We even in most cases call it "it" and not really he or she. The officialdom doesn't recognize this it entity, at least not until it's born, and out breathing the same combination of oxygen and nitrogen we all do. The central nervous system of any foetus does not begin to evolve or start controlling basic bodily functions until the foetus is at least five months old, before that it has no consciousness.

A foetus that dies of natural causes in his mother's womb, and sometimes killing the mother with it, isn't necessarily caused by God's wrath, or any divine interference, so let's not mix theology with our human evolution and daily life here on earth, moral rules are evolved social rules, and all of it is a human business. So why in God's name do we act so aggressively promulgating the fiction that aborting a foetus is a crime, punishable by the harshest methods imagined by humans and attributed to God.

Wouldn't common sense dictate that we take care of murders and murderers who kill recognized people, individually or en mass, or people under occupation, and even entire populations, and all the atrocities taking place every day, due to planned policies, in so many places of our globe, and leave the judgment and punishment of aborted foetuses to God himself and the mother carrying it. And it could be here in this life, or in the next one as the Almighty might dictate. Why do we have to play his part and judge and condemn in his place, trying to execute ourselves what we assume to be his wishes.

This lie, carried out mostly by men, of forbidding women abortions in some special cases, date back historically to the origins of religions. But was never such a big issue, nowadays and again in election years, it becomes the slogan of most pseudo religious, Godly right wingers, who want to dominate societies and women for their pure domination and running the show and political demagogy. Whereby every other argument would be harshly condemned and put down, even by force, all of course in the name of God and our own interpretation of his institution of justice.
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END-(LESS) WARS ......

Or call it ;" The perpetual war machine". All wars are dirty by definition and reality, and invariably whoever gets involved in a war gets dirty and bloody. The problem though with the U.S. is that of its  involvement one way or the other in all wars combined and continuously for the past 150 years. There's no conflict or war practically where we didn't have a hand in directly or indirectly, no regime change or even civil-war where American hands were not bloodied and dirtied.

We don't seem to care, we even by now learned to call it patriotism, for the sake of liberty and freedom, for true democracy, and all wars are for the defence of our values, regrettably we repeated these words so many times that we tend to seriously and sincerely believe it by now. People all over and more so here in the U.S. are coming to realize that wars are the reason their well-being is coming to threatening levels of slow-down, their lifestyle is worsening, as more and more social programs and infrastructure are eroding. Only the war-machine and the financial capitalism and their lobbies and politicians running at full steam against the interests of the absolute majority of society.

The problem is that neither our politicians nor the people at large know how to stop this crazy train of devastation. One thing for sure is that we're all addicted to our past ways of adventurism, going into aimless wars, and backing failing schemes of domination, imperialism and exploitation. All this is for sure a major source of deplorable strangulation of our resources and social welfare to all.

Violence, brutality, crime, suicides, mass murders, whether individually or collectively under the banners of armies and defence slogans are becoming the norms and a regular feature of our daily life, and it's at all levels of the population, just a quick glance at America or Israel will confirm this reality.

Stalinism and Nazism attained and enacted spectacular levels of crime to secure absolute power and hegemony, but the criminal acts and present day adventurism and wars that are all performed away from the public eye, and backed by lies and demagogy, using patriotism, theocracy and fear slogans plus the dubious interests are nowadays far more dangerous in reaching and subduing and programing the collective mind of the population, imposing their total domination on their particular populations and the entire world.

This post modernism financial class, using Orwellian tactics and language, has no relation to the territories nor to communities, and surely not to the welfare of its citizens, its only concern are increasing production, perpetuating consumerism and increasing its own profit.

One of the faithful servants of this class, Carl Rove, once wrote; "That's not the way the world really works anymore, we're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality, and while you're studying that reality, we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors.... and you , all of you will be left to just study what we do". It sure sums it all up, it sure describes how the future destruction of the future is taking shape. Where illusion replaces reality, and chaos prevails, and wild crazy capitalism destroys and dismantle the social civilization.

And by the way, isn't it high time Americans start admitting that not a single war in the last 5 or 6 decades, in the Middle-East, Asia, Africa or Central America, has gone as we planned or even hoped for, but as we all would agree that all of our adventures had a very devastating and fatal results to the people of the countries involved and to our economies and our losses in personnel.

We all tend to forget the possibilities of any war escalating into a nuclear war, or even the chances of an accidental nuclear encroachment, where once triggered even by a mistaken button activation or a computer malfunction , or a hack, or an over function of a system and suddenly PUFF !!  Humanity as we know it is no more , it will all disappear.                        
                 
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Mr. NETANYAHU'S FIFTH TERM .......

This past Tuesday, Mr. Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, was re elected to office for a fifth term, in a narrow win, mostly by the Israeli extreme right, the ultra orthodox Jews and the occupied West Bank settlers. Mr. Netanyahu policies of hate, annihilation, dehumanization and humiliation, and brutal theft of land and territories through all his terms makes him a perfect replica of many leaders of fascist dictatorship, around the area and elsewhere .

The same model would apply historically to Hitler and Stalin, and later to Saddam Hussein and Qaddafi, to the Taliban in Afghanistan and the theocracies of Saudi Arabia and Iran, as well as Kim Jong Un of North Korea. No difference from the ousted Algerian and Sudanese models of despots. Still the Western world in general and the US in particular call it " The only democracy of the area." But let's go back some 3 decades and try to understand Mr. Netanyahu's origins and his formation and shaping, and how the man formed his ideas and ideologies.

Early one morning in 1994, Dr. Baruch Goldstein entered the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron, in the illegally occupied West Bank, where over 800 worshipers were praying, he was in his official army uniform, carrying his assault machine-gun and enough rounds of ammunition to wipe a thousand people. No Israeli military guards tried to stop him, Goldstein started his carnage killing 30 worshipers including some children, and wounding 130 others, until he was eventually overcome and killed by the Israeli army .

Isaac Rabin, who was the prime minister back then, called it "a loathsome, criminal act", he later paid his life at the hands of another Israeli fanatic, for words like these. In the weeks following the massacre, thousands of Israelis visited the Goldstein grave to celebrate the murderer, many were dancing and singing around his grave, even kissing the gravestone, declaring Goldstein the "hero of Israel" His veneration continues among the settlers and some ultra right to this day.

One in present times could hear in Israel many still singing "Dr. Goldstein, there is non like you in the world, none like you in the world, we all love you. You aimed at terrorists, squeezed the trigger hard and shot bullets, and killed and killed". A famous Rabbi of the times Yisrael Ariel later said "The holy martyr Goldstein, is our intercessor in heaven, he did not act alone, he heard the cry of the land of Israel which is being stolen from us every day by Muslems, he only acted to relieve the cry of the land", the Rabbi then added " The Jews will inherit the land not by any peace agreement, but only by shedding blood, lots of it".

In the 1980s, Dr.Goldstein was a full activist of the Kach party, the openly racist, anti Arab right wing organization, founded by Rabbi Meir Kahana, who by the way was very lately adopted and partnered with Netanyahu, and just won itself a place in the Israeli Knesset. Incidentally, Dr. Goldstein who was serving in the Israeli army back then, and who refused to treat wounded Arabs, including those who served in the IDF, to punish him his superiors merely reassigned him to South Lebanon, when Lebanon was under Israeli occupation.

Today this type of lunatic and barbaric actions are condemned all over the world, we are still freshly witnessing the aftermath of the New Zealand ugly massacre perpetrated in exactly the same spirit. The entire world differentiate today between brutal intentional crimes and racist hate and empty slogans and religious ideologies.

But what is the most alarming fact remains that manipulative fascist leaders like Mr. Netanyahu and his supporters and financiers are still living the same hatred, brutality and pretentious superiority, while still considered by some including here in America where our own entire political leadership view the man as the future of peace and civility, always a true friend and ally, an idol and example to venerate, imitate and follow.

Unfortunately the world today is refusing or unable to find a solution to Israeli Zionist aggression and tyranny, and everyone will end up paying the price of this attitude. The current mixing and distinction between Semitism and anti semitism, between Jewish suffering at the hands of Christian Westerners since the 15th century till recently, and Zionist aggression, brutality and theft in Palestine, are the reasons behind this inability and ineffective attitude toward the problem. It is really frightening to see the US political reaction against judging, criticizing or condemning the acts of this fascist Zionist regime . 
         
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SAME SAME ........

Jewish, Muslems, Christians, all share and believe in the same Abrahamic tradition's God, but I'm going to talk about the first two cousins, or if I dare say, where Islam is the nephew of Judaism. Jewish and Muslems, they both behave in the same exact way when reacting to their historical and political events.

For the past few decades, Muslem intellectuals across the world were strongly condemning all newly born Islamic movements, regardless of who funded or stood behind them, movements such as Isis, Al Qaida, jabhat Al Nusra, the Somali Al Shabab, and many others throughout the Arabic and Islamic world. But clearly deep down, most of them modernized thinkers and intellectuals and the general population were somehow contempt with the message these groups were sending.

Muslems were appalled by the barbaric acts of brutality and condemned them for lack of intolerance and compassion toward others and mostly Muslems. But were satisfied with the reenactment of an Islamic Caliphate and the resurrection of old past Islamic glories, sympathizing with Daesh and Isis and somehow proud of their strength and quick emancipation. The majority of Muslems hated the secular or semi secular regimes that fought them.

Openly Muslems had to admit the Isis barbarism, now that they are defeated everyone carries their sarcastic little smile, saying "Didn't I express myself clearly on the matter". No my brothers and sisters, you did not, because in your deep harts you were pro these groups of animals, and proud that Islam was regenerating itself through them, after centuries of failure and mediocrity.

The Jews from all over the world, and mostly the West, are and share the exact same attitude, many of Jewish intellectuals and thinkers condemn in different words the Zionist actions, tactics and ideology, toward all their non-Jewish populations, toward all their neighbors, and lately even their meddling in far away international affairs and countries.

They all have harsh words condemning the despicable and heinous acts of free brutality, and illegal colonialism, apartheid and lately the annexation of foreign lands for different imperialistic purposes, including the big oil and gas games. Again like Muslems, they condemn these acts, but deep down are satisfied and pleased it's happening and someone is carrying the torch of Judaism and its great Israel, the total supremacy of the Jewish race, the same sarcastic smile is always there accompanying the few words of criticism.

All enough to satisfy their ego as intellectuals, liberals, while feeling the real satisfaction of belonging to such a powerful and indestructible evil machine. No matter how it was built or who paid for the injustice, no matter of the continuing manipulation and usurpation of the entire world for their dreams and hegemony. And yes my friends all of you, and your Muslem cousins are exemplifying the same double faced and hypocritical attitude. Hiding your religious intolerance and fanaticism behind modern words and concepts of justice, compassion and tolerance.

I guess both people like others before them still carry loud the same grudge against humanity, even to the degree of destroying it. As muslems and their Caliphate dreams, of dominating all the Muslem world and later the entire globe, the same exactly is happening in Israel and its neo-cons Zionist leadership, having the same type of total supremacy, conquering all Jewish minds, to achieve world domination and predominance in economical, military and cyber supremacy.

As many if not most Jews, from all walks of life, are secretly and openly encouraging the crazy schemes of their fascist Israeli leadership, here in America we have a new adherent and believer in the same game, the president and his close oligarchy trying, with some success,  to reenact and copy the same model of the two archaic religiously driven entities, but using a white, Christian Evangelical, ultra right supremacy that is well embedded in some strata of the American rural society.

But who's using who, and for what purposes ?? I'm not sure, but the three models , their partnerships and their enmities and hatreds, their nationalistic fascist ways, are all "same same". All three unfortunately share the same obvious contradiction to their original messages of the Hebrew bibles, Christian Gospels, and Islamic Koran and dogma, of practicing justice, loving kindness and compassion to your fellow human being and neighbor .                             
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IS THE US AN ACCOMPLICE ???

Yes, we all have to ask ourselves is this administration pushing and making us all accomplices to a crime dealing with blatant theft . The US criminal law explicitly states that ; " The accomplice to a felony or misdemeanor is the person, or entity, who by aiding or abetting, facilitates its preparation or commission . Any person  or entity who by means of a gift, promise, threat, order or an abuse of authority or powers, provokes the commission of an offence or gives instructions to commit it, is also an accomplice. 

The official US, is pushing and facilitating the state of Israel and its fascist neocons leaders, to annex the Golan heights, aiding and facilitating as well the next move of annexing the illegally occupied West-Bank. Are we really, officially or simply under the influence and pressure of certain blinded politicians, lobbyists, administration's family affiliations and fanatical leanings, religious lunatic beliefs turning ourselves into accomplices to a crime of theft ?? Are we really facilitating the pathway for the Zionists to annex major chunks of  entire foreign lands (Syrian) including parts of its population, to be added to the multitudes of Palestinians already suffering beyond description from Israeli hegemony, apartheid and the deliberate dehumanizing of all indigenous non Jewish population.

The US is slowly and surely starting this path, by declaring it legit by Presidential tweet, and changing its definition and description of the situation. The US administration is reversing, and purely for electoral manipulations and benefits, the official US policy for the past 5 decades, it will not be under Israeli occupation anymore, but nicely and conveniently changed to under Israeli control, as well as some other suitable terminologies suddenly appearing in all official reports.

Israel unilaterally annexed the Golan Heights in 1981, after occupying it in the 1967 war. The UN resolution 497, issued after the annexation, called Israel  "The occupying power" it explicitly says ; Israel's attempt to impose its jurisdictions, laws and administration over it, is null and void, without any international legal effect. Maybe the resolution was trying to remind everyone in the future of not becoming accomplices of a theft.

Legally, religiously, rationally or any other form of legislation, they all consider theft immoral and wrong, punishable by actual civil laws and Godly prohibitions. We have to look at this act as a pure and simple act of theft, no other word could describe it, and we are officially and openly backing it, defending and encouraging it, facilitating and aiding it, turning us all into accomplices of theft by force, and it seems our leaders and part of their bases don't care nor give a damn about it, they are encouraging it for the whatever cheap electoral gains or weird ideologies they're trying to establish right now in America . 

The entire Israeli illegal occupation of Palestinian and Syrian lands, and consequently the treatment of its native populations, makes one think, where does the line between civilization and barbarism lay!! the thin difference between Stalinist gulag, the Nazi annihilation camps, and the Israeli theft, killing and imprisonment of non Jews, and its concentration camps in Gaza and elsewhere drives all of us easily to see the similarities, and the same fascist mentality that drove the three examples.

 But again and again, what vexes the most, is the American official political apparatus total blindness, purposely or naively, this blind open support to Israeli Zionism, barbarism and deliberate theft. It's  simply another way to get American troops back to Syria but from the back door.  Time for Americans to wake-up and clear their names of criminal association. let's hope we're not collectively too stupid to know we're acting stupid, sometimes I have my doubts, Maybe we are, but I don't think so .

My, as always many thanks .