Enabled by modern military technology and sophisticated media control, the life-threatening capability on berserk mode of US imperialism remains unprecedented.
To lessen chances of homegrown unrest that might trigger pockets at first then coordinated insurrections, U.S. exports the unholy infra toward guaranteeing global hegemony: data centers. The military and media complement each other enough to strengthen Zionist genocide and to sustain support from other nations, which include Western empires like Germany, infamous for the Holocaust.
After World War II, U.S. imperialism has been surpassing the Nazis in the competition to be number one war criminals, but the atrocities of the U.S. Army and the Israeli Defense Forces are swept under the rug, because Hitler indeed remains the fascist Jesus, as they say, to whom Western imperialism pins all its degeneracies and transgressions.
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Despite the fact that U.S. coddled Nazi scientists to rival the Soviets in the space race during the Cold War and that U.S. has consistently been funding regime changes to successfully install authoritarian despots in strategic (supposedly sovereign) nations, some analysts treat the U.S.-Israel empire as just one of the competing evil empires.
No other world power has been as invasive as America—militarily, economically, politically, and culturally. Yet, when anti-imperialist sentiments are being raised in various occasions and through different forms, some both-siders, or worse all-siders, dismiss such as “anti-Americanism,” as if the “hate” is merely based on race.
The kidnapping alone of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro pales (white AF) in comparison with other imperial interventions. One cannot be racist toward the whites, but these times, we see superior identities such as tech billionaires and comprador landlords and their inner circles and their fans who are never contented in joining oppression olympics, but are determined to be champions. They tend to understand “equality” as everyone are equally oppressed, so let us just all get along.
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This free market logic of all things being equal is brought to take first world countries as equally “bad,” so any criticism against imperialist U.S. prompts the rhetorical question “why not criticize China or Russia, they would dominate once the U.S. lose the top spot?”—a naïve if not deceptive line of unthinking that deflects holding U.S. and Zionists responsible for their war crimes.
This simplistic dichotomy leads to accusing anti-imperialists as “anti-America” who are then pro-China” or “pro-Russia,” which oftentimes are false. As if accountants of protest actions, these conservative and liberal U.S. lackeys want to quantify rallies against U.S. and against China, and thereafter demand that the tally be equal.
When asked why not organize your own mass demonstrations, they respond with being concerned citizens with no way to organize because they have office work (implying militants are jobless parasites), among other excuses. Activists also work for a living, and they make time to stand for their advocacies.
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No leftist formations in the Philippines—mainstream or grouplet—back Chinese encroachment to the West Philippine Sea or any socio-economic project such as the Kaliwa Dam; and, no, the social democrats aren’t even leftist but some of them and the liberals reject Pax Silica.
Chinese “imperialism” (in scare quotes because some economists argue that China is yet to be imperialist; though for me, they somehow are) payrolls these “anti-America” activists so China can take our minerals and hasten “communist” takeover through the Communist Party of the Philippines (in scare quotes because, again, because no leftist formation in the Philippines acknowledge the self-red-tag of the Xi Jin Ping’s China; only some American “marxists” among other left-larping “progressives” consider China as a potential anti-imperialist nation that shall deliver the rest of the world from American evil)—according to the red-tagging anti-anti-Pax Silica clique (that includes a vlogger-podcaster and political analyst who is neither a successful social media influencer nor a brilliant academic).
Unfounded claims are, again in the usual liberal sense, asserted as opinions meant to be taken seriously. This is like saying that spreading bullshit is freedom of expression, and every thought deserves to be heard. Spoiler: No, sorry not sorry, some “opinions” deserve to be dismissed, especially if the opinionated is an arrogant moron.
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Have not yet read any, but I would not be surprised if soon, the desperate anti-anti-Pax Silica clique accuses the Left as cheerleaders of China because “left” in Filipino is “kaliwa,” hence the support for Kaliwa Dam.
As if discovering fire for the first time, the current script of the clique of brown Americans includes their pretend-refusal that fellow Filipinos be “useful idiots” for China (followed by quizzing if activists know what “useful idiot” means).
Of course, not all of these conservatives and liberals are paid—the dumb ones are not, so they might unknowingly be complicit; while the vile ones are a little smarter, but still dumb because they help U.S. imperialism operate and do its bidding. They assist the number one existential threat to humanity, including themselves, as if they are on a suicide mission. In their unconscious desire to be annihilated, they don’t want to be alone and drag all of us with them.
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At the risk of sounding abrasive, it needs to be said that state terrorists are not equal, which means that corresponding death tolls and human rights violations have varying levels of atrocity and barbarity—at times inversely proportional with the “democracy” and “civilization” that these predators in prey’s clothing preach and claim to gift.
Writing this month before the ominous inauguration of Pax Silica, I observe a spontaneous rabble-rousing of unwitting xenophobes and coordinated attacks of imperialist agents against protests versus Pax Silica initiative as conspirators of “communist” China. The said imperialist initiative aims to build data centers and AI hubs to aid in the production of military technology to strengthen genocidal machines of war in order to reinforce US hegemony, at the cost of the host country’s (e.g The Philippines) natural resources and the lives of its people.
Needless to say, overkill weapons of mass destruction also aggravate the already extreme weather conditions, accelerating the climate crisis towards an apocalyptic degree: an end that spares no human, even the aspiring and actual trillionaires. To be realist, new more-than-human forms of life might emerge from the toxicity and destruction left by imperialist annihilation. To be optimist, at least for now, the people who can imagine impossible futures will continue the struggle for a human society free from imperialism. (davaotoday.com)
