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<div class="gmail-field gmail-field--name-body gmail-field--type-text-with-summary gmail-field--label-hidden gmail-field--item"><p><em>Black
Agenda Report’s contributing editor Ajamu Baraka has thoughts on
everything from September 11, to Haiti, to white supremacy in Biden’s
Ukraine policy, to the criminalization of dissent.</em></p>
<ul><li>September 11. Less than two years after the infamous “Powell Memo”
that called the capitalist rulers to action to protect their system by
launching a more coherent counterrevolution, the U.S. inspired and
supported coup in Chile that ended the government of socialist Salvador
Allende in 1973, imposed a right-wing neoliberal regime and signaled
that the U.S. was committed to war abroad and domestically to maintain
the capitalist order.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Why is it so difficult for liberals to recognize the role played by
democrats in undermining the legitimacy of U.S. institutions and
“liberal” values? Liberals seem unable to accept that the era of liberal
reformism is over and that their party has been taken over by
neoliberals coming out of the right-wing Reagan revolution. By blindly
embracing neoliberalism liberals ensured that classical reform
liberalism would become anachronistic and open the way for rightist
demigods like Obama and Trump – both representing competing, right-wing
fractions of the U.S. ruling class.</li></ul>
<ul><li>I wonder why people don’t see the obvious and that is most "Karen's" are not republican Trump supporters but liberals!!</li></ul>
<ul><li>Neoliberals created Russiagate that established the ideological and
political foundation for the expansion of the totalitarian power of the
state. With the collaboration of the capitalist press and tech
companies, the government produced and disseminated an “official line”
on issues from Russia, the Ukrainian war and China to what would
constitute the acceptable modes of political dissent - defending forest
land shutting down highways, opposing the Biden war in Ukraine are
increasingly forbidden and can not only get you murdered but can get you
a legal case.</li></ul>
<ul><li>It is important to keep in mind that the foundation for Russiagate
was erected on the repressive legislative superstructure under the Bush
and Obama Administrations. The result? Today, opposition is
systematically criminalized in the U.S. The indictments of the Uhuru 3
for opposing Ukraine war, charges of domestic terrorism and conspiracy
in the fight against Cop-City, and the ongoing attempts to extradite
Julian Assange represent the consolidation and normalization of
bipartisan totalitarian power.</li></ul>
<ul><li>White supremacist ideology is not reducible to race. Some of the
most virulent white supremacists that I have encountered have been
non-Europeans.</li></ul>
<ul><li>There is something to what I call the psychopathology of white
supremacy. It is a “racialized narcissistic cognitive disorder that
centers so-called white people’s and European civilization and renders
the afflicted with an inability to perceive objective reality in the
same way as others. This affliction is not reducible to the race of
so-called whites but can affect all those who have come in contact with
the ideological and cultural mechanisms of the Pan-European colonial
project.”</li></ul>
<ul><li>When Zelensky, Biden, Macron, talk about "common European values,"
Africans and all non-European peoples understand its real meaning. It is
a call for white Western solidarity in response to the global shift of
power away from the West. It is essentially an appeal to support white
supremacy through the maintenance of white material power that is based
on the extractivist, parasitic relationship between the “West” and the
rest of us.</li></ul>
<ul><li>RICO charges in Atlanta. This is what fascism looks like. Activists
charged with felony intimidation for distributing flyers calling a state
trooper a “murderer” for his involvement in the fatal shooting of an
environmental protester in the woods?</li></ul>
<ul><li>Sanders says progressives must “demand that the Democratic Party,
not just Biden, have the guts to take on corporate greed and the massive
levels of income and wealth inequality that we see today." Huh? Like
supporting Build Back Better and then caving to party bosses and
separating it from the infrastructure legislation that they really
wanted because it was another corporate giveaway. And what made that
surrender to the party bosses so insulting for many democrats is the
pretending like they were really going to pass BBB later after they
passed the infrastructure bill.<br>
</li><li>Sanders demonstrates why he was revealed as the sheepdog that he
was. He was never committed to struggling for real power in the democrat
party. That is why he sold out his supporters and surrendered. Sanders
is nothing more than an opportunist democrat and a fraud.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Haiti!! Oppose the racist military assault on Haiti orchestrated by
Joe Biden and supported by his coterie of uncle toms from CARICOM to the
mother of all handkerchief head, buck-dancing toms in the country –
Hakeem Jeffries.</li></ul>
<ul><li>The democrats are the party of war, wall street and white power. To
pretend otherwise is to be dishonest and immoral. Smash the duopoly!
Both parties are fascist but neoliberals who control the state apparatus
are the real leading edge of a particular historic form of neofascism
in the U.S.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Liberal race hustlers pretend they love all “Black” people. African
revolutionaries don’t play that game. In the U.S. the fascist
convergence of the state and white colonial/capitalist power and
expressed in the strengthening of the repressive apparatus of the state
is taking place in cities run by “Black” democrats - and more
specifically, Black neoliberal democrats. This is why I argue that
democrats are more dangerous fascists than republicans because they face
no real opposition.</li></ul>
<ul><li>We must continue to oppose the racist anti-Chinese bashing and
Russia phobia that is becoming normalized in the U.S., but as Africans
we will never forget that China and Russia threw Libya under the
imperialist bus. Save the bullsh*t that you didn’t know that with a UN
Security Council authorization to establish a no-fly zone that the U.S.
and NATO would expand that authorization into a regime change operation
and destroy the country in the process.</li></ul>
<ul><li>Do not lose your minds and anti-imperialist sensibilities with the
expansion of BRICS. Multipolarity as represented by structures like
BRICS is important and reflects the necessary alteration of the
international balance of power away from the 500 year dominance of the
Pan European colonial/capitalist project. However, a peoples-centered
revolutionary project that places power in the hands of the oppressed
classes, nations and peoples of the world as part of the transition to
socialism is still the historic objective.</li></ul>
<ul><li>U.S. and NATO Out of Africa, Shut Down AFRICOM!</li></ul>
<ul><li>Defend the Uhuru 3!!</li></ul>
<p><em><strong>Ajamu Baraka is Chairman of the Coordinating Committee of
the Black Alliance for Peace and an editor and contributing columnist
for the Black Agenda Report. Baraka serves on the Executive Committee of
the U.S. Peace Council and leadership body of the U.S. based United
National Anti-War Coalition (UNAC) and the Steering Committee of the
Black is Back Coalition.</strong></em></p>
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