Wealth-as-Power.
Every population of every wealth-as-power cult(ure) is carefully conditioned and habituated to internalise the belief that the cult(ure) is both inevitable and the best.
Wealth-as-Power can only exist when a minority extract wealth, resources and assets from a population and the land in which that population lives.
Exploitation causes harm, and this generates dissent, and sometimes resistance.
Thus Wealth-as-Power controlling minorities have to deploy behaviour tools of control coercion and violence.
Egalitarians cultures do not.
Every colonial culture is a Wealth-as-Power cult.
No Bells Going Off Imperialist Gaslighting Peace Prize?
Nobel Peace Prize 2025 goes to a woman Maria Corina Machado, who is an ardent Zionist, who has suggested a 're-conquista' to remove all Muslim people from Europe, privatisation of the State, hatred for
Socialism...
There are others much more deserving of this award, if it had any real meaning - Greta Thungberg, Francesca Albanese, Jeremy Corbyn, Lowkey, Ilan Pappé, Bisan Owda, the hundreds of millions of people actively opposing Militarism..
Obama was awarded the prize and escalated America's global drone warfare. Henry Kissinger did pretty much the same. And so it goes...
This is who Maria Corina Machado really is:
She helped lead the 2002 coup that briefly overthrew a democratically elected president, and signed the Carmona Decree that erased the Constitution and dissolved every public institution overnight.
She worked hand in hand with Washington to justify regime change, using her platform to demand foreign military intervention to “liberate” Venezuela through force.
She cheered on Donald Trump’s threats of invasion and his naval deployments in the Caribbean, a show of force that risks igniting regional war under the pretext of “combating narcotrafficking.”
While Trump sent warships and froze assets, Machado stood ready to serve as his local proxy, promising to deliver Venezuela’s sovereignty on a silver platter.
She pushed for the US sanctions that strangled the economy, knowing exactly who would pay the price: the poor, the sick, the working class.
All of this is very well documented and this is not a smear on her character, it is an accurate assessment of her behaviour.
Nobel. Dynamite and TNT Ding Dong.
Alfred Nobel was deeply involved in the arms industry, both through his family's legacy and his own inventions and company acquisitions. He patented numerous weapons, including the forerunner to cordite, and bought the Bofors company, turning it into a major arms manufacturer. Despite his direct involvement in creating armaments, Nobel held complex views on war and expressed a hope that his powerful explosives could make war so horrific that it would end, a belief he shared with pacifist Bertha von Suttner.
An absolutely ludicrous and delusional hope....
Like many who profited from great harm, he - Mr. Nobel - sought to 'balance the books'.
But it fails, every time.
Harm cannot be undone.
Harm cannot be undone, and great harm even moreso. The Genocides of Rwanda, Gaza, Royhunga, Armenia, Ireland, Australia, Angola, Maibia, Kenya, North and South Americas and so many others can not be undone.
The only way to balance against those horrific events is for the perpetrators to hold themselves accountable, or be held accountable by todays populations, to strive to meet the un-met needs of the harmed, the survivors and to take robust action to prevent the same harm ever being perpetrated again
Western Militarism undermines any claims it has to be progressive.
Because it refuses to hold itself accountable and it actively prevents the voting population from hold the legislators who fund militarism and wage war accountable.
I write of Western Militarism because as a western voter that is the area where I might have, and we certainly as a vast majority can have effective influence if we decide to deploy it, robustly.
The issue of Militarism in Russia, China, Africa, South America is for their populations to confront.
I believe the Global South would move towards a demilitarised condition if the Western Militarism was held accountable for current and past transgressions by the Western voting populations. Including colonialism.
The Palestine issue will not be resolved until the perpetrators of the colonial project are all held accountable, in historical terms and in the present and into the future, in such manner that no further harm is caused.
Israel is a weapon.
Israel was intended and is, and will ever be, a weapon of the British White Supremacist Empire.
To hold Israel accountable the British Ruling Class must be held accountable. To scapegoat Israel and let the Western Supremacist Empire off the hook is to fail.
It may take a while (though it should not) for the majority of people to arrive at the most accurate historical understanding of the charge I laid out here.
Once we do, and it must be soon, then there is no viable future for any of us without holding the Western Colonial Powers accountable. None.
Corneilius
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