[Peace] News from Neptune, July 6, 2018

[C G Estabrook]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SkCuxCGaEA <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SkCuxCGaEA>

A ‘Eurasia or Their Asia?’ edition.

The upcoming summit meeting in Helsinki between President Trump and Russian president Putin will highlight the political engagement of a relatively declining American empire and the growing economic integration of Eurasia, which the US ruling class has seen as the greatest threat to its profits for more than a century. 

The real fight however is within the US political establishment, which has seen Trump as a threat to its generations-long attempts to keep Russia and China down with economic pressure and threats of war.

The Australian journalist and filmmaker John Pilger wrote before the election, "The CIA has demanded Trump not be elected. Pentagon generals have demanded he not be elected. The pro-war New York Times - taking a breather from its relentless low-rent Putin smears - demands that he not be elected. Something is up. These tribunes of 'perpetual war' are terrified that the multi-billion-dollar business of war by which the United States maintains its dominance will be undermined if Trump does a deal with Russian president Putin, then with China’s president Xi Jinping. Their panic at the possibility of the world’s great power talking peace – however unlikely – would be the blackest farce were the issues not so dire…”

Of course Trump in office has been largely tamed to the neoliberal and neoconservative policies of the last administration - policies that produced more war and more inequality - but to the US ruling class, Trump is a constant threat to those policies. The hysterical and dangerous Russiagate campaign against Trump - adopted even by the new Democrat star, Ocasio-Cortez - shows the political establishment’s  need to get the presidency back into a 'safe pair of hands’ - safe for their profits.
 
The US populace on the contrary must demand that the thousand US military bases ringing Russia and China be closed (Russia has a dozen; China has one), U.S. troops (and weapons) be brought home, and social support - including free medical care, education, and a universal basic income - be provided for Americans immiserated by generations of U.S. government wars.

—CGE

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