VHeadline's Washington DC-based commentarist Chris Herz writes: My VHeadline colleagues are much exercised lately with the evidences of corruption and imcompetance in Caracas ... and of course it is right that we are loyal to our journalistic duty in exposing such goings on. But I cannot, from the vantage point of Washington, the imperial capital, help but smile.
From here it all looks like a terrible tempest in a pot of tea.
Consider, please, a few productions this last week of that fountain of corruption, tempered only by the dysfunction of its fascistic ideology, which is the government of Bushland. Our peerless US Senate has just passed the war credits -- US$162 billions -- for the funding of another six months of holocaust in Iraq by a vote of 96 to 2! This in a country where polls reveal easily 80% of the population no longer supports this war. Just this last week we finally learn officially that which has always been suspected: The major western oil companies will resume their exploitation of the conquered oil fields for the first time since the end of British colonialism.
Then the Congress have retroactively placed under protection of law the illicit snooping, spying and black operations of the CIA, the FBI, the NSA and their corporate associates against "terrorists" such as the vegetarians of the animal rights movement, the opponents of clear-cut logging in our national forests, etc. -- Operations against foreign outfits like Al-Quaida seeming to be an after-thought. Doubtless too, these politicians look forward to snooping on one another in the increasingly more byzantine factional infighting that is becoming the norm here.
Then we see our Supreme Court, operating from its conservative ideological fixations, overturning a century of legal precedent, deciding to deal with the mayhem that paralyzes our major cities by allowing the free sale and ownership of handguns. But, I admit, perhaps the populations there really will now be better able to protect themselves -- from a militarized and racist police. Acquiring a sudden new poignancy is the old slogan, "Bring the war home!"
This was the week that was. These, along with more mundane, minor and routine acts of plunder and rapine are the questions which occupy the attentions of our governors here in Baghdad-on-Potomac.
From the imperial capital
Chris Herz
cdherz44@yahoo.com
From here it all looks like a terrible tempest in a pot of tea.
Consider, please, a few productions this last week of that fountain of corruption, tempered only by the dysfunction of its fascistic ideology, which is the government of Bushland. Our peerless US Senate has just passed the war credits -- US$162 billions -- for the funding of another six months of holocaust in Iraq by a vote of 96 to 2! This in a country where polls reveal easily 80% of the population no longer supports this war. Just this last week we finally learn officially that which has always been suspected: The major western oil companies will resume their exploitation of the conquered oil fields for the first time since the end of British colonialism.
Then the Congress have retroactively placed under protection of law the illicit snooping, spying and black operations of the CIA, the FBI, the NSA and their corporate associates against "terrorists" such as the vegetarians of the animal rights movement, the opponents of clear-cut logging in our national forests, etc. -- Operations against foreign outfits like Al-Quaida seeming to be an after-thought. Doubtless too, these politicians look forward to snooping on one another in the increasingly more byzantine factional infighting that is becoming the norm here.
Then we see our Supreme Court, operating from its conservative ideological fixations, overturning a century of legal precedent, deciding to deal with the mayhem that paralyzes our major cities by allowing the free sale and ownership of handguns. But, I admit, perhaps the populations there really will now be better able to protect themselves -- from a militarized and racist police. Acquiring a sudden new poignancy is the old slogan, "Bring the war home!"
This was the week that was. These, along with more mundane, minor and routine acts of plunder and rapine are the questions which occupy the attentions of our governors here in Baghdad-on-Potomac.
From the imperial capital
Chris Herz
cdherz44@yahoo.com
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