Tag: liberal internationalism

Don’t Deify Jimmy Carter

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Jimmy Carter, out of office, had the courage to call out the “abominable oppression and persecution” and “strict segregation” of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza in his 2006 book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.” He dedicated himself to monitoring elections, including his controversial defense of the 2006 election of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, and championed human rights around the globe. He lambasted the American political process as an “oligarchy” in which “unlimited political bribery” created “a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors.”

Don’t Deify Jimmy Carter

The Soviet Union was asked by the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan to intervene to help fight against the Afghan mujahideen that the US was arming: Soviet-Afghan War

Carter, Charter 77, and Solidarność (Solidarity):

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The Surprisingly Durable Myth of Donald Trump, Anti-Imperialist + Trump’s Actual Record in Office (From Anti-imperialist Perspective)

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Amid the sordid crimes of the American Empire, running from the Mexican-American War under Polk to the Forever Wars that have marked the 21st century, there have been a few brave souls who have stood as the nation’s conscience. These dissidents have repeatedly mounted principled opposition to plunder, torture, and conquest. The roll call of anti-imperialist heroes includes Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain, W.E.B. Du Bois, Helen Keller, Martin Luther King Jr., Noam Chomsky, Bernie Sanders, and Barbara Lee.

The Surprisingly Durable Myth of Donald Trump, Anti-Imperialist

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Trump’s Actual Record in Office (From Anti-imperialist Perspective)

George Soros poses no danger to India

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The Indian Express newspaper featured today two reports relating to India’s indirect partnership with George Soros in a worldwide democracy project under the UN umbrella. The main report is behind paywall while the second report titled “UN Democracy Fund launched in 2005 on sidelines of India-US N-deal” is accessible.

George Soros poses no danger to India

Both articles, linked above, are worth glancing over. Interestingly, the Kofi Annan Foundation gets funds from UNDEF. Both were founded by Kofi Annan. Nothing corrupt about that, huh?! /s

Lula’s Foreign Minister Strongly Implied That Putin Will Be Arrested If He Comes To Brazil

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Lula is truly a liberal-globalist who voluntarily surrendered his country’s objective national interests to the West out of ideological solidarity. The same man who legendarily co-founded BRICS almost a decade and a half ago has now backstabbed one of this same multipolar group’s fellow founding fathers upon ordering his Foreign Minister to very strongly imply that his counterpart will be arrested if he visits Brazil.

Lula’s Foreign Minister Strongly Implied That Putin Will Be Arrested If He Comes To Brazil

The War and the Intellectuals: Randolph Bourne Vents His Animus Against War

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

[World War I] Pro-war statements and speeches—as well as more coercive measures—gradually captured American public discourse in 1917. Fairly quickly, those who rejected the rationales for United States participation in the war found themselves increasingly isolated. Liberals, intellectuals, and even many socialists soon supported American intervention. A youthful critic in his twenties, Randolph Bourne wrote a bitter essay in the intellectual magazine Seven Arts, lambasting his fellow intellectuals for lining up so readily behind the war effort.

The War and the Intellectuals

In Progress: Regime Change in Pakistan

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Pakistan PM Imran Khan accuses US of funding ‘conspiracy’ to topple his government

Regime change attempts in Ukraine and Pakistan

Analysis: Is CIA behind ‘regime change’ in Pakistan?

CIA secret regime change plan to topple PM Imran Khan government in Pakistan?

NPR: Pakistan’s Imran Khan faces a political showdown — without the army for support

NED Funding to Pakistani NGOs

NED Grantee Connects Marginalized Women Across Rural Pakistan

To Be Updated:

In Progress: Regime Change in Pakistan

China, the U.S., and the Idea of National Competition

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

China, the U.S., and the Idea of National Competition

What appears to be meant in the U.S. by ‘competing with China’ can be inferred by the rising Pentagon budget, by the failure to raise the minimum wage, by hiring private corporations to get around restrictions on domestic spying, and by appointing a high-level administrator to shut-down inconvenient political opinions on the internet. The political parties are now balkanized to the point where their adherents trust members of their own party, but not the other. What this likely means is an iterative process between ‘wealth of nations’ style economic nationalism and neoliberal internationalism where the only constant is the consolidation of political control by oligarchs and corporate executives. I believe that Italians in the 1920s and 1930s had a name for this type of governance.