I just finished writing an article on globalization–or what I call neoliberalism, the barbaric phase of capitalism. That meant reviewing lots of the literature–mountains of the stuff–that is just theoretical horse manure. It reminds me of how well-remunerated one is when you grovel & sing for your supper. You don’t have to be a good writer nor capable of coherent thought; you just have to dish out half-witted rationalizations for criminality like child labor.

The good news is that so many progressive analysts have done a number on the Krugman, Friedman, & Kristof apologists of the world.

Let me tell you, it was a strain to curb the epithets on this one. But I don’t believe I used the word ass even once, even when it was the only appropriate curse. I’ll post it when it’s published in an online journal.

Sanders, Clinton, & Trump have been invited to speak at the 2016 Policy Conference of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington, DC between March 20th & 22nd. Like usual, the AIPAC convention will be a gathering of the most ghoulish & reactionary political forces in the US. Many of the same forces involved in lobbying for Israel are involved in anti-immigration groups, Islamophobic extremism, & population control/eugenics programs.

Sanders may well decline but he’ll be torn between his stature as a savior & playing up to AIPAC. Clinton & Trump will be there with bells on. Biden will be speaking to represent the Obama administration.

Want to know why Netanyahu is so defiant & dismissive, sometimes even contemptuous toward Obama? Zionism, in its foundations, rejected the broader struggle against racism & colonialism out of a sense of Jewish supremacy. Racism is integral to Zionist ideology. Netanyahu, partially deranged by his commitment to a Jewish-only state, must find his racism irrepressible in the presence of a Black president who he cannot accept as a peer.

Obama does not establish US policy toward Israel but only administers it. That’s why despite Netanyahu’s arrogant lectures & rebuffs, Obama does not threaten to curtail US military or settlement aid but is proposing to increase it. Obama said in a recent interview for The Atlantic magazine that he is committed to Israel’s defense, that “it would be a moral failing” for him as US president not to defend Israel. A moral failing not to defend colonialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, racism?

These are the two hopey-changey guys at the White House state dinner for Canada toasting each other for an electoral scam well-played.

Obama said in a recent interview that people in the US were better off under his tenure than when he entered office. Which people was he talking about? The celebrities & elites invited to dine at the state dinner on an individual plate that cost more than most working people’s social security checks?

The White House once took French cuisine off the menu to protest France’s reluctance on the 2003 Iraq War. But now that France (under Hollande, a Bernie Sanders kind of socialist) is again fully on-board with militarism & bombing Syria & Iraq, all is well in the White House kitchen & the menu was entirely French to honor Trudeau for sending Canadian war planes to bomb Syria & Iraq.

This is one of the refugee camps on the Greek-Macedonian border where 30,000 war-traumatized people, including children, elderly, infirm, disabled, pregnant women & others with special health needs, are living in these kinds of conditions. The European borders from here north are locked down tighter than the apartheid wall in Israel.

The EU will likely soon come with squadrons of riot police to board them on buses for forcible deportation. In such chaos, maybe they’ll be returned to their own war-torn country; maybe they’ll end up in another war-torn country. Most will land up in Turkey which has no provisions for them for housing or social services.

Will reporters please stop asking the Dalai Lama his views on politics!? A friend of Shimon Peres, George Bush, & now evasive about Donald Trump–he’s getting his messages from God all confused. At least one hopes that’s what it is.