Donald Trump is withdrawing the US from UN bodies, tearing up climate change treaties, and attacking multilateral orgs -- just like the presidents before him. Imperialism is bipartisan in Washington.
They are bi-polar and bi-partisan for they are ruling parties for transnational capitalism.
Imperialism is the underbelly of capitalism.
“Bourgeois democracy, although a great historical advance in comparison with medievalism, always remains, and under capitalism is bound to remain, restricted, truncated, false and hypocritical, a paradise for the rich and a snare and deception for the exploited, for the poor.”
Empires never care about anything but power. Anything getting in their way will be crushed, and constraining laws will be ignored. The American Empire is like any other: completely psychopathic. Anyone who becomes president will be sure act in a befittingly psychopathic manner or they will be eliminated forthwith by the CIA.
Beautifully stated❤️ I very much appreciate well written news coverage, such as with Ben Norton and many others, but this ridiculous repeat of pages from the stupidest narcissist history playbook is exhausting to say the least. How do we transition (as humans) from giving our energy to those who clearly don’t serve us to materializing the loving world that exists within us? It was a rhetorical question for most of my life but now it seems like a call to action 😅
Surprise! Not only do they not serve us, they break domestic and international laws with apparent impunity. And what do US Americans DO? Steve Cooper, the last NC governor who signed an illegal anti-BDS bill, in 24 hrs. reportedly just got $3.4 million in contributions. WITHOUT A PLATFORM. I looked. Apparently on the basis alone of IDENTITY. How overtly stupid are US Americans? It's hard to imagine we really don't know.
How have we not all along been making demands for public services for us instead of being led by the nose down the poverty path for wealth and power to politicians and corporate death machines.
The sad reality is that as an avid history buff this same playbook has been used for thousands of years! Once you pull the thread you realize we’re just living out a repeated “blip” in human history. Which really raises the question “who is more of an ass” the uncreative/untalented “uppers” who go to exhaustive lengths to uphold the lies to protect their unearned wealth, or the “democratic” first world “normies” who chose to be ignorant to stay in accepted mainstream club even though they are enabling the uppers to peruse their sick, abhorrent and abusive quests for supremacy. 🤦♀️
Don't you just have it pegged! Those me-first-what-do-you-mean-I'm-selfish. Including self-declared Christians. I thought of course they'd recognize slaughter and criminals. I was wrong. Even now they're campaign contributing.
The UN is toothless. I think it should be shut down. It is also MIA. Talk is cheap. It needs to grow some balls and follow its mandate.The Security Council can be over ridden if a substantial number of members in the General Assembly vote so. Stand up for the people of the world! Otherwise it is criminally negligent.There's not a snowballs chance in hell that WW3 can be stopped anyway.
The point of this article is: "Trump himself is not the sole problem; he is a symptom of the deep structural rot." I. e. deep structural rot in the US system.
Do you find it normal that lobbying and bribes in Congress and Senate are legalized? To name one of the most shocking facts.
UN could function just fine if there was no bribing and threatening by US, UK and other Western countries. Security Council would also do great, if the US didn't obstruct the decisions with its veto all the time!
My point: Why are you calling for shuting down UN? Do something about your country's system which is obviously one of the biggest problems on the planet! (If you are from Britain, this also applies to UK deep structures, eg. House of Lords clandestine implementing orders from London City, "security" structures secretly medling in foreign affairs all the time, etc.)
US foreign policy has always been fucked. Examples go back to the Monroe Doctrine (the 5th US President) era.
Cordell Hull, the US Secretary of State under FDR who developed the UN to prevent wars would be sorrily grieved at what the US foreign policy has become, though maybe not being an attorney, former judge and politician the longest serving secretary of state of all time.
"Imperialism is bipartisan in Washington.". Exactly, as is genocidal Zionism. No wage slave in the west should lend an ounce of support to either party ever again.
Ben, I think it is time to forget the Political Personalities and Parties in the Western World, because they all sold their souls to the same organization that purchased the media, penetrated academia and absorbed the various governments. With Geopolitics and Geoeconomics the need is to focus on the larger world issues. One example is the connection between the ongoing military actions, their financing and the goals of the parties. Another is the development of the alliances being formed that will be affected by these Geo actions and possible outcomes. IMO, We need a voice that can clarify the probabilities of economies and security arrangements.
From what I can see, Ben is focusing on US audience, and he is doing the right thing - if US citizens are not able to understand that Dem vs Rep is a psyop, how are they supposed to understand connections between military actions? And why are we supposed to focus on military actions if so many clandestine operations are going on (color revolutions, terrorist acts, etc.)?
Let Ben do his excellent work, and follow other channels with the topics you are interested in - to name a few:
From Serfs to Debtors: Are We Living a Modern Feudalism?
In medieval Europe, feudalism was a system where peasants worked the land for lords in exchange for protection. They had no real freedom, no ownership, and no path to upward mobility. Fast forward to today, and while the castles are gone, the power dynamics remain eerily familiar—especially in the United States.
Under modern capitalism, particularly in the U.S., the working class is caught in a cycle of wage dependency, crushing debt, and systemic inequality. Millions work full-time yet can’t afford basic needs like healthcare, housing, or education. Sound familiar?
🔹 Healthcare: In feudal times, illness meant death unless you were noble. Today, it means bankruptcy unless you’re insured—and even then, you're not safe, the astronomic costs of healthcare in the USA is cause of bankruptcy for many. The U.S. remains the only wealthy nation without universal healthcare.
🔹 Education: In the Middle Ages, education was for the elite.
Now, it’s technically available to all—but college tuition is so inflated that it traps students in decades of debt: the crushing weight of student debt in America isn't just financial—it's systemic. With tuition costs soaring and interest rates engineered for profit, millions of students are forced into borrowing at levels that resemble economic servitude. Monthly payments often feel less like repayment and more like ransom, as compounding interest traps borrowers in a cycle that delays homeownership, family planning, and financial independence. It's not education—it's exploitation, limiting their freedom and future.
🔹 Housing: Serfs lived on land they didn’t own. Today, rising rents and stagnant wages are pushing working families into homelessness, while real estate becomes a playground for the wealthy.
🔹 Labor: Then, you worked the land. Now, you work the clock. But the outcome is the same: wealth flows upward, while the majority struggle to survive.
This isn’t just an economic issue—it’s a political choice. A bipartisan government that can send billions abroad without hesitation refuses to guarantee its own citizens the right to live with dignity.
The result? A society where the working class is overworked, undereducated, and increasingly disposable and getting very sick due to the overprocessed food poisoning that we eat.
We don’t need to return to the past to see feudalism. We just need to look around.
There isn't yet a resistance party as there was during the anti-slavery period, but it will form. Next time around I hope we punish the perpetrators and do not let their memory forever live so fondly in the hearts and minds of ruthless people.
So? The UN is controlled by the same fascist swine who control him and everybody else on the planet who serves the psychopath at the top of the globalist pyramid.
Beautifully written. I have been thinking of late, and this will sound radical, are we beyond reforming our institutions? Whether our local democracies, UN, international law etc.
Gaza has shown that we live in a world of make believe, fairies, stories told to kids to maintain a sense of order.
If reform is not possible then what should be done?
Public broadcaster in Australia ABC News are running a commentary today on marches across the Sydney Harbour bridge and in Melbourne in support of Palestinian resistance and to stop the genocide in Gaza. This US/Israel sadism and aggressive imperialism has to stop.
☢️ ‼️Nobel Peace President Drumpf has already FLOWN nuclear bombs to UKRAINE *via Britain* to NUKE Innocent MOSCOW CIVILIANS‼️☢️
ONLY NOW, with “The Western Garden” primed to BLAME RUSSIA, due to Trump’s provocation, does the indoctrinated “Western Garden” give ANY attention to NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION:
WHO will focus on Gaza or AnyOther UnJust Suffering inflicted by ZioNaziTERRORIST DC then❓
See:
▪️Dialogue Works: ALEX KRAINER July 17, 2025
@1hr Krainer Warns, UK DESPERATE To get Nukes to BOMB RUSSIA-- much of EU opposed
DeClassified in 1975, Professor Michel Chossudovsky Analysis:
The Hiroshima Nagasaki “Dress Rehearsal”: Oppenheimer and the U.S. War Department’s Secret September 15, 1945 “Doomsday Blueprint” to “Wipe the Soviet Union off the Map”
Unknown to the broader public, the first U.S. Doomsday Blueprint of a nuclear attack directed against the Soviet Union was formulated by the US War Department at the height of World War II, confirmed by “Top Secret” documents (declassified in 1975) on September 15, 1945 when the US and the Soviet Union were allies. . . 66 cities of the Soviet Union had been envisaged as targets by the US War Department.
Trump is a manifestation of Americas arrogance and murderous imperialism (from its inception). His main $$ campaign support from Zionism, big oil and big tech says it all. Bribes to expand Israel/US govt control of Mid East land and resources, the attempted destruction of international cooperation to make big oil take responsibility for climate change. And the forced central control of all information and financial transactions through corporations locked into the web.
In Australia the Zionist lobby is threatening free speech by taking journalist Mary Kostakidas to court for her focus on the truth of the Israel/US govt actions in Gaza and the resulting genocide. This threat is growing out of America. Murderous imperialism and constant war provoked by right wing and religious extremism are anti life on earth. I want to live in a world that respects life given by this planet and the human right to exist in peace. This is just not possible with American fascism.
They are bi-polar and bi-partisan for they are ruling parties for transnational capitalism.
Imperialism is the underbelly of capitalism.
“Bourgeois democracy, although a great historical advance in comparison with medievalism, always remains, and under capitalism is bound to remain, restricted, truncated, false and hypocritical, a paradise for the rich and a snare and deception for the exploited, for the poor.”
----- Vladimir Lenin
Empires never care about anything but power. Anything getting in their way will be crushed, and constraining laws will be ignored. The American Empire is like any other: completely psychopathic. Anyone who becomes president will be sure act in a befittingly psychopathic manner or they will be eliminated forthwith by the CIA.
Ben Norton, thank you for reminding us of law. Are we not all guilty?
'If there is righteousness in the heart, there will be beauty in the character.
If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home.
If there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nations.
When there is order in the nations, there will peace in the world."
Nice ideals, but I seriously doubt that it will ever happen.
Why, Zachary?
I second that question!
1) Any idea where those ideals, as you call them, came from?
2) So criminals commit despicable crimes and so called decent people sit and say o well, shit happens?
I believe you accurately describe the sorry situation here.
So here we are. When rather than self-victimize, with a little effort we could stop mass murders.
Beautifully stated❤️ I very much appreciate well written news coverage, such as with Ben Norton and many others, but this ridiculous repeat of pages from the stupidest narcissist history playbook is exhausting to say the least. How do we transition (as humans) from giving our energy to those who clearly don’t serve us to materializing the loving world that exists within us? It was a rhetorical question for most of my life but now it seems like a call to action 😅
Surprise! Not only do they not serve us, they break domestic and international laws with apparent impunity. And what do US Americans DO? Steve Cooper, the last NC governor who signed an illegal anti-BDS bill, in 24 hrs. reportedly just got $3.4 million in contributions. WITHOUT A PLATFORM. I looked. Apparently on the basis alone of IDENTITY. How overtly stupid are US Americans? It's hard to imagine we really don't know.
How have we not all along been making demands for public services for us instead of being led by the nose down the poverty path for wealth and power to politicians and corporate death machines.
The sad reality is that as an avid history buff this same playbook has been used for thousands of years! Once you pull the thread you realize we’re just living out a repeated “blip” in human history. Which really raises the question “who is more of an ass” the uncreative/untalented “uppers” who go to exhaustive lengths to uphold the lies to protect their unearned wealth, or the “democratic” first world “normies” who chose to be ignorant to stay in accepted mainstream club even though they are enabling the uppers to peruse their sick, abhorrent and abusive quests for supremacy. 🤦♀️
Don't you just have it pegged! Those me-first-what-do-you-mean-I'm-selfish. Including self-declared Christians. I thought of course they'd recognize slaughter and criminals. I was wrong. Even now they're campaign contributing.
The UN is toothless. I think it should be shut down. It is also MIA. Talk is cheap. It needs to grow some balls and follow its mandate.The Security Council can be over ridden if a substantial number of members in the General Assembly vote so. Stand up for the people of the world! Otherwise it is criminally negligent.There's not a snowballs chance in hell that WW3 can be stopped anyway.
The point of this article is: "Trump himself is not the sole problem; he is a symptom of the deep structural rot." I. e. deep structural rot in the US system.
Do you find it normal that lobbying and bribes in Congress and Senate are legalized? To name one of the most shocking facts.
UN could function just fine if there was no bribing and threatening by US, UK and other Western countries. Security Council would also do great, if the US didn't obstruct the decisions with its veto all the time!
My point: Why are you calling for shuting down UN? Do something about your country's system which is obviously one of the biggest problems on the planet! (If you are from Britain, this also applies to UK deep structures, eg. House of Lords clandestine implementing orders from London City, "security" structures secretly medling in foreign affairs all the time, etc.)
US foreign policy has always been fucked. Examples go back to the Monroe Doctrine (the 5th US President) era.
Cordell Hull, the US Secretary of State under FDR who developed the UN to prevent wars would be sorrily grieved at what the US foreign policy has become, though maybe not being an attorney, former judge and politician the longest serving secretary of state of all time.
"Imperialism is bipartisan in Washington.". Exactly, as is genocidal Zionism. No wage slave in the west should lend an ounce of support to either party ever again.
✊🏼
Ben, I think it is time to forget the Political Personalities and Parties in the Western World, because they all sold their souls to the same organization that purchased the media, penetrated academia and absorbed the various governments. With Geopolitics and Geoeconomics the need is to focus on the larger world issues. One example is the connection between the ongoing military actions, their financing and the goals of the parties. Another is the development of the alliances being formed that will be affected by these Geo actions and possible outcomes. IMO, We need a voice that can clarify the probabilities of economies and security arrangements.
From what I can see, Ben is focusing on US audience, and he is doing the right thing - if US citizens are not able to understand that Dem vs Rep is a psyop, how are they supposed to understand connections between military actions? And why are we supposed to focus on military actions if so many clandestine operations are going on (color revolutions, terrorist acts, etc.)?
Let Ben do his excellent work, and follow other channels with the topics you are interested in - to name a few:
Scott Ritter: https://substack.com/@realscottritter
Brian Berletic: https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas or https://rumble.com/c/TheNewAtlas
Kevork Almassian: https://www.youtube.com/@SyrianaAnalysis or https://rumble.com/user/syrianaanalysis
Alexander McKay and Kit Klarenberg (Decline and Fall): https://substack.com/@dandf
Matthew Ehret and Gordon McCormick (Breaking History on Badlands), eg.: https://rumble.com/v6wm1z2-breaking-history-ep-107-from-napoleon-to-nato-manufactured-wars-and-monetar.html
I agree👍👍
From Serfs to Debtors: Are We Living a Modern Feudalism?
In medieval Europe, feudalism was a system where peasants worked the land for lords in exchange for protection. They had no real freedom, no ownership, and no path to upward mobility. Fast forward to today, and while the castles are gone, the power dynamics remain eerily familiar—especially in the United States.
Under modern capitalism, particularly in the U.S., the working class is caught in a cycle of wage dependency, crushing debt, and systemic inequality. Millions work full-time yet can’t afford basic needs like healthcare, housing, or education. Sound familiar?
🔹 Healthcare: In feudal times, illness meant death unless you were noble. Today, it means bankruptcy unless you’re insured—and even then, you're not safe, the astronomic costs of healthcare in the USA is cause of bankruptcy for many. The U.S. remains the only wealthy nation without universal healthcare.
🔹 Education: In the Middle Ages, education was for the elite.
Now, it’s technically available to all—but college tuition is so inflated that it traps students in decades of debt: the crushing weight of student debt in America isn't just financial—it's systemic. With tuition costs soaring and interest rates engineered for profit, millions of students are forced into borrowing at levels that resemble economic servitude. Monthly payments often feel less like repayment and more like ransom, as compounding interest traps borrowers in a cycle that delays homeownership, family planning, and financial independence. It's not education—it's exploitation, limiting their freedom and future.
🔹 Housing: Serfs lived on land they didn’t own. Today, rising rents and stagnant wages are pushing working families into homelessness, while real estate becomes a playground for the wealthy.
🔹 Labor: Then, you worked the land. Now, you work the clock. But the outcome is the same: wealth flows upward, while the majority struggle to survive.
This isn’t just an economic issue—it’s a political choice. A bipartisan government that can send billions abroad without hesitation refuses to guarantee its own citizens the right to live with dignity.
The result? A society where the working class is overworked, undereducated, and increasingly disposable and getting very sick due to the overprocessed food poisoning that we eat.
We don’t need to return to the past to see feudalism. We just need to look around.
There isn't yet a resistance party as there was during the anti-slavery period, but it will form. Next time around I hope we punish the perpetrators and do not let their memory forever live so fondly in the hearts and minds of ruthless people.
We in the US don't want them either.
So? The UN is controlled by the same fascist swine who control him and everybody else on the planet who serves the psychopath at the top of the globalist pyramid.
There are no legitimate organizations.
Beautifully written. I have been thinking of late, and this will sound radical, are we beyond reforming our institutions? Whether our local democracies, UN, international law etc.
Gaza has shown that we live in a world of make believe, fairies, stories told to kids to maintain a sense of order.
If reform is not possible then what should be done?
Yeo
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-03/pro-palestinian-march-sydney-melbourne-august-3/105605280
Public broadcaster in Australia ABC News are running a commentary today on marches across the Sydney Harbour bridge and in Melbourne in support of Palestinian resistance and to stop the genocide in Gaza. This US/Israel sadism and aggressive imperialism has to stop.
☢️ ‼️Nobel Peace President Drumpf has already FLOWN nuclear bombs to UKRAINE *via Britain* to NUKE Innocent MOSCOW CIVILIANS‼️☢️
ONLY NOW, with “The Western Garden” primed to BLAME RUSSIA, due to Trump’s provocation, does the indoctrinated “Western Garden” give ANY attention to NUCLEAR ANNIHILATION:
WHO will focus on Gaza or AnyOther UnJust Suffering inflicted by ZioNaziTERRORIST DC then❓
See:
▪️Dialogue Works: ALEX KRAINER July 17, 2025
@1hr Krainer Warns, UK DESPERATE To get Nukes to BOMB RUSSIA-- much of EU opposed
https://www.youtube.com/live/XR85PSEWzoY
▪️DeClassified UK 22 JULY 2025
THE INSIDE STORY Of HOW AMERICA SENT NUCLEAR WEAPONS To BRITAIN
NukeWatch UK tracked nuclear bombs flown across the Atlantic
https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-inside-story-of-how-america-sent-nuclear-weapons-to-britain/
▪️Nuclear Annihilation:
DeClassified in 1975, Professor Michel Chossudovsky Analysis:
The Hiroshima Nagasaki “Dress Rehearsal”: Oppenheimer and the U.S. War Department’s Secret September 15, 1945 “Doomsday Blueprint” to “Wipe the Soviet Union off the Map”
Unknown to the broader public, the first U.S. Doomsday Blueprint of a nuclear attack directed against the Soviet Union was formulated by the US War Department at the height of World War II, confirmed by “Top Secret” documents (declassified in 1975) on September 15, 1945 when the US and the Soviet Union were allies. . . 66 cities of the Soviet Union had been envisaged as targets by the US War Department.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/history-of-nuclear-war-the-90-seconds-to-midnight-the-pentagons-1945-doomsday-blueprint-to-wipe-the-soviet-union-off-the-map/5806293
Trump is a manifestation of Americas arrogance and murderous imperialism (from its inception). His main $$ campaign support from Zionism, big oil and big tech says it all. Bribes to expand Israel/US govt control of Mid East land and resources, the attempted destruction of international cooperation to make big oil take responsibility for climate change. And the forced central control of all information and financial transactions through corporations locked into the web.
In Australia the Zionist lobby is threatening free speech by taking journalist Mary Kostakidas to court for her focus on the truth of the Israel/US govt actions in Gaza and the resulting genocide. This threat is growing out of America. Murderous imperialism and constant war provoked by right wing and religious extremism are anti life on earth. I want to live in a world that respects life given by this planet and the human right to exist in peace. This is just not possible with American fascism.