Tag: Sudan

The E’s have it:

Epstein (transparency)

Enbridge/oil pipeline builder (Line 5/also Line 3)

Elbit Systems/Israeli defense firm (Thunberg London arrest)

Ethnic Cleansing/Humanitarian Disaster (Sudan/Gaza)

E-ICE (ICE crimes are documented everywhere; their purpose and violence are inexcusable)

I am reminded of the French Revolution when the “good guys” the revolutionaries, cut off the heads of the “bad guys” the aristocracy, in what was called the “reign of terror.” Bloody awful. The American Revolution consisted of many battles for a period of years and resulted in many deaths on both the British and American sides.

Now we have in true American fashion the “good guys” and the “bad guys.” For some Americans Trump is the “good guy” who is going to save America. For others of us, Trump and his cohorts if not the personification of evil, are definitely the “bad guys” who are trying to destroy the United States of America and democracy although they claim the opposite.

The unfortunate tradition of violence was brought to new depths of depravity in WWII. I won’t say by the Germans, but by the Third Reich. Now Trump and Co. practice cruelty and violence, whether in support of the Gaza genocide or by stripping Americans of rights and driving them toward and into poverty or by arresting, imprisoning, and deporting many recent immigrants. Those who resist have basically used nonviolent strategies and tactics. Nonviolence as a concept and a way of protest and revolution did not exist in coherent theory, policy. and action until the 20th century, with major credit to Gandhi.

The Nazi Brown Shirts, later the Gestapo, who considered themselves supposedly above the law as a terrorist police force, are seen as a precursor of ICE. Recently someone commented to me that she does not like to mention other national groups like the French or Germans or the British treatment of the Irish when referring to the genocide in Gaza as if it were somehow their fault. Any references should include the US. Violence and genocide are no stranger to the GOOD OLD USA lest we forget our shameful history. Hitler actually commented that he learned a lot of his techniques from the treatment by the US of  native peoples.

Historical Evidence Overview (Google AI)

Yes, historical evidence and scholarly analysis indicate that Adolf Hitler and other Nazi officials studied and were inspired by US policies toward Native Americans and Black Americans, especially regarding racial law and the concept of territorial conquest.

Key points regarding this influence:

• “Lebensraum” and Manifest Destiny: Hitler explicitly viewed the American westward expansion under “Manifest Destiny” as a successful model for Germany’s own quest for Lebensraum (living space) in Eastern Europe. He often referred to the peoples of Eastern Europe as his “redskins” and saw the clearing of “natives” to make room for “racially pure” settlers as a precedent.
• Quotes on Extermination: According to Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Toland, Hitler told his inner circle that his concept of concentration camps and the practicality of genocide owed much to his studies of U.S. and English history. He reportedly praised the efficiency of America’s extermination of “red savages” by starvation and uneven combat, and noted how the U.S. government forced Native Americans onto reservations where their populations rapidly declined due to disease and starvation.
• Legal Discrimination: Nazi lawyers and scholars, including in the drafting of the Nuremberg Laws, closely studied American race laws, such as Jim Crow laws, anti-miscegenation laws, and race-based immigration restrictions, as models for disenfranchising and discriminating against Jewish citizens.
• Popular Culture: Hitler was an avid reader and lifelong fan of the German novelist Karl May’s Western adventure novels, which heavily featured the “Indian wars” and a “noble savage” archetype. He recommended these books to his generals for tactical inspiration and saw them as an example of a “racially pure” (Aryan) people conquering a continent.

In essence, the user’s assertion aligns with significant historical evidence that Hitler drew parallels and practical inspiration from the US historical treatment of its indigenous populations as a blueprint for his own genocidal and expansionist ambitions.

Senator Wyden on the new trillion dollar defense bill

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who voted no on the defense spending bill, said, “I cannot support a bill that increases military spending by tens of billions of dollars and fails to include guardrails against Donald Trump and Hegseth’s authoritarian abuses.”

From Hannah Arendt

“The ‘apocalyptic’ chess game between the superpowers that is, between those that move on the highest plane of our civilization, is being played according to the rule ‘if either “wins” it is the end of both’; it is a game that bears no resemblance to whatever war games preceded it. Its ‘rational’ goal is deterrence, not victory, and the arms race, no longer a preparation for war, can now be justified only on the grounds that more and more deterrence is the best guarantee of peace. To the question how shall we ever be able to extricate ourselves from the obvious insanity of this position, there is no answer.”
— Hannah Arendt, On Violence

There are now organizations like ICAN that before Trump and his cartel took over have taken huge steps internationally to ban nuclear weapons. But the Trumpites see only the military as a solution, when in reality it is the greatest threat to world peace. ICAN built the following UN treaty:

The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)

The TPNW was adopted at the United Nations by a majority of nations in July 2017 and entered into force on January 22, 2021. It is the first globally applicable treaty to categorically prohibit nuclear weapons and provides a framework for their verifiable and irreversible elimination. 

Trump has removed the US from many international arms treaties just as he has removed US participation in prevention of climate change at the recent COP international UN conference about climate change and continued to promote the greatest polluter in the world, CO2, caused by fossil fuel that also drives the military with over 1000 military bases worldwide.

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• What new authoriarian or fascist tripe will be thrown at us by Trump and his administration? As the poet William Blake once said: “Enough! Or too much.” My AI interprets that as: “the power of imagination and challenging conventional morality.” Robert Reich in his most recent Coffee Klatch on Saturday, 12/27/2025 explores the idea that Trump’s excesses and authoritarian dictates have exposed the conventional morality we have been living under, accepting the status quo around racism, women’s oppression and rights, healthcare, housing, and other oppressive systems for so many Americans.

• As the population if the United States has become more diverse and has many more shades of color, the white supremacists have lost their hold while at the same time they are losing their unilateral hemogeny in the world (collapse of empire) and are trying desperately to hold on.

• Trump and his cartel think the solution is a superior military that has put us on the edge of more war, especially in Latin America and particularly Venezuela which has two strikes against it. One, it is a socialist country and therefore the opposite of capitalism’s greed in its idiology. Second, and not without significance even though the Trump administration denies it, Venezuela has the greatest reserve of oil in the world. Much of that oil is offshore, but still belongs to Venezuela. 

• Why is the oil so important? It sustains the military industrial complex and is essential for that hyper-military system that has those 1000 or so military bases worldwide. Those jets and other oil uses from US military bases alone are the greatest CO2 (fossil fuel) sources in the world. You say so what? But if you understand the climate crisis you know that they are destroying the planet with their use of fossil fuel. Yet Trump encourages fracking and major use of fossil fuels and supports the corporations that use them. That, of course, is in direct conflict with those of us who want to save the planet. 

• The gas and oil companies who economically control our government along with domination from other corporations, most especially including the weapons’ industry, which again is tied into the hyper-military. 

• So how are all those corporations, internationally those multinational corporations and the financial groups that support them going to make money? They desperately cling to their old and destructive ways. But that creates jobs, they say. But statistics have proved that turning to a green basis for the economy can create just as many if not more jobs. That scares them. Instead of changing their ways because they might lose their power and their money, they continue on the road to destruction instead if using their time and money for new innovations that could help save the planet.

• US industry has lost its innovative edge. Daily I see that this or that country worldwide has created a new tool to deal with the climate crisis, and China is ahead of the US in the war against climate change. Instead the US is stagnated, caught in a MEGA web that serves no one except the rich while convincing too many Americans who are Trump supporters that there is no genocide in Palestine. Recent examples I have seen online include the Netherlands inventing a tubing they put in the ocean that collects plastic that they then process the plastic to prevent pollution. Other nations have built large areas of solar panels on flat land dedicated to solar power. In Morocco they have developed an inexpensive small solar panel that can be placed on their balconies. There are many more examples but you will not find them described in the mainstream corporate media. 

 “In the end there is no democracy without informed citizens, no justice without a language critical of injustice, and no change without a broad-based movement of collective resistance.”

—Henry Giroux

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