politics for the 99%

Published on Dissident Voice, by James Petras, Dec 28, 2016.

A coup has been underway to prevent President-Elect Donald Trump from taking office and fulfilling his campaign promise to improve US-Russia relations. This ‘palace coup’ is not a secret conspiracy, but an open, loud attack on the election. The coup involves important US elites, who openly intervene on many levels from the street to the current President, from sectors of the intelligence community, billionaire financiers out to the more marginal ‘leftist’ shills of the Democratic Party.  

The build-up for the coup is gaining momentum, threatening to eliminate normal constitutional and democratic constraints. This essay describes the brazen, overt coup and the public operatives, mostly members of the outgoing Obama regime.

The second section describes the Trump’s cabinet appointments and the political measures that the President-Elect has adopted to counter the coup. We conclude with an evaluation of the potential political consequences of the attempted coup and Trump’s moves to defend his electoral victory and legitimacy.

The Coup as ‘Process’: … //

… Trump Strikes Back: The Wall Street-Military Alliance: … //

… The Coup: Can it succeed? … //

… If Trump defeats the avalanching media, CIA and elite-instigated coup (which interestingly lack support from the military and judiciary), he will have to thank, not only his generals and billionaire-buddies, but also his downwardly mobile mass supporters (Hillary Clinton’s detested ‘basket of deplorables’). He embarked on a major series of ‘victory tours’ around the country to thank his supporters among the military, workers, women and small business people and call on them to defend his election to the presidency. He will have to fulfill some of his promises to the masses or face ‘the real fire’, not from Clintonite shills and war-mongers, but from the very people who voted for him.

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(James Petras is author of The End of the Republic and the Delusion of Empire, of Extractive Imperialism in the Americas, Capitalism’s New Frontier (with Henry Veltmeyer), and of The Politics of Empire, The US, Israel and the Middle East. Read other articles by James, or visit James’s website).

Links:

Phantom Democracy in the Age of the Internet, on Dissident Voice, by Nozomi Hayase, Dec 28, 2016: after the Electoral College vote, the Trump presidency is now official. As denial and blame games continue, it becomes clear this was not a foreign government coup d’état. The truth is that democracy in America has been rotten to the core for decades. It is meddled with by corporate lobbyists, Big Pharma, Big Oil and Wall Street –those who are addicted to money and power …;

Richard Wolf explains the Problems with Trumps Economic Plan, 55.29 min, uploaded by Bae-Videos, Dec 26, 2016;

The Electoral College Votes Today, but Politicians Have Been Trying to Reform It for Decades, on TIME, by Lily Rothman, Dec 19, 2016;

Illegale Kriege – Wie die NATO-Länder die UNO sabotieren – Daniele Ganser, 63.35 min, von Quer-denken.tv am 28. Nov 2016 auf XYouTube hochgeladen … daß viele westliche Politiker nach den Bestimmungen des Völkerrechts längst vor Kriegsverbrechertribunale hätten gestellt werden müssen, daß sich noch jeder der Öffentlichkeit in den letzten Jahren präsentierten „Kriegsgründe“ nachher als Propagandamärchen herausstellte, die Anlässe meistens False Flag Operationen waren und daß die NATO längst kein Verteidigungs-, sondern an Aggressionsbündnis ist – all das taucht in Medien und Politik so gut wie nie auf. Der Schweizer Friedensforscher Dr. Daniele Ganser deckt in seinem neuen Buch „Illegale Kriege“ schonungslos diese „andere Seite“ der Wahrheit auf und gelangt zu dem Schluß, daß der Westen seit 1945 immer wieder und konsequent schwerste Verbrechen gegen das Völkerrecht und die Menschheit verübt. Im Gespräch mit Michael Friedrich Vogt belegt der Schweizer Historiker und Friedensforscher Daniele Ganser diese Fakten anhand seines brandaktuellen Buches …;

Weniger ist mehr – Minihäuser, 29.20 min, von Das Weltrettungsforum bittet …, TV-Sendung bei NZZ-Format vom 03. April 2016 über tiny houses / Minihäuser / petites cabannes;

The Weapon is Food [1976] – John Pilger, 25.30 min, uploaded by John Pilger … 1976 – an investigation of the US policy that makes food more powerful than oil;

… and this:

• Calling Wisdom – Karunesh, 5.27 min, uploaded by makhfii … more in autoplay.