My New Year’s revolutions

My first and favorite revolution is the Occupy Wall Street movement, and I pledge to support its resolutions to level the playing field between the 99% of the American working (and unemployed) people and the rich 1%. I wish OWS all success in breaking the back of Wall Street corruption led by the various degenerates that helm the brokerages of Goldman Sachs, JPMorganChase, Citibank and others (you know who you are); also the criminals of the ratings agencies who rate for profit only; and the fattened calves of the Fed who continue to print and pump fiat cash into the central banks of the US, including Fanny and Freddie, as well as the world, attempting to hide the massive fall about to come.

Par example, people think it was the subprime mortgages that broke the systems back in 2008, but in fact, as reported by Avery Goodman in Bloomberg it was the Bank Of America Dump[ing] $75 Trillion In Derivatives On U.S. Taxpayers With Federal Approval. Basically, they’re pushing the derivative debt into banks to have the FDIC, i.e., the taxpayers, swallow the debt. This is an amazing four-page article for you to get your blood boiling. It plays well off an article by Eliot Spitzer, former Governor of New York: Our Rallying Cry Should Be, “We Own Wall Street and We Can Stop Corporate America’s Worst Behavior. For a Third Course on Congressional corruption, try 10 Ultra-Rich Congresspeople Who ‘Represent’ Some of the Most Financially Screwed [read poor] Districts. This will get you in the streets to your local Occupy Movement in minutes.

My second revolution of interest is in far away Syria and I don’t like it because it is aided and abetted by the Libyan (purported) Al-Qaeda terrorists from the CIA, formerly from their most wanted list, soldiers of fortune who are aiding and abetting the Arab League in killing some 5,000 Syrians so far. Their Che Guevara image-worship is ludicrous because Che ended up bled to death by shots to the legs from his CIA captors in Bolivia, seemingly leaving his torso untouched.

The third revolution of interest is less draconian but a dramatic change of direction for Pakistan now turning to partner with China. Having had enough of the CIA’s random drone attacks that killed innocent people, mostly women, children and the elderly, Pakistan is now talking with China to finance their activities. It is walking away from its former unpredictable “friend,” the U.S. This was done more out of self-preservation than lack of loyalty by Pakistan, which hosted our puppet leaders for decades. Perhaps it will restore some respect and balance for Pakistan, which remains a potent nuclear force in the world, as much so nearly as Israel.

The fourth revolution, celebrating its 20^th year anniversary of demise, is of the Soviet Union that crumbled under the well-meaning hands of Michael Gorbachev, who opened the door to the dismantling of his country, along with a drunken Boris Yeltsin who sealed the fall that killed millions. Perhaps a Eurasian Union, as Vladimir Putin has suggested, might be more practical, a reintegration, avoiding the Russian Communist party’s reawakening from its nightmare sleep. Also, any further demonization of the Baltic countries should be avoided. A union of sovereign and diverse countries would be desirable. Perhaps a Slavic Union is in order, Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine. Ultimately, economics will dictate any new union.

Then there is the Georgian faux revolution, despicably blaming Russia for the attacks on the fledgling South Ossetia, an insurrection supported by the CIA and Mossad, in which 60,000 people were killed and one million people displaced. Also, NATO should also stop trying to build its “missile shield” near the borders of Russia, which only creates more “test missile” firing from Russia, and which compromises the safety not only of the region but of the whole world.

Next is a return to the former “Arab Spring” revolution in Egypt, now in the winter of its discontent, trying to eject the Mubarak military for good, and to tamp down the theocratic ambitions of the Muslim Brotherhood which interfere with its major industry, that of tourism. Would there were some coalition that could be formed, which could truly represent the Egyptian spirit, assembled to ameliorate Egypt’s long-suffering economic and employment woes and need to feed its people.

Next, I believe the Japanese people should revolt against and replace their government and U.S. partnering corporation, General Electric that subjected Fukishima and the whole country to the ongoing poisoning of people and environment by the tsunami-instigated failures of the reactors and generators of the nuclear power plants, built largely by General Electric, and spreading radiation throughout the country and the world.

To the 27 members of the European Union, I suggest the Wall Street-corrupted system doesn’t work, nor will it, as long as its crooked member governments are in bed with the investment banksters like so many street hookers with their bloated Johns. A revolution is in order to have the partners part company and let the sovereign nations resolve the situation sans the banksters.

I also favor a Green revolution towards a sustainable environment, using solar, wind, wave and even the earth’s inner thermal power, to create a world not dependent on hydrocarbons and their continued use.

Behind all this, must be a human revolution to change how we respond to and treat nature, including ourselves, deforesting our own species as well in endless wars and hostilities. The more we can work together towards this end, maintaining our national characters, pluralistically, and sustaining the earth, the better the planet would be.

To this end, I advocate a revolution in human consciousness that is contrary to Darwin’s “Survival of the Fittest,” feeding the notion that killing others for what they have is better than encouraging the more fortunate to share what they have, as when we were clans living in the caves and ducking predatory animals. Is the ”dog-eat-dog” survival of the fittest notion ever effective to make a better dog or is it just a dog in a “Skinner behavior box,” lived in and jumped out of when the time comes? Think about it.

Importantly we should all join in the revolution to end the trap of Empire and its Trojan Horse, the military machine ready to spit its hidden toxic armies from the juices of its avaricious belly, no gift at all to anyone, from the Greeks on, only an ongoing tragedy, as Homer brilliantly put it: “Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.”

And speaking of fools, the US military should revolt against its baser instincts to sentence Bradley Manning to death or life in prison, just as Manning revolted against the see-no, hear-no, say-no evil doctrine of silence in the face of military wrongdoing. It would be too easy to permit a soldier of such conscience to die or languish in prison, after leaving him for a year and a half in solitary, and most of that time nude, lying that it was done to protect him from hanging himself. It was done to torture him, and to make him pay for helping distribute so-called “classified” thousands of documents to WikiLeaks that shed new light on the dark side of America’s behavior in Iraq and other war zones, highlighted by the iconic helicopter pilots gunning down Iraqis, including a Reuters journalist, in the street for the sheer “fun” of it. This only belittles the efforts of the military and hails the negative actions of cowards as heroic. We were there to set an example supposedly of democracy and civility, not barbarism.

As the National Defense Appropriations Act remains still unsigned (as of this writing), I would advise President Obama to revolt against his instinct to sign the provision that allows U.S. citizens to be indefinitely detained on the basis of alleged “terrorist” activities or even less, just because someone thinks so, without evidence, without a time limit, without a trial, and without legal evidence. The president, a constitutional lawyer, should know better.

He has already taken it on himself to have a U.S. citizen, Ammar Al-Awlaki, murdered for allegedly being a top-level Al-Qaeda leader. He was not. He was much further down the chain of command, being most useful inciting others to crimes, such as the underwear bomber, the shoe bomber, and the car bomber. Al-Awlaki’s disaffection with U.S. actions against Muslims led him to spew his hate speech to various loose cannons. He could have been captured and tried. Our exceptionalism, which the president is so fond of heralding, should include abiding by the laws of our Constitution, one which he too swore to obey.

In closing, Happy New Year to one and all! May your revolutions be conscionable and successful! Lord knows, we would use some real change from the chaos and corruption surrounding us.

Jerry Mazza is a freelance writer, life-long resident of New York City. An EBook version of his book of poems “State Of Shock,” on 9/11 and its after effects is now available at Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com. He has also written hundreds of articles on politics and government as Associate Editor of Intrepid Report (formerly Online Journal). Reach him at gvmaz@verizon.net.