Friday, 20 December 2024

Geneva Convention is a set of humanitarian laws, stating the legal standards for treatment of war. Let's delve into the conversation with Professor Jon V. Kofas to understand the history of the Geneva Convention, the humanitarian standards set in it, and its relation with Israel and US in the contemporary wars fought by Israel against Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon and Palestine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Wga4l-ruU&t=24s

Teaser: Geneva Convention, Israel and US: History, Clauses and Modern-Day Impact

Geneva Convention is a set of humanitarian laws, stating the legal standards for treatment of war. This is a teaser to an hour-long analysis in which Jon V. Kofas explains the history of the Geneva Convention, the humanitarian standards set in it, and its relation with Israel and US in the contemporary wars fought by Israel against Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon and Palestine.

Teaser: Geneva Convention, Israel and US: History, Clauses and Modern-Day Impact

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826xG8QQ_Ok

Thursday, 7 November 2024

Analyzing Donald Trump's Second Term Foreign Policy: Status Quo or Isolationism?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT_KiSNM5Dg&t=2729s

Donald Trump won the 2024 US presidential elections by beating Kamala Harris. Trump has stated that he is going to end all the foreign wars referencing to the crisis in Middle East and Ukraine. What will be Trump's foreign policy once his presidency begins in January? How will it impact the geopolitics?

Saturday, 2 November 2024

Impact of Iran-Israel War and Middle East Crisis on the Upcoming US Elections

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4pRqBNv7Qw

Teaser: Impact of Iran-Israel War and Middle East Crisis on the Upcoming US Elections

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSepXs1LJNQ

With the possibility of a large-scale war between Iran and Israel looming around, there has been a significant change in the popular support for politicians in the US. Does the Iran-Israel conflict and the overall crisis in the Middle East impacts the upcoming US elections on November 5, 2024?

Wednesday, 30 October 2024

The Manhattan Project: A Scientific Revolution or End of Mankind????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqu0pswX0Og

The Manhattan Project: A Scientific Revolution or End of Mankind????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqu0pswX0Og

Tuesday, 29 October 2024

Israel-UN Relations Reloaded: From 1948 to the UNIFIL Crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVJ_Z7Njf4g

Wednesday, 23 October 2024

Exploitation and Inequality (Part 1): From Plato to Luther

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkFgDj_2KRk&t=569s

YOUTUBE VIDEO: Israel UN Relations: From 1948 to the UNIFIL Crisis

Israel UN Relations: From 1948 to the UNIFIL Crisis:

Israel-UN relations, beginning from the UN Partition Plan from Palestine in 1947 to the present-day confrontations between the IDF and the UNIFIL on Lebanese borders. The topic has become significant especially after the French President Emmanuel Macron has called for banning arms supplies to Israel during the Gaza crisis and credited UN for establishing the state of Israel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBygMJX-xDU

Tuesday, 15 October 2024

Teaser: US-China Relations: The Struggle for Global Hegemony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hnk5n2e4lY&t=607s

US-China Relations: The Struggle for Global Hegemony

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4BjkJxCnp0

Tuesday, 8 October 2024

Lebensraum: Western Hegemony and Global South from German Imperialism to Modern-Day Gaza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDk8z7bPuCg

Monday, 7 October 2024

Revisiting the One Year of Israel-Hamas War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ptdm8meEJ8

Saturday, 5 October 2024

Trailer teaser of Noam answers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNIBAh7hSe4

Sunday, 29 September 2024

Racism in the U.S.: Revealing the Dark Truths about Slavery, Crime and Prejudice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cpPArGlACI&t=2704s

Sunday, 22 September 2024

Middle East Crisis: From Gaza to Lebanon

In light of the recent pager explosions in Lebanon that claimed 37 lives and injured more than 3,000 people, and the ongoing crisis in Gaza that claimed about 40,000 civilian casualties, the video sheds light on the crisis that is endangering the peace and stability in the Middle East region.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx9Ic6YvqPk&list=PL3FV4G04BaFPH3gleSXFdLUV-Q9jS_bDH

Tuesday, 17 September 2024

Is American Capitalism in Decline or Transition?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYRehup5BPA&t=1400s

Friday, 30 August 2024

Culture of Fear: Globalizing Conformity?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHZLBZFGtpk

Friday, 23 August 2024

The End of the World: Prospect for World War III

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orkdmo8s324&t=15s

Friday, 16 August 2024

Capitalist Ethics and Institutional Immorality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGTwg7w5t60

Sunday, 11 August 2024

Bangladesh Crisis Under Neoliberal Authoritarianism: Complete Analysis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWRl-iw5j00&t=3100s

Friday, 9 August 2024

The Origins of Genocide: From Ancient Carthage to 21st Century Gaza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnzubR7NVIc&t=19s

Friday, 2 August 2024

Analyzing Ismail Haniyeh's Assassination and Benjamin Netanyahu's Visit and Speech in US Congress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBsCy6If1z0

Monday, 29 July 2024

Violence and Society

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyI5HNkKbyI

Friday, 19 July 2024

21st Century Challenges to American Democracy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYZzSDbYeUc&t=5s

Friday, 12 July 2024

Human Nature and War: A Historical Perspective from Ancient Greece to NATO

"Human Nature and War: A Historical Perspective from Ancient Greece to NATO"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17kvhm4v9V4&t=3443s

Saturday, 6 July 2024

Dark Secrets of Chocolate Industry

Dark Secrets of Chocolate Industry: Analyzing Child Slavery and Human Exploitation in West Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R857Khd9sVU

Friday, 5 July 2024

Child Labor from Ancient World to the Industrial Revolution

Analyzing Child Labor from Ancient World to the Industrial Revolution and European Colonization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca7o_WNDxkY

Saturday, 29 June 2024

Corporate Welfare vs. Social Welfare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK93rGCVDlA&t=2299s

Tuesday, 25 June 2024

Exploitation and Inequality (Part 2): Müntzer, Locke, Hayek and Friedman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMqjYab5DJ0

Sunday, 16 June 2024

Analyzing Exploitation and Inequality from Plato's Idealism to 21st Century Neoliberalism

Analyzing Exploitation and Inequality from Plato's Idealism to 21st Century Neoliberalism: PART I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x02J7YspB3w

Analyzing Exploitation and Inequality: Part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5HSAY6nDvQ

Friday, 14 June 2024

Reviewing - Links on a Chain: Five Days in October

"Links on a Chain: Five Days in October" is the story of a Norwegian youth who runs a motel and suffers from his mental struggles while also encountering the troubled lives of a mental patient, an unstable Vietnam War veteran, and a white supremacist. The novel highlights the cultural impact of the materialist Yuppie culture among American youth in the 1980s and its long-term effects on American society.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9iP6RrWbY8

Saturday, 8 June 2024

Gig Economy (Part 2): Institutionalization of Deregulated Precarious Labour Force in the Age of AI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=secxJvfeqQ4&t=20s

Friday, 7 June 2024

Gig Economy (Part 1): Analysis from the Rise of Trade Unionism to Neoliberal Class Warfare

Gig Economy (Part 1):

Analysis from the Rise of Trade Unionism to Neoliberal Class Warfare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHBL61P4Sl4&t=3s

Friday, 31 May 2024

Social and Political Polarization on a Global Scale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFJW7xhKDzo&t=2081s

Wednesday, 29 May 2024

How Neoliberalism and Social Media Controls Our Lives? An Alarming Situation You Must Know - JON V. KOFAS

How Neoliberalism and Social Media Controls Our Lives? An Alarming Situation You Must Know

Social media has become an important tool in today's world and it's difficult to imagine your life without the social networking platforms. Each platform has its own pros and cons and people can use it according to their narrative building. Neoliberalism is one instance. By gaining access to all of our personal data, capitalists use social media to influence the society and culture and build up their own narratives through these platforms.

The Little French Media

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBkgs4mbDzA

Monday, 27 May 2024

Neoliberalism Inequality and Authoritarianism

by Jon Kofas (Author)

This book exposes the inherent contradictions of neoliberalism. The myth of limitless growth ignores the reality of resource constraints and fuels a global upward transfer of wealth. Meanwhile, a fractured global economy and intensifying class warfare chip away at neoliberalism's foundation. As inequality spirals and social justice crumbles, the model increasingly serves a privileged few at the expense of the majority. This undermines the Enlightenment ideal of using liberal democracy to improve lives in the age of mass politics, threatening neoliberalism's very survival.

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Tuesday, 21 May 2024

Materialism and Society: Philosophical Analysis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crGB2SPtxCE

Monday, 20 May 2024

What is the end-game of WAR IN ISRAEL AND UKRAINE, other than more of the same, as the artlce in JACOBIN implies?

At some point, the wars in Israel as well as Ukraine will end, but at what cost first to the Palestinian people, the Israelis, the region, and to those few US-led countries that opted to support Israel? The regional balance of power will shift from both Israel and the US which have sustained a strained relationship with most of the Global South, except India supporting Israel, as well as China and Russia. It is very difficult to see how the US and Israel actually gain much as a result of the war that Israel has been carrying out against the civilians in Gaza, though it is clear is the US has gained market share in Europe because of the war in Ukraine, while Europe is greatly weakened. Just as difficult to see, how do Western corporations gain, other than weapons manufacturers, considering that some are and will most definitely face boycott calls globally for supporting Israel's ethnic cleansing war with children as a main target.

While one way that some pro-Israel elements in the West want to save the apartheid state by removing the current regime, the question is whether this by itself would be enough. There is also the larger issue of how a GOP neo-isolationist government will handle foreign policy, given its reservations about war with Russia. It is difficult to see how the US reverses the benefits already accrued to China from both wars, given that the balance of power is determined by the CHINA-LED BRICS group dominating the world economy. Ending the wars as quickly as possible is the best solution for the US-NATO group, but ideology and fear of continued decline has prevented the obvious solution.

'Israel’s Priority Is Killing Gazans, Not Freeing Hostages,' Stephen Semler

This war would look very different if Israel’s principal aim was to free the hostages. But Israel’s assault on Gaza was never about the hostages.

SEE; https://jacobin.com/2024/05/gaza-israel-hostages-administrative-detention

Friday, 10 May 2024

Exploring Institutional Racism in Liberal-Pluralistic Societies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIGGX_pGY_o&t=129s

Friday, 3 May 2024

Collectivism versus Individualism in the Neoliberal Era

Collectivism is an ideology that focuses on the collective interests of people within a community while individualism is focused on a single person's interests and rights. In collectivism, a community lives together and works to support each other but individualism's thought process focuses on people preferring to lead an independent life instead of assuming responsibilities, as in a traditional family system. Which system is suitable for human beings? And how neoliberalism has affected collectivism and individualism in today's world?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKq66J9XC1s

Monday, 29 April 2024

A Review of Phantom of Apocalypse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhGcIYqoWlc

Twilight of the West (Part 2): Global Balance of Power from the Early Cold War to the New Cold War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0voTR6Py4D8

Saturday, 27 April 2024

Twilight of West and Asian World Order (Part 1): Introduction to Pre-Cold War World Order Models

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbOVXSCJ8TM

RUSSIA THREATENS TO SEIZE FOREIGN ASSETS TO RETALIATE AGAINST WEST SEIZING RUSSIAN ASSETS

One reason that Western banks and their lawyers lobbied Western governments not to engage in seizure of Russia assets is precisely because there is a great deal of Western capital in Russia and there is no end to this merry-go-round nonsense that the US has started in order to 'punish Russia' whose GDP this year will actually be at least half-a-percent higher than that of the US, according to the latest IMF projections.

Russia's entire economy is well integrated with the capitalist world economy and playing idiotic games with seizure of assets is a downward spiral. I am amazed that US lawyers at the Justice Department did not prevail in an administration whose foreign policy, as judged by results, so far is the worst of any president in postwar history, dragging down the US and world economy, as the latest US report shows on the new stagflation projections.

The US needs to focus on using the State Department to conduct diplomacy, as its mandate calls for, not as an extension of the Defense Department and the small circle of billionaire-supported neoconservative ideologues whose policy advice has sunk the country into domestic and international chaos without any prospect for resolving conflict through diplomacy.

The time has come to hire some professional foreign service people able to make clear-eyed rational and realistic decisions about the US role in the world, as current US economic and military power permit, and in relationship to both allies and rivals alike. The cowboy mentality that has prevailed in the White House and the halls of Congress has resulted in a $35 trillion public debt, rising social inequality, political polarization, and alienation from the vast majority of the world. Even if America's worst enemy were giving advice, this sort of chaotic mess would not take place, but the geniuses surrounding Biden have indeed managed to accomplish some nightmare scenarios in American foreign policy with very serious consequences at home.

WHY MASS GLOBAL PROTESTS AGAINST WESTERN-BACKED ISRAEL BUT NOT RUSSIA?

WHY MASS GLOBAL PROTESTS AGAINST WESTERN-BACKED ISRAEL BUT NOT RUSSIA?

More than two years of Russia’s war in Ukraine, and no global popular opposition, despite governments welcoming such protests and media constantly propagating against Russia. After all, much of the world was heavily indoctrinated to vilify Russia since the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), while Israel has enjoyed a rather favorable treatment since 1948, especially by the Western World.

One reason could be that the Russia-Ukraine war is a conventional conflict with US-led NATO behind Ukraine and Russia on the other. Another reason could be that the war in Ukraine is about the regional balance of power, and by extension a continuation of the old Cold War EAST-WEST rivalry. The rivals have been trying to settle zones of influence between NATO and Russia which NATO wants contained militarily and regimented, given that China is behind Russia.

Another reason could be that Russia has not targeted children and civilians, despite some civilian casualties including children. After a tw-year conventional war, it is estimated that 10,582 civilians killed, including 587 children. The majority have been killed by explosive weapons with wide area effects, and by mines and explosive remnants.

By contrast, Israel’s war between a conventional military and civilians in GAZA. In just six months, more than 42,000 civilians have been killed, with more than 14,000 children, while all of GAZA is demolished and waiting for reconstruction for which Israel fully expects the West and Arab nations to pay although it has also stated the region will be settled by Israelis.

The ICJ has rendered a decision on Israeli genocide. No such decision has been handed down against Russia, despite efforts by the US and the West. While the overwhelming majority of governments in the world are on Russia’s side, the opposite holds true for Israel. While there have been no mass college student-faculty protests against Russia, or any other popular protests, the same is not true for Israel.

One could argue that the Western World is antisemitic and pro-Russian, except that public opinion polls do not support such a hypothesis, especially when considering that Jewish organizations and individuals have joined mass protests against Western-backed Israeli genocide. Could one reason for the anti-Zionist protests possibly be that the protesters identify Zionism with Western militarism and fault it as much for is taking place in Ukraine as in ISRAEL? Or, do the anti-war protesters express societal desire for peace and diplomatic solutions? Perhaps another reason could be that the mass protesters see on the part of Israel the glaring absence of observance of international law, human rights, and social justice, while they do not see the same for Russia which is hardly a favorite country for the West.

Friday, 26 April 2024

US SUPPORT FOR MUSLIM HUMAN RIGHTS IN XINJIANG, CHINA, BUT NOT PALESTINE

It is indeed the case that China is hardly Norway when it comes to the issue of religious and political tolerance. This includes the 11 million ethnic Yugur minority in the northwest province of Xinjiang. China's lack of pluralism notwithstanding, here is the problem of credibility with any Western politician using the Xinjiang minority population issue, especially an American politician carrying the legacy of a racist institutional structure.

1. As of November 2020, the last 10 poverty-stricken counties of Xinjiang had all completely eradicated absolute poverty. By contrast, US poverty rate rose across the US from 10.5% in 2019 to 11.5% in 2023, and the poverty rate among AMERICAN MINORITIES averages 6 points higher than the general population.

2. The largest Western multinational corporations, mostly US-based, operate in Xinjiang province because of cheap labor and proximity to markets. While the hypocritical political rhetoric about Chinese repressed minorities makes Western headlines, a closer look reveals that the Western capitalist class makes huge profits exploiting those minorities. Whereas China has a social development policy intended to benefit the working class across the country, including Xinjiang, social development policy in the US has been eroding since the Reagan era.

3. The UN, and the ICJ have clearly made their positions known about Israel's genocidal war. By contrast, there has been no international court ruling on the Xinjiang province minority. The only country in the world trying to build such a case has been the US, but the evidence is lacking and the multinational corporations operating there are uneasy about having their operations exposed to the world.

Blinken is visiting China knowing that he is going to hear complaints about American destabilization of the Middle East, Eastern Europe-Eurasia, and South China Sea. Having no defense for America's FOREVER WAR policy, and lacking in diplomatic training and any sort of foreign affairs depth, he decided to follow the cheap rightwing American neocon road of propaganda regarding the Muslim minority in Xinjiang province, a fruitless strategy against the background of genocide and forced famine which the US has made possible in Gaza.

GLOBAL BALANCE OF POWER SHIFTS AND THE US

Among the elites and the masses alike, there was so much hope that America would remain on top of the world when the Soviet Bloc disintegrated in 1990-1991 and President George W. Bush announced the US-based unipolar 'NEW WORLD ORDER.' American academics, including Francis Fukuyama and Samuel Huntington became celebrities promoting theoretical models that would have the US remain at the core of the global power structure, recapturing some of the lost glory since Truman promulgated the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.

All of these assumptions were built on the assumption that because the Soviet Bloc had collapsed and China had embraced a mixed economy reintegrating with the capitalist world, America's hegemonic role was guaranteed. Rather than analyzing the merits of the capitalist world economy under the neoliberal model and the place of the US as a core country within that model, carefully examining the economically multipolar power structure, combined with domestic US policies and their impact on the political economy, the focus was on the absence of an enemy as a guarantee that PAX AMERICANA would live forever.

It is indeed unfortunate that the exact same delusional mindset and mental constructs of the 1990s regarding "End of History" vacuous theories continues to persist in the mid-2020s. National mythology is very important to keep the consensus in a nation-state and loyal to the institutional structure. However, it is dangerous because the farther away from empirical reality analysis of institutional structures, the greater the difficulty to solve possible crises. Even more dangerous, the search for enemies to blame for internal decline necessarily reinforces delusions of grandeur and refusal to address systemic domestic problems.

According to the latest Gallup poll, only one-third of Americans have no problem with America's position in the world, down from two-thirds in 2000. This is at a time that US income inequality, poverty and homelessness has been rising while the government is now spending more on defense than the next eleven largest defense spenders combined and there are two major proxy wars - UKRAINE AND ISRAEL - contributing the the $34 trillion public debt that the US hopes China-led BRICS does not undermine because the US has been weaponizing the dollar.

The article below asks whether America's downturn is another dip in a long arc of non-linear, yet essentially upward, progress, or the first phase of steep and irreversible national decline. A bit more research would have shown that the decline actually started in the second Eisenhower administration when the IMF warned the US government that the chronic balance of payments deficits and dwindling gold reserves has resulted in a trend undermining the dollar's stability as a reserve currency. Not inevitable that the decline must follow, current policies make it inevitable.

GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT AGAINST ISRAEL'S CAMPAIGN IN GAZA

FROM NEW YORK TO CALIFORNIA, THE GRASSROOTS MOVEMENT, AS EXPRESSED ALL ACROSS AGAINST AMERICA'S COLLEGE CAMPUSES, IS AWAKENING THE POLITICAL, CORPORATE AND MEDIA ELITES TO THE MASS OPPOSITION OF US GOVERNMENT COMPLICITY IN ISRAEL'S GENOCIDE.

Just in case there were any doubt that the majority of the American citizens are against pro-Zionist genocide policies, the resounding electoral victory of SUMMER LEE over her opponent whose campaign was funded by super PAC Republican donor Jeff Yass, a Pennsylvania billionaire and a close ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, signals that the vast majority of citizens are adamantly against US support for genocide and famine in GAZA.

History is not repeating itself as some have argued comparing the anti-Vietnam War movement to the current anti-Israel US-backed genocidal war. The US is carrying out a proxy war which involves ethnic cleansing, forced famine, war crimes and genocide in the 21st pro-Communist century when the enemy is the non-white Global South that the West refuses to admit into the ranks of the human race as equals to the "civilized" world. Driven by imperialist-Social Darwinist-supremacist ideology, militarist policies as leverage to perpetuate Western global hegemony and secure market share from globalist China, the US government has now turned against college students across the country and against anti-Zionist Jewish people opposed to genocide. College protesters are America's conscience which the sadistic elites are trying to crush back to submission so that they accept the apartheid status quo in Israel.

It is the height of decadence and immorality that the US government wants to crush the protesters against Zionism but refusing to endorse a UN independent investigation which requires the permission of Israel to examine the MASS GRAVES issue where war crimes have been committed. The US Senate approved massive defense aid to Israel on the same day that the 'UN called for an independent probe into the discovery of over 300 bodies in a mass grave at the Nasser Medical Complex following Israel’s siege on the hospital."

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has made the public announcement about war crimes investigation, but the US remains an obstacle, thus Israel is unlikely to cooperate. Covering up war crimes while arresting citizens opposed to genocide is a manifestation of a society whose elites are entrenched on the road to mass destruction both at home and abroad for the sake of power and profit. Yet, the US media, politicians, and pundits insist on characterizing the country as well as Israel 'democratic' societies to be admired by the rest of the world.

NEW YORK POST HEADLINE: COLUMBIA SURRENDERS

The NEW YORK POST headline 'COLUMBIA SURRENDERS' headline is a good study of analysis for a college course in journalism, assuming the faculty were not in the business of propaganda and had every intention of teaching undergraduates and graduates alike some very significant lessons in the methodology of journalism v. propaganda for ideological, political or socioeconomic reasons of one group to the detriment of other (s).

The headline is also useful to teach students the difference between social responsibility and the quest to make an impression on the mass reader with hyperbolic slogans so that the twin goals of achieving both sociopolitical conformity no matter the level of social injustice and making money are achieved. Not just local and national politicians, but businesses love such headlines, given their own ideological orientation.

The question remains whether this headline constitutes journalism, assuming that journalism's ultimate goal includes:

1. presenting all sides of an issue, unless the issue involves moral absolutes like mass killing of children and genocide;
2. informing the community with the aim of promoting its welfare and that of humanity in general;
3. presenting facts with the goal of human edification, not instigating destruction of group for the benefit of the other;
4. advancing civilization rather than contributing to its demise through the promotion of division and hatred among disparate groups.

BIDEN'S DEMOCRATIC PARTY, THE ECONOMY, AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY

The question of the Democratic Party is how can it ask citizens to vote for it on an utterly disastrous record amid a weaker economy than both the government and the pro-Wall Street media have been advertising? Besides an absence of social development and erosion of the social safety net by a president who promised to protect it, the Biden militarist team has pursued a foreign policy rooted in a collision course with most of the planet over Ukraine, Israel, and South China Sea, merely because pro-Zionist and Wall Street corporate interests are deriving ephemeral benefits while realizing their ideological agenda.

According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the US ranks number one in poverty rate among the world’s 26 most developed countries. The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) statistics indicate that the US ranks second behind Mexico on “relative child poverty” when measured against 35 of the world’s richest nations. Based on statistics from World Inequality Report of 2022, the US ranks 71st out of 166 countries, right below Iran and right above Senegal, Africa, with the richest ten percent of its population owning roughly half of the entire wealth, while the bottom 50% own just 13%.

America no longer has a dream to which it once aspired under the Keynesian economic development model because the neoliberal experiment has transferred massive amount of wealth from the bottom 90 percent to the richest 10 percent without any prospect for reversal. Furthermore, not just the economy and Wall Street are rigged, as Senator Bernie Sanders often claims, but the entire institutional structure from government to media and education.

Like the decline of the Roman Empire and the British Empire, the decline of America is systemic owing to multidimensional causes mostly linked to domestic decadence brought about by the elites driving economic, social and foreign policy intended to strengthen capital at the expense of labor. This is not about to change because the social structure will remain as is, and the business and political elites driving policy will not alter course, as some hope.

A slow process, imperial decline is often defaulted to external factors when in fact, it is always owing to internal dynamics. Biden was chosen by Wall Street to manage the decline by protecting the privileged richest 10% against the 90% who continue to experience deterioration of their socioeconomic status and lack of upward mobility for their children. On the road to decline, the country will move increasingly toward authoritarianism and greater inequality with far greater social chaos and militarism as a solution to internal structural problems. Biden or Trump makes very little difference to the larger structural problem of a declining America and rising income inequality comparable to Senegal.

COLLEGE CAMPUS ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTS AS A MANIFESTATION OF SYSTEMIC INSTITUTIONAL DECLINE

The immediate cause of American grassroots mass protests have been triggered by the US military aid to Israel which has been carrying on a genocidal war and committing war crimes, according to many international organizations and governments. It would be hasty to conclude that underlying causes of these mass movements have not played a role. These broader causes are far more significant than what appears on the surface either on the side of the protesters or the side of defenders of militarism as a solution to political crises, and advocates of continuance genocide in the specific case of Israel.

American society has been experiencing systemic political problems because both parties represent the same Wall Street interests who own most of the wealth, while the bottom two-thirds have been experiencing steady socioeconomic downward mobility and rising personal debt. The fact that China has eliminated extreme poverty while US poverty as well as inequality has been rising, while all along both political parties keep promising for decades to improve living standards has left most people cynical and dispirited about the social contract in America.

The unequal socioeconomic system resembling a Third World nation, the corrupt pro-Wall Street 'uni-party ' system, the lack of prospect for a better future for the very students engaged in mass protests across America's campuses illustrates the magnitude of the problem in society. In addition, mainstream institutions, led by the mass media, in which people lack confidence, exacerbates the problem by undermining its own credibility due to manufactured and heavily biased news stories in the age of the internet allowing people to cross-reference the often blatant lies, at other times massaged coverage, and always pro-Wall Street, pro-military industrial complex coverage intended to indoctrinate for the benefit of the elites demanding social conformity.

College students are the ones who are more aware of the systemic institutional failures and a social contract that works for the richest ten percent while the rest are asked to conform, work, and pay their taxes to benefit the business sector and feed the global military network which in the case of Israel has entailed genocide. When Senator Bernie Sanders goes public with the accusation of US complicity in Israel's quest to eliminate the Palestinian people, there is something seriously wrong, not because he is Jewish and progressive, but because he sees that the status quo is in crisis and he is simply warning that much worse may be ahead for American society.

It is no secret that China is the world's strongest economy - measured in PPP - with the largest manufacturing and global trade base. Because the global balance of power has shifted in China's favor, many people lack optimism for the American Dream.

Sunday, 21 April 2024

Analyzing the Western Media Approach to the Gaza Genocide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAauWq8xNtE

Thursday, 11 April 2024

Connecting Dots between Darwin's Evolution Theory and Atheism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM5SHVUqDII

Wednesday, 10 April 2024

Slaves to Gods and Demons: Analyzing Post-World War II Sociopolitical Turmoil of the Greek Society

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC9dWn0aC_c

Saturday, 6 April 2024

How Kant's Enlightenment Influenced Religion, Politics and Society: A Detailed Overview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKd1te4zfNQ

Sunday, 31 March 2024

Interwar Totalitarianism and its Impact on Neoliberal Era

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj3w1VvX_3o&t=4799s

Saturday, 30 March 2024

19th Century Imperialism and its 21st Century Impact JON V. KOFAS YOUTUBE VIDEO

19th Century Imperialism and its 21st Century Impact

JON V. KOFAS

YOUTUBE VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RITOAjhle00

Friday, 29 March 2024

NTERVIEW OF NOAM CHOMSKY with Winston Riley and Jon Kofas

INTERVIEW OF NOAM CHOMSKY

with Winston Riley and Jon Kofas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNIBAh7hSe4

Saturday, 23 March 2024

NARCISSISM AND SOLIPSISM IN NEOLIBERAL SOCIETY

NARCISSISM ANS SOLIPSISM IN NEOLIBERAL SOCIETY

Neoliberalism is a form of capitalism and its beneficiaries aim to mould the society according to their own will to increase their capital. One such imajor concern that affects our young generation is narcissism and solipsism, which are philosophies of self-obsession and self-liking. Narcissist and solipsists think themselves to be the best and do not care about anyone else. We have to see how these thought processes are related to neoliberalism in a historical perspective, analyze them, and find out solutions. For that, Mr. Jon V Kofas, a retired professor of history from Greece analyzes it beautifully. Listen to it for insights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqUBhyiTSzU&t=1457s

Friday, 15 March 2024

What is Neoliberalism? Understanding its Origins, Concept, and Impact on Geopolitical Economy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip347BoDwlw&t=10s

Saturday, 24 February 2024

Farmers Strike Against Global Neoliberalism -

In the past few days, farmers from all over the world have protested against neoliberal policies of their respective governments in the 2020 Farm Bills of India and the 2020 European Green Deal initiatives of the European Union. Everywhere from India to France, Greece, Czech Republic, and other countries, farmers are protesting against the governmental policies that they believe have oppressed their rights and pushed them into poverty. This strike also involves a power struggle between far-right and pluralists. Want to know more about it? Listen to Jon Kofas reflect on the intensifying period of farmers' strike as he explains the background, current updates, and solutions to this issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OveEJlOKOyY&t=954s