Philip Giraldi described a ravenous ghoul — and it's us

© 2021 Peter Free

 

15 October 2021

 

 

With Halloween around the corner . . .

 

. . . it is an appropriate time to consider vampires and ghouls.

 

And as a reality check, let's pick a nation that perfectly combines both and brags about it.

 

 

'Annihilation forever' might as well be the United States' motto

 

Philip Giraldi wrote recently that:

 

 

Joe [Biden] denounces “authoritarian” regimes without recognizing that many Americans have observed how the United States is itself becoming a model totalitarian state, irrationally obsessed with war while also having a health care system that has been ranked as one of the worst in the developed world.

 

Witness the Patriot Act and the Authorization for the Use of Military Force, which have empowered any president to go to war without being endangered by a foreign threat. And then there is the Military Commissions Act which permits the indefinite imprisonment of terror and other suspects without having to charge anyone with a crime.

 

And what about the prisoners still held without trial at Guantanamo after twenty years, or the Obama initiated policy of assassinating U.S. citizens overseas using drones?

 

Or using drones to wipe out entire wedding parties while imprisoning the whistleblower Daniel Hale who had the temerity to reveal that 90% of the drone deaths in Afghanistan were of innocent bystanders who fit a “profile”?

 

In the past two decades Washington has invaded and brought about regime change in Afghanistan and Iraq, and has attempted to do the same unsuccessfully in Syria.

 

It joined together with European allies to overthrow the Libyan government, reducing that stable and prosperous country into what is currently little better than a gangster and terrorist stronghold.

 

It has more recently been seeking to undermine the elected government in Venezuela and has worked assiduously to wreck that country’s economy.

 

It has interfered in Cuba, Bolivia and Ecuador and has dealt out devastating economic sanctions on adversaries like Iran.

 

© 2021 Philip Giraldi, The New American Leadership: Biden Tells the World What He Wants It to Know, Unz Review (14 October 2021)

 

 

It doesn't end there

 

Today, the US is trying to provoke conflicts with Iran, Russia and China. Evidently on the principle that 'mongering' armed conflicts are good for our Military Industrial Complex's profits.

 

We are also opposed to post-civil-war reconstruction in Syria, apparently having decided that the Libyan model of chaos (which we directly instigated) will be equally lucrative.

 

 

The moral? — The United States is, arguably, the very definition of . . .

 

. . . a blood-sucking vampire and corpse-rendering ghoul.

 

For American leadership, peace is like a wooden stake through the heart and must be avoided.

 

Ergo, the United States' inescapable shifts toward totalitarianism, blanket secrecy and perpetual fear-based propaganda.