De aanstelling van Michele Flournoy als
minister van defensie (lees: oorlog), bejubeld
als voorbeeld voor gelijkheid van man en vrouw*, heeft niets van doen met
feminisme, zo betoogt Caitlin Johnstone volkomen terecht in een artikel over deze
aanstelling, de kop boven haar artikel luidt dan ook: 'This Isn't
Feminism, It's Imperialism In Pumps'.
Flournoy
heeft een heel smerige geschiedenis achter zich bij het Pentagon en 'zou een baken
zijn geweest voor internationale militaire samenwerking' (o.a. in
hulp bij militaire staatsgrepen in het buitenland)...... Onder Obama
heeft Flournoy een topfunctie vervuld op dat Pentagon en als zodanig
is ze medeverantwoordelijk voor de coup in Honduras tegen de democratisch gekozen president Zelaya en die in Oekraïne
tegen de democratisch gekozen* president Janoekovytsj...... Voorts is de VS mede verantwoordelijk voor de illgele oorlog tegen Libië, die dat eens rijkste land van Afrika in diepe ellende heeft gestort zodat het nu tot de armste landen van dat continent behoort...... Ofwel
'feminist' Flournoy staat tot ver over de pumps in het bloed van mensen die zijn
omgekomen door VS ingrijpen in die periode.......
Caitlin
ergert zich aan de kwalificaties die Flournoy worden toegedicht, zo
zou haar gematigde ('moderate') zienswijze steun verzekeren van beide partijen
(Democraten en Republikeinen, Ap) en dat in een positie die door
de senaat moet worden goedgekeurd....... (de senaat die vooralsnog in
handen is van de Republikeinen en dat hoogstwaarschijnlijk zal
blijven)
Het
woord 'gematigd' in samenhang met Michele Flournoy is als de
gematigdheid van de zogenaamde gematigde rebellen in Syrië, die
het westen zo bejubelde (zowel in politiek als media), maar die uiteindelijk moordenaars, verkrachters,
martelbeulen en slavenhandelaars/houders bleken te zijn.....
(overigens werden mensen die dit van meet af aan stelden afgedaan als
Assad propagandisten door die westerse politiek en media....).....
Flournoy
is een bloeddorstige en oorlogswinstmaker aldus Caitlin, die teven de
uitspraak van Medea Benjamin en Nicholas JS Davies aanhaalt die haar
een 'angel of death' noemen en die als leider van het ministerie met
de belachelijke aanduiding 'defensie' (lees: oorlog) het overzicht zal hebben over
dezelfde agenda van haar voorgangers, de eenzijdige globale
overheersing van de VS, die verantwoordelijk was en is voor rivieren
gevuld met bloed en dat min of meer op dezelfde manier als die
voorgangers...... Niet zo vreemd als je nagaat dat Joe Biden al ver
voor de verkiezingen de Trump administratie slapheid verweet in het
optreden tegen staten als Iran en Venezuela...... Terwijl de immense
terreur van de Trump administratie in de vorm van sancties al enorm
veel doden heeft gekost, in Venezuela zou dit al aan 50.000
mensen het leven hebben gekost...... Als je die terreur
afschildert als slapheid is er van Biden maar één ding te
verwachten: oorlog tegen die landen!!!
Caitlin stelt in haar artikel uiterst sarcastisch (maar alweer volkomen terecht) dat 'de VS trots mag zijn', er komt een intersectioneel kabinet met vrouwen die o.a massamoordenaar zijn.......... Uiteraard gaat ze verder in op de rol man en vrouw en wat dit betekent in de dagelijkse politieke en ambtelijke praktijk.
Lees
het volgende schrijven van Caitlin en zegt het voort, tijd dat de
wereld inziet dat oorlogsmisdadigers Biden en Flournoy verantwoordelijk zullen zijn voor
de volgende golf van VS terreur over de wereld en dat deze alweer een stuk groter zal zijn dan onder Trump........ Maar ja wat wil je? De VS is immers het Vierde Rijk en tevens verreweg de grootste terreurentiteit ter wereld...... In het westen roept men halleluja over de winst van Biden, maar aan hoeveel arme drommels zal dit het leven kosten...???
by Caitlin
Johnstone
"President-elect
Joe Biden is expected to take a historic step and select a woman to
head the Pentagon for the first time, shattering one of the few
remaining barriers to women in the department and the presidential
Cabinet," reads a new
report from the AP.
"Michele Flournoy, a politically moderate Pentagon veteran, is
regarded by U.S. officials and political insiders as a top choice for
the position."
"Seen
as a steady hand who favors strong military cooperation abroad,
Flournoy, 59, has served multiple times in the Pentagon, starting in
the 1990s and most recently as the undersecretary of defense for
policy from 2009 to 2012," says the AP. "She serves on the
board of Booz Allen Hamilton, a defense contractor, which could raise
concerns from some lawmakers. But her moderate views would likely
ensure wide bipartisan support in a position that requires Senate
confirmation."
President-elect Joe Biden is expected to take a historic step and select a woman to head the Pentagon for the first time. U.S. officials and political insiders regard Michele Flournoy as a top choice for the job.
http://apne.ws/yb51l0v
This
word "moderate" which the AP news agency keeps bleating is
of course complete nonsense. Standing in the middle ground between
two corporatist warmongering parties does not make you a moderate, it
makes you a corporatist warmonger. Flournoy is no more "moderate"
than the "moderate rebels" in Syria which mass media
outlets like AP praised for years until it became undeniable that
they were largely
Al Qaeda affiliates;
the only reason such a position can be portrayed as mainstream and
moderate is because vast fortunes have been poured into making it
that way.
As
we discussed
recently,
Flournoy is a bloodthirsty imperialist and war profiteer who peace
activists Medea Benjamin and Nicolas JS Davies
accurately labeled
an "angel of death" for the American empire. As leader of
the laughably titled Department of "Defense" she can be
expected to oversee the same agendas of unipolar global domination at
the expense of rivers of blood as her predecessors, in more or less
exactly the same ways.
There
is nothing special or noteworthy about a murderous ghoul rising to
the top of a war machine that can only be run by murderous ghouls.
But because Michele Flournoy is a woman, we will see her appointment
as "Defense" Secretary applauded and upheld as a major
landmark for women by a political/media class which has never cared
about women beyond their ability to turn the gears of the machine.
And
of course establishment narrative managers are already greasing the
wheels for that applause.
White progressives training their fire on women and women of color who are under consideration to lead the nat sec departments makes me deeply uncomfortable about their allyship for those communities.
"White
progressives training their fire on women and women of color who are
under consideration to lead the nat sec departments makes me deeply
uncomfortable about their allyship for those communities,"
tweeted
MSNBC contributor Mieke Eoyang. "Especially when the nat sec
community is dominated by white men."
It's
only going to get dumber from here, folks.
Let's
clear this up before the girl power parade starts:the first woman to
head the US war machine will not be a groundbreaking pioneer of
feminist achievement. She will be a mass murderer who wears Spanx.
Her appointment will not be an advancement for women, it will be
imperialism in pumps.
Modern
mainstream feminism has abandoned women's interests so thoroughly and
completely in almost all spheres of importance that it has largely
become only superficially distinct from the patriarchy it purports to
oppose. The plight of mothers, elderly women, young girls, caregivers
and wives have been almost entirely shuffled out of popular
discourse, with focus instead shifted onto discussions about whether
women are being adequately rewarded for their service to the God of
Capitalism, or how they're just as qualified as men to murder
thousands of people at a time.
Instead
of fighting to correct the societal imbalances which have resulted
from millennia of male domination of society, mainstream feminism now
promotes and applauds the very worst aspects of those imbalances.
Instead of fighting to help women out of the impossible situation
where they're expected to simultaneously be successful capitalists
and good mothers in an economic system where families can't survive
on a single income and children and the elderly are being neglected,
we're getting headlines about murderous warmongers "breaking
barriers" and think pieces about how women
should be allowed to inherit dukedoms.
Why can't a girl inherit a dukedom? In Britain, there's a new frontier for feminism—the aristocracy. I met the campaigners trying to drag the peerage into the 21st century (and got to pet a horse).
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/11/feminist-aristocrats-who-want-daughters-rights/617067/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share …
In
a system where dominant cultural narratives are always
being deliberately twisted
toward the advantage of the powerful, healthy collective impulses
consistently wind up being diverted and corrupted until they find
themselves unwittingly serving the very forces they set out to push
back against. Movements toward racial equality have been twisted into
support for the Democratic Party whose austerity policies and legal
authoritarianism disproportionately hurt racial minorities worse than
anyone else. Movements to elect a Democratic Socialist get funneled
into support for the idiotic Russia conspiracies of the #Resistance.
Movements to fight patriarchy wind up amplifying the most unhealthy
aspects of patriarchy.
A
true feminism would work toward a reversal of all the unhealthy
aspects of society which were put there by social engineers without
any input from women.
All
around the world for thousands of years, wherever a civilization
sprang up, the larger, stronger gender was naturally in a position to
assert dominance over the way that civilization was run. Leadership
systems were invented by men, social hierarchies were invented by
men, marriage was invented by men, family structural norms were
designed by men, money was invented by men, war was invented by men,
and men invented religions which just so happened to have patriarchal
gods who all agreed that the way men had set things up was indeed
right and just.
Women
were essentially property throughout most of this, and thus had very
little input into how any of it was set up. Generation after
generation after generation of women were born into this
male-engineered society, over thousands and thousands of years, into
a system so deeply and extensively normalized that it’s almost
impossible to imagine what our society might look like had it not
been dominated entirely by men throughout its history.
And
then, very, very recently in the grand scheme of things, a healthy
impulse emerged among women to cease being second-class citizens, and
to instead stand as equals with their brothers.
In
response, after much whining and foot-dragging, the men who ran
things said in effect, “Right. Okay. You want equality? Fine. The
jobs we invented are over there, the capitol building for the
government we invented is over there, the bank for the economic
system we invented is across the street, the Department of War is two
blocks that way, and the Church of the Patriarchal God is around the
corner. Welcome to equality!”
And
some rich guys standing by watching leaned in and whispered to each
other, “Sweet, double the workforce! We can halve their wages!”
955 people are talking about this
We
should not be cheering for women rising to the top of a psychopathic
war machine. We should be dismantling that war machine and rolling
back all the conditions which led to it.
True
feminism, which is interested in guiding the world toward balance and
heath in a way that benefits women and their children, would make
this a priority.
Push
against the celebrations of women being elevated to positions which
go directly against the interests of women. Do not let mass murder
and psychopathy become the landmark for success in the kind of world
we are creating for our daughters. Oppose this madness and push for
the kind of world we all know deep down we ought to have.
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* Flournoy is bepaald niet de enige vrouw die Biden (ofwel zijn poppenspelers) in zijn team wil hebben, naast zijn keus voor Kamala Harris als vicepresident, schijnt hij nog meer vrouwen te willen aanstellen. Dit is overduidelijk een gebaar naar de vrouwlijke achterban van de Democraten, daar een groot deel van die vrouwen Elizabeth Warren als president hadden willen zien..... (en zij was zonder meer een veel slimmere en intelligentere president geweest dan de dementerende kraai Biden.....) Harris is uiteraard een groot gebaar naar de gekleurde bevolking in de VS........
** Met de nadruk op 'democratisch gekozen', daar de VS immers altijd schermt met de leugen dat ze de democratie over de aarde willen verspreiden met haar staatsgrepen en illegale oorlogen, terwijl de praktijk het tegenovergestelde laat zien....... (hetzij door een democratisch gekozen president af te zetten, dan wel een dictator te installeren.....)
Zie ook: 'Team Biden voor meer censuur op het internet'
'Green New Deal, ofwel linkse tak van de Democraten niet verantwoordelijk voor mager resultaat dat de partij boekte (bij de verkiezingen) voor het Congres'
'De hypocrisie van 'liberale en linkse' Democratische stemmers'
'Democratie is meer dan verkiezingen alleen: tijd dat politici dat in hun oren knopen'
'Met de winst van Biden is het fascisme in de VS bepaald niet weggestemd'
'Biden (de gekozen VS president) al bezig met aanstelling van door Republikeinse eisen geschikte 'kabinetsleden''
'Het electorale college in de VS, met 'kiesmannen', werd opgetuigd om de slavernij te laten voortbestaan''
'VS militarisme marcheert door: geen discussie of media aandacht voor Washingtons oorlog tegen de wereld'
'VS moordmachine weer in handen van 'volwassen en bekwame leiding''
'Joe Biden president, echter de peperdure campagne was zo slecht dat de senaat in handen blijft van de Republikeinen......' (en zie de links in dat bericht!!)
En ter zijde: 'De EPA heeft toestemming gegeven om dicamba te herintroduceren op de VS markt, leuk vooruitzicht daar Biden TTIP zal tekenen'
'Bidens puppeteers verwijten Trump slap buitenlands optreden'
