By SCF
December 08, 202:
Information Clearing House
-- "Strategic
Culture Foundation
" -U.S. President Joe Biden’s
two-day “summit for democracy” was a farce even
before it began this week. Now it has turned into a
vile circus for Cold War hostility that greatly
threatens world democracy, human rights and peace –
the very antithesis of what the hubristic Americans
claim.
On the second day of this video conference
hosted by Biden, news emerged of the British
High Court ruling in favor of the U.S. government
that Julian Assange is to be extradited to the
United States to face trumped-up charges of
espionage which could result in a death sentence.
Assange is being persecuted for exposing massive
U.S. war crimes, crimes against humanity, global
espionage felonies and corruption. His case is a
hideous warning that free speech and independent
journalism are under ruthless attack by the U.S.
authorities. In other words, the biggest enemy of
the most basic of democratic rights is the United
States government – and yet at the same time, we
have this grotesque conference hosted by Biden
declaring support for democracy.
Our own journal, Strategic Culture Foundation, is
also coming under sustained attack from Washington.
Several of our American contributors have been
banned from writing for this journal under the
threat of massive financial penalties. This is
because the U.S. government makes the slanderous
claim that SCF is directed by Russian state
intelligence. See this recent
interview by one of our former contributors
Daniel Lazare who has denounced what he calls a move
to censor free speech and critical thinking.
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It, therefore, is truly absurd – and nauseating –
for American leaders to pontificate on such rights.
From the video conference hosted by Biden, one image
said it all. Biden was seen addressing a blur of TV
screens each displaying the face of leaders of
nations invited by Washington to the “summit for
democracy”. It resembled more a scene from a
satirical movie. The self-appointed leader of the
free world warned about the “backsliding of
democracy” caused by “autocrats” (meaning China and
Russia). Biden called for the protection of voting
rights and free speech. This while his
administration is seeking to incarcerate Julian
Assange for the rest of his life because he dared to
exercise his inalienable right of free speech.
Assange should be honored by the world for his
exposing of massive U.S. crimes and for his heroic
contribution to truth. He revealed to the world the
real and brute nature of Washington’s pursuit of
global power. And for that, he is being viciously,
mercilessly persecuted. It is outrageous that the
leader of such a criminal government should be
lecturing the world about the supposed virtues of
democracy and human rights. It is deeply disturbing
that such an insult to morals and intelligence seems
to be even tolerated as if normal. Biden or any
other U.S. leader should be scorned, not indulged.
The list of participants invited to Biden’s
circus is shot through with inconsistencies and
double standards. Even the normally dutiful U.S.
media were obliged to note the incongruities and
lack of principle in the virtual gathering of 110
countries. Some of those attending were classified
as less democratic than some of those excluded
noted the U.S.-based Freedom House.
It is blatant that the convocation by Biden was
aimed at self-serving geopolitical power-play. The
territory of Taiwan was invited as a representative
of democracy while China was excluded. Under U.S.
law, the One China policy deems Beijing as having
sovereignty over Taiwan. So, the pointed invitation
of Taipei over Beijing is an astounding provocation
to China by the U.S.
Ukraine was invited to attend while Russia was
also excluded. Since the U.S.-backed coup d’état in
Kiev in 2014 against an elected government, Ukraine
has become a byword for corruption and the killing
of journalists. The farcical invite by Biden is
another geopolitical provocation that will embolden
the Kiev regime to escalate further its hostilities
towards Russia.
What Biden’s jamboree is all about is a flagrant
attempt to divide the world into a Cold War
demarcation. Russia and China have rebuked the
initiative for harming international cooperation and
increasing conflict.
There is not a scintilla of substance in what the
Biden administration is attempting. The meaning and
purpose of the “summit for democracy” is the
opposite. It is about creating tensions, conflict,
undermining democracy and fomenting war.
But it really shows the absolutely dangerous
hubris of Washington. It somehow is deluded in
thinking that it is uniquely endowed to host a
conference on democracy when it fact it has no shame
about being a ringmaster for conflict and war.
The United States’ history of genocide against
native Americans, its decades of illegal foreign
wars of aggression and destruction of nations, its
relentless subversion of foreign governments – all
of this and more are glaring proof that Washington
is the center of global criminality. In order to
manipulate the world under its hegemony, we have the
risible attempt to corral nations into enemy camps
of supposed democracy and autocracy.
Ultimately, however, this charade is doomed to
fail. The objective reality is of a changing world,
whereby U.S. capitalist, hyper-militarized power is
failing amid the emergence of a multipolar
international order. That fundamental historic
development cannot be countered by futile
machinations.
Of immense importance, too, the spectacle of
hypocrisy seen this week also fatally undermines the
authority of the U.S. governing system in the eyes
of its own people. Biden offering blandishments
about democracy comes across as crass
Marie-Antoinette stuff when so many American
citizens are dying from a pandemic that their
government won’t spend money on to properly
eradicate; when so many citizens are struggling with
poverty and trying to feed their families; when
Congress passes an annual military budget of $770
billion; and when millions of Americans are being
barred from voting by new racist election laws.
Biden’s summit for democracy is disgusting in its
fraudulence, not just towards the wider world but
towards his own nation. This is not just about Joe
Biden and the Democrats. The Republican Party is
even more unhinged from the realities of U.S.
citizens and the world. The entire political class
in the United States is bankrupt: morally,
politically and economically.
This vile circus of Cold War theatrics that Biden
oversaw this week is really a Swansong of failed
American “democracy”.
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