Trumpdom No. 7. The Oligarchs and the narcissistic showman

Paul Larudee, administrator of Human Rights organizations addressed The State of Israel, AIPAC and the International Zionist Movement—“I write as an American citizen. You have stolen my country, and I want it back. I did not ask for my country to be complicit in the ongoing genocide and attempted eradication of the people of Gaza and Palestine. I do not want to be complicit in the genocide of anyone. I do not want this crime to stain the name of the United States of America whenever it is spoken for the next century and for all eternity, and to bring shame upon me and my descendants, and to all others who hold American citizenship. . . .You have been very successful in exerting a powerful influence on the media, the government, and other pillars of American society. , , , also strangled academic freedom to debate or protest Israel on American campuses through control of funding, resulting in harassment and removal of faculty and punishment of students. You have hijacked American film, news organizations, and other media so that only the information and views that you permit are widely available to the public. . . Your job, and that of the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy, and the global network of sayanim (collaborators) is to assure, by these and any other available means, that Israel dominates all narratives, all public policy and decision making, and that all actions in both the public and private sphere are to the benefit of Israel. You have been enormously successful in capturing almost unlimited military and financial support from the US government, in controlling U.S. government policy, and in shaping American minds to accept and support a massive civilian genocide, including starvation and infection of hundreds of thousands and ultimately probably millions of innocent people.”

Citizen protests throughout the world and condemnation from over 40 nations of Israel’s war  had no effect on Western governments under Zionist influence until July 2025 when French President Macron declared that Gaza should be a separate country. Netanyahu’s face went livid and his evil character burst from his eyes. U.S. President Trump, now a shuffling, uncompromising dealer of destruction, encourages Israel’s psychopaths to share Gaza’s potential riches with the U.S. (him). Canada, the U.K., the European Union joined France to demand that Israel recognize Palestine as a state while Netanyahu declared that Israel would annex Gaza. Meanwhile President Trump, committed to Netanyahu’s war on Gaza, ignored charges of enforced starvation, targeted shooting of Palestinians waiting for food and journalists reporting for Al-Jazeera with a callousness that reinforces his inhumanity and narcissism. Trump has lost support from some MAGA followers who suspect him of involvement in the Epstein trafficking world-wide of young girls for sex. Meanwhile some journalists have defied their media managers who used to censor any fair reporting on Palestinians by uniting in a strong voice to inform the public of the truth. When Genocide Wasn’t News; How Canadian media covered up the destruction of Gaza (Breach Books, 2025) revealed the policy of mainstream media to dissemble about the Hamas attack on Israel and the genocide Israeli soldiers committed in Gaza against a defenceless people, largely women and children. A chapter on the pro-israel group Honest Reporting, funded by Jewish, organizations, reveals how it pressured the media to report only Israeli propaganda. One of its leaders, Fegelman, called me an anti-semite in a letter to the Hamilton Spectator because I used the word “Israeli-firster” to describe American Jews who worked primarily for Israel’s benefit when employed in the U.S. government, a term common in books on the subject. My letters supporting Palestine and condemning the genocide were not printed by the Spectator, the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail; in fact no letter by me regardless of subject was welcomed as letters were in the past. I complained to the Spectator that its censorship was immoral, a exasperated cry as we descend into the 1984 dystopia the newspapers helped to establish.

Most of the nations in the United Nations voted for Israel to stop its war on Gaza but the United States, as usual, vetoed the resolution. If several nations arrange to implement a U.N. law that allows them to send an international force against Israel to stop the genocide, the wishes of world’s peoples will be realized and Israel will be constrained to allow for a separate Palestinian state, which liberal countries such as Canada, France and Great Britain are recognizing under pressure from their citizens. The oligarchs, however, control the policies of governments, particularly the U.S. through secret police operations such as the CIA who can use any lethal means to direct policy towards aggressive action. Donald Trump’s government is tied to Israel’s wishes and seems unable or unwilling to prevent Israel from continuing killing Palestinians despite a ceasefire that Trump claimed that it would observe. The great amount of modern weapons and billions of dollars that the U.S. gives Israel enriches the rich Americans who invest in the armaments industry. The American public may protest against Trump’s dicta that any support for Palestinians would undermine U.S. security and suffer the consequences—imprisonment—reflecting the Soviet treatment of dissent. The Jewish power, through financial control of politicians and ownership of media, and exemplified by the Jeffrey Epstein Affair now threatening the Trump Administration by the disillusion of its supporters who, with everyone, accuses Trump of covering-up his participation in the raping and sexual domination over thousands of teen-age girls in a vast sex-traffficking operation for the satisfaction of the elite world-wide. If eventually exposed it would shake up the upper classes.

Meanwhile bad actors are trying to distract the public by atrocious acts—these acts are never satisfactorily explained if they are apprehended—such as the killing of 15 Jews, celebrating a Jewish holiday, on a beach in Sydney Australia by a father and son who may have been trained by Arab militants, although official explanation is vague and by today’s standard, mistrusted.

On reading Rimar Najjar’essay “Here we go again; Sydney’s Bondi Beach Hanukkah Attack and the Machinery of “Manufactured Meaning” in Global Research, December 16/25, I noted the methods used “to stitch the attack into a broader narrative of Jewish vulnerability ” and “merging the universal fight against anti-Jewish hatred with the specific political agenda of the Israeli state”. . .steering the narrative “predictably, toward Israel’s preferred moral universe.” She gives an example of selective framing: bomb threats against synagogues in the U. S. in 2017 were framed as antisemitic terror by the media, following a script it had internalized. One of the perpetrators was found to be “an American Jewish teenager operating from Israel with spoofed systems and cyber tools” only after the narrative was fixed. False flag operations differ from narrative laundering in that they require elaborate planning and execution while narrative laundering “requires only speed, confidence and conditioned media reflexes. . . . front loading moral claims, deploying symbols, and positioning witnesses as anchors before verification is possible.” “Deceit,” she writes, “is structural.” Hasbara [a Hebrew word for explanation “which refers to Israel's strategic public diplomacy and information campaigns designed to explain, promote, and defend its actions, policies, and image to international audiences, often involving shaping narratives about the state, its origins, and its conflicts, though critics see it as sophisticated propaganda or whitewashing to counter negative perceptions, particularly regarding the Israeli-Palestinian situation”] “front-loads moral claims, assigns blame early, and renders later corrections irrelevant. Western reporting has been conditioned to accept Israeli statements as authoritative and Palestinian accounts as suspect.” Anotherr distraction is Trump’s bombing of small craft in the Caribbean on claims that they were smuggling drugs bound for the U.S., which was too far for them to reach and along with storming two oil freighters appears to be a step toward war on Venezuela to hi-jack its great oil reserves.

 Trumpdom No. 8. Trump’s U.S.A. intends to control the world and reinstate the Munro Doctrine in bold letters.

In recent weeks, before today, Dec 9/25, millions of Americans have protested in the streets against the Trump Administration’s use of masked thugs to break into homes at dawn to arrest Americans thought to be illegal immigrants, some in the USA for decades, arrested, abused and sent to foreign countries without a trial. The ruthless behaviour of Trump’s government in attacking his perceived “enemies”, in covering up countless crimes, pardoning criminals, causing economic turmoil by high tariffs against nations of the world which is really a tax on Americans, paying thousand to farmers unable to sell their crops because of the tariffs which is a further drain on U.S. taxpayers, blowing up small boats in the Caribbean Sea and killing all on board with the excuse they were smuggling drugs to the U.S. when they were going in the opposite direction and and couldn’t have reached the U.S. after days of travel and refuelling—all to claim U.S. supremacy and right to do whatever it pleases. This mad attitude was expressed long before Trump but not with such venom and irresponsibility. The military support the U.S. gave Israel to allow it to massacre Palestinians in Gaza, largely women and children, and indiscriminately torture, kill and starve anyone standing in the way of Israeli troops infuriated citizens of the world when news could break through the CIA controlled mainstream media and President Biden was called Genocide Joe, by which he will be remembered forever. Trump, being a congenital liar and a gangster termed by his close friend Epstein as evil to the core, praised the murderous Israeli fascist government of Netanyahu for its genocide  of defenceless Palestinians while milking the rich Arab nations of billions for himself in return for government favours. The essayist Edward Curtin quoted D.H Lawrence’s observation of a century ago: “The essential American soul is isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted” to express his assessment that “this killer soul must be hidden behind a wall of deception as the U.S. warfare state ceaselessly wages war all around the world. It must be hidden behind feel good news stories about how Americans really care about others . . . The terrorist nature of decades upon decades of U.S.savagery and the indifference of so many Americans go hand-to-hand but escape notice by the corporate media propagandists.”

The case of Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex-trafficking encompassing thousands of super-rich around the world became headline news after years of revelations by his victims and courageous reporters. Trump was involved but refused to release the Epstein files collected by intelligence services over many years for fear they will expose the evil of his billionaire supporters and himself. When the horrors of the subjection of children were related to Congressmen, Trumpdom split apart and Congress voted unanimously to force Trump to release the files, which could have been done immediately but will be on December 19 to allow for some redactions. Many doubt that Trump will keep to his promise; he never does. Meanwhile judges are releasing Epstein files from banks and other venues. The exposure will challenge the American public to see itself objectively; it may question why it elected a psychopathic criminal to lead the nation for four years as an autocrat. Many predict that he will destroy the U.S. before his term is up.

Regarding the media depiction of Epstein’s death in prison as suicide, this is another example of CIA control over the public mind when propaganda makes an absurdity seem acceptable. Epstein was in a prison in Manhattan awaiting trial. Two guards who were hired to watch him closely in his cell stayed away for 24 hours, during which Epstein was strangled to death. Right away, the news, as in other sensational cases such as the John F. Kennedy assassination and the 9/11 attack, claimed he hanged himself, with what was not revealed. His lawyer who spoke with him about his defence the previous evening said he was in good spirits and optimistic about his release. (Since he had hundreds of powerful men intent on freeing him, why would he not be optimistic especially when a previous arrest was a slap on the wrist? Prince Andrew, one of his famous clients, emailed him after Andrew was outed that he expected them to soon get over the scandal and continue as before.) The first doctor to examine the dead Epstein said that a bone broken in his neck indicated strangulation, and that hanging would not have caused it. But the official story was suicide by hanging. The guards were not punished for dereliction of duty, never explained, which means that they were instructed to stay away. They would not have done so otherwise. Their instructions must have come from the highest command, which would be President Donald Trump, a psychopath, who had much to fear from an Epstein trial and its revelations about him. Yet who was the strangler? Normally two men share a cell, but Epstein was alone in his cell, leaving no witness. To strangle someone to death takes a certain mind-set. The criminal world which Trump knows well (he compared himself to Al Capone ) could have produced the killer and had him taken into the same prison in a fake arrest to do the deed.The truth has a reasonable chance of coming out because the public is demanding it and the forces for “good” are devoted to exposing the super-class responsible for Epstein’s career. The American public on this subject is not as gullible as usual owing to online news and revelations.

An American essayist wrote: ”Killing people is an action that needs no words to accompany it.  It can be done silently. Even when it is the killing of millions of people, it can be carried out without fanfare or direct responsibility. Without a whisper, with plausible deniability, as if it were not happening. As if you were not responsible. . . . Neither Biden nor Trump ever personally killed a Syrian or Palestinian, but they gave orders to do so. They made sure as young men that they would never serve in the military and kill with their own hands, having received between them nearly ten deferments. What’s the term for such Commanders-in-Chief? Pusillanimous armchair warriors? Jackals with polished faces who know ten thousand ways to order others to kill and torture while keeping their hands clean but their souls sordid? (Obama had his Tuesday kill list that included American citizens whom he chose for death) . . . But notice the expensive suits these boys wear, the crisp white shirts and pocket handkerchiefs, the elegant watches and shiny shoes. But they are killers whose orders to kill are whispered, action words, passed down the line. With a smile, a grin, a shrug, or completely indifferently, as if they were ordering a bagel with cream cheese to go.”

The dreadful torture of ICE victims, swept up in their homes, in parking lots, etc, kept in inhumane conditions in Alacatraz Florida and elsewhere continues because Trump has unleashed the evil nature of “America” and intimidated the general public which cannot find a way to stop to stop it.

Trump’s rally in Philadelphia last night (Dec 9), an effort to try to turn the tide of anger against him, pictured a motley group of shabby-looking individuals standing behind him who cheered his lies about a prosperous economy and “affordability” while raising cardboard signs saying “prices down”, and other catchwords to deceive his listeners. They looked like they could use whatever he paid them. 

Members of Congress, looking glum, accuse the Secretary of Defence Hegseth with murder for a second strike against a motorboat in the Caribbean to kill two survivors from the first strike, a war crime, when all the strikes against these small vessels having killed nearly 100 so far should have been designated as murder. But then Americans financed Israel’s mass killings of Gazan’s, students in schools, reporters, doctors, aid-workers and so on, in blatant rejection of international law and casting a snook at the horrified but helpless masses around the world. Americans cheered “the Natanyahus” and the Trump government made it a crime to support Palestine by word or deed—surely an invitation to murder the innocents. Where was the conscience of Congressmen and women? Or did they ever have one? In Africa and Asia civil wars imitate the atrocities encouraged by the U.S. Mayhem rules the world as Europeans try to restrain the Russian aggression of the Ukraine by the megalomaniac psychopath Putin, who has sacrificed thousands of young Russians to his ambitions. To quote an expert on the U.S.’s most powerful weapon, the Central Intelligence Agency: “CiA and military intelligence units now operate out of a global network of bases, as well as secret jails and detention centres operated by complicit secret police interrogators. Their strategic intelligent networks in any nation are protected by corrupt warlords and politicians, the “friendly civilians” who supply the death squads that in fact are their private militias, funded largely by drug smuggling and other criminal activities.”

An illustration of their power is President Trump’s pardoning of former President Hernandez of Honduras who used his position to run criminal gangs that corrupted his government and flooded the United States with drugs despite being in contradiction of Trump’s claims of warring on the drug cartels which was his excuse for blowing up suspected motorboats in the Caribbean. “Trump and Biden work for the same bosses,” writes Curtin, “those I call the Umbrella People (those who own and run the country through their intelligence/military/media operatives), who produce and direct  the movie that keeps so many Americans  on the edge of their seats in the hope that their chosen good guy wins in the end. The Umbrella People’s con job is to convince regular people that they protect them from the rain while soaking them for everything they can get.”

I wonder at the hordes of enablers of these criminals. Who are these thugs called agents of ICE? Who are the intelligence officers who conduct torture chambers across the world? Who are the company CIO’s, the government employees, the presidential advisers who betray the electors to pursue illicit profits and make wrong seem right. Their media propagandists obey orders to keep their jobs and smother their better natures. Some like congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene fanatically supported Trump and his boastful claims of doing good out of blind ideology until they discover they have been duped when victims of sex-trafficking reach their heart and Trump declares anyone favouring them are traitors. Trump’s killers, hiding anonymously in the community, threaten his “enemies” like Greene with death. Meanwhile the majority of Supreme Court judges, right-wingers, twist their judgments to give Trump free rein to corrupt the government and terrorize the American people. Are they human? Or are they mere human forms controlled like puppets by an ideological force whose wealth and cunning persuasion inflates their egos. Good versus evil; God versus Satan—the world wrestles in combat and confusion until honest leaders try to rescue it from the abyss only to be eliminated by the evil. 

The BBC program Hardtack featured a young man who controlled drones from his base in the U.S. to destroy people, individuals, wedding parties, etc who were not aware of the danger hovering over them. He denounced it as criminal and soul-destroying. Not many seem to have had his integrity because American drones are a constant menace, not to mention the drones used in the Russian-Ukrainian war. We can be thankful for honest persons such as Snowden, Assange, Manning and others who exposed the criminals, although those controlling the killing controlled the propaganda and had the state-run courts to prosecute anyone informing the public of government criminality.

Trump’s tactics, crude, violent, destructive, awakened many Americans to the true condition of their country and the goal of the right-wing to champion white supremacy into a ruthless dictatorship in which the U.S. Constitution is meaningless. Journalists left the deceitful T.V. news programs to start internet substacks in which they challenge the lies of the government and its propagandists, bring us news that was previously censored and voice opinions that make listeners think and question. These liberated journalists warn of Trump’s using the Insurrection Act to cancel elections now that the Democrats are winning and the Republicans are seen as Trump stooges. Americans have been sleepwalking into political catastrophe. When Trump was elected I warned the few Americans willing to discuss his popular vote win that by choosing a criminal for their leader they would have a criminal enterprise as a government. And so they have—in spades. Can they remedy the harm already done? Well, can they escape from the prison they are in first? Their Supreme Court, answerable to no one, is an obstacle that they will have to reform if they are ever to bring back democracy. The majority of Americans have awakened to the danger and their great numbers give one optimism that they will overcome the revenge suffered by Julian Assange and all the others.The great battle for humanity has begun.