Empire: The Unspeakable Behind No Kings
October 21, 2025
The Unspeakable Behind No Kings
Photograph by Mike Hastie
Before Trump ever landed in the White House in 2016, the United States represented less than 5% of the world’s population. The U.S. has over 750 military bases around the world. The U.S. has bombed over 30 countries since the end of World War II. The U.S. dropped 7.5 million tons of bombs on Southeast Asia during the Viet Nam Lying War, where mass murder was committed against poor people every single day.
There was the U.S. Panama Invasion, the Iraq Wars, Afghanistan War, the never-ending Monroe Doctrine Interventions of killing poor people to make the United States richer. The unfathomable Genocide in Gaza for the past two years, where 20,000 Palestinian children alone have been murdered by U.S. Weapons. The word W A R for the United States has always stood for:
Wealthy Are Richer. Since the birth of the United States of America on July 4, 1776 with the Declaration of Independence, this nation has been at war for 93% of its existence.
So, my main point now in the modern world is: You cannot be a Democracy and a World Empire at the same time. The United States was a Fascist country long before Donald Trump came to power. So, when it comes to Empire, I think President Eisenhower warned the American people about this on January 17, 1961, when he gave his Farewell Speech and talked about the feasible rise of the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex. Eisenhower warned against the potential for the Military-Industrial Complex to gain unwarranted influence within government, stating that ” The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
John Kennedy was about to become president. On November 22, 1963, he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Lyndon Johnson becomes president, and the Fascist War in Viet Nam was launched. The vileness of President Donald Trump is the current explosion in what is happening now. The swarming locusts are coming home to roost. The United States Government is the most dangerous government in the world. 93% of our history has been at war since 1776. Why do the American people continue to be fooled, no matter what political party is in power? Where does the amnesia come from? Most U.S. citizens do not know where their wealth and comfort come from. And, when insights attempt to give birth to wisdom, the fog of confusion surfaces: Whenever the truth threatens one’s core belief system, there is an urgent need to deny its reality. That is always why the pain of obedience and history repeats itself.
“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own government.” Martin Luther King Jr. April 4, 1967
April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Certainly after King voiced his deeply held opinions about the war in Viet Nam, he became a threat to his government, and the U.S. War Economy. In the same speech that Martin Luther King Jr. gave on April 4,1967, at Riverside Church in New York City, he was gravely concerned that our society was approaching spiritual death as a result of America’s extreme militarism.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/21/the-unspeakable-behind-no-kings/
Comments
Post a Comment