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They Cannot Stop the Time... By Kelson Maynard

  European and European-American civilization privilege the use of force and power to achieve domination.   These two ideals are central to it.   Its liberalism and epistemology of knowledge do not challenge these ideals of force and power.   Thus, the prevalence of war and conquest as part of their modern history of European colonialism and United States of America imperialism.   Subscription to this ideology of war confers upon believers a sense of community forged in the context of conflict and struggle.   Heroic and violent patriotism subsumes any notion of courtesy and civility.   Resoluteness, sacrifice, genocide, and manifest destiny are the hallmarks of this ideology of war, in the pursuit of the maintenance of European and European-American supremacy over Africans, Asians, Latin Americans, and Caribbeans. In our contemporary moment in the United States of America, Donald Trump has used and is utilizing these ideals to create a community of followers and believers whose mem
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Politics in the Absence of Ethics and Morals By Kelson Maynard

  Ethics comes from an external source: codes of conduct- workplace, organizations, institutions. Morals are one’s own principles about what is right and wrong.   Our morals are derived from cultural influences, religion and spirituality, and subjective experiences. The 21 st century western political order is dominated by epistemological destruction of any balance between European and European American explicit and implicit professed beliefs and practices.   They deliberately inflict suffering and evil on global populations to advance their neo-liberal interests.   The reason is political and it is detached from ethics and morals. The practice of morality and ethics by Europeans and their descendants is suspended in war.   The detachment of morals and ethics from politics leads to systematic and calculated murder- Gaza war- and obscene decisions when rationality is divorced from morals and ethics- United States of America supreme court decisions: bump stock ban reversal; Roe
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Up with Socialism By Kelson Maynard and Jack Miller

  Socialism as a political and economic and social theory aims to advocate and establish policies for the control of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of goods and services.   These policies are regulated by the community.   The community is represented by the state.   The state is   defined as the political entity that possesses sovereignty over a defined geographic area and population. It exercises control through legal and institutional structures. The state's functions are broad and encompass the creation and enforcement of laws, maintaining order, protecting property rights, defending sovereignty, and providing public goods and services. The state is a permanent and enduring entity. It remains even as governments change. Government on the other hand is the organization or system through which the state exercises its authority and performs its functions.   The government is made up of institutions and officials that create, enforce, and interpret laws. It
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The Hidden Hand of Investment Management Companies By Kelson Maynard

  The present  euphoria of the Harris/Walz campaign against the Trump/Vance campaign has put in stark relief the stakes involved: a challenge to the control of  investment management firms that control approximately $50 trillion in assets.  These firms by virtue of these enormous assets  wield unparallel economic and political power.  They use this power to shape policies that deepen economic inequalities in the United States of America and globally. Investment management companies such as Black Rock, Vanguard, UBS (Union Bank of Switzerland), Fidelity, State Street, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase decide where that $50 trillion will be invested.  It is the role of the government of the United States of America, its military, and its intelligence agencies to protect that vital capital investment of those companies and others in the United States of America and globally. These investment companies have approximately $400 billion invested in oil and gas producing companies. They have appr
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I Am...By Jack Miller

                                                         I Am... By Jack Miller Rugged and old , tough soul I am streaming up the Mississippi and the Niger that bends and curves,  where Planters never defend                this soul... nor any amends from their human               flaws.  I am Savannah, I produced rice, indigo, tobacco and king cotton... 4 my traffic Czar at the Southeast coast,          of dirt, filth and rotten. Afflicted with acts of sin and evil, harvesting rice and cotton crops as blood spills. I Am... Rugged and cold, bitter soul I am my ancestors tolled soil under Hacienda's burning son to grow, Brazil's sweet savory sugar for exporting  of capital gains across the Pond! I am Favela-Guarani indigenous...  Rugged and bold, uprising soul I am Dread Ras Scott I (eye) of the fighting Maroons... living up and off land in Caribbean hills, resisting left whip and broken chains amid          whirlwind typhoons. Alongside Tainos with Africans that cultivated Maro
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The Promise of BRICS By Kelson Maynard

The 21 st century so far is being characterized by imperial wars, denials of people’s sovereignty through occupations by military might, mass displacement of peoples, labor diasporas, the criminalization of refugees and migrants, and imminent environmental catastrophe.   These are all consequences of global capitalism.   Global capitalism’s hegemony made possible through western European and Euro-American militarism.   This system is legitimized through its knowledge system, international laws, and its ideology based on the sanctity of property.   This ideology legitimizes extreme violence against non-European peoples. To mask their nefarious designs and behavior around the world, Europeans and Euro-American imperialism established a discourse of human rights, which justifies their interventions in the sovereign domains of non-European governments and economies.   Their behaviors reaffirm the global status quo of existing global inequalities. In the 20 th century, the European-Am
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Narrow Loyalties... By Kelson Maynard

  The persistence of narrow loyalties retards the struggle against global capitalism.   It can lead to anarchy within the ranks of progressive forces.   The very forces that once professed revolutionary ideals and ideas, become embroiled in struggle for power not against capitalism but against each other.   Within the content and context of European and European American knowledge production system reason seems impossible to modify their will to power agenda. Every rule, every law, seems to be Janus faced.   There is no morality, no facts, no true and false, only their will to power. In the globalized, patriarchal, heterosexual, white supremacist social and economic system, the elites who run state seems motivated by the simple impulse of the will to power.   Nothing else matters.   Harmony and unity among human beings and with nature is not the goal of their actions; only the acquisition of power or the maintenance of their power. These elites manage the institutions and distrib
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