First of all, this writer has decided to reach out to his readership to clarify that the ARGENTUM POST is NOT a “political” blog.

It is a blog which supports policies which are based on democratic, ethical, honest, competent, non-interventionist, governance whose focus it is to enrich the conditions of human life, particularly in the U.S., by ending once for all the most perniciously destructive influence of the destructive elite establishment lobbies which syphon off trillions of dollars from our rightful entitlement to the most fundamental social needs and programs such as universal affordable care for all, infrastructure repair, affordable higher education, and many more.

This means that such lobbies as the industrial-military complex, the big pharma/hospital complex, and many other toxic undue influence lobbies such as most particularly the NRA and AIPAC lobbies, which have disseminated hate and fear fables which are nothing but dishonest establishment tropes on the basis of outright falsehoods which have become literal cover ups of reality, primarily due to (a) their influence on corrupted and/or ignorant Congresspersons and Presidents and (b) due to the failure of the biased news coverage of the corporatized mainstream media which in its dereliction of duty to inform accurately and without tabus/gag orders omissions, has failed spectacularly along with our educational system to honestly contextualize and educate the American public in ways which have allowed hegemonic, hawkish, corrupt, and dishonest misleading politicians to get away with the crimes of interventions in the inner affairs of a multiplicity of nations, by invasions and wars using egregious lies, and thereby wasting at our expense and in our name trillions and trillions of our hard earned tax dollars, not to mention the millions of innocent lives of the inhabitants of the countries we endlessly destabilize, invade, and bomb while additionally wasting the lives of our American soldiers who are called upon to carry out these crimes against humanity.

One more word about the writer of the ARGENTUM POST.

He is a now retired chemical research scientist who worked in a lab for 6 years, and then went on to study intellectual property protection in the field of chemical science to become a practitioner of patent law, as patent agent.

Furthermore, the writer of this ARGENTUM POST is the German/Brazilian son of parents who survived the Nazi crimes against the humanity of Jews and many others.

The writer of this ARGENTUM POST uses as a frame of reference secular/humanist values which are equivalent but not the same as spiritualized/humanist values, but the qualifier “humanist” being the common denominator, renders these two categories equivalent. Furthermore with that frame of reference is augmented plain pragmatism and plain common sense.

As regards to this writer’s “politics“, there is no single word which accurately describes it, since “politics” is a generic term which can be described as the art and/or science of gaining and consolidating power.

When it comes to such terms as “conservative” or “liberal”, again they are quite broad, and also particularly nowadays require some qualifiers.

The “humanist” qualifier used supra is a philosophical one but it also influences ones “political” views, and in this writer’s perspective one can be a “conservative” and a “liberal” simultaneously and one can also be a constructive, progressive values embracing conservative and/or a similarly constructive, progressive values embracing liberal.

When it comes to neocons and neolibs that is obviously not the case, and that is reflected in the way both camps have been characterized by myopic and/or ignorant and/or corrupted politicians who have embraced for decades values and actions which are not conducive to the best interests of the American people and of peoples abroad due the destructive, hawkish, hegemonic imperialistic and hence disastrous interventions abroad (with the exception, of course, WWII).

We have failed to heed the very important warning of President Eisenhower to “beware of the industrial-military complex and beware of foreign entanglements. BTW, Eisenhower also excoriated President Truman for making the U.S the first and only country to engage in the horrific misuse of nuclear bombs which killed some 200 thousand mostly innocent unarmed civilians at a time when the Japanese government had already prepared its surrender document.

So much then, with this foreword on this writer’s background which never was elaborated on since the ARGENTUM POST was launched in October of 2013.

Now, to cut to the chase of the objective of this article, in as succinct as possible manner, the following is declared.

The United States’ power structure has now entered a most critical stage in its history which has some major players who are members of the Trump cabinet validly characterizable as being in a state of utter degeneracy, in their appalling lack of competence, ethics, honesty, accountability, and respect for innocent human lives.

The United States’ power structure has now joined similarly degenerate and reckless power structures of nations whose leaders despise and assault constitutional democratic values and human rights and in their fully fascist right wing extremist assaults join literal murderers, and other forms of low-lives in the reckless pursuit of their sinister, greedy, irrational, conquests.

Point in case has been brazenly revealed in the Warsaw Conference in Poland (aka the “Warsaw Circus”).

There, all the members of the emerging phenomenon of so-called “populist” or “strong men” , i.e. the so-called “usual suspects” have come together to insidiously plan ways to zero in on Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, Nicaragua as the next countries to be destabilized by horrific sanctions which only exacerbate the lives of their innocent populations, and that is the main objective in the demented state of degeneracy of said “usual suspects” as they feeble-mindedly hope that this will lead the people’s of these countries to overthrow their governments so that these destabilizers then can enter these countries using all along the hypocritically the phony pretext of bringing them “democracy” when in reality all they aim for is the take over by privatization of resources such as petroleum, and with it, the destruction of infrastructure and the killings of uncountable thousands of innocent people who naturally resist interventionist neo-imperial violations of international law and therefore resist by any means available.

This is the obscene picture which is now unravelling abroad, while “we the people” have to endure the consequences of these crimes against the humanity in our name and with our tax funds.

We must bear these consequences in mind as we and our children and/or grandchildren will inherit the legacy of the burden of this insanity and we must keep in mind that the cost of the coming devastations will have to factor in the fact that we now have reached a record $ 22 trillion dollar national debt, which amounts to $ 66 thousand dollars per person, for which we now are paying $ 310 billion dollars per year on interests.

Also, we in the U.S. are already experiencing the beginning of a hemorrhage of our treasury as the hyper-inflated offensive defense budget of close to $ 1 billion dollars annually coupled to our deficit is certain to impact on all of us as our misleader is now talking about millions to modernize our nuclear weapons, after he vandalized the Iran P5+1 successful nuclear agreement with Iran, and the Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) agreement with Russia.

Coupled to this spending, we now have reached a record $ 22 trillion dollar national debt, which amounts to $ 66 thousand dollars per person, for which we now are paying $ 310 billion dollars per year on interests.

Additionally, for bizarre reasons $ 10 million dollars per day flow to Israel while Israel, violated non-proliferation of its clandestinely acquired arsenal of nuclear weapons, having not only proliferated such weapons to the odious Apartheid regime white supremacist regime of South Africa, but having assisted in its assembly and then having detonated an underwater nuclear explosion there. The best source of this historical fact is the book by the Jewish author Sasha Polakow-Suransky titled ” The Unspoken Alliance : Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa“. BTW, Israel has now declared itself an Apartheid state.

This article would become much too prolixy if links to all specific example of this alarming state of affairs were to be provided. One example though is provided herein by Finian Cunningham, who as this writer, was first a scientist and then became a professional journalist and said the following about this bizarre conference which actually failed to bring in the major global leaders of the developed world.

First a word about Cunningham’s background.

Finian Cunningham (born 1963) has written extensively on international affairs, with articles published in several languages. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, he is a Master’s graduate in Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a scientific editor for the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England, before pursuing a career in newspaper journalism. For over 20 years he worked as an editor and writer in major news media organizations, including The Mirror, Irish Times and Independent. Now a freelance journalist based in East Africa, his columns appear on RT, Sputnik, Strategic Culture Foundation and Press TV.

Now the what Cunningham stated about this Warzaw “Circus”.

The example is titled ” US-led Anti-Iran Circus in Warzaw Unravels as Farce“

A word now about what has been referred to by “the usual suspects” to be specific.

These are some of the perpetrators of the neofascist movement which has pretty much coalesced and was in its state of incubation as soon as the 2016 Trump campaign started to startle the world with its incoherence, its “entertainment” value to some, and its relevance to the said “usual suspects” which either were already out there, such as Israel’s power structure misleader Benjamin Netanyu, who started to double down along with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, and others named infra.

At the onset, it must be said, that it is an imperative for these literal outlaws or inchoate outlaws to be totally contained on a global basis, before they enact their deranged fantasies of global hegemony and elimination of democracy, otherwise eventually if this situation continues to fester and polarize America and the world, major violent confrontations will occur which will have the potential to lead to the catastrophic consequences of major world powers to do damage to each other to the point that an actual world war ensues.

So see infra, most of the so-called suspects which are acting like potential arsonists in their attempt to raise havoc in the world order for self-interests, greed for power and a perverse lust for rolling back constitutional democratic governance and inaugurate a socially stratified world where survival of the fittest, nationalism, supremacy, racism, misogyny, classism, Islamophobia, homophobia, and genuine racist anti-Semitism rule.

Donald Trump, Trump’s ditto head VP Pence, former convict for lying to Congress on Iran-Contra scandal Elliot Abrahams, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu who may be indicted for on three counts of lying and corruption in Israel this month, literal murder/terrorist of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad Bin Salman, and now the fascist Jair Bolsonaro, a self described evangelical Zionist, who after a judicial coup against former President Lula, is now an ardent follower of Trump and Netanyahu who wants Brazil to move its embassy to Jerusalem of the “Corpus Separatum” status on the basis of UN rules. Bolsonaro is additionally a former convict who spent time in jail for attempting to blow a government building in Brazil, and to boot he is a pathologically documented misogynist, racist, and homophobe.

Additionally of course we have Rodrigo Duterte, the murderous dictator of the Philippines, who authorized to have thousands of “suspects” to be executed by police and vigilantes (who actually was invited by Trump to the White House), and the murderous dictator of Egypt (the country which is the second largest recipient of U.S. aid ), namely al Sissi who has executed and incarcerated thousands without any due judiciary process after he overthrew Egypt’s first and only democratically elected President Morzi. Last but not least we can mention Aung San Suu Kyi  who impersonated so well being a decent pro-democracy individual which had to challenge military thugs in Burma (aka Myanmar) but then, morphed into a silent witness and bizarre denier of the massacre and expulsion of thousands of people from Burma who were not wanted there because they were Moslems and then she went beyond and incarcerated journalists reporting on this crime against humanity.

Not all of these misleading criminals were present at the Warzaw Conference/”Circus”.

Additionally, for bizarre reasons $ 10 million dollars per day flow to Israel while Israel, violated non-proliferation of its clandestinely acquired arsenal of nuclear weapons, having not only proliferated such weapons to the odious Apartheid regime white supremacist regime of South Africa, but having assisted in its assembly and then having detonated an underwater nuclear explosion there. The best source of this historical fact is the book by the Jewish author Sasha Polakow-Suransky titled ” The Unspoken Alliance : Israel’s Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa“. BTW, Israel has now declared itself an Apartheid state.

So, clearly the way forward is first and foremost the removal of Donald Trump from the seat of power by peaceful and constitutional means such as impeachment, invocation of the 25th Amendment, or more spectacular victories for PROGRESSIVE Democrats to the point that Trump may choose to resign prior to the 2020 election when he undoubtedly will be defeated.

Of course, his removal without concomitant removal of Mike Pence would not result in full solution of the crisis. Just yesterday, besides inciting war on Venezuela shamelessly and illegally, Pence had the outrageous, imbecilic, malevolent audacity to falsely liken Nazi Germany to Iran. (Elaboration on this inflammatory distortion of historical reality is in the draft of an ARGENTUM POST article to be published within 72 hours, since a letter to the editor The Washington Post was submitted by this writer today and the publication of the article submitted to the Washington Post requires that said ARGENTUM POST article not be submittted prior to it.).

To have individuals such as Trump and Pence misleading America and the world is to have a major national and international security threat 24/7.

To finalize this article with news we can celebrate, see the infra annotations about two welcomed developments.

(a) The House vote thanks to the progressive Democrats and some decent, moderate Republicans that ushers in the beginning of the end of the Constitutional violations of the War Powers Act which will end Trump’s enablement of the murderous terrorist Saudi Arabian power structure’s Bin Salman, an enablement which Trump shamelessly did not only end but continued with full force in assisting in the aerial bombardment of the poorest nation in the Middle East, namely Yemen, something which resulted in the deaths of some 10 thousand people, and is the greatest humanitarian disaster in the world which has created famine, a cholera epidemic, and loss of hope. And this not to mention that Bin Salman was responsible for the assassination of the U.S. based journalist Jamal Kahshoggi for being an advocate of democracy in the dictatorship of Saudi Arabia, and

(b) the finally accelerating demise of the Israel AIPAC lobby as its credibility has been finally given the major blow it long deserved by the exposure of how dishonestly it operates and disseminates false propaganda by- for example – the way it misuses the term “anti-Semitism” (which is REAL odious racism) , for its self-serving inflammatory objectives of (1) conflating it with the term “Zionism” which is an ideology of nationalism coupled to racist supremacy, to propagate and cover up how Israel’s continues to this day, to oppress barbarically the Palestinians as they have since 1948, and to boot by how now it carries out in its self-declared Apartheid entity, the killing every weekend of peaceful demonstrators in the greatest concentration camp of history and in the world, namely Gaza, for simply demanding their human right to be free in their own land, and

(2) by the use of the ruse to falsely accuse the newly elected members of the progressive Democratic party as being “anti-Semitic” in ways which not only smear them, but as well all smear all other decent, Torah values abiding, progressive and humanist Jews who totally support the valid criticism of Israel, support the BDS punitive sanctions, as it now meddles in the internal affairs of Venezuela, and Brazil, as it did during the days of the Dirty Wars in El Salvador and in Guatemala when it sent their fascist, racist, decadent dictatorships weaponry to assist in the genocide – particularly in Guatemala – of its autochthonous populations.

For amply documented evidence of this historical fact, see the “Dirty Wars” by Jeremy Scahill and/or Allan Nairn, both highly distinguished and awarded investigative journalists.

Incidentally, also amply documented in the literature, is how during the incursion of Zionists into Palestine which started in 1948, three terrorist organizations of Zionist, namely Irgun, Haganah, and the Stern Gang, all carried out acts of extreme violence against the small population of Jewish Palestinians living there in peace with everyone (as did the grandfather of this writer), and if they would not totally align with the terrorist Zionists and therefore refused to obey such orders, they were punished by having their homes demolished or by being assassinated.

For documented evidence of this historical reality see or read the book/documentary by the Jewish courageous academic Ilan Pappe titled “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine “