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Kamala Harris’s jingoistic neocon acceptance speech 

makes clear that America’s weapons-makers will boom and the poor will rot under her presidency.

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/)

Her acceptance speech on August 22nd gave no indication that she had any reservation about ANY of America’s numerous invasions ever since America invaded and destroyed (just to mention a few examples) Yugoslavia in 1994-2006, Haiti 1995-6, Iraq 2003-now, Libya 2011-now, Syria 2012-now (unlisted by CRS because U.S. was hiring Al Qaeda and Kurdish proxy-forces), Niger 2013-24, Ukraine 2014-now (U.S. Operation Atlantic Resolve against Russia), Poland and Lithuania in 2014 (NATO exercises against Russia), Kuwait in 2015, S. Korea in 2015 (against China), Yemen in 2016-now, Europe in 2017-now (permanent Operation Atlantic Resolve, against Russia), Honduras in 2017, and intensification of all of those in recent years. (That doesn’t even list any of the U.S.’s many coups, which likewise destroyed numerous countries, such as Ukraine 2014. So, at least after the Soviet Union ended in 1991, the U.S. Government has CLEARLY earned the title, “the Greatest Threat to Peace in the World Today”. No rational person can deny it, but the propaganda such as her speech can and does.)

Kamala Harris is, in fact, 100% a neoconservative (a supporter of extending the U.S. empire to include all countries) — a champion of the Military-Industrial Complex, and proponent of increasing U.S. ‘defense’ spending at the expense of all other Government-spending. At some point, America’s soaring $35 trillion Federal Government debt will have to be paid (by our children and grand-children), and unless the $1.5 trillion annually that this country is paying for its military (its 900 foreign military bases and all those weapons etc.) get severely reduced, the proportion of the federal budget that’s allocated each year to non-military purposes will decline even further than its current mere 47%.

As President, she will be a war-monger like the worst of the world’s imperialistic tyrants — Hitler, Hirohito, Mussolini, G.W. Bush, Obama, Biden — and all of those are even worse than Trump is (bad though that is). Furthermore, none of those tyrants had nuclear weapons, which explosions and after-effects in a war between superpowers would kill-off over half of the human population within just the first two years. So: that alone makes this overwhelmingly the most important single REAL issue in the U.S. Presidential election (though the electorate ignore it).

Here is her speech’s key passage about international relations, with links to the realities behind her rah-rah-rah neocon jingoism, added by me, documenting her outright lie or extreme mischaracterization at each one of those linked phrases — linking there directly to the evidence that she is trying (and apparently — to judge by the latest U.S. Presidential polls — succeeding) to deceive the public about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o10x76nSDEY

31:40 (in the video):

TRANSCRIPT OF THIS KEY PASSAGE (starting at 31:40 in her speech):

https://archive.is/6NSw0#selection-1669.5-1717.32

  AUDIENCE:  USA!  USA!  USA!

     THE VICE PRESIDENT [Harris]:  I will make sure that we lead the world into the future on space and artificial intelligence; that America, not China, wins the competition for the 21st century; and that we strengthen, not abdicate, our global leadership. 

     Trump, on the other hand, threatened to abandon NATO.  He encouraged Putin to invade our allies.  Said Russia could, quote, “do whatever the hell they want.”

     AUDIENCE:  Booo —

     THE VICE PRESIDENT:  Five days before Russia attacked Ukraine, I met with President Zelenskyy to warn him about Russia’s plan to invade.  I helped mobilize a global response — over 50 countries — to defend against Putin’s aggression.  (Applause.)  And as president, I will stand strong with Ukraine and our NATO Allies.  (Applause.)

     With respect to the war in Gaza, President Biden and I are working around the clock, because now is the time to get a hostage deal and a ceasefire deal done.  (Applause.)

     And let me be clear.  And let me be clear.  I will always stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself — (applause) — and I will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself, because the people of Israel must never again face the horror that a terrorist organization called Hamas caused on October 7 — (applause) — including unspeakable sexual violence and the massacre of young people at a music festival.

     At the same time, what has happened in Gaza over the past 10 months is devastating.  So many innocent lives lost.  (Applause.)  Desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, over and over again.  The scale of suffering is heartbreaking. [But, like an Israeli general admitted, “All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it’s all from the U.S. The minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting. You have no capability.” And Harris supports Biden’s Gaza-policy — the U.S. is co-equal with Israel for the blame in the ongoing genocide against the Gazans, but she says nothing against it. She just doesn’t want the voters to know about it, and says nothing about it.]

     President Biden and I are working to end this war, such that Israel is secure, the hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom, and self-determination.  (Applause.)

     And know this: I will never hesitate to take whatever action is necessary to defend our forces and our interests against Iran and Iran-backed terrorists.  I will not cozy up to tyrants and dictators like Kim Jong Un, who are rooting for Trump — who are rooting for Trump.  (Applause.)

     Because, you know, they know — they know he is easy to manipulate with flattery and favors.  They know Trump won’t hold autocrats accountable because he wants to be an autocrat himself.  (Applause.)

     And as president, I will never waver in defense of America’s security and ideals, because in the enduring struggle between democracy and tyranny, I know where I stand and I know where the United States belongs.  (Applause.)

     AUDIENCE:  USA!  USA!  USA!

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On August 20th, I headlined “Since Kamala Harris Won’t Reveal Her Record and Policies, I Will:” and reported and documented her actual policies, implemented at her initiative and by her as a public official, including not merely on international issues (which are so important to the billionaires who fund her political career) but also the many domestic issues (where her punishing of the poor has been more blatant).

Just because Trump is bad doesn’t mean that Harris is good. Both of them are such horrible candidates, so that at the Presidential line on November 5th, I shall be writing-in “Col. Douglas Macgregor”. (On 30 March 2022 I had nominated him for President, but no one seconded that; so, now, I shall write his name in, simply because both of the existing nominees are atrocious — and because Macgregor, both his record and his stated views, indicate that he would be a truly great President. I will never vote for a person who has enough of a record in public office to have made unequivocally clear that they are evil, which both Trump and especially Harris are. To vote for them is to vote for death.)

So, Kamala Harris’s jingoistic neocon acceptance speech makes clear that America’s weapons-makers will boom and the poor will rot under her presidency. There’s no reason to doubt it. All of the relevant evidence is for this conclusion. I have been closely following all of the U.S. Presidential candidates (or possible candidates) ever since at least 2022, well before any of them publicly announced, and this is my conclusion: the two major Parties are death-Parties, proven by the records of their respective nominees. This is no criticism of democracy, but of America’s lack of it. The facts must be faced, not hidden.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.