“The Hell We Are Living in”

Israel, Palestine and the Moral Suicide of the Western World

Part One

Less than three months ago (lest anyone forget) Benjamin Netanyahu had his bloody back up against the wall in Israel, politically speaking. On July 28th, it was reported in Reuters that Netanyahu’s stubborn (and quite frankly, fascistic) attempts to “reform” Israel’s judicial system was in fact jeapordizing the very safety of the country. “Israel’s air force chief on Friday warned that the country’s enemies may exploit its ongoing political crisis,” wrote Maayan Lubell of Reuters — meaning that Iran and Hezbollah were already honing in on Bibi’s blunders.

But by that time Israel was in a national uproar. Violent protests against Benjamin Netanyahu continued on a rolling basis, day after day, night after night, week after week. On July 25th, 2023, Israeli doctors declared a strike; two reservists in the IDF were punished for not heeding training call up, one being fined 1,000 shekels. All-black ads covered Israeli newspapers. One headline read, true to the Israeli’s low opinion of all things black, “A Black Day for Israeli Democracy.”

In layman’s terms, the new protests were triggered by the Israeli government’s attempt to grab more power for itself and essentially turn the country into a police state. Israel’s air force chief, Major-General Tomer Bar, already warned this macho lunatic (Bibi) that “the country’s enemies” — Arabs, that is, and more specifically Palestinian civilians of all stripes — were going to exploit Israel’s judicial overhaul in an attempt to wreck the country. Bibi himself was officially barred from involvement in the judicial reform because he was actually on trial for graft, of all things.

According to Ms. Lubell, “The (Israeli) government has been pushing for changes that would limit the Supreme Court’s powers to rule against the legislature and the executive, while giving coalition lawmakers more power in appointing judges.” Reading between the lines of Reuters it becomes clear that these clowns who make up the ruling coalition of Israel are total fascists who think the Israeli Supreme Court is “too left-leaning” for their tastes, and want to turn the fucking country into — like I said — a police state, with Bibi as Supreme Chancellor. Israel doesn’t have a constitution. “The panel for selecting judges requires politicians and judges who sit on it to agree on appointments. The present proposal would change that, giving coalition governments decisive sway.”

A palace revolt among the settlers…

Everyone is pissed at “Bibi” baby, except his fascist henchmen in the Knesset

The protests continued right on through August and into September, making many people believe that all Israel was going to collapse on Bibi’s watch. Considering what has happened in Israel and Gaza in retrospect, it is hard for me to quell the suspicion that Bibi — like Dubya on September 10–11, 2001, in case anyone forgot about that — knew what was about to happen but instead, chose to ignore it.

The protests against Bibi have actually been going on for three years; they continue to this very day, a week after the shit hit the fan the morning of October 7th, 2023.

That morning Hamas, along with five other belligerents against Israel, breached Israel’s “impenetrable” irone dome and stormed the “Supernova Sukkot Gathering” near Re’im, a kibbutz dating from 1949, and about a stone’s throw from the Gaza Strip itself. (I found out about it while wasting my time on TheColi.com instead of finishing my novel like I should have — like I really should be doing now, to be honest. But some things have to be said nonetheless.)

The oddly comical video clip of people rushing across the desert turned out to be Israelis fleeing an all-out massacre by the Palestinian Coalition. (The Western press keeps on braying about “Hamas.” The Palestinian Offensive is actually a coalition of six fighting forces.) Now anybody who knows anything about the Gaza Strip knows that it is one of the world’s most heavily patrolled and tightly controlled stretches of land. You can’t simply go in and out of Gaza freely, whether through the many checkpoints (a lot of which were actually closed over the years) or even from the sea: in fact, humanitarian efforts to assist Gazans from the sea have resulted in deaths at the hands of trigger-happy Israeli battleships. So the inevitable question is: how in the hell did Hamas and the Coalition managed to breach this asshole-tight security apparatus with armed hang-gliders, of all things?

Simple: Netanyahu’s political caveman antics over the winter and spring and summer of 2023 — and the resulting social and political turmoil in Israel — made such a thing possible. Bibi had been warned by his own henchmen that his antics would be detrimental to the country’s security. Hell, even Egypt had warned Bibi that things were not asshole-tight, but the Nodding Yahoo monkeyed around all summer long.

It’s my contention that Bibi, knowing he was cornered like a rat politically speaking, deliberately allowed for this crazy situation to escalate, essentially allowing Hamas and other militant groups to take advantage of the socio-political chaos in Israel and create a nightmare scenario that would, in effect, allow Bibi to have political carte-blanche. And here we are, ladies and gentlemen: at this point, with the whole neoliberal edifice basically at his feet, Bibi can do as he pleases.

Israeli settlers who were showing their genocidal racist ass before have now decided to show even more genocidal racist ass — and all of it couched in the most insane hyperbole. Look at how Hamas (eg., “Arabs”) shot up the “Sukkhot Gathering” at Re’im, they shout. Look at how they burned the Re’im kibbutz to the ground. They left absolutely nothing, not even memories. They killed upwards to 300 Israelis and even slit the bellies of pregnant women, raped and decapitated children, the elderly, etc., etc. And to back up their hysterical claims, they’ve even shown images of the decapitated and maimed Israeli children and blown up buildings. (The only problem with these “images” is that they are in fact images of decapitated and burned Palestinian children or, in some cases, AI-generated bullshit.)

This picture is from 2018

Israel bombing Gaza…in 2015

From 2018

From today: a bit of Israeli settler “humor”

Every Palestinian in the world, the Israeli settler now shrieks, must be exterminated. Palestinians (and their “lackeys,” who are all “nazi”) should be hunted down the world over, exposed the world over. Palestinians are “human animals” — of course, they’ve stopped short of calling them “monkeys” but hell, that’s not necessary when you’ve basically declared them unpersons worthy of being destroyed. As for supporters of these horrible Palestinian “animals,” they scream, we’ll show these scum, these cockroaches and “leftist” pieces of shit. Forget all that crap about “never again” or “nie wieder” — why, all that stuff is for losers!!*

If you were to listen to the psychotic, unhinged ravings of idiots like Nikki Haley, Lindsey Graham and every other pro-Israel hack in the U.S. Government, you would take leave of your senses and forget precisely why Palestinian resistance would butcher 275+ people in the middle of the desert, and at a hipster rave, no less. You would scratch your head in perplexed outrage, wondering why on earth would these “Ay-rabs” choose the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War to do such a dastardly thing.

Well, then. Why?

A hypothetical question of course, but why?

First of all — ostensibly, anyway — it made absolutely no sense why a bunch of spoiled, pampered Israeli hipsters chose to throw a fucking dope rave a literal stone’s throw from Gaza. But since Israelis have a long and distinguished history of doing shit like this, let’s just say they were being more than a little provocative. When close to 2 million people are packed in an urban hellscape only 141 square miles long; a place where adequate food, water, heating and other basic amenities are in terribly short supply, and where the majority of residents are under the age of 18, one can’t be too surprised that the outcome was catastrophic. Not only was the concept foolhardy to begin with, it was more than disrespectful: it was the moral equivalent of Charlie and his Orchestra throwing a swing concert just outside of Auschwitz.

White, western moderates (or even liberals) naturally will find this moral equivalent outrageous. Judeophobes themselves, they love to point to the fact (and usually through a Jewish voice) that the State of Israel’s existence was founded on clear, solid moral principle–as the world’s compensation to the Jewish people as a result of the Holocaust. This simply isn’t true.

The cold, hard reality is that Israel was created by the West simply because the West didn’t want Jews in their respective nations. We all know why, of course. The real aim of the Balfour declaration of 1917 was to create a kind of dumping ground for the Jewish people, NOT (as many will violently insist) a “return,” not a “homeland.” The West (aka, white people) never liked Jews. All that goyish babble about the Rotschilds, about “usury,” about “blood libel” and all that crap was simply a bundle of cheap alibis concocted by various European “thinkers” to rationalize their continuing perscutions, massacres and expulsions of Jews from their respective countries.

By dumping the Jews into a settler state-slash-Anglo-American colonial outpost, the British essentially killed two birds with one stone: number one, they all but quashed any possibility of democracy emerging in the Arab world; and two, they essentially made Jews the ultimate historical heel in this debacle by making them the settlers of Palestine rather than the British, the French or the Turks. The British had already figured out that this region of the world was a deeply contentious one politically and historically speaking. Being deeply anti-Semitic themselves (and double anti-Semites at that: they couldn’t stand Arabs, either), they felt that Western interests would best be served with Israelis being the cops of the Middle East while the Americans, Brits, French and others helped themselves to the natural resources of the Middle East (with a little help from the Saudis). While one shouldn’t forget France’s role in the creation of the Syrian catastrophe, one should not sleep on the fact that the British (after the Ottomans) have been the real historical boogeymen in the Levant. (In fact many of the great global disasters you see unfolding in the world today have their origins in the sly and sinister machinations of British imperialists such as Lord Curzon, the literal mastermind behind most of the shit that has transpired between India, Pakistan and Bangladesh from 1906 onward.)

By shifting responsibility for the political situation in the Levant to the Israelis, the British effectively wiped their hands clean from 1948 onward. The British were not dumb (well, up to a point: they’re extremely clever), knowing that both Israelis and Palestinians were combative and hot-headed about their respective situations. How could they not be, seeing that Israelis had just fled the Holocaust and that Palestinians had been chafing under centuries of Ottoman rule and under more recent British rule — as well as the tensions caused by Britain allowing for Jewish settlement in Palestine?

The British obviously figured that in the very end the Israelis would freak out, commit a settler colonial genocide against Palestinians and eventually set themselves up as a major heel of history, literally on a par with Nazi Germany. It is my contention that those Jews who fell for the Zionist movement got played like a fiddle — by Europe, and above all by England. Europe was simply fed up with Jews in precisely the same way that the United States, in the early 19th century, was already fed up with Africans.

Allison Wiltz, a blogger on medium.com, extensively referenced Liberia in an essay explaining why African Americans — Arab racism notwithstanding — tend to show solidarity with the Palestinian cause. This is not as irrelevant as it sounds on the surface. In fact, I believe that Black people cannot fully understand the Israeli situation unless they have some grasp of the equally horrific situation in Liberia. Both nations were founded on similar principles and with similar intent: just as many Europeans were keen of removing Jews from European soil many Americans of the 19th century (among them that Great Liberator Abraham Lincoln) were particularly keen of de-blacking America. What needs to be discussed in this context, of course, is what happened to the freed black American slave once he became the ruling minority in Liberia.

Long story short: in Liberia the former Black American slave became a settler, an “Americo-Liberian” — a brutal, bloodthirsty oppressor who, for 133 years, treated the indigenous West African in his new “homeland” with the same utter contempt that the white American once showed him. The indigenous West African, in fact, often lashed out against his Afro-American oppressor with the same kind of violence that Hamas, Hezbollah and the PLO have historically visited upon Israel. The loathsome William Tolbert — the late dictator of Liberia — was morally on the same low road as those old alterkackers and warmongers Menachem Begin, Itzhak Shamir, Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon and of course, Bibi the Butcher.

I know this has been said literally a million times before, but it must be said a million times again until some of you buttholes out there understand precisely what is going on. This is not a fucking Bugs Bunny cartoon. Israel is not a force for good in the world and is not a democratic state. Many Israelis themselves actually loathe the place or — at the very least —loathe the idiot who is in control of it. Israel has made it blatantly clear that it is a racist apartheid ethnostate with no set geographic boundaries — meaning, of course, it intends to grab more land for itself over the coming decades.

Apartheid is Mississippi-style Jim Crow on steroids. Apartheid is a crime against humanity. It’s the Israelis, remember, who are the perpetrators of these crimes against humanity and not the other way around. Why? Because Israel has the resources to persecute and rob an entire people of their humanity; Palestinians don’t. They don’t have a country; the Gaza Strip doesn’t count, even though it’s currently being managed by Hamas, an entity virtually created BY Israel as a political counter-weight to the Marxist and secular PLO. (Israel hates Commies.) When you have an actual wall separating Arabs from the Israelis, you have apartheid. When you have Palestinian workers jumping through perilous and demeaning hoops each morning to get to work to feed their families, you have fucking apartheid. When 155,000 of your own people are slaughtered for shits and giggles over the span of a decade (not counting previous decades from 1928) you have what amounts to defacto genocide.

Israel being…Israel

And when, in rebelling against such appalling and dehumanizing conditions, the oppressed Palestinians of Gaza decide to revolt and kill their oppressors (like the Americans did in 1775, in case anyone forgot), you have a revolution. It is the same kind of war that the French fought against Louis XI, but you can’t say that in today’s Western World. The white man doesn’t want to hear it. But he has to hear it even if it kills him: when oppressed people are finally pushed so that their backs are against the wall, they will explode and do things their own way. They are going to burn shit down; they are going to kill their oppressors. It’s not going to be “pretty” or “exotic.” As one of your “Founding Fathers” himself said, “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots.”

Thomas Jefferson said that. And yes, Johnny-boy, he owned slaves. But that’s not the point. The point is that when the oppressed seize the initiative to free themselves, they won’t do it in such a way that makes you “feel good.” They don’t give a fuck about “raves” or anything like that. They don’t consult your little handbooks on “how to deal with oppression.” They have decided to “de-Orientalize” themselves by any and all necessary means. And just in case you motherfuckers haven’t noticed, THAT is the thing that separates the adults from sniveling, snotty-nosed little children like yourselves.

*Note: The Canary Mission was created precisely to root out all these demonic individuals who would dare think ill of Israel and question its motives for even existing. So far this “Mission” has spilled the dirt on an appalling number of anti-Semitic “animals” who have shown solidarity with Palestine — among them, naturally, those schwoogies Marc Lamont Hill and Cornel West. Oddly enough, however, Kanye West doesn’t seem to be on this list.

The Shea-Butter Boogie

Against the new Pork Chop Intellectuals of the Digital Age

Porkchop pseudo-intellectualism has been a huge problem in Black America for decades. In fact, in 1967 (the very year I was born) Harold Cruse essentially complained about the exact same thing in an entire book, entitled The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual. A few passages stand out:

“(Black writers) are not getting down to the facts of class factors in our struggle for freedom because they are not telling the truth about whose freedom we are fighting for and who is going to do what with whose freedom once ‘we’ get it…They are lost sheep bleating to the God of Freedom for their deliverance…(T)hey analyze nothing and clarify less and less and heap confusion on top of confusion.”

“It is…an unfortunate development in Negro life that political interracialism has become so doctrinaire that certain nationalistic Negroes have been forced to resort to race hate in order to block out the negative effect of interracialism on ethnic consciousness. All race hate is self-defeating in the long run because it distorts the critical faculties.”

Above all, this one passage seems to stand out:

“The special role of the Negro intellectual is a cultural one. He should take to the rostrum and assail the stultifying blight of the commercially depraved white middle-class who has poisoned the structural roots of the American ethos and transformed the American people into a nation of intellectual dolts. He should explain the economic and institutional causes of this American cultural depravity. He should tell Black America how and why Negroes are trapped in this cultural degeneracy, and how it has dehumanized their essential identity, squeezed the lifeblood of their inherited cultural ingredients out of them, and then relegated them to the cultural slums.”

The last passage, in which Cruse references “cultural slums,” is prescient. One has to be brutally honest here in assessing precisely what has happened to Black American culture since 1967. Fifty-six years ago there still existed a Black Arts Movement (mostly a bohemian/intellectual movement) as well as a general flourishing of Black music at that time in all genres, and the Black cultural arbiters from that very year today read like a Who’s Who of African American legends (Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Ike and Tina Turner, Nina Simone, Booker T and the MGs, Aretha Franklin, Lena Horne, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, Moms Mabley, Louis Armstrong (who had a hit at the time), Coleman Hawkins, Mary Lou Williams, Ben Webster, John Coltrane (who died that year), Alice Coltrane, Duke Ellington (still performing and deep into writing his Religious Suites), Amiri Baraka, Ralph Ellison, Ishmael Reed (The Freelance Pallbearers came out that year), James Baldwin, John Oliver Killens, David Henderson, Calvin Hernton, John A. Williams (“The Man Who Cried I Am”), Mari Evans, Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Walker Alexander (“Jubilee”) Joe Jordan, Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake (whose own musical comeback in ragtime was just a couple years away). After looking at this impressive (and very incomplete) cultural roster for 1967, one has to wonder just what in the hell Harold Cruse was bellyaching about when he wrote the above lines.

But one also has to keep in mind that Cruse was born in 1915 (he died in 2006) and, in addition to having studied extensively the history of American culture (from a New York perspective, chiefly Harlem) had a deep memory of the New York cultural scene stretching back at least to the Great Depression. The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual was, in a nutshell, the writing on the wall for the late Sixties, warning Black America of yet another impending (and far worse) “cultural slum” that the American white cultural elite was going to box them into.

And here we are in 2023. If it were at all possible to take a time machine back to the “cultural slums” of 1967, Black American culture today would look more like what it really is: some rotting dystopian hell-scape, far worse even than any Brazilian favela or Yemeni shanty-town. In fact it’s generally agreed upon these days that Black American culture is absolute TRASH.

Unfortunately, as one can see by clicking the above links, most of those declaiming the worthlessness of Black American (or Black Western) culture are themselves largely responsible for keeping Black culture in its current trashy state. They represent the more conservative wing of the Shea Butter Pork Chop “Intellectuals.” Of course they are not really intellectuals at all but a bunch of mid-shelf social media celebrities who’ve made a name for themselves gossiping (for the most part) about irrelevant shit, much of it having something to do with sex or some childish beef between one empty-headed “rapper” and another.

Politically speaking, it is rather hard to pin them down. On the far right of the spectrum you have the deranged and loony ankh-right, mostly male of course (some of them are so crazy they actually believe that child rape is something acceptable!!) — the most prominent of whom have found comfortable niches on social media flim-flamming gullible, credulous and (sadly) very ignorant black folk out of their hard-earned dollars to support the building of schools, museums, shopping malls, businesses, etc., that naturally fail to materialize on their opening date.

Further to the left, the Afropunk rejects (the true shea butter crowd), the vast majority of whom tend to come from the middle and upper-middle-classes, take up the majority of the “intellectual” space. Of course there are those “serious” public intellectuals such as Cornel West and Ta-Nehisi Coates (whom many in Black America consider to be laughingstocks), Michael Eric Dyson and Marc Lamont Hill, the late bell hooks, etc. But to be honest, the latter crowd is largely a hangover of the Black intellectual failures of the 1990s-early 2000s. Today the “serious” intellectual space in Black America has become largely neglected in favor of Mickey Mouse bullshit masquerading as “serious” intellectual rigor, a perfect case in point being the “anti-racism” cottage industry (largely led by the Ibrahim Kendis of this world).

In reality, the “left” pork-chop intellectual crowd is largely female (and upper-middle-class) dominant, while the “right” team is largely petty-bourgeois or working class, male and tends to pal it up (during election time) with the MAGA monkeys. But one thing that both the left and the right pork-chop intellectuals have in common is their unhealthy fixation upon relationships, intellectual “rigor” be damned. (That last should be plainly obvious by their painfully bad grammar and awkward sentence structure.)

The “right” pork-chop side is dominated by Red-Pill and MGTOW ideology, predicated upon the premise that Western black women (chiefly American and Anglo-Saxon) put on too many airs and are running into the arms of some adolescent Hollywood fantasy hunk (or some decadent billionaire) over six feet tall. On the “left” side of the coin, the “swirlers” and part-time gay/lesbian (experimenting) folk have (on some occasions) taken to rejecting black men entirely as “dusty” and “trash.” In this author’s opinion, both are more or less right: none of these motherfuckers are sexy.

Why I Didn’t Like Zurich

…and didn’t even stick around to see Joyce’s tombstone

Okay. I have to admit that I do have one slightly positive thing to say about Zurich, which I had the misfortune of visiting last summer. It is a pretty little place, sort of. Not Paris pretty or even Venice pretty (judging from postcards and pics alone), but cute enough. Some pictures I took of the place last year can give you a rough idea of what I’m talking about.

Zurich, July 2022, taken by author

I didn’t see the whole town; I gave up after five hours or so and hopped on an early evening train back to Germany.

I wasn’t so much disgusted as I was simply bored and indifferent. Zurich struck me as a soulless place: smug, self-satisfied, insufferably upper-middle-class. After the third or fourth hour in that insanely expensive town (I didn’t bother renting out a hotel room for a night) I felt I’d seen enough for a lifetime.

Zurich reminded me of a grandiose shopping mall-slash-theme park for the well-heeled. From the moment I left the main station and entered the city I felt something was way off; the vibe felt wrong to me. I didn’t quite know what it was that felt wrong those first few minutes, but as I walked around the town, vainly hoping to lose myself in its somewhat vapid beauty for the next five or six hours, I found myself coming to the sad conclusion that Zurich was uninhabitable. And not just to live in Zurich (God forbid) but even for a fucking day-trip.

Zurich, July 2022. Taken by author.

Many of you reading this screed might vehemently disagree, which is perfectly fine. As the old saying goes, one man’s cesspool is another man’s paradise. If one is fine with spending 33 Swiss Francs (slightly over 34 euro in 2022) for a mediocre Syrian kebab that one can easily get in Munich or Hamburg for less than half that, be my guest. I haven’t seen enough of Munich to say anything about it (other than a lot of minstrelesque bullshit at the Hauptbahnhof last summer while escaping Zurich) — but I’ve seen enough of Hamburg to say that it is infinitely preferable to Zurich and just possibly, even Munich.

Hamburg, at least, is entertaining in a sick way. It has a huge lumpenproletariat that appears to have taken over the main bus station and at least one major park (from what I’ve observed), among other things. I’m not insinuating that alcoholics, junkies and prostitutes are something to be gawked at, as if they are walking minstrel shows. What I am saying is that in Hamburg there exists an entire spectrum of humanity that exists in some spaces there, usually out in the open around the Hauptbahnhof and in St. Georg; Hamburg’s being a seaport certainly contributes to this human spectrum. One sees all kinds of people in Hamburg; in Zurich, one merely sees a bunch of suburban schmucks drawn from every single corner of the globe, including Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.

Zurich’s racism seemed more low-key than the cruder East Berlin variety. Nonetheless, it certainly exists: it’s the “elegant” variety, where they look at you in a vaguely unpleasant way. One could easily dismiss these “racist” looks as imaginary, but when I was on the train riding from Schiffhausen (at the German-Swiss border) to Zurich I had the misfortune of locking eyes with some matchstick-sized, wannabe-supermodel-type of Asian descent. The woman saw the top third of my face (the other two-thirds shielded with a medical mask) and promptly winced in absolute disgust — thereupon setting the tone (so I felt) for what was to follow.*

Zurich, July 2022, photo by author

By my second hour in Zurich I was sweating profusely (it was extremely hot) and bored to tears. I went to a Syrian restaurant and was promptly seated next to a group of (presumably) very rich, smug and narcissistic-looking African dudes in designer sport clothes, who wolfed down what seemed like dozens of kebabs and sandwiches between them (and washed all that down with endless bottles of Perrier water and rare red wines. I merely ordered a Coke and a kebab.

The grand total for these two items was a whopping 40 Euros. The gay waiter who came out to shoo away the unbelievable clusters of flies and wasps from the little tables seemed quite agitated at the presence of Negroes seated out on the terrasse (the other diners pretended not to notice us) but like a real trooper, tried his damnedest to mask his irritation as the bourgie Africans ran up an outrageous tab and I sat there, trying to fucking eat and fighting off swarms of yellow-jackets and flies.

There were a few high points. I encountered an autistic Swiss guy (easily the friendliest person in town) with whom I had a slight misunderstanding because he wanted me to take a picture of him with his smartphone. Within the city, I found the architecture considerably less impressive than anything I’d seen in Sigmaringen, Pfullendorf or Schiffhausen, all extremely old (by German standards) Medieval towns with their original architecture more or less intact. (Unfortunately, and for some inexplicable reason, Schiffhausen is filled with buffoons and imbeciles of every known race and ethnic background. Maybe Schiffhausen is a poor man’s Zurich?)

Schiffhausen, July 2022. Photos by author. (Yes, the statuette on your right is that of a “Moor.”)

I’ve read from questionable sources (such as Quora, for instance) that Zurich has its racier side…about which I can care less. I could also care less that Joyce is buried there. (Going back down there to see his gravesite means actually means either flying down there or, at the very least, taking the train, which I am determined never to do again unless I absolutely HAVE to do it. And in that instance, somebody would have to pay me.)

The real highlight of Zurich, in my mind, was its amazing aqua-blue water. Were it not for the waterfalls and the spectacular mountains (which are even more stupendous further inland) I would have had virtually nothing to say concerning this place. It is white, middle-European blandness personified. In fact I think this whole post is me (more or less) just filling up space, haplessly babbling on about yet another neoliberal dystopia…a gilded dystopia with wings.

Zurich, July 2022. Photo by author

*Of course, that’s nothing special, since Uncle Toms and other assorted coons have a way of expressing openly what their white masters think privately. There were quite a few coons in Zurich but mercifully they all minded their fucking business: no hard stares, no wincing and half-whispered racial slurs, etc.

America, 2021: A Filthy, Rotten, Stinking, Broken-Down Plantation, Incapable of Change

This essay was written back in September, 2021, when the U.S. Border Patrol slipped back into Antebellum mode in dealing with Haitian refugees. In 2022 the Ukrainian neo-Nazi Border Patrol was doing similar things to Africans and South Asians at its borders with Poland, Romania and Slovakia. Today, the rotten, broken-down plantation that is the United States is rapidly pushing towards a Fourth Reich under the tutelage of lunatics such as RonDeSantis and Majorie Taylor Green, a piece of trailer trash masquerading as a Congresswoman.

I am preparing a new essay entitled America, 2023. It will highlight my thoughts on the current fascist takeover in the United States and the Western World in general. One thing we must remember about American fascism is that not only did it inspire the Nazis of Germany and the fascists of Italy, but that Europe took American fascist ideas to levels that even racist white Southerners did not dare tread. After all, Theodore Bilbo, James Vardaman and Strom Thurmond did not start any of the previous World Wars. Europeans did.

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Foreign readers, beware: I could just as easily write the same words about any nation in Europe–including Germany. Particularly Berlin, where I unfortunately still live, and which is a state in itself (and everyone who lives here and can think would wholeheartedly agree that Berlin is a grotesque, dysfunctional failure run by bigots, junkies, potheads and sex maniacs who flock to the bathrooms of Berghain to let some random White dude piss in their mouth).

Actually, this short screed is about that other failed state across the pond called the United States of America, and above all about its inability to deal with its Black citizens as people.

In fact, let’s just tell it like it is. America, as far as the majority of African Americans are concerned (and this goes for all the Black immigrants who have been taught to see themselves as superior to African Americans), is just a fucking joke. It’s not even a country; it never was, really. It’s just a dirty-ass plantation run by gold- and power-junkies. It’s not the last, best hope on earth, as it loves to pretend to be. As far as we Black people are concerned it’s simply the biggest stumbling block that we in North America have to get over to come to full recognition of our collective humanity. As long as this *thing* called the United States (and everything adjacent to it) is not openly and aggresively confronted with its cruelty and inhumanity towards Blacks, the bullshit you see in the above picture will continue unabated for the foreseeable future.

Smokey Joe Biden’s attitude towards Haitian refugees (as opposed to his predecessor Trumps attitude towards Mexican/Salvadoran refugees, wherein he locked them up in steel cages like animals) doesn’t surprise me in the least. I didn’t expect shit from this geriatric motherfucker when he won the White House back in November and I definitely expect nothing from him now. This is the same old shriveled-up lace-curtain clown who was cozying up with old-school Southern Segregationists back in the 1970s, so why is anyone surprised?

As for the Haitian refugee crisis itself, this does not surprise me, either. It’s yet another of several that I’ve witnessed in my lifetime. I remember clearly that in the late 70s-early 80s, there was a deep reluctance to allow Haitians to immigrate to the United States (I also remember that an obscene number of them actually drowned trying to make it to Florida) as opposed to Cubans and El Salvadorans. And we all know why, don’t we? It’s because the Haitians, in the eyes of the Last Best Hope on Earth, are just a bunch of stupid, dirty, inferior, ignorant nappy-headed “Negroes”. (This is actually quite ironic because Haitian immigrants in the United States–especially in Florida–also see African-Americans as a bunch of inferior, ignorant, oversexed, smelly, drug-addled, nappy-headed “Negroes”!)

(And why wouldn’t they? Why not? It’s the only cultural frame of reference by which the Haitian can view the African American: through that of a drunken Klannie. It’s the American way, always has been and always will be until somebody has the balls to seriously confront Yank bullshit. The American “Dream” is nothing but divide and rule, nothing but setting “niggers,” “spics,” “gooks,” “fags,” “ragheads,” “injuns,” “trailer trash,”* etc., against each other and watch them fight to the death for the chicken bones Colonel Sanders or IBM or McDonalds or Amazon or some other dipshit multicorporation tosses our way every now and then.)

Speaking of Joe Biden’s America: I have had the good fortune of avoiding it myself, since I’m too busy dealing with the detritus of Angela Merkel’s increasingly racist, dysfunctional, provincial and insane Bore-lin, Germ-many. Smokey Joe is not that Orange thing; the Orange thing was too obvious. Smokey Joe on the other hand is the perfect manifestation of the banality of neoliberal evil. He really doesn’t seem like such a bad guy at all, which is precisely what is wrong about his picture.

Smokey Joe (like Obammy with his fake Chicago Boule glamour: picture a slightly reconstructed Iceberg Slim as president, without the profanity, and essentially, that’s Obammy in a nutshell) is just another schlub occupying the Oval Office. Smokey Joe with his geriatric Alfred E. Neumann smile, presiding over a nation that–at least from the vantage point of Europe–appears to be trying very hard to clean up the trash that Trump’s baboons left behind on January 6th. By withdrawing from Afghanistan–a nation that America had no business invading to begin with–he also appears to be cleaning up the mess that that other clown left behind. (That would be Dubya, who is still irredeemable, no matter how badly the Orange thing fucked up.) Actually, his withdrawal from Afghanistan was a low-key and tacit admission of total failure in confronting Islamic extremism in that nation, for the extremists now have total control over that nation. Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Libya–all disasters that happened under Obammy’s watch–are all a shambles; Iran is facing economic ruin; Israel is even more reactionary and apartheid-driven than ever before, and Turkey (under Erdogan) thinks that it can revive a decadent, evil and nationalistic Ottoman regime that no one in the Mid-East (in his right mind) is going to accept.

All of this shit is happening because some decades ago, the United States made the cardinal mistake of trying to “democratize” the Middle East–that is, reshape the region in its own ugly image. Typically, the United States almost always brought total disaster. There should be no surprise as to why this happens since the so-called “civilization” that is the United States is “total disaster” personified–except, of course, for the upper- and upper-middle-class whites (and select coloreds) who benefit from said disaster.

We can easily segue back into talking about Haiti again because much of what Haiti is going through at the moment is directly the result of Yank meddling in Haiti’s affairs. Ofay-American Fuehrer Woodrow Wilson (in his “wisdom”) began fucking with Haiti in 1915 by sending troops to occupy the nation (as well as the Dominican Republic). It is no accident that 1915 was the same year that this ignorant Ofay screened “The Birth of a Nation,” America’s first “blockbuster” in cinematic history, in the White House, thereupon reigniting a long-dormant Ku Klux Klan. The Americans held on Hispaniola until 1934, by which time the elites of both Haiti and the Dominican Republic were sufficiently perverted enough to allow monsters such as Trujillo and the Duvalier wackos to run trains* on the people of both nations.

Haiti, of course, came out the biggest loser politically, socially, economically, structurally, ecologically, culturally. And once again, it is no mystery why this is so. It’s not that the island of Haiti is bereft of resources or incapable of supporting itself. Under French occupation in the 17th and 18th centuries Haiti (then Sainte-Domingue) was France’s most profitable colony in the world. It is no accident why the French fought tooth and nail to hold onto Sainte-Domingue. We can let C.L.R. James explain why, in his book The Black Jacobins:

Never for centuries had the Western World known such economic progress. By 1754, two years before the beginning of the Seven Years’ War, there were 599 plantations of sugar and 3,379 of indigo…In 1767 it exported 72 million pounds’ weight of raw sugar and 51 million pounds of white, a million pounds of indigo and two million pounds of cotton, and quantities of hides, molasses, cocoa and rum. Smuggling, which was winked at by the authorities, raised the official figures by at least 25 percent. Nor was it only in quantity that San Domingo excelled but in quality. Each coffee tree produced on an average a pound weight, equal sometimes to that of mocha. Cotton grew naturally, even without care, in stony ground and in the crevices of the rocks. Indigo also grew spontaneously. Tobacco had a larger leaf than in any other part of the Americas and sometimes equaled in quality the produce of Havana. The kernel of San Domingo cocoa was more acidulated than that of Venezuela and was not inferior in other respects, experience proving that the chocolate made of the two cocoas in combination had a more delicate flavor than that made from the cocoa of Venezuela alone. (James, C. L. R.: The Black Jacobins, Vintage Books, New York, 1963, p. 46)

This partly explains why the blackfaced comedian/gangsters who control Haiti today have no interest in revitalizing any of these economies. Economic revitalization, of course, would make Haiti one of the most prosperous countries in the American Hemisphere…providing that such industrialization proceed in an intelligent and socialistic fashion. Nobody in the world today could even dream of such a thing, not even Haitians themselves. Haitian Negroes, prosperous? And socialist, to boot? Nope. Not having it. Not as long as there is a France or above all, a United States. We don’t need a Caribbean haven for darkies the world over unless WE own it. Better to have Haiti lay in a perpetual shitty shambles than to let that happen.

One can very easily say of the Murkan what the late Hermann Broch once wrote of the Germ-man: “(He)… regards himself as a bringer of salvation and yet is inevitably a harbinger of disaster, because his doctrine is murder.”

P. Lewis, Berlin, November-December 2021

*A note to the KancelKulture Krowd (Twitter BlueChecks^tm): these words, which were invented by your ancestors (and still used by you motherfuckers in private) are used within a specific context: to expose and ridicule the racist/classist contempt that the white oligarchs of the USA have for their non-white, non-Christian, non-hetero countrymen. Having said that, you can go back to your “safe spaces,” your private kitsch-worlds where poverty, exploitation, sexism, racism, war, disease, insanity, vulgarity, etc., etc. never existed. Sleep on.

The Weeds in Josep Borrell’s Little “Garden”

Josep Borrell says that Europe is a garden and the rest of the world is a jungle (for the most part, excluding Japan presumably). In this not so carefully coded speech (reminiscent of colonial era rhetoric) Borrell warns Europe that “The Jungle”–what a Japanese friend here in Berlin sarcastically refers to as “monkey countries”(Asia, Africa, etc.)–are going to trash the great white fortress.

Must it be reiterated yet again that Borrell, the good Catalan, conveniently forgets that this “jungle” he so snidely references is merely the end product of what he and his great European colonial forbears have made of Africa, Asia, the Middle East and most of the Americas?

This “jungle” is the creation of Europe. The inhabitants of that vast “jungle” have every moral right to question why is it that they are doomed to live in chaos while their counterpart lives luxuriously (by third world standards) at the expense of those who labor like actual slaves to maintain the luxury of that so-called “garden.” They have every moral right to demand change, to demand that the world in itself be a garden for all and not just a handful of Western elites living at the expense of 99% of the entire human race.

Clearly the EU is headed by people who think we are stupid or, at the very least, wish to believe that we are stupid. The EU likes to pretend that certain sections of its own vaunted “garden” are nothing but endless fields of lilies and roses when in fact they are very often nothing but poisonous weeds, morning glories at best, riddled with its own issues of poverty, alienation, structural racism, classism, etc. The weeds of Nazism in nearly all western countries in fact have begun to wreak havoc upon their little “garden”–nothing new in this, it has happened before: and as in the past one European country after the other has begun to fall prey to the vile Nazi weed.

It was inevitable that things would shape up this way because quite frankly, one of the most precious flora in this so-called European “garden” is in fact the Nazi weed, cleverly camouflaged as “nationalist pride.” Meloni ought to know herself. It is the height of hypocrisy on her part but this is to be expected from a hopelessly bankrupt and decadent West. At least she is absolutely right in pointing out that France is running an open con job on West Africa, that France still has fucking colonies, for crying out loud. The broken clock has actually been right this time. But Hitler was also “right”–and this must be understood strictly within the context in which I say it–when he, after being chided by the American press for his relentless persecution of Jews, hypocritically remarked, “look at how you treat Negroes.”

This remark does not make Hitler worthy of honor (he has already put himself in leagues with the Devil, if he isn’t one himself) but merely highlights an instance in which one villain points to the moral failings of another villain. So it goes with Meloni. If Meloni is willing to work with African nations in helping them to liberate themselves from the clutches of French exploitation, well and good. That would merely make her and her fascist gang a necessary evil. For Africans the main concern of course is ridding the continent of economic and political parasites such as France and China. If a two bit fascist can actually aid in this possibility then so be it.

Having said that, it does not even bear repeating that fascism will never be Africa’s friend.

The Western Alt-Right is Nothing but a Bunch of Old Rednecks in a Segregated Old Folks Home (Re: Bifo Berardi)

I’ve reposted this in light of the spirit of Mussolini returning to Italy, practically 100 years to the day he had his notorious Blackshirt March on Rome…in the guise of some aging pop-eyed blonde bimbo.

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Excuse me? I meant to say the Western World in general, certainly not just the so-called “alt-right,” which is virtually its cultural-political mainstream at this point.

But if this is what the West (aka “Whitey-World”) wants, let them have it, and let them remember what happened to these buffoons the last time they pushed humanity into a global war.

The outcome was not great. The thousand year reich of Herr schickelgruber only lasted 12 years and that old bald-headed guido did not get his new Roman Empire: he wound up getting hung upside down like a leg of prosciutto in a Neapolitan market, along with his girlfriend. An enraged crowd literally staved his skull in.

We all know that Italians change governments the same way women change tampons so many people are shrugging off the victory of Giorgia Meloni as just another fluke. The fact is that Miss Pop-Eyes is the leader of a party (Fratelli d’Italia) which split from Berlusconi’s own right-wing party (Il Popolo della Liberta) with members drawn from another far-right party (National Alliance) which, in itself, was an extension of yet another far-right party (Italian Social Movement, active from 1945-1995) which was, God forbid, a literal carry-over from Mussolini’s own National Fascist Party. It is quite clear where Italy has been headed since at least the 20th Century Post-war era, thanks to the great wisdom of our own fucking CIA (which wanted to “stop Commonists” at all costs, even at the expense of arming terrorists, thugs and all sorts of degenerates): the same CIA which created the mess we now see in Iran (thanks to their deposing of Mossadegh in 1953, a legitimately elected Iranian socialist leader), in the Congo (after their assassination of Lumumba), in Afghanistan (after their funneling weapons to crazed Islamic jihadis in order to fight them Soviet “Commonists”), in Chile (after their destruction of Salvador Allende the ascension of maniac Augusto Pinochet), and so on and so forth.

Funny how so many of these dangerous political roads–and let’s not even begin to talk about who’s arming Ukrainian Azov fascists (not to be confused with Ukrainians in general, let’s make that clear) and at the same time sucking Putin’s dick underneath his desk)–lead back to Washington, D.C. Why? Because Washington will accept any old shitty government, no matter how brutal, no matter how racist, anti-Semitic, etc., as long as it isn’t “Communist”–i.e., as long as it doesn’t threaten American economic interests. They will bitch about China but China is practically a super-power at this point and besides, it is Communist in name only. The same can be said for North Korea, which is just a totalitarian hell-hole. Cuba is still being punished for throwing out United Fruit and the Mafia, two egregious insults to American pride. The true motto of America should be “Capitalism, Capitalism above everything in the world” (Kapitalismus Ueber Alles!!)

It doesn’t surprise me that Hillary Clinton herself can’t suppress even a smidgen of admiration for Giorgia Meloni, as if a woman being a potential totalitarian dictator (she will: it has been written into Italy’s future from the beginnings of its history: Italians love strong-men leaders, even if they have vaginas) is somehow a step forward for women in general. (Just imagine: a woman as leader of the Fourth Reich. Would it be somehow better if this leader were Black, Muslim, transgendered, and suffering from Down’s Syndrome all at once?)

Nope. No surprises on this end that Meloni won in Italy, or that Americans (and whites in general) strongly admire her. Meloni herself looks to me like a far-right Hillary Clinton, blonde hair, blue eyes, fat thighs and all.

Franco “Bifo” Berardi: From futurist fascism to geriatric fascism

Not My Circus, Not My Clowns

Why I refuse to support either Putin or Zelenskyy

I’ve officially made my decision about the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. Aside from innocent civilians getting butchered and decapitated by Russian thugs, and aside from non-white refugees still struggling to get out of the hellhole that is modern-day Ukraine, I’m not taking sides.

Some years back I already made my opposition to Putin and his totalitarian megalomaina perfectly clear. It was obvious that he interfered in the U.S. Elections of 2016 (and most likely 2020), and blatantly obvious that this Orange Object is in Putin’s front pocket. As recently as March 30 of this year, Trumbly appeared on a fascist news network making an unsubstantiated claim that President Biden pocketed money that was given to his son, Hunter, by the wife of the former mayor of Moscow. The alibi for this fake claim was for Vladimir Putin to dig up dirt on President Biden. This while Putin has essentially declared himself to be an enemy of NATO and, by logical extension, the United States.

For the umpteenth time, Trumbshit has flat-out acted like a modern-day Benedict Arnold, and yet literally no one cared enough about his treasonous behavior because most eyes were focused on the silly shenanigans going down at the Oscars between Will Smith and Chris Rock: true to fashion, Amy Schmuer, Jim Carrey and Company were more “triggered” by Smith slapping the shit out of Rock than the Orange Ogre further undermining the national security of their own beloved USA.

While all this foolishness was going on, Putin–in all likelihood–was sitting somewhere in his atrociously tasteless “palace” and watching it with that smug laugh of his. One can imagine him saying, in all seriousness, “these dumb Yanks are more concerned about a bunch of chornyii slapping each other around on stage than the very stability of their own country! What idiots!”

And he would be right, all exceptions admitted. America’s Negrophobia is so deeply rooted that it even takes precedent over the very real threat of a Third World War. The Negrophobia was expressed in eloquent and seemingly rational language–Will Smith’s “patriarchal” tendencies were strongly condemned and lampooned by the usual Blue Check Twitter crowd, which fancies itself the conscience of the fucking planet. Writing in El Pais, a left-leaning Spanish (!) newspaper, Isabel Valdes writes, “Author Octavio Salazar analyzed Smith’s actions in a column published Monday in this newspaper, writing: ‘Will Smith’s reaction to an unfortunate joke by Chris Rock contains all the elements of the model of masculinity that continues today to be the main obstacle against building a world without gender inequality, where violence is no longer legitimized. A violence that is connected to power, to the omnipotence in which men have been socialized and to the assumption that there is no better way of managing conflict than resorting to force. Violence still remains for many a mechanism for reaffirming virility and restoring supposedly lost honor.'”

The Blue Check Snobs are an international bunch of bourgeois who live in their own digital bubble, their fat plastic asses cushioned by dollars, pounds, euros, yen, pesos, bitcoin, and a bunch of other currencies. These are the same buffoons who readily support Zelenskyy and his fight against Russian barbarism. And rightfully so, you might add, since Putin has nuclear weapons in his arsenal and is acting in a terribly reckless and barbarous way. But the Blue Checks’ obsessive focus upon the Smith-Rock ruckus plainly shows you where their heads are really at.

Russian barbarism is a concrete reality

Their hypocrisy is so blatant at this point that one can no longer take them seriously. When Octavio Salazar writes the above lines, one can’t help but think about the absolute mess that Spain, his own country, has made of every single one of its ex-colonies over the past five centuries. Honduras, for example, has the highest homicide rate of any nation in the world. Equitorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony in Central Africa, is a joke of a nation run by a shriveled up gnat calling himself a “leader”–Commandant Obiang, who lives a life of unbrideled luxury while his citizens eat out of the garbage can (whenever they can afford to, that is). Obiang, like every single so-called “leader” of every single so-called Spanish-speaking “nation,” is a direct by-product of Spain’s hypermasculine and hyper-macho assault upon humanity–an assault resulting in the deaths of at least 100 million people, an assult for which they have yet to apologize, let alone make amends, for.

There’s no point in singling out Spain since it’s but one country in NATO, an organization with expansionist policies all its own. “It’s complicated,” writes Klaus Wiegrefe of Der Spiegel (Germany), in discussing Putin’s bitterness at NATO’s eastward expansion into former Eastern Block nations. The late Boris Yeltsin himself was deeply concerned about such an expansion, so much so that in September, 1993, Yeltsin wrote a letter to then-President Clinton essentially accusing the US and NATO of going behind Russia’s back in allowing Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to join NATO. According to Yeltsin, the spirit of the Two-Plus-Four Treaty “precluded” the West’s options of expanding eastward; Americans, of course, “rejected the accusation” of expansionism, and as a result, the ensuing Russia/NATO conflict remained unresolved, “poisoning” relations between Moscow and the West more than any other issue since the fall of the USSR.

NATO is expansionist. That much is perfectly clear. Time and again Russia has pointed out–and it is well-documented*–that at the start of the 1990s, the West promised Russia in writing that neither Poland, Czechia or Hungary would join NATO. Since then, of course, the West–in allowing not only these three nations but thirteen others to join, thereby boxing Russia in–essentially told Russia “up yours.” As a result, Ukraine’s hankering to join NATO gave Putin an alibi to support Donbass separatists in Eastern Ukraine, seize Odessa, claiming it to be “Russian territory,” and finally in February of this year, invade Ukraine altogether under the alibi that the Ukraine (notwithstanding its Jewish premier) is controlled by “Nazis.”

This does not make Putin “the hero” that some misguided tankies seem to think he is. (Apparently American leftists are so ignorant they believe that Russia is still essentially a communist country. This is not hyperbole: Black Agenda Report seems to think so, even with all the evidence to the contrary.) It only makes him one of the bad guys in a pathetic conflict between a group of gangsters. Think Crips versus Bloods versus Blackstone Rangers versus the Mexican Mafia versus MS-13 versus the Hell’s Angels–which one are you going to route for? The one who has less destructive power? I didn’t think so.

Ukraine has had extreme-right tendencies for decades. For those that are shocked at Ukraine’s Klan-like treatment of Africans and South Asians trying to escape to Poland, one need only look at Ukraine’s ugly history concerning its Jewish and Roma population. During the Lviv Progroms of 1941 (like those of 1918) both Poles (in 1918) and Ukrainians (in 1941), even while beleagured by Two World Wars, even while surrounded by hostile European forces (the Germans in both cases, generally), still took the time to indulge in one of their favorite national pastimes: Jew-baiting. The conflicts between Russia, Germany and Ukraine did not in any way morally enlighten Ukrainians but merely gave them an alibi to act out long-buried racist aggressions.

Ukrainian fascist kicking a Jew during the Lviv Pogrom of 1941, in which at least 3,000 Jews were murdered

Even today Ukrainian “patriots,” really a bunch of overglorified skinheads, run amok burning down Roma settlements and villages. And the hostility is definitely color-coded. Africans and South Asians (but especially Africans) are singled out in the precise way that Jews were singled out in the previous century: not because they are any threat to Ukrainians or Poles, but because they are Africans. The fucking Peace Corps gingerly warns black humanitarian workers that poor suffering Ukrainians, in spite of the trauma they’ve experienced at the hands of Russian thugs, will still call black workers “niggers” and “monkeys” and put on Al Jolson routines as if it’s still 1919.

Video footage that has come out of the Ukraine-Polish border shows South Asians and Africans being beaten senseless and chased by Polish Nazis, being hounded out of stores, having bananas thrown at them, and so on and so forth. The international response has been almost complete indifference. Again, no surprise there. The white West was more outraged at two middle-aged colored comedians slapping each other at the Oscars than children still starving in Yemen, the ongoing conflicts in the Congo and the chaos in Venezuela, the ongoing genocide against the Uyghurs, the disasters they’ve made of Libya, Iraq, Somalia, Syria and Cuba, not to mention the obscene hypocrisy of crying crocodile tears over little blonde Slavic girls…while Israelis rape Palestinian women and crack jokes about it.

“No Indians,”

In the United States, the fucking government has allowed 100,000 Ukrainian refugees to resettle, mainly–of course–in the Deep South, where they will presumably join the police or work in tandem with government officials (like Josh Hawley) in further stripping “niggers” of their hard-won civil rights. I’m sure the Ku Klux Klan and possibly Jim Goad will seek their assistance in helping to build a global Fourth Reich where “niggers” will be (like today) a global untouchable caste, reduced to eating out of garbage cans and being kicked around from nation to nation like soccer balls.

“No Blacks!”

The Ukrainian refugees are getting their asses wiped–not because they have suffered trauma, which I’m pretty sure they have (I witnessed one sad incident involving a Ukrainian refugee while on a U-Bahn: nothing racial, the woman in question was completely psychotic) but because they are white: no hooked noses, no nappy hair, no brown or black skins, ergo, no sweat. We won’t whip Ukrainians in America because they’re not Haitian “negroes” or Guatemalan “beaners” (we put them in cages, don’t you know). We won’t ask Sleepy Joe (with his geriatric Alfred E. Neumann grin) to “build a wall” to keep them out: they’re “one of us.”

Ukraine is a “civilized” country, a “European” country unlike Sudan, which is full of coal-black super-Muslim “darkies” (and was the seat of several civilizations when Europe did not even exist). We care about their children because they have blonde hair and blue eyes and not a bunch of greasy black “niglets” living in the bowels of Baltimore or Flint, Michigan. “Let them drink dirty water,” the West says: and we’ve heard them loud and clear.

No: the West does NOT really care about us at all. They have made their position and their aims known vis-a-vis Russia: they are not really opposed to “violence” and “aggression” of course, only when other people besides themselvs engage in it–and with agendas that are at loggerheads with the Western desire for total hegemony over humanity.

Too bad he’s not Ukrainian, only a Haitian.

Russia, for its part, merely wants the same: total domination. Let’s not forget that much of the far-right hysteria in the West today (though not all of it), and that fringe nuts like the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters, Lega Nord, Pegida, AfD, Viktor Orban, Candace Owens, Donald Dumbshit, the Capitol Chimpout–the whole swamp of Honky Power–was underwritten by Russian skullduggery.

The West (like before) is slipping back into some old-timey Russophobia like the kind we used to see back in the fifties, sixties, or seventies. It seems to me that Western leadership is more impulsive and childlike than they would like to admit. Now they are delegitimizing Russian culture, and apparently we who enjoy real culture (and who could care less about the fucking “Oscars”) can’t listen to Scriabin or read Dostoyevsky or Gogol anymore. Well, for the record: Gogol was actually Ukrainian. Like Dostoyevsky (and many of his regressive-minded, childlike countrymen) he was a ferocious racist and anti-Semite. But I’d rather read Dostoyevsky than the clown who wrote, “I Just Want My Pants Back.” Like an old Polish guy once said, when asked to take sides in a conflict he found distasteful, all I can say concerning this current conflict in Ukraine is: not my circus, not my clowns, not my monkeys.

Good night.

ENDNOTES

Read here for more on Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the “Pandora Papers.”

“I love how people are literally crowdfunding Ukraine’s military equipment online. My subscribers get their PayPal donations taken aside for using the word “Palestine” or “Syria”. If you crowdfunded for the Palestinian resistance you’d be put in jail. Ah the double standards.”–Richard Medhurst, twitter, Feb. 26, 2022, 2:17 PM

“The fact that the US bombed Somalia this morning but all the empathy is directed to Ukraine only Yemen, Syria, Somalia for years have been existing under bombings, invasions and whatnot!”–Judicaelle Irakoze 1:19 AM · Feb 25, 2022

Note: the U.S. is actually bombing Al-Shabaab and ISIS, so this is tricky. Yet it’s true that the world completely forgot about Yemen, which is starving to death, and absolutely no one gives a shit about the Congo, anymore than they give a shit about the ongoing crisis with the Rohinga in Burma (Myanmar) or, for that matter, the Uyghurs, which we’re not supposed to talk about because nobody wants to offend the Neo-Han Chauvinist Empire (commonly known as China).

*”Luckily, there are plenty of documents available from the various countries that took part in the talks, including memos from conversations, negotiation transcripts and reports. According to those documents, the U.S., the UK and Germany signaled to the Kremlin that a NATO membership of countries like Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic was out of the question. In March 1991, British Prime Minister John Major promised during a visit to Moscow that “nothing of the sort will happen.” Yeltsin expressed significant displeasure when the step was ultimately taken. He gave his approval for NATO’s eastward expansion in 1997, but complained that he was only doing so because the West had forced him to.” –Klaus Wiegrefe, “Is Vladimir Putin Right?” Spiegel International, 15.2.2022

A Theodicy of Shit

I’m posting this not merely just to remind my tiny-ass audience that I actually still exist, but because one of Kundera’s remarks concerning God and intestines struck my eye: if God made man in His own image, then God should be able to take a shit, as well as pee, fornicate (and since there are both genders and apparently several sexual orientations, one could easily postulate that The Supreme Being could just as well take it up the ass), and everything else that “man” does.

Beccause of the total financial disasters over the previous summer and fall, I wasn’t able to write anything. Some fucking thug extorted me out of hundreds of euros over the summer just as I was about to pay rent, and because of his bully-boy tactics (talk about machetes, guns, poison (!)), etc., I was completely unable to concentrate.

The area I live in, an East German dystopia with wings, is not nice. This is actually putting it lightly. It somehow manages to be exceedingly boring, mundane and tedious while at the same time filled with a deep undertow of aggression and even insanity.

Hubert Adjei-Kontoh, a Ghanaian-American writer who is trying to get my name back into the public eye (and who wrote a superb review of my second novel, Nate), paid me a visit during December and January, 2022. Along with Declan, an Irish-Scottish artist and filmmaker, Hubert put together a documentary on my life here. He also had the misfortune of discovering with his own eyes the aggressive frivolity (this is the only way to describe it) that pervades life in Berlin. It didn’t help matters that while I was being filmed at one of the city’s “bohemian” hangouts, two of the denizens of this fucking cafe took time out to actually spit in Declan’s direction. Hubert’s attempts at dating in Berlin both ended in total disaster–the second one even more disastrous than the first. Both chicks–one white, the other Black-ish–were complete lunatics. And both Hubert and Declan came away with the overall impression of Berlin as being a city without a soul.

Tonight I Have Just Discovered…

That supernazi website Chimpout, also known as Chimpmania.net, still exists.

Since my laptop is acting funny I’ll post the link below:

http://chimpmania.net/

Rather than waste my energy being annoyed by these honky savages (what else are you going to call them?) I suggest that some people come up with the names of the scumbags who run this Nazi website, their web addresses, and I will post them here. Also, feel free to dig up any information about these savages and I will do the same. Furthermore, hacking the hell out of them would be a great idea.

Some people might find it hard to believe that after 12 years these savages are still hard at work spreading Nazi propaganda worldwide against Africans, but it doesn’t surprise me in the least–especially when their spiritual leader, Donald Trump, has never seen the inside of a criminal court, much less a fucking prison. (I predict that as long as the current regime exists in Washington, he never will.)

The racist cartoon and the old Kabyle myth in post-colonial Algeria

https://decolonizingalgeria.wordpress.com/2017/08/10/ghilas-ainouche-racist-cartoon-and-the-old-kabyl-myth/

For the past week I’ve been digging up (NOT digging) shitty old racist cartoons from the 30s and 40s–junk like COAL BLACK AN’ DE SEBBEN DWARFS, ALL THIS AND RABBIT STEW and others. One thing I’ve noticed is that French racist caricatures of Algerians (and even sub-Saharan Africans) pales in comparison to the absolute viciousness of the American ones. This is saying something, because anybody who’s seen that silly crypto-Nazi rag Charlie Hebdo (or anything by racist French cartoonists both past and present) knows that the French racist can hold his own in the graphic arts. (French racist writing, on the other hand, is another matter altogether. Even Jim Goad’s proto-alt-right bullshit is no match for the utter racist vitriol of one Louis-Ferdinand Celine. But then again, white Americans have never really been very good at intellectual pursuits, anyway.)

All of this reminds me: I need to put out another Kaf’s Toons. Possibly a series of cartoons documenting the high times under Donald McRonald, and preferably in a book. But I definitely have a few ideas in mind. P.S. Fuck Bob Clampett, fuck Walter Lantz, fuck Jizz Freleng (even though his Pink Panther cartoons were pretty funny), fuck Charlie Hebdo and fuck this Algerian cac-lover. And once again, fuck Jim Goad.