الحريق الأمريكي (من كمال خلف الطويل)

الحريق الأمريكي (من كمال خلف الطويل)
ما نحن وسطه هو ما كان يمكن توقعه مع نهاية تموز, بحكم انقضاء عون البطالة وقتها, واكتشاف نصف العاطلين عن العمل, أي 30 مليون بشر, أن لا عودة لهم إلى وظائفهم, سواء بحكم الإفلاسات أم الأتمتة أم خلافه .. وعلى ضوء انتفاع الرأسمالية الأمريكية بأعطية نصف تريليون دولار الحكومية, فيما هم يواجهون البطالة, وتلواً, الإملاق

فإذا أضفنا على جديد الحدوث هذا قديمٌ متناسل من العنصرية المستترة, تتفجر بؤراً هنا وهناك, واستقطاب حاد للثروة (قرابة ثلاثة أرباعها) من قبل 1% من المواطنين, واحتراب ثقافي/اجتماعي متصاعد .. بتلاوين جهوية وطبقية وجندرية, واستحكام الفصام السياسي لحدّ الصراع غير المسقوف بين حزبين وبين شارعين وبين "دولتين" وبين داخل وساحل وبين أقليات تقارب أغلبية وأغلبية تضمر لأقلية وبين وبين وبين ؛؛ لوصلنا إلى مطرح لم تصله أمريكا منذ نهايات العقد السابع من التاسع عشر

ولكون الاستقطاب ضارٍ, فلا وسع لرمزه - طرنيب - إلا إضرام ناره, وهو على ذلك أقدر القادرين ....

ليست هذه اضطرابات 1967 العنصرية, ولا تكبير لفلتان لوس انجلس/نيسان 1992, ولا لفرهود نيويورك/شباط 77 ... الآن يختلط الطبقي بالعرقي بالعقدي ليرسم مشهدية من نار

ليس الحل في اللجوء إلى الشرطة العسكرية أو حتى الحرس الوطني, بل في إزالة الأسباب؛ أمرٌ لا أدري كيف ستفهم المؤسسة المنقسمة كيف - وأن - تفهمه !!!!!!!!!

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Young White Men Abuse George Floyd Protests For Violence And Looting

May 30, 2020

Last night at times violent protests took place in some 30 U.S. cities.

The escalation of the protests is not to be driven by people of color who's grievance about systemic police brutality and institutionalized racism is driving the original, and in most cases peaceful protests.

There are clear signs that other groups have joined and abuse the original protests for their own purpose:

Mayor Jacob Frey said the people who are coming to Minneapolis to protest are not residents and are "coming in largely from outside the city."

"Our Minneapolis residents are scared and rightfully so. We've seen long term institutional businesses overridden. We've seen community institutions set on fire. And I want to be very, very clear. The people that are doing this are not Minneapolis residents," he said at a news briefing on Saturday.

St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter said everyone who was arrested in his city last night was from outside the state.

"What we are seeing right now is a group of people who are not from here," he said.

Detroit has seen the same phenomenon:

Detroit Police Chief James Craig spoke in a Facebook Live video late on Friday evening.

“You know, I love this community and we work very well with this community, and we know that the individuals from outside the city of Detroit who converged at the protest location don’t represent this city. They’re not from this city,” said Craig.

While mostly people of color where protesting the murder by police of George Floyd, the looting was often led (video) by white young men (video).

That the police are infiltrating protests and political movements is the norm. But who or what is sending people from outside a city to vandalize it? Who put down a palette of bricks at a bus station in a high end shopping street in Dallas during a time of protests? Who is supposed to use these?

One group suspected to be involved in this capture of legitimate protests are the "Boogaloo Bois":

ple of color.
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On the internet, a largely white, and far right movement publicly contended over what risks its members should take to support a black man killed by police.
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On the Facebook page, Big Igloo Bois, which at the time of writing had 30,637 followers, an administrator wrote of the protests, “If there was ever a time for bois to stand in solidarity with ALL free men and women in this country, it is now”.

They added, “This is not a race issue. For far too long we have allowed them to murder us in our homes, and in the streets. We need to stand with the people of Minneapolis. We need to support them in this protest against a system that allows police brutality to go unchecked.”

One commenter added, “I’m looking for fellow Minneapolis residents to join me in forming a private, Constitutionally-authorized militia to protect people from the MPD, which has killed too many people within the last two years.”

These exchanges offer a window into an extremely online update of the militia movement, which is gearing up for the northern summer. The “Boogaloo Bois” expect, even hope, that the warmer weather will bring armed confrontations with law enforcement, and will build momentum towards a new civil war in the United States.

The Boogaloo Bois are mostly rightwing but the militia movement includes some African-American groups. They are armed and they seek conflict with the state.

The ruling oligarchy in the U.S. is behaving towards its own population no different than towards foreign ones. It looted the Iraqi gold reserves after the invasions of Baghdad. It is looting the oil of Syria. It is looting the money that was supposed to support the population during the pandemic:

In the ten weeks since the nationwide lockdown first began, the [Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)] calculates that billionaires have increased their wealth by $485 billion – equal to 16.5 percent. This half-trillion-dollar rise, for Chuck Collins, Director of the IPS’ Program on Inequality and the Common Good, is something close to looting the whole economy.

“The wealthy are economically distancing from the rest of society. Worse, some are pandemic profiteering, looting government stimulus programs and taking advantage of market monopolies,” he told MintPress News.

The looting by the oligarchs is one reason why I have expected protests and riots in the U.S. as a consequence of the badly handled epidemic. But I expected them for later in the summer, after July 31 when the federal unemployment insurance runs out. By then some 20 million of the 40 million currently unemployed will have learned that their old jobs are forever gone and that there are no new ones to find. By then mortgage defaults and evictions will have risen sky high.

Many of the affected people will not be from minorities but from the white lower classes. People who have lost their job and maybe even their home.

The social tensions will be extreme and will seek relief one way or another. Cornel West explains well (vid) why party policies in the U.S. can not be the way to solve this conflict. Something will have to give and it will not be the people - at least not without resistance.

Trump has asked the military to prepare to suppress unrest in Minnesota and elsewhere. Military police units have been put on alarm.

The shooting of unarmed blacks protesters would probably be welcome by Trump's core voters. He could even use that as an advertisement in his re-election campaign.

But how will this evolve when Trump sends in the troops and recognizes that the conflict is with mostly white working class people who probably voted for him in 2016 but are now inclined to shoot back?