Thirty Pieces of Silver: 2008 – An American Revolutionary Opportunity Betrayed

Despite, and perhaps because of, my intense political experiences over the years in Africa, Europe, the United States, and other parts of the world, I never cease to be amazed and sickened at how many so-called “progressives” and those of the American “Left,” have in this year of 2008, demonstrated that they never really wanted to systemically change the racist, capitalist, hypocritical U.S. political structure. Rather, they only really wanted to join and administer it both nationally and internationally. They apparently see in the party of the so-called Democrats (who are systemically and inextricably tied to the Republicans) an opportunity to at last be the centurions of the empire. Not even “thirty pieces of silver” can expunge such a betrayal of the people.

I am sickened beyond words as I think of more than four decades of brutal and illegal military and civilian occupation of Palestinian lands by the racist U.S.-backed apartheid Zionists, who now do not even fear saying openly that they will bring about a greater “holocaust/disaster” upon the Palestinian people if they dare to physically resist the illegal and unjust U.S.-backed Israeli occupation.