America, An Empire Devouring Itself Like Others Before It…

Republicans, who con­trol the major­i­ty in the US House of Representatives, have passed a bill with Democrat sup­port that would impose puni­tive sanc­tions against the International Criminal Court because the court decid­ed to indict geno­ci­dal psy­chopath Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense min­is­ter Yoav Galant of Israel.
The United States was instru­men­tal in estab­lish­ing the ICC, how­ev­er, ICC pros­e­cu­tor Karim Khan told CNN that a senior leader of the court told him“This court is built for Africa and thugs like Putin.”
This writer has pre­vi­ous­ly writ­ten that African lead­ers should extri­cate them­selves as sig­na­to­ries to this court, even as they are respon­si­ble for abid­ing by inter­na­tion­al laws.
It is impor­tant to remem­ber that though the United States was a major rea­son for the court’s estab­lish­ment, the United States ensured that it was not a sig­na­to­ry to the ICC; there­fore, it is not sub­ject to the rul­ings of the court, and nei­ther is the ille­git­i­mate Apartheid, State of Israel.

The United States cheered the court when it filed arrest war­rants for Russian President Vladimir Putin; the court also bent over back­ward to issue arrest war­rants for the alleged leader of Hamas, a man by the name of Yahya Sinwar.
But when it’s time for account­abil­i­ty for the geno­ci­dal Netanyahu, the President of the United States, many Democrats, and the entire Republican par­ty- all tools of the Israeli lob­by AIPAC, balked and wants to destroy the court.
There are more than enough rea­sons that the legit­i­ma­cy of the court should be ques­tioned based on its his­to­ry of rul­ings, the state­ments Khan made to CNN, and more. However, Biden’s com­ments after the court deci­sions, “Let me be clear: we reject the ICC’s appli­ca­tion for arrest war­rants against Israeli lead­ers,” is a clear indi­ca­tion that the United States Government is pre­pared to squan­der the nation’s cred­i­bil­i­ty and respect on the world stage to pro­tect an indict­ed war crim­i­nal who isn’t even an American.
It is anoth­er exam­ple of how the rules-based order the United States cre­at­ed after the Second World War is now dead.
All great Empires even­tu­al­ly end­ed, and the American Empire will be no dif­fer­ent. All great Empires’ demise occurred from with­in. Division, hatred, graft, and oth­er vices con­tributed to their down­fall. More than any­thing else, racial hatred with­in the United States has been the dri­ving force of the fis­sures and cracks that have begun to emerge in America’s hege­mon­ic con­trol of our world.

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Racial con­sid­er­a­tions have been at the heart of most major pol­i­cy deci­sions and laws in the US because far too many white peo­ple do not believe that Blacks, in par­tic­u­lar, and oth­er races should be enti­tled to the same rights and priv­i­leges they enjoy.
The Supreme Court, the high­est body that is sup­posed to call balls and strikes, has itself become mired in alle­ga­tions of gross eth­i­cal vio­la­tions and, worse, a tool of the far right.
The very idea of the United States as a lead­ing democ­ra­cy is under­go­ing a severe stress test. The Republican par­ty has all but aban­doned democ­ra­cy as a gov­ern­ing prin­ci­ple (again, this deci­sion is root­ed in the increase of peo­ple of col­or in the US and the stag­na­tion of the white birthrate).
Republican war against Immigration and its five-decade assault on Roe V Wade over­turned by the reac­tionary right-wing Supreme Court are all intend­ed to halt the brown­ing of America and increase the white population.
The very legit­i­ma­cy of the High Court is now in ques­tion after it took away rights Americans enjoyed for almost five decades. In a Democracy, the courts [do not] restrict rights; they expand them. The Roberts court has the dubi­ous hon­or of restrict­ing and sup­press­ing the rights of the people.

No coun­try can claim to be a democ­ra­cy if the elect­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tives of the peo­ple appoint bureau­crats to life­time posi­tions over which they there­after have no oversight.
The idea of a Supreme Court pop­u­lat­ed with bureau­crats who the peo­ple did not elect and answer only to them­selves runs counter to the very notion of democracy.
A Supreme Court that no one has the pow­er to police is a court with no account­abil­i­ty. A court that refus­es to respond to alle­ga­tions of gross eth­i­cal mis­con­duct among some of its mem­bers, which refus­es to appear before the peo­ple’s rep­re­sen­ta­tives to answer ques­tions about its con­duct, the very body that put them in place, has become a Monarchy.
But eth­i­cal impro­pri­ety is the least of the court’s chal­lenges as Associate Justice Samuel Alito has been accused of fly­ing a white suprema­cist flag on his prop­er­ty as well as fly­ing the American Flag upside down, a sig­nal that the fly­er believes the 2020 elec­tions were stolen from Donald Trump.
It was report­ed that Samuel Alito accept­ed extrav­a­gant gifts from major con­ser­v­a­tive donors, includ­ing Paul Singer, a hedge fund bil­lion­aire who has repeat­ed­ly asked the Court to rule on his busi­ness deal­ings. The alle­ga­tions that Justice Alito accept­ed a paid-for vaca­tion total­ing hun­dreds of thou­sands of dol­lars from Leonard Leo, who had recent­ly played a sig­nif­i­cant role in his con­fir­ma­tion process, fur­ther under­mine the court’s legitimacy.

Clarence Thomas’ wife is accused of being one of the archi­tects of the assault on the Capitol on January 6^th, 2021. Associate Justice Clarence Thomas report­ed­ly accept­ed gifts and lux­u­ry trav­el from GOP megadonor Harlan Crow for years with­out dis­clos­ing them as fed­er­al law requires.
The alle­ga­tions of impro­pri­ety inside the high­est court have become so pro­nounced that one Democratic Representative, Mikey Sherrill, a Navy vet­er­an, and for­mer Assistant US attor­ney, intro­duced leg­is­la­tion that would estab­lish over­sight of the court, some­thing the court rig­or­ous­ly objects to, argu­ing that Congressional over­sight is a breach of the sep­a­ra­tion of pow­ers under the constitution.
See Sherril’s leg­is­la­tion here: https://​sher​rill​.house​.gov/​m​e​d​i​a​/​p​r​e​s​s​-​r​e​l​e​a​s​e​s​/​s​h​e​r​r​i​l​l​-​s​t​e​p​s​-​u​p​-​t​o​-​h​o​l​d​-​s​u​p​r​e​m​e​-​c​o​u​r​t​-​j​u​s​t​i​c​e​s​-​a​c​c​o​u​n​t​a​b​l​e​-​a​n​d​-​r​e​s​t​o​r​e​-​t​r​u​s​t​-​i​n​-​t​h​e​-​h​i​g​h​-​c​o​urt.

The United States is under­go­ing a seis­mic change, one that will deter­mine whether the nation as it exist­ed con­tin­ues or reverts to the dark, dystopi­an night­mare it was for mil­lions, a sce­nario half the nation seems to crave…
The cliché, this is the most impor­tant elec­tion ever, will no longer be a cliché come November; it will actu­al­ly be the most sig­nif­i­cant elec­tion in this nation’s history.
Regardless of who wins in November, cor­rect­ing the course may already be too late. Republicans and Democrats are unit­ed in bring­ing a geno­ci­dal sociopath, Benjamin Netanyahu, to address Congress, some­thing Republicans did dur­ing the Obama pres­i­den­cy as a fuck you to Obama.….. Democrats sat in on it and cheered Netanyahu.
This time Republicans and Democrats will once again stand and clap as the socio­path­ic mur­der­er Benjamin Netanyahu who is under indict­ment from the ICC and will be an indict­ed felon in his own coun­try once he leaves office, lec­tures the world on Israel’s right­eous­ness, a fuck you to the ICC and the rest of the world.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, black achiev­er hon­oree, and cre­ator of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.