While Democrats are fawning over Joe Biden assembling the most physically diverse Presidential Cabinet in history, the real question is repeatedly begged and ignored. Sure, their skin tones are different and some of these people have different sets of genitals than the others, but just how diverse are they where it really matters? Where do they stand on the issues that are currently wrecking the nation and destroying people’s lives? Skin color doesn’t matter if they’re all authoritarians and warmongers. After all, no one is going to be happier that the boot stomping down on their face or the guy ordering the bombing of their school, was a transgender woman and not the typical white straight male. Their lives will still be destroyed and their families will still be slaughtered. So, are these people truly diverse or are they the same old brutalists in suits and heels who have always ran the show? Well, the answer to that question isn’t a good one. Said simply:
Anyone who thought Joe Biden would be anything other than a warmongering mass murderer, a Terrorist-in-Chief like the Presidents before him, just got played like for a fool.
There are 23 nominees for different administration positions, a number beyond the scope of this article in size. So instead of trying to do them all I’ve chosen to cover the first four on this list from PBS to show that I’m not simply choosing the worst appointees, they’re all warmongers and authoritarians, and after I’ve covered those four I will skip around to some of the most horrific examples, though this will by no means be a comprehensive listing of the Worst. Before you go further I suggest you read this article on the War on Terrorism so it is fresh in your mind just what a universal bloodbath it has been so that when you read about these people supporting it you understand what they’re supporting.
A Few Examples
Secretary of Defense – Lloyd Austin
Biden’s nominee for the head of Orwellianly named Department of Defense (responsible for the largest most aggressive military war machine on the planet) is Lloyd Austin is a retired four star general who spearheaded the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and directed over 152,000 military actions in Iraq as before he became Commanding General of US Military Forces in Iraq. The man is a lifelong member of the military-industrial complex who, while destroying Iraq, supported and carried out American terrorist strikes against Libya and Syria and then retired to join the board of Raytheon, the third largest weapons dealer on the planet. It being technically illegal for him to hold the office to start with he has to get a special dispensation from Congress to even assume the role after his confirmation. There is no arguing with the facts that this man is a corporate military stooge, a warmonger, and a militarist. Of course it is no surprise that Biden chose this guy as his Secretary of “Defense” as Biden himself is an infamous warmonger.
Secretary of Health and Human Services – Xavier Becerra
Xavier Becerra is a police state authoritarian and a warmonger. This can be seen from his voting history when he was in the House of Representatives and from his subsequent term as Attorney General for California. First, let’s look at his congressional voting record.
To start with, Becerra voted for the USA FREEDOM ACT. That sounds wonderful, doesn’t it? Who doesn’t love freedom? Well, to start with, the authors and supporters of the FREEDOM Act. The Act was sold as an amending of the US PATRIOT ACT that would supposedly correct and prevent the government’s unlimited and unconstitutional – and therefore illegal – monitoring of and spying on the American people. In fact the FREEDOM Act did the exact opposite. As former New Jersey State Supreme Court Judge and constitutional expert Andrew Napolitano explains, the FREEDOM Act did nothing but juggle around the most offensive spying provisions of the PATRIOT Act and sold these violations of human rights and privacy as “reform” when the whole thing really continued to expand the power of the government. In addition to his support of illegal and authoritarian state spying on private citizens, Becerra also voted for the dismally named H.J.Res. 124 (113th): Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 , a Christmas Tree bill which, among other horrendous things, snuck blanket congressional approval for America military intervention in the Syrian Civil War. This makes him a warmonger in addition to an authoritarian.
Then there is his term as Attorney General of California when he tried to squash a story about police brutality by threatening to imprison the journalists publishing the story. Journalists from the UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program received a list from California’s police training agency through a public records request that listed 12,000 former or prospective officers who dealt drugs, stole from their departments, sexually assaulted suspects, molested children, drove drunk, took bribes, filed false reports, and committed perjury. Becerra demanded that the journalists destroy this legally obtained list or they would face state prosecution, despite the fact that the state law actually protects journalists from being prosecuted for receiving even classified state record. He then lied about threatening legal action against these people in order to protect these abusive, violent, and corrupt police. Like Kamala Harris before him, Becerra is a police state thug.
Secretary of State – Antony Blinken
Blinken is a life-long Washington bureaucrat who has held various positions on the National Security Council and in the State Department. He is also a warmonger of the highest caliber. He supported both the initial and subsequent invasions of Iraq, the merciless bombing of Libya, and wants Biden to commit troops to fight in Syria. Blinked even helped to craft Biden’s support for the original Iraq invasion, which suggests he has a chilling amount of influence on Biden when it comes to convincing him to engage in foreign military actions and invasions to secure American military and economic hegemony. I am old enough to remember when supporting the Iraq War was widely condemned as evil, immoral, and idiotic by Democrats who called for politicians who did so to be held accountable and removed form office. Now Democrats support these warmongers with the power to wage even more wars and destroy more lives across the world, proving they have no principles, only politics.
The man also co-founded WestExec, a company whose purpose is build partnerships between private tech firms, the Department of Defense, and other defense agencies. In other words, it helps tech companies sell their technology to the government so that it can use it to murder people more easily. It is a company that essential is profiteering off of war, making Blinken a war profiteer. He is firmly entrenched in the military-industrial complex and whether or not his company directly makes money during his time in office you can bet his “friends” will and that they will reward him when he returns to the “private” sector.
Secretary of Transportation – Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg, former mayor of South Bend, Indiana with what must surely be a record clean of warmongering and authoritarianism, right? Unfortunately, no. After years of attending war protests, he had a change of heart and joined the US military as a Navy intelligence officer. Stationed in Kabul, Afghanistan he worked to disrupt Taliban operations and took over 119 trips into contested territory, which makes him a “combat veteran” according to his former commanding officer. After his tour in Afghanistan, taking part in one of the most brutal occupations in modern history that has thrown a nation into a massive civil war that has cost hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of innocent lives, caused untold suffering in the lives of millions and millions more, and cost the US trillions of dollars and everything that wealth could have created, he still has the gall to say that he did not think the war was a mistake. It is no surprise then that his policy on the military is strikingly similar to all the other warmongers before him. Spend hundreds of billions on the military, increase America’s military technology, use NATO as the militarist stick to threaten those who won’t fall into line, slap mutually destructive sanctions on those nations he doesn’t like, and demonize Russia, China, and the “anti-modern theocratic regimes of the Middle East.”
All of this is really no surprise when you understand, as Leftist news agency The New Republic reports, Buttigieg’s ideal concept of American militarism is the Cold War. All of his foreign policy decisions are simply recycled Cold War programs designed to create foreign monsters for Americans to slay through the centralized control of American military might. It is just “war socialism” for the 21st Century. He is, “technocratic, seeing the use of force not as an inherent harm but a fine policy instrument wielded badly by imperfect actors.” And then there was that time he talked about using the US military to invade Mexico and fight the drug cartels there. It is then no surprise that one of his former colleagues in protest, dedicated anti-war activist Jesse Stellato said, when asked about Buttigeg’s anti-Iraq War protests, that “He seemed more like a partisan than a pacifist. I’m not sure he would have been there if the Democrats hadn’t come out against the invasion.” That is absolutely correct. Buttigieg is just another Progressive, Democratic warmonger.
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Hopefully I’ve shown, given my limited space, that I don’t have to pick out the ones I think are bad and present them as being representative of the whole. I can follow the list made from a completely sympathetic source and they all still stand revealed for what they are. From here though I want to pick out a few of the more dangerous warmongers and authoritarians in the Biden Administration.
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Director of National Intelligence – Avril Haines
The Director of National Intelligence is “the head of the U.S. Intelligence Community [and] acts as the principal advisor to the president, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council for intelligence matters related to national security.” As America’s top spy and position of information, it is a powerful role, one that you do not want the wrong kind of person to get because they can use it in immensely corrupt and destructive ways. Unfortunately for us, and millions across the planet, Avril Haines is a monster. This doesn’t make her unique in politics generally or the Biden Administration specifically (see above examples), but it is nevertheless horrifying. What makes her so problematic? To answer that we turn to former CIA agent turned whistleblower John Kiriakou who spent years in prison after revealing that the US military was torturing people and, while the torturers, in true government fashion, walked free and even won promotions. As Kiriakou explains here:
We know that Avril Haines, at the NSC, was in charge of determining whether it was legal or illegal to place people on John Brennan’s kill list. We know that in almost all cases that she said it was legal to put these names on the kill list, and people were subsequently killed by drone, including American citizens, like Anwar al-Awlaki and his son. They were American citizens who had never been charged with a crime. They had never faced their accusers in a court of law. There was no due process for them. She’s never had to answer for that.
That is right. She ordered the incineration of civilians – men, women, and children – knowingly and willingly. This includes assassinating American citizens, including a 16 year old boy. Over 90% of those killed in drone strikes have been civilians. The total death toll from drone strikes is hard to figure out- the data is parsed out country by country and no one seems to have added it all up in one location. But using Pakistan, the country drone bombed more than any other outside of Afghanistan, as an example by 2016 the civilian death toll amounted to 4,026 people killed. Using the Intercept’s ratio, that means in Pakistan alone around 3,624 civilians were murdered. When you add airstrikes carried out in Yemen, Somalia, and Afghanistan that number increases by another 1,337 civilians murdered, for a total of at 4, 961 civilians murdered during the Obama Administration just in those four countries and not counting any strikes still kept classified or are simply unknown to the public. Including those even conservative hypotheticals would justify pushing the number of civilians terrorized and murdered by American drones bombing schools, buses, soccer, games, hospitals, and weddings, and more to well over 5,000. In fact, as far back as 2013 you had Congressmen estimating it was as high as 4,700 then! All of them at the consent, permission, and orders of Avril Haines.
Then there was that time the CIA was caught illegally hacking into the computers of the Senate Intelligence Committee in an effort to hobble the Committee’s investigations into the CIA’s torture programs. (The first time they were caught though surely not the first nor the last time this has occured.) Haines not only actively protected the agents who carried out these highly illegal, unconstitutional, and immoral actions from any punishment, she actively gave them commendations by rewarding them the Career Intelligence Medal. Then, when the Committee released its 5,000 page report on its investigation, Hines exercised her powers to redact it down to merely 500 pages, a tenth of its actual size, and thereby hide from the public what the Committee had discovered about the CIA’s horrendous actions.
Hines has repeatedly ordered the mass slaughter of men, women, and children. She has attacked the US Congress a sit carried out its legal role of conducting oversight investigations into the CIA torture program. She has done everything she can to prevent any information about the evils of the CIA’s drone and torture programs from ever becoming public. She has lied again and again to the public and to those she supposedly serves in political office. The woman is a corrupt monster and deserves to be stuck in a dark hole and be caused to face justice for her crimes. Instead she gets a promotion. Giving her more power is an outright insanity – unless of course you support warmongering, authoritarianism, and torture. Which it seems Joe Biden does. Truly there is no punishment for lying mass murderers in America, only rewards.
Secretary of the Treasury – Janet Yellen
Janet Yellen, Professor of Economics Emerita at UC Berkeley and former head of the Federal Reserve, is an absolute disaster waiting to happen. Correction. She is not waiting to happen. She has already happened; she has already caused massive havoc to the detriment of every person living within the United States and millions living abroad. She is another technocrat that refuses to see or acknowledge the real world harm that her policies cause as opposed to the textbook fantasies she imagines. In order to understand how and why though you must first have a basic understanding of what the Federal Reserve does and how it effects society.
Put simply in order to manage space, the Federal Reserve allows the US government to pay for programs – such as welfare and warfare – that it could never otherwise pay for because it wouldn’t have the money. When it needs money the US government creates and sells various bonds and securities promising a greater return for investment later down the road. The buyers of these bonds then turn around and sell them to the Federal Reserve, which creates the money which it uses to purchase these bonds out of thin air. The Federal Reserve then earns the interest and (in some cases) capital gains on the assets. After the Fed pays its employees and other bills, it remits the excess earnings back to the Treasury. When the Treasury securities held by the Fed mature — so that the Treasury must pay back the face value in principal — the Fed rolls over the debt by either issuing new loans to pay off old loans or by extending the time until payment. Over time, the nominal market value of the Fed’s holdings of Treasury debt continually grows. Today the Fed owns around 70% of the national debt. Barring a sudden reversal in this policy, the Treasury knows that it will never have to pay off this debt.
One of the greatest dangers in this is how it funds an ever-growing government. America’s Founding Fathers purposefully made it hard for Congress to collect certain types of low paying taxes so that the government would not be able to pay for whatever it wanted and therefore be able to do whatever it wanted. With the Fed removing these shackles the size and power of the government has done nothing but grow over the last century. This is how the US government can spend over $6 trillion dollars on its terrorist wars and military occupations in the Middle East without increasing taxes. At the same time the constant increase in the amount of money has driven the value of the dollar lower and lower, causing prices to rise and destroying the savings of the elderly and crippling the ability of poor and middle class people to save up and improve their lives.
If you’re worried about the “rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer” then what you are seeing is the devastation the polices Janet Yellen and those like her have promoted and continue to promote. The rich benefit by getting access to all that new money to spend before it devalues the overall value of the dollar while poor and middle class people get stuck working harder jobs for longer hours and getting more dollar bills which seem to buy less and less every year. Then there are the millions of people maimed and murdered by American military actions across the planet, military actions only made possible by the policies of Federal Reserve. Yellen helped make that possible and will only work to continue to do so in the Biden Administration.
And, of course she also wants to try and regulate digital currencies because she cannot allow people to have any source of wealth outside of the control of the administrative state. Yellen’s appointment really puts the truth to the old lie that the Federal Reserve is beyond politics and demonstrates that the exact opposite is true.
Head of the USAID – Samantha Power
The United States Agency for International Development isn’t one of those listed in the PBS list linked above, it is probably one of those agencies most people don’t really know about and therefore don’t understand how influential it is in world politics. It markets itself to the nation as the, “the lead U.S. Government agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize their potential. U.S. foreign assistance has always had the twofold purpose of furthering America’s interests while improving lives in the developing world. USAID carries out U.S. foreign policy by promoting broad-scale human progress at the same time it expands stable, free societies, creates markets and trade partners for the United States, and fosters good will abroad.” That sounds all well and good, doesn’t it? But outside of the propaganda, the actual purpose and effects of this state controlled “foreign aid” is quite insidious:
At its base, however, foreign aid consists of government-to-government subsidies. They are funded through taxes and constitute a wealth transfer between governments. Funds, clothing, food, etc., are not given directly to the poor; rather they are funneled through the recipient government. Any “aid” that is subsequently passed down to the poor of developing countries is secondary and incidental; the recipient country’s government decides where and how much money actually reaches its citizens. Because corruption runs rampant throughout much of the developing world, vast sums of aid are embezzled or consumed by government employees.
The most conspicuous result of subsidies is the dependence of the recipient countries upon the benefactor. Loans and grants are tied to the incidence of poverty and because of this, leaders of third world countries can assure financial transfers only by staying within the loan/grant criteria. This creates a perverse incentive for government bureaucrats to keep their nation in poverty.
Actually making things better for their countries would cut off a large in flow of money not to the people, but to the bank accounts and pocketbooks of the politicians who control the nation and their sycophantic corporate partners. It gives corrupt foreign leaders the means to remain in power, impoverish their country and get very wealthy while doing it, all on wealth stolen from the American workers. And all these corrupt foreign leaders have to do in exchange isn’t help their people but appease the American state, which is why there is a direct correlation between foreign aid and an American military presence in a country. This often extends further than that, even into the American control of foreign medical services, such as the time USAID funded forced abortions in Peru. USAID is the financial arm of American efforts at international regime change. Just look at how USAID announced it would be providing $52 million to Juan Guaido, who the US recognizes as legitimate president of Venezuela despite the fact that his coup against the actual recognized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, head of the Socialist Party of Venezuela. At its core, USAID is about using wealth stolen from the American public to act as the carrot by which America manipulates and controls foreign nations through acts of economic and political domination and imperialism.
Enter Samantha Power.
Samantha Power is seemingly highly regarded among Democratic politicos as she served on Obama’s National Security Council(NSC) and as US Ambassador to the UN. Joe Biden has even referred to her as a “world-renowned voice of conscience and moral clarity,” sayings, “I know firsthand the unparalleled knowledge and tireless commitment to principled American engagement she brings to the table and her expertise and perspective will be essential as our country reasserts its role as a leader on the world stage.” Well, let us see just what kind of role the US plans to take on the world stage by evaluating exactly what Power and knowledge, commitment, and morality have created in her previous roles.
In 2011, Power, then on the NSC, Hillary Clinton, then Secretary of State, and Susan Rice, then US Ambassador to the UN, convinced Barack Obama to begin Using American money, weapons, and military force to intervene in the Libyan Civil War. The result was a total disaster that turned the nation into a haven for al-Qaeda fighters, some of whom had actually fought against American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and who were now being armed and funded by America in Libya. This means the US was simultaneously fighting al-Qaeda in two countries while supporting and funding al-Qaeda to carry out acts of terrorism in a third. Even the US government has been forced to admit the horrific reality it has created in Libya:
But [then Libya dictator] Gaddafi eventually realized that he was the target of terrorists himself and he changed course to side with us against the cancer of terrorism. By 2008, U.S. military leaders were calling Libya a top U.S. ally in combating transnational terrorism. Fast forward to today, and Libya is a virtual incubator of terrorist groups, hosting all stripes of jihadi organizations including ISIS and al-Qaeda. Unfortunately, it was U.S. policy that transformed Libya into the complete failure that it is today.
…Gaddafi’s ouster [read assassination] unleashed chaos in the country. Long-simmering political, regional and ethnic divisions suddenly
emerged and set Libya on a path toward disaster. The country has never recovered.
Then there are the targeted killings of black Africans that took place as the people the US supported in the civil war hunted down and drove black African families from their homes, killing those who resisted, which helped to spark a massive refugee crisis in North Africa and Europe, and even led to the return of the slave trade as black African men were sold into slavery in open air, public, Libyan slave markets in broad daylight.
As Ambassador to the UN, Power supported and promoted American military intervention in the Syrian War and Yemen. Syria is a disaster that has caused untold numbers of deaths, the destruction of thousands of years of culture, civilization, and history, and a refugee crisis that has millions suffering and dying in horrific concentration camp like conditions. Men, women, and children continue to suffer and die from starvation, violence, and drowning while fleeing the civil war which Power promoted and continues to support. Just look at the stories of the people trapped in this Greek refugee camp:
Or those living in refugee camps in the Middle East:
Then there is the Yemeni Holocaust. Despite Samantha Power’s efforts to hide her responsibility for and support of American military intervention in Yemen – for providing military aid and support to Saudi Arabia, doing everything from selling them weapons of mass destruction as they purposefully slaughtered civilians and erecting an ongoing military blockade of Yemen that has caused mass famine, starvation, disease, grinding poverty, misery, and death – the truth still stands. And that support hasn’t changed despite the revelation that Saudi Arabia was fighting alongside al-Qaeda in Yemen, meaning that the US was once again helping to arm, fund, and train the terrorist group it was/is supposedly trying to eradicate. Then, as investigations at the UN began to look into the war crimes, terrorism, and crimes against humanity that Saudi Arabia has been carrying out in Yemen, Power used her role there to help protect them from being held accountable by allowing them to investigate themselves – of course they found nothing wrong – which allowed them to continue to slaughter civilians without having to worry about any danger of facing anything even looking like justice. In Africa and the Middle East, Power has helped to create Hell on Earth for millions of people. And I haven’t even touched on her role in the Ukrainian debacle that has caused so much violence and suffering there.
You want to see the face of Samantha Power’s supposed moral clarity, the product of her much lauded wisdom and knowledge, the result of her commitment? Then look no further:
Look into the face of this Yemeni mother and her child who is starving to death because the American-backed war and American lead blockade of their nation. The United States has turned western Yemen into one big concentration camp and this is the result. And Joe Biden shares as much blame as Power. Despite the various apologists who try and argue that he isn’t to blame for this or that intervention because he counseled against them or only promoted them in some limited fashion, the facts are that even for those he might have been “hesitant” on he still completely supported Barack Obama publicly in everything he did and not once used the privilege, position, and power of the Vice-Presidency to reveal the truth of what was happening to the American people. Whatever his “feelings,” Biden’s actions were to contribute to the Yemeni Holocaust and the other acts of mass murder during the Obama years, not to mention Biden’s decades of warmongering in Congress. He is a war criminal like all the rest, now the war criminal par excellence.
Terrorist-in-Chief
I know the above are but a few examples of the authoritarians, war criminals, mass murderers, and monsters that Joe Biden has surrounded himself with. But they are a representative sample and they tell us a great deal about Biden himself because, as the proverb goes, you can tell a lot about a man by who he surrounds himself with. They tell us who he truly is once you drill past the mild-mannered demeanor, the propaganda, and the political façade. So what do they tell us? Well, let me ask you this: Why would a person surround himself with warmonger, authoritarians, liars, mass murderers, and propagandists if he weren’t all those things himself? Why would he give them positions of enormous influence and power if their causes were not his own? The answer to these questions is obvious. Joe Biden is a authoritarian brutalist and a warmonger. He, like Obama and unlike Trump, just knows how to hide his true nature behind the sham of respectability and subtilty.
Biden isn’t stupid by any means. He knows that as long a she goes for the false face of diversity – a diversity of skin tones and genital types as opposed to being diverse by having an Administration full of people with intellectual honesty, humility, morality, liberality, and humanity – that his supporters will eat it all up. He knows that they’ll be so busy talking about how his Secretary of Defense (of War) is the first black guy to hold that position or how he is appointing the first transgender person to a high level position that they won’t even care that the black man in question is a brutal imperialist or that Levine was so horrible at the job of being Pennsylvania Secretary of Health that Levine’s decisions caused over half of the Covid-19 deaths in the state which does not suggest Levine should be given a higher office with more power.
All of this does demonstrate the power of propaganda though. Biden and his cronies understand what makes his base move and quake. He knows that as long as he keeps up appearances he can continue the same murderous, brutalist, authoritarian, imperialist policies of every President pervious to him and receive mass support from the Democratic Party. Sure, the few principled Leftists will complain, but even they won’t do it too often nor too loudly and will be drowned out by the voices of the laudatory media. There is no diversity in Biden’s Administration. They’re all the same as those in the Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc. Administrations before them – in fact, as we have seen, many of them are literally just the same old warmongers and authoritarians given newer, shinier roles. Not only are they the least diverse Administration, but the results of their actions will be the same as all those before – hunger, humiliation, destruction, starvation, slaughter, and despotism; in short, reigning with blood and horror upon the Earth.