The Parallel Power Structure

"The West allowed since the seventies a parallel power structure in the  private sector to grow and metastasize until it suppressed, usurped and commandeered state power. And thus the private sector is not loyal to any nation."

Het Westen heeft sinds midden jaren zeventig van de vorige eeuw toegestaan ​​dat een parallelle machtsstructuur in de private sector groeide en zich uitbreidde, totdat deze de staatsmacht onderdrukte, usurpeerde en overnam. Daardoor is de private sector aan geen enkele natie loyaal. 

"To metastasize," een werkwoord uit de oncologie betekent voor kanker cellen dat ze zich, vanuit hun oorspronkelijke locatie, kunnen verspreiden over andere delen van het fysieke dan wel maatschappelijke lichaam. Zodra ze zich eenmaal door het bloed of lymfesysteem verplaatsen, kunnen de kankercellen zich elders vestigen en nieuwe tumoren veroorzaken. Hetzelfde is het geval met het maatschappelijke weefsel. Wanneer bijvoorbeeld een nieuwe ideologie succesvol lijkt te zijn, krijgt het de mogelijkheid om op elk gebied te worden toegepast. Ook als het daarvoor helemaal niet geschikt is, en een verwoestende uitwerking oplevert. 

De huidige politieke, economische, en financiële elite functioneert als kanker, waarbij grote delen van de samenleving worden verwoest.

Meet AIPAC’s Top Target for the 2026 campaign: Abdul El-Sayed

AIPAC is spending millions of $ to defeat him!

DEAN OBEIDALLAH

JUL 12

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AIPAC has targeted numerous candidates in primaries this year for daring to criticize the genocide in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing of Christian and Muslim Palestinians in the West Bank. But there is only one person AIPAC has described as “the most dangerous candidate for the US-Israel relationship” and are spending more than $30 million dollars to defeat.

That person is Dr. Abdul El-Sayed --who is running for the Democratic nomination for the US Senate in Michigan. I spoke to El-Sayed this week about why AIPAC has made him its top target, asking: “You’re thoughtful, you’re compassionate, you’re empathetic, but you’ve scared the crap out of APAC. What is going on?!”

That is when the former executive director of the Detroit Health Department explained bluntly why, “I connect domestic and International policy. I’m a doctor. I rebuilt health departments, put glasses on kids, eliminated medical debt and more. All of my work has been about domestic policy.”

You might be asking why then does AIPAC hate seeing Americans get the same universal healthcare they have in Israel? Well, here is why as El-Sayed continued, “Now, every single time you propose a plan to do something like that, you know what they ask you? Doctor, how you gonna pay for that. It turns out that if maybe we didn’t send our money to a foreign government doing a genocide? Or backstopping apartheid, or taking us into wars we shouldn’t fight, to raise our gas prices, maybe we might have the money to do those things.”

El-Sayed was not done. He leaned in even more, “It’s because our government is misappropriating our tax dollars to do terrible things with it instead of investing in Americans.” He added, “Do you want good things for yourself and your kids, or do you want bad things done to other people? It’s really quite that simple.”

He then summed it all up, “Because I’m willing to say that, AIPAC has identified me as the most dangerous to the US-Israeli relationship.” El-Sayed playfully added, “I wish they’d put that on a t-shirt, I’d wear it every day!”

There you have why AIPAC wants to ensure that El-Sayed is not the Democratic nominee for the Senate. He is advocating that the $35 billion plus in our tax dollars the US provided to the Netanyahu admin over just the past two years should have remained here in the US to help Americans. Same goes for the nearly $4 billion per year promised to Israel for each year coming up.

Overall, Trump and the GOP ended ACA subsidies, gutted Medicaid and SNAP benefits that provide food and healthcare to Americans but increased aid to Israel.

But what is lost often in this discussion is that El-Sayed is openly advocating cutting the $1.4 billion in US tax dollars we provide to Egypt for the same reason—the money should remain in America for Americans. El-Sayed—who is of Egyptian heritage—interestingly noted that no one calls him anti-Egyptian for calling for the same end of aid to Egypt as he is for Israel.

For as much as AIPAC hates El-Sayed, they love his opponent in the primary, Rep. Haley Stevens. They have publicly committed to spending millions to support Stevens in this race. But AIPAC supports Haley because she has done more than support Israel with billions in our tax dollars that should be helping Americans. Stevens also voted to sanction the International Criminal Court for investigating Benjamin Netanyahu for his obvious war crimes in Gaza.

But Haley was not done helping Netanyahu cover up his crimes against humanity. She also joined with GOP House members (yes, GOP House members) to pass an amendment barring the State Department from citing the Gaza Health Ministry’s death toll statistics for the Israel-Hamas war. Haley’s goal was suppress the mention of dead Christian and Muslim Palestinians because it was bad for Netanyahu.

Stevens--who is Christian—has described herself a “very passionate Zionist” and even recently said Israel comes to her in her dreams. You know who doesn’t dream about Israel?! The thousands of Christian and Muslim Palestinian women and children slaughtered in Gaza—but those people don’t matter to Haley or to her backers at AIPAC.

Getting back to El-Sayed. His campaign’s focus has always been on domestic concerns—especially Medicare for All. In fact, he wrote a book in 2021 advocating for universal healthcare for Americans. As El-Sayed explained in our discussion, “I think for most of us, we’ve just taken for granted in this country that we have to live with the status quo, where if you get sick, you have to figure out how to end around the healthcare system or fall into medical debt.” But he added, “I’m just not willing to make peace with that.”

Nor is El-Sayed going to make peace with Trump. He put it bluntly, Trump is “a megalomaniacal asshole who thinks that he’s a king. And, you know, when we win in this election, we are going to hold him accountable for the, what, $2.2 billion that he and his kids have made off the presidency?!” He added, “That’s an insane level of grift, and we could do a lot better.”

Overall, El-Sayed summed up why not just AIPAC but other corporate interests that back his opponent “are fighting me.” As he explained, that’s “because I’m an existential threat to the way they do business.” He concluded, “If you believe in a politics of the people, by the people, and for the people, we’ve got an opportunity to build that together.”

The Michigan Democratic primary is set for August 4. The candidates could not be more different. One is powered by big corporate interests. The other is powered by people. The question is which vision will the Democratic voters of Michigan embrace.

I hope you check out my interview of Abdul below as we talk these issues and more:

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