March 2026 – Ecological Era

Capitalism Continues Marching Forward. 3 14 2026

It seems strange Israel would accept the help of the capitalist Americans in Gaza and Iran. It would be the same argument that there are more than one form of capitalism; German or American.

We experienced this in the second world war, where both the Americans and the Germans were involved in production for a greater amount of surplus value, the unpaid selection of the workday. All the capitalists companies, for example Bayer IG Farbin, Adidas, Daimler Benz, all built Hitler’s war machine. It was capitalism versus socialism, the Germans were for whom the bell tolled.

After the loss of the Germans the American bourgeoisie proceeded to try to rehabilitate capitalism there. It looked a lot like Hitlers Germany; they didn’t even change the companies names that financed and produced the commodities Hitler used to attack Russia. The structure of the companies stayed capitalist, as opposed to the eastern section of Germany that tried to reject wage labor, and live without production for surplus value.

In time America’s capitalist machine would remove socialism from most of Europe. The limited democracy politically in America would be overlooked; even after two Republican presidents in less than 20 years appointed without a popular majority. First it was George II, then Donald Trump in his first appointment. Combine that with a Senate with two votes per province or state, where Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee have the same votes as New York, Illinois , and California, I think you can see where this is going. Clearly it is the large landowners who control the Senate, in our example Chicago, LA and New York have to contend with the reactionary landowners who outnumber them in the Senate.

And this is what was fought for that replaced socialism in Eastern Europe. And it is still moving forward, now Israel is ensnared by it, with simple promises of advanced weapons and territorial expansion.

Israel would be best to remember it was Joseph Stalin who found and liberated Auschwitz. The quid pro quo of removing the Jews at the same time as the communists may have failed, but 6 million Jews lost their lives in genocide by the capitalist Germans.

The outcome of that war would have been the same with or without the Americans, the endless concessions to the remnants of Hitler’s war machine proved that. The genocide came to an end in east and west Germany, but capitalism, what Hitler built his empire with, is still wth us. Thus we see Israel, an experiment with a Jewish state, taking their chances supporting capitalism.

We have learned to live with Don, his strange ideas about women, his prosecution of his liberal political enemies, his suggestions that socialists are stupid lunatics because they don’t support his capitalism. We have to live with this, but Israel has volunteered to be part of this.

Are we to really to believe Trump is going to support Stalin? Find an example of that coming from his mouth. In that respect he is reactionary, and little different from the Germans.

Israel must feel the Germans’ support of antisemitism is no longer part of their capitalism. Elon Musk is allowed to support the Alternative for Deutschland, the reactionary bourgeoisie. He controls SpaceX rockets, and has a massive government contract to launch satellites that are used for targeting by Ukraine and Israel in their war efforts supporting the Americans. Musk is also developing non voluntary implants to control the spread of socialism among the young men.

I guess Israel supports this too. Perhaps we should start to brace for the fact Israel may be led by a fascist, or at least condone Musk and his AFD support.

I once thought Israel was a noble cause, a place where the nightmare of the holocaust would never happen again. But continued concessions to capitalism, and the presence of all major capitalist companies including the German ones I mentioned there have changed my mind. All I can say is what I said at the outset; no socialist soul ever fight for a capitalist military. Israel is asking its people for a sacrifice to support the bourgeoisie. It is one that they expressed misgivings about at one time. I guess those days are done now.

Nicholas Jay Boyes

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

3 14 2026

Trump Opens a New Front in Iran 3 3 2026

After a bruising battle in which Donald Trump was reminded of the power of Congress, part of whose mission is to control taxation (which the Supreme Court reaffirmed by ruling Trump’s power to tariff was not legal, as Congress holds the purse strings of government, regarding tariffs, taxes on imports), our lame duck president goes to war in the Middle East.

The front opened in Iran, with the old clunky machinery still moving; the nuclear powered ships, the jet aircraft… It looked a lot like the start of the Iraq adventure, even featuring a common theme, a nuclear armed opponent, a more democratic system, etc.

George Bush II was also a weak president, like Trump he lacked a majority to govern in the first election, which he lost to Gore. Trump lost to Hilary Clinton by 3 and a half million votes, but democracy was a part of the message of both leaders. Both had a majority on their second try, George II after declaring war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

George Bush II tried to fix an Iraq that had fallen apart after his father’s invasion to stop the Ba’ath socialist party under Saddam Hussein. George I leveled Iraq, and with little or no resources to rebuild after overthrowing the socialist government there, Islamic State would take over Iraq. They went backwards not forwards. And it was due to George I’s fetish about nationalized oil, one he shared with Trump in Iran.

Perhaps Iraq was expected to be able to sell oil to rebuild? George II put an end to nationalized wells, returning Iraq’s oil to private companies, like ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell etc. But it was never clear how the workers in Iraq would benefit from bourgeois control of the oil, it was just assumed Exxon would help build Iraq, which was in tatters. Exxon Mobil drills oil. They are not the Marshall plan. At best, Exxon paid more money for wages than the nationalized oil company did. But it stopped there. But they had no intention to build a nation, which was what Iraq really needed.

George II tried to tie Afghanistan to Iraq, going so far as to suggest the two were in tandem. When Afghanistan defeated the Americans and NATO it is not known if Iraq even put an embassy there, no less military bases, airports, etc. The two seem to have little contact, although it is now starting to look more and more like Iraq was also a loss, although not as spectacular as the pictures of the aircraft leaving Afghanistan, with the Afghans the field running to board the planes. Iraq sort of just burned out, and is now poor.

Trump has killed the Supreme religious leader of Iran, the Ayatollah Khamenei, who died in a bombing, helped out by Israel. There was social unrest in Iran prior to this, and the water supplies were severely low. The latter was aggravating the society; they were trying to not have to import food, but that meant deeper and deeper wells, which are currently almost depleted. It is not clear what climate change has to do with this, it may have been their own foolishness that caused this drying of Iran.

The bourgeoisie will not be able to replenish Iran’s water supply. Years of pumping combined with climate change have left Iran poor. The scale of destruction, in about a week the leadership of the country has lost its Supreme Islamic leader. and most of the government buildings are blown up shows the lack of defensive weapons, the more modern ones that can shoot down aircraft and missiles. Iran had a few of them, there were films of what looked like F35’s being shot down by Iran, which were blamed on Kuwaiti defence errors. It reminded us F35’s can be shot down like any other aircraft if you have the weapons.

Instead Iranian leadership is attacking as far away as Israel, with missiles that have little hope of doing and lasting damage to Israel. Perhaps it is symbolic? It looks like a great deal of effort has been put forward, in a vain effort to project power.

If it is anything like the other wars in neighboring Afghanistan and Iraq, it should be obvious this will probably not end with aerial bombing. Trump will soon face a grim reality, that ground troops are necessary, just like the other two Middle Eastern wars. We will see then how serious our lame duck tariffman is about projecting power the old fashioned way by the barrel of a gun.

For the man who wanted so badly to have the Nobel Peace Prize, it is a sorry turn. The war he supposedly ended in Israel is back in full force in Lebanon. Too close to Iran for Israel.

Time will tell if Trump can regain his footing after the failure of his tariff project. He has committed his people to another Middle Eastern War. Afghanistan borders Iran, it is not clear if they will be taking part, perhaps a jihadi faction?

Russia borders Iran on the Caspian sea, they can get through materials to Iran if they want to. Will 20th century military technology be able to do the job still?

A sore loser, whose wings have been clipped, in above his head.

Nicholas Jay Boyes

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

3 3 2026