The Rot at the Core of “Democracy”
Former Ambassador, Human Rights Activist
As 320 Palestinians were massacred last night, most of them women and children, we live in a world where it is accepted as legal that Trump2 is genocidally zionist because he received a $100 million donation from Miriam Adelson to be so.
In addition to which Adelson is the second largest donor to AIPAC, which openly pays hundreds of other elected and potential US politicians to be genocidally zionist too.
This is western democracy.
My last article demonstrated how the argument that the First Amendment only applies to US citizens, now used against Mahmoud Khalil, was also employed by the Biden administration in extradition proceedings against Julian Assange.
It surprises me how very often the Assange case proves revealing of the internal workings of power in the USA.
When the CIA wished to bug Julian Assange on Ecuadorean diplomatic premises in London, and look into the possibility of kidnapping or murdering him there, they decided to operate through a cutout for such a diplomatically fraught move.
That CIA cutout was Sheldon Adelson, multi billionaire late husband of Miriam Adelson. Adelson’s fortune had come from a Las Vegas casino and property Empire.
You are probably aware this is not, in general, the most respectable and free from organised crime area of economic activity.

US President Donald Trump awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Doctor Miriam Adelson at the White House in Washington, DC, on November 16, 2018. – The Medal is the highest civilian award of the United States. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
There is a lazy sterotype that the control over crime in Las Vegas lies with the Italian mafia.
In fact from the days of Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky, Las Vegas organised crime has had close ties to Israel from its very establishment as a state, and in recent times Israeli mobster gangs have controlled narcotic distribution in Las Vegas.
Allow me to point out that the first of those two links is to the official Catholic publication The Tablet, and the second is to an American Jewish magazine called Forward, and not the British far right publication of the same name.
Adelson hired a private security company named UC Global, headed by an ex-Spanish marine named David Morales, to conduct the illegal surveillance for the CIA. As one of subjects of the illegal surveillance, I gave evidence last year to the court case in Madrid in which David Morales, head of UC Global is criminally charged.
This case seems to ramble on forever, but last week there was a new development as David Morales was charged with forging documents in the case, for which a new trial is opening. He allegedly fabricated emails from the Ecuadorean Ambassador commissioning the spying.
The CIA commissioned the activity from Adelson during the first Trump Presidency, but notably the Biden administration condoned this and defended it during the Assange extradition proceedings.
It is yet a further example of the meaningless nature of democracy in uniparty America, of the power and reach of the ultra-wealthy, and of the fascist links between big business and secret state agencies.
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