"ISIS keeps attacking the enemies of the US and Israel for some strange and mysterious reason while funding for the main humanitarian group in Gaza gets cut due to completely unevidenced claims of Hamas affiliation."
It is an open secret that ISIS is sponsored by the United States and that the United States occupies a chunk of Syria to protect ISIS.
One of the first things I noticed when ISIS appeared was their weapons, which were obviously US-made. Where did they get them? Tanks, missiles, artillery -- these are not the things your average terrorist can pick up at the local candy store. I was not the only one to notice, so someone (at the _Times_, probably) made up the excuse that they had been captured from the defunct Iraqi army -- expensive stuff which just happened to be lying around in the desert with no one watching it. That excuse has now worn itself out. Just one more crime. And supposedly intelligent people will apparently accept it and support it. And vote for Biden, of course.
Remember the "vetted moderate democratic freedom fighters" that the US trained in Turkey, only to join ISIS, shiny new weapons intact, the moment they crossed into Syrua?
If anyone actually believed this crap, the US response was - to train, fund and arm some more.
Too bad the US can’t find it in itself to see the Houthis in Yemen as “moderate freedom fighters” who are trying to stop a genocide. Instead the US arms the real terrorists like ISIS and it’s sickening. Now 130 people murdered in Moscow by ISIS group(the last death toll I heard).😢
Yeah that's the first big tell - they didn't die, they all allowed themselves to be captured. Every last one of them. And they were being paid for the job.
Then you have - they got their orders from an anonymous telegram source, and there was cooperation on the Ukraine border to let them pass during a window of time.
I'm still waiting for what the Russians will finally conclude in the end - because their Intel appears to be more reliable than any other country these days. But my guess is - this was a Ukrainian Op - and that implies the US & NATO were also indirectly involved.
The Russians basically have known everything from long ago - you can go back to the Putin's 2007 Munich speech where he lays out what had happened by that time. The problem is - they can't do much short of going with nuclear, which would mean global nuclear exchange which would mean doom.
The combined NATO plus the willing cannon fodder puppies like Ukraine, along with numerous ISIS-like forces elsewhere, easily overwhelm anything Russia can come up with in terms of conventional means. Russia is alone in this. As long as there's no total threat to its existence - an open NATO invasion and not just through the proxies - it's unlikely Russia will use nuclear. NATO knows that, hence will continue nibbling at it by any and all means it can, hoping it'll fall on itself.
But the arrogance and stupidity of NATO will be its doom. Russia will not fall from any outside pressure. It only suffered defeats from within. But the efforts by the US to create Navalnys and Khodorkovskys have failed. All the "opposition" instead of fighting "the regime" ran away. The country is getting more and more united and resolved, and the terrorist acts like this one leave less and less doubts from people's minds.
The history teaches the vultures nothing. They will fall once more, or the whole world disappears in the nuclear catastrophe.
PS: Ukrainian game programmers already came up with scenes of Krokus City shooting. Some restaurants offer dishes named after it (just like they constantly did re Donbass since 2014). That country is depraved like Israel is, only worse. They are overzealous students of that Nazi sewer.
Don’t forget all those brand new Toyota pickup trucks. A lot of the weapons ISIS had were taken after Obama and Hillary destroyed Libya. The CIA set up a rat line from the Benghazi embassy. Funny how the republicans never asked Hillary about that.
Yes! I remember once seeing the ‘leader’ on a screen years ago and thinking this guy looks and sounds so phony. And it now reminds me of how those politicians fell for Abscam (if it doesn’t sound familiar, look it up)
Curious how US claims to have recently warned Moscow of potential terrorism attack and that it conveniently happen to be a branch of IS. Just before Bibi visit to provide MSM with antimuslim content prior to invasion of Rafah.
It appears the attack in Moscow was likely perpetrated by the CIA via Ukrainian saboteurs. Russia spokeswoman Maria Zakharova essentially says this today in TASS:
Funny, I likewise just read that Times article you referenced, but in trying to more gently rouse my sleepy brain, also poked around for something less serious, an article about baseball in which the author proposed spicing up interest in the game via a return to a form of trash talking. And I thought: so much junk Americana, so much crap about this sick society trickles into sustaining brainwashing through the minor streams of this rag of a newspaper that it's no wonder the propagandized stay in their deep exceptionalist ruts, allowing them to support even more odiously stinking shite like the deity-chosen-people exceptionalism of the Zionists.
Carefully scan your information environment, this rubbish comes at your synapses from all directions, even those that seem trivial and harmless. It tells us: Believe in tradition, in the safety of the status quo; stay safe in your cage.
I stopped reading the NY Times in 1980, when they published an op-ed complaining about the homeless congregating in Columbus Circle and suggesting Something Be Done about it. These days it seems like a very minor issue but it is, after all, yet another example of the upper classes gratuitously smiting those on the bottom of the social order with the expected results.
Since the 90's, I'll poke at it on alternate mornings simply to stay abreast of the propaganda and outright lies before I plunge into the actual news on Consortium, al Jazeera, RT and the Grayzone.
I think I told this story before, but I'll press on.... I used to know someone who worked in downtown Manhattan as a bonds trader for a prominent brokerage house. As I was then sort of respectable they let me in the door and I went up to see my buddy. I noticed the _New York _Times_ on his desk. Confounded, I asked him, "What are you doing with _that_?", as if it were a decayed mackerel. "Well," he said, a bit embarrassed, "I have to know what they think I'm supposed to think."
What is most extraordinary is that Americans do not have a well-funded, widely available left-wing daily, such as those that have always flourished in Europe - and probably other parts of the world that I ignore.
There were a bunch of them in the early 20th Century, some with decent circulations. Then history reminds us about the persecution/imprisonment of Eugene Debs, the rise of Hoover and the FBI, all coincident with "barons of industry" salivating at the authoritarian "efficiency" they were seeing in Europe by Mussolini, then Hitler. You might say that good old American early corporate greed was, as usual, the assassin, ushering in a real, albeit more polite, Fascism.
America does not have a left wing. Why would it have a left wing daily?
It is one of the most reactionary places on the planet. A place were a colonialist, war machine sponsor like Bernie sanders is - relative to the rest of the country - an “extreme leftist”.
"It’s funny to see the US proposing a fake UN “ceasefire” resolution which doesn’t actually demand a ceasefire when it’s public knowledge that the US could single-handedly create a ceasefire by telling Israel it will stop receiving US weapons if it doesn’t negotiate one right now."
Weapons are just one part of it, the most visible part. The United States also bullies its puppets, lackeys, flunkies, catamites and buttbois into supporting Israel. This is less public and less visible but very important.
"People who wish to conflate Zionism with Jewishness often argue that most Jews are Zionists, but so what if they are? Most westerners are propaganda-addled imperialists, but if I didn’t believe westerners can and do snap out of that worldview I wouldn’t be doing what I do here."
I can make any group of humans into roaring assholes, simply by giving them privileges and no obligations.
And of course, having trained my group of assholes, there will be people who don't like them, and who insist that the group is the problem and not the human condition.
When a group remains roaring assholes for millenia and across different regions of the world, one can't help but wonder if it's the the human condition that is the problem or the group itself.
It's certainly much more obvious than the ongoing world wide genocide via these death shots being disguised as therapeutic vaccines but that all depends on someone's perspective. The only reason that they can continue to exist is because of the massive government corporate backed propaganda that sells a completely delusional reality.
"We can only have a healthy world when the people snap out of their propaganda-induced coma and shake off the power-serving worldviews of this diseased civilization."
The horrible situation on this planet has been talked to death. Shake off the power-serving worldviews of this diseased civilization, my ass. It is time to quit virtual signaling and destroy the Deep State.
You and the others like you on this blog have been pissing and moaning for months while tens of thousands have been killed. You virtue signal to each other, so at the end of the day, you can feel you have helped because you care. In reality, you have done nothing.
If YOU don't know what to do, Realist, you too are part of the problem. If you do know what to do, please tell us. That's essentially what Jamenta is saying, in case you missed the point.
That is in your face Real. My solution is to bring a third Party to power. The Monopoly Party will never change, their power makes sure of that. It can happen and has happened when Lincoln came to power. Vote NO on Genocide Joe. Stein for Peace.
Much love and many hugs. I see no other choice. People many times agree now when I say Vote NO on Genocide Joe. I no longer hear, but whatabout Trump. There is no lesser Genocide. I will be in Chicago yelling that at the top of my lungs.
You bet it is! The Deep State is playing for all the marbles; they have no intention of losing. Physical force is the only way to bring any 'party' to power...the electoral process is dead.
This was one of your best articles yet. I think you are being optimistic to call it a "barely concealed" genocide. It is not concealed in the least. Neither Israel, nor its bosom buddy the USA care one bit if the genocide is concealed or not. They don't care if anyone believes their propaganda. They think they have everyone running scared of them and they can, therefore, do whatever they like. They are basically a global gang, out for what they can get.
Where are the Western feminists that said “BelieveAllWomen?
The slogan appears only when politically convenient. Sort of like the pious goodthink feminists who insisted that any sexual contact between a male supervisor and a female subordinate was ipso facto sexual harassment, if not outright rape (because power imbalances), until Bill Clinton and L'affaire Lewinsky.
*If we want to understand what is happening in Gaza today, it is useful to turn our attention to the German bombing of the Basque city of Guernica in Republican Spain on April 26, 1937. The German Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazzione Legionaria carried out the attack under the direction of the brutal military genius Colonel Wolfram von Richthofen. The bombing of Guernica was not the deadliest battle of the Spanish Civil War, but it had profound significance for world history because it was a devious experiment.
The Germans and Italians, along with their Spanish Fascist allies, had decided that they did not care what the world thought of them and that they were determined to win the war in Spain by inspiring fear through ruthless destruction.
Bombs were dropped on Guernica without any military purpose, but rather to cause the greatest deaths among civilians, employing creative combinations of explosive bombs and incendiary devices that were dropped on residential communities. The attack first targeted water tanks and fire stations so as to make sure the fires could not be extinguished. Fleeing citizens were attacked by Heinkel 51s and Messerschmitts BF109s to show the entire world the unforgiving power of fascist armies.
And thus, in Guernica, a new form of war was born, a new breed of terror that would become the model for “Blitzkrieg” attacks in Poland and France a few years later.
Guernica was an unmistakable sign to the world that the Fascist forces did not care what others thought of them and that they had the military hardware and the troop discipline to destroy any resistance to their rule. The message telegraphed to all of Europe was the Guernica would be the fate of any city in Europe that dared to resist (source).
The horror of the attack was commemorated by Pablo Picasso in his painting “Guernica” because it so clearly represented a transformation of the nature of the war itself.*
I am so grateful that daily you are keeping the awareness of this genocide alive. I am and have been completely disgusted by government here in the US. I despise feeling powerless and have never felt more so in my 68 years. The level of propagandized people around me is astounding. There are just a handful of people who I can even speak to. No discussions allowed.
I’m with you on that. So far I’ve been yelled and screamed at by my sister-in-law, yelled at by my neighbor whom I attend jewelry making class with(yelled at me, “I don’t want to talk about politics!” when I approached the issue of the genocide in Gaza), told those people over there have been fighting for decades and that it’s about religion and the topping off the cake, “the president is doing all he can and his administration isn’t sending weapons to Israel anymore.” And if you believe that last one I have got some swamp land in Arizona to sell ya. It’s really amazing what the fucking mainstream media puts out, spewing lies or at the very least, half truths, and the people who actually believe it. My neighbor thinks Kissinger would be a great president if he was alive today and able to run. Wtf?! I want to know what she’s smoking and I suspect it’s not just cigarettes. 🤣😂😂🤣
Occasionally I forward CJ to my SIL.. usually no response, however once she replied, "Always interesting to see what you two are reading." How diplomatic. If CJ doesn't warrant some kind of response I don't know who would. Bottom line is they're comfortable with the lies.
Are most Jewish people Zionists? It's probably the circles I run in, but the Jewish people I know hate this genocide and are appalled that it is happening in their name.
Let's not tar anyone with a broad brush. Yes, people can rise above the pernicious aspects of their culture. Anyone determined to do so can and will succeed.
I came here to say that. I first became aware of Alex Jones when he snuck into Bohemian Grove and then called George W. Bush out on it through a megaphone at the Texas capitol.
"ISIS keeps attacking the enemies of the US and Israel for some strange and mysterious reason while funding for the main humanitarian group in Gaza gets cut due to completely unevidenced claims of Hamas affiliation."
It is an open secret that ISIS is sponsored by the United States and that the United States occupies a chunk of Syria to protect ISIS.
One of the first things I noticed when ISIS appeared was their weapons, which were obviously US-made. Where did they get them? Tanks, missiles, artillery -- these are not the things your average terrorist can pick up at the local candy store. I was not the only one to notice, so someone (at the _Times_, probably) made up the excuse that they had been captured from the defunct Iraqi army -- expensive stuff which just happened to be lying around in the desert with no one watching it. That excuse has now worn itself out. Just one more crime. And supposedly intelligent people will apparently accept it and support it. And vote for Biden, of course.
Remember the "vetted moderate democratic freedom fighters" that the US trained in Turkey, only to join ISIS, shiny new weapons intact, the moment they crossed into Syrua?
If anyone actually believed this crap, the US response was - to train, fund and arm some more.
Too bad the US can’t find it in itself to see the Houthis in Yemen as “moderate freedom fighters” who are trying to stop a genocide. Instead the US arms the real terrorists like ISIS and it’s sickening. Now 130 people murdered in Moscow by ISIS group(the last death toll I heard).😢
"ISIS" - you heard it from the MSM and the western governments, right?
That means it's a lie. Those are not ISIS. They didn't blow themselves up, they didn't invoke religion. They were running away towards Ukraine border.
No, they are CIA/MI6/Mossad operation via multiple intermediaries. The US is running interference for its sponsored terrorism.
Yeah that's the first big tell - they didn't die, they all allowed themselves to be captured. Every last one of them. And they were being paid for the job.
Then you have - they got their orders from an anonymous telegram source, and there was cooperation on the Ukraine border to let them pass during a window of time.
I'm still waiting for what the Russians will finally conclude in the end - because their Intel appears to be more reliable than any other country these days. But my guess is - this was a Ukrainian Op - and that implies the US & NATO were also indirectly involved.
The Russians basically have known everything from long ago - you can go back to the Putin's 2007 Munich speech where he lays out what had happened by that time. The problem is - they can't do much short of going with nuclear, which would mean global nuclear exchange which would mean doom.
The combined NATO plus the willing cannon fodder puppies like Ukraine, along with numerous ISIS-like forces elsewhere, easily overwhelm anything Russia can come up with in terms of conventional means. Russia is alone in this. As long as there's no total threat to its existence - an open NATO invasion and not just through the proxies - it's unlikely Russia will use nuclear. NATO knows that, hence will continue nibbling at it by any and all means it can, hoping it'll fall on itself.
But the arrogance and stupidity of NATO will be its doom. Russia will not fall from any outside pressure. It only suffered defeats from within. But the efforts by the US to create Navalnys and Khodorkovskys have failed. All the "opposition" instead of fighting "the regime" ran away. The country is getting more and more united and resolved, and the terrorist acts like this one leave less and less doubts from people's minds.
The history teaches the vultures nothing. They will fall once more, or the whole world disappears in the nuclear catastrophe.
PS: Ukrainian game programmers already came up with scenes of Krokus City shooting. Some restaurants offer dishes named after it (just like they constantly did re Donbass since 2014). That country is depraved like Israel is, only worse. They are overzealous students of that Nazi sewer.
US general and CIA Director David Petraeus famously described the US sponsored proxies in ISIS/Al Nusra as “moderate islamists”.
I guess just like the US is sponsoring and arming “moderate nazis” in Ukraine.
Here's wikileaks publishing Jake Sullivan's 2012-02-12 email to Hillary Clinton: https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/23225
"See last item - AQ is on our side in Syria."
Jake the Snake, who is now sponsoring Israeli proxies with the death squads committing genocide in palestine, What a distinguished career….
Don’t forget all those brand new Toyota pickup trucks. A lot of the weapons ISIS had were taken after Obama and Hillary destroyed Libya. The CIA set up a rat line from the Benghazi embassy. Funny how the republicans never asked Hillary about that.
An article on how America and the UK funded ISIS.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/03/us-isis-syria-iraq
I’m sorry to say but some of my loved ones are in that category: will accept it and vote for Biden.😢
Correct.
Also Boko Haram in west Africa is the same, while it is supposedly the excuse for the US military presence there.
Yes! I remember once seeing the ‘leader’ on a screen years ago and thinking this guy looks and sounds so phony. And it now reminds me of how those politicians fell for Abscam (if it doesn’t sound familiar, look it up)
Curious how US claims to have recently warned Moscow of potential terrorism attack and that it conveniently happen to be a branch of IS. Just before Bibi visit to provide MSM with antimuslim content prior to invasion of Rafah.
It appears the attack in Moscow was likely perpetrated by the CIA via Ukrainian saboteurs. Russia spokeswoman Maria Zakharova essentially says this today in TASS:
https://tass.com/world/1765181
https://beeley.substack.com/p/75-years-and-counting-a-history-of/comments
Funny, I likewise just read that Times article you referenced, but in trying to more gently rouse my sleepy brain, also poked around for something less serious, an article about baseball in which the author proposed spicing up interest in the game via a return to a form of trash talking. And I thought: so much junk Americana, so much crap about this sick society trickles into sustaining brainwashing through the minor streams of this rag of a newspaper that it's no wonder the propagandized stay in their deep exceptionalist ruts, allowing them to support even more odiously stinking shite like the deity-chosen-people exceptionalism of the Zionists.
Carefully scan your information environment, this rubbish comes at your synapses from all directions, even those that seem trivial and harmless. It tells us: Believe in tradition, in the safety of the status quo; stay safe in your cage.
I stopped reading the NY Times in 1980, when they published an op-ed complaining about the homeless congregating in Columbus Circle and suggesting Something Be Done about it. These days it seems like a very minor issue but it is, after all, yet another example of the upper classes gratuitously smiting those on the bottom of the social order with the expected results.
Since the 90's, I'll poke at it on alternate mornings simply to stay abreast of the propaganda and outright lies before I plunge into the actual news on Consortium, al Jazeera, RT and the Grayzone.
I think I told this story before, but I'll press on.... I used to know someone who worked in downtown Manhattan as a bonds trader for a prominent brokerage house. As I was then sort of respectable they let me in the door and I went up to see my buddy. I noticed the _New York _Times_ on his desk. Confounded, I asked him, "What are you doing with _that_?", as if it were a decayed mackerel. "Well," he said, a bit embarrassed, "I have to know what they think I'm supposed to think."
Good one!
The only thing still worth looking at on the NYTimes is the recipe section. Otherwise, it makes for great litterbox filler.
What is most extraordinary is that Americans do not have a well-funded, widely available left-wing daily, such as those that have always flourished in Europe - and probably other parts of the world that I ignore.
There were a bunch of them in the early 20th Century, some with decent circulations. Then history reminds us about the persecution/imprisonment of Eugene Debs, the rise of Hoover and the FBI, all coincident with "barons of industry" salivating at the authoritarian "efficiency" they were seeing in Europe by Mussolini, then Hitler. You might say that good old American early corporate greed was, as usual, the assassin, ushering in a real, albeit more polite, Fascism.
We used to have socialist newspapers in the US, but they were stamped out.
Freedom - as long as you completely agree with what the American billionaires have to say. OTW, the boot.
America does not have a left wing. Why would it have a left wing daily?
It is one of the most reactionary places on the planet. A place were a colonialist, war machine sponsor like Bernie sanders is - relative to the rest of the country - an “extreme leftist”.
We used to have the Nation, but it lost its mind during Russia gate if not before. Strong case of TDS.
ETA NPR, but it’s been captured like most corporate media.
And thanks for doing your part to snap people out of this propaganda induced coma, Caitlin.
"It’s funny to see the US proposing a fake UN “ceasefire” resolution which doesn’t actually demand a ceasefire when it’s public knowledge that the US could single-handedly create a ceasefire by telling Israel it will stop receiving US weapons if it doesn’t negotiate one right now."
Weapons are just one part of it, the most visible part. The United States also bullies its puppets, lackeys, flunkies, catamites and buttbois into supporting Israel. This is less public and less visible but very important.
"People who wish to conflate Zionism with Jewishness often argue that most Jews are Zionists, but so what if they are? Most westerners are propaganda-addled imperialists, but if I didn’t believe westerners can and do snap out of that worldview I wouldn’t be doing what I do here."
I can make any group of humans into roaring assholes, simply by giving them privileges and no obligations.
Also, constantly tell them that their privileges and lives are under threat if they let their guard down or slacken group solidarity for an instant.
And of course, having trained my group of assholes, there will be people who don't like them, and who insist that the group is the problem and not the human condition.
When a group remains roaring assholes for millenia and across different regions of the world, one can't help but wonder if it's the the human condition that is the problem or the group itself.
It is purposely not disguised. As I suggest here it is like Guernica.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/sloughing-guernica-gaza-born/5844269
It's certainly much more obvious than the ongoing world wide genocide via these death shots being disguised as therapeutic vaccines but that all depends on someone's perspective. The only reason that they can continue to exist is because of the massive government corporate backed propaganda that sells a completely delusional reality.
Have you been vaccinated?
"We can only have a healthy world when the people snap out of their propaganda-induced coma and shake off the power-serving worldviews of this diseased civilization."
The horrible situation on this planet has been talked to death. Shake off the power-serving worldviews of this diseased civilization, my ass. It is time to quit virtual signaling and destroy the Deep State.
Yeah, I'll just snap my fingers right now and the Deep State will disappear. What do you propose?
"Yeah, I'll just snap my fingers right now and the Deep State will disappear. What do you propose?"
Snapping your fingers is no different than pissing and moaning all the time.
If you don't know what to do, you are part of the problem.
What fucking idiot would lay out a plan to destroy the controlling entity on a public forum?
Ah, it's a secret! A secret anti deep state resistance! Yeah, that will work!
" A secret anti deep state resistance! Yeah, that will work!"
It's the only thing that will work.
Pissing and moaning, virtual signaling, and all talk...no action is all I expect from the likes of you.
I guess. I grovel beneath you master.
You and the others like you on this blog have been pissing and moaning for months while tens of thousands have been killed. You virtue signal to each other, so at the end of the day, you can feel you have helped because you care. In reality, you have done nothing.
So, you are advocating a secret anti deep state resistance. How do we organize that resistance?
Do you have a solution, little fuck???
If YOU don't know what to do, Realist, you too are part of the problem. If you do know what to do, please tell us. That's essentially what Jamenta is saying, in case you missed the point.
That is in your face Real. My solution is to bring a third Party to power. The Monopoly Party will never change, their power makes sure of that. It can happen and has happened when Lincoln came to power. Vote NO on Genocide Joe. Stein for Peace.
I will be voting for Jill Stein. I’m sick of these warmongering/war criminal assholes that are destroying a chance for peace in this world.
Much love and many hugs. I see no other choice. People many times agree now when I say Vote NO on Genocide Joe. I no longer hear, but whatabout Trump. There is no lesser Genocide. I will be in Chicago yelling that at the top of my lungs.
"That is in your face Real."
You bet it is! The Deep State is playing for all the marbles; they have no intention of losing. Physical force is the only way to bring any 'party' to power...the electoral process is dead.
Stein or NO one.
This was one of your best articles yet. I think you are being optimistic to call it a "barely concealed" genocide. It is not concealed in the least. Neither Israel, nor its bosom buddy the USA care one bit if the genocide is concealed or not. They don't care if anyone believes their propaganda. They think they have everyone running scared of them and they can, therefore, do whatever they like. They are basically a global gang, out for what they can get.
The Israeli occupation forces are raping women before executing them outside of Al-Shifa Hospital.
Where are the Western feminists that said “BelieveAllWomen?
https://substack.com/@councilestatemedia/note/c-52341420?r=3qunf&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Where are the Western feminists that said “BelieveAllWomen?
The slogan appears only when politically convenient. Sort of like the pious goodthink feminists who insisted that any sexual contact between a male supervisor and a female subordinate was ipso facto sexual harassment, if not outright rape (because power imbalances), until Bill Clinton and L'affaire Lewinsky.
“BelieveAllWomen died when Tara Reide accused Biden of sexual assault. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movement die that quickly.
"That wasn't how it's supposed to work!"
But somehow, "Believe some women when politically convenient!" doesn't quite have the same zing.
Good question.
Living off the spoils after being bought by AIPAC
Wait till they remove the disguise - it will reveal the cognitive malaise of humanity
Yep, but humanity has been inhuman, murderous since times immemorial. It hasn't evolved an inch!
https://liborsoural.substack.com/p/re-inventing-vendetta
*If we want to understand what is happening in Gaza today, it is useful to turn our attention to the German bombing of the Basque city of Guernica in Republican Spain on April 26, 1937. The German Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazzione Legionaria carried out the attack under the direction of the brutal military genius Colonel Wolfram von Richthofen. The bombing of Guernica was not the deadliest battle of the Spanish Civil War, but it had profound significance for world history because it was a devious experiment.
The Germans and Italians, along with their Spanish Fascist allies, had decided that they did not care what the world thought of them and that they were determined to win the war in Spain by inspiring fear through ruthless destruction.
Bombs were dropped on Guernica without any military purpose, but rather to cause the greatest deaths among civilians, employing creative combinations of explosive bombs and incendiary devices that were dropped on residential communities. The attack first targeted water tanks and fire stations so as to make sure the fires could not be extinguished. Fleeing citizens were attacked by Heinkel 51s and Messerschmitts BF109s to show the entire world the unforgiving power of fascist armies.
And thus, in Guernica, a new form of war was born, a new breed of terror that would become the model for “Blitzkrieg” attacks in Poland and France a few years later.
Guernica was an unmistakable sign to the world that the Fascist forces did not care what others thought of them and that they had the military hardware and the troop discipline to destroy any resistance to their rule. The message telegraphed to all of Europe was the Guernica would be the fate of any city in Europe that dared to resist (source).
The horror of the attack was commemorated by Pablo Picasso in his painting “Guernica” because it so clearly represented a transformation of the nature of the war itself.*
I am so grateful that daily you are keeping the awareness of this genocide alive. I am and have been completely disgusted by government here in the US. I despise feeling powerless and have never felt more so in my 68 years. The level of propagandized people around me is astounding. There are just a handful of people who I can even speak to. No discussions allowed.
I’m with you on that. So far I’ve been yelled and screamed at by my sister-in-law, yelled at by my neighbor whom I attend jewelry making class with(yelled at me, “I don’t want to talk about politics!” when I approached the issue of the genocide in Gaza), told those people over there have been fighting for decades and that it’s about religion and the topping off the cake, “the president is doing all he can and his administration isn’t sending weapons to Israel anymore.” And if you believe that last one I have got some swamp land in Arizona to sell ya. It’s really amazing what the fucking mainstream media puts out, spewing lies or at the very least, half truths, and the people who actually believe it. My neighbor thinks Kissinger would be a great president if he was alive today and able to run. Wtf?! I want to know what she’s smoking and I suspect it’s not just cigarettes. 🤣😂😂🤣
Occasionally I forward CJ to my SIL.. usually no response, however once she replied, "Always interesting to see what you two are reading." How diplomatic. If CJ doesn't warrant some kind of response I don't know who would. Bottom line is they're comfortable with the lies.
Are most Jewish people Zionists? It's probably the circles I run in, but the Jewish people I know hate this genocide and are appalled that it is happening in their name.
That's probably why you know them, because they are rare good people. Perhaps it's a selection effect.
“The jewish people I know” is meaningless personal anecdote, not relevant data.
Let's not tar anyone with a broad brush. Yes, people can rise above the pernicious aspects of their culture. Anyone determined to do so can and will succeed.
They're not even bothering to disguise it anymore.
Alex Jones is about as right wing as Jimmy Dore.
That in itself is propaganda that most people swallowed.
I suggest watching his recent appearances on Dore's show or Tucker's.
He has actually gotten it all correct, and way before anyone else did.
I came here to say that. I first became aware of Alex Jones when he snuck into Bohemian Grove and then called George W. Bush out on it through a megaphone at the Texas capitol.