Just imagine how much money the arms industry has made during the Biden administration alone. He was in the top spot of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and pushed his fellow democrats into all our Middle Eastern wars. People were thrilled he won in 2020 never really understanding who he is. Obama even left him in charge of Ukraine, after their coup that ousted Yanukovych. Of course right off the bat he got his son a job at Burisma, even though he knew squat about oil. Many thought he would be our savior and they were sold that lie by making Trump the devil himself. No one should listen to America we're as crazy as hell.
Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba has praised former President Donald Trump for selling Ukraine "the first American weapons."
Trump did approve the sale of Javelin missiles to Ukraine in late 2017, while the country's military continued to fight pro-Russia separatists years after the outbreak of war in February 2014. Some considered the move risky at the time due to fears of provoking Moscow."
WASHINGTON--President Barack Obama stuck to his refusal to provide weapons or other lethal military gear to Ukraine, despite a passionate appeal Thursday for help in fighting pro-Russia rebels by Ukraine's president."
Everybody 'obeys' one master, MONEY... Asked what three things ruled the world, Noam Chomsky replied: "Money, then MONEY, adding : "I forget what the third one was ???"
It's absurd, "Details of defensce deal with Israel kept under wraps to protect Australia's 'reputation" One headline already did that, since the fact they are reluctant to tell you leaves it all to your imagination which no doubt conjures up deals even worse then what transpired. It also says I really shouldn't be giving them weapons because they are engaged in that genocide thing, and that's why I'm staying quiet on this one. How stupid.
"The Israeli military announced on Sunday that it was withdrawing troops from parts of southern Gaza, a step Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said was being taken to prepare for an assault on Rafah, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, the head of the Israeli military, said the withdrawal does not mean the ISRAELI SLAUGHTER of Palestinians would end anytime soon."
That Lt General Halevi would qualify his withdrawal plans from southern Gaza by informing people that he doesn't want anyone to think the slaughter of Palestinians would not continue is so disgusting one would think he's sees them as no more then animals in a slaughter house. SOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another "western" country brazenly dipping its citizens' faces in the pretentious vomit of "freedom and democracy". It seems most Australians, like the rest of their exceptional western brethren, like it that way
Yep, well said, violating the very principles of democratic values, breaking their own law, so the criminally liable leaders must be brought to justice!
we're so fucked - one of my USA democratic senators is still sending out responses deploying "Israel has a right to defend itself" almost 200 days into this mess
We're also getting promotions for "I stand with Israel" coffee mugs and the like...Hell will freeze over that happens...Even Jim Kunstler is still promoting this mass murder, much to the disgust of his readers...
The article at this link provides a sample of Kunstler's prose skills as applied to earlier atrocities in Gaza. If his readers are really disgusted, they can cease to support such hateful language.
Similarly, Sam Harris is another Zionist in intellectual clothing that has come out of the woodwork to defend Israel’s right to defend itself and other such banalities.. he’s one of the few last holdouts that bang on about this whole war being one of Islam v The West..his Making Sense Podcast, with a large following among US liberals, should be called Making Nonsense..
"A recent study conducted by the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) shed light on changing attitudes among American Jews concerning US backing for Israel.
The survey, known as the Kol Ha'am: Voice of the People index, showed a significant decline in American Jews' perception of US support for Israel's war efforts. Notably, among politically centrist Jews, the percentage that felt that "the US does not support Israel enough" surged from 55% to 67% in the past month.
The findings further indicated that most American Jews view Israel's actions during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war as either appropriately measured or not aggressive enough. "
I've seen polls saying US Jews oppose the carnage, not in as high rates as other people but that young US Jews in particular are pulling away from Zionism.
Well, to your last point, you know what they say: nazism is in the eye of the beholder.. also the Nazis didn’t come up with this stuff.. they just acted on it. We see the same happening now with all the accouterments such as the Endlösung sh*%
"If genetically-European Americans were as ethnically united as are Jews, they would be considered Nazis." - I wonder what your definition of Nazism is.
My definition is not relevant. What is relevant is that most people have a visceral reaction to the word, which they understand to mean an ethnic consciousness that is comfortable with the practice of genocide. As such, the word applies to virtually all historical human ethnic groups.
This cannot be a surprise. USA stood by its staunch ally apartheid South Africa all the way to the bitter end. And proclaimed their “right” to practice apartheid.
Nothing has changed.
Because America is the original plantation nation.
You appear to ignorant of the colonial history of the Western Hemisphere. The first New World plantations were in the Dutch colony in what is now the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Enslaved Africans grew sugar cane on plantations, many of which were owned or managed by Sephardic Jews. After the Portuguese expelled the Dutch from Pernambuco, most of these Jews reestablished their "businesses" in Surinam or Barbados. From Barbados, the plantation model was introduced into coastal South Carolina in the form of rice and indigo plantations. The plantation based on enslaved African labor can be traced to southern Iraq and subsequently to Sao Tome, Cabo Verde, Pernambuco, Barbados, and the South Carolina low country.
America is the the place where the colonialists took control and labelled themselves as a legit nation And did so reconciled. A status which has never changed.
That’s why American “leaders” in modern times have never seen any apartheid and colonialism that they didn’t like and support. Because they are the living embodiment of it., the unreconcilled plantation nation.
So, you have retracted the word "original" then. I educated you a little bit. But you are still ignorant AF if you believe that the U.S.A. is the first example of one family, band, tribe, nation or race taking the temporary homeland of another. How do you think a nation acquires "legit" status other than through force of arms?
And you are sowing red herrings. The point is America is the original and unreconciled plantation nation. No sugar their leaders love colonialism and apartheid.
my lament isn't surprise at things when examined at the wider, national level, and truthfully you are correct, it isn't that surprising - but there were voices in USA highly critical of SA's apartheid and a BDS movement that wasn't outlawed (that I'm aware of) - anyone speaking out like this in Congress in the last 6 months is immediately censured and anti-BDS clauses built into all kinds of state contract work:
White phosphorous and cluster-bombs then, General?
The attacks of Israel against humanitarian workers in the Gaza Strip are a war crime, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Friday.
On Monday, seven World Central Kitchen's aid workers from Australia, Poland, the United Kingdom, and Palestine, as well as a dual citizen of the United States and Canada have been killed in an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip. The organization suspended its operations in the region after the deadly incident.
Israel has killed more aid workers in the Gaza Strip than have died in all of the countries in the rest of the world combined in any of the last 30 years, according to a report by the Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD). Since 7 October, 2023, at least 203 aid workers have been killed in Israeli attacks, the report said. With UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres saying the situation is “unconscionable.”
DEVIL IN THE DETAILS: Israel Thanks U.S. for Fine Print in Biden's 'Ceasefire' Pitch
Biden fully supports Israel's genocide in Gaza, despite the mainstream presstitutes pretending otherwise.
Israel Katz, Israel’s foreign affairs minister, took to X on Thursday to thank President Joe Biden for continuing to be an expert on the art of the fine print when calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
“I commend the U.S. for clarifying that any ceasefire in Gaza will be contingent upon the release of the hostages,” he posted. “We will continue to work together with our allies worldwide to preserve Israel's right to continue the War until the hostages are released and Hamas is decisively defeated.”
A Major and a Colonel take the blame and "are dismissed". Generals get a "warning". Carry-on.
Israeli military sacks two officers over strikes on WCK aid convoy
Israeli military says its officers believed they were targeting Hamas fighters when they killed charity workers.
Those dismissed were a fire support commander holding the rank of major and a brigade chief of staff holding the rank of colonel in reserve, the military said.
Why should you be ashamed? Did you vote for ity? Did any Aussie citizen get to vote on it? Did any US citizen get to vote on any US war? We've got to stop using words like "our" when talking about the wars and armies and crimes of government which are "elected", yes, but in rigged systems in which a GOOD choice is not offered.
But why should YOU feel ashamed, just because you happened to be born in Australia? Even if you voted for the present government, you likely had no better option--and notice we are only allowed to vote for "representatives," never to vote directly on policies. Some US states do have initiative procedures (mine does not). But look at the situation with Cop City in Atlanta, where a massive protest movement has failed to stop it, protesters are being hit with ridiculous felony charges, and an attempt to put the issue on the ballot has been stonewalled by the city so that by the time they get to vote, the thing will be built and operational.
"This land will never know peace or justice until we have extricated ourselves from the talons of the empire.” Caitlin.
The land Caitlin is talking about is Australia, the world’s most servile puppet to US dictates in the whole world, a country that has just committed to a nuclear submarine contract of over $360 billion, thanks to the decision by the three or four Australian politicians who seem to have the total say in regards to war for this country of just 25 million people. Loving friends of America, of course.
That is 25 million, readers. A number that is just 1 / 56th of the number of Chinese to our North sitting at 1.4 billion. Now rather than support a friendly relationship with the country that is by far their biggest trading partner ever, #1 for years, they tag along as the USA’s little bag carrier living only with a "yes sir, whatever you say", Biden, Trump, Obama vocabulary, making Australia something of a pathetic joke around the globe.
They have fought in Korea, who never threatened Australia once; same with Vietnam and Iraq, the Gulf, Syria, Afghanistan, then they had appearances in other geographies 'as required', sorry,…... that should read, 'as demanded'. The have provided land with US spy establishments called Pine Gap supporting all of America’s dirty deeds, aerodromes, joint this and joint that, penetrated our parliamentary offices as “advisors” here and there, while their masters, the USA, went from being a decent country under the guidance of Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy, to an arrogant bully, engaged in hegemonic pursuits and now genocidists, still to this present day.
Just look at what they did in Libya; still stealing oil in Syria; heroin production in Afghanistan; torture in Abu Ghraib; assassination in Chile and on.
Australians have all just sat through and watched the most disgraceful example of the US directing and total supporting a genocide in Gaza, still supporting Israel to this day and still taking orders from the USA, having learnt nothing over time. They continued until recently) to mouth their support for a "Two State solution” , but now succumbing to the corrupting efforts of both the USA and Israel to the total detriment of their once decent values which existed up until 1975, when with the help of the CIA, the USA pushed their Prime Minister from power.
The USA has never looked back since then as every year since their control over Australia increased. Now, as in the USA, one political party is the mirror image of the other, both enthusiastically willing to do the USA’s bidding.
By the way. The USA has as its nemesis the Jewish controlling offices called AIPAC. Americans all know of it it as it controls their daily lives. Don’t feel alone with such a burden America, as Australia has it's own iteration called AIJAC. How’s that?
Follow the leader, once again.
Australia has now willingly missed the boat as a respected and independent country to happily become a puppet to a ruthless and criminal country, never likely to change its ways until the end of Empire, which for most people in the world, can’t come soon enough.
Well, everything you outlined points to only one thing: since there is absolutely ZERO strategic value for the Australians tagging along with America’s bullying and destructive policies, it can only mean that Australia is ideologically motivated to follow. It’s pure ideology rather than anything remotely related to strategy or self interest. And what is this ideology, I hear you ask? It is one of hegemony rooted in western (read white) supremacy.
The one thing that stuck in my mind in the last week is the agitation by the Australian Prime Minister to the one Australian killed by Israel. Not a squeak before for 12,000 Palestinian children, not a condemnation of the Jewish murderers but just one Australian. Yes, I too was disgusted about the girl as well, but no more so than the Palestinians deaths.
How is that for prioritisation and resulting concern. 1 is bad, 12,000 acceptable.
Weak and feeble human beings deserving of no respect ever again.
Along the same lines as Biden. Aggravation about the same deaths of the Kitchen group as he approved more 2,000 bombs for Rafah.....when it is time to continue this disgraceful genocide.
What amazes me is how many people write about stuff and attitudes that have been present and happening throughout the history, and act like they've just woken up. Where have you all been?
When I think of Australia, thanks to John Pilger, I think about the aboriginal people of that continent.
Through that lens, I don’t see any difference between it, and the ways that indigenous peoples in Israel and the United Snakes have been treated.
And, it’s been going on in Australia since way before Kennedy and Eisenhower came along, as far as I’ve been informed.
I don’t see puppets, as much as I see willing participants.
People happy to enjoy a higher standard on living, and a life of comfort, based upon the theft of land and resources, and the subjugation and murder of the original inhabitants.
I think that the correct term is colonial settler genocidal mania.
I don’t get a pass. Nobody does.
I may not be responsible for the crimes of my ancestors.
But, I am responsible for making things right.
Right???
I do appreciate your post and analysis.
I just can’t overlook the original sins, that I believe have led us to where we find ourselves today.
Real heroes, like Rachel Corrie and Aaron Bushnell refused to be complicit.
I can’t say the same for Eisenhower or Kennedy.
Although, Kennedy must have done something to piss somebody off. And, it isn’t Lee Harvey Oswald in referring to.
The global awareness of the Palestinian Genocide can and must also lead to an awareness and resistance to other imperial assaults and atrocities. The world is trapped in the grasp of power and greed. For the survival of humanity, military and economic power must be wrested from the super-wealthy sociopaths and their minions and returned to the People. This isn’t hyperbole, it’s a necessity. And we humans are capable of undertaking this daunting task. We can design a governing system that is based on justice, sustainability, and a real democracy. It’s a design issue. Creating a Movement that can overthrow the wealth hoarders must also happen. It is both a necessity and an inevitably. When governing systems become obsolete that are inevitably overthrown. That’s where we are now.
I felt that could really be a possibility with so many world wide coming out against the genocide in Gaza. It may not stop them, but even when it's over we can make them pay.
The Israelis calling the drone strike that killed 7 Western aid workers a “mistake” is like a correction in the New York Times. They both serve the purpose of wanting you to believe everything else was perfectly fine–in the Times’s case, that all of the other stories printed in the paper are true; in Israel's case, that the airstrikes that have killed more than 40,000 Palestinians, including 14,500 kids, were totally legit".
You know you’re in a dystopian world when you have headlines like this.. Ted Bundy should also have been allowed not to disclose his murders because it would not sit well with polite society.. after all, the man had a reputation to maintain (& he did dabble in local politics, which shows you that psychopathy is s key component of politics..).
I keep asking myself why the heck the world’s biggest/most advanced and progressive countries are willing to die on the hill of Israel.. I mean it’s just a small, rather insignificant country. But it’s what it stands for that is important: naked (white) supremacist aggression upon which a war industry worth trillions is built. Even the Zionists themselves don’t believe in their own sh$% about Yahweh and the talking snake and burning bush.. it’s all about how to perpetuate wars to make the world go round in their book.. but let’s all pretend that this is in the name of peace and love. And if you try to get the facts, well, how dare you try embarrass us at the country club!
'....leads to the US committing to a direct full-scale war in the region, we may be absolutely certain that Canberra will march us into that one as well.'
If and when such a situation happens in these countries, it's imperative that the average citizens and the current military servicemen with a conscious refuse to participate in the mobilization and instead condemn their governments' actions.
Australia seems to ask “how high”? every time requested to jump by the Americans , who themselves obey Israel?
Just imagine how much money the arms industry has made during the Biden administration alone. He was in the top spot of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and pushed his fellow democrats into all our Middle Eastern wars. People were thrilled he won in 2020 never really understanding who he is. Obama even left him in charge of Ukraine, after their coup that ousted Yanukovych. Of course right off the bat he got his son a job at Burisma, even though he knew squat about oil. Many thought he would be our savior and they were sold that lie by making Trump the devil himself. No one should listen to America we're as crazy as hell.
hahahaahahaha! Talk about lies! Truth hurts:
Trump Praised for First US Weapons Sale to Ukraine
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-praised-first-us-weapons-sale-ukraine-1857509
Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba has praised former President Donald Trump for selling Ukraine "the first American weapons."
Trump did approve the sale of Javelin missiles to Ukraine in late 2017, while the country's military continued to fight pro-Russia separatists years after the outbreak of war in February 2014. Some considered the move risky at the time due to fears of provoking Moscow."
Ukraine to Get More U.S. Aid, but Not Weapons;
Obama Refuses to Budge on Lethal Aid Despite
Poroshenko's Passionate Plea in Congress
https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110331/documents/HMKP-116-JU00-20191211-SD994.pdf
WASHINGTON--President Barack Obama stuck to his refusal to provide weapons or other lethal military gear to Ukraine, despite a passionate appeal Thursday for help in fighting pro-Russia rebels by Ukraine's president."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkSvwAxHvhc
Everybody 'obeys' one master, MONEY... Asked what three things ruled the world, Noam Chomsky replied: "Money, then MONEY, adding : "I forget what the third one was ???"
American regime is the Israeli regime. There is no separation.
“This land will never know peace or justice until we have extricated ourselves from the talons of the empire.”
As will no land that is built on the graves and bones of the indigenous.
It's absurd, "Details of defensce deal with Israel kept under wraps to protect Australia's 'reputation" One headline already did that, since the fact they are reluctant to tell you leaves it all to your imagination which no doubt conjures up deals even worse then what transpired. It also says I really shouldn't be giving them weapons because they are engaged in that genocide thing, and that's why I'm staying quiet on this one. How stupid.
Nailed them SOBs, lol!
https://liborsoural.substack.com/p/aud-ible-poe-try
"The Israeli military announced on Sunday that it was withdrawing troops from parts of southern Gaza, a step Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said was being taken to prepare for an assault on Rafah, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, the head of the Israeli military, said the withdrawal does not mean the ISRAELI SLAUGHTER of Palestinians would end anytime soon."
That Lt General Halevi would qualify his withdrawal plans from southern Gaza by informing people that he doesn't want anyone to think the slaughter of Palestinians would not continue is so disgusting one would think he's sees them as no more then animals in a slaughter house. SOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rafa. The leaflets will be dropped soon.
Where do the Palestinians go..........do they get to teleport out of Rafa to avoid death?
More carnage while we helpless people can see wrong from right but ignored by endless puffed-up politicians.
I am not particularly religious, but maybe most who become politicians sell their souls for money, and power, and for them it's a good trade off.
The American way?
Another "western" country brazenly dipping its citizens' faces in the pretentious vomit of "freedom and democracy". It seems most Australians, like the rest of their exceptional western brethren, like it that way
Yep, well said, violating the very principles of democratic values, breaking their own law, so the criminally liable leaders must be brought to justice!
Of course, as long as they don't personally suffer.
we're so fucked - one of my USA democratic senators is still sending out responses deploying "Israel has a right to defend itself" almost 200 days into this mess
We're also getting promotions for "I stand with Israel" coffee mugs and the like...Hell will freeze over that happens...Even Jim Kunstler is still promoting this mass murder, much to the disgust of his readers...
The article at this link provides a sample of Kunstler's prose skills as applied to earlier atrocities in Gaza. If his readers are really disgusted, they can cease to support such hateful language.
https://mondoweiss.net/2009/01/jim-kunstler-is-an-important-writer-his-blog-has-a-huge-following-and-he-public-jew-hating-has-made-a-comeback-in-the-usa-am/
Similarly, Sam Harris is another Zionist in intellectual clothing that has come out of the woodwork to defend Israel’s right to defend itself and other such banalities.. he’s one of the few last holdouts that bang on about this whole war being one of Islam v The West..his Making Sense Podcast, with a large following among US liberals, should be called Making Nonsense..
"A recent study conducted by the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) shed light on changing attitudes among American Jews concerning US backing for Israel.
The survey, known as the Kol Ha'am: Voice of the People index, showed a significant decline in American Jews' perception of US support for Israel's war efforts. Notably, among politically centrist Jews, the percentage that felt that "the US does not support Israel enough" surged from 55% to 67% in the past month.
The findings further indicated that most American Jews view Israel's actions during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war as either appropriately measured or not aggressive enough. "
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-789501
If genetically-European Americans were as ethnically united as are Jews, they would be considered Nazis.
I've seen polls saying US Jews oppose the carnage, not in as high rates as other people but that young US Jews in particular are pulling away from Zionism.
Well, to your last point, you know what they say: nazism is in the eye of the beholder.. also the Nazis didn’t come up with this stuff.. they just acted on it. We see the same happening now with all the accouterments such as the Endlösung sh*%
"If genetically-European Americans were as ethnically united as are Jews, they would be considered Nazis." - I wonder what your definition of Nazism is.
My definition is not relevant. What is relevant is that most people have a visceral reaction to the word, which they understand to mean an ethnic consciousness that is comfortable with the practice of genocide. As such, the word applies to virtually all historical human ethnic groups.
Wow, I didn't know Kunstler was on that wagon! Must look into that!
This cannot be a surprise. USA stood by its staunch ally apartheid South Africa all the way to the bitter end. And proclaimed their “right” to practice apartheid.
Nothing has changed.
Because America is the original plantation nation.
You appear to ignorant of the colonial history of the Western Hemisphere. The first New World plantations were in the Dutch colony in what is now the Brazilian state of Pernambuco. Enslaved Africans grew sugar cane on plantations, many of which were owned or managed by Sephardic Jews. After the Portuguese expelled the Dutch from Pernambuco, most of these Jews reestablished their "businesses" in Surinam or Barbados. From Barbados, the plantation model was introduced into coastal South Carolina in the form of rice and indigo plantations. The plantation based on enslaved African labor can be traced to southern Iraq and subsequently to Sao Tome, Cabo Verde, Pernambuco, Barbados, and the South Carolina low country.
See the following links.
https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/12617-recife-pernambuco
https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/about/communities/BB#:~:text=Barbados%20was%20the%20first%20British,levels%20than%20others%20in%20Barbados.
I’m ignorant of nothing.
America is the the place where the colonialists took control and labelled themselves as a legit nation And did so reconciled. A status which has never changed.
That’s why American “leaders” in modern times have never seen any apartheid and colonialism that they didn’t like and support. Because they are the living embodiment of it., the unreconcilled plantation nation.
So, you have retracted the word "original" then. I educated you a little bit. But you are still ignorant AF if you believe that the U.S.A. is the first example of one family, band, tribe, nation or race taking the temporary homeland of another. How do you think a nation acquires "legit" status other than through force of arms?
I didn’t retract anything.
And you are sowing red herrings. The point is America is the original and unreconciled plantation nation. No sugar their leaders love colonialism and apartheid.
my lament isn't surprise at things when examined at the wider, national level, and truthfully you are correct, it isn't that surprising - but there were voices in USA highly critical of SA's apartheid and a BDS movement that wasn't outlawed (that I'm aware of) - anyone speaking out like this in Congress in the last 6 months is immediately censured and anti-BDS clauses built into all kinds of state contract work:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_v00iGJCLY
“ anti-BDS clauses” don’t pass themselves. And neither do censures.
Majorities of elected bodies do.
The nation’s what the nation is. Unreconstructed. Unreconciled. Plantation nation. The twin soul of hell - Israe-hell.
White phosphorous and cluster-bombs then, General?
The attacks of Israel against humanitarian workers in the Gaza Strip are a war crime, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on Friday.
On Monday, seven World Central Kitchen's aid workers from Australia, Poland, the United Kingdom, and Palestine, as well as a dual citizen of the United States and Canada have been killed in an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip. The organization suspended its operations in the region after the deadly incident.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240405/ohchr-calls-israeli-attacks-on-humanitarian-workers-in-gaza-war-crime-1117758423.html
Israeli Reporter: IDF Commanders' Orders Are to 'Just Shoot Every Man in Fighting Age'
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64368
Israel has killed more aid workers in the Gaza Strip than have died in all of the countries in the rest of the world combined in any of the last 30 years, according to a report by the Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD). Since 7 October, 2023, at least 203 aid workers have been killed in Israeli attacks, the report said. With UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres saying the situation is “unconscionable.”
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240404-more-aid-workers-killed-in-gaza-than-in-all-wars-over-last-30-years-combined/
DEVIL IN THE DETAILS: Israel Thanks U.S. for Fine Print in Biden's 'Ceasefire' Pitch
Biden fully supports Israel's genocide in Gaza, despite the mainstream presstitutes pretending otherwise.
Israel Katz, Israel’s foreign affairs minister, took to X on Thursday to thank President Joe Biden for continuing to be an expert on the art of the fine print when calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
“I commend the U.S. for clarifying that any ceasefire in Gaza will be contingent upon the release of the hostages,” he posted. “We will continue to work together with our allies worldwide to preserve Israel's right to continue the War until the hostages are released and Hamas is decisively defeated.”
https://trendsinthenews.substack.com/p/devil-in-the-details-israel-thanks
A Major and a Colonel take the blame and "are dismissed". Generals get a "warning". Carry-on.
Israeli military sacks two officers over strikes on WCK aid convoy
Israeli military says its officers believed they were targeting Hamas fighters when they killed charity workers.
Those dismissed were a fire support commander holding the rank of major and a brigade chief of staff holding the rank of colonel in reserve, the military said.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/5/israeli-military-sacks-two-officers-over-drone-strikes-on-aid-convoy
As an Australian I find this incredibly chilling and once again am totally disgusted with my government!
Subservient Australia. Compliant Australia. Complicit Australia. Seems like we're happy to be helping a terrorist state commit genocide. Am ashamed.
Why should you be ashamed? Did you vote for ity? Did any Aussie citizen get to vote on it? Did any US citizen get to vote on any US war? We've got to stop using words like "our" when talking about the wars and armies and crimes of government which are "elected", yes, but in rigged systems in which a GOOD choice is not offered.
Ashamed because Australians Governments have always behaved with social mortality, but no longer does it seem.
But why should YOU feel ashamed, just because you happened to be born in Australia? Even if you voted for the present government, you likely had no better option--and notice we are only allowed to vote for "representatives," never to vote directly on policies. Some US states do have initiative procedures (mine does not). But look at the situation with Cop City in Atlanta, where a massive protest movement has failed to stop it, protesters are being hit with ridiculous felony charges, and an attempt to put the issue on the ballot has been stonewalled by the city so that by the time they get to vote, the thing will be built and operational.
Cringing little bitch Australia. Less self-respect than a whipped dog.
Australia's 'reputation' has already been in the shitter for a long time. America's little 'down under' bitch.
"This land will never know peace or justice until we have extricated ourselves from the talons of the empire.” Caitlin.
The land Caitlin is talking about is Australia, the world’s most servile puppet to US dictates in the whole world, a country that has just committed to a nuclear submarine contract of over $360 billion, thanks to the decision by the three or four Australian politicians who seem to have the total say in regards to war for this country of just 25 million people. Loving friends of America, of course.
That is 25 million, readers. A number that is just 1 / 56th of the number of Chinese to our North sitting at 1.4 billion. Now rather than support a friendly relationship with the country that is by far their biggest trading partner ever, #1 for years, they tag along as the USA’s little bag carrier living only with a "yes sir, whatever you say", Biden, Trump, Obama vocabulary, making Australia something of a pathetic joke around the globe.
They have fought in Korea, who never threatened Australia once; same with Vietnam and Iraq, the Gulf, Syria, Afghanistan, then they had appearances in other geographies 'as required', sorry,…... that should read, 'as demanded'. The have provided land with US spy establishments called Pine Gap supporting all of America’s dirty deeds, aerodromes, joint this and joint that, penetrated our parliamentary offices as “advisors” here and there, while their masters, the USA, went from being a decent country under the guidance of Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy, to an arrogant bully, engaged in hegemonic pursuits and now genocidists, still to this present day.
Just look at what they did in Libya; still stealing oil in Syria; heroin production in Afghanistan; torture in Abu Ghraib; assassination in Chile and on.
Australians have all just sat through and watched the most disgraceful example of the US directing and total supporting a genocide in Gaza, still supporting Israel to this day and still taking orders from the USA, having learnt nothing over time. They continued until recently) to mouth their support for a "Two State solution” , but now succumbing to the corrupting efforts of both the USA and Israel to the total detriment of their once decent values which existed up until 1975, when with the help of the CIA, the USA pushed their Prime Minister from power.
The USA has never looked back since then as every year since their control over Australia increased. Now, as in the USA, one political party is the mirror image of the other, both enthusiastically willing to do the USA’s bidding.
By the way. The USA has as its nemesis the Jewish controlling offices called AIPAC. Americans all know of it it as it controls their daily lives. Don’t feel alone with such a burden America, as Australia has it's own iteration called AIJAC. How’s that?
Follow the leader, once again.
Australia has now willingly missed the boat as a respected and independent country to happily become a puppet to a ruthless and criminal country, never likely to change its ways until the end of Empire, which for most people in the world, can’t come soon enough.
Well, everything you outlined points to only one thing: since there is absolutely ZERO strategic value for the Australians tagging along with America’s bullying and destructive policies, it can only mean that Australia is ideologically motivated to follow. It’s pure ideology rather than anything remotely related to strategy or self interest. And what is this ideology, I hear you ask? It is one of hegemony rooted in western (read white) supremacy.
The one thing that stuck in my mind in the last week is the agitation by the Australian Prime Minister to the one Australian killed by Israel. Not a squeak before for 12,000 Palestinian children, not a condemnation of the Jewish murderers but just one Australian. Yes, I too was disgusted about the girl as well, but no more so than the Palestinians deaths.
How is that for prioritisation and resulting concern. 1 is bad, 12,000 acceptable.
Weak and feeble human beings deserving of no respect ever again.
Along the same lines as Biden. Aggravation about the same deaths of the Kitchen group as he approved more 2,000 bombs for Rafah.....when it is time to continue this disgraceful genocide.
The world is sick.
What's new about all you mentioned?
What amazes me is how many people write about stuff and attitudes that have been present and happening throughout the history, and act like they've just woken up. Where have you all been?
When I think of Australia, thanks to John Pilger, I think about the aboriginal people of that continent.
Through that lens, I don’t see any difference between it, and the ways that indigenous peoples in Israel and the United Snakes have been treated.
And, it’s been going on in Australia since way before Kennedy and Eisenhower came along, as far as I’ve been informed.
I don’t see puppets, as much as I see willing participants.
People happy to enjoy a higher standard on living, and a life of comfort, based upon the theft of land and resources, and the subjugation and murder of the original inhabitants.
I think that the correct term is colonial settler genocidal mania.
I don’t get a pass. Nobody does.
I may not be responsible for the crimes of my ancestors.
But, I am responsible for making things right.
Right???
I do appreciate your post and analysis.
I just can’t overlook the original sins, that I believe have led us to where we find ourselves today.
Real heroes, like Rachel Corrie and Aaron Bushnell refused to be complicit.
I can’t say the same for Eisenhower or Kennedy.
Although, Kennedy must have done something to piss somebody off. And, it isn’t Lee Harvey Oswald in referring to.
Let's be fair. There are a lot of competitors for the title of America's Moast Loyalest Little Bitch Evah!
Thank you for laying it out so eloquently,
Contrarian 33.
The global awareness of the Palestinian Genocide can and must also lead to an awareness and resistance to other imperial assaults and atrocities. The world is trapped in the grasp of power and greed. For the survival of humanity, military and economic power must be wrested from the super-wealthy sociopaths and their minions and returned to the People. This isn’t hyperbole, it’s a necessity. And we humans are capable of undertaking this daunting task. We can design a governing system that is based on justice, sustainability, and a real democracy. It’s a design issue. Creating a Movement that can overthrow the wealth hoarders must also happen. It is both a necessity and an inevitably. When governing systems become obsolete that are inevitably overthrown. That’s where we are now.
I felt that could really be a possibility with so many world wide coming out against the genocide in Gaza. It may not stop them, but even when it's over we can make them pay.
I don’t know where you are located, but regardless, you might find some common ground at diem25.org
“ The nightmare of all oligarchs is real democracy.”
I am totally with you on this.
Settler colonial states doing settler colonial things.
" . . . is nothing other than a settler-colonialist outpost of western imperialism built on genocide, ethnic cleansing and theft, . . . ".
Surely that cannot be true. Surely . . .
https://les7eb.substack.com/p/genocide-and-economics
The Political Economy of Genocide.
Hello friends,
Thought to share This from Counterpunch.
"BY JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
The Israelis calling the drone strike that killed 7 Western aid workers a “mistake” is like a correction in the New York Times. They both serve the purpose of wanting you to believe everything else was perfectly fine–in the Times’s case, that all of the other stories printed in the paper are true; in Israel's case, that the airstrikes that have killed more than 40,000 Palestinians, including 14,500 kids, were totally legit".
You know you’re in a dystopian world when you have headlines like this.. Ted Bundy should also have been allowed not to disclose his murders because it would not sit well with polite society.. after all, the man had a reputation to maintain (& he did dabble in local politics, which shows you that psychopathy is s key component of politics..).
I keep asking myself why the heck the world’s biggest/most advanced and progressive countries are willing to die on the hill of Israel.. I mean it’s just a small, rather insignificant country. But it’s what it stands for that is important: naked (white) supremacist aggression upon which a war industry worth trillions is built. Even the Zionists themselves don’t believe in their own sh$% about Yahweh and the talking snake and burning bush.. it’s all about how to perpetuate wars to make the world go round in their book.. but let’s all pretend that this is in the name of peace and love. And if you try to get the facts, well, how dare you try embarrass us at the country club!
'....leads to the US committing to a direct full-scale war in the region, we may be absolutely certain that Canberra will march us into that one as well.'
If and when such a situation happens in these countries, it's imperative that the average citizens and the current military servicemen with a conscious refuse to participate in the mobilization and instead condemn their governments' actions.
I was just wondering why Tom left out the reference to Julian Assange in his reading of this excellent article.