“Our commitment to Israel is ironclad” - words uttered by every POTUS in living memory. This commitment has *always* included actively participating in crimes against humanity, which Israel has been committing since long before 10/7, and now a genocide.
The US "ironclad commitment" to Israel is the kiss of death. As soon as these sadistic lunatics cross the tripwire and go into Lebanon, that's all she wrote for the Israelis. They have no idea what they're doing, and they're too fanatical to put a halt to their own self-destruction. Germany was in ruins at the end of World War II, but did reconstitute. Israel will not. It might turn into some other state, but will cease being a Jewish ethnostate.
jamenta, I agree. Scott Ritter thinks Israel won't exist within a decade. I hope he's right. It was illegal from the start and it's stolen land. Have you been there, and to the West Bank and Gaza? Unbelievable arrogance from the Israeli Jews and the opposite from the Palestinians who are warm and welcoming. Total contrast. Israel either forgets how the Lebanese beat them in 2006 or can't forget it and wants revenge. The IDF are terrorists. Hamas has a right to defend the Palestinians. When they realized the Israelis were going to finish their slow genocide, they thought, might as well stand and fight. That made the Israelis happy. They thought they had the perfect excuse for a more rapid genocide.
' As soon as these sadistic lunatics cross the tripwire and go into Lebanon, that's all she wrote for the Israelis.' Well that depends on who the tripwire is connected to Jamenta. Israel has crossed the Amerikan Red Line into Jafah and nothing happened. But if the Tripwire triggers a widespread uprising in surrounding Arab countries, that would benefit US dominance in the region and the M.I.C.
Of course, that might also mean the extinction of of Israel and most of humanity with it.. Surely these people know not what they do!
Hello David. The state of the US can be pretty much summed up with what we saw in the last debate: two elderly old men arguing over their golf handicaps oblivious to the world around them. It's no longer the 1950s, and the US no longer is the superpower it imagines itself to be. The only card left the US has to play, is to blow up the world along with itself. And that's the only card Israel has left: the Samson option. And don't think the rest of the world doesn't know it, and hasn't prepared if either Israel or the US tries to do so.
The US has been spending a trillion dollars a year on its military. But it's China and Russia that now have in their possession hypersonic missile capabilities - the US doesn't know how to build them. We got two astronauts currently trapped on the space station that the other superpowers will no longer support because of US unending belligerence. So just like Genocide Joe and Donald Trump, who have made themselves rich - like the corrupt, bloated US military industrial complex, neither would survive in an actual fight. The US military along with NATO are corrupt, decrepit organizations that now only know how to terrorize civilian populations at best. If the US or NATO ever walked into the ring with the other superpowers today, their asses would be handed back to them. For numerous reasons: 1) lack of production capability, 2) inferior missile technology, 3) inferior drone technology 4) inferior command and control structures, 5) corrupt, incompetent leadership
I didn't bother to watch the 'debate' ( it was televised here of course - many Australian just hoover up anything Amerika ) because as Caitlin has repeatedly said Presidents don't run the Empire. Zaphod Beeblebrox put it very neatly: the President doesn't have any power. The Presidents' job is to draw attention away from the Power.
The Empire is owned and controlled by apparent psychopaths playing "The Great Game" and I can't see them not coming to the aid of Israel in the event of a ME uprising.
My greatest fear is that if they look like losing the game, they may choose the classic abusers response "If I can't have you, no-one can" and play that nuclear card - as you say, it's about all they've got left.
Let's not forget, we're not talking about sane, rational people here.
I was not planning to watch the debate as well. But while I was perusing the Internet - spending way more time than I ought (as usual) - one of the news sites I visited actually had the debate live. I was surprised, as I was expecting the debate to be exclusively televised. So curiosity got the better of me, and I clicked the link.
This was about 20 minutes in, so I missed the B-Reel gags of Joe Biden's dementia addled responses. But found myself watching more as the debate format suited my tastes rather than in the past when the corporate news anchors acted as if they were part of the debate as well, or you just had one of 10 people talking over each other whenever they could.
Needless to say, I didn't think Genocide Joe did well. But I was surprised just how large the aftershocks were, including diehard loyalists now saying the guy was not all there. Well duh ...
Yeah, I'm not sure how all of it is going to play out. The fools could indeed create an escalation path with no off ramp. As Alex Christoforou from The Duran often says, "They have no reverse gear." You would think some of the billionaires pulling the strings in Washington DC would not want to risk everything they got, including their offspring - over a bunch of lunatics engaging in a futile slaughter fest in Israel or Ukraine. But what do I know?
You are right about the classic "abuser" response. A few weeks back I had the same thought regarding both ongoing wars. What happens when a side that does have the capability to launch any type of nuclear weapon, starts losing? Will they refrain from using their nukes??
Life seems a bit surreal right now. Sometimes I wonder what any of this is about. A random, cruel universe seems incongruous with one's own attempt to find meaning or care about any of it, including one's self.
You watched? My congratulations or commiserations, whichever you choose.
'You would think the billionaires pulling the strings would not want to risk everything they've got, including their offspring'....sure would. Their wealth and the power and privilege that comes from it, depends on a functioning, healthy global economy but if they destroy the economies of other countries they eventually destroy the global system.
• …”by the beginning of April (i.e., within six months) 70,000 tons of explosives had been dropped on targets throughout the 25-mile long Gaza, more tonnage than was dropped by Germany on London and by America and the United Kingdom on Dresden and Hamburg in World War II, combined”.
Number of dead and injured is impossible to determine but – the “official” number is frozen and “extremely precise” - 37,718 for genocide obfuscation.
Actual number of Gaza dead is by now estimated between 100,000 and 200,000 – dying now is increasingly due to induced starvation and diseases and – under torture – a second phase of the Israel’s “Final Solution”.
Boris Petrov, We can absolutely trust Seymour Hersh to come up with the truth of massacrers and numbers. If I remember right Ralph Nader quoted the same numbers of Palestinian dead as between 100,000 and 200,000... a while ago.
Even mere onlookers like us - caring ones of course - never believed that the numbers killed remained round the 37,000 mark. Poor Palestinians, we are counting while they are dying. As distressing as it is this will be important to prove a genocide.
Potentially 300-400k with bodies still caught up in the rubble, under the pier, gone missing, mulched into the ground by tanks, bulldozers and heavenly machinery, or blown to pieces by US ordnance. Where are the orphaned children, and who will be their guiding light and protector? Well the United States of Yankee Doodle Dandee has made sure this war will continue until there are zero Palestinians in Gaza and next slaughter will be the West Bank.
According to Hamas expert Chris Hedges it's because Hamas finds all these deaths embarrassing. Aren't they supposed to be protecting their subjects? So they froze the body count. This seems to me like the opposite of what they should do. But did Hamas ask me for words of wisdom? Nah....
This is fabrication. The total count is frozen because of the inability to have any semblance of organization in the complete chaos that is Gaza. Beyond families providing names and confirming identify it's impossible. Just the basic fact that the infrastructure has been blown to smithereens suggest keeping track of anything is difficult. These people can't even get water, what are we expecting here?
Of COURSE the U.S. can, and always could, bring an end to the genocide in Gaza. But the truth is simple, and easily understood: American politicians are as openly for sale as are 2/3 of the Obscene Court, AIPAC has been bribing them for a very long time to do nazisrael's bidding, and our so-called "political leadership" have eagerly complied. They are completely unconcerned with honor, justice, truth, decency, the citizens of this country, or ending the slaughter of Palestinians. As long as AIPAC keeps up with their bloody bribery, this country's policies in Gaza will be dictated by the bloodthirsty and criminal nazisraeli regime.
I would beg to differ. People keep assuming that ISRAEL OWNS THE US and that AIPAC is the problem. Some people believe that if AIPAC were to go away and stop corrupting the politicians, then all would be OK and the US would stop supporting Israel
Unfortunately, this "belief" could not be further than the truth. This "ISRAEL OWNS THE US" narrative is an illusion, a distraction, and VERY FALSE. And AIPAC is a symptom of the REAL PROBLEM, not the CAUSE.
Let me offer you a different point of view and explanation:
The idea that the U.S. Government is forced by Israel into carrying out its geopolitical actions usually comes from one of two places:
(1) it can just be a generic, tried and tested conspiracy theory regarding Jewish control of world governments.
(2) people without any other framework for understanding these events looking for a way to explain them that allows them to continue holding some level of faith in their country (US) and its institutions. Hence, a corrupting outside influence is blamed instead.
And Israel is an easy one to point to, due both to the aforementioned pre-existing conspiracy theories regarding Jewish control, and the fact that Israel commits crimes against Palestinians so brazenly, and is so clearly in the wrong in its aggressions against its neighbors, yet still enjoys such unflinching U.S. support. It's comforting to believe that your government only supports such atrocities because they are manipulated into it, rather than because they have made a cold calculation that supporting Israel is beneficial to their interests, regardless of how much death and suffering results.
In summary:
(1) The US politicians and power elite encourage (and propagate) the illusion that AIPAC is a major reason for US support for Israel. Instead, it is AIPAC that provides cover and serves as an easy scapegoat for the EVILS of US FOREIGN POLICY. AIPAC (and the other ISRAEL LOBBYs) were created, funded, and thrive "because it serves US politicians" - it gives US politicians a source of money (bribes/corruption), it allows US politicians to do whatever they want and let AIPAC take all the blame (thus getting away scott free), it provides US politicians with "cover" for supporting Israel as "ISRAEL serves the interestes of the US Power Elites (or global capitalists or deep state or oligarchs, etc.)".
(2) Most people fail to understand the myriad ways that "ISRAEL serves the interests of the US and other Western countries". (This is a whole other lengthy discussion and explanation that is inconvenient to convey in this "comment section" style here). People often take the intellectually lazy way out (or maybe it is due to a lack of knowledge about the long and complicated history of US Foreign Policy) and underestimate the importance of Israel to the US (and other Western powers).
Chang, I appreciate your comments. But understand: despite my conviction that AIPAC’s influence on U.S. policy in Gaza is substantial and negative, I’ve never intended to suggest that amerikka is entirely blameless and helplessly manipulated. This country has its own agenda and continues to use nazisrael as a pawn to fulfill some of its own regional objectives. My focus is primarily on the indisputable fact that our corrupt politicians are more than willing to exploit AIPAC’s largesse to fill their campaign coffers, but that in doing so they are also willing to deliver outcomes (such as massive support for genocide and egregious criminality), without regard to morality, insanity, and brutality. By definition, you have to be overwhelmingly corrupt, as our politicians are, to engage in such an arrangement. This country was the epitome of corruption and brutality before nazisrael ever came into existence, and had already exploited much of the world. So of course it would be ludicrous to say that amerikka is some helpless entity being entirely exploited by anyone. But there is no doubt that AIPAC money is significantly facilitating the barbarity in GAZA – it doesn’t matter if you say our politicians are exploiting AIPAC or vice versa. Their corrupt and ruthless collaboration is a fact, regardless how one chooses to define it.
Leon Brown Jr., I guess in a sense my reply was not directed at you or your comment specifically - as I know that you understand the dynamics (as is apparent from your comment). It was more directed towards all the people in this substack that falsely believe that "America is secretly controlled by Israel/Jews".
In your original comment above, you said >>"As long as AIPAC keeps up with their bloody bribery, this country's policies in Gaza will be dictated by the bloodthirsty and criminal nazisraeli regime."
The point I'm trying to make is that - US Empire Managers, Foreign Policy, Power Elite, Global Capitalists, etc. have many reasons for supporting Israel - REGARDLESS of the presence of AIPAC (or other Israel/Jewish Lobbies).
As Genocide Joe said in the Senate Session in 1986 (and repeated multiple times over the years again and again): "If we look at the Middle East, I think it's about time we stopped apologizing for our support for Israel. There's no apology to be made. None. It is the best $3 billion investment we make. Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to go out and invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region."
Here is Genocide Joe @ AIPAC Conference in 2013: "Even as circumstances have changed, one thing has not. Our deep commitment to the security of the state of Israel. That has not changed. That will not change as long as I and he are President and Vice President of the United States. It's in our naked self-interest, beyond the moral imperative."
Just as the US needs an entity (like Israel) in MENA (middle-east and north africa) to represent its interests and serve as an appendage/strategic outpost of the US Empire, so also does the US need the Israel Lobbies (including AIPAC) to help it achieve its objectives in Empire Management.
Just as Genocide Joe said that "were there not an Israel, the US would have to go out and invent as Israel", similarly - "if there were not an AIPAC, the US would have to go out and invent an AIPAC".
What I'm getting at is that - AIPAC (and the larger Israel specific Lobbies) exist and are tolerated (and supported) BECAUSE they serve the needs of Empire Managers.
Even though Israel, AIPAC, etc. DO NOT SERVE the interests of the common people (plebians), they serve the interests of the Global Capitalists.
Unconvincing arguments put forth by the guest (Phil Giraldi). Also, I'm uncertain of how kosher his arguments are, as his reasoning seems pretty biased (one example from his speech: Jews controlled the Pentagon and wanted to go to war with Iraq because Saddam Hussein was helping the Palestinians). ???
Seriously? How can anyone take this person seriously with a statement like that? This is exactly the kind of twisted logic and conspiratorial thinking that I was mentioning in my commen(s) above. This is exactly the kind of deflection one would expect from an apologist of the US Empire.
I fear we focus entirely on the profits part of the engine that is driving this Zionist project. Let’s not forget that the US Congress is filled with fanatical Christian Zionists who are working to bring on the Armageddon. We neglect the Prophets portion of this project at our, and the world’s, peril. Any attempt at analysis of this situation that doesn’t factor in this religious aspect will be incomplete at best, and a complete failure at worst.
Yeah, and what’s even more fucked up is the Biden Administration “paused” shipment of 2000 pound bombs to Israel as part of a lame PR stunt. Biden congratulated himself for the “pause,” referring to the fact that the bombs cause a lot of destruction in populated areas.
But that simply begs the question CNN wouldn’t ask…why then did you already ship thousands of them in the first place?!?
Now British drones that can do just about anything without the controller IDF getting touched, sitting back and laughing as they play a computer game. Not to worry. We all may be wiped out soon by the choices the US is making in Ukraine/Russia. I'm rooting for Russia.
Exactly! Pausing one shipment after providing more than enough of these bombs to completely level Gaza is a pathetic attempt to assuage the public’s fury at the US complicity.
Thank you Caitlin. No one is going to tell us that there is no on going genocide; that US is not implicated in that genocide right from the start. Same goes for NATO, so are the rest of the West. Israel has shown how to do a genocide and they are cheering. They are all provoking another war starting in Lebanon then Iran and spreading all over. The grand design to destroy China's achievements. Balkanising Russia is but a ploy to isolate China. They do hate losing white supremacy, losing their iron grip on the world's economy. Subjugating the Global South. Hates a multipolar world. It is not only Israel that is insane - we are living in an asylum controlled by psychopaths.
the department name itself is gaslighting! Marianne Williamson says we should have a Dept of War AND a Dept of Peace; and they should be at least equally funded.
The Dept of Peace ( State Dept) is run by a 2nd gen Zionist spook and there are no career diplomats in sight at the top. Just spooks and Zionist tools.
Of course they couldn’t. Thank you Golant for confirming what the world already knew. A genocidal maniac prepared to throw his co-murderers under the bus. speaks volumes about their character.
I can't say enough how much I and obviously many others appreciated your work, Caitlin, and Tim, too. There's no one clearer than you two on Israel. Thank you so much.
"Everyone understands that we can’t fight this war without the United States. Period.”
This means there's only one way to shut down this horrible Israeli genocide in Gaza: We must get rid of the United States. Once the US is out of the picture, the Israelis no longer have the armaments or diplomatic cover to continue it. So there you have it... One possible reason why NATO is so determined to provoke Russia or Israel into starting a nuclear war. It will get rid of the US (and a few others) once and for all.
Don't think that the American military is a farce let by incompetent buffoons? John Kirby, with the IQ of a house fly, is an ADMIRAL. Just for fun, review the Presidential "debate." Look carefully at Biden's eyes. I worked in criminal justice for a while. I can spot a lit-up junkie a mile away. Biden was ripped out of his skull on uppers, And that's the fool who can start WWIII - without even knowing it.
The more studies we do, the more we understand just how smart insects are. They have learned how to coexist on this planet for millions of years. We, on the other hand, are about ready to bring down the curtain on the entire human species, the last of the large-brained hominid experiment.
I wouldn’t dream of insulting a fly by comparing it to Kirby.
Quite the Zionist DISTRACTION by Ehud Olmert. 'Mossad' 'moto' = 'By the art of DECEPTION, thou shalt do war.' Olmert knows as well as Netanyahu that; the same Oligarch fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory',) which paid & pays for Israel's brutal massacre & Nakba of Palestinians in 'Genocide' (UN Definition = 'removing of people from or destroying their means of livelihood' from their homes & livelihood, plus continuous state & settler murder), over past 120 years, owns the USA.
This is the same fake 'money' which brutally colonized the Americas, funded & armed the fake US 'revolution' in 1776 & has been committing atrocity among 1st Nations & people worldwide in the order of 1 billion people over the past 1000 years. AIPAC owns each Representative, Senator & President as well as owns the main part of the bureaucratic administration of government & in each of its departments.
OPEN YOUR EYES FOLKS Its there right in front of us in every aspect of our controlled lives.
Oligarchy ('Oli' = 'few' + 'arch' = 'rule-by') has established a fake Finance, Media, Religion, Education, Military-Industrial, Legislative, Judicial, Pharma-med, Agri-business COMPLEX.
There is no USA, Canada, Britain, France, Belgium, & Netherlands democracy, which is not for the most part controlled by these same Oligarchs.
All 'INDIGENOUS' (L. 'self-generating') human ancestors for many 10s of 1000s of years, cultivated the power to employ our strengths & meet our needs centered locally. It is in our interpersonal & 'community' (L 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service'), particularly our collective Domestic economies, that we still have access to real power. It is up to all of us need to intervene, particularly in our own family & home solidarity in RELATIONAL-ECONOMY.
Human society was organized in CULTURAL 'FRACTALS' ('Fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole'). People should learn about all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' ancestors use of the time-based, Equivalency-Accounting on the String-shell Value system (eg. 'Wampum' on Turtle-Island / N. America, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie-shell in indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands). Imagine an international system way-back? https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
BOTTOM-UP 'MONEY' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory'), in indigenous times with memory & honour for everyone's diverse specialized gifts through the String-shell, Production-Society-Guilds & ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complexes (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). These loving, intimate, intergenerational, female-male, critical-mass, economies-of-scale were once worldwide in indigenous ECONOMIC-DEMOCRACY. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/8-economic-democracy
MEANINGFUL GOVERNANCE, JUST AS WE ARE All humanity's worldwide indigenous ancestors organized basic livelihood in the meaningful intimate relations of the MULTIHOME-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village) & neighbourhood, where people contribute their articulate gifts & specialists within know & serve each person for their particular attributes with contextual proximity, continuity & sovereign privacy. Such meaningful appropriate scaling with people empowered built up at each level into city, region, nation (eg. ~110 across Turtle-Island), confederacy (eg. ~25 across Turtle-Island), Continental & Hemispheric Councils on every habitable continent & island worldwide.
70% of people today live in 'multihomes' (eg. Apartment, Townhouse & Village-cluster) with an average of 32 dwelling-units = ~100 people. 20% of Multihome-dwellers are extended-families living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration. Multihome-extended-family contribute ~2 trillions $ of the most individually appropriate goods, services, sharing-caring/year as Turtle-Island, N-America's largest essential Economic sector, albeit unrecognized by government, education & institutions. Local intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale provide the most integrated, personally appropriate care, goods & services, which everyone ultimately is able-to-contribute to, wants, is-best-served-by & needs. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
I am not sure of how any of the illusions that are drilled into the heads of Americans from cradle to grave via the government's plethora of national security state emanations, the lame history books used during a typical child's education, the completely worthless corporate media outlets and their endless drivel, and the entertainment industry's CIA condoned Manichaean black and white world of superheroes and villians still resonate with the public as reality. But they do. July 4th, the US "Independence Day" celebrations are just two days away. Sadly, the flag-waving illusions of the Empire will fill the airwaves and we will see another yearly display of mindless subservience showing how little independence the US public really has.
“Our commitment to Israel is ironclad” - words uttered by every POTUS in living memory. This commitment has *always* included actively participating in crimes against humanity, which Israel has been committing since long before 10/7, and now a genocide.
The US "ironclad commitment" to Israel is the kiss of death. As soon as these sadistic lunatics cross the tripwire and go into Lebanon, that's all she wrote for the Israelis. They have no idea what they're doing, and they're too fanatical to put a halt to their own self-destruction. Germany was in ruins at the end of World War II, but did reconstitute. Israel will not. It might turn into some other state, but will cease being a Jewish ethnostate.
jamenta, I agree. Scott Ritter thinks Israel won't exist within a decade. I hope he's right. It was illegal from the start and it's stolen land. Have you been there, and to the West Bank and Gaza? Unbelievable arrogance from the Israeli Jews and the opposite from the Palestinians who are warm and welcoming. Total contrast. Israel either forgets how the Lebanese beat them in 2006 or can't forget it and wants revenge. The IDF are terrorists. Hamas has a right to defend the Palestinians. When they realized the Israelis were going to finish their slow genocide, they thought, might as well stand and fight. That made the Israelis happy. They thought they had the perfect excuse for a more rapid genocide.
All absolutely spot on, especially the last bit … Oct 7th provided the perfect pretext for genocide.
' As soon as these sadistic lunatics cross the tripwire and go into Lebanon, that's all she wrote for the Israelis.' Well that depends on who the tripwire is connected to Jamenta. Israel has crossed the Amerikan Red Line into Jafah and nothing happened. But if the Tripwire triggers a widespread uprising in surrounding Arab countries, that would benefit US dominance in the region and the M.I.C.
Of course, that might also mean the extinction of of Israel and most of humanity with it.. Surely these people know not what they do!
Hello David. The state of the US can be pretty much summed up with what we saw in the last debate: two elderly old men arguing over their golf handicaps oblivious to the world around them. It's no longer the 1950s, and the US no longer is the superpower it imagines itself to be. The only card left the US has to play, is to blow up the world along with itself. And that's the only card Israel has left: the Samson option. And don't think the rest of the world doesn't know it, and hasn't prepared if either Israel or the US tries to do so.
The US has been spending a trillion dollars a year on its military. But it's China and Russia that now have in their possession hypersonic missile capabilities - the US doesn't know how to build them. We got two astronauts currently trapped on the space station that the other superpowers will no longer support because of US unending belligerence. So just like Genocide Joe and Donald Trump, who have made themselves rich - like the corrupt, bloated US military industrial complex, neither would survive in an actual fight. The US military along with NATO are corrupt, decrepit organizations that now only know how to terrorize civilian populations at best. If the US or NATO ever walked into the ring with the other superpowers today, their asses would be handed back to them. For numerous reasons: 1) lack of production capability, 2) inferior missile technology, 3) inferior drone technology 4) inferior command and control structures, 5) corrupt, incompetent leadership
I didn't bother to watch the 'debate' ( it was televised here of course - many Australian just hoover up anything Amerika ) because as Caitlin has repeatedly said Presidents don't run the Empire. Zaphod Beeblebrox put it very neatly: the President doesn't have any power. The Presidents' job is to draw attention away from the Power.
The Empire is owned and controlled by apparent psychopaths playing "The Great Game" and I can't see them not coming to the aid of Israel in the event of a ME uprising.
My greatest fear is that if they look like losing the game, they may choose the classic abusers response "If I can't have you, no-one can" and play that nuclear card - as you say, it's about all they've got left.
Let's not forget, we're not talking about sane, rational people here.
I was not planning to watch the debate as well. But while I was perusing the Internet - spending way more time than I ought (as usual) - one of the news sites I visited actually had the debate live. I was surprised, as I was expecting the debate to be exclusively televised. So curiosity got the better of me, and I clicked the link.
This was about 20 minutes in, so I missed the B-Reel gags of Joe Biden's dementia addled responses. But found myself watching more as the debate format suited my tastes rather than in the past when the corporate news anchors acted as if they were part of the debate as well, or you just had one of 10 people talking over each other whenever they could.
Needless to say, I didn't think Genocide Joe did well. But I was surprised just how large the aftershocks were, including diehard loyalists now saying the guy was not all there. Well duh ...
Yeah, I'm not sure how all of it is going to play out. The fools could indeed create an escalation path with no off ramp. As Alex Christoforou from The Duran often says, "They have no reverse gear." You would think some of the billionaires pulling the strings in Washington DC would not want to risk everything they got, including their offspring - over a bunch of lunatics engaging in a futile slaughter fest in Israel or Ukraine. But what do I know?
You are right about the classic "abuser" response. A few weeks back I had the same thought regarding both ongoing wars. What happens when a side that does have the capability to launch any type of nuclear weapon, starts losing? Will they refrain from using their nukes??
Life seems a bit surreal right now. Sometimes I wonder what any of this is about. A random, cruel universe seems incongruous with one's own attempt to find meaning or care about any of it, including one's self.
You watched? My congratulations or commiserations, whichever you choose.
'You would think the billionaires pulling the strings would not want to risk everything they've got, including their offspring'....sure would. Their wealth and the power and privilege that comes from it, depends on a functioning, healthy global economy but if they destroy the economies of other countries they eventually destroy the global system.
Very well said 👍
"Germany was in ruins at the end of World War II, but did reconstitute. "
Sorry, but Germany is not "reconstitute ", but same as the whole Europe, and America since 9/11 , is colonized.
https://usapip.com/end-times-archbishop-against-new-world-order-antichrist/
"new world order antichrist"
Dude. Jesus ain't coming back.
Why would he?? To save this??
Really, lots of better options universally I’d say. Lol
The whole point is we need to learn to save ourselves.
The exception was JFK.
We all know how that turned out.
and how it happened : https://usapip.com/israels-second-9-11-how-zionism-conquered-jfk-america-and-palestine/
Uh...you want fries with that?
See my reply to jamenta.
The Suspect Body Count - The death toll in Gaza is much higher than we're being told
Seymour Hersh – Jun 26, 2024 - https://substack.com/inbox/post/146018098
• …”by the beginning of April (i.e., within six months) 70,000 tons of explosives had been dropped on targets throughout the 25-mile long Gaza, more tonnage than was dropped by Germany on London and by America and the United Kingdom on Dresden and Hamburg in World War II, combined”.
Number of dead and injured is impossible to determine but – the “official” number is frozen and “extremely precise” - 37,718 for genocide obfuscation.
Actual number of Gaza dead is by now estimated between 100,000 and 200,000 – dying now is increasingly due to induced starvation and diseases and – under torture – a second phase of the Israel’s “Final Solution”.
Boris Petrov, We can absolutely trust Seymour Hersh to come up with the truth of massacrers and numbers. If I remember right Ralph Nader quoted the same numbers of Palestinian dead as between 100,000 and 200,000... a while ago.
Even mere onlookers like us - caring ones of course - never believed that the numbers killed remained round the 37,000 mark. Poor Palestinians, we are counting while they are dying. As distressing as it is this will be important to prove a genocide.
It is a sad terrible world that we inhabit.
"If I remember right Ralph Nader quoted the same numbers of Palestinian dead as between 100,000 and 200,000... a while ago."
When one states a wide range, you can be sure they have no idea.
Potentially 300-400k with bodies still caught up in the rubble, under the pier, gone missing, mulched into the ground by tanks, bulldozers and heavenly machinery, or blown to pieces by US ordnance. Where are the orphaned children, and who will be their guiding light and protector? Well the United States of Yankee Doodle Dandee has made sure this war will continue until there are zero Palestinians in Gaza and next slaughter will be the West Bank.
According to Hamas expert Chris Hedges it's because Hamas finds all these deaths embarrassing. Aren't they supposed to be protecting their subjects? So they froze the body count. This seems to me like the opposite of what they should do. But did Hamas ask me for words of wisdom? Nah....
This is fabrication. The total count is frozen because of the inability to have any semblance of organization in the complete chaos that is Gaza. Beyond families providing names and confirming identify it's impossible. Just the basic fact that the infrastructure has been blown to smithereens suggest keeping track of anything is difficult. These people can't even get water, what are we expecting here?
Where did Chris say or write this? Link please.
My dear Patrick, you are just a piece of shit.
"My dear Patrick, you are just a piece of shit."
When you have nothing of substance to write...go ad hominem.
I see - once again the “realistic” piece of shit which promotes “extremely precise” - 37,718 for US-Israeli genocide obfuscation.
"I see - another “realistic” piece of shit"
Bullshit! You see nothing with your head so far up your ass.
Since when Chris Hedges became a "Hamas expert " ?
Of COURSE the U.S. can, and always could, bring an end to the genocide in Gaza. But the truth is simple, and easily understood: American politicians are as openly for sale as are 2/3 of the Obscene Court, AIPAC has been bribing them for a very long time to do nazisrael's bidding, and our so-called "political leadership" have eagerly complied. They are completely unconcerned with honor, justice, truth, decency, the citizens of this country, or ending the slaughter of Palestinians. As long as AIPAC keeps up with their bloody bribery, this country's policies in Gaza will be dictated by the bloodthirsty and criminal nazisraeli regime.
I would beg to differ. People keep assuming that ISRAEL OWNS THE US and that AIPAC is the problem. Some people believe that if AIPAC were to go away and stop corrupting the politicians, then all would be OK and the US would stop supporting Israel
Unfortunately, this "belief" could not be further than the truth. This "ISRAEL OWNS THE US" narrative is an illusion, a distraction, and VERY FALSE. And AIPAC is a symptom of the REAL PROBLEM, not the CAUSE.
Let me offer you a different point of view and explanation:
The idea that the U.S. Government is forced by Israel into carrying out its geopolitical actions usually comes from one of two places:
(1) it can just be a generic, tried and tested conspiracy theory regarding Jewish control of world governments.
(2) people without any other framework for understanding these events looking for a way to explain them that allows them to continue holding some level of faith in their country (US) and its institutions. Hence, a corrupting outside influence is blamed instead.
And Israel is an easy one to point to, due both to the aforementioned pre-existing conspiracy theories regarding Jewish control, and the fact that Israel commits crimes against Palestinians so brazenly, and is so clearly in the wrong in its aggressions against its neighbors, yet still enjoys such unflinching U.S. support. It's comforting to believe that your government only supports such atrocities because they are manipulated into it, rather than because they have made a cold calculation that supporting Israel is beneficial to their interests, regardless of how much death and suffering results.
In summary:
(1) The US politicians and power elite encourage (and propagate) the illusion that AIPAC is a major reason for US support for Israel. Instead, it is AIPAC that provides cover and serves as an easy scapegoat for the EVILS of US FOREIGN POLICY. AIPAC (and the other ISRAEL LOBBYs) were created, funded, and thrive "because it serves US politicians" - it gives US politicians a source of money (bribes/corruption), it allows US politicians to do whatever they want and let AIPAC take all the blame (thus getting away scott free), it provides US politicians with "cover" for supporting Israel as "ISRAEL serves the interestes of the US Power Elites (or global capitalists or deep state or oligarchs, etc.)".
(2) Most people fail to understand the myriad ways that "ISRAEL serves the interests of the US and other Western countries". (This is a whole other lengthy discussion and explanation that is inconvenient to convey in this "comment section" style here). People often take the intellectually lazy way out (or maybe it is due to a lack of knowledge about the long and complicated history of US Foreign Policy) and underestimate the importance of Israel to the US (and other Western powers).
Chang, I appreciate your comments. But understand: despite my conviction that AIPAC’s influence on U.S. policy in Gaza is substantial and negative, I’ve never intended to suggest that amerikka is entirely blameless and helplessly manipulated. This country has its own agenda and continues to use nazisrael as a pawn to fulfill some of its own regional objectives. My focus is primarily on the indisputable fact that our corrupt politicians are more than willing to exploit AIPAC’s largesse to fill their campaign coffers, but that in doing so they are also willing to deliver outcomes (such as massive support for genocide and egregious criminality), without regard to morality, insanity, and brutality. By definition, you have to be overwhelmingly corrupt, as our politicians are, to engage in such an arrangement. This country was the epitome of corruption and brutality before nazisrael ever came into existence, and had already exploited much of the world. So of course it would be ludicrous to say that amerikka is some helpless entity being entirely exploited by anyone. But there is no doubt that AIPAC money is significantly facilitating the barbarity in GAZA – it doesn’t matter if you say our politicians are exploiting AIPAC or vice versa. Their corrupt and ruthless collaboration is a fact, regardless how one chooses to define it.
Leon Brown Jr., I guess in a sense my reply was not directed at you or your comment specifically - as I know that you understand the dynamics (as is apparent from your comment). It was more directed towards all the people in this substack that falsely believe that "America is secretly controlled by Israel/Jews".
In your original comment above, you said >>"As long as AIPAC keeps up with their bloody bribery, this country's policies in Gaza will be dictated by the bloodthirsty and criminal nazisraeli regime."
The point I'm trying to make is that - US Empire Managers, Foreign Policy, Power Elite, Global Capitalists, etc. have many reasons for supporting Israel - REGARDLESS of the presence of AIPAC (or other Israel/Jewish Lobbies).
As Genocide Joe said in the Senate Session in 1986 (and repeated multiple times over the years again and again): "If we look at the Middle East, I think it's about time we stopped apologizing for our support for Israel. There's no apology to be made. None. It is the best $3 billion investment we make. Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to go out and invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region."
Here is Genocide Joe @ AIPAC Conference in 2013: "Even as circumstances have changed, one thing has not. Our deep commitment to the security of the state of Israel. That has not changed. That will not change as long as I and he are President and Vice President of the United States. It's in our naked self-interest, beyond the moral imperative."
Just as the US needs an entity (like Israel) in MENA (middle-east and north africa) to represent its interests and serve as an appendage/strategic outpost of the US Empire, so also does the US need the Israel Lobbies (including AIPAC) to help it achieve its objectives in Empire Management.
Just as Genocide Joe said that "were there not an Israel, the US would have to go out and invent as Israel", similarly - "if there were not an AIPAC, the US would have to go out and invent an AIPAC".
What I'm getting at is that - AIPAC (and the larger Israel specific Lobbies) exist and are tolerated (and supported) BECAUSE they serve the needs of Empire Managers.
Even though Israel, AIPAC, etc. DO NOT SERVE the interests of the common people (plebians), they serve the interests of the Global Capitalists.
So the REAL PROBLEM lies with the US Empire (and its managers) - they will invent whatever organizations they need and will support whatever regimes they need in order to achieve their goals. (https://substack.com/@changchokaski/note/c-60382345?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2kglzh)
Here what says Phil Giraldi on this :
https://www.vtforeignpolicy.com/2024/06/phil-giraldi-israels-control-over-america/
Unconvincing arguments put forth by the guest (Phil Giraldi). Also, I'm uncertain of how kosher his arguments are, as his reasoning seems pretty biased (one example from his speech: Jews controlled the Pentagon and wanted to go to war with Iraq because Saddam Hussein was helping the Palestinians). ???
Seriously? How can anyone take this person seriously with a statement like that? This is exactly the kind of twisted logic and conspiratorial thinking that I was mentioning in my commen(s) above. This is exactly the kind of deflection one would expect from an apologist of the US Empire.
Thanks for your thoughtful reply, Chang.
yep. greedy, immoral money mongers
I fear we focus entirely on the profits part of the engine that is driving this Zionist project. Let’s not forget that the US Congress is filled with fanatical Christian Zionists who are working to bring on the Armageddon. We neglect the Prophets portion of this project at our, and the world’s, peril. Any attempt at analysis of this situation that doesn’t factor in this religious aspect will be incomplete at best, and a complete failure at worst.
This is a genocide conducted by the United States. Without the US there would be no genocide.
Amurdica.
Listen to what they did,
Don’t listen to what they said,
What the spelled out in blood,
What they put down with lead.
Yeah, and what’s even more fucked up is the Biden Administration “paused” shipment of 2000 pound bombs to Israel as part of a lame PR stunt. Biden congratulated himself for the “pause,” referring to the fact that the bombs cause a lot of destruction in populated areas.
But that simply begs the question CNN wouldn’t ask…why then did you already ship thousands of them in the first place?!?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-has-sent-israel-thousands-2000-pound-bombs-since-oct-7-2024-06-28/
Now British drones that can do just about anything without the controller IDF getting touched, sitting back and laughing as they play a computer game. Not to worry. We all may be wiped out soon by the choices the US is making in Ukraine/Russia. I'm rooting for Russia.
Exactly! Pausing one shipment after providing more than enough of these bombs to completely level Gaza is a pathetic attempt to assuage the public’s fury at the US complicity.
Thank you Caitlin. No one is going to tell us that there is no on going genocide; that US is not implicated in that genocide right from the start. Same goes for NATO, so are the rest of the West. Israel has shown how to do a genocide and they are cheering. They are all provoking another war starting in Lebanon then Iran and spreading all over. The grand design to destroy China's achievements. Balkanising Russia is but a ploy to isolate China. They do hate losing white supremacy, losing their iron grip on the world's economy. Subjugating the Global South. Hates a multipolar world. It is not only Israel that is insane - we are living in an asylum controlled by psychopaths.
Thank you, Indu. I agree. There's a sliver of light in that the dollar is falling around the world,
It's not IDF. It's IOF, Israeli Occupation Force.
I agree. My country is 100% complicit. 😢 Our tax money is being used to murder innocent people.
Department of Defense. When was the last time the US mainland was invaded??
the department name itself is gaslighting! Marianne Williamson says we should have a Dept of War AND a Dept of Peace; and they should be at least equally funded.
The Dept of Peace ( State Dept) is run by a 2nd gen Zionist spook and there are no career diplomats in sight at the top. Just spooks and Zionist tools.
No wonder we can’t make peace.
Marianne Williamson. Is she still in the race?
yes! she is the most intelligent, thoughtful, and compassionate presidential candidate I have ever encountered.
https://marianne2024.com/
Vijay Prashad recently estimated that 74% of global military spending is by the U.S. and its “allies”.
When 3/4 of the war spending is by you, it’s not “defence”.
Of course they couldn’t. Thank you Golant for confirming what the world already knew. A genocidal maniac prepared to throw his co-murderers under the bus. speaks volumes about their character.
I can't say enough how much I and obviously many others appreciated your work, Caitlin, and Tim, too. There's no one clearer than you two on Israel. Thank you so much.
"Everyone understands that we can’t fight this war without the United States. Period.”
This means there's only one way to shut down this horrible Israeli genocide in Gaza: We must get rid of the United States. Once the US is out of the picture, the Israelis no longer have the armaments or diplomatic cover to continue it. So there you have it... One possible reason why NATO is so determined to provoke Russia or Israel into starting a nuclear war. It will get rid of the US (and a few others) once and for all.
Hi RTC
I have long maintained that Amerikkka needs to be split up into many factions… much like we wish upon Russia.
But it won’t be Russia. It’ll be us.
We are ungovernable.
Don't think that the American military is a farce let by incompetent buffoons? John Kirby, with the IQ of a house fly, is an ADMIRAL. Just for fun, review the Presidential "debate." Look carefully at Biden's eyes. I worked in criminal justice for a while. I can spot a lit-up junkie a mile away. Biden was ripped out of his skull on uppers, And that's the fool who can start WWIII - without even knowing it.
The more studies we do, the more we understand just how smart insects are. They have learned how to coexist on this planet for millions of years. We, on the other hand, are about ready to bring down the curtain on the entire human species, the last of the large-brained hominid experiment.
I wouldn’t dream of insulting a fly by comparing it to Kirby.
Correct Joy. At least flies produce a food source for frogs, birds and spiders 😁
Quite the Zionist DISTRACTION by Ehud Olmert. 'Mossad' 'moto' = 'By the art of DECEPTION, thou shalt do war.' Olmert knows as well as Netanyahu that; the same Oligarch fake 'money' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory',) which paid & pays for Israel's brutal massacre & Nakba of Palestinians in 'Genocide' (UN Definition = 'removing of people from or destroying their means of livelihood' from their homes & livelihood, plus continuous state & settler murder), over past 120 years, owns the USA.
This is the same fake 'money' which brutally colonized the Americas, funded & armed the fake US 'revolution' in 1776 & has been committing atrocity among 1st Nations & people worldwide in the order of 1 billion people over the past 1000 years. AIPAC owns each Representative, Senator & President as well as owns the main part of the bureaucratic administration of government & in each of its departments.
OPEN YOUR EYES FOLKS Its there right in front of us in every aspect of our controlled lives.
Oligarchy ('Oli' = 'few' + 'arch' = 'rule-by') has established a fake Finance, Media, Religion, Education, Military-Industrial, Legislative, Judicial, Pharma-med, Agri-business COMPLEX.
There is no USA, Canada, Britain, France, Belgium, & Netherlands democracy, which is not for the most part controlled by these same Oligarchs.
All 'INDIGENOUS' (L. 'self-generating') human ancestors for many 10s of 1000s of years, cultivated the power to employ our strengths & meet our needs centered locally. It is in our interpersonal & 'community' (L 'com' = 'together' + 'munus' = 'gift-or-service'), particularly our collective Domestic economies, that we still have access to real power. It is up to all of us need to intervene, particularly in our own family & home solidarity in RELATIONAL-ECONOMY.
Human society was organized in CULTURAL 'FRACTALS' ('Fraction, multiplier, building-block, where-the-part-contains-the-whole'). People should learn about all humanity's worldwide 'indigenous' ancestors use of the time-based, Equivalency-Accounting on the String-shell Value system (eg. 'Wampum' on Turtle-Island / N. America, Quipu in S. America & Cowrie-shell in indigenous Celtic-Slavic Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia & all islands). Imagine an international system way-back? https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
BOTTOM-UP 'MONEY' (Greek 'mnemosis' = 'memory'), in indigenous times with memory & honour for everyone's diverse specialized gifts through the String-shell, Production-Society-Guilds & ~100 (50-150) person Multihome-Dwelling-Complexes (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village). These loving, intimate, intergenerational, female-male, critical-mass, economies-of-scale were once worldwide in indigenous ECONOMIC-DEMOCRACY. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/8-economic-democracy
MEANINGFUL GOVERNANCE, JUST AS WE ARE All humanity's worldwide indigenous ancestors organized basic livelihood in the meaningful intimate relations of the MULTIHOME-Dwelling-Complex (eg. Longhouse-apartment, Pueblo-townhouse & Kanata-village) & neighbourhood, where people contribute their articulate gifts & specialists within know & serve each person for their particular attributes with contextual proximity, continuity & sovereign privacy. Such meaningful appropriate scaling with people empowered built up at each level into city, region, nation (eg. ~110 across Turtle-Island), confederacy (eg. ~25 across Turtle-Island), Continental & Hemispheric Councils on every habitable continent & island worldwide.
70% of people today live in 'multihomes' (eg. Apartment, Townhouse & Village-cluster) with an average of 32 dwelling-units = ~100 people. 20% of Multihome-dwellers are extended-families living intentionally in proximity for social & economic collaboration. Multihome-extended-family contribute ~2 trillions $ of the most individually appropriate goods, services, sharing-caring/year as Turtle-Island, N-America's largest essential Economic sector, albeit unrecognized by government, education & institutions. Local intimate, intergenerational, female-male, interdisciplinary, critical-mass, economies-of-scale provide the most integrated, personally appropriate care, goods & services, which everyone ultimately is able-to-contribute to, wants, is-best-served-by & needs. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy/1-extending-our-welcome-participatory-multihome-cohousing
DO-WE-KNOW-WHO-WE-ARE-? http://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/9-do-we-know-who-we-are web-based Community-Circular-Economy software:
A) CATALOGUE local individual & business talents, goods, services, resources & dreams intake form. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/7-membership
B) MAP local proximal collaborative relations for complementary economic concertation. eg. Baseline mapping of 105 Mohawk, Wendat & Algonquian Placenames in the Tiohtiake (greater Montreal archipelago) region https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/a-home/5-tiohtiake-mohawk-placenames
C) ACCOUNT for collective contributions, buying, selling & co-investment. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/c-relational-economy
D) COMMUNICATE in formal Both-sides-now, Equal-time, Recorded & Published Dialogues such as all humanity's indigenous ancestors cultivated through COUNCIL PROCESS for creating Constructive Agreements & for Conflict Resolution. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/d-participatory-structure/1-both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
" We control America ".... https://mediamonitors.net/sharon-to-peres-we-control-america/
feigned powerlessness -- Biden and his administration are war criminals.
I am not sure of how any of the illusions that are drilled into the heads of Americans from cradle to grave via the government's plethora of national security state emanations, the lame history books used during a typical child's education, the completely worthless corporate media outlets and their endless drivel, and the entertainment industry's CIA condoned Manichaean black and white world of superheroes and villians still resonate with the public as reality. But they do. July 4th, the US "Independence Day" celebrations are just two days away. Sadly, the flag-waving illusions of the Empire will fill the airwaves and we will see another yearly display of mindless subservience showing how little independence the US public really has.