“The Biden administration accepts that Israel will soon launch a major attack on Iran, but it fears that strikes on certain targets could dramatically escalate the regional war."
White washing bullshit. The NeoCons have been drooling for this bloodshed now for decades. They're still supplying Israel with every fucking bomb it wants. This is them lying to the American people so they can pretend Netanyahu is off his fucking rocker, and Biden tried to do whatever he could to stop him. Horseshit. They know exactly what they're doing - these psychopaths. They hit Iran it's all out war. AND THEY KNOW IT.
Yep…and all the American and NATO troops surrounding Iran can call their momas and tell them goodbye. Biden will show that he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about American lives.
Well Netanyahu is way off his rocker, if I was still doing counselling I'd be reaching for the alarm button under the desk. But while I can sort of understand why Bibi is doing what he's doing, I'm fucked if I can see why the Amerikan Empire is enabling him.
We have a POTUS who has spent his entire life lying to the American people. He's so fucking senile, he sometimes can't find his way off a podium. He probably doesn't give a shit whether the rest of the world goes up in flames - since he's on his way out anyway.
According to the old saying - 'You can tell when a politician is lying, his lips move'. I guess if you've reach the top, you must have doing more of it and doing it better. I don't believe that the President runs the country, but those that do have their hands on the levers, must realise that after a global nuclear war, there will be no winners.
Quite a few of these brain dead like fools were urging JFK to start a nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis. You'd be surprised how many there are who think a nuclear war is worth risking, and even worth doing. We'll see what happens. If Israel does strike Iran, a lot more people will be dying in the next few weeks/months. How then, you'll keep a cap on the nukes, is beyond me. Israel certainly is going to launch once it realizes it is losing. And it will lose. There is no defense against the hypersonics.
The problem. as Chris Hedges has noted, is that the present ruling class is greedy to the point of being stupid and blind. They dont get the concept that they are limits to squeezing things. They dont get the concept of blowback even when its int their face.
And all the cowards that serve them in politics are too gutless to tell them there are limits.
Presumably they have escape rockets ready to take them to mars, because they are going to wreck this planet here.
I gave a few suggestions a day or so ago, David, identifying the fact that ............
* the US is down to 7 years of oil reserves.
* Israel is well placed to be the procurer and security guard for their partners-in-crime in the USA, that is 330 million of them now under the control of AIPAC through political corruption, already in place, for the continuing and constant supply of oil and gas.
* the security with the oil providers is then protected by up to 400 Israeli nuclear warheads...... "one for every capital", stated, currently stacked in Dimona.
* Israel will then turn all the land "from the river to the sea" into Israel as planned, a very wealthy tourist mecca using Palestinian and Lebanon land, with a waiting list already rumoured to be in place. Zelensky said to be a land owner. He has the qualifications required.....money and he is jJewish. Both mandatory.
Israelis as a sect are a devious, inhumane bunch as the world now knows having the USA by the vitals and so much more of the Western world able to be influenced through banking, business investment, historical relationships and on, from older times when Jews were acceptable, not like today's murderers, rapists, liars and child killers.
My feelings conclude with the quite obvious fact that what the US is getting away with as a more than willing Israeli partner has been well planned, with the great assistance of the Western / white / anglo / christian countries. Probably safe to say that these countries as a group consider the whole world is totally their domain, maintaining or extending power over foreign nations as their absolute right. As a result, they will rue the day that they opened their doors to immigrants who are now well on the way to population advantage in Sweden, Germany, the UK and so many other countries
Israel now having joined the imperialist clan. Hence the protection and connivance of the USA.
Just a theory, David. OIL, the key. Time will tell.
It seems that accusing someone of mental illness has become a valid reason/excuse for murder . I don't say genocide because that seems to be easy to forgive/totally understandable or maybe it has become so commonplace that it no longer packsa punch ?
I keep seeing Stormbamfurer Biden all over the place recently.....is he better now? Was his illness just a coup d'etat to not have a Primary and choose the candidate for the Disgusting Dems?
As it is USA has lost all of its marbles (if they had any) in the past 50yrs.
Go ahead you complete morons and attack Iran which you have wanted to do for years.
Iran's ongoing crime is pride in its Persian history and culture -- how it proudly and tacitly resists the Empire. Any country that fails to bend the knee and whimper is a special enemy that requires extra demeaning. It's always been that way with bullies whose egos need the satisfaction of servitude.
Persia? wasn't that someplace that Moses conquered with the jawbone of a hyena? Most Americans live in a cloud of Disney-fied illusion, where actual historical knowledge has no impact except for test-passing in a useless sophomore(ic) high school world history survey course. But it's the empire, ergo, it must have the best education system, right? Snicker, Giggle. Guffaw. Cachinnation.
It's probably just another stimulus in the already full barrel of hatred for those anti-Zionist Jews at the Grayzone. I'm told that Israelis hate anti-Zionist Jews even more than Palestinian Arabs.
At one point, I believe Max uses the words "a tsunami of atrocity porn" with especial vituperation directed at the NY Times -- appropriately of course.
No press briefing? I can see this being the case from here on out... They don't want us to know what evil they're up to, and Count Smirkula doesn't want any more journalists calling him on his B.S. When they kicked out Al Jazeera from the West Bank you know why they did it, don't you? What the public can't see never happened.
The Biden presidency AND the Biden-Harris Administration HAS BEEN THE WORST in the history of the US (my memory and historical knowledge is limited, so please correct me if I am mistaken).
Yes, I know that Trump is bad, Reagan was bad, Bush was bad, Nixon was bad. But NONE OF THEM were even remotely as bad as Biden (based on the real evidence so far).
The previous Trump and present Biden Administrations have put the US (and the world) on a trajectory of WAR and assured protracted conflicts. I don't see how a TRUMP or a HARRIS Presidency can possibly change this trajectory. The die is cast. The question is - how bad will it really get?
Another reason why BIDEN-HARRIS Administration is the worst: There is this concept of "BLOWBACK" that the US will face for generations based on all the wars and military attacks and conflicts it has waged on the world. No one knows when the US Empire will face the consequences of these "blowback events". It would possibly happen in some other politician's administration. But ask yourself this - which administration was responsible the most and deserves the most blame for the consequences of future blowback events on US citizens?
What salvation? Whether I vote green or red or blue or anything else, we already know that either Trump or Harris will be the next President (barring some miracle). So what salvation?
There are benefits to voting Green this election. 1) You can look yourself in the mirror the next day and say "I did NOT vote for Harris or Trump. I did not vote to fund more genocide. I am a moral person with a conscience." 2) By helping Greens get a higher percentage of the vote in your state, you're helping Green candidates in next year's election get on the ballot as a Green in your state (since in many states the Green presidential candidate has to receive a certain percentage of the state vote for the Green Party in that state to be "recognized" and for those running for state or local offices as Greens to be called Greens and have access to party funding. Ds and Rs don't have this problem.) 3) If everyone who liked Jill Stein's platform voted for her--she'd win, hands down. In a three- or four-way race, it doesn't take that large a percentage to win. Check out her platform at jillstein2024.com/platform
TRC, I think you misunderstood my comment. This "voting" is NOT ABOUT ME, it is about the US and the WORLD. This "voting" is NOT about "my feelings" or "how I justify things" or "how I rationalize things" or "how I resolve cognitive dissonances". Obviously I'm not going to vote for ANYONE that supports genocide (which should be obvious to anyone that's read my comments in Caitlin's substack).
1) I don't care about how I feel or my mirror (on the voting issue)
2) This will hopefully happen (depending on state) as I suspect there are many non-genocidal voters this election season.
3) This "everyone" logic makes sense in "fantasyland" - but that's not how reality works (no matter how much we would like it to work that way)
Be very careful in promoting the Greens. In my country(Canada) the Greens, while still a small party have done more to damage this country than any other group. I'm afraid that because of all the left wing doggerel that has so duped the West that we are all f-----d.
I'm a realist (for some reason BOTH optimists and pessimists don't like realists - don't know why). I see the glass BOTH half full AND half empty (unlike optimists and pessimists that ignore half the glass based on their confirmation biases).
Do what you can to get the current perps out of office to disrupt the trajectory of where we know they’re dragging us. Then deal with the batch next of psychopaths.
maybe the salvation of the fighting spirit. i hope the greens will not stop opposing the genocide and empire and keep organising. if one were to join them you can already make use of the organisational structure to keep up the protests against harris or trump policies. idk, but i think it's harder to keep motivated if one voted for either wing of the duopoly (in the belief that they somehow are 'harm reduction') or didn't vote (deciding that giving the finger to a corrupt system is more important then giving the finger to the genocidals), then if you voted green.
The CIA concept of blowback is detailed in Chalmers Johnson's 2004 book 'Blowback: the costs and consequences of American empire'...this book is a must read as is his follow up 'The Sorrows of Empire.'
Thanks for the book recommendations teddyG. My reading/catch-up list is so long that I don't think I'll live long enough to read through it. But thank you again for the suggestions.
You ain’t wrong. Many ex military and intelligence guys have said the same thing. Blinken is the worst brain dead SoS in history. If this war with Iran happens then Austin can join Powell in hell.
Blinken Winkin Nod represents the Tribe before he represents Americans. Isn't that glaringly obvious? He's only brain dead when it comes to helping America, he's Khazarian through and through.
"The die is cast. The question is - how bad will it really get?" Just a guess.. but I would predict that when The final battle is fought, soon coming to expose the stupidity of the Earth's most 'intelligent' species, the darkness of the ensuing Nuclear Winter should be enough to hide the last death throes of whatever will be left of life on the planet.
"Cats are clearly the highest and most superior species!" Yes, any animal that is smart enough not to pay attention to what human beings say is by far superior to them in intelligence, and my cat never listened to me... ever...
"One could hardly call them intelligent!" Unfortunately, intelligence is independent from stupidity, and sometimes the two seem to act in perfectly proportional quantities.. For example, it takes a great amount of intelligence to make nuclear weapons, but also an equal amount of stupidity.
I was referring to the comment that I had made regarding human intelligence in light of the weapons we fabricate with that intelligence. . ... which is why I used single quotation marks to signify that the collective 'intelligence' of out species is questionable... .
Michael, "open borders" is not relevant to this discussion. Team R and Team D have similar policies (in reality and not in rhetoric) when it comes to "immigration" issues. The topic is nuanced, and I can't adequately explain here (in this comments section) why BOTH party's immigration policies are MORE SIMILAR than different.
Zeteo reports that Amos Hochstein, an ex Israeli military vet, member of Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy team, is the official who gave the green light to Israel on military pressure against Hezbollah .
And, apart from the United States, which is complicit if not instigator, the other superpowers are just watching. Nation states were not created to establish peace but to wage war!
For fifty years I've believed that tales of Mordor, the Orcs of Sauron and Saruman and not to forget, trolls, were massing to destroy Middle Earth, were just fantasy. The product of a turbo - charged imagination.
But these days I wake to discover that these evil forces don't want to destroy just Middle Earth, they want to destroy all of the Earth. If I could only now believe Tolkiens' happy ending.
The difference is that, in Middle Earth, one could get rid of The One Ring.
In The Real World, power attracts the corruptible. Power is to sociopaths what catnip is to cats.
At the same time, not only is power What Gets Things Done, it also is unavoidable. If you don't use it, someone else will, and they may not be as principled as you are.
Have to start somewhere. Check out the Green Party positions. I never say never, because there are a lot of disgruntled voters, and there is no reason why if they all vote Green, we can start the needed changes….
“the Biden administration accepting that this enormous escalation is going to happen despite fears that it will spark a large-scale war.”
No, it won’t spark a large-scale war. It will precipitate the end of the Zionist Nazi entity since Iran will promptly wipe out their electricity infrastructure and all their airbases.
Pretty bad; but you know, what they do over there; is exactly what they're planning on doing to the people who make negative comments about Israel on this blog. For me though, it's no different than Vietnam, I have an obligation to every butterfly and cockroach in the world, not to cause harm; not even to vampires or fire breathing dragons.
Let us hope not. We should be thinking of ways to pressure our government to make Israel release Jeremy. The evidence that the US cares not a whiff for its citizens, unless it furthers the war machine agenda, is overwhelming.
Precisely, they didn't give a damn about Gonzalo Lira, although he had dual citizenship with Chile, the US was his home base, and he got in the way of the US MIC and its making money.
“The Biden administration accepts that Israel will soon launch a major attack on Iran” - Biden accepts sounds like he’s an innocent bystander instead of a party to these atrocities. Like he’s some kind of victim of all this. What bullshit.
"Today the US State Department did not hold a press briefing, which is understandable. If I were in charge of justifying the behavior of the US government and its allies, I wouldn’t want to face the press today either."
Why?
It would be no more threatening than holding a press briefing for one's own well-fed pet lapdogs, if lapdogs had Twitter bluechecks and press credentials.
The various criminal actions by Israel mentioned today must be seen by all, including the corrupted US politicians, 84%, all currently giving Israel all they need to continue this genocide in Palestine and now expanding it to Lebanon.
But still the demented Biden grovels to Netanyahu's demands.
It is about time that legislation was enacted to stop the corruption of the elections in America, and timely it would be as well, with November issuing in yet another grafted President, the norm in that country now for decades.
While the USA is content to accept what the Jews offer under the auspices of the well organised AIPAC in the way of paid-for candidates, soon another burst to take their seats, so will the US keep supporting the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocents, the latest killings of children by Israel snipers.
Even with the obvious apathy of the Western world leaders, nothing quite like them, sooner or later a leader like Germany, Scholz by name, will see that not even Hitler engaged in this kind of crime. Perhaps he may then wake up to what the world has produced in that stolen land called Israel and with the other tame and corrupted Western "leaders", "pull the plug" on perhaps the grossest set of crimes in memory.
More gross than the Third Reich? Yes, called Netanyahu's IDF, totally US supported and encouraged.
The ICJ says Israel is an entity built on crimes against humanity. Am not sure why there should be any right of an apartheid genocidal ethno-state to exist in a place with multiple ethnicities.
Problem is that we live in a history-and-fact-free digitally-driven society where the discourse is completely stripped of any grounding in knowledge. Anything you want can be the "truth" if you just lie often and loudly.
BUT: you know why UNRWA exists? Or why the word "refugee camp" is a constant refrain in descriptions of Palestine today? Think about it.
"......Following the 1948 War, UNRWA was established by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 302 (IV) of 8 December 1949 to carry out direct relief and works programmes for Palestine refugees....The Agency began operations on 1 May 1950.......In the absence of a solution to the Palestine refugee problem, the General Assembly has repeatedly renewed UNRWA's mandate, most recently extending it until 30 June 2026....UNRWA is unique in terms of its long-standing commitment to one group of refugees. It has contributed to the welfare and human development of four generations of Palestine refugees, defined as “persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 War....When the Agency began operations in 1950, it was responding to the needs of about 750,000 Palestine refugees. Today, some 5.9 million Palestine refugees are eligible for UNRWA services......:"
So, UNWRA exists because...Every single Palestinian who is in a "refugee" camp today, inside Palestine, in Jordan, in Lebanon.....is a STATELESS descendant of people summarily ejected from "Israel", basically living in limbo - for generations in a row.
UNRWA and these refugee camps are the equivalent of an orphanage. Fact.
The Gaza Strip full of refugee camps. Refugees from where? Well....."Israel". Successive waves of people have been ejected there from what is now "Israel". Most of them dont actually hail from that territory - the Israeli's SHOVED them out there.
Do you know that the "West Bank" has many refugee camps contain the rest of the remaining Palestinians that the zionists ejected from what is now "Israel"? And that already, all over the entire West Bank territory the original residents are being steadily ejected from their land and homes and replaced by zionist settlers?
Sorry but on the face of those facts, saying Israel has " a right to exist".... is like saying the nazis had a right to exist, and had a right to deport jews to concentration camps, but they just needed a ceasefire to stop killing people in there...although the person saying that was also handing the nazis weapons and gas canisters while "calling for a ceasefire" agains the jewish resistance which the person was calling "terrorists".
Absurd scenario really. But indeed: absurdity is the nature of the fact-free, history-free narrative that western masses are bombarded with daily in the media.
“The Biden administration accepts that Israel will soon launch a major attack on Iran, but it fears that strikes on certain targets could dramatically escalate the regional war."
White washing bullshit. The NeoCons have been drooling for this bloodshed now for decades. They're still supplying Israel with every fucking bomb it wants. This is them lying to the American people so they can pretend Netanyahu is off his fucking rocker, and Biden tried to do whatever he could to stop him. Horseshit. They know exactly what they're doing - these psychopaths. They hit Iran it's all out war. AND THEY KNOW IT.
Yep…and all the American and NATO troops surrounding Iran can call their momas and tell them goodbye. Biden will show that he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about American lives.
Well Netanyahu is way off his rocker, if I was still doing counselling I'd be reaching for the alarm button under the desk. But while I can sort of understand why Bibi is doing what he's doing, I'm fucked if I can see why the Amerikan Empire is enabling him.
Here in Aus, assisted suicide is illegal.
We have a POTUS who has spent his entire life lying to the American people. He's so fucking senile, he sometimes can't find his way off a podium. He probably doesn't give a shit whether the rest of the world goes up in flames - since he's on his way out anyway.
According to the old saying - 'You can tell when a politician is lying, his lips move'. I guess if you've reach the top, you must have doing more of it and doing it better. I don't believe that the President runs the country, but those that do have their hands on the levers, must realise that after a global nuclear war, there will be no winners.
Not even Amerika.
Quite a few of these brain dead like fools were urging JFK to start a nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis. You'd be surprised how many there are who think a nuclear war is worth risking, and even worth doing. We'll see what happens. If Israel does strike Iran, a lot more people will be dying in the next few weeks/months. How then, you'll keep a cap on the nukes, is beyond me. Israel certainly is going to launch once it realizes it is losing. And it will lose. There is no defense against the hypersonics.
The problem. as Chris Hedges has noted, is that the present ruling class is greedy to the point of being stupid and blind. They dont get the concept that they are limits to squeezing things. They dont get the concept of blowback even when its int their face.
And all the cowards that serve them in politics are too gutless to tell them there are limits.
Presumably they have escape rockets ready to take them to mars, because they are going to wreck this planet here.
I gave a few suggestions a day or so ago, David, identifying the fact that ............
* the US is down to 7 years of oil reserves.
* Israel is well placed to be the procurer and security guard for their partners-in-crime in the USA, that is 330 million of them now under the control of AIPAC through political corruption, already in place, for the continuing and constant supply of oil and gas.
* the security with the oil providers is then protected by up to 400 Israeli nuclear warheads...... "one for every capital", stated, currently stacked in Dimona.
* Israel will then turn all the land "from the river to the sea" into Israel as planned, a very wealthy tourist mecca using Palestinian and Lebanon land, with a waiting list already rumoured to be in place. Zelensky said to be a land owner. He has the qualifications required.....money and he is jJewish. Both mandatory.
Israelis as a sect are a devious, inhumane bunch as the world now knows having the USA by the vitals and so much more of the Western world able to be influenced through banking, business investment, historical relationships and on, from older times when Jews were acceptable, not like today's murderers, rapists, liars and child killers.
My feelings conclude with the quite obvious fact that what the US is getting away with as a more than willing Israeli partner has been well planned, with the great assistance of the Western / white / anglo / christian countries. Probably safe to say that these countries as a group consider the whole world is totally their domain, maintaining or extending power over foreign nations as their absolute right. As a result, they will rue the day that they opened their doors to immigrants who are now well on the way to population advantage in Sweden, Germany, the UK and so many other countries
Israel now having joined the imperialist clan. Hence the protection and connivance of the USA.
Just a theory, David. OIL, the key. Time will tell.
Nah, oil has had it's day. To quote an old shampoo ad, 'It won't happen overnight but it will happen'.
The smart money knows it will happen and are investing accordingly and they're not going to place their bets on a losing proposition.
Joe Biden suffers from alzhrimer/ dementia and is putty in the hands of people like Netanyahu.
What ? "assisted suicide is illegal" in Aus ?
You have already forgotten what happened in aus. and the world just a year back. That's what psychos hide... and wait .....
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The American empire is Khazarian.......need I say more?
It seems that accusing someone of mental illness has become a valid reason/excuse for murder . I don't say genocide because that seems to be easy to forgive/totally understandable or maybe it has become so commonplace that it no longer packsa punch ?
It's not so much a case of accusing someone of mental illness as a case of 'if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck......'
I think a jury of several hundred million are well and truly out on that one
Why? As long as he has his American thug, Netanyahu is perfectly safe.
You so right, utterly evil!
I keep seeing Stormbamfurer Biden all over the place recently.....is he better now? Was his illness just a coup d'etat to not have a Primary and choose the candidate for the Disgusting Dems?
As it is USA has lost all of its marbles (if they had any) in the past 50yrs.
Go ahead you complete morons and attack Iran which you have wanted to do for years.
What may I ask has Iran done to you.
Killing is the game now.....not going to stop.
Iran's ongoing crime is pride in its Persian history and culture -- how it proudly and tacitly resists the Empire. Any country that fails to bend the knee and whimper is a special enemy that requires extra demeaning. It's always been that way with bullies whose egos need the satisfaction of servitude.
Most Americans probably don't even know about Persia. Still is a very cultured people AND they speak many languages.
All Empires are bullies.
I come from one of the worst and refuse to affiliate with it...............UK is still suffering from the loss just can't 'grow up!'
Persia? wasn't that someplace that Moses conquered with the jawbone of a hyena? Most Americans live in a cloud of Disney-fied illusion, where actual historical knowledge has no impact except for test-passing in a useless sophomore(ic) high school world history survey course. But it's the empire, ergo, it must have the best education system, right? Snicker, Giggle. Guffaw. Cachinnation.
Of course. Israel is seeking any pretext for war, and the United States and its catamites will be dragged in and be doing most or all of the fighting.
These evil doers are psycho paths. They know what they’re doing. These sickos get off on war and power.😢☮️🇵🇸
Says it all!
I remember Biden thinking he was Irish!
Watch "Atrocity Inc" just released by Max Blumenthal and the Grayzone on rumble.com
He exposes the foundational Israeli hoaxes used to justify genocide.
I just posted about Atrocity Inc too. Imo its the likely reason for Loffredos arrest
It's probably just another stimulus in the already full barrel of hatred for those anti-Zionist Jews at the Grayzone. I'm told that Israelis hate anti-Zionist Jews even more than Palestinian Arabs.
At one point, I believe Max uses the words "a tsunami of atrocity porn" with especial vituperation directed at the NY Times -- appropriately of course.
No press briefing? I can see this being the case from here on out... They don't want us to know what evil they're up to, and Count Smirkula doesn't want any more journalists calling him on his B.S. When they kicked out Al Jazeera from the West Bank you know why they did it, don't you? What the public can't see never happened.
The Biden presidency AND the Biden-Harris Administration HAS BEEN THE WORST in the history of the US (my memory and historical knowledge is limited, so please correct me if I am mistaken).
Yes, I know that Trump is bad, Reagan was bad, Bush was bad, Nixon was bad. But NONE OF THEM were even remotely as bad as Biden (based on the real evidence so far).
The previous Trump and present Biden Administrations have put the US (and the world) on a trajectory of WAR and assured protracted conflicts. I don't see how a TRUMP or a HARRIS Presidency can possibly change this trajectory. The die is cast. The question is - how bad will it really get?
Another reason why BIDEN-HARRIS Administration is the worst: There is this concept of "BLOWBACK" that the US will face for generations based on all the wars and military attacks and conflicts it has waged on the world. No one knows when the US Empire will face the consequences of these "blowback events". It would possibly happen in some other politician's administration. But ask yourself this - which administration was responsible the most and deserves the most blame for the consequences of future blowback events on US citizens?
Vote Green as the only salvation!
What salvation? Whether I vote green or red or blue or anything else, we already know that either Trump or Harris will be the next President (barring some miracle). So what salvation?
There are benefits to voting Green this election. 1) You can look yourself in the mirror the next day and say "I did NOT vote for Harris or Trump. I did not vote to fund more genocide. I am a moral person with a conscience." 2) By helping Greens get a higher percentage of the vote in your state, you're helping Green candidates in next year's election get on the ballot as a Green in your state (since in many states the Green presidential candidate has to receive a certain percentage of the state vote for the Green Party in that state to be "recognized" and for those running for state or local offices as Greens to be called Greens and have access to party funding. Ds and Rs don't have this problem.) 3) If everyone who liked Jill Stein's platform voted for her--she'd win, hands down. In a three- or four-way race, it doesn't take that large a percentage to win. Check out her platform at jillstein2024.com/platform
TRC, I think you misunderstood my comment. This "voting" is NOT ABOUT ME, it is about the US and the WORLD. This "voting" is NOT about "my feelings" or "how I justify things" or "how I rationalize things" or "how I resolve cognitive dissonances". Obviously I'm not going to vote for ANYONE that supports genocide (which should be obvious to anyone that's read my comments in Caitlin's substack).
1) I don't care about how I feel or my mirror (on the voting issue)
2) This will hopefully happen (depending on state) as I suspect there are many non-genocidal voters this election season.
3) This "everyone" logic makes sense in "fantasyland" - but that's not how reality works (no matter how much we would like it to work that way)
Be very careful in promoting the Greens. In my country(Canada) the Greens, while still a small party have done more to damage this country than any other group. I'm afraid that because of all the left wing doggerel that has so duped the West that we are all f-----d.
I never say never! Ignore the polls! Talk Green to everyone!
I'm a realist (for some reason BOTH optimists and pessimists don't like realists - don't know why). I see the glass BOTH half full AND half empty (unlike optimists and pessimists that ignore half the glass based on their confirmation biases).
Do what you can to get the current perps out of office to disrupt the trajectory of where we know they’re dragging us. Then deal with the batch next of psychopaths.
maybe the salvation of the fighting spirit. i hope the greens will not stop opposing the genocide and empire and keep organising. if one were to join them you can already make use of the organisational structure to keep up the protests against harris or trump policies. idk, but i think it's harder to keep motivated if one voted for either wing of the duopoly (in the belief that they somehow are 'harm reduction') or didn't vote (deciding that giving the finger to a corrupt system is more important then giving the finger to the genocidals), then if you voted green.
The CIA concept of blowback is detailed in Chalmers Johnson's 2004 book 'Blowback: the costs and consequences of American empire'...this book is a must read as is his follow up 'The Sorrows of Empire.'
Thanks for the book recommendations teddyG. My reading/catch-up list is so long that I don't think I'll live long enough to read through it. But thank you again for the suggestions.
You ain’t wrong. Many ex military and intelligence guys have said the same thing. Blinken is the worst brain dead SoS in history. If this war with Iran happens then Austin can join Powell in hell.
Blinken Winkin Nod represents the Tribe before he represents Americans. Isn't that glaringly obvious? He's only brain dead when it comes to helping America, he's Khazarian through and through.
Chang,
"The die is cast. The question is - how bad will it really get?" Just a guess.. but I would predict that when The final battle is fought, soon coming to expose the stupidity of the Earth's most 'intelligent' species, the darkness of the ensuing Nuclear Winter should be enough to hide the last death throes of whatever will be left of life on the planet.
Cats are clearly the highest and most superior species!
Clearly!
"Cats are clearly the highest and most superior species!" Yes, any animal that is smart enough not to pay attention to what human beings say is by far superior to them in intelligence, and my cat never listened to me... ever...
Maybe if you had some Greenies?
One could hardly call them intelligent!
"One could hardly call them intelligent!" Unfortunately, intelligence is independent from stupidity, and sometimes the two seem to act in perfectly proportional quantities.. For example, it takes a great amount of intelligence to make nuclear weapons, but also an equal amount of stupidity.
I was referring to the comment that I had made regarding human intelligence in light of the weapons we fabricate with that intelligence. . ... which is why I used single quotation marks to signify that the collective 'intelligence' of out species is questionable... .
I agree about cats BUT not sure if your comment is addressed to me?
You are quite optimistic in thinking there will be a future for our species to have the luxury of worrying about blowback. I hope you are right.
I’d expect nothing less and they’re tempting it with open borders. We’ll have Oct 7ths in NY, DC, LA….and Americans won’t understand why or how
Michael, "open borders" is not relevant to this discussion. Team R and Team D have similar policies (in reality and not in rhetoric) when it comes to "immigration" issues. The topic is nuanced, and I can't adequately explain here (in this comments section) why BOTH party's immigration policies are MORE SIMILAR than different.
Are large volumes of migrants entering the country without proper vetting or not? Trust me, I’m not team Trump here either
>>"Are large volumes of migrants entering the country without proper vetting or not?"
Irrelevant to this discussion.
>>"I’m not team Trump here either"
I don't belong to ANY team. I'm a non-conformist.
Zeteo reports that Amos Hochstein, an ex Israeli military vet, member of Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy team, is the official who gave the green light to Israel on military pressure against Hezbollah .
And, apart from the United States, which is complicit if not instigator, the other superpowers are just watching. Nation states were not created to establish peace but to wage war!
For fifty years I've believed that tales of Mordor, the Orcs of Sauron and Saruman and not to forget, trolls, were massing to destroy Middle Earth, were just fantasy. The product of a turbo - charged imagination.
But these days I wake to discover that these evil forces don't want to destroy just Middle Earth, they want to destroy all of the Earth. If I could only now believe Tolkiens' happy ending.
The difference is that, in Middle Earth, one could get rid of The One Ring.
In The Real World, power attracts the corruptible. Power is to sociopaths what catnip is to cats.
At the same time, not only is power What Gets Things Done, it also is unavoidable. If you don't use it, someone else will, and they may not be as principled as you are.
Have to start somewhere. Check out the Green Party positions. I never say never, because there are a lot of disgruntled voters, and there is no reason why if they all vote Green, we can start the needed changes….
“the Biden administration accepting that this enormous escalation is going to happen despite fears that it will spark a large-scale war.”
No, it won’t spark a large-scale war. It will precipitate the end of the Zionist Nazi entity since Iran will promptly wipe out their electricity infrastructure and all their airbases.
You forgot to mention Israel's nuclear submarines.
Pretty bad; but you know, what they do over there; is exactly what they're planning on doing to the people who make negative comments about Israel on this blog. For me though, it's no different than Vietnam, I have an obligation to every butterfly and cockroach in the world, not to cause harm; not even to vampires or fire breathing dragons.
It certainly looks like it. Fascism rules by fear and murder.
Is this going to be a repeat of the Gonzalo Lira incident???
Let us hope not. We should be thinking of ways to pressure our government to make Israel release Jeremy. The evidence that the US cares not a whiff for its citizens, unless it furthers the war machine agenda, is overwhelming.
Precisely, they didn't give a damn about Gonzalo Lira, although he had dual citizenship with Chile, the US was his home base, and he got in the way of the US MIC and its making money.
“The Biden administration accepts that Israel will soon launch a major attack on Iran” - Biden accepts sounds like he’s an innocent bystander instead of a party to these atrocities. Like he’s some kind of victim of all this. What bullshit.
"Today the US State Department did not hold a press briefing, which is understandable. If I were in charge of justifying the behavior of the US government and its allies, I wouldn’t want to face the press today either."
Why?
It would be no more threatening than holding a press briefing for one's own well-fed pet lapdogs, if lapdogs had Twitter bluechecks and press credentials.
The various criminal actions by Israel mentioned today must be seen by all, including the corrupted US politicians, 84%, all currently giving Israel all they need to continue this genocide in Palestine and now expanding it to Lebanon.
But still the demented Biden grovels to Netanyahu's demands.
It is about time that legislation was enacted to stop the corruption of the elections in America, and timely it would be as well, with November issuing in yet another grafted President, the norm in that country now for decades.
While the USA is content to accept what the Jews offer under the auspices of the well organised AIPAC in the way of paid-for candidates, soon another burst to take their seats, so will the US keep supporting the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocents, the latest killings of children by Israel snipers.
Even with the obvious apathy of the Western world leaders, nothing quite like them, sooner or later a leader like Germany, Scholz by name, will see that not even Hitler engaged in this kind of crime. Perhaps he may then wake up to what the world has produced in that stolen land called Israel and with the other tame and corrupted Western "leaders", "pull the plug" on perhaps the grossest set of crimes in memory.
More gross than the Third Reich? Yes, called Netanyahu's IDF, totally US supported and encouraged.
Must make them so proud.
I'm not saying Israel shouldn't be allowed to exist. But Israel certainly cannot be permitted to continue existing as it currently exists.
The ICJ says Israel is an entity built on crimes against humanity. Am not sure why there should be any right of an apartheid genocidal ethno-state to exist in a place with multiple ethnicities.
Problem is that we live in a history-and-fact-free digitally-driven society where the discourse is completely stripped of any grounding in knowledge. Anything you want can be the "truth" if you just lie often and loudly.
BUT: you know why UNRWA exists? Or why the word "refugee camp" is a constant refrain in descriptions of Palestine today? Think about it.
https://www.unrwa.org/who-we-are
"......Following the 1948 War, UNRWA was established by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 302 (IV) of 8 December 1949 to carry out direct relief and works programmes for Palestine refugees....The Agency began operations on 1 May 1950.......In the absence of a solution to the Palestine refugee problem, the General Assembly has repeatedly renewed UNRWA's mandate, most recently extending it until 30 June 2026....UNRWA is unique in terms of its long-standing commitment to one group of refugees. It has contributed to the welfare and human development of four generations of Palestine refugees, defined as “persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 War....When the Agency began operations in 1950, it was responding to the needs of about 750,000 Palestine refugees. Today, some 5.9 million Palestine refugees are eligible for UNRWA services......:"
So, UNWRA exists because...Every single Palestinian who is in a "refugee" camp today, inside Palestine, in Jordan, in Lebanon.....is a STATELESS descendant of people summarily ejected from "Israel", basically living in limbo - for generations in a row.
UNRWA and these refugee camps are the equivalent of an orphanage. Fact.
The Gaza Strip full of refugee camps. Refugees from where? Well....."Israel". Successive waves of people have been ejected there from what is now "Israel". Most of them dont actually hail from that territory - the Israeli's SHOVED them out there.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Gaza-Strip
Do you know that the "West Bank" has many refugee camps contain the rest of the remaining Palestinians that the zionists ejected from what is now "Israel"? And that already, all over the entire West Bank territory the original residents are being steadily ejected from their land and homes and replaced by zionist settlers?
https://peacenow.org.il/en/%D9%8Dsettlements-map-2023
How can anyone say it's a "right" to do that?
Sorry but on the face of those facts, saying Israel has " a right to exist".... is like saying the nazis had a right to exist, and had a right to deport jews to concentration camps, but they just needed a ceasefire to stop killing people in there...although the person saying that was also handing the nazis weapons and gas canisters while "calling for a ceasefire" agains the jewish resistance which the person was calling "terrorists".
Absurd scenario really. But indeed: absurdity is the nature of the fact-free, history-free narrative that western masses are bombarded with daily in the media.
An existential conundrum to say the least.
Israel is out of control, and the USA and its allies continue to support it.
It's disgusting that this genocide and the bombing of Israel's neighbouring countries continues.