Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Israel has not only completely disregarded the orders of the International Court of Justice to cease its assault on Rafah as we expected it to do, but has actually ramped up its ruthlessness as though trying to make a point. There were reportedly
The 'dilemma' as you call it, is believing that one must choose between the two evils who dominate the airwaves and ballot access. Vote for Dr. Jill Stein. You'll feel better after you do. I know I did.
Cornell is a shill for Biden and ask Jimmy Dore and others about his real lack of wanting to win this race! His last speech had maybe 20 people show up! No there is only one hope and that is Dr. Jill Stein! You have to get past the lies about her and her chances because they are scared to death of her! Over 400000 at her speeches! The numbers shown in polls are lies! This is the real problem because at the end of the day they can report who they want as the winner and there won't be any question or if there is it is too late! I believe if Dr. Stein does not win we must take up arms because we will be truly fucked otherwise!
Cornel is a fucking joke running a vanity campaign but doing everything to lose. This asshole exists for one reason, to preach himself into an endorphine high while name dropping REAL black heroes like he has ever done anything to earn a place among their names. He builds up in the tempo as he delivers the same cold leftovers of the Bernie message seasoned with a do-nothing anti-racism rhetoric. Then when hes done building up his dose of chemicals he drops to a whisper when his self medication kicks in and talks like hes delivering some gentle cosmic wisdom on you like a cult leader. Ask him if Biden is a fascist though and watch him squirm to protect his boomer based Democrat gravy train.
Tad harsh on Cornel. If you would listen his message is worth of hearing and following. We sure could use more brotherly love.
Bernie is Bernie he had a great run last election only to end up usurping to the higher power : the DNC. Biden and Trump both can go screaming and kicking into the jaws of hell. The only sane choice is Jill Stein: People...Planet ...and PEACE. We so desperately need more peace thru dialogue and negotiation and not the sword. We must use our words not our fists. Jill is the best of the choices available to us.
I have listened to his message and he has proven is just hot air. He has been asked by many interviewers and shows where he stands on Biden's baltant fascism and he will not do say or do anything that would threaten his cushy dem lifestyle. He has even smeared the black activists of RBN as being on "Jimmy Dores plantation". Cornel just name drops real black leaders while in actuality serving the liberal white moderates that Malcom X and King warned about. That brotherly love he preaches is just to get people back to voting for the Dems. Cornball West is an apt name for this circus clown.
You make him sound like a Democrat loyalist guising as an independent. He was on the Green-Rainbow Party momentarily then (unbenounced to me why) he went independent. Bit ya I agree with you: he's kinda flaky. Jill Stein will be getting my vote.
The unfathomable interest in slaughter the cuckoos salivate, they only see a purge in people to complete their final solution termed to bring on the eagerly awaited beach side properties for the wealthy in Gaza. And the Yankees sending their “Top Brass” to IsraHell eg Mike Pence to pen his name on a missile to be fired on innocent men, women & children is an abomination. Where’s the guillotine?
The guillotine would make things worse not better. Either we can legally and ethically kill the killer when there is no other option to prevent their killing spree otr we an join the spree.
It’s the threat of justice being meted out to those insidious characters, but they will always be protected. The Guillotine is roughly, a way of delivering justice, but the ethics and morals of doing so can be questioned. There’s no ethics, or morals and certainly no legality murdering innocent civilians in Gaza, but it is one that those who perpetrate the crime just don’t give a damn as they are untouchable, at least for now.
It might take a long essay to support the proposition that the murder of bad people is still murder even if it was part of group practicing justified vengeance. But the short answer is still- two wrongs don't make a right.
When we think of 'Our actions' we think of a majority of informed people making a decision to eg support genocide and the murder of innocent children. But these actions are taken by or supported by our leaders. And while we also feel or think that our leaders are elected by us and broadly carry out our wishes and respond to our demands -that is an illusion. Most informed people know that the Americans control our western governments if we are not in America and the group who control us also control the American people. The mind control that the system exerts over us had until recently a control which caused us to believe that if we were criticizing Zionism then we were being anti semitic. Th Jewish State's response to the horrors of October 7 has now loosened that blindfold and we are able to see and know that the Jewish State of Israel is also the Zionist State and its reaction to the limited horrors committed on its citizens have been psychopathic. The Palalistians in the West Bank under zionist control have known the horrors of mass murders committed on them for may decades. Not we as a people or group of peoples are psychopaths but our leaders under he control of the psychopathic Zionist clearly are .
They need controlling and that may well include the need to kill some of their leaders to give us that control. Careful well thought out actions which result in their need to execute some leaders of the Zionists scum is one thing. Killing or allowing the killing of any who you decide is a zionist or a zionist supporter is mob rule.
Oh I agree it has to be a well thought out plan. The only thing is if you leave a cockroach in the wall you will soon have a house full again and these are Zionist very much like cockroaches!
Do not be bereft, be determined, and clever. They are stupefied by their ideology. We, not blinded by religion or ideology, have a clear vision that they must be stopped. Join an encampment near you. Or if there isn't one. Time to start one. Or at least a picket line, poster or petition.
I feel sorry for you, but what else can we expect if the US administration has entirely been hijacked by rabid Zionists and utterly sick-minded billionaires ??? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Your posts are getting harder and harder to read, but I am grateful for them. I am not on X or Facebook or tik-tok or telegram or......Plenty of people send me things from X and tic toc though, and that is enough for me. It is heartbreaking to see our world becoming one huge insane asylum, although I don't think people in insane asylums are so cruel. Really, our world is a horror story. Too bad it's true.
The only way the IDF could do this is they have the same hatred in their hearts for Palestians as Nazi had for Jews. A blind, beyond reason, hatred that knows no bounds. They prove it everyday. There are no boundaries they won’t cross and no court order that will stop them.
>>"How does one hold on to one's own sanity in an insane reality?"
I've been recently trying to figure that one out for myself.... personally, it's been challenging holding on to my sanity... luckily I've found some new (sane) people to associate and interact with (everyone I used to know - including family and old friends - belong to the insane world). It's been depressing... but hopefully not insurmountable.
I think we, each, have to find what works best for us. Caitlin sure helps, and so does seeing all the thoughtful people here, and on the other, good journalists on Substack, Rumble, Patreon, YouTube, and the like. Given how few there were, not that long ago, who had any awareness of the injustice going on in Palestine, and how, now, it has become a major issue for millions, I think we should be heartened by that, even as we retain our outrage at what has brought them to this awareness.
At least seven or eight very large bombs were deliberately dropped on an area where more than 100,000 people are sheltering, mostly in tents. A few days ago the Israeli army instructed people to flee to this “safe area”. Most of those killed or injured were burned alive. What will the world do in response to this horrific, premeditated massacre? The world rings its hands while watching the first live-streamed genocide in history. I am disgusted by the wold.
And all while the people at home thousands of miles away from the slaughter enjoy their Deliveroo take-outs and the latest box set on Netflix for a deep dive, all out purge in front of their high tech smart TVs.
Herd them into kill zones, lure them with food and water. It uses fewer bombs when they can be exterminated en mass. Evil defined! And the US and UK supply the bombs and lures.
Yes indeed (disgusted by the world). In the meantime the 'normal' ones are watching the 'Indie 500' or basket or foot or whatever ball ... (probably we ALL deserve WHAT IS COMING now - and I do not mean this religious craziness these evangelicals have like armageddon or whatever - one of our relatives is going now to jewish prayer groups incl yarmulke ... he will never enter my home again!)
It’s very disconcerting to me. I was one of the fools who assumed Israel fought with honor and on the side of righteousness. They had at least one or both hands tied behind their backs. I now understand that it’s not even close to being the case.
They do all the worst things I assumed of Hamas and Hezbollah. Jesus, the Israelis are making those groups look sane. The tactic they are using is simple in its concept but effective. It’s called scorched earth then throwing salt on it. Nothing like giving a good hard kick to the man who’s down.
It’s a risky “no holds barred” strategy. And They better hope this works. I think it’s failing tho as more people come online as I have. Israel is merely an analogous example of the overall situation. Ukraine is another. Neither scenario gives me much hope for the future. Hope that’s just my paranoid world view kicking in.
Welcome to the bright light of truth. It requires some adjusting to after being in the dark for so long.. and you are not paranoid. The world has gone mad. God help us all..
What perplexes me is - why can't other people wake up and see that the world has gone mad? Why are there so few of us? Being sane (for those that have woken up) in an insane world feels lonely, isolating, disconcerting, and jarring. What is the point of humanity if this is how humans behave?
I think it always was. I've been looking at the propaganda for WW11 with attractive British women working the land and doing their bit to protect a brutal dying Empire against a brutal rising (though unsuccessful) one.
It's just that with social media and access to information from other groups not just our own governments- the insanity and double think is becoming so obvious.
I think a lot of people are waking up. Young people, who unlike most of us on substack haven't grown up with it and had years of brainwashing, can cut through the crap.
"Why are there so few of us?" My first guess would be fear..., the second incredulity, and finally, recognition that the human spirit never did leave the jungles.
Mother Nature will vomit out Homo sapiens like the poison that we are, and our beautiful Earth will be better off for it. Another species will rise to benevolent prominence…elephants? Dolphins? Bees? An intelligent species which will actually benefit this earth.
"So few of us," from your perspective. "So many now know," from mine. I have been aware of the injustice in Palestine since I was 14 years old, when I was basically the only person I knew that had any awareness, or willingness to consider that idea. Now, I'm 79, and we are multitudes. So, seems it depends on whether you are looking through the wrong end of the binoculars at the glass half full/empty.
Jo is right. It’s always been this way. And each generation will have us believe we’re special and superior to those before us because of this new shiny thing we’ve come up with (religion, science, enlightenment, sliced bread, etc.). My father who is still alive and as sharp as a tack has always believed that the fundamental problem lies with homosapiens at a structural level - the we’re-just-born-rotten school of thought and nothing will ever fix it/us. Growing up, I used to always think he’s such a misanthrope but now see his wisdom (he (& I) come from a very turbulent part of the world so the current events happening are par for the course). We’re a very aggressive animal that is capable of holding two contradictory traits that are both fundamental for survival: we are cooperative yet highly antagonistic and aggressive. If we are living in a simulation then our coder overlord is one sick mind.. but we are just a collection of emergent phenomena that have naturally been selected for through the evolutionary process.
This is part of a PLAN that has been made so far back in History that most human beings have difficulty believing that it all part of a MASTER PLAN to subjugate human beings into a cattle class mentality, It gives these people -Psychopaths, a fleeting FEELING of being alive, they are stunted emotionally and using MANIPULATION and CONTROL makes them feel, sort of alive,
They consider themselves ALWAYS RIGHT, they must always WIN, and so much more is part of this Psychopathic profile.
The History is there if you do your research. I started in February 2020 to help a natural health site - voluntary 7 days a week, I do love History. I learnt so much and now a lot of this data is on the Internet.
I found this link on James Roguski's site and have just finished reading it.
Brighteon TV owned by Mike Adams fmr Navy Seal, Scientist, Natural Health proponent and more,.,,,; (START at 4minutes into the Interview - it helps and shows some of the complexitie of some of the History
You wonder WHY throughout History they can keep the hate going.
I believe the point of our efforts can never fully be known in the present moment, or maybe at all. I refuse to entertain the idea that I shouldn't keep trying. I won't accept even the possibility that I didn't do everything I could. And hopefully, others will do the same. Maybe I am counting on the hundredth monkey effect, till we, who believe in freedom, reach critical mass. That means we can't afford to lose a single person.
For me these days is the quote by Rumi: "If all you can do is crawl, then start crawling." So that's what I do when I wake up in this world of ours, I crawl.
Same here. I'd aways given Israel the benefit of a doubt. Boy was I wrong! What bothers me is who will they go after next? Damn, they make Hitler look like a Boy Scout.
According to their eretz Israel (greater Israel) theory they seem to have many targets - Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, parts of Egypt, parts of Turkey, parts of Iran and Iraq.
They need to be stopped and wiped off the map (IMHO) before they try wiping others off the map.
Well they can wish in one hand yada. That little wishlist will get them killed. I can a see a long term goal. But I suspect they have had that same kill list for many.
Sadly the people getting slaughtered are indeed winning the PR battle. I don’t mean to sound callous other than to make a point. In a way they have become sacrificial lambs.
Unfortunately Pain is the greatest of all lessons on experience. The kind that I suspect most of us Westerners are slated to feel.
Americans had best pray that there is no God and that He is not just, for if collective punishment ever were deserved, then America surely is in for a big one.
It’s very surreal isn’t it. I never believed my government capable of such sponsorship. I saw their evil during Covid. Up until then I had thought they were largely benign with maybe our best interests at heart. After all they have to live here too. I have never really liked or trusted the left (Dems) but old fences come down when you realize you have a common enemy. And we most certainly do.
I congratulate you on waking up. Not many people (apparently) are able to. Now comes the hard part - coming to terms with all the cognitive dissonances and fake histories we have been gaslighted to believe over a lifetime...
Thank you, was pretty open it to it. Just needed to understand better how both political parties were on the take. Will still vote R if I do. I feel (guess) like people like me have a much better chance of holding them accountable. It’s the equivalent of throwing a Hail Mary in US Football. You better throw the goddamn ball, nothing to lose.
My mistake was thinking Trump had it in the bag. Again I will vote for him because I am pragmatic NOT an ideologue. But chances are they are all (including him) are on the Zionist take.
Oh I know. I’m not disputing any of it. But I have seen the people I know are evil merge against him. I don’t have the answer for that but my greatest enemies hate him. Not swimming in options at the moment but it’s good enough for me.
I really like Jill. However... RFK Jr., although he's not coming out against Israel's war (which honestly is the red line for me), he's def one that will press for the end of forever war and reign in the deep state. I think he has more of a chance of unseating these bastards than Stein. Of course they could kill him. We've got 5 months, and a lot can change...
Of course he is! He has land development contracts with Netanyahu for the stolen Palestinian land! He gave Netanyahu a penthouse suite in Trump Tower! When it came down to it he gave the money to Israel the day after (April 16th) Iran sent the Zionist filth in Israel a care package of drones and missiles! Then praised traitor Johnson for screwing the border deal!
Luke... The good thing about democracy is that we get to choose leaders, , the bad thing is that democracy reveals those choices. We are minutes away from a nuclear war holocaust.... unfortunately there should be no doubts as to the reasons why.
“We get to choose leaders” That’s a very tricky statement sir. To some degree there’s some truth to it. Particularly at the local level. At the tip top its a shitshow tho. I am NOT say we can’t make a difference. We no doubt have before.
However you do know where we are sir. So many have no clue just how close we are to atomic hellfire engulfing the earth.
Good luck with reconciling that Climate Change assholes.
Of course they did! LBJ was the Mossad agent who did it! He had JFK killed and then let Israel declare war on the US June of 67 attacking the USS Liberty and machine gunning wounded US SAILORS in the water just like their Nazi U-Boat commanders Before Them! LBJ said "I want that ship on the bottom"! These ZioNazi scum own all the politicians! The truly disgusting thing is our tax money pays to have Israel as our government!
"Once the Israelis get addicted to destruction, what’s to stop them? There’s no natural limit. Human society exists everywhere. There are more buildings to bomb, more infrastructure to fracture and bones to grind. Once the appetite is whetted, what can satiate it? Much as someone entranced by his first thrill kill seeks to recreate it in serial fashion, societies that pursue annihilation for annihilation’s sake find that only more will do. They mistake violence for victory."
Thank you it’s an excellent quote. And I probably should have explained better that I really have none. I really fucking don’t man. The activism we see to say is about 20 too late I’m afraid. 😞
I read about a Chinese saying, "The best time to plant a tree, was ten years ago. The next best time is now." There is always an argument that something should have been done at an earlier time and therefore it's too late to do anything now. But, consider why that couldn't have been said 20, or 50 years ago as well. If this is when you have enough information to do something; this is when you do it.
Yes, this is why I am thinking we will have a very uneventful election season (unlike prevailing wisdom). This will be the time to put DT back in without much resistance aside from minor theatrics. Gotta make the proles happy again to join the war machine again. The beast needs fresh meat.
I suspect everything we see now (Trump Trials) are of no danger to him any longer. I also suspect he knows it. I am NOT one of those people who think everything is scripted. Its absolutely not.
However the overarching direction has been laid out. What would you do if you were him? It’s probably NOT a decision you would want to make. I know I wouldn’t. Continue the farce because you have such a huge estate (DT). Or push back on the elites who sow evil on humanity.
For the record I highly suspect option 1. Trying to make it clear, when I say there’s an outside chance I mean it. Somebody made the call to cheat their ass off in 2020 Goddamn it. They threw his ass out of office. I saw the look on his face when he semi conceded couple days after J6. That was the moment I knew he was mortal.
Some of you who read this May roll your eyes. But let me tell you that bastards work ethic has to be mythic. No clue how he does that. The point is “they” made sure he was OUT! And I think TPTB actually want him back in. No need to interfere with the cultural Marxists showing off. At least until Trump gets his ass into a bind haha (think bond):
They risked doing exactly what Caitlin was talking about in her post several days ago. When the masses see things like this they are at risk of waking up. And that is infinitely dangerous to those who prefer otherwise. If the propaganda ever stops working these mother fuckers are fucked!
WTF is wrong with The Atlantic? I mean, beyond the normal neoliberal crap they normally put out... Now they're advocating and covering up for the COLD-BLOODED MURDER OF CHILDREN? Have they no sense of decency? No morals whatsoever? Who the hell came up with the phrase "legally killed child"? I certainly hope that degenerate doesn't have any children or grandchildren or else those kids are in terrible danger. Anyone who can write a PR piece for a genocide committing ethnostate like Israel is already morally suspect, but "legally killing children"? What's next? It's okay to sexually molest little children, too? Is that what they're going for next at The Atlantic? (The article writer must have been a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein and a frequent passenger on the Lolita Express to have such thoughts about children.) The Atlantic is just sick and disgusting. I hope that rag written by and for sociopaths goes bankrupt.
it is in the fine tradition of Madeleine Albright and the Atlantic's very own Jeffrey Goldberg. nothing new, maybe more extreme but not different in kind.
Ah, dear Madeline who was okay with a million dead Iraqis... What a "beautiful" human being she was. I hope she's enjoying her hourly volcanic magma enemas in hell.
The horrors in Sudan aren't being given direct financial, military, diplomatic and media support by the west. We absolutely SHOULD be focusing on the criminality of our own governments instead of shaking our fists at foreigners in the global south whose actions we have no control over.
Caitlin, first, I’m really grateful that you have responded. I am a true appreciator of your writing and I have a great deal of respect and admiration for you. Secondly, I quite agree with your logic. It’s almost overwhelming to try to consistently address the unbelievable criminality of our own governments - and I feel that yours is among the most important and effective voices contributing to this crucial effort. My comments were not a criticism, but a plea and a reflection of personal frustration. Thank you for helping me to see this issue in a context that makes sense to me.
Caitlin, Aren't the horrors of Sudan as much a US/West project as Israel's Gaza war crimes? The African continent is what it is today due to the flow of cause and effect of colonialism. When decolonisation happened (mainly with Soviet moral support) and nationalist leaders came up to build a new Africa, they were eliminated by the West and a virulent neocolonialism took over. Scratch the surface of any 'civil war' raging there and you will find who funds them. Maybe they are not as overtly done as with Israel.
Gaddafi of Libya had visions of a Pan Africa and it was a dangerous concept for the West and he had to go. Who could forget Hilary Clinton's infamous words " we came; we saw; he died".
The middle east and Africa are with absolute certainty in the chaotic and desperate condition they're in because of western imperialism, but I used the word "directly" above because what's being done in Gaza is distinct from civil wars indirectly arising from western destabilization. The US could literally end the Gaza onslaught today if it wanted to; that's how extensive its involvement in sustaining this mass atrocity is. You can't say the same for other conflicts in the world.
Caitlin, Thank you very much for your response - I am very grateful. You have made it abundantly clear the difference between actions taken "directly" and "indirectly", which I should have grasped before rushing to post. Very clumsy of me.
Your Newsletter has long been a "lifeline" where I can find sanity and a world view which I subscribe to. You have made possible a safe place, a crucible, where like minded people ( and not so like minded ) can share lively debate and an exchange of ideas.
Most of all love and thanks for the way you have succeeded in bringing awareness to so many.
It’s a good question. There’s no excuse for the lack of discussion and outrage, and I’m among those who’ve focused exclusively on Gaza. It feels awful in so many ways that so many more people are at risk from famine in Sudan than even in Gaza and it’s getting exactly none of the attention. We need to do some real soul-searching about why that is.
It's the "divide and conquer" tactic of the genocidal maniacs who are ruling the planet for their corporate masters. If we're so overwhelmed with one big tragedy in the world, we can't take in how many others are occurring simultaneously. Our brains just explode with grief. It's why it's high time that the maniacs-in-charge have their brains disconnected from the rest of their bodies so saner people can step up and bring a halt to these unbearable situations.
I am not surprised to see this. Anyone who has ever been up close and personal to radicalized people knows that there is no limit to their cruelty when it comes to ideology. Ancient history is the great storyteller. Think of the Khmer Rouge, the Serbians, the Nazis, the British, French and Dutch in Africa and so many others throughout history. Now we can add the Zionists to this list of pure ideological evil. They will get their punishment at some point down the road but not before they continue their genocide. Will any Palestinians remain in Gaza and the West Bank by the time the rest of the world figures out how to stop them? That is the existential question for the Palestinians who are trapped in the Gaza barrel with the IDF shooting at them with anything they can find. It would appear that Israel has decided that if they are to go down for this, they will take as many Palestinians as they can with them now. They must think they have nothing else to lose.
So, the bigger question for the colonial powers who enabled this, what will it take to make them cry uncle? Where is the limit to the amount of barbarism they will tolerate? Biden once said he had a red line with Rafah. Obviously, his word means nothing now. What about the rest of the world? Where is their red line? Who will dare to risk soldiers lives to try and stop the insanely mad Israelis now? Any takers? Or is the world full of cowards who would watch children get slaughtered on TikTok and Instagram while wringing their hands telling Israel to stop. We already know that Biden and company are a bunch of sniveling cowards but what about the rest?
The Terrorist IDF would shoot them in a heart beat if they believed they were there to stop them from killing babies or if they believed they could get a "false flag" out of the deal. They have killed many Americans already and Israel is at war with the US but the people here don't have a clue! Remember the USS Liberty!
Unfortunately, the Biden Admin wouldn't allow that. Much like what happened to me during the civil war in Lebanon in 1983-1984. We were under orders not to retaliate towards snipers as we were delivering supplies to the American and NATO troops. The navy was allowed to shell Syria to stop the missile batteries but the troops on the ground, not so much. That battalion that is there to build the pier is probably under orders to only defend themselves and U.S. assets only. To bug out if they are overwhelmed by Palestinians. Under no orders will they engage any IDF troops in any way. To do so would warrant a courts marshal offense. From my personal experience, I am willing to bet on that. This is how the U.S. operates and has done so for decades. U.S. troops are only there to further the U.S. colonial needs and nothing more. The minimal aid that those ships will bring to Gaza is only a massive PR campaign for genocide Joe's reelection. Despite that, any aid is better than none. I hope the troops remain for the long haul but I wouldn't depend on that. If Biden or Trump win the election, they very well may be told to come home. Mission accomplished. The pier dismantled or left to any local authorities to manage, as is the usual police for the U.S. As we can see, we know how that will turn out.
my comment was tongue in cheek - of course the US military would never do what I suggested. My point was to expose that by noting just how easy it would be to do the right thing (instead of "A Biden phone call could end this now" meme). And yes, of course the pier was a desperate PR stunt for Biden
Sorry to hear of your military experience - rather shocking that US military leaders allow US troops to be targets of snipers, with no push back. Totally fucked up.
Their excuse and our Rules of Engagement were dictated like this because we were only part of the overall NATO Peacekeeping force deployed to Beirut to bring peace to the city, while Hezbollah and the PLO worked out their differences. What we were really doing was something different that cost the U.S. 240 American lives and then some for nothing.
I was in Karachi Pakistan the day the Embassy was overthrown and the Marines who I had been partying with the night before were all killed. I was a sailor and the very afternoon after my ship left Port that morning this happened and guess what? Jimmy Carter would not allow the embassy guard to have loaded weapons! We were also told we could not fire on anyone like when the Iraqis locked their fire control radar on us (which is an act of war) and to turn tail and run! All that changed when Reagan came to office.
Between what the Europeans did to the native Americans, French and Spanish colonists, slavery was just part and parcel to their ideological plan to subjugate the world in a White, Christian image. That theological plan is still prevalent amongst Christian evangelicals today. My own ancestors were considered as inferior for being Catholic or pagans and were subjugated for over 800 years. Some would say the North of Ireland is still being held down by that theory that Irish Catholics and non-Christians are still inferior to the British protestants.
Holocaust is a relative term that can be used to label multiple points in history, such as what is happening in Gaza right now. Mostly, the labels are put upon events by one group but denied by another. How many high ranking Nazis called the extermination of the Jews a holocaust? Israel is denying they are perpetrating a holocaust now. History will decide once this period of conflict has passed.
Thanks, Caitlin, for reporting the awful truth about Colonial Zionism. a thought randomly came to mind as I read about the Atlantic and similar trash MSM: This emperor has no clothes. It must continue to justify the unjustifiable because to not do so would expose that collective emperor's bare-ass skin for all to see and be revolted. Thank God (where is He?) for alternate-media journalists like Caitlin.
O Palestine, O Palestine ... Viva you, O Palestine: land, people...Hamas and ALL of Palestine!
Aaron Bushnell, my hero: Continue to Rest In Power. Your Power will manifest itself in due course...not fast enough for the babies, children and all living beings in Gaza -- and the equally Illegally Occupied West Bank -- of course....
PUT PAID TO THE SCOURGE OF COLONIAL ZIONISM, ITS EVERY AGENT AND COMPLICIT ACTOR!
We live in a civilization that tolerates that today in the world, according to official data, there are 879 million undernourished people, 1,761 million overweight people, 862 million obese people and that in 2024, in 147 days, they died of hunger 4, 5 million people, 30,667 per day, especially children under five years old. Plus the victims of wars, child labor and deaths at work. This is the (in)civilization we live in!
We are the last of the hominids. The final step of a failed experiment in large brains, unless, we finally figure out how to use this brain for the benefit of all, not just for an imagined us, vs, them.
Yes, the Brits invented the concentration camp in the Boer War, and killed 50-60,000 women and children in them...They pioneered the horrors we are seeing today...
I just checked, yep Jeffrey Goldberg, who only gained this promotion after years of lying about Iraq, is still editor in chief. if you lie long enough, i guess you become editor of the Atlantic.
The only people who can cheerlead this slaughter and make glib excuse for Israel atrocities are those shit-for-human beings who have never experienced war firsthand and are totally lacking any shred of empathy! Load them onto a plane and drop them on Rafah! If that can't be done, rub their noses in a close-up, blown-up photograph of the girl whose "legs were so severely injured that there’s about a three-inch portion of her femur missing, giant necrotic wounds on both of her buttocks and the back of her left thigh. Maggots growing, and it is terrible,” critical care and trauma surgeon Dr. Sidhwa is reported as saying in https://scheerpost.com/2024/05/26/war-surgery-is-not-peace-surgery-an-american-doctor-in-gaza/.
Every day I think it can't get worse. Then it does. And my nation is responsible. I am bereft.
And there’s the dilemma- there is no one to vote for …
The 'dilemma' as you call it, is believing that one must choose between the two evils who dominate the airwaves and ballot access. Vote for Dr. Jill Stein. You'll feel better after you do. I know I did.
Jill Stein or Cornel West.
Jill : the Green-Rain Bow party
Cornel: as an Independent
Let's all focus on one candidate: Jill Stein
Cornell is a shill for Biden and ask Jimmy Dore and others about his real lack of wanting to win this race! His last speech had maybe 20 people show up! No there is only one hope and that is Dr. Jill Stein! You have to get past the lies about her and her chances because they are scared to death of her! Over 400000 at her speeches! The numbers shown in polls are lies! This is the real problem because at the end of the day they can report who they want as the winner and there won't be any question or if there is it is too late! I believe if Dr. Stein does not win we must take up arms because we will be truly fucked otherwise!
Yep
Cornel is a fucking joke running a vanity campaign but doing everything to lose. This asshole exists for one reason, to preach himself into an endorphine high while name dropping REAL black heroes like he has ever done anything to earn a place among their names. He builds up in the tempo as he delivers the same cold leftovers of the Bernie message seasoned with a do-nothing anti-racism rhetoric. Then when hes done building up his dose of chemicals he drops to a whisper when his self medication kicks in and talks like hes delivering some gentle cosmic wisdom on you like a cult leader. Ask him if Biden is a fascist though and watch him squirm to protect his boomer based Democrat gravy train.
Tad harsh on Cornel. If you would listen his message is worth of hearing and following. We sure could use more brotherly love.
Bernie is Bernie he had a great run last election only to end up usurping to the higher power : the DNC. Biden and Trump both can go screaming and kicking into the jaws of hell. The only sane choice is Jill Stein: People...Planet ...and PEACE. We so desperately need more peace thru dialogue and negotiation and not the sword. We must use our words not our fists. Jill is the best of the choices available to us.
Not yelling at you, but I would be yelling it if in person.
I have listened to his message and he has proven is just hot air. He has been asked by many interviewers and shows where he stands on Biden's baltant fascism and he will not do say or do anything that would threaten his cushy dem lifestyle. He has even smeared the black activists of RBN as being on "Jimmy Dores plantation". Cornel just name drops real black leaders while in actuality serving the liberal white moderates that Malcom X and King warned about. That brotherly love he preaches is just to get people back to voting for the Dems. Cornball West is an apt name for this circus clown.
You make him sound like a Democrat loyalist guising as an independent. He was on the Green-Rainbow Party momentarily then (unbenounced to me why) he went independent. Bit ya I agree with you: he's kinda flaky. Jill Stein will be getting my vote.
The unfathomable interest in slaughter the cuckoos salivate, they only see a purge in people to complete their final solution termed to bring on the eagerly awaited beach side properties for the wealthy in Gaza. And the Yankees sending their “Top Brass” to IsraHell eg Mike Pence to pen his name on a missile to be fired on innocent men, women & children is an abomination. Where’s the guillotine?
Hi Rose
I prefer drawing and quartering.
HA!
The guillotine would make things worse not better. Either we can legally and ethically kill the killer when there is no other option to prevent their killing spree otr we an join the spree.
It’s the threat of justice being meted out to those insidious characters, but they will always be protected. The Guillotine is roughly, a way of delivering justice, but the ethics and morals of doing so can be questioned. There’s no ethics, or morals and certainly no legality murdering innocent civilians in Gaza, but it is one that those who perpetrate the crime just don’t give a damn as they are untouchable, at least for now.
It might take a long essay to support the proposition that the murder of bad people is still murder even if it was part of group practicing justified vengeance. But the short answer is still- two wrongs don't make a right.
When we can no longer distinguish our actions from those of our 'enemies,' then we have already lost.
When we think of 'Our actions' we think of a majority of informed people making a decision to eg support genocide and the murder of innocent children. But these actions are taken by or supported by our leaders. And while we also feel or think that our leaders are elected by us and broadly carry out our wishes and respond to our demands -that is an illusion. Most informed people know that the Americans control our western governments if we are not in America and the group who control us also control the American people. The mind control that the system exerts over us had until recently a control which caused us to believe that if we were criticizing Zionism then we were being anti semitic. Th Jewish State's response to the horrors of October 7 has now loosened that blindfold and we are able to see and know that the Jewish State of Israel is also the Zionist State and its reaction to the limited horrors committed on its citizens have been psychopathic. The Palalistians in the West Bank under zionist control have known the horrors of mass murders committed on them for may decades. Not we as a people or group of peoples are psychopaths but our leaders under he control of the psychopathic Zionist clearly are .
Our actions are far worse than our “enemies”. We are the barbarians that we shamelessly project on those we slaughter wholesale.
Get real. That's what got us here! These filthy Zionist Nazi scum need killing just to save the planet.
They need controlling and that may well include the need to kill some of their leaders to give us that control. Careful well thought out actions which result in their need to execute some leaders of the Zionists scum is one thing. Killing or allowing the killing of any who you decide is a zionist or a zionist supporter is mob rule.
Oh I agree it has to be a well thought out plan. The only thing is if you leave a cockroach in the wall you will soon have a house full again and these are Zionist very much like cockroaches!
Too bad. No more fence sitters. Those moralistic excuses always keep the vile in power and we have no more time for it.
{....guillotine...} ????
Too slow for the purpose !!!
Do not be bereft, be determined, and clever. They are stupefied by their ideology. We, not blinded by religion or ideology, have a clear vision that they must be stopped. Join an encampment near you. Or if there isn't one. Time to start one. Or at least a picket line, poster or petition.
Yes, and I'm already doing all that, plus writing blog posts.
I feel sorry for you, but what else can we expect if the US administration has entirely been hijacked by rabid Zionists and utterly sick-minded billionaires ??? 🤔🤔🤔🤔
So am I. I’m tired of my country always siding with and aiding and abetting monsters. 👺
The Atlantic is the worst shitrag of them all.
And this just shocked me. Scary as hell to see this evil incarnate.
Editor in Chief is Jeffery Goldberg, he of the lies that took us into the invasion of Iraq.
Oh, and I forgot to mention, he was also an IDF prison guard. Surely not relevant - much!
the Atlantic is nothing less than zionist propaganda
Your posts are getting harder and harder to read, but I am grateful for them. I am not on X or Facebook or tik-tok or telegram or......Plenty of people send me things from X and tic toc though, and that is enough for me. It is heartbreaking to see our world becoming one huge insane asylum, although I don't think people in insane asylums are so cruel. Really, our world is a horror story. Too bad it's true.
The only way the IDF could do this is they have the same hatred in their hearts for Palestians as Nazi had for Jews. A blind, beyond reason, hatred that knows no bounds. They prove it everyday. There are no boundaries they won’t cross and no court order that will stop them.
Sadly it not just the IDF. Many Israelis also feel the same way. This is wiis driving me anti semitism.
With mandatory service the IDF *is* the Israelis. The entire society, save for a few, is awash in blood. Their depravity is mind-numbing.
have you seen this? The IDF is truly vile. https://youtu.be/c456DgnvCjY?si=kQjIsAanccImpFVI
What a dark world. How does one hold on to one's own sanity in an insane reality? :(
>>"How does one hold on to one's own sanity in an insane reality?"
I've been recently trying to figure that one out for myself.... personally, it's been challenging holding on to my sanity... luckily I've found some new (sane) people to associate and interact with (everyone I used to know - including family and old friends - belong to the insane world). It's been depressing... but hopefully not insurmountable.
I am having this problem too.. I feel I am about to explode!
Agree, Jenny. My poor brain is just unable to contain the horror.
Just been for a long walk with Diego (dog) couldn't cope with all this earlier.
Jenny, I’m glad you’ve something to help your spirits. For me, it’s gardening or drawing.
Good to hear this. No horse yet?
I think we, each, have to find what works best for us. Caitlin sure helps, and so does seeing all the thoughtful people here, and on the other, good journalists on Substack, Rumble, Patreon, YouTube, and the like. Given how few there were, not that long ago, who had any awareness of the injustice going on in Palestine, and how, now, it has become a major issue for millions, I think we should be heartened by that, even as we retain our outrage at what has brought them to this awareness.
I moved out of the USA twenty years ago. And none of my friends is crazy.
If I were a bit younger, I probably would have too.
I was 48. I'd saved my money and was able to retire overseas. It was pretty easy.
The USA is much worse now.
Not our world Susan but a certain portion of it which is ruled by really wicked people who hide behind the camouflage of their legal systems
At least seven or eight very large bombs were deliberately dropped on an area where more than 100,000 people are sheltering, mostly in tents. A few days ago the Israeli army instructed people to flee to this “safe area”. Most of those killed or injured were burned alive. What will the world do in response to this horrific, premeditated massacre? The world rings its hands while watching the first live-streamed genocide in history. I am disgusted by the wold.
And all while the people at home thousands of miles away from the slaughter enjoy their Deliveroo take-outs and the latest box set on Netflix for a deep dive, all out purge in front of their high tech smart TVs.
Herd them into kill zones, lure them with food and water. It uses fewer bombs when they can be exterminated en mass. Evil defined! And the US and UK supply the bombs and lures.
Yes indeed (disgusted by the world). In the meantime the 'normal' ones are watching the 'Indie 500' or basket or foot or whatever ball ... (probably we ALL deserve WHAT IS COMING now - and I do not mean this religious craziness these evangelicals have like armageddon or whatever - one of our relatives is going now to jewish prayer groups incl yarmulke ... he will never enter my home again!)
Israel is bringing a terrible curse upon itself with the murder of babies, children and mothers!
Charles Secor
"Israel is bringing a terrible curse upon itself". I'm very much afraid the curse may not be limited to Israel.
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That’s very true! The United States for supporting it.
Revenge is a dish served cold
And won’t that be on the menu
"the sight of a legally killed child"--
What an abomination of writers and editors, what a reading public, to sanction this!
"legally killed child" will go down in the history of infamy
pyrrhus,
"legally killed child" ????
Almost impossible to comprehend.
let's write it
It’s very disconcerting to me. I was one of the fools who assumed Israel fought with honor and on the side of righteousness. They had at least one or both hands tied behind their backs. I now understand that it’s not even close to being the case.
They do all the worst things I assumed of Hamas and Hezbollah. Jesus, the Israelis are making those groups look sane. The tactic they are using is simple in its concept but effective. It’s called scorched earth then throwing salt on it. Nothing like giving a good hard kick to the man who’s down.
It’s a risky “no holds barred” strategy. And They better hope this works. I think it’s failing tho as more people come online as I have. Israel is merely an analogous example of the overall situation. Ukraine is another. Neither scenario gives me much hope for the future. Hope that’s just my paranoid world view kicking in.
Welcome to the bright light of truth. It requires some adjusting to after being in the dark for so long.. and you are not paranoid. The world has gone mad. God help us all..
>>"The world has gone mad"
What perplexes me is - why can't other people wake up and see that the world has gone mad? Why are there so few of us? Being sane (for those that have woken up) in an insane world feels lonely, isolating, disconcerting, and jarring. What is the point of humanity if this is how humans behave?
I don't think the world has gone mad.
I think it always was. I've been looking at the propaganda for WW11 with attractive British women working the land and doing their bit to protect a brutal dying Empire against a brutal rising (though unsuccessful) one.
It's just that with social media and access to information from other groups not just our own governments- the insanity and double think is becoming so obvious.
I think a lot of people are waking up. Young people, who unlike most of us on substack haven't grown up with it and had years of brainwashing, can cut through the crap.
Chang,
"Why are there so few of us?" My first guess would be fear..., the second incredulity, and finally, recognition that the human spirit never did leave the jungles.
‘The human spirit never did leave the jungle’. So true..
Jungles are better - there is no animal so evil as a human being .
Twenty years ago I met a man who said "I've been in jungle. It's not so bad."
Hi Rukshana
Mother Nature will vomit out Homo sapiens like the poison that we are, and our beautiful Earth will be better off for it. Another species will rise to benevolent prominence…elephants? Dolphins? Bees? An intelligent species which will actually benefit this earth.
"So few of us," from your perspective. "So many now know," from mine. I have been aware of the injustice in Palestine since I was 14 years old, when I was basically the only person I knew that had any awareness, or willingness to consider that idea. Now, I'm 79, and we are multitudes. So, seems it depends on whether you are looking through the wrong end of the binoculars at the glass half full/empty.
Jo is right. It’s always been this way. And each generation will have us believe we’re special and superior to those before us because of this new shiny thing we’ve come up with (religion, science, enlightenment, sliced bread, etc.). My father who is still alive and as sharp as a tack has always believed that the fundamental problem lies with homosapiens at a structural level - the we’re-just-born-rotten school of thought and nothing will ever fix it/us. Growing up, I used to always think he’s such a misanthrope but now see his wisdom (he (& I) come from a very turbulent part of the world so the current events happening are par for the course). We’re a very aggressive animal that is capable of holding two contradictory traits that are both fundamental for survival: we are cooperative yet highly antagonistic and aggressive. If we are living in a simulation then our coder overlord is one sick mind.. but we are just a collection of emergent phenomena that have naturally been selected for through the evolutionary process.
Diana, your father is a wise man.
He is indeed.. a difficult man but very wise.
Diana,
This is part of a PLAN that has been made so far back in History that most human beings have difficulty believing that it all part of a MASTER PLAN to subjugate human beings into a cattle class mentality, It gives these people -Psychopaths, a fleeting FEELING of being alive, they are stunted emotionally and using MANIPULATION and CONTROL makes them feel, sort of alive,
They consider themselves ALWAYS RIGHT, they must always WIN, and so much more is part of this Psychopathic profile.
The History is there if you do your research. I started in February 2020 to help a natural health site - voluntary 7 days a week, I do love History. I learnt so much and now a lot of this data is on the Internet.
I found this link on James Roguski's site and have just finished reading it.
Brighteon TV owned by Mike Adams fmr Navy Seal, Scientist, Natural Health proponent and more,.,,,; (START at 4minutes into the Interview - it helps and shows some of the complexitie of some of the History
You wonder WHY throughout History they can keep the hate going.
https://ia601002.us.archive.org/32/items/ContemporaryHistory/Walter%20White%20-%20The%20Hidden%20Tyranny%20Harold%20Wallace%20Rosenthal.pdf
USA with UK are Imperialist powers and they have their own Histories that partcicular motivations etc.,
This link is to the Brighteon Interview (see above) .
https://www.brighteon.com/d6a36346-70a8-4515-9e20-a864a086a0c6
Humans wonder why I am feral.
😆 don’t blame ya!
Good question Chang. It's easy to slide into a deep despondency. An uneasy feeling, what really is the point of any of this?
I believe the point of our efforts can never fully be known in the present moment, or maybe at all. I refuse to entertain the idea that I shouldn't keep trying. I won't accept even the possibility that I didn't do everything I could. And hopefully, others will do the same. Maybe I am counting on the hundredth monkey effect, till we, who believe in freedom, reach critical mass. That means we can't afford to lose a single person.
Kick that uneasy feeling to the curb!
For me these days is the quote by Rumi: "If all you can do is crawl, then start crawling." So that's what I do when I wake up in this world of ours, I crawl.
No one ever learned to walk or run, who didn't start by crawling! You go, girl!
"A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us."
St. Antony the Great
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Same here. I'd aways given Israel the benefit of a doubt. Boy was I wrong! What bothers me is who will they go after next? Damn, they make Hitler look like a Boy Scout.
>>"...who will they go after next?"
According to their eretz Israel (greater Israel) theory they seem to have many targets - Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, parts of Egypt, parts of Turkey, parts of Iran and Iraq.
They need to be stopped and wiped off the map (IMHO) before they try wiping others off the map.
Well they can wish in one hand yada. That little wishlist will get them killed. I can a see a long term goal. But I suspect they have had that same kill list for many.
Sadly the people getting slaughtered are indeed winning the PR battle. I don’t mean to sound callous other than to make a point. In a way they have become sacrificial lambs.
Unfortunately Pain is the greatest of all lessons on experience. The kind that I suspect most of us Westerners are slated to feel.
Americans had best pray that there is no God and that He is not just, for if collective punishment ever were deserved, then America surely is in for a big one.
in the end, they will try to completely take over the US. that is how Manifest Destinies work.
Hi pretzel. I think they already have taken over.
Looks to me they already have.
They're well on their way.
It’s very surreal isn’t it. I never believed my government capable of such sponsorship. I saw their evil during Covid. Up until then I had thought they were largely benign with maybe our best interests at heart. After all they have to live here too. I have never really liked or trusted the left (Dems) but old fences come down when you realize you have a common enemy. And we most certainly do.
I congratulate you on waking up. Not many people (apparently) are able to. Now comes the hard part - coming to terms with all the cognitive dissonances and fake histories we have been gaslighted to believe over a lifetime...
Thank you, was pretty open it to it. Just needed to understand better how both political parties were on the take. Will still vote R if I do. I feel (guess) like people like me have a much better chance of holding them accountable. It’s the equivalent of throwing a Hail Mary in US Football. You better throw the goddamn ball, nothing to lose.
My mistake was thinking Trump had it in the bag. Again I will vote for him because I am pragmatic NOT an ideologue. But chances are they are all (including him) are on the Zionist take.
it is a certainty. look at his pronouncements, look how slavishly he kisses Israel's ass.
Oh I know. I’m not disputing any of it. But I have seen the people I know are evil merge against him. I don’t have the answer for that but my greatest enemies hate him. Not swimming in options at the moment but it’s good enough for me.
There is Jill Stein.
I really like Jill. However... RFK Jr., although he's not coming out against Israel's war (which honestly is the red line for me), he's def one that will press for the end of forever war and reign in the deep state. I think he has more of a chance of unseating these bastards than Stein. Of course they could kill him. We've got 5 months, and a lot can change...
Dr Jill Stein is a humane alternative to the genocide-supporting T & B.
Of course he is! He has land development contracts with Netanyahu for the stolen Palestinian land! He gave Netanyahu a penthouse suite in Trump Tower! When it came down to it he gave the money to Israel the day after (April 16th) Iran sent the Zionist filth in Israel a care package of drones and missiles! Then praised traitor Johnson for screwing the border deal!
Luke... The good thing about democracy is that we get to choose leaders, , the bad thing is that democracy reveals those choices. We are minutes away from a nuclear war holocaust.... unfortunately there should be no doubts as to the reasons why.
“We get to choose leaders” That’s a very tricky statement sir. To some degree there’s some truth to it. Particularly at the local level. At the tip top its a shitshow tho. I am NOT say we can’t make a difference. We no doubt have before.
However you do know where we are sir. So many have no clue just how close we are to atomic hellfire engulfing the earth.
Good luck with reconciling that Climate Change assholes.
There's even the possibility that they arranged JFK's assassination.
Of course they did! LBJ was the Mossad agent who did it! He had JFK killed and then let Israel declare war on the US June of 67 attacking the USS Liberty and machine gunning wounded US SAILORS in the water just like their Nazi U-Boat commanders Before Them! LBJ said "I want that ship on the bottom"! These ZioNazi scum own all the politicians! The truly disgusting thing is our tax money pays to have Israel as our government!
i truly believe they were behind it jack ruby was indeed jewish
There is clearly nothing they wouldn't do.
"Once the Israelis get addicted to destruction, what’s to stop them? There’s no natural limit. Human society exists everywhere. There are more buildings to bomb, more infrastructure to fracture and bones to grind. Once the appetite is whetted, what can satiate it? Much as someone entranced by his first thrill kill seeks to recreate it in serial fashion, societies that pursue annihilation for annihilation’s sake find that only more will do. They mistake violence for victory."
https://novapsyche.substack.com/p/chasing-godzilla
Luke, someone said "he who lives on hope, dies of starvation". I've no idea who that was, I don't remember where I heard it.
Thank you it’s an excellent quote. And I probably should have explained better that I really have none. I really fucking don’t man. The activism we see to say is about 20 too late I’m afraid. 😞
I read about a Chinese saying, "The best time to plant a tree, was ten years ago. The next best time is now." There is always an argument that something should have been done at an earlier time and therefore it's too late to do anything now. But, consider why that couldn't have been said 20, or 50 years ago as well. If this is when you have enough information to do something; this is when you do it.
Good that you got wise.
Too many just keep doubling down.
And the powers that be are very busy trying to suppress what’s going on and sway us back to putting our blinders on
Yes, this is why I am thinking we will have a very uneventful election season (unlike prevailing wisdom). This will be the time to put DT back in without much resistance aside from minor theatrics. Gotta make the proles happy again to join the war machine again. The beast needs fresh meat.
I suspect everything we see now (Trump Trials) are of no danger to him any longer. I also suspect he knows it. I am NOT one of those people who think everything is scripted. Its absolutely not.
However the overarching direction has been laid out. What would you do if you were him? It’s probably NOT a decision you would want to make. I know I wouldn’t. Continue the farce because you have such a huge estate (DT). Or push back on the elites who sow evil on humanity.
For the record I highly suspect option 1. Trying to make it clear, when I say there’s an outside chance I mean it. Somebody made the call to cheat their ass off in 2020 Goddamn it. They threw his ass out of office. I saw the look on his face when he semi conceded couple days after J6. That was the moment I knew he was mortal.
Some of you who read this May roll your eyes. But let me tell you that bastards work ethic has to be mythic. No clue how he does that. The point is “they” made sure he was OUT! And I think TPTB actually want him back in. No need to interfere with the cultural Marxists showing off. At least until Trump gets his ass into a bind haha (think bond):
They risked doing exactly what Caitlin was talking about in her post several days ago. When the masses see things like this they are at risk of waking up. And that is infinitely dangerous to those who prefer otherwise. If the propaganda ever stops working these mother fuckers are fucked!
Stop the graft. Stop the killing. Vote Dr. Jill Stein for President.
If waking up means voting for the great charlatan/grifter, we truly have gone through the looking-glass.
WTF is wrong with The Atlantic? I mean, beyond the normal neoliberal crap they normally put out... Now they're advocating and covering up for the COLD-BLOODED MURDER OF CHILDREN? Have they no sense of decency? No morals whatsoever? Who the hell came up with the phrase "legally killed child"? I certainly hope that degenerate doesn't have any children or grandchildren or else those kids are in terrible danger. Anyone who can write a PR piece for a genocide committing ethnostate like Israel is already morally suspect, but "legally killing children"? What's next? It's okay to sexually molest little children, too? Is that what they're going for next at The Atlantic? (The article writer must have been a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein and a frequent passenger on the Lolita Express to have such thoughts about children.) The Atlantic is just sick and disgusting. I hope that rag written by and for sociopaths goes bankrupt.
it is in the fine tradition of Madeleine Albright and the Atlantic's very own Jeffrey Goldberg. nothing new, maybe more extreme but not different in kind.
Ah, dear Madeline who was okay with a million dead Iraqis... What a "beautiful" human being she was. I hope she's enjoying her hourly volcanic magma enemas in hell.
yes, it was "worth it".
JUST GRUESOME, GRISLY.....GHASTLY!!! This is HELL on EARTH.
I have also been wanting to ask: Where is the concern, the outrage, for the famine and suffering in SUDAN? Is there not enough empathy to go around???
The horrors in Sudan aren't being given direct financial, military, diplomatic and media support by the west. We absolutely SHOULD be focusing on the criminality of our own governments instead of shaking our fists at foreigners in the global south whose actions we have no control over.
Caitlin, first, I’m really grateful that you have responded. I am a true appreciator of your writing and I have a great deal of respect and admiration for you. Secondly, I quite agree with your logic. It’s almost overwhelming to try to consistently address the unbelievable criminality of our own governments - and I feel that yours is among the most important and effective voices contributing to this crucial effort. My comments were not a criticism, but a plea and a reflection of personal frustration. Thank you for helping me to see this issue in a context that makes sense to me.
Leon, let’s toss Congo and Haiti in there as well.
Unfortunate but truthful: the darker the skin, the less Amerikkka gives a flying fuck. I do not identify as white, btw.
You speak the truth, gypsy33.
Caitlin, Aren't the horrors of Sudan as much a US/West project as Israel's Gaza war crimes? The African continent is what it is today due to the flow of cause and effect of colonialism. When decolonisation happened (mainly with Soviet moral support) and nationalist leaders came up to build a new Africa, they were eliminated by the West and a virulent neocolonialism took over. Scratch the surface of any 'civil war' raging there and you will find who funds them. Maybe they are not as overtly done as with Israel.
Gaddafi of Libya had visions of a Pan Africa and it was a dangerous concept for the West and he had to go. Who could forget Hilary Clinton's infamous words " we came; we saw; he died".
The middle east and Africa are with absolute certainty in the chaotic and desperate condition they're in because of western imperialism, but I used the word "directly" above because what's being done in Gaza is distinct from civil wars indirectly arising from western destabilization. The US could literally end the Gaza onslaught today if it wanted to; that's how extensive its involvement in sustaining this mass atrocity is. You can't say the same for other conflicts in the world.
Caitlin, Thank you very much for your response - I am very grateful. You have made it abundantly clear the difference between actions taken "directly" and "indirectly", which I should have grasped before rushing to post. Very clumsy of me.
Your Newsletter has long been a "lifeline" where I can find sanity and a world view which I subscribe to. You have made possible a safe place, a crucible, where like minded people ( and not so like minded ) can share lively debate and an exchange of ideas.
Most of all love and thanks for the way you have succeeded in bringing awareness to so many.
what about the attempted coup in Africa by american mercenaries?
It’s a good question. There’s no excuse for the lack of discussion and outrage, and I’m among those who’ve focused exclusively on Gaza. It feels awful in so many ways that so many more people are at risk from famine in Sudan than even in Gaza and it’s getting exactly none of the attention. We need to do some real soul-searching about why that is.
I appreciate that comment sincerely.
It's the "divide and conquer" tactic of the genocidal maniacs who are ruling the planet for their corporate masters. If we're so overwhelmed with one big tragedy in the world, we can't take in how many others are occurring simultaneously. Our brains just explode with grief. It's why it's high time that the maniacs-in-charge have their brains disconnected from the rest of their bodies so saner people can step up and bring a halt to these unbearable situations.
Well said!
Hear! Hear!
I am not surprised to see this. Anyone who has ever been up close and personal to radicalized people knows that there is no limit to their cruelty when it comes to ideology. Ancient history is the great storyteller. Think of the Khmer Rouge, the Serbians, the Nazis, the British, French and Dutch in Africa and so many others throughout history. Now we can add the Zionists to this list of pure ideological evil. They will get their punishment at some point down the road but not before they continue their genocide. Will any Palestinians remain in Gaza and the West Bank by the time the rest of the world figures out how to stop them? That is the existential question for the Palestinians who are trapped in the Gaza barrel with the IDF shooting at them with anything they can find. It would appear that Israel has decided that if they are to go down for this, they will take as many Palestinians as they can with them now. They must think they have nothing else to lose.
So, the bigger question for the colonial powers who enabled this, what will it take to make them cry uncle? Where is the limit to the amount of barbarism they will tolerate? Biden once said he had a red line with Rafah. Obviously, his word means nothing now. What about the rest of the world? Where is their red line? Who will dare to risk soldiers lives to try and stop the insanely mad Israelis now? Any takers? Or is the world full of cowards who would watch children get slaughtered on TikTok and Instagram while wringing their hands telling Israel to stop. We already know that Biden and company are a bunch of sniveling cowards but what about the rest?
There are US boots on the ground in Gaza where the pier washed up. They could march to Rafah in one day and dare IDF to fire on them.
The Terrorist IDF would shoot them in a heart beat if they believed they were there to stop them from killing babies or if they believed they could get a "false flag" out of the deal. They have killed many Americans already and Israel is at war with the US but the people here don't have a clue! Remember the USS Liberty!
Unfortunately, the Biden Admin wouldn't allow that. Much like what happened to me during the civil war in Lebanon in 1983-1984. We were under orders not to retaliate towards snipers as we were delivering supplies to the American and NATO troops. The navy was allowed to shell Syria to stop the missile batteries but the troops on the ground, not so much. That battalion that is there to build the pier is probably under orders to only defend themselves and U.S. assets only. To bug out if they are overwhelmed by Palestinians. Under no orders will they engage any IDF troops in any way. To do so would warrant a courts marshal offense. From my personal experience, I am willing to bet on that. This is how the U.S. operates and has done so for decades. U.S. troops are only there to further the U.S. colonial needs and nothing more. The minimal aid that those ships will bring to Gaza is only a massive PR campaign for genocide Joe's reelection. Despite that, any aid is better than none. I hope the troops remain for the long haul but I wouldn't depend on that. If Biden or Trump win the election, they very well may be told to come home. Mission accomplished. The pier dismantled or left to any local authorities to manage, as is the usual police for the U.S. As we can see, we know how that will turn out.
my comment was tongue in cheek - of course the US military would never do what I suggested. My point was to expose that by noting just how easy it would be to do the right thing (instead of "A Biden phone call could end this now" meme). And yes, of course the pier was a desperate PR stunt for Biden
Sorry to hear of your military experience - rather shocking that US military leaders allow US troops to be targets of snipers, with no push back. Totally fucked up.
Their excuse and our Rules of Engagement were dictated like this because we were only part of the overall NATO Peacekeeping force deployed to Beirut to bring peace to the city, while Hezbollah and the PLO worked out their differences. What we were really doing was something different that cost the U.S. 240 American lives and then some for nothing.
That joke of a "pier" is to be controlled by BlackWater! The contract is already written.
I am not surprised to hear that. I wonder how many millions that contract will cost the U.S. taxpayers?
I was in Karachi Pakistan the day the Embassy was overthrown and the Marines who I had been partying with the night before were all killed. I was a sailor and the very afternoon after my ship left Port that morning this happened and guess what? Jimmy Carter would not allow the embassy guard to have loaded weapons! We were also told we could not fire on anyone like when the Iraqis locked their fire control radar on us (which is an act of war) and to turn tail and run! All that changed when Reagan came to office.
Hi Terrance
Don’t forget the Amerikkkans who thought that it was their privilege to OWN people and provide them with free labor.
“Holocaust”… the REAL holocaust was the slave trade.
Between what the Europeans did to the native Americans, French and Spanish colonists, slavery was just part and parcel to their ideological plan to subjugate the world in a White, Christian image. That theological plan is still prevalent amongst Christian evangelicals today. My own ancestors were considered as inferior for being Catholic or pagans and were subjugated for over 800 years. Some would say the North of Ireland is still being held down by that theory that Irish Catholics and non-Christians are still inferior to the British protestants.
Holocaust is a relative term that can be used to label multiple points in history, such as what is happening in Gaza right now. Mostly, the labels are put upon events by one group but denied by another. How many high ranking Nazis called the extermination of the Jews a holocaust? Israel is denying they are perpetrating a holocaust now. History will decide once this period of conflict has passed.
Thanks, Caitlin, for reporting the awful truth about Colonial Zionism. a thought randomly came to mind as I read about the Atlantic and similar trash MSM: This emperor has no clothes. It must continue to justify the unjustifiable because to not do so would expose that collective emperor's bare-ass skin for all to see and be revolted. Thank God (where is He?) for alternate-media journalists like Caitlin.
O Palestine, O Palestine ... Viva you, O Palestine: land, people...Hamas and ALL of Palestine!
Aaron Bushnell, my hero: Continue to Rest In Power. Your Power will manifest itself in due course...not fast enough for the babies, children and all living beings in Gaza -- and the equally Illegally Occupied West Bank -- of course....
PUT PAID TO THE SCOURGE OF COLONIAL ZIONISM, ITS EVERY AGENT AND COMPLICIT ACTOR!
We live in a civilization that tolerates that today in the world, according to official data, there are 879 million undernourished people, 1,761 million overweight people, 862 million obese people and that in 2024, in 147 days, they died of hunger 4, 5 million people, 30,667 per day, especially children under five years old. Plus the victims of wars, child labor and deaths at work. This is the (in)civilization we live in!
"What kind of species are we?" Noam Chomsky
We are the last of the hominids. The final step of a failed experiment in large brains, unless, we finally figure out how to use this brain for the benefit of all, not just for an imagined us, vs, them.
It was ALWAYS insane, Caitlin.
Pehaps the true Western behavior under 'colonialism' isn't well known.
Lets just say the German Nazis in WW2 were no aberration, as they have been painted since.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtBKDMN2U4s
Yes, the Brits invented the concentration camp in the Boer War, and killed 50-60,000 women and children in them...They pioneered the horrors we are seeing today...
they got the idea partly from US reservations iirc.
Yeah, it never ceases to amaze me how people think this is something new. Like everything starts with their having woken up.
That YouTube was difficult
<3 Yes.
I just checked, yep Jeffrey Goldberg, who only gained this promotion after years of lying about Iraq, is still editor in chief. if you lie long enough, i guess you become editor of the Atlantic.
The only people who can cheerlead this slaughter and make glib excuse for Israel atrocities are those shit-for-human beings who have never experienced war firsthand and are totally lacking any shred of empathy! Load them onto a plane and drop them on Rafah! If that can't be done, rub their noses in a close-up, blown-up photograph of the girl whose "legs were so severely injured that there’s about a three-inch portion of her femur missing, giant necrotic wounds on both of her buttocks and the back of her left thigh. Maggots growing, and it is terrible,” critical care and trauma surgeon Dr. Sidhwa is reported as saying in https://scheerpost.com/2024/05/26/war-surgery-is-not-peace-surgery-an-american-doctor-in-gaza/.
"Load them onto a plane and drop them on the frontlines!". Preferably from 20,000 ft, without a parachute.