Didn't Malcolm X say something to the effect that if you read enough mainstream media, you'll get confused as to who is the perpetrator and who is the victim?
The individual intercepting the 5.56 jhp round became deceased! Was the footage ON Comcast, Disney & Viacom, with that bullshit, Israeli lie (as IDF were fragging press at their daily Al-Aqsa Mosque rampage). I'm guessing, Israelis intend to escape to Manhattan's UWS?
Yes, yes, those mourners are dangerous. Beat them mercilessly. The US seems to have unlimited capacity to prop up regimes at odds with their stated values. Can anyone explain why the US gives Israel money while Israelis outlive them by several years and the US leads the Western world in poverty especially child poverty - see UN rankings?
I went as far back as Nixon. The ones that I remember started with Johnson; remembering, of course, that the CIA took out Kennedy. I was 9 for that one. 4th grade. I saw the patsy, Oswald, get shot on live TV.
Why engage with a lazy liar of a bear, one that can't draw the simplest of abstractions as you clearly intended, wants facts it will ignore when presented, is too lazy to look up facts itself so lies, and hardly exerts the effort to bring either lies or facts to the table, just opines like the passing of gas.
Rigged elections are still the fault of the populace, at least according to USA sanctions program aimed at starving people for not voting the way the congress critter's paymasters want. American's happiness, the crap they buy cheap in Walmart, depends on Empire. American's keep their eyes closed in the voting booth, until like the proverbial frog they too are cooked.
The truth has become anti-semitic. We must be close to a Spartacus moment. They called Winston Mandela and Desmond Tutu anti-semitic because they called out Israel’s apartheid and tried to promote peace and decency.
Assisting Israel to plan their Iran attack, allocating some of their nuclear bombs to Zelensky, collecting from the the faithful to bribe politicians and working out how many journalists they can kill in the USA and get away with it.
Mind you, outside of CNN and UNZ Report, Philip Giraldi and the like, they have all been muzzled under threat of the sack.
"'The Squad' isn't a political faction, it's a soundtrack to an empire." Beautifully expressed, thank you. I might add that that the soundtrack emerges from a culture whose speakers have torn cones and provide a background buzz that degrades other ambient sounds such as those of the singing of birds and the breeze gently rustling aspen leaves. Let us never forget that this "God-given right to control everything that happens in the world" is underpinned by the same basic attitude toward Nature — a hubris of monumental proportions that a 200K-year-old smart ape with manual dexterity can baldfacedly pronounce its superiority (and its right to violate) three-billion year old cybernetic complex adaptive systems. Until or unless that natural magnificent intelligence becomes deeply appreciated by a far larger fraction of our insane species, that biblical stupidity of degrading the biosphere will continue to fuel the "control everything" approach.
By tacit agreement, since 1945, due to the horrors exacted on Europe's Jewish population during World War II, Isreal's behavior toward its Arab neighbors has been off-limits in the US media: shame!
Do be cautious when commenting on the most protected species on Earth, the Chosenites, those who can not be questioned, the parasites who can't be criticized or in some countries, you may go to jail on special anti-whatchamacall-it charges. Re: Ursula Haverbeck
Even if they do own the media, Hollywood and Washington, D.C. they are not "in power", we the people are, and it is our duty to be blind to our overlords, you see.
With the greatest respect, a little more than a "PR problem".
I am pleased that Caitlin has directed her powerful pen to the subject of Palestine, following a video of their actions at a funeral.
Palestine, inhumanely occupied by Israel, a country that controls up to 80% of the US politicians through media control and political funding, a country driven by "an Israel fantasy called Eretz Israel", the ownership and control of lands between the Euphrates and the Nile, meaning all of Palestine and Lebanon and Jordan, parts of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria and Egypt.
With the exclusion of the current US proxy war in Ukraine, where are all the problems in the world today?
In the Middle East, as above, the US having made its contribution to the sponsored crimes in Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan by supporting Israel for 55 years with Iran as the next proposed target. A little history…..
On June 8, 1967, 34 American servicemen were killed and 174 were wounded during an Israeli attack on the USS Liberty. According to former US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Thomas Moore, “Those men were then betrayed and left to die by our own government.” The survivors are still awaiting justice.
From that day on, Israel has owned the USA in every possible way. Just before that, in 1963. John Kennedy was assassinated, coincidentally after he proposed to investigate Israel's Nuclear facility in Dimona. The incoming President of the US, Johnson, cancelled that idea entirely, the same President who called back US fighter aircraft from saving the same USS Liberty, as mentioned above, from protecting the US vessel. Add them all up.
Israel’s daily activities against Palestinians is to seize lands, demolish Palestinian homes, the murder of women and the imprisonment of children, restricting medicines, foodstuffs, freedoms, water, electricity, every day of every week. Search it out, independent of the corrupted media, mainly owned by Israel or Israeli connected shareholdings. A fact.
Palestine is a country inhumanely occupied by Israeiis, the same Israelis having just shot a woman journalist, the subject of this article today.
I respectfully have to ask….what’s new? This is a daily occurrence following on from a history of Israeli massacres and the bombing of Palestinian people over decades.
Seventy long years, watched over by a feeble United Nations which has done nothing but submit to the pressures of the USA and its blatant support for all things Israel. The world tolerated apartheid in South Africa until 1994 but has allowed this crime to be almost scrubbed from the minds of all people, still rampant and very real in 2022. SHAME ON ALL.
Are you sure you devote same amount of resources to studying Israeli-Palestinian conflict as to American Empire shenanigans? Because you sound like echo-chambering and citing the very same MSM outlets you shit on in your other articles.
Remove US from the picture and you'll see how Israel-Palestine has a lot similarities with Russia-Ukraine, respectively. If Israel leaves Palestine, the next day Iran will be there with its missiles and decades-long official cries for death to jews. If it's not obvious, this is yet another proxy war. And Israel has no Siberia to retreat to, all it has is 100km wide stripe of soil between Palestine and Mediterranean Sea. This IS survival issue.
And reporters in war zones know the risk and take it willingly.
Last week—the same day Israeli forces shot and killed journalist Shireen Abu Aqla—an Israeli soldier shot and killed 16-year-old Thaer Khalil Mohammad Maslat with live ammunition in the occupied West Bank city of Al-Bireh. Thaer was watching confrontations between Israeli forces and Palestinian youth 200 yards away just after leaving school for the day, a few hundred meters away. Thaer did not pose any threat to Israeli forces when he was shot dead.
So, the emphasis over the past week may have been on the death of a journalist, but there are Palestinian deaths every day of every week by mindless murdering apartheid Israelis, supported by the good old US Congress....all the way. Such is the power of the Israeli Shekel in Washington.
So try to be alarmed, very alarmed. This has been going on for 55 years with not a squeak from the well greased political palms in Washington.
I wish I'd thought to say this sooner, but better late than never.
For years, I wondered why the Israeli government thought that "We had to blow up that hospital because terrorists were in there. It's a shame about all those civilians, but that's on Hamas for being in the hospital. What were we supposed to do, NOT bomb it?" was an acceptable excuse. An excuse that would make everybody not getting paid by the Israel lobby and/or not propagandized to be pro-Israel from birth to go "Oh, well, that's all right then."
I suppose I finally have an answer: they've been taught their entire lives that Palestinians are inferior, not worth worrying about, and they stupidly assumed that the rest of the world would feel the same way.
By the way, this is one thing that bothers me about certain people's takes on Ukraine. I won't name names, but one guy's retort to the statement "Russia is bombing hospitals" is "Yeah, because Azov Battalion guys are in there."
Huh? This very same person, and everyone far enough left to have a problem with Israel's M.O., would say that Israel bombing hospitals in Gaza was inexcusable because it would kill civilians along with combatants. I agree. But somehow, bombing hospitals that have bad guys in them becomes acceptable when Russia does it?
Bombing hospitals containing civilians is either never acceptable, or it's always acceptable. Pick one and apply that standard consistently, FFS.
I don't know someone on my Facebook put up that video about the funeral and many (I assume trolls, either paid or idiots) jumped to argue that maybe there wasn't a body in the casket or the Palestinians should not have had the funeral at that time and the IDF was justified.
One of the reasons Israel is reluctant to condemn Putin's Russia for its invasion of Ukraine is precisely because it opens the door and sets a precedent for the opposite considering Putin's notion of Ukraine and Ukrainians is very much the same notion Israel has of Palestine and Palestinians. Putin claims Ukraine isn't really a nation and Ukrainians aren't really a people. The only difference I see is, the Israelis view Palestinians as subhuman or another species entirely much as their Nazi mentors viewed Jews and Stalin had no problem with that apparently. When you view something as not existing or rightfully as your own, well, you don't have to respect its wishes if its notion differs from your notion, do you?
Concerning the faux kerfuffle that spawned Lavrov's remarks, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Putin called and apologized. Putin sucking Israeli ass. Too funny. LIke Stalin with Hitler before Hitler betrayed him.
As far as I'm concerned, Putin's Russia can take America's place as Israel's bitch and Putin can bequeath Israel with billions a year to level Palestine and wreck havoc in the Middle East.
(I'm not the personality type to lead one myself, but I'm willing (and have some skills) to help organize it and am ready to march (peacefully) in the streets.)
we need an understanding a movement to spread through the mothers of the world, now that the world has gotten small enough and interconnected enough that any one mother can talk to any other mother in the whole massive world.
And that understanding should be to teach their children, prepare them, long before adulthood, that turning on their own 'brothers and sister', i.e. the other people of the world, is wrong.
That wars in which the people fight each other for the benefit not of the people but of the twisted 'leader' are stupid and wrong.
Putin should have found it impossible to find soldiers that would invade Ukraine.
But easy to find soldiers who would walk to the Donbas and protect it against Ukrainian aggression.
And the Ukrainians should have found it impossible to find those who would attack the Donbas for months and months and years.
Aggressors should be hard to find.
Every 'follower' when instructed to attack another 'follower' should turn his eyes away from the 'leader' exhorting this behaviour, demanding it, and look at the fellow follower he's instructed to harm and consider if there's a need for this at all... does it really achieve anything, will it help, is this other really a present danger a threat.
The word for all that is 'peace', I think, isn't it?
Intelligent peace. An idea and a desire for peace and an understanding of how it is achieved in the world and the way in the world that it is destroyed by the manipulations and motivations and self interests of the manipulators.
I don't think this is a subject tackled in primary schools nor secondary schools, nor colleges nor universities.
The individuals human's responsibility to avoid aggressive behaviour and to always understand what's going on in combative situations.
It calls for a raising of consciousness. Being aware of something beyond the family, beyond the tribe, beyond the nation, beyond the group of nations - an awareness that we, the people, are all one, all just looking to live happy and good lives. All with an awesome power to do harm which it is our duty to control throughout our lives.
That is is wrong to voluntarily abdicate humanity and choose to be a 'functionary' of the government, like a robot, without personal volition, sworn, committed to do as directed and with no power to no do.
'Just doing my job' is the pitiful weasel excuse of a voluntary 'non human' seeking to avoid the responsibilities of humanity, of being part of the human race, and seeking to hide under the cover of 'must obey'. A voluntary declaration of inhumanity in favour of roboticism.
We need the mothers to sing the mantra of humanity to their children all the time, the whole adult mantra involving consciousness of responsibilities.
We need the mothers to grow up and then grow their children up.
Note the use of the passive voice and similar constructions.
"A journalist was killed..."
"Violence erupted..."
As if these things all just fell out of the sky.
The perpetrators are victims, dontcha see? Things happen TO them.
Didn't Malcolm X say something to the effect that if you read enough mainstream media, you'll get confused as to who is the perpetrator and who is the victim?
The individual intercepting the 5.56 jhp round became deceased! Was the footage ON Comcast, Disney & Viacom, with that bullshit, Israeli lie (as IDF were fragging press at their daily Al-Aqsa Mosque rampage). I'm guessing, Israelis intend to escape to Manhattan's UWS?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1e_dbsVQrk4
Yes, yes, those mourners are dangerous. Beat them mercilessly. The US seems to have unlimited capacity to prop up regimes at odds with their stated values. Can anyone explain why the US gives Israel money while Israelis outlive them by several years and the US leads the Western world in poverty especially child poverty - see UN rankings?
Because the US electorate let them.
Get out of here with that "Trump won the election" garbage.
I went as far back as Nixon. The ones that I remember started with Johnson; remembering, of course, that the CIA took out Kennedy. I was 9 for that one. 4th grade. I saw the patsy, Oswald, get shot on live TV.
Why engage with a lazy liar of a bear, one that can't draw the simplest of abstractions as you clearly intended, wants facts it will ignore when presented, is too lazy to look up facts itself so lies, and hardly exerts the effort to bring either lies or facts to the table, just opines like the passing of gas.
So Trump's win was rigged?
Rigged elections are still the fault of the populace, at least according to USA sanctions program aimed at starving people for not voting the way the congress critter's paymasters want. American's happiness, the crap they buy cheap in Walmart, depends on Empire. American's keep their eyes closed in the voting booth, until like the proverbial frog they too are cooked.
Yeah, Nixon was doing it back in 'the day'.
the population is under the threat of criminalization of dissent and critique. the punishment is lethal, often.
The truth has become anti-semitic. We must be close to a Spartacus moment. They called Winston Mandela and Desmond Tutu anti-semitic because they called out Israel’s apartheid and tried to promote peace and decency.
I think you mean Nelson Churchill, don't you?
Very quiet, John.
Assisting Israel to plan their Iran attack, allocating some of their nuclear bombs to Zelensky, collecting from the the faithful to bribe politicians and working out how many journalists they can kill in the USA and get away with it.
Mind you, outside of CNN and UNZ Report, Philip Giraldi and the like, they have all been muzzled under threat of the sack.
"'The Squad' isn't a political faction, it's a soundtrack to an empire." Beautifully expressed, thank you. I might add that that the soundtrack emerges from a culture whose speakers have torn cones and provide a background buzz that degrades other ambient sounds such as those of the singing of birds and the breeze gently rustling aspen leaves. Let us never forget that this "God-given right to control everything that happens in the world" is underpinned by the same basic attitude toward Nature — a hubris of monumental proportions that a 200K-year-old smart ape with manual dexterity can baldfacedly pronounce its superiority (and its right to violate) three-billion year old cybernetic complex adaptive systems. Until or unless that natural magnificent intelligence becomes deeply appreciated by a far larger fraction of our insane species, that biblical stupidity of degrading the biosphere will continue to fuel the "control everything" approach.
By tacit agreement, since 1945, due to the horrors exacted on Europe's Jewish population during World War II, Isreal's behavior toward its Arab neighbors has been off-limits in the US media: shame!
Do be cautious when commenting on the most protected species on Earth, the Chosenites, those who can not be questioned, the parasites who can't be criticized or in some countries, you may go to jail on special anti-whatchamacall-it charges. Re: Ursula Haverbeck
Even if they do own the media, Hollywood and Washington, D.C. they are not "in power", we the people are, and it is our duty to be blind to our overlords, you see.
A little too easy, my friend.
The Holocaust narrative is 90% B.S.
With the greatest respect, a little more than a "PR problem".
I am pleased that Caitlin has directed her powerful pen to the subject of Palestine, following a video of their actions at a funeral.
Palestine, inhumanely occupied by Israel, a country that controls up to 80% of the US politicians through media control and political funding, a country driven by "an Israel fantasy called Eretz Israel", the ownership and control of lands between the Euphrates and the Nile, meaning all of Palestine and Lebanon and Jordan, parts of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria and Egypt.
With the exclusion of the current US proxy war in Ukraine, where are all the problems in the world today?
In the Middle East, as above, the US having made its contribution to the sponsored crimes in Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan by supporting Israel for 55 years with Iran as the next proposed target. A little history…..
On June 8, 1967, 34 American servicemen were killed and 174 were wounded during an Israeli attack on the USS Liberty. According to former US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Thomas Moore, “Those men were then betrayed and left to die by our own government.” The survivors are still awaiting justice.
From that day on, Israel has owned the USA in every possible way. Just before that, in 1963. John Kennedy was assassinated, coincidentally after he proposed to investigate Israel's Nuclear facility in Dimona. The incoming President of the US, Johnson, cancelled that idea entirely, the same President who called back US fighter aircraft from saving the same USS Liberty, as mentioned above, from protecting the US vessel. Add them all up.
Israel’s daily activities against Palestinians is to seize lands, demolish Palestinian homes, the murder of women and the imprisonment of children, restricting medicines, foodstuffs, freedoms, water, electricity, every day of every week. Search it out, independent of the corrupted media, mainly owned by Israel or Israeli connected shareholdings. A fact.
Palestine is a country inhumanely occupied by Israeiis, the same Israelis having just shot a woman journalist, the subject of this article today.
I respectfully have to ask….what’s new? This is a daily occurrence following on from a history of Israeli massacres and the bombing of Palestinian people over decades.
Seventy long years, watched over by a feeble United Nations which has done nothing but submit to the pressures of the USA and its blatant support for all things Israel. The world tolerated apartheid in South Africa until 1994 but has allowed this crime to be almost scrubbed from the minds of all people, still rampant and very real in 2022. SHAME ON ALL.
Without exception, the crime of the century.
God's chosen psychopaths strike again! How any thinking and feeling person can support these criminal parasites is beyond my understanding!
Are you sure you devote same amount of resources to studying Israeli-Palestinian conflict as to American Empire shenanigans? Because you sound like echo-chambering and citing the very same MSM outlets you shit on in your other articles.
Remove US from the picture and you'll see how Israel-Palestine has a lot similarities with Russia-Ukraine, respectively. If Israel leaves Palestine, the next day Iran will be there with its missiles and decades-long official cries for death to jews. If it's not obvious, this is yet another proxy war. And Israel has no Siberia to retreat to, all it has is 100km wide stripe of soil between Palestine and Mediterranean Sea. This IS survival issue.
And reporters in war zones know the risk and take it willingly.
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Last week—the same day Israeli forces shot and killed journalist Shireen Abu Aqla—an Israeli soldier shot and killed 16-year-old Thaer Khalil Mohammad Maslat with live ammunition in the occupied West Bank city of Al-Bireh. Thaer was watching confrontations between Israeli forces and Palestinian youth 200 yards away just after leaving school for the day, a few hundred meters away. Thaer did not pose any threat to Israeli forces when he was shot dead.
So, the emphasis over the past week may have been on the death of a journalist, but there are Palestinian deaths every day of every week by mindless murdering apartheid Israelis, supported by the good old US Congress....all the way. Such is the power of the Israeli Shekel in Washington.
So try to be alarmed, very alarmed. This has been going on for 55 years with not a squeak from the well greased political palms in Washington.
Wake up, world.
I wish I'd thought to say this sooner, but better late than never.
For years, I wondered why the Israeli government thought that "We had to blow up that hospital because terrorists were in there. It's a shame about all those civilians, but that's on Hamas for being in the hospital. What were we supposed to do, NOT bomb it?" was an acceptable excuse. An excuse that would make everybody not getting paid by the Israel lobby and/or not propagandized to be pro-Israel from birth to go "Oh, well, that's all right then."
I suppose I finally have an answer: they've been taught their entire lives that Palestinians are inferior, not worth worrying about, and they stupidly assumed that the rest of the world would feel the same way.
By the way, this is one thing that bothers me about certain people's takes on Ukraine. I won't name names, but one guy's retort to the statement "Russia is bombing hospitals" is "Yeah, because Azov Battalion guys are in there."
Huh? This very same person, and everyone far enough left to have a problem with Israel's M.O., would say that Israel bombing hospitals in Gaza was inexcusable because it would kill civilians along with combatants. I agree. But somehow, bombing hospitals that have bad guys in them becomes acceptable when Russia does it?
Bombing hospitals containing civilians is either never acceptable, or it's always acceptable. Pick one and apply that standard consistently, FFS.
I wrote about violence today, 15 May, 2022. https://johnallenakatheolhippy.substack.com/p/sundayviolence?r=5o912&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I do believe I mentioned the Palestinians as an outgroup in specific instances. Imperialism is violence. It must end. Peace
Please find a new narrator. This guy sounds like he's lying in bed reading a script.
I don't know someone on my Facebook put up that video about the funeral and many (I assume trolls, either paid or idiots) jumped to argue that maybe there wasn't a body in the casket or the Palestinians should not have had the funeral at that time and the IDF was justified.
I’d say human rights is too new a concept to understand in a practical way as Israel creates a walled city as in medieval days for protection
Human rights seems a novel concept with Israel as they’ve erected a walled city as in medieval days for protection
One of the reasons Israel is reluctant to condemn Putin's Russia for its invasion of Ukraine is precisely because it opens the door and sets a precedent for the opposite considering Putin's notion of Ukraine and Ukrainians is very much the same notion Israel has of Palestine and Palestinians. Putin claims Ukraine isn't really a nation and Ukrainians aren't really a people. The only difference I see is, the Israelis view Palestinians as subhuman or another species entirely much as their Nazi mentors viewed Jews and Stalin had no problem with that apparently. When you view something as not existing or rightfully as your own, well, you don't have to respect its wishes if its notion differs from your notion, do you?
What an outrageous BS ! Putin NEVER claimed " Ukrainians aren't really a people " .
What he did say : Ukrainians and Russians are same people. Which is true.
No it's not true, goon.
Concerning the faux kerfuffle that spawned Lavrov's remarks, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Putin called and apologized. Putin sucking Israeli ass. Too funny. LIke Stalin with Hitler before Hitler betrayed him.
As far as I'm concerned, Putin's Russia can take America's place as Israel's bitch and Putin can bequeath Israel with billions a year to level Palestine and wreck havoc in the Middle East.
troll !
If that happens, I can't wait for the following topic on MSNBC: "ways we can fund Hamas to topple Bennett".
Is an anti-war movement going to form?
(I'm not the personality type to lead one myself, but I'm willing (and have some skills) to help organize it and am ready to march (peacefully) in the streets.)
we need an understanding a movement to spread through the mothers of the world, now that the world has gotten small enough and interconnected enough that any one mother can talk to any other mother in the whole massive world.
And that understanding should be to teach their children, prepare them, long before adulthood, that turning on their own 'brothers and sister', i.e. the other people of the world, is wrong.
That wars in which the people fight each other for the benefit not of the people but of the twisted 'leader' are stupid and wrong.
Putin should have found it impossible to find soldiers that would invade Ukraine.
But easy to find soldiers who would walk to the Donbas and protect it against Ukrainian aggression.
And the Ukrainians should have found it impossible to find those who would attack the Donbas for months and months and years.
Aggressors should be hard to find.
Every 'follower' when instructed to attack another 'follower' should turn his eyes away from the 'leader' exhorting this behaviour, demanding it, and look at the fellow follower he's instructed to harm and consider if there's a need for this at all... does it really achieve anything, will it help, is this other really a present danger a threat.
The word for all that is 'peace', I think, isn't it?
Intelligent peace. An idea and a desire for peace and an understanding of how it is achieved in the world and the way in the world that it is destroyed by the manipulations and motivations and self interests of the manipulators.
I don't think this is a subject tackled in primary schools nor secondary schools, nor colleges nor universities.
The individuals human's responsibility to avoid aggressive behaviour and to always understand what's going on in combative situations.
It calls for a raising of consciousness. Being aware of something beyond the family, beyond the tribe, beyond the nation, beyond the group of nations - an awareness that we, the people, are all one, all just looking to live happy and good lives. All with an awesome power to do harm which it is our duty to control throughout our lives.
That is is wrong to voluntarily abdicate humanity and choose to be a 'functionary' of the government, like a robot, without personal volition, sworn, committed to do as directed and with no power to no do.
'Just doing my job' is the pitiful weasel excuse of a voluntary 'non human' seeking to avoid the responsibilities of humanity, of being part of the human race, and seeking to hide under the cover of 'must obey'. A voluntary declaration of inhumanity in favour of roboticism.
We need the mothers to sing the mantra of humanity to their children all the time, the whole adult mantra involving consciousness of responsibilities.
We need the mothers to grow up and then grow their children up.
That's what we need now and for the future.