From what I read I don't think the US is going to be a 'disease' for much longer. It can't fight a big war but can inflict 'regime change' on small countries.
We will see what happens in Venezuela and now Colombia..........I don' think it's a done deal for the US to succeed either in Cuba/Ecuador/Colombia or Venezuela. Hope I am right.
Just so, Liana., that's right on point. I would say that the Greater Israel project has, for some time now, definitely included Washington D.C., London and Berlin. The governments of these so-called "world powers" behave like they are so fully infiltrated by Zionists at this point, that they are, to all intents and purposes, under foreign occupation.
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The politicians in Washington D.C., London and Berlin may persuade themselves that Israel is doing their bidding, but now that seems completely indistinguishable from them doing the bidding of Israel.
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Much of the time, it feels as though the center of power and leadership of the West’s centuries-old capitalist imperialist colonial settler project has relocated to Israel, and the usual suspects – the billionaires, the oligarchs, the plutocrats, the (for sale to the highest bidder) professional politicians and the talking heads are no longer in control of their own operations any more, and their mad fantasies of power and dominance are now themselves being swamped by the mad fantasies of power and dominance emanating from Israel.
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And then consider the fact that what we are talking about here is not even anything very odd or unusual, or out of the ordinary, but just what is now everyday normality. Yet, it’s like a third-rate B-movie: Godzilla versus King Kong.
It is so apropos that Alon Mizrahi published the following article on the same day (Oct 29) as Caitlin's article:
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"AIPAC is in Taiwan, and I have Questions; Like why are they pushing for wars and making the 21st century's superpower the enemy of Jews?"..
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"I admit: I had to refresh the page and go to the source of this image - not only to make sure I wasn’t dreaming, but also because it just looked too much like a bad AI take on common conspiracy theories".
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"I have to admit: the sheer brazen absurdity of this took me quite by surprise: What was the American Israel Public Affairs Committee doing 12,523 km from New York and 12,523 km from Tel Aviv, in a place that is very clearly neither the US nor Israel? What is the colonial and Zionist scheme at play here?
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Israel has chosen to make China its enemy. As usual, it is dragging the Jews with it."
Chuck Nasmith, that's a question that is right on point. I would say that the Greater Israel project has, for some time now, definitely included Washington D.C., London and Berlin. The governments of these so-called "world powers" behave like they are so fully infiltrated by Zionists at this point, that they are, to all intents and purposes, under foreign occupation.
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The politicians in Washington D.C., London and Berlin may persuade themselves that Israel is doing their bidding, but now that seems completely indistinguishable from them doing the bidding of Israel.
.
Much of the time, it feels as though the center of power and leadership of the West’s centuries-old capitalist imperialist colonial settler project has relocated to Israel, and the usual suspects – the billionaires, the oligarchs, the plutocrats, the (for sale to the highest bidder) professional politicians and the talking heads are no longer in control of their own operations any more, and their mad fantasies of power and dominance are now themselves being swamped by the mad fantasies of power and dominance emanating from Israel.
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And then consider the fact that what we are talking about here is not even anything very odd or unusual, or out of the ordinary, but just what is now everyday normality. Yet, it’s like a third-rate B-movie: Godzilla versus King Kong.
Chuck Nasmith. Just so! Although I had to re-read your comment a couple of times to realize there was a word both missing and implied: "too." As in: "when Palestine is free, we will be too." That's it in a nutshell, isn't it?
Whether I am OK with it or not is irrelevant. I don't make the decisions or have influence on those who do, and they could not care less what anyone here thinks or wants.
Come on, one and all. We are all on the same side. Thankfully.
This summary by Caitlin and Tim today is the closest I have seen to the real world as it has become. Right on the mark.
There are so many US supported or initiated activities in process at the moment that it is hard to keep. track of who are the players, other than the bully-boy USA. But soon we are bound to see a mistake, an accident or a false flag event that changes the game and becomes an unavoidable military event with all the players involved.
The really sad part of the current climate is that the people in the USA do not realise the reasons behind Cuba, Venezuela, Israel and the other players on the USA's expansion calendar, too many to list here. When the Israelis took control of the media, an event that was planed thirty years ago, it was always going to happen the way it has become today. The Western media headlines all seem to be a product of Hans Christian Andersen, all read and accepted by the people as gospel.
How sad is that.
Just remember the suggested crowd-funding exercise of a couple of nuclear submarines off the coast of New York for the big bully USA to gain some level of understanding through the demand of the frightened citizens of New York and the world's media that they too are vulnerable. A similar event in Cuba had a positive conclusion back in the days when an intelligent President like Kennedy had .....and deserved some respect, a climate long since evaporated in the USA today.
Mr. Orwell and his work 1984, among other writings, have proven incredibly prescient in our world today. If only we had heeded his words and learned from them, rather than the alternative we have seen made manifest.
The USA lie is that the main fight is Republicans versus Democrats. That keeps people busy with infighting. There are differences to be sure, but they are secondary to the main common goal of securing dominance in the world, which is needed to enrich further those who already have power and wealth. For them, it is never enough. No matter who is president, this does not change but try convincing the true believers.
Regime change is obviously about securing the resources of another country and who benefits from those resources. It's quaint to hear the line "freedom and democracy" trotted out again as an invasion is being planned for Venezuela. There have been multiples of a dozen regime changes carried out since 1947. Here we go again, even as other attempts are in play. The suffering this causes is incalculable.
It's called "False Dichotomy" or "Illusion of choice" - Dems vs GOP, just like Coke vs Pepsi (or BlackRock vs Blackstone) is still the same soda full of shit..
great point Wren. Useless political arguments serve to distract people from the important issues, while the oligarchs get richer and profit off the exploitative system. And the plan to institute regime change in Venezuela among other countries, is absolutely resource acquisition, as you said. The "freedom and democracy" is just thrown out there as a justification to the public for their actions, which are most certainly NOT to promote freedom or democracy. So many lives have been lost and so many countries damaged by this scheme.
“America is gonna take care of the southern hemisphere and make sure there’s freedom and democracy,” I was in Cuba for 3 weeks a few years ago, not at a resort, but in Holguin. When I returned, some people commented that I must be glad to be back in a democracy. I nearly choked. Cuba is poor, but there are no people sleeping in doorways; the cops don't carry guns and sticks to beat people up. They actually talk to people they encounter about whatever the problem is. At that time there was a festival of gay and lesbian movies. Cuba was not perfect, but it was not as repressive as North America at that time and, unless the Cuban government has also gone insane, it is probably still not as repressive of its people as the US is.
I love Cuba and the people I met there. Toured most of the island for 3-weeks in Dec. 2023. We could learn much from them but our ignorance and arrogance stand in the way. If possible try to find and see the new film "Orwell 2 + 2 = 5". When I think about how Cuba and its people are portrayed in our media my blood boils; it helps me to understand how mis informed we are and have always been.
Libya had the highest standard of living in Africa. The United States and its catamites smashed it up and now Libya has ruins and slave markets. That's just one example.
Cuba is not Libya. Yet. Let's hope the US does not take it that far. I disagree with the concept that it does not matter if it is less oppressive unless one also has power. I guess it depends what you mean by power. Power to manipulate others or power to govern themselves? Cuba has the power to govern themselves. They have been impeded in many areas by the US, but to my way of thinking, that does not make them powerless.
I think that possibly Cuba could fight back if it needed to. Not sure. Not really sure if anyone can fight back against the lunatics that are squashing us down.
Atrocities in a nutshell … putting my head in my hands and imagining each individual in their horror and trying to believe they lived for a reason and not just fodder for western empire building…
60 Minutes is as much a toady to Empire as the rest of corporate media. It's been so for over 20 years. All corporate media salivates over the prospect of war war war anytime anywhere. Their capitalist controllers have taught them well.
I hear he's also part of the group that has pushed to acquire Tik-Tok, and his son to acquire Paramount pictures. Just what we need, oligarchs controlling more media outlets to influence the narrative and silence criticism.
One of the major problems with the USA people is this: They do not travel except by super coaches in Asian lands because they are all afraid. I have seen this in so many Countries in the world.
Shifted from the Airport to their air conditioned room in some Hotel. Do they speak to the Natives of the Country?
I have many incidents of Americans on tour in the East: Go to breakfast/surrounded by monkeys trying to snatch your food. A good way to stop Americans eating themselves stupid.
jewish people from the USA are much the same and worse. They will go to a country just to see the jewish landmarks and see jewish history. Self-absorbed behavior is off the racks. They just want to hear about themselves and learn next to nothing of the rest.
It’s going to get even worse. Bari Weiss, an Israel Zionist posing as an American citizen, was put in charge. One of the evening news anchors has already been fired to install some enthusiastically pro Israel twerp.
Diplomacy? Capitalism? Doesn't seem like an especially compatible pairing. Unless we're talking employee-owned businesses, I can't think of many instances where traditionally structured corporate capitalist entities have been particularly diplomatic in their dealings with either their employees or their customers. Unless one counts some of the ludicrous brain-dead advertising as diplomacy.
There’s phrase for that kind of diplomacy, Vin LoPresti.
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it's called "GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY." I.e., agree to OUR completely onerous "trading terms," where we give you a handful of glass beads, and you give us your indigenous lands and everything on it and in it. OR ELSE.
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That has never changed. Not in hundreds of years. Read Michael Hudson’s "Super-Imperialism." That is American Gunboat Diplomacy writ large for the 20th and 21st Century. When Michael wrote his book in 1970, American Gunboat Diplomacy was already brutal internationally, but relatively muted compared to today.
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That is exactly what Trump is attempting today, but more loudly, and even more brutally: with his on-again off again tariff threats and military threats, and armed intervention threats, and threats to annex Greenland and Canada. I mean, they're literally sending the gunboats into the Caribbean and shooting at will.
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"Give us what we want, or else." It’s not new. It's old. It's just more blatant than usual.
Indeed. But not just internationally. US gunboat diplomacy had plenty of practice internally on indigenous and immigrant populations, oppressed by capitalists who commonly resorted to deflecting class struggles by portraying them as something else — racial, religious, or other animosities — in order to avoid working class unity. Zinn's "People's History" so nicely describes and provides primary sources for this internal pressurized "diplomacy".
The 60 minutes article is absolutely standard for Western propaganda. The US sanctions a country into starvation, poverty and infrastructure collapse, then use the resulting misery of the people as an example of why regime change has to happen.
Examples, North Korea sanctioned since the 1950s, Cuba sanctioned since 1959, Iran, Lybia, etc etc
During an ongoing genocide, the phrase "ceasefire" is meaningless. The genocide is maintained in multiple ways -- including blockade, starvation and disease. Shooting and bombing the people is just one of the methods of the genocide. So, whether or not Israel suspends mass murder by bombs and bullets for a few hours is not pertinent, not while they continue mass murder by blockade, starvation, and disease through deprivation of water and sewage, and then simply resume the mass killing by bombs and bullets the next day anyway.
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News media should not even use the phrase “ceasefire” to describe what is going on, but the western media continue to pretend this is a war and not a genocide. They act in the service of Israel.
I guess that the wars and operations all over the world are just morphing into one big war by the capitalists and their cronies against the common people in the world. Oh well, it makes the whole thing less complicated.
The Evil Empire no longer needs to pretend, it seems. The goal is world domination and the protection of the gangster capitalist system we are all obliged to live under.
Yes, and it works. India has basically folded to US demands. China, South Korea and Japan as well, continuing to crave American carrot and fear American stick.
I don't like it, but nowhere is it written that reality must conform to my wishes.
If you take the time to read WEB OF DECEIT by Mark Curtis you shall see a long history of SATANIC EVIL that has been showered on people round the world by the UK/USA and in many cases aided by MSM? DOES IT CONTINUE TODAY---JUST ASKING!
Bill Blum wrote about the YANKS stirring trouble between UKRAINE and RUSSIA and that was in 2014! I kept part of the message as thought it should not be forgotten or history to be re-written!? An Italian writer also wrote on the subject---both follow! How many died between 2014 and 2021!?!?-- ----------Giulietto Chiesa, an Italian journalist since 2014 too, was talking about West intervention and the coup probably organised by the US. He also added that Ukraine is where War World Three could start (or started). Bill Blum----So why are you and others like you in mainstream media creating the same mentality that started the First World War (and the Cold War)?…….That is, demonizing Putin and Russia instead of showing the history and motivation of Western invasion and interference in Ukraine. Then ask why NATO even exists in a post Cold War world.------------------Late Bill Blum wrote a book called the ROGUE STATE. He had worked for USA government but left and became a writer etc!?!? Live and let live is what I go by and if you want to fly a flag or have one posted on social media fair enough. Should it be the UKRAINE FLAG you are signaling that you support NAZI EVIL and all sorts of corruption including sex trafficking etc!?
The "Greater Israel Project" requires (among other things) for Russia to be occupied so as to not interfere with Israel's expansion program. This has helped in neutering Syria. They know that Russia can eventually "win" Ukraine and is short of manpower, thus they sent Russian ethnics to the front with little training to be slaughtered, while Nazi units got good training. Now, since they are running low on cannon fodder, the objective is to keep the war going as long as possible with drones as the focus. If Russia should be destabilized in the process, that is gravy for the Zionist bankers running the "project", who have been trying to break up Russia and seize its natural resources for centuries. Western agents began setting up Ukraine for this attempt shortly after WWII.
Does 60 Minutes ever do reports on the fact that 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck? Have lousy healthcare that’s structured to impoverish them even if they have insurance? That 70% of the young men and women who try to sign up for military service are rejected due to criminal records, can’t pass a basic physical or they’re functionally illiterate? How are we different from the third world countries for bottom third of American?
From what I read I don't think the US is going to be a 'disease' for much longer. It can't fight a big war but can inflict 'regime change' on small countries.
We will see what happens in Venezuela and now Colombia..........I don' think it's a done deal for the US to succeed either in Cuba/Ecuador/Colombia or Venezuela. Hope I am right.
Worked fine in Syria.
Does the Greater Israel project include New York and Miami?
Obviously. They were occupied a long time ago. And let's not forget the White House.
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Just so, Liana., that's right on point. I would say that the Greater Israel project has, for some time now, definitely included Washington D.C., London and Berlin. The governments of these so-called "world powers" behave like they are so fully infiltrated by Zionists at this point, that they are, to all intents and purposes, under foreign occupation.
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The politicians in Washington D.C., London and Berlin may persuade themselves that Israel is doing their bidding, but now that seems completely indistinguishable from them doing the bidding of Israel.
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Much of the time, it feels as though the center of power and leadership of the West’s centuries-old capitalist imperialist colonial settler project has relocated to Israel, and the usual suspects – the billionaires, the oligarchs, the plutocrats, the (for sale to the highest bidder) professional politicians and the talking heads are no longer in control of their own operations any more, and their mad fantasies of power and dominance are now themselves being swamped by the mad fantasies of power and dominance emanating from Israel.
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And then consider the fact that what we are talking about here is not even anything very odd or unusual, or out of the ordinary, but just what is now everyday normality. Yet, it’s like a third-rate B-movie: Godzilla versus King Kong.
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It is so apropos that Alon Mizrahi published the following article on the same day (Oct 29) as Caitlin's article:
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"AIPAC is in Taiwan, and I have Questions; Like why are they pushing for wars and making the 21st century's superpower the enemy of Jews?"..
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"I admit: I had to refresh the page and go to the source of this image - not only to make sure I wasn’t dreaming, but also because it just looked too much like a bad AI take on common conspiracy theories".
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"I have to admit: the sheer brazen absurdity of this took me quite by surprise: What was the American Israel Public Affairs Committee doing 12,523 km from New York and 12,523 km from Tel Aviv, in a place that is very clearly neither the US nor Israel? What is the colonial and Zionist scheme at play here?
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Israel has chosen to make China its enemy. As usual, it is dragging the Jews with it."
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-- Alon Mizrahi --
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Chuck Nasmith, that's a question that is right on point. I would say that the Greater Israel project has, for some time now, definitely included Washington D.C., London and Berlin. The governments of these so-called "world powers" behave like they are so fully infiltrated by Zionists at this point, that they are, to all intents and purposes, under foreign occupation.
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The politicians in Washington D.C., London and Berlin may persuade themselves that Israel is doing their bidding, but now that seems completely indistinguishable from them doing the bidding of Israel.
.
Much of the time, it feels as though the center of power and leadership of the West’s centuries-old capitalist imperialist colonial settler project has relocated to Israel, and the usual suspects – the billionaires, the oligarchs, the plutocrats, the (for sale to the highest bidder) professional politicians and the talking heads are no longer in control of their own operations any more, and their mad fantasies of power and dominance are now themselves being swamped by the mad fantasies of power and dominance emanating from Israel.
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And then consider the fact that what we are talking about here is not even anything very odd or unusual, or out of the ordinary, but just what is now everyday normality. Yet, it’s like a third-rate B-movie: Godzilla versus King Kong.
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When Palestine is Free we will be. Keep on...
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Chuck Nasmith. Just so! Although I had to re-read your comment a couple of times to realize there was a word both missing and implied: "too." As in: "when Palestine is free, we will be too." That's it in a nutshell, isn't it?
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No need at this time.
Really. So the aim of the USA is to dismember SOVEREIGN Countries and kill civilians? This means the US has won a victory?
Yes.
Is this OK with you Feral?
You come on here making comments without empathy! Who are you Feral.
My cats do not do this!
Whether I am OK with it or not is irrelevant. I don't make the decisions or have influence on those who do, and they could not care less what anyone here thinks or wants.
Jenny, Feral just tells it like it actually is.
Right, Gysy33
Come on, one and all. We are all on the same side. Thankfully.
This summary by Caitlin and Tim today is the closest I have seen to the real world as it has become. Right on the mark.
There are so many US supported or initiated activities in process at the moment that it is hard to keep. track of who are the players, other than the bully-boy USA. But soon we are bound to see a mistake, an accident or a false flag event that changes the game and becomes an unavoidable military event with all the players involved.
The really sad part of the current climate is that the people in the USA do not realise the reasons behind Cuba, Venezuela, Israel and the other players on the USA's expansion calendar, too many to list here. When the Israelis took control of the media, an event that was planed thirty years ago, it was always going to happen the way it has become today. The Western media headlines all seem to be a product of Hans Christian Andersen, all read and accepted by the people as gospel.
How sad is that.
Just remember the suggested crowd-funding exercise of a couple of nuclear submarines off the coast of New York for the big bully USA to gain some level of understanding through the demand of the frightened citizens of New York and the world's media that they too are vulnerable. A similar event in Cuba had a positive conclusion back in the days when an intelligent President like Kennedy had .....and deserved some respect, a climate long since evaporated in the USA today.
And how!
I'm afraid Miss American Pie might throw a huge nuclear farewell party..
"A dying animal is always at its most viscous whilst taking its last breath" ©
What does 'fine' mean. The so-called Govt. run by terrorists still killing people?
The US goal was to turn Syria into a failed state, and thus no threat to Israel.
The US got what it wanted. Ditto, Iraq and Libya.
Israel is merely an extension of the Anglo-American empire
It's the other way around, my dear.
"Controlled chaos" is what Imperialist Security State does.
In Chaos, a country’s resources are free for grabs.
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Trump on Syria occupation: "We took the OIL!"
youtube.com/watch?v=5wwm4OiYY5M
Syria's oil is a rounding error. The world is awash in cheap resources, however there is only so much power to go around.
CIA, Richard Moore and his MI6 team did a great job putting those rebranded Al-CIAda guys in power in Syria.
Good Christians and true gentlemen. Pride of Britain!
substack.com/home/post/p-165006824
It worked.
For you, personally?
Not at all.
Noam Chomsky: U.S. terrorist State:
youtube.com/watch?v=KbYvCZPIXP0
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever"
- Orwell
Orwell meant it as a warning. Our criminal leaders use it as a guide.
Ministry of Truth Executive Order?
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-restores-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/
All hail Dear Leader, Restorer of Truth.
Make 1984 Fiction Again!
Mr. Orwell and his work 1984, among other writings, have proven incredibly prescient in our world today. If only we had heeded his words and learned from them, rather than the alternative we have seen made manifest.
In the words of Vincent Price in The Fly, "Denial is the most human of emotions."
And Orwell, being the sycophantic side-switcher that he was could have meant the evil commie boot....in fact, that's what he did mean.
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2025/10/22/cia-adapted-george-orwells-animal-farm-for-political-purposes-in-cold-war/
The USA lie is that the main fight is Republicans versus Democrats. That keeps people busy with infighting. There are differences to be sure, but they are secondary to the main common goal of securing dominance in the world, which is needed to enrich further those who already have power and wealth. For them, it is never enough. No matter who is president, this does not change but try convincing the true believers.
Regime change is obviously about securing the resources of another country and who benefits from those resources. It's quaint to hear the line "freedom and democracy" trotted out again as an invasion is being planned for Venezuela. There have been multiples of a dozen regime changes carried out since 1947. Here we go again, even as other attempts are in play. The suffering this causes is incalculable.
2 cheeks of the same ass...
It's called "False Dichotomy" or "Illusion of choice" - Dems vs GOP, just like Coke vs Pepsi (or BlackRock vs Blackstone) is still the same soda full of shit..
youtube.com/watch?v=GZmpzG-0pPM
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G. Carlin explains the illusion of Choice:
youtube.com/shorts/zpEa5WS4kmc
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"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat."
-Gore Vidal
great point Wren. Useless political arguments serve to distract people from the important issues, while the oligarchs get richer and profit off the exploitative system. And the plan to institute regime change in Venezuela among other countries, is absolutely resource acquisition, as you said. The "freedom and democracy" is just thrown out there as a justification to the public for their actions, which are most certainly NOT to promote freedom or democracy. So many lives have been lost and so many countries damaged by this scheme.
Excellent comment. Thank you.
“America is gonna take care of the southern hemisphere and make sure there’s freedom and democracy,” I was in Cuba for 3 weeks a few years ago, not at a resort, but in Holguin. When I returned, some people commented that I must be glad to be back in a democracy. I nearly choked. Cuba is poor, but there are no people sleeping in doorways; the cops don't carry guns and sticks to beat people up. They actually talk to people they encounter about whatever the problem is. At that time there was a festival of gay and lesbian movies. Cuba was not perfect, but it was not as repressive as North America at that time and, unless the Cuban government has also gone insane, it is probably still not as repressive of its people as the US is.
I love Cuba and the people I met there. Toured most of the island for 3-weeks in Dec. 2023. We could learn much from them but our ignorance and arrogance stand in the way. If possible try to find and see the new film "Orwell 2 + 2 = 5". When I think about how Cuba and its people are portrayed in our media my blood boils; it helps me to understand how mis informed we are and have always been.
Of course not. But without power, none of that matters.
I disagree
Libya had the highest standard of living in Africa. The United States and its catamites smashed it up and now Libya has ruins and slave markets. That's just one example.
Spin it how you like.
Cuba is not Libya. Yet. Let's hope the US does not take it that far. I disagree with the concept that it does not matter if it is less oppressive unless one also has power. I guess it depends what you mean by power. Power to manipulate others or power to govern themselves? Cuba has the power to govern themselves. They have been impeded in many areas by the US, but to my way of thinking, that does not make them powerless.
In the end, the question comes down to whether you can fight back.
Otherwise, you are prey.
I think that possibly Cuba could fight back if it needed to. Not sure. Not really sure if anyone can fight back against the lunatics that are squashing us down.
Atrocities in a nutshell … putting my head in my hands and imagining each individual in their horror and trying to believe they lived for a reason and not just fodder for western empire building…
'Freedom and democracy' is code for supplicants for the USA and its allies. People used to trust 60 Minutes. I wonder if they still do. I hope not.
60 Minutes is as much a toady to Empire as the rest of corporate media. It's been so for over 20 years. All corporate media salivates over the prospect of war war war anytime anywhere. Their capitalist controllers have taught them well.
Larry Ellison owns it now, biggest zionist on the planet, funds the IDF directly.
I hear he's also part of the group that has pushed to acquire Tik-Tok, and his son to acquire Paramount pictures. Just what we need, oligarchs controlling more media outlets to influence the narrative and silence criticism.
Bari Weiss is the editor now I think.
Weiss is the top dog at CBS News... which is owned by Paramount and the Ellisons.
Most humans believe as they are told.
EDIT: especially if told by a high status source.
Yes, unfortunately.
Ouch !!! but painfully accurate.
If anyone trusts 60 minutes (I prefer to call it "Shitty Minutes" they are damm fools.
Most humans are fools, as easily led as any lemming dog or sheep.
One of the major problems with the USA people is this: They do not travel except by super coaches in Asian lands because they are all afraid. I have seen this in so many Countries in the world.
Shifted from the Airport to their air conditioned room in some Hotel. Do they speak to the Natives of the Country?
I have many incidents of Americans on tour in the East: Go to breakfast/surrounded by monkeys trying to snatch your food. A good way to stop Americans eating themselves stupid.
jewish people from the USA are much the same and worse. They will go to a country just to see the jewish landmarks and see jewish history. Self-absorbed behavior is off the racks. They just want to hear about themselves and learn next to nothing of the rest.
What's a supercoach?
A big bus.
I hate car rides.
It’s good to not be one, Feral. 😼
It’s going to get even worse. Bari Weiss, an Israel Zionist posing as an American citizen, was put in charge. One of the evening news anchors has already been fired to install some enthusiastically pro Israel twerp.
It's making mainstream media irrelevant. Who still watches and believes this garbage, I wonder.
Diplomacy? Capitalism? Doesn't seem like an especially compatible pairing. Unless we're talking employee-owned businesses, I can't think of many instances where traditionally structured corporate capitalist entities have been particularly diplomatic in their dealings with either their employees or their customers. Unless one counts some of the ludicrous brain-dead advertising as diplomacy.
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There’s phrase for that kind of diplomacy, Vin LoPresti.
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it's called "GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY." I.e., agree to OUR completely onerous "trading terms," where we give you a handful of glass beads, and you give us your indigenous lands and everything on it and in it. OR ELSE.
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That has never changed. Not in hundreds of years. Read Michael Hudson’s "Super-Imperialism." That is American Gunboat Diplomacy writ large for the 20th and 21st Century. When Michael wrote his book in 1970, American Gunboat Diplomacy was already brutal internationally, but relatively muted compared to today.
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That is exactly what Trump is attempting today, but more loudly, and even more brutally: with his on-again off again tariff threats and military threats, and armed intervention threats, and threats to annex Greenland and Canada. I mean, they're literally sending the gunboats into the Caribbean and shooting at will.
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"Give us what we want, or else." It’s not new. It's old. It's just more blatant than usual.
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Indeed. But not just internationally. US gunboat diplomacy had plenty of practice internally on indigenous and immigrant populations, oppressed by capitalists who commonly resorted to deflecting class struggles by portraying them as something else — racial, religious, or other animosities — in order to avoid working class unity. Zinn's "People's History" so nicely describes and provides primary sources for this internal pressurized "diplomacy".
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Well said, Vin. Just so!
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Yes. It works.
The 60 minutes article is absolutely standard for Western propaganda. The US sanctions a country into starvation, poverty and infrastructure collapse, then use the resulting misery of the people as an example of why regime change has to happen.
Examples, North Korea sanctioned since the 1950s, Cuba sanctioned since 1959, Iran, Lybia, etc etc
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After Deadly Day of Strikes in Gaza, Israel Says It Will Resume Cease-Fire
Israeli strikes killed at least 100 people across Gaza overnight, local health officials said. Israel and Hamas agreed on a truce three weeks ago.
Ceasefire Off KILL KILL KILL Ceasefire On
"We were on a break!"
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During an ongoing genocide, the phrase "ceasefire" is meaningless. The genocide is maintained in multiple ways -- including blockade, starvation and disease. Shooting and bombing the people is just one of the methods of the genocide. So, whether or not Israel suspends mass murder by bombs and bullets for a few hours is not pertinent, not while they continue mass murder by blockade, starvation, and disease through deprivation of water and sewage, and then simply resume the mass killing by bombs and bullets the next day anyway.
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News media should not even use the phrase “ceasefire” to describe what is going on, but the western media continue to pretend this is a war and not a genocide. They act in the service of Israel.
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The fact that there are people willing to believe there is a 'ceasefire' says so much about the brainwashing of the masses in the Western Empire.
There are moments when words fail me. Thankfully, they haven't failed you.
I guess that the wars and operations all over the world are just morphing into one big war by the capitalists and their cronies against the common people in the world. Oh well, it makes the whole thing less complicated.
Agree......who will win?
IF the US perceives they are not 'winning' they will be the first to use Nuclear weapons!
Russia will not do this first.
Thank You Caitlin
The Evil Empire no longer needs to pretend, it seems. The goal is world domination and the protection of the gangster capitalist system we are all obliged to live under.
Yes, and it works. India has basically folded to US demands. China, South Korea and Japan as well, continuing to crave American carrot and fear American stick.
I don't like it, but nowhere is it written that reality must conform to my wishes.
This has not been reported yet.
None of this is hard to find.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/indian-refiners-review-russian-oil-contracts-after-us-sanctions-source-says-2025-10-23/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/live-updates-trump-xi-talks-south-korea-asia-tour-trade-third-term-rcna240430
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/trump-signs-us-japan-trade-132220343.html
https://nam.org/u-s-outlines-framework-for-china-deal-announces-other-trade-agreements-35043/
If you take the time to read WEB OF DECEIT by Mark Curtis you shall see a long history of SATANIC EVIL that has been showered on people round the world by the UK/USA and in many cases aided by MSM? DOES IT CONTINUE TODAY---JUST ASKING!
Bill Blum wrote about the YANKS stirring trouble between UKRAINE and RUSSIA and that was in 2014! I kept part of the message as thought it should not be forgotten or history to be re-written!? An Italian writer also wrote on the subject---both follow! How many died between 2014 and 2021!?!?-- ----------Giulietto Chiesa, an Italian journalist since 2014 too, was talking about West intervention and the coup probably organised by the US. He also added that Ukraine is where War World Three could start (or started). Bill Blum----So why are you and others like you in mainstream media creating the same mentality that started the First World War (and the Cold War)?…….That is, demonizing Putin and Russia instead of showing the history and motivation of Western invasion and interference in Ukraine. Then ask why NATO even exists in a post Cold War world.------------------Late Bill Blum wrote a book called the ROGUE STATE. He had worked for USA government but left and became a writer etc!?!? Live and let live is what I go by and if you want to fly a flag or have one posted on social media fair enough. Should it be the UKRAINE FLAG you are signaling that you support NAZI EVIL and all sorts of corruption including sex trafficking etc!?
https://youtu.be/1ainHDIY-HA?si=t_loDI2D5wdaY9s7
The "Greater Israel Project" requires (among other things) for Russia to be occupied so as to not interfere with Israel's expansion program. This has helped in neutering Syria. They know that Russia can eventually "win" Ukraine and is short of manpower, thus they sent Russian ethnics to the front with little training to be slaughtered, while Nazi units got good training. Now, since they are running low on cannon fodder, the objective is to keep the war going as long as possible with drones as the focus. If Russia should be destabilized in the process, that is gravy for the Zionist bankers running the "project", who have been trying to break up Russia and seize its natural resources for centuries. Western agents began setting up Ukraine for this attempt shortly after WWII.
Does 60 Minutes ever do reports on the fact that 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck? Have lousy healthcare that’s structured to impoverish them even if they have insurance? That 70% of the young men and women who try to sign up for military service are rejected due to criminal records, can’t pass a basic physical or they’re functionally illiterate? How are we different from the third world countries for bottom third of American?
Nobody of influence and authority cares.