That’s what they want unfortunately. They’re at the stage now where WEF head Harari (his power and influence cannot be overstated) is openly contemplating killing us outright, out loud, and in public. We’ll have to find a better way:
The big political and economic question of the 21st century is: what do we need so many humans for. … The elite doesn’t need you. There is nothing you can do that is beneficial to the political or economic system —Yuval Noah Harari
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“Interesting and provocative," Obama told CNN's Fareed Zakaria [on Harari’s book, Sapiens], who asked him to recommend books that he read while on vacation in Hawaii. “It’s a sweeping history of the human race, from 40,000 feet," Obama said. "It talks about some core things that have allowed us to build this extraordinary civilization, that we take for granted."
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“I’m drawn to Yuval for his clarity of thought,” —Jack Dorsey
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When Mr. Harari toured the Bay Area this fall to promote his latest book, the reception was incongruously joyful. Reed Hastings, the chief executive of Netflix, threw him a dinner party. The leaders of X, Alphabet’s secretive research division, invited Mr. Harari over. Bill Gates reviewed the book (“Fascinating” and “such a stimulating writer”) in The New York Times.
Mr. Harari, thinking about all this, puts it this way: “Utopia and dystopia depends on your values.” … The useless class he describes is uniquely vulnerable. “If a century ago you mounted a revolution against exploitation, you knew that when bad comes to worse, they can’t shoot all of us because they need us,” he said, citing army service and factory work.
Now it is becoming less clear why the ruling elite would not just kill the new useless class. “You’re totally expendable,” he told the audience. … “We don’t need you. But we are nice, so we’ll take care of you.” —Source (worth reading in full): https://archive.is/rWLoO
A strike will only play into their hands. Remember they already view us as “useless”, so let do what they hate the most: become independent of their control. Here is what i propose:
Civilization, goes and old maxim, is never more than three meals away from barbarism—once the food deliveries stop, so does law and order. Therefore, the baseline of preparedness is as follows:
Become your own farmer. A garden in every lawn should be standard. You can no longer trust anything from a corporation, so cutting out reliance on a retailer is a good place to start thinking about your resiliency. ‘Incorporated’ City water isn’t viable either for its quality or reliability, so wells must be dug (there is no resource more important in your life than clean water, hands down).
Beyond that, start stitching together strong alliances of your neighbors for resiliency, defense, and resource sharing (they might grow what you do not and vice versa)—put the “common unity” back in community, and get control of those town councils and school boards (the ONE important place in politics where we still hold all of the cards). Finally: stop eating, listening to, and watching things that are bad for your mind, body, and spirit, and, if so inclined, spend a good chunk of your time on your knees each day.
All of the above is a recipe for success. Let's get to work building a future worth living in, together, because if we do not, Harari & Co will ensure we will not have one.
nah, i'm really curious how that general strike plays into their hands. don't care too much for their 'civilization' and their 'law and order'. also, i'm an atheist.
Detroit is actually doing that. When the de-industrialization of the u.s. under Reagan/Clinton happened Detroit's population plummeted leaving empty lots available to community gardens. These have been deemed highly successful: )https://www.detroitagriculture.net/
Water... are you listening... WATER is a big issue, for starters. Have you ever relied on a well for your water? They run dry, they may be contaminated. I swore never again as we had no water for 3 days in the hot and humid summers of the northeastern US.
You speak of what sounds like a nice pipe dream at first but think about it all please.
Many Americans live in cities for convenience and something called... goods and services. Most Americans are too lazy to work extremely HARD to grow gardens and kill animals for their own food nevermind BAKE baked goods!! Have you thought this out at all?
We lived in the middle of Amish Farmers in the NE for over a year. They work from sunrise to sunset farming, they run out of water, they use pesticides that are poisonous, they eat unhealthy because it's more affordable to eat unhealthy food than to raise, feed and then kill your animals to feed a big family.
What about the 'grid'? Electricity? Gas, medical necessities? The list unfortunately... does go on and on and not everyone who is a parent wants to or is capable of homeschooling. Do you teach or have kids trapped in your home 24/7??
My advice from living over six decades in the US is to get up off your knees and learn about this shitty criminal empire's actions to lower the population. Get entirely more involved in activism because there is power in numbers such as the latest class action lawsuit against the government in northern CA, this is spreading to the east coast and maybe, MAYBE it will be the start of ending this completely criminal compromised government.
So, get up off your knees and DO SOMETHING productive to end them before the minority of them end us!
And btw... great article as usual Caitlin, thank you!!
Reduction of human population would be great for the environment, for animals, and for quality of life. I don't mean killing people, but birth control should be free and widely disseminated. What is this depopulation fear?
I think that is already happening. As a result of our failure to care for people over banks in the financial disaster of 2008 and still going by the way. Young people spent nearly a decade in recovery with high cost education and low wage jobs. They are not having children at the required 2.1 per female in order to keep population stable. Japan will not exist in several generations for the same reason as you know. I work in science so at dinner parties the hard topics are always brought up after a glass of wine : ) What is the max population carry number of the Earth. We are The Walking Dead : )
You have created the perfect argument for Nationalized, Energy, Healthcare, Education (higher), Communication to start. When G.M/AIG went bankrupt, the workers should have been given the opportunity to purchase the company with our public funding as guarantee, rather than open the Fed. to a failed Private Co. now stealing pension/healthcare from their retires and current workforce. We can make that happen.
There is a point to the statement. We are running out of easy energy and energy related resources. To go Solar/Wind we have roughly 20% of the needed copper for systems. Solar panels decline in performance and are replaced after 10 years, Wind generators last 10 years as well. Nuclear power is our only hope if we start now. Standing in line to replace the Apple phone you just bought a year ago will die as with the profits. I wrote a story years ago Dirty Dozen to Mars about resource depletion. As you see by having to inject drinking water into oil/gas reservoirs to produce the pressure to pump tells you all you need to know. Fracking companies, purchase trucks of water for workers to drink even though they have wells ha. BTW, Mush wanting to live on Mars was fun thinking he would be living in a bunker on Mars due to the radiation ha. The Time of Star Trek is not here yet or ever. I do get your point though. These are debates more fun over coffee : )
My reply to THOSE kind of shortsighted tech influenced people, How many Teslas does an Android purchase : ) My hero of Sci-Fi, Philip K. Dick would be smiling seeing much of his work come to reality : ) I like the fact he was considered mentally ill for his writings hahaha. Do Androids dream of electric hamburgers ha.
I would suggest that the 'middle class' is the useless class. Why?
The middle class in US (which is dwindling) STILL thinks nothing will happen to them. They have a house and possibly a garden. When the 'shit hits the fan' their houses /gardens/swimming pools will be taken over by the disenfranchised poor. When REAL poverty strikes there will be NO middle class!
I have been in a Civil War and believe me: There is NO defence against starving people. You can put gates/wire fences around your Compounds..this will not stop humans who are starving.
The poor people get angry when they see 'supposedly' rich people still not supporting them.
"...their houses /gardens/swimming pools will be taken over by the disenfranchised poor." That's if their houses, gardens and swimming pools haven't been destroyed in a climate induced conflagration.
TriTorch, Thank you for sharing the link. Whatever conclusions one draws from Yuval Noah Harari's philosophy one cannot deny that he is looking at the bigger picture of the human animal's "progress" through time to becoming the "useless class".
Maybe his meditation practice, dispassion and detachment make him eminently suitable for this task.
Then again great meditators are invariably compassionate.
Thank you for that. That is exactly our power. Anyone who thinks differently is dreaming the 1% will be kind if we continue to lay down for them. A General Strike, one section of the work force at a time, 2 weeks shutting down kills their profit. Workers Strike Back! The WSB conference is in Feb. The work begins and I thank you.
Peace is possible as the failed u.s. empire has shown us. Our failure is a model for future governments. Just think of what could have been with that 22 Trillion in DOD/%DOE spending.
How are you to eat, pay "your" taxes, "drive" to your job etc when you stop all that from happening? You're far more dependent that you're prepared to admit. One winter without oil or gas and you will gladly accept "the jew" back to rule you.
Not only do I resent that you fell right into the Empires trap and propaganda of conflating Jewishness with Zionism but you shamefully use it calling the "Jew" as some kind of ruler... it is only a religion. Soon, you'll be calling anyone not supporting Israel an anti-semite, that is how Israel's propaganda arm functions.
There are more Christian Zionists than Jewish ones by 60%.This propaganda is all meant to divide us and this nation is horribly divided. The rulers would celebrate a civil or class war in America and it would successfully lower the population in the US for them. We have to rally together to make that an impossibility.
For what it's worth, here's a good example of the differences between Zionism and Judaism... real Jews use the Holocaust as a cautionary tale, Zionists use it as their playbook. Re-read that.
The genocide is led by Zionists and extremist white supremacists who believe in apocalyptic religious politics. These groups have grown. Many are headed by billionaires.
In addition, as Caitlin says, we are also run by other billionaires and corporations who in turn also run the government and media.
110. i don't know whether you believe that you are now a Zionist/Evangelical country?
You will probably not have bombs dropped on you (like the rest of the world has had from the Imperialist USA) but you are becoming a Nation, run by Zionist/Evangelical Christians. I would rather have bombs because you will be forced to bend your knees. Women will be defunct except for procreation. NO love/kindness. Middle ages USA
We must fight this idea of these grossly disturbed compromised people whether in the government, media or corporations... we MUST fight them tooth and nail. They cannot run every fraction of this country as people will revolt eventually and there will be either a class or civil war. Most sane people do not buy into their racist, indoctrinated BS.
Besides some of the other things written here (below), I guess I have to point out that a general strike is not a simple proposition. Extensive preparation, and broad public support are needed. While these resources are being identified and gathered, the other side -- the side of sociopaths, psychopaths, and other destructive parties -- will not be passive, but will be laboring mightily to preserve their privileges and exert their sadism. While many understand at least parts of the problem, few have any idea of what to do about it, at least in the present, that will be effective.
Exactly right. One of the reasons Fred Hampton was murdered. Workers Strike Back Kshama Sawant is building a conference in Feb. to unite people beyond, race,class, gender. I love this woman more than my life. https://www.workersstrikeback.org/
The most deeply depressing and infuriating part of all of this for me, as an American is to witness 99% of our politicians bend the knee to Israel, every election season, every press conference, with no end in sight. Whatever the real answer is (money, blackmail, videos of sex parties, whatever) it is so utterly humiliating and degrading to see our gutless, treasonous politicians openly offer allegiance to a despotic foreign government, to an ideology so anti human, anti life it is difficult to find the adjectives to properly describe it.
And to have to watch, in real time, in lurid detail the abominations being visited upon the
Palestinian people, the open murder, rape, indiscriminate destruction, torture, destruction of hospitals, schools, food supplies,……..100 % funded by our tax dollars….is beyond words.
There are other genocides. But this is the only one that is cheered on by most of the political class of most of the Western (and Arab) world, and completely funded by American dollars. And Netanyahu and his bloodthirsty demonic supporters are more and more emboldened, since they operate with completely impunity….they have been empowered by Biden and Obama and Trump and Starmer and Victor Orban and the Saudis and Emiratis to murder, maim, rape and torture millions of innocent human beings to satisfy some insane, demonic ideology and blood lust.
I have never felt more powerless in my life, as an American.
I agree. So, actually, do thousands of good and decent American Jews. Zionism is a truly warped philosophy, whether Christian or Jewish. It must go. But I do think our politicians have more control over Israel than we might think. Therefore, they are more responsible for this holocaust than we might think.
It truly is shocking and horrifying. And they are doing everything they can to hide the truth or make excuses. So many believe the Hasbara or feel they don't know enough to come out against it.
Tragically, anyone with a beating heart and functioning brain should 100% agree with you! I reached out to the law firm in North CA who is representing the 500 (so far) people involved in the class action lawsuit against their government. Please go online and look it up. There is a webinar on January 25th. I am in NY and they told me people are showing interest here and this is exactly what they hoped for. Congress has broken many laws and this will be an uphill battle but they cannot use our tax dollars to commit genocide legally.
Here is the link to the article that got my interest...
What do you mean by “demonic ideology” and who are these “millions of innocent human beings” being maimed and tortured”? Lol Do you work for Iran?
Or do you just mean it pisses you off because Jewish people refusing to let themselves be slaughtered like in the good old days? What is it you admire about Islamist theocratic fascism? Please explain…
I admire nothing about Islamic theocratic fascism, or any other kind of fascism or authoritarian ideology.
“Jewish people refusing to be slaughtered” is a nice dodge……the formerly oppressed have turned into the oppressors, but with modern technology, unlimited funding, and total impunity.
“Millions of human beings” refers to Palestinians (and Syrians and Lebanese), but you are surely smart enough to figure that out.
“Demonic ideology” refers to Netanyahu’s (and his settler supporters’) evil philosophy of racial superiority, “chosen people”, anti-anything-but-rabid-Zionist, blood lust, anything goes murder, torture, rape.
Yes, Orban too. When Netanyahu started to run into trouble with the international criminal court Orban went out of his way to invite Netanyahu o to Hungary and say he would always be welcome there. For lots and lots of “Christians” and “defenders of Christendom” Palestinians and other Arabs/Muslimy types aren’t full human beings and not worthy of full protection from slaughter.
The globablists' have successfully weaponized the Red vs Blue, East vs West, Vaxxed vs Unvaxxed, Boy vs Girl, Gay vs Straight, Brown vs White, and Pro-Life vs Choice dichotomies to exploit our innate tribal nature, and in doing so are dividing and conquering us. This us-vs-them separation makes us easy to control and direct with simple angry thoughts about the enemy who isn’t really our enemy - while blinding us to the actual enemy behind the curtain pulling the puppet strings. If we could collectively recognize this for what it is the NWO wouldn’t stand a chance.
These forces we are up against cannot be overcome if we keep allowing them to divide and conquer us. We must let go of our pride and our resentments for one another - which were instilled in us through their psychological operations - and unite together or we stand no chance.
Our adversaries know this, which is why they've been fighting tooth and nail to poison the wells we all share of comradery, fellowship, and family—they've been doing everything they can to decimate the ties that bind by disintegrating every trace of common ground and brotherhood between us.
Values we all once shared that were intended to do the most good for the most people are being maliciously torched in the name of discord and disunity by utilizing a reality denying, mentally ill, family destroying, child warping, depraved ideology.
They do not stand a chance against the united, undivided resolve of even a small percentage of us—and they know it. This is the reason they are frantically fighting and sparing no expense to keep us depressed, oppressed, divided, demoralized, and traumatized. And so we will respond by uniting and taking back what is ours.
And keeping us physically sick with the trash food we have available and advertised and encouraged to consume. It’s a sick society run by sicker ideologies to keep us too weak and uninspired and ill to rise up.
Of course. That is known. But it’s beside the point! We sell horrible food in this country that has chemicals on it, chemical ingredients in it, that is banned in other countries. Most people walk in a grocery store thinking the food they buy to eat is safe and will keep them nourished or healthy. Even with “ good choices” much of the foods are unhealthy or have miss information or false advertising or are full of chemicals. Eat the American/ western diet for a generation- the next has our “first world” diseases of high blood pressure, diabetes , coronary artery disease, and more. It’s not so simple as buying your own fruits and vegetables every day and preparing your own from scratch meals. And the foods we feed our kids in schools, even in hospitals- they are garbage. Drug industry stays lucrative, hospitals stay wealthy, health care system is a money making machine- we keep you sick and treat symptoms so there is an ever present line in wait of more drugs- it is never ending. It’s so bad we have stupid catchy songs in commercials for drugs that sell diabetic medications- like it’s a fun party to have diabetes and be sick ! It is insanity and sadly, the masses play into it. It’s a tragic reality you can see, if you open your eyes and pay attention and educate yourself.
That's your CHOICE to eat. You're NOT a fenced herd animal UNLESS YOU CHOOSE TO REMAIN AS SUCH!
“The farmer was and remains the stumbling block to socialist experiments everywhere. Since he raises his own food and tends to live in his own house, he is less “controllable” than say,the urban dweller.” ― Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism Revisited: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot
Of course. That is known. But it’s beside the point! We sell horrible food in this country that has chemicals on it, chemical ingredients in it, that is banned in other countries. Most people walk in a grocery store thinking the food they buy to eat is safe and will keep them nourished or healthy. Even with “ good choices” much of the foods are unhealthy or have miss information or false advertising or are full of chemicals. Eat the American/ western diet for a generation- the next has our “first world” diseases of high blood pressure, diabetes , coronary artery disease, and more. It’s not so simple as buying your own fruits and vegetables every day and preparing your own from scratch meals. And the foods we feed our kids in schools, even in hospitals- they are garbage. Drug industry stays lucrative, hospitals stay wealthy, health care system is a money making machine- we keep you sick and treat symptoms so there is an ever present line in wait of more drugs- it is never ending. It’s so bad we have stupid catchy songs in commercials for drugs that sell diabetic medications- like it’s a fun party to have diabetes and be sick ! It is insanity and sadly, the masses play into it. It’s a tragic reality you can s
Exactly. Moreover, it's time to up our game -- and badly.
That includes how public discourse is to be conducted...
-- For one thing, it's well-arguably a fatal Achille's heel when our adversaries are clearly at war with us. In the highly-respected The Art of War, Sun Tzu says, "All warfare is based on deception." No idea how this is to be solved, but maybe it can be done using game theory.
-- For another, I note how nearly *all* (text) reporting is done not as "conversational" back-and-forth examination of evidence, but as an (attempt at an) artful piece of writing (as one voice, whether one or more authors), and today unfortunately often conflating normative claims with positive claims. Meanwhile, messy but often illuminating (beyond what is explicitly said) conversations tend to happen only in comments, which have little of the same subliminal authoritative impact. Maybe we can evolve from this, and find a way, for example, to emulate where science successfully progresses?
But if they're "rich" then they're okay with the status quo, right? We need the Workers to unite and start up and ensure bigger media platforms to get our message out.
Yeah. But maybe someone like MacKenzie Bezos could help out. I'm thinking that media, like Fox and talk radio, can be so powerful in influencing and motivating large numbers of people. The left needs to get in the game.
STOP adulating billionaires and remind everyone you know that some community somewhere is likely bereft of its basic needs because a giant sociopath a-hole is addicted to wealth accumulation. Would you genuflect to a gambling addict, a child porn addict? Remind those around you that addictions that harm others are to be rejected regardless, and given its enormous power, wealth addiction's potential harm is immense. When they see Elon smiling, remind them that he's not trying to befriend them, but that the smile is likely one of self-contentment at his power over their puny asses. Sorry, when I hear that some billionaire couple owned water rights in CA that may have limited firefighting access, it's a poignant reminder that Capitalism, the sword of all modern empires, engenders disasters by way of the tremendous economic inequality it encourages.
Some of us have been fighting that stupid fucking fight forever. I haven’t completely given up, and I can envision 2 people out of 10 being fired up by your rally cry. But the other 8 are terrified of abandoning a lifetime of propaganda. When Twain said
“it’s easier to trick people than to convince them that they have been fooled”. A younger more naive version of me found that amusing.
That’s adorable. I think the truth is that we are destroying ourselves while pointing fingers at the rich or poor or whoever. But good luck with whatever it is you’re proposing.
Always good to know someone from “London” speaking for 99% of the Global South.
This is the same Global South that cheers on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China’s coveting of Taiwan and supports Islamist fascists slaughtering Jewish people?
The global south and cunts like you can go fuck yourself.
Firstly I have spent 50+ years in the "Global South", lived in 4 African countries worked on 5 continents and speak/spoke 4 languages.
My name is a reference to my place of birth, but more to Jack London who is one of the best writers to ever live, see 'People of the Abyss' for reference.
Russia did not "invade" Ukraine, it followed the UN principle of "Duty to Protect" after the Banderas had killed 14,000 Russian speakers mainly women and children.
China does not "Covet" Taiwan, Formosa has been a region of China for over 300 years. The fact that remnants of an illegitimate government used US forces backing to "declare" themselves the government not just of Taiwan/Formosa, but of the whole of China shows that you are wrong.
Islamist "Fascists" is a contradiction in terms, the Fascists are the Israeli and their US supporters. For 76 years the Israelis and Americans have been slaughtering tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, mainly women and children. The slaughter continues to this moment, the fact that you do not acknowledge this fact shows who and what you are.
Your final sentence demonstrates your marvellous ability and brainpower.
The american empire might be the most perfect empire of brutality. With its ruthless murdering and stealing of native land and promotion of hatred, it makes people who are against racism seem anti-american. There was too much hated in america for natives, blacks, brown people, catholics, and immigrants for there ever to be any sort of basic unity or to see others as humans. To travel to other countries and to see a richness of culture and humanity that is lacking in america is truly eye opening. The Global South is going to have to save themselves and endure because there's no love coming from america.
After watching what has happened at the BBC: A Mossad/CIA agent in charge of Middle East/Foreign news. A protest on Sat. was shut down by the Metropolitan Police in London outside the BBC but people went anyway.
I keep repeating time and time again: Protest outside Mainstream Media (MSM offices). Make these people uncomfortable about their lies.
The genocide in Gaza, and all the vicious, barbaric strategies that are being used to inflict it, could not happen unless one of the wealthiest, best educated, best fed, most 21st century, supposedly 'Western-valued' societies was thoroughly behind it. Israelis not only believe they are doing right: a great many of them, and their supporters around the world, honestly seem to believe they are heroically performing a service on behalf of the rest of the world. This is, obviously, incredible. Moreover, since we are encouraged to believe no-one is born evil, we have to accept that these wealthy, well-educated, extremely-comfortable people have been made into enthusiasts for racist genocide entirely by propaganda. They believe they are right to massacre the 'subhuman animals' whose land they want, and torture doctors, and murder infants, because that's what the people who control their society want them to believe. Ordinary people, leading ordinary lives, yet rejoicing in the idea of atrocities, and war crimes, and causing other human beings as much suffering as possible, and homelessness, and death, because their controllers have conditioned them to. No need for secrecy here, no barbed wire to keep people from seeing the brutality, no camps to deny knowledge of - the people are proud of the barbarism, and flaunt it on Facebook. A modern, 'Western' society has shown what it can be made into. Meanwhile, with just a little manipulation, people in other Western societies have showed that they couldn't care less. Their leaders, almost all immediately enthusiastic supporters of the obliteration, suffered so little pressure to stand for decency it's hard not to imagine them actively sneering at the idea. So what does this tell us? a.) That normal-seeming, 20th Century, apparently-Western societies can, easily and at very little cost, be made into merciless killers, who are proud to be so, and b.) that the rest of the world, given a compliant media, won't actually give enough of a shit to make their racist governments stop being such revolting quislings. Getting rid of 'problem' populations, the evidence suggests, is now a piece of absolute piss. Which, if I were the new saviour of the world, and a saint and a convicted felon who has designs on parts of the world that don't belong to the country that's just elected me, would be Jolly Good News Indeed.
That would be unprecedented in history though. Empires always fall, yes, and from a mix of internal problems and disfunctions and external opposition. I'm not sure that there ever has been even one that was brought down by its own population. I doubt that that is how the world works. This empire has internal problems aplenty though, and those will lead to its end. Eventually.
Consumerism and dependence upon The Fed (The Banksters) to keep the Debt Based Economy going is what will end this empire. We the People are the ones in denial.
“The farmer was and remains the stumbling block to socialist experiments everywhere. Since he raises his own food and tends to live in his own house, he is less “controllable” than say,the urban dweller.” ― Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism Revisited: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot
The French Revolution didn't end the empire. Indeed Napoleon subsequently expanded it. It still more or less exists today in northern Africa -- the French led the destruction of uppity Libya.
Maybe that will be attempted by the Trump administration : wealth through theft and extortion. The populace seems to be OK with that.
I think you vastly overestimate the current power of the empire. You only have to listen to Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson to understand its declining economic position. BRICS+ has a GDP in excess of the G7 with more countries begging to join. You only have to listen to Col. Douglas MacGregor, Larry Johnson and other geopolitical and military analysts to understand the empire’s military is overrated. It’s been soundly defeated by Russian military superiority and its navy has been unable to silence the moral integrity and tenacity of AnsarAllah. Rand and other war game analytics show the empire losing to China and the same aforementioned experts show the empire incapable of defeating Iran. They have also said Iran possesses escalation dominance over the apartheid regime in West Asia. As for Hezbollah, reporting from Electronic Intifada, Mahmood OD and other regional journalists claim their military dominance over the genocidal regime remains even after the collapse of the Assad. Lastly, Jon Elmers from Electronic Intifada continues to report on increased recruiting numbers for all the resistance groups in Gaza along with their ability to obtain new weaponry and carry out high numbers of military operations. Even the IDF admits it can’t defeat Hamas. All that being said, couldn’t agree more that WE need to defeat it. Love your work and thank you for what you do!
Who do you think is shirking responsibly Probably no one reading your articles that's for sure.
By the way, only a military solution will end Israel. Sanctions just don't work although they make for good PR and higher awareness of the problem. So military destruction it will have to be.
Fortunately people are wrong about Syria being captured, Hezbollah greatly weakened, and Gaza in rubble. Syria is and always will be a hodgepodge of tribes, religions, military groups, and outside interference, has been for thousands of years, and that will not change and therefore will not be stabilizing. Hezbollah will deal with the new illegal president of Lebanon and don't think the people of Lebanon don't know exactly who and what he is. Gaza continues to fight and will as long as is necessary. And Iran since 1982 when America severed diplomatic ties has only grown stronger. Knowing that both China and Russia now rely on a strong and resilient Iran for their success is all we need to know about that.
Meanwhile our mission should be clear - sweep Jewish and Christian Zionists and their influenced elected officials from Congress and the White House. Build awareness of their crimes to severe support by America for Israel, thereby empowering its military destruction.
Wow. So you’re properly genocidal then? Military destruction of an entire country? Why don’t you put them fighting words into action champ and fuck off to Gaza? They could do with useful idiots like you there.
Iran has only grown stronger? Lol lol. What is it about antisemitic theocratic fascism appeals to you exactly? The racism? The homophobia? The misogyny? Please, explain…
" It is fully within our capability to awaken a revolutionary zeitgeist within our society so that we can use the power of our vast numbers to take down this machine and create a better world."
Thank you for stating this so clearly, Caitlin! Westerners often forget that they're not helpless--they do have the numbers and the power to take down the corrupt machine. We just have to organize, work together (not against each other) and have the courage of our convictions. Power to the people!
It's BOTH - some are lazy and comfortable and enticed by consumerism, distractions, and "dreams and illusions of being a self-made billionaire" (and hence tolerate the abuses of capitalism and the 1% in the hopes that they too will "make it"), while others DO SUFFER from insecurity and structural and systemic abuses of capitalism (as you say) to be able to challenge it sufficiently.
General strike urgently needed to throw a spanner in the works of the imperial war machine.
That’s what they want unfortunately. They’re at the stage now where WEF head Harari (his power and influence cannot be overstated) is openly contemplating killing us outright, out loud, and in public. We’ll have to find a better way:
The big political and economic question of the 21st century is: what do we need so many humans for. … The elite doesn’t need you. There is nothing you can do that is beneficial to the political or economic system —Yuval Noah Harari
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“Interesting and provocative," Obama told CNN's Fareed Zakaria [on Harari’s book, Sapiens], who asked him to recommend books that he read while on vacation in Hawaii. “It’s a sweeping history of the human race, from 40,000 feet," Obama said. "It talks about some core things that have allowed us to build this extraordinary civilization, that we take for granted."
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“I’m drawn to Yuval for his clarity of thought,” —Jack Dorsey
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When Mr. Harari toured the Bay Area this fall to promote his latest book, the reception was incongruously joyful. Reed Hastings, the chief executive of Netflix, threw him a dinner party. The leaders of X, Alphabet’s secretive research division, invited Mr. Harari over. Bill Gates reviewed the book (“Fascinating” and “such a stimulating writer”) in The New York Times.
Mr. Harari, thinking about all this, puts it this way: “Utopia and dystopia depends on your values.” … The useless class he describes is uniquely vulnerable. “If a century ago you mounted a revolution against exploitation, you knew that when bad comes to worse, they can’t shoot all of us because they need us,” he said, citing army service and factory work.
Now it is becoming less clear why the ruling elite would not just kill the new useless class. “You’re totally expendable,” he told the audience. … “We don’t need you. But we are nice, so we’ll take care of you.” —Source (worth reading in full): https://archive.is/rWLoO
do you intend to discourage the call for a general strike?
Hello Martin.
OF course the people in the USA will not agree to a General Strike........because this means that they will have to get off their fat arses.
American people cannot do anything because they have always lived in fear!
A strike will only play into their hands. Remember they already view us as “useless”, so let do what they hate the most: become independent of their control. Here is what i propose:
Civilization, goes and old maxim, is never more than three meals away from barbarism—once the food deliveries stop, so does law and order. Therefore, the baseline of preparedness is as follows:
Become your own farmer. A garden in every lawn should be standard. You can no longer trust anything from a corporation, so cutting out reliance on a retailer is a good place to start thinking about your resiliency. ‘Incorporated’ City water isn’t viable either for its quality or reliability, so wells must be dug (there is no resource more important in your life than clean water, hands down).
Beyond that, start stitching together strong alliances of your neighbors for resiliency, defense, and resource sharing (they might grow what you do not and vice versa)—put the “common unity” back in community, and get control of those town councils and school boards (the ONE important place in politics where we still hold all of the cards). Finally: stop eating, listening to, and watching things that are bad for your mind, body, and spirit, and, if so inclined, spend a good chunk of your time on your knees each day.
All of the above is a recipe for success. Let's get to work building a future worth living in, together, because if we do not, Harari & Co will ensure we will not have one.
nah, i'm really curious how that general strike plays into their hands. don't care too much for their 'civilization' and their 'law and order'. also, i'm an atheist.
you'd have to explain step by step, i don't get it. if it played into their hands, i think they'd pay workers to do it. :-)
IF you live in a sprawling city where are the gardens?
Detroit is actually doing that. When the de-industrialization of the u.s. under Reagan/Clinton happened Detroit's population plummeted leaving empty lots available to community gardens. These have been deemed highly successful: )https://www.detroitagriculture.net/
Good to hear.
Water... are you listening... WATER is a big issue, for starters. Have you ever relied on a well for your water? They run dry, they may be contaminated. I swore never again as we had no water for 3 days in the hot and humid summers of the northeastern US.
You speak of what sounds like a nice pipe dream at first but think about it all please.
Many Americans live in cities for convenience and something called... goods and services. Most Americans are too lazy to work extremely HARD to grow gardens and kill animals for their own food nevermind BAKE baked goods!! Have you thought this out at all?
We lived in the middle of Amish Farmers in the NE for over a year. They work from sunrise to sunset farming, they run out of water, they use pesticides that are poisonous, they eat unhealthy because it's more affordable to eat unhealthy food than to raise, feed and then kill your animals to feed a big family.
What about the 'grid'? Electricity? Gas, medical necessities? The list unfortunately... does go on and on and not everyone who is a parent wants to or is capable of homeschooling. Do you teach or have kids trapped in your home 24/7??
My advice from living over six decades in the US is to get up off your knees and learn about this shitty criminal empire's actions to lower the population. Get entirely more involved in activism because there is power in numbers such as the latest class action lawsuit against the government in northern CA, this is spreading to the east coast and maybe, MAYBE it will be the start of ending this completely criminal compromised government.
So, get up off your knees and DO SOMETHING productive to end them before the minority of them end us!
And btw... great article as usual Caitlin, thank you!!
Reduction of human population would be great for the environment, for animals, and for quality of life. I don't mean killing people, but birth control should be free and widely disseminated. What is this depopulation fear?
I think that is already happening. As a result of our failure to care for people over banks in the financial disaster of 2008 and still going by the way. Young people spent nearly a decade in recovery with high cost education and low wage jobs. They are not having children at the required 2.1 per female in order to keep population stable. Japan will not exist in several generations for the same reason as you know. I work in science so at dinner parties the hard topics are always brought up after a glass of wine : ) What is the max population carry number of the Earth. We are The Walking Dead : )
You have created the perfect argument for Nationalized, Energy, Healthcare, Education (higher), Communication to start. When G.M/AIG went bankrupt, the workers should have been given the opportunity to purchase the company with our public funding as guarantee, rather than open the Fed. to a failed Private Co. now stealing pension/healthcare from their retires and current workforce. We can make that happen.
How many Teslas do Androids buy? Worker owned Co-Ops as Just.coffee.com
Harari, the modern Malthusian 😕
There is a point to the statement. We are running out of easy energy and energy related resources. To go Solar/Wind we have roughly 20% of the needed copper for systems. Solar panels decline in performance and are replaced after 10 years, Wind generators last 10 years as well. Nuclear power is our only hope if we start now. Standing in line to replace the Apple phone you just bought a year ago will die as with the profits. I wrote a story years ago Dirty Dozen to Mars about resource depletion. As you see by having to inject drinking water into oil/gas reservoirs to produce the pressure to pump tells you all you need to know. Fracking companies, purchase trucks of water for workers to drink even though they have wells ha. BTW, Mush wanting to live on Mars was fun thinking he would be living in a bunker on Mars due to the radiation ha. The Time of Star Trek is not here yet or ever. I do get your point though. These are debates more fun over coffee : )
He calls an undefined group the useless class, but then says they can't kill all of them because they need them. I'm confused.
He is saying they used to need us as workers, but with technology and automation they no longer do. So why not just kill us.
My reply to THOSE kind of shortsighted tech influenced people, How many Teslas does an Android purchase : ) My hero of Sci-Fi, Philip K. Dick would be smiling seeing much of his work come to reality : ) I like the fact he was considered mentally ill for his writings hahaha. Do Androids dream of electric hamburgers ha.
......because the will to live is stronger!
I would suggest that the 'middle class' is the useless class. Why?
The middle class in US (which is dwindling) STILL thinks nothing will happen to them. They have a house and possibly a garden. When the 'shit hits the fan' their houses /gardens/swimming pools will be taken over by the disenfranchised poor. When REAL poverty strikes there will be NO middle class!
I have been in a Civil War and believe me: There is NO defence against starving people. You can put gates/wire fences around your Compounds..this will not stop humans who are starving.
The poor people get angry when they see 'supposedly' rich people still not supporting them.
"...their houses /gardens/swimming pools will be taken over by the disenfranchised poor." That's if their houses, gardens and swimming pools haven't been destroyed in a climate induced conflagration.
I don't believe that is true now that they see many of the neighbors failing as the shrinking middle class shrinks before their eyes.
Where did you see this, may I ask?
Sri Lanka.
TriTorch, Thank you for sharing the link. Whatever conclusions one draws from Yuval Noah Harari's philosophy one cannot deny that he is looking at the bigger picture of the human animal's "progress" through time to becoming the "useless class".
Maybe his meditation practice, dispassion and detachment make him eminently suitable for this task.
Then again great meditators are invariably compassionate.
Wow. So you’re really mental then?
Thank you for that. That is exactly our power. Anyone who thinks differently is dreaming the 1% will be kind if we continue to lay down for them. A General Strike, one section of the work force at a time, 2 weeks shutting down kills their profit. Workers Strike Back! The WSB conference is in Feb. The work begins and I thank you.
There is a brilliant woman on substack............unfortunately I forget her name but I always share her on substack.
Maine: Many Military bases: Shut them down.
SHUT down the Mainstream Media.
Protesting outside.
We may even had a train you could get from New York to L.A. in less than a week. We could ask the Chinese to help us.
Peace is possible as the failed u.s. empire has shown us. Our failure is a model for future governments. Just think of what could have been with that 22 Trillion in DOD/%DOE spending.
How are you to eat, pay "your" taxes, "drive" to your job etc when you stop all that from happening? You're far more dependent that you're prepared to admit. One winter without oil or gas and you will gladly accept "the jew" back to rule you.
Ha, so serve the empire. We will change it through General Strike. No one has to do without. Workers Strike Back.
Not only do I resent that you fell right into the Empires trap and propaganda of conflating Jewishness with Zionism but you shamefully use it calling the "Jew" as some kind of ruler... it is only a religion. Soon, you'll be calling anyone not supporting Israel an anti-semite, that is how Israel's propaganda arm functions.
There are more Christian Zionists than Jewish ones by 60%.This propaganda is all meant to divide us and this nation is horribly divided. The rulers would celebrate a civil or class war in America and it would successfully lower the population in the US for them. We have to rally together to make that an impossibility.
For what it's worth, here's a good example of the differences between Zionism and Judaism... real Jews use the Holocaust as a cautionary tale, Zionists use it as their playbook. Re-read that.
The genocide is led by Zionists and extremist white supremacists who believe in apocalyptic religious politics. These groups have grown. Many are headed by billionaires.
In addition, as Caitlin says, we are also run by other billionaires and corporations who in turn also run the government and media.
In short... we are in some deep shit.
Thank you for that, much love and many hugs. We can change minds with logic and compassion : )
110. i don't know whether you believe that you are now a Zionist/Evangelical country?
You will probably not have bombs dropped on you (like the rest of the world has had from the Imperialist USA) but you are becoming a Nation, run by Zionist/Evangelical Christians. I would rather have bombs because you will be forced to bend your knees. Women will be defunct except for procreation. NO love/kindness. Middle ages USA
We must fight this idea of these grossly disturbed compromised people whether in the government, media or corporations... we MUST fight them tooth and nail. They cannot run every fraction of this country as people will revolt eventually and there will be either a class or civil war. Most sane people do not buy into their racist, indoctrinated BS.
https://www.workersstrikeback.org/
Not sure I could love you more : )
Besides some of the other things written here (below), I guess I have to point out that a general strike is not a simple proposition. Extensive preparation, and broad public support are needed. While these resources are being identified and gathered, the other side -- the side of sociopaths, psychopaths, and other destructive parties -- will not be passive, but will be laboring mightily to preserve their privileges and exert their sadism. While many understand at least parts of the problem, few have any idea of what to do about it, at least in the present, that will be effective.
Exactly right. One of the reasons Fred Hampton was murdered. Workers Strike Back Kshama Sawant is building a conference in Feb. to unite people beyond, race,class, gender. I love this woman more than my life. https://www.workersstrikeback.org/
The most deeply depressing and infuriating part of all of this for me, as an American is to witness 99% of our politicians bend the knee to Israel, every election season, every press conference, with no end in sight. Whatever the real answer is (money, blackmail, videos of sex parties, whatever) it is so utterly humiliating and degrading to see our gutless, treasonous politicians openly offer allegiance to a despotic foreign government, to an ideology so anti human, anti life it is difficult to find the adjectives to properly describe it.
And to have to watch, in real time, in lurid detail the abominations being visited upon the
Palestinian people, the open murder, rape, indiscriminate destruction, torture, destruction of hospitals, schools, food supplies,……..100 % funded by our tax dollars….is beyond words.
There are other genocides. But this is the only one that is cheered on by most of the political class of most of the Western (and Arab) world, and completely funded by American dollars. And Netanyahu and his bloodthirsty demonic supporters are more and more emboldened, since they operate with completely impunity….they have been empowered by Biden and Obama and Trump and Starmer and Victor Orban and the Saudis and Emiratis to murder, maim, rape and torture millions of innocent human beings to satisfy some insane, demonic ideology and blood lust.
I have never felt more powerless in my life, as an American.
I agree. So, actually, do thousands of good and decent American Jews. Zionism is a truly warped philosophy, whether Christian or Jewish. It must go. But I do think our politicians have more control over Israel than we might think. Therefore, they are more responsible for this holocaust than we might think.
Absolutely. 🤑
It truly is shocking and horrifying. And they are doing everything they can to hide the truth or make excuses. So many believe the Hasbara or feel they don't know enough to come out against it.
If they don't know, that's easily curable. What's stopping them, pray tell?
The big fat paychecks from AIPAC and other Zionist lobbyist groups.
Tragically, anyone with a beating heart and functioning brain should 100% agree with you! I reached out to the law firm in North CA who is representing the 500 (so far) people involved in the class action lawsuit against their government. Please go online and look it up. There is a webinar on January 25th. I am in NY and they told me people are showing interest here and this is exactly what they hoped for. Congress has broken many laws and this will be an uphill battle but they cannot use our tax dollars to commit genocide legally.
Here is the link to the article that got my interest...
https://truthout.org/articles/we-have-to-act-taxpayers-suing-congressmembers-for-funding-genocide-speak-out/
Thank you!!! I live there and was unaware of this. I just signed onto the suit.
You're welcome... thank you for signing on!
Well said, and I concur wholeheartedly.
What do you mean by “demonic ideology” and who are these “millions of innocent human beings” being maimed and tortured”? Lol Do you work for Iran?
Or do you just mean it pisses you off because Jewish people refusing to let themselves be slaughtered like in the good old days? What is it you admire about Islamist theocratic fascism? Please explain…
I admire nothing about Islamic theocratic fascism, or any other kind of fascism or authoritarian ideology.
“Jewish people refusing to be slaughtered” is a nice dodge……the formerly oppressed have turned into the oppressors, but with modern technology, unlimited funding, and total impunity.
“Millions of human beings” refers to Palestinians (and Syrians and Lebanese), but you are surely smart enough to figure that out.
“Demonic ideology” refers to Netanyahu’s (and his settler supporters’) evil philosophy of racial superiority, “chosen people”, anti-anything-but-rabid-Zionist, blood lust, anything goes murder, torture, rape.
I concur 100% also.
Yup^😞
Yes, Orban too. When Netanyahu started to run into trouble with the international criminal court Orban went out of his way to invite Netanyahu o to Hungary and say he would always be welcome there. For lots and lots of “Christians” and “defenders of Christendom” Palestinians and other Arabs/Muslimy types aren’t full human beings and not worthy of full protection from slaughter.
The globablists' have successfully weaponized the Red vs Blue, East vs West, Vaxxed vs Unvaxxed, Boy vs Girl, Gay vs Straight, Brown vs White, and Pro-Life vs Choice dichotomies to exploit our innate tribal nature, and in doing so are dividing and conquering us. This us-vs-them separation makes us easy to control and direct with simple angry thoughts about the enemy who isn’t really our enemy - while blinding us to the actual enemy behind the curtain pulling the puppet strings. If we could collectively recognize this for what it is the NWO wouldn’t stand a chance.
These forces we are up against cannot be overcome if we keep allowing them to divide and conquer us. We must let go of our pride and our resentments for one another - which were instilled in us through their psychological operations - and unite together or we stand no chance.
Our adversaries know this, which is why they've been fighting tooth and nail to poison the wells we all share of comradery, fellowship, and family—they've been doing everything they can to decimate the ties that bind by disintegrating every trace of common ground and brotherhood between us.
Values we all once shared that were intended to do the most good for the most people are being maliciously torched in the name of discord and disunity by utilizing a reality denying, mentally ill, family destroying, child warping, depraved ideology.
They do not stand a chance against the united, undivided resolve of even a small percentage of us—and they know it. This is the reason they are frantically fighting and sparing no expense to keep us depressed, oppressed, divided, demoralized, and traumatized. And so we will respond by uniting and taking back what is ours.
Excerpt from: https://tritorch.substack.com/p/united-we-stand-divided-we-fall
And keeping us physically sick with the trash food we have available and advertised and encouraged to consume. It’s a sick society run by sicker ideologies to keep us too weak and uninspired and ill to rise up.
You don't have to eat 'trash food' buy some vegetables and cook them?
Of course. That is known. But it’s beside the point! We sell horrible food in this country that has chemicals on it, chemical ingredients in it, that is banned in other countries. Most people walk in a grocery store thinking the food they buy to eat is safe and will keep them nourished or healthy. Even with “ good choices” much of the foods are unhealthy or have miss information or false advertising or are full of chemicals. Eat the American/ western diet for a generation- the next has our “first world” diseases of high blood pressure, diabetes , coronary artery disease, and more. It’s not so simple as buying your own fruits and vegetables every day and preparing your own from scratch meals. And the foods we feed our kids in schools, even in hospitals- they are garbage. Drug industry stays lucrative, hospitals stay wealthy, health care system is a money making machine- we keep you sick and treat symptoms so there is an ever present line in wait of more drugs- it is never ending. It’s so bad we have stupid catchy songs in commercials for drugs that sell diabetic medications- like it’s a fun party to have diabetes and be sick ! It is insanity and sadly, the masses play into it. It’s a tragic reality you can see, if you open your eyes and pay attention and educate yourself.
Better yet, grow your own. I know that can be difficult for city dwellers, but it's not impossible.
That's your CHOICE to eat. You're NOT a fenced herd animal UNLESS YOU CHOOSE TO REMAIN AS SUCH!
“The farmer was and remains the stumbling block to socialist experiments everywhere. Since he raises his own food and tends to live in his own house, he is less “controllable” than say,the urban dweller.” ― Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism Revisited: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot
Of course. That is known. But it’s beside the point! We sell horrible food in this country that has chemicals on it, chemical ingredients in it, that is banned in other countries. Most people walk in a grocery store thinking the food they buy to eat is safe and will keep them nourished or healthy. Even with “ good choices” much of the foods are unhealthy or have miss information or false advertising or are full of chemicals. Eat the American/ western diet for a generation- the next has our “first world” diseases of high blood pressure, diabetes , coronary artery disease, and more. It’s not so simple as buying your own fruits and vegetables every day and preparing your own from scratch meals. And the foods we feed our kids in schools, even in hospitals- they are garbage. Drug industry stays lucrative, hospitals stay wealthy, health care system is a money making machine- we keep you sick and treat symptoms so there is an ever present line in wait of more drugs- it is never ending. It’s so bad we have stupid catchy songs in commercials for drugs that sell diabetic medications- like it’s a fun party to have diabetes and be sick ! It is insanity and sadly, the masses play into it. It’s a tragic reality you can s
Put the culture war at the center of everyone’s universe
Feed them poison food
Have them breath poisoned air
Inject them with poison needles
Turn education into mind poison
Poison the notion of family and life itself
Pit everyone against each other with poison propaganda
Tear down morals, heroes, role models:
Why Modern Movies Suck - Destroying Our Heroes in a Bid to Destroy Society: https://old.bitchute.com/video/bkSSb3y9xdBL [12mins]
Put the planet above God
Sit back and watch the chaos
Lol. You really think we’re in The Matrix don’t you?
sounds like another right-wing 'revolutionary' platform which caitlin mentioned before.
Works only with those who CHOOSE to be herd animals. Human Adults would kill all involved...as I am screaming for us to begin!
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/its-not-the-responsibility-of-the/comment/85764401?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4xxwi
This was in response to TriTorch ‘s comment.
Exactly. Moreover, it's time to up our game -- and badly.
That includes how public discourse is to be conducted...
-- For one thing, it's well-arguably a fatal Achille's heel when our adversaries are clearly at war with us. In the highly-respected The Art of War, Sun Tzu says, "All warfare is based on deception." No idea how this is to be solved, but maybe it can be done using game theory.
-- For another, I note how nearly *all* (text) reporting is done not as "conversational" back-and-forth examination of evidence, but as an (attempt at an) artful piece of writing (as one voice, whether one or more authors), and today unfortunately often conflating normative claims with positive claims. Meanwhile, messy but often illuminating (beyond what is explicitly said) conversations tend to happen only in comments, which have little of the same subliminal authoritative impact. Maybe we can evolve from this, and find a way, for example, to emulate where science successfully progresses?
Some rich leftists need to start tv and radio media that counters Faux, etc.
But if they're "rich" then they're okay with the status quo, right? We need the Workers to unite and start up and ensure bigger media platforms to get our message out.
Yeah. But maybe someone like MacKenzie Bezos could help out. I'm thinking that media, like Fox and talk radio, can be so powerful in influencing and motivating large numbers of people. The left needs to get in the game.
Are you aware where the red blue, right left, conservative liberal divide began, where and by who? "They" are (T=the H=hebrews E=enslaving Y=you)
STOP adulating billionaires and remind everyone you know that some community somewhere is likely bereft of its basic needs because a giant sociopath a-hole is addicted to wealth accumulation. Would you genuflect to a gambling addict, a child porn addict? Remind those around you that addictions that harm others are to be rejected regardless, and given its enormous power, wealth addiction's potential harm is immense. When they see Elon smiling, remind them that he's not trying to befriend them, but that the smile is likely one of self-contentment at his power over their puny asses. Sorry, when I hear that some billionaire couple owned water rights in CA that may have limited firefighting access, it's a poignant reminder that Capitalism, the sword of all modern empires, engenders disasters by way of the tremendous economic inequality it encourages.
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Some of us have been fighting that stupid fucking fight forever. I haven’t completely given up, and I can envision 2 people out of 10 being fired up by your rally cry. But the other 8 are terrified of abandoning a lifetime of propaganda. When Twain said
“it’s easier to trick people than to convince them that they have been fooled”. A younger more naive version of me found that amusing.
Insulting and mocking our fellow Americans is not how we unite against those who are destroying us.
That’s adorable. I think the truth is that we are destroying ourselves while pointing fingers at the rich or poor or whoever. But good luck with whatever it is you’re proposing.
The vast (99%) of the Global South, don't hate the "West".
They don't want to kill you or even defeat you.
They just want you to go home and stay there.
Of course they are outraged by Gaza.
Of course they are harmed by your trade wars and sanctions.
Of course they know that you have raped and plundered them for 300 years.
They don't want your life-style or your ethics and detest your 'morality".
But please just take your toys and your weapons and your money and go back to your country.
Stay there.
Always good to know someone from “London” speaking for 99% of the Global South.
This is the same Global South that cheers on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China’s coveting of Taiwan and supports Islamist fascists slaughtering Jewish people?
The global south and cunts like you can go fuck yourself.
What an intelligent and cogent reply.
Firstly I have spent 50+ years in the "Global South", lived in 4 African countries worked on 5 continents and speak/spoke 4 languages.
My name is a reference to my place of birth, but more to Jack London who is one of the best writers to ever live, see 'People of the Abyss' for reference.
Russia did not "invade" Ukraine, it followed the UN principle of "Duty to Protect" after the Banderas had killed 14,000 Russian speakers mainly women and children.
China does not "Covet" Taiwan, Formosa has been a region of China for over 300 years. The fact that remnants of an illegitimate government used US forces backing to "declare" themselves the government not just of Taiwan/Formosa, but of the whole of China shows that you are wrong.
Islamist "Fascists" is a contradiction in terms, the Fascists are the Israeli and their US supporters. For 76 years the Israelis and Americans have been slaughtering tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, mainly women and children. The slaughter continues to this moment, the fact that you do not acknowledge this fact shows who and what you are.
Your final sentence demonstrates your marvellous ability and brainpower.
The american empire might be the most perfect empire of brutality. With its ruthless murdering and stealing of native land and promotion of hatred, it makes people who are against racism seem anti-american. There was too much hated in america for natives, blacks, brown people, catholics, and immigrants for there ever to be any sort of basic unity or to see others as humans. To travel to other countries and to see a richness of culture and humanity that is lacking in america is truly eye opening. The Global South is going to have to save themselves and endure because there's no love coming from america.
After watching what has happened at the BBC: A Mossad/CIA agent in charge of Middle East/Foreign news. A protest on Sat. was shut down by the Metropolitan Police in London outside the BBC but people went anyway.
I keep repeating time and time again: Protest outside Mainstream Media (MSM offices). Make these people uncomfortable about their lies.
What “lies” would they be then? Maybe watch terrorist simps at Al Jazeera then instead?
The genocide in Gaza, and all the vicious, barbaric strategies that are being used to inflict it, could not happen unless one of the wealthiest, best educated, best fed, most 21st century, supposedly 'Western-valued' societies was thoroughly behind it. Israelis not only believe they are doing right: a great many of them, and their supporters around the world, honestly seem to believe they are heroically performing a service on behalf of the rest of the world. This is, obviously, incredible. Moreover, since we are encouraged to believe no-one is born evil, we have to accept that these wealthy, well-educated, extremely-comfortable people have been made into enthusiasts for racist genocide entirely by propaganda. They believe they are right to massacre the 'subhuman animals' whose land they want, and torture doctors, and murder infants, because that's what the people who control their society want them to believe. Ordinary people, leading ordinary lives, yet rejoicing in the idea of atrocities, and war crimes, and causing other human beings as much suffering as possible, and homelessness, and death, because their controllers have conditioned them to. No need for secrecy here, no barbed wire to keep people from seeing the brutality, no camps to deny knowledge of - the people are proud of the barbarism, and flaunt it on Facebook. A modern, 'Western' society has shown what it can be made into. Meanwhile, with just a little manipulation, people in other Western societies have showed that they couldn't care less. Their leaders, almost all immediately enthusiastic supporters of the obliteration, suffered so little pressure to stand for decency it's hard not to imagine them actively sneering at the idea. So what does this tell us? a.) That normal-seeming, 20th Century, apparently-Western societies can, easily and at very little cost, be made into merciless killers, who are proud to be so, and b.) that the rest of the world, given a compliant media, won't actually give enough of a shit to make their racist governments stop being such revolting quislings. Getting rid of 'problem' populations, the evidence suggests, is now a piece of absolute piss. Which, if I were the new saviour of the world, and a saint and a convicted felon who has designs on parts of the world that don't belong to the country that's just elected me, would be Jolly Good News Indeed.
Good questions indeed. What exactly does drive the Arab colonisers to try and continually annihilate Israel and Jewish people?
The Arabs weren’t born evil, as you say, no one is.
I suppose you see Sitting Bull as a terrorist, trying to annhilate white settlers and American citizens. And we won't get you started on Cochise.
Lame.
Very well expressed Rod Dawson, thank you!
That would be unprecedented in history though. Empires always fall, yes, and from a mix of internal problems and disfunctions and external opposition. I'm not sure that there ever has been even one that was brought down by its own population. I doubt that that is how the world works. This empire has internal problems aplenty though, and those will lead to its end. Eventually.
French Revolution. DID change things and it has lasted a LONG time until now.
Lol. She thinks she’s a historian now. Go on, how exactly did the French Revolution change things? I’ll wait.
Consumerism and dependence upon The Fed (The Banksters) to keep the Debt Based Economy going is what will end this empire. We the People are the ones in denial.
Spoken as a Man!
We have choices; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrPBdLiqMb0
“The farmer was and remains the stumbling block to socialist experiments everywhere. Since he raises his own food and tends to live in his own house, he is less “controllable” than say,the urban dweller.” ― Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism Revisited: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot
Bastille Day?
The French Revolution didn't end the empire. Indeed Napoleon subsequently expanded it. It still more or less exists today in northern Africa -- the French led the destruction of uppity Libya.
Maybe that will be attempted by the Trump administration : wealth through theft and extortion. The populace seems to be OK with that.
Jill Stein got 0.7% of the vote.
A hell of a lot of Laws got changed......the main one being separation of church and state. Religion was a major part of supporting the Royals.
Tsar Nicholas and co., might think a wee bit differently about this.
I think you vastly overestimate the current power of the empire. You only have to listen to Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson to understand its declining economic position. BRICS+ has a GDP in excess of the G7 with more countries begging to join. You only have to listen to Col. Douglas MacGregor, Larry Johnson and other geopolitical and military analysts to understand the empire’s military is overrated. It’s been soundly defeated by Russian military superiority and its navy has been unable to silence the moral integrity and tenacity of AnsarAllah. Rand and other war game analytics show the empire losing to China and the same aforementioned experts show the empire incapable of defeating Iran. They have also said Iran possesses escalation dominance over the apartheid regime in West Asia. As for Hezbollah, reporting from Electronic Intifada, Mahmood OD and other regional journalists claim their military dominance over the genocidal regime remains even after the collapse of the Assad. Lastly, Jon Elmers from Electronic Intifada continues to report on increased recruiting numbers for all the resistance groups in Gaza along with their ability to obtain new weaponry and carry out high numbers of military operations. Even the IDF admits it can’t defeat Hamas. All that being said, couldn’t agree more that WE need to defeat it. Love your work and thank you for what you do!
What you hoping to replace this “empire” with there chief?
And yeah, Hamas really has Israel on the ropes lol lol
Why you openly simping for theocratic fascist terrorist scum? Are you in Iran?
Who do you think is shirking responsibly Probably no one reading your articles that's for sure.
By the way, only a military solution will end Israel. Sanctions just don't work although they make for good PR and higher awareness of the problem. So military destruction it will have to be.
Fortunately people are wrong about Syria being captured, Hezbollah greatly weakened, and Gaza in rubble. Syria is and always will be a hodgepodge of tribes, religions, military groups, and outside interference, has been for thousands of years, and that will not change and therefore will not be stabilizing. Hezbollah will deal with the new illegal president of Lebanon and don't think the people of Lebanon don't know exactly who and what he is. Gaza continues to fight and will as long as is necessary. And Iran since 1982 when America severed diplomatic ties has only grown stronger. Knowing that both China and Russia now rely on a strong and resilient Iran for their success is all we need to know about that.
Meanwhile our mission should be clear - sweep Jewish and Christian Zionists and their influenced elected officials from Congress and the White House. Build awareness of their crimes to severe support by America for Israel, thereby empowering its military destruction.
re sanctioning israel: the good pr and higher awareness must be done, imo, though. can't skip that step.
Wow. So you’re properly genocidal then? Military destruction of an entire country? Why don’t you put them fighting words into action champ and fuck off to Gaza? They could do with useful idiots like you there.
Iran has only grown stronger? Lol lol. What is it about antisemitic theocratic fascism appeals to you exactly? The racism? The homophobia? The misogyny? Please, explain…
Helping people see, not by taking an interest in their world view or understanding how they came to it but by bombarding them with our world view.
" It is fully within our capability to awaken a revolutionary zeitgeist within our society so that we can use the power of our vast numbers to take down this machine and create a better world."
Thank you for stating this so clearly, Caitlin! Westerners often forget that they're not helpless--they do have the numbers and the power to take down the corrupt machine. We just have to organize, work together (not against each other) and have the courage of our convictions. Power to the people!
"There are more of us than there are of them" is not a strategy.
Tell us a strategy where numbers don't play a part of the strategy.
Only unrelenting NATIONAL STRIKES against the VAMPIRES of our own society’s making can CRIPPLE them.
But the average American worker is too lazy and still too comfortable to join a STRIKE even for a week….
The economy has to tank first, THEN Americans might wake up with no food on the table and in bitter cold or amidst FOOD and FIRES….
"too lazy and still too comfortable" With no job security, and living paycheck to paycheck, maybe they're just too anxious and insecure?
It's BOTH - some are lazy and comfortable and enticed by consumerism, distractions, and "dreams and illusions of being a self-made billionaire" (and hence tolerate the abuses of capitalism and the 1% in the hopes that they too will "make it"), while others DO SUFFER from insecurity and structural and systemic abuses of capitalism (as you say) to be able to challenge it sufficiently.
It takes a stupid person to make a stupid rule.
And a fool to mind it.
Do not be a stupid.
Do not be a fool.
We the People outnumber Them 99:1.
They cannot manifest much mischief without help.
That means the Flying Monkeys must stop rendering aid and assistance to the Them.
Stop supporting the Parasite Class.
We have a coherent form of governance:
The Constitution, Bill of Rights, the Golden Rule.
Takes a certain level of maturity and evolution to appreciate it.
To implement it and perpetuate it.
The price for Freedom is eternal vigilance.
Standards have degraded.
A corrupt kakistocracy has taken hold.
People caused this mess.
People can correct their errors.
One individual at a time.