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El dragon's avatar

248 years ago, on July 4, 1776, the United States declared independence from the British Empire, and from 1786 until today, Washington has carried out 469 military interventions worldwide.

Some of the worst acts of American military aggression include the bombing of Cambodia, the bombing of Yugoslavia, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and interventions in Libya and Syria.

It is significant that 251 US military operations have taken place after 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed - the only country in the world that could equally resist Washington's aggression.

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Paul GOVAN's avatar

Yes indeed - but like even the most well-informed truth-tellers you omit to mention or give major prominence to the US-UK-backed and applauded 1965-1966 anti-communist/leftist/socialist "Indonesian Purge". Between 500,000 to 1.2 million people were hideously butchered/slain/slaughtered.

Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366

Paul G

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El dragon's avatar

Sadly, "too long to list" of atrocities applies here. I just wanted to point to the recent and familiar history. But thanks for your input.

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Paul GOVAN's avatar

I choose to differ. It's imperative to remind or inform people about major often ignored /unknown/wilfully buried atrocities. - or any inconvenient buried ugly truths - and to learn from relatively recent historical (eg.1966) events that both the mainstream media AND "alternative" media frequently fail to mention

But "thanks for your input".

Paul G

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Zoe's avatar

Thank you for this invaluable perspective on the issue. This country will be bombed.

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John Turcot's avatar

Zoe,

According to Murphy's Law, not only "this country" but all nations since radiation, total darkness and deep freezing do not have national boundaries.

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Dorothy's avatar

When I think I have nothing left, you remind me that I do. Let’s get it.

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Landru's avatar

I stand beside you in the fight.

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Susan T's avatar

I got up and read the news. A community encampment dismantled at 5:00 this morning. Keir Starmer's wife is a Zionist. Then I read Caitlin's post. How did she know this is just the morning when we need reminding that while there is life, there is hope.

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A Parseeker's avatar

You spoke for me, Caitlin. Thank you.

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Libertarian's avatar

My father, 4 brothers, and I all served active duty in the US military; what Israel is doing to the Palestinian civilians, women and children is murder and slaughter and is not “war”. It’s about like beating and starving your child to death. Israel has committed this and the stain cannot be removed anymore than a Nazi could remove their stain. It’s done and cannot be undone. Never forget.

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Zoe's avatar

USA is totally responsible as well. So are we. Unless you do something about it. Want ideas?

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Indu Abeysekara's avatar

Many thanks to Caitlin for a wonderful poem, pulling at our heartstrings and hopelessness.

Zoe, We know who is responsible for what ails the world. Wherever we look their fingerprints are there in all the trouble spots. With their 800 or so military bases they control the world. They have a strangle hold on the world economy.

What are we going to do about it? It is time for the American people to rise up and cast aside the tormentors ..... and the rest will follow.

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Zoe's avatar

Yes how?? USA people work and go home. The idea that american workers will rise up is slim, they probably wont for a long time. Most americans seem to not know what is going on. So...

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karimavargasbushnell@gmail.com's avatar

Sure, ideas welcome!

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Libertarian's avatar

Sure. I already boycott stuff but feel free to advise further.

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Zoe's avatar

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Contrarian 33's avatar

Donated, as requested, Zoe.

It should have happened a long time ago. We could have saved thousands of lives as a result.

After all, the Church in Rome might be the only organisation that is not subject to Jewish infiltration and parasitical influence. "Might be".

But then again, the fact that no one from Rome has taken up any arms, verbally, against the abuser of the sixth Commandment, "Thous Shall Not Kill", might indicate otherwise. Can't recall the Pope having said a single word against Biden and his disgraceful inhumane record.

If you are reading these pages Joe, you hypoctrical murderer, the Sixth Commandment forbids 'direct and intentional killing as gravely sinful'.

Can someone explain this to the poor old Roman Catholic soul. In very simple terms, please.

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Dr.Who's avatar

JB is as much a Catholic as a Zionist is a Jew. Zionism is not Judaism and Zionism is not Catholicism. He has proclaimed to be a Zionist, and thereby renounced his loyalty to God and His commandments.

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Hannah West's avatar

Nice one Zoe. Signed.

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K_L_Elsayed's avatar

Absolutely beautiful poem 🥰

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Paul's avatar

Your words as a poem

Let the cruelty of the world break our hearts, dear friend,

Together, let’s weep for Gaza’s shredded, emaciated forms,

Mocked by their tormentors' cackling scorn.

For amputees and orphans in Ukraine and Russia’s strife,

Their icy-eyed oppressors draining life.

Let’s mourn for gasping plants and dying wildlife,

As ambition-clouded minds drive us to the brink,

Making our planet uninhabitable, forcing us to think.

Let it all in, let it shatter our core,

We are not soldiers, nor killers, our hearts are soft, not war-torn.

Let the world’s cruelty smash us to dust,

Scatter us in the wind, in anguish we trust.

Surrender to sorrow, let it immolate our being,

And then see what remains after this unseeing.

Life keeps on lifeing, even swept away,

Heartbreak held back, yet we don’t decay.

The hurricane of sorrow, permitted to tear,

Yet lungs fill with air, veins pulse without despair.

The rising sun’s light seeps into our eyes,

Strength returns, and slowly we rise.

Bodies shaking off the weight of despair,

Sitting up, standing, breathing the fresh air.

Ready to fight, having felt the world’s sting,

Destroyed, yet finding what remains, we cling.

Let the world’s cruelty break us, dear friend,

And from the ruins, we fight till the end.

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Diana van Eyk's avatar

Yes, let's.

We need to feel it all, collapse for awhile, then carry on with what we have left.

And support each other as we do this.

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Zoe's avatar

We wont all collapse at the same time luckily i collapsed in the early 80s i will never collapse again. I did expect the current unconstitutional and genocidal acts by the USA but i am not still in denial or stuck in shock. We must accept reality and move foward on the straight path. It is the only way.

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John Turcot's avatar

Zoe.. "straight path" ..... not sure such a path exists... and if so, where is it? .

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

{..."straight path" ..... not sure such a path exists... and if so, where is it?...}

Just follow a photon, but only if it doesn't get too close to a black hole ...

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Landru's avatar

Yes, perfect appraisal. I fight along side you.

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John Turcot's avatar

Diana,

"We need to feel it all, collapse for awhile, then carry on with what we have left." Not sure what you mean by "all". but if a nuclear war is involved in any way, what will be left will probably remain unlivable for most species on the planet, if not all of them. 'An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure' is the only remedy available, and everyone needs to have taken it out of the medicine cabinet yesterday.

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Blucey's avatar

Thank you👏👏👏

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Feral Finster's avatar

Too many humans see the cruelty of the world and think "I gotta get with the winning side!"

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Zoe's avatar

Maybe but being bombed isnt fun

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Pippi Smythe's avatar

I know, ask those who Amurdica has bombed.

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Howard Pearce - Libertarian's avatar

"Letting The Cruelty Of The World Break Our Hearts Together"

It's not the world that is cruel

It is THE STATES and THE EMPIRE they comprise that are cruel.

They control the entire planet for the most part and the people under it

The vast majority of people regardless of where they come from are generally peaceful (once The State AND Empire are not controlling them)

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ikester8's avatar

The world is cruel, nature, red in tooth and claw, as the poet said. It is only humanity that has a chance of making it less cruel, and we have, but we have a long way to go, and backsliding is always an option. There are these stubborn pockets of power that continue to cling to their cruelty. It need not be so.

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Zoe's avatar

Nature is not cruel. That would be making it human

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ikester8's avatar

“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae [a family of parasitoid wasps] with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars.” Charles Darwin

That is nature. Cold, cruel, indifferent.

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Zoe's avatar

Yes from a white male european human perspective no need to soley base your veiws on Darwins opinions. The idea of the (Law)Theory of Evolution is Darwin's contribution but the cruelty of the wasp thing isnt cruel because the wadps or plant arent sadistic or indifferent. Those are human (and Dawin's subjective veiw) behaviors and attitudes. There are other ways to veiw nature. Human beings control their own environment idividuakky and collectively to more or less assure our homeostasis.

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ikester8's avatar

True, they aren't sadistic, and I never said that, you did. But they are indifferent to the suffering of others. All animals, with the exception of some domesticated species, are indifferent to the suffering of others. It's how they eat. Don't anthropomorphize them.

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karimavargasbushnell@gmail.com's avatar

Sorry, there are tons of examples of animals responding empathetically to the sufferings of others, often across species.

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John Turcot's avatar

IIkester8,

I did not know Darwin had written such words....... which to me makes his reasoning even more impressive... We need to understand and recognize the true conditions of nature's environments so that we can try and avoid them , thus creating our own evolution.

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ikester8's avatar

Exactly, we're the only species who can affect our own behavior, if not our own evolution.

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Howard Pearce - Libertarian's avatar

ALL STATES are controlled by human beings

That humanity has decided to let these coercive monopolies be their government is their fault

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Yeshua Risen's avatar

States suffer the same problem Ephesians 6:12 states: "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."

The Book of Enoch states there were 200 Watchers (fallen angels) that descended on Mt. Hermon, elaborating on Genesis 6, and now there is a UN outpost atop. There are 195 countries, 2 non-UN -- Holy See and Palestine -- leaving a few to 'Watch' the whole world if Enoch wasn't rounding off. The base of the mountain has the cave of Pan, the horned god, where Jesus stated that those Gates of Hell wouldn't prevail against his new church (which isn't actually Catholic as it might infer). Coincidences?

Accepting that as much as the rest helps explain why we have such pedophiliac serial apist murderers rampant at the top levels downward. They're doing a bangup job of turning the world into the bizarro clown 🤡 planet. (There's a reason some fear clowns so inherently.) While many are becoming better people than our ancestors, many more are becoming much, much worse. Jesus is the only one who can really put all this right again, the doctor who cures our terminal malady.

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John Turcot's avatar

Howard,

"That humanity has decided to let these coercive monopolies be their government is their fault."

Beautiful! You got that exactly right. , 'THEY' are 'US', as in you and me...

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Howard Pearce - Libertarian's avatar

I do not believe they are us

But they did make a mistake in choosing what their government would look like

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John Turcot's avatar

Howard,

"But they did make a mistake in choosing what their government would look like" I.e., they look like US.. I like what Gandhi hinted when he said: "Be the change you want you want to see in the world".

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Howard Pearce - Libertarian's avatar

and that works for people who can get past normalization and rethink their ideas

But remember, states are used across the entire planet as governments

I s that a coincidence ?

Libertarians like myself literally fight against what people consider normal or perhaps as what Caitlin describes as "being lied to"

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Zoe's avatar

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Howard Pearce - Libertarian's avatar

not being a member or religious, I do not think I can do that

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russian_bot's avatar

free-associate just for the signing purpose.

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John Turcot's avatar

Howard,

"The vast majority of people regardless of where they come from are generally peaceful'...

I think you're being overly generous. I live in Canada, where winter temperatures can dip to minus 30 C where I live, where there is enough land masses to accommodate everyone on the planet, Yet, as I drive by in my comfortable SUV along the boulevard of shame, where the homeless shiver in their tents, I can't help but wonder who has decided that some of them will freeze to death. .. i.e., .. the 99% of humanity, or the 1% ?

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Howard Pearce - Libertarian's avatar

No one is responsible for NOT ACTING unless there was a contract of some sort

That they do not act is something you may disapprove of.

Does that really make them non-peaceful ?

I question that view

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John Turcot's avatar

Howard...

In a democracy, the people choose how they want society to function. In a country like Canada there is enough land for everyone on Earth. In the local paper, in the section 'Letters to the Editor' hardly anyone ever mentions the 'Boulevard of the Broken' I completely disapprove of anyone (homeless) freezing to death when there are warm empty buildings all around... It's up to US to change that perspective, and we don't. It's not because of THEM, but because of US.

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wilson's avatar

I don't like it either. But then what is to be done? Give them free everything and you'll get a lot more of that behavior. Assuming most of them are drug /alcohol addicts what is to be done about that?

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Zoe's avatar

THANL YOU

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Bruce de Torres's avatar

God love you for this. For all you post. I do.

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Hannah West's avatar

I keep picking at that callous. As much as I made sure to love the pain, after all this time it was inevitable that I wouldn’t be able to scrape that whole thing off. But right now the burning tears comfort me. My heart is still open and could even open wider if I don’t look away. If I refuse to avoid the pain. This is my resistance. And today—with your help, kind friend—my victory. Shattered and bleeding out, laughing and weeping and ALIVE. Thank you so much Caitlin. You are an angel, and these words may bear even more truth than you know. Blessings to you and everyone who reads her magnificent poem.

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Indu Abeysekara's avatar

Hannah, Keep the door of your heart open.

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Zoe's avatar

Rest veiw the world in this new spiritual way and when you can unfold and move forward. Your path though difficult will be more illuminated

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Hannah West's avatar

I was going to write a long reply and just deleted it. You know all those things already. My heart rests in the Creator’s promises. Nothing precious is ever truly lost, and when we are all reunited there will be one heck of a party. But we’re not there yet, and if nothing else we must bear witness. I am committed to not looking away. Committed to praying that the evil designs of the powers at play bite them in the ass with every move they make, and that those who are alive and remain have the strength to

Survive the aftermath. Not necessarily in this skin, but in our spirits. 💜🕊️

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Hannah West's avatar

Signed. Thank you Zoe.

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Zoe's avatar

Beautiful your strength is ours thank you

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Hannah West's avatar

Haven’t been on this as long as you have but after over 30 years of watching Palestinians be abused,maligned, robbed and killed..and walking in the Spirit through it all…my heart still breaks with each new offense and I get stronger every time it happens. Slowly painting my way through this and hope to share them with comments that are still brewing in my mind or I’d have done it already.

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Valerie's avatar

Thank you Caitlin, your poem reminds me of the frailty of humanity in the face of horror but also our inner strength. Which when after we have wept and raged makes us fight on.

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Landru's avatar

There are no other words Caitlin then, I LOVE YOU : )

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

Tim's narration is especially moving. My exhaustion briefly yielded to the peace of his voice. Thank you. I'm unsure what remains in me, but shall try to use that moment of calm as a jumping off point from which to marshal my paltry energy to hopefully fight on.

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El dragon's avatar

Globalists want to you to either feel fatigued to care, or immobilized by depression. Don't let them.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

This! If we're paralyzed with fatigue or depression or fear then we just let the monsters continue on in their destructive behaviors. Take the arm of a fellow comrade in the fight and get back on your feet and back into the fight. We need ALL of us working together to set things right.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

I shall do my best, thank you.

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Zoe's avatar

Great helpful observation

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Molly Mackaman's avatar

Your writing has become a source of strength. Thank you.

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