I just heard Scott Ritter lambasting The Corpse but then apologizing because he doesn’t like to do elder abuse, that the Joe Biden he always hated isn’t around any more. That’s very sweet but I could not disagree more. Biden may be a demented old man but he’s still hanging on to power so he’s still the one blame. And if you review his words and actions over a lifetime of political status seeking, you can tell that he’s no more or less today what he has always been— a savage, bloody minded, self serving fuck weasel. No matter who is the cadre of sycophants that are supporting him, he’s the repulsive evil doing all this.
what bothers me is the pile of bovine excrement has been in government his whole feckless career making everyone miserable as was caused by his policy pushing punitive social authoritarian order
Biden is the tool. Yes he is every thing you described, but Presidents DO NOT have Power, they do as directed or suffer the consequences. It is the well known Evil shadow government of Corporate and special interest money (AIPAC) that drive the empire. Just so people know, Trump was removed for his attempts to do things, nothing will change if he comes back either except he will be CIAd.
Right, and a hammer is a tool too, but they can cause a lot of pain and damage when yielded by some maniac. Ask yourself, why are the Empire managers so keen to keep the Corpse upright and mumbling when he is so clearly a liability? He must have some value to them.
Presidents are the face we get to blame or praise for the actions of government. They are the facade that supplies the 'appearance of legitimacy' to the cartel of criminals that are the actual movers and shakers. Keep the traditions in place but hollow them out. Just like Hollowed out Biden is just a facade. That is his Only value. Like Biden said recently in a lucid moment, "I'm still Obama's Vice president".
Exactly—just like we use a hammer to drive a nail. Without the hammer, there is no impact. So dismissing Bidip as “just a tool” is extremely misguided.
You missed the point. When the lies and propaganda fail to keep the slaves in line all pretense will be dropped and the truth of government will be revealed with the rise of police state totalitarianism that doesn't require the facade any longer. It happens whenever Empires die and this one is No exception. The only question is if the people will even fight for their freedom or succumb to the empty promises and brutality. Albert J.Nock- "Our Enemy the State" an excellent primer.
Didn’t miss it. Just don’t agree with it. Your premises are assumptions based on other’s opinions about empires they think they can explain. Just because it’s accepted doesn’t make it fact or even a viable explanation. I think for myself from what I’m observing, not just knee jerk repeating of commonplaces.
Oh, god, not Scott "Crocodile Tears, I Love a Big Man in Uniform" Ritter. Christ, a million people have told the Bloody Biden story before this wimpy Marine. Elder abuse? Biden is an abused mind, since college, or before.
But most Americanos are abused minds, including rah-rah Marines, Jaw Heads, and, well, I'll let you have fun with more pukes on all side of the red-blue fucking manure pile.
So what is it that you are actually trying to say, amid your obfuscation whilst getting yourself all conflated somewhere between Scott Ritter and Joe Biden???
Biden's the figurehead..hes can't even be in charge of his faculties..the real despots controlling this wet brain moron are hiding in the shadows behind him.. you have to deal with that or NOTHING changes !
Your remarks about not leaving any goodwill for The Corpse in Washington recall the following words from A Christmas Carol justifying not leaving items of value on the corpse of Scrooge:
"If he wanted to keep 'em after he was dead, a wicked old screw, " pursued the woman, "why wasn't he natural in his lifetime?"
Poor old Scrooge. Down for all time as one of the worst “respectable” characters ever. I’m thinking Bidip will be right there with him—along with Kissinger and Nutty.
He could have stuck to the one term script and passed the torch to a viable candidate. Instead the always evil Zionist in him is fumbling the torch, with a SCOTUS assist to the last president and first dictator of the old USA.
Genocide Joe! Why didn't you pass the torch, shut up and sit down? Your legacy will now be akin to that of, not Nixon, but Hitler.
The US is not what it pretends to be, but it has not been fooling some of us since Vietnam. Sadly, it seems that each generation has to re-learn this. And then there is the money. So so many people can be sucked into buying into bullshit if they think they might be able to improve their money situations. Some can even pretend that a genocide going on on the other side of the world does not affect them. Better think a little harder.
I'm reading the book on the Israeli Lobby by John Mearsheimer and how it impacts US foreign policy and basically it's made up of people, groups, that have a lot of influence in pushing a pro-Israeli policy, and foreign policy and too often has negative effects when it comes to American interests. It makes sure we also enrich Israel and support it's policies. I was reading that their were quite a few Christian Zionists as well. If we didn't have that lobby in the US we wouldn't be supplying weapons, and we wouldn't be part of it, and no doubt Israel would not be implementing this genocide. AIPAC has got to go! Interesting that Reagan didn't take their shit, then it was all down hill from there.
I highly recommend also the book - "Against our Better Judgment'. The author, Alison Weir, labors feverishly to open American eyes about our relationship with Israel and the ongoing horrors in Gaza. Her web site is: https://israelpalestinenews.org/ She does as much as any one person can do, to publish the plight of the Palestinians - and deserves all our support.
Thanks, I go to Alzazeera everyday and see the horror now another site. Thanks for this one. Sometimes I just can't believe it. I don't know how Israeli's can see this and not be in the streets protesting. It's so incredibly inhumane. They're not. They want Netanyahu gone but no country wide protest against this genocide.
We have seen some Israelis stick their necks out, and refuse to support Netanyahu's genocide, some refusing to serve in the military - each of these suffering to some extent certain consequences for their courage. Unfortunately, the proportion of people in Israel decrying the brutality against Palestinians, reflects the proportion here in the US too. Not enough.. not enough.
I know but too few and certainly not enough to make any difference at all. True in the US as well, and other groups and having been part of the antiwar movement from the beginning in the US it had little to no impact. They do what they want to do and nothing will stop these autocratic bastards.
The frustration of course, is that there is so little we can do! What a travesty of justice that the nations of the world pay such lip service to human rights, but when a catastrophe like this happens, they sit on their 'arms'.. (we pray daily for a ceasefire; and that the Lord God will 'scatter those that delight in war'. - Psalm 68:30)
"Jewish Voice for Peace has chosen not to work with you because our central tenet is opposition to racism in all its forms, and you have chosen repeatedly to associate yourself with people who advocate for racism.
You have been a repeat guest of white supremacist Clay Douglas on his hate radio show, the Free American. Clay Douglas is concerned primarily with the survival of the White race and sees malign Jewish influence everywhere. His racist, anti-Jewish, and anti-gay rhetoric can be found across the front pages of his multiple websites."
I missed this whole thread. I'd better quit working.
I've been following Alison Weir's work since my father died in 2004--she wrote condolences and told me he had been a strong supporter for a long time. I have never seen anything that reeks of anti-semitism in her work. I had not read the story about purloined body parts but I have read about that elsewhere and do not doubt it happened, though why anyone would want an organ that wasn't fresh, I do not understand. Still, the Israelis have been peculiarly focused on re-visiting hospitals they've already destroyed. And eager to kill patients who would die eventually without care anyway. it is odd.
I read some of the JVC stuff and other links above. It sounds to me as though the JVC are trying to put the spotlight on their victiomhood and, frankly, I'm sick of that dynamic. Stop making this all about your friggin' FEELINGS. If you really care about Palestine, how about keeping your eyes on the people who really matter in this issue? (Hint: It's not American Jews who want to be viewed as liberal and non-racist.)
And, if I might, let me add the elephant in the room:
ARABS ARE BY DEFINITION SEMITES WHICH MOST AMERICAN JEWS ARE NOT. Arabs are the recipients of anti-Semitism to such a high degree that they're being slaughtered every day in multiple countries. GET OVER YOURSELVES. And if this makes no sense to you, a Semite is someone whose mother tongue is a Semitic language which does NOT characterize most American Jews.
You are not the central figures in this "war". I understand it is not a fun time to be a person who identifies at "Jewish" (though what that means varies widely), but this is not about you.
The reason Palestinians are being murdered and their history destroyed is that Israelis (and many Westerners) do not consider them human.
Weir's book is small and interesting to me because it is the work of someone who came to this issue all on her own at a time when most of the U.S. was busy spreading anti-Semitic memes about Arabs and Muslims. She's kept at it for several decades (that I know about). And she recognized that educating Americans was of utmost importance. I agree and this is why I support her. If you don't like that fact, tough shit.
So if you are really an ally of Palestine, stop making it about yourself and focus on the people who are being exterminated. Shut up about anti-Semitism. The term has been so trashed by Zionist propaganda it's next to meaningless anyway. You don't like negative memes about Jews? You should try being a person of color.
Everyone has something to contribute in this fight. Stop trying to minimize Weir's impact. She's been so steadfast. I would have quit in exhaustion and depression long before now.
This anti-Semitism business is another weapon in Israel's tool-kit. Just stop it.
And her book is worth the paper is written on. American Jews seem to think they are the experts on Israel. You're not. For decades your families sent money to that criminal state and forced the rest of us to support it. I think American Jess have a lot to answer for.
nosey-parker: I'm not sure who your comment addresses (and for what purpose). I listed a few examples (by famous, reputable & credible people & organizations) on the topic. If you have problems with the content, I suggest you take it up with the authors/source of the content (and not the messenger).
Another problem with your comment is that you are making strawman arguments that are unrelated to what I wrote. (re: I personally have not made any arguments for or aginst anti-semitist - in fact, I don't even mention the word once). So I'm not sure what inferences you are making. Maybe you are having an argument with yourself about something you assume from the comment?
Also, I'm not sure on what basis you make the assumptions you do about me.
Examples:
(1)"You should try being a person of color" ? What makes you think I am or am not?
(2) "I understand it is not a fun time to be a person who identifies at "Jewish" (though what that means varies widely), but this is not about you." ? What makes you think I am Jewish?
(3) What makes you think "I" said anything about anti-semitism? (or that this discussion was about anti-semitism)?
Again, none of the opinions in my original comment are mine. So go take up the discussion with them if you are rattled/triggered with the arguments presented by them. (and maybe re-read by original comment - maybe that will help).
Aaargh! I was not addressing you. I was responding to some of the many links people posted in trying to discredit Alison Weir. I had no idea all this was going on. Not you. Please do not think that I was responding to you. Mostly I'm responding to the JVC and the coalition that has been attacking her. Not you at all. This is one of the problems with the way Substacks sets up their comments section. Sorry!
My post still stands. All of it. But it is not directed at you.
Jewish Voice for Peace wrote to Alison Weir - 'In the course of your appearance with Clay Douglas on 8/25/2010, you were silent when Douglas invoked the Protocols of the Elders of Zion'. I read the Protocols of Zion. I find it interesting that the Jewish Community does not negate them. These protocols are not only chillingly reflective of the brutal world we see unfolding, to not 'call them out', shows bias, but to criticize people who do, borders on complicity of their savage principles.
>>"I read the Protocols of Zion....These protocols are not only chillingly reflective of the brutal world we see unfolding..."
This simple statement you make is more indicative of your thought process and mindset than anything else you have said. There is nothing I could say, no amount of reason, rationality, or logic - that would have an impact on you or get you to question your assumptions and assertions on the beliefs that you hold.
Let's leave aside that the leaps of logic, critical thinking errors, and weak referential integrity of the relationships you question (might I add conspiratorially) doesn't provide a shred of evidence to backup anything you say (other than your opinions).
A common strategy for people to attack others is:
(1) Cast doubt on any source that disagrees with your point of view using the classic "Who funds x,y,z"? Valid questions. But before such questions are asked (and this can be asked of all/any groups or individuals - even the ones you agree with), one needs to do due dilligence of the content. In this example, you seem eager to cast doubt on "Arab America" by using the familiar question "Who funds this?" regardless of any research as to the integrity OR accuracy of the material produced by the group. So why should anyone fall for your classic attempts at deflection?
This is just one example of the strategies that deniers use when they don't have facts or evidence to back up their claims. So they have a proclivity to weave these threads by "attempting to plant seeds of doubt" in an effort to abrogate critical thinking.
I could go on with a detailed analysis of the errors in your comment, but IMO it is not worth the time - as you have already demonstrated your stance and bias beyond any shadow of a doubt.
(PS: many people use the same strategies you use - including Israel. How many times has Israel attempted to cast doubt and villify/discredit/defame a source using the "who funds" argument? How many times have Israel tried to disrepute and stigmatize sources that reveal evidence that goes against their narrative? How often does Israel use the same tactic that you do (of giving significance to relationships that might not have any significance or bearing on the situation at all? (re:"executive director Rebecca Vilkomerson's husband was/is still working for Checkpoint, an "israeli" cyber security firm that makes monitoring software.")
Your comment, unfortunately, reeks of the same strategies that Israel uses to rebutt any facts/evidence that go against its narrative and interests.
I know Reagan, and read those before him weren't as influenced by AIPAC, and now they have incredible control. I really believe this genocide would have never have happened if AIPAC wasn't around.
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Remove my gills?
That sounds painful.
And, then go swimming?
I’ll die.
That sounds like it has a mean intent to it.
Are you a mean SOB?
Excuse my error.
Daughter of a ……….
Sorry Fran.
You want to keep referencing me in an unfair/unflattering manner, I know where to find you, and what to do.
Every president since Eisenhower has been captured by the pro-Israeli lobby, whether it was AIPAC or not. The pro-Zionist machine began in 1917 in the U.S. pushed by Rothschild and Brandeis. Even presidents who wanted to change our policy towards Israel could not because Congress was captured. There is a fairly strong argument that JFK was assassinated by Mossad because he did not want to support Israel. He saw the danger in it which we are seeing today.
Regarding the conversation preceding this, when a person has lost the argument he/she attacks their opponent. Do not engage. Please. It's a waste of time and energy. Stay focused on what really matters.
Yeah I know they had an influence back then and even Brandeis spoke to Balfour to get the Zionists, Palestine, and a lot of arm twisting went on in 1948. They depended on that colonial mindset still in place back then not to mention the prejudice that was felt toward the Muslim world, and the Arabs, which is still prevalent.
According to Alison Weir who runs the If Americans Knew dot org web-site and who wrote a book on the Palestinian situation, Brandeis, Rothschild, and a few other powerful and/or rich Western Zionists made it a condition of the U.S.' joining the fight in WWI that they agree to the establishment of a Jewish homeland. This is why the Balfour Declaration was written. That was in 1917--not 1948. European Jews were moving to Palestine and buying land (and sometimes stealing it through terror) long before the Nakba.
Well put, Fran. If it doesn’t go , you will have no America worth a damn and never will have again the America that everyone wants to have, if that makes sense.
That is danger #1. Bribery and corruption is danger #2. Thick on the ground escalating from the 86% of the Congress and soon with elections close, on the way up again. You know it. Everyone knows it.
Billions in aid from Biden to Israel with the same money returning from Israel to totally own a government
Don't ever think for a second that they will stop trying to own America. They have virtually owned it since the death of JFK. Consolidated without question in 1967.
It was called the USS Liberty scandal and scandal it was. Right Lyndon?
They knew then that the USA was under their control.
Why will they continue? Because they can. Stand at the door of an AIPAC "conference" and count them as they come in , all wanting to be seen by the US-domiciled Israelis, laughing under their sleeves while posing as loyal Americans, to ensure that their funding is there the next time....... and forever. It is so obvious. Blatantly obvious.
The rest of the world knows it to be so, but not the voters, faced as they will be with a possible choice of a Trump, (if the courts allow him based on past exploits) or a Biden,( if he doesn't fall of the stage in the meantime), a Democratic-minded Republican or a Republican-minded Democrat, (who cares) both tarred with the same brush, both owned by the same corrupt people. .....Militarists, Blackrocks, Banks, British Jews, the Davos deviates, WHO, WEF, all of whom still need the nod from the people to be able to continue their power games.
Right now, there is nothing to stop them winding up for yet another tilt at continuing as the ongoing world power brokers..
But……out of 330 million people, it is hard for any rational thinker to believe that 9 months from now, ……a Trump or a Biden.
A first step is to figure out how to get AIPAC charged with failing to register as a foreign agent. Who’s up for doing the research on that? I miss the old days of user groups where people could interact and brainstorm. There are many benefits tonTPTB to keeping the people divided. One of which is to prevent us from from being able to find, and being, synergies and catalysts for change that benefits humanity instead of elites.
I don't or didn't hate Trump the way many did, although I didn't vote for him, and not Biden either. I really don't trust either one to be fair, or be even handed when it comes to Israel. It really disturbs me that Israel or any country, but particularly Israel, has that kind of control over our politicians that we vote into office. or that any country would. "Groundbreaking’: Michigan’s uncommitted vote for Gaza should ‘worry’ Biden. Michigan movement ‘surpasses expectations’ with more than 100,000 votes cast in protest of unequivocal US support for Israel." I hope this takes off state by state, and if Trump should win he will have gotten the message, or maybe that's wishful thinking on my part. There is a part of me that just can't believe what is going on. It's so heart breaking. They say the Israeli's are protesting Netanyahu, and want him gone but not the genocide. I don't understand their lack of caring. I won't forget. I hope boycotts abound on a world wide level.
Indeed. Whenever I see & hear “Black” Americans express anger & frustration criticizing “White”Liberals/Progressives as they’ve put it for putting much of their activism towards anti Zionism and ending the genocide against Gaza while leaving the issues plaguing Black Americans behind I’m immediately reminded of the words of MLK Jr, “an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” meaning if we truly believe in justice for everyone then we’ve an obligation a responsibility to confront the oppressors and to protect & defend the oppressed even come to rescue even if they’re on the other side of the world. This is what being a true warrior for humanity means.
At the risk of getting called a racist, I have observed that Black Americans seem to believe that they hold the mortgage on suffering. No one else has ever suffered the way they have. No one is suffering now the way they are.
Umm I very rarely if ever respond on a comment so old but I felt it necessary you have certainly succeeded at making your point of sounding bigoted. It seems that any time so-called Blk people express their feelings point out their own oppression we’re met with dismissive &/or vitriolic responses. None of us have ever claimed full agency on suffering especially when we get very little if any recompense for it unlike so many other groups who have the advantage & privilege of being seen as victims by default.
That's what I've observed. American Blacks seem to be tone-deaf to anyone else's suffering. Many other groups throughout history have suffered as much if not more than they have, but they seem not to notice it.
The Rape of Nanking. The Pol Pot massacres in Cambodia. And, as you say, the centuries-long suffering of the Jews.
I've a friend who's older sister married her boyfriend when he returned from Vietnam in the mid/late 1960's. He worked in a successful family business but suffered with PTSD every day, since, to the present. In the early months of bush the LESSER's crime in 2003 Iraq, and seething with anger over the brutal occupation, they attended a neighborhood cocktail party. All conversation seemed supportive of our crime there and one woman arrogantly proclaimed,
"Well, if you're not making money on this war, then you're just stupid!"
Every Anthony Blinken, every member of congress every employee of the Military Industrial corporations, every talking head in the MSM owned by Zionist interests. "It is difficult to convince a man of a thing his salary depends on not understanding"- Upton Sinclair
It's worthwhile reading T.S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men again since it brings to mind the emptiness, the utter vacuity of the dominant American political actors and a corporate media echo chamber that wants to keep us enthralled with "Election 2024," the result of which will change nothing, not in the least impede our downward slide into ignominy and disgrace. Absent a course correction, both Israel and the United States are headed for a reckoning, perhaps a disaster. The only question is whether the end of this misbegotten and inhuman project comes with a "bang" or a "whimper."
After converting to Catolicism late in life I Ariel and I struggled with the idea of cryogenic preservation, but we’re glad we did. Ariel was OK with me “coming out” (the phrase we use for leaving the cryogenic pod early) so that I could edit a new and updated edition of Barbara Tuchman’s The March of Folly., the last ten chapters of which are devoted to U. S. foreign policy. Ariel chose to stay behind with the others in a state of suspended metabolism because she said she needed to “recharge her batteries” after our last collaboration. “You go on without me,” she said, “but bring back some strudel.”
oh I think they mean it, but only apply it for themselves. everybody else is fair game. I keep thinking of the Liberty for example. And i have some other suspicions of them, which I won't go into because it is too late too argue about side topics.
They say when Mozart composed, he rarely made any corrections on his music sheets. Van Gogh, in the last 10 years of his life, painted over 900 paintings.
It’s not the “Israel apologists” aka sock puppet army that anyone needs to worry about. What is of concern is a western public that has over many decades been consistent at ignoring relevant facts and suppporting the the same sh in different wrappers. Otherwise Assange wouldnt be in a gulag and Snowden would be with his family in the US.
The masses are apologists for the oligarchy that rules over the and there is no sign of a rise in awareness of the SYSTEM or ability their to properly connect the dots and understand what is all part of the same problem. Because at the moment we are speeding to WW III for no reason at all, and what is going on in Gaza is all part of it, not a separate piece. And what has been going on n Gaza did not start last October either. But they dont get it.
Young Americans I think are becoming more aware of it - and probably the rest of America. But not fast enough. And the propaganda is thick as molasses.
One sign though is the recent Michigan primary - 100,000 voted "Uncommitted" instead of for Joe Biden. They were only expecting 10k to 20k at most. I think that is a wake up call to Genocide Joe and the rest of the corrupt Democratic party. Not that I think things will get any better under Trump. They won't.
I am one of those proud “uncommitted” voters. I was truly shocked—-ecstatically so—- when I saw the results.
And it wasn’t just Arab-American communities as the Zio press would have one believe. Some of the largest margins came from Washtenaw ( University of Michigan) and Ingham (Michigan State) Counties, with their large concentrations of students.
I am SO fucking proud of my state. Stay the fuck outta here, Genocide Joe! You ain’t gettin’ us!
I had to poke around a bit before I found out how many voted "uncommitted". The $MSM, IMO, did not want to publish the actual number. Well, the Dems did not want to. Some of the spin was hilarious.
Yup, and when they did report a number, it was presented as "Biden won 87% to 13%" - normally a crushing victory. But that obfuscates the significance because the issue is a marginal one, not an aggregate voter count. And the context of how small his margin of victory in 2020 was means that he can not win in '24 with that large a defection from his base (and that doesn't even consider that for every "no confidence" voter, there are 2-3 Democratic and Biden leaning voters that will stay home and not vote).
I'm sure there is a strategy memo from the DNC, recalling Schumer's quote that "for every white working class man we lose we pick up 2 suburban Republican women", to the effect that for "every Arab and pro-Palestine vote we lose we pick up 5 jewish and Pro-Israle Republicans".
I would say it’s complacency, frequency manipulation, and a few other psychological factors playing out. The general public has been crash test dummies for some nefarious nonsense. And for many years....
Yup. A lot still suckered on the real low frequency stuff of MSM or worse, the Murdoch gutter stuff like GB News in the UK, or cleverer stuff like Piers Morgan, which pretends to be an impartial platform by allowing dissidents a word in edgeways now and then, before giving fascist scum like Nafthali Bennett a free podium to repeat Hamas, tunnels, beheaded babies. They are the Harkonen from Dune. They care nothing for the truth, or fairness or honour. They are utterly cynical. These are the hard post humanists. They are machine.
It’s strange that throughout history suicide has been present in every era. Hard to imagine an America where people wouldn’t think about offing themselves now frankly. It’s almost like a hobby for teens at this juncture. I was there myself for points but, I do have to imagine a minor chemical imbalance was present as well in this young man. Which is also probably rampant due to a variety of factors. The bottom line is; we can’t stop the crazy town wheel from turning but we can just lead by example here and there. This guy was trying to lead by example himself, but in a very dark way.
I agree with most of what you've said here - but from what I've read so far - there does not appear to be any strong signs there was an actual brain imbalance at all in Aaron Bushnell. If anything, he appeared more level-headed then most IMO.
There have been some recent scientific studies and I'm too lazy right now to find them - that have exposed just how little anti-depression pharmaceuticals actually work - and there is now very good reason to believe a good percentage of suicides and depression itself has nothing at all to do with "brain imbalance." - but rather with enormous stressful events in a person's life and more importantly, as Carl Jung often pointed out: a lack of meaning in a person's life.
hemical imbalance theory of depression has been scientifically debunked and discredited 20 years ago. Big Pharma and the paid medical community is the only support for it! Check these out:
Exactly. And that chemical imbalance theory of depression has been scientifically debunked and discredited 20 years ago. Big Pharma and the paid medical community is the only support for it! Check these out:
Hello! You do know that your hero Snowden was a private contractor to the murderous evil empire you were denouncing Aaron for serving just yesterday, yes?
Actually, under your logic, Snowden's life story was far worse than Aaron's, because Aaron's military service was motivated by patriotism and loyalty, while Snowden's military support role (in contrast to Aaron, he faced no combat death threat or military lifestyle) was motivated by MONEY and AMBITION and CAREER and LIFESTYLE and HOT WOMEN and EXOTIC TRAVEL.
"US liberals in 2024: Wanting your country not to commit genocide is a pie in the sky fantasy"
I certainly hope this isn't a fantasy, but reality is that it's certainly doesn't mind helping out Israel run their genocide.
What really blows my mind is how sick and twisted these apologists are. "It changes nothing," some idiot put on a comment I made here on Substack. Maybe to the apologists it doesn't, but for the rest of the world it could be the beginning of a much needed conversation about how we treat our fellow human beings.
Why Would Anyone Kill Themselves to Stop a War? On Aaron Bushnell and Others. Colonel Ann Wright
Six years ago in 2018, after returning from a Veterans For Peace trip to Vietnam, I wrote an article called “Why Would Anyone Kill One’s Self In an Attempt to Stop A War?”
Now, six years later, in the past three months, two people in the United States have taken or risked taking their own lives in an attempt to change U.S. policies on Palestine and call for a cease-fire and stop U.S. funding to the State of Israel that would be used to kill in the Israeli genocide of Gaza. An yet unidentified woman, wrapped in a Palestinian flag, set herself on fire in front of the Israeli consulate in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 1, 2023. Three months later authorities have yet to release the name of the woman. Her condition was unknown as of mid-December.
This week, on Sunday, February 25, 2024, active duty U.S. Air Force member Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., while he was stating “Free Palestine and stop the genocide.” Bushnell died from his injuries...
..While on a Veterans for Peace trip to Vietnam in 2014 and while on another VFP delegation in March 2018, our delegation saw the iconic photo of a well-known Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc who set himself on fire in June1963 on a busy street in Saigon to protest the Diem regime’s crackdown on Buddhists during the early days of the American war on Vietnam. That photo is seared into our collective memories...
..But, did you know that several Americans also set themselves on fire to attempt to end U.S. military actions during those turbulent war years in the 1960s?
I didn’t, until our VFP delegation saw the portraits displayed of five Americans who gave their lives to protest the American war on Vietnam, among other international persons who are revered in Vietnamese history, at the Vietnam-USA Friendship Society in Hanoi. Though these American peace persons have fallen into oblivion in their own nation, they are well-known martyrs in Vietnam, 50 years later...
..After seeing one particular portrait again—that of Norman Morrison—I decided to write about these Americans who were willing to end their own lives in an attempt to stop the American war on the Vietnamese people.
What distinguished these Americans to the Vietnamese was that, as American soldiers were killing Vietnamese, there were American citizens who ended their own lives in order to try to bring the terror of invasion and occupation for Vietnamese citizens to the American public through the horror of their own deaths.
..The first person in the United States to die of self-immolation in opposition to the war on Vietnam was 82-year-old Quaker Alice Herz who lived in Detroit, Michigan. She set herself on fire on a Detroit street on March 16, 1965. Before she died of her burns 10 days later, Alice said she set herself on fire to protest “the arms race and a president using his high office to wipe out small nations.”
Six months later on November 2, 1965, Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker from Baltimore, a father of three young children, died of self-immolation at the Pentagon. Morrison felt that traditional protests against the war had done little to end the war and decided that setting himself on fire at the Pentagon might mobilize enough people to force the United States government to abandon its involvement in Vietnam. Morrison’s choice to self-immolate was particularly symbolic in that it followed President Lyndon Johnson’s controversial decision to authorize the use of napalm in Vietnam, a burning gel that sticks to the skin and melts the flesh.
Apparently, unbeknownst to Morrison, he chose to set himself on fire beneath the Pentagon window of then-Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
Thirty years later in his 1995 memoir, In Retrospect: The Tragedy in Lessons of Vietnam, McNamara remembered Morrison’s death:
"Antiwar protests had been sporadic and limited up to this time and had not compelled attention. Then came the afternoon of November 2, 1965. At twilight that day, a young Quaker named Norman R. Morrison, father of three and an officer of the Stony Run Friends Meeting in Baltimore, burned himself to death within 40 feet of my Pentagon window. Morrison’s death was a tragedy not only for his family but also for me in the country. It was an outcry against the killing that was destroying the lives of so many Vietnamese and American youth.
I reacted to the horror of his action by bottling up my emotions and avoided talking about them with anyone—even with my family. I knew (his wife) Marge and our three children shared many of Morrison’s feelings about the war. And I believed I understood and shared some of his thoughts. The episode created tension at home that only deepened as the criticism of the war continued to grow."
Before his memoir In Retrospect was published, in a 1992 article in Newsweek, McNamara had listed people or events that had had an impact on his questioning of the war. One of those events,McNamara identified as “the death of a young Quaker.”...
..Every Vietnamese school child learns a song and poem written by Vietnamese poet Tố Hữu called “Emily, My Child” dedicated to the young daughter that Morrison was holding only moments before he set himself on fire at the Pentagon. The poem reminds Emily that her father died because he felt he had to object in the most visible way to the deaths of Vietnamese children at the hands of the United States government...
..One week after Norman Morrison’s death, Roger LaPorte, 22, a Catholic Worker, became the third war protester to take his own life. He died of burns suffered through self-immolation on November 9, 1965 on the United Nations Plaza in New York City. He left a note that read, “I am against war, all wars. I did this as a religious act.”...
..In the case of U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Aaron Bushnell, Aaron told the world his reason: "I do not want to be complacent in the genocide of Gaza! Free Palestine!." His sentiments are echoed by hundreds of millions around the world who recognize the horrific Israeli genocide of Gaza. For U.S. citizens, it is our duty to keep pressure on the Biden administration to stop funding Israel's genocide of Gaza and violence in the West Bank.
Here is a short interview with Norman Morrison's widow. She is very accepting of his self-immolation and shows great understanding for why he did it. Very moving.
I read in one report or in a comment that Bushnell had a wife and children. If so, we are now living in a time when there are ways to contribute to causes. Perhaps there’s a way to give assistance to her and family. Im going to look into that.
Note that she does not mention FRAGGING - that was a huge factor in ending the war. The Pentagon realized the troops were on the verge of open rebellion.
I have read that there were some revolts of US military groups, and that special forces were sent after them to kill them all. I am not sure that could be confirmed or refuted, unless one knows somebody who did it and is still around.
My dad was a USMC Major in Vietnam for the year of 1967. Fragging deeply disturbed him, as did the high command, as did the US Liberty incident.
Would like to ask you a question Caitlin and/or those with similar political philosophies. I have been on the right most of my adult life. Until the last few years that’s how I perceived things.
“The US (by extension Israel) fights with 2 hands tied behind our back. It’s those goddamn Muslims that hide behind women and children.”
Apologies for my blunt speak. Now I feel bad that I fell for the shit. At least I am man enough to admit it tho it doesn’t right the wrongs.
You mentioned that this operation/execution was on a different plane. I can’t remember the other skirmishes with Israel and Palestine. I recall them happening. I now also understand what we did to Iraqi citizens. Just wondering if t was beyond that? That’s probably not a good question. Now that I am trying to convey it I am finding it doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense I reckon. Still I have some mea culpas in here so am going to get it off my chest regardless.
It’s a strange feeling. And I do want to say many on the right are starting to get it. It’s not the institutionalized ones but the ones on more of the fringe. I think the right (many Christians) and Muslims need to work together. I suspect Muslims are more willing to work together in the US. But guys like me are changing that slowly but surely.
Sorry for the rant; perhaps confession is a better term. 😔
"His martyrdom raises questions every man and woman in the US Armed Forces must ask themselves:
Are they serving their country, their precious and threatened Republic, or are they serving a barbaric out of control empire intent on nuclear war? Where they are willing to sacrifice for the defense of their country; are they equally willing to die for the greedy imperialism that has destroyed the lives of so many untold millions?
Are they willing to sacrifice their lives for the moral depravity of those who send them into battle to fatten their wallets and serve their psychotic megalomania?"
I think a lot join because their may be few options for them, although they say fewer people are entering the military, "Military struggling to find new troops as fewer young Americans willing or able to serve" Good!! "A former senior military official told ABC News that today's recruiters face a great challenge in pitching the benefits of enlisting to young people, with private companies using impressive incentives to entice prospects." Good!
can we remember that it was just shy of two years ago, it has not been not only vietnamese buddhists 50+ years ago or the Atlanta protester a month ago that i didn't even know irt until Aaron's own, who have felt compelled to scream any attention to a just cause against massacres of silent coups under guise of government(s)?
i have been haunted ever since watching Wynn Bruce's self immolation on the steps of his government in protest to be unable to watch the Aaron's yet, though i will honor his incredible courage when i can afford to break down apart in deep honor horror and grief for his sacrifice as well.
rest in peace and live in history of our souls of this miraculous life being taken by thems ultimate of inhumane hubris that have none, taking as if they own anything of value as they aim to take all life they will take nowhere but to the lowest depths of an inferno i don't believe in until i come face to face with this evil
I read an article (can't recall where) that listed all the people have done this previously of which I recalled NONE! I find it extremely telling and hopeful this has garnered world wide attention and is not thankfully relenting!
Secondly, I don't know if this is true - but if so, it also gives us extreme hope. I wish the experts would start writing about what it be like without an Israel should this accelerate. I'm extremely curious to hear how the world would change.
Even US people shocked by this news! Putin has taken action against Israel! Eygpt in on red alert!
I don't trust the channel. The site calls itself "USS Global"
Channel Description:
"Hello everyone, with our large staff of 26 people, we endeavour to present the most important developments in the world to you, our valuable followers, in the form of analyses.
You will be the first to know about everything worth learning in the vast world geography, especially the tension in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
The prominent political developments in the US, Russia, China, the UK, France, Ukraine, Turkey and Israel constitute the main content of our channel."
Channel Reality:
BUT, if you look at the number of videos uploaded (679), every single video upto Feb 26, 2024 has nothing to do with geopolitics or news - its seems to be a Turkish channel with exactly 5 videos (out of 679) that are news related.
Note: I'm not commenting on the content, I'm questioning the source and the credibility of the channel (and the information it purports to disseminate) based on how it is representing itself.
THANK YOU for the informative response! I've a client in the States from Turkey currently here for several weeks and eventually relocating. Thank you for the heads up - I will check with him next week!!
I just heard Scott Ritter lambasting The Corpse but then apologizing because he doesn’t like to do elder abuse, that the Joe Biden he always hated isn’t around any more. That’s very sweet but I could not disagree more. Biden may be a demented old man but he’s still hanging on to power so he’s still the one blame. And if you review his words and actions over a lifetime of political status seeking, you can tell that he’s no more or less today what he has always been— a savage, bloody minded, self serving fuck weasel. No matter who is the cadre of sycophants that are supporting him, he’s the repulsive evil doing all this.
Excellent use of “fuck weasel” in a sentence.
With apologies to weasels
I don't like weasels much, but they have a place in the ecosystem and all that happy cycle of life hakuna matata horseshit.
Until he is turned into compost, Joe Biden, not so much. He's just an oxygen thief.
what bothers me is the pile of bovine excrement has been in government his whole feckless career making everyone miserable as was caused by his policy pushing punitive social authoritarian order
iZrael was in possession of Hamas' Oct 7th jail break plan a full year before.
The entire political/intelligence/military leadership read Hamas' plan.
iZreal recognized that Hamas' written plan for Oct 7th could not succeed without iZrael's help.
They decided to stop monitoring Hamas' hand-held radio network, so iZreal claims.
They had to ignore the alerts being sounded by border watchers.
They had to give a thumbs-down to written reports by intelligence officers
warning of an imminent Oct 7th (this happened!).
They had to ignore that Hamas had been trying to lull them into complacency (this was in writing in the Hamas Oct 7th plans).
*They had to remove the vast majority of the IDF troops surrounding Gaza just in time for Oct 7th.*
Once the jail break was under way support troops had to be delayed for hours. (They refuse to explain
why this happened, stating that they will "investigate" only after Hamas is defeated.)
They had to implement the Hannibal Directive in order to achieve maximum civilian casualties.
The confluence of too many huge failures and too many horrible decisions
to be credible.
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Related anthology:
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/02/palestine-open-thread-2024-058.html?cid=6a00d8341c640e53ef02c8d3abbe0d200b#comment-6a00d8341c640e53ef02c8d3abbe0d200b
So very different from the USA response to vast evidence preceding the 9/11 attack and the resulting massacre of completely innocent Iraqis.
Uh-ho, there goes your love for Scott Ritter. Looks like he's going to live to regret it.
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Yep, kiss of death. He's getting the message.
They say, unlike many of the Gorgons, Medusa was quite beautiful.
I think Ritter would be able to handle those. With Jeano - not a chance.
Stop - you're killing me! lol
Biden is the tool. Yes he is every thing you described, but Presidents DO NOT have Power, they do as directed or suffer the consequences. It is the well known Evil shadow government of Corporate and special interest money (AIPAC) that drive the empire. Just so people know, Trump was removed for his attempts to do things, nothing will change if he comes back either except he will be CIAd.
Right, and a hammer is a tool too, but they can cause a lot of pain and damage when yielded by some maniac. Ask yourself, why are the Empire managers so keen to keep the Corpse upright and mumbling when he is so clearly a liability? He must have some value to them.
Presidents are the face we get to blame or praise for the actions of government. They are the facade that supplies the 'appearance of legitimacy' to the cartel of criminals that are the actual movers and shakers. Keep the traditions in place but hollow them out. Just like Hollowed out Biden is just a facade. That is his Only value. Like Biden said recently in a lucid moment, "I'm still Obama's Vice president".
Exactly—just like we use a hammer to drive a nail. Without the hammer, there is no impact. So dismissing Bidip as “just a tool” is extremely misguided.
You missed the point. When the lies and propaganda fail to keep the slaves in line all pretense will be dropped and the truth of government will be revealed with the rise of police state totalitarianism that doesn't require the facade any longer. It happens whenever Empires die and this one is No exception. The only question is if the people will even fight for their freedom or succumb to the empty promises and brutality. Albert J.Nock- "Our Enemy the State" an excellent primer.
Didn’t miss it. Just don’t agree with it. Your premises are assumptions based on other’s opinions about empires they think they can explain. Just because it’s accepted doesn’t make it fact or even a viable explanation. I think for myself from what I’m observing, not just knee jerk repeating of commonplaces.
Oh, god, not Scott "Crocodile Tears, I Love a Big Man in Uniform" Ritter. Christ, a million people have told the Bloody Biden story before this wimpy Marine. Elder abuse? Biden is an abused mind, since college, or before.
But most Americanos are abused minds, including rah-rah Marines, Jaw Heads, and, well, I'll let you have fun with more pukes on all side of the red-blue fucking manure pile.
Ritter and Reagan, a Love Story!
Fuck!
So what is it that you are actually trying to say, amid your obfuscation whilst getting yourself all conflated somewhere between Scott Ritter and Joe Biden???
Hahahaha. Very good.
Biden's the figurehead..hes can't even be in charge of his faculties..the real despots controlling this wet brain moron are hiding in the shadows behind him.. you have to deal with that or NOTHING changes !
Your remarks about not leaving any goodwill for The Corpse in Washington recall the following words from A Christmas Carol justifying not leaving items of value on the corpse of Scrooge:
"If he wanted to keep 'em after he was dead, a wicked old screw, " pursued the woman, "why wasn't he natural in his lifetime?"
Poor old Scrooge. Down for all time as one of the worst “respectable” characters ever. I’m thinking Bidip will be right there with him—along with Kissinger and Nutty.
Classic Chickenhawk behavior.
See: bush/CHENEY, Clinton, oBOMBa/Biden and tRump
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He could have stuck to the one term script and passed the torch to a viable candidate. Instead the always evil Zionist in him is fumbling the torch, with a SCOTUS assist to the last president and first dictator of the old USA.
Genocide Joe! Why didn't you pass the torch, shut up and sit down? Your legacy will now be akin to that of, not Nixon, but Hitler.
The US is not what it pretends to be, but it has not been fooling some of us since Vietnam. Sadly, it seems that each generation has to re-learn this. And then there is the money. So so many people can be sucked into buying into bullshit if they think they might be able to improve their money situations. Some can even pretend that a genocide going on on the other side of the world does not affect them. Better think a little harder.
I'm reading the book on the Israeli Lobby by John Mearsheimer and how it impacts US foreign policy and basically it's made up of people, groups, that have a lot of influence in pushing a pro-Israeli policy, and foreign policy and too often has negative effects when it comes to American interests. It makes sure we also enrich Israel and support it's policies. I was reading that their were quite a few Christian Zionists as well. If we didn't have that lobby in the US we wouldn't be supplying weapons, and we wouldn't be part of it, and no doubt Israel would not be implementing this genocide. AIPAC has got to go! Interesting that Reagan didn't take their shit, then it was all down hill from there.
I highly recommend also the book - "Against our Better Judgment'. The author, Alison Weir, labors feverishly to open American eyes about our relationship with Israel and the ongoing horrors in Gaza. Her web site is: https://israelpalestinenews.org/ She does as much as any one person can do, to publish the plight of the Palestinians - and deserves all our support.
Thanks, I go to Alzazeera everyday and see the horror now another site. Thanks for this one. Sometimes I just can't believe it. I don't know how Israeli's can see this and not be in the streets protesting. It's so incredibly inhumane. They're not. They want Netanyahu gone but no country wide protest against this genocide.
We have seen some Israelis stick their necks out, and refuse to support Netanyahu's genocide, some refusing to serve in the military - each of these suffering to some extent certain consequences for their courage. Unfortunately, the proportion of people in Israel decrying the brutality against Palestinians, reflects the proportion here in the US too. Not enough.. not enough.
I know but too few and certainly not enough to make any difference at all. True in the US as well, and other groups and having been part of the antiwar movement from the beginning in the US it had little to no impact. They do what they want to do and nothing will stop these autocratic bastards.
The frustration of course, is that there is so little we can do! What a travesty of justice that the nations of the world pay such lip service to human rights, but when a catastrophe like this happens, they sit on their 'arms'.. (we pray daily for a ceasefire; and that the Lord God will 'scatter those that delight in war'. - Psalm 68:30)
I am not sure what to make of Alison Weir or her book (I have not read it, so I'm unable to take sides or make a judgement).
What I found surprising are some people/organizations that I respect had some opposing views to "Alison Weir":
(1) Max Blumenthal (Grayzone) -> Tweet: "It's pretty clear Alison Weir's email is a desperate ploy to sell a book that's not worth the pulp it's printed" (https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/639161659219701760)
(2) Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) - Jewish Voice for Peace Statement on Our Relationship with Alison Weir (https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2015/06/15/jewish-voice-for-peace-statement-on-our-relationship-with-alison-weir/)
(3) JVP - Letter to Alison Weir (https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2015/06/14/letter-to-alison-weir/)
"Jewish Voice for Peace has chosen not to work with you because our central tenet is opposition to racism in all its forms, and you have chosen repeatedly to associate yourself with people who advocate for racism.
You have been a repeat guest of white supremacist Clay Douglas on his hate radio show, the Free American. Clay Douglas is concerned primarily with the survival of the White race and sees malign Jewish influence everywhere. His racist, anti-Jewish, and anti-gay rhetoric can be found across the front pages of his multiple websites."
(4) Arab America -> US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation : Statement on Complaint Filed Regarding Alison Weir and If Americans Knew (https://www.arabamerica.com/us-campaign-to-end-the-israeli-occupation-statement-on-complaint-filed-regarding-alison-weir-and-if-americans-knew/)
(5) Mondoweiss Breaks Silence Over The Alison Weir/JVP Controversy – Or Does It? (https://platosguns.com/2015/08/13/mondoweiss-breaks-silence-over-the-alison-weirjvp-controversy-or-do-they/)
For what it's worth, I do find Alison Weir's work interesting and informative, and I do need to read her book(s) before casting opinions.
VJCBingham -> Thank you for the information. Definitely something worth checking out.
I missed this whole thread. I'd better quit working.
I've been following Alison Weir's work since my father died in 2004--she wrote condolences and told me he had been a strong supporter for a long time. I have never seen anything that reeks of anti-semitism in her work. I had not read the story about purloined body parts but I have read about that elsewhere and do not doubt it happened, though why anyone would want an organ that wasn't fresh, I do not understand. Still, the Israelis have been peculiarly focused on re-visiting hospitals they've already destroyed. And eager to kill patients who would die eventually without care anyway. it is odd.
I read some of the JVC stuff and other links above. It sounds to me as though the JVC are trying to put the spotlight on their victiomhood and, frankly, I'm sick of that dynamic. Stop making this all about your friggin' FEELINGS. If you really care about Palestine, how about keeping your eyes on the people who really matter in this issue? (Hint: It's not American Jews who want to be viewed as liberal and non-racist.)
And, if I might, let me add the elephant in the room:
ARABS ARE BY DEFINITION SEMITES WHICH MOST AMERICAN JEWS ARE NOT. Arabs are the recipients of anti-Semitism to such a high degree that they're being slaughtered every day in multiple countries. GET OVER YOURSELVES. And if this makes no sense to you, a Semite is someone whose mother tongue is a Semitic language which does NOT characterize most American Jews.
You are not the central figures in this "war". I understand it is not a fun time to be a person who identifies at "Jewish" (though what that means varies widely), but this is not about you.
The reason Palestinians are being murdered and their history destroyed is that Israelis (and many Westerners) do not consider them human.
Weir's book is small and interesting to me because it is the work of someone who came to this issue all on her own at a time when most of the U.S. was busy spreading anti-Semitic memes about Arabs and Muslims. She's kept at it for several decades (that I know about). And she recognized that educating Americans was of utmost importance. I agree and this is why I support her. If you don't like that fact, tough shit.
So if you are really an ally of Palestine, stop making it about yourself and focus on the people who are being exterminated. Shut up about anti-Semitism. The term has been so trashed by Zionist propaganda it's next to meaningless anyway. You don't like negative memes about Jews? You should try being a person of color.
Everyone has something to contribute in this fight. Stop trying to minimize Weir's impact. She's been so steadfast. I would have quit in exhaustion and depression long before now.
This anti-Semitism business is another weapon in Israel's tool-kit. Just stop it.
And her book is worth the paper is written on. American Jews seem to think they are the experts on Israel. You're not. For decades your families sent money to that criminal state and forced the rest of us to support it. I think American Jess have a lot to answer for.
nosey-parker: I'm not sure who your comment addresses (and for what purpose). I listed a few examples (by famous, reputable & credible people & organizations) on the topic. If you have problems with the content, I suggest you take it up with the authors/source of the content (and not the messenger).
Another problem with your comment is that you are making strawman arguments that are unrelated to what I wrote. (re: I personally have not made any arguments for or aginst anti-semitist - in fact, I don't even mention the word once). So I'm not sure what inferences you are making. Maybe you are having an argument with yourself about something you assume from the comment?
Also, I'm not sure on what basis you make the assumptions you do about me.
Examples:
(1)"You should try being a person of color" ? What makes you think I am or am not?
(2) "I understand it is not a fun time to be a person who identifies at "Jewish" (though what that means varies widely), but this is not about you." ? What makes you think I am Jewish?
(3) What makes you think "I" said anything about anti-semitism? (or that this discussion was about anti-semitism)?
Again, none of the opinions in my original comment are mine. So go take up the discussion with them if you are rattled/triggered with the arguments presented by them. (and maybe re-read by original comment - maybe that will help).
Aaargh! I was not addressing you. I was responding to some of the many links people posted in trying to discredit Alison Weir. I had no idea all this was going on. Not you. Please do not think that I was responding to you. Mostly I'm responding to the JVC and the coalition that has been attacking her. Not you at all. This is one of the problems with the way Substacks sets up their comments section. Sorry!
My post still stands. All of it. But it is not directed at you.
Jewish Voice for Peace wrote to Alison Weir - 'In the course of your appearance with Clay Douglas on 8/25/2010, you were silent when Douglas invoked the Protocols of the Elders of Zion'. I read the Protocols of Zion. I find it interesting that the Jewish Community does not negate them. These protocols are not only chillingly reflective of the brutal world we see unfolding, to not 'call them out', shows bias, but to criticize people who do, borders on complicity of their savage principles.
>>"I read the Protocols of Zion....These protocols are not only chillingly reflective of the brutal world we see unfolding..."
This simple statement you make is more indicative of your thought process and mindset than anything else you have said. There is nothing I could say, no amount of reason, rationality, or logic - that would have an impact on you or get you to question your assumptions and assertions on the beliefs that you hold.
"There is nothing I could say,.." Then don't.
Thank you for the important commentary on this point.
Let's leave aside that the leaps of logic, critical thinking errors, and weak referential integrity of the relationships you question (might I add conspiratorially) doesn't provide a shred of evidence to backup anything you say (other than your opinions).
A common strategy for people to attack others is:
(1) Cast doubt on any source that disagrees with your point of view using the classic "Who funds x,y,z"? Valid questions. But before such questions are asked (and this can be asked of all/any groups or individuals - even the ones you agree with), one needs to do due dilligence of the content. In this example, you seem eager to cast doubt on "Arab America" by using the familiar question "Who funds this?" regardless of any research as to the integrity OR accuracy of the material produced by the group. So why should anyone fall for your classic attempts at deflection?
This is just one example of the strategies that deniers use when they don't have facts or evidence to back up their claims. So they have a proclivity to weave these threads by "attempting to plant seeds of doubt" in an effort to abrogate critical thinking.
I could go on with a detailed analysis of the errors in your comment, but IMO it is not worth the time - as you have already demonstrated your stance and bias beyond any shadow of a doubt.
(PS: many people use the same strategies you use - including Israel. How many times has Israel attempted to cast doubt and villify/discredit/defame a source using the "who funds" argument? How many times have Israel tried to disrepute and stigmatize sources that reveal evidence that goes against their narrative? How often does Israel use the same tactic that you do (of giving significance to relationships that might not have any significance or bearing on the situation at all? (re:"executive director Rebecca Vilkomerson's husband was/is still working for Checkpoint, an "israeli" cyber security firm that makes monitoring software.")
Your comment, unfortunately, reeks of the same strategies that Israel uses to rebutt any facts/evidence that go against its narrative and interests.
According to Ilan Pappe the lobby influence started being felt in 1950s. It wasn't AIPAC yet but what eventually became it.
I know Reagan, and read those before him weren't as influenced by AIPAC, and now they have incredible control. I really believe this genocide would have never have happened if AIPAC wasn't around.
Russian, bot M who is always abusive toward me, demeans me when ever he can, did it again and I said I hope they take you for swim upstream without your gills. Joking but he sent the message below. I see it as a physical threat. What goes on here. I want to report him to substack, and did report him for other remarks , but it makes no difference.
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Remove my gills?
That sounds painful.
And, then go swimming?
I’ll die.
That sounds like it has a mean intent to it.
Are you a mean SOB?
Excuse my error.
Daughter of a ……….
Sorry Fran.
You want to keep referencing me in an unfair/unflattering manner, I know where to find you, and what to do.
Don’t know when to quit, do ya?
Every president since Eisenhower has been captured by the pro-Israeli lobby, whether it was AIPAC or not. The pro-Zionist machine began in 1917 in the U.S. pushed by Rothschild and Brandeis. Even presidents who wanted to change our policy towards Israel could not because Congress was captured. There is a fairly strong argument that JFK was assassinated by Mossad because he did not want to support Israel. He saw the danger in it which we are seeing today.
Regarding the conversation preceding this, when a person has lost the argument he/she attacks their opponent. Do not engage. Please. It's a waste of time and energy. Stay focused on what really matters.
Yeah I know they had an influence back then and even Brandeis spoke to Balfour to get the Zionists, Palestine, and a lot of arm twisting went on in 1948. They depended on that colonial mindset still in place back then not to mention the prejudice that was felt toward the Muslim world, and the Arabs, which is still prevalent.
According to Alison Weir who runs the If Americans Knew dot org web-site and who wrote a book on the Palestinian situation, Brandeis, Rothschild, and a few other powerful and/or rich Western Zionists made it a condition of the U.S.' joining the fight in WWI that they agree to the establishment of a Jewish homeland. This is why the Balfour Declaration was written. That was in 1917--not 1948. European Jews were moving to Palestine and buying land (and sometimes stealing it through terror) long before the Nakba.
Never mind Mike Fish character, he is fragile.
He went nuts at quite a few people on numerous occasions and mostly ended up apologizing profusely.
Terrible when YOU selectively edit/select only portions of my commentary directed towards you, in order to mislead.
A real Fran move.
Misstate, mislead, misinform, misinterpret.
Unlike you, I have not ever resorted to using what some would consider corse language, towards you.
I know that you call me a bastard.
I won’t respond to that assertion.
However, my late mother says, fuck you Fran, you fucking, lying cunt.
Mom was married to a sailor.
Maybe you and bot would like to trot.
Dance bitch.
Yes, AIPAC as the figurehead has got to go!
Well put, Fran. If it doesn’t go , you will have no America worth a damn and never will have again the America that everyone wants to have, if that makes sense.
That is danger #1. Bribery and corruption is danger #2. Thick on the ground escalating from the 86% of the Congress and soon with elections close, on the way up again. You know it. Everyone knows it.
Billions in aid from Biden to Israel with the same money returning from Israel to totally own a government
Don't ever think for a second that they will stop trying to own America. They have virtually owned it since the death of JFK. Consolidated without question in 1967.
It was called the USS Liberty scandal and scandal it was. Right Lyndon?
They knew then that the USA was under their control.
Why will they continue? Because they can. Stand at the door of an AIPAC "conference" and count them as they come in , all wanting to be seen by the US-domiciled Israelis, laughing under their sleeves while posing as loyal Americans, to ensure that their funding is there the next time....... and forever. It is so obvious. Blatantly obvious.
The rest of the world knows it to be so, but not the voters, faced as they will be with a possible choice of a Trump, (if the courts allow him based on past exploits) or a Biden,( if he doesn't fall of the stage in the meantime), a Democratic-minded Republican or a Republican-minded Democrat, (who cares) both tarred with the same brush, both owned by the same corrupt people. .....Militarists, Blackrocks, Banks, British Jews, the Davos deviates, WHO, WEF, all of whom still need the nod from the people to be able to continue their power games.
Right now, there is nothing to stop them winding up for yet another tilt at continuing as the ongoing world power brokers..
But……out of 330 million people, it is hard for any rational thinker to believe that 9 months from now, ……a Trump or a Biden.
We already have an America not worth a damn. I just spent the last four years homeless.
We are living in a failed state.
A first step is to figure out how to get AIPAC charged with failing to register as a foreign agent. Who’s up for doing the research on that? I miss the old days of user groups where people could interact and brainstorm. There are many benefits tonTPTB to keeping the people divided. One of which is to prevent us from from being able to find, and being, synergies and catalysts for change that benefits humanity instead of elites.
The research isn't the hard part, The hard part is in getting anyone to actually apply the law.
I don't or didn't hate Trump the way many did, although I didn't vote for him, and not Biden either. I really don't trust either one to be fair, or be even handed when it comes to Israel. It really disturbs me that Israel or any country, but particularly Israel, has that kind of control over our politicians that we vote into office. or that any country would. "Groundbreaking’: Michigan’s uncommitted vote for Gaza should ‘worry’ Biden. Michigan movement ‘surpasses expectations’ with more than 100,000 votes cast in protest of unequivocal US support for Israel." I hope this takes off state by state, and if Trump should win he will have gotten the message, or maybe that's wishful thinking on my part. There is a part of me that just can't believe what is going on. It's so heart breaking. They say the Israeli's are protesting Netanyahu, and want him gone but not the genocide. I don't understand their lack of caring. I won't forget. I hope boycotts abound on a world wide level.
Out of sequence Fran.
Try again.
Indeed. Whenever I see & hear “Black” Americans express anger & frustration criticizing “White”Liberals/Progressives as they’ve put it for putting much of their activism towards anti Zionism and ending the genocide against Gaza while leaving the issues plaguing Black Americans behind I’m immediately reminded of the words of MLK Jr, “an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” meaning if we truly believe in justice for everyone then we’ve an obligation a responsibility to confront the oppressors and to protect & defend the oppressed even come to rescue even if they’re on the other side of the world. This is what being a true warrior for humanity means.
At the risk of getting called a racist, I have observed that Black Americans seem to believe that they hold the mortgage on suffering. No one else has ever suffered the way they have. No one is suffering now the way they are.
Umm I very rarely if ever respond on a comment so old but I felt it necessary you have certainly succeeded at making your point of sounding bigoted. It seems that any time so-called Blk people express their feelings point out their own oppression we’re met with dismissive &/or vitriolic responses. None of us have ever claimed full agency on suffering especially when we get very little if any recompense for it unlike so many other groups who have the advantage & privilege of being seen as victims by default.
Why would you disappoint me?
You're proving my point.
That's what I've observed. American Blacks seem to be tone-deaf to anyone else's suffering. Many other groups throughout history have suffered as much if not more than they have, but they seem not to notice it.
The Rape of Nanking. The Pol Pot massacres in Cambodia. And, as you say, the centuries-long suffering of the Jews.
Nope. None of it counts.
I've a friend who's older sister married her boyfriend when he returned from Vietnam in the mid/late 1960's. He worked in a successful family business but suffered with PTSD every day, since, to the present. In the early months of bush the LESSER's crime in 2003 Iraq, and seething with anger over the brutal occupation, they attended a neighborhood cocktail party. All conversation seemed supportive of our crime there and one woman arrogantly proclaimed,
"Well, if you're not making money on this war, then you're just stupid!"
Shaking, they immediately left.
Every Anthony Blinken, every member of congress every employee of the Military Industrial corporations, every talking head in the MSM owned by Zionist interests. "It is difficult to convince a man of a thing his salary depends on not understanding"- Upton Sinclair
Closer to home and off-topic... lottery ticket or big Mac and fries if you get the jab.. ?
Regards "So so many people can be sucked into buying into bullshit if they think they might be able to improve their money situations."....
Shame on The Washington Post! Utterly disgusting
Sadly, this hog swill has shown up elsewhere. I saw it in The Guardian online yesterday, for instance, quoting the Wash Post.
They serve up the slop and pass it around
And the Guardian is asking for cash to resume their Ukraine coverage, which was always 'Ukraine good / Putin evil and will just be more of the same.
They probably want to distract the sheep from the fact that they betrayed Julian.
I watched a Democracy Now segment with Rusbridger a few days ago, asking his opinion on Assange was pretty low given how he treated him.
It's worthwhile reading T.S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men again since it brings to mind the emptiness, the utter vacuity of the dominant American political actors and a corporate media echo chamber that wants to keep us enthralled with "Election 2024," the result of which will change nothing, not in the least impede our downward slide into ignominy and disgrace. Absent a course correction, both Israel and the United States are headed for a reckoning, perhaps a disaster. The only question is whether the end of this misbegotten and inhuman project comes with a "bang" or a "whimper."
Well said. Sadly. :(
Will! I'm glad to see you alive--and still writing!
(TBH, I'd heard you died forty years ago.)
After converting to Catolicism late in life I Ariel and I struggled with the idea of cryogenic preservation, but we’re glad we did. Ariel was OK with me “coming out” (the phrase we use for leaving the cryogenic pod early) so that I could edit a new and updated edition of Barbara Tuchman’s The March of Folly., the last ten chapters of which are devoted to U. S. foreign policy. Ariel chose to stay behind with the others in a state of suspended metabolism because she said she needed to “recharge her batteries” after our last collaboration. “You go on without me,” she said, “but bring back some strudel.”
The emptiest phrase in the Israeli lexicon is "Never again."
oh I think they mean it, but only apply it for themselves. everybody else is fair game. I keep thinking of the Liberty for example. And i have some other suspicions of them, which I won't go into because it is too late too argue about side topics.
I thought exactly those words—“doth protest too much.” Caitlin often writes my thoughts the day after I have them. 💕
💯 Agreed. She writes faster and more than I can think and process, I'm in awe but will try to keep up
Good luck ...
They say when Mozart composed, he rarely made any corrections on his music sheets. Van Gogh, in the last 10 years of his life, painted over 900 paintings.
Aaron Bushnell - the Olive-uniformed Monk, for our times.
https://imgflip.com/i/8h58eb
It’s not the “Israel apologists” aka sock puppet army that anyone needs to worry about. What is of concern is a western public that has over many decades been consistent at ignoring relevant facts and suppporting the the same sh in different wrappers. Otherwise Assange wouldnt be in a gulag and Snowden would be with his family in the US.
The masses are apologists for the oligarchy that rules over the and there is no sign of a rise in awareness of the SYSTEM or ability their to properly connect the dots and understand what is all part of the same problem. Because at the moment we are speeding to WW III for no reason at all, and what is going on in Gaza is all part of it, not a separate piece. And what has been going on n Gaza did not start last October either. But they dont get it.
Young Americans I think are becoming more aware of it - and probably the rest of America. But not fast enough. And the propaganda is thick as molasses.
One sign though is the recent Michigan primary - 100,000 voted "Uncommitted" instead of for Joe Biden. They were only expecting 10k to 20k at most. I think that is a wake up call to Genocide Joe and the rest of the corrupt Democratic party. Not that I think things will get any better under Trump. They won't.
Hi Jamenta
I am one of those proud “uncommitted” voters. I was truly shocked—-ecstatically so—- when I saw the results.
And it wasn’t just Arab-American communities as the Zio press would have one believe. Some of the largest margins came from Washtenaw ( University of Michigan) and Ingham (Michigan State) Counties, with their large concentrations of students.
I am SO fucking proud of my state. Stay the fuck outta here, Genocide Joe! You ain’t gettin’ us!
Hurrah for you and Michigan state!! Yay! :)
I humbly thank you, my friend 😁
I am SO proud of y'all in Michigan!! 👊👊👊
❤️ from Georgia.
Thanks Meredith!
I’m proud of my state too! 🙂
👏👏👏👏
Excellent! I'm looking for good news these days.
I had to poke around a bit before I found out how many voted "uncommitted". The $MSM, IMO, did not want to publish the actual number. Well, the Dems did not want to. Some of the spin was hilarious.
Yup, and when they did report a number, it was presented as "Biden won 87% to 13%" - normally a crushing victory. But that obfuscates the significance because the issue is a marginal one, not an aggregate voter count. And the context of how small his margin of victory in 2020 was means that he can not win in '24 with that large a defection from his base (and that doesn't even consider that for every "no confidence" voter, there are 2-3 Democratic and Biden leaning voters that will stay home and not vote).
I'm sure there is a strategy memo from the DNC, recalling Schumer's quote that "for every white working class man we lose we pick up 2 suburban Republican women", to the effect that for "every Arab and pro-Palestine vote we lose we pick up 5 jewish and Pro-Israle Republicans".
I would say it’s complacency, frequency manipulation, and a few other psychological factors playing out. The general public has been crash test dummies for some nefarious nonsense. And for many years....
Yup. A lot still suckered on the real low frequency stuff of MSM or worse, the Murdoch gutter stuff like GB News in the UK, or cleverer stuff like Piers Morgan, which pretends to be an impartial platform by allowing dissidents a word in edgeways now and then, before giving fascist scum like Nafthali Bennett a free podium to repeat Hamas, tunnels, beheaded babies. They are the Harkonen from Dune. They care nothing for the truth, or fairness or honour. They are utterly cynical. These are the hard post humanists. They are machine.
It’s strange that throughout history suicide has been present in every era. Hard to imagine an America where people wouldn’t think about offing themselves now frankly. It’s almost like a hobby for teens at this juncture. I was there myself for points but, I do have to imagine a minor chemical imbalance was present as well in this young man. Which is also probably rampant due to a variety of factors. The bottom line is; we can’t stop the crazy town wheel from turning but we can just lead by example here and there. This guy was trying to lead by example himself, but in a very dark way.
I agree with most of what you've said here - but from what I've read so far - there does not appear to be any strong signs there was an actual brain imbalance at all in Aaron Bushnell. If anything, he appeared more level-headed then most IMO.
There have been some recent scientific studies and I'm too lazy right now to find them - that have exposed just how little anti-depression pharmaceuticals actually work - and there is now very good reason to believe a good percentage of suicides and depression itself has nothing at all to do with "brain imbalance." - but rather with enormous stressful events in a person's life and more importantly, as Carl Jung often pointed out: a lack of meaning in a person's life.
Links to science here:
hemical imbalance theory of depression has been scientifically debunked and discredited 20 years ago. Big Pharma and the paid medical community is the only support for it! Check these out:
Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/10/27/why-failed-psychiatry-lives-on/
Do You Still Believe in the “Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Illness”?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/29/do-you-still-believe-in-the-chemical-imbalance-theory-of-mental-illness/
Now you even bring in a scientifically discredited chemical imbalance theory of depression!
GO home. Just stop these ignorant comments.
why do you have to imagine a minor chemical imbalance in that young man?
Exactly. And that chemical imbalance theory of depression has been scientifically debunked and discredited 20 years ago. Big Pharma and the paid medical community is the only support for it! Check these out:
Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/10/27/why-failed-psychiatry-lives-on/
Do You Still Believe in the “Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Illness”?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/04/29/do-you-still-believe-in-the-chemical-imbalance-theory-of-mental-illness/
I think there is a lot of ostrich behaviour going on. Covid onwards, especially.
Hello! You do know that your hero Snowden was a private contractor to the murderous evil empire you were denouncing Aaron for serving just yesterday, yes?
Actually, under your logic, Snowden's life story was far worse than Aaron's, because Aaron's military service was motivated by patriotism and loyalty, while Snowden's military support role (in contrast to Aaron, he faced no combat death threat or military lifestyle) was motivated by MONEY and AMBITION and CAREER and LIFESTYLE and HOT WOMEN and EXOTIC TRAVEL.
Mate, you have no clue about anything. At all.
You are most likely an apologist yourself, a staunchly committed uniparty voter.
"US liberals in 2024: Wanting your country not to commit genocide is a pie in the sky fantasy"
I certainly hope this isn't a fantasy, but reality is that it's certainly doesn't mind helping out Israel run their genocide.
What really blows my mind is how sick and twisted these apologists are. "It changes nothing," some idiot put on a comment I made here on Substack. Maybe to the apologists it doesn't, but for the rest of the world it could be the beginning of a much needed conversation about how we treat our fellow human beings.
“…because the story is a lie.” That, my friends, is the truth.
Why Would Anyone Kill Themselves to Stop a War? On Aaron Bushnell and Others. Colonel Ann Wright
Six years ago in 2018, after returning from a Veterans For Peace trip to Vietnam, I wrote an article called “Why Would Anyone Kill One’s Self In an Attempt to Stop A War?”
Now, six years later, in the past three months, two people in the United States have taken or risked taking their own lives in an attempt to change U.S. policies on Palestine and call for a cease-fire and stop U.S. funding to the State of Israel that would be used to kill in the Israeli genocide of Gaza. An yet unidentified woman, wrapped in a Palestinian flag, set herself on fire in front of the Israeli consulate in Atlanta, Georgia, on December 1, 2023. Three months later authorities have yet to release the name of the woman. Her condition was unknown as of mid-December.
This week, on Sunday, February 25, 2024, active duty U.S. Air Force member Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., while he was stating “Free Palestine and stop the genocide.” Bushnell died from his injuries...
..While on a Veterans for Peace trip to Vietnam in 2014 and while on another VFP delegation in March 2018, our delegation saw the iconic photo of a well-known Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc who set himself on fire in June1963 on a busy street in Saigon to protest the Diem regime’s crackdown on Buddhists during the early days of the American war on Vietnam. That photo is seared into our collective memories...
..But, did you know that several Americans also set themselves on fire to attempt to end U.S. military actions during those turbulent war years in the 1960s?
I didn’t, until our VFP delegation saw the portraits displayed of five Americans who gave their lives to protest the American war on Vietnam, among other international persons who are revered in Vietnamese history, at the Vietnam-USA Friendship Society in Hanoi. Though these American peace persons have fallen into oblivion in their own nation, they are well-known martyrs in Vietnam, 50 years later...
..After seeing one particular portrait again—that of Norman Morrison—I decided to write about these Americans who were willing to end their own lives in an attempt to stop the American war on the Vietnamese people.
What distinguished these Americans to the Vietnamese was that, as American soldiers were killing Vietnamese, there were American citizens who ended their own lives in order to try to bring the terror of invasion and occupation for Vietnamese citizens to the American public through the horror of their own deaths.
..The first person in the United States to die of self-immolation in opposition to the war on Vietnam was 82-year-old Quaker Alice Herz who lived in Detroit, Michigan. She set herself on fire on a Detroit street on March 16, 1965. Before she died of her burns 10 days later, Alice said she set herself on fire to protest “the arms race and a president using his high office to wipe out small nations.”
Six months later on November 2, 1965, Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker from Baltimore, a father of three young children, died of self-immolation at the Pentagon. Morrison felt that traditional protests against the war had done little to end the war and decided that setting himself on fire at the Pentagon might mobilize enough people to force the United States government to abandon its involvement in Vietnam. Morrison’s choice to self-immolate was particularly symbolic in that it followed President Lyndon Johnson’s controversial decision to authorize the use of napalm in Vietnam, a burning gel that sticks to the skin and melts the flesh.
Apparently, unbeknownst to Morrison, he chose to set himself on fire beneath the Pentagon window of then-Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.
Thirty years later in his 1995 memoir, In Retrospect: The Tragedy in Lessons of Vietnam, McNamara remembered Morrison’s death:
"Antiwar protests had been sporadic and limited up to this time and had not compelled attention. Then came the afternoon of November 2, 1965. At twilight that day, a young Quaker named Norman R. Morrison, father of three and an officer of the Stony Run Friends Meeting in Baltimore, burned himself to death within 40 feet of my Pentagon window. Morrison’s death was a tragedy not only for his family but also for me in the country. It was an outcry against the killing that was destroying the lives of so many Vietnamese and American youth.
I reacted to the horror of his action by bottling up my emotions and avoided talking about them with anyone—even with my family. I knew (his wife) Marge and our three children shared many of Morrison’s feelings about the war. And I believed I understood and shared some of his thoughts. The episode created tension at home that only deepened as the criticism of the war continued to grow."
Before his memoir In Retrospect was published, in a 1992 article in Newsweek, McNamara had listed people or events that had had an impact on his questioning of the war. One of those events,McNamara identified as “the death of a young Quaker.”...
..Every Vietnamese school child learns a song and poem written by Vietnamese poet Tố Hữu called “Emily, My Child” dedicated to the young daughter that Morrison was holding only moments before he set himself on fire at the Pentagon. The poem reminds Emily that her father died because he felt he had to object in the most visible way to the deaths of Vietnamese children at the hands of the United States government...
..One week after Norman Morrison’s death, Roger LaPorte, 22, a Catholic Worker, became the third war protester to take his own life. He died of burns suffered through self-immolation on November 9, 1965 on the United Nations Plaza in New York City. He left a note that read, “I am against war, all wars. I did this as a religious act.”...
..In the case of U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Aaron Bushnell, Aaron told the world his reason: "I do not want to be complacent in the genocide of Gaza! Free Palestine!." His sentiments are echoed by hundreds of millions around the world who recognize the horrific Israeli genocide of Gaza. For U.S. citizens, it is our duty to keep pressure on the Biden administration to stop funding Israel's genocide of Gaza and violence in the West Bank.
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/kill-selves-to-stop-war
Here is a short interview with Norman Morrison's widow. She is very accepting of his self-immolation and shows great understanding for why he did it. Very moving.
https://youtu.be/MWys0y-G58k?si=WQncdWhQKpFV_Xs4
I read in one report or in a comment that Bushnell had a wife and children. If so, we are now living in a time when there are ways to contribute to causes. Perhaps there’s a way to give assistance to her and family. Im going to look into that.
"Daddy has died, but now his love has spread."
My eyes are watering.
Note that she does not mention FRAGGING - that was a huge factor in ending the war. The Pentagon realized the troops were on the verge of open rebellion.
I have read that there were some revolts of US military groups, and that special forces were sent after them to kill them all. I am not sure that could be confirmed or refuted, unless one knows somebody who did it and is still around.
My dad was a USMC Major in Vietnam for the year of 1967. Fragging deeply disturbed him, as did the high command, as did the US Liberty incident.
Would like to ask you a question Caitlin and/or those with similar political philosophies. I have been on the right most of my adult life. Until the last few years that’s how I perceived things.
“The US (by extension Israel) fights with 2 hands tied behind our back. It’s those goddamn Muslims that hide behind women and children.”
Apologies for my blunt speak. Now I feel bad that I fell for the shit. At least I am man enough to admit it tho it doesn’t right the wrongs.
You mentioned that this operation/execution was on a different plane. I can’t remember the other skirmishes with Israel and Palestine. I recall them happening. I now also understand what we did to Iraqi citizens. Just wondering if t was beyond that? That’s probably not a good question. Now that I am trying to convey it I am finding it doesn’t really make a whole lot of sense I reckon. Still I have some mea culpas in here so am going to get it off my chest regardless.
It’s a strange feeling. And I do want to say many on the right are starting to get it. It’s not the institutionalized ones but the ones on more of the fringe. I think the right (many Christians) and Muslims need to work together. I suspect Muslims are more willing to work together in the US. But guys like me are changing that slowly but surely.
Sorry for the rant; perhaps confession is a better term. 😔
Thank you
"His martyrdom raises questions every man and woman in the US Armed Forces must ask themselves:
Are they serving their country, their precious and threatened Republic, or are they serving a barbaric out of control empire intent on nuclear war? Where they are willing to sacrifice for the defense of their country; are they equally willing to die for the greedy imperialism that has destroyed the lives of so many untold millions?
Are they willing to sacrifice their lives for the moral depravity of those who send them into battle to fatten their wallets and serve their psychotic megalomania?"
I think a lot join because their may be few options for them, although they say fewer people are entering the military, "Military struggling to find new troops as fewer young Americans willing or able to serve" Good!! "A former senior military official told ABC News that today's recruiters face a great challenge in pitching the benefits of enlisting to young people, with private companies using impressive incentives to entice prospects." Good!
can we remember that it was just shy of two years ago, it has not been not only vietnamese buddhists 50+ years ago or the Atlanta protester a month ago that i didn't even know irt until Aaron's own, who have felt compelled to scream any attention to a just cause against massacres of silent coups under guise of government(s)?
i have been haunted ever since watching Wynn Bruce's self immolation on the steps of his government in protest to be unable to watch the Aaron's yet, though i will honor his incredible courage when i can afford to break down apart in deep honor horror and grief for his sacrifice as well.
rest in peace and live in history of our souls of this miraculous life being taken by thems ultimate of inhumane hubris that have none, taking as if they own anything of value as they aim to take all life they will take nowhere but to the lowest depths of an inferno i don't believe in until i come face to face with this evil
The same mantra post mass-shootings will be adopted, “it’s a mental health issue”
I read an article (can't recall where) that listed all the people have done this previously of which I recalled NONE! I find it extremely telling and hopeful this has garnered world wide attention and is not thankfully relenting!
Secondly, I don't know if this is true - but if so, it also gives us extreme hope. I wish the experts would start writing about what it be like without an Israel should this accelerate. I'm extremely curious to hear how the world would change.
Even US people shocked by this news! Putin has taken action against Israel! Eygpt in on red alert!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlO0eWWUYuo
I don't trust the channel. The site calls itself "USS Global"
Channel Description:
"Hello everyone, with our large staff of 26 people, we endeavour to present the most important developments in the world to you, our valuable followers, in the form of analyses.
You will be the first to know about everything worth learning in the vast world geography, especially the tension in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
The prominent political developments in the US, Russia, China, the UK, France, Ukraine, Turkey and Israel constitute the main content of our channel."
Channel Reality:
BUT, if you look at the number of videos uploaded (679), every single video upto Feb 26, 2024 has nothing to do with geopolitics or news - its seems to be a Turkish channel with exactly 5 videos (out of 679) that are news related.
Note: I'm not commenting on the content, I'm questioning the source and the credibility of the channel (and the information it purports to disseminate) based on how it is representing itself.
THANK YOU for the informative response! I've a client in the States from Turkey currently here for several weeks and eventually relocating. Thank you for the heads up - I will check with him next week!!