Pilger is the voice of reason in a sea of insanity. But his opinions will most likely bounce off like a ping-pong ball against a concrete wall of propaganda erected by the MSM and its government sponsors. Since 1947 when the National Security State was formed, the public has been subjected to an endless barrage of pernicious propaganda that has rendered it mute and silent. Lunchtime banter revolves around the trivialities of life focusing on Hollywood, the shenanigans of politicians and sports, sports, sports. Topics that are deemed controversial seldom show up in our discussion horizon, and if they do are quashed by our own cohorts who recoil in horror and become the unwitting enforcers of Mob-think. Our military worship, our obscene military spending, lack of universal health, lack of rapid rail transport, breakdown of infrastructure, our corrupt duopoly etc. are seldom discussed.
The public does not have a clue where the nation is headed and if there is a sign of decline, well it's always the fault of foreign powers. Such is the "freedom" we enjoy........
And this amidst the climate emergency we're collectively facing. I can't imagine worse priorities.
And why? I think I know. I think it's because the global north is losing global power because the global south, or global majority as is the new term, is asserting its rights.
But that can't be said openly, since it would reveal the White Supremacist assumptions that drive the world economy.
MSM just vilifies Russia and China, and we're not supposed to question why.
Just watched The Coming War on China yesterday. Of course, it is excellent, as all of John Pilger's work is. His is indeed a "voice of reason in a sea of insanity".
That documentary is sobering. I saw it too. The beginning about Bikini and the sadistic cruelty of the USA angered me so. America is Nazi and the world's foremost terrorist state. The Neocons and Zionists have made it so.
Actually, it is the Oligarchy. They have been consistently there since before the USA was even founded. They change their spots ever other decade or so to hide from us.
DAMMIT: doesn't anyone read Aaron Good or watch his incredible videos on youTube?
I know, John. I've learned my country's true history. Because of it I learned everything I knew before and was taught is bullshit propaganda. As Caitlin wrote, "We live in a Narrative Matrix controlled by Plutocratic and military Institutions who have created an ILLUSION of democracy.".
The crazy thing is one would think these smug aristocrats who considered themselves more important would’ve died off in favor of a new progressive generation. Unfortunately their offspring are worse: wealthier, more entitled, more psychotic & cold hearted. Worse, key players of the old regime can’t seem to die. Perhaps they aren’t actually humans?
Season 3 of "Peaky Blinders" gives a clue. The Russians in these episodes -are- the American Oligarchy. They were fascinating to watch. They are also the Jeffery Epsteins.
The line: noting that nuclear warhead spending “rose higher under Obama than under any American president.” is just more justification for believing the president doesn't run the nation. It wasn't Obama's idea or initiative that lobbied for, wrote and the pushed a bill to expand nuclear weapons development and production. It was obviously the DoD, the defense contractors and their lackeys on the hill, all done in pursuit of money from government. I don't say profits because thats not ho you make profits, that is how you steal billions or trillions from the public coffers., theft should never be equated with profits.
I agree with your position that the MIC is robbing the public coffers. I believe the US is no longer a republic, or even a democracy. We are ruled by fascism. I believe if we could stop the flow of money to the USG we could turn around the direction we're headed in, but I'm not sure how we turn off the $$ spigot. Article V convention? Balanced Budget Amendment? I don't think we have enough time to use the tools provided in the Constitution.
Make the money system they use to become utterly valueless. How? Get communities far and wide to begin their own money systems. https://www.complementarycurrency.org/ Wean yourselves off banksters usurious blood soaked money. Don't leave it too late!
We are a totally FUBAR civilization run by idiots slandering history and the wisdom true prophets like Pilger.
"Our rulers have been steering us in this direction for a long time now, and they’re not going to turn away until we make them.".... and I ask myself have we been reduced to grist for the war mongers infantile behaviors?
I remember watching The Coming War on China when it first came out in 2016 after having just left China where I had lived for the past four years. I felt the immediacy of the message then and have been following Pilger ever since, who really felt like a sole sane voice in a cascade of insanity which calls itself a norm. What strikes me more than ever is how some message and a person sending it can be so immediate and be so true and yet the status quo normal insanity keeps marching on. People maybe think about it once, did once way back then, but the insanity as normal keeps revolving. This can become such a massive challenge where it can feel a bit like repeating the same day over and over, where we are still facing the same massive problems but people act like it isn’t real in some sense, like just some bad dream. This is perhaps why Pilger, and indeed Johnstone tend to emphasize the importance of propaganda in this whole mess.
Pilger's documentary "Stealing a Nation" about Diego Garcia air base in the midst of the Indian Ocean is particularly poignant, and shows how awful the Anglo-American is.
"Pilger is no prophet — he’s just a journalist with an ear to the ground who’s been critically scrutinizing the behavior of the empire for decades. He was able to accurately mark the trajectory our world has been on earlier than most, and it has continued along that same trajectory with frightening speed ever since."
Think how many more "prophets" we would have if mainstream journalists acted just as honestly and diligently to share the truth of what's happening in the world as John Pilger does. We might have been able to focus attention on this year's global boiling event worldwide if we weren't being inundated with propaganda courtesy of the US military-industrial complex and its love of endless wars. Think of all the good journalists could do in the world if they didn't sell out so completely to the MIC.
Obama did the same thing with US oil and gas production (record highs) and miles of pipeline built (record highs) as he did with the trillion dollar nuclear "modernization" issue.
And he got the same pass from the media and cheerleading by the liberal class and faux progressives.
The US government is far more adept at creating problems than solving them. It's become completely irrational and dysfunctional and has been for some time. The dysfunction and irrationality extends to the US population at large as well. We have an economy which relies on consumerism and high consumption which we willingly exported the means of production to an "enemy" of the country for higher profits and a means of escaping environmental regulations and workers rights. Taiwan is and has been a part of the PRC for over 50 years. Inevitably as a result of this, the PRC now has a stranglehold on the US. Pieces of paper (a treaty or contract) with a signature are valid only for the one with the biggest club. If the PRC stopped production of consumer goods or chip mfg the US economy will collapse. So a military buildup is the only way to keep them in line. The tactics utilized are the same with China as they are with US citizens, only on a larger scale. The military buildup is nothing more than a large club to keep the "workers" in line. Keep them in line with brute force if necessary. But unlike complacent Americans the PRC may decide to resist and fight back.
Its rather obvious that this entire thing was planned from the start given that the military buildup around China simultaneously kept step with the buildup of manufacturing. It's nothing more than brinkmanship at the highest level. Which Americans (who bear the brunt of the responsibility as a nation) happily bought into for cheap disposable consumer goods making the rich richer and destroying the planet in the process.
The facts are that there is not a single problem facing humanity today that can't be solved. But since we are being led and controlled by paranoid psychopaths in the US, it's not going to happen. There isn't going to be time to "wake" people up.
One way or another this isn't going to have a happy Hollywood ending.
At the end of Pilger's article he asks when voices are raised and resistance begins. The article was written in 2016. It's 2023 and I hear crickets.
Yes, there are a few passionate voices like your's online. Notice the subscriptions, views and comments. This is not nearly enough to make a difference! Non the less we must not give up. Quitters never win.
Our best hope is that the Anglo-Zionist Empire of Lies and Hate consumes itself. Our best hope is that it's overwhelmed by the Multipolar World. This seems to be underway and gaining steam.
Longtrail: My best hope is that my genetic code dies with me and my two childless children. If you want the human race to continue on your long trail, do something about it.
Pilger is the voice of reason in a sea of insanity. But his opinions will most likely bounce off like a ping-pong ball against a concrete wall of propaganda erected by the MSM and its government sponsors. Since 1947 when the National Security State was formed, the public has been subjected to an endless barrage of pernicious propaganda that has rendered it mute and silent. Lunchtime banter revolves around the trivialities of life focusing on Hollywood, the shenanigans of politicians and sports, sports, sports. Topics that are deemed controversial seldom show up in our discussion horizon, and if they do are quashed by our own cohorts who recoil in horror and become the unwitting enforcers of Mob-think. Our military worship, our obscene military spending, lack of universal health, lack of rapid rail transport, breakdown of infrastructure, our corrupt duopoly etc. are seldom discussed.
The public does not have a clue where the nation is headed and if there is a sign of decline, well it's always the fault of foreign powers. Such is the "freedom" we enjoy........
And this amidst the climate emergency we're collectively facing. I can't imagine worse priorities.
And why? I think I know. I think it's because the global north is losing global power because the global south, or global majority as is the new term, is asserting its rights.
But that can't be said openly, since it would reveal the White Supremacist assumptions that drive the world economy.
MSM just vilifies Russia and China, and we're not supposed to question why.
Just watched The Coming War on China yesterday. Of course, it is excellent, as all of John Pilger's work is. His is indeed a "voice of reason in a sea of insanity".
That documentary is sobering. I saw it too. The beginning about Bikini and the sadistic cruelty of the USA angered me so. America is Nazi and the world's foremost terrorist state. The Neocons and Zionists have made it so.
Actually, it is the Oligarchy. They have been consistently there since before the USA was even founded. They change their spots ever other decade or so to hide from us.
DAMMIT: doesn't anyone read Aaron Good or watch his incredible videos on youTube?
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hNArLl765PXe8tsTKmOciGL
Watch the summary: Criminality of US empire and deep state with historian Aaron Good
You'll be hooked.
I know, John. I've learned my country's true history. Because of it I learned everything I knew before and was taught is bullshit propaganda. As Caitlin wrote, "We live in a Narrative Matrix controlled by Plutocratic and military Institutions who have created an ILLUSION of democracy.".
We live in the belly of the beast.
The crazy thing is one would think these smug aristocrats who considered themselves more important would’ve died off in favor of a new progressive generation. Unfortunately their offspring are worse: wealthier, more entitled, more psychotic & cold hearted. Worse, key players of the old regime can’t seem to die. Perhaps they aren’t actually humans?
"Perhaps they aren’t actually humans?"
Season 3 of "Peaky Blinders" gives a clue. The Russians in these episodes -are- the American Oligarchy. They were fascinating to watch. They are also the Jeffery Epsteins.
Just think, what the USA did in the Marshall Islands makes Joseph Mengele proud.
The line: noting that nuclear warhead spending “rose higher under Obama than under any American president.” is just more justification for believing the president doesn't run the nation. It wasn't Obama's idea or initiative that lobbied for, wrote and the pushed a bill to expand nuclear weapons development and production. It was obviously the DoD, the defense contractors and their lackeys on the hill, all done in pursuit of money from government. I don't say profits because thats not ho you make profits, that is how you steal billions or trillions from the public coffers., theft should never be equated with profits.
I agree with your position that the MIC is robbing the public coffers. I believe the US is no longer a republic, or even a democracy. We are ruled by fascism. I believe if we could stop the flow of money to the USG we could turn around the direction we're headed in, but I'm not sure how we turn off the $$ spigot. Article V convention? Balanced Budget Amendment? I don't think we have enough time to use the tools provided in the Constitution.
Make the money system they use to become utterly valueless. How? Get communities far and wide to begin their own money systems. https://www.complementarycurrency.org/ Wean yourselves off banksters usurious blood soaked money. Don't leave it too late!
The problem is that all this is entirely intentional on the part of our rulers.
They would gladly obliterate 99% of life on earth, as long as they were granted dominion over whatever is left.
We are a totally FUBAR civilization run by idiots slandering history and the wisdom true prophets like Pilger.
"Our rulers have been steering us in this direction for a long time now, and they’re not going to turn away until we make them.".... and I ask myself have we been reduced to grist for the war mongers infantile behaviors?
YES❗️ Lord Give Us STRENGTH
Robert Billyard: So, what are you going to do about this FUBAR civilization run by idiots?
We need an honest labor movement that strikes for Peace.
No one is going to do that.
What you have to do is show them how the oppression they suffer is because of the war. Only then will you be able to recruit the numbers you need.
But who is FUNDING TheWar and Who Profits by TheWar❓
Tom Laney: The only thing labor unions strike for is more money and benefits.
Is that what you do?
Yeah and they all look alike
I remember watching The Coming War on China when it first came out in 2016 after having just left China where I had lived for the past four years. I felt the immediacy of the message then and have been following Pilger ever since, who really felt like a sole sane voice in a cascade of insanity which calls itself a norm. What strikes me more than ever is how some message and a person sending it can be so immediate and be so true and yet the status quo normal insanity keeps marching on. People maybe think about it once, did once way back then, but the insanity as normal keeps revolving. This can become such a massive challenge where it can feel a bit like repeating the same day over and over, where we are still facing the same massive problems but people act like it isn’t real in some sense, like just some bad dream. This is perhaps why Pilger, and indeed Johnstone tend to emphasize the importance of propaganda in this whole mess.
There just isn’t enough rope to go around.
The Stricken Land: No. There aren't enough moral people using the rope to go around.
We must be happy warriors nevertheless. When you’re going through hell, keep going.
The Stricken Land: Oh, I'm a warrior. Don't think it makes me happy though. All the best.
Thank you Caitlin🙏
Pilger's article is spot on. Every word is the truth!
Pilger's documentary "Stealing a Nation" about Diego Garcia air base in the midst of the Indian Ocean is particularly poignant, and shows how awful the Anglo-American is.
"Pilger is no prophet — he’s just a journalist with an ear to the ground who’s been critically scrutinizing the behavior of the empire for decades. He was able to accurately mark the trajectory our world has been on earlier than most, and it has continued along that same trajectory with frightening speed ever since."
Think how many more "prophets" we would have if mainstream journalists acted just as honestly and diligently to share the truth of what's happening in the world as John Pilger does. We might have been able to focus attention on this year's global boiling event worldwide if we weren't being inundated with propaganda courtesy of the US military-industrial complex and its love of endless wars. Think of all the good journalists could do in the world if they didn't sell out so completely to the MIC.
Obama did the same thing with US oil and gas production (record highs) and miles of pipeline built (record highs) as he did with the trillion dollar nuclear "modernization" issue.
And he got the same pass from the media and cheerleading by the liberal class and faux progressives.
The US government is far more adept at creating problems than solving them. It's become completely irrational and dysfunctional and has been for some time. The dysfunction and irrationality extends to the US population at large as well. We have an economy which relies on consumerism and high consumption which we willingly exported the means of production to an "enemy" of the country for higher profits and a means of escaping environmental regulations and workers rights. Taiwan is and has been a part of the PRC for over 50 years. Inevitably as a result of this, the PRC now has a stranglehold on the US. Pieces of paper (a treaty or contract) with a signature are valid only for the one with the biggest club. If the PRC stopped production of consumer goods or chip mfg the US economy will collapse. So a military buildup is the only way to keep them in line. The tactics utilized are the same with China as they are with US citizens, only on a larger scale. The military buildup is nothing more than a large club to keep the "workers" in line. Keep them in line with brute force if necessary. But unlike complacent Americans the PRC may decide to resist and fight back.
Its rather obvious that this entire thing was planned from the start given that the military buildup around China simultaneously kept step with the buildup of manufacturing. It's nothing more than brinkmanship at the highest level. Which Americans (who bear the brunt of the responsibility as a nation) happily bought into for cheap disposable consumer goods making the rich richer and destroying the planet in the process.
The facts are that there is not a single problem facing humanity today that can't be solved. But since we are being led and controlled by paranoid psychopaths in the US, it's not going to happen. There isn't going to be time to "wake" people up.
One way or another this isn't going to have a happy Hollywood ending.
At the end of Pilger's article he asks when voices are raised and resistance begins. The article was written in 2016. It's 2023 and I hear crickets.
Yes, there are a few passionate voices like your's online. Notice the subscriptions, views and comments. This is not nearly enough to make a difference! Non the less we must not give up. Quitters never win.
Our best hope is that the Anglo-Zionist Empire of Lies and Hate consumes itself. Our best hope is that it's overwhelmed by the Multipolar World. This seems to be underway and gaining steam.
Longtrail: My best hope is that my genetic code dies with me and my two childless children. If you want the human race to continue on your long trail, do something about it.
Can we agitate for a law that compels the politicians to form the vanguard of our troops?
Lynette Ackermann; LOL! As if politicians would pass a law requiring them to fight in a war. LOL! You crack me up.