the profession of 'journalist' and its sacredness were also severely damaged by the actions of empire stenographers in gaza and ukraine. i regard most western 'journalists' as participants in the onslaught. just like a lot of other institutions (sportfederations, churches, parlements, ...), they lost most of their credit and 'specialness'. few people have pointed this out. i, for one, will be only very very selectively empathic the next time the cpj or some other international journalist organisation publish their list of killed journalists (which are already 'politicized'). sad to say, but i wouldn't object to their 'special status and protections' being stripped (no offence to the good journalists, but they would understand what i mean). journalism has been completely corporatized.
WE ARE ALL TERRORISTS NOW (according to the US Empire).
---------------
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
---edit---
Then they came for the Palestinians
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Palestinian
---end of edit---
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
--------------
They WILL eventually come for all of us - and as justification they will just call us "terrorists" or traitors" or some other such designations...
WE NEED to overcome our DIFFERENCES and form SOLIDARITY with each other - otherwise, there is NO WAY of successfully FIGHTING the GLOBAL HEGEMONIC EMPIRE!
Yes, that is the CHALLENGE, the tall order - the "Left" AND the "Right" MUST somehow come together for the SHARED GOAL of vanquishing the 1%/Empire Managers/Globalists/Power Elite/etc.
Once that is somewhat achieved to a satisfactory level, the Left and the Right and go back to fighting amongst each other. BUT PLEASE, let's DEFEAT the REAL ENEMY first, shall we?
The terms have a venerable tradition behind them - dating back to the seating of revolutionaries vs conservatives (often royalists) in the lead up to the French Revolution . I am sure neither side wanted to 'rise above' the serious political differences . Debate is not evil but a way to try to move forward without assassination . Rising above differences usually means that someone , often many people have been silenced .
Open-minded debate can be productive and informative. Sadly, the terms "right" and "left" have devolved into self-righteous rigidity resulting in hopeless division. Doubling down does not move forward. Silencing anyone is not how we rise above our differences. It's how we remember all we had in common before political agendas divided us against each other.
I have a problem not with your general points but with what open-minded often means in real terms . Thinking unfortunately about my 2ndary school in the UK some things were taken for granted eg in History the French and American (as well as Russian and Chinese ) revolutions were definitely a BAD THING and all stages of the British Empire were a GOOD THING . Being anti-monarchist was weird - my younger sister was described as 'grumpy' for this ! I was described as having very strong views ie also BAD . I do realise that what 'left' and 'right' mean varies by country and history . I have finally got it about the USA that 'left' means Democrat and 'right" means Republican . Despite huge effort this has not yet translated to the UK !
Oh yes - altho' I have often been accused of arguing to score points/shout people down etc. Words/language are arguably what makes us human ! Also it IS possible to shed light not heat on a subject by formalising the exchange of opinions . Of course you can get disastrous results as pointed out by Lewis Carrol in "Sylvie and Bruno" . The narrator recounts a misunderstanding of the concept whereby all human activity is divided into 'For' and 'Against' . When the country's army is divided like that - they lose . of course .
Yes, I edited that part out - Jews have (for the most part) forfeited their "victimhood" status (though it would be more accurate to say Zionists).
The real victims are all the oppressed minorities in the world - Palestine, Sudan, Ethopia, Congo, Indigenous people all over the world that have been colonized, other oppressed and racialized groups,....too many to list....and too many categories....
The only way forward (that I see) is for ALL of us to somehow push down/suspend/pause/etc. our differences for the fight ahead with the EMPIRE. We can figure out the rest later after we manage to CONTAIN (and subdue) THE GLOBAL OPPRESSERS and EXPLOITERS.
But there are still anti-Zionist Jews - whether 'right-wing' and thus despised by us 'good guys' or those who still believe in a God of justice indivisible .
Chang, It is not as if I disagree with you. I am one with the real victims as you are. For more than a year now we have been witnessing the savagery of Israel unleashing its brutality on the Palestinians. Right from the start of this horror we have been with them in their suffering. My empathetic distress is such that I can honestly say that I am not the same person I was a year ago.
More people and nations become what Franz Fanon called " The wretched of the earth". It is as if colonialism, imperialism, white supremacy... never ended.
We are all victims. We are all oppressed. Is it too optimistic to hope that we can come together casting aside the differences that enslave us and stand against the oppressors. One day.....
Here's something to be hopeful for/about -> "the murder of the healthcare insurance company CEO" (Yes, I call this a hopeful, positive development).
In this instance, BOTH the Left AND the Right united in their disgust of the CEO and the celebration of his murder (though few may be willing to admit it openly).
EVERYONE (with any common-sense and morality) HATES billionaires. They are an abomination on (and to) this planet (and so are their lackeys). EVERYONE hates exploiters and oppressers and abusers. THIS is HOW the Left and the Right can find common ground -> fight AGAINST the 1% (regardless of ideology). The 1% DON'T CARE about your ideology or Left-Right leanings.
So, YES -> we need more organized action against the 1% (and dethroning billionaires and their lackeys seems to be a UNITING force). Peaceful non-violent means are always preferable, but they may not always be possible - especially when tempers are flaring high after DECADES of constant abuse, suppression, and exploitation.
"Terrorist organization” is a political designation, not a behavioral one. It has a lot less to do with how an organization acts and operates and a lot more to do with whether or not they advance the strategic interests of the US empire."
Once again, the true terrorist organization--Izrealhell--is allowed to make a vast land grab of a neighboring nation because the US doesn't care for other Syrian organizations who are trying to prevent their land from being stolen from them. Every day we seem to be slipping farther and farther down the rabbit hole into a surreal nightmare called US imperialism. It's time to fill the rabbit hole in with cement and ship the true terrorists--Biden, Blinken, Netanyahu and the rest--off to the ICJ.
I believe it was the same in the US. Every time he traveled to the US as president of democratic South Africa, he had to get special clearance from the US because of this designation.
The ANC was also a designated terrorist organisation because apartheid South Africa was a key ally of the west during the Cold War. Because this designation was only removed in early 2000s, every cabinet minister in democratic South Africa from 1994 till then had to also obtain special clearance because they were members of the ANC, the democratically elected governing party in South Africa.
They always use the language that goes together with their actions, we get "freedom fighters" and "terrorists", "vile dictators" etc, depending on: they are with us or against us. And then flood the media day after day with their invented reality. So much that most ordinary people who don't know and don't really care what's happening in some corner of the jungle become sure that they do know enough.
Only wondering, is the 'They' you use those above the law Zionist or Zionist manage that can and have lied us into war longer than I have been alive (1963) with unknow millions murdered in the most hideous ways?
I assume so. Some maybe old enough to remember (WMD) Iraq mass-murder Jurk-off to them with Dick Cheney spewing his seed endlessly why watching the tortures or captured war prisoners in the program that so murdered the soul of this Nation it Just God pour Burning Fire from the sky over us ..
Maybe in a Just world, a world not Falling into and close to Hell, such False-Witnessers and all connected to them, and all the older adults in those families are publicly executed in some method the men the send and those they fight would risk dying by.
Like trapping groups of them in Humvees and burning them alive - in public and streamed to world. Do you think that would send a clear message to all that we will rip-out every demon-controlled living person and all their older adults in their families, and maybe every family they socially engaged with and banked with and ...
Vengeance is indeed sweet and so is fantasising about it . However copying inhumanity makes you inhuman too cf the nightmarish ending of "Animal Farm" .
I guess the logic is, if you can kill enough people, you win. Imagine living decades of your life by that simpleton and barbaric paradigm? As if there is nothing else in life worthwhile. Might makes right, and nothing more.
So the shitraelis think they can take all of Palestine, half of Lebanon and most of Syria and hold it when they cannot even defeat Hamas or Hezbollah? They are truly insane. Let their destruction be even faster.
Terror is the Empire's most abundant export. When I hear someone being labelled a terrorist by The West I assume they must be doing something worthwhile for their people/country/wealth.
And that said Westerner is projecting.
Destroying the Yankee war machine would be the largest anti-terror action that could be taken. Them & their ethno-supremacist, apartheid regime & relentless child murderer that is Israel. Both blights on humanity.
It is ironic, I guess, that zionism is, itself, antisemitic. All governments are by their nature: criminal organizations or terrorists. The idea that there can be a jewish, much less christian government, is very insulting to people who actually have faith. That's history because this article could've been written with a few name changes on December 8 1941 or 12 September 2001.
My continued disgust, contempt for Biden, USA, Netanyahu, Israel, has no boundaries! Despicable policies against human beings!
First they came for the journalists,
and after that, we don't know what they did.
More like the so-styled journalists rolled over and licked their masters' hands.
Hand licking didn't save those who dared venture into Gaza.
The hand lickers (arse lickers ?) didn't venture into Gaza, they stayed in their own comfort zones...
I think you mean the Israelis/Zionists. Plenty of Jews are as disgusted by Nathan Yahoo and his supporters' actions as you and I are.
No Jennifer, it was self identified Jews doin’ it.
They said so/bragged about it themselves.
The dude didn’t say all Jews do.
But, to pretend that Jews don’t do genocide is fake news.
Italians use the noun "leccapiedi", literally foot-licker, translated as boot-licker or more colloquially as arse-licker.
"Arschlecker" in German.
I speculate that the famous shoemaker Italians are fixated on shoes, hence their propensity to go feet first.
the profession of 'journalist' and its sacredness were also severely damaged by the actions of empire stenographers in gaza and ukraine. i regard most western 'journalists' as participants in the onslaught. just like a lot of other institutions (sportfederations, churches, parlements, ...), they lost most of their credit and 'specialness'. few people have pointed this out. i, for one, will be only very very selectively empathic the next time the cpj or some other international journalist organisation publish their list of killed journalists (which are already 'politicized'). sad to say, but i wouldn't object to their 'special status and protections' being stripped (no offence to the good journalists, but they would understand what i mean). journalism has been completely corporatized.
WE ARE ALL TERRORISTS NOW (according to the US Empire).
---------------
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
---edit---
Then they came for the Palestinians
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Palestinian
---end of edit---
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me
--------------
They WILL eventually come for all of us - and as justification they will just call us "terrorists" or traitors" or some other such designations...
WE NEED to overcome our DIFFERENCES and form SOLIDARITY with each other - otherwise, there is NO WAY of successfully FIGHTING the GLOBAL HEGEMONIC EMPIRE!
As long as they can keep the Left fighting with the Right they can do whatever they like while almost no one is paying attention.
"...every city or house divided against itself will not stand..."
Yes, that is the CHALLENGE, the tall order - the "Left" AND the "Right" MUST somehow come together for the SHARED GOAL of vanquishing the 1%/Empire Managers/Globalists/Power Elite/etc.
Once that is somewhat achieved to a satisfactory level, the Left and the Right and go back to fighting amongst each other. BUT PLEASE, let's DEFEAT the REAL ENEMY first, shall we?
"Left" and "Right" are made up political divisions humanity must rise above.
The terms have a venerable tradition behind them - dating back to the seating of revolutionaries vs conservatives (often royalists) in the lead up to the French Revolution . I am sure neither side wanted to 'rise above' the serious political differences . Debate is not evil but a way to try to move forward without assassination . Rising above differences usually means that someone , often many people have been silenced .
Open-minded debate can be productive and informative. Sadly, the terms "right" and "left" have devolved into self-righteous rigidity resulting in hopeless division. Doubling down does not move forward. Silencing anyone is not how we rise above our differences. It's how we remember all we had in common before political agendas divided us against each other.
I have a problem not with your general points but with what open-minded often means in real terms . Thinking unfortunately about my 2ndary school in the UK some things were taken for granted eg in History the French and American (as well as Russian and Chinese ) revolutions were definitely a BAD THING and all stages of the British Empire were a GOOD THING . Being anti-monarchist was weird - my younger sister was described as 'grumpy' for this ! I was described as having very strong views ie also BAD . I do realise that what 'left' and 'right' mean varies by country and history . I have finally got it about the USA that 'left' means Democrat and 'right" means Republican . Despite huge effort this has not yet translated to the UK !
on the other hand, are there still many things to debate about that rise above the current predicament?
Oh yes - altho' I have often been accused of arguing to score points/shout people down etc. Words/language are arguably what makes us human ! Also it IS possible to shed light not heat on a subject by formalising the exchange of opinions . Of course you can get disastrous results as pointed out by Lewis Carrol in "Sylvie and Bruno" . The narrator recounts a misunderstanding of the concept whereby all human activity is divided into 'For' and 'Against' . When the country's army is divided like that - they lose . of course .
we will
Chang, Good to be reminded of this. Not important, but isn't it " First they came for the Jews... ?
Yes! We are all terrorists now.
Yes, I edited that part out - Jews have (for the most part) forfeited their "victimhood" status (though it would be more accurate to say Zionists).
The real victims are all the oppressed minorities in the world - Palestine, Sudan, Ethopia, Congo, Indigenous people all over the world that have been colonized, other oppressed and racialized groups,....too many to list....and too many categories....
The only way forward (that I see) is for ALL of us to somehow push down/suspend/pause/etc. our differences for the fight ahead with the EMPIRE. We can figure out the rest later after we manage to CONTAIN (and subdue) THE GLOBAL OPPRESSERS and EXPLOITERS.
But there are still anti-Zionist Jews - whether 'right-wing' and thus despised by us 'good guys' or those who still believe in a God of justice indivisible .
Chang, It is not as if I disagree with you. I am one with the real victims as you are. For more than a year now we have been witnessing the savagery of Israel unleashing its brutality on the Palestinians. Right from the start of this horror we have been with them in their suffering. My empathetic distress is such that I can honestly say that I am not the same person I was a year ago.
More people and nations become what Franz Fanon called " The wretched of the earth". It is as if colonialism, imperialism, white supremacy... never ended.
We are all victims. We are all oppressed. Is it too optimistic to hope that we can come together casting aside the differences that enslave us and stand against the oppressors. One day.....
Here's something to be hopeful for/about -> "the murder of the healthcare insurance company CEO" (Yes, I call this a hopeful, positive development).
In this instance, BOTH the Left AND the Right united in their disgust of the CEO and the celebration of his murder (though few may be willing to admit it openly).
EVERYONE (with any common-sense and morality) HATES billionaires. They are an abomination on (and to) this planet (and so are their lackeys). EVERYONE hates exploiters and oppressers and abusers. THIS is HOW the Left and the Right can find common ground -> fight AGAINST the 1% (regardless of ideology). The 1% DON'T CARE about your ideology or Left-Right leanings.
So, YES -> we need more organized action against the 1% (and dethroning billionaires and their lackeys seems to be a UNITING force). Peaceful non-violent means are always preferable, but they may not always be possible - especially when tempers are flaring high after DECADES of constant abuse, suppression, and exploitation.
Hi Chang
Peaceful and nonviolent ways have not been very effective. To quote Chairman Mao: Revolution comes through the barrel of a gun.
I see this not so much as a fight between right and left as between the Royalty and the Peasants With Pitchforks.
Am I in favor of violent revolution? Well, I HAVE praised the French way of accomplishing it many times.
Whenever someone wants to cast aside differences I hear someone telling me to shut up .
"Terrorist organization” is a political designation, not a behavioral one. It has a lot less to do with how an organization acts and operates and a lot more to do with whether or not they advance the strategic interests of the US empire."
Once again, the true terrorist organization--Izrealhell--is allowed to make a vast land grab of a neighboring nation because the US doesn't care for other Syrian organizations who are trying to prevent their land from being stolen from them. Every day we seem to be slipping farther and farther down the rabbit hole into a surreal nightmare called US imperialism. It's time to fill the rabbit hole in with cement and ship the true terrorists--Biden, Blinken, Netanyahu and the rest--off to the ICJ.
The ICC, but I take your point.
The gallows, TRC!
Nelson Mandela was officially listed as a terrorist by the UK until 2003.
I believe it was the same in the US. Every time he traveled to the US as president of democratic South Africa, he had to get special clearance from the US because of this designation.
The ANC was also a designated terrorist organisation because apartheid South Africa was a key ally of the west during the Cold War. Because this designation was only removed in early 2000s, every cabinet minister in democratic South Africa from 1994 till then had to also obtain special clearance because they were members of the ANC, the democratically elected governing party in South Africa.
Doesn't this just tell you that deferring to US designations is a very stupid thing to do?
I no longer see Capitol Hill as a civilised place - it is a den of criminals, thieves, Israel Firsters and worse.
Who are the terrorists? USA
Want to know who controls the world ?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/who-owns-world-small-group-big-money/5850681
Dick Cheney to this day maintains that Nelson was a terrorist.
It is true that his ANC bombed some power plants, for which Nelson was imprisoned. No human injuries though.
The ANC did a lot of things that could be called "terrorist". So did Nat Turner.
For is it not written that "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter"?
Feral, and Sitting Bull was a “terrorist”. As were Crazy Horse, Cochise, Tecumseh, Geronimo, etc. etc. etc.
They always use the language that goes together with their actions, we get "freedom fighters" and "terrorists", "vile dictators" etc, depending on: they are with us or against us. And then flood the media day after day with their invented reality. So much that most ordinary people who don't know and don't really care what's happening in some corner of the jungle become sure that they do know enough.
They at least convince naive youth to become soldiers to fight “terrorism.”
Only wondering, is the 'They' you use those above the law Zionist or Zionist manage that can and have lied us into war longer than I have been alive (1963) with unknow millions murdered in the most hideous ways?
I assume so. Some maybe old enough to remember (WMD) Iraq mass-murder Jurk-off to them with Dick Cheney spewing his seed endlessly why watching the tortures or captured war prisoners in the program that so murdered the soul of this Nation it Just God pour Burning Fire from the sky over us ..
Maybe in a Just world, a world not Falling into and close to Hell, such False-Witnessers and all connected to them, and all the older adults in those families are publicly executed in some method the men the send and those they fight would risk dying by.
Like trapping groups of them in Humvees and burning them alive - in public and streamed to world. Do you think that would send a clear message to all that we will rip-out every demon-controlled living person and all their older adults in their families, and maybe every family they socially engaged with and banked with and ...
God Bless., Steve
Vengeance is indeed sweet and so is fantasising about it . However copying inhumanity makes you inhuman too cf the nightmarish ending of "Animal Farm" .
I guess the logic is, if you can kill enough people, you win. Imagine living decades of your life by that simpleton and barbaric paradigm? As if there is nothing else in life worthwhile. Might makes right, and nothing more.
Just disgusting conditions. What can you say. The US is a terrorist organisation. Doesn’t seem to care about civilians being slaughtered.
So the shitraelis think they can take all of Palestine, half of Lebanon and most of Syria and hold it when they cannot even defeat Hamas or Hezbollah? They are truly insane. Let their destruction be even faster.
They have the USA as their military protectors and their political bumboys.
Another great article telling it exactly as it is - how refreshing! Keep up the great work!
Terror is the Empire's most abundant export. When I hear someone being labelled a terrorist by The West I assume they must be doing something worthwhile for their people/country/wealth.
And that said Westerner is projecting.
Destroying the Yankee war machine would be the largest anti-terror action that could be taken. Them & their ethno-supremacist, apartheid regime & relentless child murderer that is Israel. Both blights on humanity.
Well said!
“A terrorist is an enemy of the state as defined by the state.”
- Petra Bartosiewicz
Wouldn’t it have been great had most Americans put their thinking caps on after 911? Getting angry and curious instead of just, angry?
US conducts a proxy war against Russia which invaded Ukraine in selfdefense.
Israel is invading Syria in “selfdefense” with full US support
It is ironic, I guess, that zionism is, itself, antisemitic. All governments are by their nature: criminal organizations or terrorists. The idea that there can be a jewish, much less christian government, is very insulting to people who actually have faith. That's history because this article could've been written with a few name changes on December 8 1941 or 12 September 2001.
OMFG. The US is insane. This is all insane. All these fuckers need a visit from the Massive Stroke Fairy.