The Assange Case Is The US Defending Its Right To Lie: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
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The Assange case is the most powerful government in the world defending its right to lie to you.
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Q: What's the difference between how the US deals with journalists it hates and how Saudi Arabia deals with journalists it hates?
A: Speed.
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The US is currently building a network of long-range missile systems on a chain of islands near China's coast for the explicit purpose of threatening China. You can tell who is the aggressor in US-China tensions by asking yourself what would happen if this situation was reversed.
Per Washington's own logic it would be perfectly reasonable, and indeed responsible, for China to set up military arsenals along both US coastlines to "contain" it and "deter" attacks on Latin American nations, as the US has an extensive history of launching such attacks and will surely try to again. But we all know what the US response to such behavior would be.
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It's a bit annoying living in a world that's ruled by a dying empire whose increasing desperation to retain control could lead it to initiate a dangerous military confrontation with a major power at any time.
The rise of China crashing into the Washington doctrine that US unipolar hegemony must be preserved at all cost is an unstoppable-force-meets-immovable-object situation that could very easily end in nuclear armageddon.
If the preservation of US unipolar hegemony requires continually escalating military brinkmanship against nuclear-armed Russia and China as well as powerful forces like Iran, then the claim that US unipolar hegemony makes the world a more peaceful place is plainly false.
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You currently have a much higher chance of dying as a result of a nuclear war instigated by your government or its allies than as a result of someone else refusing to take a Covid vaccine. You hear about the latter threat but not the former because the mass media exist to protect imperialist agendas from scrutiny.
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You know you're getting scammed when your government ends a long and expensive war and then the military budget goes up.
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There is no sector of US government policy more significant and consequential than the command of the most powerful military force ever assembled. There is also no sector of US government policy with less oversight, accountability, or press scrutiny.
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Besides a brief window after 9/11 the US has never really been able to sell the narrative that governments it wants to ramp up aggressions against are about to attack its easily-defended shores. So instead it does ridiculous things like claiming those governments are about to invade Ukraine and Taiwan.
The US empire never attacks, it only "defends". All its aggressions are always about "defending" freedom and democracy, "defending" human rights, "defending" nations that can't defend themselves, etc. Often it even "defends" preemptively, before the attacker has done anything. Sometimes the attacker is the last to find out that they were planning an attack.
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Ever since getting our eviction notice I've struggled to be creative because my mind is so focused on the daunting task of finding a nice yet affordable place for my family to live, and it really makes me feel for everyone for whom housing security is a chronic creativity drain. All to pay for the privilege of living on the fucking planet we were fucking born on.
I mean, think about how much creativity and innovation our species is missing out on because our dopey, primitive societal models force people to spend so much brainpower just figuring out how to stay fed and housed. That brainpower could have gone toward improving our world.
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Really I'm just a mother. I'm just a mum who wants a healthy planet and a healthy society for her kids, and I advocate the things I believe will facilitate that. You can add whatever -ists and -isms you want on top of that, but my true ideology is motherhood.
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Right now being smart and informed is a detriment to happiness because things are shitty and the more you understand the harder it is to be happy. Once we create a healthy world this will reverse; the more you understand about the world the more uplifted and optimistic you'll be.
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Let's remember some history. The Global empires beginning in the 1500s -- Spain, France, England, overcome by US empire because of WWII were all hubristic, militaristic, bible-thumping, greedy land-stealing purveyors of genocide at home and throughout the globe. The differences were/are of scale and technology; not of fundamental values of authoritarian capitalist exploitation.
At least China, itself a colonialism victim of the British empire's opium wars, is attempting to accomplish its hegemony through trade and economic development, the belt and roads initiative (reject the Uighur fable). If China can supplant US empire with something more humane, we ought to celebrate that transition away from the world's greatest advancer of the Doomsday clock to midnight. Remember also that the US has impoverished its own, diminishing its middle class and its infrastructure with austerity to fund its insane military adventurism, while China has spent its time growing its middle class and strengthening its infrastructure. And yes I'm a US citizen, born and raised in NYC, who has long-shed his religious and political-propaganda brainwashing to arrive at the realization that my country is probably the greatest force for IN-humanity that the world has ever seen.
Remember how the CIA reacted in the 1960s to the Soviet presence in Cuba, 90 miles away, and then stop criticizing Russia and China for objecting to US military presence either right on their borders or a few nautical miles away. To label this nationalism is to soft-peddle it as the propaganda most of the MSM tries to force-feed us. This is sociopathic hypocrisy of the first order.
Damn; cogent points all.
We condemn Russia for massing troops along their own western boarder, which has been violated twice in the last century at the cost of millions of lives, while Americans' response to 9/11 was to take a pair of scissors to the Bill of Rights and conduct depredations halfway around the globe.
It's worth noting that all the ignoramuses responsible for these policies are voted into office by other ignoramuses.