To make matters worse, Israel has a long history of selling arms to some of the bloodiest actors in the Sudan genocide. "Israeli firms have also broken with the United States and Europe by supplying weapons and surveillance equipment to militias in South Sudan, where a civil war has raged since late 2013. Some 300,000 Sudanese are believed to have been killed in the fighting."
Israel sells arms to 90 nations including bloody dictatorships and sometimes both sides in civil wars.
And let's not neglect Israel's thriving market in surveillance software, which it habitually sells to its client nations with a back door feature that allows it to spy on whatever uses that client makes of the product. It's a major feature of the way Zionism's talon-like clutches monitor the flow of global information, the first step in manipulating a favorable disposition toward itself, which it was quite successful at, until it initiated its genocide for all to see.
Backdoors are pretty much traditional in Israeli products, back in the '80s and '90s they sold telephony switches to the US government, including the Pentagram, with hard-coded backdoors which could not be removed.
Indeed; note that I wrote "habitually". Whitney Webb's books are quite good sources for this with their ample references. The Mossad has had its long fingers in US national security for a long while.
The same assholes committing a genocide in Gaza are committing genocide in Sudan , the Israelis . Israel has been involved in Sudan since the country split , they caused it . No one in the west talks about it
The US needs to sanction ITSELF for being the BIGGEST perpetrators of Genocides and destruction on planet Earth. ALL the other countries should also SANCTION the US. (Yes, I know that this is unfortunately not possible/practical in our reality)
Does ANYBODY still listen to ANY of the bullshit (and virtue signaling) that the US Empire does anymore?
It's not just the copious quantities of industrial strength bullshit, Chang, but the fact that the perpetrators can spout it with straight, serious, sober faces. Oscar-winning performances of outrageous, outright lying and denial. Most egregiously, these same deadened consciences will swear by their god of whatever brand, insouciantly ignoring the tenets by which they otherwise claim to live. I really wish there were a hell to which they will deservedly be consigned.
You’re absolutely right! There is so much good in the world (so many ordinary, good, decent, compassionate, kind humans all over the world). How is it that a VERY SMALL MINORITY of THE WORST HUMANS have been able to override all the good of humanity? Is there some fault in our human evolution/psychology that has enabled an extremely small segment of the MOST EVIL humans to hijack the rest of us?
Those who manipulate and kill for their own benefit rise to the top. It's always been like that. Ruthless humans always climb up the ladder by cutting away the legs of those above, and stomping on the heads of those below.
Not a single person has risen to lead anything substantial by being nice and talking thev truth.
It took several centuries to end legal segregation but Dr. King, with a non-violent strategy of massive protests and civil disobedience, ended it suddenly when a massive crowd of 400,000 heard his prophetic words...and within 3 months, the Civil Rights Act was passed. When enough of us unite, we win.
We must kill the farmers. These are from the farmers mouths; "We were the first to put Liberty, Equality and Fraternity into the mouths of the masses, which set up a new aristocracy. The qualification of this aristocracy is WEALTH, which is dependent on us." Mayer Amschel Rothschild
"Candidates for public office should be servile and obedient to our commands so that they may readily be used." Mayer Amschel Rothschild
“The overwhelming majority of American Rabbis regard Zionism not only as fully consistent with Judaism but as a logical expression and implementation of it.”— Document released on November 20, 1942 signed by 818 American Rabbi
"The US shouldn't give high clearances to Jews, because when asked to help, we're willing to do anything for the love of our country, Israel." -- Spy Jonathan Pollard during interrogation by the FBI. Make note that Pollard was born in the US and his spying put America in serious nuclear risk back in the 1980's.
"If my son's did not WANT wars there would be NONE". Gutle Schnaper Rothschild wife of Mayer Amschel Rothschild on her deathbed 1849
"Wars should be directed so that the nations engaged on both sides should be further in our debt." Mayer Amschel Rothschild
"Since the earliest times it is as the exploiter that the Jew has been known amongst his fellow men of all races and creeds. Moreover, he has persistently shown himself ungrateful... The Jews have always formed a rebellious element in every state." -- NESTA WEBSTER, In World Revolution, The Plot against Civilization, page163
"The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take away from them the power to create money and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money." -- Josiah Stamp, Former Director of the Bank of England
“It is our duty to force all mankind to accept the seven Noahide laws, and if not ~ they will be killed.” ~ Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg
“We have exterminated the property owners in Russia. We are going to do the same thing in Europe and America
(The Jew, December, 1925, Zinobit)
“Nowhere in the Talmud is the Star of David an endorsement of the Jews. However, the Bible does reference this to be the Star of Remphan belonging to Moloch (Satan).Most Jews don’t like to admit it but our god is Lucifer and we are his chosen people. ~ Harold Wallace Rosenthal (1947 – 1976). A senior aide to Senator Jacob K. Javits.
When asked how they proposed doing this, Rosenthal said:"At first, by controlling the banking system we were able to control corporation capital. Through this, we acquired total monopoly of the movie industry, the radio networks and the newly developing television media. The printing industry, newspapers, periodicals and technical journals had already fallen into our hands. The richest plum was later to come when we took over the publication of all school materials. Through these vehicles we could mold public opinion to suit our own purposes. The people are only stupid pigs that grunt and squeal the chants we give them, whether they be truth or lies."
"The aide said that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ‘That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. ‘We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality— judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'" Ron Suskind interviewing Karl Rove
“We can not state that all Jews are Bolsheviks, but without Jews, there would never have been Bolshevism. For a Jew, nothing is more insulting than the truth. The blood-maddened Jewish terrorists had murdered sixty-six million in Russia from 1918 to 1957.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Remember my children, that all the earth must belong to us Jews, and that the gentiles, being mere excrement's of animals, must possess nothing." ~ Mayer Amschel Rothschild on his deathbed, 1812
We deserve to be dealt with as hated herd animals BECAUSE WE BEHAVE AS SUCH! IF WE DECIDE TO GROW UP WE WILL KILL ALL WHO COMPRISE "THE JEW" BECAUSE WE WILL NO LONGER DENY WHO HUMANITIES ENEMIES ARE AND WHY!
This is in effect hate speech, a very cherry-picked (Marx is not quoted nor Chomsky) selection designed to create a sense of hatred towards Jews. This comment, in a sane country that knows that such hate speech inspired the Holocaust, would be outlawed, not to destroy free speech but to defend it. Here is an expert from Wikipedia about the author last named: "Nesta Helen Webster (née Bevan, 24 August 1876 – 16 May 1960) was an English author who revived conspiracy theories about the Illuminati.[1][2][3] She claimed that the secret society's members were occultists, plotting communist world domination, through a Jewish cabal, the Masons and Jesuits.[2][4] She blamed the group for events including the French Revolution, 1848 Revolution, the First World War, and the Bolshevik Revolution.[5] Her writing influenced later conspiracy theories and ideologies, including American anti-communism (particularly the John Birch Society) and the militia movement.[6]
In 1920, Webster became a contributor to The Jewish Peril, a series of articles in the London Morning Post centred on the forged document The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." I highly recommend that hate speech such as this be kicked off this platform. Our struggle to end the genocide in Gaza has nothing to do with such "Jew hatred" but is a just battle to end the Zionist project of oppressing the Palestinians. IF we allow actual Jew haters to join in with us, our cause is lost.
(Marx is not quoted nor Chomsky) You want a few quotes by Marx you enemy? Why would I quote a known gatekeeper and enemy like chomsky?
I hope we meet during the upcoming hunt. So would my quoting Marx have any influence on your mission to deceive here? HERE IS YOUR MARX: “What is the basis of Judaism? A practical passion and greed for profit. To what can we reduce his (the Jew’s) religious worship? To extortion. What is his real God? Cash!”— Karl Marx, founder of Communism, quoted in the British Guardian, July-August, 1924.
“The world…I will smash to pieces with my enduring curses…Embracing me, the world will dumbly pass away, And then sink down to utter nothingness, perished, with no existence — that would be really living.”— Karl Marx, “Oulanem,” p. 68
“Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things. Hence it has robbed the whole world... of its proper value. Money is the alienated essence of man's labour and life, and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.”―Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question
"What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.…. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities…. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange…. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general." Karl Marx
"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of wealth, the soil and the laborer." Karl Marx
"Hate speech" is a jewish con to keep humanity from knowing t.h.e.m. (T=the H=hebrews E=enslaving M=mankind). Just as the cons of "antisemitism" and "hollowcost denier" are tricks; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0kWAqZxJVE
YOU attempt to use the same on me? You label yourself an enemy of all humanity and one of "the jew"!
Here is what you're hot to keep us from THAT IS SOON TO BIRTH! "We jews continue to be amazed with the ease by which Christian Americans have fallen into our hands. Woe be unto us if they (gentiles) see the futility of it, LAY DOWN THE PEN AND TAKE UP THE SWORD. We will never be deposed by words, only force." Harold Wallace Rosenthal. Assistant to jewish senator jacob javits who spearheaded the open immigration policy in 1965.
Those claims are TRUE as true as you're one of t.h.e.m.!
It hasn't always been that way for 300,000 yrs homo sapiens live in egalitarian, sharing and non-violent communities but that changed with the Ag Revolution when the new institutions based on surpluses and the concept of property arose including masters and slaves, inequality, social classes, top own rule, religion to justify, war to enforce and steal. Our basic humanity from that long period of evolution is still altruistic, but undermined by institutions that arose to create what we call civilization. How this transition from egalitarian to hierarchal took place is not yet totally understood, but it cannot exist without the concept of property, which did not exist for our long evolution.
Today, scientists tell us that while trust in inherited, distrust must be learned. The military creates killers by stripping individuals of their autonomy and teaching them to hate. They have to suppress the inherent disapproval of violence and then use dehumanization of the "enemy" to create young men eager to kill total strangers who have never done anything wrong to them. What takes place in transforming young men taught "not to hit" into killers is a process that mirrors the transition of homo sapien communities from sharing societies into aggressive, acquisitive warriors.
My guess is that to reclaim our evolutionary heritage (still somewhat preserved in the family with its communal "From each according to his abilities to each according to her needs) , we must reshape the meaning of property and reclaim the commons which belong to all, which can be done in a thousand ways, from taxation (redistribution ) to workers coops and labor unions, from making industries public utilities, and above all, by replacing the current plutocracy with democracy. It won't happen without great effort, disruption, violent resistance, and massive propaganda against the efforts to end wars, exploitation, and environmental degradation and create what we were promised in the US founding document, "equality and consent of the governed. " that radical idea started a revolution and and it will take a revolution to create it.
You'll have to provide some evidence of that broad statement. Humans have been at each other's throats since forever. Genetic selection, the strongest go and take.
Sure, in small communities it was necessary to cooperate in order to survive, another trait that is inherited through genetics.
But there were always the ingroups and the outgroups.
You ask C.C., "How is it that a VERY SMALL MINORITY of THE WORST HUMANS have been able to override all the good of humanity?"I think part of the answer to that is that the small minority managed to engineer the system and the laws, to ensure that psychopaths rose to the top of the heap.
Good question. The complete lack of moral strength and leadership indicates some essence of the aptly named hijackers is missing or twisted. Greed, money and lust for power make a poisonous combo. Things are truly grim, but I know there's a way to go before hitting the bottom of the pit.
Actually AJF, I call myself a dissident and have since the Vietnam war, when I joined protests in Sydney and climate protests in later years.
While "hanging out here" I've encountered many good new ideas and strategies for taking actions - 'course, they need to be adapted to local laws and regulations.
Talking to, and listening to other people is never a total waste of time.
David, my apologies. I agree, and posted that comment out of frustration. I live in a state surrounded by highly propagandized people who consider themselves quite intelligent. I too have been "aware" since the 70's but it seems those that were in that camp back then are no longer thinking critically.
Such a great question: how the fuck did a lying rapist/ fascist like Trump get elected in a country of people most of whom are not lying rapists or fascists. I think the answer is that money is God, and God has spoken, through billionaires like Musk who coughed up 250 million to elect Trump (1/1600th of his wealth and the rightwing AIPAC which spent more to defeat progressives with rightwing stooges than any group in history, money money money.....which is why Marx envisioned communism as abolishing money (ie circulated wealth, which can be accumulated and thus concentrated) and "private property (not personal possessions but wealth used to make wealth like rental property, stocks and bonds, etc). When we abolish money, we may use labor vouchers which are earned and expire on use (not accumulation), and we will reclaim the older social contract based on mutual debt and mutual aid, which is calculated without money but on the basis of social relations (you help your friend move; he in turn helps you dig up your garden). It will take first an intellectual revolution to understand the concepts that form the foundation of the current system and then the imagination to reform a world based on mutuality, instead of the cold cash calculation that rules us today.
The U.S. is "the jew"s hammer, wallet and Right of Force. we have the duty to end all of t.h.e.m. (T=the H=hebrews E=enslaving M=mankind) and their lying lackeys in government, media, education, finance and medicine with the greatest prejudice, in the streets, openly.
“The role of the President of the United States is to support the decisions that are made by the people of Israel.”— Ann Lewis, speaking for Hillary Clinton, at the meeting for Jewish Leadership sponsored by the United Jewish Communities on March 18, 2008 (Jewess Ann Lewis is sister to Congressman Barney Frank).
“The U.S. has no longer a government of goyim [Gentiles], but an administration in which the Jews are full partners in the decision making at all levels. Perhaps the aspects of the Jewish religious law connected with the term ‘government of goyim’ should be re-examined, since it is an outdated term in the U.S.“— The major Israeli newspaper, Maariv, “The Jews Who Run Clinton’s Court” on September 2, 1994.
“Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law…”— Ira Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, quoted in The Jewish Daily Forward on March 20, 2008
"Our right lies in force. The word RIGHT is an abstract thought and proves nothing. I find a new right...to attack by the right of the strong, to reconstruct all existing institutions, and to become the sovereign lord of all those who left to us the Rights to their powers by laying them down to us in their liberalism" Mayer Amschel Rothschild
"If my son's did not WANT wars there would be NONE". Gutle Schnaper Rothschild wife of Mayer Amschel Rothschild on her deathbed 1849
"Wars should be directed so that the nations engaged on both sides should be further in our debt." Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Hate speech like destroys free speech, as we learned from the Nazi era. Repeating the lies of Hitler should not be tolerated. Free speech has to be protected from the hate speech which, if tolerated, destroys it. That is the lesson of history. Get this poison out of here....decent people will not post on a platform that displays open Nazi like hate speech.
This is a private space and Caitlin has been more than pro-active in banning those whom she wishes, and has found. I am sure she doesn't have time to track down all those comments that are filled with hatred and spew filth, such as the one you commented about.
However, when it comes to free speech, and the First Amendment, which governs what government can and cannot do, please take note, there there is no "hate speech" exception to the First Amendment.
Sanctions hurt the people and often strengthen the governing elites. US sanctions against Japan led to Pearl Harbor; US sanctions on Venezuela have led to millions fleeing as the economy of ordinary people (not the oligarchs who control 70% of the economy) suffers; sanctions against Russia drove them into the arms of the Chinese; sanctions against Cuba (where I am traveling next week) for 60 years have impoverished the people and left the government intact. Sanctions lead to lost jobs, lost income, and a way for the governing class to blame outsiders and bolster their support. " a review of all U.S. sanctions since 1970 shows that targeted countries altered their behavior in a way that the U.S. hoped they would just 13 percent of the time"...87% failure while 100 of the time inflicting harm on the people: "Financial sanctions are designed to inflict pain on the people of a targeted country, with the hope that they will get fed up and advocate for political change." Sanctions are like brakes, designed to bring to a halt....but if your brakes only worked 13% of the time, you would replace them. And so I advocate for regime change....no that's musical chairs. I advocates for system replacement: replace plutocracy with democracy, hierarchy with equality, obedience with freedom.
After reviewing the horrifying information of suffering inside Sudan [Gaza], I have concluded that members of the Rapid Support Forces [Israel Defense Force] and allied militias have committed genocide in Sudan [Gaza]. The United States is [Not] committed to pursuing accountability for these atrocities.
"US is indirectly backing the genocidal atrocities it now denounces in Sudan, while aggressively defending the genocidal atrocities it is directly backing in Gaza."
Well...what did you expect? The US is an equal opportunity genocide-enabler. :(
"The empire itself is the problem."
Amen and amen! Fingers crossed more people come to see in 2025 that enabling genocide is a systemic flaw of American Imperialism. It certainly isn't a strength.
Yes. The Empire HAS to go. But is will be around for a while. While knowing that we are all fucked by the constant wars, irreversible climate catastrophe fuelled, in part, by the constant wars, that we are being led by totally corrupt people with no morals at all, we ourselves need to find some way to hang on to our humanity. I think that is possible. I think it has to be possible.
"We ourselves need to find some way to hang on to our humanity." presupposes that humanity is something to hang onto. According to some reports, whether or not they are accurate is anyone's guess, I read that there are approx 100 armed conflicts at the moment. That seems almost absurd, but then if so, then what humanity are we talking about? How do people become "totally corrupt with no morals"? Perhaps such a question may have no answer? I think one answer lies right in our own back yards..---- i.e., when we allow humans to be homeless in every country on the planet, we are at war with the homeless, a condition that may become real for everyone unless we find a way to avoid electing s-called leaders whose positive qualities are undetectable. Who said "The world is a global village, and what happens in one part of the world happens everywhere.... If a nuclear war occurs, and Trump could easily bring that on.... i.e., my button is bigger than your button", it will make Gaza look like a walk in the park.
As I finished reading Blinken’s “statement” at the beginning of this essay, I just stopped reading and was sitting, staring ahead with my mouth hanging open! Really!!
After a minute or so of mind scrambling discombobulation, I resumed reading and read, “Sometimes all you can do is stare wordlessly at the absolute gall of these freaks.”
I often feel tired and sad too. The whole: greed is good and the invisible hand of a completely privatized market will fix everything, and Selfishness is all that life is fundamentally about. It's in our "Genes"! And hey, we have a right to murder all these women and children in GAZA because some of their men killed 100 of our civilians on Oct 7th. Yeah, it's ok now we killed 10s of thousands of them. Because we are the "Good" guys - and the winners in life can simply kill everyone else.
Bleh. Wake me up when this nightmare ends. Hopefully soon - since Trump is about to blow us all the fuck up anyway.
Caitlin and Tim and our friends here have said most that need to be said about the lunatic asylum we are living in, and the lunatics who rule over us.
It is now 500 or more years of imperialism, colonialism, settler colonialism, slavery, subjugation, occupation, genocidal wars. Vast swathes of the human race were/are denuded of any human dignity.
How did the West's criminality last this long? Right up to now? Much as the debauched ruling class is to blame, the citizenry of these countries aren't blameless. They let them be conditioned, brainwashed and manipulated into going along with whatever atrocities were committed in their name. The sparks of rebellion mainly by students didn't last long. The masses were made to believe in their white supremacy. The politicians could bring out their race card shamelessly every time. The people will cheer Trump on when he comes out with filth against "immigrants". And fellow blacks/browns/Latinos - Fanon's " black faces; white masks" - and no brains will join in!
The academics wrote tracts of how wonderful their democracy was, equating capitalism with democracy, letting in the destructive force of neoliberalism. Ably supported by a media class whose sole purpose was to sanitise the latest war. Sanitise the system. Most of them seem to be having no qualms about oligarchical rule. Almost unaware of the climate crisis's inexorable advance.
What's next? The only hope is a tsunami of a revolutionary change. The global south with China and Russia have to resist. Defeat capitalism. Marginalise the West. Build a new world. An ethical, just, fair, world.
The Palestinians have made the ultimate sacrifice for us all. Let that not be in vain.
Indu, well said and I agree with most of what you say. A couple of points:
(1) >>"Much as the debauched ruling class is to blame, the citizenry of these countries aren't blameless. They let them be conditioned, brainwashed and manipulated into going along with whatever atrocities were committed in their name."
Yes - and that is why I asked about flaws in human evolution/psychology. Why has it been so easy to manipulate the majority of humans by a minority? I understand that evolution is more-or-less random (and based on environmental conditions to a large extent). Maybe there needs to be some better strategies to "re-program" human psychology to override the flaws of evolution? If not, I see no potentional for hopeful, everlasting change in social dynamics in humanity's future (and there are enough dystopian sci-fi scenarios that expand on such thinking)
(2) >>"The global south with China and Russia have to resist. Defeat capitalism."
Maybe you've misunderstood the reach and strong hold of Capitalism? Russia AND China are CAPITALIST in every way almost as much as the US (think of the Oligarchs in Russia and the billionaires in China). Most of the global South is ALSO predominantly Capitalist (India, Brazil, South Africa, Middle-East, etc.). The "global North" AND the "global South" are CAPITALISTS. So, it is not really a war of ideologies. Instead, it is a war amongst Capitalists - i.e. global North capitalists against global South capitalists.
(3) Russia and China are NOT the solutions/saviors that people think they are (these seem to be just alternate narratives). Russia and China are also Imperialist nations (eg. Tibet, Mongolia, many other examples) - though to a MUCH lesser extent than US (and Western) imperialism. (I suggest doing searches on Russian and Chinese imperialism and researching those topics further for validating what I say if you choose to).
(4) Russia AND China ARE ESSENTIAL and NECCESSARY to fight against Western domination/imperialism, but they are just the "other side of the coin" much like how "Democrats and Republicans in the US are 2 sides of the same coin".
(5) There is a general tendency for people to think along the lines of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". Unfortunately, that logic is not sound.
Having said all the above, I do think (and agree with you) that it is IMPORTANT (maybe even of paramount importance) to SUPPORT Russia AND China (and other Global South nations) in their battles against Western imperialism (consider it a "lesser-of-two-evils" argument if you wish).
Chang, thanks for the long tract putting me right. By "Defeat capitalism" what I meant was defeating the prevailing style of the US/West capitalist structure. It is a contrast of ideologies in so far as how it operates in China, even if it's not socialism vs capitalism.
I am not silly enough to think that Russia and China are saviours - they are the change- that the world solely needs. And most Global South countries need support and leadership, at least till Fidel Castros and Che Guevaras and Ho Chi Mins take charge.
I consider myself an internationalist, I owe no allegiance to any country. If I belong anywhere, it is to the human race. I don't need to do lots of research to arrive at my worldview. Empathy, caring for fellow human beings suffering under a litany of injustices, also a bit of dreaming (!) has stood me in good stead all these years.
>>"I am not silly enough to think that Russia and China are saviours - they are the change- that the world solely needs."
You really believe that narrative?
Please tell/inform me ->
(1) What has Russia/China done to help the Palestinian cause?
(2) What has Russia/China done to solve ANY problems in the middle-east (other than looking out for their own interests)?
(3) What has Russia/China done to help Sudan?
(4) What has Russia/China done to combat the rise of right-wing fascistic ideologies all over the world?
(5) What has Russia/China done to promote press freedom or human rights or the institution of jounalism anywhere in the world (including their own countries)?
(6) Try discussing the "Tibet" issue in China, "Ukraine" issue in Russia, "Kashmir" issue in India, etc. and you'll get a real-world experience of how GOOD Russia/China/India/etc. are.
(7) I could go on for a while...
>>"I don't need to do lots of research to arrive at my worldview."
I think you DO, since you seem very biased (based on all your comments) about Russian and China. Examples->
(1) You lost it when I stated facts previously (that Assad and Putin ARE war criminals)
(2) You fail to realize Capitalism's hold on Russia AND China - they have a different form of Capitalism than from the West, but that doesn't mean that their form of Capitalism is good. There is NO "good" kind of capitalism.
(3) There is considerable evidence in Maersheimer's "realism" theories. Based on these theories, the ONLY reason I can think of to cheer on Russia/China is because they are fighting a GREATER EVIL (the US Empire). That's it. There's nothing good about human rights (Covid authoritarianism in China is a good example here), surveillance culture (especially in China), represession of journalistic freedom and transparency of the political process, quality of democracy, rising inequality (especially in China - BTW this is a direct consequence of capitalism), repression of dissident voices, and so much more.
I understand that most people here (on Caitlin's substack) might not want to focus on all these short-comings of Russia/China (which is ok since the US Empire is the biggest problem to humanity and the planet currently), but that doesn't mean "Russia/China are the change the world sorely needs". Unfortunately, it IS a game of "great power politics".
Again, having said all that, I would STILL SUPPORT Russia AND China (but NOT India) for the purposes of combatting a greater EVIL (the US/Western Empire), but I hold NO ILLUSIONS about Russia/China/etc. (unlike MANY commenters in Caitlin's substack).
See what I mean? When it comes to Russia/China, most people on this substack are unable to handle/acknowledge reality (and instead of rational arguments, they get emotional or resort to ad hominem attacks).
The entire Biden Administration, soon to be out of office, should be charged under 18 U.S. Code § 1091, a US law that incorporates the Genocide Convention. Let's charge them. This law has not statute of limitations. In office or out, they should have visions of prison every day of their lives. They should have visions of prison every day of their lives.
Remember it, act on it, now or later. There's no immunity for Secretaries of State, hear that Blinken? Time to think about citizens' arrests.
Excuse me................where is this so magnificent Biden.
HE supported Blinken et al.
I don't give a flying fuck how many of you USA people call Blinken out. Biden is/was the President and you all know damned well that Biden could have stopped 'arms sales' to the Israelis and Ukraine.
Blinken is the one that's actually pulling all the strings. Biden is just a senile puppet. It makes sense to call out the puppet master. It doesn't let the puppet off the hook, since he just does what his master tells him to do.
This clearly disingenuous statement from that little ghoul appears, in all intents and purposes, to be a final “fuck you!” to his critics, us, who have continuously called out the lies and deliberate blindness, from Blinken and his flying monkeys in the corporate, full of “ex” CIA, media where the Zionist Occupation Entity is concerned.
Biden can’t wipe his own ass anymore, let alone think strategically or politically about anything. Blinken, Jake Sullivan et al - and Jill Biden is culpable too - have been running the show. Biden showed signs of mental distress, dementia, in the years *before* the 2019 primaries and campaign.
I don't know, but I could speculate that Blinken is both culpable and may not be covered by presidential immunity. Low-hanging fruit, is my guess. i.e., go after those that are get-at-able.
When one sees the accompanying photo associated with this article, one is forced to ask the question....
…..’can the two top US foreign affairs organisers make impartial judgements on the supply of weapons and support for a genocide when one is a total Zionist, through and through and the other is a Jew’? Has the world ever seen any examples by these two of preferential treatment to any state, anywhere??????
Both still giving genocide gifts to Israel as we speak, both trying to capitalise on their subservient association with their Israeli masters before they both head for the hills and obscurity, unless...........
…….some remaining member of a Gaza family decides that someone has to pay for the loss of his country, his wife and his children, hundreds of thousands more and who sees these two criminals as likely targets for revenge. Let's face it, Israel (with 100% support by Biden and the USA) has shown us all how easy it is to kill by drones, bombs. starvation, snipers, to rape and kill by sexual acts, so the history is there for targeted individual killings to be used by others.
In the real world, however, one can assume, should Biden be identified as a criminal, as he undoubtedly is, that regardless of his sins, too many to mention, his Roman Catholic Church in Delaware will request just a couple of Hail Mary's to cleanse his soul from his years of evil, after giving him reasonable consideration for his probable generosity in times when funding was required in the church for a major refit. "Quid pro quo" over the years, mutual back scratching for all to see as in the USA as well. You give us all the weapons to kill Palestinians, Joe, and we’ll give you all the votes to win an election. Still in practice, eh Donald?
Buying a country. A Constitution? Who gives a damn.
See how easy it is. Blinken will no doubt get the same treatment and remain a fully paid up member of his easy come - easy go branch of the local synagogue. He woud be a local hero. He has more than done his share in fulfilling the old adage that Jews are ‘God's chosen people'. They love that one. Fantasy. It allows them to commit any crime they wish, especially with "the USA having ( their)Israel’s back”.
As for commenting on this story today about Sudan and genocide, hypocrisy at large, the less said the better. Suffice to say that in earlier times, such hypocrisy (mindless stupidity) could have been rewarded by a guillotine, stoning to death (as is still current in Saudi Arabia of recent years), burning at the stake exampled by Joan of Arc by England in 1431 and many others, with Salem in the USA, the last country to engage in such sports. These days it's acceptable to be supporting Israeli snipers and rapists, both seemingly acceptable to Biden's fellow parishioners, as well as to 86% of the elected members of the US government and almost 100% of White Western Christian countries.
What a disgrace.
Must make the USA and Israel so pleased and so proud of what they have become. The scourge of humanity.
All that Seldowitz did, was just to show you where they are coming from. He is retired, he has his huge gold plated pension and private money coming in, so he now says what all of them still in DC dont actually say in public. Because that kind of talk in public would would get a government official fired, and leave them unable to do their dirty work.
To make matters worse, Israel has a long history of selling arms to some of the bloodiest actors in the Sudan genocide. "Israeli firms have also broken with the United States and Europe by supplying weapons and surveillance equipment to militias in South Sudan, where a civil war has raged since late 2013. Some 300,000 Sudanese are believed to have been killed in the fighting."
Israel sells arms to 90 nations including bloody dictatorships and sometimes both sides in civil wars.
And let's not neglect Israel's thriving market in surveillance software, which it habitually sells to its client nations with a back door feature that allows it to spy on whatever uses that client makes of the product. It's a major feature of the way Zionism's talon-like clutches monitor the flow of global information, the first step in manipulating a favorable disposition toward itself, which it was quite successful at, until it initiated its genocide for all to see.
Backdoors are pretty much traditional in Israeli products, back in the '80s and '90s they sold telephony switches to the US government, including the Pentagram, with hard-coded backdoors which could not be removed.
Indeed; note that I wrote "habitually". Whitney Webb's books are quite good sources for this with their ample references. The Mossad has had its long fingers in US national security for a long while.
And let's not forget Israel's thriving child sex trafficking and organ stealing markets.
Thank goodness they are stealing Yemenite Jewish babies and selling them in a shady adoption scheme anymore. Or are they?
Vin.
I am trying to look at what has happened in the USA with regard to Israel.
IN my naive opinion: Has it occurred to people in the USA that Zionist/Evangelical movement now controls the Nation?
Biden is the 'horror' because he has supported Israhell.
How can the US get out from this?
After seeing in 'raw view' the killing of children women....and please do not forget the Palestinians in prison/raped and tortured by so-called men.
Meanwhile Israhell calling for the release of hostages......who is calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners?
My guess is that the USA WILL become a Zionist/Evangelical Nation.
The world will move on WITHOUT the USA.
I'm mostly sure it already is what you say, Jenny. Only question for me is in what manner[s] and how fast the fibers of the society will unravel.
I think it depends on what happens to Israel?
Anf they did not know about October 7th, 2023 ?
dale,, I think you more or less answered the question I asked Essam Abbas..
The same assholes committing a genocide in Gaza are committing genocide in Sudan , the Israelis . Israel has been involved in Sudan since the country split , they caused it . No one in the west talks about it
Essam....
Pardon my ignorance, but "Israelis have caused the genocide in Sudan" is a new one on me. Keeping the military industries busy maybe?
Another dirty war the west keeps secret
The US needs to sanction ITSELF for being the BIGGEST perpetrators of Genocides and destruction on planet Earth. ALL the other countries should also SANCTION the US. (Yes, I know that this is unfortunately not possible/practical in our reality)
Does ANYBODY still listen to ANY of the bullshit (and virtue signaling) that the US Empire does anymore?
It's not just the copious quantities of industrial strength bullshit, Chang, but the fact that the perpetrators can spout it with straight, serious, sober faces. Oscar-winning performances of outrageous, outright lying and denial. Most egregiously, these same deadened consciences will swear by their god of whatever brand, insouciantly ignoring the tenets by which they otherwise claim to live. I really wish there were a hell to which they will deservedly be consigned.
You’re absolutely right! There is so much good in the world (so many ordinary, good, decent, compassionate, kind humans all over the world). How is it that a VERY SMALL MINORITY of THE WORST HUMANS have been able to override all the good of humanity? Is there some fault in our human evolution/psychology that has enabled an extremely small segment of the MOST EVIL humans to hijack the rest of us?
Easy to answer.
Those who manipulate and kill for their own benefit rise to the top. It's always been like that. Ruthless humans always climb up the ladder by cutting away the legs of those above, and stomping on the heads of those below.
Not a single person has risen to lead anything substantial by being nice and talking thev truth.
Gandhi?
Thank you Dale Ruff! People need to be reminded (and keep in memory) that there are many instances in history where GOOD HAS DEFEATED evil.
I am so happy to hear that from you, Chang! We need both hope and courage.
It took several centuries to end legal segregation but Dr. King, with a non-violent strategy of massive protests and civil disobedience, ended it suddenly when a massive crowd of 400,000 heard his prophetic words...and within 3 months, the Civil Rights Act was passed. When enough of us unite, we win.
We must kill the farmers. These are from the farmers mouths; "We were the first to put Liberty, Equality and Fraternity into the mouths of the masses, which set up a new aristocracy. The qualification of this aristocracy is WEALTH, which is dependent on us." Mayer Amschel Rothschild
"Candidates for public office should be servile and obedient to our commands so that they may readily be used." Mayer Amschel Rothschild
“The overwhelming majority of American Rabbis regard Zionism not only as fully consistent with Judaism but as a logical expression and implementation of it.”— Document released on November 20, 1942 signed by 818 American Rabbi
"The US shouldn't give high clearances to Jews, because when asked to help, we're willing to do anything for the love of our country, Israel." -- Spy Jonathan Pollard during interrogation by the FBI. Make note that Pollard was born in the US and his spying put America in serious nuclear risk back in the 1980's.
"If my son's did not WANT wars there would be NONE". Gutle Schnaper Rothschild wife of Mayer Amschel Rothschild on her deathbed 1849
"Wars should be directed so that the nations engaged on both sides should be further in our debt." Mayer Amschel Rothschild
"Since the earliest times it is as the exploiter that the Jew has been known amongst his fellow men of all races and creeds. Moreover, he has persistently shown himself ungrateful... The Jews have always formed a rebellious element in every state." -- NESTA WEBSTER, In World Revolution, The Plot against Civilization, page163
"The bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money, and with the flick of the pen they will create enough deposits to buy it back again. However, take away from them the power to create money and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for this would be a happier and better world to live in. But, if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, let them continue to create money." -- Josiah Stamp, Former Director of the Bank of England
“It is our duty to force all mankind to accept the seven Noahide laws, and if not ~ they will be killed.” ~ Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg
“We have exterminated the property owners in Russia. We are going to do the same thing in Europe and America
(The Jew, December, 1925, Zinobit)
“Nowhere in the Talmud is the Star of David an endorsement of the Jews. However, the Bible does reference this to be the Star of Remphan belonging to Moloch (Satan).Most Jews don’t like to admit it but our god is Lucifer and we are his chosen people. ~ Harold Wallace Rosenthal (1947 – 1976). A senior aide to Senator Jacob K. Javits.
When asked how they proposed doing this, Rosenthal said:"At first, by controlling the banking system we were able to control corporation capital. Through this, we acquired total monopoly of the movie industry, the radio networks and the newly developing television media. The printing industry, newspapers, periodicals and technical journals had already fallen into our hands. The richest plum was later to come when we took over the publication of all school materials. Through these vehicles we could mold public opinion to suit our own purposes. The people are only stupid pigs that grunt and squeal the chants we give them, whether they be truth or lies."
"The aide said that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ‘That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. ‘We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality— judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'" Ron Suskind interviewing Karl Rove
“We can not state that all Jews are Bolsheviks, but without Jews, there would never have been Bolshevism. For a Jew, nothing is more insulting than the truth. The blood-maddened Jewish terrorists had murdered sixty-six million in Russia from 1918 to 1957.” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Remember my children, that all the earth must belong to us Jews, and that the gentiles, being mere excrement's of animals, must possess nothing." ~ Mayer Amschel Rothschild on his deathbed, 1812
We deserve to be dealt with as hated herd animals BECAUSE WE BEHAVE AS SUCH! IF WE DECIDE TO GROW UP WE WILL KILL ALL WHO COMPRISE "THE JEW" BECAUSE WE WILL NO LONGER DENY WHO HUMANITIES ENEMIES ARE AND WHY!
This is in effect hate speech, a very cherry-picked (Marx is not quoted nor Chomsky) selection designed to create a sense of hatred towards Jews. This comment, in a sane country that knows that such hate speech inspired the Holocaust, would be outlawed, not to destroy free speech but to defend it. Here is an expert from Wikipedia about the author last named: "Nesta Helen Webster (née Bevan, 24 August 1876 – 16 May 1960) was an English author who revived conspiracy theories about the Illuminati.[1][2][3] She claimed that the secret society's members were occultists, plotting communist world domination, through a Jewish cabal, the Masons and Jesuits.[2][4] She blamed the group for events including the French Revolution, 1848 Revolution, the First World War, and the Bolshevik Revolution.[5] Her writing influenced later conspiracy theories and ideologies, including American anti-communism (particularly the John Birch Society) and the militia movement.[6]
In 1920, Webster became a contributor to The Jewish Peril, a series of articles in the London Morning Post centred on the forged document The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." I highly recommend that hate speech such as this be kicked off this platform. Our struggle to end the genocide in Gaza has nothing to do with such "Jew hatred" but is a just battle to end the Zionist project of oppressing the Palestinians. IF we allow actual Jew haters to join in with us, our cause is lost.
(Marx is not quoted nor Chomsky) You want a few quotes by Marx you enemy? Why would I quote a known gatekeeper and enemy like chomsky?
I hope we meet during the upcoming hunt. So would my quoting Marx have any influence on your mission to deceive here? HERE IS YOUR MARX: “What is the basis of Judaism? A practical passion and greed for profit. To what can we reduce his (the Jew’s) religious worship? To extortion. What is his real God? Cash!”— Karl Marx, founder of Communism, quoted in the British Guardian, July-August, 1924.
“The world…I will smash to pieces with my enduring curses…Embracing me, the world will dumbly pass away, And then sink down to utter nothingness, perished, with no existence — that would be really living.”— Karl Marx, “Oulanem,” p. 68
“Money is the universal, self-constituted value of all things. Hence it has robbed the whole world... of its proper value. Money is the alienated essence of man's labour and life, and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.”―Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question
"What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.…. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities…. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange…. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general." Karl Marx
"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of wealth, the soil and the laborer." Karl Marx
"Hate speech" is a jewish con to keep humanity from knowing t.h.e.m. (T=the H=hebrews E=enslaving M=mankind). Just as the cons of "antisemitism" and "hollowcost denier" are tricks; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0kWAqZxJVE
YOU attempt to use the same on me? You label yourself an enemy of all humanity and one of "the jew"!
Here is what you're hot to keep us from THAT IS SOON TO BIRTH! "We jews continue to be amazed with the ease by which Christian Americans have fallen into our hands. Woe be unto us if they (gentiles) see the futility of it, LAY DOWN THE PEN AND TAKE UP THE SWORD. We will never be deposed by words, only force." Harold Wallace Rosenthal. Assistant to jewish senator jacob javits who spearheaded the open immigration policy in 1965.
Those claims are TRUE as true as you're one of t.h.e.m.!
Very shocking statements. I wonder to what extent they are true.
Well, to the same extent that Hitler blaming the Jews was true.
Stop wondering. That is what "the jew" wants you stuck in. RESEARCH!
It hasn't always been that way for 300,000 yrs homo sapiens live in egalitarian, sharing and non-violent communities but that changed with the Ag Revolution when the new institutions based on surpluses and the concept of property arose including masters and slaves, inequality, social classes, top own rule, religion to justify, war to enforce and steal. Our basic humanity from that long period of evolution is still altruistic, but undermined by institutions that arose to create what we call civilization. How this transition from egalitarian to hierarchal took place is not yet totally understood, but it cannot exist without the concept of property, which did not exist for our long evolution.
Today, scientists tell us that while trust in inherited, distrust must be learned. The military creates killers by stripping individuals of their autonomy and teaching them to hate. They have to suppress the inherent disapproval of violence and then use dehumanization of the "enemy" to create young men eager to kill total strangers who have never done anything wrong to them. What takes place in transforming young men taught "not to hit" into killers is a process that mirrors the transition of homo sapien communities from sharing societies into aggressive, acquisitive warriors.
My guess is that to reclaim our evolutionary heritage (still somewhat preserved in the family with its communal "From each according to his abilities to each according to her needs) , we must reshape the meaning of property and reclaim the commons which belong to all, which can be done in a thousand ways, from taxation (redistribution ) to workers coops and labor unions, from making industries public utilities, and above all, by replacing the current plutocracy with democracy. It won't happen without great effort, disruption, violent resistance, and massive propaganda against the efforts to end wars, exploitation, and environmental degradation and create what we were promised in the US founding document, "equality and consent of the governed. " that radical idea started a revolution and and it will take a revolution to create it.
You'll have to provide some evidence of that broad statement. Humans have been at each other's throats since forever. Genetic selection, the strongest go and take.
Sure, in small communities it was necessary to cooperate in order to survive, another trait that is inherited through genetics.
But there were always the ingroups and the outgroups.
You ask C.C., "How is it that a VERY SMALL MINORITY of THE WORST HUMANS have been able to override all the good of humanity?"I think part of the answer to that is that the small minority managed to engineer the system and the laws, to ensure that psychopaths rose to the top of the heap.
Good question. The complete lack of moral strength and leadership indicates some essence of the aptly named hijackers is missing or twisted. Greed, money and lust for power make a poisonous combo. Things are truly grim, but I know there's a way to go before hitting the bottom of the pit.
The bottom might not be that far. I await with baited breath, Jan 23 when the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists readjust the Doomsday Clock.
David, maybe because we hang out here instead of really organizing...just wondering.
Actually AJF, I call myself a dissident and have since the Vietnam war, when I joined protests in Sydney and climate protests in later years.
While "hanging out here" I've encountered many good new ideas and strategies for taking actions - 'course, they need to be adapted to local laws and regulations.
Talking to, and listening to other people is never a total waste of time.
David, my apologies. I agree, and posted that comment out of frustration. I live in a state surrounded by highly propagandized people who consider themselves quite intelligent. I too have been "aware" since the 70's but it seems those that were in that camp back then are no longer thinking critically.
American people ........same as Canadians have NEVER had a war on their land.
Indifference/not understanding Geography/lousy education.
Keep shopping USA!
Money, and the power and influence it creates!!
GREED
Such a great question: how the fuck did a lying rapist/ fascist like Trump get elected in a country of people most of whom are not lying rapists or fascists. I think the answer is that money is God, and God has spoken, through billionaires like Musk who coughed up 250 million to elect Trump (1/1600th of his wealth and the rightwing AIPAC which spent more to defeat progressives with rightwing stooges than any group in history, money money money.....which is why Marx envisioned communism as abolishing money (ie circulated wealth, which can be accumulated and thus concentrated) and "private property (not personal possessions but wealth used to make wealth like rental property, stocks and bonds, etc). When we abolish money, we may use labor vouchers which are earned and expire on use (not accumulation), and we will reclaim the older social contract based on mutual debt and mutual aid, which is calculated without money but on the basis of social relations (you help your friend move; he in turn helps you dig up your garden). It will take first an intellectual revolution to understand the concepts that form the foundation of the current system and then the imagination to reform a world based on mutuality, instead of the cold cash calculation that rules us today.
Can anyone name one war the U.S. has not been involved in either directly or indirectly since 1944?
More and More people are waking up from the haze, so that’s comforting news!
The U.S. is "the jew"s hammer, wallet and Right of Force. we have the duty to end all of t.h.e.m. (T=the H=hebrews E=enslaving M=mankind) and their lying lackeys in government, media, education, finance and medicine with the greatest prejudice, in the streets, openly.
“The role of the President of the United States is to support the decisions that are made by the people of Israel.”— Ann Lewis, speaking for Hillary Clinton, at the meeting for Jewish Leadership sponsored by the United Jewish Communities on March 18, 2008 (Jewess Ann Lewis is sister to Congressman Barney Frank).
“The U.S. has no longer a government of goyim [Gentiles], but an administration in which the Jews are full partners in the decision making at all levels. Perhaps the aspects of the Jewish religious law connected with the term ‘government of goyim’ should be re-examined, since it is an outdated term in the U.S.“— The major Israeli newspaper, Maariv, “The Jews Who Run Clinton’s Court” on September 2, 1994.
“Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law…”— Ira Forman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council, quoted in The Jewish Daily Forward on March 20, 2008
"Our right lies in force. The word RIGHT is an abstract thought and proves nothing. I find a new right...to attack by the right of the strong, to reconstruct all existing institutions, and to become the sovereign lord of all those who left to us the Rights to their powers by laying them down to us in their liberalism" Mayer Amschel Rothschild
"If my son's did not WANT wars there would be NONE". Gutle Schnaper Rothschild wife of Mayer Amschel Rothschild on her deathbed 1849
"Wars should be directed so that the nations engaged on both sides should be further in our debt." Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Hate speech like destroys free speech, as we learned from the Nazi era. Repeating the lies of Hitler should not be tolerated. Free speech has to be protected from the hate speech which, if tolerated, destroys it. That is the lesson of history. Get this poison out of here....decent people will not post on a platform that displays open Nazi like hate speech.
This is a private space and Caitlin has been more than pro-active in banning those whom she wishes, and has found. I am sure she doesn't have time to track down all those comments that are filled with hatred and spew filth, such as the one you commented about.
However, when it comes to free speech, and the First Amendment, which governs what government can and cannot do, please take note, there there is no "hate speech" exception to the First Amendment.
Sanctions hurt the people and often strengthen the governing elites. US sanctions against Japan led to Pearl Harbor; US sanctions on Venezuela have led to millions fleeing as the economy of ordinary people (not the oligarchs who control 70% of the economy) suffers; sanctions against Russia drove them into the arms of the Chinese; sanctions against Cuba (where I am traveling next week) for 60 years have impoverished the people and left the government intact. Sanctions lead to lost jobs, lost income, and a way for the governing class to blame outsiders and bolster their support. " a review of all U.S. sanctions since 1970 shows that targeted countries altered their behavior in a way that the U.S. hoped they would just 13 percent of the time"...87% failure while 100 of the time inflicting harm on the people: "Financial sanctions are designed to inflict pain on the people of a targeted country, with the hope that they will get fed up and advocate for political change." Sanctions are like brakes, designed to bring to a halt....but if your brakes only worked 13% of the time, you would replace them. And so I advocate for regime change....no that's musical chairs. I advocates for system replacement: replace plutocracy with democracy, hierarchy with equality, obedience with freedom.
Yes, other Western leaders 🤢
This feels like one of the sickest jokes these monsters have made. Truly at a loss…
It would be if they were joking. Trouble is, they're deadly serious. The operative word being deadly.
It is, indeed, a sick joke. I must admit that when I heard it on Antiwar News this morning, I had to laugh. The reality is absolutely horrible.
US govt -a rogues gallery of psychopaths feigning a moral conscience
Anthony Blinken just underscoring that he does not believe that Palestinians are human beings, in a roundabout way.
F**k you, Butcher Blinken.
Fuck Blinken.
Who chose Blinken>
Genocide Joe did.
I, myself, have a statement to make.
After reviewing the horrifying information of suffering inside Sudan [Gaza], I have concluded that members of the Rapid Support Forces [Israel Defense Force] and allied militias have committed genocide in Sudan [Gaza]. The United States is [Not] committed to pursuing accountability for these atrocities.
"US is indirectly backing the genocidal atrocities it now denounces in Sudan, while aggressively defending the genocidal atrocities it is directly backing in Gaza."
Well...what did you expect? The US is an equal opportunity genocide-enabler. :(
"The empire itself is the problem."
Amen and amen! Fingers crossed more people come to see in 2025 that enabling genocide is a systemic flaw of American Imperialism. It certainly isn't a strength.
Yes. The Empire HAS to go. But is will be around for a while. While knowing that we are all fucked by the constant wars, irreversible climate catastrophe fuelled, in part, by the constant wars, that we are being led by totally corrupt people with no morals at all, we ourselves need to find some way to hang on to our humanity. I think that is possible. I think it has to be possible.
Susan,
"We ourselves need to find some way to hang on to our humanity." presupposes that humanity is something to hang onto. According to some reports, whether or not they are accurate is anyone's guess, I read that there are approx 100 armed conflicts at the moment. That seems almost absurd, but then if so, then what humanity are we talking about? How do people become "totally corrupt with no morals"? Perhaps such a question may have no answer? I think one answer lies right in our own back yards..---- i.e., when we allow humans to be homeless in every country on the planet, we are at war with the homeless, a condition that may become real for everyone unless we find a way to avoid electing s-called leaders whose positive qualities are undetectable. Who said "The world is a global village, and what happens in one part of the world happens everywhere.... If a nuclear war occurs, and Trump could easily bring that on.... i.e., my button is bigger than your button", it will make Gaza look like a walk in the park.
Humans just are what they are. Most are herd animals. The leaders are sociopaths and psychopaths.
As I finished reading Blinken’s “statement” at the beginning of this essay, I just stopped reading and was sitting, staring ahead with my mouth hanging open! Really!!
After a minute or so of mind scrambling discombobulation, I resumed reading and read, “Sometimes all you can do is stare wordlessly at the absolute gall of these freaks.”
I guess so.
Antony Blinken; Became Secretary of State in 2021
WHO chose this man?
I'm tired and sad. This all feels helpless. I knot people can't give up, but it just feels so sociopathically bigger than anything that can be done.
I often feel tired and sad too. The whole: greed is good and the invisible hand of a completely privatized market will fix everything, and Selfishness is all that life is fundamentally about. It's in our "Genes"! And hey, we have a right to murder all these women and children in GAZA because some of their men killed 100 of our civilians on Oct 7th. Yeah, it's ok now we killed 10s of thousands of them. Because we are the "Good" guys - and the winners in life can simply kill everyone else.
Bleh. Wake me up when this nightmare ends. Hopefully soon - since Trump is about to blow us all the fuck up anyway.
Caitlin and Tim and our friends here have said most that need to be said about the lunatic asylum we are living in, and the lunatics who rule over us.
It is now 500 or more years of imperialism, colonialism, settler colonialism, slavery, subjugation, occupation, genocidal wars. Vast swathes of the human race were/are denuded of any human dignity.
How did the West's criminality last this long? Right up to now? Much as the debauched ruling class is to blame, the citizenry of these countries aren't blameless. They let them be conditioned, brainwashed and manipulated into going along with whatever atrocities were committed in their name. The sparks of rebellion mainly by students didn't last long. The masses were made to believe in their white supremacy. The politicians could bring out their race card shamelessly every time. The people will cheer Trump on when he comes out with filth against "immigrants". And fellow blacks/browns/Latinos - Fanon's " black faces; white masks" - and no brains will join in!
The academics wrote tracts of how wonderful their democracy was, equating capitalism with democracy, letting in the destructive force of neoliberalism. Ably supported by a media class whose sole purpose was to sanitise the latest war. Sanitise the system. Most of them seem to be having no qualms about oligarchical rule. Almost unaware of the climate crisis's inexorable advance.
What's next? The only hope is a tsunami of a revolutionary change. The global south with China and Russia have to resist. Defeat capitalism. Marginalise the West. Build a new world. An ethical, just, fair, world.
The Palestinians have made the ultimate sacrifice for us all. Let that not be in vain.
Indu, well said and I agree with most of what you say. A couple of points:
(1) >>"Much as the debauched ruling class is to blame, the citizenry of these countries aren't blameless. They let them be conditioned, brainwashed and manipulated into going along with whatever atrocities were committed in their name."
Yes - and that is why I asked about flaws in human evolution/psychology. Why has it been so easy to manipulate the majority of humans by a minority? I understand that evolution is more-or-less random (and based on environmental conditions to a large extent). Maybe there needs to be some better strategies to "re-program" human psychology to override the flaws of evolution? If not, I see no potentional for hopeful, everlasting change in social dynamics in humanity's future (and there are enough dystopian sci-fi scenarios that expand on such thinking)
(2) >>"The global south with China and Russia have to resist. Defeat capitalism."
Maybe you've misunderstood the reach and strong hold of Capitalism? Russia AND China are CAPITALIST in every way almost as much as the US (think of the Oligarchs in Russia and the billionaires in China). Most of the global South is ALSO predominantly Capitalist (India, Brazil, South Africa, Middle-East, etc.). The "global North" AND the "global South" are CAPITALISTS. So, it is not really a war of ideologies. Instead, it is a war amongst Capitalists - i.e. global North capitalists against global South capitalists.
(3) Russia and China are NOT the solutions/saviors that people think they are (these seem to be just alternate narratives). Russia and China are also Imperialist nations (eg. Tibet, Mongolia, many other examples) - though to a MUCH lesser extent than US (and Western) imperialism. (I suggest doing searches on Russian and Chinese imperialism and researching those topics further for validating what I say if you choose to).
(4) Russia AND China ARE ESSENTIAL and NECCESSARY to fight against Western domination/imperialism, but they are just the "other side of the coin" much like how "Democrats and Republicans in the US are 2 sides of the same coin".
(5) There is a general tendency for people to think along the lines of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". Unfortunately, that logic is not sound.
Having said all the above, I do think (and agree with you) that it is IMPORTANT (maybe even of paramount importance) to SUPPORT Russia AND China (and other Global South nations) in their battles against Western imperialism (consider it a "lesser-of-two-evils" argument if you wish).
Chang, thanks for the long tract putting me right. By "Defeat capitalism" what I meant was defeating the prevailing style of the US/West capitalist structure. It is a contrast of ideologies in so far as how it operates in China, even if it's not socialism vs capitalism.
I am not silly enough to think that Russia and China are saviours - they are the change- that the world solely needs. And most Global South countries need support and leadership, at least till Fidel Castros and Che Guevaras and Ho Chi Mins take charge.
I consider myself an internationalist, I owe no allegiance to any country. If I belong anywhere, it is to the human race. I don't need to do lots of research to arrive at my worldview. Empathy, caring for fellow human beings suffering under a litany of injustices, also a bit of dreaming (!) has stood me in good stead all these years.
>>"I am not silly enough to think that Russia and China are saviours - they are the change- that the world solely needs."
You really believe that narrative?
Please tell/inform me ->
(1) What has Russia/China done to help the Palestinian cause?
(2) What has Russia/China done to solve ANY problems in the middle-east (other than looking out for their own interests)?
(3) What has Russia/China done to help Sudan?
(4) What has Russia/China done to combat the rise of right-wing fascistic ideologies all over the world?
(5) What has Russia/China done to promote press freedom or human rights or the institution of jounalism anywhere in the world (including their own countries)?
(6) Try discussing the "Tibet" issue in China, "Ukraine" issue in Russia, "Kashmir" issue in India, etc. and you'll get a real-world experience of how GOOD Russia/China/India/etc. are.
(7) I could go on for a while...
>>"I don't need to do lots of research to arrive at my worldview."
I think you DO, since you seem very biased (based on all your comments) about Russian and China. Examples->
(1) You lost it when I stated facts previously (that Assad and Putin ARE war criminals)
(2) You fail to realize Capitalism's hold on Russia AND China - they have a different form of Capitalism than from the West, but that doesn't mean that their form of Capitalism is good. There is NO "good" kind of capitalism.
(3) There is considerable evidence in Maersheimer's "realism" theories. Based on these theories, the ONLY reason I can think of to cheer on Russia/China is because they are fighting a GREATER EVIL (the US Empire). That's it. There's nothing good about human rights (Covid authoritarianism in China is a good example here), surveillance culture (especially in China), represession of journalistic freedom and transparency of the political process, quality of democracy, rising inequality (especially in China - BTW this is a direct consequence of capitalism), repression of dissident voices, and so much more.
I understand that most people here (on Caitlin's substack) might not want to focus on all these short-comings of Russia/China (which is ok since the US Empire is the biggest problem to humanity and the planet currently), but that doesn't mean "Russia/China are the change the world sorely needs". Unfortunately, it IS a game of "great power politics".
Again, having said all that, I would STILL SUPPORT Russia AND China (but NOT India) for the purposes of combatting a greater EVIL (the US/Western Empire), but I hold NO ILLUSIONS about Russia/China/etc. (unlike MANY commenters in Caitlin's substack).
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See what I mean? When it comes to Russia/China, most people on this substack are unable to handle/acknowledge reality (and instead of rational arguments, they get emotional or resort to ad hominem attacks).
"We're much better off with diplomacy." Antony Blinken diplomatic? What? Blinken?
I labeled Blinken as "Monster of the Year" for 2024 for being the cold-hearted sociopath that he is...
2024: Monsters Revealed https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/2024-monsters-revealed
WHO made Blinken. STOP allowing Biden to get away with this!
BIDEN the warmonger who allowed Israhell to get away with this.
BRING Biden out with a noose around his neck.
I don't think the people in the USA really understand hat is happening here.
YOU are a NATION owned by Irahell/Evangelicals.
I won't come to your aid when the 'darkness' happens.
Greedy sodomites!
At the risk of repeating mysefl:
The entire Biden Administration, soon to be out of office, should be charged under 18 U.S. Code § 1091, a US law that incorporates the Genocide Convention. Let's charge them. This law has not statute of limitations. In office or out, they should have visions of prison every day of their lives. They should have visions of prison every day of their lives.
Remember it, act on it, now or later. There's no immunity for Secretaries of State, hear that Blinken? Time to think about citizens' arrests.
18 U.S. Code § 1091
The US has not directly spoken with Russia in years now. And Blink Fuck calls that diplomacy.
Excuse me................where is this so magnificent Biden.
HE supported Blinken et al.
I don't give a flying fuck how many of you USA people call Blinken out. Biden is/was the President and you all know damned well that Biden could have stopped 'arms sales' to the Israelis and Ukraine.
DO NOT use Blinken as a scapegoat.
Blinken is the one that's actually pulling all the strings. Biden is just a senile puppet. It makes sense to call out the puppet master. It doesn't let the puppet off the hook, since he just does what his master tells him to do.
You may be right BUT please don't tell me that there are not others behind this!
"See, the United States pretends to care very much about human rights!"
Only countries we don't like.
But they're barely humans - living in those other countries. They're savages!
This clearly disingenuous statement from that little ghoul appears, in all intents and purposes, to be a final “fuck you!” to his critics, us, who have continuously called out the lies and deliberate blindness, from Blinken and his flying monkeys in the corporate, full of “ex” CIA, media where the Zionist Occupation Entity is concerned.
WHY do the people in the USA keep calling out Blinken when you know damned well this is all about Biden?
Biden can’t wipe his own ass anymore, let alone think strategically or politically about anything. Blinken, Jake Sullivan et al - and Jill Biden is culpable too - have been running the show. Biden showed signs of mental distress, dementia, in the years *before* the 2019 primaries and campaign.
I don't know, but I could speculate that Blinken is both culpable and may not be covered by presidential immunity. Low-hanging fruit, is my guess. i.e., go after those that are get-at-able.
When one sees the accompanying photo associated with this article, one is forced to ask the question....
…..’can the two top US foreign affairs organisers make impartial judgements on the supply of weapons and support for a genocide when one is a total Zionist, through and through and the other is a Jew’? Has the world ever seen any examples by these two of preferential treatment to any state, anywhere??????
Both still giving genocide gifts to Israel as we speak, both trying to capitalise on their subservient association with their Israeli masters before they both head for the hills and obscurity, unless...........
…….some remaining member of a Gaza family decides that someone has to pay for the loss of his country, his wife and his children, hundreds of thousands more and who sees these two criminals as likely targets for revenge. Let's face it, Israel (with 100% support by Biden and the USA) has shown us all how easy it is to kill by drones, bombs. starvation, snipers, to rape and kill by sexual acts, so the history is there for targeted individual killings to be used by others.
In the real world, however, one can assume, should Biden be identified as a criminal, as he undoubtedly is, that regardless of his sins, too many to mention, his Roman Catholic Church in Delaware will request just a couple of Hail Mary's to cleanse his soul from his years of evil, after giving him reasonable consideration for his probable generosity in times when funding was required in the church for a major refit. "Quid pro quo" over the years, mutual back scratching for all to see as in the USA as well. You give us all the weapons to kill Palestinians, Joe, and we’ll give you all the votes to win an election. Still in practice, eh Donald?
Buying a country. A Constitution? Who gives a damn.
See how easy it is. Blinken will no doubt get the same treatment and remain a fully paid up member of his easy come - easy go branch of the local synagogue. He woud be a local hero. He has more than done his share in fulfilling the old adage that Jews are ‘God's chosen people'. They love that one. Fantasy. It allows them to commit any crime they wish, especially with "the USA having ( their)Israel’s back”.
As for commenting on this story today about Sudan and genocide, hypocrisy at large, the less said the better. Suffice to say that in earlier times, such hypocrisy (mindless stupidity) could have been rewarded by a guillotine, stoning to death (as is still current in Saudi Arabia of recent years), burning at the stake exampled by Joan of Arc by England in 1431 and many others, with Salem in the USA, the last country to engage in such sports. These days it's acceptable to be supporting Israeli snipers and rapists, both seemingly acceptable to Biden's fellow parishioners, as well as to 86% of the elected members of the US government and almost 100% of White Western Christian countries.
What a disgrace.
Must make the USA and Israel so pleased and so proud of what they have become. The scourge of humanity.
Stuart Seldowitz took off the mask a long time ago and showed everyone what kind of hateful monsters run foreign policy in the county:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/23/ex-obama-adviser-stuart-seldowitz-arrested-after-islamophobic-rant
But the public refused to believe what was in front of their eyes. And Seldowitz never paid any price either:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/20/us/stuart-seldowitz-islamophobia-hate-crime-plea-deal-nyc/index.html
Thanks for that Klonda56.
If he is or was an indication of the average foreign policy employee, one can see how it develops its Anti-Islamic bias.
I guess in government departments the policies of the extreme managers, in the majority, I feel, would be followed by the underlings.
Like the Western media, it is a case of follow the leader.......if you want to get paid this week.
WHAT they do and who they do it TO, well its all here in black and white:
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human
All that Seldowitz did, was just to show you where they are coming from. He is retired, he has his huge gold plated pension and private money coming in, so he now says what all of them still in DC dont actually say in public. Because that kind of talk in public would would get a government official fired, and leave them unable to do their dirty work.
Speaking of Delaware, check out Delawarians for Palestinian Human Rights, if you haven't already. They are doing good things:
https://www.delphr.org
A commendable organisation who have achievements to their great credit.
Well done, Delaware