"Gaza should be stopping us in our tracks. Hell we should be disrupting the economy ourselves — we shouldn’t have to wait for impoverished Yemenis to do it for us. We should be holding general strikes and stopping ships and disrupting everything we can possibly disrupt in order to force western civilization to look at what it’s supporting in Gaza and bring this mass atrocity to a screeching halt."
After Izzzy intelligence obtained Hamas' detailed plan for Oct 7th they analyzed it.
Important for analysis would be continuous monitoring of whether the reality on the ground - Hamas' current activities - matched the detailed plans.
So that is what they did. Unit 8200 "the Central Collection Unit of the Intelligence Corps" made the decision to stand-down and cease the real-time monitoring of the tactical communication of Hamas operatives on their radios.
Wait! Did I really mean "stand-down and cease monitoring"? They instead increased their diligence in monitoring. Right?
Nope. Unit 8200 claims that everyone up and down the military/intelligence chain of command approved the ceasing of monitoring.
So what is going on here?
It couldn't be a false-flag in progress as there are thousands of IDF troops surrounding the Gaza border, a false-flag could never work. Oh, there **were** thousands of troops until just before Oct 7th when they withdrew for temporary duty in the West Bank.
But a false-flag still wouldn't work. Hamas could be dispelled by the quick arrival of support troops.
Oh no, the troops didn't arrive in force for hours. What gives?
Still, a false-flag doesn't make sense unless there is a purpose. What good would the death of Izzzy civlians do? Oh, but it created blood lust which was then harnessed to "justify" the cleansing of Gaza and subsequently, the West Bank.
But, there would be no blood lust if the casualties were light. The Hannibal Directive wasn't implemented for that purpose was it? They didn't implement the Hannibal Directive for ulterior motives?
I've got to push back here. They all kill the children. It's written into their texts "smash the heads of the infants on rocks in service to God". That's not an exact quote of the text in the Christian bible Saint James edition, but it's close (my memory's not so good). So the Christians used this provided justification and others. Perhaps the Moslems have used this to.
All the Abrahamic based faiths have this particular nugget in their original texts. Most, the REAL people of LOVE in those faiths don't allow for that justification.
I know our U.S. evangelicals cheery pick the horrid bloody first testament to justify their support of their leaders' sins and actions. The Biden base just stay asleep to let his people kill the babies.
The Pope just doesn't want the finger pointing if they stand up. They have a lot to answer for. A lot. They started the propaganda campaign against the Jews and Moslems back 2,000+ years ago to gain dominance in the world of that time.
I might even note a rough similarity between the IDF troop withdrawal for temporary duty in the West Bank with the 9/11 NORAD participation in a training simulation.
I'd speculate that it was even designed to at least green lighted by Biden, to serve as a diversion from the total failure in Ukraine proxy war and the public realization of the overwhelming and imminent Russian victory.
I wrote a whole damn book about the criminals behind the genocide and still have difficulty to believe what I know is the truth. "As America Crumbles... : A Grim Chronicle Exploring the Evil Source of America’s Catastrophic Decline."
Evil is spewing from the depths. I couldn't access or buy that book on a Google browser. Fortunately, maybe I got it on my Firefox browser. Maybe the Guardian Tor browser would have worked, but the problem is both with Amazon and Google censorship.
So ironic that Amazon is the only place to buy a book about the source of America's catastrophic decline, when Amazon might be the prime culprit. I will have to wait for it to be a library book. Thank you for your good work.
US State Department: “... it is never acceptable for malign actors ... to target legitimate commerce. ... And we will always take appropriate steps to hold those accountable that put things like legitimate commerce, civilians, ...”
Yeah, it's always those darn "malign actors" getting up to no good... Sounds like a great name for a rock group to me: "Joe Biden and the Malign Actors" now on stage with "Bibi and the Carpet Bombing Genociders". Not a concert I'd paid to see, but somehow my tax dollars are funding it. #CeasefireNow
Its fascinating that you type always try and find the smallest of petty flaws to exploit and think how clever you are to "get someone " with it on a spelling or typo..
It goes to show how conditioned you have let yourself become to think you are so better "educated " for memorizing (indoctrination training) and no wonder you never had an original thought in your skull and you can't think for yourself but just run down the typical list of tactics you have studied to think you can "shame" people with your social structural ideologies..
All it ends up being is an exposure of your conditioning into the "norm" and why your brain is addled by the slightest error you encounter.. Hyperfocusing on petty error is from the mind of a petty person. but your tactics here are quite transparent.
Yes, these types that really don't have any supportive knowledge to debate have gone to sleep and wake up occasionally to catch a typo, such an arsenal of knowledge that's it underwhelming.
As usual with his type he had to trundle off and lick his mental wounds. So he wont be found out.. not to be mean but sometimes these people really need a good kick in the mental teeth. Like Mike Tysan pointed out ..not that i condone violence but its the only thing this guy seems to understand for always offering plane tickets to come see him as a threat...
I'm on the side of the Houthis. I never heard of them 2 years ago, but now I respect their commitment to the people of Gaza. It's more than the West is willing to do.
Yeah me 2! As in, I'm on their side as I hope the Houthis get the Gazans out of their trapped situation. Wtf can a commoner like me do!? I'm not even allowed to say a word. I'm a mental patient right now bc of this.
Which they will!! Like Che Guevara was the Saviour of Cuba, every time they have escaped. I understand Caitlin's frustrations in needing to say these things but it still feels emotionally manipulative ☹️
Your article raised one point that I haven't thought about: why is impoverished Yemen fighting for the whole world? Or rather, why is the rest of the world not acting on such inhumane acts in Gaza? It seems like the answer is: the poor have nothing more to lose while the rich have everything to lose. This is the sad part. The whole world needs to come together to stop this. Since we know that US is on Israel's side, we can only rely on China being a force powerful and huge enough to intervene. But China knows it themselves and any military conflict will potentially escalate into a world war so it seems like they are moving extremely cautiously. The other force, of course, is Russia. Gaza is the place and the period where we can really define what "being human" means.
Your initial question - why are the Yeminis aiding Gaza? - is mine. Frankly, I am grateful that they are. The USA is obviously in hiding. And Russia is looking to be the hero. How will the USA spin that?
The Yeminis have their own culture and a lot to live for. They just actually care about this shameless mas murder….because they were subjected to it themselves with the US and Europe playing the same role of chief enabler:
“… US complicity in the Saudi-led genocide in Yemen spans Obama, Trump administrations
Published: November 26, 2018 12.36pm CET…. A Saudi-led coalition of states has been aggressively bombing Yemen and imposing an air and naval blockade of its ports for more than three years, leading UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to describe Yemen as “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.”………”
“…. 2019: According to the Yemen Data Project, more than 17,500 civilians were killed and injured since 2015, and a quarter of all civilians killed in air raids were women and children. More than 20 million people in Yemen are experiencing food insecurity; 10 million of them are at risk of famine. …The UN Group of Eminent Experts in September stated that several world powers, including the US, the UK, and France, may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen through arms sales and intelligence support given to the Saudi-led coalition.….”
“….. Jan 11, 2023 - Weapons supplied by the United Kingdom and the United States and used by a Saudi-led coalition fighting in war-torn Yemen killed at least 87 civilians and wounded 136 others in just over a year, a new report said Wednesday.
The report by the Oxfam charity found that the Saudi-led coalition used weapons supplied solely by the U.K. and the U.S. in hundreds of attacks on civilians in Yemen between January 2021 and the end of February 2022. Britain is the second-biggest supplier of weapons to Saudi Arabia, after the US.…..”
“… A ‘synchronised attack’ on life: the Saudi-led coalition’s ‘hidden and holistic’ genocide in Yemen and the shared responsibility of the US and UK
Jeffrey S. Bachman
Pages 298-316 | Received 22 Jun 2018, Accepted 21 Oct 2018, Published online: 17 Jan 2019
.. Through engagement with genocide studies literature, this article applies a holistic conception of genocide to the Coalition military campaign. It finds that the Coalition is conducting an ongoing campaign of genocide by a ‘synchronised attack’ on all aspects of life in Yemen, one that is only possible with the complicity of the United States and United Kingdom….”
Civilian deaths in Gaza are a stain on Israel and its allies
Published 05. Dec 2023
Palestine
Statement from Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council:
“The pulverising of Gaza now ranks amongst the worst assaults on any civilian population in our time and age. Each day we see more dead children and new depths of suffering for the innocent people enduring this hell.
“Across the Gaza Strip, almost the entire population – 1.9 million people – have been displaced. Nearly two in three homes are now damaged or destroyed. Amid relentless air, land and sea attacks, thousands of families are forced to relocate from one perilous zone to another. Today, more than 750,000 people are crowded into just 133 shelters. Tens of thousands live on the streets of southern Gaza, where, under bombardment, they are forced to improvise basic shelters from whatever they can get hold of. The winter rains have arrived and so have infectious diseases, just as public health services have been utterly paralysed.
“Many of my own NRC staff members now live on the streets. One of them does so with her two-month-old baby.
“Our colleagues in Gaza ask themselves a simple question: how is it that these atrocities are beamed across the world for all to witness, and yet so little is done to stop them?
“Countries supporting Israel with arms must understand that these civilian deaths will be a permanent stain on their reputation. They must demand an immediate ceasefire in Israel and Gaza. Only a cessation of hostilities will allow us to ensure effective relief to the two million who now require it. Severe restrictions on aid access have aggravated the situation, leading to starvation among Gaza's population, intensifying an already dire humanitarian crisis. We have been forced to halt nearly all of our aid operations due to the bombardment, the chaos, and the panic.
“There must be accountability for those responsible for the killings, the torture, and the atrocities committed in Israel on October 7th.
“The killing of thousands of innocent children and women, the siege on an entire civilian population, and the trapping of bombarded civilians behind closed borders in Gaza are also crimes under international law. There must also be accountability for this, from political and military leaders as well as those who provided arms and support. This military campaign can in no way be described as ‘self-defense.’
“We again demand that all hostages are immediately and unconditionally released. Neither the lives of innocent children, women or men, nor the ability of aid workers to access the vulnerable, should be used as bargaining chips.
“The situation in Gaza is a total failure of our shared humanity. The killing must stop.”
"An active genocide should be permitted to continue with zero economic repercussions of any kind, for Israel or anyone else."
Ah, this is one of those lovely US "Rules Based Order" rules, isn't it? Keep on shipping useless widgets around the world from the slave factories in the East no matter what! If anyone shuts that blessed commerce down for one "Western" country (that is, Israel), the US gets to start another war bombing a country that's seen its far share of bombing already... but is still brave enough to stand up for what is right and just. If only more countries could do what the Yemenis are doing and less of what the US and Israel is doing. We might actually have some kind of compassionate "order" instead of these death-dealing, capitalist "rules" that the oligarchy keeps pushing onto us, the working classes. #EndTheGenocide
"We should be holding general strikes and stopping ships"………."Instead we’re just sleepwalking through life" ….. from Caitlin.
Yes, but
...some day, one day soon, the adult component of voting age from 315 million real Americans are going to vote for a new resident in the White House. The population number is higher in total but I have discarded some 15 million as the fully-paid US stooges from the Treasury Zionist brigade occupying critical places in Netanyahu's House of Representatives and his Congress. (Strange how that comment never even gets challenged these days.)
The number may be more, sadly, it may be less. But they are there, boots and all, scaring the good guys from having enough guts to stand up and be counted.
Now there is the problem. How do you motivate the adult aged component of 315 million? It won't be by the US media, long since choked to death with CIA scripted news stories, ably assisted by the social media dictators. It won't be through honest senior public servants, those that are not part of the Israel full time corps of spies and un-American actors, as there are not enough of them to make a difference. What then?
The people. It always rests with the people.
They must be made aware of the evil crowd in Washington, the corrupt politicians up to 86% on a recent count, a.k.a. Israel's tame poodles ( men and women), the bankers, militarists, war profiteers, questionable state governors (one just took a nose dive), power hungry public servants and all the employees of the CIA and similar tainted bureaucracies. All of these groups have mentally sold out the old, respected America as it was before 1970 and seem quite prepared to follow on like sheep to whoever it turns out and has the money, Israeli connections and dirty Jewish money and corrupting influence to win the big prize (and who then has the good sense to do what he / she is told, like it is now, you know.) Right Joe?
Can’t let that happen, can we.
11 months to go. Start again with a new party for the American people. You have a seriously large number of decent, extremely knowledgeable people who can guide you and organise the changes needed. If I know them then the American people know then as well. Won’t mention their names because in the current climate they could become a casualty. I’m old enough to remember John Kennedy and to have read with so many others, to no avail so it seems, of the people who met in Dallas and who made this sad event happen. The verdict as to the crime, as with 9/11, would suit the creative writings of someone like Hans Christian Andersen.
It’s not just you, America. The same needs to happen in Australia, New Zealand, Germany the UK, NATO followers and so many other countries who have become mirror images of the failed USA and it's polluted power hungry values.
Nothing above could possibly be seen as fantasy thinking. It’s possible, even if only to save our world of many, from destruction by the few.
Ah, but there's the race to kill the little left of the Democratic apparatus we have. For them the fascism can't happen soon enough. It has to happen before the educated get to vote. Of course, there's the racing to raise the voting age for those whose votes can't be suppressed.
‘Liberty & Justice For All’ can and will happen when overwhelming numbers of people take it to the streets. If Marianne Williamson can’t strike that match, we’ll have to wait for someone else......
Simply stop shopping for anything other than essentials. Food, clothes if absolutely needed and the like. The toaster breaks- do without. No widescreen TV. No new dinner ware. Just think, it would hit the elite where it would hurt them the most. In the piggy bank. Along with the government and banks. And it will save consumers money.
A national boycott of consumer goods. It would take no time, in fact it would save people time. No police brutality against protesters. No arrests for the judicial system to ruin protestors lives.
Unstoppable and effective. If only 25 to 30% of the people would do it.
But no one will do it. It's just too hard.
So is it really the government and the elite that are at fault? No, in a word.
I see a boycott as democracy in action. Collectively as consumers. Most everyone here agrees that democracy has failed and we are controlled by the elite. Do you consider a union strike a democratic process? Biden recently interfered with those. If you want to go buy your toaster feel free. It's a vote for the elite. Purely democratic, just not at the polls. Writing your representative gets you a form letter. And remember the American Revolution started by dumping tea into the harbor.
Yes, but unfortunately the "power elite" have gotten so good at "divide and conquer" strategies, "us-vs-them" group identity conflicts, etc. that it is really challenging for people to come together. Humans (including me of ccourse) are so often easily manipulated that I'm sometimes ashamed of my own behavior and unconscious decision making.
The politicians, media Moguls and the corporations supporting US imperialism and backing Israel's genocide would love nothing more than for people to forget all about the problems in the world and spend their weekends shopping. They're counting on us giving up and losing interest; or getting seduced by another shiny new toy that we didn't know we needed or wanted.
We really do need a global call to disrupt "business as usual".
For the majority of workers they already have the money. Why I didn't include it. No taxation without representation went out the door long ago. Serfs in most cases probably had it better. They had land and house and a means of subsistence. Today the government has thousands of warlords to go out and beat the serfs in the form of laws,police and judicial system. It's called slavery. But a boycott is something that they have absolutely no control over. So share the idea and see how it goes. Heroin is less addictive than planned obsolescent junk.
Well the systems have used the specter of state violence if you don't comply with their tax code.. Therefore everyone is scared to use the one and only power we have against the state..A tax revolt !!!
Unless it can be organised and not thwarted day two we will never have any say at all in anything and our economic servitude and slavery will continue, and escalate into abuses more and more as it does in every other classic abuse dynamic ..
The old adage "death and tax's" the clever little joke and way they make a common knowledge community reinforced accepted belief that coupling an unnatural thing to a natural thing so you believe it's inevitable and unchanging and not possible to defy.. Plus no one single person will dare put their head out to get chopped off...
That was my point...a mass tax revolt ...but I got jumped on by people for that because they are all cowards to ever risk their own little lives for a bigger picture ...
The establishment knows they have them frightened so much they will never not comply.
If it helps - I have written a huge letter to HMRC in the UK on why I will not be paying tax as it is a crime. The link is in the article I wrote: https://ayauk.substack.com/p/paying-taxes-is-now-a-crime-in-uk . This is now being made into a website and hopefully a bigger movement - I will keep you updated.
Seriously, you're right. However, what we fear the most is losing our 'comfort' but so many of us don't have comfort! We are scared of losing what we know - we aren't really scared about what we may find because we haven't tried it. Is losing the sh*t we know. And sh*t it is, so why not mobilise, rise, have some notion of your own self-woth and that you are worth mor than all of this?
If you are replying to me how am I "guilt shaming"? And being vocal and protesting should continue with a boycott. People should be boycotting over product quality and planned obsolescence alone as it only serves the corporations profit margins and contributes to the ecocide occuring. Buying at local mom and pop stores would improve the economy and middle class. So what's to lose?
The fact is that stataes are not in control - billionaire corporations are. They buy politicians who then leave office and walk into $100,000,000 corporate deals (Obama, Blair). Neoliberalism and imperialism benefits no-one but the rich; it does not benefit the populace who act both as cog in the machinery and non-stop consumer of things they do not need. States are simply there to rubber stamp, to be bought and for their machinery to be used for these corps to wage wars, loot resources and make money all while we pay for it. What was the boon of the Afghan war again for private arms companies? $3,000,000,000,000 ? I mean it's actually insane.
These people only understand money. You should only buy small and local and boycott everything else as Toma says. You don't need an iphone. You don't need nikes. You don't need a toaster.
Buy what you need - nothing else.
Frugality is freedom. It really is.
"Luxury" is rarely so - it's just another word for over-consumption
The peers with rebuke you. You will be ostracized slowly, but deliberately. The others are afraid too and some will not have the courage to greet you. But, it's something although it will have serious consequences for you.
I don't share with my family that claim to be Democratic and liberal. They would shun me. I would never be able to even text them. Yes, their ears and eyes have been conveniently closed.
Yes. Fighting back. I follow the Guardian Tor project's advice on denying our data. But you know it is but a drop in the ocean. Isn't the Ocean made up of drops?
Yes. So true. I come from a family that punishes with shunning any behavior they don't like and they doing tell you what that behavior is. When you ask they say loftily "You should know. We shouldn't have to tell you" and shut up, the coward's favorite refrain.
The Yemeni bottleneck isn't actually international waters, as it's less than 24 miles wide...not that such legal niceties ever mattered to the US, UK, or Israel...But apparently the US lost two Navy Seals trying to capture a small Arab Dhow, so apparently there is no rhyme or reason to any of America's actions...
The US has no problems blowing up undersea gas pipelines, hijacking Iranian ships, shooting down an Iranian passenger jet (1988) over the Persian Gulf, mining the harbors of Nicaragua, staging military coups (about 60 since 1950), but don't mess with maritime shipping destined for Israel in the midst of its genocide in Gaza.
Under the Geneva Convention to Prevent Genocide, all signatories are OBLIGATED to prevent genocide. Verdict: Yemen* is in the right. The US is aiding and abetting the genocide in Gaza. (*It's irrelevant whether Yemen is a signatory or not.)
"it is never acceptable for malign actors to target international vessels, to target legitimate commerce that is flowing through the Red Sea,” Patel said. . . ."
The hilarious thing about that is that malign actors have targeted legitimate commerce in the area before. The Saudis, with American backing, did their best to ensure that legitimate commerce, bringing much needed supplies, to the people of Yemen, didn't get through.
And of course legitimate commerce flowing through the Mediterranean Sea to Gaza was simply not permitted by Israel in order to cause hardship to the people of Gaza.
Indeed, in May 2010, six civilian ships carrying humanitarian aid and construction materials to Gaza were attacked - yes, attacked! - in civilian waters, killing nine people (a lot more than the Houthis have killed) - and I don't remember America launching air strikes against the country that launched that attack on legitimate commerce.
I loved a headline from "the Sun" in the UK when two US personnel drowned from their own incompetence and falling into the sea - and the headline linked the deaths to the Houthis - as if the Houthis has killed them and they weren't just getting the most embarassing karma for joining in a military operation to kill people tyring to prevent a genocide.
The imperial propaganda has become so bad, so stupid, that I think we are going to have to supply them with new material. It's like when Art Buchwald noted that the US had run out of targets in Vietnam, and he suggested that the fans of the war contribute to building them some nice new bridges so the US would have something to bomb.
So I'm going to suggest in this case that the US declare that the whoevers wherever are forming an alliance with the Saturnian ant men to destroy the galaxy, and bomb the hell out of Saturn to prevent this threat from materializing, indeed, from even being imagined in the first place. Get those Saturnian ant men! Meanwhile we can think of something else to bomb until "we" run out of bombs. Note to the gobmutt: I'm out already, you can leave me alone.
What I find instructive is that the elaborate American justifications appear to be a thing of the past, the mask is off and the Empire relies on naked force and terror.
No more noise about “Uiyghurs! these days, I notice. And even that was trumped up by NSA disinformation specialists masquerading as “NGOs” and “research consultancies”.
It does seem like these days They're just throwing the shit out there.
It's like They have one of the lottery ball machines or a Magic Eight Ball with the stock justification terms written on them, and when some justification for a misdeed is needed, they draw at random. Or maybe they have an AI write the script.
They're not tired, just emboldened by getting away with murder for so so long. They give their flimsy justifications knowing no-one believes them, but the willing and they have a lot of those after decades of propaganda.
"Gaza should be stopping us in our tracks. Hell we should be disrupting the economy ourselves — we shouldn’t have to wait for impoverished Yemenis to do it for us. We should be holding general strikes and stopping ships and disrupting everything we can possibly disrupt in order to force western civilization to look at what it’s supporting in Gaza and bring this mass atrocity to a screeching halt."
Damn right.
General Strike
Boycott Divest
& Sanctions too
There is another battle. One that we are all participating in.
A false-flag does not come without a cover up. It cannot remain a false-flag if people figure it out.
In other words, the perps of the Oct 7th stand-down false-flag went into it with a cover up plan.
We are seeing it. There are those selling "hubris and incompetence" as the reason that there was a multi-point failure on Oct 7th.
This is the cover up that was planned ahead of time.
And then there are those that recognize that Oct 7th was a day of treachery and betrayal on the part of the Israeli leadership.
It was a stand-down false-flag.
If the latter wins out - it is widely recognized - then it is doomsday for those Zionists in power.
You can participate.
After Izzzy intelligence obtained Hamas' detailed plan for Oct 7th they analyzed it.
Important for analysis would be continuous monitoring of whether the reality on the ground - Hamas' current activities - matched the detailed plans.
So that is what they did. Unit 8200 "the Central Collection Unit of the Intelligence Corps" made the decision to stand-down and cease the real-time monitoring of the tactical communication of Hamas operatives on their radios.
Wait! Did I really mean "stand-down and cease monitoring"? They instead increased their diligence in monitoring. Right?
Nope. Unit 8200 claims that everyone up and down the military/intelligence chain of command approved the ceasing of monitoring.
So what is going on here?
It couldn't be a false-flag in progress as there are thousands of IDF troops surrounding the Gaza border, a false-flag could never work. Oh, there **were** thousands of troops until just before Oct 7th when they withdrew for temporary duty in the West Bank.
But a false-flag still wouldn't work. Hamas could be dispelled by the quick arrival of support troops.
Oh no, the troops didn't arrive in force for hours. What gives?
Still, a false-flag doesn't make sense unless there is a purpose. What good would the death of Izzzy civlians do? Oh, but it created blood lust which was then harnessed to "justify" the cleansing of Gaza and subsequently, the West Bank.
But, there would be no blood lust if the casualties were light. The Hannibal Directive wasn't implemented for that purpose was it? They didn't implement the Hannibal Directive for ulterior motives?
Or did they?
cleansing of Gaza and concurrently, the West Bank by the IDF armed settlers.
Which is going on whilst cleansing Gaza, but the world isn't seeing this, is refusing to see this.
I've got to push back here. They all kill the children. It's written into their texts "smash the heads of the infants on rocks in service to God". That's not an exact quote of the text in the Christian bible Saint James edition, but it's close (my memory's not so good). So the Christians used this provided justification and others. Perhaps the Moslems have used this to.
All the Abrahamic based faiths have this particular nugget in their original texts. Most, the REAL people of LOVE in those faiths don't allow for that justification.
I know our U.S. evangelicals cheery pick the horrid bloody first testament to justify their support of their leaders' sins and actions. The Biden base just stay asleep to let his people kill the babies.
The Pope just doesn't want the finger pointing if they stand up. They have a lot to answer for. A lot. They started the propaganda campaign against the Jews and Moslems back 2,000+ years ago to gain dominance in the world of that time.
I might even note a rough similarity between the IDF troop withdrawal for temporary duty in the West Bank with the 9/11 NORAD participation in a training simulation.
I'd speculate that it was even designed to at least green lighted by Biden, to serve as a diversion from the total failure in Ukraine proxy war and the public realization of the overwhelming and imminent Russian victory.
Nothing would surprise me...........I assume the US will start a war with Iran before the elections.
Hi Jon
Perhaps you can help enlighten me.
I’ve been emailing Scott Ritter videos to my brother and he says that they all come up as “unavailable”.
Well we all know that our Scott is one of the war’s fiercest critics. Is this intentional censorship? All the videos I sent him are still online.
There is never anything to say after listening to your words, Caitlin. You speak to the depths of my mind and my heart. Thank you. Please never stop.
I wrote a whole damn book about the criminals behind the genocide and still have difficulty to believe what I know is the truth. "As America Crumbles... : A Grim Chronicle Exploring the Evil Source of America’s Catastrophic Decline."
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CQR71WN3/
Funny thing? Amazon forbids advertising the book because it includes, I kid you not, "Content that around highly debated social topics."
Good luck. I will look it up.
Evil is spewing from the depths. I couldn't access or buy that book on a Google browser. Fortunately, maybe I got it on my Firefox browser. Maybe the Guardian Tor browser would have worked, but the problem is both with Amazon and Google censorship.
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So ironic that Amazon is the only place to buy a book about the source of America's catastrophic decline, when Amazon might be the prime culprit. I will have to wait for it to be a library book. Thank you for your good work.
Amazon is blocking the purchase of this book, as is Google.
Does the author have any recourse? No wonder so many people in the United States are clueless about our own unwitting support of the hegemony.
US State Department: “... it is never acceptable for malign actors ... to target legitimate commerce. ... And we will always take appropriate steps to hold those accountable that put things like legitimate commerce, civilians, ...”
Nord Stream pipeline? Civilians in Gaza? Bueller?
Notice the word "legitimate"...I submit that funding Israeli genocides is not legitimate in any sense of the word...
Yeah, it's always those darn "malign actors" getting up to no good... Sounds like a great name for a rock group to me: "Joe Biden and the Malign Actors" now on stage with "Bibi and the Carpet Bombing Genociders". Not a concert I'd paid to see, but somehow my tax dollars are funding it. #CeasefireNow
They might just say those "mellanin" actors .
Neoconliberal ziOpaths hate brown people
Its fascinating that you type always try and find the smallest of petty flaws to exploit and think how clever you are to "get someone " with it on a spelling or typo..
It goes to show how conditioned you have let yourself become to think you are so better "educated " for memorizing (indoctrination training) and no wonder you never had an original thought in your skull and you can't think for yourself but just run down the typical list of tactics you have studied to think you can "shame" people with your social structural ideologies..
All it ends up being is an exposure of your conditioning into the "norm" and why your brain is addled by the slightest error you encounter.. Hyperfocusing on petty error is from the mind of a petty person. but your tactics here are quite transparent.
Yes, these types that really don't have any supportive knowledge to debate have gone to sleep and wake up occasionally to catch a typo, such an arsenal of knowledge that's it underwhelming.
As usual with his type he had to trundle off and lick his mental wounds. So he wont be found out.. not to be mean but sometimes these people really need a good kick in the mental teeth. Like Mike Tysan pointed out ..not that i condone violence but its the only thing this guy seems to understand for always offering plane tickets to come see him as a threat...
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Sanctions as forms of economic war,,, that does kill
Oh boy well now i have a spiteful little douchebag that's going to pace all my comments and shit on them because he's got a sore anus
She/he has that flare of unthinking one can expect from the defenders of Empire and capitalism with the amazing repartee of the dullness.
Well said - it's important to always point out the contradictions, the hypocrisy, and the double standards.
I'm on the side of the Houthis. I never heard of them 2 years ago, but now I respect their commitment to the people of Gaza. It's more than the West is willing to do.
The Houthis are some of the toughest mofo's on the planet...That has become abundantly clear in the last 18 years...
Just fucked up some navy seals too..but American moms love sacrificing their sons for Israel.
Yeah me 2! As in, I'm on their side as I hope the Houthis get the Gazans out of their trapped situation. Wtf can a commoner like me do!? I'm not even allowed to say a word. I'm a mental patient right now bc of this.
Which they will!! Like Che Guevara was the Saviour of Cuba, every time they have escaped. I understand Caitlin's frustrations in needing to say these things but it still feels emotionally manipulative ☹️
Your article raised one point that I haven't thought about: why is impoverished Yemen fighting for the whole world? Or rather, why is the rest of the world not acting on such inhumane acts in Gaza? It seems like the answer is: the poor have nothing more to lose while the rich have everything to lose. This is the sad part. The whole world needs to come together to stop this. Since we know that US is on Israel's side, we can only rely on China being a force powerful and huge enough to intervene. But China knows it themselves and any military conflict will potentially escalate into a world war so it seems like they are moving extremely cautiously. The other force, of course, is Russia. Gaza is the place and the period where we can really define what "being human" means.
Your initial question - why are the Yeminis aiding Gaza? - is mine. Frankly, I am grateful that they are. The USA is obviously in hiding. And Russia is looking to be the hero. How will the USA spin that?
"How will the USA spin that?"
They won't. Ever seen a bully in action?
Viva the Hout’his!
Talk about REAL MEN!
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Because the yemeni's have been in a LONG war.
Saudi Arabia and US weapons.
They have little to live for.
The Yeminis have their own culture and a lot to live for. They just actually care about this shameless mas murder….because they were subjected to it themselves with the US and Europe playing the same role of chief enabler:
https://theconversation.com/us-complicity-in-the-saudi-led-genocide-in-yemen-spans-obama-trump-administrations-106896
“… US complicity in the Saudi-led genocide in Yemen spans Obama, Trump administrations
Published: November 26, 2018 12.36pm CET…. A Saudi-led coalition of states has been aggressively bombing Yemen and imposing an air and naval blockade of its ports for more than three years, leading UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to describe Yemen as “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.”………”
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/yemen
“…. 2019: According to the Yemen Data Project, more than 17,500 civilians were killed and injured since 2015, and a quarter of all civilians killed in air raids were women and children. More than 20 million people in Yemen are experiencing food insecurity; 10 million of them are at risk of famine. …The UN Group of Eminent Experts in September stated that several world powers, including the US, the UK, and France, may be complicit in war crimes in Yemen through arms sales and intelligence support given to the Saudi-led coalition.….”
https://www.defensenews.com/global/mideast-africa/2023/01/11/arms-supplied-by-us-uk-killed-civilians-in-yemen-report-finds/
“….. Jan 11, 2023 - Weapons supplied by the United Kingdom and the United States and used by a Saudi-led coalition fighting in war-torn Yemen killed at least 87 civilians and wounded 136 others in just over a year, a new report said Wednesday.
The report by the Oxfam charity found that the Saudi-led coalition used weapons supplied solely by the U.K. and the U.S. in hundreds of attacks on civilians in Yemen between January 2021 and the end of February 2022. Britain is the second-biggest supplier of weapons to Saudi Arabia, after the US.…..”
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2018.1539910
“… A ‘synchronised attack’ on life: the Saudi-led coalition’s ‘hidden and holistic’ genocide in Yemen and the shared responsibility of the US and UK
Jeffrey S. Bachman
Pages 298-316 | Received 22 Jun 2018, Accepted 21 Oct 2018, Published online: 17 Jan 2019
.. Through engagement with genocide studies literature, this article applies a holistic conception of genocide to the Coalition military campaign. It finds that the Coalition is conducting an ongoing campaign of genocide by a ‘synchronised attack’ on all aspects of life in Yemen, one that is only possible with the complicity of the United States and United Kingdom….”
Kudjoe, Thank you for sharing this with us.
Exactly. The shame of US and Europe ignoring this genocide was very well said here a couple months ago:
https://www.nrc.no/news/2024/december/gaza-statement-december/
Civilian deaths in Gaza are a stain on Israel and its allies
Published 05. Dec 2023
Palestine
Statement from Jan Egeland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council:
“The pulverising of Gaza now ranks amongst the worst assaults on any civilian population in our time and age. Each day we see more dead children and new depths of suffering for the innocent people enduring this hell.
“Across the Gaza Strip, almost the entire population – 1.9 million people – have been displaced. Nearly two in three homes are now damaged or destroyed. Amid relentless air, land and sea attacks, thousands of families are forced to relocate from one perilous zone to another. Today, more than 750,000 people are crowded into just 133 shelters. Tens of thousands live on the streets of southern Gaza, where, under bombardment, they are forced to improvise basic shelters from whatever they can get hold of. The winter rains have arrived and so have infectious diseases, just as public health services have been utterly paralysed.
“Many of my own NRC staff members now live on the streets. One of them does so with her two-month-old baby.
“Our colleagues in Gaza ask themselves a simple question: how is it that these atrocities are beamed across the world for all to witness, and yet so little is done to stop them?
“Countries supporting Israel with arms must understand that these civilian deaths will be a permanent stain on their reputation. They must demand an immediate ceasefire in Israel and Gaza. Only a cessation of hostilities will allow us to ensure effective relief to the two million who now require it. Severe restrictions on aid access have aggravated the situation, leading to starvation among Gaza's population, intensifying an already dire humanitarian crisis. We have been forced to halt nearly all of our aid operations due to the bombardment, the chaos, and the panic.
“There must be accountability for those responsible for the killings, the torture, and the atrocities committed in Israel on October 7th.
“The killing of thousands of innocent children and women, the siege on an entire civilian population, and the trapping of bombarded civilians behind closed borders in Gaza are also crimes under international law. There must also be accountability for this, from political and military leaders as well as those who provided arms and support. This military campaign can in no way be described as ‘self-defense.’
“We again demand that all hostages are immediately and unconditionally released. Neither the lives of innocent children, women or men, nor the ability of aid workers to access the vulnerable, should be used as bargaining chips.
“The situation in Gaza is a total failure of our shared humanity. The killing must stop.”
Yes. They are already nervous. They know that the people HATE them. But how do we do this?
Revolution, Jenny; like the French did it.
No quarter.
Yes. I'm there with you.
"An active genocide should be permitted to continue with zero economic repercussions of any kind, for Israel or anyone else."
Ah, this is one of those lovely US "Rules Based Order" rules, isn't it? Keep on shipping useless widgets around the world from the slave factories in the East no matter what! If anyone shuts that blessed commerce down for one "Western" country (that is, Israel), the US gets to start another war bombing a country that's seen its far share of bombing already... but is still brave enough to stand up for what is right and just. If only more countries could do what the Yemenis are doing and less of what the US and Israel is doing. We might actually have some kind of compassionate "order" instead of these death-dealing, capitalist "rules" that the oligarchy keeps pushing onto us, the working classes. #EndTheGenocide
The Empire of Lies will not go down without a Fight.
It will Kill, Maim, R*pe, Violate & Destroy till it is unable to do so.
The Resistance Forces in West Asia know this & will act accordingly.
Palestine will Live. Palestine will be Free & Prosperous, Inshallah!
The Genocidal, Apartheid entity will cease to exist...
& so will the Empire of Lies!
I hope you are right. I have not seen a lot of evidence that any of this mess will cease to exist.
"We should be holding general strikes and stopping ships"………."Instead we’re just sleepwalking through life" ….. from Caitlin.
Yes, but
...some day, one day soon, the adult component of voting age from 315 million real Americans are going to vote for a new resident in the White House. The population number is higher in total but I have discarded some 15 million as the fully-paid US stooges from the Treasury Zionist brigade occupying critical places in Netanyahu's House of Representatives and his Congress. (Strange how that comment never even gets challenged these days.)
The number may be more, sadly, it may be less. But they are there, boots and all, scaring the good guys from having enough guts to stand up and be counted.
Now there is the problem. How do you motivate the adult aged component of 315 million? It won't be by the US media, long since choked to death with CIA scripted news stories, ably assisted by the social media dictators. It won't be through honest senior public servants, those that are not part of the Israel full time corps of spies and un-American actors, as there are not enough of them to make a difference. What then?
The people. It always rests with the people.
They must be made aware of the evil crowd in Washington, the corrupt politicians up to 86% on a recent count, a.k.a. Israel's tame poodles ( men and women), the bankers, militarists, war profiteers, questionable state governors (one just took a nose dive), power hungry public servants and all the employees of the CIA and similar tainted bureaucracies. All of these groups have mentally sold out the old, respected America as it was before 1970 and seem quite prepared to follow on like sheep to whoever it turns out and has the money, Israeli connections and dirty Jewish money and corrupting influence to win the big prize (and who then has the good sense to do what he / she is told, like it is now, you know.) Right Joe?
Can’t let that happen, can we.
11 months to go. Start again with a new party for the American people. You have a seriously large number of decent, extremely knowledgeable people who can guide you and organise the changes needed. If I know them then the American people know then as well. Won’t mention their names because in the current climate they could become a casualty. I’m old enough to remember John Kennedy and to have read with so many others, to no avail so it seems, of the people who met in Dallas and who made this sad event happen. The verdict as to the crime, as with 9/11, would suit the creative writings of someone like Hans Christian Andersen.
It’s not just you, America. The same needs to happen in Australia, New Zealand, Germany the UK, NATO followers and so many other countries who have become mirror images of the failed USA and it's polluted power hungry values.
Nothing above could possibly be seen as fantasy thinking. It’s possible, even if only to save our world of many, from destruction by the few.
It's cute some of you still believe that they allow honest voting to occure.
Ah, but there's the race to kill the little left of the Democratic apparatus we have. For them the fascism can't happen soon enough. It has to happen before the educated get to vote. Of course, there's the racing to raise the voting age for those whose votes can't be suppressed.
Hi Ellen
I have been reading/ watching some very good things about Marianne Williamson, who is opposing Genocide Joe on the “Democratic” ticket.
When the primary comes to my state, I have every intention of voting for her, if nothing else, to fuck with ByeDone.
You took the words right of my mouth, my friend
‘Liberty & Justice For All’ can and will happen when overwhelming numbers of people take it to the streets. If Marianne Williamson can’t strike that match, we’ll have to wait for someone else......
Hi TC
I believe the one who could best like that match is Dr. Cornel West, whom I intend to vote for in November.
He’s a passionate firebrand, just what we need.
(For those interested)
If you wish to read (& listen!) to more of My commentary, here is my Main Stack:
https://thefallofthewest.substack.com
Thank You Kindly to everyone!
Where is congressional approval. What is this a dictatorship??
Yeah Jim. Where have you been!? ;)
Congress does not want to be asked.
It should be so easy.
Simply stop shopping for anything other than essentials. Food, clothes if absolutely needed and the like. The toaster breaks- do without. No widescreen TV. No new dinner ware. Just think, it would hit the elite where it would hurt them the most. In the piggy bank. Along with the government and banks. And it will save consumers money.
A national boycott of consumer goods. It would take no time, in fact it would save people time. No police brutality against protesters. No arrests for the judicial system to ruin protestors lives.
Unstoppable and effective. If only 25 to 30% of the people would do it.
But no one will do it. It's just too hard.
So is it really the government and the elite that are at fault? No, in a word.
We must act collectively as citizens in democratic public engagement, not individually as consumers in private markets.
I see a boycott as democracy in action. Collectively as consumers. Most everyone here agrees that democracy has failed and we are controlled by the elite. Do you consider a union strike a democratic process? Biden recently interfered with those. If you want to go buy your toaster feel free. It's a vote for the elite. Purely democratic, just not at the polls. Writing your representative gets you a form letter. And remember the American Revolution started by dumping tea into the harbor.
Yes, but unfortunately the "power elite" have gotten so good at "divide and conquer" strategies, "us-vs-them" group identity conflicts, etc. that it is really challenging for people to come together. Humans (including me of ccourse) are so often easily manipulated that I'm sometimes ashamed of my own behavior and unconscious decision making.
The politicians, media Moguls and the corporations supporting US imperialism and backing Israel's genocide would love nothing more than for people to forget all about the problems in the world and spend their weekends shopping. They're counting on us giving up and losing interest; or getting seduced by another shiny new toy that we didn't know we needed or wanted.
We really do need a global call to disrupt "business as usual".
"But no one will do it. It's just too hard." - besides, crashing those doors on Black Friday is so much fun!
Also, it's fun for the sheep to vote. Because they were told to.
But NEVER FORGET TO SIGN AMD DATE THOSE TAX CHECKS LIKE OBEDIANT LITTLE SERFS
For the majority of workers they already have the money. Why I didn't include it. No taxation without representation went out the door long ago. Serfs in most cases probably had it better. They had land and house and a means of subsistence. Today the government has thousands of warlords to go out and beat the serfs in the form of laws,police and judicial system. It's called slavery. But a boycott is something that they have absolutely no control over. So share the idea and see how it goes. Heroin is less addictive than planned obsolescent junk.
Well the systems have used the specter of state violence if you don't comply with their tax code.. Therefore everyone is scared to use the one and only power we have against the state..A tax revolt !!!
Unless it can be organised and not thwarted day two we will never have any say at all in anything and our economic servitude and slavery will continue, and escalate into abuses more and more as it does in every other classic abuse dynamic ..
The old adage "death and tax's" the clever little joke and way they make a common knowledge community reinforced accepted belief that coupling an unnatural thing to a natural thing so you believe it's inevitable and unchanging and not possible to defy.. Plus no one single person will dare put their head out to get chopped off...
If you don't pay tax en masse, what they going to do?
That was my point...a mass tax revolt ...but I got jumped on by people for that because they are all cowards to ever risk their own little lives for a bigger picture ...
The establishment knows they have them frightened so much they will never not comply.
I'm disgusted with the cowardice of people.
If it helps - I have written a huge letter to HMRC in the UK on why I will not be paying tax as it is a crime. The link is in the article I wrote: https://ayauk.substack.com/p/paying-taxes-is-now-a-crime-in-uk . This is now being made into a website and hopefully a bigger movement - I will keep you updated.
Seriously, you're right. However, what we fear the most is losing our 'comfort' but so many of us don't have comfort! We are scared of losing what we know - we aren't really scared about what we may find because we haven't tried it. Is losing the sh*t we know. And sh*t it is, so why not mobilise, rise, have some notion of your own self-woth and that you are worth mor than all of this?
I am massively disgusted by people. They act like sheep or fascists: https://ayauk.substack.com/p/little-england-the-country-of-sheep
Hi Toma
Everything you mention can be purchased directly from China, at a fraction of the price. And you get to bypass the Amerikkkan middleman.
I highly recommend TEMU from which I purchase regularly. The quality and prices of the goods are unsurpassed.
I have turned a LOT of my acquaintances on to TEMU and they agree with me.
If you are replying to me how am I "guilt shaming"? And being vocal and protesting should continue with a boycott. People should be boycotting over product quality and planned obsolescence alone as it only serves the corporations profit margins and contributes to the ecocide occuring. Buying at local mom and pop stores would improve the economy and middle class. So what's to lose?
The fact is that stataes are not in control - billionaire corporations are. They buy politicians who then leave office and walk into $100,000,000 corporate deals (Obama, Blair). Neoliberalism and imperialism benefits no-one but the rich; it does not benefit the populace who act both as cog in the machinery and non-stop consumer of things they do not need. States are simply there to rubber stamp, to be bought and for their machinery to be used for these corps to wage wars, loot resources and make money all while we pay for it. What was the boon of the Afghan war again for private arms companies? $3,000,000,000,000 ? I mean it's actually insane.
These people only understand money. You should only buy small and local and boycott everything else as Toma says. You don't need an iphone. You don't need nikes. You don't need a toaster.
Buy what you need - nothing else.
Frugality is freedom. It really is.
"Luxury" is rarely so - it's just another word for over-consumption
The peers with rebuke you. You will be ostracized slowly, but deliberately. The others are afraid too and some will not have the courage to greet you. But, it's something although it will have serious consequences for you.
I don't share with my family that claim to be Democratic and liberal. They would shun me. I would never be able to even text them. Yes, their ears and eyes have been conveniently closed.
So what, Ellen?
I’ve shunned a number of family members.
Piss on ‘em. Once I shut that door it’s forever, and I never look back.
Yes. Fighting back. I follow the Guardian Tor project's advice on denying our data. But you know it is but a drop in the ocean. Isn't the Ocean made up of drops?
I don't like that people don't even try.
Yes. So true. I come from a family that punishes with shunning any behavior they don't like and they doing tell you what that behavior is. When you ask they say loftily "You should know. We shouldn't have to tell you" and shut up, the coward's favorite refrain.
I feel for you. I come from a similar environment. Stay strong Ellen MHa!
Jon, why didn’t anyone think of this before?
I’m DOIN’ IT!
Global strike.
The Yemeni bottleneck isn't actually international waters, as it's less than 24 miles wide...not that such legal niceties ever mattered to the US, UK, or Israel...But apparently the US lost two Navy Seals trying to capture a small Arab Dhow, so apparently there is no rhyme or reason to any of America's actions...
The US has no problems blowing up undersea gas pipelines, hijacking Iranian ships, shooting down an Iranian passenger jet (1988) over the Persian Gulf, mining the harbors of Nicaragua, staging military coups (about 60 since 1950), but don't mess with maritime shipping destined for Israel in the midst of its genocide in Gaza.
Under the Geneva Convention to Prevent Genocide, all signatories are OBLIGATED to prevent genocide. Verdict: Yemen* is in the right. The US is aiding and abetting the genocide in Gaza. (*It's irrelevant whether Yemen is a signatory or not.)
Biden, Blinken, Austin, Nuland, and Co. will soon be in the Dock in The Hague before the ICJ.
Not going to happen unfortunately.
South Africa already formally put the US on notice that they intend to amend or file a new complaint for complicity in genocide. So it will happen.
Then it’s up to the REST of us, Jenny.
Remember: Revolution, no quarter for the promoters of genocide.
"it is never acceptable for malign actors to target international vessels, to target legitimate commerce that is flowing through the Red Sea,” Patel said. . . ."
The hilarious thing about that is that malign actors have targeted legitimate commerce in the area before. The Saudis, with American backing, did their best to ensure that legitimate commerce, bringing much needed supplies, to the people of Yemen, didn't get through.
And of course legitimate commerce flowing through the Mediterranean Sea to Gaza was simply not permitted by Israel in order to cause hardship to the people of Gaza.
Indeed, in May 2010, six civilian ships carrying humanitarian aid and construction materials to Gaza were attacked - yes, attacked! - in civilian waters, killing nine people (a lot more than the Houthis have killed) - and I don't remember America launching air strikes against the country that launched that attack on legitimate commerce.
The Houthis haven't killed or harmed anyone.
I loved a headline from "the Sun" in the UK when two US personnel drowned from their own incompetence and falling into the sea - and the headline linked the deaths to the Houthis - as if the Houthis has killed them and they weren't just getting the most embarassing karma for joining in a military operation to kill people tyring to prevent a genocide.
Informative. Thank you!
Thank you for your words that show my heart that I am not alone in this dark empire.
In a strange sort of way, it's kinda nice to come here and read Caitlin's posts and the comments!
John, it’s good to know that we’re not alone in this fight.
The imperial propaganda has become so bad, so stupid, that I think we are going to have to supply them with new material. It's like when Art Buchwald noted that the US had run out of targets in Vietnam, and he suggested that the fans of the war contribute to building them some nice new bridges so the US would have something to bomb.
So I'm going to suggest in this case that the US declare that the whoevers wherever are forming an alliance with the Saturnian ant men to destroy the galaxy, and bomb the hell out of Saturn to prevent this threat from materializing, indeed, from even being imagined in the first place. Get those Saturnian ant men! Meanwhile we can think of something else to bomb until "we" run out of bombs. Note to the gobmutt: I'm out already, you can leave me alone.
What I find instructive is that the elaborate American justifications appear to be a thing of the past, the mask is off and the Empire relies on naked force and terror.
No more noise about “Uiyghurs! these days, I notice. And even that was trumped up by NSA disinformation specialists masquerading as “NGOs” and “research consultancies”.
It does seem like these days They're just throwing the shit out there.
It's like They have one of the lottery ball machines or a Magic Eight Ball with the stock justification terms written on them, and when some justification for a misdeed is needed, they draw at random. Or maybe they have an AI write the script.
They certainly are not even really trying.
Like the schoolyard bully, they don't need to.
They're not tired, just emboldened by getting away with murder for so so long. They give their flimsy justifications knowing no-one believes them, but the willing and they have a lot of those after decades of propaganda.