The Empire Burns The Middle East While US Homelessness Surges
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The IDF has built a beachside resort on the coast of northern Gaza where its soldiers can take a break from committing genocide to relax, get massages, drink iced coffee, and eat ice cream and cotton candy by the shore.
Meanwhile, the last hospital in northern Gaza has been burned down by the Israeli military after days of violent siege warfare on the medical facility.
The IDF is now saying that it may stay in southern Lebanon past the 60-day limit it agreed to in its ceasefire deal with Hezbollah, which means we may soon be looking at yet another protracted illegal Israeli military occupation.
A recent report from Drop Site News cites more than a dozen BBC staff who say all the British state media outlet’s reporting on Israel and Palestine is ultimately controlled by a single editor named Raffi Berg, who previously worked for the CIA. The BBC reporters told Drop Site News that Berg consistently manipulates headlines and reporting in a way that benefits the information interests of the Israeli government.
An anti-Assad outlet called Verify Syria has found that viral video footage purporting to show women and children being freed from Sednaya Prison after Assad’s ouster actually showed no such thing. In reality the location where the terrified women and children were filmed was a family charity facility called the Dafa Association, and they were terrified because the facility was being attacked by armed “revolutionaries”.
This comes as the US-backed al-Qaeda affiliates who are now in charge in Syria announce that they probably won’t be holding elections for another four years.
The US empire is up to its elbows in the middle east working frenetically to manipulate what happens there, while in the United States itself homelessness has taken another record-shattering leap forward. Homelessness in the US has increased by a staggering 18 percent since last year — and last year also saw a giant spike in homelessness of 12 percent from the year before. Officially there are now around 770,000 homeless Americans, though the real number is likely several times higher.
This massive injustice is entirely by design. As the hub of a globe-spanning empire, the US needs to keep its citizenry poor, divided, distracted and powerless in order to keep them from meddling in the gears of the imperial machine. The more free time and mental spaciousness Americans have, the more they’ll awaken to how depraved their government is and how badly it’s screwing them over. The managers of the western empire naturally have a vested interest in keeping Americans poor, sick, ignorant, and propagandized. Which is why they remain so.
The US-centralized empire thrives on lies, manipulation, callousness, and stupidity. The entire world is made worse by its existence. It degrades the collective soul of our species. It’s bad for Americans, and it’s bad for everyone else. Humanity will be much better off when this murderous power structure finally crumbles.
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the death star must be destroyed. but how? by whom? most americans have been zombified by the propaganda machine. If we protest we're called terrorists and end up in jail or homeless/penniless. Folks of conscience should probably leave and find a non war citystate to spend their lives in. Any suggstions?
"It degrades the collective soul of our species."
Granted. But then the question becomes. What the hell defines that "collective soul". Is it the image and likeness of some cloud being who's therefore a faulty, corrupt, and viciously homicidal excuse for a deity?
Is it the fake piety one often observes in murmurers of prayers at religious festivals as their actions in the world support the furtherance of the economic inequality that cements homelessness as an ongoing fact of societal life?
Is it the art that even a sick society can generate that speaks to a fire of creative spirit that continues to burn even as the destructive forces seek to extinguish it?
Is it the tacit wisdom of the Natural World that silently observes human madness without commentary -- or perhaps which is actually commenting in languages we do not understand?
Help me out here. I'm fucking sick to vomitus of my species and its soul has become dimmer and dimmer so that it is now almost opaque to me. I am bereft of understanding wtf its true substance really is.