I grew up in Los Angeles but have lived in Japan for 40 years. I remember watching a lot of cowboy programs on TV as a child and detective shows as a teenager. I began to notice that almost every form of entertainment focused on guns and killing people. What were the cowboy shows but promoting genocide of the native Americans? When I had a chance to live in Japan for a year, it was a complete revelation to live in a gunless society. I can walk alone at night without being afraid of being attacked or shot. Living outside one’s country is a great way to see it with new eyes.
Yep. The good cowboys always beat the bad Indians and that was our first experience in propaganda. I can’t believe how many years it took me to see through that.
I have been reading Caitlin’s work for years and it taught me to look deeper at what I’m being told. I’ve shrugged off a lot of propaganda, but I still get caught in some for awhile…then I wake up.
I totally agree, the best way. I lived in Chile for several years, france (lowercase) for six months. I think more importantly you learn the lies told to you about, america is a shinning example to the world. Even the Sun will reveal america's darkness April 8th.
Somehow the Japanese have become servile and subservient enough for the country to be an absolute puppy for the US. Maybe partly because the population is made meek and submissive.
The "Big in Japan" phenomenon illustrates that perfectly.
Probably two Nuclear weapons dropped on large population centers had a lasting memory. Maybe that revenge is coming, although I doubt it. Sorry I didn't see your comment. I agree Nuclear weapons will change attitudes. For some reason I think we will experience that lesson again soon : (
Odd that few want to face up to the fact that amoral usa is pushing the world to a nuke ending. Russia & China and BRICS/BRICS Plus just ain't gonna put up with usa and its western sock cucking sycophants anymore.
Why does usa_bot go to such lengths to prove just what a brainwashed_bot she/he is? Japan knows FULL WELL just what an amoral, war criminal, genocidal, backstabbing, ... "nation" the usa is.
usa_bot just mouths the usa brainwashing she/he has received, cannot ever provide a shred of evidence for anything - a big problem for the deeply brainwashed.
How many usa/other nations' citizens blown to smithereens in the Twin Towers' controlled demolitions using "a new generation of super explosives" [Randy Simpson, lead scientist] US Lawrence Livermore Labs 1990s discovered and developed nano scale thermitic explosives have NEVER been IDed, bot, and here we are some 23 years on?
About 40% of them!! Body parts were discovered hurled up to 6/10ths of a mile away. Odd, ain't it when gravity ONLY works vertically?
Liking yourself, even if from a different account, is akin to masturbation, Pete Schult. Of course you know that, and it's a common practice you engage in and enjoy.
Btw, this your "Terry Byrne" persona - who is its supposed target audience? Nine year-olds?
You show yourself to not be bright enough even for a nine year old, usa_bot.
How come you cannot ever do evidence, science, rational thinking.
II. Testimonial Evidence
II-A. Testimony from Firefighters:
New York Fire Department Captain Philip Ruvolo said: “You’d get down below and you’d see molten steel, molten steel, running down the channel rails, like you’re in a foundry, like lava.” [31]
You are so wrong in your assessment of the Japanese people.!!!!!!and very very little knowledge of their psyche - a highly intelligent and THINKING race. Why do you THINK "they" permanently removed ABE?
My Godson has lived in Japan for more than 15 years and he has married a Japanese woman. They plan to have a child but they have to leave Japan for good to do so because mixed race persons (hafu) are regarded in Japanese society as a low caste and openly discriminated against. How "intelligent and THINKING" is that?
Also, Japan remains occupied by the American military as it has been for the past 80 years. The occupation officially ended in the mid-50s but over 100,000 US military remain in Japan to this day. Ergo, Japan is a but a vassal of the US empire.
TIme for your godson too acquaint himself with the realities of Japan 2024. I have 3 Japanese grandchildren,. born in Tokyo, they are of mixed race. The thinking you mention was de riguer many years ago but not for a number of years now.
My grandchildren are teenagers and International persons who are now back living in Japan.
As always, usa_bot, you have no idea of what you speak.
Tell us again how the Muslim "hijackers" 1300F fires melted [2800F] and boiled [4000F] WTCs 1, 2 & 7 structural steel but the steel from WTCs 3, 4, 5 & 6 was fine when WTCs 5 & 6 burned fully engulfed for hours on the afternoon of 9/11 watched by hundreds of firefighters. Also boiled lead - 3180F, melted Mo - 4753F, with those 1300F fires.
Don't run away like the lil BWed coward you know you are.
usa_bot is wrong in his/her every assessment I have read. Total zeroes who can NEVER provide any evidence for their serial lies, blowing smoke, ... and that is usa_bot in a nutshell.
My amateur take: I believe much of the "servility" has to do with the absolute *shredding* of the land and people of Japan at the end of WW II by "the Big Shogun." MacArthur took on the form and persona of the Shogun....
Of course. Atomic bombing also helped straighten them up as the official line of the Japanese, how I understand it, goes. Thankful they are for having been cured of their wrongful ways by the master race of the big mighty USA. Disgusting, really.
The Japanese people would recognise your ability to think and look deeper than the surface - Japanese think of themselves as Japanese - NOT Asians and they are cognisant of the West and their habits etc., and IF they do adopt anything from the West its chewed over for 1 2 years or more by a number of persons, who if this "c'tee" recommend that this western way has merits, they then use the parts they think applicable and JAPONISE them.
You were watching the wrong shows. Perry Mason had a subversive undertone. "Branded" and "The Fugitive" exposed injustice and undermined authority. "The Twilight Zone" was radical and subversive. Even Lassie and Andy of Mayberry had their moments of promoting love and undermining authority.
Mearsheimer talks at length about the influence the lobby has over Biden's decision in regard to Israel, and also acknowledges Biden's long time support for Israel as well, however if he wants to win the 2024 election he has no other choice but to go along with the Israeli agenda. I'm not providing excuses for him, but the lobby has way too much control over our political system and not only in regard to Israel.
Hearing him say it is even more powerful. I never thought Judge Napolitano would be a nice person, he has an interesting podcast. I was shocked he had Aaron, Max etc. on. The Judge is a very human person at least for those moments. Probably why he has less to do with fox.
I just came to the same conclusion and posted a comment apologizing for misjudging him based only on his Fox affiliation. This does not mean I agree with his politics, though.
Exactly, however, if he gives voice and platform to people that write truth, I'm in.
I don't know Caitlin's politics and I don't have to IF she tells the truth. I just know if we continue down this path of allowing political parties to Genocide People without penalty of non-existence we are in for more war on us and globally.
I sense a strong libertarian bent in the good Judge's politics. Truth tellers (almost all with a left political outlook) can get hijacked - there is a LOT of faux populism doing exactly that right now, where the far right has hijacked left political issues and advanced far right remedies.
I like the Judge too. He has given many voices who are against this GENOCIDE a new platform to speak out against it. The best thing he could have done was get off Fox News.
I use to listen to FOX only is the last few years, and after Carlson left not at all. They support the genocide in Israel. I don't even remember the Judge from FOX. I've been watching him on you-tube for a while and he gets no argument from me with the positions he holds.
Western leaders are experiencing two stunning events: defeat in Ukraine, and genocide in Palestine. The first is humiliating, the other shameful. Yet, they feel no humiliation or shame. Their actions show vividly that those sentiments are alien to them...
..Clues for these abnormalities are provided by their most recent responses as deteriorating conditions tighten the vise – on emotions, on prevailing policies, on domestic political worries, on ginger egos. Those responses fall under the category of panic behavior. Deep down, they are scared, fearful, and agitated. Biden et al in Washington, Macron, Schulz, Sunak, Stoltenberg, von der Leyen. They lack the courage of their stated convictions or the courage to face reality squarely. The blunt truth is that they have contrived to get themselves, and their countries, in a quandary from which there is no escape conforming to their current self-defined interests and emotional engagement...
..French President Emmanuel Macon’s proposed plan to station military personnel from NATO members within Ukraine to serve as a tripwire. Arrayed as a cordon around Kharkov, Odessa, and Kiev they are meant to deter advancing Russian forces from moving on those cities for fear of killing Western soldiers – thereby risking a direct confrontation with the Alliance...
..There already are thousands of Westerners bolstering the Ukrainian armed forces. Roughly 4 – 5,000 Americans have been performing critical operational functions from the outset. The presence of a majority predates by several years the onset of hostilities 2 years ago. That contingent was augmented by a supplementary group of 1,700 last summer which was a corps of logistic experts advertised as mandated to seek out and eradicate corruption in the black-marketing of pilfered supplies. The Pentagon people are sown through the Ukrainian military from headquarters planning units to advisers in the field, to technicians and Special Forces...
..The principal lesson to be drawn from this overview is that the positioning of European troops at key sites as human hostages is not wholly original. Their presence has not deterred Russia from attacking them in the field or, as in the French case, hunting them down in their residences...
..Insofar as the violent ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians is concerned, it is fair to say that the Western government’s complicity via its arming and unqualified backing for Israel’s gruesome actions constitutes grotesque behavior. To single out individual elements among individual governments is superfluous. The entire episode is grotesque. So it is seen by nearly the entire world outside the countries of the collective West...
..There are actions that manifestly represent a clear and future danger of an expanding war in Europe...
..Taken together, the actions of Western leaders – supported by their nations’ political elites – are indicative of a behavior pattern that has parted ways with reality. They derive deductively from dogmas unsubstantiated by objective fact...
..Back to the ingredients of panic. We noted fear – of both the identifiable and the unknown, and sub-conscious feelings of insecurity... opening opportunities for willful persons or factions who harbor audacious objectives of remaking the world’s geo-political space according to American hegemonic specifications. To that end, our leaders manipulate and exploit conditions of emotional disorientation and political conformity. The outstanding example is the so-called ‘neo-cons’ in Washington (who number Joe Biden as a comrade-in-arms) who have crafted a network of like-minded true believers in London, Paris, Berlin, and at both ends of Brussels.
What of the puzzle we noted as to the near complete absence of feelings of guilt or shame – especially over Gaza, of being humiliated in the eyes of the world? In conditions of nihilism, matters of conscience are moot. The implicit rejection of norms, rules, and laws frees the individual self to do whatever impulses or ideas, or selfish interests impel it. With the superego dissolved, there is no felt obligation to judge oneself about any external or abstract standard. Narcissistic tendencies flourish. A similar psychology obviates the requirement for experiencing shame. That is something that can only exist if we subjectively are part of a social grouping wherein personal status, and sense of worth, depend on how others view us and whether they grant us respect. In the absence of such a communal identity, with its attendant sensitivity to its opinion, shame can exist only in the perverse form of regret that one has been unable to meet the demanding, all-consuming need for self-gratification. That applies to nations as well as their individual leaders.
It's time for people to focus on individual and cooperative community action to help alleviate existential deprivations and endure far worse the dynamic unimpeded clearly shows are coming. Far more urgently than trying to open eyes at this point. Find allies by addressing real problems people are experiencing regardless of their level of perception as long as you can agree on specific solutions for those items. That will convert more people and open them up to others than all the facts and debates ever will. If the goal is more people wokring together for their interests, not the oligarchs and reducing suffering, practical solutions are far more effective. And they actually make something better. All the influencers can keep promoting intellectual awareness, as genocide and ecocide continue, or shift to real action alignments to promote better surviving a collapse wirh less suffering and perhaps, less rancor.
You are perfectly correct. All this talk is going nowhere. First, society is not composed of Einsteins, but it doesn’t comprise total idiots either. People don’t need Ms Johnstone or anyone else to tell them that the sky is blue in a creative way. They're fully aware of the fact. They may act as if they aren't, but this 'ignorance' is 99% wilful. They aren't brainwashed. They make a deliberate choice to look at things in certain ways, because they believe that such an outlook would be beneficial to them for the time being or in comparison to other alternatives that they perceive as realistic. Second, the idea that people would magically embark on "direct action" if they woke up to reality in sufficient numbers is ridiculously infantile. That is to put it mildly. To put it properly and borrowing from Ms Johnstone's parlance, it would be a very serious contender for "the single dumbest argument I have ever encountered on any platform." Whereas you are describing the only way how these matters can and should be actually addressed. Grassroots initiatives that have to do with concrete problems and concrete actions are the only stuff having this potential to gradually aggregate and eventually turn into the overwhelming force for change...
most of the Palestinians will be dead by the time you get organized though. empire has no problem with the oppressed taking the long haul. plenty of experience handling that (unions). but it is indeed the only option on the table for now, imo. get organised (but be careful in using the internet for that). I don't think Caitlin's calls are fruitless or dismissable either, though.
I don't think it’s the only option for now. As far as I can see, it is the only option, period. "Revolution" is a pipe dream. It isn't doable. It's not even conceivable. Changing the system from within isn't possible either. So it would take an outside force that should be peaceful but overwhelming at the same time to introduce any kind of fundamental changes to the present state of affairs. The only solution is the new nationwide labor movement. Frankly, I don't expect that to happen. My outlook with regard to society is extremely bleak. But I admire those who choose to disagree and back up their choice with action. I don't really see how Ms Johnstone's repetitive rants in front of her "choir" in this echo chamber, however, are contributing anything in any meaningful way. Knowingly or inadvertently, but she - among quite a few others - simply serves as a vent used by the system to let certain factions of the electorate to blow off some steam and frustration in the most innocuous - as far as the status quo is concerned - fashion. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not sure if it's a big accomplishment...
As for Gaza... The only option I see would be for one of those supposed progressives like Brother Cornel, Sister Marianne, or all of them together to go there and try to do something on the ground. It'd be tricky even for a thug like Netanyahu to go after an American presidential candidate. Domestic protests won't change anything. They can and will simply be ignored. I wouldn't bet on these talkers to support their lofty bloviations with even an ounce of action, though...
there, there, a useful idea. a human shield of 'progressive' leaders and prominent anti-war voices in rafa... let's also spread the ticking of that box... brics (no politics) and south power delegations on the egyptian border...
Sorry, that would have been true a year ago, decade ago, 75 yrs. ago. This Genocide can only be stopped by a government. That is why the world watched this happen, they talked with a wagging finger, stop murdering people or we'll get mad or judge you in court. Starvation is a gruesome death and our governments did nothing. It's to late for community action to save 2.4 million people. Most will never recover, we murdered them with our governments and by proxy our own hands. Caitlin's work didn't allow this to happen in the dark. The Sun will tell us in the u.s. what it thinks of us. If there was justice, we would stay in the dark.
G'day Diana, I've wondered that myself. I tried telling them that the sources of their information were corrupted and that they should look further, but that hasn't worked so far.
The best answer I can come up with is to point other people towards independent media like Caitlins' Substack ( and many others ) and hope for the best.
Vote NO on Genocide Joe. That action is to late to save the Palestinian People however their deaths will go unrewarded. I promise you, I will never vote for a Demoncrat or Republican't ever again. Hopefully those parties/party go the way of the Wig Party.
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"Until we find a way to snap a critical mass of people out ..." - the problem is even when made aware most people won't want to snap out of anything. Only real suffering will make them do that. Their own suffering, not anybody else's.
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Another dandy example of how usa_bot has NEVER got anything of intelligence to say. A zero evidence, science adverse, slurps up usa brainwashing like pigs at supper.
Can't refute any of the myriad things folks correct him on because he knows he is a serial liar just like the usa administrations that have layers upon layers of serial liars within government and more layers upon layers in academia and the "news media".
There is the far right nutcase "news media" and then there is the faux left wing news "media" who NEVER point out all the realities that the usa is the ONLY terrorist, war criminal, genocidal, ... leader in the world and then the junior usaERS like israhell, uk, aussieland, kiwi, ... .
A tiny measure of truly left wing, thinking, decent, liberal news media makes up the totality of western thought.
Note well how we NEVER EVER actually hear the rest of the world on virtually ALL THE IMPORTANT ISSUES of the world.
That is more of the usa rank propaganda cycle controlling far far far too much.
If you had a third party that was actually viable and it framed things differently, that would actually make a difference. It's happening in Germany right now with AfD.
The establishment parties will ban AfD (or any alternative that dares question American hegemony in general or the War On Russia in particular) on any pretext.
This all goes back to what Naomi Klein described in the Shock Doctrine: if you can keep the worlds population in a near constant state if shock with an endless stream of threat, terror, and economic instability you can get away with nearly anything. (It’s a shame what has happened to her since Klein wrote this book. )
The worst threat to the state would be a healthy, secure, well educated population, capable of acting or dissenting.
"It’s a shame what has happened to her since Klein wrote this book."
Can you expand on this with a few examples? I have had similar feelings, but in her most recent book "Doppelgänger", she cites many examples of criticism of her based on confused identity with Naomi Wolf. I just need to understand where you're coming from on this.
I was so intensely upset with Doppelgänger. I got about 3/4 through it, and I couldn't anymore. It was as if a different Naomi had written The Shock Doctrine, one who now believes in the goodness and moral rightness of the new neoliberal world order and has come to believe in a mythical duality, casting Wolf as the crazy mirror world doppelgänger and herself as the sensible opposite: Wolf believes crazy stuff, Klein only sane things; in-between, she seemed to have lost her sense of gray space.... her world in this book seemed to be divided neatly into Trump supporting nut jobs, and Hillary loving liberals; it's as if she'd never critiqued the powers that rule our world, and didn't recognize Clinton as a direct daughter of Kissinger, a continuation of the world of Milton Friedman.
What Klein left out of this black/white mirror world, and I think why I was so frustrated by this book, is how she handily dismisses large swaths of people who are not 'crazy' for no longer trusting their institutions; how many of those who did seem bat-shit crazy when it came to COVID ended up being in the right, and how very many people of all political persuasions really do have nuanced views - yet are utterly and completely conflated with the 'hard right' or 'hard left' fringes. She threw a lot of people under the bus in this book, people who were once upon a time her friends - conflating and confusing dissent and even just factual reporting, with being pro-Bannon stooges or some such.
I feel nearly as awful about Naomi Wolf, but she was always a bit of a lightweight. I wasn't surprised when she went where her audience was - but I never really expected all that much from her.
Naomi Klein joining the liberal establishment™ and writing a book of such little depth and actual self- critique was just disheartening. She now seems to hold all the right opinions, and keeps herself well within the Overton window.
Notice how all the wars have driven climate catastrophe from the news? And just at the point where is was becoming massively obvious to everyone and Big Oil was finally feeling the heat of public outrage for their decades of lies and greed?
That is a huge propaganda project too - rarely if ever discussed here though.
"Power is controlling what happens, but real power is controlling what people think about what happens".
I like to think that most of us who appreciate the chance to comment on Caitlin's pages share her enlightened world view. But sadly we are the few, not the many. Here's hoping that she will be able to influence a lot more.
The USA has so fine-tuned propaganda that it has conditioned and moulded and infested the mindset of the polity. In that interview that Tucker Carlson did with Vladimir Putin it was as if one could feel the hopelessness that Putin felt - when asked about the Nordstream sabotage and why he didn't counter the version in the Western media - he said what was the point when the media is so controlled - or words to that effect. And lo and behold Nordstream has gone down without a ripple. This maybe an insignificant example as bigger and more horrifying things have happened (right from the start of the US empire ) and are happening right now. What twists and turns and distortions are we in for with the terrorist attack in Moscow. How different the world would have been if the Soviet Union was allowed to experiment and exist with an alternative form of governing in a multi-polar world. But Communism had to be eradicated with mass slaughter in the "third world". The propaganda tool went on incessantly.
All this is inextricably linked with the tragedy of Gaza. And the fires burning in parts of Africa.
The Global South emerging from decolonisation got the full blast of neocolonialism.
I have worked for years now trying to show exactly what Caitlin describes in this article, namely by describing the facts behind U.S. use of biological warfare during the Korean War. I have had spotty success. But I have not broken through to the public in a more general way, possibly because my research involves U.S. crimes against China and North Korea. Both are vilified by U.S. propaganda assets, and overlooking what the U.S. does to those countries is precisely the aim of U.S. media and academia. The crimes took place long ago... but the COVER-UP of these crimes still operates today! And the cover-up of a crime is a crime itself. The story is current and ongoing.
The saying, "those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it," may be hoary and cliched, but remains as true today as ever. The cover-up of U.S. use of WMD and mass murder in the Korean War was the laboratory for the development of psychological warfare that Caitlin and others describe happening today. I think Caitlin's readers would be very interested in knowing the truth about U.S. dropping fleas infected with plague, beetles dusted with anthrax spores, spraying plant diseases to destroy crops, and more. The truth turned out to be out there, if one were only motivated enough to look.
We can do much, much better in opposing the crimes of U.S. imperialism. But if I may disagree with Caitlin a little: we do need to know more about these crimes. We do need this vital new information. One way to oppose imperialism and win new recruits against their crimes is by educating people exactly about what it does and how it does it. That is impossible if one hides crimes or remains in ignorance. Let the full extent of U.S.'s war crimes be known!
The old sales adage is "the first number you tell someone is the one they remember."
Same with news - you just tell a lie and keep repeating it, regardless of what follows.
Most people simply believe it and will never question it.
Our government doesn't care about the people who know differently. They just keep lying for the people who don't which is enough to continue the status quo.
I grew up in Los Angeles but have lived in Japan for 40 years. I remember watching a lot of cowboy programs on TV as a child and detective shows as a teenager. I began to notice that almost every form of entertainment focused on guns and killing people. What were the cowboy shows but promoting genocide of the native Americans? When I had a chance to live in Japan for a year, it was a complete revelation to live in a gunless society. I can walk alone at night without being afraid of being attacked or shot. Living outside one’s country is a great way to see it with new eyes.
Yep. The good cowboys always beat the bad Indians and that was our first experience in propaganda. I can’t believe how many years it took me to see through that.
I have been reading Caitlin’s work for years and it taught me to look deeper at what I’m being told. I’ve shrugged off a lot of propaganda, but I still get caught in some for awhile…then I wake up.
I totally agree, the best way. I lived in Chile for several years, france (lowercase) for six months. I think more importantly you learn the lies told to you about, america is a shinning example to the world. Even the Sun will reveal america's darkness April 8th.
Somehow the Japanese have become servile and subservient enough for the country to be an absolute puppy for the US. Maybe partly because the population is made meek and submissive.
The "Big in Japan" phenomenon illustrates that perfectly.
Probably two Nuclear weapons dropped on large population centers had a lasting memory. Maybe that revenge is coming, although I doubt it. Sorry I didn't see your comment. I agree Nuclear weapons will change attitudes. For some reason I think we will experience that lesson again soon : (
Odd that few want to face up to the fact that amoral usa is pushing the world to a nuke ending. Russia & China and BRICS/BRICS Plus just ain't gonna put up with usa and its western sock cucking sycophants anymore.
Why does usa_bot go to such lengths to prove just what a brainwashed_bot she/he is? Japan knows FULL WELL just what an amoral, war criminal, genocidal, backstabbing, ... "nation" the usa is.
usa_bot just mouths the usa brainwashing she/he has received, cannot ever provide a shred of evidence for anything - a big problem for the deeply brainwashed.
How many usa/other nations' citizens blown to smithereens in the Twin Towers' controlled demolitions using "a new generation of super explosives" [Randy Simpson, lead scientist] US Lawrence Livermore Labs 1990s discovered and developed nano scale thermitic explosives have NEVER been IDed, bot, and here we are some 23 years on?
About 40% of them!! Body parts were discovered hurled up to 6/10ths of a mile away. Odd, ain't it when gravity ONLY works vertically?
Liking yourself, even if from a different account, is akin to masturbation, Pete Schult. Of course you know that, and it's a common practice you engage in and enjoy.
Btw, this your "Terry Byrne" persona - who is its supposed target audience? Nine year-olds?
You show yourself to not be bright enough even for a nine year old, usa_bot.
How come you cannot ever do evidence, science, rational thinking.
II. Testimonial Evidence
II-A. Testimony from Firefighters:
New York Fire Department Captain Philip Ruvolo said: “You’d get down below and you’d see molten steel, molten steel, running down the channel rails, like you’re in a foundry, like lava.” [31]
As always, serial liar, zero evidence, total dolt, devoid of rational thought, ... usa_bot does another of his/her always brain dead comments.
Typical of a lifetime of usa brainwashing, bot.
You are so wrong in your assessment of the Japanese people.!!!!!!and very very little knowledge of their psyche - a highly intelligent and THINKING race. Why do you THINK "they" permanently removed ABE?
My Godson has lived in Japan for more than 15 years and he has married a Japanese woman. They plan to have a child but they have to leave Japan for good to do so because mixed race persons (hafu) are regarded in Japanese society as a low caste and openly discriminated against. How "intelligent and THINKING" is that?
Also, Japan remains occupied by the American military as it has been for the past 80 years. The occupation officially ended in the mid-50s but over 100,000 US military remain in Japan to this day. Ergo, Japan is a but a vassal of the US empire.
TIme for your godson too acquaint himself with the realities of Japan 2024. I have 3 Japanese grandchildren,. born in Tokyo, they are of mixed race. The thinking you mention was de riguer many years ago but not for a number of years now.
My grandchildren are teenagers and International persons who are now back living in Japan.
Yes my impression as well is that they are culturally racist
Racist? Meaning what exactly?
I have travelled the world and MOST countries' citizens hate the USA.
Just read an article about Korea where the US are planning a huge satellite installation in a small town.
Every picture tells a story.
US go away!
Yep, they THINK and they HIGHLY INTELLIGENTLY calculate they're better off licking American ass.
You are talking about the politicians......citizens in general hate the US
As always, usa_bot, you have no idea of what you speak.
Tell us again how the Muslim "hijackers" 1300F fires melted [2800F] and boiled [4000F] WTCs 1, 2 & 7 structural steel but the steel from WTCs 3, 4, 5 & 6 was fine when WTCs 5 & 6 burned fully engulfed for hours on the afternoon of 9/11 watched by hundreds of firefighters. Also boiled lead - 3180F, melted Mo - 4753F, with those 1300F fires.
Don't run away like the lil BWed coward you know you are.
usa_bot is wrong in his/her every assessment I have read. Total zeroes who can NEVER provide any evidence for their serial lies, blowing smoke, ... and that is usa_bot in a nutshell.
Obvious that you have never been to Japan or lived there.
Many Japanese hate the US!
Big in Japan? From Alphaville? Dear God, have mercy! https://liborsoural.substack.com/p/the-alpha-wills-you-a-g-day
Even Lady Gaga is praised for killing her boyfriend, in her Holyweird video, of course!
https://liborsoural.substack.com/p/paparazzis-after-us
Yeah, that and also this: https://youtu.be/N_Etcvly_Rs?t=101
I thought there's actually their talking about it, but can't locate it right now.
My amateur take: I believe much of the "servility" has to do with the absolute *shredding* of the land and people of Japan at the end of WW II by "the Big Shogun." MacArthur took on the form and persona of the Shogun....
Of course. Atomic bombing also helped straighten them up as the official line of the Japanese, how I understand it, goes. Thankful they are for having been cured of their wrongful ways by the master race of the big mighty USA. Disgusting, really.
You are totally unaware of the social history of Japan and ignorant og the true nature of the Japanese - very intelligent people
yes. It is one country TOTALLY different from any other country and I have visited many. It is neither western or eastern.
Jenny,
The Japanese people would recognise your ability to think and look deeper than the surface - Japanese think of themselves as Japanese - NOT Asians and they are cognisant of the West and their habits etc., and IF they do adopt anything from the West its chewed over for 1 2 years or more by a number of persons, who if this "c'tee" recommend that this western way has merits, they then use the parts they think applicable and JAPONISE them.
As ALWAYS, usa_bot has not a clue about actual history, all he knows is his usa brainwashing.
What "wrongful ways" did Japan engage in, lil BWed bot?
You were watching the wrong shows. Perry Mason had a subversive undertone. "Branded" and "The Fugitive" exposed injustice and undermined authority. "The Twilight Zone" was radical and subversive. Even Lassie and Andy of Mayberry had their moments of promoting love and undermining authority.
I watched all of those, too.
4 countries later.......the last place on earth would be to live in the US again!
To be fair, I live in North Dakota, an "open-carry" state where pretty much every man, woman, child and pet has firearms.
I suppose that if I went looking for trouble, I could probably find it, but it doesn't come looking for me.
Wow, well seen, well said. Speaking of the Devil, Lady Gaga killing her boyfriend ...
https://liborsoural.substack.com/p/paparazzis-after-us
Biden does not want to lose AIPAC money.
Mearsheimer talks at length about the influence the lobby has over Biden's decision in regard to Israel, and also acknowledges Biden's long time support for Israel as well, however if he wants to win the 2024 election he has no other choice but to go along with the Israeli agenda. I'm not providing excuses for him, but the lobby has way too much control over our political system and not only in regard to Israel.
I hope this works out.
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/11/reject-aipac-democratic-party-israel-progressives/
Hearing him say it is even more powerful. I never thought Judge Napolitano would be a nice person, he has an interesting podcast. I was shocked he had Aaron, Max etc. on. The Judge is a very human person at least for those moments. Probably why he has less to do with fox.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeAMSMhMrJQ&lc=UgxJ9QDku-LGU_q7Zld4AaABAg.A1IaGOuSnc7A1MTVEmz_6s
I just came to the same conclusion and posted a comment apologizing for misjudging him based only on his Fox affiliation. This does not mean I agree with his politics, though.
Exactly, however, if he gives voice and platform to people that write truth, I'm in.
I don't know Caitlin's politics and I don't have to IF she tells the truth. I just know if we continue down this path of allowing political parties to Genocide People without penalty of non-existence we are in for more war on us and globally.
I'd urge caution there.
I sense a strong libertarian bent in the good Judge's politics. Truth tellers (almost all with a left political outlook) can get hijacked - there is a LOT of faux populism doing exactly that right now, where the far right has hijacked left political issues and advanced far right remedies.
I really like him. He's direct, honest and doesn't talk out of both side of his mouth.
I like the Judge too. He has given many voices who are against this GENOCIDE a new platform to speak out against it. The best thing he could have done was get off Fox News.
I use to listen to FOX only is the last few years, and after Carlson left not at all. They support the genocide in Israel. I don't even remember the Judge from FOX. I've been watching him on you-tube for a while and he gets no argument from me with the positions he holds.
It’s not merely “the lobby”.
The U.S. is a military dictatorship thinly disguised. And Biden is a figurehead. Zionist spooks like Blinken actually run the country.
"I'm not providing excuses for him,"
Hahahahahaha! Good one!
The West's Reckoning? Dr. Michael Brenner
Western leaders are experiencing two stunning events: defeat in Ukraine, and genocide in Palestine. The first is humiliating, the other shameful. Yet, they feel no humiliation or shame. Their actions show vividly that those sentiments are alien to them...
..Clues for these abnormalities are provided by their most recent responses as deteriorating conditions tighten the vise – on emotions, on prevailing policies, on domestic political worries, on ginger egos. Those responses fall under the category of panic behavior. Deep down, they are scared, fearful, and agitated. Biden et al in Washington, Macron, Schulz, Sunak, Stoltenberg, von der Leyen. They lack the courage of their stated convictions or the courage to face reality squarely. The blunt truth is that they have contrived to get themselves, and their countries, in a quandary from which there is no escape conforming to their current self-defined interests and emotional engagement...
..French President Emmanuel Macon’s proposed plan to station military personnel from NATO members within Ukraine to serve as a tripwire. Arrayed as a cordon around Kharkov, Odessa, and Kiev they are meant to deter advancing Russian forces from moving on those cities for fear of killing Western soldiers – thereby risking a direct confrontation with the Alliance...
..There already are thousands of Westerners bolstering the Ukrainian armed forces. Roughly 4 – 5,000 Americans have been performing critical operational functions from the outset. The presence of a majority predates by several years the onset of hostilities 2 years ago. That contingent was augmented by a supplementary group of 1,700 last summer which was a corps of logistic experts advertised as mandated to seek out and eradicate corruption in the black-marketing of pilfered supplies. The Pentagon people are sown through the Ukrainian military from headquarters planning units to advisers in the field, to technicians and Special Forces...
..The principal lesson to be drawn from this overview is that the positioning of European troops at key sites as human hostages is not wholly original. Their presence has not deterred Russia from attacking them in the field or, as in the French case, hunting them down in their residences...
..Insofar as the violent ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians is concerned, it is fair to say that the Western government’s complicity via its arming and unqualified backing for Israel’s gruesome actions constitutes grotesque behavior. To single out individual elements among individual governments is superfluous. The entire episode is grotesque. So it is seen by nearly the entire world outside the countries of the collective West...
..There are actions that manifestly represent a clear and future danger of an expanding war in Europe...
..Taken together, the actions of Western leaders – supported by their nations’ political elites – are indicative of a behavior pattern that has parted ways with reality. They derive deductively from dogmas unsubstantiated by objective fact...
..Back to the ingredients of panic. We noted fear – of both the identifiable and the unknown, and sub-conscious feelings of insecurity... opening opportunities for willful persons or factions who harbor audacious objectives of remaking the world’s geo-political space according to American hegemonic specifications. To that end, our leaders manipulate and exploit conditions of emotional disorientation and political conformity. The outstanding example is the so-called ‘neo-cons’ in Washington (who number Joe Biden as a comrade-in-arms) who have crafted a network of like-minded true believers in London, Paris, Berlin, and at both ends of Brussels.
What of the puzzle we noted as to the near complete absence of feelings of guilt or shame – especially over Gaza, of being humiliated in the eyes of the world? In conditions of nihilism, matters of conscience are moot. The implicit rejection of norms, rules, and laws frees the individual self to do whatever impulses or ideas, or selfish interests impel it. With the superego dissolved, there is no felt obligation to judge oneself about any external or abstract standard. Narcissistic tendencies flourish. A similar psychology obviates the requirement for experiencing shame. That is something that can only exist if we subjectively are part of a social grouping wherein personal status, and sense of worth, depend on how others view us and whether they grant us respect. In the absence of such a communal identity, with its attendant sensitivity to its opinion, shame can exist only in the perverse form of regret that one has been unable to meet the demanding, all-consuming need for self-gratification. That applies to nations as well as their individual leaders.
https://neutralitystudies.com/2024/03/the-wests-reckoning/
"Power is controlling what happens, but real power is controlling what people think about what happens.."
Napoleon was onto this: "the truth is not nearly as important as what people think to be true." (I'm quoting from memory.)
It's time for people to focus on individual and cooperative community action to help alleviate existential deprivations and endure far worse the dynamic unimpeded clearly shows are coming. Far more urgently than trying to open eyes at this point. Find allies by addressing real problems people are experiencing regardless of their level of perception as long as you can agree on specific solutions for those items. That will convert more people and open them up to others than all the facts and debates ever will. If the goal is more people wokring together for their interests, not the oligarchs and reducing suffering, practical solutions are far more effective. And they actually make something better. All the influencers can keep promoting intellectual awareness, as genocide and ecocide continue, or shift to real action alignments to promote better surviving a collapse wirh less suffering and perhaps, less rancor.
You are perfectly correct. All this talk is going nowhere. First, society is not composed of Einsteins, but it doesn’t comprise total idiots either. People don’t need Ms Johnstone or anyone else to tell them that the sky is blue in a creative way. They're fully aware of the fact. They may act as if they aren't, but this 'ignorance' is 99% wilful. They aren't brainwashed. They make a deliberate choice to look at things in certain ways, because they believe that such an outlook would be beneficial to them for the time being or in comparison to other alternatives that they perceive as realistic. Second, the idea that people would magically embark on "direct action" if they woke up to reality in sufficient numbers is ridiculously infantile. That is to put it mildly. To put it properly and borrowing from Ms Johnstone's parlance, it would be a very serious contender for "the single dumbest argument I have ever encountered on any platform." Whereas you are describing the only way how these matters can and should be actually addressed. Grassroots initiatives that have to do with concrete problems and concrete actions are the only stuff having this potential to gradually aggregate and eventually turn into the overwhelming force for change...
most of the Palestinians will be dead by the time you get organized though. empire has no problem with the oppressed taking the long haul. plenty of experience handling that (unions). but it is indeed the only option on the table for now, imo. get organised (but be careful in using the internet for that). I don't think Caitlin's calls are fruitless or dismissable either, though.
I don't think it’s the only option for now. As far as I can see, it is the only option, period. "Revolution" is a pipe dream. It isn't doable. It's not even conceivable. Changing the system from within isn't possible either. So it would take an outside force that should be peaceful but overwhelming at the same time to introduce any kind of fundamental changes to the present state of affairs. The only solution is the new nationwide labor movement. Frankly, I don't expect that to happen. My outlook with regard to society is extremely bleak. But I admire those who choose to disagree and back up their choice with action. I don't really see how Ms Johnstone's repetitive rants in front of her "choir" in this echo chamber, however, are contributing anything in any meaningful way. Knowingly or inadvertently, but she - among quite a few others - simply serves as a vent used by the system to let certain factions of the electorate to blow off some steam and frustration in the most innocuous - as far as the status quo is concerned - fashion. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not sure if it's a big accomplishment...
As for Gaza... The only option I see would be for one of those supposed progressives like Brother Cornel, Sister Marianne, or all of them together to go there and try to do something on the ground. It'd be tricky even for a thug like Netanyahu to go after an American presidential candidate. Domestic protests won't change anything. They can and will simply be ignored. I wouldn't bet on these talkers to support their lofty bloviations with even an ounce of action, though...
there, there, a useful idea. a human shield of 'progressive' leaders and prominent anti-war voices in rafa... let's also spread the ticking of that box... brics (no politics) and south power delegations on the egyptian border...
Sorry, that would have been true a year ago, decade ago, 75 yrs. ago. This Genocide can only be stopped by a government. That is why the world watched this happen, they talked with a wagging finger, stop murdering people or we'll get mad or judge you in court. Starvation is a gruesome death and our governments did nothing. It's to late for community action to save 2.4 million people. Most will never recover, we murdered them with our governments and by proxy our own hands. Caitlin's work didn't allow this to happen in the dark. The Sun will tell us in the u.s. what it thinks of us. If there was justice, we would stay in the dark.
where would the money go? How is it distributed?
So true. How do we snap people out of the media and movie induced trance that allows them to justify atrocities?
G'day Diana, I've wondered that myself. I tried telling them that the sources of their information were corrupted and that they should look further, but that hasn't worked so far.
The best answer I can come up with is to point other people towards independent media like Caitlins' Substack ( and many others ) and hope for the best.
Do read my reply to Diana van Eyk posting
Vote NO on Genocide Joe. That action is to late to save the Palestinian People however their deaths will go unrewarded. I promise you, I will never vote for a Demoncrat or Republican't ever again. Hopefully those parties/party go the way of the Wig Party.
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"Until we find a way to snap a critical mass of people out ..." - the problem is even when made aware most people won't want to snap out of anything. Only real suffering will make them do that. Their own suffering, not anybody else's.
Please read my reply to Diana van Eyk post above - re GLOBAL RESEARCH site (office in Montreal Quebec CANADA, with its very logical historical facts and pulling it all together into the latest news with videos etc., and realistic read factual reporting.
If you really believe that, why not just blow your head off? Faux nihilist!
You go first. Will help arrest climate change based on the amount of hot air you produce 😉🤡
Another dandy example of how usa_bot has NEVER got anything of intelligence to say. A zero evidence, science adverse, slurps up usa brainwashing like pigs at supper.
Can't refute any of the myriad things folks correct him on because he knows he is a serial liar just like the usa administrations that have layers upon layers of serial liars within government and more layers upon layers in academia and the "news media".
There is the far right nutcase "news media" and then there is the faux left wing news "media" who NEVER point out all the realities that the usa is the ONLY terrorist, war criminal, genocidal, ... leader in the world and then the junior usaERS like israhell, uk, aussieland, kiwi, ... .
A tiny measure of truly left wing, thinking, decent, liberal news media makes up the totality of western thought.
Note well how we NEVER EVER actually hear the rest of the world on virtually ALL THE IMPORTANT ISSUES of the world.
That is more of the usa rank propaganda cycle controlling far far far too much.
US body count from wars, interventions, coups, and proxy wars since 1945 is well over 20 million.
If you had a third party that was actually viable and it framed things differently, that would actually make a difference. It's happening in Germany right now with AfD.
rangevoting.org
The establishment parties will ban AfD (or any alternative that dares question American hegemony in general or the War On Russia in particular) on any pretext.
Maybe but that would put them entirely beyond what can be accomplished while retaining any semblance of democracy.
Well, Germany has already de facto dropped freedom of speech and association, so why people think that this would be too much baffles me.
They're more trial balloons on that so far. But yes they appear to be looking to see if they can get away with it
This all goes back to what Naomi Klein described in the Shock Doctrine: if you can keep the worlds population in a near constant state if shock with an endless stream of threat, terror, and economic instability you can get away with nearly anything. (It’s a shame what has happened to her since Klein wrote this book. )
The worst threat to the state would be a healthy, secure, well educated population, capable of acting or dissenting.
"It’s a shame what has happened to her since Klein wrote this book."
Can you expand on this with a few examples? I have had similar feelings, but in her most recent book "Doppelgänger", she cites many examples of criticism of her based on confused identity with Naomi Wolf. I just need to understand where you're coming from on this.
I was so intensely upset with Doppelgänger. I got about 3/4 through it, and I couldn't anymore. It was as if a different Naomi had written The Shock Doctrine, one who now believes in the goodness and moral rightness of the new neoliberal world order and has come to believe in a mythical duality, casting Wolf as the crazy mirror world doppelgänger and herself as the sensible opposite: Wolf believes crazy stuff, Klein only sane things; in-between, she seemed to have lost her sense of gray space.... her world in this book seemed to be divided neatly into Trump supporting nut jobs, and Hillary loving liberals; it's as if she'd never critiqued the powers that rule our world, and didn't recognize Clinton as a direct daughter of Kissinger, a continuation of the world of Milton Friedman.
What Klein left out of this black/white mirror world, and I think why I was so frustrated by this book, is how she handily dismisses large swaths of people who are not 'crazy' for no longer trusting their institutions; how many of those who did seem bat-shit crazy when it came to COVID ended up being in the right, and how very many people of all political persuasions really do have nuanced views - yet are utterly and completely conflated with the 'hard right' or 'hard left' fringes. She threw a lot of people under the bus in this book, people who were once upon a time her friends - conflating and confusing dissent and even just factual reporting, with being pro-Bannon stooges or some such.
I feel nearly as awful about Naomi Wolf, but she was always a bit of a lightweight. I wasn't surprised when she went where her audience was - but I never really expected all that much from her.
Naomi Klein joining the liberal establishment™ and writing a book of such little depth and actual self- critique was just disheartening. She now seems to hold all the right opinions, and keeps herself well within the Overton window.
Thank you Caitlin🙏
the genocide sponsored by exxon-mobil and associates
Notice how all the wars have driven climate catastrophe from the news? And just at the point where is was becoming massively obvious to everyone and Big Oil was finally feeling the heat of public outrage for their decades of lies and greed?
That is a huge propaganda project too - rarely if ever discussed here though.
Than you 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
"Power is controlling what happens, but real power is controlling what people think about what happens".
I like to think that most of us who appreciate the chance to comment on Caitlin's pages share her enlightened world view. But sadly we are the few, not the many. Here's hoping that she will be able to influence a lot more.
The USA has so fine-tuned propaganda that it has conditioned and moulded and infested the mindset of the polity. In that interview that Tucker Carlson did with Vladimir Putin it was as if one could feel the hopelessness that Putin felt - when asked about the Nordstream sabotage and why he didn't counter the version in the Western media - he said what was the point when the media is so controlled - or words to that effect. And lo and behold Nordstream has gone down without a ripple. This maybe an insignificant example as bigger and more horrifying things have happened (right from the start of the US empire ) and are happening right now. What twists and turns and distortions are we in for with the terrorist attack in Moscow. How different the world would have been if the Soviet Union was allowed to experiment and exist with an alternative form of governing in a multi-polar world. But Communism had to be eradicated with mass slaughter in the "third world". The propaganda tool went on incessantly.
All this is inextricably linked with the tragedy of Gaza. And the fires burning in parts of Africa.
The Global South emerging from decolonisation got the full blast of neocolonialism.
I have worked for years now trying to show exactly what Caitlin describes in this article, namely by describing the facts behind U.S. use of biological warfare during the Korean War. I have had spotty success. But I have not broken through to the public in a more general way, possibly because my research involves U.S. crimes against China and North Korea. Both are vilified by U.S. propaganda assets, and overlooking what the U.S. does to those countries is precisely the aim of U.S. media and academia. The crimes took place long ago... but the COVER-UP of these crimes still operates today! And the cover-up of a crime is a crime itself. The story is current and ongoing.
The saying, "those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it," may be hoary and cliched, but remains as true today as ever. The cover-up of U.S. use of WMD and mass murder in the Korean War was the laboratory for the development of psychological warfare that Caitlin and others describe happening today. I think Caitlin's readers would be very interested in knowing the truth about U.S. dropping fleas infected with plague, beetles dusted with anthrax spores, spraying plant diseases to destroy crops, and more. The truth turned out to be out there, if one were only motivated enough to look.
I encourage readers to peruse my Substack and other writings on the subject at Medium.com. A good place to start is with these two Substack articles: https://open.substack.com/pub/kayej/p/fbi-smoking-gun-on-us-use-of-biological?r=2t45z&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true and https://open.substack.com/pub/kayej/p/the-lights-were-blinking-red?r=2t45z&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web.
We can do much, much better in opposing the crimes of U.S. imperialism. But if I may disagree with Caitlin a little: we do need to know more about these crimes. We do need this vital new information. One way to oppose imperialism and win new recruits against their crimes is by educating people exactly about what it does and how it does it. That is impossible if one hides crimes or remains in ignorance. Let the full extent of U.S.'s war crimes be known!
The old sales adage is "the first number you tell someone is the one they remember."
Same with news - you just tell a lie and keep repeating it, regardless of what follows.
Most people simply believe it and will never question it.
Our government doesn't care about the people who know differently. They just keep lying for the people who don't which is enough to continue the status quo.