I hope you are taking enough time for yourself. I appreciate you constantly generating content with your trademark sarcasm. It is hard to watch and read at times but a great service for us all. Thankyou
I’ve stated on here before, following her personal rape story, and the balls it took to do that, that she is easily my favourite writer on here. However, Im missing her voice on attacking those Substackers against Nazis morons. For a very good reason given her content production.
I have never read - do you know what it was called? It's so strange you mentioned that as I have been trying to write down my own experience for months and had no idea she had been through the same thing. I am always floored by how many people have been through it.
I remember the piece. Very moving. When you say, "I am always floored by how many people have been through it.", the same goes through my mind when revelations appear from those who have been sexually attacked as a child as I was constantly from the cradle until the age of 17 by my stepfather when, as he chased me round the settee, I showed him my pent-up anger with a tightly clenched fist aimed and ready to punch him all the way into hospital and then to prison.
Population-wise, it is said that it's 1 in 4 who've been attacked as a child. Fortunately my experiences were more of constant molestation than raw heavy duty penetration though he did unsuccessfully try that once telling me to read the 'Beano' child's comic while he attempted. That one extremely painful unlubed move left me with lifelong haemorrhoids. I've faced those abusive demons of the past & survived & moved on. I hope you do too. Life is good.
Abuse of children is so widespread that words fail me on even beginning to describe the effects in the victims. It’s a generational trauma that has led so many down the paths of substance abuse. My family certainly did not escape from it. Even thinking about it right now, as I type, brings back memories and emotions that I’ve tried to bury. Thought I had till right this minute. Even my breathing has changed, and not for the better.
Time for a stiff drink. Thank you all for sharing. Showing one’s vulnerability is a sign of strength, not weakness. 👏💪✍️
Wow! Those are brave words. I take my hat off to you for your strength and resilience in not letting that monster ruin your life. God bless and take care.
It's sort of difficult as he also powered music into my young life so much so that I feel I've been blessed. Unfortunately, my mother wanted silly things like washing & sewing machines more than music & TVs so frequent awful rows were the norm. He did not win me over to the gay side, btw. I am what I am in this life & satisfied with my sexuality. Life is good as an abstainer at this time.
Im pretty sure it is “the first time I was raped”. It’s the most gangster writing i have seen on Substack. Im sorry for you as well Aya. Look forward to reading your story if you do it. I will search your backlog regardless. Good luck
I suppose that if the participants in The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising had surrendered nicely, the SS would have responded in a noble and magnanimous fashion, right?
Well, if opposition to Israel is prima facie antisemitism, does that mean that all Jews everywhere are responsible when Israel commits crimes?
I would think not.
I suppose the full-on Zionist take is that Israel is by definition incapable of doing wrong, but I'll leave it to them to tell us how that is not special pleading.
Hola comrade Che, no not all Jews are Zionists, not all Israelis are Zionists and not all Zionists are Jews and not all Jews are Israelis. This seems to be a concept far too difficult for some to embrace, but to retreat into the simplistic stories fed to us by the MSM is just lazy.
While I can’t wrap my head around all this atrocity, I also can’t wrap my head around why the rest of the world is standing by and watching this happen. I understand we can’t do much on an individual level, but, like Caitlin has said before, Biden could most likely stop this with a phone call - that may be simplistic as I can’t possibly know this for sure, but surely at least a group of governments could stop this. It’s unbelievably atrocious.
They can't without putting themselves and their people in danger. Remember that the adversary is armed with nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction like nerve gas, is evidently willing to use them on anybody for any reason, and indeed lacks any kind of moral restraint whatever.
I think most of the world does not read Caitlin's articles or Max Blumenthal or anyone who writes about Israel from the perspective of what they are really doing. Regular people just cannot absorb what the IDF is doing. And people like Biden are too interested in what they are getting out of selling all those munitions to give a shit about the atrocities being committed with them so that US interests can stay rich.
Hey I thought that republicans were in Putin’s pocket and not Israel’s? Isn’t that what 5 years of Russia Russia Russia taught us? Just kidding. All through the Russia gate nonsense I kept asking people who believed it why they didn’t have a problem with how Israel has bought our government. And that most members of Congress go to Israel every year to swear fealty to it. Especially when I saw shitlibs pointing to the 8 republicans who went to Russia ONCE.
I just don’t understand why people are so surprised at Biden’s callousness. He’s been like this since he arrived in congress. I tried to warn people about his history.
In the end, it is still Biden or whoever is in the White House who can decide whether or not to allow the Israel Lobby so much influence. In any case, I still think it is the money that is the real influence and the people who have the money will have the influence by default. Those in power can reject that influence if they choose. But they won't choose because they are basically people of the same money grubbing mentality, no matter what their choice of religion.
Money in America seems to have become the most important value. The politicians go along and the citizens try to curb their useless spending. Hopefully this will cease without a war.
A phone call, yes .... but the real deal is: STOP SENDING WEAPONS AND MONEY. Hit them where they hurt. Pretty much applies to anything. Pleadings, prayers, references to decency, law even, resorting to "human goodness," etc. usually doesn't cut it I've found ....
ZOGs happily watch while masturbating at the spectacle no doubt while drinking carboy after carboy of celebratory champagne at the tax-payers expense as another sadistic footnote to rub it in. Am even wondering now why the large traditional bottles have OT names...
Methuselah (6L Bottle) ...
Salmanazar (9L Bottle) ...
Balthazar (12L Bottle) ...
Nebuchadnezzar (15L Bottle) ...
Solomon (18L Bottle) ...
Sovereign (25L Bottle) ...
Primat/Goliath (27L Bottle) ...
Melchizedek (30L Bottle)... Melchizedek is the largest Champagne bottle size in the world.
From my humanist perspective — avoiding the insubstantial diversion of gods-promising-real-estate — these facts are all strongly suggestive of a culture embroiled in a mass psychosis — a collective loss of moral and ethical constraints. I’m referring to Zionist culture of course, given that indiscriminate murder is surely not part of the moral code of Judaism itself. At the least, ethnologists should study and delineate the factors that result in Mass Cultural
Psychosis, simply to learn from Zionist history what's required to precipitate such a deranged course of cultural development.
"Greater than all physical dangers are the tremendous effects of delusional ideas, which are yet denied all reality by our world-blinded consciousness ... Our much vaunted reason and our boundlessly overestimated will are sometimes utterly powerless in the face of 'unreal' thoughts."
It seems to me that current Zionist behavior simply replicates that of another, larger, older, more powerful country, unquestionably based on racism, war, slavery, theft, and genocide -- the fundamental principles of its history. I don't ever have to name it.
The vile practice of un-anaesthetised ritual child mutilation in the hands of ruthless adrenochrome addicted unhinged elders who are practised in the arts of crowd manipulation leads to Mass Cultural Psychosis as all males are thus deliberately brutalised from the age of 8 days old. https://x.com/DomeLord/status/1736292349745975476?s=20
I'd surmise that it might be more the effect of empathy-less ("unhinged" in your description) ritualistic elders than it is the actual mutilation. I speak from personal experience as a Christian (originally, not since 14 y-o) who was mutilated, but by my family's kind empathic physician, who was duped by the medicine of the era (1950s - primitive stuff) into doing it for supposed medical value -- lowered infections or some such rubbish. Strikes me that the attitude -- psychological energy, if you like --- around such acts are as if not more important than the acts themselves. Perhaps social anthropology needs a study comparing the procedure as carried out by some hard-core Zionist congregations in Israel proper with its parallel in a European country whose Jewish population is of low Zionist content or disposition. (Is there such a place?)
Rachel Corrie was bulldozed in March, 2003. Even though she was white, she had the audacity to view Palestinians as human. She died because of that. On the other hand, Marc Lamont Hill was only fired (CNN) for viewing the Palestinians as human. A lot of energy is spent dehumanizing the Palestinians. It helps slaughtering innocent civilians to be more palatable.
I remember when that happened. It seems like the Israelis have been brutalizing the Palestinians for my entire lifetime, literally. And it's just gotten worse and worse every decade. I remember watching the film "Paradise Now" in 2005 - at the Nickelodeon art theater in Santa Cruz - thinking, how long is this going to continue? This dystopia seems to just keep growing.
But I suppose its like any neurosis - you keep ignoring it, it grows bigger and stronger until you can't ignore it any longer.
i was born in 52, i think it has been happening my entire life, i just didnt know about it at the time. I remember watching the movie "Exodus" and feeling so inspired by the noble Israelis, unaware at the time that it was full of propaganda. I think i started becoming aware for the first time when Israel attacked the USS Liberty for some reason i still don't get, and then it was hushed up.
The most laughable part of the "settlement" of the ship affair was they agreed to pay a few million as a compensation. The money that would be taken out of the annual many times over US' "help" to begin with.
The sinister, scheming bunch those Israelis have always been.
Good points. Everyday IDF stoops even lower, the other day they found women children and babies executed at point blank range inside a school 🏫 This is SOP standard operating procedures. The evidence of IDF atrocities are growing exponentially. Nothing can open a closed heart and mind if you can witness these atrocities and still support Israel. We are dealing with some real evil here.
"Biden’s presidency has turned out to be everything anti-imperialists feared it would be, and so much worse."
Biden/obama/bush/clinton/nuland/kerry/mccain/graham/romney/ryan. They are The Swamp. They represent the imperialist US interests. They bring shame to the US and its rational citizens. They must be stopped.
Good to see some humor today, though. Can't always dwell in the sewers others create.
And o yes—the NYT! Over at CommonDreams there’s an article on how the NYT is amplifying the attack on the university presidents for not suppressing dissent on campus. And wouldn’t you know it? The Editor in chief of the NYT—the paper of record—is a jew. A Lithuanian jew. So I don’t think we should be separating “israeli’s” from jews. Nor giving kudos to liberal news sites for their coverage. Years ago I noticed that so many of the names appearing in news articles were jewish and I wondered openly about this on Consortium News. And boy howdy, was I summarily dumped!!! I can’t post, I cant get an answer from them, I can’t be reinstated. And believe me, I can’t respect them anymore. This demolition of Gaza has been in the plans for years, and AIPAC has bought and paid for any official pushback the public might have to it!
Jeano, same happened to me on Common Dreams. Apparently I made one too many anti-Zio comments, and I was summarily dismissed for being “anti-Semitic” 😂
And I personally ditched Antiwar.com. One cannot type the word “Jew” without the comment being held up for moderation; seriously. Not to mention the moderator is a smug, self-righteous SOB who is incapable of not having the last word.
Jews, Christians, Muslims, Atheists, Agnostics.....all can be really good, really bad, or somewhere in the middle. But most are not joining the IDF and murdering babies. Those people who are trying to wipe out Palestinians are the problem. Other people who may have some of the same belief system, who may stupidly support the IDF, or who may just be plain old fucktards like many in our world are not the same as the IDF that is murdering babies.
I prefer not to believe that people cannot change from their ideas but when they put murderous ideas into action, then the return to humanity is longer.
He has to answer for (continuing) the build-up in Ukraine, but he does not have to answer for wars. He is clearly not a Swamp-dweller, all the rage against him comes from those assholes - the fake steele dossier, the media lies, the lawfare - he is over the target, not part of it.
"the fake steele dossier, the media lies, the lawfare" - true, but he bent down and took it in, all the way.
Also, his daughter's crocodile tears over fake Syrian chemical attack with subsequent show bombing. Also, failing to pardon Snowden and Assange so he could have his pearls intact.
Keep voting Swamp...Caitlin will have endless numbers of stupid conflicts to write about and you can support here anti-western bias. It's a self-fulfilling prophesy. Good thing bioden got snowden out...
Well, I suppose you like a good war or two or three, keep voting swamp, sucker. Although I suspect you're from a shithole place like urban Canada or Berkeley or likely worse.
I'll have to agree with you, Caitlin, when you say, "It’s very complicated." It must be because I keep thinking it's rather "simple" and I'm told that isn't what it's all about. Here I think genocide is wrong. Murdering civilians is wrong. Bombing babies in incubators is wrong. Slaughtering mothers and children is wrong. But I keep getting told that those are only "surface issues" and that I'm missing the "bigger picture". What could be bigger and more important in the world today than a genocide is happening in Gaza, and it's morally and ethically wrong and needs to be stopped immediately? I lose a lot of sleep pondering this overly simple question.
grr, ever heard of the Jakarta method? Where with US/Kissinger blessing most of the communists were killed - even their children and babies - paving the way from Sukarno to Suhartho. Making Indonesia a client state.
Or the 'VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO' dipshits. I'm tired of voting for right wing democrats. I won't do it anymore. And if our democracy is so fragile that it will collapse in the next 4 years, that's not on me. That's on the Democrats for constantly pushing right wing asshats on us which then has pushed the Republican party into straight up EthnoChristian fascism. I won't comply this round or ever again.
They deliberately push this "two-sides" shit on the populace to keep it occupied and distracted. Whereas they themselves are on the same side - to keep actual rulers safely at the helm.
Yeah, for me these "Blue No Matter Who" folks were no different from the Joe McCarthyist imbeciles of the 1950s - many of them Hollywood scumbags who black listed people at a drop of hat - including Charlie Chaplin. They smear people (often behind their backs) with innuendo because it makes their empty souls feel good about themselves.
I do believe we are living in a parallel universe with those who see where we are now, and the "Trump is coming" crowd so fixated on that singluar threat, that they can't see the death of democracy and human values have already been lost at the hands of their favored party. Reading some other writers is truly a "through-the-looking-glass experience.
If instead of Israeli hostages, the victims had been Palestinian civilians, we would NEVER have heard about this, let alone see it make the headlines, and the IDF and the US mainstream media would have denounced as a crass anti-Semitie anyone who made any claims that the IDF kills people who waive white flags and are shirtless
There are thousands of Palestinian hostages; they are languishing in IsraHelli prisons, not only not convicted of anything, but without even being charged with anything.
They're bad, but let's not go that far. Once the Israelis start moving Palestinians around on cattle cars, putting them in forced labor camps, working them to death, doing weird science experiments on them, putting them in gas chambers, and incinerating their bodies... then they'd be as bad as the Nazis. The seige of Gaza has yet to reach the same human insanity and suffering level the Nazi seige of St Petersburg inflicted, by far.
Israel is definitely trending towards Nazi, but they aren't 'worse' than Nazis, not yet. Are they even worse than what we in the US did to our Native peoples?
It is a pointless academic distinction of course. If you asked the millions of dead civilian Slavs in Soviet Russia vs the thousands and thousands of Palestinians that have been killed by Israel over the years 'which is worse?' The dead don't care which is worse. They would rather have been alive to live their lives in either case.
"Are they even worse than what we in the US did to our Native peoples?"
Not yet. Before the arrival of Europeans in North America, the numbers are pretty vague, but most people who study the subject come up with between five and twenty millions. According to Wikipedia, "The 1900 Census enumerated Indians living in the general population and on reservations. In that year, the American Indian population totaled 237,196." That's quite a body count. The IDF has a long way to go, although one can't deny that they're working on it.
“… It’s interesting how outside the IDF Israel and its supporters are predominantly all about freeing the hostages, but within the IDF the attitude toward the hostages seems at best to be depraved indifference and at worst outright hostility.…”
Even more interesting though, is that the U.S. and UK have active troops and ships helping the Israelis to “find the hostages”.
At what point does the western public clue in that their governments are not merely “allowing” this depraved acts of mass murder, but in fact ACTIVELY involved in it, from butchering palestinians all the way through to killing even the Israeli hostages.
I fail to see how a militarty organaization dedicated to ever more brutal forms of horrific murderous behavior can be reformed. The IDF AND the present Israeli Government are WAR CRMINALS carrying out, for the last 75 YEARS, ZIONIST STATE SPONSORED TERRORISM against Palestinians.
Could these evil attacks on children and babies be really happening? And the sad answer is that they are because Zionism is a totally evil creed and as much a problem for the bulk of Jewish people as Nazisim turned out to be for the bulk of German people
Hamas luring the IDF with dolls playing crying sounds is so crazy. The IDF is so depraved, our brains can hardly take it in. I wonder if even some of the IDF soldiers are sickened by this behaviour or if they can't see further than that Hamas are "terrorists". If Hamas are terrorists, then the IDF soldiers have to wonder what to call themselves.
I am not sure which of them you think must be on drugs. Do you mean the IDF clamouring toward a sound like crying babies ready to kill or Hamas luring them?
Well they are not smoking weed anyway! It takes a certain mindset to carry out the attacks, ( in defence, mind you), on defenceless civilians. On women and children. I think it’s a substance enhanced mindset.
I meant the IDF. But now that you mention it, paragliding into Israeli territory weighed down by guns and ammunition smacks of substance abuse by the assailant.
I hope you are taking enough time for yourself. I appreciate you constantly generating content with your trademark sarcasm. It is hard to watch and read at times but a great service for us all. Thankyou
She's amazing isn't she.
I’ve stated on here before, following her personal rape story, and the balls it took to do that, that she is easily my favourite writer on here. However, Im missing her voice on attacking those Substackers against Nazis morons. For a very good reason given her content production.
I have never read - do you know what it was called? It's so strange you mentioned that as I have been trying to write down my own experience for months and had no idea she had been through the same thing. I am always floored by how many people have been through it.
I remember the piece. Very moving. When you say, "I am always floored by how many people have been through it.", the same goes through my mind when revelations appear from those who have been sexually attacked as a child as I was constantly from the cradle until the age of 17 by my stepfather when, as he chased me round the settee, I showed him my pent-up anger with a tightly clenched fist aimed and ready to punch him all the way into hospital and then to prison.
Population-wise, it is said that it's 1 in 4 who've been attacked as a child. Fortunately my experiences were more of constant molestation than raw heavy duty penetration though he did unsuccessfully try that once telling me to read the 'Beano' child's comic while he attempted. That one extremely painful unlubed move left me with lifelong haemorrhoids. I've faced those abusive demons of the past & survived & moved on. I hope you do too. Life is good.
❤️ 😞 Bobby Sands actually said it best “Our revenge will be the laughter of our children”
I marched in support of the hunger strikers as a teenager. Thatcher was a piece of work, wasn’t she?
I haven’t seen that Bobby Sands quote before. Thanks for sharing.
Omg, Dome. I cannot express how profoundly sorry I am that that happened to you.
Yet from what I see, you became a deeply sensible and kind human being.
I too was abused at a very young age, but fortunately the perpetrator was not part of our household.
Abuse of children is so widespread that words fail me on even beginning to describe the effects in the victims. It’s a generational trauma that has led so many down the paths of substance abuse. My family certainly did not escape from it. Even thinking about it right now, as I type, brings back memories and emotions that I’ve tried to bury. Thought I had till right this minute. Even my breathing has changed, and not for the better.
Time for a stiff drink. Thank you all for sharing. Showing one’s vulnerability is a sign of strength, not weakness. 👏💪✍️
Wow! Those are brave words. I take my hat off to you for your strength and resilience in not letting that monster ruin your life. God bless and take care.
It's sort of difficult as he also powered music into my young life so much so that I feel I've been blessed. Unfortunately, my mother wanted silly things like washing & sewing machines more than music & TVs so frequent awful rows were the norm. He did not win me over to the gay side, btw. I am what I am in this life & satisfied with my sexuality. Life is good as an abstainer at this time.
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/i-was-19
Im pretty sure it is “the first time I was raped”. It’s the most gangster writing i have seen on Substack. Im sorry for you as well Aya. Look forward to reading your story if you do it. I will search your backlog regardless. Good luck
Thank you. I'v just read it now..wow
Me too, Aya 😢
Sometimes it seems to me.. I’m just being used..
Who was born in a house full of pain?
Who was trained not to spit in the fan?
Who was told what to do by the man?
Who was broken by trained personnel?
Who was fitted with collar and chain?
Who was given a pat on the back?
Who was breaking away from the pack?
Who was only a stranger at home?
Who was ground down in the end?
Who was found dead on the phone?
Who was dragged down by the stone?
Who was dragged down by the stone?
Da neer neer neer neer neer da dong dong
Who was only a stranger at home?
That’s a thread that might never be unravelled.
Brilliant line from a brilliant track!
Caitlin Johnstone wrote a piece based on dogs a year ago and blew my mind. I think called “You have to be trusted by the people that you lie too”
Aya, she’s my hero ❤️❤️❤️
I suppose that if the participants in The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising had surrendered nicely, the SS would have responded in a noble and magnanimous fashion, right?
To think, I rooted for the Jews then.
I did and I still would. But not Israel now.
I would root for Jews in certain situations, but never Israel. Not any more.
Well, if opposition to Israel is prima facie antisemitism, does that mean that all Jews everywhere are responsible when Israel commits crimes?
I would think not.
I suppose the full-on Zionist take is that Israel is by definition incapable of doing wrong, but I'll leave it to them to tell us how that is not special pleading.
Hola comrade Che, no not all Jews are Zionists, not all Israelis are Zionists and not all Zionists are Jews and not all Jews are Israelis. This seems to be a concept far too difficult for some to embrace, but to retreat into the simplistic stories fed to us by the MSM is just lazy.
Ilan Pappe brings up the idea of violent anti-colonial overthrows in this excellent lecture: https://youtu.be/1OcjOP8iUCU
While I can’t wrap my head around all this atrocity, I also can’t wrap my head around why the rest of the world is standing by and watching this happen. I understand we can’t do much on an individual level, but, like Caitlin has said before, Biden could most likely stop this with a phone call - that may be simplistic as I can’t possibly know this for sure, but surely at least a group of governments could stop this. It’s unbelievably atrocious.
They can't without putting themselves and their people in danger. Remember that the adversary is armed with nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction like nerve gas, is evidently willing to use them on anybody for any reason, and indeed lacks any kind of moral restraint whatever.
Yes, that’s certainly a problem. Ugh. I do wish the US would at least stop sending money and take Israel out of our annual budget. What a mess.
The USA is the only one who could stop it quickly: no military support (arms/ammunition/etc), no money, "friendly" sea/air blockade, done.
Along with Israel the USA has put tremendous stains on its already well patched "reputation".
It’s hopeless. Almost everyone in congress is purchased by this machine.
No, the 'Samson Option" is against WESTERN capitals. Sure, Tehran would catch it, but so would Europe - and most likely the USA too.
I think most of the world does not read Caitlin's articles or Max Blumenthal or anyone who writes about Israel from the perspective of what they are really doing. Regular people just cannot absorb what the IDF is doing. And people like Biden are too interested in what they are getting out of selling all those munitions to give a shit about the atrocities being committed with them so that US interests can stay rich.
I think you are overlooking the power of the Israeli Lobby in America.
But, yes, Biden does seem to be more interested in selling weapons to Israel than curbing their slaughter of Gazans and Palestinians in West Bank.
Hey I thought that republicans were in Putin’s pocket and not Israel’s? Isn’t that what 5 years of Russia Russia Russia taught us? Just kidding. All through the Russia gate nonsense I kept asking people who believed it why they didn’t have a problem with how Israel has bought our government. And that most members of Congress go to Israel every year to swear fealty to it. Especially when I saw shitlibs pointing to the 8 republicans who went to Russia ONCE.
I just don’t understand why people are so surprised at Biden’s callousness. He’s been like this since he arrived in congress. I tried to warn people about his history.
In the end, it is still Biden or whoever is in the White House who can decide whether or not to allow the Israel Lobby so much influence. In any case, I still think it is the money that is the real influence and the people who have the money will have the influence by default. Those in power can reject that influence if they choose. But they won't choose because they are basically people of the same money grubbing mentality, no matter what their choice of religion.
Money in America seems to have become the most important value. The politicians go along and the citizens try to curb their useless spending. Hopefully this will cease without a war.
A phone call, yes .... but the real deal is: STOP SENDING WEAPONS AND MONEY. Hit them where they hurt. Pretty much applies to anything. Pleadings, prayers, references to decency, law even, resorting to "human goodness," etc. usually doesn't cut it I've found ....
There are quite a few Gvnmnts. Many in S. America. Ireland. Turkey. Carribbean Islands (not all).
ZOGs happily watch while masturbating at the spectacle no doubt while drinking carboy after carboy of celebratory champagne at the tax-payers expense as another sadistic footnote to rub it in. Am even wondering now why the large traditional bottles have OT names...
Methuselah (6L Bottle) ...
Salmanazar (9L Bottle) ...
Balthazar (12L Bottle) ...
Nebuchadnezzar (15L Bottle) ...
Solomon (18L Bottle) ...
Sovereign (25L Bottle) ...
Primat/Goliath (27L Bottle) ...
Melchizedek (30L Bottle)... Melchizedek is the largest Champagne bottle size in the world.
From my humanist perspective — avoiding the insubstantial diversion of gods-promising-real-estate — these facts are all strongly suggestive of a culture embroiled in a mass psychosis — a collective loss of moral and ethical constraints. I’m referring to Zionist culture of course, given that indiscriminate murder is surely not part of the moral code of Judaism itself. At the least, ethnologists should study and delineate the factors that result in Mass Cultural
Psychosis, simply to learn from Zionist history what's required to precipitate such a deranged course of cultural development.
"Greater than all physical dangers are the tremendous effects of delusional ideas, which are yet denied all reality by our world-blinded consciousness ... Our much vaunted reason and our boundlessly overestimated will are sometimes utterly powerless in the face of 'unreal' thoughts."
~Carl Jung
It seems to me that current Zionist behavior simply replicates that of another, larger, older, more powerful country, unquestionably based on racism, war, slavery, theft, and genocide -- the fundamental principles of its history. I don't ever have to name it.
There are a few such countries that originated in a certain continent and ravaged the indigenous in other lands.
The vile practice of un-anaesthetised ritual child mutilation in the hands of ruthless adrenochrome addicted unhinged elders who are practised in the arts of crowd manipulation leads to Mass Cultural Psychosis as all males are thus deliberately brutalised from the age of 8 days old. https://x.com/DomeLord/status/1736292349745975476?s=20
I'd surmise that it might be more the effect of empathy-less ("unhinged" in your description) ritualistic elders than it is the actual mutilation. I speak from personal experience as a Christian (originally, not since 14 y-o) who was mutilated, but by my family's kind empathic physician, who was duped by the medicine of the era (1950s - primitive stuff) into doing it for supposed medical value -- lowered infections or some such rubbish. Strikes me that the attitude -- psychological energy, if you like --- around such acts are as if not more important than the acts themselves. Perhaps social anthropology needs a study comparing the procedure as carried out by some hard-core Zionist congregations in Israel proper with its parallel in a European country whose Jewish population is of low Zionist content or disposition. (Is there such a place?)
Ukraine is another example.
MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M
Thanks for the link. Looks interesting.
Israeli forces reportedly drove bulldozers over hospital patients in tents and buried people alive.
not the first time, RIP Rachel Corrie.
Rachel Corrie was bulldozed in March, 2003. Even though she was white, she had the audacity to view Palestinians as human. She died because of that. On the other hand, Marc Lamont Hill was only fired (CNN) for viewing the Palestinians as human. A lot of energy is spent dehumanizing the Palestinians. It helps slaughtering innocent civilians to be more palatable.
and the Israelis skated. I dont think anybody was held accountable, either criminally or civilly. as usual.
I remember when that happened. It seems like the Israelis have been brutalizing the Palestinians for my entire lifetime, literally. And it's just gotten worse and worse every decade. I remember watching the film "Paradise Now" in 2005 - at the Nickelodeon art theater in Santa Cruz - thinking, how long is this going to continue? This dystopia seems to just keep growing.
But I suppose its like any neurosis - you keep ignoring it, it grows bigger and stronger until you can't ignore it any longer.
i was born in 52, i think it has been happening my entire life, i just didnt know about it at the time. I remember watching the movie "Exodus" and feeling so inspired by the noble Israelis, unaware at the time that it was full of propaganda. I think i started becoming aware for the first time when Israel attacked the USS Liberty for some reason i still don't get, and then it was hushed up.
The most laughable part of the "settlement" of the ship affair was they agreed to pay a few million as a compensation. The money that would be taken out of the annual many times over US' "help" to begin with.
The sinister, scheming bunch those Israelis have always been.
Good points. Everyday IDF stoops even lower, the other day they found women children and babies executed at point blank range inside a school 🏫 This is SOP standard operating procedures. The evidence of IDF atrocities are growing exponentially. Nothing can open a closed heart and mind if you can witness these atrocities and still support Israel. We are dealing with some real evil here.
"Biden’s presidency has turned out to be everything anti-imperialists feared it would be, and so much worse."
Biden/obama/bush/clinton/nuland/kerry/mccain/graham/romney/ryan. They are The Swamp. They represent the imperialist US interests. They bring shame to the US and its rational citizens. They must be stopped.
Good to see some humor today, though. Can't always dwell in the sewers others create.
And o yes—the NYT! Over at CommonDreams there’s an article on how the NYT is amplifying the attack on the university presidents for not suppressing dissent on campus. And wouldn’t you know it? The Editor in chief of the NYT—the paper of record—is a jew. A Lithuanian jew. So I don’t think we should be separating “israeli’s” from jews. Nor giving kudos to liberal news sites for their coverage. Years ago I noticed that so many of the names appearing in news articles were jewish and I wondered openly about this on Consortium News. And boy howdy, was I summarily dumped!!! I can’t post, I cant get an answer from them, I can’t be reinstated. And believe me, I can’t respect them anymore. This demolition of Gaza has been in the plans for years, and AIPAC has bought and paid for any official pushback the public might have to it!
Jeano, same happened to me on Common Dreams. Apparently I made one too many anti-Zio comments, and I was summarily dismissed for being “anti-Semitic” 😂
And I personally ditched Antiwar.com. One cannot type the word “Jew” without the comment being held up for moderation; seriously. Not to mention the moderator is a smug, self-righteous SOB who is incapable of not having the last word.
Jews, Christians, Muslims, Atheists, Agnostics.....all can be really good, really bad, or somewhere in the middle. But most are not joining the IDF and murdering babies. Those people who are trying to wipe out Palestinians are the problem. Other people who may have some of the same belief system, who may stupidly support the IDF, or who may just be plain old fucktards like many in our world are not the same as the IDF that is murdering babies.
I prefer not to believe that people cannot change from their ideas but when they put murderous ideas into action, then the return to humanity is longer.
And AIPAC.
He has to answer for (continuing) the build-up in Ukraine, but he does not have to answer for wars. He is clearly not a Swamp-dweller, all the rage against him comes from those assholes - the fake steele dossier, the media lies, the lawfare - he is over the target, not part of it.
"the fake steele dossier, the media lies, the lawfare" - true, but he bent down and took it in, all the way.
Also, his daughter's crocodile tears over fake Syrian chemical attack with subsequent show bombing. Also, failing to pardon Snowden and Assange so he could have his pearls intact.
The fucking hero you got, neill_there.
Keep voting Swamp...Caitlin will have endless numbers of stupid conflicts to write about and you can support here anti-western bias. It's a self-fulfilling prophesy. Good thing bioden got snowden out...
Anyone who participates in this fraud - aka American electoral system - is voting and propagating Swamp.
Well, I suppose you like a good war or two or three, keep voting swamp, sucker. Although I suspect you're from a shithole place like urban Canada or Berkeley or likely worse.
I'll have to agree with you, Caitlin, when you say, "It’s very complicated." It must be because I keep thinking it's rather "simple" and I'm told that isn't what it's all about. Here I think genocide is wrong. Murdering civilians is wrong. Bombing babies in incubators is wrong. Slaughtering mothers and children is wrong. But I keep getting told that those are only "surface issues" and that I'm missing the "bigger picture". What could be bigger and more important in the world today than a genocide is happening in Gaza, and it's morally and ethically wrong and needs to be stopped immediately? I lose a lot of sleep pondering this overly simple question.
grr, ever heard of the Jakarta method? Where with US/Kissinger blessing most of the communists were killed - even their children and babies - paving the way from Sukarno to Suhartho. Making Indonesia a client state.
Sounds familiar with the carnage of Gaza?
We really need a "sad" and "angry" icon here instead of just "like" here on Substack.
A vote for Biden is a vote for Genocide.
Try telling that to the "voting matters" religion zealots. Especially members of the "lesser evil" sect.
Or the 'VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO' dipshits. I'm tired of voting for right wing democrats. I won't do it anymore. And if our democracy is so fragile that it will collapse in the next 4 years, that's not on me. That's on the Democrats for constantly pushing right wing asshats on us which then has pushed the Republican party into straight up EthnoChristian fascism. I won't comply this round or ever again.
They deliberately push this "two-sides" shit on the populace to keep it occupied and distracted. Whereas they themselves are on the same side - to keep actual rulers safely at the helm.
Genocide Joe vs Dictator Donnie 2024. I'm voting Asteroid 2024 personally.
people are so quick to throw Cthulhu under the bus.
"Asteroid 2024" LOL
Yeah, for me these "Blue No Matter Who" folks were no different from the Joe McCarthyist imbeciles of the 1950s - many of them Hollywood scumbags who black listed people at a drop of hat - including Charlie Chaplin. They smear people (often behind their backs) with innuendo because it makes their empty souls feel good about themselves.
Now we get blacklisted as Anti-semitic if we support human rights. Same tactics.
And in an economy if you lose your well-paying job - your life goes down the drain.
Ezra was a Russian spy in Hollywood too? Had no idea. I wonder if Russia is going to stop Hillary from becoming president again?
I do believe we are living in a parallel universe with those who see where we are now, and the "Trump is coming" crowd so fixated on that singluar threat, that they can't see the death of democracy and human values have already been lost at the hands of their favored party. Reading some other writers is truly a "through-the-looking-glass experience.
If instead of Israeli hostages, the victims had been Palestinian civilians, we would NEVER have heard about this, let alone see it make the headlines, and the IDF and the US mainstream media would have denounced as a crass anti-Semitie anyone who made any claims that the IDF kills people who waive white flags and are shirtless
Hi Ahmed
There are thousands of Palestinian hostages; they are languishing in IsraHelli prisons, not only not convicted of anything, but without even being charged with anything.
Starved, abused and tortured.
Isreal is worse than the Nazis
They're bad, but let's not go that far. Once the Israelis start moving Palestinians around on cattle cars, putting them in forced labor camps, working them to death, doing weird science experiments on them, putting them in gas chambers, and incinerating their bodies... then they'd be as bad as the Nazis. The seige of Gaza has yet to reach the same human insanity and suffering level the Nazi seige of St Petersburg inflicted, by far.
Israel is definitely trending towards Nazi, but they aren't 'worse' than Nazis, not yet. Are they even worse than what we in the US did to our Native peoples?
It is a pointless academic distinction of course. If you asked the millions of dead civilian Slavs in Soviet Russia vs the thousands and thousands of Palestinians that have been killed by Israel over the years 'which is worse?' The dead don't care which is worse. They would rather have been alive to live their lives in either case.
the only distinction is scale.
"Are they even worse than what we in the US did to our Native peoples?"
Not yet. Before the arrival of Europeans in North America, the numbers are pretty vague, but most people who study the subject come up with between five and twenty millions. According to Wikipedia, "The 1900 Census enumerated Indians living in the general population and on reservations. In that year, the American Indian population totaled 237,196." That's quite a body count. The IDF has a long way to go, although one can't deny that they're working on it.
A distinction without a difference.
And Israhell tests out its latest and greatest weapons against the Palestinian populace.
ISRAEL IS BEYOND THE PALE
“… It’s interesting how outside the IDF Israel and its supporters are predominantly all about freeing the hostages, but within the IDF the attitude toward the hostages seems at best to be depraved indifference and at worst outright hostility.…”
Even more interesting though, is that the U.S. and UK have active troops and ships helping the Israelis to “find the hostages”.
At what point does the western public clue in that their governments are not merely “allowing” this depraved acts of mass murder, but in fact ACTIVELY involved in it, from butchering palestinians all the way through to killing even the Israeli hostages.
I fail to see how a militarty organaization dedicated to ever more brutal forms of horrific murderous behavior can be reformed. The IDF AND the present Israeli Government are WAR CRMINALS carrying out, for the last 75 YEARS, ZIONIST STATE SPONSORED TERRORISM against Palestinians.
Could these evil attacks on children and babies be really happening? And the sad answer is that they are because Zionism is a totally evil creed and as much a problem for the bulk of Jewish people as Nazisim turned out to be for the bulk of German people
Hamas luring the IDF with dolls playing crying sounds is so crazy. The IDF is so depraved, our brains can hardly take it in. I wonder if even some of the IDF soldiers are sickened by this behaviour or if they can't see further than that Hamas are "terrorists". If Hamas are terrorists, then the IDF soldiers have to wonder what to call themselves.
They MUST be on drugs. Meth or crack or coke or all 3. It’s the only explanation I can think of for them to behave like fukn TerminateRs!
Israeli state being the supplier for both!
I am not sure which of them you think must be on drugs. Do you mean the IDF clamouring toward a sound like crying babies ready to kill or Hamas luring them?
Well they are not smoking weed anyway! It takes a certain mindset to carry out the attacks, ( in defence, mind you), on defenceless civilians. On women and children. I think it’s a substance enhanced mindset.
I meant the IDF. But now that you mention it, paragliding into Israeli territory weighed down by guns and ammunition smacks of substance abuse by the assailant.
Maybe. But I think you are right and the IDF must be on meth, crack, coke or all of them. Hamas? maybe, but it isn't as obvious.