I think when they say they don't want war they mean they want instant and full compliance with their every whim globally. "We didn't want to bomb you, but when you don't give us 100% compliance we just have no choice," seems to be the subtext. Much like an abusive spouse claiming "You see what you made me do?"
Its true in the domestic micro as it is in the international macro.
The classic abuse psycology is embodied in the entire western hemisphere. The spiraling down into denial and insanity and we have the perfect representation of it in a leader...how ironic.
One of the myths of America is that we love to fight. We love to murder, not fight. We drop bombs from high-flying bombers or launch missiles from hundreds of miles away or guide drones across another nation's landscape to slaughter a wedding party or force the Ukrainians to lose a generation fighting the Russians for enrichment of our weapons manufacturers and access to their resources and land. None of that is fighting. As with all bullies, the U.S. is cowardly, craven and self-centered. We kill for profit and to give our hollowed out culture the delusion of purpose and courage. America is anything but courageous. I have never been so ashamed of this nation.
Back in WW2 the Yanks bombed Germany in comparative safety at night while the Brits bombed in daylight exposing themselves to great perils. Who arranged that, I wonder?
I hear you Mark and in no way do I include you in my constant harsh criticism of the U$ofA. I offer virtual hugs for you from the other side of the pond. We'll have these cowardly Zionist sods yet and we'll see them shivering with fear in the Nuremberg 2.0 dock.
As far as I know it was the other way round, the so called precision bombing (which was not at all 'precision' it was just simple carpet bombing to put the utmost fear into people, didn't achieve much besides total destruction) - did anybody (the soldiers) want to do this ? (ww2 propaganda was extremely strong - nothing ever changes)
I keep hearing this "the soldiers didn't want to do it" nonsense ,,but they still did.
Go watch collateral murder.
They hesitated but under direct command they slaughtered a bunch of ruters jurnalists anyway then when a family in a van came to help the wounded they massacred them too.
I don't think yr answer is for me ... I was talking about WW2 - collateral murder is Iraq (and I have seen this sick video several times), these were not conscripted soldiers but FREE TO SIGN UP (which for me is a MERCENARY - anyway MY ONLY USE for soldiers is: natural catastrophes help survivors etc) - Propaganda is a mighty tool (NATO Program for Cognitive Warfare will help us along to get into WW3)
Military should be used for defence...in declared wars..then maybe offence but we have long past civilised behavious or rule of law. Now it's just murder for hire and corruption so deep you can't see the bottom. Not to mention all the money the finnsntial elite makes off war ...It's become the greatest protection racket man has ever invented ..one big ugly despicable ponzi scheme ..
Don't forget to sign and date the tax checks though for fear of state violence .. Mafia sits in awe of government
Actually, it was the opposite. British bombers could not survive during the day.
Moreover, the British typically practiced "area bombing", that is, wholesale bombardment of cities without aiming at specific targets in those cities, while the Americans stuck to "precision bombing", that is, bombing intended to hit a specific target, such as the ball bearing works at Schweinfuert.
Of course, there were exceptions, such as the Dambusters and the British raid on the Copenhagen prison in 1945. And, of course, American precision bombing often was not all that especially precise in practice.
OF Course. They lost an Empire. They are clinging on for life with the US.
What is really interesting to me is why the Brits have learned NOTHING.
My family are spread all over Europe....my sister nephew cousins in Switzerland. My brother became French and lives in France. One of his kids live in UK and the other has become a Spanish citizen.
My husband and me live in France. He has managed to get a German passport and I am in the process of applying for Irish nationality. Our daughter is in the US and son in England.
Not many Americans care what happened after Brexit.
Little Britain thought it could go on it's own TIED to the US Empire.
Hello! NONE of you know how this 'farce' happened and could care less.
IF you want to vote in LOCAL elections in France you HAVE to be a EU citizen.
IF you want to vote in France you have to be a citizen.
Little England is in for a HUGE shock.
Wales is interested in becoming part of Europe as is Scotland. They are both tired of being told what to do from Westminster.
Looks like Ireland is moving forward and will be one country eventually.
SCREW you Britain and Starmer the so-called 'humanitarian lawyer' who allows genocide in Israel against the Palestinian people. He is NOT a Labour minister.
I was born in Sri Lanka to British colonial parents after SL became a nation.
I know that politics in EVERY country in the world is skewered by propaganda.
IF the US had any decent education they would know how f...ing damming this has been for people.
All the US people care about is TEEVeeeee and hearing/listening to US propaganda.
Tonight I heard Navalny (Russia) died today and the US propaganda is in full swing anti-Russia.
Julian Assange is being tried in a UK court next week (extradition to the US). How long do you America think he will last if extradited.
England is such a snivling lap dog to the usa it's embarasing ..but then again every EU nation is too..,and they could all throw off that yoke in 5 minuts but alas all your government's are captured and under control of the western USrAel deep state
You want to know something Chaz..........you see everything in black and white. There are grey areas which you know nothing about. There are many things in the US I know nothing about but I got a fair idea while living there for 23 LONG years.
I would like to tell you to back off BUT you wont.
I know exactly what is happening here in Europe and I want to scream.
Please leave me alone for a bit because I am floundering. Thank you
Thanks DomeLord. I have been calling my congressional (mis)representatives almost daily since the US/Israeli genocide began. Here's a report of a Dec. 9 protest in Madison, WI with the sign I carried: "Massive Madison Protest Called Out Direct, Active US Role In The Grotesque Gaza Genocide" https://mark192.substack.com/p/massive-madison-protest-called-out
And any attempt to change course toward diplomacy such as the JFK-Krushchev letters remains covert for 50 years because, heaven forbid that it might influence our perception of alterations to past performance, no matter how small.
1) Israel has been the largest recipient of foreign aid since WWII
2) the amount - $350 billion is precisely the amount it would take to end world hunger - see the Guardian
3) but of course it is much more than that. Afghanistan cost $3 trillion to replace the Taliban with …. The Taliban. And what does that have to do with Israel and its treatment of the Palestinians? Everything - if you read the architect of 9/11 - see Letter to America - OBL
4) the median personal wealth of an American is $170-190,000. For each of ~ 10 million Israelis, the trillions come to twice the personal worth of a median American!! ( ~$3.5 trillion without counting many other sources of income) And none of it has been voted on by the taxpayer. In effect, individual Americans have funded individual Israelis to the tune of giving them ALL THEIR PERSONAL WEALTH and indenturing themselves for an equivalent amount to boot.
5) Israelis outlive Americans by 6+ years , and Native Americans by 17 years.
6) Foreign Reserves are the most startling. This is gold, cash and credit. Israel , save a few unicorns , is at the top of the world per cap. This can only mean that Israel has been, de facto , taking foreign aid and banking/ investing it.
Is this among the most collosal financial scams in human history? Madoff to the nth?
But that aside, now they are asking for even more money to commit war crimes and make America complicit. This is way beyond chutzpah. Does it really have to be said? Stop all aid to Israel and demand reparations for the money obtained under false pretences?
So meanwhile Native Americans have a life expectancy less than South Sudan, the poorest country in the world!….”
A more than worthwhile tangent. Chutzpah to the 10th power (at least). A racket extensive enough to shame even the the most clever mafioso; my crooked Dago paisani are teary-eyed that they didn't think of implementing this one.
Every time you are shocked going to the grocery store and hear your wallet groan in horror or paying your gas bills (US and EU Suckers and lap dogs). Reflect on all those tax checks you sign and date being exploded over the heads of Arabs and Russians.
I think it’s Ben Norton at geopolitical economic report that says that the 34 trillion dollar debt means every American has a debt of $100,000 right now. And guess who it’s owed to—the banks. Method in their madness.
And so, gypsy, I assume you do file your taxes even if you don't have to pay any, depending on your income. But you have to file anyway.
Jazzy won't answer whether he does, while advocating others not to. How do you characterize this agitation? Is he a provocateur for doing so? Potentially endangering people's freedom?
The fantastic book "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering" by Norman Finkelstein further exposes (in excruciating detail) the fleecing of not just Americans, but also of Holocaust survivors by "Israel", "Zionists", and "elite Jewry".
Current International Dollars: 476 | View South Sudan's GDP & Economic Data. The very poorest of the world's poorest countries, South Sudan has been wracked by violence since its creation in 2011.Jan 1, 2024
I thought it was Libya—the “we came we saw he died” state. I think if the media covered what is happening there the way it’s covering Gaza, we’d see much of the same horror.
Yemen is the poorest country in the middle east, not quite poorest in the world but they have certainly suffered immensely especially in the past 10 years :(
The march toward Full Scale War against Iran & The Axis of Resistance is now inevitable:
Nobody believes the Empire of Lies when it says 'we don't seek war,' Men of the Resistance know very well that such a Vile Beast can only be expelled via Force, & that is precisely what they will do.
Yes it's got to this point with me and many of my friends we don't believe a thing that comes out of these cruddy old mouths.
Now what? We can continue to protest in the hopes that some will listen to us ...ha.
Biden's motorcade in NY had a hard time getting through the streets filled with Israeli protesters against Israel.
I notice that a lot of arms manufacturers have protesters outside stopping people going to work. Good. We can keep going if only the elitist "Vote Blue" would wake up.
This "Vote Blue" brigade are driving me crazy.....comment after comment on WAPO!
Lisa. I have absolutely NO control over what happens in the US. I do not live there BUT I have been watching US politics for years. Lived there for 23yrs which was enough for me.,,,,,,,,,,,,,the shining capital of democracy.
You have a choice between a 'warmonger' or rump or a third party/
I need your compassion. You sounded very involved in the election. So you don't like our very imperfect democracy. What's your ideal system? Russia or China or North Korea? I'm not on here to fight, I actually want to understand how electing the GOP would be preferable to you? A third party is a wasted vote in our duopoly.
Lisa H. - I understand your dilemma. I do think many Americans are in the same boat as you are and are racking their brains on what they should do come November 2024.
Here are 2 videos that help in examining and explaining the nuances more clearly:
After watching these, I'm convinced to vote blue for democracy, freedoms and the environment. Project 2025 alone is a reason. I know you disagree. I'd like to find a Substack columnist who acknowledges the US's terrible undemocratic and deadly actions, but hasn't gone through the looking glass to praising any dictator that the US opposes. Or being an anti-vaxer. Or calling Biden a pedo. Or acting as if the current vile Republican agenda is no different than that of the Democrats. It's juvenile. You really can't distinguish these people from far right magats.
Hitler insisted that he didn't want war until literally the very end.
Closer to home, the United States claimed in pious tones not to want war with Iraq, even as it was obvious that it was seeking any pretext to wage aggressive war against that country.
There is no credibility. Nothing coming out of Biden & Blinken or Nuland can be believed at all - now OR in the future. Much like Hitler, the only way to respond to these murderous criminals will not be with some kind of adult reasoning. There can be no reasoning with murderous psychopathic fools.
Pearl Harbor was BOMBED by the Japanese, and correct me if I’m wrong folks, but I’m pretty damn sure Amerikkka considered that an act of WAR, since war was immediately declared upon Japan.
I’m not quite sure here how Amerikkka can BOMB sovereign nations, therefore, and expect them not to consider it an act of WAR.
Or for Amerikkka not to consider such an act of WAR.
I've an extremely strong feeling that there was much much more to WW2 than what met the public's eyes reading newspaper propaganda or watching Pathé newsreels at the cinema, etc. We really have been constantly lied to. For many, I'm sure the blinkers will come off tonight with the Tucker Carlson & Vladimir Putin interview. Killary Clinton, in the Land of the Free, seems to be be apoplectic about this for some reason!
Tucker might just get to expose the west as the big liars they are and thats why they are flipping out...
Everyone sees Putin as a madman (cia Hollywood driven successful operation) and yet he's the most logical and effective world leader in the world ..yeah he's tuff, but isn't that what people want in a leader not some senial tottering old fool that is simply a fugurehead?
Is anyone in doubt about Putin ? That he's actually running his own country not a bunch of oligarchs that run the usa and dangle Biden around on. Knotted up puppet strings. Yet Putin is the one demonized as is convenient as the scapegoat of the West and all its invidious war monger psycopathy
As with all abusers as soon as they provoke you and you fight back they cry the victims and accuse you of being the perpetrator ..
Uncany how emotional investment in the big lies and mythology of the West is so easily shoved right down into their small minded brain stem by manipulation of their existential fears.
An hour or so to go before it's aired. Can't wait to see this match. Far better than boxing but I'm agreeing with you. Tucker will be toast BUT he will have done us all a service by letting Putin speak. I hear Tucker is on a Ukrainian hit list, apparently the EU is considering banning him from Europe, all sorts of enemies are pouring out of the U$ofA's orifices and those at the top of the Money Empire will not be happy with him should sales of murder equipment diminish as a result of some sort of emerging peace down the line! Tucker may well find he needs a friendly country to move to though that didn't work out too well for another notable and persecuted journalist, namely Julian Assange.
That's an interesting take. Are you putting Tucker in the same boat as that blonde whatshername bitch, or Matt Lauer, or others (besides Oliver Stone)?
Read anything from Professor Antony C. Sutton: Wall st., and the Rise of Hitler. Wall st., and FDR. Wall st., funded the Bolsheviks. National Suicide...
We end up discussing Hitler again because that war is still so relevant, I feel that it is because so many Nazis were integrated into American government after the war. Justified for 100 different reasons, the Manhattan project is always pointed to as justification for Operation paperclip but frankly the more damaging area was integration into the intelligence industry. While the nuclear weapons program has taken on its own immortality the insidious covert destruction of American values in the intelligence industry has done far more damage to us as a people and a society.
I would also say that the Third Reich is instructive, in that it is a clearcut case of evil for just about everyone except those on the extreme nut fringe.
You and I may see the 3rd reich as a clear cut case of evil but did the Germans see themselves that way while it was happening ?
It seems that most Germans came, after January 1933, to support Hitler because of their belief that he had brought to an end the hardships of the Great Depression. When you are worried about food on your table its easy to overlook the evil done in your countries name.
Maybe that belief is true and western propaganda demonizing Russia is the lie. People can see western lies till it's a lie they like.
Hollywood drama depictions of sacrosanct America always fighting existential evil Russians brain washing western minds for generations of red scare 2.0 and now Putin bogeyman syndrom they all suffer from builds into their automatic knee jerk bias.
Exactly. And just watching the Interview with Putin I can see why—my god that guy is SMART!!! Tucker looks absolutely befuddled! But it was live streamed and suddenly disappeared. Guess we can’t have smart things here in the good old US of A.
I think that may happen here too (USA). Our economy Ouse so easily collapse, and if it does, most people will likely turn to a strong man true to keep their privileges. I guess there a study of how liberal democracies become totalitarian states beginning with Athens, the 1st democracy. I can’t remember where I saw it but I think we’re seeing it now, in real time.
Totally agree that the US population has never lived in a war zone, we would probably be less willing to accept the governments war mongering if we had.
Funny thing about that is his saying that could have been factual... Considering the fact the us and uk had been using the same old trick and lie against their "enemys " leaders beeing all accused of harming their own people to justify war.. In Ukraine the azovs attacking the dunbass was a trick to get Putin to react. Thus also demonizing him for coming to their aid instead.
1940's Poland "invasion" was the same thing ..Polish attack on German setelments (instigsted by the west)was the reason Poland was used as the justification to go to war with Germany . Hitler (suprisingly to most who buy the great lies of history and are emotionaly now invested in them) was telling the truth at the time..
And offered a host of political solutions to stop the killing all rejected by the usa and uk(who wanted war,scared of germanys growing technological power)..fast forward Ukraine and same scenario played out..
People don't understand the true history but consumed all the skewed perceptions of history written by the lying West.
Please do not defend Hitler (see Mein Kampf, his speeches, his behavior) - he was the right guy in the right place (for WAR) and found the right 'buddies' - there was and is a lot of propaganda and rewritten history, but there is also the TRUTH that Hitler was convinced he needed 'Lebensraum/ Drang nach Osten' so that Germany could survive (this lunacy brought the big war - I agree all of them were preparing ('Kriegstuechtig' German Media NOW) and it led to the 'obvious' outcome ... (unfortunately NOW we have the ultimate destructive weapons ... so HOW TO STOP IT?
I'm not defending Hitler and just saying that is an indication of an emotional investment in false history that triggers that responce..talking and duscusing aspects of historical events should not be curated by uncomfortable emotional triggers...this is why what most people believe of history is a load of rubbish. History is always writen and rewriten by the victores and they are all known liars..digging out truth takes courage most people lack today and I'm fucking sick of it..for generations of lies we have to all pretend?.. So talking about it is my right as a fucking human being...and I don't care who it upsets..
Please don't forget that the British have always had the Official Secrets Act. Nothing comes out in the great british empire. Now happily turning into a quagmire.
I agree with some things (sorry he was not an extremely talented artist - he could not make it to the academy, his painting was pretty trivial), drinking, smoking, vegetarian is nice - did you ever read anything how he treated Geli Raubal? When you look at the films (I think Eva B made them) he always looks like an awkward person, never showing his true self. Otherwise he did a great many things that were very good (I am Austrian, my parents lived thru this) - after all it was a terrible time - but still his ultimate goal was WAR ...
He didn’t need animals to test on, he had people. He let Mengele cut twins backs and then sew them together to see if their skins would heal together back to back creating Siamese twins. Your priorities are skewed and give animal rights workers a bad name.
There is some truth to this. The idea underlying Munich and the consequent collapse of the Little Entente was for Hitler and Stalin to go fight (with Germany the preferred winner).
Molotov-Ribbentrop upended that cunning plan, which is why GB and France then offered Poland security guarantees. And Third Reich anti-semitism was something of a retcon, considering that neither the Polish Second Republic nor the Kingdom of Romania were exactly famously tolerant of Jews.
Indeed...and Russia also won WW2, NOT THE USA.. it just took credit for it...it was the Russians that liberated Berlin NOT THE USA..they got asked to stop to wait for the Americans to show up... see how all these lies become mythology by the biggest LIARS on the planet ?and then get solidified into false common knowledge communally reinforced by constant repetition of a false idea ...while the western prols simply repeats and repeats them like it's a given, oblivious to its all been a lie.. Minor birds to bull shit.
Americans claim to spot lies untill its a lie they like..
There are people (like me) who watch and learn. I can see lies they have an ability to make people gesticulate madly to make their point. IF one asks questions they start sweating. It's manifest in human behaviour.
Over selling something is a sign of dishonesty. This is what our leaders do ,,,children thrown out of incubators ,,,cutting off baby heads, Powell with his vial of baby powder..
They always scapegoat babies while being baby killers.
No, they don't want to fight. They want one-sided attacks. They want full compliance, with just enough profit-generating attacking, preferably done by proxies. I do think there will be no widespread resistance to this in the US until some sort of draft is proposed, and death gets more real than what is carefully curated and shown on mainstream media.
Until some sort of real pain strikes, nothing will change. That's why they'll delay introducing such pain for as long as possible, and why population is willing to tolerate any lies, as long as those lies affect someone somewhere far away, and not them.
What will it take to 'open the eyes' of elite democrats who continue to say:Vote Blue
IF you stay on MSM and write comments suggesting alternative Journalism I think it will work.
I look at comments: People who have come to substack are usually naive/uneducated. It is up to us to be kind and answer questions they might have. NOT blow them away by being arrogant.
I watched a new person on substack today and he/she was asking questions. Instead of the vitriol directed at him you ask questions.
What if we agree that the US wants to be dominant and that the whole government is owned by AIPAC/Israel. How does that mean we should elect the abominable GOP/ Magats/dump? Downplaying their treasonous fascism is really ridiculous. Both sides can be wrong. Which will cause more damage? The GOP wants to eliminate voting and install a dictator. They are also flaming Zionists. And now Putin, who puts his opposition candidates in jail or worse, is a hell of a great guy?
Hello Lisa H., Whether Putin is a 'great guy' or not is not the point. Russia is fighting an existential threat from an empire and its vassal states, which has used Ukraine as a proxy. In this war it is either survival or balkanisation for Russia. An anti-war candidate or a US/Nato puppet will be a destabilising factor. That is why the lying compliant Western media has jumped on this and doing their utmost to blacken Russia.
I read about all these terrible things Trump is supposed to do. Why didn't he do them during his first term? Instead I see the D's trying to imprison their opponents and suppressing third parties.
Yup. Our leadership's behavior is consistent with that of a malignant narcissist. Gaslighting and projection combined with abusiveness and chilling absence of moral conscience.
Good description. To me, both Caitlin’s observations and what you’ve said Jeck are embodied in the word hypocrite. And we used to know that our government was extremely hypocritical and never pay much attention to their lies. But then, the politicians/ hypocrites decided to build the middle class up and the working class down in order to have a class that was completely dependent for its overweening good luck on the hypocrisy of merit. They got told they deserved it and never questioned why, or how or wherefore. They knew about sweat shops but shop til you drop!!! The middle class is incredibly hypocritical and is why our leadership gets away with your wonderful description—gaslighting and projection combined with abusive and chilling absence of moral conscience. And unless this site moves beyond a little criticism of the Empire being to blame and starts looking at Western Hegemony all together, it’s never going to be what it’s capable of being—a white version of Ida B. Wells.
Had no idea Caitlin was running for the Jeano "Nobel Prize of Capability". You should email her, let her know she is more capable than this - and she can win your official stamp of Jeano approbation.
Also, looking forward to your award winning substack Jeano. Coming soon right?
In the modern day you have to be really careful, jan 6th was a false flag to entrap the MAGA people into a situation that allowed them to be rounded up and imprisoned. The southern border is being used in the same way, FBI is currently trying to entrap militias in several states by trying to get them to mobilize to Texas.
I know leftists will laugh at MAGA being taken down but make no mistake, if you actively protest outside weapons manufacturers the same tactics will be used on you.
I do not laugh at anyone who is trying their best to circumnavigate the US.
I am one of these people who have NO patriotic instinct because most politics in the US is facist as it is in Europe and many countries around the world. It does not escape my notice that people want an authoritarian figure to tell them what to do especially in the US where there has been no decent education since Reagan.
I have lived in four different countries for a LONG time and each country has their own agenda. In Sri Lanka they are already changing the History books where it is assumed that the Buddhists were there first...not so.
I would not relish the idea of being in an American prison. There are NO human rights which is why I deplore the idea of Julian Assange being extradited to the US. You still have the death penalty in certain Sates. This is DEMOCRACY?
At this moment I am 74-5 and I really do not care if I die.....just not in the US prison complex.
I also do not have 'firewalls' etc I do NOT care if I am taken by the French Govt. for being subversive. Death is death. I am not young so I understand that the world will go on but I do care about people and nature and my grand-kids who MIGHT be forced into fighting a war which has nothing to do with them.
I believe in the right of everyone to say what they think (NOT HATE speech).
Looking back on the so-called insurrection I realise now this was a misnomer.
People were seriously angry but I never saw any guns!
The MSM made it feel like an insurrection before I found substack.
Most people are coming off the MSM. DO not do this. We have to fight MSM in the comment sections. ................IF you are on MSM you can usurp the status quo. By writing comments and suggesting they go to other media. Makes sense to me BUT not many listen.
Being in my 60s I have seen many things around the world as well, spent time in Ghana and the Netherlands. I have always found that people are the same everywhere you go, almost all people want the same things, happy healthy children, safe neighborhoods and the freedom to enjoy life. The people who don't want those things seem inhuman to me, they have no connection with the world or its people so death and destruction are meaningless tools to get what they want. I agree that governments attract the worst types of people, authoritarians who wish to run everyone elses life. The latest variation of neo-cons and neo-libs seem to relish in the ability to make others lives miserable.
While the marketing is different the end goals are the same, the left sells class divisions and envy to the lower classes while the right sells class divisions and fear to the upper classes. In the end the goal is power over peoples lives not improving those lives, not helping people lead more meaningful lives with reduced anguish or pain just control. This is the real defining difference between the ideologies is that there is no real difference. A liberal cares about the same basic things that a conservative cares about, life, liberty, security, and prosperity although the marketing lingo is twisted for the audience. The politicians and leaders on the other hand find great utility in convincing everyone they are in opposing camps and that the other side is evil.
Leaders are corrupt, anyone seeking to lead is corrupt or is tempted by corruption. I have studied history and politics for decades and I find its always the same, the up and coming populist sells the story that they care and are going to save the people from those rapacious evil politicians in power only to become the evil rapacious politician in power. Orwell was so right in his book Animal Farm, he really nailed the cycle of revolution and establishment building.. In the end every revolution ends up just like Robespierre with a Night of terror that becomes the foundation of the new establishment. Then slowly or quickly the new establishment becomes the old establishment and it starts all over again.
In the end the political world is an empire of lies.
I honestly don't think that anything the people do politically will change the direction of the nation or its powerful war machine. Who wins the next election is pointless, its a popularity contest that puts a face on the deep state to take the blame.
The wholesale collapse of the dollar is our only hope for salvation from the predations of the state.
The entire TL:DR comment was about how parties play their bases with lies and fear to make them hate their fellow citizens and then your brilliant response is to hate on your fellow citizens - dense, ignorant partisanship is not worthy of my time.
The empire of lies is based in and operates on the deceitfulness of the lies told, it seems that the more outrageous the lies are the more rewards are given to the various faces behind the plastic masks. They obviously have a standard set of talking points that sell the narrative with a common set of lies that must be designed to confuse, mislead and distract the audience from the truth of their actions and plans.
The lies in the empire are not restricted to war of course: we have, "2 weeks to slow the curve", "vaccines are safe and effective" and "Epstein killed himself" - all obvious lies that are reinforced to hide the guilt of those in power.
And you never make a spelling/capitalization error there either!
Perfected that text substitution trick didn't ya. You're not alone though - a few characters here exhibit the skill too. But Americans are still dumb - agreeing there with you.
Ah I was wondering when you would start with the typical petty spelling error demonizing ploy..you are so the very type to resort to that type of tactic demonstrating what a middle level typical conditioned numpty you are.. How preddictable it alignes with the personality patterns you keep displaying.
Strange. I complimented you and you still fly off the handle.
Have you not noticed how certain people constantly use long phrases spelled funnily and not a single time there's ever spelling/capitalization error? That means, they don't type it up, rather use text substitution. I thought you learned the same trick, thought you'd like to know somebody cares: https://youtu.be/jR2K2agvUBY
"They wear a plastic smiling mask and pay lip service to peace while operating the single most aggressive and murderous power structure on this planet."
You know, the "peace mask" isn't covering much, is it, United States? Unless you invest in a "full body mask" and cover up your fists and your kicking legs, there's no way you can ever fool everybody into thinking you're seeking peace. The absurdity and the surreal nature of the US State Department's and the Pentagon's and the White House's press conferences just can't be covered over with a cheap plastic smiling mask and fake words of concern. Remember the old adages: "You shall know them by their actions," and "Actions speak louder than words." Make actual moves toward peace and shut down the war machine or just stfu, will ya?
guide them to read Doppelganger by Naomi Klein. A lot more helpful than some of the comments on substack, altho I agree that the articles are often informative
I think many of these pieces in Wapo - NYT and WSJ are actually to gage the intellectual caliber and just how far they can push the envelope regarding what people believe. Just read the comment section! I'll never forget the night I heard an advertisement for the NYT on WBLS which is primarily a hip hop radio station here in the NYC area!
It is the Money Empire. To destroy it we need to use our own sovereign money system complete with our own interest-free money. Corbyn had the right idea here in the UK which really was why he was so viciously character assassinated by empire forces. https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/46238
"This is the kind of bizarre two-step you have to do if you want to be the global hegemon with all the violence and tyranny that necessarily comes with the job while also needing to present yourself as the nice guy." Who in the world considers the US a "nice guy" these days?
I think when they say they don't want war they mean they want instant and full compliance with their every whim globally. "We didn't want to bomb you, but when you don't give us 100% compliance we just have no choice," seems to be the subtext. Much like an abusive spouse claiming "You see what you made me do?"
You stole my shtick....
Its true in the domestic micro as it is in the international macro.
The classic abuse psycology is embodied in the entire western hemisphere. The spiraling down into denial and insanity and we have the perfect representation of it in a leader...how ironic.
Bullies screaming in the playground. These are not people with any semblance of humanity or empathy.
One of the myths of America is that we love to fight. We love to murder, not fight. We drop bombs from high-flying bombers or launch missiles from hundreds of miles away or guide drones across another nation's landscape to slaughter a wedding party or force the Ukrainians to lose a generation fighting the Russians for enrichment of our weapons manufacturers and access to their resources and land. None of that is fighting. As with all bullies, the U.S. is cowardly, craven and self-centered. We kill for profit and to give our hollowed out culture the delusion of purpose and courage. America is anything but courageous. I have never been so ashamed of this nation.
Zi0paths influence into the fabric of American politics and culture has turned it into a frankinsteins monster..
Back in WW2 the Yanks bombed Germany in comparative safety at night while the Brits bombed in daylight exposing themselves to great perils. Who arranged that, I wonder?
I hear you Mark and in no way do I include you in my constant harsh criticism of the U$ofA. I offer virtual hugs for you from the other side of the pond. We'll have these cowardly Zionist sods yet and we'll see them shivering with fear in the Nuremberg 2.0 dock.
As far as I know it was the other way round, the so called precision bombing (which was not at all 'precision' it was just simple carpet bombing to put the utmost fear into people, didn't achieve much besides total destruction) - did anybody (the soldiers) want to do this ? (ww2 propaganda was extremely strong - nothing ever changes)
I keep hearing this "the soldiers didn't want to do it" nonsense ,,but they still did.
Go watch collateral murder.
They hesitated but under direct command they slaughtered a bunch of ruters jurnalists anyway then when a family in a van came to help the wounded they massacred them too.
I don't think yr answer is for me ... I was talking about WW2 - collateral murder is Iraq (and I have seen this sick video several times), these were not conscripted soldiers but FREE TO SIGN UP (which for me is a MERCENARY - anyway MY ONLY USE for soldiers is: natural catastrophes help survivors etc) - Propaganda is a mighty tool (NATO Program for Cognitive Warfare will help us along to get into WW3)
Military should be used for defence...in declared wars..then maybe offence but we have long past civilised behavious or rule of law. Now it's just murder for hire and corruption so deep you can't see the bottom. Not to mention all the money the finnsntial elite makes off war ...It's become the greatest protection racket man has ever invented ..one big ugly despicable ponzi scheme ..
Don't forget to sign and date the tax checks though for fear of state violence .. Mafia sits in awe of government
Yeah my comment was not directed at you personaly and I agree with what you are saying
Actually, it was the opposite. British bombers could not survive during the day.
Moreover, the British typically practiced "area bombing", that is, wholesale bombardment of cities without aiming at specific targets in those cities, while the Americans stuck to "precision bombing", that is, bombing intended to hit a specific target, such as the ball bearing works at Schweinfuert.
Of course, there were exceptions, such as the Dambusters and the British raid on the Copenhagen prison in 1945. And, of course, American precision bombing often was not all that especially precise in practice.
Thanks for putting me right.
Dresden was just to slaughter Germans
OH how brave of the Colonial empire that was!
Now all the Brits are are sniveling western lap dogs
OF Course. They lost an Empire. They are clinging on for life with the US.
What is really interesting to me is why the Brits have learned NOTHING.
My family are spread all over Europe....my sister nephew cousins in Switzerland. My brother became French and lives in France. One of his kids live in UK and the other has become a Spanish citizen.
My husband and me live in France. He has managed to get a German passport and I am in the process of applying for Irish nationality. Our daughter is in the US and son in England.
Not many Americans care what happened after Brexit.
Little Britain thought it could go on it's own TIED to the US Empire.
Hello! NONE of you know how this 'farce' happened and could care less.
IF you want to vote in LOCAL elections in France you HAVE to be a EU citizen.
IF you want to vote in France you have to be a citizen.
Little England is in for a HUGE shock.
Wales is interested in becoming part of Europe as is Scotland. They are both tired of being told what to do from Westminster.
Looks like Ireland is moving forward and will be one country eventually.
SCREW you Britain and Starmer the so-called 'humanitarian lawyer' who allows genocide in Israel against the Palestinian people. He is NOT a Labour minister.
I was born in Sri Lanka to British colonial parents after SL became a nation.
I know that politics in EVERY country in the world is skewered by propaganda.
IF the US had any decent education they would know how f...ing damming this has been for people.
All the US people care about is TEEVeeeee and hearing/listening to US propaganda.
Tonight I heard Navalny (Russia) died today and the US propaganda is in full swing anti-Russia.
Julian Assange is being tried in a UK court next week (extradition to the US). How long do you America think he will last if extradited.
Why is Snowdon still in Russia?
Hypocrisy!
England is such a snivling lap dog to the usa it's embarasing ..but then again every EU nation is too..,and they could all throw off that yoke in 5 minuts but alas all your government's are captured and under control of the western USrAel deep state
You want to know something Chaz..........you see everything in black and white. There are grey areas which you know nothing about. There are many things in the US I know nothing about but I got a fair idea while living there for 23 LONG years.
I would like to tell you to back off BUT you wont.
I know exactly what is happening here in Europe and I want to scream.
Please leave me alone for a bit because I am floundering. Thank you
Thanks DomeLord. I have been calling my congressional (mis)representatives almost daily since the US/Israeli genocide began. Here's a report of a Dec. 9 protest in Madison, WI with the sign I carried: "Massive Madison Protest Called Out Direct, Active US Role In The Grotesque Gaza Genocide" https://mark192.substack.com/p/massive-madison-protest-called-out
The mad dogs have been at war for 220 of the last 240 years. There is no better predictor of future performance than past performance.
And any attempt to change course toward diplomacy such as the JFK-Krushchev letters remains covert for 50 years because, heaven forbid that it might influence our perception of alterations to past performance, no matter how small.
Please visit link, forgive the tangent.
I put this in WaPo yesterday
The feces is frappé ing the fan.
“So let’s get real here
1) Israel has been the largest recipient of foreign aid since WWII
2) the amount - $350 billion is precisely the amount it would take to end world hunger - see the Guardian
3) but of course it is much more than that. Afghanistan cost $3 trillion to replace the Taliban with …. The Taliban. And what does that have to do with Israel and its treatment of the Palestinians? Everything - if you read the architect of 9/11 - see Letter to America - OBL
4) the median personal wealth of an American is $170-190,000. For each of ~ 10 million Israelis, the trillions come to twice the personal worth of a median American!! ( ~$3.5 trillion without counting many other sources of income) And none of it has been voted on by the taxpayer. In effect, individual Americans have funded individual Israelis to the tune of giving them ALL THEIR PERSONAL WEALTH and indenturing themselves for an equivalent amount to boot.
5) Israelis outlive Americans by 6+ years , and Native Americans by 17 years.
6) Foreign Reserves are the most startling. This is gold, cash and credit. Israel , save a few unicorns , is at the top of the world per cap. This can only mean that Israel has been, de facto , taking foreign aid and banking/ investing it.
https://www.citypopulation.de/en/world/bymap/financialreserves/ (https://www.citypopulation.de/en/world/bymap/financialreserves/)
Is this among the most collosal financial scams in human history? Madoff to the nth?
But that aside, now they are asking for even more money to commit war crimes and make America complicit. This is way beyond chutzpah. Does it really have to be said? Stop all aid to Israel and demand reparations for the money obtained under false pretences?
So meanwhile Native Americans have a life expectancy less than South Sudan, the poorest country in the world!….”
A more than worthwhile tangent. Chutzpah to the 10th power (at least). A racket extensive enough to shame even the the most clever mafioso; my crooked Dago paisani are teary-eyed that they didn't think of implementing this one.
Every time you are shocked going to the grocery store and hear your wallet groan in horror or paying your gas bills (US and EU Suckers and lap dogs). Reflect on all those tax checks you sign and date being exploded over the heads of Arabs and Russians.
I think it’s Ben Norton at geopolitical economic report that says that the 34 trillion dollar debt means every American has a debt of $100,000 right now. And guess who it’s owed to—the banks. Method in their madness.
I'm surprised you haven't started advocating refusing to pay those grocery and utility bills, the way you have taxes.
I'm NOT surprised you typically don't know what you are talking about and just make up accusations that suit your narcisistic personality disorder
BINGO !!
Is there any way to chastise this creep here on Substack ??
He's ranting, insulting and calling names when not enough of a man to write under his real name, but fake pseudonyms only. Poor guy ...
😃👍🙏
Well, RB:
If you don’t pay your utility bills, you clearly don’t receive heat nor electricity.
And if you don’t pay for your groceries, you don’t eat.
So we’re all kind of stuck in that respect.
And so, gypsy, I assume you do file your taxes even if you don't have to pay any, depending on your income. But you have to file anyway.
Jazzy won't answer whether he does, while advocating others not to. How do you characterize this agitation? Is he a provocateur for doing so? Potentially endangering people's freedom?
As soon as I wrote my first reply I realized the brilliant plan of Jazzy's.
You go to jail for not paying taxes ending up not having to pay for groceries or utilities. Attaboy, Jazzy!
And if you don't pay taxes, you go to jail. That's the gist of my beef with Jazzy re the subject.
Well said George Cornell!
The fantastic book "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering" by Norman Finkelstein further exposes (in excruciating detail) the fleecing of not just Americans, but also of Holocaust survivors by "Israel", "Zionists", and "elite Jewry".
Thanks for posting that info, George.
Infuriating! 😡
Now you know why a halve a bag of grociers is 100 dollars,, don't forget to sign and date all those tax checks
2 points. Mostly I agree.
I think Yemen might be the poorest nation in the world but I don't know for sure.
2nd. America IS complicit.
Which country is no 1 poorest country?
Current International Dollars: 476 | View South Sudan's GDP & Economic Data. The very poorest of the world's poorest countries, South Sudan has been wracked by violence since its creation in 2011.Jan 1, 2024
I thought it was Libya—the “we came we saw he died” state. I think if the media covered what is happening there the way it’s covering Gaza, we’d see much of the same horror.
Libya has oil but I take your point
Yemen is the poorest country in the middle east, not quite poorest in the world but they have certainly suffered immensely especially in the past 10 years :(
Correct !!
But they DO have the one thing that no money in the universe can buy: Self-respect and compassion with their brethren in faith and destiny ...
Time to put the rabid dog down.
Inform the vets and their assistants. Might be easier to do after Tucker Carlson & Vladimir Putin spill the beans at 6pm ET tonight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqGOzLOp7qY for a taster from the inimitable Emil Cosman!!
Really enjoy Emils content, he does a great job, his content is a little less entertaining than the Duran.
The march toward Full Scale War against Iran & The Axis of Resistance is now inevitable:
Nobody believes the Empire of Lies when it says 'we don't seek war,' Men of the Resistance know very well that such a Vile Beast can only be expelled via Force, & that is precisely what they will do.
(For those interested)
If you wish to read (& listen!) to more of My commentary, here is my Main Stack:
https://thefallofthewest.substack.com
Thank You Kindly to everyone!
Newspeak is here. Basically the exact opposite of everything "the government" say is true.
Yes it's got to this point with me and many of my friends we don't believe a thing that comes out of these cruddy old mouths.
Now what? We can continue to protest in the hopes that some will listen to us ...ha.
Biden's motorcade in NY had a hard time getting through the streets filled with Israeli protesters against Israel.
I notice that a lot of arms manufacturers have protesters outside stopping people going to work. Good. We can keep going if only the elitist "Vote Blue" would wake up.
This "Vote Blue" brigade are driving me crazy.....comment after comment on WAPO!
You prefer dump then?
Lisa. I have absolutely NO control over what happens in the US. I do not live there BUT I have been watching US politics for years. Lived there for 23yrs which was enough for me.,,,,,,,,,,,,,the shining capital of democracy.
You have a choice between a 'warmonger' or rump or a third party/
I have NO compassion for you at all.
*don't need your
I need your compassion. You sounded very involved in the election. So you don't like our very imperfect democracy. What's your ideal system? Russia or China or North Korea? I'm not on here to fight, I actually want to understand how electing the GOP would be preferable to you? A third party is a wasted vote in our duopoly.
Lisa H. - I understand your dilemma. I do think many Americans are in the same boat as you are and are racking their brains on what they should do come November 2024.
Here are 2 videos that help in examining and explaining the nuances more clearly:
(1) Leeja Miller -> Are You Morally Obligated to Vote for Biden? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWgdRQYeVaY)
(2) Bad Faith (Briahna Joy Gray) -> DEBATE: Vote Blue No Matter Who in 2024? (w/ Nathan Robinson) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DewixHbiI_Q)
Hope this helps!
After watching these, I'm convinced to vote blue for democracy, freedoms and the environment. Project 2025 alone is a reason. I know you disagree. I'd like to find a Substack columnist who acknowledges the US's terrible undemocratic and deadly actions, but hasn't gone through the looking glass to praising any dictator that the US opposes. Or being an anti-vaxer. Or calling Biden a pedo. Or acting as if the current vile Republican agenda is no different than that of the Democrats. It's juvenile. You really can't distinguish these people from far right magats.
Thanks, Chang.
Hitler insisted that he didn't want war until literally the very end.
Closer to home, the United States claimed in pious tones not to want war with Iraq, even as it was obvious that it was seeking any pretext to wage aggressive war against that country.
There is no credibility. Nothing coming out of Biden & Blinken or Nuland can be believed at all - now OR in the future. Much like Hitler, the only way to respond to these murderous criminals will not be with some kind of adult reasoning. There can be no reasoning with murderous psychopathic fools.
Huh, Jamenta…
Pearl Harbor was BOMBED by the Japanese, and correct me if I’m wrong folks, but I’m pretty damn sure Amerikkka considered that an act of WAR, since war was immediately declared upon Japan.
I’m not quite sure here how Amerikkka can BOMB sovereign nations, therefore, and expect them not to consider it an act of WAR.
Or for Amerikkka not to consider such an act of WAR.
Guess we must be ‘sepshunal.
I've an extremely strong feeling that there was much much more to WW2 than what met the public's eyes reading newspaper propaganda or watching Pathé newsreels at the cinema, etc. We really have been constantly lied to. For many, I'm sure the blinkers will come off tonight with the Tucker Carlson & Vladimir Putin interview. Killary Clinton, in the Land of the Free, seems to be be apoplectic about this for some reason!
I agree with you over WW2
If Putin is the man I think he is ....Tucker will be toast.
Tucker might just get to expose the west as the big liars they are and thats why they are flipping out...
Everyone sees Putin as a madman (cia Hollywood driven successful operation) and yet he's the most logical and effective world leader in the world ..yeah he's tuff, but isn't that what people want in a leader not some senial tottering old fool that is simply a fugurehead?
Is anyone in doubt about Putin ? That he's actually running his own country not a bunch of oligarchs that run the usa and dangle Biden around on. Knotted up puppet strings. Yet Putin is the one demonized as is convenient as the scapegoat of the West and all its invidious war monger psycopathy
As with all abusers as soon as they provoke you and you fight back they cry the victims and accuse you of being the perpetrator ..
Uncany how emotional investment in the big lies and mythology of the West is so easily shoved right down into their small minded brain stem by manipulation of their existential fears.
And yet, Chaz, our guvvmint fails to demonize Satanyahu.
An hour or so to go before it's aired. Can't wait to see this match. Far better than boxing but I'm agreeing with you. Tucker will be toast BUT he will have done us all a service by letting Putin speak. I hear Tucker is on a Ukrainian hit list, apparently the EU is considering banning him from Europe, all sorts of enemies are pouring out of the U$ofA's orifices and those at the top of the Money Empire will not be happy with him should sales of murder equipment diminish as a result of some sort of emerging peace down the line! Tucker may well find he needs a friendly country to move to though that didn't work out too well for another notable and persecuted journalist, namely Julian Assange.
Less than an hour to go now!!
That's an interesting take. Are you putting Tucker in the same boat as that blonde whatshername bitch, or Matt Lauer, or others (besides Oliver Stone)?
See my above comment.
Thank you for listning at least Feral,,,less biased
America armed and financed BOTH sides in WW2.
Read anything from Professor Antony C. Sutton: Wall st., and the Rise of Hitler. Wall st., and FDR. Wall st., funded the Bolsheviks. National Suicide...
anything from Prof Sutton is essential reading.
We end up discussing Hitler again because that war is still so relevant, I feel that it is because so many Nazis were integrated into American government after the war. Justified for 100 different reasons, the Manhattan project is always pointed to as justification for Operation paperclip but frankly the more damaging area was integration into the intelligence industry. While the nuclear weapons program has taken on its own immortality the insidious covert destruction of American values in the intelligence industry has done far more damage to us as a people and a society.
I would also say that the Third Reich is instructive, in that it is a clearcut case of evil for just about everyone except those on the extreme nut fringe.
You and I may see the 3rd reich as a clear cut case of evil but did the Germans see themselves that way while it was happening ?
It seems that most Germans came, after January 1933, to support Hitler because of their belief that he had brought to an end the hardships of the Great Depression. When you are worried about food on your table its easy to overlook the evil done in your countries name.
Time magazine Herald hitler as the leader of the decade in praIse of his bringing Germany out of poverty ... He was in the cover of TIME
Most Germans didn't, but that's not the point of using the Third Reich as an example today.
For that matter, most people in the USSR believed themselves to be the luckiest and freest people in the world.
Maybe that belief is true and western propaganda demonizing Russia is the lie. People can see western lies till it's a lie they like.
Hollywood drama depictions of sacrosanct America always fighting existential evil Russians brain washing western minds for generations of red scare 2.0 and now Putin bogeyman syndrom they all suffer from builds into their automatic knee jerk bias.
Because of my politics. In the US I was called a 'pinko' or 'commie' because I believed in healthcare/education etc.
No wonder we left.
Exactly. And just watching the Interview with Putin I can see why—my god that guy is SMART!!! Tucker looks absolutely befuddled! But it was live streamed and suddenly disappeared. Guess we can’t have smart things here in the good old US of A.
It's available on the BitTorrent network - you can download it from there.
I think that may happen here too (USA). Our economy Ouse so easily collapse, and if it does, most people will likely turn to a strong man true to keep their privileges. I guess there a study of how liberal democracies become totalitarian states beginning with Athens, the 1st democracy. I can’t remember where I saw it but I think we’re seeing it now, in real time.
Probably correct but you are forgetting all the bombed countries by the US!
Not once have you lived through a war BUT you perpetrate your killing all over the world.!
Totally agree that the US population has never lived in a war zone, we would probably be less willing to accept the governments war mongering if we had.
Funny thing about that is his saying that could have been factual... Considering the fact the us and uk had been using the same old trick and lie against their "enemys " leaders beeing all accused of harming their own people to justify war.. In Ukraine the azovs attacking the dunbass was a trick to get Putin to react. Thus also demonizing him for coming to their aid instead.
1940's Poland "invasion" was the same thing ..Polish attack on German setelments (instigsted by the west)was the reason Poland was used as the justification to go to war with Germany . Hitler (suprisingly to most who buy the great lies of history and are emotionaly now invested in them) was telling the truth at the time..
And offered a host of political solutions to stop the killing all rejected by the usa and uk(who wanted war,scared of germanys growing technological power)..fast forward Ukraine and same scenario played out..
People don't understand the true history but consumed all the skewed perceptions of history written by the lying West.
Please do not defend Hitler (see Mein Kampf, his speeches, his behavior) - he was the right guy in the right place (for WAR) and found the right 'buddies' - there was and is a lot of propaganda and rewritten history, but there is also the TRUTH that Hitler was convinced he needed 'Lebensraum/ Drang nach Osten' so that Germany could survive (this lunacy brought the big war - I agree all of them were preparing ('Kriegstuechtig' German Media NOW) and it led to the 'obvious' outcome ... (unfortunately NOW we have the ultimate destructive weapons ... so HOW TO STOP IT?
I'm not defending Hitler and just saying that is an indication of an emotional investment in false history that triggers that responce..talking and duscusing aspects of historical events should not be curated by uncomfortable emotional triggers...this is why what most people believe of history is a load of rubbish. History is always writen and rewriten by the victores and they are all known liars..digging out truth takes courage most people lack today and I'm fucking sick of it..for generations of lies we have to all pretend?.. So talking about it is my right as a fucking human being...and I don't care who it upsets..
Please don't forget that the British have always had the Official Secrets Act. Nothing comes out in the great british empire. Now happily turning into a quagmire.
I’m not a Hitler fangirl, Elisabeth, but Hitler had some qualities that far outweigh most of the current world leaders I can think of:
He was an extremely talented artist;
He neither drank nor smoked;
He was a vegetarian;
He banned testing on animals ( that’s huge for me!)
Okay, I said some nice things about Hitler. Sue me, people.
I agree with some things (sorry he was not an extremely talented artist - he could not make it to the academy, his painting was pretty trivial), drinking, smoking, vegetarian is nice - did you ever read anything how he treated Geli Raubal? When you look at the films (I think Eva B made them) he always looks like an awkward person, never showing his true self. Otherwise he did a great many things that were very good (I am Austrian, my parents lived thru this) - after all it was a terrible time - but still his ultimate goal was WAR ...
Yes, his great claim to fame after the war was that he made German trains run on time. That was certainly worth millions and millions of lives.
Heil Hitler! Sieg Heil!
He didn’t need animals to test on, he had people. He let Mengele cut twins backs and then sew them together to see if their skins would heal together back to back creating Siamese twins. Your priorities are skewed and give animal rights workers a bad name.
Excuuuse ME, Jeano. Never in my comment did I say that the Hitler regime never committed atrocities.
If you don’t fucking mind, my point was that even the worst among us can exhibit some positive qualities.
There is some truth to this. The idea underlying Munich and the consequent collapse of the Little Entente was for Hitler and Stalin to go fight (with Germany the preferred winner).
Molotov-Ribbentrop upended that cunning plan, which is why GB and France then offered Poland security guarantees. And Third Reich anti-semitism was something of a retcon, considering that neither the Polish Second Republic nor the Kingdom of Romania were exactly famously tolerant of Jews.
Please never forget that Russia took a huge beating!
Indeed...and Russia also won WW2, NOT THE USA.. it just took credit for it...it was the Russians that liberated Berlin NOT THE USA..they got asked to stop to wait for the Americans to show up... see how all these lies become mythology by the biggest LIARS on the planet ?and then get solidified into false common knowledge communally reinforced by constant repetition of a false idea ...while the western prols simply repeats and repeats them like it's a given, oblivious to its all been a lie.. Minor birds to bull shit.
Americans claim to spot lies untill its a lie they like..
See my reply to Vin LoPresti above
People have been conditioned to be lied to.
Most people here think they are outside the cult bubble of cultural indoctrination and main stream orthodoxy yet they are still well within its walls.
You can not describe the house by looking out the window
There are people (like me) who watch and learn. I can see lies they have an ability to make people gesticulate madly to make their point. IF one asks questions they start sweating. It's manifest in human behaviour.
Over selling something is a sign of dishonesty. This is what our leaders do ,,,children thrown out of incubators ,,,cutting off baby heads, Powell with his vial of baby powder..
They always scapegoat babies while being baby killers.
No, they don't want to fight. They want one-sided attacks. They want full compliance, with just enough profit-generating attacking, preferably done by proxies. I do think there will be no widespread resistance to this in the US until some sort of draft is proposed, and death gets more real than what is carefully curated and shown on mainstream media.
Until some sort of real pain strikes, nothing will change. That's why they'll delay introducing such pain for as long as possible, and why population is willing to tolerate any lies, as long as those lies affect someone somewhere far away, and not them.
As a mob, people are selfish and vile.
100% agree.
How many Americans have had cluster bombs dropped on them
How many people in the USA have any notion of war?
Everyone can look at the pictures of war ravaged people and think this will not happen to them?
Exactly Jenny, no war on Amerikkkan soil since the Civil War and that was almost exclusively in the south.
I maintain that Amerikkkans REQUIRE a war on themselves in order to stop being warmongers against everyone else.
Like the pain of a mirror you avoid...
What will it take to 'open the eyes' of elite democrats who continue to say:Vote Blue
IF you stay on MSM and write comments suggesting alternative Journalism I think it will work.
I look at comments: People who have come to substack are usually naive/uneducated. It is up to us to be kind and answer questions they might have. NOT blow them away by being arrogant.
I watched a new person on substack today and he/she was asking questions. Instead of the vitriol directed at him you ask questions.
What if we agree that the US wants to be dominant and that the whole government is owned by AIPAC/Israel. How does that mean we should elect the abominable GOP/ Magats/dump? Downplaying their treasonous fascism is really ridiculous. Both sides can be wrong. Which will cause more damage? The GOP wants to eliminate voting and install a dictator. They are also flaming Zionists. And now Putin, who puts his opposition candidates in jail or worse, is a hell of a great guy?
Hello Lisa H., Whether Putin is a 'great guy' or not is not the point. Russia is fighting an existential threat from an empire and its vassal states, which has used Ukraine as a proxy. In this war it is either survival or balkanisation for Russia. An anti-war candidate or a US/Nato puppet will be a destabilising factor. That is why the lying compliant Western media has jumped on this and doing their utmost to blacken Russia.
Lisa what difference does it make?
Your country is defunct....whether Biden or Trump wins. You are already a zionist/facist empire.
I read about all these terrible things Trump is supposed to do. Why didn't he do them during his first term? Instead I see the D's trying to imprison their opponents and suppressing third parties.
You're obviously not paying attention and probably aren't in the US. Or you're a Russian bot.
I think he nailed it and you are trying to sidestep his observations with a smear. Good to know.
Julian Assange/Edward Snowdon etc..........
"who puts his opposition candidates in jail or worse"
OK, you're just dumb. Sorry for replying to you previously.
Ok bot.
War is peace. Peace is War. The Lying Lady is the empire's whore.
Yup. Our leadership's behavior is consistent with that of a malignant narcissist. Gaslighting and projection combined with abusiveness and chilling absence of moral conscience.
100% pure asshole.
Good description. To me, both Caitlin’s observations and what you’ve said Jeck are embodied in the word hypocrite. And we used to know that our government was extremely hypocritical and never pay much attention to their lies. But then, the politicians/ hypocrites decided to build the middle class up and the working class down in order to have a class that was completely dependent for its overweening good luck on the hypocrisy of merit. They got told they deserved it and never questioned why, or how or wherefore. They knew about sweat shops but shop til you drop!!! The middle class is incredibly hypocritical and is why our leadership gets away with your wonderful description—gaslighting and projection combined with abusive and chilling absence of moral conscience. And unless this site moves beyond a little criticism of the Empire being to blame and starts looking at Western Hegemony all together, it’s never going to be what it’s capable of being—a white version of Ida B. Wells.
Had no idea Caitlin was running for the Jeano "Nobel Prize of Capability". You should email her, let her know she is more capable than this - and she can win your official stamp of Jeano approbation.
Also, looking forward to your award winning substack Jeano. Coming soon right?
Dementa!!!! How nice to hear from you.
To catch a flea needs be a dog?
we must feed the military industrial weapons industries with wars!!
Protest outside these facilities.
In the modern day you have to be really careful, jan 6th was a false flag to entrap the MAGA people into a situation that allowed them to be rounded up and imprisoned. The southern border is being used in the same way, FBI is currently trying to entrap militias in several states by trying to get them to mobilize to Texas.
I know leftists will laugh at MAGA being taken down but make no mistake, if you actively protest outside weapons manufacturers the same tactics will be used on you.
I do understand this BUT what is the alternative?
I am a "LEFTIST" and believe me I would be there.
I do not laugh at anyone who is trying their best to circumnavigate the US.
I am one of these people who have NO patriotic instinct because most politics in the US is facist as it is in Europe and many countries around the world. It does not escape my notice that people want an authoritarian figure to tell them what to do especially in the US where there has been no decent education since Reagan.
I have lived in four different countries for a LONG time and each country has their own agenda. In Sri Lanka they are already changing the History books where it is assumed that the Buddhists were there first...not so.
I would not relish the idea of being in an American prison. There are NO human rights which is why I deplore the idea of Julian Assange being extradited to the US. You still have the death penalty in certain Sates. This is DEMOCRACY?
At this moment I am 74-5 and I really do not care if I die.....just not in the US prison complex.
I also do not have 'firewalls' etc I do NOT care if I am taken by the French Govt. for being subversive. Death is death. I am not young so I understand that the world will go on but I do care about people and nature and my grand-kids who MIGHT be forced into fighting a war which has nothing to do with them.
I believe in the right of everyone to say what they think (NOT HATE speech).
Looking back on the so-called insurrection I realise now this was a misnomer.
People were seriously angry but I never saw any guns!
The MSM made it feel like an insurrection before I found substack.
Most people are coming off the MSM. DO not do this. We have to fight MSM in the comment sections. ................IF you are on MSM you can usurp the status quo. By writing comments and suggesting they go to other media. Makes sense to me BUT not many listen.
Being in my 60s I have seen many things around the world as well, spent time in Ghana and the Netherlands. I have always found that people are the same everywhere you go, almost all people want the same things, happy healthy children, safe neighborhoods and the freedom to enjoy life. The people who don't want those things seem inhuman to me, they have no connection with the world or its people so death and destruction are meaningless tools to get what they want. I agree that governments attract the worst types of people, authoritarians who wish to run everyone elses life. The latest variation of neo-cons and neo-libs seem to relish in the ability to make others lives miserable.
While the marketing is different the end goals are the same, the left sells class divisions and envy to the lower classes while the right sells class divisions and fear to the upper classes. In the end the goal is power over peoples lives not improving those lives, not helping people lead more meaningful lives with reduced anguish or pain just control. This is the real defining difference between the ideologies is that there is no real difference. A liberal cares about the same basic things that a conservative cares about, life, liberty, security, and prosperity although the marketing lingo is twisted for the audience. The politicians and leaders on the other hand find great utility in convincing everyone they are in opposing camps and that the other side is evil.
Leaders are corrupt, anyone seeking to lead is corrupt or is tempted by corruption. I have studied history and politics for decades and I find its always the same, the up and coming populist sells the story that they care and are going to save the people from those rapacious evil politicians in power only to become the evil rapacious politician in power. Orwell was so right in his book Animal Farm, he really nailed the cycle of revolution and establishment building.. In the end every revolution ends up just like Robespierre with a Night of terror that becomes the foundation of the new establishment. Then slowly or quickly the new establishment becomes the old establishment and it starts all over again.
In the end the political world is an empire of lies.
I honestly don't think that anything the people do politically will change the direction of the nation or its powerful war machine. Who wins the next election is pointless, its a popularity contest that puts a face on the deep state to take the blame.
The wholesale collapse of the dollar is our only hope for salvation from the predations of the state.
Brendan Beehan. Irish playwright.
"I could never be a politician. I have only one face."
not bob: what do you think about climate change?
False flag???? omg Those poor little maga people. did you say maggots or maga?
Could you be any more ignorant ?
The entire TL:DR comment was about how parties play their bases with lies and fear to make them hate their fellow citizens and then your brilliant response is to hate on your fellow citizens - dense, ignorant partisanship is not worthy of my time.
then why did you give it any time?
That is such a childish response.
Susan T, as I recall you're Canadian. So why don't you stay with your little faggot Trudeau or whatsitsname and take care of your own problems?
And boddies
The empire of lies is based in and operates on the deceitfulness of the lies told, it seems that the more outrageous the lies are the more rewards are given to the various faces behind the plastic masks. They obviously have a standard set of talking points that sell the narrative with a common set of lies that must be designed to confuse, mislead and distract the audience from the truth of their actions and plans.
The lies in the empire are not restricted to war of course: we have, "2 weeks to slow the curve", "vaccines are safe and effective" and "Epstein killed himself" - all obvious lies that are reinforced to hide the guilt of those in power.
Propaganda has a two fold design ,,fool fools and give con artists and inttelectuall and moral cowards all the excuses they seek.
Which is why I keep asking people to stay on MSM.
Please listen to me.
You can go in comments and SUGGEST alternative news. It works.
Sounds more like multi-fold to me.
You should know being one of the intellectual and moral cowards
I call them, " U.nilateral S.ociopathy A.ssured "
Good one denny
Although I often refer to it as The USrAel
And you never make a spelling/capitalization error there either!
Perfected that text substitution trick didn't ya. You're not alone though - a few characters here exhibit the skill too. But Americans are still dumb - agreeing there with you.
Ah I was wondering when you would start with the typical petty spelling error demonizing ploy..you are so the very type to resort to that type of tactic demonstrating what a middle level typical conditioned numpty you are.. How preddictable it alignes with the personality patterns you keep displaying.
Strange. I complimented you and you still fly off the handle.
Have you not noticed how certain people constantly use long phrases spelled funnily and not a single time there's ever spelling/capitalization error? That means, they don't type it up, rather use text substitution. I thought you learned the same trick, thought you'd like to know somebody cares: https://youtu.be/jR2K2agvUBY
"They wear a plastic smiling mask and pay lip service to peace while operating the single most aggressive and murderous power structure on this planet."
You know, the "peace mask" isn't covering much, is it, United States? Unless you invest in a "full body mask" and cover up your fists and your kicking legs, there's no way you can ever fool everybody into thinking you're seeking peace. The absurdity and the surreal nature of the US State Department's and the Pentagon's and the White House's press conferences just can't be covered over with a cheap plastic smiling mask and fake words of concern. Remember the old adages: "You shall know them by their actions," and "Actions speak louder than words." Make actual moves toward peace and shut down the war machine or just stfu, will ya?
Calling news headlines news is an absurdity ..
If Orwell was alive today he would kill himself out of beeing horrified of what he sees as the manifestations of his worst nightmares come true.
I'm sickened by it myself. I'm also sickened by how many people fall for it.
Or are in on it.
It seems our manifest destiny has become our extinction event...
Certainly isn't News that's for sure.
I get very agitated when I read WAPO and the comments BUT I am there for a reason......directing people to substack. It's my way of helping.
guide them to read Doppelganger by Naomi Klein. A lot more helpful than some of the comments on substack, altho I agree that the articles are often informative
I think many of these pieces in Wapo - NYT and WSJ are actually to gage the intellectual caliber and just how far they can push the envelope regarding what people believe. Just read the comment section! I'll never forget the night I heard an advertisement for the NYT on WBLS which is primarily a hip hop radio station here in the NYC area!
Watching main stream news is like taking arsnic just to see what it taste like.
I'm not familure with what wapo is..enlighten !
Washington Post. I am sorry I hate acronyms.
No problem. I hate them too..
But I get it's easy if it's already known ..cheers
Washington Post, I believe.
Ah thanks...
To end the death, destruction, and repression, the empire must be destroyed.
It is the Money Empire. To destroy it we need to use our own sovereign money system complete with our own interest-free money. Corbyn had the right idea here in the UK which really was why he was so viciously character assassinated by empire forces. https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/46238
Zi0pathic tactics employed to destroy.
How ? when the people drown in the propaganda curated for their consumption as they have been trained from birth.
"This is the kind of bizarre two-step you have to do if you want to be the global hegemon with all the violence and tyranny that necessarily comes with the job while also needing to present yourself as the nice guy." Who in the world considers the US a "nice guy" these days?
The army of dupes.