Western media is owned by the people who are committing the genocide. Western media has not been allowed to call it a genocide. They call it a conflict. Sometimes they call it a war. They never call it what it is. Money is their god, their love, their need. They will do anything to keep it. Including allowing a colonized land to be ethnically cleansed.
And everything they sell for profit, Susan is a form of pornography. Beyond eroticizing sex through fashion and pop culture, they eroticize excess through the lives of celebrities and the super-rich, and the ultimate, the eroticization of war and conflict with its gory violence and death. Readers' brains are programmed to learn that normal emotions and aesthetics don't suffice. Excess is the key to readership and excessive profit.
I must say that I agree. A few decades ago there were real investigative journalism. Even Meet the Press and 60 Minutes would challenge the narrative. Nowadays, it's merely entertainment to keep their audiences duped and ignorant. The press was supposed to be the 5th branch of government, but these days it has devolved to a bunch of prestitutes who care little about challenging anything until they get the permission to do so. When you look at who funds them, you can definitely see why they are simply parroting the party line.
The unfortunate thing is that the power they weld can be the difference between war and peace.
I've watched them over my 74 years on this planet become more and more complicit in maintaining the prevailing narrative and less and less willing to challenge it. I can't help but go back to how they orchestrated the 911 narrative. They are really sell outs.... unfortunately even the so-called alternative news outlets are taking a hit as well. Imagine that. Don Lemon is on Substack, LOL. So yeah, MSM should never be expected to be genuinely concerned about investigation, they simply read the tele-prompter and get paid bill bucks and a pat on the head for a job well done.
Thank you Caitlin! I've shared this article with multiple groups. People in the Western world need to be made aware of HOW COMPLICIT THEIR MEDIA IS (and has been) in this Gaza Genocide and the Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinian people!
The more people that understand and wake up to this, the sooner the people can (hopefully) do something to combat Western narratives (and U.S. Empire propaganda) and PUT AN END to the PURE EVIL that is Israel and Zionism!
Actual journalism from the Western press, what a concept! By scanning the relevant stories of the Times online during this horror, I would have had to conclude that a terrorist band of highly armed criminal antisemitic Arabs emerging from tunnels spent their days raping Israeli women and barbequeing their babies.
Gaza is a symbol of a global empire… and the real name of the empire is called MONEY . Money rules, dictates, enslaves and destroys… it also creates…. empires…. a grinding wheel that just keeps on turning…
I think it is more than just money. It is racist supremacist ideology foremost. A sense of being superior and entitled. Just look at jews. Only white "westerners" are exceptional.
Despicable, especially in this so-called enlightened day and age. The truth is, we as a species haven't evolved with the passing of centuries--we're still the same as we've been for millennia: war-mongers and baby-killers, plain and simple.
It's all about land. It's always about land. Whatever reasons they give us for war, the real reason is always the squabble over who will control the natural resources of Planet Earth.
Marxists often get this twisted; their hang-up on capital-C Capital blinds them. Zion is obviously not waging war on Gaza to open up new markets to avoid the "contradictions of capitalism" that require ever-expanding markets. They're not waging war to enslave the Palestinians and take their labor -- they want them dead or driven out. And they can't be hoping to claim the wealth and capital of Gaza, because they are burning it to the ground. There's no wealth or capital left for them to steal.
And it's not even so much the dry surface of Gaza that the Zionists care about (else, they wouldn't be poisoning it with pollution and plowing down all the olive trees). It's the ocean of natural gas off the coast of Gaza that the Palestinians would have had a claim to, in the eyes of the world. They want that.
>>"Marxists often get this twisted; their hang-up on capital-C Capital blinds them."
You're not making much sense with this statement here. The ones that are ACTUALLY blinded are the ones that are enthralled by Capitalism. Marxists have had their eyes open for a very long time.
Control over 'land and natural resources' has been the game of civilizations since long before the system of Capitalism. Capitalism ramps up the pace of 'the race to control land and natural resources' AND destroys 'land and natural resources' in the quest for ever increasing profits. Capitalism also destroys many resources in order to create 'artificial scarcity' so that profits can be maximized. And don't even get me started on the impact that Capitalism has on climate change (consequences of which are again destruction of natural resources, species, AND the whole planet).
I'll grant you this: Marx himself once said something like, "Monopoly in land is the basis for monopoly in capital." That's true. He also said that the reasons we're given for wars are never the real reasons, which is also true. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Maybe I'm just tired, but it seems like every self-proclaimed Marxist on the Internet fails to mention this; they just go on and on about "Late. Stage. Cap-it-al-ism" as if the problem is that people are allowed to make and sell products. Like the problem is that people trade with each other, as they have since the dawn of time, rather than the fact that some people are allowed to own the Earth and charge the rest of us rent for the privilege of growing food for ourselves.
(Granted, many of the people I'm lamenting are probably young edgelords rather than serious thinkers. You see the same thing with fans of Ayn Rand (I kinda see Marx as the Rand of the Left)).
For those who hate war and economic injustice, I would like to offer an alternative: the Geoist idea. It has several advantages over Marxism:
1. It's far less complicated
2. It doesn't require violence or "struggle"
3. It doesn't require the destruction of religion, the nation, and the family to build Utopia
4. It doesn't have a record of totalitarianism, famine, or mass murder
I don't think this is the time or place to debate ideologies - it is far too complex a subject to do it any justice in Substack comments sections.
Based on your comment, I doubt you understand Capitalism, leave alone Marxism or anything else.
If you REALLY want to understand Capitalism at a deep level, I suggest reading the 3 volumes of Marx's Das Kapital - which is a critique of Capitalism (and has NOTHING to do with Marxism or Socialism or Communism).
(1) Das Kapital Volume 1: Talks about the Capitalist mode of Production (and how production differs under different systems)
(2) Das Kapital Volume 2: Talks about how money "circulates" in the system of Capitalism (including the process of accumulation of capital)
(3) Das Kapital Volume 3: Talks/Analyzes the complete system of Capitalism - all aspects of it - putting all the different parts of the system together to explain how Capitalism ALWAYS leads to cycles of Booms and Busts - it is an intrinsic characteristic of Capitalism. It talks about the failures/weaknesses/faults in the system of Capitalism and how it leads to problems in the world.
Seriously, how is it that Capitalists know the least about Capitalism?
Since when does a Marxist go around telling critics of Marxism that "this is not the time or place to debate ideologies"? The time to debate occurs every time the subject comes up among intelligent workers trying to understand the world they are trapped in. Here and now is always the right time!
Never said I was a capitalist. I’m more of a Christian-Agnostic-Geoist-Libertarian. It’s…complicated. Tough to sum up in a label or a sound bite.
I’ll invite anyone reading this to go read the material at the link I provided, and then go read all of the Das Kapital you provided, and then tell me which made more sense to them.
And a lot more land than they get by killing Gazans, a d those of the west bank. The fools want to rule the world "with a rod of iron". A rod of iron needs to be used on them to break their backs and never let them do such things to any other people.
Given how long ago the Zionism train began its travel, and how recent the gas deposits were discovered, or there was even a known use for natural gas, that cannot be an explanation for what is going on. It's definitely a more recent add on, the cherry on top, so to speak, but to focus on that, you will miss the real engine/s that are driving this train/wreck.
Maybe not the whole story, but I’m sure it’s related. The recent discovery seems like a good reason why Zion decided to go all final solution now, rather than just “mowing the lawn” as in the past. Oct 7 was just the excuse, just as 9/11 gave the US an excuse to blow up Afghanistan and Iraq.
On just one comment.....never see it mentioned these days. The oil / gas off Gaza.
For those that do not know, the US reserves are 8 years.
Venezuela's reserves are 1,000 years and certainly the largest. Others come down from there.
But the USA with just 8 years? What a predicament for the 360 million Americans, even with its mutual love affair with Saudi as a US oil supplier. Being a supplier is not the same as owning your own reserves.
The US relationship with Venezuela is a tinder box, soon to escalate into a military exercise, count on it.. So back to Gaza. .........
The business plan follows..
Let us set up a tourist- type operation in Gaza, (well under way). Let us have a permanent manager of Gaza Oil and Gas supplies (yet to be developed) as a backup supplier to America. Perhaps Israel?
The US interests in the Middle East need management. Let's give Israel that job as well. After all, they control most of the actions in our government in Washington on a daily basis so let's make them a full business partner.
Just a thought. So how's that Miriam Adelson. Will you keep supporting MAGA on that basis?
I ain’t on the MAGA train. I would rather my county be good than great.
I’m also concerned about Venezuela, especially now that the media are talking about Tren de Agua like they’re the new Al Queda. All it would take is one false flag attack, and suddenly the US is invading South America.
Not that it hasn’t meddled in their affairs enough in the past…
Agreed, land is the fundamental resource. But power is also, one, always about psychopathy, and, two, always also about technology.
That's because any economic and/or social system whatsoever will always be gamed by psychopaths and sociopaths (simply put, people who don't care about others) to concentrate power -- the dark side of the iron law of oligarchy. This gaming is done with, and in proportion to, the aid of accumulated technology. The silliness of thinking that a system, any system, once made "pure" (how??) will be humanity's nirvana without solving those two fundamental and perennial problems are what's really going to finally kill us.
We'd better get really wise really fast on these things, and stop effing around with the capitalism vs socialism debate, which in this day and age is absolutely secondary
Western media is a tool and enabler of genocidal oppression. All those western journalists are war criminals and should be judged and treated as such. "Western world" is pure evil.
"This journalistic malpractice allowed Israel’s western backers to support this mass atrocity with impunity, which in turn allowed Israel to act with impunity."
Journalistic malpractice is an apt term for this. These so-called western journalists aren’t practicing journalism—unlike the 200+ Palestinian journalists murdered by the IDF who lost their lives while documenting the genocide. Don’t worry—I’ll never forget what these monsters did to help create this nightmare in Gaza.
Gaza is the thin end of a very large, 77 year old wedge which exists not just because of media but because of Zionists, Israelis, Jews and their manipulation of gutless Governments and public figures.
>>"but because of Zionists, Israelis, Jews and their manipulation of gutless Governments and public figures."
And who do you think started this? European colonial powers. And then the U.S. Empire. Colonialism and imperialism have had their hands in so many events and unfoldings in history - the present being settler-colonialism by Israel.
It is wrong to conflate colonisations in past times with what is now called colonialism and which is what Israel has always been about.
It is distorted to seek to compare a colonisation process in the 15th or 19th centuries with what Zionists, Jews and Israelis have done in the 20th and 21st centuries. For one thing it lacks context.
The Jewish colonisation of Palestine is unique and particular. The experiment may well have been supported by big powers in the name of their own agendas, but the source of it rested in Zionism and Judaism and the paranoid supremacist mentality of too many Jews and all of the atheist Zionists.
The world may have allowed and enabled Israelis to be the atrocity they have always been but that does not let them off the hook. We need to understand how such an evil State could arise and be maintained and hold accountable all who have played a part, but at the end of the day, the major ones responsible are Jewish Israelis, fake and real, and all those who have supported them.
Get outta here Roslyn Ross. I know you are a pro-colonialist and supporter (and apologizer) for Colonial powers and regimes (of the past and present).
Try your bullshit and gaslighting on someone else in some other substack. You're not fooling ANYONE on Caitlin's substack with your twisted narratives, colonialism apologia, and more.
If you think ANYONE is letting Israel off the hook by mentioning history (i.e. the role of colonial powers in present day circumstances), then you are smoking some heavy (and probably expensive) shit.
Israel would NOT exist today if it were not for the European colonial powers AND the U.S. Israel continues to exist (and is actively supported) by these VERY SAME colonial powers that created this situation in the first place.
Israel would also not exist if it were not for the immense power of the Zionist Jewish network that controls so much of the internal machinery of those European and U.S. colonial powers. Roslyn is entirely right to point that out.
It's the media that only tells the story that covers their crimes. People rely on getting their information through media. The media knows that. And so do its Zionist owners. It's all in their favor and no correspondence will be entered into. That's the supremacy mindset which needs to be replaced by the peer-to-peer mindset if we are to go beyond this madness.
It's all simply sick-sick-sick: this brazen, bizarre, BERSERK 77-years-plus sickness of Colonial/Genocidal Zionism (with all its media et al agents and agencies) run amok....
Thanks, Caitlin. You bring the point home with precision and unadulterated truth.
Who actually owns these media, what are their names, how many have Jewish names or Jewish/zionist partners, who wields influence them, is it zionist lobbyists, and the biggie; why are Zionist lobbyists more important to media than their customers who are leaving them in protest of their support of this genocide -- by their silence and mis/disinformation and downright lies?
Who owns the media? Why Capitalists of course. Tech-bros. Monopolists. The oligarchy. The Empire managers. The Powers That Be (TPTB). This is not something that is unique to the U.S. Media ALL OVER THE WORLD is owned by TPTB of each respective country. The Russian govt. controls Russian media, same for the Indian Govt., for the Chinese Govt. etc. etc.
In the West, the ILLUSION is that because Corporations control the media it gives the impression that the media is independent of Govt. But that is NOT THE CASE. The Foreign Policy Establishment, the Govt., the 'deep state' of the Govt., etc. own the media in a very tight collaboration with Corporations.
Great article! Amazing to see that, finally, the brain trust atop The Nation's ed board have begun to brandish the heretofore unspeakable (among their kind) "G-word" - but, as you point out, Caitlin, this is merely defensive coloration now that the genocide of the Palestinians is reaching its final phases - all bourgeois press media coverage of all previous phases having been obscured by impenetrable layers of pro-Zionist propaganda.
But this has always been the way that the *bourgeois press* (love that scientific Marxist language that exposes the hidden class nature of everything!) has covered every monstrous crime ever committed throughout the too-long Reign of Terror of the capitalist classes of the world. I't's way past time that the working class supermajority rose up to put a permanent end to the capitalists and their racist, mass-murdering, genocidalist ways!
Dump all pro-capitalist parties! Build revolutionary socialist workers parties! Fight for a socialist future - because there literally is no future for the working class under the capitalist system!
And I think it will be. The well-deserved end of humanity. Opening the Pandora box. It also shows that humans are utterly stupid cowardly biological form that does not deserve to survive and pollute this beautiful blue planet.
Actual "journalism" would try to present "both sides" of any story. There IS NO other side of the story of genocide, except for the consequences which should be Nuremberg trials for the perps as well as the enablers. MSM has only one remaining task - to distract instead of educate.
All the people responsible for writing, producing (in the case of tv and radio), editing and publishing the genocide-enabling propaganda will be tried for crimes against humanity. There is no statute of limitations.
Western media is owned by the people who are committing the genocide. Western media has not been allowed to call it a genocide. They call it a conflict. Sometimes they call it a war. They never call it what it is. Money is their god, their love, their need. They will do anything to keep it. Including allowing a colonized land to be ethnically cleansed.
And everything they sell for profit, Susan is a form of pornography. Beyond eroticizing sex through fashion and pop culture, they eroticize excess through the lives of celebrities and the super-rich, and the ultimate, the eroticization of war and conflict with its gory violence and death. Readers' brains are programmed to learn that normal emotions and aesthetics don't suffice. Excess is the key to readership and excessive profit.
In France, it's called a war. I always oppose this "war" by calling it an invasion, a colonisation.
There is no real journalism in the usual medias. They ALL have to do their "mea culpa". They won't, because money is unfortunately more important.
I must say that I agree. A few decades ago there were real investigative journalism. Even Meet the Press and 60 Minutes would challenge the narrative. Nowadays, it's merely entertainment to keep their audiences duped and ignorant. The press was supposed to be the 5th branch of government, but these days it has devolved to a bunch of prestitutes who care little about challenging anything until they get the permission to do so. When you look at who funds them, you can definitely see why they are simply parroting the party line.
The unfortunate thing is that the power they weld can be the difference between war and peace.
I've watched them over my 74 years on this planet become more and more complicit in maintaining the prevailing narrative and less and less willing to challenge it. I can't help but go back to how they orchestrated the 911 narrative. They are really sell outs.... unfortunately even the so-called alternative news outlets are taking a hit as well. Imagine that. Don Lemon is on Substack, LOL. So yeah, MSM should never be expected to be genuinely concerned about investigation, they simply read the tele-prompter and get paid bill bucks and a pat on the head for a job well done.
There may be a few out there that haven't heard yet, but
"Israel's war against Hamas"
is just a smokescreen framing of what is really going on.
The Mockingbird press frames it this way as a smokescreen to
the indoctrinated, to cover for what is really going on.
What is really going on?, you ask.
Israel is trying to steal more land
through ethnic cleansing.
Netanyahu wanted October 7th.
Netanyahu let October 7th happen on purpose.
Netanyahu made October 7th happen on purpose.
Netanyahu and the IDF directly killed many or most of the Israeli civilians on October 7th.
Netanyahu is responsible for all Israeli deaths on October 7th through intentional and designed endangerment.
The purpose?
To smoke you and the Israeli public and to
get you to support the theft of Palestine.
If Netanyahu has to try and kill every man, woman and child
in Palestine to do it, he will, and he is.
Thank you Caitlin! I've shared this article with multiple groups. People in the Western world need to be made aware of HOW COMPLICIT THEIR MEDIA IS (and has been) in this Gaza Genocide and the Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinian people!
The more people that understand and wake up to this, the sooner the people can (hopefully) do something to combat Western narratives (and U.S. Empire propaganda) and PUT AN END to the PURE EVIL that is Israel and Zionism!
Actual journalism from the Western press, what a concept! By scanning the relevant stories of the Times online during this horror, I would have had to conclude that a terrorist band of highly armed criminal antisemitic Arabs emerging from tunnels spent their days raping Israeli women and barbequeing their babies.
You mean that isn't what's been transpiring?
Gaza is a symbol of a global empire… and the real name of the empire is called MONEY . Money rules, dictates, enslaves and destroys… it also creates…. empires…. a grinding wheel that just keeps on turning…
I think it is more than just money. It is racist supremacist ideology foremost. A sense of being superior and entitled. Just look at jews. Only white "westerners" are exceptional.
Despicable, especially in this so-called enlightened day and age. The truth is, we as a species haven't evolved with the passing of centuries--we're still the same as we've been for millennia: war-mongers and baby-killers, plain and simple.
This is the convergence of Power, Profits, and Prophets. We need to address all three to make sense of what's going on.
It's all about land. It's always about land. Whatever reasons they give us for war, the real reason is always the squabble over who will control the natural resources of Planet Earth.
Marxists often get this twisted; their hang-up on capital-C Capital blinds them. Zion is obviously not waging war on Gaza to open up new markets to avoid the "contradictions of capitalism" that require ever-expanding markets. They're not waging war to enslave the Palestinians and take their labor -- they want them dead or driven out. And they can't be hoping to claim the wealth and capital of Gaza, because they are burning it to the ground. There's no wealth or capital left for them to steal.
And it's not even so much the dry surface of Gaza that the Zionists care about (else, they wouldn't be poisoning it with pollution and plowing down all the olive trees). It's the ocean of natural gas off the coast of Gaza that the Palestinians would have had a claim to, in the eyes of the world. They want that.
>>"Marxists often get this twisted; their hang-up on capital-C Capital blinds them."
You're not making much sense with this statement here. The ones that are ACTUALLY blinded are the ones that are enthralled by Capitalism. Marxists have had their eyes open for a very long time.
Control over 'land and natural resources' has been the game of civilizations since long before the system of Capitalism. Capitalism ramps up the pace of 'the race to control land and natural resources' AND destroys 'land and natural resources' in the quest for ever increasing profits. Capitalism also destroys many resources in order to create 'artificial scarcity' so that profits can be maximized. And don't even get me started on the impact that Capitalism has on climate change (consequences of which are again destruction of natural resources, species, AND the whole planet).
I'll grant you this: Marx himself once said something like, "Monopoly in land is the basis for monopoly in capital." That's true. He also said that the reasons we're given for wars are never the real reasons, which is also true. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Maybe I'm just tired, but it seems like every self-proclaimed Marxist on the Internet fails to mention this; they just go on and on about "Late. Stage. Cap-it-al-ism" as if the problem is that people are allowed to make and sell products. Like the problem is that people trade with each other, as they have since the dawn of time, rather than the fact that some people are allowed to own the Earth and charge the rest of us rent for the privilege of growing food for ourselves.
(Granted, many of the people I'm lamenting are probably young edgelords rather than serious thinkers. You see the same thing with fans of Ayn Rand (I kinda see Marx as the Rand of the Left)).
For those who hate war and economic injustice, I would like to offer an alternative: the Geoist idea. It has several advantages over Marxism:
1. It's far less complicated
2. It doesn't require violence or "struggle"
3. It doesn't require the destruction of religion, the nation, and the family to build Utopia
4. It doesn't have a record of totalitarianism, famine, or mass murder
5. It doesn't require anyone to read Das Kapital
https://gameofrent.com/
I don't think this is the time or place to debate ideologies - it is far too complex a subject to do it any justice in Substack comments sections.
Based on your comment, I doubt you understand Capitalism, leave alone Marxism or anything else.
If you REALLY want to understand Capitalism at a deep level, I suggest reading the 3 volumes of Marx's Das Kapital - which is a critique of Capitalism (and has NOTHING to do with Marxism or Socialism or Communism).
(1) Das Kapital Volume 1: Talks about the Capitalist mode of Production (and how production differs under different systems)
(2) Das Kapital Volume 2: Talks about how money "circulates" in the system of Capitalism (including the process of accumulation of capital)
(3) Das Kapital Volume 3: Talks/Analyzes the complete system of Capitalism - all aspects of it - putting all the different parts of the system together to explain how Capitalism ALWAYS leads to cycles of Booms and Busts - it is an intrinsic characteristic of Capitalism. It talks about the failures/weaknesses/faults in the system of Capitalism and how it leads to problems in the world.
Seriously, how is it that Capitalists know the least about Capitalism?
Since when does a Marxist go around telling critics of Marxism that "this is not the time or place to debate ideologies"? The time to debate occurs every time the subject comes up among intelligent workers trying to understand the world they are trapped in. Here and now is always the right time!
Never said I was a capitalist. I’m more of a Christian-Agnostic-Geoist-Libertarian. It’s…complicated. Tough to sum up in a label or a sound bite.
I’ll invite anyone reading this to go read the material at the link I provided, and then go read all of the Das Kapital you provided, and then tell me which made more sense to them.
And a lot more land than they get by killing Gazans, a d those of the west bank. The fools want to rule the world "with a rod of iron". A rod of iron needs to be used on them to break their backs and never let them do such things to any other people.
Given how long ago the Zionism train began its travel, and how recent the gas deposits were discovered, or there was even a known use for natural gas, that cannot be an explanation for what is going on. It's definitely a more recent add on, the cherry on top, so to speak, but to focus on that, you will miss the real engine/s that are driving this train/wreck.
Maybe not the whole story, but I’m sure it’s related. The recent discovery seems like a good reason why Zion decided to go all final solution now, rather than just “mowing the lawn” as in the past. Oct 7 was just the excuse, just as 9/11 gave the US an excuse to blow up Afghanistan and Iraq.
What am I missing?
Isaiah
On just one comment.....never see it mentioned these days. The oil / gas off Gaza.
For those that do not know, the US reserves are 8 years.
Venezuela's reserves are 1,000 years and certainly the largest. Others come down from there.
But the USA with just 8 years? What a predicament for the 360 million Americans, even with its mutual love affair with Saudi as a US oil supplier. Being a supplier is not the same as owning your own reserves.
The US relationship with Venezuela is a tinder box, soon to escalate into a military exercise, count on it.. So back to Gaza. .........
The business plan follows..
Let us set up a tourist- type operation in Gaza, (well under way). Let us have a permanent manager of Gaza Oil and Gas supplies (yet to be developed) as a backup supplier to America. Perhaps Israel?
The US interests in the Middle East need management. Let's give Israel that job as well. After all, they control most of the actions in our government in Washington on a daily basis so let's make them a full business partner.
Just a thought. So how's that Miriam Adelson. Will you keep supporting MAGA on that basis?
I ain’t on the MAGA train. I would rather my county be good than great.
I’m also concerned about Venezuela, especially now that the media are talking about Tren de Agua like they’re the new Al Queda. All it would take is one false flag attack, and suddenly the US is invading South America.
Not that it hasn’t meddled in their affairs enough in the past…
https://geoexpro.com/the-land-that-oil-forgot-palestine-1913-1948/
FYI
Agreed, land is the fundamental resource. But power is also, one, always about psychopathy, and, two, always also about technology.
That's because any economic and/or social system whatsoever will always be gamed by psychopaths and sociopaths (simply put, people who don't care about others) to concentrate power -- the dark side of the iron law of oligarchy. This gaming is done with, and in proportion to, the aid of accumulated technology. The silliness of thinking that a system, any system, once made "pure" (how??) will be humanity's nirvana without solving those two fundamental and perennial problems are what's really going to finally kill us.
We'd better get really wise really fast on these things, and stop effing around with the capitalism vs socialism debate, which in this day and age is absolutely secondary
You read this? If not, you may enjoy it.
https://ponerology.substack.com/
Looks like this is a good place to start, as "the wheel" here was already invented decades ago.
Thank you
Western media is a tool and enabler of genocidal oppression. All those western journalists are war criminals and should be judged and treated as such. "Western world" is pure evil.
And the recent finger wagging is just damage control, just like it is for the politicians who are finally condemning this genocide.
"This journalistic malpractice allowed Israel’s western backers to support this mass atrocity with impunity, which in turn allowed Israel to act with impunity."
Journalistic malpractice is an apt term for this. These so-called western journalists aren’t practicing journalism—unlike the 200+ Palestinian journalists murdered by the IDF who lost their lives while documenting the genocide. Don’t worry—I’ll never forget what these monsters did to help create this nightmare in Gaza.
The biggest lie is denying that Jews, Muslims and Christians all lived here in peace until Zionism entered the picture.
Gaza is the thin end of a very large, 77 year old wedge which exists not just because of media but because of Zionists, Israelis, Jews and their manipulation of gutless Governments and public figures.
>>"but because of Zionists, Israelis, Jews and their manipulation of gutless Governments and public figures."
And who do you think started this? European colonial powers. And then the U.S. Empire. Colonialism and imperialism have had their hands in so many events and unfoldings in history - the present being settler-colonialism by Israel.
It is wrong to conflate colonisations in past times with what is now called colonialism and which is what Israel has always been about.
It is distorted to seek to compare a colonisation process in the 15th or 19th centuries with what Zionists, Jews and Israelis have done in the 20th and 21st centuries. For one thing it lacks context.
The Jewish colonisation of Palestine is unique and particular. The experiment may well have been supported by big powers in the name of their own agendas, but the source of it rested in Zionism and Judaism and the paranoid supremacist mentality of too many Jews and all of the atheist Zionists.
The world may have allowed and enabled Israelis to be the atrocity they have always been but that does not let them off the hook. We need to understand how such an evil State could arise and be maintained and hold accountable all who have played a part, but at the end of the day, the major ones responsible are Jewish Israelis, fake and real, and all those who have supported them.
Get outta here Roslyn Ross. I know you are a pro-colonialist and supporter (and apologizer) for Colonial powers and regimes (of the past and present).
Try your bullshit and gaslighting on someone else in some other substack. You're not fooling ANYONE on Caitlin's substack with your twisted narratives, colonialism apologia, and more.
If you think ANYONE is letting Israel off the hook by mentioning history (i.e. the role of colonial powers in present day circumstances), then you are smoking some heavy (and probably expensive) shit.
Israel would NOT exist today if it were not for the European colonial powers AND the U.S. Israel continues to exist (and is actively supported) by these VERY SAME colonial powers that created this situation in the first place.
Deep breath. Take time out. Calm down. You are not making a case but making yourself look hysterical.
Israel would also not exist if it were not for the immense power of the Zionist Jewish network that controls so much of the internal machinery of those European and U.S. colonial powers. Roslyn is entirely right to point that out.
It's the media that only tells the story that covers their crimes. People rely on getting their information through media. The media knows that. And so do its Zionist owners. It's all in their favor and no correspondence will be entered into. That's the supremacy mindset which needs to be replaced by the peer-to-peer mindset if we are to go beyond this madness.
The media plays a part, certainly mainstream media but they are not the only factor. People need to learn to ask questions.
It's all simply sick-sick-sick: this brazen, bizarre, BERSERK 77-years-plus sickness of Colonial/Genocidal Zionism (with all its media et al agents and agencies) run amok....
Thanks, Caitlin. You bring the point home with precision and unadulterated truth.
Who actually owns these media, what are their names, how many have Jewish names or Jewish/zionist partners, who wields influence them, is it zionist lobbyists, and the biggie; why are Zionist lobbyists more important to media than their customers who are leaving them in protest of their support of this genocide -- by their silence and mis/disinformation and downright lies?
Who owns the media? Why Capitalists of course. Tech-bros. Monopolists. The oligarchy. The Empire managers. The Powers That Be (TPTB). This is not something that is unique to the U.S. Media ALL OVER THE WORLD is owned by TPTB of each respective country. The Russian govt. controls Russian media, same for the Indian Govt., for the Chinese Govt. etc. etc.
In the West, the ILLUSION is that because Corporations control the media it gives the impression that the media is independent of Govt. But that is NOT THE CASE. The Foreign Policy Establishment, the Govt., the 'deep state' of the Govt., etc. own the media in a very tight collaboration with Corporations.
Great article! Amazing to see that, finally, the brain trust atop The Nation's ed board have begun to brandish the heretofore unspeakable (among their kind) "G-word" - but, as you point out, Caitlin, this is merely defensive coloration now that the genocide of the Palestinians is reaching its final phases - all bourgeois press media coverage of all previous phases having been obscured by impenetrable layers of pro-Zionist propaganda.
But this has always been the way that the *bourgeois press* (love that scientific Marxist language that exposes the hidden class nature of everything!) has covered every monstrous crime ever committed throughout the too-long Reign of Terror of the capitalist classes of the world. I't's way past time that the working class supermajority rose up to put a permanent end to the capitalists and their racist, mass-murdering, genocidalist ways!
Dump all pro-capitalist parties! Build revolutionary socialist workers parties! Fight for a socialist future - because there literally is no future for the working class under the capitalist system!
I hate to say but there’s a good chance that Gaza is the beginning of our end.
We're already on that road…
And I think it will be. The well-deserved end of humanity. Opening the Pandora box. It also shows that humans are utterly stupid cowardly biological form that does not deserve to survive and pollute this beautiful blue planet.
Actual "journalism" would try to present "both sides" of any story. There IS NO other side of the story of genocide, except for the consequences which should be Nuremberg trials for the perps as well as the enablers. MSM has only one remaining task - to distract instead of educate.
All the people responsible for writing, producing (in the case of tv and radio), editing and publishing the genocide-enabling propaganda will be tried for crimes against humanity. There is no statute of limitations.