"The President of the United States is a transient official in the regard of the warfare conglomerate. His assignment is to act as master of ceremonies in the awarding of posthumous medals, to serve when needed as a salesman for the military hardware manufacturers, and to speak as often as possible about the nation's desire for peace. He is not free to trespass on the preserve of the war interests nor even to acknowledge that such an organism exists."
I had come to the conclusion (late in life) that the left was correct in many things...then COVID, the Vax and Ukraine happen. I then saw the left do all the things it had correctly critize the right for doing. For christ sake, even Chomsky was saying creepy authortarian things about COVID. I am now politically lost.......I turn left, middle and right and all I see are budding fascist.
Me too. Except I voted for "left" candidates my entire adult life. When I saw that the "left" pretends to care about the right to choose abortion (yet in 50 years Congress somehow has never codified this) and then scream about passing laws allowing forced vaccinations (instead of vaccination by choice, I'm vaccinated btw) and dumped public education down the toilet by allowing schools to close for a year and a half, I stopped voting altogether and un-registered myself as a voter. I don't really fit in anywhere in the US's political landscape and that's a shame. Even worse, I fear for the future of my young daughter.
Caitlin's Newsletter is a breath of fresh air to me.
Well, if you look at the possibilities as all existing on a line, that is literally 1 dimension! There are possibilities way beyond "left, middle, right" - not to mention can you even define any of those terms in a way that does a reasonable job of explaining current political reality?
"...the Documentary film that examines the influence of the Pentagon and CIA in shaping Hollywood and television scripts, making use of the Freedom of Information Act to acquire internal state files. The film also features interviews with academics, government officials, veterans, and industry players including Oliver Stone."
There is another one that everyone should be required to view called "While the Rest of Us Die" "Secrets of the Shadow Government". I found it on the "Tubi" app.
The differences in matters peripheral to the Empire are intentional, as it gives us peons something to argue about, the resolution of which doesn't affect the Empire one whit.
The things that matter to the Empire either never get one the ballot, or only in the most peripheral way. "Corporate Imperialist Muppet X favors simultaneously attacking Russia, Iran and China while Corporate Imperialist Muppet Y only wants to attack one at a time."
Then, when an acceptable corporate imperialist Muppet is chosen, the MSM choruses that The Voice Of The People Has Spoken!
Hmm. A US Empire that cares nothing about 'Americans', dumping them into an expanding & deepening dystopia. I venture to suggest that it's not the US in charge. Let's see. the bottom line is always about [imaginary] money! Let's examine how it is possible for a country like the US that owes so much yet is able to borrow any amount of funds to pursue warfare. Their bankers must like what the US is doing because if I was their banker I'd have declared them bankrupt many moons ago. https://www.worldometers.info/us-debt-clock/ The emperor doing all the damage to our world owns banks, very big banks and furthermore has no allegiance to any particular country save perhaps one and it certainly isn't the USofA.
For the Empire, its own citizens are at most bodies who are needed to man the ranks and buy the tchotchkes, and at worst an inconvenience to be grudgingly tolerated.
I agree completely with the sentiment of what you say, but I must quibble about whether I, as a U.S. citizen, am therefore a citizen of the Empire. Yes, the Empire operates substantially (but not entirely) from within the dark agencies of the U.S. government, and from within a strata/faction of the U.S. military, and from within the boardrooms of Dow 500 American corporations. The Empire is funded mainly by U.S. taxpayers. And most of the people who visibly seem to have their hands on the levers of global cultural, political, and economic power are Americans. But does that make the vast majority of rank-and-file Americans citizens of the Empire? I would submit that the U.S. is every bit as much a client state of the Empire as EU member states, the U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea (which is not an exhaustive list of client states). We American citizens have no more benefit of imperial largess than the citizens of any of the other client states. In fact, we suffer most under the Empire’s financial burden, and we have far more internal colonies—areas of resource extraction and polluting industries—than most other client states.
I suggest the status of citizens in all current Imperial client states is much more akin to the status of slaves in the Greek and Roman precursor empires. (Those slave systems, btw, were much more complex than the chattel slavery with which we Americans are most familiar.) We are not allowed to create, entertain, or popularize many terms or concepts related to our covert slave status within the Imperial hierarchy, since we are not even allowed to acknowledge the existence of the Empire. However, the terms “debt slaves” and “wage slaves” are fair descriptions of our status. Actual Imperial citizenship is most akin to George Carlin’s Big Club, “and we ain’t in it.”
They don't mind you thinking that. What is of the essence is that the banksters money is always the property of the banksters. We're talking *bank*notes & numbers plucked from the air in bank accounts. That [imaginary] money has been borrowed into existence. You yourself cannot create *bank* money as that would be counterfeit & would attract the maximum ire from the bankster class. They can do whatever they want with their [rigged] brand of money. What they don't want you to know is that it is possible for us to have our very own interest-free money once we've reclaimed our communities. https://www.complementarycurrency.org/ or even a Treasury backed, country-wide issue in the UK as Jeremy Corbyn fatally noted: https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/46238 Usury is the fundamental problem & all interest is usury. Their money is born with it & we've been sleepwalking into their confidence trickster trap.
In debt to whom, Pluto? Public debt is merely the other side of private assets. That is a dollar-for-dollar accounting identity, not a policy matter. That "debt" is to nothing more than arithmetic itself, and does not need to be "repaid". If anything, we already paid it.
Here in the UK, from time to time whenever it pleases the ruling class to have a laugh, we have to pay back the [imaginary] National 'Debt'. They generally call it 'austerity'. I expect the USofA to feel a major version of this pain in the not too distant future when the international banksters decide that the USofA has outlived its usefulness to their empire. Don't forget you & any children you may have will have to be billed for all that Covid rubbish on top. Debt slavery on a massively depopulated planet is the game and it's a long game that's finally near to a result. If we don't react soon then those confidence tricksters peddling usurious but imaginary money stand to beat the hypnotised populace taking us all down with them.
I think we should Give Thanks for the mindnumbing levels of incompetency within the Black-Eyed Vegetable's Regime. Nuland is Liz Truss's Spiritual Sister.
When/If the US kicks off China's "Unprovoked Attack on Taiwan", they have all but ensured that they will face a UNITED ASIA. Russia's, now highly experienced military forces, Iranian, and Korean forces too, will be ENORMOUS force multipliers for China's inexperienced military.
The Pentagon is probably hoping to keep whatever the DNC is smoking away from their troops.
The whales. Greedy, bling-blinded monkeys used the greatest philosophical minds on the planet to light our homes at night. And now we are leaving uncounted mega tons of atomic waste for uncountable years just to boil water.
I've decided to join the Crazy Eighth. Our Earth's carrying capacity is at most one billion humans, so seven eighths of us will not exist in the future. The Crazy Eighth will be the ones who use less than an eighth of the water and energy we're using now, and repurposing all the stuff. We will not be distracted by arguments about which creepy war criminal should be siphoning off tax money to give to Raytheon. We will support public transport and trails, not electric cars. We will use our sick leave for guerrilla gardening. We will accumulate books and tools, and share our food and shelter with our neighbors. We will rewild our yards and parks, and take special care of trees. We will not strive, and we will not give up what time we have left for lost causes like Florida. We will not heat or cook with methane. Thank you, Caitlin, for showing us that we aren't so crazy after all.
Everyone alive that you have known and loved will not exist in another 110 years. Every generation disappears into oblivion - according to most materialists. It's all ephemeral, and for many - who suffer every day - many without much hope, pretty darn meaningless as well. Although we're told we ought to find existential meaning in one's brief existence. The logic used - however, invariably escapes me.
I'd like to ask you this - do you know/remember your ancestors? If you do, how do you think about them, in what terms? Do you try to "incorporate" them in your current life? If yes, then how?
If you answer "no" to all of the above, then why are you here? What's the point?
What's the point of all the young children born malformed? Who struggle and die an early death? What's the point of teenagers losing their lives in car accidents, dying totally unexpectedly on a sunny day on the freeway, or a road near their house?
What's the point of the hundred thousand Ukrainian young men and women who have already lost their lives in a conflict most of us knew they could not win? That most of us knew they were simply being ordered to the front line as cattle to a certain slaughter? What was the point of their lives? Of many of them raising families?
What is the point of deeply caring for a reality that you only exist in temporarily? What is the point of caring about a future in which you will not exist at all? What is the point of you caring, if every day you wake up hungry - or every day you work two jobs and go home bone weary, and still cannot pay your bills, and just recently, the US healthcare system denied your father the medical treatment he needed to adjust his heart valve.
What is the point of suffering on a road that goes nowhere? That leads nowhere? What is the point of growth that leads to an absolute dead end? WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT?
Who the fuck cares about one's "ancestors" when your daughter lies dying in the street. When everything you loved, that was the center of your life - disappears into an uncaring oblivion forever. Who the fuck cares about "ancestors" then?
I guess your rant amounts to answering "no". Then I'll repeat the question - why are YOU still here? Is there no bridge tall enough nearby to jump off?
Your questions have jarred me out of my complacency. I have been considering Wendell Berry's framing of our acts as exploitative or nurturing, and yours are nurturing. Thank you. In his book What Are People For, he says, "The grace that is the health of creatures can only be held in common. In healing the scattered members come together. In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world." So it is only by refusing to look away from suffering that we begin to heal. Thank you for showing me that.
You can't forget about the sunscreen. Sunscreen will save us all from the climate emergency. It will end all wars and elect all Dems... Expensive, imported sunscreen obviously is what life is all about, according to AOC.
This is a well-argued piece that addresses the fact that the most greedy, selfish, powerful humans control life on Earth. The rest of us shouldn't let them. Thank you for your brilliant planet-crier role, Caitlin.
Not that he excludes them, but Jesus knew the realities when he said, 'hardly ever will a rich man enter the kingdom of heaven.'
Christianity supports the Status Quo of the rich controlling this money loving and serving World and discounts that part of Christ's teaching having so many references in the Book they say you have to follow.
The US is the Biggest Arms Merchant in the History of Nations and most Christian America will not change the system even with these express words in their Bibles, "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying: 'Not by military force and not by physical strength, but by My spirit,' says the Lord of Hosts."
All these social media companies got started, like the internet, as 'sources of free speech'. The reality is they were never intended to be more than cash cows. So any threat to the bottom line is met with outrage and psuedointellectual excuses for repression.
"Do no" is about the most instruction that Westerners can be trusted to perform without making a moral passion play out of it. Maybe it's time to burn the classics and their love = war ideology for fuel and to improve the material lot of the world.
"The inner lives of cetaceans are complete mysteries to us."
As well they should be! Can you imagine humans pushing themselves into the thought processes of whales? We'd be trying to sell them on how we had to pollute their habitats, how we had to start pointless and endless wars to grab resources from each other, killing everyone and everything in our paths as we go, and how we had to hunt and poison their kind to extinction for the good of the "economy". I can hear the oligarchs now: "It's nothing personal, whales, but the US Empire knows what's best for the likes of your kind--no matter how big your brain is or how beautiful your whale songs are."
Let the mystery remain. #SaveTheWhales and #EatTheRich instead.
Gore Vidal: “The late Murray Kempton once noted that although the New York Times likes to pose as being above the battle, this position has never stopped the Times, once the battle's fought, from sneaking onto the field and shooting the wounded.”
Vladimir Putin: “If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.”
Noam Chomsky: ”Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. Media.”
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956): “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
William Casey (CIA Director 1981-1987): “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
One positive in all of this, from an awareness perspective: the Fact of Duopoly has never been more apparent, which means that some of the fictive screens are increasingly threadbare; the negative, of course, is the reflexive attempt of the System to replace their flimsy fabrics of division with steel-trap doors--and the Rehab all begins with the Propaganda...
We're stupid when it comes to values - but diabolically clever at the business of destruction, with total annihilation as the big but somewhat still obscure objective.
Listen to him, if you like him join him. The least he’ll do is make it hard for Byegone to get back in. And maybe he’ll expose the Circular Firing Squad for the ignorant dropouts they are. You’ll notice how he doesn’t cater to the the Left’s fire and brimstone rhetoric. Probably because he doesn’t need them. They don’t vote anyway and are proud of dumping electoral politics, so why should he listen to them. He’s pursuing the same course with Israel as JFK did with Russia and yes Max Blumenthal is all upset about it, but Max does not have a solution, he just has criticisms. Criticisms have not helped the Palestinians EVER! Maybe RFK can with back channels.
You have to admit there is a problem before you can fix it. RFK Jr. is not even willing to admit there is a problem. In fact, he appears deeply ignorant of the entire Israeli apartheid government over there. By the way, Max Blumenthal is not the only journalist who has written about RFK Jr.'s profound ignorance - Chris Hedges recently dropped a substack post on the very same subject.
The reason why less and less "Lefties" are taking RFK Jr. seriously is because he's appearing more and more like a typical Democrat i.e. someone who will in the end, tow the lie for a deeply corrupt party, and be a typical member of the oligarchy club, which most Americans have no membership to. It's a big club, but you ain't in it.
Nobody knows, of course, what he will be like if elected. And he is far from perfect. (See, for example, Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté's conversation about him on the "Bobby and the Lobby" episode of Grayzone Live.) But on Ukraine (and various other subjects) he seems pretty good.
Chris writes so well, and backs everything up with an encyclopedic recital of documented facts - it makes me jealous of his obvious talent, intellectually, and the capacity to write so convincingly well, and paint pictures the way he does. One of his more impressive articles too.
Oh, very well then...
Jim Garrison, from his May 27, 1969 interview:
"The President of the United States is a transient official in the regard of the warfare conglomerate. His assignment is to act as master of ceremonies in the awarding of posthumous medals, to serve when needed as a salesman for the military hardware manufacturers, and to speak as often as possible about the nation's desire for peace. He is not free to trespass on the preserve of the war interests nor even to acknowledge that such an organism exists."
I had come to the conclusion (late in life) that the left was correct in many things...then COVID, the Vax and Ukraine happen. I then saw the left do all the things it had correctly critize the right for doing. For christ sake, even Chomsky was saying creepy authortarian things about COVID. I am now politically lost.......I turn left, middle and right and all I see are budding fascist.
Me too. Except I voted for "left" candidates my entire adult life. When I saw that the "left" pretends to care about the right to choose abortion (yet in 50 years Congress somehow has never codified this) and then scream about passing laws allowing forced vaccinations (instead of vaccination by choice, I'm vaccinated btw) and dumped public education down the toilet by allowing schools to close for a year and a half, I stopped voting altogether and un-registered myself as a voter. I don't really fit in anywhere in the US's political landscape and that's a shame. Even worse, I fear for the future of my young daughter.
Caitlin's Newsletter is a breath of fresh air to me.
Maybe it’s the end of hero’s. Maybe we each have to coordinate and co-operate to save our communal selves.
Well, if you look at the possibilities as all existing on a line, that is literally 1 dimension! There are possibilities way beyond "left, middle, right" - not to mention can you even define any of those terms in a way that does a reasonable job of explaining current political reality?
There is no human that I agree with all of the time.
I don't even agree with myself all the time.
Learn well The Iron Law Of Oligarchy and its corollary, The Iron Law Of Institutions.
'Theaters of War' ...I'd like to suggest that anyone that hasn't seen this film to do so. Free streaming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vev0Yz_My6k
"...the Documentary film that examines the influence of the Pentagon and CIA in shaping Hollywood and television scripts, making use of the Freedom of Information Act to acquire internal state files. The film also features interviews with academics, government officials, veterans, and industry players including Oliver Stone."
Directed by Roger Stahl...
Thanks for the link. I'll be watching it tonight!
I think you'll find it worth your while.
I'm now watching the films they alluded to in the doc..at least the ones available at my library (which was the majority of them).
I remember seeing the first Top Gun years ago and thinking it was military propaganda. No doubt it's gotten way worse with the more recent movies.
There is another one that everyone should be required to view called "While the Rest of Us Die" "Secrets of the Shadow Government". I found it on the "Tubi" app.
The differences in matters peripheral to the Empire are intentional, as it gives us peons something to argue about, the resolution of which doesn't affect the Empire one whit.
The things that matter to the Empire either never get one the ballot, or only in the most peripheral way. "Corporate Imperialist Muppet X favors simultaneously attacking Russia, Iran and China while Corporate Imperialist Muppet Y only wants to attack one at a time."
Then, when an acceptable corporate imperialist Muppet is chosen, the MSM choruses that The Voice Of The People Has Spoken!
Hmm. A US Empire that cares nothing about 'Americans', dumping them into an expanding & deepening dystopia. I venture to suggest that it's not the US in charge. Let's see. the bottom line is always about [imaginary] money! Let's examine how it is possible for a country like the US that owes so much yet is able to borrow any amount of funds to pursue warfare. Their bankers must like what the US is doing because if I was their banker I'd have declared them bankrupt many moons ago. https://www.worldometers.info/us-debt-clock/ The emperor doing all the damage to our world owns banks, very big banks and furthermore has no allegiance to any particular country save perhaps one and it certainly isn't the USofA.
For the Empire, its own citizens are at most bodies who are needed to man the ranks and buy the tchotchkes, and at worst an inconvenience to be grudgingly tolerated.
I agree completely with the sentiment of what you say, but I must quibble about whether I, as a U.S. citizen, am therefore a citizen of the Empire. Yes, the Empire operates substantially (but not entirely) from within the dark agencies of the U.S. government, and from within a strata/faction of the U.S. military, and from within the boardrooms of Dow 500 American corporations. The Empire is funded mainly by U.S. taxpayers. And most of the people who visibly seem to have their hands on the levers of global cultural, political, and economic power are Americans. But does that make the vast majority of rank-and-file Americans citizens of the Empire? I would submit that the U.S. is every bit as much a client state of the Empire as EU member states, the U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea (which is not an exhaustive list of client states). We American citizens have no more benefit of imperial largess than the citizens of any of the other client states. In fact, we suffer most under the Empire’s financial burden, and we have far more internal colonies—areas of resource extraction and polluting industries—than most other client states.
I suggest the status of citizens in all current Imperial client states is much more akin to the status of slaves in the Greek and Roman precursor empires. (Those slave systems, btw, were much more complex than the chattel slavery with which we Americans are most familiar.) We are not allowed to create, entertain, or popularize many terms or concepts related to our covert slave status within the Imperial hierarchy, since we are not even allowed to acknowledge the existence of the Empire. However, the terms “debt slaves” and “wage slaves” are fair descriptions of our status. Actual Imperial citizenship is most akin to George Carlin’s Big Club, “and we ain’t in it.”
These Capitalist bankers seem to always be running out of other people's money.
They don't mind you thinking that. What is of the essence is that the banksters money is always the property of the banksters. We're talking *bank*notes & numbers plucked from the air in bank accounts. That [imaginary] money has been borrowed into existence. You yourself cannot create *bank* money as that would be counterfeit & would attract the maximum ire from the bankster class. They can do whatever they want with their [rigged] brand of money. What they don't want you to know is that it is possible for us to have our very own interest-free money once we've reclaimed our communities. https://www.complementarycurrency.org/ or even a Treasury backed, country-wide issue in the UK as Jeremy Corbyn fatally noted: https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/46238 Usury is the fundamental problem & all interest is usury. Their money is born with it & we've been sleepwalking into their confidence trickster trap.
In debt to whom, Pluto? Public debt is merely the other side of private assets. That is a dollar-for-dollar accounting identity, not a policy matter. That "debt" is to nothing more than arithmetic itself, and does not need to be "repaid". If anything, we already paid it.
Here in the UK, from time to time whenever it pleases the ruling class to have a laugh, we have to pay back the [imaginary] National 'Debt'. They generally call it 'austerity'. I expect the USofA to feel a major version of this pain in the not too distant future when the international banksters decide that the USofA has outlived its usefulness to their empire. Don't forget you & any children you may have will have to be billed for all that Covid rubbish on top. Debt slavery on a massively depopulated planet is the game and it's a long game that's finally near to a result. If we don't react soon then those confidence tricksters peddling usurious but imaginary money stand to beat the hypnotised populace taking us all down with them.
Debt is used to pay subsidies to the 1%, who buy bonds, so we can pay them twice:once for the subsidy and again for the debt.
I think we should Give Thanks for the mindnumbing levels of incompetency within the Black-Eyed Vegetable's Regime. Nuland is Liz Truss's Spiritual Sister.
When/If the US kicks off China's "Unprovoked Attack on Taiwan", they have all but ensured that they will face a UNITED ASIA. Russia's, now highly experienced military forces, Iranian, and Korean forces too, will be ENORMOUS force multipliers for China's inexperienced military.
The Pentagon is probably hoping to keep whatever the DNC is smoking away from their troops.
The whales. Greedy, bling-blinded monkeys used the greatest philosophical minds on the planet to light our homes at night. And now we are leaving uncounted mega tons of atomic waste for uncountable years just to boil water.
You HAVE to be clever-clever to be this dumb.
I've decided to join the Crazy Eighth. Our Earth's carrying capacity is at most one billion humans, so seven eighths of us will not exist in the future. The Crazy Eighth will be the ones who use less than an eighth of the water and energy we're using now, and repurposing all the stuff. We will not be distracted by arguments about which creepy war criminal should be siphoning off tax money to give to Raytheon. We will support public transport and trails, not electric cars. We will use our sick leave for guerrilla gardening. We will accumulate books and tools, and share our food and shelter with our neighbors. We will rewild our yards and parks, and take special care of trees. We will not strive, and we will not give up what time we have left for lost causes like Florida. We will not heat or cook with methane. Thank you, Caitlin, for showing us that we aren't so crazy after all.
Everyone alive that you have known and loved will not exist in another 110 years. Every generation disappears into oblivion - according to most materialists. It's all ephemeral, and for many - who suffer every day - many without much hope, pretty darn meaningless as well. Although we're told we ought to find existential meaning in one's brief existence. The logic used - however, invariably escapes me.
I'd like to ask you this - do you know/remember your ancestors? If you do, how do you think about them, in what terms? Do you try to "incorporate" them in your current life? If yes, then how?
If you answer "no" to all of the above, then why are you here? What's the point?
What's the point of all the young children born malformed? Who struggle and die an early death? What's the point of teenagers losing their lives in car accidents, dying totally unexpectedly on a sunny day on the freeway, or a road near their house?
What's the point of the hundred thousand Ukrainian young men and women who have already lost their lives in a conflict most of us knew they could not win? That most of us knew they were simply being ordered to the front line as cattle to a certain slaughter? What was the point of their lives? Of many of them raising families?
What is the point of deeply caring for a reality that you only exist in temporarily? What is the point of caring about a future in which you will not exist at all? What is the point of you caring, if every day you wake up hungry - or every day you work two jobs and go home bone weary, and still cannot pay your bills, and just recently, the US healthcare system denied your father the medical treatment he needed to adjust his heart valve.
What is the point of suffering on a road that goes nowhere? That leads nowhere? What is the point of growth that leads to an absolute dead end? WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT?
Who the fuck cares about one's "ancestors" when your daughter lies dying in the street. When everything you loved, that was the center of your life - disappears into an uncaring oblivion forever. Who the fuck cares about "ancestors" then?
I guess your rant amounts to answering "no". Then I'll repeat the question - why are YOU still here? Is there no bridge tall enough nearby to jump off?
You didn’t repeat the question.
First you asked “why are you here?”.
Then you asked, “why are you “still” here?”.
Here because mommy and daddy had intercourse without birth control.
Still here cause ain’t died yet.
Simple stuff. Like freedom of expression.
My first question assumed "here now". Intercourse had nothing to do with it.
Good question. It certainly isn't because of what materialist know-it-all assholes believe.
Dear Jamenta,
Your questions have jarred me out of my complacency. I have been considering Wendell Berry's framing of our acts as exploitative or nurturing, and yours are nurturing. Thank you. In his book What Are People For, he says, "The grace that is the health of creatures can only be held in common. In healing the scattered members come together. In health the flesh is graced, the holy enters the world." So it is only by refusing to look away from suffering that we begin to heal. Thank you for showing me that.
"If people really understood just how much suffering and destruction is unleashed by US foreign policy"
OH, come off it, just the other day Sec State Blinken said,
“Every single place that this Wagner group has gone, death, destruction and exploitation have followed.”
I believe he then was about to say...
But everywhere WE go, peace, democracy, prosperity and justice prevail.
You forgot about the sunscreen- AOC warned us about a few days ago.
You can't forget about the sunscreen. Sunscreen will save us all from the climate emergency. It will end all wars and elect all Dems... Expensive, imported sunscreen obviously is what life is all about, according to AOC.
Sigh ...
This is a well-argued piece that addresses the fact that the most greedy, selfish, powerful humans control life on Earth. The rest of us shouldn't let them. Thank you for your brilliant planet-crier role, Caitlin.
Not that he excludes them, but Jesus knew the realities when he said, 'hardly ever will a rich man enter the kingdom of heaven.'
Christianity supports the Status Quo of the rich controlling this money loving and serving World and discounts that part of Christ's teaching having so many references in the Book they say you have to follow.
The US is the Biggest Arms Merchant in the History of Nations and most Christian America will not change the system even with these express words in their Bibles, "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying: 'Not by military force and not by physical strength, but by My spirit,' says the Lord of Hosts."
I LOVE the last sentence: We are stupid!
Exactly and I see a whole lot of politicians who are more so then others!
Sums it up nicely, doesn't it?
The US wouldn't even need to be a force for good, just do no harm.
Kinda like Google - do no evil. But instead, Google turns out to be one of the most evil companies in the world.
All these social media companies got started, like the internet, as 'sources of free speech'. The reality is they were never intended to be more than cash cows. So any threat to the bottom line is met with outrage and psuedointellectual excuses for repression.
Yeah, both based on the concept (if not the words) of the Hippocratic Oath. But, it only matters if you actually do it.
"Do no" is about the most instruction that Westerners can be trusted to perform without making a moral passion play out of it. Maybe it's time to burn the classics and their love = war ideology for fuel and to improve the material lot of the world.
"The inner lives of cetaceans are complete mysteries to us."
As well they should be! Can you imagine humans pushing themselves into the thought processes of whales? We'd be trying to sell them on how we had to pollute their habitats, how we had to start pointless and endless wars to grab resources from each other, killing everyone and everything in our paths as we go, and how we had to hunt and poison their kind to extinction for the good of the "economy". I can hear the oligarchs now: "It's nothing personal, whales, but the US Empire knows what's best for the likes of your kind--no matter how big your brain is or how beautiful your whale songs are."
Let the mystery remain. #SaveTheWhales and #EatTheRich instead.
Oh I like that idea!
Heck, I can't even push myself into the thought processes of AOC - little alone whales.
An important essay, should be on interest to many here:
The New York Times Does a Hatchet Job on the Anti-War Movement
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/11/the-new-york-times-does-a-hatchet-job-on-the-anti-war-movement/
Gore Vidal: “The late Murray Kempton once noted that although the New York Times likes to pose as being above the battle, this position has never stopped the Times, once the battle's fought, from sneaking onto the field and shooting the wounded.”
Vladimir Putin: “If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.”
Noam Chomsky: ”Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. Media.”
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956): “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
William Casey (CIA Director 1981-1987): “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
One positive in all of this, from an awareness perspective: the Fact of Duopoly has never been more apparent, which means that some of the fictive screens are increasingly threadbare; the negative, of course, is the reflexive attempt of the System to replace their flimsy fabrics of division with steel-trap doors--and the Rehab all begins with the Propaganda...
We're stupid when it comes to values - but diabolically clever at the business of destruction, with total annihilation as the big but somewhat still obscure objective.
What do you make of RFKjr? Will he be another empire lacky if successful or something else?
He is from a US political Dynasty. Would have imbibed Corruption from his mother's milk.
Is TOTALLY loyal to Zionism.
A POTUS Brother West (Either of those candidates) he will NOT be. Imho. Sadly. :(
Disappointing given his legacy. Waste of potential.
Listen to him, if you like him join him. The least he’ll do is make it hard for Byegone to get back in. And maybe he’ll expose the Circular Firing Squad for the ignorant dropouts they are. You’ll notice how he doesn’t cater to the the Left’s fire and brimstone rhetoric. Probably because he doesn’t need them. They don’t vote anyway and are proud of dumping electoral politics, so why should he listen to them. He’s pursuing the same course with Israel as JFK did with Russia and yes Max Blumenthal is all upset about it, but Max does not have a solution, he just has criticisms. Criticisms have not helped the Palestinians EVER! Maybe RFK can with back channels.
You have to admit there is a problem before you can fix it. RFK Jr. is not even willing to admit there is a problem. In fact, he appears deeply ignorant of the entire Israeli apartheid government over there. By the way, Max Blumenthal is not the only journalist who has written about RFK Jr.'s profound ignorance - Chris Hedges recently dropped a substack post on the very same subject.
The reason why less and less "Lefties" are taking RFK Jr. seriously is because he's appearing more and more like a typical Democrat i.e. someone who will in the end, tow the lie for a deeply corrupt party, and be a typical member of the oligarchy club, which most Americans have no membership to. It's a big club, but you ain't in it.
That's what I see also.
Just another arrogant fool making money from his unearned reputation: "He is famous for being well-known", not for any constructive activity.
Nobody knows, of course, what he will be like if elected. And he is far from perfect. (See, for example, Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté's conversation about him on the "Bobby and the Lobby" episode of Grayzone Live.) But on Ukraine (and various other subjects) he seems pretty good.
Chris Hedges most recent article on JFK Jr's views on Palestine - is one of the most scathing and informed articles I have read in some time: https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/robert-f-kennedy-jr-the-israel-lobbys?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=778851&post_id=135969438&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
If it is harder on RFK Jr than Max and Aaron's conversation, it must be pretty hard!
Chris writes so well, and backs everything up with an encyclopedic recital of documented facts - it makes me jealous of his obvious talent, intellectually, and the capacity to write so convincingly well, and paint pictures the way he does. One of his more impressive articles too.