Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Americans: healthcare please US government: Sorry did you say billions of dollars for ethnic cleansing in the middle east? Americans: no, healthcare
Oops. Guess I better hide -- or burn -- my modern English translations of Tom Paine's "Common Sense", Rousseau's "Social Contract" and Antonio Gramschi's Prison Notebooks (oh no, wait, I read that one in the original Italian). If discovery of an Arabic translation of Mein Kampf can justify a genocide, heaven knows what my Fascist government might do to me for harboring these works in my personal library of rebellion. Democratic Republic. The Bill of Rights. Representative government. Spazzatura! (Rubbish)
As a direct cause of genocide, “Mein Kampf” pales in comparison to the Hebrew Bible (aka, the Old Testament).
The Hebrew Bible is a handbook on genocide and mass murder (not to mention divinely ordered child sacrifice, human sacrifice, slavery, incest, and rape). How could any rational, humane person base their morality on it? Just a brief list of moral atrocities include:
* YHWH’s destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 18-19)
* YHWH’s infanticide of Egyptian firstborn sons, which is still commemorated during Passover (Exodus 11-12)
* The genocide of Canaanites under Moses and Joshua (Numbers 21:2-3; Deuteronomy 20:17; Joshua 6:17, 21)
* The genocide of the Amalekites (1 Samuel 15)
* The Flood (Genesis 6-8)
This is hardly an exhaustive list. In fact, it barely scratches the surface.
How can anyone now be surprised by the infanticide/genocide of Palestinians by Israelis and supported by U.S. Jewish and Christian zionists?
I'm including Sodom & Gomorrah-type morality. They were also quite pleased to slaughter one another when it suited them. The operant principles are certainly violence and death. There are probably other better examples, but I confess to not having opened a bible in decades, so I'm certainly no scholar or anything close
Yeah thanks, I realize that, but not being Jewish or that well informed (my bad) on the foundational texts of Judaism, I have mostly the old testament as reference. What I do know from Jewish friends is that the ethos of Judaism in those texts is not really consistent with the ethos of Zionism.
It's true there are many cases of genocide one can point to in the Bible. And we have Netanyahu quoting a line from this 2000 year old, dusty book - in order to provide yet another wacko justification for leading his government into mass murder.
But I think one needs to be careful on identifying the root causes of this genocide (or any genocide for that matter). And in this particular case not all those who believe in the Judaic tradition are supporting this genocide - including some very prominent Jews such as Finkelstein. In addition, the founders of Zionism - many were Atheists.
To me - this genocide has more to do with a land grab and psychological bigotry and the psychological need to view one's self as a superior race - and "the other" as the enemy. This psychological trait can be religious oriented, but it can just as much be Secular oriented - such as the American genocide of the Indians (manifest destiny) - or the last two World Wars which were secular killing100 million people - or the secular purges of Mao Tse Tung & Pol Pot, or the secular purge of Stalin and his Gulag camps murdering millions.
Painting a broad stroke toward religious spirituality, attempting to make it look like it is the source of all evil in the world, is not intellectually palatable or rational. Spirituality like Secularism can be the source of evil, but both also can be the source of good. One really needs to look at the psychological underpinnings of both valid approaches to life.
Yes, it is necessary to sharply discriminate between powerful psychopaths in high places who protect themselves by falsely claiming an association with religion, and those who actively and sincerely uphold ethical traditions they derive from the same religion. Aaron Mate, Katie Halper, Max Blumenthal, Miko Peled, Norman Finkelstein, Gilad Atzmon and many others doing superb journalism outside the mainstream.
I agree. I read the Hebrew Bible, but I read it critically, which is how we must read anything. If I were compiling a canon of scripture—which I wouldn’t—Ecclesiastes would definitely be in it. The main problem currently is not religious Judaism or Christianity, it is Zionism. Zionism has stolen both the Jewish and Christian identities. I’m a fan of Finkelstein, too. Also, our religions are only part of our cultural cosmos and (only obliquely related to our spirituality). Politics, economics, ethics (etc.) all play their roles in our current broken world. I distinguish between Zionist Jews and Christians and non-Zionist Jews and Christians. Also, Israel, like all theocracies of which I’m aware, is an intolerable political creation that any supporter of the First Amendment should decry on a purely political basis (not to mention boycott and divest).
What weapons did Israel have in OT times? What weapons do they have today? They operate the USA as a colony, a brothel, an ATM. And they are positioning their assets for seizure of Greater Israel and for the decimation of Arab states. And no matter what provocation is necessary to force the US to do IsEvil’s bidding, they will stage the false-flag events, as many and as bloody as necessary, to force the US the to do IsEvils dirty deeds.
Strange comment. Those of us who cultivate multi-linguality make it a point to read in the several languages in which we attempt to sustain fluency. Only three for me (soltanto tre per me), but for polyglots like a friend of mine, it's six, and he makes it a point to read and listen to podcasts in all of them. The world may seem overwhelmingly English because of the historical dominance of the UK and present bullying of the US, but part of the allure di parlando lingue strane è di dire "va fa in culo" a tutte cose inglese (of speaking foreign languages is to say " go eff yourself" to all things English).
Geez,. Did you see the word "incorrect" in my response? NO, you didn't. His opinion is fine. My response is that plenty of other English-speaking folks read in several languages, and for some of us it's part of a desire to break the stranglehold English has over the world -- because, for me anyway, it refers too much to the stranglehold of the warlord US empire (formerly warlord British empire), which as an American, I oppose. That's all.
We are seeing living proof of just how urgently we need to establish the multipolar world where there is balance of power, reciprocity and accountability--the unipolar world has been an absolute disaster and we are seeing the end result. No single nation can be allowed to dominate the world as this is a recipe for fascism and everything that goes with it . There must always be countervail and accountability, a balance of power among major powers where no single nation can act unilaterally.
The 60th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination is November 22; his legacy is still with us and we need to act on it.
He said wisely things don't happen, they are made to happen and we all bear responsibility accordingly.
He also said Mankind's problems are self-created, and therefore we should be able to solve them.
His legacy is completely available to us and is more urgent and relevant than it was in his time .
The insurrection that killed him and so many others is still controlling the US agenda.
America and the world today might be very different if he had served two full terms. He foresaw then what is happening now, so too did Martin Luther King and so many others.
Unfortunately for America there were dark forces after WW ll that fell in love with war and fascism and still prevail today. They are the ones that killed the American Dream.
Err, Kennedy, the man who initiated US military intervention in Vietnam. Who launched the Bay of Pigs putch in Cuba;who bought us to the brink of World War 3 with missile crisis. That's before we get to his links to the mob to steal the election.
You are quite right about the need for a multi polar world order. But you need to do a bit more research on JFK.
He sent only ADVISORS to Vietnam and was in the process of deescalating when LBJ, Mossad, and the CIA orchestrated his assassination.
As for the Cuban missile crisis: well, Kennedy and Nikita Kruschev were willing and able to negotiate an end to it, were they not?
I was a young child when JFK perished. We haven’t had anything close to the likes of him since.
Kennedy and Johnson detested one another. The later purportedly told his mistress in Dallas, “That sonofabitch has humiliated me for the last time!” Two hours later, Kennedy was dead.
All these Americans coming out to defend the memory of JFK.
That so many who consider themselves "progressive" feel compelled to defend this disgusting man speaks volumes for the intelligence of the average citizen of the Land of the Free.
just more american mythology. his actual record as a commie hunter and warmonger just evaporated into the ether. you see the same thing with Obama supporters.
No one is saying JFK was perfect. He certainly had flaws. But we haven’t seen the likes of him since.And unlike the latest assholes to squat in the WH, he actually served in the military.
No, You need to do a bit more research! He did not initiate the Viet Nam situation, he “inherited it”!!! None of these “Nakbas” arise overnight. Viet Nam was a western colonial enterprise very similar to Palestine’s western colonial adventure only it began with the French and not the British (research Balfour Declaration). For more insight into Viet Nam research “role of French in Indochina” To understand Palestine - research “role of post world war 1 western powers in the Middle East. You can’t explain any of these Nakbas
One problem with all of that, Vietnam started in 1955, long before Kennedy was elected. He sent 500 more troops after his election so yes he contributed to it but Eisenhower started it.
The collaboration between Eisenhower and Ngo Dinh Diem in south Vietnam really marks the beginning of the war.
make that increasing US troops almost twentyfold from 900 to 16000. he supported it, in fact i cant think of one us war during the Ikie administration that he opposed. can you?
I heard from several sources that he was about to pull out everything from Viet Nam shortly before he was assassinated!?? I also heard that he had informed Ben Gurion that he (Kennedy) would not allow Israel ( eg US $$$$) to continue developing nuclear armaments alone in the Middle East! Also, again shortly before being assassinated he was in detains with Nasser - offering help with infrastructure and friendly relations, also shortly before being assassinated towards the end of what, undoubtedly have been his first term in office!
I politely suggest you do more research. Kennedy made errors but he also went through a conversion once he saw the threat to America. I can tell from your comment your knowledge is superficial. Try reading "JFK and the Unspeakable" by James W. Douglas one of the best books you will ever read and one of the most important . Try reading his quotes readily available on Google. There is a lot to know about him, one of the greatest Americans ever.
His father was a boollegger and was sympathetic to Germany before WW2.
He was a serial cheat to his wife.
His election victory was effected by bribery and the use of organized crime, via the good offices of Frank Sinatra.
The mob, apparently, were much miffed when Robert Kennedy (probably the only member of that family with an ounce of principle) reneged on the deal his father and brother had brokered, and went after the mob.
Assassination was the best thing for JFKs legacy. It saved the dirt that would have emerged later.
You Americans consume hagiographic biographies of your heroes. Along with saluting the flag every morning with your ham and eggs.
No wonder your country is such a threat to the rest of the world.
He prevented the world from being nuked, he stopped Eisenhower's CIA planned invasion and overthrow of Cuba by withholding support during the operation which resulted in Cuba winning that battle and Castro taking power.
If Kennedy had followed the CIA plan Cuba would have fallen and would be a US territory now.
he only "prevented the world from being nuked" by backing down from the threat which Russia responded to by placing missiles in Cuba. after making sure that his retreat was not publicised so his US reputation as a warmonger was not damaged. The Bay of pigs was indeed carried out, after JFK changed his mind, and had nothing at all to do with Castro coming into power. Kennedy did not remove the missiles pointing at Russia, which resulted in Russia placing missiles pointing at the US, a quid pro quo in response to US aggression.
he greatly increased tensions in the Cold War lying about USSR nuclear "superiority" in nukes whcih required a great enhancement in US nuclear forces. he didn't involve the US in Vietnam, but he greatly increased the number of US troops in Vietnam. the advisor pretense was maintained. He provoked the Cuban Missile crisis with the USSR, then backed down, but made sure his warmonger status in the US was maintained by keeping his retreat secret. He withdrew the missiles from Turkey, which is what the USSR was objecting to and which caused it to respond in the same manner by putting missiles in Cuba. that fact was not made public till long after his administration. Johnson kept the Kennedy team in large part, and they were enthusiastic supporters of the war, like Kennedy.
he sent US military forces to intervene in Laso and Thailand. he was a longtime supporter of US military expansion in Congress.
another thing, what did Kennedy do in Congress about the Israeli theft of Palestinian land and the murder and ethnic cleansing by Israel, and what did he do as president about that as it continued.
You could also add that he demanded to put men on the moon before the end of the decade to show the Soviets. They could not manage that, of course, so they staged it.
Yeah, it sounds like somebody read Sy Hersh's hatchet job (for which he was paid like a million dollars for) and now think he knows everything about JFK. Plenty of scholarship came out showing that Kennedy was planning to draw down the troops in Vietnam and was working to deescalate. He had to work slowly and carefully because the Washington establishment including many in his administration were strongly tied to the imperialist deep state. Rather than talking about the documentary evidence and the policy, these critics focus on the philandering and his father's alleged mob connections, even though that has nothing to do with the policies under discussion.
Once they murdered Kennedy, Johnson immediately surged the troop commitment. Shortly after, the Indonesian massacre, coup in Brazil, and blank checks to Israel.
LBJ inherited his concern for the Jews from his family. His aunt Jessie Johnson Hatcher, a major influence on LBJ, was a member of the Zionist Organization of America.
He was the the son of Rebekah Baines and Samuel Johnson, and grandson by his mother of Ruth Huffman, attributed his philo-Semitism to a family inheritance: “Take care of the Jews, ‘God’s Chosen People’. Consider them your friends and help them any way you can,” he remembered his grandfather saying.
LBJ is the only U.S. president ever to have inaugurated a synagogue — in Austin, 1 month after becoming President.
Both JFK and RFK murders have at least two things in common: Johnson and "israel". First, consider the fact that they precisely frame the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, who controlled both investigations: Johnson became president the day of John’s death, and he retired a few months after Robert’s death.
Not going to co-sign onto all the "Jew" blame. There are far too many honorable anti-Zionist Jews who put themselves on the line to stand in solidarity with Palestinians. If the Israeli tails wags the American dog, it's because the dog wants to do it. LBJ is far more complex than just as a foil to the Kennedy Brothers. The assasination orders also came from higher up, amongst "former" clients of Allen Dulles, with WASP old money.
I am not blaming all the Jews, but the fact of the matter is that the Jewish elite did engineer those wars. In 1933 those elites wrote a newspaper article: "Judea declares war on Germany", calling for boycotts etc., when nothing had actually happened against the Jews yet.
As for LBJ, he was a rabid zio dog, and even if the orders for the Kennedy murders came from higher up, he voluntarily cooperated to put it mildly.
And that dog refused assistance to the USS Liberty and dropped the idea of a Dimona check, to name but a few examples.
Remember, since every human has weaknesses, personal flaws, areas of ignorance and makes/made mistakes, NO MAN EVER TRIED TO DO ANYTHING GOOD AND NO MORALITY BASED ACTIONS WERE EVER ACCOMPLISHED BY ANY LEADER, SO QUIT TRYING TO EMULATE ANY WHO SEEM TO HAVE TRIED RIGHT NOW, BEFORE YOUR MISGUIDED HERO WORSHIP CUTS INTO IMPORTANT PEOPLES PROFITS.
not sure who you are replying to, but taking the world to the brink of nuclear war by threatening the USSR and then finally backing down when the world was at the brink is not morally admirable.
When Kennedy pursued back channel diplomacy with Khrushchev to deescalate, when almost his entire cabinet and all his generals were pushing hard for war?
I agree wholeheartedly. I still believe JFK was one of, if not the best president this country has ever had. This man in my opinion was for peace and sought out peaceful solutions to conflicts. He wasn’t perfect, but he was a real leader, not like these warmongering, war criminals & brain dead politicians we have today. I do believe President Kennedy is rolling over in his grave as is most of our founding fathers in response to this genocide in Gaza and all the interventionist wars the U.S. gets involved in/starts.
Silly me. I thought the United Nations was created to enable a multi-polar world. At least to level the playing field. And yet we have Israel, a presumed little guy, thumbing its nose at America, demanding and receiving support - financial, technical, military, and verbal.
It was Roosevelt's dream to establish world peace and the UN was the organization to do the job. Unfortunately Washington's pays it bills. It has to be moved out of New York and democratized before it can be really effective. As the new multipolar world emerges it might be abandoned and reconstituted by member states to eliminate US control of it. Many new organizations are emerging, BRICS is just one of several.
Or a one world government with checks and balances, but this is failing in the US even due to collusion. Nothing will change until something very bad happens.
The "bad" is happening right now and change is under way. In North America we are in a propaganda ghetto cut off from the dynamic changes taking place in the East. We in the WEST are in serious danger of being left in the dust. We just can't get our heads around the fact we only represent 13% of the world's population.
Average westerners don’t understand and are too distracted to consider how any of this effects them. Nothing bad has happened to them yet other than some inflation. The wars are an attempt to protect the unipolar order…because to do otherwise implies a major restructuring of wealth.
We're almost as cruel against our homeless as certain aparteid regimes. In fact it's amazing how similar some of the tactics used in Gaza are to those used to remove homeless encampments. The only difference is that Biden hasn't gotten around to giving the police $100 billion for white phosphorus and bunker busters, yet.
“...powers that rule over us...”. Thank you for not calling them ‘our leaders’. The former is what they are and calling them “leaders” is a legitimization of their true nature.
Supporting Israel at this point is simply another form of white supremacy.
Them saying anyone who doesn't agree is an anti-semite is their tell.
Like if there had been a slave-uprising back in the day in the U.S., and the authorities responded by killing all the slaves -- if you disagreed with that they might say you were un-American or anti-Christian.
It's the same level of hypocrisy.
The more they try to shove it down everyone's throats the more obvious it becomes.
Racism and anti-racism is a dog whistle used to manipulate the weak, especially using the term white supremacy - Semites are not Caucasian and thus cannot be "white-supremacists" - it's just lazy to use the racism/racist meme.
I said it was another form of white supremacy meaning it is the same mechanism, the same playbook. I was drawing an analogy -- perhaps I was not clear.
The de-humanization of the "enemy", and the condemnation of anyone who disagrees was the line I was drawing.
It is not dis-similar to the U.S. slavery state which the U.S. still has not adequately addressed.
it is nothing like American slave States in any way, slaves were not told they were free like Palestinians, the relationship between slaves and owners was an economic one not a territorial and religious one. Your analogy to white-supremacy and American slavery only exposes your own racism.
Palestinians were told they are free? In what Universe are they free?
Slavery did not have righteous, religious overtones in which their owners did not believe themselves to be superior humans while the slaves were nothing more than animals? Which America are you thinking of?
The relationship between slaves and their owners was just a good 'ol economic partnership. Arm in arm to support American Capitalism. Are you high?
I am racist? Who am I racist against?
If you are notBob, you are also notBeing-very-forthcoming about your agenda.
When I see John Kirby weep publicly over 1500 dead Israeli's, and yet he and the rest of the U.S. government cheers over half a million dead Ukrainians and Russians, I have to ask myself, "What is wrong with this picture?"
Obviously, they value certain people's lives more than others.
Now, I don't know what YOU call that, but it IS a form of supremacy. They, and apparently you believe that Israeli lives are more important than Palestinian lives, more important than Ukrainian lives, more important than Russian lives.
I don't like nor dislike Israelis or Jews any more or less than I like anyone else. They, we are all just people.
Everyone has equal value and the right to exist.
Murder is murder.
And calling any group of people "animals" is without argument, a form of supremacy.
You are obviously racist against white people, every reference you have made has been based in white hatred, white guilt and the evil of the American slave trade. You are obviously obsessed with the guilt you associate with white Europeans. I lived in Africa, Ghana specifically for 5 years in the late 90s, I can tell you from that deeply humbling experience that Africans see slavery as their own sin not something that white Americans visited upon them. Tribes enslaved each other and traded each others peoples long before Europeans came to visit and long before America was founded.
You embellish and twist everything I have said to fit your narrative, I don't need to communicate with someone that dishonest,
Exactly. What's going on now in Gaza will be seen like Germany in the second world war.
For Americans, instead of voting for Democrats or Republicans -- more of the same old war machine -- why not vote for Cornel West? I wish we had someone like him to vote for in Canada.
He would like to, I'm sure, but its not in the script the Dems gave him, and he lost his balls and his spine back in 2020, when he capitulated to Biden and the establishment. Now he's just a party mascot. Uncle Bernie's Old-Fashioned Genuine Imitation Progressivism™: Now with more corporatism
Parenti pegged Sanders 25 years ago. He was always full on American imperialism with a few irrelevant leftish flourishes. Can't believe I fell for it in 2016.
Bernie Sanders is controlled opposition and a pedophile. The guy is crap, never stands up for his principles when it comes to the crunch; in fact, it shows he is unprincipled.
I know that being a terrible person with blackmail-able disconduct is now a must for higher office (hence whenever a wealthy politician such as Edwards or Spitzer tries to do the right thing, they're immediately sunk by sex scandals - even though we know Biden is more more corrupt and abusive towards women and continues to skate), but I am not aware of this angle.
If there was any sex evidence against Sanders, wouldn't they have used that against him, rather than have Warren accuse him of sexism (weak), the Iowa steal (really obvious), and getting everyone to drop out to endorse Biden (real peek behind the curtain)?
Listen to this moving video testimony from Jennifer Guskin, who was abused as a child. IAt the 45’:57” she names a number of high-placed people, inc. Sanders.
Sorry. This seems like a shitcoating operation. Jewish Rockerfeller family? Throw in the Rothschild dogwhistle to obscure the conspiracies in plain sight.
Again, if they had that kind of goods on Sanders, they would have used it instead of the extremely hamfisted approach they used. It also runs counter to everything known about Sanders. He's a spineless liberal who wants to be liked by official DC more than do what's right. There's no need to throw in accusations by sketchy outfits.
I'm not saying that Bernie is not morally equivalent to a pedo. Providing official cover for genociding children and targeting doctors and journalists is the lowest of low. Lower than serial killers and kiddie rapists.
Lots of otherwise nice left leaning Americans still think Obama was/is great. Most people just can't be bothered to look at the ugly truth. They much prefer the comfortable lie.
Was any proof offered that it actually WAS a copy of that book translated into Arabic? No, we must take IsraHell’s word for it …ah ha ha ha ha!
I have a copy of Mein Kampf myself. As a history buff, I thought it important to read it. My forte is actually the Civil War; I’ve read many volumes on Confederate generals, but that doesn’t mean I support slavery.
Good question! You probably ask about the content and not the style? I started reading an annotated version of it but the direct translation was so bad, the sentences so 'thick' and heavy and baroque, very hard to read. Subordinate sentences galore. I found it a real task to wade through the bombastic writing. Guess in those days this kind of German literature was normal. These days, we would write it very differently.
Sorry Hitler was NO WRITER, he just babbled along and otherwise he was a CRIMINAL killer who did not care about anyone (my favorite psychiatrist Erich Fromm characterized Hitler as a typical case of necrophilia -and not the traditional way you find when you google it, Fromm explained it as a whole setting of a dark and dangerous character !)
Thank you, I am an Austrian citizen, I read a lot about the time (my parents lived thru it) and also about the disaster after WW1 (injustice done as always, that leads to more catastrophes ...), there are always 2 sides and good things about persons etc. so I DO NOT DISLIKE Hitler at all, but it certainly ended in a total catastrophe for millions and millions that had no say also. WW1 bred WW2 etc etc. I was also 'trained' to be extremely Isr friendly (because of our 'history') but I am cured now (humans are disgusting creatures!). And after WW2 the communist hysteria came over us (everything just trumped up) - there is a bad nasty Russian behind every rock (my mother had only the best experiences with Russian soldiers after the war, she lived in the Russian zone of Vienna, my father was POW on Crimea and only said: the Russians did not have anything to eat either ... ie he WAS NOT MISTREATED etc.). For me, being 66, I am pretty hopeless and disillusioned, just want to enjoy a few more 'nice' years and off to ...) Best to you!
Both WW1 and WW2 were engineered by the UK, and initially Hitler's Germany received funding from the U.S.
Like you, I am 66, was raised in a pro-Jewish/pro-"israle" way, and like you, I am fully cured, unlike you I am not from Austria nor from Germany.
As far as I am concerned, today's Germans do not carry any responsibility for what happened nor do they owe anything any more to ZioNAZI Rothschildistan, but they cannot get over this collective guilt and need to atone till the end of times. Unfortunately, the current crop of imbecile politicians in Germany won't change that.
Not sure if you meant to write "I DO NOT DISLIKE Hitler at all".
To acknowledge the man for who he is - as opposed to the caricature propagandists try to make out of him in order to unwittingly or knowingly ensure survival of his ideas - does not equate liking him.
If something walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it is a duck. His actions produced evil, so he is evil. It's really hard to argue against it.
The thing is there are many translations and at the time the English translations lacked his most egregious statements as not to turn English-speaking public against him.
So the challenge is to find the right translation first, if it exists. Best would be to find an original in German and read that.
Israel and Jerusalem of old were destroyed completely in 70 AD! What is left is a contrived secular culture connected at the hip to the money whores that exist in good ole USA. Follow the money trail.
The Mein Kampf farce was on the Sunday morning BBC flagship politics programme, fronted by establishment stooge Laura Kuensberg- last seen being caught off camera giving her opinion on Jeremy Corbin. I never watch this program or any of the other neo con promos for imperialism, and now genocide, disguised as political shows on the UK media.
Uh, there wasn't a third bomb available "in theater". There WAS another core, back in USA- But it ended up getting recycled after two famous, deadly criticality accidents contaminated it with undesirable fission products.
As surreal as things are getting, there finally may be a use for emoticons.
I've made the opposite mistake as well, assuming any comment/post THAT over the top in repeating various propaganda messages, "factually challenged" and/or balls out irrational HAD to be satire... Much to the puzzlement of the authors!
Caitlin so clearly recognizes the insanity and depravity that is being shown to the world. I have posted here before about this, but the matter is too important to not do it again. I think we must change the dominant narrative, otherwise we just continue on the path of destruction and hatred. Given the craven behavior of the western governments, we have to look to alternatives to stopping the bombing of Gaza. It might not work, but maybe it's worth trying. I came up with this petition, that is outside of the current narrative, that I hope might have some effect in stopping the bombing in Gaza. This is not instead of whatever else we are doing to try to change this situation and stop the killing. Please sign and share if you can.
How dare you read that filth . 🔥books🔥books🔥books. ok enough isnt it the Point to See the sausage being made so we dont make sausage from people ever again ? Or something like that ?
Im only flipant because this is braking my brain. Ive been antiwar since Vietnam 🤷♀️im fuckin exhausted w/ these monsters. Destrtoyed desecrated Baby’s body parts do not stop them. I dont want to be a part of that club.
The stuff about babies and rape is all Zionist bullshit. Seriously, they lie early and often knowing that by the time the lies are revealed as lies, they will have manufactured consent for the latest in their serial genocides.
Not on the Empire side 🙏the Zionazi is now more programed soldier than civilian. Listen to the scores of IDF uckheads they do not see people they see targets.✋i just dont want anyone slaughtered 🩸🤷♀️especially powerlessness innocents ✌️❤️🔥
Caitlin a person who does NOT hide what she thinks and I am glad. I have always been honest and had some bad times. It is up to everyone to be honest and brave now. It's about not being trampled on and knowing who you are.
Sometimes it's hard to be the lone person crying out there but it does work.
The Israeli government is and has been a master of psyops and propaganda. Consider the large swaths of Americans who still buy into the Israeli narrative of 911.
I was watching some vid segments Tuesday evening on YouTube; Alex Christoforou and Theduran with Alex and Alexander Mercouris, and some others, some of the ones I was watching were “political,” some not. A new ad, first I had seen it, kept popping up, talking about October 7, Hamas beheading babies, etc etc, and bashing my House rep for having voted no on H.Res. 771. There was a number to call and tell them to “stand up for Israel,” etc.
The sponsor was something called “United Democracy Project,” which a simple search immediately reveals is an offshoot of AIPAC. I am going to try to call the number today and express my SUPPORT for my rep, as I did with the online contact form the other day. As I’ve said before, I don’t know much what else to do.
I am seeing constant advertisements on social media, on Google, YouRube & etc.with vague yet stirring images & messages about loving the flag, others re: standing with Israel, and yet others seemingly about Donald Trump being the second coming of George Washington (seems SOMEBODY with serious pull has a use in mind for him yet?) Huge uptick in preparatory imagery for our next holy war/pro Israel propaganda this last 5 weeks or so. It feels more and more like June of 1914 every week.
It is specific people who run Israeli and US society, who control the governments of those nations.
We know who they are, but we never talk about them. We assume collective blame which means we accuse "everyone" so that "no one" is responsible.
If we don't name names, nothing is going to change, we'll just scream at one another about voting blue or red or some rainbow colors -- even as most of us acknowledge that the electoral process is completely rigged.
Fuckstein black book nobody can find that motherfucking LIST out there nobody’s naming shit.I’m gonna start building a guillotine ,so sick of this shit
Oops. Guess I better hide -- or burn -- my modern English translations of Tom Paine's "Common Sense", Rousseau's "Social Contract" and Antonio Gramschi's Prison Notebooks (oh no, wait, I read that one in the original Italian). If discovery of an Arabic translation of Mein Kampf can justify a genocide, heaven knows what my Fascist government might do to me for harboring these works in my personal library of rebellion. Democratic Republic. The Bill of Rights. Representative government. Spazzatura! (Rubbish)
As a direct cause of genocide, “Mein Kampf” pales in comparison to the Hebrew Bible (aka, the Old Testament).
The Hebrew Bible is a handbook on genocide and mass murder (not to mention divinely ordered child sacrifice, human sacrifice, slavery, incest, and rape). How could any rational, humane person base their morality on it? Just a brief list of moral atrocities include:
* YHWH’s destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 18-19)
* YHWH’s infanticide of Egyptian firstborn sons, which is still commemorated during Passover (Exodus 11-12)
* The genocide of Canaanites under Moses and Joshua (Numbers 21:2-3; Deuteronomy 20:17; Joshua 6:17, 21)
* The genocide of the Amalekites (1 Samuel 15)
* The Flood (Genesis 6-8)
This is hardly an exhaustive list. In fact, it barely scratches the surface.
How can anyone now be surprised by the infanticide/genocide of Palestinians by Israelis and supported by U.S. Jewish and Christian zionists?
So true. The old testament always struck me as an extended history of savage internecine warfare -- a giant abattoir.
Internecine? The Talmud encourages/orders Jews to slaughter Goyim.
I'm including Sodom & Gomorrah-type morality. They were also quite pleased to slaughter one another when it suited them. The operant principles are certainly violence and death. There are probably other better examples, but I confess to not having opened a bible in decades, so I'm certainly no scholar or anything close
OK, fair enough. BTW, what it says in the Talmud is not written in the bible.
Yeah thanks, I realize that, but not being Jewish or that well informed (my bad) on the foundational texts of Judaism, I have mostly the old testament as reference. What I do know from Jewish friends is that the ethos of Judaism in those texts is not really consistent with the ethos of Zionism.
Vin, avoiding the Bible is a GOOD thing! 😉
Yes it does.
To paraphrase the great Jewish comedian Lewis Black- you Christians have this kind God. Aren’t you lucky. The God of OUR book was a PRICK.
It's true there are many cases of genocide one can point to in the Bible. And we have Netanyahu quoting a line from this 2000 year old, dusty book - in order to provide yet another wacko justification for leading his government into mass murder.
But I think one needs to be careful on identifying the root causes of this genocide (or any genocide for that matter). And in this particular case not all those who believe in the Judaic tradition are supporting this genocide - including some very prominent Jews such as Finkelstein. In addition, the founders of Zionism - many were Atheists.
To me - this genocide has more to do with a land grab and psychological bigotry and the psychological need to view one's self as a superior race - and "the other" as the enemy. This psychological trait can be religious oriented, but it can just as much be Secular oriented - such as the American genocide of the Indians (manifest destiny) - or the last two World Wars which were secular killing100 million people - or the secular purges of Mao Tse Tung & Pol Pot, or the secular purge of Stalin and his Gulag camps murdering millions.
Painting a broad stroke toward religious spirituality, attempting to make it look like it is the source of all evil in the world, is not intellectually palatable or rational. Spirituality like Secularism can be the source of evil, but both also can be the source of good. One really needs to look at the psychological underpinnings of both valid approaches to life.
Yes, it is necessary to sharply discriminate between powerful psychopaths in high places who protect themselves by falsely claiming an association with religion, and those who actively and sincerely uphold ethical traditions they derive from the same religion. Aaron Mate, Katie Halper, Max Blumenthal, Miko Peled, Norman Finkelstein, Gilad Atzmon and many others doing superb journalism outside the mainstream.
Indeed THESE are the 'RIGHTEOUS' now !
I have not seen anything from Gilad Atzmon for at least a year, I have the feeling he is concentrating on music.
I agree. I read the Hebrew Bible, but I read it critically, which is how we must read anything. If I were compiling a canon of scripture—which I wouldn’t—Ecclesiastes would definitely be in it. The main problem currently is not religious Judaism or Christianity, it is Zionism. Zionism has stolen both the Jewish and Christian identities. I’m a fan of Finkelstein, too. Also, our religions are only part of our cultural cosmos and (only obliquely related to our spirituality). Politics, economics, ethics (etc.) all play their roles in our current broken world. I distinguish between Zionist Jews and Christians and non-Zionist Jews and Christians. Also, Israel, like all theocracies of which I’m aware, is an intolerable political creation that any supporter of the First Amendment should decry on a purely political basis (not to mention boycott and divest).
What weapons did Israel have in OT times? What weapons do they have today? They operate the USA as a colony, a brothel, an ATM. And they are positioning their assets for seizure of Greater Israel and for the decimation of Arab states. And no matter what provocation is necessary to force the US to do IsEvil’s bidding, they will stage the false-flag events, as many and as bloody as necessary, to force the US the to do IsEvils dirty deeds.
Are we Americans so easily duped to permit Evil? It does seem that Evil has moved into American govt.
Yes and yes.
All mere amateurs compared to the Bolshevik Revolution.
I’ve said it before: the so-called “Bible” is nothing more than a fictional book of horror stories,undoubtedly written by Jews high on hash oil.
Again: the Brothers Grimm did it SO much better.
https://hebhjamal.substack.com/p/a-list-of-israeli-lies-propaganda
https://rumble.com/v3vhyka-merchants-of-death-war-crimes-tribunal-opening-session-11.12.23.html?link_id=1&can_id=be1af4db1e98cea2bd67516f660e257a&source=email-recording-of-opening-session-of-tribunal&email_referrer=email_2113066&email_subject=recording-of-opening-session-of-tribunal
Nice essay Caitlin, I doubt though that anyone other than the Palestinians are worried though.
I know deep in my bones that global warming is real, but I honestly never thought I'd live to see the temperature reach Farenheight 451.
Tom Paine wrote in English, no translations required or produced.
Not everyone reads in English!
Most who do read nothing else.
Strange comment. Those of us who cultivate multi-linguality make it a point to read in the several languages in which we attempt to sustain fluency. Only three for me (soltanto tre per me), but for polyglots like a friend of mine, it's six, and he makes it a point to read and listen to podcasts in all of them. The world may seem overwhelmingly English because of the historical dominance of the UK and present bullying of the US, but part of the allure di parlando lingue strane è di dire "va fa in culo" a tutte cose inglese (of speaking foreign languages is to say " go eff yourself" to all things English).
Those who speak one language fluently are becoming rare.
Doesn't mean their statement was incorrect, just means it didn't apply to you or your own knowledge.
Geez,. Did you see the word "incorrect" in my response? NO, you didn't. His opinion is fine. My response is that plenty of other English-speaking folks read in several languages, and for some of us it's part of a desire to break the stranglehold English has over the world -- because, for me anyway, it refers too much to the stranglehold of the warlord US empire (formerly warlord British empire), which as an American, I oppose. That's all.
We are seeing living proof of just how urgently we need to establish the multipolar world where there is balance of power, reciprocity and accountability--the unipolar world has been an absolute disaster and we are seeing the end result. No single nation can be allowed to dominate the world as this is a recipe for fascism and everything that goes with it . There must always be countervail and accountability, a balance of power among major powers where no single nation can act unilaterally.
The 60th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination is November 22; his legacy is still with us and we need to act on it.
He said wisely things don't happen, they are made to happen and we all bear responsibility accordingly.
He also said Mankind's problems are self-created, and therefore we should be able to solve them.
His legacy is completely available to us and is more urgent and relevant than it was in his time .
The insurrection that killed him and so many others is still controlling the US agenda.
America and the world today might be very different if he had served two full terms. He foresaw then what is happening now, so too did Martin Luther King and so many others.
Unfortunately for America there were dark forces after WW ll that fell in love with war and fascism and still prevail today. They are the ones that killed the American Dream.
The Kennedy assassination was not an insurrection, it was an executive coup d'etat.
Read David Talbot's, "The Devil's Chessboard"
@Robert Billyard
Allen Dulles was among the primary tools used in making the powers that actually rule over the "West" safe from democracy.
And then he got to wear the Warren Commission like a sock puppet.
However, it was never only HIS agenda, he was one of the minions. Look into who he and his brother worked for at their law firm before WWII.
Yeah they were some bad apples from way back.
Err, Kennedy, the man who initiated US military intervention in Vietnam. Who launched the Bay of Pigs putch in Cuba;who bought us to the brink of World War 3 with missile crisis. That's before we get to his links to the mob to steal the election.
You are quite right about the need for a multi polar world order. But you need to do a bit more research on JFK.
I’ve done much research on JFK.
He sent only ADVISORS to Vietnam and was in the process of deescalating when LBJ, Mossad, and the CIA orchestrated his assassination.
As for the Cuban missile crisis: well, Kennedy and Nikita Kruschev were willing and able to negotiate an end to it, were they not?
I was a young child when JFK perished. We haven’t had anything close to the likes of him since.
Kennedy and Johnson detested one another. The later purportedly told his mistress in Dallas, “That sonofabitch has humiliated me for the last time!” Two hours later, Kennedy was dead.
Sorry "advisor's"? Like the ones the US and British have sent to Ukraine?
Come on, I didn't come down with last night's rain. We all know that it's just a euphemism for military operatives.
Granted, Johnson was the one responsible for the way the war escalated.
Just another corrupt, war mongering POTUS only with a better PR.
A bit like Obama
All these Americans coming out to defend the memory of JFK.
That so many who consider themselves "progressive" feel compelled to defend this disgusting man speaks volumes for the intelligence of the average citizen of the Land of the Free.
Sounds like you WERE born yesterday, though.
Kennedy had no intentions of getting Amerikkkan soldiers involved in Nam. As I SAID: he was in the process of recalling the advisors!
WTF don’t you get?
I don't get how seemingly progressive people can rush to the defense of such a disgusting man.
He was a cheap con man with a glib line of patter for a gullible electorate.
Even the he wouldn't have prevailed without his father's money and the mob.
He was a Cold War warrior as his policies towards Cuba and Fidel Castro demonstrated.
just more american mythology. his actual record as a commie hunter and warmonger just evaporated into the ether. you see the same thing with Obama supporters.
Were you alive in the ‘60’s?
EVERYONE was a “cold warrior”.
No one is saying JFK was perfect. He certainly had flaws. But we haven’t seen the likes of him since.And unlike the latest assholes to squat in the WH, he actually served in the military.
Well said!
No, You need to do a bit more research! He did not initiate the Viet Nam situation, he “inherited it”!!! None of these “Nakbas” arise overnight. Viet Nam was a western colonial enterprise very similar to Palestine’s western colonial adventure only it began with the French and not the British (research Balfour Declaration). For more insight into Viet Nam research “role of French in Indochina” To understand Palestine - research “role of post world war 1 western powers in the Middle East. You can’t explain any of these Nakbas
I am fully aware of the 20th century history of I do China!/Vietnam. The US took over after the French were routed.
And I am also cognisant of WW1 and WW2. My grandfather and Foster father fought in it.
I taught and lectured for years.
My point is that Kennedy initiated the US entry into Vietnam.
You claim to be anti imperialist yet you rise to defend such a man... really
One problem with all of that, Vietnam started in 1955, long before Kennedy was elected. He sent 500 more troops after his election so yes he contributed to it but Eisenhower started it.
The collaboration between Eisenhower and Ngo Dinh Diem in south Vietnam really marks the beginning of the war.
make that increasing US troops almost twentyfold from 900 to 16000. he supported it, in fact i cant think of one us war during the Ikie administration that he opposed. can you?
I heard from several sources that he was about to pull out everything from Viet Nam shortly before he was assassinated!?? I also heard that he had informed Ben Gurion that he (Kennedy) would not allow Israel ( eg US $$$$) to continue developing nuclear armaments alone in the Middle East! Also, again shortly before being assassinated he was in detains with Nasser - offering help with infrastructure and friendly relations, also shortly before being assassinated towards the end of what, undoubtedly have been his first term in office!
> The US took over after the French were routed.
Yep, that was 1954, before Kennedy got to the White House.
> My grandfather and Foster father fought in it.
So you heard a few stories, but you did not fight in it — not quite the same.
> I taught and lectured for years.
So, what does that prove? Sweet FA.
> My point is that Kennedy initiated the US entry into Vietnam.
🤣 Just a statement does not turn it into fact 😉
i think it started under Truman, develeped a bit under Ike, was escalated by Kennedy and really took off under Johnson.
I politely suggest you do more research. Kennedy made errors but he also went through a conversion once he saw the threat to America. I can tell from your comment your knowledge is superficial. Try reading "JFK and the Unspeakable" by James W. Douglas one of the best books you will ever read and one of the most important . Try reading his quotes readily available on Google. There is a lot to know about him, one of the greatest Americans ever.
His father was a boollegger and was sympathetic to Germany before WW2.
He was a serial cheat to his wife.
His election victory was effected by bribery and the use of organized crime, via the good offices of Frank Sinatra.
The mob, apparently, were much miffed when Robert Kennedy (probably the only member of that family with an ounce of principle) reneged on the deal his father and brother had brokered, and went after the mob.
Assassination was the best thing for JFKs legacy. It saved the dirt that would have emerged later.
You Americans consume hagiographic biographies of your heroes. Along with saluting the flag every morning with your ham and eggs.
No wonder your country is such a threat to the rest of the world.
> His father was a boollegger and was sympathetic to Germany before WW2.
> He was a serial cheat to his wife.
Desperate to prove your point?
he was a warmonger who hated the left and got the US involved in wars. he almost got the world nuked with his mindless anticommunism.
He prevented the world from being nuked, he stopped Eisenhower's CIA planned invasion and overthrow of Cuba by withholding support during the operation which resulted in Cuba winning that battle and Castro taking power.
If Kennedy had followed the CIA plan Cuba would have fallen and would be a US territory now.
he only "prevented the world from being nuked" by backing down from the threat which Russia responded to by placing missiles in Cuba. after making sure that his retreat was not publicised so his US reputation as a warmonger was not damaged. The Bay of pigs was indeed carried out, after JFK changed his mind, and had nothing at all to do with Castro coming into power. Kennedy did not remove the missiles pointing at Russia, which resulted in Russia placing missiles pointing at the US, a quid pro quo in response to US aggression.
You've just blown quite a few Americans' brains.
"What? Come again - what was the origins of the Cuban missile crisis?"
Which wars?
he greatly increased tensions in the Cold War lying about USSR nuclear "superiority" in nukes whcih required a great enhancement in US nuclear forces. he didn't involve the US in Vietnam, but he greatly increased the number of US troops in Vietnam. the advisor pretense was maintained. He provoked the Cuban Missile crisis with the USSR, then backed down, but made sure his warmonger status in the US was maintained by keeping his retreat secret. He withdrew the missiles from Turkey, which is what the USSR was objecting to and which caused it to respond in the same manner by putting missiles in Cuba. that fact was not made public till long after his administration. Johnson kept the Kennedy team in large part, and they were enthusiastic supporters of the war, like Kennedy.
he sent US military forces to intervene in Laso and Thailand. he was a longtime supporter of US military expansion in Congress.
another thing, what did Kennedy do in Congress about the Israeli theft of Palestinian land and the murder and ethnic cleansing by Israel, and what did he do as president about that as it continued.
You could also add that he demanded to put men on the moon before the end of the decade to show the Soviets. They could not manage that, of course, so they staged it.
Who doesn’t have their hands dirty?
This is dumbest post I’ve seen on the internet in years. You need to read something not written under a CIA contract.
Yeah, it sounds like somebody read Sy Hersh's hatchet job (for which he was paid like a million dollars for) and now think he knows everything about JFK. Plenty of scholarship came out showing that Kennedy was planning to draw down the troops in Vietnam and was working to deescalate. He had to work slowly and carefully because the Washington establishment including many in his administration were strongly tied to the imperialist deep state. Rather than talking about the documentary evidence and the policy, these critics focus on the philandering and his father's alleged mob connections, even though that has nothing to do with the policies under discussion.
Once they murdered Kennedy, Johnson immediately surged the troop commitment. Shortly after, the Indonesian massacre, coup in Brazil, and blank checks to Israel.
And Johnson was a rabid Zionist.
LBJ inherited his concern for the Jews from his family. His aunt Jessie Johnson Hatcher, a major influence on LBJ, was a member of the Zionist Organization of America.
He was the the son of Rebekah Baines and Samuel Johnson, and grandson by his mother of Ruth Huffman, attributed his philo-Semitism to a family inheritance: “Take care of the Jews, ‘God’s Chosen People’. Consider them your friends and help them any way you can,” he remembered his grandfather saying.
LBJ is the only U.S. president ever to have inaugurated a synagogue — in Austin, 1 month after becoming President.
Both JFK and RFK murders have at least two things in common: Johnson and "israel". First, consider the fact that they precisely frame the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, who controlled both investigations: Johnson became president the day of John’s death, and he retired a few months after Robert’s death.
Not going to co-sign onto all the "Jew" blame. There are far too many honorable anti-Zionist Jews who put themselves on the line to stand in solidarity with Palestinians. If the Israeli tails wags the American dog, it's because the dog wants to do it. LBJ is far more complex than just as a foil to the Kennedy Brothers. The assasination orders also came from higher up, amongst "former" clients of Allen Dulles, with WASP old money.
I am not blaming all the Jews, but the fact of the matter is that the Jewish elite did engineer those wars. In 1933 those elites wrote a newspaper article: "Judea declares war on Germany", calling for boycotts etc., when nothing had actually happened against the Jews yet.
As for LBJ, he was a rabid zio dog, and even if the orders for the Kennedy murders came from higher up, he voluntarily cooperated to put it mildly.
And that dog refused assistance to the USS Liberty and dropped the idea of a Dimona check, to name but a few examples.
@Rony Erizia
Classic "whataboutism"!
Remember, since every human has weaknesses, personal flaws, areas of ignorance and makes/made mistakes, NO MAN EVER TRIED TO DO ANYTHING GOOD AND NO MORALITY BASED ACTIONS WERE EVER ACCOMPLISHED BY ANY LEADER, SO QUIT TRYING TO EMULATE ANY WHO SEEM TO HAVE TRIED RIGHT NOW, BEFORE YOUR MISGUIDED HERO WORSHIP CUTS INTO IMPORTANT PEOPLES PROFITS.
not sure who you are replying to, but taking the world to the brink of nuclear war by threatening the USSR and then finally backing down when the world was at the brink is not morally admirable.
@pretzelattack
Are you made from a nice natural fiber sock or one of those nasty smelling synthetics ?
When Kennedy pursued back channel diplomacy with Khrushchev to deescalate, when almost his entire cabinet and all his generals were pushing hard for war?
I agree wholeheartedly. I still believe JFK was one of, if not the best president this country has ever had. This man in my opinion was for peace and sought out peaceful solutions to conflicts. He wasn’t perfect, but he was a real leader, not like these warmongering, war criminals & brain dead politicians we have today. I do believe President Kennedy is rolling over in his grave as is most of our founding fathers in response to this genocide in Gaza and all the interventionist wars the U.S. gets involved in/starts.
Well said, Sylvia!…however I do consider Abe Lincoln to be our greatest president.
And I probably just opened a can of worms by saying that.
Silly me. I thought the United Nations was created to enable a multi-polar world. At least to level the playing field. And yet we have Israel, a presumed little guy, thumbing its nose at America, demanding and receiving support - financial, technical, military, and verbal.
It was Roosevelt's dream to establish world peace and the UN was the organization to do the job. Unfortunately Washington's pays it bills. It has to be moved out of New York and democratized before it can be really effective. As the new multipolar world emerges it might be abandoned and reconstituted by member states to eliminate US control of it. Many new organizations are emerging, BRICS is just one of several.
Or a one world government with checks and balances, but this is failing in the US even due to collusion. Nothing will change until something very bad happens.
The "bad" is happening right now and change is under way. In North America we are in a propaganda ghetto cut off from the dynamic changes taking place in the East. We in the WEST are in serious danger of being left in the dust. We just can't get our heads around the fact we only represent 13% of the world's population.
Average westerners don’t understand and are too distracted to consider how any of this effects them. Nothing bad has happened to them yet other than some inflation. The wars are an attempt to protect the unipolar order…because to do otherwise implies a major restructuring of wealth.
> Nothing bad has happened to them yet other than some inflation.
True, if you disregard soup kitchens, millions of people now living below the poverty line …
….Homelessness, people dying because of lack of health care, abysmal minimum wages…
We're almost as cruel against our homeless as certain aparteid regimes. In fact it's amazing how similar some of the tactics used in Gaza are to those used to remove homeless encampments. The only difference is that Biden hasn't gotten around to giving the police $100 billion for white phosphorus and bunker busters, yet.
We think we have immunity and we don't, the world is so highly integrated we are all in the same boat.
And "Whites" ( Caucasians) ) represent 16% if the world's population.......
“...powers that rule over us...”. Thank you for not calling them ‘our leaders’. The former is what they are and calling them “leaders” is a legitimization of their true nature.
The moneyed-mighty within try to keep truth out of their inn
by keeping the entrance selectively thin.
"Oh, what a sin", they say with a grin. "It doesn't fit in."
Turned away again and again, truth starts to spin.
If it can't get in making a point needle slim
it'll have to go as a furious wind.
Goodbye inn.
Supporting Israel at this point is simply another form of white supremacy.
Them saying anyone who doesn't agree is an anti-semite is their tell.
Like if there had been a slave-uprising back in the day in the U.S., and the authorities responded by killing all the slaves -- if you disagreed with that they might say you were un-American or anti-Christian.
It's the same level of hypocrisy.
The more they try to shove it down everyone's throats the more obvious it becomes.
Just like Covid. Never buy anything from someone trying too hard to sell
Yes, shaming people as racist for being anti-racist unlike the perpetrators.
Racism and anti-racism is a dog whistle used to manipulate the weak, especially using the term white supremacy - Semites are not Caucasian and thus cannot be "white-supremacists" - it's just lazy to use the racism/racist meme.
'are not Caucasian and thus cannot be "white-supremacists"' I have a bridge to sell you
I didn't say they were white supremacists.
I said it was another form of white supremacy meaning it is the same mechanism, the same playbook. I was drawing an analogy -- perhaps I was not clear.
The de-humanization of the "enemy", and the condemnation of anyone who disagrees was the line I was drawing.
It is not dis-similar to the U.S. slavery state which the U.S. still has not adequately addressed.
it is nothing like American slave States in any way, slaves were not told they were free like Palestinians, the relationship between slaves and owners was an economic one not a territorial and religious one. Your analogy to white-supremacy and American slavery only exposes your own racism.
Palestinians were told they are free? In what Universe are they free?
Slavery did not have righteous, religious overtones in which their owners did not believe themselves to be superior humans while the slaves were nothing more than animals? Which America are you thinking of?
The relationship between slaves and their owners was just a good 'ol economic partnership. Arm in arm to support American Capitalism. Are you high?
I am racist? Who am I racist against?
If you are notBob, you are also notBeing-very-forthcoming about your agenda.
I'm beginning to smell a shill.
When I see John Kirby weep publicly over 1500 dead Israeli's, and yet he and the rest of the U.S. government cheers over half a million dead Ukrainians and Russians, I have to ask myself, "What is wrong with this picture?"
Obviously, they value certain people's lives more than others.
Now, I don't know what YOU call that, but it IS a form of supremacy. They, and apparently you believe that Israeli lives are more important than Palestinian lives, more important than Ukrainian lives, more important than Russian lives.
I don't like nor dislike Israelis or Jews any more or less than I like anyone else. They, we are all just people.
Everyone has equal value and the right to exist.
Murder is murder.
And calling any group of people "animals" is without argument, a form of supremacy.
You are obviously racist against white people, every reference you have made has been based in white hatred, white guilt and the evil of the American slave trade. You are obviously obsessed with the guilt you associate with white Europeans. I lived in Africa, Ghana specifically for 5 years in the late 90s, I can tell you from that deeply humbling experience that Africans see slavery as their own sin not something that white Americans visited upon them. Tribes enslaved each other and traded each others peoples long before Europeans came to visit and long before America was founded.
You embellish and twist everything I have said to fit your narrative, I don't need to communicate with someone that dishonest,
I didn't need to twist your words, I just repeated them.
Give me a break.
Exactly. What's going on now in Gaza will be seen like Germany in the second world war.
For Americans, instead of voting for Democrats or Republicans -- more of the same old war machine -- why not vote for Cornel West? I wish we had someone like him to vote for in Canada.
I am, Diana.
Early and often.
Because the Elite Dems are fearful of 3rd left party's.
I am not in the US either but I would vote for him too. IF only they had had the courage to vote for Bernie Sanders.
I wish Bernie Sanders would call for a ceasefire.
Unfortunately he has only called for a short ceasefire!
He is crap.
He would like to, I'm sure, but its not in the script the Dems gave him, and he lost his balls and his spine back in 2020, when he capitulated to Biden and the establishment. Now he's just a party mascot. Uncle Bernie's Old-Fashioned Genuine Imitation Progressivism™: Now with more corporatism
Parenti pegged Sanders 25 years ago. He was always full on American imperialism with a few irrelevant leftish flourishes. Can't believe I fell for it in 2016.
Bernie Sanders is controlled opposition and a pedophile. The guy is crap, never stands up for his principles when it comes to the crunch; in fact, it shows he is unprincipled.
Pedophile?
I know that being a terrible person with blackmail-able disconduct is now a must for higher office (hence whenever a wealthy politician such as Edwards or Spitzer tries to do the right thing, they're immediately sunk by sex scandals - even though we know Biden is more more corrupt and abusive towards women and continues to skate), but I am not aware of this angle.
If there was any sex evidence against Sanders, wouldn't they have used that against him, rather than have Warren accuse him of sexism (weak), the Iowa steal (really obvious), and getting everyone to drop out to endorse Biden (real peek behind the curtain)?
Listen to this moving video testimony from Jennifer Guskin, who was abused as a child. IAt the 45’:57” she names a number of high-placed people, inc. Sanders.
https://healthimpactnews.com/2023/is-the-rothschild-banking-empire-global-pedophile-networks-link-to-israel-about-to-be-exposed/
Sorry. This seems like a shitcoating operation. Jewish Rockerfeller family? Throw in the Rothschild dogwhistle to obscure the conspiracies in plain sight.
Again, if they had that kind of goods on Sanders, they would have used it instead of the extremely hamfisted approach they used. It also runs counter to everything known about Sanders. He's a spineless liberal who wants to be liked by official DC more than do what's right. There's no need to throw in accusations by sketchy outfits.
I'm not saying that Bernie is not morally equivalent to a pedo. Providing official cover for genociding children and targeting doctors and journalists is the lowest of low. Lower than serial killers and kiddie rapists.
Vermonters don't think so.
Look up Sanders wrt Yugoslavia. He was always a liberal imperialist and Zionist.
I'm not a Vermonter.
Lots of otherwise nice left leaning Americans still think Obama was/is great. Most people just can't be bothered to look at the ugly truth. They much prefer the comfortable lie.
They control history too unfortunately
I found the “Mein Kampf “ episode hysterical.
Was any proof offered that it actually WAS a copy of that book translated into Arabic? No, we must take IsraHell’s word for it …ah ha ha ha ha!
I have a copy of Mein Kampf myself. As a history buff, I thought it important to read it. My forte is actually the Civil War; I’ve read many volumes on Confederate generals, but that doesn’t mean I support slavery.
it was truly comically stupid - it's going to feed dank memes dunking on Israel for a decade, not unlike the Iraqi info minister
Were you able to read Mein Kampf? If so, what is your opinion on it?
Good question! You probably ask about the content and not the style? I started reading an annotated version of it but the direct translation was so bad, the sentences so 'thick' and heavy and baroque, very hard to read. Subordinate sentences galore. I found it a real task to wade through the bombastic writing. Guess in those days this kind of German literature was normal. These days, we would write it very differently.
I had the same experience and could not get past page 5.
:-D
Sorry Hitler was NO WRITER, he just babbled along and otherwise he was a CRIMINAL killer who did not care about anyone (my favorite psychiatrist Erich Fromm characterized Hitler as a typical case of necrophilia -and not the traditional way you find when you google it, Fromm explained it as a whole setting of a dark and dangerous character !)
You might find it interesting to read a comment of a certain Anne C. on a recent Caitlin's post: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/what-would-it-look-like-if-you-were/comment/43650092
Thank you, I am an Austrian citizen, I read a lot about the time (my parents lived thru it) and also about the disaster after WW1 (injustice done as always, that leads to more catastrophes ...), there are always 2 sides and good things about persons etc. so I DO NOT DISLIKE Hitler at all, but it certainly ended in a total catastrophe for millions and millions that had no say also. WW1 bred WW2 etc etc. I was also 'trained' to be extremely Isr friendly (because of our 'history') but I am cured now (humans are disgusting creatures!). And after WW2 the communist hysteria came over us (everything just trumped up) - there is a bad nasty Russian behind every rock (my mother had only the best experiences with Russian soldiers after the war, she lived in the Russian zone of Vienna, my father was POW on Crimea and only said: the Russians did not have anything to eat either ... ie he WAS NOT MISTREATED etc.). For me, being 66, I am pretty hopeless and disillusioned, just want to enjoy a few more 'nice' years and off to ...) Best to you!
Both WW1 and WW2 were engineered by the UK, and initially Hitler's Germany received funding from the U.S.
Like you, I am 66, was raised in a pro-Jewish/pro-"israle" way, and like you, I am fully cured, unlike you I am not from Austria nor from Germany.
As far as I am concerned, today's Germans do not carry any responsibility for what happened nor do they owe anything any more to ZioNAZI Rothschildistan, but they cannot get over this collective guilt and need to atone till the end of times. Unfortunately, the current crop of imbecile politicians in Germany won't change that.
Not sure if you meant to write "I DO NOT DISLIKE Hitler at all".
To acknowledge the man for who he is - as opposed to the caricature propagandists try to make out of him in order to unwittingly or knowingly ensure survival of his ideas - does not equate liking him.
If something walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it is a duck. His actions produced evil, so he is evil. It's really hard to argue against it.
Che, it was a slog…not an easy read for sure. I will say that I found some of Hitler’s points to be valid.
He probably had some good ideas, and did a number of good things at the beginning of his reign, but derailed soon after WW2 had started.
The thing is there are many translations and at the time the English translations lacked his most egregious statements as not to turn English-speaking public against him.
So the challenge is to find the right translation first, if it exists. Best would be to find an original in German and read that.
No, sorry my mother tongue is German and it is AWFUL to read in the Original too ...
I wasn't referring to the beauty of it - style, command of language, etc. I meant the content itself; not just translation, but completeness.
To be able to read something, enjoy and be able to assess its worth, style does count too, otherwise it is very hard to struggle through a text.
In any case, I tried to read an English translation and dropped it after page 5.
Israel and Jerusalem of old were destroyed completely in 70 AD! What is left is a contrived secular culture connected at the hip to the money whores that exist in good ole USA. Follow the money trail.
The Mein Kampf farce was on the Sunday morning BBC flagship politics programme, fronted by establishment stooge Laura Kuensberg- last seen being caught off camera giving her opinion on Jeremy Corbin. I never watch this program or any of the other neo con promos for imperialism, and now genocide, disguised as political shows on the UK media.
Wait 'til they find yellow cake, the original batch of the Wuhan virus, the third nuclear bomb that was not dropped on Japan, etc...
Uh, there wasn't a third bomb available "in theater". There WAS another core, back in USA- But it ended up getting recycled after two famous, deadly criticality accidents contaminated it with undesirable fission products.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
sorry, I forgot to put *sarcasm off* at the and of my comment =;)
As surreal as things are getting, there finally may be a use for emoticons.
I've made the opposite mistake as well, assuming any comment/post THAT over the top in repeating various propaganda messages, "factually challenged" and/or balls out irrational HAD to be satire... Much to the puzzlement of the authors!
Caitlin so clearly recognizes the insanity and depravity that is being shown to the world. I have posted here before about this, but the matter is too important to not do it again. I think we must change the dominant narrative, otherwise we just continue on the path of destruction and hatred. Given the craven behavior of the western governments, we have to look to alternatives to stopping the bombing of Gaza. It might not work, but maybe it's worth trying. I came up with this petition, that is outside of the current narrative, that I hope might have some effect in stopping the bombing in Gaza. This is not instead of whatever else we are doing to try to change this situation and stop the killing. Please sign and share if you can.
https://chng.it/tfYb2DjFDy
How dare you read that filth . 🔥books🔥books🔥books. ok enough isnt it the Point to See the sausage being made so we dont make sausage from people ever again ? Or something like that ?
Im only flipant because this is braking my brain. Ive been antiwar since Vietnam 🤷♀️im fuckin exhausted w/ these monsters. Destrtoyed desecrated Baby’s body parts do not stop them. I dont want to be a part of that club.
The stuff about babies and rape is all Zionist bullshit. Seriously, they lie early and often knowing that by the time the lies are revealed as lies, they will have manufactured consent for the latest in their serial genocides.
Not on the Empire side 🙏the Zionazi is now more programed soldier than civilian. Listen to the scores of IDF uckheads they do not see people they see targets.✋i just dont want anyone slaughtered 🩸🤷♀️especially powerlessness innocents ✌️❤️🔥
Fred, I think Kathie was speaking of Palestinian babies.
Caitlin a person who does NOT hide what she thinks and I am glad. I have always been honest and had some bad times. It is up to everyone to be honest and brave now. It's about not being trampled on and knowing who you are.
Sometimes it's hard to be the lone person crying out there but it does work.
The Israeli government is and has been a master of psyops and propaganda. Consider the large swaths of Americans who still buy into the Israeli narrative of 911.
I was watching some vid segments Tuesday evening on YouTube; Alex Christoforou and Theduran with Alex and Alexander Mercouris, and some others, some of the ones I was watching were “political,” some not. A new ad, first I had seen it, kept popping up, talking about October 7, Hamas beheading babies, etc etc, and bashing my House rep for having voted no on H.Res. 771. There was a number to call and tell them to “stand up for Israel,” etc.
The sponsor was something called “United Democracy Project,” which a simple search immediately reveals is an offshoot of AIPAC. I am going to try to call the number today and express my SUPPORT for my rep, as I did with the online contact form the other day. As I’ve said before, I don’t know much what else to do.
@Timothy Skewers
I am seeing constant advertisements on social media, on Google, YouRube & etc.with vague yet stirring images & messages about loving the flag, others re: standing with Israel, and yet others seemingly about Donald Trump being the second coming of George Washington (seems SOMEBODY with serious pull has a use in mind for him yet?) Huge uptick in preparatory imagery for our next holy war/pro Israel propaganda this last 5 weeks or so. It feels more and more like June of 1914 every week.
It isn't Israel doing this.
It isn't the USA doing this.
It is specific people who run Israeli and US society, who control the governments of those nations.
We know who they are, but we never talk about them. We assume collective blame which means we accuse "everyone" so that "no one" is responsible.
If we don't name names, nothing is going to change, we'll just scream at one another about voting blue or red or some rainbow colors -- even as most of us acknowledge that the electoral process is completely rigged.
Fuck yes it’s like the
Fuckstein black book nobody can find that motherfucking LIST out there nobody’s naming shit.I’m gonna start building a guillotine ,so sick of this shit
I volunteer to hold the basket! 😁
How you gonna fight the Corporatists when they're as powerful as the those in the Dark Angel TV series? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204993/
Correct.