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Susan T's avatar

What we are looking at is a US dictator trying to start a war with someone somewhere. If there is oil, he wants it; if there are rare earth minerals, he wants them. He doesn't want to try to alleviate climate change; he doesn't want to create a system that is fair and just for everyone; he doesn't want the people he governs to have accessible, free health care; he doesn't want education to be free and available to everyone; he doesn't want museums to tell us about the history of the United States. He wants money. He wants power. He wants the Nobel peace prize. He wants to be part of Mount Rushmore. He is a shallow, vile little creep who should be put into an institution and fed soft food.

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Jo Waller's avatar

No, that is not what we're looking at. Trump is the same as Biden and Obama and every president before, and indeed after him; whatever you do to Trump (if he's still alive) it will continue. The US political system just follows the continuity of agenda as prescribed by the think tanks, loosely based around Washington DC, who have interests in fossil fuels, animal ag, pharma, AI, tech, media, finance, drug and sex trafficking and arms. And in maintaining white Western supremacy. It's got nothing to do with what Trump wants, though his personality, brazenness and capriciousness has helped the empire's narrative. We can blame Trump and we can blame Israel for interfering in US politics. When all the while they are just the frontman and the attack dogs for the empire.

The empire under Bush Jr cosied up to actual drug traffickers so it's so rich that the official excuse (with no evidence) is drug trafficking, even though everyone knows the real reason- access to oil or at least a compliant vassal state with which to control the access to oil.

Alex Jones and many of the 'alternative' media, particularly the 'covid' dissent, are pushing the racist lies about immigration and the unscientific nonsense allegedly debunking the climate crisis. Some are funded by the animal ag (Joe Rogan) and fossil fuels (The wire etc) industries who want to avoid global equity and climate action to protect profits, some have been duped and some were already right wing white supremacists.

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Slightly Lucid's avatar

Drug trafficking goes back to at least Vietnam, and an entire us proxy war in Central America was funded by CIA coke trafficking.

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Nick Heffernan's avatar

Yes, it goes even further back—at least as far as the relationship the US military and security services established with organised crime kingpin Meyer Lansky during WWII. Lansky was also a committed Zionist and worked with the US security state to further Zionist interests.

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Ron Stockton's avatar

Absolutely. As long as people continue to personalize the evils of capitalism, it will continue its exploitation and journey to fascism. Trump is not the problem, capitalism is the problem.

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martin's avatar

it's easy to identify the think tankers and tentacles of the system. it should not hold anyone back to put all of them into an institution (like, a for-profit prison anyone?) and fed gaza 2025 five course meals.

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Nick Heffernan's avatar

Absolutely. Continuity of agenda to serve the interests of the US oligarchy is the name of the game. Brian Berletic has been pointing this out with great clarity and persistence in his work: https://m.youtube.com/@TheNewAtlas

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😎 dude's avatar

Other aspect might be or is that they don't want to let a not aligned not subservient country and system succeed. Setting a “bad" example. But totally Brian berletics analysis proves right again and again :(

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Susan T's avatar

Well, yes, Trump is the same as all those others you mention. The problem is that he is the one who is now dismantling the entire US government, the good parts and the not so good parts. He wants to insert his thinking, his power, his everything. Others may have wanted to do that, but they didn't quite get there to the same huge and damaging extent that Trump is presently imposing on the world.

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Jo Waller's avatar

Indeed. It's unfalsifiable, or course, that Trump is a 'greater evil' however, anyone who was watching knew that he wasn't going to stop any genocides or wars and that his anti-establishment mandate from the people was the culmination of propaganda about a non-existent threat from big government and the state having too much power. The 'davos crowd' and the UN were supposedly controlling us with unevidenced 'covid' policies (that actually benefits the pharma industry)and unevidenced gender ideology (that actually benefits the pharma industry) as well as using renewables and any green policies to impoverish us- these were trashed with purposeful bungling and hypocrisy (though many renewable energy projects were returning on investment and helped Texas through a heat wave).

This enables Trump to accelerate deregulation on behalf of industry. The corporation has had control of government for decades-but now any last remaining powers to prevent the empire from polluting, lying, manipulating and profiting with impunity are being very quickly removed thanks to Trump's election.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

👏 Perfectly said Susan T. Thank you!

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Geoff everall's avatar

1000%

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𝓙𝓪𝓼𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓦𝓸𝓵𝓯𝓮's avatar

Shhh... Don't tell anyone, but the Democrats are exactly the same.

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Landru's avatar

Love the sarcasm. Bernie Sanders and his new friend Rep. Cortez : )

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Landru's avatar

My mind bounces between the need to sharpen guillotines and moving to another country. My personality doesn't want to run. We in the u.s. infect every country in the world it seems. Distraction it seems is the goal of this evil empire. The core need? Bankruptcy of the u.s. (lowercase for disrespect). Watching the u.s. Treasury auctions over the last several months. The Treasury it seems can not go to the market for 10-30 yr. bonds without a failed auction requiring the 10 reserve banks to buy the remainder. The chaos is so illogical as you wrote so well. Genocide, murder and war are seldom about justice, there is always the need of empire to distract it seems. I haven't been to China but it seems they are on track to follow Marx's plan of success for all people of China. If I was reading these comments of mine 10 years ago I would laugh and think the person is depressed grasping for a handhold. Sorry, about the ramble. Free Palestine and now Free Venezuela and D.C.

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dacoelec's avatar

1000 up votes!

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Susan T's avatar

I often think about running away. But where to? I did run away to live in a cabin in the mountains once many years ago. It was wonderful. But I could still hear planes flying about; there were stil hydro lines; and worst of all, every so often a couple of drunken hunters would make it up there in their 4 wheel drive with their guns and booze. They were much scarier than the bears and other animals that I occasionally encountered.

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tswarbrick's avatar

I’m not a fan of DJT. He’s a Zionist; Israel First. He’s a Kabbalist. He’s doing his part to usher in the NWO. But this is -not- all DJT or US.

This world is ruled by a Luciferian cabal aka elites, globalists, Freemasons, Jesuits, Bilderbergs, Illuminati, Zionists et al (many names to create confusion) dba UN/WHO/WEF dba Israel/US that controls every facet of this world; politics, government, judiciary, commerce, finance, science, technology, medicine, agriculture, education, religion (501c3) and media (news, publication, entertainment).

The Luciferian cabal’s Trifecta: Rome is religion. London is finance. US is military. All have the obelisk.

The Zionists want their NWO, one world government/currency/religion, mass worldwide depopulation (GMOs/famine, 5G, HAARP/geoengineering/climate change, pharma/vaccines/biowarfare, pandemics, war, etc.); and absolute control over humanity (ID2020/nanotech digital ID, graphene oxide, 5G, surveillance, Project Stargate, AI governance). The Zionists are the Luciferian cabal that rules this temporal world.

The UN, with its library/publishing house Lucis [Lucifer] Trust is not the humanitarian, peacekeeping entity it masquerades. The UN is the one world government of the NWO beast system.

Novus ordo seclorum

UN Agenda 21/2030, WEF Great Reset, NWO Georgia Guidestones

Side note:

‘Climate change’ aka ‘global warming’ is weaponized weather modification aka geoengineering for the absolute control of humanity >>Project Cirrus, Project Storm Fury, Operation Popeye, HAARP, Nexrad, cloud seeding, stratospheric aerosol injection (chemtrails), DEWs. The Luciferian cabal dba UN/WHO/WEF is manipulating weather and creating environmental disasters [earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, wildfires, etc.] to further its NWO agenda.

The powers-that-shouldn’t-be continue to spin the deception through the false narrative of carbon footprint.

CO2 is literally plant food. Carbon dioxide is essential to the growth of plants, trees and the world’s food supply. No carbon dioxide = no plants, trees, vegetation = no photosynthesis = no oxygen = no people or animals.

It’s the perfect symbiotic relationship.. Humans and animals exhale the carbon dioxide that plants and trees need for photosynthesis and the plants and trees create the oxygen humans and animals need to breathe.

Meanwhile, globalists aka Zionists, Freemasons, Jesuits, Illuminati, etc. dba UN/WHO/WEF dba Israel/US, the so-called elites, cut down thousands of acres of rainforest in Brazil, March 2025, to build a road for a ‘climate summit’ in November 2025, jet wherever, everywhere in private planes, travel in luxury cars and yachts, and own million dollar mansions on water fronts worldwide.

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Stefano Montani's avatar

Really well said!

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Feral Finster's avatar

Trump, like Biden, Obama, Bush and Clinton, is a war criminal who deserves the fate of the guilty at Nuremberg.

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Curmudgeon's avatar

The list of war criminal presidents goes back over 200 years. It is in the DNA of the United States. The Monroe doctrine is always cited, but only the first half - the European powers in the Americas will not be tolerated. The second part, the US not interfering in European matters, has always been ignored.

That aside, I really wish that people would stop referring to "Nuremberg". The trials were Stalinist show trials with their own rules set up under "The London Protocols". Hearsay evidence was given judicial notice meaning accepted as fact. Documents were forged and/or withheld from the defense. There is a reason Harlan Stone Fiske referred to them as a "high class Lynching".

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Layla Khorasani's avatar

When you say ‘he’ remember he is not acting alone but backed by a group of elites who have malevolent and oppressive intentions so evil that we are only scratching the surface of the schemes they have implemented across the globe in their bloody empires.

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Cornelia HEMMELDER's avatar

Who says it better ? All lies : drugs here. Security everywhere, more particularly for Iran, Israël. Oil and gas in reality.

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TheRepublicIsDead's avatar

Trump isn't a dictator.

How exactly is Trump supposed to alleviate climate change?

Healthcare and education aren't free. Anywhere and at any time.

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Susan T's avatar

you are such a comedian

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Kojo's avatar

Its not about "he" - its about a Eurocolonial system that has been ravaging most of the planet and peopøe for centuries now.

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Susan T's avatar

I agree that the Eurocolonial system has been committing destruction for centuries, but Trump is destroying so much for so many NOW and at a rate faster than we have ever seen.

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Hb's avatar

Maduro called out Israel for their genocide of Palestinians. That’s cause enough for our “Israel First”Congress and regime to seek to oust him to appease their genocidal masters.

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Geoff everall's avatar

Long live the brave Palestinians

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Jo Waller's avatar

It's got nothing to do with Israel first. The empire is behind everything that Israel does. Israel is the epitome of obedient attack dog trained to maintain white western supremacy (aka democracy) by whatever means necessary.

Yes, Maduro called out the actions of the empire, he's doing a lot of things that will enrage the US based interests.

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Solker's avatar

In contrary, zionists and Israel are behind all the warmongering plots, and they have always thrive on that. They are not more intelligent than others, they are just more sociopathic, greedy and raised as eternal victimes while thinking they are the chosen one.... as if religions where real and not human inventions.

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Jo Waller's avatar

A country of 10 million that's entirely dependent on the US support for their economy, existence and military capacity is behind Washington's plots against Russia, Iran and China? Weird.

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Solker's avatar

Look again at the numbers and their position in wealth

... they drain cache as no other, and thrive on warmongering ploting, blackmailing, selling armements and servises tested on Palestinians....what the US give them from taxpayers is nothing. They are in all rich major corporations....

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Hamilton M's avatar

Maduro is a dictator who kills his own people.

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Solker's avatar

And the US gov are saving the people of the world and using all the wealth on his people ?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Landru's avatar

Interesting choice of username Juan.

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Mary Wildfire's avatar

No. It's not all about Israel. The US has been gunning for Venezuela for a long time, for the same reasons it attacks any country: a leader who refuses to surrender sovereignty and raw materials to US dominance, oil reserves. They've been trying for decades to do it through elections, coups or lawfare, which has worked in every Latin American country that toyed with the pink tide except Venezuela and Cuba. Cuba has been harassed and blockaded the entirety of its existence as a sovereign nation, yet has not surrendered.

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Solker's avatar

They are, but unlike Argentina where it's so evident and as you said it, they have not completely succeeded yet.

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Liana Chenoweth Kornfield's avatar

Thank you Caitlin. Maduro is no evil dictator. It's all about oil - vast fields of oil. Period.

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Contrarian 33's avatar

Liana.

Right on. The US with 15 years of Reserves compared to Venezuela with 885 years. Of course that's the reason, as it also has a bearing on Gaza with its untapped reserves of oil and Gas, as yet untouched and with a willing caretaker for future US supplies in the shape of Israel. Never gets much of a mention as a motivation for the USA's ongoing support for the Zionist genocidists but the logic of it is unchallengeable.

Don't ever expect this rationality to appear in a Western media publication. Too close for comfort.....and truth, truth being a very short commodity in that part of the world with US and Israel propaganda machines firing at full speed.

On another subject, the September meeting at the UN which will now function minus the Palestinian delegation, after having their visas removed by the USA. Now official US policy and yet another example of USA arrogance.

The UN should be relocated to a neutral, honest, non-belligerent and decent country where such attendances at a General Assembly are open to all, not subject to the whims of an Israeli crime partnership dictating daily the do's and don't's which has removed any resemblance of credibility from the USA, currently the United Nations home, while at the same time we should demand the removing the Security Council veto from its role as a US tool against democratic decision making for the world body.

Under such a new and honest UN, is item 1.

The removal of al US military bases from their 700+ locations around the globe.

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Liana Chenoweth Kornfield's avatar

That's also what all the US/USRael's aggression towards Iran is all about with its 4th largest oil fields in the world. $$$$$$$$$$

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Liana Chenoweth Kornfield's avatar

Thank you. I very much agree with everything you've said. But I believe Israel has already tapped/stolen Gaza's offshore oil and gas:

https://diem25.org/is-natural-gas-the-real-reason-for-the-genocide-in-gaza/

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tswarbrick's avatar

I was agreeing until you said “a new and honest UN”.

The UN is not the humanitarian, peacekeeping entity it masquerades. The UN, with its library/publishing house Lucis [Lucifer] Trust, is the one world government of the NWO.

This world is ruled by a Luciferian cabal aka elites, globalists, Freemasons, Jesuits, Illuminati , Zionists et al (many names to create confusion) dba UN/WHO/WEF dba Israel/US.

This cabal has captured and controls ALL world governments and EVERY facet of this world; politics, government, judiciary, commerce, finance, science, technology, medicine, agriculture, education, religion (501c3) and media (news, publication, entertainment). No one rises to a high level of fame, wealth, position or power unless the powers-that-shouldn’t-be deem it so.

Novus ordo seclorum

UN Agenda 21/2030, WEF Great Reset, NWO Georgia Guidestones

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J. Lee Austin's avatar

Yep ... "Honest UN" is an oxymoron on the order of "Military Intelligence" and "Jumbo Shrimp" ... guess we shall laugh to keep from crying 😅

~~ j ~~

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tswarbrick's avatar

‘Honest UN’ is absolutely an oxymoron. The UN has done an excellent job of marketing itself as humanitarian and peacekeeping as it’s plotted its worldwide war on humanity as evidenced in its Agenda 21/2030.

There’s another dark side of which most are not aware.. There’s a history of UN Peacekeeper sex abuse scandals which seems evidence of a bizarre sense of entitlement.

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Literally Mussolini's avatar

What was that famous line by Matt Taibbi: "The US is like a vampire squid wrapped around the head of the planet, relentlessly thrusting its blood funnel into anything that smells like natural resources. "

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Davina's avatar

At the expense of our planet and all the people trying to survive on it, for what? Some greedy b's to make more, of course Drumpf wants a share for starting a war so they could get at the oil then they will have to grovel and bend the knee, while thinking up compliments that don't show them up as total crawlers.

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Truth Seeking Missile's avatar

“When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. We would have taken it over; we would have gotten to all that oil; it would have been right next door.".

- Donald Trump June 19, 2023

"And then they say he left troops in Syria. You know what I did? I left troops to take the oil. I took the oil. The only troops I have are taking the oil. They’re protecting the oil. I took over the oil."

- Donald Trump, 2020

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Davina's avatar

What an absolute twitter is. Some of the nonsense that comes of that hole in his face is so obviously rubbish and yet his MADNUT followers believe him when it has been shown he's made liar a out everything.

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Rosalind Dalefield's avatar

"biggest oil reserves per square foot in the world"

That's the only reason, and you know it, Alex. Venezuela has oil, and the USA wants to steal the oil. It's that simple.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

"The US empire lies about all its acts of war. "

Of course it does. The worse thing about it is--It gets away with it!! Just like Israel (who bombed and murdered the prime minister of Yemen along with most of his cabinet) all it has to do is start shooting and it's a done deal. Nobody stops the US! Nobody stands up against it. That's gotta change or else we'll be seeing a hundred more "Gazas" before too long.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

>>"we'll be seeing a hundred more "Gaza" before too long"

That's my real fear too TRC 😰😢😬

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Landru's avatar

Yes, we need to build better guillotines : ) I saw a video of this Chinese android army planting trees. Conversion? Seems they do the cleanup also : )

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Jodi Yaccino's avatar

This is a disgusting outrage! We want their oil. That is all it’s about. We have been brutal to Venezuela 🇻🇪! They have been steadfast and committed to sovereignty! Read the book, ”Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the end of US Empire “ It was written by Anya Parampil, of the Grayzone. We have brutally sanctioned them, to the hilt. They have suffered, but remain true to Maduro and their cause! Do not believe the lies and propaganda! This is about greed and money, and we are the bad guys! Trump is a monster!

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

CJ>>"The US empire lies about all its acts of war."

🎯💯 Always! Without exception!

The U.S. Empire has DIRECTLY had a hand in the drug trafficking industry (including working at times unofficially with members of Cartels - and no, this is NOT a conspiracy theory - there is enough documented and verified EVIDENCE of CIA, ATF, Border Patrol, etc. agencies involved in this industry in one way or another for decades).

So the excuse/explanation of 'Trump attacking Venezuela (or ANY country) for drug trafficking related reasons' FALLS FLAT! This is a 'Regime Change Operation' and EVERYONE (especially in the U.S.) needs to realize this!

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SW's avatar

The compounds for Fentanyl come from China and are assembled in the US or Mexico. This is no secret and this is the drug that’s killing people.

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Landru's avatar

I always ask, Why have we created a country that forces, yes, forces people into depression so great they escape with what they can. The problem isn't drugs, it's what we are doing to 90% of the population or more.

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Positively Paying It Forward's avatar

Iran Contra Affair, Ollie North.

What was that all about??

Mossad/CIA running a drug trafficking operation to fund weapons (illegally) to Israel to combat bad Iran.

As newscaster Paul Harvey used to say;

“Page two”.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

No, Iran-Contra affair was about selling weapons TO IRAN so that the funds received from Iran could be used to fund the Contras (which was an anti-Sandinista rebel group in Nicaragua). The U.S. went through this route because it could not get 'official funding to support the Contras' passed by Congress, hence Reagan's administration got the funds by selling arms to Iran (in exchange for the release of hostages held by Hezbollah).

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Kathleen McCroskey's avatar

The Putin/Alaska game wasn't enough distraction from the Epstein issue, so let's try an opportunist war! Like Kissinger said in his PhD thesis, "we" need to just knock down a little country now and then, at random, just to show the World who's in charge! Don't have an excuse? Make one up! Domino theory, weapons-of-mass-destruction, whatever comes to mind. Bear in mind, the Empire has performed about 67 regime-changes since WW-II, so why stop now? Any country except the Zionist entity, of course, is fair game. Ask Ukraine how these regime-changes turn out!

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Feral Finster's avatar

Of course they are lying

What does anyone propose to do about it?

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Anarchy is Order's avatar

Vote harder? VBNMW? 😂

It really is too bad that Democrats will support this. Not all of them, but just enough to make sure it happens.

There are always just enough Democrats to backstop the Republicans.

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Liana Chenoweth Kornfield's avatar

We do not have two parties: Democrat or Republican. That's another lie that should have been laid to rest a long time ago. The two parties we have are: Those who are bought and those who are not bought. And the not bought are a powerless minority.

The US is an oligarchy or more precisely a Techno/AI/Surveillance/Military Industrial oligarchy which is a sort of Mafia.

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The Revolution Continues's avatar

It's called "The Ratchet Effect." Republicans turn the gear right, and the Democrats prevent the gear from ever slipping back to the left. The ultimate one-two punch of neoliberalism.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Note that Biden kept Trump’s first term policies in place.

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Darkstar's avatar

And Obama who somewhat started "The Repalce Maduro Regime movement " was continuing the war on the Americas stated by Lyndon Johnson.

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Landru's avatar

As Geo. Galloway the great orator has said, " Two cheeks of the same arse". I love Geo. , if you haven't heard him MOATS broadcast. Geo. is very religious however genuine. I pray to the Universe for him.

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Chuck Nasmith's avatar

Prof. Marandi on today!

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EcoSocialista's avatar

Vote socialist no matter who. 😜

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Well, I hope to persuade people to do whatever they can to put an end to the U.S. Empire. Wish me luck, as I'm going to need it!

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J. Lee Austin's avatar

"What does anyone propose to do about it?"

Such a good question there, Feral Finster ... actually, that is THE Question. The one very few are asking, choosing instead the repetitious recitation of the litany of lies, travesties, felonies, Bond villains etc, with whom we're all too familiar. For Pete's sake, I think we got the picture Waldo, go hide.

Seems like all this Energy of the Rant might be better put to use ... for something like ... I dunno ... The Cause? Which is what, exactly? Why are we here? Typing our time away, trying to talk to the world about a world gone mad.

In a word, it's all about Peaceful Liberty ... our Beautiful Lady of Freedom more precisely. It's about our children and grandchildren not being forced to smother themselves, inject themselves or do Any Other Thing they do not wish to do. To remind others (especially in this frenetic time of Firehose Propaganda) that forcing ANY other human to do ANY other thing is immoral, repugnant and frankly intolerable. Full stop.

In short, it's about the Golden Rule, about which the monster cares not a whit, but which is the very essence of our survival, which is getting sketchier by the day, by the way.

So what to do? Well, those who gave up on voting are on the right track, and even if enough of us stopped doing it to reach critical mass and delegitimize the fraudulent trap, you would still be lightyears from reforming the empire. The only way to do that is to close the spigot. I remember Aunt Fannie's folksy admonition, "Feed a cold, starve a Leviathan." Or something to that effect. Wife tale not my strong suit.

Although there is no exact precedent for this situation <insert Captain Obvious emoji here> all efforts to change a rapacious Monster of Global Perfidy that is wreaking all manner of deadly havoc upon their world ... would seem to be an exercise in windmill tilting, though one not even Quixote himself would aspire to thrust and parry.

As logic would have it then, the only course with any possible viability at all is ... Nullification and Secession. Fun Fact: Contrary to the heinous lies of the (un)Civil War, leaving an Abusive Relationship is a Natural Right that can Never be "settled."

In case you missed it, here's my dog and no pony show from last spring ...

https://open.substack.com/pub/doc115/p/the-worst-government-money-can-buy?r=18tk5o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

If your State is not planning to leave, come to Texas, because we are. Join the fight alongside true heroes like David and Lori Breunig, who left California to come help make sure Texas did not become that sinkhole of government/idiot-flavored treachery.

So ... if you are a part of that Tireless, Irate Minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the hearts and minds of men ... it is time to rock and roll.

And to Remember the Alamo 💪🏻💥

~~ j ~~

"You may all go to Hell and I will. go to Texas."

~~ Davy Crockett

"Man, that is some seriously good beer."

~~ Sam Adams

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Paul Cartwright's avatar

Just imagine if struck out the word Venezuela and replaced it with Australia! We Aussies would have another Dismissal

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Fran's avatar

The USA government is lying. It doesn't matter when you read this, it'll be true.

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Nick Douglas's avatar

100% right Fran. Lying, cheating, perverting facts is and always was considered a virtue and encouraged for the US and western government officials. So much for the "EU garden" and western "civilization". The same "civilization" that gave us genocides, ethnic cleansing, judeo-nazism, shitsrael, fascism, slavery, colonialism, imperialism, and 99% of all human evils. Frank Zappa was right to the finest detail some 50 years ago.

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2dEdited

Human life is entirely expendable to these goons now running the US government. War is nothing more than a game of Risk. No wonder the US is quickly descending into the shitter of mass poverty and destitution, and authoritarian rule.

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Landru's avatar

Yes my friend. I started playing chess at about 7, my Uncles where teachers ha. The game of risk a precursor to video games as well as Monopoly. When I has in high school, a history teacher created a classroom version of four people running a country, level playing field, trade, ag, military, not unlike Sim City. The goal was to be the leader of nations shocking I know. What he didn't count on was someone like me who likes to win games, chess a great teacher of logic and emotion. He didn't realize IF someone pushed all in purchased nuclear weapons and launched them on the other countries the game ended with one winner for a few minutes ha. That is the evil we are. That my friend is demented. BTW, he canceled the game.

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Rodolfo Marusi Guareschi's avatar

Lies and deception, together with violence, are the soul of capitalism, even more so when it becomes imperialism.

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N. Obody's avatar

Caitlin, normally you have my full support, but when you say "dictator Nicolás Maduro" (and its not a quote of someone else), you validate imperial narrative. Maduro was regularly elected and it is known amongst the populace that he enjoys popular support. Only the USA refused to recognize Maduro, with even Europe and other US aligned countries recognizing his legitimacy as elected president under democracy.

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Jodi Yaccino's avatar

It was a quote from someone else! Read the article again, then apologize to her!

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Read it again. That's a quote from Axios’ Marc Caputo. It's not something Caitlin said.

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N. Obody's avatar

The quote marks did not include that part when i wrote the comment, I think.

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Caitlin Johnstone's avatar

Wrong.

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Breezy van Niekerk's avatar

I live in Venezuela and I can guarantee you that Nicolás Maduro is not a dictator. We REALLY do have a grassroots democracy. Nicolás Maduro is the DEMOCRATICALLY elected president of Venezuela. Alex Jones has been wrong about Venezuela for at least the last 20 years.

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Nick Heffernan's avatar

Fuck the fucking Empire of Greed and Death and all the fucking greedy, power-crazed, racist, psychopathic imperialists that run it and all those dupes and liberals and centrists and useful idiots who subscribe to it and manufacture consent for it. Fuck them!

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Positively Paying It Forward's avatar

Pakistani-India conflict went poorly. So did 12 day Israeli-Iran conflict.

Both funded and/or supported by US/Empire.

So off we go to bully someone else in an attempt to “save democracy “ and kick the can down the road in an effort to avoid facing the reality of the US propped up economy.

Beautiful.

Make America Great (by once again terrorizing Latin/So. America) Again.

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Chang Chokaski's avatar

Nope. Pakistani-India conflict had NOTHING to do with the U.S. (or funding by it). It was related to the Kashmir issue that has been going on for 50+ years now.

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Landru's avatar

Question, to me this felt like a localized fight among to militaries having stared at each other across a playing field to long. One says your "Mother looks like a dog"the other " I fucked your Mother" . Then bullets. Like Genocide Don saying " the gulf of America" then deploying troops. Nothing is logical or was it ever.

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