No. Capitalist greed. All over the world. Not to say that at present the US is not leading the greed parade, but they are certainly not alone in their greed.
NO. I moved in many countries and ended up in the USA. Garages full of EVERYTHING used and discarded when a new thing arrived on the market. I had never seen so many Garages full of usable furniture/stereo systems/bicycles. Babychairs etc.
Don't aggravate me Susan this is what I saw.
Shopping/shopping and absolutely NO political conversations
Like so many wars in the last decades. You are the military arm of the City of London. Yet you are too comfortable to find that out.
You allow your children to be miseducated so they cannot find the countries they bomb on a world map. Very convenient for those using your children as cannon fodder and taxes to murder. The City purposefully controls your education system. The world shrugs their shoulders and gives up on "dumb Americans."
Dumb Americans yell they are so free they need no geography or history when queried.
This is on you.
You have no defence under law.
You murdered the farmers in Nicaragua.
There is a very long list to account for.
Mosaddegh
Árbenz
I'll stop now as you are probably already confused.
"Ashamed" is not accountable.
This is on you and what you have traded for comfort. While telling your self the "story of good"
Pippi Smythe - wrong target. Maybe focus on people in positions of power and authority, the billionaires, the capitalists, the oligarchs, the Foreign Policy establishment, and the lackeys of all the above?
Most plebians have no control/choice in the decisions of the above groups (other than to unite as workers in unions, strikes, work stoppages, consumer boycots, sticking it to the 1%, etc.). Voting will NOT get the US out of this mess (in general, humans are too easily manipulated to vote against their interests), and as Caitlin explains - the 2 party monopoly (which is more like one party in reality) offers few alternatives.
Blame the politicians, Zionists, Capitalists, bankers, MIC, financial institutions, and so many more instead.
Well said. We need to direct our anger at the correct villains--the billionaires/oligarchs/capitalists, their puppets in politics, the bankers and financiers of war and genocide, etc. When we the "working people" start hurling insults at each other we're playing right into these bastards' hands. We need to unite the 99% and take out the 1%!
you left out the most important one--the media, that controls the narrative and keeps us herded into two warring camps, and nearly all deluded about what's going on.
I worked on Telescopes through Chile and Argentina and now on Dark Matter experiments with most from South America (because they can go to school without 100sk of debt) and that topic comes up frequently. At that time almost nothing was ever written in mass media about all the successful coups. Notice the last three coup attempts in Venezuela were open to pubic exposure and stopped by public protest. We are having an effect. Even in Palestine, evil is losing it's grip as israel goes bankrupt mentally and physically. Not fast enough however it's happening. Free, Free Palestine : )
Targeting the collaborators AS WELL as those you mention. They could not do this without us being wilfully blind.
The elite work as a group, stacked functions, multiple goals. Why don't we? Look at Eastern Europe. One in 4 was a denouncer. Sending in info anonymously and getting paid. The system would not have worked, nor for so long without collaboration.
IMHO, to take our power back we have to see where we gave it away and why. Do we need to collaborate with psychopaths to get abundance? We will never know if we deny we do it and point the finger only outside of us.
Where the F did that come from. Well said my friend. How could anyone other than professional psyop could come up with that argument or criticism. Just as Caitlin has been writing about coming together to fight genocide and we get something like that. Harder days are coming aren't they. Thank you for that.
That is a great question my friend as well as a something I never understood. Could it be power in the u.s. has people believing they are stupid and clueless without power. In reality as has been said here, shipyards, rail yards, flight attendants, Air traffic controllers, ship pilots, air pilots, train conductors have all the power. Can you imagine the power of a General Strike. Kshama Sawant of Workers Strike Back is organizing non stop around this very topic. Thank you for keeping me focused my friend. Community and Solidarity as well as hugs : )
I only responded to your self stated lifelong exposure to the murders, suffering, displacement of millions as being "ashamed". I reacted to your own summation of your moral self.
Hum, you sound like a tactic change to me trying to divide people who are truly against war crimes and genocide. We stand together, you should join us in the fight.
It is not just Amerdicans, it is not just people :
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"For years one has to put up with the feeling that people do not care, really care, about one; then one day with growing alarm, one realises that it is God who does not care: and not merely that he does not care, he does not care one way or the other"
Community and Solidarity are in every word you wrote. I have a strange feeling we are seeing a tactic change trying to divide us. Much love to you and yours. Thank you for standing up.
What you are advocating for is collective punishment. It’s what Israel is doing, you know, because murdering all Palestinians is ok because they voted for Hamas. People like you ensure violence never ends.
I am talking of legal consequences only. Did I mention violence?
Are you afraid?
Amurdican by any chance?
Once you own it, be accountable, maybe things can change. Hiding behind "the collective punishment" argument no longer works for those enjoying the peace of being on the other end of the gun they are entitled enough to pretend does not exist. Tables flipped. Bank Ruptcy. Look it up and who set the first example.
Your deeds against this can exonerate you.
Care to list them?
Those in the comfortable heart of the Empire do this:
Violence death pain and destruction always has and always will be the final arbiter.
All government. All society has violence and the threat of violence a sole basis.
Always has and always will.
You have been brainwashed into "Don't hit Johnny or Debbie". Why not? "The little shit stole my bike, Debbie told lies about me."
In every form of life from Amoeba to Angels, violence is the basis of existence.
Until we understand this and embrace it, the evil greedy bastards (Politicians, bankers and Trump) will use violence against us to take what they want and leave us with whatever they allow us.
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"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."-- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
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This is why 'they' are so scared of "Violence", why they punish any form of retaliation, why any form of opposition is obliterated, why "passive-aggressive" is the only permitted form of response, why only those who hold the same views are allowed to speak.
Self defence is not quite the same as violence. What you are talking about does not seem exactly like self defence. It sounds more like you are advocating that we compete to see who can be the most violent. Hamas' retaliation was in self defence. Israel's genocide is violence.
That is one perspective. Not mine though. I have been controlled by a violent person who survived. I also survived despite not being in control at the time. The violence in my life acheived nothing but pain and suffering mostly for me, but for the person who violated me too because she was never happy. And in the case of Gaza, Zionists, the Zionists may presently have physical control. But they have fomented so much hatred it is difficult to say what may happen in the future.
You have a very limited imagination and shit attitude. I do not accept that violence is a must. I’m not a coward or brainwashed. All life in this planet competes AND collaborates wittingly and unwittingly. I prefer we evolve toward collaboration and satiate or natural desires to compete without violence. And to think you know the ‘basis of existence’ is beyond god complex personality disorders.
Which peace-promoting, non-imperialist, socially conscious, universally-educated country do you represent? UK? Australia? [major sarc] Some other? If it’s real, I’d love to move there.
Thank you for this question. I keep coming back asking myself which country would be a country I could contribute to while not contributing to global destruction and chaos. I have no answers yet. I have lived in Chile, France for years in each country spending most of my life in the number one evil empire. The one question I ask myself, in my fight for peace am I doing more harm staying in the evil empire then helping. My Son is a Dir. of Microbiology with a co. in 69 countries. He asked me the other night which country we should move to. I was taken back by that, never thinking he would ask that. Then of course he is my Son ha.
I understand your point of view. People get offended so easily. All my life I heard the same rhetoric that the USA is the most powerful country in the world, the American values are untouchable, American dismiss lies with a passion, America wants every country ti be a democracy, America has the best universities, America doesn’t like the way South America handles their democracies, America, America…After arriving to America in the 80s, I began to confirm what I had been learning about America. How the military regime in Argentina had been trained in the School of the Americas and CIA to repress, abduct, rape, torture Argentinians that opposed the politics under the flag of communism. Argentina had never been a communist country. Anti-imperialist of course, how it cannot be when the empires steal the riches of a developing country ? In terms of education, I became a teacher in the US and tried my best to educate very vulnerable communities, communities no one cares about.
Bless you Silvia. Your story reveals a world absolutely inundated by US propaganda, and teaching students to think critically is the only way to help them find a path to the truth that reveals America's "democracy" as a nice idea on paper, but a quite corruptible one in practice. And yes I am an American, so I've observed the BS for quite a long lifetime.
The day after Christmas in 1955 I was born in New Jersey. This made me complicit in all the crimes of the US empire, no matter how I opposed them in the seven decades since. It's a version of Original Sin--like Eve's supposed crimes making us all born guilty. Jesus' death was supposed to give people the option of freeing themselves from the guilt for this terrible thing she did, eating a fruit. So. In your religion, is there anything we Americans can do to free ourselves from the guilt of having been born in the heart of this evil empire?
fact - Some are not complicit, they advocate yell, scream out the truth.
fact , we are all powerless, including yourself. to do anything on our own
fact, you cannot blame people for being subjected to the most intense psychological experiments ever done on humans.
FACT- cant blame the people for drinking fluoride that is pushed into their water, and food, making them less capable thinkers. If you have an average I.Q. of 100, and its pushed down 5 to 10 point with neurotoxins, then you have an average population with a below average capability of thinking.
FACT -You do exactly what the globalist wants you to do. You blame people who are powerless because your real enemy is invisible.
You are correct, we all share responsibility. Blame is irrelevant psychological manipulation. Tell where you are from, I am sure I could find some blame to fit you, if that is the manner of discourse you prefer ?
Blame is subjective so there is always blame to be shared.
Flouride, promoted by 2 Nuclear Physicists posing as pediatricians to neutralize the form of flouride which was a by-product of the aluminum smelting Industry. There was a court case on at the time, involving farmers and calves being born deformed. They needed to neutralize the pollution in the eyes of the public (Jurors).
Mission accomplished.
On the way from the smelter to the drinking water reservoir, the trucks must have "dangerous cargo" signs on them. To dispose of any other way is exceedingly expensive. Think radioactive.
That one was easier to figure out.
Took me 5 minutes.
A double check as the children need an adult in the room to protect them.
My question is "How could anyone not know that?"
Not " How can we be responsible for drinking flouride?"
The history of Bread and Circuses, and the control it can lead to, was taught to me in elementary school.
"Argue your limitations and sure enough they are yours". RB
The arguments above, all assume we are passive by-standers. Grabbing our goodies individually. Not working, as a group, to end the game.
My country was complicit as well.
Many say they do not have time to research these things.
"The arguments above, all assume we are passive by-standers. Grabbing our goodies individually. Not working, as a group, to end the game."
look around, there is no together. Last century has been greed, envy, inequality and me me me. Murder death cult for games, politics and media.
You mock people for not knowing about fluoride, yet you yourself only learned about it in 5 minutes. If you live somewhere without fluoridation, how can you assume others should have figured it out when they've been subjected to lifelong exposure and deliberate misdirection?
You mock people for prioritizing sports over politics, but mass entertainment as distraction is a proven strategy used by rulers ever since Rome. The 'Bread and Circuses' model is a feature, not a bug, of the system you blame individuals for not escaping.
Not working as a group, is blanket statement bullshit. You use "we" to implicate individuals. Many of us, are really no fun at parties because we speak of the truth to whomever is there. Some of us understand that thge only way anything happens is either when the boot comes down, or the momentum of truth causes a chaotic times.
Either way, same result, the rich will offer to save us from the chaos, by doing what they tell us to do.
Not only are you still wrong blaming the individual, you also ignore the presence of variables.
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Have a look
"The Swiss study from ETH Zurich (2011) found that a core group of just 737 corporations controlled 80% of global corporate value, not 400. However, your number is close, and it's possible that within the most tightly connected subset, the number was around 400 for even higher control.
Key Findings from the Study ("The Network of Global Corporate Control"):
Researchers analyzed 43,060 transnational corporations (TNCs) using network science.
They found that a super-connected core of 1,318 corporations had interlocking ownership and controlled 60% of global revenues.
Within this core, a tightly knit group of 737 firms controlled 80% of the total global value.
At the very center, 147 corporations had an outsized influence, effectively controlling 40% of the network's total wealth.
This study revealed that corporate power is highly centralized, meaning that a small number of interconnected companies dominate the global economy, reinforcing concerns about oligarchy and financial influence.""
This is the power that propagandizes and mind washes people.
These same people own credit/ debt. That is how these same people own the corporations which own media, medicine, war, et. al.
And you want to blame individuals for "we" not working together, when their whole existence is greed envy and propaganda ? And the power on us, is quite simply insurmountable. They are open about it now, but it wasn't always so.
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Further more, a study done the same year, also supported the only real method to change anything peacefully is to talk. To try and counter the narratives fed to the "we" with the truth know to the individuals. Not all people see the angles. They need to be led to them.
So this is what some of us do, because it makes sense, is peaceful, and effective.
""Argue your limitations and sure enough they are yours". RB" = babble
" Once 10% of a population holds an unshakable belief, it rapidly spreads and influences the majority, becoming the dominant viewpoint."
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
That's a plan. Effective or not. The only plan that includes everybody
CJ>>"I write so much about the fake “antisemitism crisis” not only because it’s being used to destroy civil rights throughout the western world, but because it’s one of the most dark and disturbing things I’ve ever witnessed."
Anti-semitism now seems to be the NEW McCarthyism of this age - manufacturing of fear, fear and theatre politics, manufacturing of false accusations and evidence-free inidctments, persecution of anyone opposed to Genocide, Israel or Zionism, repression of free speech, and so much more...
Iraq struck hard into my consciousness today -- shock and awe and all the cowboys like Dubya Bush with his codpiece who shouted "yee-haw" as we killed a million and destroyed that country for the interests of fucking Israel.
So screw the lame excuses of Trump supporters. The man has simply opened his mouth and allowed that same horrific stream of kill-for-Israel consciousness to take over his brain just like Biden and every other cretin US leader before him --- back to JFK, whom they had to -- had to -- assassinate. I'm reading his writings as a senator in the 50s. He was definitely not sufficiently pro-Israel.
"The unlimited support western powers give to Israel is a continuation of colonial violence and white supremacy. The U.S. and the west wield a false moral superiority over colonized peoples struggling for liberation."
But white as well as black are racist inventions. I often see "white supremacism", simply Europeans, présent or former ones. Supremacism ? Yes, in arrogance, greed, power thirst and lack of empathy.
Pertinent and insightful comment. White is often an abbreviation for European or "of European heritage", which as you correctly assert is a pretty lazy racist way of saying it. But from the historical perspective of a Black American -- like either Baraka or one if my two closest adult male friends, who was African-American -- I find it difficult to assign blame for reverse racism.
Your spelling of present with é tends to reveal your native tongue?
Not overtly, but he initiated our involvement in Afghanistan. And although he negotiated peace between Israel and Egypt, he ultimately criticized his own policies -- and Israel's subsequent and current actions.
Yes, thank you, I almost forgot that with the washing of history. Carter I always thought helped create Habitat because of his evil murder of people globally. Was he the kind of man that had any empathy? Genocide Carter fits him.
Nope, shortly after voting for Genocide Carter. He signed a presidential order delivering millions of dollars (at that time a million, was a million) worth of weapons to murder a million East Timor people, for wanting education, healthcare, housing and a living standard. Shame on me, although I was only eighteen I was politically aware after Vietnam.
The realization is dawning on some that we have been had. President Trump is not a president of peace. There will be some good things coming out of the new administration and these get all the press and attention. "Winning!" the crowd crows. "Not tired of winning!"
Those things, however, pale next to the Israel worship I see as cabinet members try to outdo each other in proclaiming their fealty to Israel. This view was a prerequisite to being chosen in the first place. This then leads to the unspeakable horrors of mass murder and maiming we see in Gaza and Lebanon and Syria. There is a war on Yemen and others in the region. Eventually, it will lead to new attacks on Iran unless it is stopped. No one will stop it because Israel demands it.
Also being destroyed in front of our eyes is the First Amendment. We face constraints on voicing our dissent as victims are targeted. Israel demands it. Trump delivers. That suppression begins with not allowing criticism of Israel but the forbidden list will expand.
It won't end soon because supporters don't see these things as bad. They don't comprehend the ugly truth. They are blinded by the euphoria of the November win. They want to believe the spin; the explanations.
The only good things Trump has done, like banning men from women's sport, is a direct result of the 'wokism' that was deliberately pushed by the liberal puppets for a swing to the populist puppets. Trump is not bringing peace in Ukraine, Gaza nor anywhere. He is not bringing multipolarity. He's all about US primacy just like his backers the deep state/BlackRock tell him to be.
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
― : D. Butler, War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
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He plans on making America great by stealing from and impoverishing the other 7 billion people in the world.
He does not understand why they are annoyed by this.
He also knows that the 'West' was built on Jewish usury and credit, that for 5,000 years you either accommodated and paid the Jews or you became a victim of the people who they paid to kill you.
He ducked one bullet, the message from Jerusalem is that he or his children will not duck the next
It's not "Trump's genocide. Its a gencide owned by the collective west.
Biden did his part. Kamala Harris signed up to do her part. Trump is doing his. If Obama was here, well he would do just the same - or the Pritzkers and the rest of his oligarchy backers would have removed him. Olaf Schøltz did his part. The first thing his succesor Merz did: declare his solemn duty to enable genocide. Surely the picture here should be clear enough for even the blind!
Its not about Trump. Its about the horrific levels of white supremacy, self-centeredness and greed that permeate western society to the core.
Pointing fingers at Trump is not the way to overcome this. Trump himself is merley a symptom of a deeply sick society and value system, or the lack thereof.
Yet, there are many who just cannot see why most of the world speaks of white supremacy. Their culture has been used as well, to perpetuate these crimes, but they are made too comfortable to know it. The pain they cause is "invisible" so they pretend it does not exist. So easy.
Everyone in the world with an operating cel phone is witnessing the genocide. in Gaza.Over 75 years occupation propaganda about the moral army slaughter of unarmed families in Gaza. What is different is this genocide is happening in real time. Over 18 months. Like the protests the Vietnam genocide the media was suppressed. They shot protesters. This time the whole world is watching the ongoing killing of news .
>>"This time the whole world is watching the ongoing killing of news"
Phillip Beard, it would seem that way - but that's not really true. Large swathes of people are IGNORING the Genocide (passively and actively). THAT is the real problem - how easy it seems for "ordinary people" to turn a blind eye and close their hearts to the depravity and evil going on right now... That is what scares me - HOW CAN HUMANS be so callous and morally defunct/bankrupt? What is wrong with humanity???
What I find infuriating in all this: fake progressives like AOC - especially AOC - who've played the system so well. Remember how excited the left was about her? Now she's having sit-downs with Pelosi and riding that wave to the Senate. 🤮🤮🤮
Once again, never think that either faction of the "duopoly" or "uniparty" is "progressive" or different from the other. They both accept money from billionaires and the MIC. They both do as their masters tell them to do. They are essentially the same except for differences in window dressing. It's time to throw all these murderous bums out the window!
AOC is the fake leftist leader that is the sheepdog that gets people to stay with the dem party and keep any true leftists from running. She has taken over the roll that Bernie played before he sold out too many times.
She is the opposite of the rotating villain that makes sure dems can’t get their agendas passed.
I can’t believe that people haven’t seen through this scheme yet.
Rep. Cortez no longer deserves the nickname of - - -. She is not a friend of anyone but herself and power that uses her. I get your message : ) Will we be that dumb as to continue the support? Every time she sends a text about how she needs money to fight for us. I send F - - - the Genocide Demoncrats. Never another penny. Yep, I hate to tell you how deeply I fell for her scam as I did with Bernie. Bernie 4800$ and hours of door knocking, petition filling, gathering vote parties. Cortez only fooled me and I am ashamed even to remember it, 1200$ : (
The trouble is that when we decide to rise up the ones who have money and the power that they have stolen for themselves and that we have let them steal, will have their lackeys there waiting to put us into their jails or shoot us. Climate change will get them too though. That or one of their bombs.
"It’s not just tyranny, it’s tyranny that orders people to clap along with it."
That is sicko, isn't it? We're being terrorized by Israeli baby-killers and their Western enablers AND we're supposed to smile and cheer them on as if nothing has happened. What sort of psychopathic villains came up with this idea? (Yeah, yeah, I know who... I just want somebody to wake me up from this nightmare. I guess it's up to us to refuse to clap and take down the tyrants and drag them to their war crimes trial.)
Lawrence Wilkerson was Colin Powell's chief of staff. I saw him interviewed later--but I long time ago--and the question was "Netenyahu just addressed the US Congress and got 70 standing ovations. What do you think of that?" His answer was interesting. He said that in the 1930,s the Nazis would have these massive marches and the people would turn out to cheer and give salutes when Hitler passed. And thetre would be brownshirts running along the march, and anyone who didn't salute and yell Heil Hitler, they'd beat up or arrest. The US embassy had to keep bailing out Americans who didn't know this.
Not only an interesting tidbit of history I hadn't known, but very interesting response given the question.
" President Trump visited the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Monday to preside over a meeting of the famed art institution’s new board. In his first weeks in office, Trump fired the president of the Kennedy Center, replaced the bipartisan board of trustees and named himself as chair of the Kennedy Center. New members of the board include his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, and her mother; second lady Usha Vance; and two hosts on Fox News, Laura Ingraham and Maria Bartiromo".
Maybe this bit of news is not relevant and my including it here is even disrespectful in the face of crimes against humanity that the brave Palestinians are enduring. But it shows the tyranny and the anti-intellectual banality of the Trump regime. Fascist by nature, fascist by name.
CJ>>"Everything the human heart longs for lies in the death of capitalism, militarism and empire, and yet both of the dominant western political factions of our day support continuing all of these things. This is because westerners spend their entire lives marinating in power-serving propaganda which herds them into these two mainstream political factions to ensure that they will pose no meaningful challenges to our rulers."
🎯💯 So well stated and expressed Caitlin. Thank you!
Yes and also the system herds people into the military to fight these endless wars for expression of power and the corporate rape of materials and cheaper labor. It is part of the dumbing down, the propaganda, the media complicity, the hero worship, the rewarding of the soldier sent to fight for power and greed, not democracy. The emphasis on guns, violent games, violent movies, the virulent social media. The underpaid jobs and desperation that invites joining a “good” job in the military services, and the promises not kept, except for endless thank you’s for your service, the special discounts. And then the despair, the unmet need for help, the suicides. Or the herding of the violent into the militarized police state to continue the repression and mandates of the corporate state. And now the oligarchs attempts to wrestle power and wealth onto themselves and control the narrative by promoting destruction and reaping the benefits.
Only a total collapse of this system, this empire of militarism, the scapegoating, the lies, the bribery and corruption, will bring an end to it. And yes, we all need to take our heads out of the sand and cry “enough”.
>>"Only a total collapse of this system, this empire of militarism, the scapegoating, the lies, the bribery and corruption, will bring an end to it. And yes, we all need to take our heads out of the sand and cry “enough”."
But, but, but I read talk about restarting the draft? And after decades of warnings about overpopulation our “leaders” want women to have more babies? Worried about lack of cannon fodder?
Trump started the plan last time in office make a deal with the Saudi’s to recognize isreal and look the other way while usa n isreal take out the “ palastinian problem” and supress Iran . the final solution: a real estate deal End of story Its long been us foriegn policy but its Trump unique completely transparent transactional approach that set in motion what “ needed” to be done fot decades
We are a sick nation running cover for the very sick Zionist nation. I am so incredibly ashamed of my country.
Our world is sick with greed for money and power. Sick with always needing to be "the best".
US greed.
No. Capitalist greed. All over the world. Not to say that at present the US is not leading the greed parade, but they are certainly not alone in their greed.
NO. I moved in many countries and ended up in the USA. Garages full of EVERYTHING used and discarded when a new thing arrived on the market. I had never seen so many Garages full of usable furniture/stereo systems/bicycles. Babychairs etc.
Don't aggravate me Susan this is what I saw.
Shopping/shopping and absolutely NO political conversations
Don't aggravate you????? If you don't want to be aggravated, go somewhere else.
And BTW, that "don't aggravate me" comment sounds VERY American to me. Time to move on??
Ashamed?
You are complicit.
Like so many wars in the last decades. You are the military arm of the City of London. Yet you are too comfortable to find that out.
You allow your children to be miseducated so they cannot find the countries they bomb on a world map. Very convenient for those using your children as cannon fodder and taxes to murder. The City purposefully controls your education system. The world shrugs their shoulders and gives up on "dumb Americans."
Dumb Americans yell they are so free they need no geography or history when queried.
This is on you.
You have no defence under law.
You murdered the farmers in Nicaragua.
There is a very long list to account for.
Mosaddegh
Árbenz
I'll stop now as you are probably already confused.
"Ashamed" is not accountable.
This is on you and what you have traded for comfort. While telling your self the "story of good"
Never again call yourself a "christian" country.
#donewithgenocidalhypocrites
Pippi Smythe - wrong target. Maybe focus on people in positions of power and authority, the billionaires, the capitalists, the oligarchs, the Foreign Policy establishment, and the lackeys of all the above?
Most plebians have no control/choice in the decisions of the above groups (other than to unite as workers in unions, strikes, work stoppages, consumer boycots, sticking it to the 1%, etc.). Voting will NOT get the US out of this mess (in general, humans are too easily manipulated to vote against their interests), and as Caitlin explains - the 2 party monopoly (which is more like one party in reality) offers few alternatives.
Blame the politicians, Zionists, Capitalists, bankers, MIC, financial institutions, and so many more instead.
Well said. We need to direct our anger at the correct villains--the billionaires/oligarchs/capitalists, their puppets in politics, the bankers and financiers of war and genocide, etc. When we the "working people" start hurling insults at each other we're playing right into these bastards' hands. We need to unite the 99% and take out the 1%!
you left out the most important one--the media, that controls the narrative and keeps us herded into two warring camps, and nearly all deluded about what's going on.
BUT you do nothing about this?
Chang, I really like your clarity.
I beg to disagree Chang.
What were the American people doing while dimantling S. American Countries because you did not like their politics.
YOU were shopping!
Why are Americans so easily 'manipulated?'
I worked on Telescopes through Chile and Argentina and now on Dark Matter experiments with most from South America (because they can go to school without 100sk of debt) and that topic comes up frequently. At that time almost nothing was ever written in mass media about all the successful coups. Notice the last three coup attempts in Venezuela were open to pubic exposure and stopped by public protest. We are having an effect. Even in Palestine, evil is losing it's grip as israel goes bankrupt mentally and physically. Not fast enough however it's happening. Free, Free Palestine : )
Targeting the collaborators AS WELL as those you mention. They could not do this without us being wilfully blind.
The elite work as a group, stacked functions, multiple goals. Why don't we? Look at Eastern Europe. One in 4 was a denouncer. Sending in info anonymously and getting paid. The system would not have worked, nor for so long without collaboration.
IMHO, to take our power back we have to see where we gave it away and why. Do we need to collaborate with psychopaths to get abundance? We will never know if we deny we do it and point the finger only outside of us.
NO. I blame the USA public for being so naive. Thinking the "American Dream" would continue. Knowing NOTHING about their Govt.
How is it that the Zionists have taken over your country? Is this because the people were naive? YES!
Where the F did that come from. Well said my friend. How could anyone other than professional psyop could come up with that argument or criticism. Just as Caitlin has been writing about coming together to fight genocide and we get something like that. Harder days are coming aren't they. Thank you for that.
How much 'harder' does it have to get Landru before the US people lift a finger.
STOP the propaganda machine.
That is a great question my friend as well as a something I never understood. Could it be power in the u.s. has people believing they are stupid and clueless without power. In reality as has been said here, shipyards, rail yards, flight attendants, Air traffic controllers, ship pilots, air pilots, train conductors have all the power. Can you imagine the power of a General Strike. Kshama Sawant of Workers Strike Back is organizing non stop around this very topic. Thank you for keeping me focused my friend. Community and Solidarity as well as hugs : )
You have absolutely no idea who I am personally or my history or my morality. I'm not the least bit confused.
I only responded to your self stated lifelong exposure to the murders, suffering, displacement of millions as being "ashamed". I reacted to your own summation of your moral self.
I'm sure you're out there protesting every day and putting your life on the line. Just go the hell away with your accusations.
I foolishly did.
I wasted decades. Thought Amurdicans "just didn't know."
Found out - they just don't care. My bad for not following history. Those comfortable, in the heart of the empire, ......
Hum, you sound like a tactic change to me trying to divide people who are truly against war crimes and genocide. We stand together, you should join us in the fight.
It is not just Amerdicans, it is not just people :
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"For years one has to put up with the feeling that people do not care, really care, about one; then one day with growing alarm, one realises that it is God who does not care: and not merely that he does not care, he does not care one way or the other"
Lawrence Durrell, "The Alexandria Quartet"
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Welcome to the real world.
Community and Solidarity are in every word you wrote. I have a strange feeling we are seeing a tactic change trying to divide us. Much love to you and yours. Thank you for standing up.
What you are advocating for is collective punishment. It’s what Israel is doing, you know, because murdering all Palestinians is ok because they voted for Hamas. People like you ensure violence never ends.
I am talking of legal consequences only. Did I mention violence?
Are you afraid?
Amurdican by any chance?
Once you own it, be accountable, maybe things can change. Hiding behind "the collective punishment" argument no longer works for those enjoying the peace of being on the other end of the gun they are entitled enough to pretend does not exist. Tables flipped. Bank Ruptcy. Look it up and who set the first example.
Your deeds against this can exonerate you.
Care to list them?
Those in the comfortable heart of the Empire do this:
DARVO
Piss off.
That response had me on my heels, Bravo, Bravo : )
I bet your hands are dirty. Spare me your virtues
NEWS FLASH
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Violence never ends!!
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Violence death pain and destruction always has and always will be the final arbiter.
All government. All society has violence and the threat of violence a sole basis.
Always has and always will.
You have been brainwashed into "Don't hit Johnny or Debbie". Why not? "The little shit stole my bike, Debbie told lies about me."
In every form of life from Amoeba to Angels, violence is the basis of existence.
Until we understand this and embrace it, the evil greedy bastards (Politicians, bankers and Trump) will use violence against us to take what they want and leave us with whatever they allow us.
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"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."-- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
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This is why 'they' are so scared of "Violence", why they punish any form of retaliation, why any form of opposition is obliterated, why "passive-aggressive" is the only permitted form of response, why only those who hold the same views are allowed to speak.
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Anti-violence is either stupidity or cowardice.
Self defence is not quite the same as violence. What you are talking about does not seem exactly like self defence. It sounds more like you are advocating that we compete to see who can be the most violent. Hamas' retaliation was in self defence. Israel's genocide is violence.
No, what I am saying is that whether one initiates or responds, violence is what always decides.
It doesn't matter who is right or wrong, that is a judgement.
In the end it only matters who survives and controls.
That is one perspective. Not mine though. I have been controlled by a violent person who survived. I also survived despite not being in control at the time. The violence in my life acheived nothing but pain and suffering mostly for me, but for the person who violated me too because she was never happy. And in the case of Gaza, Zionists, the Zionists may presently have physical control. But they have fomented so much hatred it is difficult to say what may happen in the future.
You have a very limited imagination and shit attitude. I do not accept that violence is a must. I’m not a coward or brainwashed. All life in this planet competes AND collaborates wittingly and unwittingly. I prefer we evolve toward collaboration and satiate or natural desires to compete without violence. And to think you know the ‘basis of existence’ is beyond god complex personality disorders.
I did not say it was a 'must'/
What I said and invite anyone to refute is that violence is always the final 'decider'.
It always has been, is now and always will be.
As for your ad hominem, it demonstrates a very violent personality.
What next, pistols at dawn?
Which peace-promoting, non-imperialist, socially conscious, universally-educated country do you represent? UK? Australia? [major sarc] Some other? If it’s real, I’d love to move there.
Thank you for this question. I keep coming back asking myself which country would be a country I could contribute to while not contributing to global destruction and chaos. I have no answers yet. I have lived in Chile, France for years in each country spending most of my life in the number one evil empire. The one question I ask myself, in my fight for peace am I doing more harm staying in the evil empire then helping. My Son is a Dir. of Microbiology with a co. in 69 countries. He asked me the other night which country we should move to. I was taken back by that, never thinking he would ask that. Then of course he is my Son ha.
Interesting question. I posit another one: Which country has never fought a war outside their home?
I understand your point of view. People get offended so easily. All my life I heard the same rhetoric that the USA is the most powerful country in the world, the American values are untouchable, American dismiss lies with a passion, America wants every country ti be a democracy, America has the best universities, America doesn’t like the way South America handles their democracies, America, America…After arriving to America in the 80s, I began to confirm what I had been learning about America. How the military regime in Argentina had been trained in the School of the Americas and CIA to repress, abduct, rape, torture Argentinians that opposed the politics under the flag of communism. Argentina had never been a communist country. Anti-imperialist of course, how it cannot be when the empires steal the riches of a developing country ? In terms of education, I became a teacher in the US and tried my best to educate very vulnerable communities, communities no one cares about.
Bless you Silvia. Your story reveals a world absolutely inundated by US propaganda, and teaching students to think critically is the only way to help them find a path to the truth that reveals America's "democracy" as a nice idea on paper, but a quite corruptible one in practice. And yes I am an American, so I've observed the BS for quite a long lifetime.
The day after Christmas in 1955 I was born in New Jersey. This made me complicit in all the crimes of the US empire, no matter how I opposed them in the seven decades since. It's a version of Original Sin--like Eve's supposed crimes making us all born guilty. Jesus' death was supposed to give people the option of freeing themselves from the guilt for this terrible thing she did, eating a fruit. So. In your religion, is there anything we Americans can do to free ourselves from the guilt of having been born in the heart of this evil empire?
I love you : )
I didn't do any of these things nor did I support them. You personally accusing me just shows you for what kind of a self righteous ass that you are.
What have you been doing? Shopping?
except you deny some facts.
fact - Some are not complicit, they advocate yell, scream out the truth.
fact , we are all powerless, including yourself. to do anything on our own
fact, you cannot blame people for being subjected to the most intense psychological experiments ever done on humans.
FACT- cant blame the people for drinking fluoride that is pushed into their water, and food, making them less capable thinkers. If you have an average I.Q. of 100, and its pushed down 5 to 10 point with neurotoxins, then you have an average population with a below average capability of thinking.
FACT -You do exactly what the globalist wants you to do. You blame people who are powerless because your real enemy is invisible.
You are correct, we all share responsibility. Blame is irrelevant psychological manipulation. Tell where you are from, I am sure I could find some blame to fit you, if that is the manner of discourse you prefer ?
Blame is subjective so there is always blame to be shared.
So much to unpack. I'll stop after 1.
Flouride, promoted by 2 Nuclear Physicists posing as pediatricians to neutralize the form of flouride which was a by-product of the aluminum smelting Industry. There was a court case on at the time, involving farmers and calves being born deformed. They needed to neutralize the pollution in the eyes of the public (Jurors).
Mission accomplished.
On the way from the smelter to the drinking water reservoir, the trucks must have "dangerous cargo" signs on them. To dispose of any other way is exceedingly expensive. Think radioactive.
That one was easier to figure out.
Took me 5 minutes.
A double check as the children need an adult in the room to protect them.
My question is "How could anyone not know that?"
Not " How can we be responsible for drinking flouride?"
The history of Bread and Circuses, and the control it can lead to, was taught to me in elementary school.
"Argue your limitations and sure enough they are yours". RB
The arguments above, all assume we are passive by-standers. Grabbing our goodies individually. Not working, as a group, to end the game.
My country was complicit as well.
Many say they do not have time to research these things.
Then I ask who won the latest hockey game?
The answer comes in a millisecond.
Arrested development, resembling a child.
"The arguments above, all assume we are passive by-standers. Grabbing our goodies individually. Not working, as a group, to end the game."
look around, there is no together. Last century has been greed, envy, inequality and me me me. Murder death cult for games, politics and media.
You mock people for not knowing about fluoride, yet you yourself only learned about it in 5 minutes. If you live somewhere without fluoridation, how can you assume others should have figured it out when they've been subjected to lifelong exposure and deliberate misdirection?
You mock people for prioritizing sports over politics, but mass entertainment as distraction is a proven strategy used by rulers ever since Rome. The 'Bread and Circuses' model is a feature, not a bug, of the system you blame individuals for not escaping.
Not working as a group, is blanket statement bullshit. You use "we" to implicate individuals. Many of us, are really no fun at parties because we speak of the truth to whomever is there. Some of us understand that thge only way anything happens is either when the boot comes down, or the momentum of truth causes a chaotic times.
Either way, same result, the rich will offer to save us from the chaos, by doing what they tell us to do.
Not only are you still wrong blaming the individual, you also ignore the presence of variables.
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Have a look
"The Swiss study from ETH Zurich (2011) found that a core group of just 737 corporations controlled 80% of global corporate value, not 400. However, your number is close, and it's possible that within the most tightly connected subset, the number was around 400 for even higher control.
Key Findings from the Study ("The Network of Global Corporate Control"):
Researchers analyzed 43,060 transnational corporations (TNCs) using network science.
They found that a super-connected core of 1,318 corporations had interlocking ownership and controlled 60% of global revenues.
Within this core, a tightly knit group of 737 firms controlled 80% of the total global value.
At the very center, 147 corporations had an outsized influence, effectively controlling 40% of the network's total wealth.
This study revealed that corporate power is highly centralized, meaning that a small number of interconnected companies dominate the global economy, reinforcing concerns about oligarchy and financial influence.""
This is the power that propagandizes and mind washes people.
These same people own credit/ debt. That is how these same people own the corporations which own media, medicine, war, et. al.
And you want to blame individuals for "we" not working together, when their whole existence is greed envy and propaganda ? And the power on us, is quite simply insurmountable. They are open about it now, but it wasn't always so.
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Further more, a study done the same year, also supported the only real method to change anything peacefully is to talk. To try and counter the narratives fed to the "we" with the truth know to the individuals. Not all people see the angles. They need to be led to them.
So this is what some of us do, because it makes sense, is peaceful, and effective.
""Argue your limitations and sure enough they are yours". RB" = babble
" Once 10% of a population holds an unshakable belief, it rapidly spreads and influences the majority, becoming the dominant viewpoint."
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
That's a plan. Effective or not. The only plan that includes everybody
I can't but agree with you in principle and recitation of the facts you itemize.
Actually you are owned by Zionism.
politics does not own you. Money power that implemented Zionism owns you. Important distinction.
CJ>>"I write so much about the fake “antisemitism crisis” not only because it’s being used to destroy civil rights throughout the western world, but because it’s one of the most dark and disturbing things I’ve ever witnessed."
Anti-semitism now seems to be the NEW McCarthyism of this age - manufacturing of fear, fear and theatre politics, manufacturing of false accusations and evidence-free inidctments, persecution of anyone opposed to Genocide, Israel or Zionism, repression of free speech, and so much more...
Iraq struck hard into my consciousness today -- shock and awe and all the cowboys like Dubya Bush with his codpiece who shouted "yee-haw" as we killed a million and destroyed that country for the interests of fucking Israel.
So screw the lame excuses of Trump supporters. The man has simply opened his mouth and allowed that same horrific stream of kill-for-Israel consciousness to take over his brain just like Biden and every other cretin US leader before him --- back to JFK, whom they had to -- had to -- assassinate. I'm reading his writings as a senator in the 50s. He was definitely not sufficiently pro-Israel.
Ajamu Baraka in today's Black Agenda Report:
"The unlimited support western powers give to Israel is a continuation of colonial violence and white supremacy. The U.S. and the west wield a false moral superiority over colonized peoples struggling for liberation."
YES!!!
But white as well as black are racist inventions. I often see "white supremacism", simply Europeans, présent or former ones. Supremacism ? Yes, in arrogance, greed, power thirst and lack of empathy.
Pertinent and insightful comment. White is often an abbreviation for European or "of European heritage", which as you correctly assert is a pretty lazy racist way of saying it. But from the historical perspective of a Black American -- like either Baraka or one if my two closest adult male friends, who was African-American -- I find it difficult to assign blame for reverse racism.
Your spelling of present with é tends to reveal your native tongue?
Thank you for that.
Listen to Lucinda Williams>. Man without a Soul?
I read that Jimmy Carter got through his presidency - the only one ever to do so - without waging war. Is that true?
Not overtly, but he initiated our involvement in Afghanistan. And although he negotiated peace between Israel and Egypt, he ultimately criticized his own policies -- and Israel's subsequent and current actions.
Unfortunately, not true. The horror that became El Salvador is one of his.
EXACTLY. Look at El Salvador now! Read and learn what is happening there. It is a prison complex probable owned and run by the USA
Yes, thank you, I almost forgot that with the washing of history. Carter I always thought helped create Habitat because of his evil murder of people globally. Was he the kind of man that had any empathy? Genocide Carter fits him.
Nope, shortly after voting for Genocide Carter. He signed a presidential order delivering millions of dollars (at that time a million, was a million) worth of weapons to murder a million East Timor people, for wanting education, healthcare, housing and a living standard. Shame on me, although I was only eighteen I was politically aware after Vietnam.
The realization is dawning on some that we have been had. President Trump is not a president of peace. There will be some good things coming out of the new administration and these get all the press and attention. "Winning!" the crowd crows. "Not tired of winning!"
Those things, however, pale next to the Israel worship I see as cabinet members try to outdo each other in proclaiming their fealty to Israel. This view was a prerequisite to being chosen in the first place. This then leads to the unspeakable horrors of mass murder and maiming we see in Gaza and Lebanon and Syria. There is a war on Yemen and others in the region. Eventually, it will lead to new attacks on Iran unless it is stopped. No one will stop it because Israel demands it.
Also being destroyed in front of our eyes is the First Amendment. We face constraints on voicing our dissent as victims are targeted. Israel demands it. Trump delivers. That suppression begins with not allowing criticism of Israel but the forbidden list will expand.
It won't end soon because supporters don't see these things as bad. They don't comprehend the ugly truth. They are blinded by the euphoria of the November win. They want to believe the spin; the explanations.
👏 Well said Wren!
The only good things Trump has done, like banning men from women's sport, is a direct result of the 'wokism' that was deliberately pushed by the liberal puppets for a swing to the populist puppets. Trump is not bringing peace in Ukraine, Gaza nor anywhere. He is not bringing multipolarity. He's all about US primacy just like his backers the deep state/BlackRock tell him to be.
Trump is MAGA.
Make America Great Again.
He knows what made America great.
He knows what it will take to make America great.
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
― : D. Butler, War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier
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He plans on making America great by stealing from and impoverishing the other 7 billion people in the world.
He does not understand why they are annoyed by this.
He also knows that the 'West' was built on Jewish usury and credit, that for 5,000 years you either accommodated and paid the Jews or you became a victim of the people who they paid to kill you.
He ducked one bullet, the message from Jerusalem is that he or his children will not duck the next
Man without a soul. (Lucinda Williams)
It's not "Trump's genocide. Its a gencide owned by the collective west.
Biden did his part. Kamala Harris signed up to do her part. Trump is doing his. If Obama was here, well he would do just the same - or the Pritzkers and the rest of his oligarchy backers would have removed him. Olaf Schøltz did his part. The first thing his succesor Merz did: declare his solemn duty to enable genocide. Surely the picture here should be clear enough for even the blind!
Its not about Trump. Its about the horrific levels of white supremacy, self-centeredness and greed that permeate western society to the core.
Pointing fingers at Trump is not the way to overcome this. Trump himself is merley a symptom of a deeply sick society and value system, or the lack thereof.
Yet, there are many who just cannot see why most of the world speaks of white supremacy. Their culture has been used as well, to perpetuate these crimes, but they are made too comfortable to know it. The pain they cause is "invisible" so they pretend it does not exist. So easy.
The agenda marches on, no matter who is in power.
MAGA: “Miriam Adelson’s Goals Achieved”
(Credit: Max Blumenthal)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq56DJFgcJU
Another one -> MAGA: Make America Genocidal Again
Excellent. It’s what you expect from the manifest destiny genociding country.
Ha! I listened to that interview just an hour or two ago, and I loved that quote from Max!
(But I like Chang's as well.)
It takes a stupid person to make a stupid rule.
And a fool to mind it.
Do not be a stupid.
Do not be a fool.
The only reason that things are so screwed up, is because there are too many people following stupid rules.
For example,
Sending military assistance to Israel.
Loading shipping containers full of munitions, parts for military aircraft, all the tchotchkies of war.
Placing those containers onto boats.
Sailing across the oceans to resupply those depraved, vicious savages.
I am referring to the Israelis.
With more things to wipe out the indigenous population of Gaza, West Bank, everything that is not Israel.
What if people refused to be part of the problem?
What if they refused to carry out the depraved policies of the Arrogant Rich People that are driving all this chaos?
What if somebody gave a war, and nobody came?
You people.......take a look at the strength of the Palestinians and the look at Yemen (which the US/UK are bombing to hell).
STOP the propaganda machine.
How do you do this:
You protest outside Mainstream Media/call out the 'yellow' Journalists by name.
Not many of them can afford bodyguards 24hrs a day.
Make the fiat currency usury scam merchants accountable.
Everyone in the world with an operating cel phone is witnessing the genocide. in Gaza.Over 75 years occupation propaganda about the moral army slaughter of unarmed families in Gaza. What is different is this genocide is happening in real time. Over 18 months. Like the protests the Vietnam genocide the media was suppressed. They shot protesters. This time the whole world is watching the ongoing killing of news .
>>"This time the whole world is watching the ongoing killing of news"
Phillip Beard, it would seem that way - but that's not really true. Large swathes of people are IGNORING the Genocide (passively and actively). THAT is the real problem - how easy it seems for "ordinary people" to turn a blind eye and close their hearts to the depravity and evil going on right now... That is what scares me - HOW CAN HUMANS be so callous and morally defunct/bankrupt? What is wrong with humanity???
What I find infuriating in all this: fake progressives like AOC - especially AOC - who've played the system so well. Remember how excited the left was about her? Now she's having sit-downs with Pelosi and riding that wave to the Senate. 🤮🤮🤮
Once again, never think that either faction of the "duopoly" or "uniparty" is "progressive" or different from the other. They both accept money from billionaires and the MIC. They both do as their masters tell them to do. They are essentially the same except for differences in window dressing. It's time to throw all these murderous bums out the window!
AOC is the fake leftist leader that is the sheepdog that gets people to stay with the dem party and keep any true leftists from running. She has taken over the roll that Bernie played before he sold out too many times.
She is the opposite of the rotating villain that makes sure dems can’t get their agendas passed.
I can’t believe that people haven’t seen through this scheme yet.
AOC is Bernie Sanders 2.0.
Rep. Cortez no longer deserves the nickname of - - -. She is not a friend of anyone but herself and power that uses her. I get your message : ) Will we be that dumb as to continue the support? Every time she sends a text about how she needs money to fight for us. I send F - - - the Genocide Demoncrats. Never another penny. Yep, I hate to tell you how deeply I fell for her scam as I did with Bernie. Bernie 4800$ and hours of door knocking, petition filling, gathering vote parties. Cortez only fooled me and I am ashamed even to remember it, 1200$ : (
The trouble is that when we decide to rise up the ones who have money and the power that they have stolen for themselves and that we have let them steal, will have their lackeys there waiting to put us into their jails or shoot us. Climate change will get them too though. That or one of their bombs.
"It’s not just tyranny, it’s tyranny that orders people to clap along with it."
That is sicko, isn't it? We're being terrorized by Israeli baby-killers and their Western enablers AND we're supposed to smile and cheer them on as if nothing has happened. What sort of psychopathic villains came up with this idea? (Yeah, yeah, I know who... I just want somebody to wake me up from this nightmare. I guess it's up to us to refuse to clap and take down the tyrants and drag them to their war crimes trial.)
Lawrence Wilkerson was Colin Powell's chief of staff. I saw him interviewed later--but I long time ago--and the question was "Netenyahu just addressed the US Congress and got 70 standing ovations. What do you think of that?" His answer was interesting. He said that in the 1930,s the Nazis would have these massive marches and the people would turn out to cheer and give salutes when Hitler passed. And thetre would be brownshirts running along the march, and anyone who didn't salute and yell Heil Hitler, they'd beat up or arrest. The US embassy had to keep bailing out Americans who didn't know this.
Not only an interesting tidbit of history I hadn't known, but very interesting response given the question.
This excerpt is from Democracy Now.
" President Trump visited the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Monday to preside over a meeting of the famed art institution’s new board. In his first weeks in office, Trump fired the president of the Kennedy Center, replaced the bipartisan board of trustees and named himself as chair of the Kennedy Center. New members of the board include his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, and her mother; second lady Usha Vance; and two hosts on Fox News, Laura Ingraham and Maria Bartiromo".
Maybe this bit of news is not relevant and my including it here is even disrespectful in the face of crimes against humanity that the brave Palestinians are enduring. But it shows the tyranny and the anti-intellectual banality of the Trump regime. Fascist by nature, fascist by name.
CJ>>"Everything the human heart longs for lies in the death of capitalism, militarism and empire, and yet both of the dominant western political factions of our day support continuing all of these things. This is because westerners spend their entire lives marinating in power-serving propaganda which herds them into these two mainstream political factions to ensure that they will pose no meaningful challenges to our rulers."
🎯💯 So well stated and expressed Caitlin. Thank you!
Yes and also the system herds people into the military to fight these endless wars for expression of power and the corporate rape of materials and cheaper labor. It is part of the dumbing down, the propaganda, the media complicity, the hero worship, the rewarding of the soldier sent to fight for power and greed, not democracy. The emphasis on guns, violent games, violent movies, the virulent social media. The underpaid jobs and desperation that invites joining a “good” job in the military services, and the promises not kept, except for endless thank you’s for your service, the special discounts. And then the despair, the unmet need for help, the suicides. Or the herding of the violent into the militarized police state to continue the repression and mandates of the corporate state. And now the oligarchs attempts to wrestle power and wealth onto themselves and control the narrative by promoting destruction and reaping the benefits.
Only a total collapse of this system, this empire of militarism, the scapegoating, the lies, the bribery and corruption, will bring an end to it. And yes, we all need to take our heads out of the sand and cry “enough”.
And support the Veterans for peace and change.
>>"Only a total collapse of this system, this empire of militarism, the scapegoating, the lies, the bribery and corruption, will bring an end to it. And yes, we all need to take our heads out of the sand and cry “enough”."
🎯👏👌 Well said!
But, but, but I read talk about restarting the draft? And after decades of warnings about overpopulation our “leaders” want women to have more babies? Worried about lack of cannon fodder?
Trump started the plan last time in office make a deal with the Saudi’s to recognize isreal and look the other way while usa n isreal take out the “ palastinian problem” and supress Iran . the final solution: a real estate deal End of story Its long been us foriegn policy but its Trump unique completely transparent transactional approach that set in motion what “ needed” to be done fot decades
This is a must read must listen things are very dangerous. https://heininger.substack.com/p/the-human-cost-of-escalation-a-warning
Cultural hegemony ...American mainstream views drown any other cultural choices ...that's why China has shut them out ...