“…...Its moral standing is dead and buried, and the world should stop following its lead in creating a just and ethical world.”
Now how true is that statement from. Caitlin today.
My efforts for years have been in the support of and action for the release of Julian Assange among thousands of similarly minded justice enthusiasts around the globe. The letter mentioned by Caitlin from a few US Democrats highlights perhaps just the beginning of a small recovery from years of the arrogant and illegal control of the media to a small step to recovering a level of respect for the US. But not under Biden nor anyone I can recognise as a “new voice” for decency and peaceful intentions. Such decent people are there though, in every city in every state, everyone knows that. I have known too many in the US over time not to have the greatest respect for their values and morals, their appreciation and desire for a better, peaceful world. Before the last 80 odd years it was what made the US such a well respected country.
Here in Assange country, yes, the naive junior member of AUKUS, we can’t even see his name in print. We can’t even see a report or a small mention of the exposure of the USA to the leaked documents by a '21 year old', but we are hopefully wise enough to know there is far more to this matter than meets the eye. Far more and it will get out, have no fear.
It was designed to do that after all. There are some very powerful people behind this little absurd pretence…….other than the 21 year old, of course. 😋
Searching daily for something in print complimenting China for their initiatives in Iran, Saudi, Yemen and the prospective success they could create in Ukraine, is almost impossible to find. Yes, even while still under the control of the US proxy puppet, Zelensky, before he too sees the writing on the wall, picks up all his new wealth and heads for a grand welcome in Israel.
China’s efforts are commendable. Who else has made any effort? All too busy in AUKUStrating.
From the leaked document brouhaha currently playing on a news program near you in the USA (with more pages yet to emerge …wait and see), change is in the air and whatever change that turns out to be just has to be better that the Biden / Blinken / Nuland / Schumer / Israeli Neocon / militarists / industrialists / Blackrock family of self-aggrandisement worshippers, none of who are real Americans, by any reckoning.
The beauty of that letter is thst it is but empty posturing. Those same congressmens' knees will still hit the floor just as fast, whenever the National Security State demands their fealty or their votes.
They'll tell themselves that they did what they could, that their vote was unwilling, it was part of a bigger cause, whatever. The vote counts just the same..
I agree. It's all empty promises. The best any of these phony elites will offer the public is breadcrumbs.
I am convinced now the only path forward for the US will be similar to what the French people now are demonstrating in the streets of France against little Napoleon Macron.
The US political system is now entirely corrupt and beyond fixing without major changes to the rules of governance i.e. such as the current legalized bribery.
Macron would not be bunking off to China to deliver finger wagging lectures if he were not secure that the police and army will shoot when ordered to do so.
We have a long way to go, much as I may wish otherwise.
In this day and age, I am hanging on to the last hope that somewhere there may be a single reason (yet unknown) to continue to be an optimist.
Will we see someone who will emerge out of the shadows almost overnight and who will captivate the voters and enjoy a staggering political victory, rising above the corruption, bribery and media lies, by giving the big finger to the military / industrialists. The risk is that with the current climate, enjoying as it does 350 million NRA promoted weapons on the streets of America, we could see another Martin Luther King or John Kennedy assassination organised from within, as in Dalllas with JFK. Yes. Arranged from within.
To the best of my knowledge the NYT hasn't yet promoted the story that China or Russia was involved in those sad events.
Perhaps the saddest experience that the world has seen, not just in the USA but all over, is the change in people, the acceptance of it all, stuffed full of lies, daily, for which the whoring media can take full credit. If you cannot fight it (and it is difficult through the two 'party 'system) then you must stop arguing.....and try to enjoy it.
Let's not fall for that one.
Two parties? The devil or the deep blue sea.
In other words, don't give in, don't sacrifice your values, don't disregard your worthy plans and what had in mind for your children and try and smile.
But please, don't go and buy a copy of 1984..........yet.
"Perhaps the saddest experience that the world has seen, not just in the USA but all over, is the change in people, the acceptance of it all,........."
Add this from today's Caitlin article…
"One where everyone's brainwashed by propaganda without even knowing it, where everyone thinks, acts, votes and shops exactly as their rulers want them to, all while thinking they are free."
Together then, one is tempted to ask...what can one do.
We are conditioned to two parties, in both the US and Australia, both parties so alike in both countries as are peas in a pod. Never used to be the case out here in AUKUS land (junior partner) one party being a representative of Liberal thinking (as their party name suggests) and the other wanting to develop a lot of changes to benefit all (particularly the not-so-well-off). As parties, almost the opposite, once upon a time.
With my lack of detail from far away, I saw similarities as in the USA. One party, aggressive, warlike, representing the wealthy classes, employers, bully boys and the like. The other, peaceful, socially minded and friends to the middle levels of society, and all the way down to the workers, one and all.. (Very hard to summarise as a foreigner / non-voter). But D seemed more like home.
Today, both in the pay of big money, investors and the like, both anxious to expand their horizons for power and worldwide control and both under the indirect control of a foreign apartheid regime called Israel, funder of politicians, influencers of note by any means available, controllers of media and able to use every dirty trick they have developed since they made it clear to the USA that they controlled the USA. Reference…..Think on the USS Liberty and Johnson. Then think on Ariel Sharon....'we own America' and all that stuff. But all sadly true. The big D seemingly now more belligerent and corrupt than the big R was / is. A big turnaround. As I said, now 'peas in a pod’.
Perhaps the thinking today with the feeble-minded Biden is if Bush could get away with Iraq and is still walking free, whatever I do, (like Ukraine, Syrian oil theft, harassment of whoever I choose, laying it on thick against Russia and China, reducing social amenities for education and health to keep my NATO friends in armaments) that such things could never become a problem for me.
Anything R can do, I can do better, at what you do I am better than you.
Voter turnouts of less than 55% in so many electorates.
I am sure that if voting was not compulsory in my little AUKUS country, we would not get to 50% either if there was a game fo football on a Saturday or in the middle of a the Australian Open tennis competition.
With two parties, so much the same, 'why should I bother' is a fair description of voter thinking in 2023.
And unwillingly, he has made an example of the US. And what a hideous example it is. And all for the crime of embarrassment. So with a country where a young black man can get life for stealing a pizza slice or nappies, one might think it was beyond embarrassing. At least the Visigoths weren’t sanctimonious as far as anyone knows.
Yes, the example is that if you speak out against the US, you will be severely punished. That sends a very clear message to other journalists. It isn't about press freedom with the US, it is about the appearance of it. The US will merely capitulate with Asanges release, it wouldn't change anything for the better for journalists. Regardless, Asange has a high morale record and integrity as a person. He should be released. I am merely saying that his release will not change policy.
I agree. “Journalists” in the US were sold out stenographers long before Assange. They were almost completely gutted by the end of The Dick and Bush reign. Money, interfering editors and 9/11 cowed most of them. Only Assange was not cowed and fought back, hence his torture and martyrdom. Come on Russia! They could rip some more skin off the Empire by trading him for the CIA nitwit they’ve got.
I like the way you think. I remember we traded a basketball player (Greiner) for an arms dealer. My point is while I don't agree with severe punishments(hard labor, torture) the US showed it really has no moral authority and brokering Asange for one of "our" 'competent' idiots would logically be a better deal. Yet this would damage the empire by being more friendly to the press. Snowden is safest in Russia(Assange said it) and Assange likely never broke Embassay rules, it is likely the president at the time got upset with him about the corruption he had. Also no normal criminal breaks into an Embassay like that lol. My point is Assange should not have been in prison in the first place and him being there was through political manipulation(I am sure we agree on that, too.)
"The issue is not that Assange's persecution makes the US look bad, the issue is that it proves the US is bad."
This. This is the undeniable fact, the elephant in the room that cannot be denied. Or in other words, "By their fruits you shall know them." The US has done some very bad things. No amount of postering or denying them will erase them from human memory. Every day Julian Assange spends in captivity further worsens the US's reputation. The only way the we can redeem ourselves is by doing the right thing now, today, by releasing Assange from these trumped up charges and continuing to act morally from this point forward. Only time will repair our reputation and heal the wounds that we've inflicted on the world.
The key word in the letter: "stated". America's stated values of press freedom; then there's its stated value of equality of opportunity; of freedom of speech; of the right to privacy. Lies, all lies; or it minimum, steaming piles of excrement. One need go no further than these scams -- these mismatches between proclamation and actuality -- to know for certain that the US is unfit to lead any global renaissance. Then you lump all the economic and actual violence on top of that hypocrisy and the judgment against America is overwhelming. It's going to be painful and I wish I belonged elsewhere, but it's really time to get the hell off the stage, America.
Isn't that a sign of the US's immorality? We even convince our Fourth Estate to go from being a check on bad government to being an active and willing participant in the directives of a bad government!
Of course the US is immoral and we're only getting worse. Since WWII it's really been a downward slide. The 21st century has thrown that reality in everyone's face.
I think the overwhelming majority of media is owned by six companies now. The revelations of Matt Tiabbi through Twitter tells the whole story, Propaganda is all that remains without Caitlin and logical, thinking, creative people like her.
I gave up on the mainstream media in the earlier part of this century, but of course I had help from older people deeply involved in politics to tell me my reading material was a lot of propaganda. We use to go and here people like, Chomsky, Hedges, Ritter, etc. Thank god for them putting me on the right path.
You need some humor with the news today, and he clarifies some complicated stuff. I love him and so do many, like Greenwald and Mate, and good to see them on his show.
According to the rules of 5th generation warfare, the country which captures the moral high ground will win the support of the majority of people and consequently win the war. Misinformation can be used to fool people for a long time but the truth is eventually exposed.
The USA has not only lost the moral high ground, it is now considered to be an evil empire by most people of the world.
Every tribe or nation have at some time or other invaded or slaughtered those not of their nation or tribe at some stage of human history. It doesn't make it any less ugly or violent but no one can claim absolute moral authority on the subject of colonialism. Not even the nice Danes!
Individual Psychopaths, by their very nature, gravitate to leadership positions in "GOVERNMENT" and in CORPORATIONS. It's common knowledge that the character and personality of an institution is a direct reflection from of its leadership. The complete immorality and cold-hearted lack of compassion or compunction displayed for the past 150 years by the psychopathic institution called the U.S. "GOVERNMENT" and its like-minded operatives is just now enjoying its persecution of JULIAN ASSANGE....just as it did in IRAQU at Abu Gharibe prison..
Caitlin - FYI, listen to Prof. Mearsheimer speak to Australian Center For Independent Studies on "new world Order" and Australia's upcoming choice to join US or China - he says some interesting things - don't know when this discussion occurred
Thanks for the clip. I have vast respect for Mearsheimer, but I must disagree with him on this one point. I should watch the whole video before criticizing it because context is crucial, but just as a knee jerk reaction to the clip I think he is making the egregious logic error of false dichotomy in his statement that Australia only has two options: to either go with the U.S. or go with China. In fact, there are many other options. Invoking actual national sovereignty is the most obvious choice. Then, as Brazil has just demonstrated, Australia can trade with anyone they choose, especially now that US sanction warfare has become increasingly ineffective and has boomeranged to bring western economies to the brink of ruin. Non-alignment and even neutrality are also extremely rational choices for Australia. Or, Australia could seek security agreements, even alliances, with other local Asian-Pacific countries, and those agreements would make Australia far more secure from China than it currently is from the US empire. And my god, think of how the world would change if Australia joined BRICS? When the US Empire dies, all other nations will thrive—including, btw, the de-imperialized remnant of the US.
People refer to the Assange persecution as the final nail in the coffin of alleged US ethics/morality because it doesn't involve alleged threat of any nation to US peace, or alleged benefit of US interference in a sovereign nation. These cases are more complicated, and spurious arguments in favour more easily pass under the radar of common sense and rational argument. But with Assange the US and West have cornered themselves, have entrapped themselves in their own nest of lies and misadventure. They are faced with demonstrating how and why illegal, inhuman and criminal acts are less a threat to democracy than the exposure of them. They must defend their inhuman treatment of a person who was just doing his job, telling the facts. That is a feat that stretches the countervailing power of propaganda to the limits: it's a just a very hard sell.
Even if Assange were to be released today, the Empire still has already made an example out of him.
“…...Its moral standing is dead and buried, and the world should stop following its lead in creating a just and ethical world.”
Now how true is that statement from. Caitlin today.
My efforts for years have been in the support of and action for the release of Julian Assange among thousands of similarly minded justice enthusiasts around the globe. The letter mentioned by Caitlin from a few US Democrats highlights perhaps just the beginning of a small recovery from years of the arrogant and illegal control of the media to a small step to recovering a level of respect for the US. But not under Biden nor anyone I can recognise as a “new voice” for decency and peaceful intentions. Such decent people are there though, in every city in every state, everyone knows that. I have known too many in the US over time not to have the greatest respect for their values and morals, their appreciation and desire for a better, peaceful world. Before the last 80 odd years it was what made the US such a well respected country.
Here in Assange country, yes, the naive junior member of AUKUS, we can’t even see his name in print. We can’t even see a report or a small mention of the exposure of the USA to the leaked documents by a '21 year old', but we are hopefully wise enough to know there is far more to this matter than meets the eye. Far more and it will get out, have no fear.
It was designed to do that after all. There are some very powerful people behind this little absurd pretence…….other than the 21 year old, of course. 😋
Searching daily for something in print complimenting China for their initiatives in Iran, Saudi, Yemen and the prospective success they could create in Ukraine, is almost impossible to find. Yes, even while still under the control of the US proxy puppet, Zelensky, before he too sees the writing on the wall, picks up all his new wealth and heads for a grand welcome in Israel.
China’s efforts are commendable. Who else has made any effort? All too busy in AUKUStrating.
From the leaked document brouhaha currently playing on a news program near you in the USA (with more pages yet to emerge …wait and see), change is in the air and whatever change that turns out to be just has to be better that the Biden / Blinken / Nuland / Schumer / Israeli Neocon / militarists / industrialists / Blackrock family of self-aggrandisement worshippers, none of who are real Americans, by any reckoning.
The beauty of that letter is thst it is but empty posturing. Those same congressmens' knees will still hit the floor just as fast, whenever the National Security State demands their fealty or their votes.
They'll tell themselves that they did what they could, that their vote was unwilling, it was part of a bigger cause, whatever. The vote counts just the same..
I agree. It's all empty promises. The best any of these phony elites will offer the public is breadcrumbs.
I am convinced now the only path forward for the US will be similar to what the French people now are demonstrating in the streets of France against little Napoleon Macron.
The US political system is now entirely corrupt and beyond fixing without major changes to the rules of governance i.e. such as the current legalized bribery.
Macron would not be bunking off to China to deliver finger wagging lectures if he were not secure that the police and army will shoot when ordered to do so.
We have a long way to go, much as I may wish otherwise.
In this day and age, I am hanging on to the last hope that somewhere there may be a single reason (yet unknown) to continue to be an optimist.
Will we see someone who will emerge out of the shadows almost overnight and who will captivate the voters and enjoy a staggering political victory, rising above the corruption, bribery and media lies, by giving the big finger to the military / industrialists. The risk is that with the current climate, enjoying as it does 350 million NRA promoted weapons on the streets of America, we could see another Martin Luther King or John Kennedy assassination organised from within, as in Dalllas with JFK. Yes. Arranged from within.
To the best of my knowledge the NYT hasn't yet promoted the story that China or Russia was involved in those sad events.
Perhaps the saddest experience that the world has seen, not just in the USA but all over, is the change in people, the acceptance of it all, stuffed full of lies, daily, for which the whoring media can take full credit. If you cannot fight it (and it is difficult through the two 'party 'system) then you must stop arguing.....and try to enjoy it.
Let's not fall for that one.
Two parties? The devil or the deep blue sea.
In other words, don't give in, don't sacrifice your values, don't disregard your worthy plans and what had in mind for your children and try and smile.
But please, don't go and buy a copy of 1984..........yet.
The sociopath would burn everything to the ground, if he thought that doing so might possibly save his own skin.
As above from me.....(if it ends up above)
"Perhaps the saddest experience that the world has seen, not just in the USA but all over, is the change in people, the acceptance of it all,........."
Add this from today's Caitlin article…
"One where everyone's brainwashed by propaganda without even knowing it, where everyone thinks, acts, votes and shops exactly as their rulers want them to, all while thinking they are free."
Together then, one is tempted to ask...what can one do.
We are conditioned to two parties, in both the US and Australia, both parties so alike in both countries as are peas in a pod. Never used to be the case out here in AUKUS land (junior partner) one party being a representative of Liberal thinking (as their party name suggests) and the other wanting to develop a lot of changes to benefit all (particularly the not-so-well-off). As parties, almost the opposite, once upon a time.
With my lack of detail from far away, I saw similarities as in the USA. One party, aggressive, warlike, representing the wealthy classes, employers, bully boys and the like. The other, peaceful, socially minded and friends to the middle levels of society, and all the way down to the workers, one and all.. (Very hard to summarise as a foreigner / non-voter). But D seemed more like home.
Today, both in the pay of big money, investors and the like, both anxious to expand their horizons for power and worldwide control and both under the indirect control of a foreign apartheid regime called Israel, funder of politicians, influencers of note by any means available, controllers of media and able to use every dirty trick they have developed since they made it clear to the USA that they controlled the USA. Reference…..Think on the USS Liberty and Johnson. Then think on Ariel Sharon....'we own America' and all that stuff. But all sadly true. The big D seemingly now more belligerent and corrupt than the big R was / is. A big turnaround. As I said, now 'peas in a pod’.
Perhaps the thinking today with the feeble-minded Biden is if Bush could get away with Iraq and is still walking free, whatever I do, (like Ukraine, Syrian oil theft, harassment of whoever I choose, laying it on thick against Russia and China, reducing social amenities for education and health to keep my NATO friends in armaments) that such things could never become a problem for me.
Anything R can do, I can do better, at what you do I am better than you.
Voter turnouts of less than 55% in so many electorates.
I am sure that if voting was not compulsory in my little AUKUS country, we would not get to 50% either if there was a game fo football on a Saturday or in the middle of a the Australian Open tennis competition.
With two parties, so much the same, 'why should I bother' is a fair description of voter thinking in 2023.
Something must change. Preferably non-nuclear.
And unwillingly, he has made an example of the US. And what a hideous example it is. And all for the crime of embarrassment. So with a country where a young black man can get life for stealing a pizza slice or nappies, one might think it was beyond embarrassing. At least the Visigoths weren’t sanctimonious as far as anyone knows.
Or shot because of the crime of sleeping in his car!
Yes, the example is that if you speak out against the US, you will be severely punished. That sends a very clear message to other journalists. It isn't about press freedom with the US, it is about the appearance of it. The US will merely capitulate with Asanges release, it wouldn't change anything for the better for journalists. Regardless, Asange has a high morale record and integrity as a person. He should be released. I am merely saying that his release will not change policy.
Absolutely, he should be released.
I agree. “Journalists” in the US were sold out stenographers long before Assange. They were almost completely gutted by the end of The Dick and Bush reign. Money, interfering editors and 9/11 cowed most of them. Only Assange was not cowed and fought back, hence his torture and martyrdom. Come on Russia! They could rip some more skin off the Empire by trading him for the CIA nitwit they’ve got.
I like the way you think. I remember we traded a basketball player (Greiner) for an arms dealer. My point is while I don't agree with severe punishments(hard labor, torture) the US showed it really has no moral authority and brokering Asange for one of "our" 'competent' idiots would logically be a better deal. Yet this would damage the empire by being more friendly to the press. Snowden is safest in Russia(Assange said it) and Assange likely never broke Embassay rules, it is likely the president at the time got upset with him about the corruption he had. Also no normal criminal breaks into an Embassay like that lol. My point is Assange should not have been in prison in the first place and him being there was through political manipulation(I am sure we agree on that, too.)
Feral Finster: And the government has made an example of itself.
And yet, he would have won the war after losing every battle.
In terms of simple humanity, the US fails at home and abroad.
"The issue is not that Assange's persecution makes the US look bad, the issue is that it proves the US is bad."
This. This is the undeniable fact, the elephant in the room that cannot be denied. Or in other words, "By their fruits you shall know them." The US has done some very bad things. No amount of postering or denying them will erase them from human memory. Every day Julian Assange spends in captivity further worsens the US's reputation. The only way the we can redeem ourselves is by doing the right thing now, today, by releasing Assange from these trumped up charges and continuing to act morally from this point forward. Only time will repair our reputation and heal the wounds that we've inflicted on the world.
The USA government is a criminal cabal. Why would anyone expect it to have any morals?
There are no alley kittens there, just alley cats.
The key word in the letter: "stated". America's stated values of press freedom; then there's its stated value of equality of opportunity; of freedom of speech; of the right to privacy. Lies, all lies; or it minimum, steaming piles of excrement. One need go no further than these scams -- these mismatches between proclamation and actuality -- to know for certain that the US is unfit to lead any global renaissance. Then you lump all the economic and actual violence on top of that hypocrisy and the judgment against America is overwhelming. It's going to be painful and I wish I belonged elsewhere, but it's really time to get the hell off the stage, America.
On Jimmy Dore.
Washington Post RATS OUT Pentagon Docs Leaker To The FBI!
Isn't that a sign of the US's immorality? We even convince our Fourth Estate to go from being a check on bad government to being an active and willing participant in the directives of a bad government!
Of course the US is immoral and we're only getting worse. Since WWII it's really been a downward slide. The 21st century has thrown that reality in everyone's face.
I think the overwhelming majority of media is owned by six companies now. The revelations of Matt Tiabbi through Twitter tells the whole story, Propaganda is all that remains without Caitlin and logical, thinking, creative people like her.
I gave up on the mainstream media in the earlier part of this century, but of course I had help from older people deeply involved in politics to tell me my reading material was a lot of propaganda. We use to go and here people like, Chomsky, Hedges, Ritter, etc. Thank god for them putting me on the right path.
BTW, love Jimmy and contribute to his effort as well.
You need some humor with the news today, and he clarifies some complicated stuff. I love him and so do many, like Greenwald and Mate, and good to see them on his show.
According to the rules of 5th generation warfare, the country which captures the moral high ground will win the support of the majority of people and consequently win the war. Misinformation can be used to fool people for a long time but the truth is eventually exposed.
The USA has not only lost the moral high ground, it is now considered to be an evil empire by most people of the world.
Something that never lived cannot die.
“US Moral Authority Is Dead And Buried”
. . . Caitlin, pardon me . . . but review your history . . .
it died four hundred & seventeen years ago when
Jamestown colony inmates
- sent by the Virginia Company, a British trading company -
set ground on the “New World”.
Ask the indigenous First Peoples if want want corroboration.
I think we can all agree, Caitlin was referring to presumed authority. Even the myth is dead.
I’ve been interested in the MSM silence in the Native Holocaust. Whites exterminated 200 tribes and a hundred languages in the US.
Colonialism was first invented in the early Neolithic era and then spread worldwide.
The English, Spain, French, German and the Russian all competed for the New World.
Your argument is a “straw man” argument.
Every tribe or nation have at some time or other invaded or slaughtered those not of their nation or tribe at some stage of human history. It doesn't make it any less ugly or violent but no one can claim absolute moral authority on the subject of colonialism. Not even the nice Danes!
The first known instance of organized warfare was the early part of the Neolithic (12,000 BCE).
The Mesolithic and prior times has no instances of tribal warfare.
The ocean or a mountain posses “moral authority” ?
Individual Psychopaths, by their very nature, gravitate to leadership positions in "GOVERNMENT" and in CORPORATIONS. It's common knowledge that the character and personality of an institution is a direct reflection from of its leadership. The complete immorality and cold-hearted lack of compassion or compunction displayed for the past 150 years by the psychopathic institution called the U.S. "GOVERNMENT" and its like-minded operatives is just now enjoying its persecution of JULIAN ASSANGE....just as it did in IRAQU at Abu Gharibe prison..
This is the kernel of The Iron Law Of Oligarchy.
To maintain the 1984 system of endless war, peace and prosperity must be defeated.
Caitlin - FYI, listen to Prof. Mearsheimer speak to Australian Center For Independent Studies on "new world Order" and Australia's upcoming choice to join US or China - he says some interesting things - don't know when this discussion occurred
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAFX0qRcJJs
I made a clip of the key minute.
https://youtu.be/MiqFFuVaIGk
Thanks for the clip. I have vast respect for Mearsheimer, but I must disagree with him on this one point. I should watch the whole video before criticizing it because context is crucial, but just as a knee jerk reaction to the clip I think he is making the egregious logic error of false dichotomy in his statement that Australia only has two options: to either go with the U.S. or go with China. In fact, there are many other options. Invoking actual national sovereignty is the most obvious choice. Then, as Brazil has just demonstrated, Australia can trade with anyone they choose, especially now that US sanction warfare has become increasingly ineffective and has boomeranged to bring western economies to the brink of ruin. Non-alignment and even neutrality are also extremely rational choices for Australia. Or, Australia could seek security agreements, even alliances, with other local Asian-Pacific countries, and those agreements would make Australia far more secure from China than it currently is from the US empire. And my god, think of how the world would change if Australia joined BRICS? When the US Empire dies, all other nations will thrive—including, btw, the de-imperialized remnant of the US.
Cuba and Castro are not something to smile about. And I didn’t like the threatening tone.
Good, but Parenti is much better. His Myths of Empire covers it all.
It has been for decades
Moral authority went into the dumper in 2003.
Perfectly put !
People refer to the Assange persecution as the final nail in the coffin of alleged US ethics/morality because it doesn't involve alleged threat of any nation to US peace, or alleged benefit of US interference in a sovereign nation. These cases are more complicated, and spurious arguments in favour more easily pass under the radar of common sense and rational argument. But with Assange the US and West have cornered themselves, have entrapped themselves in their own nest of lies and misadventure. They are faced with demonstrating how and why illegal, inhuman and criminal acts are less a threat to democracy than the exposure of them. They must defend their inhuman treatment of a person who was just doing his job, telling the facts. That is a feat that stretches the countervailing power of propaganda to the limits: it's a just a very hard sell.
First Rule of Tribal Thinking: Everything We do is good.
Second Rule of Tribal Thinking: Everything They do is bad.
Easy, eh?