What’s striking is how quickly people adapt to tyranny as long as it feels familiar. The US doesn’t rule by openly declaring itself an empire — it rules by convincing its own citizens that nothing unusual is happening. When domination becomes the background noise of daily life, it stops being questioned.
That’s the real genius of modern power: it doesn’t need your belief, just your indifference. As long as you stay busy, distracted, and vaguely patriotic, the machine keeps running with your silent consent. Tyranny today isn’t enforced at gunpoint — it’s enforced through narrative, repetition, and the illusion that you’re still free because you can choose between fifty brands of the same lie!
But what’s changed is how rarely modern power has to use it. A system is strongest when people police themselves long before any police officer arrives.
That’s the part that concerns me mos the invisible obedience that doesn’t feel like obedience
The system has politically captured the West, Japan and Oz. It stages colour revolutions of so-called 'gen-Z' and regime change almost at will. Control of the information on social media is absolutely its super-power.
.....but is it fair to state that the bulk of the US populations are so gullible not to be able read between the lines. It's front and centre every day.
Surely, even with the efforts of the mainstream media, owned and controlled as it by the people who would support Trump on everything as seems to be the case, even the potential of a Third World War, there would be great concerns as to the direction being taking by an arrogant US President.
The makeup and narcissistic character of Trump must be so easy to see even in a corrupted media environment. Surely there are safeguards in the US Constitution
against America initiating yet another foreign war, when receiving not one threat as to its safety, only resulting from a decision by a megalomaniac having been elected, which is clearly the case we are facing right now.
Every time I see all those fawning cabinet members jumping in to support Trump in every he says and does make me realise even more so that this is an absolute dictatorship in the so called "land of the free"?.
you’re right that there are safeguards and thanks for the ones that still function but the deeper problem isn’t Trump, Biden, or whichever mascot the system rolls out next. Personalities change. The machinery doesn’t.
A population can be “gullible,” as you say, not because they’re stupid, but because they’re overwhelmed. When people are buried in noise, fear, inflation, exhaustion, work, debt, and the daily struggle to keep their lives together, they don’t have the bandwidth to interrogate power. That’s not a moral failure that’s the design.
Modern tyranny doesn’t need a dictator with a moustache and a podium.
It just needs citizens who are too tired to question the story.
The danger isn’t one man in the Oval Office.
The danger is a system that survives regardless of who sits there a system capable of steering public emotion, manufacturing fear, and framing obedience as patriotism.
People can’t “see it” not because they’re blind, but because the narrative is engineered to feel normal. When abnormality becomes routine, it disappears into the wallpaper.
That’s why the real threat isn’t Trump or Biden or whoever comes next.
The real threat is the quiet, bipartisan machinery that makes all of it feel inevitable.
Yep, the US Empire, bipartisan machinery, deep state, Washington permanent state- whatever you want to call it- are very clever. We're not too tired or distracted- in the West we're too comfortable and don't want to change our lifestyles or accept the coming climate catastrophe.
We support the deep state (and accelerate the environmental crisis) by continuing to buy their products- fossil fuels, agrochemicals, animal ag, pharma, entertainment, Amazon, gambling, drugs, porn, finance, lots of plastic stuff and, of course, arms for 'defence'.
Thanks for the expansion. See the point you are making.
Sadly, I come from a country that has identical apparent "gullibility" as I called it, having now had one colonial master for 157 long years until the emergence of yet another power hungry, therefore very influential "controller" in 1945. Yes, it is the USA, now in supreme command since that date.
We'll probably send a fighting contingent to Venezuela if commanded, that horrible country that fills the streets of the USA with tons of drugs, as we all know, per courtesy of Western media. I mean we joined them in their power seeking wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and who knows where else. They fly in and out without any permission required, B52's wth nuclear weapons, operate a Spy Centre called Pine Gap, brought down a Prime Minister in 1975, but we love 'em like brothers and will give them $365 billion for some submarines in 2042. It's called AUKUS. The same two big boys and the little bag carrier. A, UK, US. What a combination!
The original masters, (still with us by the way), called the UK, (Unfriendly Kingdom) still impose a King and Queen on this same little country called Australia, over 15,000 kilometres away, with nothing in common except the spoken word and a game called cricket.
So "gullibility" for want of a better word, is here....and everywhere, along with absolute stupidity, caused by being "overwhelmed", a far more relevant word, per courtesy of 'Feels Like Truth'. Thanks
You beat me to it. This same narrative would happen with Biden or Obama or Bush or (fill in the blank) x 70 years.
And yet there remains a massive electorate tricked into thinking the problem is the “other” side.
Nope. It’s the wizards of oligarchy and religious fanaticism and the moneyed classes behind the curtain. They are the ones that benefit from the current atrocity that parades as democracy; they could really care less what party is in office - because they own them both.
100%. That is why both sides of the US/western political spectrum always use narrative "there is no alternative to ...". In fact, there is an alternative, but the US/western gangster elites would not like it.
A majority of the US public do see it. But the people running this show have worked and schemed, for decades in general and for a couple of years in a concrete plan to seize absolute power (Project 2025) and purging thousands of people, the kind that put the brakes on Trump in his first administration. They're still firing people daily who try to stand up to them, stand up for the rule of law. But the Epstein files situation and the furor over the most egregious of the war crimes re Venezuela and the sinking economy and Trump's mental unraveling and the open corruption, all suggest that the wheels are coming off. A hefty percentage are naive enough to think that if we can just get a bunch of Democrats elected in the midterms (but all Trump has to do is declare a state of emergency and cancel the elections--the Supreme Court will say it's fine) then we can go back to normal. That might be an outcome worse than any short of nuclear war, because the Dems WOULD return us to normal, patching things together so we can drive the car of humanity over the cliff, in terms of the environmental damage threatening human survival and ramping up rapidly. The Dems are also onboard with regime change and war with China. We need a regime change, in North America.
Yeah, the people who saw through the big pharma propaganda on 'covid' think that they're now immune to manipulation and have fallen for the easy narrative about 'globalists' faking climate climate- meaning that they can continue to burn fossil fuels and eat animals (pharma's biggest client) and support these massive industries. I've been writing about it for 4 years.
Good point, and MSM is a method by which the empire further reiterates its convincing its citizens nothing is awry. Instead of holding truth to power, the media serves as a mouthpiece of imperial narratives, parroting the talking points the oligarchs and powers that be want the masses to be inundated with, to maintain their illusion of normalcy and keep the status quo. And unfortunately as you said, many are indifferent to things outside their small sphere of things worth caring about, especially those who are thoroughly convinced by what the MSM tells them should be important.
Yes. My addendum would be that there is an historical shelf life to this form of propaganda. There is a tipping point. The more effective the propaganda is the more extreme the inevitable pushback. This pushback could take generations to finally respond. We are experiencing a global recognition of our shared humanity, via smartphones, that transcends governments and national identities. The ubiquitous indifference of modern life is being effectively (?) confronted by the realities of Imperial Genocide, the Climate Crisis, the outright corruption and degeneracy of the elite. Humanity’s solidarity is manifesting in ironic tandem with the rise and consolidation of capital and its giant multinational banks & corporations. And then there is the Earth, the third major player. It’s going to be a fight to the finish. Beginning in 2030.
Israel wants to relieve Palestine of its oil reserves. Why not get those of Venezuela, too. Israel is the US armed forces staging area for control of Iraq’s oil, and Iran’s, and North Africa’s.
Have you read what the Zio princess said to Netanyahu? Her promises of moving the Venezuelan embassy to Jerusalem. Her agreement with likud? It’s USRAEL anymore.
Why are you surprised by that? Machado is the U.S. puppet that the US wants to install through a regime change operation. Again, nothing to do with Israel. Machado will say (and do) whatever the U.S. wants her to.
Chang, I think Israel's poisonous tentacles are everywhere spreading evil and hate between humans. Just because it is not immediately obvious or in the open it does not mean zionists are not involved. Zionism or fascism or gangsterism are all synonyms of "the West".
>>"Zionism or fascism or gangsterism are all synonyms of "the West"."
I would REPHRASE that to "Zionism or fascism are SYMPTOMS of the West". Just as the Nazis learned from the Americans, so did the Zionists learn from the Nazis.
The U.S. was a country based on imperialism and colonialism WAY BEFORE the existence of Israel (or Zionism). To blame Israel for ALL the faults of the West is to remove culpability and responsibility from the West (especially America and the U.S. Empire) for all the EVIL that it has wrought on this world.
Too many people in their 'emotional style of thinking' (especially after Oct 7th) deflect the EVIL of America by reductively blaming Israel for everything instead of critically examining factors (and history) on a situation-by-situation basis.
Zionists are bolshrviks and have always been worse than the nazis. Look up the monsters behind the Russian revolution. Look beyond the glorification of the workers smoke screen. 85% were jewish
"Why are you surprised by that? Machado is the U.S. puppet that the US wants to install through a regime change operation. Again, nothing to do with Israel. Machado will say (and do) whatever the U.S. wants her to."
As long as Israel is useful to the U.S. Empire and serves a purpose, it will be USRAEL (and the U.S. will be sure to shift all the blame to Israel for whatever it does). The second Israel stops serving the interests of the U.S. Empire, it will be treated very differently.
The problem is that too many people have 'Israel on their brain' clouding required critical thinking.
I really like most of what you have to say. However you have a very condescending streak. If someone disagrees with you they have brain clouding that interferes with critical thinking? Your extreme aversion to anything you label as conspiracy theories may be clouding your critical thinking. Give it a little thought. But we agree on way more than we disagree.
"Get the fifty richest Jewish financiers together and rend their manipulation of money impossible. In no other way can peace be established." Henry Ford
Henry Ford was a TRUE anti-semite and a Nazi sympathizer (Henry Ford was known for his anti-Semitic views and published articles that promoted conspiracy theories about Jews, which gained him admiration from some Nazi leaders, including Adolf Hitler. His newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, spread these ideas widely, contributing to the rise of anti-Semitism in America and influencing Nazi ideology in Germany.)
Remember: This is 1920 (before WW2 and before the creation of Israel).
>>".......All wars are banker wars......."
That's a cliche that has some truth to it, though the full truth is much more complex than a simple 'quote'.
A minor technical detail. The Monroe Doctrine laid claim to all lands of North and South America.
Canada has resisted, to date, but the Orange One wants to change that. I’m not certain about Mexico. Many US companies have already successfully invaded Mexico.
>>"The Monroe Doctrine laid claim to all lands of North and South America."
Not really. The Monroe Doctrine established the Western Hemisphere as a zone free from European colonization and interference. The doctrine was primarily aimed at preventing European powers from reasserting control over newly independent nations in Latin America.
It's main tenets are/were non-colonization (the Americas are no longer open to European colonization), Non-Interference (the U.S. will not interfere in the internal affairs of European countries), and Hostile Acts (any European intervention in the Americas will be viewed as a threat to U.S. security). The doctrine was expanded by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, introducing the Roosevelt Corollary, which justified U.S. intervention in Latin America to maintain order.
>>"but the Orange One wants to change that"
The Orange One will not live forever - he is already showing signs of cognitive and physical decline.
Chang> "The Monroe Doctrine established the Western Hemisphere as a zone free from European colonization and interference".
The Monroe Doctrine was never benign. In other words it meant that it's America's backyard to do as it pleases without interference from the former colonisers.
To this day hence the ongoing hybrid war against Venezuela.The hybrid war is as deadly as a hot war - which may be unleashed very soon.
I think we’re on the same page. The US corporations and government have been meddling in the affairs of every country south of the Texas border, for more than a century.
The Monroe Doctrine is a warning to the rest of the world to not interfere with US meddling in North and South America.
I didn’t know about the US military operations in Central and South America until I met some of the operatives when I served.
Both MLK, Jr. and Chomsky said essentially the same thing decades ago, that this is the most violent, warmongering country on earth. And it only continues to get worse, if that's imaginable.
Imagine a country so assured of its own righteousness that is casually and openly overthrows any country it doesn't like. Attacking another, sovereign country and killing its citizens because it doesn't agree with it.
Only one country in the world (well, two actually) do that, on quite a regular basis.
And all supposedly in the name of promoting democracy and freedom, as we overthrow democratically elected governments and support Right wing dictatorships. Quite a marketing strategy, huh...?
It's not that war is ideal for them, though the arms companies might disagree. It's that the US based white patriarchy cannot abide competition to their unipolarity and dominance. They simply cannot be second best nor one of many. They will do anything, including destroying the future of humanity on the planet, to cling on full spectrum global dominance.
What makes this a big problem is that they're still extremely powerful physically and very clever at the dark arts.
Thank you Caitlin (and Tim) for another much-needed propaganda-busting and truth-revealing article! ❤️🙏
CJ>>"The US empire is the most tyrannical power structure on earth, by an extremely massive margin. There is no close second place in contention. Nobody else is brutalizing and terrorizing the entire planet into compliance with its dictates. No other power is constantly assaulting any government or population anywhere on earth that doesn’t bow to its demands."
This passage should be read by EVERY American EVERY single day so as to combat the propaganda, narratives, and indoctrination of the U.S. Empire! RESIST!
Interesting blog sites/readings this week only gives two more world-wide and historical perspectives that this has been going on (and likely linked to MI6/Mossad/CIA) forever.
The US’s long game in Xinjiang
The decades-long plot to create another Ukraine within China
"Donald Trump is threatening to destroy the Honduran economy unless the country elects the oligarch-run National Party. Now, he’s even pardoned the last party member to rule the country, who was convicted in 2024 of smuggling hundreds of tons of drugs into the US."
Pretexts are like empty conveniences to the Gangster Empire. For example, the Empire is anti al Qaeda until al Qaeda is useful (as in Syria).
In 2017 Washington put severe sanctions on Venezuela. This caused the economy to collapse and inflation to rise to the stratosphere.
Over the next three years SEVEN MILLION Venezuelans left their homes and country out of desperation trying to survive.
As usual it was the much tried and failed US strategy of making life for the population unbearable so that they force the government out.
Additionally the UK has frozen Venezuelan gold stored in the BoE, further making it worse because Venezuela cannot access forex to pay for imports.
The US also has a 50 million Dollar bounty on Maduro.
All this because Venezuela resisted the empire and wants to use the profits from resource extraction for the benefit of Venezuelans and not US corporations.
This War is about a couple different things best I can tell. The biggest reason is to collateralize Venezuela’s resources. The Western Bankers responsible for every war want to put it on the books. This allows them to print more money.
Best I can explain it’s like income tax in today’s America. No, they don’t need it given what they spend. The purpose of it is to make it look like the government spends money in responsible fashion. So in a sense that’s what taking control of Venezuela’s resources accomplishes.
Same as Iraq, same as Syria, Russia would have been the real mother load. Thank God that did not happen because if it had not much could have stopped them. More than likely China would’ve capitulated and that would have been all she wrote for mankind.
The goal is to herd us all into a Palantir/Larry Ellison Prison Planet. That is being erected as I type this. It’s now just a question of timing really. I suspect they will try and lure most in with UBI and CBDCs. Doubt most people will resist if that’s how they roll it out.
But there’s something worse I think. I listened to this interview twice the other day. It’s very philosophical and interesting alone. But I detected a concern in the voice of the guest Mo Gawdat. He talks a lot about the current banking system and how it preys on the people.
I believe he’s very concerned about the discovery of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) being discovered by the wrong people. I am too. It all makes sense now Trump dumping all this money into the hands of Silcone Valley (Genesis Project). Sure people like L Ellison are helping construct the control grid but the real prize is AGI. I can’t help but almost root for the Chinese at this point. Mo makes it sound like a zero sum game.
I don’t think we can let the Bankers find AGI. It seems like the Holy Grail.
"The world’s most tyrannical power structure has no business trying to liberate anyone from tyranny." T'would be nice if they made some effort to liberate themselves from tyranny.
Americans who stand behind and approve of US posture on Venezuela and Maduro have strange priorities. Ordinary people are not doing well in the US. Many have difficulty paying mortgage or rent.
>>"Maybe this time they might do something about it!"
That is the hope - but I'm not optimistic. Americans have been so HEAVILY propagandized (over generations) that most are clueless about 'which narratives are true' and 'which are false'. Hence the election of 'Presidents like Trump' - arguably one of the worst humans (if I can even call him that) on the planet.
(BTW, you can observe the same or higher levels of propagandized populaces all over the world - eg. Modi in India, etc.)
Hard to believe Trump will invade a country with armed men and Russian and Chinese weapons...He should have accepted Maduro's off er to leave with immunity for his whole group...
The good part is that in 5 years, the US debt will be so large that it becomes impractical to have hundreds of foreign bases and conduct such nonsensical operations...
Debts are meaningful as long as the creditors have the power to enforce repayment. When debtors have more military power or more members in their cohort than the creditors, the debtors can cancel their debts by decree.
In civil society, the notion of debts, debtors and creditors depends upon honor and faith in a system of written or unwritten contracts.
What we may be witnessing is the failure of civility and, possibly, the collapse of civilization as we may have believed it to exist.
>>"In civil society, the notion of debts, debtors and creditors depends upon honor and faith in a system of written or unwritten contracts."
Depends. Usually it works under 'might is right' rules (power and enforceability).
>>"What we may be witnessing is the failure of civility and, possibly, the collapse of civilization as we may have believed it to exist."
Not in the least, not even remotely. Civility is often an illusion, a mask to smooth the frictions of daily interactions, maybe sometimes even 'a tolerance' of others. As for any 'collapse of civilizations' narrative, civilizations are WAY MORE tenacious, pertinacious, and anti-fragile than people give them credit for.
The hypocritical anti-"tyranny" bullshit is enduring. Should have been extinguished latest by the Vietnam War delusion, but Americans as a whole if nothing else are suckers for circus stories even at the cost of their young people's lives.
Just trust us these boats are drug runners says Trump Co. no interdiction just bomb them.
Is this the way Americans can also be treated if suspected of some crime on the high seas or really anywhere? Of course not but hypocrisy rules in the US.
If these were drug runners it seems simple enough to pick up some evidence. You know maybe a barrel of cocaine or something just anything. Nope. And now finishing off survivors that might give their side of story. The US is sinking faster than suspected drug running boats.
What’s striking is how quickly people adapt to tyranny as long as it feels familiar. The US doesn’t rule by openly declaring itself an empire — it rules by convincing its own citizens that nothing unusual is happening. When domination becomes the background noise of daily life, it stops being questioned.
That’s the real genius of modern power: it doesn’t need your belief, just your indifference. As long as you stay busy, distracted, and vaguely patriotic, the machine keeps running with your silent consent. Tyranny today isn’t enforced at gunpoint — it’s enforced through narrative, repetition, and the illusion that you’re still free because you can choose between fifty brands of the same lie!
----"Tyranny today isn’t enforced at gunpoint"
Sometimes it is.
Absolutely force still exists, and always will.
But what’s changed is how rarely modern power has to use it. A system is strongest when people police themselves long before any police officer arrives.
That’s the part that concerns me mos the invisible obedience that doesn’t feel like obedience
The system has politically captured the West, Japan and Oz. It stages colour revolutions of so-called 'gen-Z' and regime change almost at will. Control of the information on social media is absolutely its super-power.
Our consciousness never empties itself, thus power as brain's false stability.
Feels like the truth.........
.....but is it fair to state that the bulk of the US populations are so gullible not to be able read between the lines. It's front and centre every day.
Surely, even with the efforts of the mainstream media, owned and controlled as it by the people who would support Trump on everything as seems to be the case, even the potential of a Third World War, there would be great concerns as to the direction being taking by an arrogant US President.
The makeup and narcissistic character of Trump must be so easy to see even in a corrupted media environment. Surely there are safeguards in the US Constitution
against America initiating yet another foreign war, when receiving not one threat as to its safety, only resulting from a decision by a megalomaniac having been elected, which is clearly the case we are facing right now.
Every time I see all those fawning cabinet members jumping in to support Trump in every he says and does make me realise even more so that this is an absolute dictatorship in the so called "land of the free"?.
AND the US people cannot see that as well.?
you’re right that there are safeguards and thanks for the ones that still function but the deeper problem isn’t Trump, Biden, or whichever mascot the system rolls out next. Personalities change. The machinery doesn’t.
A population can be “gullible,” as you say, not because they’re stupid, but because they’re overwhelmed. When people are buried in noise, fear, inflation, exhaustion, work, debt, and the daily struggle to keep their lives together, they don’t have the bandwidth to interrogate power. That’s not a moral failure that’s the design.
Modern tyranny doesn’t need a dictator with a moustache and a podium.
It just needs citizens who are too tired to question the story.
The danger isn’t one man in the Oval Office.
The danger is a system that survives regardless of who sits there a system capable of steering public emotion, manufacturing fear, and framing obedience as patriotism.
People can’t “see it” not because they’re blind, but because the narrative is engineered to feel normal. When abnormality becomes routine, it disappears into the wallpaper.
That’s why the real threat isn’t Trump or Biden or whoever comes next.
The real threat is the quiet, bipartisan machinery that makes all of it feel inevitable.
Yep, the US Empire, bipartisan machinery, deep state, Washington permanent state- whatever you want to call it- are very clever. We're not too tired or distracted- in the West we're too comfortable and don't want to change our lifestyles or accept the coming climate catastrophe.
We support the deep state (and accelerate the environmental crisis) by continuing to buy their products- fossil fuels, agrochemicals, animal ag, pharma, entertainment, Amazon, gambling, drugs, porn, finance, lots of plastic stuff and, of course, arms for 'defence'.
Thanks for the expansion. See the point you are making.
Sadly, I come from a country that has identical apparent "gullibility" as I called it, having now had one colonial master for 157 long years until the emergence of yet another power hungry, therefore very influential "controller" in 1945. Yes, it is the USA, now in supreme command since that date.
We'll probably send a fighting contingent to Venezuela if commanded, that horrible country that fills the streets of the USA with tons of drugs, as we all know, per courtesy of Western media. I mean we joined them in their power seeking wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and who knows where else. They fly in and out without any permission required, B52's wth nuclear weapons, operate a Spy Centre called Pine Gap, brought down a Prime Minister in 1975, but we love 'em like brothers and will give them $365 billion for some submarines in 2042. It's called AUKUS. The same two big boys and the little bag carrier. A, UK, US. What a combination!
The original masters, (still with us by the way), called the UK, (Unfriendly Kingdom) still impose a King and Queen on this same little country called Australia, over 15,000 kilometres away, with nothing in common except the spoken word and a game called cricket.
So "gullibility" for want of a better word, is here....and everywhere, along with absolute stupidity, caused by being "overwhelmed", a far more relevant word, per courtesy of 'Feels Like Truth'. Thanks
You beat me to it. This same narrative would happen with Biden or Obama or Bush or (fill in the blank) x 70 years.
And yet there remains a massive electorate tricked into thinking the problem is the “other” side.
Nope. It’s the wizards of oligarchy and religious fanaticism and the moneyed classes behind the curtain. They are the ones that benefit from the current atrocity that parades as democracy; they could really care less what party is in office - because they own them both.
100%. That is why both sides of the US/western political spectrum always use narrative "there is no alternative to ...". In fact, there is an alternative, but the US/western gangster elites would not like it.
A majority of the US public do see it. But the people running this show have worked and schemed, for decades in general and for a couple of years in a concrete plan to seize absolute power (Project 2025) and purging thousands of people, the kind that put the brakes on Trump in his first administration. They're still firing people daily who try to stand up to them, stand up for the rule of law. But the Epstein files situation and the furor over the most egregious of the war crimes re Venezuela and the sinking economy and Trump's mental unraveling and the open corruption, all suggest that the wheels are coming off. A hefty percentage are naive enough to think that if we can just get a bunch of Democrats elected in the midterms (but all Trump has to do is declare a state of emergency and cancel the elections--the Supreme Court will say it's fine) then we can go back to normal. That might be an outcome worse than any short of nuclear war, because the Dems WOULD return us to normal, patching things together so we can drive the car of humanity over the cliff, in terms of the environmental damage threatening human survival and ramping up rapidly. The Dems are also onboard with regime change and war with China. We need a regime change, in North America.
There is sn old joke "why is there no coup d'etat in the USA? Because there is no US embassy in the USA!"
Well said
Yeah, the people who saw through the big pharma propaganda on 'covid' think that they're now immune to manipulation and have fallen for the easy narrative about 'globalists' faking climate climate- meaning that they can continue to burn fossil fuels and eat animals (pharma's biggest client) and support these massive industries. I've been writing about it for 4 years.
Good point, and MSM is a method by which the empire further reiterates its convincing its citizens nothing is awry. Instead of holding truth to power, the media serves as a mouthpiece of imperial narratives, parroting the talking points the oligarchs and powers that be want the masses to be inundated with, to maintain their illusion of normalcy and keep the status quo. And unfortunately as you said, many are indifferent to things outside their small sphere of things worth caring about, especially those who are thoroughly convinced by what the MSM tells them should be important.
👏👏 Well said!
Go along to get along, and keep the money flow intact.
Eyes wide shut, is the other part of it.
Yes. My addendum would be that there is an historical shelf life to this form of propaganda. There is a tipping point. The more effective the propaganda is the more extreme the inevitable pushback. This pushback could take generations to finally respond. We are experiencing a global recognition of our shared humanity, via smartphones, that transcends governments and national identities. The ubiquitous indifference of modern life is being effectively (?) confronted by the realities of Imperial Genocide, the Climate Crisis, the outright corruption and degeneracy of the elite. Humanity’s solidarity is manifesting in ironic tandem with the rise and consolidation of capital and its giant multinational banks & corporations. And then there is the Earth, the third major player. It’s going to be a fight to the finish. Beginning in 2030.
Might as well say Israel wants to relieve Venezuela of its oil reserves.
Israel wants to relieve Palestine of its oil reserves. Why not get those of Venezuela, too. Israel is the US armed forces staging area for control of Iraq’s oil, and Iran’s, and North Africa’s.
This is not about Israel. Have you heard about the Monroe Doctrine (established in 1823)?
Have you read what the Zio princess said to Netanyahu? Her promises of moving the Venezuelan embassy to Jerusalem. Her agreement with likud? It’s USRAEL anymore.
Why are you surprised by that? Machado is the U.S. puppet that the US wants to install through a regime change operation. Again, nothing to do with Israel. Machado will say (and do) whatever the U.S. wants her to.
Chang, I think Israel's poisonous tentacles are everywhere spreading evil and hate between humans. Just because it is not immediately obvious or in the open it does not mean zionists are not involved. Zionism or fascism or gangsterism are all synonyms of "the West".
>>"Zionism or fascism or gangsterism are all synonyms of "the West"."
I would REPHRASE that to "Zionism or fascism are SYMPTOMS of the West". Just as the Nazis learned from the Americans, so did the Zionists learn from the Nazis.
The U.S. was a country based on imperialism and colonialism WAY BEFORE the existence of Israel (or Zionism). To blame Israel for ALL the faults of the West is to remove culpability and responsibility from the West (especially America and the U.S. Empire) for all the EVIL that it has wrought on this world.
Too many people in their 'emotional style of thinking' (especially after Oct 7th) deflect the EVIL of America by reductively blaming Israel for everything instead of critically examining factors (and history) on a situation-by-situation basis.
Zionists are bolshrviks and have always been worse than the nazis. Look up the monsters behind the Russian revolution. Look beyond the glorification of the workers smoke screen. 85% were jewish
Nothing to do with Israel? We will have to disagree on that. She begged Netanyahu to intervene. Can you believe that egocentric demon could refuse?
I reiterate more and more it is USRAEL.
Did you read my comment here ? (https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/worlds-most-tyrannical-government/comment/183618631)
"Why are you surprised by that? Machado is the U.S. puppet that the US wants to install through a regime change operation. Again, nothing to do with Israel. Machado will say (and do) whatever the U.S. wants her to."
As long as Israel is useful to the U.S. Empire and serves a purpose, it will be USRAEL (and the U.S. will be sure to shift all the blame to Israel for whatever it does). The second Israel stops serving the interests of the U.S. Empire, it will be treated very differently.
The problem is that too many people have 'Israel on their brain' clouding required critical thinking.
I really like most of what you have to say. However you have a very condescending streak. If someone disagrees with you they have brain clouding that interferes with critical thinking? Your extreme aversion to anything you label as conspiracy theories may be clouding your critical thinking. Give it a little thought. But we agree on way more than we disagree.
"Get the fifty richest Jewish financiers together and rend their manipulation of money impossible. In no other way can peace be established." Henry Ford
.......All wars are banker wars.......
Henry Ford was a TRUE anti-semite and a Nazi sympathizer (Henry Ford was known for his anti-Semitic views and published articles that promoted conspiracy theories about Jews, which gained him admiration from some Nazi leaders, including Adolf Hitler. His newspaper, The Dearborn Independent, spread these ideas widely, contributing to the rise of anti-Semitism in America and influencing Nazi ideology in Germany.)
Remember: This is 1920 (before WW2 and before the creation of Israel).
>>".......All wars are banker wars......."
That's a cliche that has some truth to it, though the full truth is much more complex than a simple 'quote'.
"If my sons did not want war there would be none." Gutle Schapner, wife of Mayer Amschel Rothschild, mother of his 5 sons.
Keeping the family tradition going now with Venezuela?
And your point is? Unless you are looking for the 'opinions' of someone as proof of facts to confirm your biases, this is useless information.
Venezuela is an unwilling colony of the American Empire. Israel is a willing colony of that Empire.
Venezuela is NOT YET a colony (willing or unwilling) of the American Empire.
A minor technical detail. The Monroe Doctrine laid claim to all lands of North and South America.
Canada has resisted, to date, but the Orange One wants to change that. I’m not certain about Mexico. Many US companies have already successfully invaded Mexico.
>>"The Monroe Doctrine laid claim to all lands of North and South America."
Not really. The Monroe Doctrine established the Western Hemisphere as a zone free from European colonization and interference. The doctrine was primarily aimed at preventing European powers from reasserting control over newly independent nations in Latin America.
It's main tenets are/were non-colonization (the Americas are no longer open to European colonization), Non-Interference (the U.S. will not interfere in the internal affairs of European countries), and Hostile Acts (any European intervention in the Americas will be viewed as a threat to U.S. security). The doctrine was expanded by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904, introducing the Roosevelt Corollary, which justified U.S. intervention in Latin America to maintain order.
>>"but the Orange One wants to change that"
The Orange One will not live forever - he is already showing signs of cognitive and physical decline.
Chang> "The Monroe Doctrine established the Western Hemisphere as a zone free from European colonization and interference".
The Monroe Doctrine was never benign. In other words it meant that it's America's backyard to do as it pleases without interference from the former colonisers.
To this day hence the ongoing hybrid war against Venezuela.The hybrid war is as deadly as a hot war - which may be unleashed very soon.
The world will look on as it did with Gaza.
Chang Chokaski,
I think we’re on the same page. The US corporations and government have been meddling in the affairs of every country south of the Texas border, for more than a century.
The Monroe Doctrine is a warning to the rest of the world to not interfere with US meddling in North and South America.
I didn’t know about the US military operations in Central and South America until I met some of the operatives when I served.
Both MLK, Jr. and Chomsky said essentially the same thing decades ago, that this is the most violent, warmongering country on earth. And it only continues to get worse, if that's imaginable.
Imagine a country so assured of its own righteousness that is casually and openly overthrows any country it doesn't like. Attacking another, sovereign country and killing its citizens because it doesn't agree with it.
Only one country in the world (well, two actually) do that, on quite a regular basis.
And all supposedly in the name of promoting democracy and freedom, as we overthrow democratically elected governments and support Right wing dictatorships. Quite a marketing strategy, huh...?
the 'worse' is likely death throes.
There's no margin of error now for anything but.
Willam James, a leading anti-imperialist of his era, wrote of Theodore Roosevelt: " He gushes over war as the ideal condition of human society".
That about summarizes the core disease that has always infected those who have aspired to US leadership.
It's not that war is ideal for them, though the arms companies might disagree. It's that the US based white patriarchy cannot abide competition to their unipolarity and dominance. They simply cannot be second best nor one of many. They will do anything, including destroying the future of humanity on the planet, to cling on full spectrum global dominance.
What makes this a big problem is that they're still extremely powerful physically and very clever at the dark arts.
Yes, and it's all coming to an unsustainable head.
yes, a white head bursting or a sexual climax is imminent.
Why shouldn't those leaders? Wars have brought them nothing but empire and benefit.
Thank you Caitlin (and Tim) for another much-needed propaganda-busting and truth-revealing article! ❤️🙏
CJ>>"The US empire is the most tyrannical power structure on earth, by an extremely massive margin. There is no close second place in contention. Nobody else is brutalizing and terrorizing the entire planet into compliance with its dictates. No other power is constantly assaulting any government or population anywhere on earth that doesn’t bow to its demands."
This passage should be read by EVERY American EVERY single day so as to combat the propaganda, narratives, and indoctrination of the U.S. Empire! RESIST!
The American Empire is the latest incarnation of the British one that collapsed in the middle of the 20th Century.
Israel’s quite tyrannical! But then Netanyahu, Biden, Trump were like peas in a pod.Bad for humanity.
Interesting blog sites/readings this week only gives two more world-wide and historical perspectives that this has been going on (and likely linked to MI6/Mossad/CIA) forever.
The US’s long game in Xinjiang
The decades-long plot to create another Ukraine within China
https://huabinoliver.substack.com/p/the-uss-long-game-in-xinjiang
The Bridge
Why Did the Podesta Group Really Close?
https://badlands.substack.com/p/the-bridge-3c3
I often wonder if the USA is just a franchise of the Cabal/Empire?
Just like the world's worst criminal organization wants to punish other governments countries for supposed crimes such as drug trafficking.
The Gray Zone has an article titled:
"Trump pardons convicted narco-trafficking pol amid plot to rig Honduran election"
https://thegrayzone.com/2025/11/29/trump-frees-narco-rig-honduran-vote/
From article:
"Donald Trump is threatening to destroy the Honduran economy unless the country elects the oligarch-run National Party. Now, he’s even pardoned the last party member to rule the country, who was convicted in 2024 of smuggling hundreds of tons of drugs into the US."
Pretexts are like empty conveniences to the Gangster Empire. For example, the Empire is anti al Qaeda until al Qaeda is useful (as in Syria).
There's even more hypocrisy.
In 2017 Washington put severe sanctions on Venezuela. This caused the economy to collapse and inflation to rise to the stratosphere.
Over the next three years SEVEN MILLION Venezuelans left their homes and country out of desperation trying to survive.
As usual it was the much tried and failed US strategy of making life for the population unbearable so that they force the government out.
Additionally the UK has frozen Venezuelan gold stored in the BoE, further making it worse because Venezuela cannot access forex to pay for imports.
The US also has a 50 million Dollar bounty on Maduro.
All this because Venezuela resisted the empire and wants to use the profits from resource extraction for the benefit of Venezuelans and not US corporations.
Sickening.
This War is about a couple different things best I can tell. The biggest reason is to collateralize Venezuela’s resources. The Western Bankers responsible for every war want to put it on the books. This allows them to print more money.
Best I can explain it’s like income tax in today’s America. No, they don’t need it given what they spend. The purpose of it is to make it look like the government spends money in responsible fashion. So in a sense that’s what taking control of Venezuela’s resources accomplishes.
Same as Iraq, same as Syria, Russia would have been the real mother load. Thank God that did not happen because if it had not much could have stopped them. More than likely China would’ve capitulated and that would have been all she wrote for mankind.
The goal is to herd us all into a Palantir/Larry Ellison Prison Planet. That is being erected as I type this. It’s now just a question of timing really. I suspect they will try and lure most in with UBI and CBDCs. Doubt most people will resist if that’s how they roll it out.
But there’s something worse I think. I listened to this interview twice the other day. It’s very philosophical and interesting alone. But I detected a concern in the voice of the guest Mo Gawdat. He talks a lot about the current banking system and how it preys on the people.
I believe he’s very concerned about the discovery of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) being discovered by the wrong people. I am too. It all makes sense now Trump dumping all this money into the hands of Silcone Valley (Genesis Project). Sure people like L Ellison are helping construct the control grid but the real prize is AGI. I can’t help but almost root for the Chinese at this point. Mo makes it sound like a zero sum game.
I don’t think we can let the Bankers find AGI. It seems like the Holy Grail.
https://youtu.be/S9a1nLw70p0
And let's thank the Nobel Peace Prize committee for encouraging and setting the tone for an acceptable right wing replacement to Maduro.
"The world’s most tyrannical power structure has no business trying to liberate anyone from tyranny." T'would be nice if they made some effort to liberate themselves from tyranny.
The irony never ends. What we are expected to believe, only an idiot or psychopath would believe.
Unfortunately, too many ordinary people believe it - THAT is the problem.
Americans who stand behind and approve of US posture on Venezuela and Maduro have strange priorities. Ordinary people are not doing well in the US. Many have difficulty paying mortgage or rent.
Couldn't agree with you more! Most people outside the U.S. have little to no idea about just how much ordinary Americans are suffering...
Chang, We do have an idea about what the ordinary Americans are going through. Maybe this time they might do something about it!
As Bertolt Brecht says in his poem " Buddha's Parable of the Burning House" -
" Unless a man felt the ground so hot underfoot that he would gladly exchange it for any other, sooner than stay ,to him I have nothing to say".
>>"Maybe this time they might do something about it!"
That is the hope - but I'm not optimistic. Americans have been so HEAVILY propagandized (over generations) that most are clueless about 'which narratives are true' and 'which are false'. Hence the election of 'Presidents like Trump' - arguably one of the worst humans (if I can even call him that) on the planet.
(BTW, you can observe the same or higher levels of propagandized populaces all over the world - eg. Modi in India, etc.)
Doesn't matter, as long as the rulers orders are carried out.
Hard to believe Trump will invade a country with armed men and Russian and Chinese weapons...He should have accepted Maduro's off er to leave with immunity for his whole group...
The good part is that in 5 years, the US debt will be so large that it becomes impractical to have hundreds of foreign bases and conduct such nonsensical operations...
>>"Hard to believe Trump will invade a country with armed men..."
Not really. Hard to believe that people thought that Trump was 'different' and cared about American people.
>>"the US debt will be so large that it becomes impractical..."
Not really. Understand the role DEBT plays, who owns this debt (and hence indirectly supports the U.S. Empire), and MMT (modern monetary theory).
Debts are meaningful as long as the creditors have the power to enforce repayment. When debtors have more military power or more members in their cohort than the creditors, the debtors can cancel their debts by decree.
In civil society, the notion of debts, debtors and creditors depends upon honor and faith in a system of written or unwritten contracts.
What we may be witnessing is the failure of civility and, possibly, the collapse of civilization as we may have believed it to exist.
>>"In civil society, the notion of debts, debtors and creditors depends upon honor and faith in a system of written or unwritten contracts."
Depends. Usually it works under 'might is right' rules (power and enforceability).
>>"What we may be witnessing is the failure of civility and, possibly, the collapse of civilization as we may have believed it to exist."
Not in the least, not even remotely. Civility is often an illusion, a mask to smooth the frictions of daily interactions, maybe sometimes even 'a tolerance' of others. As for any 'collapse of civilizations' narrative, civilizations are WAY MORE tenacious, pertinacious, and anti-fragile than people give them credit for.
The hypocritical anti-"tyranny" bullshit is enduring. Should have been extinguished latest by the Vietnam War delusion, but Americans as a whole if nothing else are suckers for circus stories even at the cost of their young people's lives.
The “suckers, are not only Americans… the affliction is international.
The American dollar helps to facilitate that.
Maybe the American dollars were used in playing Monopoly, and the Americans lost?
The “beauty” of electronics and the Internet is that no actual paper dollars are necessary to play.
The Big Money is digital credits on computer servers.
Just trust us these boats are drug runners says Trump Co. no interdiction just bomb them.
Is this the way Americans can also be treated if suspected of some crime on the high seas or really anywhere? Of course not but hypocrisy rules in the US.
If these were drug runners it seems simple enough to pick up some evidence. You know maybe a barrel of cocaine or something just anything. Nope. And now finishing off survivors that might give their side of story. The US is sinking faster than suspected drug running boats.
"If the US empire wants to make the world less tyrannical, its first and only move should be to dismantle itself."
Yep, that says it all. A bully can't make the world better unless it first stops being a bully.