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 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"?.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
It is probably LESS so. Poll after poll shows what the majority of Americans would prefer to get from their goernment is subservient to what the rich want and get.
What? I mean, I agree it’s less so than some other governments (it’s more a matter of style than substance, but just the same) , but I do t understand what you mean by “what the majority of Americans want from their government is subservient to what the rich want and get.” Subservient means ‘in service to’. If you mean that the wealthy control the government and not the people, I agree. The people in charge of our government are evil, vile people. And a lot of the people that perpetuate this system do so in a banal, go along to get along fashion, with no awareness of the world they live in. It’s a scary world, and every time I have to engage with NPCs in my day to day life it gives me chills.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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!
Well said
👏👏 Well said!
----"Tyranny today isn’t enforced at gunpoint"
Sometimes it is.
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.?
Might as well say Israel wants to relieve Venezuela of its oil reserves.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
Just like the world's worst criminal organization wants to punish other governments countries for supposed crimes such as drug trafficking.
Precisely. The U.S. is no more a democracy than any other government presently on the planet.
It is probably LESS so. Poll after poll shows what the majority of Americans would prefer to get from their goernment is subservient to what the rich want and get.
What? I mean, I agree it’s less so than some other governments (it’s more a matter of style than substance, but just the same) , but I do t understand what you mean by “what the majority of Americans want from their government is subservient to what the rich want and get.” Subservient means ‘in service to’. If you mean that the wealthy control the government and not the people, I agree. The people in charge of our government are evil, vile people. And a lot of the people that perpetuate this system do so in a banal, go along to get along fashion, with no awareness of the world they live in. It’s a scary world, and every time I have to engage with NPCs in my day to day life it gives me chills.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.