American Revolutionary theory states, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, that, “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Thomas Jefferson was a slaver and genocider but that doesn’t negate the truth of his statement.
There is no fissure between the G’cidal entity and its co-signers. It’s all smoke and screen in an attempt to placate the masses. The system must be uprooted and a new one implemented minus the G’cide supporters.
👏 yes all must go, down to the fake antisemitism school boards that manufacture political consensus for genocide against the defenseless. Sectarianism run by dictators are both produced in the School of the Americas armed to suppress their populations against revulsion with resource theft kleptocracy- home grown and run as fiefdoms of the Senate
Sad to say, I agree with everything you said. I’ve never understood why people voted for Harris, or Trump for that matter. We had a completely fine candidate in Jill Stein. You’d have thought voters would have noticed that there were no “lesser of two evils” in the last election, only two grotesque evils. Another party would have been the way to go. I voted for Jill and now I’m blamed for Trump. I don’t care because I couldn’t bring myself to vote for anyone who backs a genocide. I figured Americans would get slammed by Trump but there is no genocide that goes unpunished in my mind. Thanks for your fine article. Take good care.
"I agree with everything you said. I’ve never understood why people voted for Harris, or Trump for that matter."
Because humans are herd animals to rival any sheep or dog. In addition, the Greens don't really want power, as that would entail tough choices and potentially having to make deals with icky people.
The West has never stopped a genocide. They benefit from them and do them, or contribute to them indirectly, such as enabling Hitler. Like Yemen, Vietnam stopped the USA’s genocide of its own nation, then intervened in Cambodia, one of the few humanitarian interventions in history. If you do genocide, you’re an agent of empire and you need to be stopped. Look at Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, who benefitted from such massacres? Who benefitted from Vietnam fighting its neighbor? Who bombed the country and destabilized it, allowing a group of ignorant thugs similar to ISIS, HTS, or these… “Israelis,” whoever they are…to run amok? The empire. So, moral people, people who aren’t disgusting freaks like Biden, Obama, or Trump, do not have to claim every fake “resistance” group.
Hamas is real resistance. That’s why the Palestinians haven’t been annihilated yet. I don’t think our governments will allow us to sponsor refugees if Gaza falls. They’re stuck there, which means they face imminent annihilation. The only way to stop a genocide is through force. Why would Israel stop on its own? Regarding Iran, I’m sure they have a plan, an operation on the table, to intervene. Why they haven’t done so seems clear to me. They’re worried about being genocided. If they become a slave of the West, they might postpone genocide, or maybe not…the West is the Great Satan, I trust nothing they say, only what they do.
Correct me if I’m wrong though. Holocaust doesn’t count, it was done by Germany and stopped primarily by the USSR, who like Yemen and Vietnam, had to stop its own genocide first. The USSR also didn’t do business with Nazis before the war; non-aggression pact doesn't count, that's called intelligence in action when facing a united genocidal West, which is what the West is now after the world wars. Never forget: Hitler admired the USA and Britain, admired them for what they did to the Americas and the world. Lastly, I agree with everything Justin said here. Thanks for this article. We can’t separate domestic affairs from foreign ones. It’s the same genocidal, imperial entity.
There has been a statement that I tacitly accepted until now.
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Western-style “liberal” democracies, like in the US or Europe, are intrinsically better than “authoritarian” regimes, like in Russia or China.
>>
People in the West can allegedly freely express their opinions and always have multiple choices when it comes to endorse political decisions.
However, the war in Ukraine and, more importantly, the genocide in Palestine have revoked those propositions as a myth engineered to hide the true nature of the western regimes.
() There are several / multiple political parties but no alternative policies.
() The (at first glance) diversified media landscape is just another "point of control" (to paraphrase a well-known sci-fi movie).
Indeed, European and North-American populations are the most propagandized on this planet. The “regimes” are extremely efficient in manufacturing consent for policies that will eventually spell doom, not only for populations on other continents but also within their borders. At a later stage.
I think we have reached this stage. The masks are off. It took us much time to realize the sad state of affairs. Indeed, the West is so entangled in a primitive feeling of superiority and hegemonic empowerment that its elites are dangerously prepared to propagate horrendous wars and chaos to protect the status quo. In this perspective, they are worse than ordinary (uneducated) people.
Why has Gaza unleashed so much more liberative power than other mass-scale massacres perpetrated by the US Empire since WW2?
Indeed, there have been demonstrations against the Vietnam War. However, mainly because too many (about 60 000) GIs died. Millions of dead bodies in Vietnam or Cambodia did not count so much. The same for victims in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Cuba, Venezuela, Central America, and the Sahel.
The difference today is that there is an independent media.
If we will, we have unfiltered real-time access to the committed atrocities and can compare facts with institutional narratives. Independent journalists and intellectuals articulate interpretations that are much more in line with the principles of the human mind and heart.
Thank you for raising your voice. To paraphrase another well-known sci-fi film
<<
If you listen and respond to messages by this channel and other independent outlets, YOU ARE PART OF THE RESISTANCE".
Chomsky put it thusly: western democracies allow vigorous debate, but only with respect to a narrow set of policy options.
You can have romneycare or obamacare. You can pick between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. You can have the Team R corporate imperialist muppet or the Team D corporate imperialist muppet, depending on the kind of idpol you prefer with your corporate imperialist muppetry.
These are the conclusions drawn from evidence that has appeared before this consciousness for 72 years. The history books are riddled with more of what has been the disastrous first hand experiences. I’ve admitted to myself they know not what they are doing...
The same thing was said apparently, about the despicable lot who crucified all that was good and holy.
I once read about a King from India... Janaka...who was leading his nation and it’s people on the correct heading... I’m sure there have been others... but not a one who was titled president knew the direction to travel on this star spangled flagship of fools
Thank you for truth telling. Obummer sent me a personalize request for donation. I wrote back on the mailer, F the Genocidal Democrats you child murders. Everyone needs to return those postal requests at a postage cost to parties as well as funding USPS.
TL:DR There has been no change in heart among western politicians or MSM.
Rather, it is permitted to point out the obvious fact that Israel is committing a genocide, because the War On Russia is to take top priority at this time.
Exactly. Like the alleged "dog / tail" dichotomy, the disagreement between the perpetrators and the supporters of genocide is nothing more than a "creative" debate among butchers.
I read an article recently about Baldwin and Du Boise's writings, from this, "Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, establishing whiteness as constitutionally protected" - "The white supremacist system says to white people that in return for the state’s protection of whiteness, white folk are obligated to defend whiteness in their “self-defense”; this is called democracy". For me these are critical in the systemic thinking of all colonisations, of which my native land is one, where I am marginalised and suppressed.
"Chinese political theory had the concept of the Mandate of Heaven, which a ruler could lose, and which would give the people the right to rebel."
The Mandate of Heaven doesn't give the right to rebel (also it's not really a right because, as any athiest would understand, there are no (god(s)) given rights). It was first used as an tool of propaganda by a successful rebellion leading (Han) Liu family having the gods' given "right to rule" in place of the former (Qin) Ying/Zhao ruling family. Prior to this, conquering nation-states would keep the old ruling families of each alive and in place as puppets, much like the system in Japan. Liu extirpated the Ying/Zhao remnants (by claiming the later rulers killed their parents, violating the social order). This 1st true rebellion in a Confucian style society which fathers had the legal authority of life and death over any descendent, and the King/Emperor was father over all. This is why there are so many Chens, Liu, Han surnames in China, the people assumed the ruling family name for the first 2000 or so years of this new system.
Anyone can rebel, but even a successful rebel did not have the automatic right to rule as rebellion threatened not only the government but the whole structure of society. The Mandate of Heaven was a fig leaf, or better, a band-aid, to allow the culture to go on as before, that children had no right to rebel against their parents, no matter how bad, as long as they held this mandate. Court intrigues gave each following dynastic family an excuse to replace the former.
The Israel state, founded on terrorism, is attempting to destroy not just a people, but the entire culture of a society composed of Muslims, Christians, Jews, Samaritans, etc. Unlike the rebellions in China which attempted to restore the old order by cleaning out the rot, the Israeli rebellion against the British was one group of outsiders replacing another group, but both of them an insult to the old society order. Hamas, by clarifying it's intent to rid Palestine of a Zionist state and through the civilized manner it has treated captives, has a better claim to the right to rule than the current government of Israel. There may be others who can demonstrate they are even more suitable to rule, but for now we're stuck in the stage of rebellion and the only gods who matter there are the gods of war.
I read the divine mandate, disregarding the actual cultural context, as legitimizing the implementation of systemic violence. The loss of that mandate would then be an introduction to "divine violence", anti-systemic violence that the rebels carry out (regardless of whether they believe in god - gods or not) with the aim of establishing a system in which systemic violence is reduced, taking into account the dominant form of production, to the smallest possible measure.
There is no fissure between the G’cidal entity and its co-signers. It’s all smoke and screen in an attempt to placate the masses. The system must be uprooted and a new one implemented minus the G’cide supporters.
💯 the disease is the system
👏 yes all must go, down to the fake antisemitism school boards that manufacture political consensus for genocide against the defenseless. Sectarianism run by dictators are both produced in the School of the Americas armed to suppress their populations against revulsion with resource theft kleptocracy- home grown and run as fiefdoms of the Senate
Sad to say, I agree with everything you said. I’ve never understood why people voted for Harris, or Trump for that matter. We had a completely fine candidate in Jill Stein. You’d have thought voters would have noticed that there were no “lesser of two evils” in the last election, only two grotesque evils. Another party would have been the way to go. I voted for Jill and now I’m blamed for Trump. I don’t care because I couldn’t bring myself to vote for anyone who backs a genocide. I figured Americans would get slammed by Trump but there is no genocide that goes unpunished in my mind. Thanks for your fine article. Take good care.
"I agree with everything you said. I’ve never understood why people voted for Harris, or Trump for that matter."
Because humans are herd animals to rival any sheep or dog. In addition, the Greens don't really want power, as that would entail tough choices and potentially having to make deals with icky people.
I voted for Stein, FWIW.
The West has never stopped a genocide. They benefit from them and do them, or contribute to them indirectly, such as enabling Hitler. Like Yemen, Vietnam stopped the USA’s genocide of its own nation, then intervened in Cambodia, one of the few humanitarian interventions in history. If you do genocide, you’re an agent of empire and you need to be stopped. Look at Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, who benefitted from such massacres? Who benefitted from Vietnam fighting its neighbor? Who bombed the country and destabilized it, allowing a group of ignorant thugs similar to ISIS, HTS, or these… “Israelis,” whoever they are…to run amok? The empire. So, moral people, people who aren’t disgusting freaks like Biden, Obama, or Trump, do not have to claim every fake “resistance” group.
Hamas is real resistance. That’s why the Palestinians haven’t been annihilated yet. I don’t think our governments will allow us to sponsor refugees if Gaza falls. They’re stuck there, which means they face imminent annihilation. The only way to stop a genocide is through force. Why would Israel stop on its own? Regarding Iran, I’m sure they have a plan, an operation on the table, to intervene. Why they haven’t done so seems clear to me. They’re worried about being genocided. If they become a slave of the West, they might postpone genocide, or maybe not…the West is the Great Satan, I trust nothing they say, only what they do.
Correct me if I’m wrong though. Holocaust doesn’t count, it was done by Germany and stopped primarily by the USSR, who like Yemen and Vietnam, had to stop its own genocide first. The USSR also didn’t do business with Nazis before the war; non-aggression pact doesn't count, that's called intelligence in action when facing a united genocidal West, which is what the West is now after the world wars. Never forget: Hitler admired the USA and Britain, admired them for what they did to the Americas and the world. Lastly, I agree with everything Justin said here. Thanks for this article. We can’t separate domestic affairs from foreign ones. It’s the same genocidal, imperial entity.
The USSR was hardly the only country to sign a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, FWIW.
There has been a statement that I tacitly accepted until now.
<<
Western-style “liberal” democracies, like in the US or Europe, are intrinsically better than “authoritarian” regimes, like in Russia or China.
>>
People in the West can allegedly freely express their opinions and always have multiple choices when it comes to endorse political decisions.
However, the war in Ukraine and, more importantly, the genocide in Palestine have revoked those propositions as a myth engineered to hide the true nature of the western regimes.
() There are several / multiple political parties but no alternative policies.
() The (at first glance) diversified media landscape is just another "point of control" (to paraphrase a well-known sci-fi movie).
Indeed, European and North-American populations are the most propagandized on this planet. The “regimes” are extremely efficient in manufacturing consent for policies that will eventually spell doom, not only for populations on other continents but also within their borders. At a later stage.
I think we have reached this stage. The masks are off. It took us much time to realize the sad state of affairs. Indeed, the West is so entangled in a primitive feeling of superiority and hegemonic empowerment that its elites are dangerously prepared to propagate horrendous wars and chaos to protect the status quo. In this perspective, they are worse than ordinary (uneducated) people.
Why has Gaza unleashed so much more liberative power than other mass-scale massacres perpetrated by the US Empire since WW2?
Indeed, there have been demonstrations against the Vietnam War. However, mainly because too many (about 60 000) GIs died. Millions of dead bodies in Vietnam or Cambodia did not count so much. The same for victims in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Cuba, Venezuela, Central America, and the Sahel.
The difference today is that there is an independent media.
If we will, we have unfiltered real-time access to the committed atrocities and can compare facts with institutional narratives. Independent journalists and intellectuals articulate interpretations that are much more in line with the principles of the human mind and heart.
Thank you for raising your voice. To paraphrase another well-known sci-fi film
<<
If you listen and respond to messages by this channel and other independent outlets, YOU ARE PART OF THE RESISTANCE".
>>
Chomsky put it thusly: western democracies allow vigorous debate, but only with respect to a narrow set of policy options.
You can have romneycare or obamacare. You can pick between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. You can have the Team R corporate imperialist muppet or the Team D corporate imperialist muppet, depending on the kind of idpol you prefer with your corporate imperialist muppetry.
There’s a whole lot of leaders
Since the dawn of national identification
That are suffering from
The disease of greed and conceit
You can spot the selfish
Ignorant natures that are on display
Their ego is always reaching outward
Grasping objects of disillusioned pleasure-ment
I do not believe that the country
I unfortunately come from
Has ever had a president
That knew the true nature of the Self
They all have been caricatures
Of authoritarian delusionism
When these foolish minds
Get elected to lead
The results are the proof
That they never should have
Been allowed to be in charge
These are the conclusions drawn from evidence that has appeared before this consciousness for 72 years. The history books are riddled with more of what has been the disastrous first hand experiences. I’ve admitted to myself they know not what they are doing...
The same thing was said apparently, about the despicable lot who crucified all that was good and holy.
I once read about a King from India... Janaka...who was leading his nation and it’s people on the correct heading... I’m sure there have been others... but not a one who was titled president knew the direction to travel on this star spangled flagship of fools
✌🏼🇵🇸🇱🇧🇸🇾🇮🇷🇮🇶🇾🇪❤️🙏🕉
Keep protesting!!! Free free Palestine 🇵🇸
Thank you for truth telling. Obummer sent me a personalize request for donation. I wrote back on the mailer, F the Genocidal Democrats you child murders. Everyone needs to return those postal requests at a postage cost to parties as well as funding USPS.
TL:DR There has been no change in heart among western politicians or MSM.
Rather, it is permitted to point out the obvious fact that Israel is committing a genocide, because the War On Russia is to take top priority at this time.
Exactly. Like the alleged "dog / tail" dichotomy, the disagreement between the perpetrators and the supporters of genocide is nothing more than a "creative" debate among butchers.
This is a Global South moment!
I read an article recently about Baldwin and Du Boise's writings, from this, "Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896, establishing whiteness as constitutionally protected" - "The white supremacist system says to white people that in return for the state’s protection of whiteness, white folk are obligated to defend whiteness in their “self-defense”; this is called democracy". For me these are critical in the systemic thinking of all colonisations, of which my native land is one, where I am marginalised and suppressed.
Ban AIPAC
Go? Each one needs a Molotov tossed in their beds.
https://open.substack.com/pub/paulokirk/p/fake-fake-fake-america-the-great?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5i319
"Chinese political theory had the concept of the Mandate of Heaven, which a ruler could lose, and which would give the people the right to rebel."
The Mandate of Heaven doesn't give the right to rebel (also it's not really a right because, as any athiest would understand, there are no (god(s)) given rights). It was first used as an tool of propaganda by a successful rebellion leading (Han) Liu family having the gods' given "right to rule" in place of the former (Qin) Ying/Zhao ruling family. Prior to this, conquering nation-states would keep the old ruling families of each alive and in place as puppets, much like the system in Japan. Liu extirpated the Ying/Zhao remnants (by claiming the later rulers killed their parents, violating the social order). This 1st true rebellion in a Confucian style society which fathers had the legal authority of life and death over any descendent, and the King/Emperor was father over all. This is why there are so many Chens, Liu, Han surnames in China, the people assumed the ruling family name for the first 2000 or so years of this new system.
Anyone can rebel, but even a successful rebel did not have the automatic right to rule as rebellion threatened not only the government but the whole structure of society. The Mandate of Heaven was a fig leaf, or better, a band-aid, to allow the culture to go on as before, that children had no right to rebel against their parents, no matter how bad, as long as they held this mandate. Court intrigues gave each following dynastic family an excuse to replace the former.
The Israel state, founded on terrorism, is attempting to destroy not just a people, but the entire culture of a society composed of Muslims, Christians, Jews, Samaritans, etc. Unlike the rebellions in China which attempted to restore the old order by cleaning out the rot, the Israeli rebellion against the British was one group of outsiders replacing another group, but both of them an insult to the old society order. Hamas, by clarifying it's intent to rid Palestine of a Zionist state and through the civilized manner it has treated captives, has a better claim to the right to rule than the current government of Israel. There may be others who can demonstrate they are even more suitable to rule, but for now we're stuck in the stage of rebellion and the only gods who matter there are the gods of war.
I read the divine mandate, disregarding the actual cultural context, as legitimizing the implementation of systemic violence. The loss of that mandate would then be an introduction to "divine violence", anti-systemic violence that the rebels carry out (regardless of whether they believe in god - gods or not) with the aim of establishing a system in which systemic violence is reduced, taking into account the dominant form of production, to the smallest possible measure.
Thanks Justin, I believe (or have naive faith in) that there will be a rise of resistance to Empire, but so slowly...