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The Mainstream Western Worldview Pretends The Global South Does Not Exist Nov 04, 2024

You really see this illustrated in US presidential election season, when debates will feature five or six minutes on “foreign policy” with the remaining two hours dedicated to “domestic policy” and culture war wedge issues despite the the White House’s relationship with foreign countries having orders of magnitude more significant real-world consequences. Reading by Tim Foley.

How To Go On In A World Full Of Cruelty Nov 03, 2024

It’s not hope that keeps me going, it’s love. Love for this beautiful planet and all the weird little critters scuttling around on it, especially the fingery ape monsters walking about on their hind legs making mouth noises about their mind noises. I love this whole chaotic wondermess so very, very much, and I want it to keep going. Reading by Tim Foley.

Vote However You Feel; This Whole Show Is About Feelings Anyway Nov 03, 2024

My one and only position on how Americans should vote is that they should do whatever makes them feel nice, since that’s all US presidential elections are: an emotional pacifier to let the masses feel like they have some meaningful control over their country. It’s about feelings and nothing else. Reading by Tim Foley.

"Too Much Evidence" Of Genocide Nov 01, 2024

South Africa's legal team has submitted hundreds of documents containing what it calls "undeniable evidence" as part of its ongoing genocide case against the state of Israel, with the South African representative to The Hague telling Al Jazeera that "The problem we have is that we have too much evidence." Reading by Tim Foley.

Yeah, Yeah, UNRWA Is Hamas. Everyone Israel Hates Is Hamas Oct 30, 2024

In addition to everything else this genocide has been, it’s been a colossal insult to our intelligence. Reading by Tim Foley.

The West Only Has Pretend Heroes Like Spider-Man And SpongeBob Oct 30, 2024

Reading by Tim Foley.

You Can Only Support Trump Or Harris If You Don't See The US Empire For The Beast It Is Oct 28, 2024

Both Trump and Harris are auditioning for a role that will necessarily entail the creation of mountains of human corpses by US-sponsored violence, as has every viable US presidential candidate throughout our lives. This is because the US empire is deeply evil. Reading by Tim Foley.

On Gaza And Feelings Of Powerlessness Oct 27, 2024

It's the sense of powerlessness that gets to you. Watching all these people being slaughtered and tormented in Gaza and in Lebanon with the full support of your own government and its allies, but being unable to stop it. Reading by Tim Foley.

Lying Western Press Scramble To Frame Israel's Attack On Iran As Self - Defense Oct 27, 2024

Lying Western Press Scramble To Frame Israel's Attack On Iran As Self - Defense by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

The Only Good Thing About This Nightmare Is It's Exposing The Monsters For Who They Are Oct 27, 2024

The Only Good Thing About This Nightmare Is It's Exposing The Monsters For Who They Are by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

Israel Continues Its War On Journalism Oct 27, 2024

Israel Continues Its War On Journalism by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

Gaza WILL Get Worse Under Trump. It'll Also Get Worse Under Harris Oct 27, 2024

Gaza WILL Get Worse Under Trump. It'll Also Get Worse Under Harris by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

McGenocide Oct 23, 2024

CNN says an IDF soldier has suffered trauma because he had to run over too many Palestinians with his D9 armored bulldozer. Says he can’t eat meat anymore because he had to drive over so much human meat (he actually called it “meat”) and it reminds him of all the blood and guts and bones and tissue that would come squirting out when he ran over them. Reading by Tim Foley.

When The Holocaust Returned It Came Denouncing Anti - Semitism And Wearing A Star Of David Oct 23, 2024

When the Holocaust returned it came denouncing anti-semitism and wearing a Star of David. It was never going to look how we were expecting. It wasn’t going to show up in its old familiar costume with the bent cross and the tiny mustache, blaming all the problems on the Jews. It had to look different. If it didn’t look different, we never would have let it in the door. Reading by Tim Foley.

We Really Are The Bad Guys And This Really Is The Evil Empire Oct 21, 2024

We Really Are The Bad Guys And This Really Is The Evil Empire "It can be nice to live in the western world, but the western world is not nice. Ours is the most savage and thuggish civilization on this planet, and it’s not even close." Reading by Tim Foley.

This Mass Atrocity Is Made Possible By The Systematic Dehumanization Of Palestinians Oct 19, 2024

Israeli forces found and killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by accident while they were just randomly destroying parts of Gaza, and then they methodically targeted and killed four water engineers on purpose. These two facts alone tell you everything you need to know about what Israel is really doing in Gaza. Reading by Tim Foley.

More Authoritarian Crackdowns On Speech That's Critical Of Israel Oct 18, 2024

British "counterterrorism" police raided the home of Electronic Intifada editor Asa Winstanley on Thursday morning, seizing multiple electronic devices on suspicion that the journalist violated the UK's 2006 Terrorism Act with his social media activity. Reading by Tim Foley.

You're Not Crazy. This Genocidal Dystopia Is Crazy Oct 17, 2024

“I say this because living in the west during a western-backed genocide can make you feel like you’re going insane.” Reading by Tim Foley.

We're Basically Being Asked To Believe That The Palestinians Are Genociding Themselves Oct 16, 2024

One of the dumbest things we are asked to believe about Israel's genocide in Gaza is that all these civilians are being butchered because the Palestinians are evil and not the Israelis. That it's the victims doing evil things and not the perpetrators. Reading by Tim Foley.

Another Phony Biden PR Stunt About Humanitarian Aid In Gaza Oct 15, 2024

If this was a real thing with real teeth and not an incredibly cynical eleventh-hour election ploy, it would have happened a full year ago. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Media When IDF Soldiers Get Killed Vs When A Hospital Patient Is Burned Alive In Gaza Oct 15, 2024

Nothing illustrates the malfeasance of the mass media like the vast disparity between how they’re covering the killing of four 19 year-old IDF soldiers by Hezbollah versus their complete lack of interest in a 19 year-old hospital patient who was burned alive by the IDF in Gaza. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel's Motto Is "We Can Have Peace Tomorrow If We Just Kill A Few More People Today" Oct 14, 2024

Israel's permanent national security doctrine is basically "We can have peace tomorrow if we just kill a few more people today." But it's always today. Tomorrow never comes. Reading by Tim Foley.

Opposing The Western War Machine Is The Most Important Thing You Can Do Oct 14, 2024

If there's one thing this past year has made clear, it's that opposing the foreign abuses of the western empire is the most important task you can undertake if you care about truth, justice, and human rights. Reading by Tim Foley.

We Must Purge Genocide From The Marrow Of Our Bones Oct 14, 2024

This was never about freeing hostages. It was never about getting rid of Hamas. It was never about Israel's "right to defend itself". It was never about mass rapes, beheaded babies, or babies cooked in ovens. It was always about stealing land from the indigenous people of Palestine. Reading by Tim Foley.

It's So, So Bad, And It's About To Get A Whole Lot Worse Oct 13, 2024

Things are so, so bad in the middle east right now, and from the looks of things they’re about to get a whole lot worse. Reading by Tim Foley.

"Never Again!" Cried The Israeli While Doing It Again Oct 12, 2024

I'll condemn Hamas as soon as you can tell me what the Palestinians should do instead besides lay down and die. Produce a coherent plan for Palestinian liberation that (A) doesn't involve violence, (B) would be effective, (C) is just, and (D) isn't naive or moronic. Then talk to me. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Jails US Journalist, Fires On UN Peacekeepers, Bombs Beirut, Kills More Kids, Etc Oct 11, 2024

I used to be able to write individual articles about the individual bad things the US empire is involved in around the world. These days I’m increasingly finding it necessary to cram a bunch of them into a single daily write-up to touch on as many of them as I can, just to stay on top of things. Reading by Tim Foley.

Slaughter In Gaza And Lebanon As War With Iran Approaches Oct 09, 2024

That’s the trajectory the US empire has us on. An active genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, the threat of another extermination campaign in Lebanon, and acceleration toward a direct war of unimaginable horror with Iran. Reading by Tim Foley.

On This Day In Particular Oct 07, 2024

On this day in particular, I would like to express my deepest sympathies for the victims of Israeli murderousness over the past year. Reading by Tim Foley.

Meta Is Aggressively Censoring Criticism Of US - Israeli Warmongering Oct 07, 2024

I am at risk of getting banned from both Instagram and Facebook as both Meta-owned platforms keep censoring my criticisms of Israel’s US-backed atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon, placing strikes on my accounts in the process. Reading by Tim Foley. Article version: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/meta-is-aggressively-censoring-criticism

My Enemy Is Not Iran. My Enemy Is The Western Empire Oct 06, 2024

Iran is not my enemy. Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis are not my enemies. My enemies are the western imperialists and their Israeli partners in crime who are inflicting a waking nightmare upon the middle east and working to start a massive new war of unfathomable horror. Reading by Tim Foley.

Never Let Your Government Tell You Who Your Enemies Are Oct 06, 2024

Our real enemies are not in Iran. Our real enemies are not in Lebanon. Our real enemies are not in Gaza or the West Bank. Our real enemies are not in Yemen, Syria, or Iraq. Our real enemies are in Washington and London and Tel Aviv. In Berlin and Paris and Canberra. In secretive government agencies in the state of Virginia, and in imperial propaganda institutions in New York and Hollywood. Our real enemies are not the Arabs and the Iranians, they’re the managers of empire who are ruining our world, destroying our biosphere, siphoning our wealth and our resources, threatening us with nuclear brinkmanship, and making sure we stay too poor, sick, busy and brainwashed to figure out what’s going on and take a stand against them. Reading by Tim Foley.

We're The Fucking Terrorists Oct 05, 2024

Hezbollah is killing Israeli soldiers who are invading their country while Israeli soldiers are deliberately killing women and children and medical staff and journalists. Guess which side the west calls terrorists. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Western Media Helped Create These Horrors In The Middle East Oct 05, 2024

Reading by Tim Foley.

These Are US Wars. These Are Biden's Wars Oct 03, 2024

“Israeli warmongering isn’t getting worse and worse because the Biden administration can’t control Israel, it’s getting worse and worse because the Biden administration knowingly refuses to make use of the control that it has.” Reading by Tim Foley.

The Middle East Is Always At War Because The West Keeps Pushing It That Way Oct 02, 2024

I hate when people say “Bah the middle east has always been at war, it’s just how they are.” No you asshole, it’s been at war because of western interventionism and Israel. Sure it was at war before Israel, but so was the entirety of Europe throughout its entire history. The only reason the rest of the world got to cool down a bit after the world wars while the middle east remained embroiled in violence and chaos was because the west inserted this alien splinter of settler-colonialism into the region while constantly deliberately fomenting war and unrest. There’s nothing freakish or unusual about the middle east or Islam that makes its people violent, it just happens to be where a lot of the oil is, so the west keeps poking and prodding it to ensure that it’s always divided against itself and dominated by western-friendly dictators. That’s all we’ve been looking at there. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Toilet Paper Dome Oct 02, 2024

So it turns out the Iron Dome is mostly narrative, just like everything else about Israel. Reading by Tim Foley.

Australian Officials Push Authoritarian Crackdown On Pro - Hezbollah Speech Oct 01, 2024

As Israel begins another invasion of Lebanon, Australian officials from both sides of the imaginary partisan divide have been falling all over themselves to get Australians punished for speech crimes about the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah. Reading by Tim Foley.

Good Westerners Don't Start Off Hating Israel, But Truth Eventually Leads Them There Sep 30, 2024

"Good westerners don’t start off hating Israel, but, if they are truly good, they end up hating Israel. A sincere dedication to truth, justice and kindness can only lead one to view the Zionist project with complete revulsion after learning the facts about what it really is, what it really does, and why our western governments really support it." Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Isn't Attacking Because It Was Attacked, It's Attacking Because It Got An Excuse Sep 29, 2024

Israel isn’t killing all these people because it was attacked, Israel is killing all these people because it was given an excuse. Israel has always wanted to grab more land and eliminate the populations who oppose it. It’s using the political moment that October 7 gave it to roll out agendas it has wanted to roll out for generations. Israel has been squeezing and squeezing and squeezing its targets for generation after generation waiting for them to push back sufficiently to hand them an excuse. Reading by Tim Foley.

Ignore Their Words; Watch Their Actions Sep 28, 2024

You can see that the Biden administration is a willing participant in all this bloodshed by simply ignoring their words and their narrative spin and watching their actions instead. While the mass media publish White House press releases disguised as news stories about the president's feelings and celebrity progressives assure us that this administration is "working tirelessly for a ceasefire," the Israeli Defense Ministry is announcing that it has secured another $8.7 billion in military aid from the US. Reading by Tim Foley. Article with supporting links: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/ignore-their-words-watch-their-actions

Capitalism Is Driven By Mental Illness Sep 27, 2024

How bizarre is it that our entire civilization is structured around values and priorities which are so fake and ridiculous that ingesting an ancient psychedelic potion causes even wealthy CEOs to quit their jobs and change their lives? Reading by Tim Foley.

As Israel Gets Even More Murderous, We'll Be Hearing Even More About "Antisemitism" Sep 26, 2024

The Israeli military says it’s preparing a ground offensive in Lebanon as it continues to hammer its neighbor to the north with bombs. Which of course means we’ll be hearing a lot of anxious hand-wringing from the western political-media class about “antisemitism” in the coming weeks. We know we’ll be hearing a lot more about antisemitism because that’s what always happens whenever Israel does something profoundly evil. People start objecting to its atrocities and demanding that their government stop facilitating them, and the imperial spinmeisters start framing these objections as a frightening rise in anti-Jewish bigotry in order to delegitimize and silence them. Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Empire Does Not Seek Peace; Its Existence Depends On Endless War Sep 26, 2024

It is obviously false to say the US seeks peace in the middle east, but it’s not really accurate to say it seeks war either. To me that would be like saying water seeks wetness or fire seeks heat. War is just what the US empire is made of. It’s the thing that it is. Reading by Tim Foley.

Blinken Lied To Congress About Israeli War Crimes Because He Knows He'll Get Away With It Sep 25, 2024

This is what happens when you don't prosecute your war criminals. Blinken lied to congress that Israel wasn't assessed to have been blocking aid when both USAID and the State Department's refugees bureau had indeed assessed that the Israeli government is doing precisely that, because he knew he'd never be jailed for lying in facilitation of horrific war crimes. Reading by Tim Foley.

Going From "The Civilian Buildings Are Hamas" To "The Civilian Buildings Are Hezbollah" Sep 24, 2024

Now that Israel has ramped up its attacks on Lebanon, the IDF is saying that Hezbollah are hiding missiles in civilian homes. So I guess we’re doing this again. If you liked “All the civilian buildings are Khamas,” you’ll love Israel’s new hit “All the civilian buildings are Khezbollah.” Reading by Tim Foley.

15 Rules For Discussing Israeli Warmongering Sep 24, 2024

Rule 1: Recorded history began on October 7 2023. Maybe some things happened before that date, but nobody can remember. Rule 2: Anything bad that Israel does is justified by Rule 1. This is true even if it does things that would be considered completely unjustifiable if it were done by a nation like Russia or Iran. Rule 3: Israel has a right to defend itself, but nobody else does. Reading by Tim Foley.

To Be An Authentic Person Is To Stare Deeply Into The Face Of Uncomfortable Truths Sep 23, 2024

"It’s to experience all the footage of shredded bodies in Gaza with a visceral understanding that these are real things happening to real people whose lives mattered just as much as your own." Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Hates Truth Sep 22, 2024

Israel keeps attacking Al Jazeera, assassinating journalists and bombing press offices for the same reason the mafia kills witnesses. Reading by Tim Foley. Article with supporting links: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-hates-truth

Biden Didn't "Fail" To Get A Ceasefire; He Never Tried Sep 21, 2024

The Wall Street Journal reports that senior US officials don't think the Biden administration will secure a ceasefire in Gaza before Biden's term is up. Anyone who told you that Biden or Harris were seriously working on a ceasefire lied to you. I've seen some people calling this a "failure" on the part of the Biden administration, and that needs to stop. It's not a failure. You can only fail at something you tried to do. Biden and Harris didn't "fail" at anything, they SUCCEEDED at their goal of helping Israel destroy Gaza. Biden could have ended this at any time by withholding weapons, or even by simply threatening to. He could have ended it with a phone call. The killing continued because he and his handlers wanted it to. Reading by Tim Foley.

Europe Prepares For Hot War With Russia, US Readies For Hot War With China Sep 21, 2024

The US Navy chief has unveiled a plan to be ready for hot war with China by 2027 while the US deputy secretary of state calls China the "most significant challenge" the US has ever faced in its entire history, at the same time the EU's defense chief says Europe must prepare to fight a hot war with Russia in the next few years. Reading by Tim Foley.

On War Crimes And Western Hypocrisy Sep 19, 2024

The death toll has risen to 12 from Israel's terror attack in Lebanon on Tuesday which detonated explosive materials hidden in thousands of pagers. Another 20 people were then killed in another attack on Wednesday with a second wave of explosions, this time using walkie talkies and home solar energy systems. The total death toll now sits at 32. Two children and four healthcare workers are among the dead. Thousands have been injured. As you would expect, western empire managers are getting really squirmy about this. White House spokesman John Kirby adamantly refused to answer any questions involving Israel's responsibility for the attacks during a press conference on Wednesday, despite Israel being widely reported as the responsible party, with outlets like The New York Times citing US officials as their source. Reading by Tim Foley.

Turning People Into Involuntary Suicide Bombers To Fight Terrorism Sep 18, 2024

Israel just turned thousands of Lebanese people into involuntary suicide bombers in the name of fighting terrorism. Reading by Tim Foley.

Approaching A Year Of Genocide Sep 17, 2024

Everything Israel has done since October 7 are things it was doing before October 7. Raping. Torturing. Stealing. Siege warfare. Killing kids with snipers. Murdering journalists and healthcare workers. Israel's actions before and since October 7 show you why October 7 happened. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Real Election Meddling Will Happen Right Out In The Open Sep 17, 2024

This is not democracy. This is plutocracy. This is oligarchy. We’re just indoctrinated into calling it democracy, by the very same mass-scale psychological manipulations they use to keep it from being a democracy. Reading by Tim Foley.

If You Vote For Harris Or Trump You Should At Least Have The Decency To Feel Gross About It Sep 16, 2024

I don’t care how you vote. Vote for Harris or for Trump if that’s what you feel like doing. But I do think if you vote for either of those monsters, you should at least have the decency to feel gross about it. Like you did something very dirty and shameful in order to get by. Reading by Tim Foley.

Musings On The Second Trump Assassination Attempt Sep 16, 2024

According to Trump supporters the Deep State is simultaneously (A) a supremely powerful entity capable of enslaving the world in a neo-Marxist bug-eating vaccine mandate woke dystopia and (B) somehow incapable of successfully assassinating one 78 year-old man despite multiple attempts. Reading by Tim Foley.

Don't Talk About Politics At The Dinner Table Sep 15, 2024

Everything was going fine until Grandma brought out the roast Palestinian child for dinner. Reading by Tim Foley.

Yes, Democrats Win Elections. And Then They Commit Genocide Sep 15, 2024

It’s not enough to win, you’ve got to do good things with your win. Democrats do not do good things when they win, they do profoundly, shockingly evil things when they win. Reading by Tim Foley.

The West Is A Dystopian Wasteland Of Moral Degeneracy Sep 13, 2024

The moral degeneracy of this civilization looks like living lives of relative comfort built on the backs of workers in the global south whose labor and resources are extracted from their nations at profoundly exploitative rates, while raining military explosives on impoverished populations who dare to disobey the dictates of our government, day after day, year after year, decade after decade, and acting like this is all fine and normal. Reading by Tim Foley.

Genocide In The Foreground, World War Looming In The Background Sep 13, 2024

While attention is justifiably focused on the present horrors in Gaza and the imminent possibility that it could spark another war in the middle east, the world's power structures are once again dividing themselves up into two increasingly intimate alliance groups with an increasingly hostile and militaristic posture toward each other. Reading by Tim Foley. Article with supporting links: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/genocide-in-the-foreground-world

The Debate Was Two Assholes Bragging About What Murderous Empire Sluts They Are Sep 12, 2024

If you missed the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, this was pretty much the tone of it: Trump: She’s a communist. She’s literally a Marxist. Harris: Actually Goldman Sachs loves me. Trump: I saw her eat a cat. It was on the TV. Harris: Dick Cheney loves me too. Trump: She won’t kill any Palestinians at all. Harris: I’ll kill way more Palestinians than he’ll kill. Trump: I will kill the most Palestinians. I’ll kill more Palestinians than anyone. Harris: You couldn’t kill even one Palestinian. You are weak. Trump: I am not weak I am strong. I am the strongest. Harris: You’re a weak little girl and you’ll let China win. Trump: She’s gonna start a nuclear war with Russia. Harris: I will invade Russia myself and I’ll kill Putin with my bare hands. I am the strongest and you are the weakest. Trump: It’s not true. It’s not true. Harris: I will also do the most fracking and drill the most oil. Many Republicans have said I’m the strongest. Trump: No. No. She’s weak on immigration. Harris: I kick immigrants in the balls for fun. [commercial break] The presidential debate sucked and they were both horrible, but Harris clearly came out looking more coherent and in control. In other words, Harris did what anyone debating Trump should have been able to do on day one. The fact that it’s taken three whole election cycles to see a candidate dominate Trump in a basic presidential debate shows what braindead morons the Democrats have been serving up all these years. As a debater, she did her job. As a presidential candidate, she showed why so many warmongering Republicans have been so eager to support her. She showed that she’s a Republican with pronouns in her bio, talking about how tough she’s going to be on China and how much she loves fracking and oil and Israel and how many Republicans have endorsed her and her policies. This is what the “left wing” looks like in the world’s most powerful government. US politics is so intensely stupid. Reading by Tim Foley.

Democrats Have Decided To Just Ignore American Muslims This Election Cycle Sep 11, 2024

Clearly Muslim Americans are seeing something they care deeply about this election season which the rest of the population has decided doesn't matter very much. Reading by Tim Foley.

Democrats Don't Care If You Vote For Them And Don't Care If They Lose Sep 10, 2024

It doesn’t matter how you vote, and it doesn’t matter how you don’t vote. The US power structure is set up to be completely unaffected by voters. Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Empire Can Only Exist In A Continuous State Of Mass Military Violence Sep 10, 2024

I shouldn't be able to do this for a living. Criticizing the warmongering of a single power structure shouldn't be anyone's full-time job. No government should be murdering people so consistently and reliably that people can plan their whole lives around it. Reading by Tim Foley.

Rainbow Flag Genocide Vs MAGA Hat Genocide Sep 09, 2024

American democracy means getting to choose between genocide wearing a MAGA hat and genocide waving a rainbow flag. Reading by Tim Foley.

"Why Should I Care About Gaza?" Sep 08, 2024

Why should you care about Gaza? Because we can’t keep living like this. Our species cannot continue living on this planet as though what happens to other people and other organisms around the world has nothing to do with us. We don’t live in that kind of world anymore. Reading by Tim Foley. Article version: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/why-should-i-care-about-gaza

It's The Trump Party Vs The Cheney Party Sep 07, 2024

One of earth’s most evil living beings, Dick “Darth Vader” Cheney, has officially endorsed Kamala Harris for president. His daughter, Liz Cheney, has also endorsed Harris. Reading by Tim Foley.

Revolution Is Now Sep 06, 2024

An effective solution that we can all begin applying in the here and now is working to foment a revolutionary zeitgeist by spreading awareness of the depravity and deceit of the empire. Reading by Tim Foley.

You Can Measure The Health Of A Society By How It Treats Its Warmongers And Its Peacemongers Sep 04, 2024

In a healthy society, those who dedicated themselves to the task of getting as many human beings ripped apart by military explosives as possible would be reviled as monsters and caged for the health of the collective. In our society this is seen as a perfectly legitimate career path, from which someone can earn a very comfortable living. In a healthy society, only those who promote the interests of ordinary human beings and spurn the influence of malign manipulators would ever be elevated to positions of leadership. In our society, it's the best way to make sure you spend your life in perpetual obscurity. Reading by Tim Foley.

US Politics Are The Whole World's Business Sep 03, 2024

I thought I'd go through the questions and comments on my various platforms today and tap out some answers to the ones that jump out at me. Reading by Tim Foley.

There Is No Argument For Supporting Israel That's Both Logical And Moral Sep 03, 2024

It's wild when you realize that nobody can actually articulate a reason why Israel should be supported that is both logically coherent and morally defensible. Reading by Tim Foley.

The West Truly Doesn't See Palestinians As Human Sep 02, 2024

The message is clear: Israelis dying is a terrible tragedy, while Palestinians dying is just the normal way for things to be. An Israeli dying should matter as much to you as your own family or friends dying, while a Palestinian dying should be regarded as a routine and natural event like a drop of rain falling from the sky. Reading by Tim Foley.

"Stop Doing Genocide" Is The Most Reasonable Political Demand Ever Sep 02, 2024

“Stop doing genocide” is the single most reasonable political demand anyone could possibly make. It’s so reasonable it’s insane it even needs to be made. You don’t get to cry if people don’t support your candidate because they didn’t meet that ridiculously reasonable demand. Reading by Tim Foley.

Do Something Every Day To Help De - Normalize The Abuses Of The Empire Aug 31, 2024

One very important task we can undertake as citizens of the western empire is to help de-normalize the tyranny, murderousness and savagery that the imperial propagandists work to normalize. To help other westerners see the freakishness and depravity of the empire with fresh eyes. Reading by Tim Foley. https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/do-something-every-day-to-help-de

There's No Good News In The Unfolding Of Armageddon Aug 30, 2024

The decay of western civilization is unfolding in real time right in front of our eyes. Israel has ramped up its assault on the West Bank with an incursion the likes of which has not been seen since 2002, at the same time we learn that the Biden administration has been scrambling to increase its weapons shipments to Israel. Haaretz reports that August has been the second-busiest month for weapons shipments from the US to Israel's Nevatim Airbase, second only to October 2023. This is the same Biden administration that Americans have been assured is working "tirelessly" and "around the clock" for a ceasefire in Gaza. They're committing genocide and lying about it while laughing and grinning and celebrating the "joy" of the Kamala Harris campaign. Reading by Tim Foley. Article version: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/theres-no-good-news-in-the-unfolding

Washington's Israel Policy Is Just Feigning Ignorance Of Israeli Depravity Aug 29, 2024

The US knows Israel has nuclear weapons but simply pretends it does not know this. The US knows it's Netanyahu sabotaging a peace deal but simply pretends Hamas is the real obstacle. The US knows Israel is committing genocide but simply pretends that saying this is antisemitic. The US knows Israel is deliberately targeting civilians but simply pretends to believe it is exclusively targeting Hamas. The US knows Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza which make it illegal to send them weapons, but simply pretends it hasn't seen solid evidence of this. The US knows Israel will never agree to a two-state solution but simply pretends to believe a two-state solution is right around the corner. The US knows there can never be peace and stability in the middle east as long as Israel exists in the way that it exists, but simply refuses to acknowledge this self-evident fact. US policy on Israel is to simply refuse to acknowledge self-evident realities which can be immediately observed with the naked eye. It's pretending to believe up is down, day is night, and a spade is a pineapple, while privately knowing that none of these things are the case. It maintains the status quo through narrative control, and it maintains narrative control through tenaciously feigned ignorance. Reading by Tim Foley.

You Don't Get To Vote On Any Of Your Government's Most Consequential Actions Aug 28, 2024

You don't get to vote on whether wars, militarism and imperialism should continue. You don't get to vote on whether your government should engage in nuclear brinkmanship with Russia and China. You don't get to vote on whether your government should keep systems in place which ensure the destruction of our biosphere. You don't get to vote on whether your government should be continuously working to subvert and destroy any nation anywhere on earth who dares to disobey its commands. Reading by Tim Foley.

Both Trumpism And Anti - Trumpism Are Fake, Decoy Revolutions Aug 26, 2024

As Americans become more and more discontented with the abusive nature of their nation's government, a man has shown up who leads both Democrats and Republicans to believe that the best way to stick it to the man is to take a highly emotional position either for him or against him. When really whether he wins or loses couldn't matter less to those with real power. Reading by Tim Foley.

What Israel Supporters Really Mean When They Say "Release The Hostages" Aug 26, 2024

What they are saying is that they believe Israel should murder children, decapitate them, rip their guts out, dismember them, mutilate them, burn them alive, every single day, until its military demands are submitted to. They are also probably saying that they personally would help Israel do these things to children if circumstances permitted. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Problem Isn't The US Having The Wrong President, The Problem Is The US Empire's Existence Aug 25, 2024

The reason I find myself fighting with both Harris supporters and Trump supporters is because they see the other party as the problem while I see the US empire itself as the problem. They seek to make things better by ensuring that the empire is under the correct management, while I seek the end of the empire. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Democratic Party Exists To Make Sure Good People Do Nothing Aug 23, 2024

The reason I criticize the Democrats so much can be explained in the aphorism “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” The Democratic Party exists to ensure that good people will do nothing. Gaza is such a perfect example of this. When Instagram progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez promulgates the blatant lie that Kamala Harris is “working tirelessly to secure a ceasefire in Gaza,” the result is that people who trust AOC will relax and stop pushing for an end to the genocide. They’ve been told by the congresswoman who’s been marketed as standing as far to the left as anyone can reasonably be that the current administration can be trusted to take care of this thing, so all they need to do to save Gaza is vote for the vice president in November. Reading by Tim Foley.

Weep Aug 22, 2024

Weep, sisters, for the child with the blown-out skull, for the other child burned alive, for the limp, lifeless, tiny bodies and the piles of unrecognizable carnage. Weep, brothers, for the cackling politicians, for the apathetic westoids, for the human drones chanting "We love Joe" and the DNC attendees covering their ears to avoid hearing the names of murdered children in Gaza. Weep for this fraud-faced civilization, this microplastics civilization, this OnlyFans civilization, this Moloch civilization Ginsberg wrote about in Howl, this civilization with enormous forced grins over plates full of shredded children in selfies with AOC and Tim Walz. Weep with careless abandon. Weep til the sobbing wrings you out like a sponge. Weep with head back, screaming sloppy and snot-nosed, ribcage splayed open to the heavens and human heart beating unguarded and unhidden. There are no answers in the weeping. There are no solutions in the tears. There is only the release of something that needs release, and an act of sacred solidarity, and an act of unauthorized humanity, and the small, private victory of having gone one more breath without being assimilated by the machine. Reading by Tim Foley.

Republicans Kill Civilians For Bad Guy Reasons, Democrats Kill Civilians For Nice Guy Reasons Aug 22, 2024

The difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans will kill a million Palestinians and say they’re doing it so Jesus will come back, whereas Democrats will kill a million Palestinians while making noises with their mouths like “ceasefire” and “two-state solution”. That’s basically it; one does an evil thing in an evil way, while the other does the same evil thing in a much more photogenic way. Republicans want to kill Muslims for evil reasons like claiming they’re all terrorists and irredeemable heathens, while Democrats want to kill Muslims for nice guy reasons like helping Israel defend itself and bringing peace and stability to the region. They both want to kill middle eastern civilians, but one of them will kill middle eastern civilians in ways that let liberals feel good about themselves. It’s just a classic good-cop, bad-cop routine. One plays your friend and the other plays your enemy, depending on what end of America’s fake ideological divide you happen to land on. But really they both want the same thing — in this case to murder people around the world with total impunity without sparking domestic unrest. Reading by Tim Foley.

Democrats Release Insanely Hawkish Middle East Policy Platform Aug 21, 2024

When you're siding with John Bolton on whether to bomb Iran, you're as insanely hawkish as it gets. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel's "Shared Values" With The West Are Tyranny, War And Genocide Aug 20, 2024

Israel is a murderous, tyrannical, psychopathic regime. So is the western empire. So when westerners talk about having “shared values” with Israel, they’re not actually lying. Reading by Tim Foley.

Politicians In Dystopialand Warn Other Candidate Will Cause Dystopia Aug 20, 2024

One bizarre thing about modern US presidential races is watching politicians in one of the most dystopian civilizations ever to exist warning people that the other candidate wants to lead them into a dark dystopia, which depending on the party they label "communism" or "fascism". Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Is Rape Aug 19, 2024

Just like the ongoing mass atrocity we are witnessing in Gaza, this fondness for rape is just one of the many, many symptoms of the injustice and abusiveness that the state of Israel is founded on and built from. Reading by Tim Foley.

Republicans Are Morons Aug 18, 2024

One reason westerners are so clueless about communism is because every four years the most influential western nation launches a massive months-long disinformation campaign about what communism is. People like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Lauren Boebert and Tim Pool have been claiming Kamala Harris is a Marxist for proposing price controls, a measure that was also put forward by noted communist Richard M Nixon. Republicans are so fucking stupid that every few years they start shrieking that they're under attack from "communism", and by "communism" they mean the opposing US party which supports the exact same capitalist status quo they support but with tampons in the boys' bathroom. God I wish Democrats were as cool as right wing idiots make them sound. Reading by Tim Foley.

Democrats Are Pigs Aug 16, 2024

Democrats Are Pigs Author Stephen King has a new viral tweet featuring a picture of himself wearing a Kamala Harris t-shirt modeled after an Obama campaign sticker captioned with the words “I’M SPEAKING” — a phrase with which she drew headlines and severe public outcry last week by using it to shut down anti-genocide protesters at a campaign rally in Detroit. That’s right: they’re using her condescending shutdown of pro-Palestine demonstrators as a fun girlboss campaign slogan now. God damn it I hate Democrats so fucking much. Reading by Tim Foley.

Peace Is Not On The Ballot In November Aug 15, 2024

Americans are voting for Red War or Blue War. That's it. Those are the choices. Reading by Tim Foley. Article version: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/peace-is-not-on-the-ballot-in-november

He Had Two Babies Aug 14, 2024

He had two babies. Twins. Aysal and Aser, a boy and a girl. Mohammad Abu Al Qumsan had two babies and a loving wife. Now he has nobody. An Israeli airstrike killed both his babies, and their mother, and their grandmother, while he was out collecting their birth certificates. They had just been born. Reading by Tim Foley. Article version: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/he-had-two-babies

Israel Suddenly Has A Problem With Attacks On Population Centers Aug 13, 2024

Israel has been loudly and melodramatically fretting about an impending retaliatory attack from Iran and Hezbollah which it claims will likely include strikes in the vicinity of civilian population centers. This is of course rich coming from the regime that has spent ten months turning Gaza into a flattened wasteland of rubble and civilian corpses. Reading by Tim Foley.

"Another Massacre" Aug 12, 2024

They bombed the Tabeen school in Gaza City with so much explosive force that not a single full body was recovered. Reading by Tim Foley.

Harris Says "Far Too Many Civilians Have Been Killed" In Genocide She Supports Aug 12, 2024

“Far too many children have been eaten by hyenas,” the politician sobbed to the news camera while lowering more children into the hyena pit. Reading by Tim Foley.

Fake Revolutions Everywhere You Look Aug 11, 2024

This happens all the time these days: people who are inextricably intertwined with establishment power structures posturing as brave revolutionaries leading a resistance against the very establishment they themselves are a part of. Elon Musk is no more a part of any "resistance" than Joe Biden or Bill Gates, but his sycophantic fanboys will mindlessly gobble this garbage up like popcorn chicken. Reading by Tim Foley.

Nobody Would Vote For Any Of This Bullshit Without Extensive Manipulation Aug 10, 2024

It is a well-documented fact that under the western empire not only are our political systems aggressively manipulated by the rich and powerful for the benefit of the rich and powerful, but public opinion is as well. Insane systems which rely on exploitation, injustice, ecocide, militarism and war are actively normalized via mass-scale psychological manipulation, and we are then presented with candidates and platforms which support those systems and told that anything else is fringe commie extremism. Reading by Tim Foley.

Washington Further Escalates Its War On Dissent Aug 10, 2024

The last few days have seen the US ramping up its war on domestic political dissent in multiple ways, with US lawmakers petitioning the Biden administration to crack down on anti-genocide protesters it suspects of foreign influence, and a journalist critical of US foreign policy coming under the crosshairs of Washington's increasingly weaponized Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Reading by Tim Foley.

US Policy: Let Israel Escalate Against Iran, Then Tell Iran Not To Escalate Back Aug 09, 2024

You'll never see western officials so enthusiastic about the idea of de-escalation as they are in those time periods when their side has just severely escalated tensions with an extreme act of aggression, but the other side has yet to retaliate. Reading by Tim Foley.

From Aaron Bushnell To "I'm Speaking" In Five Months Aug 08, 2024

I can’t really find the words to express how depressing it is to watch the life get sucked out of the anti-genocide movement in the United States because one of the candidates running for president this year happens to come from the administration that’s been overseeing said genocide. Reading by Tim Foley.

US Troops Get Hurt In The Middle East Because Of The Assholes Who Put Them There Aug 07, 2024

Friendly reminder that all injuries and deaths of US military personnel in the middle east are always the fault of the Washington officials who put them there, not the middle easterners who are defending their own home. Reading by Tim Foley.

Your Opposition To Israel's Crimes Makes A Difference Aug 06, 2024

It seems pretty clear to me that the pressure westerners have been putting on their own governments regarding Israel's criminality in Gaza is the primary reason why the western empire couldn't just sign off on a swift final solution to the Palestinian problem back in October, and has had to settle for this awkward slow-motion genocide disguised as self-defense instead. It's not that the empire has a conscience, it's that it is sufficiently afraid of sparking mass-scale unrest on its own turf to need to disguise its own psychopathy a bit. Reading by Tim Foley.

"Well What SHOULD Israel Have Done After October 7?" Aug 05, 2024

People often object to criticisms of Israel's ongoing mass atrocity in Gaza by saying, "Well what SHOULD Israel have done in response to October 7 then?" They say it like the question should confound you, as though it's some kind of thought-terminating unanswerable Zen koan or something. But it isn't. The question is very answerable, and the most correct answer is that Israel should have done what it always should have done: right the wrongs of the past and make peace. Reading by Tim Foley.

Mass Media Goons Are Still Reporting That Biden Is Getting Tough On Netanyahu Aug 03, 2024

All they're doing here is trying to wash this administration's hands of the horrors that are being inflicted in the middle east with the direct facilitation of this administration. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Is Never "Defending Itself", And The US Is Never "Defending Israel" Aug 03, 2024

In the last few days Israel has assassinated leaders in multiple neighboring nations, assassinated multiple journalists, deliberately destroyed a water facility in Gaza during a polio outbreak, and had riots defending the right of IDF soldiers to rape Palestinian prisoners. Clearly the sort of country we should all want to send our sons and daughters to go fight and die for. Reading by Tim Foley.

Promoting Peace And Stability In The Middle East By Unconditionally Backing Its Worst Aggressor Aug 02, 2024

In reality, the US isn't vowing to defend the state of Israel, the US is vowing to help Israel attack other countries. If you're pledging unconditional support to an extremely belligerent aggressor while it commits the most demented acts of aggression imaginable, all you're doing is condoning those acts of aggression and making sure it will suffer no consequences when it conducts more of them. A kevlar vest stops being a tool of defense when you wear one to prevent yourself from being stopped by police while conducting a mass shooting. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Sure Looks Like It Wants To Prevent Peace And Start A New War Jul 31, 2024

Israel has been on another assassination spree, killing Hamas political leader Ismael Haniyeh on Wednesday with an airstrike while he was in Tehran for the swearing in of the new Iranian president. Israel also claims to have killed Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in an airstrike on Beirut on Tuesday evening. Reading by Tim Foley.

Today In 'Every Accusation Is A Confession' Jul 31, 2024

They lied about mass rapes so that they could systemically rape. They lied about beheaded babies so that they could kill babies. They lied about "human shields" to shield themselves while killing civilians. They lied about being victims so that they could victimize others. Reading by Tim Foley.

"Bad On Foreign Policy But Good On Domestic Policy" Is Just American Supremacist Psychopathy Jul 29, 2024

Saying a US politician is "bad on foreign policy but good on domestic policy" is like saying "Sure my husband spends his weekends murdering hitchhikers, but he's a good provider and he knows how to fix a flat tire." Reading by Tim Foley.

Falsely Accusing Biden And Harris Of Hating Israel, Falsely Accusing Trump Of Loving Russia Jul 29, 2024

One of the dumbest things about US politics today is the way both parties constantly attack each other for holding foreign policy positions they don't actually hold in order to create the illusion that they have meaningful disagreements on foreign policy. Reading by Tim Foley.

US Presidential Races Hide The Criminality Of The US Empire Jul 26, 2024

The thing I hate about western electoral politics in general and US presidential races in particular is that they take the focus off the depravity of the US-centralized empire itself, and run cover for its criminality. Reading by Tim Foley.

Netanyahu's Speech Was As American As It Gets Jul 25, 2024

"You couldn’t ask for a better example of everything Washington stands for than this. Both houses of Congress rising to feverishly applaud one of history’s worst genocidal monsters dozens of times as he lies over and over again is a much better representation of what the US government is about than anything you’ll see during the presidential race from now until November." Reading by Tim Foley. Article version: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/netanyahus-speech-was-as-american

Gaza Is The Single Defining Feature Of This Political Moment In The US Jul 23, 2024

"I'm not a big fan of that presidential candidate's pro-genocide policies, but I like her positions on women's reproductive healthcare" is not the sort of thing that would be said in a sane and normal country. Reading by Tim Foley.

Vote For Six - Headed Zombie Hitler To Stop Seven - Headed Zombie Hitler Jul 23, 2024

"Look, I’m not saying Six-Headed Zombie Hitler is perfect, but come on! He’s obviously WAY better than Seven-Headed Zombie Hitler! Sometimes you just have to vote for the lesser evil." Reading by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley.

We Need Both Outer Work And Inner Work To Truly Free Ourselves Jul 22, 2024

Just as we all have a responsibility to help create a healthy and truth-based world, we also all have a responsibility to develop healthy and truth-based minds. Reading by Tim Foley.

The "Criticizing Israel Is Antisemitic" Narrative Reinforces Itself Jul 21, 2024

The UN court ruling that Israel is an illegal occupying force will be used to argue that the whole entire world is against Jews and used to justify more abuses and atrocities. That's the beauty of the "criticism of Israel is antisemitism" narrative: it reinforces itself. The more abusive and murderous Israel is the more criticism it gets, and that criticism is framed as antisemitism and used to justify more Israeli abuses and murderousness with the claim that it's being done to defend Jews from a hostile world that's out to get them. Reading by Tim Foley.

He Called The Dog Habibi Jul 20, 2024

He called the dog "habibi" - my darling - as it mauled him to death while his family listened nearby. They had never heard him speak before. He had the mind of an infant. "Enough, my darling," Muhammed said to the dog, because it was killing him, and because he was in pain, and because his family had spoken to him so lovingly all his life. Those were the words he knew. That's how he was spoken to. That's what you say to someone when you need them to stop. When you need them to listen. When their behavior is challenging, but you have deep love in your heart. Enough, my darling. Enough, my darling. As Gaza burns: enough, my darling. Enough. As attack dogs on two legs send attack dogs on four legs to bite and maul and kill: Enough, my darling. Enough. A murder of crows follows a murder of IDF soldiers, cawing, "Enough, my darling. Enough." The bombed out hospitals. The children without limbs. The sniper drones playing recorded babies' cries to try and lure out civilians. The attack dog maulings. The hunger. The fear. Enough, my darling. Enough. As we kill our planet and kill each other because we cannot act kindly, cannot let love guide us, cannot call off the dogs, cannot rescue their victims, cannot stop the attack, cannot awaken from our confusion, the stars call down to us from above: Enough, habibi. Enough, my darling. Enough. Enough. Enough. Reading by Tim Foley.

Two Americans Walking Down The Street And Talking About Politics Jul 16, 2024

"Man that assassination thing with Trump was so freaky," said Carl while stepping over a woman in a hijab clutching a dead child to her chest. Reading by Tim Foley.

There's An Important Lesson In All These Democrats Wishing Trump A Speedy Recovery Jul 15, 2024

All the high-profile Democrats who've been wishing Trump a speedy recovery from his assassination attempt after years of calling him an existential threat are the same people who now treat George W Bush like a cuddly wuddly snugglepoo after years of calling him an evil dictator. The enmity between these factions is a performance, like cage fighters who hug warmly after weeks of trash talk once their match is over and admit all the drama was really just about promoting the fight and selling Pay-Per-Views. Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Came Close To Having TWO Presidential Candidates With No Brain Jul 14, 2024

The western political-media class hasn't been this sympathetic and supportive toward Trump since he bombed Damascus. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Biden Administration Has Exposed The Brain Rot Of Western Liberals Jul 13, 2024

This is who Joe Biden is. This is who western liberals are. They are the carnage, starvation and disease in Gaza. They are the biosphere strangling to death under the boot of ecocidal capitalism. They are the nuclear missiles being rolled into position around the world. They are a dying brain and a dying heart on a dying world of their own making. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Mainstream Worldview Is A Mass - Produced Artificial Psychosis Jul 12, 2024

People who still believe that the news media tell them the truth and that their nation and their world work pretty much the way they were taught in school are just as brainwashed and deluded as any QAnon cultist. The only difference is that their delusions are much more widely shared, and that the mechanisms used to brainwash them are much more high-budget and sophisticated. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Truth Lover's Prayer Jul 11, 2024

May I see the truth, especially the truth I don't want to see. Reading by Tim Foley.

Nonstop News Stories Proving Palestine Supporters Right About Everything Jul 11, 2024

Haaretz has a new report out showing that the IDF has seized more than a quarter of Gaza's territory, and is supporting moves by Israeli settlers to build on the areas that have been carved off from the Palestinian enclave. These areas are not just controlled by Israeli forces but have been completely demolished, with IDF military encampments constructed where Palestinian living spaces used to exist. Lately Haaretz has just been a stream of reports confirming that Palestine supporters have been right about everything all along; this same Israeli outlet recently confirmed that the IDF implemented the Hannibal Directive on October 7, opening fire on Israeli soldiers and civilians in numerous locations. Reading by Tim Foley.

Real Quotes From Hypothetical Gurus Jul 10, 2024

"The most worthwhile spiritual teachings don't actually teach you any new knowledge. Rather, they direct your attention to aspects of your own experience that you'd previously overlooked or hadn't paid much attention to. They get you questioning your unquestioned assumptions about very fundamental components of your experience like your sense of self, your means of perception, and the workings of your own mind. The most skillful teachers therefore don't require you to trust them or take anything they say on faith, because you can immediately examine everything they're pointing your attention toward for yourself in your own experience." ~ Margaret Tetherwood

Oh, Looks Like Bombing Hospitals Is Bad Again Jul 09, 2024

Western empire managers do not actually believe that there is anything "abhorrent" or "horrific" about attacking a hospital - at least not one which provides services to Palestinians or other populations who are not favored by the western empire. Reading by Tim Foley.

I Want A Free Palestine And A Free Mind, A Free Heart And A Free World Jul 08, 2024

I want a free Palestine and a free mind, a free heart and a free world. I want the oceans teeming with life and the air full of plant sex and dragonflies. I want a society where nobody needs to work but most people want to, except for the occasional eccentric dude (and there will always be the occasional eccentric dude), but he will have a flute and a story to tell. I want to write essays that open eyes and poems that open hearts and fan the flames of a revolution that will open the iron fist of the empire. I want to make something so beautiful that people will want to destroy it, until they recognize it's just a mirror of the beauty that hides choked back within themselves. I want a fiftieth birthday party with a somber accordion player and his weeping wife who plays the saw, and I want everyone to drink ambrosia cocktails out of teapots and tell each other things they've never told anyone else before. I want to hand out unconditional flowers at Flinders Street station and be happy with however they're received. I want to smack that smirk right off Matthew Miller's face and release a swarm of shrieking male cicadas into the press gallery. I want to wink at the moon and have her wink back, and then never tell a living soul about it and just keep it a secret between me and her. I want to dance with sincerity, all my psychic armor on the floor like clothing on a night of torrid lovemaking. I want to sing through the soles of my feet and let the earth roar through me like a primordial bagpipe. I want to snort up the beauty of the world like a Hollywood producer off a hooker's tits at 3 AM. I want to greet everything that comes into my senses with a wet, gooshy love, and I want to be wide open to letting it all love me right back. I want to meet everything that arises with brand new eyes, and with more awe and reverence than if I was meeting Actual Biblical Yaweh. I want plastic to be a controlled substance and for magic mushrooms to be in supermarkets. I want everyone to realize how pervasively we've been lied to, and how badly we're being screwed over, and what a beautiful world we could all have if enough of us saw it as possible. I want my species to stop living in its head and to finally come back home to Mother Earth. I want a free Palestine and a free mind, a free heart and a free world. Thank you in advance, Love Caitlin. Reading by Caitlin Johnstone.

OMG Haaretz Is Hamas Propaganda Now! Jul 08, 2024

A new report from the Israeli outlet Haaretz titled "IDF Ordered Hannibal Directive on October 7 to Prevent Hamas Taking Soldiers Captive" confirms what independent outlets like The Grayzone and Electronic Intifada have been getting smeared as antisemitic conspiracy theorists for saying this entire time: that many of the Israeli deaths on October 7 were the result of an IDF policy of deliberately firing on their own people to prevent them from being taken hostage by Hamas. Reading by Tim Foley.

Saying Democracy Is In Jeopardy In America Is Like Saying Beaches Are In Jeopardy In Wyoming Jul 06, 2024

Saying democracy is in jeopardy in America is like saying beach front properties are in jeopardy in Wyoming. Your country is run by a few billionaires and government agencies. You don't get a real vote, and even if you did you're all propagandized anyway. It's not a real thing. Reading by Tim Foley.

Letting The Cruelty Of The World Break Our Hearts Together Jul 05, 2024

Let's allow the cruelty of the world to break our hearts, kind friend. Let's weep together at the shredded and emaciated bodies in Gaza, and at their mocking, cackling tormenters. Reading by Tim Foley.

This Civilization Is Deeply Unnatural Jul 04, 2024

There is nothing natural about this. The way things are. The way we are living. If this was the natural and healthy way for human society to exist, it wouldn't require mountains of propaganda spin to keep it going. Reading by Tim Foley.

"Gaza Is Complicated!" No It Isn't. Grow Up Jul 03, 2024

So much abusive bullshit hides behind the false modesty of "This issue is too complicated for me to understand." Reading by Tim Foley.

Oh No, Now The US Has To Stop Imprisoning Ex - Presidents For Their Crimes! Jul 02, 2024

Everyone's acting shocked and outraged at the Supreme Court ruling that Donald Trump and other former presidents are largely immune from criminal prosecution, as though presidents getting prosecuted for their crimes is something that's been happening this entire time. Reading by Tim Foley.

Former Israeli PM Admits Israel's War Crimes Can't Happen Without US Support Jul 02, 2024

Ehud Olmert: "The entire Israel Air Force relies completely on American aircraft: fighter planes, transport planes, refueler planes and helicopters. All of Israel's air power is based on the American commitment to defend Israel. We have no other reliable source for essential supplies of equipment, munitions and advanced weapons that Israel cannot manufacture on its own." Reading by Tim Foley.

This Obvious Genocide Is Not What It Looks Like Jul 01, 2024

This obvious genocide is not what it looks like, smirks the man behind the podium. Reading by Tim Foley.

How Does Anyone Still Care About This Bullshit? Jun 29, 2024

I truly do not see how anyone can still give a fuck about this bullshit. It's so obvious at this point that the US is being run by unelected empire managers who throw up half-dead, half-brained presidential candidates to trick Americans into thinking they live in a democracy. Those empire managers are going to do whatever they want to you regardless of how you and your compatriots vote. Your electoral system is a fake plastic toy they give you to play with so you won't interfere with the gears of the imperial machine. There are no answers in electoral politics. Start looking for answers elsewhere. Reading by Tim Foley.

Really Think About What It Means That The US President Has Dementia Jun 28, 2024

If people really believed the president runs the country, they'd be freaking out that Biden in his demented haze might order an attack on the Soviet Union or nuke Libya to kill Muammar Gaddafi or something. They're not worried that this will happen because they know their government is actually being run by unelected empire managers from behind the scenes, and that Biden is just the official face on the operation. Reading by Tim Foley.

There Is No Possibility Of Sovereignty As Long As The US Empire Exists Jun 28, 2024

If you desire the sovereignty and self-determination of any group of people, your first and foremost task is to seek the dismantling of the US-centralized empire, because that's the power structure that is doing the most around the world to undermine this possibility. As long as a population is in any way intertwined with the agendas of a globe-dominating empire that's doing everything it can to bring everyone under its control, then there is no possibility of that population gaining any real self-determination. If they remain aligned with those agendas, all they can ever hope to be is subjects of the empire. Reading by Tim Foley.

Hell, Maybe ANYTHING Is Possible Jun 26, 2024

The thing that stands out for me the most when watching the deeply moving footage of Julian Assange arriving home to Australia is how impossible this all felt until it happened. Reading by Tim Foley.

Assange Is Free, But Justice Has Not Been Done Jun 25, 2024

Justice would look like Assange being granted a full and unconditional pardon and receiving millions of dollars in compensation from the US government for the torment they put him through by his imprisonment in Belmarsh beginning in 2019, his de facto imprisonment in the Ecuadorian embassy beginning in 2012, and his jailing and house arrest beginning in 2010. Justice would look like the US making concrete legal and policy changes guaranteeing that Washington could never again use its globe-spanning power and influence to destroy the life of a foreign journalist for reporting inconvenient facts about it, and issuing a formal apology to Julian Assange and his family. Justice would look like the arrest and prosecution of the people whose war crimes Assange exposed, and the arrest and prosecution of everyone who helped ruin his life for exposing those crimes. This would include a whole host of government operatives and officials across numerous countries, and multiple US presidents. Reading by Tim Foley.

Listen Deeply Jun 24, 2024

Listen deeply to the screaming mothers and the whirring of the drones. Listen deeply to the news man's lies and the crashing of the bulldozers. Listen deeply to the tanks and missiles as they are rolled into position. Listen deeply to the dying fish and the fruit bats dropping out of trees from the heat. Listen deeply to the gasping biosphere and the reverberating cries of the long-dead indigenous. Listen deeply to the vibrations all around you and to the vibrations deep within yourself. This is a holy place. This is a holy moment. It demands your reverence, even amid the smell of exhaust fumes and landfill and of rotting whales washing up on the shore and of rotting human corpses in Gaza. Even amid the blaring screens and the smirking lies of podium pontiffs and Pentagon propagandists. Even amid the dead-eyed dystopioids marching through life sedated by smartphones and sitcoms and sports and snacks and synthetics. So listen. Listen deeply. There are messages here. Buried in the code. Hidden in the metadata. Whisperings of something big. Something lurking just behind the chatter. Something ancient, yet entirely unanticipated. Listen deeply, kind friend, because mark my words: even within our oceans choked with plastic, even within our minds choked with media, even within our hearts choked with capitalism, even within our souls choked with fraudulence, there are still leviathans. Reading by Tim Foley.

If Gaza Opened Your Eyes To The Empire's Depravity, Make Sure They Stay Open Forever Jun 24, 2024

Please please please don't let Gaza be a one-off in terms of your opposition to the imperial machine. Keep your eyes fiercely trained on its actions after this is over, and help bring as much attention to its crimes as possible. Reading by Tim Foley.

Our Rulers Are Literally Driving Us Crazy Jun 23, 2024

It's probably worth noting that the empire doesn't actually lose anything from our society's increasing mental health problems, and in fact actually benefits from them. Which is probably why everything in this dystopia is pointed at making everyone crazier and crazier. Reading by Tim Foley.

Zionism Is The Exact Opposite Of Spirituality Jun 21, 2024

Zionism is like the exact opposite of people who identify as "spiritual but not religious"; it's religion stripped bare of all spirituality until it's nothing but a shitty political ideology that's ultimately really about land, western imperialism, and geostrategic control. Reading by Tim Foley.

Our Propagandized Society Is Like A Sick Man Who Doesn't Know He's Sick Jun 20, 2024

We're in a burning house, and the people inside don't believe it's on fire and think you're a crazy crackpot for saying it is. There are a whole lot of necessary solutions to that problem that are going to have to follow from that point like getting everyone outside, getting the fire extinguished, finding a place to stay, getting the house rebuilt, replacing all the stuff that you lost, and getting everyone's life back to normal. But the very first order of business is pointing to the flames and the smoke until people believe you. Everything else follows from there. Reading by Tim Foley.

Everything In Our Civilization Is Stacked To Keep Us Believing The Propaganda Jun 19, 2024

It's not so much that people buy into the mainstream propaganda worldview because humans are dumb, or because humans are selfish. Primarily, people buy into the mainstream propaganda worldview because humans are lazy. Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Is Preparing For WWIII While Expanding Draft Registration Jun 18, 2024

So I guess we should probably talk about the way NATO powers are rapidly escalating toward hot war with Russia at the same time the US is expanding its draft policies to make it easier to force more Americans go and fight in a giant war. Reading by Tim Foley.

We've Seen This "Antisemitism Crisis On The Left" Script Before Jun 18, 2024

It sure is a crazy coincidence how western politicians and media always start urgently telling us about an invisible epidemic of left wing antisemitism every time western military ties to Israel are subjected to widespread public scrutiny. Reading by Tim Foley.

Making October 7 About Antisemitism To Hide Israel's Abuses Jun 18, 2024

They keep telling you October 7 happened because Hamas hates Jews because they don't want you asking questions about Israel's actions which provoked the attack. Reading by Tim Foley.

"I Ain't Reading All That; Free Palestine" Jun 15, 2024

The meme enrages Israel supporters because Israel apologia depends on mountains of verbiage to spin obvious atrocities as reasonable and appropriate. At some point the kids noticed this was happening, and started dismissing all the narratives. Reading by Tim Foley.

Behold The World Gently Jun 14, 2024

The dead children don't affect me like they used to. The images. The videos. They still disturb and horrify, but not like they did in the beginning. Not anywhere close. And, honestly, I hate it. I hate that that part of me has been stolen. Reading by Tim Foley.

Spreading The Fiction Of An Antisemitism Epidemic On The Left Jun 14, 2024

If you are helping to validate the completely fictional narrative that there is an epidemic of antisemitism on the political left, you are a facilitator of Israeli atrocities. You are helping the imperial war machine murder children. Reading by Tim Foley.

When The Powerful Control Public Opinion, Elections Aren't Real Jun 12, 2024

In a capitalist system, those who control the capital control what ideas and information will be ingested by most people. In a democratic system of government - even one with a rock solid voting system and no money allowed in politics - this will always give the wealthy the ability to rig elections by manipulating public opinion using propaganda. Reading by Tim Foley.

Give New York To The Mormons Jun 12, 2024

The state of New York should be given to the Mormons, since that's where Joseph Smith founded Mormonism. All other faiths in the new nation that shall be known as Mormonland must either leave or accept the fact that their homes and property will be taken by Mormons, that they will be displaced to undesirable parts of Mormonland, and that they will be treated as second-class citizens at best and as vermin in need of extermination at worst. Reading by Tim Foley.

Ignoring Daily Massacres In Gaza While Still Babbling About October 7 Jun 11, 2024

We're seeing new massacres every goddamn fucking day, but western politicians and media can't stop babbling about one single massacre happening hundreds of days ago. Reading by Tim Foley.

Saving Gaza Is About More Than Saving Gaza. It's Also About Saving Ourselves Jun 10, 2024

Saving Gaza is about more than saving Gaza. It's also about saving ourselves. Saving ourselves as individuals. Saving ourselves as a society. Saving ourselves as a species. Saving ourselves from what we'll become if we just watch this happening right in front of our eyes without doing everything we can to stop it. Saving ourselves from what the sociopaths who rule over us are trying to turn us into. Saving ourselves from the way the propagandists are trying to twist and train our minds. Saving ourselves from the kind of future humanity will have if our rulers can get away with such a brazen act of extreme depravity. Saving ourselves from the other horrors that will be unleashed upon our world if this kind of thing becomes normalized and accepted. Saving ourselves from the dark dystopia we are plunging into at breakneck speed. Saving ourselves from a world where journalism is dead and dissent is forbidden. Saving ourselves from a world where the bastards will do the worst things imaginable without even having to hide it, and just stare us in the eyes daring us to do something. Saving ourselves from a world where the powerful have decided to respond to the public's widespread access to information and raw video footage by just committing their evil deeds right out in the open and forcing us to get used to it. Saving ourselves from this relentless push by propagandists and politicians to amputate that sacred part of our humanity which screams "NO" to all this. Saving our hearts. Saving our compassion. Saving our tenderness. Saving our children. Saving our humanity. Saving our world. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Media Skew Public Perception By Manipulating People's Attention Jun 09, 2024

Our perception of the world is dominated by the movements of our attention, which means that our perception of the world can be changed by manipulating those movements. Propagandists understand this, so they spend their time doing things like telling us over and over again what a bad bad baddie Vladimir Putin is while just occasionally giving a single highly mitigated mention to an individual instance of Israeli criminality, or talking about October 7 over and over again while greatly deemphasizing the massacres Israel has been perpetrating on the Palestinians in Gaza every day since. Reading by Tim Foley.

Everything About Israel Is Fake Jun 08, 2024

Everything about Israel is fake. It's a completely synthetic nation created without any regard for the organic sociopolitical movements of the land and its people, slapped rootless atop an ancient pre-existing civilization with deep roots. That's why it cannot exist without being artificially propped up by nonstop propaganda, lobbying, online influence operations, and mass military violence. Reading by Tim Foley.

When Opposing A Genocide Means You're A Nazi Jun 07, 2024

When opposing a genocide means you're a Nazi. When opposing nuclear brinkmanship means you love Vladimir Putin. When opposing the looming global conflict with China means you're a sinister propagandist for "the CCP". When opposing the latest imperial escalations against the latest Official Bad Guy always means you're an appeaser of the Bad Guy and would have opposed fighting Hitler. When your skepticism toward government and media institutions who have an extensive record of lying and propagandizing means you're a crazy conspiracy theorist. When wanting to live in a society where everyone has enough means you're an evil authoritarian with a despised ideology. When believing it's possible to have systems where humans aren't killing the biosphere and waging insane wars while brandishing armageddon weapons at each other means you're a silly little child who doesn't understand how the real world works. When these things are happening in your society, it means your society has gone stark raving insane. It means you are surrounded by lunatics, and ruled by madmen. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Washington Post Is Pure AIDS, And Other Notes Jun 06, 2024

"The Washington Post is one of the worst propaganda rags ever to exist in any country. If I'd published such an article for such a depraved empire propaganda outlet, I wouldn't be able to sleep at night." Reading by Tim Foley.

Landfill Empire Jun 05, 2024

The moonlight caresses the missile silos in Russia and the blown out hospitals in Gaza. The garbage plays in the wind like children. The exhaust fumes and the sounds of traffic feel like sex in your senses. You can meet the divine here. Here in the city. Here in dystopia. Here amid the smell of piss and the sleeping bags on the sidewalk. Here in the heart of a dying empire, whose cancerous tendrils sprawl like ivy across the dying face of a dying world. You can let the LED lights dance with the light at the core of your being. You can drink from the Great Mother’s breasts beneath a billboard for the latest iThingy. You can raise up your heart to the pigeons, and to all the other animal species whose lives we have not yet succeeded in extinguishing. For us, this is Eden.For us, this is the only place in which Buddha can be born. In the future, if there is a future, maybe the humans figure things out and create a healthy world. But that world is not our world. That world is not where we clocked in to do our daily work. We clocked in to this strange civilization, where headless robot dogs keep showing up in police forces and sniper drones play the sounds of crying babies to lure out Palestinian civilians. Where we have amputated our sacred connection with nature and land and affixed a prosthesis made of viral videos and sitcoms to the aching, festering stump. Where everyone’s eyes are darkened by unnatural mindings, and everybody’s always hungry no matter how much they eat. This is where we will make our stand. This tanglewire nest full of fast food wrappers and broken toys, this mess where everything smells like motor oil and despair. This is the manger in which Christ consciousness will be lain. This is the armageddon town that will become our paradise. This is the landfill empire where we will finally let sprout those mysterious seeds planted in us long ago. In this strange civilization, in their own secret language, even the buzzing drones over Gaza sing the holy name of Allah. _______________ Reading by Tim Foley.

The Reckless Brinkmanship With Russia Just Keeps On Escalating Jun 04, 2024

It's damn near impossible to keep up with all the warmongering of the western empire these days. Reading by Tim Foley.

Why I Don't Condemn Hamas For October 7 Jun 03, 2024

Cynthia Vigil was never charged with any crime because anyone could see that violent force was an entirely understandable and legitimate response to having been kidnapped and subjected to horrific treatment. It never at any time occurred to anyone to say that she should have acted differently, and it most certainly never occurred to anyone to make her single act of desperate violence the major story instead of the fact that there was a serial killer who'd been abducting women and torturing them in his murder dungeon. Reading by Tim Foley.

They Can't Control The Gaza Narrative Because Too Much Has Been Seen Jun 02, 2024

The light of awareness makes it very difficult for an empire which is fueled by human blood to operate, which is why so much effort has been going into shutting off the lights. Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Empire Isn't A Government That Runs Nonstop Wars, It's A Nonstop War That Runs A Government Jun 01, 2024

It clears up a lot of confusion when you understand that the US empire is not a national government which happens to run nonstop military operations, it's a nonstop military operation that happens to run a national government. Reading by Tim Foley.

Biden Lets Ukraine Strike Russia With US Weapons While Ukraine Attacks Russian Nuclear Defenses May 31, 2024

Well it finally happened: Biden is now letting Ukraine strike Russian territory with US-supplied weapons. Escalations in nuclear brinkmanship which would have been unthinkable a few short years ago are becoming increasingly common as Ukraine loses more and more territory and runs out of soldiers to fight. Reading by Tim Foley.

Why Celebrities Aren't Speaking Up About Gaza May 30, 2024

For the last eight months people have been expressing frustration and confusion about the reluctance of celebrities to use their immense platforms to speak out against the US-backed slaughter in Gaza. But it's not really a mystery why this happens: celebrities are reluctant to criticize the US-centralized empire because they benefit from it directly. Reading by Tim Foley.

Mass Slaughtering Civilians To Stop Terrorism May 29, 2024

Remember kids, Israel HAS to bomb hospitals and starve Gaza and incinerate children and shoot people waving white flags and assassinate doctors and journalists and commit daily massacres of civilians, because if it doesn't do this the region will be dominated by evil terrorists. Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Is Discrediting All Arguments For Why It Should Lead The World May 28, 2024

One by one, the US empire is discrediting all of its own arguments for why it should lead the world. All the violence, tyranny and injustice it claims to be keeping at bay with its globe-dominating leadership is being inflicted by the empire itself, in more and more brazen and egregious ways each year. Reading by Tim Foley.

There Was A Time May 27, 2024

It's hard to believe there was a time when I didn't know what a child's insides look like. That I didn't know how limp babies' limbs go when they are dead, when they are missing parts of their body, missing their head, limbs dangling lifeless as parents hold them in front of the camera, screaming, crying, pleading, desperate. There was a time when I didn't know how it feels to watch a man scream "Free Palestine" while burning alive, until there was nothing left to scream with and he lost his voice forever, but still by some power remained standing long after his voice was gone. I didn't used to know just how sadistic people can be, how hateful they can be, how apathetic they can be toward the suffering of human beings, or how heroic others can be in times of great need. I didn't used to know. Now I do. And now I sit here, head heavy like lead, tongue limp like a baby's corpse, hands feeling older than the stars, and I don't know what to do. There is nothing I can say to make this okay. There is nothing I can say to make any of this make sense. This is the civilization we were born into. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal, as the airman said before he burned. I lift my ancient hands to my sore heart and say a prayer to the great Whatever in a desperate plea for a better world. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Massacres Children, Which The Western Press Says Is Fine May 27, 2024

Anyone who's been following the Gaza genocide on social media today will be seeing this phrase "legally killed child" alongside footage of children ripped apart by Israeli military explosives in a civilian displacement camp. Reading by Tim Foley.

It's Actually Amazing How Stupid The Propaganda Is Getting May 26, 2024

It's actually amazing how stupid the propaganda has gotten. Bombing kids and hospitals is self-defense. An extremely blatant ethnic cleansing campaign is actually a war. A few western Zionist Jews saying they feel unsafe on campus is a more urgent concern than an active genocide. Reading by Tim Foley.

Like So Much Else, The Fuss Over 'International Law' Is Really About Narrative Control May 25, 2024

"That’s why you see US and Israeli officials raging and fuming about the actions of the ICJ and the ICC. It’s not because they’re worried those courts will be able to enforce the rulings they make, it’s because it weakens their control of the narrative." Reading by Tim Foley.

Meanwhile, We're Still WAY Too Close To Nuclear Armageddon May 24, 2024

While the antiwar zeitgeist has been quite understandably focused on the genocide in Gaza, over the past few weeks we've been seeing some very disturbing reports about empire managers ramping up nuclear brinkmanship escalations in Ukraine that are worth going over. Reading by Tim Foley.

If You Can't Even Elect A Candidate Who'll End A Genocide, How Real Is Your "Democracy"? May 23, 2024

And this just says so much about the nature of this "democracy" - a word which literally means "rule by the people". If the people were actually in charge, there would be some option available to them to end the worst thing happening in the world right now. But the people are not in charge. When it comes to matters of the most importance, they never get a vote. Reading by Tim Foley.

It's Not Unusual That We're Being Lied To, It's Unusual That People Are Noticing May 22, 2024

It's important to understand that there's nothing unusual about the western empire's depravity in Gaza or the mass media's constant lies and distortions about it - they do these things constantly, year after year. What's unusual is that people are waking up to it. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Problem Isn't Civil Disobedience, It's Civil Obedience May 21, 2024

Our problem is not that more and more people are opposing Israel's empire-backed atrocities in Gaza with more and more aggression, our problem is that people are not opposing it aggressively enough. Our problem is that too many people still have their minds jacked into the mainstream worldview and ignore the most urgent matter of our time, letting their thoughts be preoccupied with frivolous garbage and trusting that our leaders are doing what's best for us. Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Empire Deliberately Stokes Hatred And Violence In The Middle East May 15, 2024

It's actually a brilliant self-reinforcing scam. It works like this: Step 1: Murder people in the middle east in the name of fighting "terrorism". Step 2: This causes people to hate you and your allies and to want to retaliate with violence. Step 3: Designate these people "terrorists". Step 4: Send more war machinery to the region to go fight "terrorism". Step 5: Murder more people in the middle east in the name of fighting "terrorism". Do you see how this cycle would repeat over and over again, leading to more and more US military expansionism in the middle east? That's exactly what we've been seeing, and it's exactly what the US empire wants. Reading by Tim Foley.

I Criticize The US Power Alliance Because It's The Most Destructive Force On Earth May 14, 2024

I don't spend my time attacking the US war machine because I have any special love for Hamas, Iran, Russia, China, or any other power. I do it because the US empire is quantifiably the most destructive and tyrannical force on this planet, by an extremely massive margin. Reading by Tim Foley.

When Your Rulers Ignore Voters But Are Terrified Of Protesters, That Tells You Something May 12, 2024

When nobody in power will lift a finger to earn your vote but they're falling all over themselves trying to stomp out a robust protest movement, that tells you what the powerful are actually afraid of and where you should really be focusing your political energy. Reading by Tim Foley.

Using A Fictional Antisemitism Crisis To Support A Real Genocide May 11, 2024

"It's like responding to warnings of another holocaust by babbling about Sauron." Reading by Tim Foley.

When Opposing Genocide Is Seen As Radical, Radicalism Becomes A Moral Imperative May 10, 2024

Israel supporters are such psychopathic war sluts that they're currently shrieking their lungs out at Biden for making a purely symbolic face-saving statement that he won't give Israel the weapons to annihilate Rafah, despite the fact that he has already given Israel all the weapons it would need to annihilate Rafah. Reading by Tim Foley.

Protest And Dissent Can Absolutely Push The Empire To Retreat On Gaza May 10, 2024

The imperial murder machine has many strengths, but it also has weaknesses. Reading by Tim Foley.

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them May 09, 2024

Don’t let anyone tell you your protests don’t make a difference or your dissident speech poses no threat to the powerful. If what you’re doing wasn’t working, empire managers wouldn’t be losing their minds right now. Reading by Tim Foley.

Opposing The War Machine Is Cool Again, And The Empire's Getting Nervous May 08, 2024

What are they going to do, win the young back by writing another Wall Street Journal think piece? Have Netanyahu rap about how Zionism is rad while Tony Blinken plays guitar? They’ve got nothing. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Destruction Of Gaza SHOULD Be Radicalizing People May 07, 2024

What's happening in Gaza SHOULD radicalize you. It absolutely should. Right now, even as its own criminality hits fever pitch, the western political-media class is fretting with increasing shrillness about young people getting "radicalized" and turned against their government by the spread of information and ideas at campus demonstrations and on TikTok. But young people should be radicalizing right now. Everyone should. Reading by Tim Foley.

I Oppose Israel's Atrocities In Gaza Because I'm Not A Psychopath May 06, 2024

I don't oppose the butchery in Gaza because I love Hamas or hate Jews or love Islam or hate America. I don't oppose the butchery in Gaza because I'm a lefty or a commie or an anarchist or an anti-imperialist. I oppose the butchery in Gaza because I'm not a fucking psychopath. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel's Defenders Talk So Much About Feelings Because They Can't Talk About Facts May 04, 2024

Israel is the only issue where the western political-media class treats people's feelings as a matter of supreme importance. If you're a stressed-out single parent struggling to pay bills and keep a roof over your kids' head, they don't care about your feelings. If you're an American who's been cast into destitution and homelessness by medical bills, they don't care about your feelings. If you're a Palestinian whose apartment complex was bombed with your entire family inside, they definitely don't care about your feelings. But if you're a western Zionist who doesn't like the cognitive dissonance that comes with encountering anti-genocide protesters, or even if you're an Israeli who's upset about anti-genocide protests in whole other country on the other side of the planet, they're very, very interested in your feelings. Reading by Tim Foley.

Opposing Every War But The Current One, Supporting Civil Rights But Never Right Now May 03, 2024

As Democrats get worse and worse the longer Biden's genocide in Gaza continues, I find myself recalling a tweet that went viral back in November by an account with the handle @eyeballslicer, "A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that's going on right now." Reading by Tim Foley.

The Bizarre Gymnastics Of The Gaza Aid Pier May 03, 2024

So let me get this straight. The US wound up building its "floating pier" a few miles off the coast of Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid, but nobody will be able to ship the aid directly to the pier to get it to Gaza. Instead, the aid will be delivered to Cyprus via air or sea, and then from Cyprus the aid will be shipped 200 miles to the pier. From there the pallets of aid will be loaded onto smaller US army boats, which will then carry the aid from the pier to a long causeway on Gaza's actual coast. Those pallets will then be carried from the boats to the shore via the causeway - possibly by British troops or possibly by Israeli troops depending on what source you're reading - and taken into Gaza by IDF troops after careful examination and approval of their contents. All to deliver some 90 to 150 truckloads worth of aid per day, which is far short of the 500 truckloads the UN says Gaza needs. And this is all being done because Israel isn't simply letting people drive an adequate amount of aid through the custom-built gates directly into Gaza. Since Washington doesn't want to exert any pressure on Israel to allow such a self-evident move, this immensely complicated and expensive dance is being performed to deliver a pathetically inadequate amount of aid instead. Aid that is only necessary because Israel has been destroying Gaza in its genocidal bombing campaign which it has been carrying out with total impunity. Cool. Very normal and cool. Reading by Tim Foley.

The 'Antisemitism' Moral Panic Has Officially Jumped The Shark May 02, 2024

So, to be absolutely clear, Israel's top government official has announced that charges against himself and other Israeli leaders for obvious war crimes like intentionally bombing and starving civilians would be both "antisemitic" and a "hate crime". Reading by Tim Foley.

CNN Compares Campus Protesters To Nazis In Stunning Propaganda Segment May 02, 2024

In one of the most appalling propaganda segments I have ever seen in my life, CNN's Dana Bash launched into a fire-and-brimstone sermon on Wednesday comparing anti-genocide university protesters to the brownshirts of Nazi Germany - doing so in defense of a fascistic police crackdown against those very same protesters. Reading by Tim Foley.

Remember, All This Fascism Would Feel Way More Fascismy Under Trump May 01, 2024

If Trump was letting these horrible things happen, we'd feel outraged and upset. We might even feel obliged to get up and go protest the things he is doing, which as we all know can often cause us to miss brunch. But because a trusted Democrat is in office, we can just relax and think pleasant thoughts and drink bottles of wine and Nyquil in the bathtub. Reading by Tim Foley.

Aviator Sunglasses Apr 30, 2024

Aviator sunglasses hide demented eyes in a skull full of bank logos and forgotten AIPAC speeches, boozy nights of rapefinger whisperings and Beltway balrogs, and fundraising wisecracks with smiles made of Gaddafi's bones, brain now crowded with paper shredders and frantic, sweaty interns staying up all night working to dispose of the evidence. Aviator sunglasses with glowing pentagons in them, with mountains of skulls in them, with dismembered children in them, with gutted babies in them, with screaming mothers in them, with burning flesh in them, with flattened neighborhoods in them, crushed limbs sticking out of rubble in them, fathers carrying tiny bags of body parts in them, laughing, mocking, blood-soaked soldiers in them, bombs and food falling from the sky together in them. Demented eyes gazing out upon a dying world through aviator sunglasses full of dead faces, skin illuminated by a burning sky, licking an ice cream cone that is dripping deep red. Reading by Tim Foley.

Gaza Shows Us The Difference Between Evil Autocracies And Free Democracies Apr 30, 2024

In Evil Autocracies the leaders commit genocide for hateful and racist reasons, whereas in Free Democracies the leaders commit genocide for noble and righteous reasons. Reading by Tim Foley.

Opposing The Gaza Genocide While Supporting Biden Is A Dishonest, Nonsensical Position Apr 29, 2024

It's like saying "Sure my husband's a serial killer, but he's great with the kids." If someone said that to you, the only conclusion you could possibly come to is that they're really not all that bothered by the serial killing. Reading by Tim Foley.

It Is Everyone's Responsibility To Help Save Gaza Apr 29, 2024

Those university students should not be responsible for standing against this genocide, and in truth the responsibility is NOT all theirs - it is ours as well. Each and every one of us are responsible for doing everything we can to end this horror. Reading by Tim Foley.

Gen Z Just Might Save The World Apr 28, 2024

Kids are taking over university campuses around the world for the noblest possible reason anyone could do such a thing in 2024. There are so many reasons to feel pessimistic, but Gen Z's fierce opposition to the Gaza genocide is a massive reason to have hope for the future. Reading by Tim Foley.

Biden Wanted To Sanction An Israeli Battalion But He Didn't Because Israel Said No Apr 27, 2024

The Biden administration has reportedly canned its plans to issue sanctions on an extremist IDF unit for human rights violations in the occupied West Bank, following backlash from Israel and its high-powered supporters within the US government. Reading by Tim Foley.

Empire Managers Say Russia, China And Iran Are Tricking Students Into Opposing Genocide Apr 26, 2024

Empire managers and propagandists are losing their minds about student protests against the genocide in Gaza on university campuses, so naturally we're seeing a mad push to frame this as the result of interference by Russia, China, Iran and Hamas. Reading by Tim Foley.

Quashing University Protests And Banning TikTok To Make The Kids Love Israel Apr 25, 2024

I mean, you kind of have to wonder what they're thinking. "Yeah, that's it. Violently quash pro-Palestine protests at universities, ban TikTok to ensure the suppression of pro-Palestine content, and saturate the boomer media with obvious propaganda. That'll make the kids love Israel." Reading by Tim Foley.

In This Dystopia, Opposing A Genocide Is Considered Worse Than Committing One Apr 24, 2024

All the frenzied shrieking about pro-Palestine protests at universities these last few days makes it clear that our civilization is so twisted and insane that it sees protesting a genocide as far worse than committing one. Which is about as backwards as any society could possibly be. Reading by Tim Foley.

Stopping The Slaughter In Gaza Is More Important Than Your Feelings Apr 24, 2024

Stopping the slaughter in Gaza is more important than your feelings. Your feelings don't matter. Stopping the slaughter in Gaza is more important than playing along with the persecution-LARPing of Zionist university students. Stopping the slaughter in Gaza is more important than some privileged Ivy Leaguers pretending to feel "unsafe" or "unwelcome" on campus. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Is Turning Hospitals Into Mass Graves While The West Fixates On 'Antisemitism' Apr 22, 2024

The IDF are just attacking hospitals and mowing down civilians and trying to bury the evidence of their crimes, so naturally we're seeing the western political-media class focus very hard on the problem of antisemitism allegations on college campuses. Reading by Tim Foley.

In Gaza The Sniper Drones Are Crying Like Babies Apr 21, 2024

They're hunting civilians with armed quadcopters in Gaza. The drones play recordings of crying babies and women screaming in distress in order to lure people out into the open, and then shoot them. Reading by Tim Foley.

Don't Let Them Numb You To What's Happening In Gaza Apr 20, 2024

We're not SUPPOSED to be unaffected by this sort of thing. We're not SUPPOSED to be able to find a state of psychological comfort with genocide. It's not natural, and it's not right. Man-made nightmares unleashed upon the waking earth are SUPPOSED to disturb us. Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Doesn't Support A Two - State Solution, It Just Supports Saying It Does Apr 19, 2024

The US doesn't support a two-state solution, the US only supports saying the US supports a two-state solution. We know this because the US just vetoed Palestine's bid to become a full UN member state, after lobbying other countries to vote against the resolution - despite continually saying it supports the foundation of a Palestinian state. Washington's words say one thing, but its actions say the opposite. Reading by Tim Foley.

Escalation With Iran Seemingly Over; Now We Have To Worry About Rafah Apr 19, 2024

So as things stand right now it looks like the cycle of escalation between Iran and Israel has thankfully ended or at least paused, which means now all we have to worry about is a horrific massacre in southern Gaza. The Times of Israel reports that Washington has agreed to go along with Israel's planned assault on the city of Rafah so long as Israel doesn't launch a large attack against Iran in response to its unprecedented retaliatory drone and missile attack on Saturday, according to an Egyptian source speaking to a Qatari outlet. A White House spokesperson has denied this, but you'd expect them to. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Amputated Limbs Of Children Apr 18, 2024

"I want my legs back," the girl cried in Arabic. "I want my legs back." You can't have your legs back, little girl. They have been eaten by a hungry machine who needs them for fuel to power its gears. The machine needs your legs to keep the sky raining bombs and to make its death robots fly. Your legs power the bulldozers digging mass graves and the tanks blowing holes in the hospitals. A glorious kingdom is held together by the amputated limbs of children. A pentagon-shaped castle is built from the bones of the amputated limbs of children. Wall Street werewolves and bank boys dine on the amputated limbs of children. Movie stars treat their wrinkles with creams made from the amputated limbs of children. Suburban families prop up their smiles with the amputated limbs of children. The news man lies and in his eyes you see the amputated limbs of children. The podium man smirks and between his teeth are the amputated limbs of children. And the little girl cries, and the news man ignores her, and the podium man smirks at her, and the bank boy bites her, and the machine rolls on, limbs fed into its furnace with pitchforks, crushing houses and blackening the sky, poisoning the oceans and bloodying the earth, while the air fills with the crying of children, for limbs that will never come back, for homes that will never come back, for mothers that will never come back, for childhoods that will never come back, for brightness that will never come back, for innocence that will never come back, for dreams that will never come back, for joy that will never come back. And we are here, eating cheesy meatcarbs and watching funny haw-haws and gossiping and prattling and wishing we looked better and trying not to think about all the tiny arms and legs we see covering the earth whenever we step outside. Reading by Tim Foley.

"Rules-Based Order" Means Rules For Thee But Not For We Apr 18, 2024

Israel's allowed to bomb an Iranian consulate, but Iran's not allowed to strike back. The US is allowed to surround China with war machinery, but it would be World War Three if China ever tried to militarily encircle the US. NATO is allowed to expand to Russia's doorstep and amass proxy forces on its border, but the last time Moscow placed a credible military threat anywhere near the United States, the US responded so aggressively that the world almost ended. The "rules-based international order" that the US-centralized power structure purports to uphold just means an order in which the US makes up the rules and nations had better obey them. It means rules for thee but not for me. Reading by Tim Foley.

Assange Extradition Case Moves Forward While The CIA Covers Its Tracks Apr 17, 2024

So they're really doing it. The Biden administration is really ignoring Australia's request to end the case against Julian Assange, and they're proceeding with their campaign to extradite a journalist for telling the truth about US war crimes. Reading by Tim Foley.

If The Mainstream Worldview Was Accurate, Gaza Wouldn't Be Burning Apr 16, 2024

The destruction of Gaza proves the entire mainstream western worldview is bullshit, because if the mainstream western worldview was accurate, the destruction of Gaza would not be happening. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel's Latest Lie Is That It Has 'No Choice' But To Attack Iran Apr 16, 2024

Both Israel and the US are pretending to be powerless in this situation, when in reality they're both anything but. They're like two muggers getting ready to mug someone and saying "If only there was something we could do to stop this terrible mugging!" Reading by Tim Foley.

Stop Pretending Biden Is Some Passive Witness To Israel's Warmongering Apr 15, 2024

The more I think about it the more obnoxious I find the Biden administration's "Gee whiz, I sure hope Israel doesn't drag us into a giant war in the middle east" posturing and the imperial media's facilitation of it. Reading by Tim Foley.

Anyone Who Wants The US To Attack Iran Is An Enemy Of Humanity Apr 15, 2024

Anyone who wants the US and its allies to attack Iran is a psychopath. People who want to unleash a war of that scale upon our species should be rejected from our society as aggressively as child molesters and Nazis. Reading by Tim Foley.

US Declines Israel's Invitation To Start WW3 (For Now) Apr 14, 2024

A new report from Axios says Biden has personally told Netanyahu that the US will not be supporting any Israeli military response to the Iranian strike. An anonymous senior White House official told Axios that Biden said to Netanyahu, "You got a win. Take the win," in reference to the number of Iranian weapons that were taken out of the sky by the international coalition in Israel's defense. Apparently helping to mitigate the damage from the Iranian attack is all the military commitment the White House is willing to make against Iran at this time. Reading by Tim Foley.

Empire Managers Keep Acting Like Iran Is About To Attack Israel Without Provocation Apr 13, 2024

It's like if someone ran up and sucker-punched somebody at the bar, and then everyone started screaming at the guy who just got punched that he'd better leave the other guy alone and stop being a bully. Reading by Tim Foley.

Getting Gaza Right Is The Absolute Bare Minimum Requirement Apr 12, 2024

Gaza is a test of the absolute bare minimum requirements for someone to be worth listening to about anything at all, because if you got this one wrong then there’s just something wrong with you as a human being. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israeli Suffering Is Not Comparable To Palestinian Suffering Apr 12, 2024

I'm sick of hearing October 7 mentioned in the same breath as Israel's incineration of Gaza as though they're equal or even comparable. A thousand Israelis dying (probably hundreds by indiscriminate IDF fire) is not comparable to tens of thousands of Palestinians (probably more) being deliberately exterminated by high tech war machinery, even if before you account for the fact that Israel was the aggressor and that the violence of the oppressed is not comparable to the violence of the oppressor in the first place.

Idiot Republicans Are Saying Genocide Joe Has 'Abandoned Israel' Apr 11, 2024

Dopey Republican pundits and politicians have begun claiming that Joe Biden has "abandoned Israel" and has fallen under the control of Hamas, because this is a presidential election year and everything needs to be ten times dumber than usual. Reading by Tim Foley.

CNN Finally Tells The Truth About The Flour Massacre After Previously Shilling For Israel Apr 10, 2024

This is the same CNN who at the time reported on the Flour Massacre in ways that advanced Israel's information interests with headlines completely exonerating Israel of any wrongdoing like "At least 100 killed and 700 injured in chaotic incident" and "Carnage at Gaza food aid site amid Israeli gunfire". CNN also repeatedly refers to the killings as "food aid deaths", as though it's the food aid that killed them and not the military of a very specific state power. Reading by Tim Foley.

Gaza Asks Us A Question About What Kind Of Future We Want To Have Apr 09, 2024

The main reason I've focused so hard on Gaza these last six months isn't so much because of how evil and horrific Israel's mass atrocity is in and of itself, but because it's so intimately intertwined with all our world's other problems, and with the future of the human species. Reading by Tim Foley.

Australian Military Refuses To Disclose Arms Deal With Israel To Protect Its 'Reputation' Apr 09, 2024

Australia's Defence Department has refused a Freedom of Information request about the details of an arms deal with Israel on the grounds that such information "could harm Australia's international standing and reputation," which suggests the details must be pretty damning. Reading by Tim Foley.

Dancing Outside The Concentration Camp Apr 07, 2024

Dancing outside the concentration camp, rave music pounding through our bones like bombs. A disco at the genocide, baby. A disco at the genocide. Twerking outside the open-air prison. Raving while Gaza asphyxiates. Twirling glow sticks while a Final Solution is planned. Just an innocent bit of fun. Chill out and dance outside the concentration camp. What could possibly go wrong? We've got the IDF looking after us. They'd never let anything bad happen. So dance while the Palestinians are squeezed to death. Dance while the polar ice caps melt. Dance while the oceans fill with plastic. Dance while the rainforests disappear. Dance while nuclear warheads are primed. Dance while mothers scream impossible screams. Dance while the arms industry reaps record profits. Dance while fathers pick up pieces of their kids. Dance while AI helps exterminate families. Dance while Gazans dehydrate under rubble. Dance while limbs are amputated without anaesthesia. Dance while death machines patrol the sky. Dance while the news man fills our heads with lies. Dance while the podium man denies everything he sees. Dance while the sharptooth manipulators scheme. Dance while our minds are turned into machines. Dance to the beat of imperial psytrance. Dance to the beat of the Pentagon Polka. What could possibly go wrong? Dance outside the concentration camp. A disco at the genocide, baby. A disco at the genocide. _________________ Reading by Tim Foley.

As Support For Gaza Goes Mainstream, Don't Let The Empire Co-Opt The Movement Apr 06, 2024

We cannot allow them to neuter this political moment with spin and propaganda. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Lets Some Aid Into Gaza So The US Will Keep Giving It Weapons To Kill People In Gaza Apr 06, 2024

Israel has generously and compassionately reopened the Erez crossing to allow aid into Gaza, as it is the only way to ensure that the US will keep sending them weapons to kill the people in Gaza. Reading by Tim Foley.

The 'Human Shields' Lie Has Been Conclusively, Irrefutably Debunked Apr 05, 2024

Israel isn't being "forced" to kill Palestinian children, it is knowingly choosing to. Reading by Tim Foley.

Stop Reporting On Biden's Angry Feelings Toward Israel. It's Not News. It's Not Interesting. Apr 04, 2024

Stop telling us about the president’s feelings. Stop telling us he’s “angry” and “frustrated” with Israel. No one cares. Nobody gives a shit how Biden’s feelings feel about the government he’s helping carry out a genocide. All that matters is that he’s helping them commit genocide. Reading by Tim Foley.

Six Months Of Hell On Earth Apr 03, 2024

Six months of this now. Half a year. Half a year of genocide apologia. Half a year of the most outrageous lies you can possibly imagine. Half a year of seeing children's bodies ripped to pieces and starved to skeletons on our social media feeds. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Keeps Getting More Murderous Apr 02, 2024

In the span of just a few hours we learned that Israel committed a horrific massacre at al-Shifa hospital, struck an Iranian consulate in Syria killing multiple Iranian military officers, and killed a vehicle full of international aid workers in an airstrike. This murderous regime is out of control. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel's Savage Destruction Of Gaza's Healthcare System Is Exactly What It Looks Like Apr 01, 2024

Israel has ended its assault on the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, because there is nothing left to assault. The facility - the largest medical complex in Gaza where hundreds of civilians had been sheltering - is now an empty, unusable, burnt-out husk. Witnesses report hundreds of corpses in and around the complex, with video footage showing human body parts protruding from the earth and bodies with zip ties on their wrists. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Plan Is To Turn Palestine Into A Historical Footnote So It's Too Late To Save It Mar 31, 2024

The Zionist plan for the Palestinians is to kill them and drive them off their land by whatever cruelty is necessary, with the understanding that one day people will look back on it in the same way they look back on the genocides of other indigenous populations, saying "Yeah it was bad, but that was in the past so there's nothing we can do about it." Reading by Tim Foley.

Liberal Finger-Wagging At Netanyahu Is A Phony, Cynical Charade Mar 31, 2024

Gaza is proof that the US empire cannot be permitted to exist any longer, and they're trying to get everyone to ignore this fact and blame the whole thing on one guy. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Lies About Being A Victim So That It Can Victimize Mar 30, 2024

They lied about decapitated babies so that they could kill babies. They lied about rape so that they could rape. They lied about Hamas using civilians as human shields so that they could use civilians as human targets. They lie about being victims so that they can victimize. Reading by Tim Foley.

Violent Extremists Get Called "Moderates" By A Violent Extremist Empire Mar 29, 2024

"In reality, there was never anything moderate about Joe Lieberman. He was a violent extremist, who only looked like he walked a political center line through the lens of a violent extremist empire." Reading by Tim Foley.

Imagine If Russia Or China Did The Things Israel Is Doing In Gaza Mar 28, 2024

It's almost cliché at this point to say "imagine if Russia or China did this", but such comparisons are important for retaining a sense of perspective on just how evil the western political-media class is being about Gaza right now. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Empire Slowly Suffocates Assange Like It Slowly Suffocates All Its Enemies Mar 27, 2024

Helping Israel starve Gaza while slowly pretending to work toward solutions. Drawing out a proxy war in Ukraine for as long as possible to bleed Russia. Slowly killing Assange in prison without trial under the pretense of judicial proceedings. Reading by Tim Foley.

Things That Have Been Discredited During The Destruction Of Gaza Mar 26, 2024

Israel, the “rules-based international order”, liberals, the label “antisemitism”, the mainstream media, Joe Biden, the “two-state solution” myth, Bernie Sanders, RFK Jr, etc. Reading by Tim Foley

Ghost Town Mar 25, 2024

"We do not look at Gaza. We look at everything except Gaza." Reading by Tim Foley.

A Barely-Disguised Genocide Mar 24, 2024

It sure is a crazy coincidence how all this stuff about difficulty with food distribution, collateral damage, human shields, the need to eliminate Hamas etc just happens to combine to create a situation that looks exactly the same as committing a genocide against an undesirable population. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Empire Doesn't Hide Its Worst Deeds, It Just Manipulates How People Think About Them Mar 24, 2024

The worst actions of your government happen not in secrecy, but right out in the open under the narrative cover of mass media propaganda. The western empire doesn't hide its worst deeds, it just manipulates the way people think about them. Reading by Tim Foley.

Just Seeing Through The Propaganda Isn't Enough - We've Got To Open Our Hearts As Well Mar 23, 2024

Humanity doesn't just need to escape from the mental prison of imperial indoctrination. It needs to escape from the heart prison as well. Reading by Tim Foley.

Half Of Americans Have No Idea Whether Israelis Or Palestinians Are Suffering More Deaths Mar 22, 2024

The fact that half of Americans don't know whether Israelis or Palestinians are suffering more deaths in Gaza is the result of the appalling "Palestinian child walks into bullet"-style headlines the mainstream American press have been churning out since this conflict began. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Apologia Is One Big Fat Appeal To Emotion Fallacy Mar 22, 2024

The PR campaign for Israel's destruction of Gaza revolves around encouraging everyone to focus on the feelings of people on the pro-Israel side instead of focusing on facts and evidence. The way Israelis are feeling about October 7. The way Israelis are feeling about the hostages. The way pro-Palestine demonstrations make western Jews feel inside. What feelings Biden is privately feeling toward Netanyahu. The whole thing's one big fat appeal to emotion fallacy. Reading by Tim Foley.

Find Someone Who Loves You Like Israel Loves Attacking Palestinian Hospitals Mar 21, 2024

"Israel's constant fixation on attacking healthcare facilities makes no sense from a military strategic point of view, but it makes plenty of sense from a genocidal point of view." Reading by Tim Foley.

Without Extensive Narrative Manipulation, None Of This Would Be Consented To Mar 20, 2024

"Without extensive narrative manipulation, it would never occur to anyone that bombing Gaza into rubble is a reasonable response to a single Hamas attack." Reading by Tim Foley.

It's Journalistic Malpractice To Say Gazans Are Starving Without Saying Israel Is Starving Them Mar 19, 2024

"The editors of The New York Times know exactly what they're doing packaging a story about Israel's deliberate starvation of Palestinian civilians like it's a troubling prediction about the weather." Reading by Tim Foley.

Don't Equate The Violence Of The Oppressor With The Violence Of The Oppressed Mar 19, 2024

You can't equate the violence of the oppressor with the violence of the oppressed. They're not the same, and the oppressor is the ultimate source of the violence from both sides. Reading by Tim Foley.

You Can't Trust Any Part Of This Dystopia If You Want Health And Sanity Mar 18, 2024

This civilization is not your friend. Hopefully someday we'll live in a civilization whose component parts we can trust, but this civilization is rife with poison for our bodies, our minds, and our hearts. And we need to conduct ourselves in accordance with this reality if we want to be healthy. Reading by Tim Foley.

They're Really Going To Try To Lay All The Blame For Gaza On Netanyahu Mar 17, 2024

They're really going to try to pin all the blame for the incineration of Gaza on Benjamin Netanyahu so that nothing has to change when this is over. The western empire has chosen a single scapegoat to carry away its sins so the status quo can march on unhindered by guilt or consequence. Reading by Tim Foley.

Genocidal Psychopaths Celebrate International Day To Combat Islamophobia Mar 16, 2024

They're condemning Islamophobia and denouncing hate crimes against Muslims at the exact same time as they are helping Israel create a mountain of Palestinian corpses in a genocidal onslaught whose entire premise is that Palestinians are the wrong race and the wrong religion. They are proclaiming their love for the Muslim while plunging a knife into his throat. Reading by Tim Foley.

If Israel Wants To Be An "Independent Nation", Let It Be An Independent Nation Mar 15, 2024

Israel is as dependent as a nation can possibly be. It literally cannot exist without the direct military backing of the most powerful empire of all time, namely the United States and its globe-spanning network of allies and assets. Reading by Tim Foley.

Crocodile Tears For Gaza While Backing Its Destruction Mar 13, 2024

Nothing's more enraging than seeing the western officials who are making this genocide possible weep crocodile tears about how "heartbreaking" it is. Reading by Tim Foley.

Liberals Are Always Trying To Distance Biden From Netanyahu, And Netanyahu From Israel Mar 12, 2024

"Liberals only try to compartmentalize these things away from each other to stave off the cognitive dissonance inherent in their contradiction-soaked worldview." Reading by Tim Foley.

Worrying About TikTok During An Active Genocide Mar 11, 2024

There's a motherfucking genocide happening and we're being told we need to be worried about TikTok and defaced portraits of Lord Balfour. Reading by Tim Foley.

This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal Mar 10, 2024

US airman Aaron Bushnell said the words "This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal" before self-immolating in protest of the genocide in Gaza. That simple line has been reverberating throughout our collective consciousness ever since. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Accused Of Torturing UN Workers To Obtain False Testimony About UNRWA Mar 09, 2024

A recently released UNRWA document says its staff report having been tortured while detained by Israeli forces, who pressed them to provide false statements about ties between the agency and Hamas. Reading by Tim Foley.

Saying "Hamas Just Needs To Surrender" Is Saying "We'll Kill Kids Until We Get What We Want" Mar 09, 2024

"Such a tactic is not meaningfully different from lining up children on their knees on the battlefield and shooting them one by one in the back of the head until the enemy unconditionally surrenders." Reading by Tim Foley.

I Don't Need Guns I Need Fire Extinguishers Mar 08, 2024

Pointing pistols as the man burns, as Gaza burns, as civilization burns, as the planet burns. I don't need guns I need fire extinguishers. Raytheon racketeers and Pentagon pimps swollen fat from the blood of unnamed victims glossed over in headlines by The New York Times while National Guard troops patrol the New York subways and babies with legs like toothpicks fill our screens. Pouring arms into Israel while humanitarian-LARPing aid airdrops. Waving around armageddon weapons while accusing peacemongers of treason. Well sure I'd ask for seconds mister president sir, but see I don't need guns I need fire extinguishers. I need someone to put some fat back on those babies. I need someone to get the plastic out of the oceans. I need the bombs to stop and the siege to lift and a healthy planet for the kids to play in. I need kids to stop getting their limbs blown off so they can run and play in that healthy world. Can you drone strike me a thriving biosphere? Can you ICBM those Gazans some food? Can you extinguish this fire with your weapons and wars? No? Then get outta the way man. We don't need guns we need fire extinguishers. "Free Palestine," the man on fire said. "FREE PALESTINE!" he screamed. And then the cops showed up with their guns and their bullets, because of course they fucking did. And Gaza still burns, and the world still burns, and our eyes still burn, and our lungs still burn, and our hearts still burn, and our rage still burns, and they promise us the burning will stop if we just add in a few more guns. We don't need guns you stupid cop. We need this burning world to heal.

Pretending The US Can't Just Drive Aid Into Gaza Mar 08, 2024

The Biden administration is supposedly planning to set up a temporary pier in Gaza to allow for the large-scale shipment of sorely needed goods into the enclave, which reportedly will take weeks to build and will still be subjected to an Israeli checkpoint. Reading by Tim Foley.

Oscar Winners Who Don't Speak Out On Gaza This Weekend Will Be Complicit In Genocide Mar 07, 2024

Every Hollywood celebrity who fails to speak out against the US-backed genocide in Gaza at the Oscars this Sunday is complicit in that genocide. If you're given a major platform and your government is committing genocide, you are morally obligated use that platform to condemn your government's actions. Reading by Tim Foley.

PODCAST: Aaron Bushnell, The Israel Lobby, Mass Media Propaganda And More Mar 06, 2024

We've managed to get a third podcast episode up! Recording it and making enough time to create it and edit it are skills we're still developing, but we've always learned on the job in this weird little project of ours anyway. Personally I think this is our best one yet. In this episode we discuss Aaron Bushnell and the pathetic performative airdrop of a few meals in Gaza, we make some embarrassing revelations about how we stay productive amidst a daily deluge of negativity, and we answer a few questions from readers and trolls. Questions we address in this episode: "Discuss the reasons explaining the impressive level of US support for Israel." "How do you maintain such productivity in the face of the negativity you're dealing with daily? Mindset, routines, practices?" "Why weren't you so ragey about the civil war waged on Syrians by Assad about a decade ago, where far more were slaughtered than in Gaza right now?" "We talk about pro-war corporate media narratives all the time. Who is the narrator? How is the script passed down?" "Why Joe Biden and Netanyahu are not Behind the Bars?" Questions and comments and constructive criticism are much appreciated. Enjoy!

"Pay No Attention To That Genocide Right In Front Of Your Face" Mar 05, 2024

"Pay no attention to that genocide right in front of your face." That's the constant message we're getting from the dominant institutions in this present-day dystopia. From our news media. From our political parties. From our government. From our mainstream culture of diversion and superficiality. Reading by Tim Foley.

Nobody With Real Power Cares If You Refuse To Vote For Biden Mar 04, 2024

The problem is not that the wrong people keep getting elected, it's that the elections don't matter and voters don't have a say. Reading by Tim Foley.

So They're Experimenting With Military Robots In Gaza Now Mar 04, 2024

Haaretz has a new article out titled "Gaza Becomes Israel's Testing Ground for Military Robots", which reports that "In an effort to avoid harming soldiers and dogs, the IDF has been experimenting with the use of robots and remote-controlled dogs in the Gaza War." Reading by Tim Foley.

On Palestine And The Worthlessness Of The Western Liberal Mar 03, 2024

There's an infuriatingly common type of liberal who purports to oppose Israel's actions in Gaza while also saying they support "Israel's right to exist", as though Israel's existence is somehow separable from its genocidal murderousness. Reading by Tim Foley.

Aaron Bushnell's Death Can't Rightly Be Called An Act Of Suicide Mar 03, 2024

In the case of suicide as we conventionally understand it, death is the goal. It is the both the means and the end, in and of itself. Aaron Bushnell's self-immolation was a means to a very different end: a free Palestine and the cessation of an ongoing genocide. Reading by Tim Foley.

You Have Already Taken A Side On Israel-Palestine (Whether You Admit It Or Not) Mar 02, 2024

You have either consciously chosen to side with the people who are being continually massacred by Israel, or you have consciously chosen to side with Israel, or you have sided with Israel by being "neutral", or you have sided with Israel by being indifferent. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Empire's Weakness Is That It Still Needs Normal People To Turn Its Gears Mar 02, 2024

Imperial propaganda outlet The New York Times is currently embroiled in a massive scandal over its reporting which alleges mass rapes on October 7 - and the scandal is being fueled in part by leaks from its own staff. Reading by Tim Foley.

When The Imperial Media Report On An Israeli Massacre Mar 01, 2024

So that's what happens when the imperial media report on an Israeli massacre, in case you were curious and haven't been paying attention since October 7 or the decades which preceded it. Reading by Tim Foley.

On Aaron Bushnell, Methinks The Israel Apologist Doth Protest Too Much Feb 29, 2024

Many high-profile Israel supporters have been circulating a fake screenshot of a Reddit account run by Bushnell saying "Palestine will be free when all the jews are dead." The fact that they're doing this illustrates two things: that Israel supporters are unscrupulous liars, and that they are freaking the fuck out about how much damage Bushnell has done to their cause. Reading by Tim Foley.

A Profound Act Of Sincerity Feb 28, 2024

One of the main reasons the self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell is having such an earthshaking impact on our society is because it's the single most profound act of sincerity that any of us have ever witnessed. Reading by Tim Foley.

When The Slaughter Stops In Gaza Feb 27, 2024

When the slaughter stops in Gaza I will get to those cobwebs, promise, and water that monstera, and clean out that goo in the fridge. When the slaughter stops in Gaza I will youtube how to grow strawberries, and whether dinosaurs ever had feathers, and what's the deal with hibachis - is it something to do with fondue? When the slaughter stops in Gaza I will brush my hair out finally, and call my Mum god bless her and make her a perfect lasagna - no, two; I'll make one for freezing, and I'll give Dad back his drill. When the slaughter stops in Gaza I will teach myself to play 'Nightswimming', and do a drawing of that face that I took a pic of with my camera in that packed tram in peak-hour Back Before All This Happened, and I'll make some kind of cake. When the slaughter stops in Gaza I will sit with my love in our camp chairs, our fingers entwined with our heart strings, kicking coals awake til magpies chortle "oh boy are you guys still up?" and then I'll let him give me an orgasm - the kind that rips through veils. When the slaughter stops in Gaza I'll have my friend for dinner, and we can watch her vampire show and talk about her Dad who died seven millennia and three lives ago in September of 2023. And we will lay upon the couch our teeth stained black with wine, and we will giggle about dumb things, and one of us will fart and the other will fall off the couch, and it will be good and kind and sweet, and not once will we see dead babies or kids ripped from their mums, or servicemen lit on fire screaming "Free Palestine, FREE PALESTINE!" and have our hearts thump in our mouths, teeth clacking like a piano, nails digging into flesh, because everything is awful and nothing makes sense, and those men are so horrible, and why won't they stop them and why won't they stop them and why won't they stop why won't they stop. But until then, I will roll out of bed, do a chore and eat a thing, brush my teeth and drink some water thump my chest and howl in sorrow hug my babies, sniff their hair, and get back in the fight.

Aaron Bushnell Burned Himself Alive To Make You Turn Your Eyes To Gaza Feb 26, 2024

Shortly before his final act in this world, Bushnell posted the following message on Facebook: "Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' "The answer is, you're doing it. Right now." Aaron Bushnell has provided his own answer to this challenge. We're all providing our own right now. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Most American Thing That Has Ever Happened Feb 26, 2024

You simply cannot fit more America into a single incident than a man dying a horrifying death in protest of war crimes while a first responder screams at cops to stop pointing their guns at him and go get fire extinguishers. Reading by Tim Foley.

You Can't Be A "Lesser Evil" When You're Sponsoring A Genocide Feb 25, 2024

You don't get to apply the label "lesser evil" to a president who is backing a literal genocide. That's not a thing. Past a certain point you're just plain evil. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Supporters Are Some Of The Worst People In The World Feb 24, 2024

Every single day these last four and a half months I've been inundated with comments from Israel supporters excusing the most monstrous acts imaginable in the most monstrous ways imaginable. People calling for the total destruction of Gaza. People saying the Gazans deserve what is happening to them. Saying the sickest shit you can possibly think of in response to news of terrible things happening to innocent children. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Difference Between Republicans And Democrats Feb 23, 2024

The difference between Republicans and Democrats is that if a Republican president were to back a genocide it would be an evil and unforgivable atrocity, whereas when a Democrat president backs a genocide it's a minor foible that you'd better shut up about unless you want Trump to win. Reading by Tim Foley.

Just Keep Bringing Awareness To The Depravity Of The Empire In As Many Ways As Possible Feb 23, 2024

Look for fresh opportunities to show westerners that the mass media are deceiving and propagandizing them to get them questioning their assumptions about what they've been told about the world. Look for fresh opportunities to show them evidence that the US war machine is the most murderous and destructive force on this planet. Look for fresh opportunities to show them how status quo systems create a far less beneficial society and a far less healthy world than what we could have under different systems. You never know what could be the one thing that snaps somebody's eyes open. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel-Palestine Isn't 'Complicated', You Just Support Killing Palestinians Feb 22, 2024

Israeli media are now reporting that ten hostages were killed as a result of Israeli attacks on buildings where the IDF knew hostages were located. Israel supporters can go ahead and stop babbling about hostages when trying to justify the attack on Gaza. It's never been about saving hostages. Reading by Tim Foley.

You Only Need To Cage A Bird If It Knows That It Can Fly Feb 20, 2024

One point I keep trying to drive home here in as many ways as I can is that this is the dystopia we were warned about. The main difference between this mind-controlled dystopia and the fictional dystopias in novels like 1984 is that in 1984 people knew they weren't living in a free society, whereas in this dystopia the people believe they are free. Reading by Tim Foley.

Podcast: Assange's Showdown With The Empire Of Lies Feb 19, 2024

Tim and Caitlin are back with another chat, this time about Assange, Gaza, the empire and propaganda. We also took a couple of questions, including "Where do you get your news and how best to parse fact from fiction?" and "Across the world are there any people you admire offering inspiration and hope?"

Nobody Who Gets Gaza Wrong Is Worth Listening To Feb 19, 2024

I've actually stopped following people for getting Gaza wrong. People I'd previously followed for years. I disagree with literally everyone I follow on some issues at some times, but Gaza quickly became my red line. If you can't get that one right, nothing else you have to say is worth a damn. Reading by Tim Foley.

Crocodile Tears Over Navalny While Ignoring Assange Feb 17, 2024

The entire western political-media class are currently rending their garments about the prison death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and are being joined by the propaganda-addled citizenry of the western empire. Meanwhile Julian Assange's last-ditch effort to appeal against extradition to the United States is coming up in a few days with a tiny fraction of the attention. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Perfect Recipe For A Real Antisemitism Crisis Feb 16, 2024

If I wanted to increase antisemitism, I imagine I'd do a lot of really evil stuff under a Star of David flag while adamantly insisting that my actions are inseparable from the Jewish people and the Jewish faith. I'd kill children by the thousands and commit genocidal atrocities. Reading by Tim Foley.

We Think This Dystopia Is Normal Like People In Abusive Relationships Think It's Normal Feb 15, 2024

Westerners who don't appreciate the extreme dysfunctionality of western civilization are like someone in an abusive marriage who hasn't yet recognized that there's a problem, or someone who had a violent and chaotic childhood who still thinks their home life was basically normal. Reading by Tim Foley.

Continuing To Support Israel At This Point Just Means You're A Garbage Human Being Feb 14, 2024

Four months. This has been happening for four months. If you're still supporting Israel after four months of atrocities, then you're just a shitty human being. After four months you've lost any possible claim to have overreacted to October 7 in the emotional heat of the moment, and this is just who you are as a person. Reading by Tim Foley.

Ignore What Western Officials Say About Israel; Watch Their Actions Instead Feb 13, 2024

The Biden administration is feeding pleasing sound bites to the mass media about the president saying mean things about Netanyahu in order to placate their base, while having their foot firmly on the gas pedal of concrete actions toward continuing the genocide in Gaza. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Weaponizes Sympathy And Victimhood Feb 12, 2024

In this dynamic, anything Israel does causes more people to hate Israel both in the middle east and around the world, to which Israel responds by tearfully proclaiming "See?? They hate us! We must defend ourselves against their hostilities!" Reading by Tim Foley.

"In The War Of Propaganda, It Is Very Difficult To Defeat The United States" Feb 11, 2024

"In the war of propaganda it is very difficult to defeat the United States because the United States controls all the world's media and many European media," Putin replied, adding, "The ultimate beneficiary of the biggest European media are American financial institutions." Reading by Tim Foley.

Pushing Gazans Into Rafah And Then Attacking Rafah, Killing UNRWA Funding Without Evidence Feb 10, 2024

So to summarize, the IDF has been packing the population of Gaza into the southernmost part of the enclave like toothpaste toward the end of a tube, and now they're going to attack that southernmost part, but it's totally not genocide and you're an evil Nazi if you say it is. Reading by Tim Foley.

A Dementia Patient Is President Because It Doesn't Matter Who The President Is Feb 09, 2024

So it turns out the dementia symptoms Biden's supporters have long dismissed as a "stutter" are actually exactly what they look like. Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Keeps Bombing People While Saying It Doesn't Want To Fight Feb 08, 2024

One of the weirdest things happening in the world today is the way US officials keep insisting that they are not at war with the groups they're dropping bombs on in the middle east, and that they do not seek conflict with the people they are attacking. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Empire Depends On Our Unwillingness To Look At Its Crimes Feb 07, 2024

This entire sick dystopia is held together by psychological compartmentalization. By the fact that it's more comfortable to avoid looking directly at the horrors of the status quo we live under, even though on some level we all know those horrors are there. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Western Press Are Just Printing Straight Up Nazi Propaganda About Middle Easterners Now Feb 06, 2024

Mass media editors at outlets like The Guardian, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have been allowing the publication of some amazingly racist pieces these last few days. All are directed at middle easterners and those of middle eastern descent, just as the western empire drops more and more bombs on more and more countries in the middle east. Reading by Tim Foley.

Podcast: Four Months Of Genocide Feb 06, 2024

That's right, we've got a podcast out. Caitlin and Tim discuss the harrowing experience of following Israel's mass atrocities in Gaza for four months, then answer some questions from readers and trolls. Questions we address here include: "Who is Tim?" "Do you guys ever disagree on the topics you cover?" "What are the ways that people deeply attached to the status quo - even whilst recognising it stinks - can be encouraged to let go their grip?" "Do you ever tweet anything that isn't either anti-Israel or anti-USA?" "Who do you support for President?" "What kind of world should we strive for?"

CNN's CEO Is Making Staff Churn Out Israel Propaganda Feb 05, 2024

This is the sort of person who gets hired to multiple executive positions in multiple highly influential western media platforms. If you've ever wondered why it looks like the western press function in pretty much the same way as the state propaganda services in the autocracies the west proudly sets itself apart from, this is why. The corporate media are owned and controlled by plutocrats who have a vested interest in preserving the status quo power structure upon which their kingdoms are built, and state broadcasters like the BBC have the same interest for the same reason. They decide who the executives of those outlets will be, and those executives make policy and hiring decisions which cause the outlet to function in a way that is indistinguishable from state propaganda. Reading by Tim Foley.

However Bad You Think Israel Is, It's Worse Feb 05, 2024

So it turns out the IDF has been running a Telegram channel featuring homemade snuff films in which Gazans are brutally murdered by Israeli forces, captioned with celebrations of the gore and pain therein like "Burning their mother… You won't believe the video we got! You can hear their bones crunch." The IDF had previously denied any association with the channel, but Haaretz now reports that it was directly run by an IDF psychological warfare unit. Reading by Tim Foley.

Never Before Has The Empire Been So Exposed Feb 03, 2024

I've been railing against the US war machine for around seven years now, and never during that time have I had more westerners on my side than right now. Never has the depravity of the western empire been more starkly exposed in the cold light of day. Reading by Tim Foley.

Biden Says The US "Does Not Seek Conflict In The Middle East" While Actively Dropping Bombs There Feb 03, 2024

Saying the US does not seek conflict in the middle east is like saying the Kardashians do not seek attention. It's like saying Jeff Bezos doesn't seek money. It's like saying the Hamburglar doesn't seek hamburgers. It's kind of their thing. To make such a ridiculous claim while actively raining military explosives upon the middle east, in "retaliation" for an attack which the people you're bombing didn't even commit, is just extra icing on the cake of ridiculousness. Reading by Tim Foley.

Five Things Liberals Say To Avoid Taking A Real Position On Gaza Feb 02, 2024

Here are five noises western liberals like to make to avoid having to take a real position on Gaza: 1. "It's heartbreaking!" 2. "It's complicated!" 3. "BUT TRUMP!" 4. "I really hope there can be peace there someday!" 5. "I support a two-state solution!" Reading by Tim Foley.

Democrats Are Demented Genocidal War Sluts Feb 01, 2024

A Democratic president engaging in genocide during a re-election year is highlighting the depravity of this warmongering capitalist party more starkly than anything else I can remember. Reading by Tim Foley.

Everything Israel Wants To Destroy Is Hamas Jan 30, 2024

UNRWA is Hamas. The hospitals are Hamas. The ambulances are Hamas. The journalists are Hamas. The schools are Hamas. South Africa is Hamas. People tweeting unfavorable things about Israel are Hamas. Basically everyone Israel and its supporters want killed is Hamas. Reading by Tim Foley.

Strange Groceries Jan 29, 2024

What strange groceries that man is carrying Odd shapes in two plastic bags Dripping blood They look like they weigh more than the world Head bowed Eyes screwed shut Step after step, feet like lead Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah What are those strange groceries you carry, sir? These are my children, he says through a clenched jaw They have had a long and weary day And it is time to put them to bed His face is wet with tears And his arms are shaking He walks on Heavy feet with a heavy burden Allah, Allah, Allah, Allah Oh Allah _____________ Reading by Tim Foley.

Yet More US-Driven Escalations Toward War In The Middle East Jan 29, 2024

Well, it finally happened. The scores of attacks on US troops in the middle east in response to Israel's US-backed atrocities in Gaza have resulted in American deaths, just as critics of US foreign policy have been saying would happen for months. Reading by Tim Foley.

Commemorating A Past Holocaust While Cheerleading The Current One Jan 28, 2024

It's been so surreal watching empire managers issue solemn words in honor of Holocaust Memorial Day while enthusiastically facilitating a modern-day genocide in Gaza. Commemorating the Holocaust while cheerleading for the current holocaust is next-level dystopia. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Accuses The ICJ Of (You Guessed It) Antisemitism Jan 27, 2024

Everyone's arguing about whether or not the ICJ's ruling is helpful, and I don't know enough one way or the other to be sure either way, but from where things stand right now it does seem unlikely to me that managers of the Israeli war machine would be getting this freaked out and whipping out their tired old "antisemitism" song and dance if there wasn't something of substance to it. Reading by Tim Foley.

The War On Journalism In Belmarsh, The War On Journalism In Gaza Jan 26, 2024

I haven't written much about Julian Assange lately because I've been so fixated on what's been happening in Gaza, but we should all be acutely aware that the 20th and 21st of February may be the WikiLeaks founder's final chance to avoid extradition to the United States to face persecution for the crime of good journalism. Reading by Tim Foley.

Gaza Is Exposing Western Liberals For The Frauds They Are Jan 25, 2024

The entire western liberal worldview is currently balanced on the ability to psychologically compartmentalize away from the mass atrocities in Gaza and what western governments are doing to perpetuate them. Reading by Tim Foley.

Many Say They Want Peace When What They Really Want Is Obedience Jan 24, 2024

Everyone says they want peace, but they mean different things by this. To an anti-imperialist, peace means the end of violence, oppression and exploitation. To a Zionist, peace means Palestinians lie down and accept their fate and neighboring nations cease disobeying Israel. To a supporter of the US empire, peace means all nations around the world submit to US unipolar hegemony. Many say they want peace when what they really want is tyranny. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Biden Administration's Absurd Justification For Its Yemen War Jan 23, 2024

Ever since the Biden administration began bombing Yemen, its official spinmeisters have been babbling about commerce and global container shipping to justify it. The unspoken premise behind this justification is that an active genocide should be permitted to continue with zero economic repercussions of any kind, for Israel or anyone else. Reading by Tim Foley.

Biden Has Started Another US War Jan 22, 2024

The Washington Post has an article out titled "As Houthis vow to fight on, U.S. prepares for sustained campaign," with "sustained campaign" being empire-speak for a new American war. Reading by Tim Foley.

Welcome To The Empire Jan 20, 2024

Welcome to the empire Where genocide is self-defense and peace rallies are genocide Where war criminals are the victims and the hospitals are terrorists Where calls for freedom are hateful and ceasefires are anti-semitic Where civilians get called terrorists and real terrorists get Nobel Peace Prizes Where the propaganda is journalism and the journalism is propaganda Where the democracy is real and the apartheid is imaginary Where the corporations are people and the people are corporate resources Welcome to the empire Whose bombs are humanitarian and whose provocations are invisible Whose veterans are heroes and whose victims are forgotten Whose wars are always just and whose enemies are always Hitler Whose cause is always righteous and whose critics are always Russian Whose sufferings are unforgivable and whose crimes are erased from history Whose atrocities are always an unfortunate accident and whose enemies kill civilians for fun Whose disastrous interventions are always innocent mistakes no matter how often they happen Welcome to the empire Ever the victim of unprovoked attacks from the people it has been strangling Ever the shining city on a hill of human corpses Ever the defender of the poor helpless plutocrats of Wall Street Ever the savior of the families incinerated by missiles made by Raytheon Ever the protector of natural resources in the soil of foreign nations Ever the upholder of the rules-based order of a world with a boot on its throat The empire loves you with a heart made of dollars and oil The empire watches over you through your smartphone and your computer The empire is your only friend The empire is the only one who will ever love you You can't leave You can't get rid of the empire If you get rid of the empire, this world could be taken over by tyrants _______________ Reading by Tim Foley.

Bibi Rejects Palestinian Statehood, Biden Says Bombing Yemen Doesn't Work But Will Continue Anyway Jan 19, 2024

Benjamin Netanyahu said he opposes Palestinian statehood and that Israel must control everything from the river to the sea on the same day Joe Biden said the repeated bombing of Yemen isn't deterring Ansarallah but they're going to keep bombing anyway. Reading by Tim Foley.

When Yemen Does It It's Terrorism, When The US Does It It's "The Rules-Based Order" Jan 18, 2024

That's right kids: when Yemen sets up a blockade to try and stop an active genocide, that's terrorism, but when the US empire imposes a blockade to secure its geostrategic interests in the middle east, why that's just the rules-based international order in action. Reading by Tim Foley.

The "Rules-Based International Order" Jan 16, 2024

The "rules-based international order" has allowed the incineration of Gaza, and the bombing of Yemeni forces who are trying to stop it. The "rules-based international order" allowed hundreds of thousands of people to be killed by western-backed Saudi atrocities in Yemen. The "rules-based international order" allowed NATO powers to knowingly provoke a world-threatening proxy war in Ukraine. Reading by Tim Foley.

Turns Out "Israel Has A Right To Defend Itself" Meant "Israel Has A Right To Commit Genocide" Jan 15, 2024

Turns out "Israel has a right to defend itself" actually meant "Israel has a right to commit genocide, and no other countries have a right to stop it." Reading by Tim Foley.

If You've Just Started Paying Attention To US Foreign Policy Jan 13, 2024

If you're among those who have only just begun paying attention to US foreign policy and western media bias in light of Israel's destruction of Gaza and Biden's act of war against Yemen, it's important to understand that none of the depravity you're seeing is new. The lies. The insane double standards. The murderousness. The western political/media class always does this. Reading by Tim Foley.

We Could Try Simply NOT Provoking A Wider War Via The Continued Destruction Of Gaza Jan 13, 2024

The US has carried out another air raid on Yemen, with targets reportedly including the international airport in the capital city of Sanaa. This comes a day after US and UK airstrikes on Yemen in retaliation for Houthi attacks on Red Sea commercial vessels. Reading by Tim Foley.

Western Empire Bombs Yemen To Protect Israel's Genocide Operations In Gaza Jan 12, 2024

So the US and the UK just bombed the poorest country in the middle east for trying to stop a genocide. Not only that, they bombed the very same country in which they just spent years backing Saudi Arabia's genocidal atrocities which killed hundreds of thousands of people between 2015 and 2022 in an unsuccessful bid to stop the Houthis from taking power. Reading by Tim Foley.

Biden Is Everything People Feared Trump Would Be Jan 11, 2024

Biden has turned out to be everything we were warned Trump would be: a genocidal monster fueling racist violence and crimes against humanity while imperiling the world with insanely reckless foreign policy decisions. Reading by Tim Foley.

This Genocide Is Being Live-Streamed. We Can't Say We Didn't Know. Jan 10, 2024

This genocide is being live-streamed. We can't say we didn't know. For as long as we live we'll never be able to say we didn't know. Reading by Tim Foley.

Westerners Have An Absolutely Psychotic View Of Airstrikes Jan 09, 2024

Canadian online outlet The Breach has published a letter by CBC's senior manager of journalistic standards Nancy Waugh which highlights perfectly the bizarre psychological relationship that westerners have with bombs and airstrikes in foreign countries. Reading by Tim Foley.

Tony Blinken Is A Cold-Blooded Sociopath Jan 08, 2024

Nothing epitomizes the depraved manipulations of the US empire better than Antony Blinken. There is no better representation of that empire than Tony standing there on his mountain of corpses, covered in blood, telling you how sorry he is to learn of the unfortunate accidental deaths of the people he just murdered, staring at you with his cold dead eyes, playing remarkably soulless blues guitar under the light of a bright red moon. Reading by Tim Foley.

I Want For You What You Want For The Palestinians Jan 07, 2024

I want for you whatever you want for the Palestinians. When I say I want for you what you want for the Palestinians, I mean what it is that you really, truly want for them. Not what you pretend to want for the Palestinians. Not what you say you want for the Palestinians when you're in polite company, or when the cameras are on you, or when you're posting online under your real name, or when you're speaking publicly in a language other than Hebrew. I mean I want for you what you actually, truthfully want for the Palestinians, in your own private personal inner world. I hope you receive whatever that is. Reading by Tim Foley.

CNN And Washington Post Busted For Pro-Israel Propaganda Shenanigans Jan 06, 2024

Both CNN and The Washington Post have been caught engaging in some pretty shady journalistic malpractice with their Israel reporting in recent days. Reading by Tim Foley.

It's Insane That Anyone Is Still Supporting Israel Jan 05, 2024

If you're still supporting Israel at this point, you're just telling everyone you don't care about truth or morality. You're announcing to the world that you care only about your weird ideological agendas and geopolitical control. You are publicly proclaiming that you are a dogshit human being. That you have lived on this earth all these years without arriving at any level of emotional or psychological maturity. That you have wasted your life on this planet. Reading by Tim Foley.

We Are Entirely Too Close To Another Major War In The Middle East Jan 04, 2024

"That risk exists on four fronts: Between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah, in Syria and Iraq due to attacks on US troops by militias aligned with Iran, the Red Sea between the Houthis and the US Navy, and between Israel and Iran following both the assassination of an Iranian general in Syria and the explosion in Kerman today at the commemoration of the death of General Qassem Soleimani that has killed more than 100," Parsi writes. Reading by Tim Foley.

US Admonishes Israeli Officials For Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud About Ethnic Cleansing Jan 03, 2024

The US State Department has issued a statement indignantly finger-wagging at two Israeli officials who recently drew headlines for openly endorsing the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip. Reading by Tim Foley.

I Don't Care What Religion The Genocidal Child Murderers Are Jan 02, 2024

I don't give a fuck if you're Jewish. I don't care what religion you are. If you're murdering thousands of children, the very least significant thing about that situation is what religion you happen to be. I think the overwhelming majority of people on my side see it this way. Reading by Tim Foley.

They're Calling Ethnic Cleansing "Voluntary Migration" Now Jan 02, 2024

Israeli officials are now openly admitting that they're working on "encouraging" the migration of Palestinians from Gaza, ridiculously claiming that this migration would be "voluntary" despite their having deliberately made the enclave uninhabitable over the last three months. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Says It's Anti-Semitic To Invoke The Genocide Convention Against It Dec 29, 2023

South Africa has invoked the Genocide Convention, formally launching a case at the UN's international court of justice accusing Israel of genocide for its mass atrocities in the Gaza Strip. Israel immediately responded by (deep sigh) accusing South Africa of "blood libel". Reading by Tim Foley.

How The Hell Did We Get Here? Dec 27, 2023

We could have been so much more. We have the ability to create a healthy and harmonious world and collaborate to give everyone on earth everything they need, and instead we're killing the biosphere while arguing about whether or not it's anti-semitic to oppose an active genocide. Reading by Tim Foley.

This Can't Be Another Instance Of Genocide : Israel Believes It's Right! Dec 26, 2023

I hear people calling this a genocide, but that's ridiculous. What's been explained to me is that the assault on Gaza is completely different from all the genocidal massacres you've read about in history, because the Israelis believe what they are doing is right. See, this time the ones who are carrying out the mass-scale extermination programs and ethnic cleansing plans have REASONS for doing so. Reading by Tim Foley.

At This Point We Have To Always Assume Israel Is Lying Until Proven Otherwise Dec 22, 2023

A Washington Post investigative report into Israel's attack on al-Shifa Hospital has found that "the evidence presented by the Israeli government falls short of showing that Hamas had been using the hospital as a command and control center." The Post reports it came to this conclusion after "analysis of open-source visuals, satellite imagery and all of the publicly released IDF materials." At this point the default assumption of any thinking person should be that all claims made by Israel are lies until proven otherwise by mountains of rock-solid evidence. Reading by Tim Foley.

Anne And Joe Argue About The Child-Killing Murder Robot Dec 21, 2023

"I'm not so sure about the Child-Killing Murder Robot," Joe said after a sip of coffee while reading the morning paper. "What??" his wife Anne exclaimed, visibly shocked. "It's killed thousands of kids in its latest murder rampage," Joe said. "I'm starting to think maybe the Child-Killing Murder Robot isn't such a great thing after all."

The Atrocities In Gaza Are The Perfect Embodiment Of ''Western Values' Dec 20, 2023

When Israeli president Isaac Herzog described the attack on Gaza as a war "to save Western civilization, to save the values of Western civilization," he wasn't really lying. He was telling the truth - just maybe not quite in the way that he meant it. Reading by Tim Foley.

Going Mask-Off About The Two-State Solution Lie Dec 19, 2023

There's been a surprising number of recent Israeli government admissions that not only is a two-state solution not on the table, but that it never was. Reading by Tim Foley.

The IDF Are So Good At Killing Israelis They Should Consider Joining Hamas Dec 17, 2023

Friendly fire during October 7, friendly fire on the battlefield in Gaza, friendly fire executions of Israeli prisoners. The IDF are so good at killing Israelis they should start making GoPro videos with red triangles about it. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Biggest Lie We're Being Told About The Gaza Assault Is That It Is Necessary Dec 16, 2023

The demolition of Gaza is not necessary because there are real pathways to a true and lasting peace which do not require a single bomb to be dropped, and there are also very easy ways to return to the abusive status quo of October 6 without dropping a single bomb. Reading by Tim Foley.

All The Propaganda Is Splattering Against A Solid Wall Of Reality Dec 16, 2023

What we are seeing with Gaza is manufactured narrative splatting against reality over and over again. The western empire churns out propaganda narratives about what Israel is doing, and those narratives are crashing headlong into raw video footage and concrete facts in ways you don't often see. Reading by Tim Foley.

Biden Intends To Keep Participating In The Incineration Of Gaza Dec 15, 2023

Biden administration officials are telling the press that they have no plans to place any conditions on military aid to Israel. Reading by Tim Foley,

CNN Goes To Gaza Dec 15, 2023

CNN's Clarissa Ward and her crew became the first western journalists to enter Gaza independent from Israeli forces since October 7, briefly visiting a 150-bed hospital that was recently constructed in a soccer stadium by the United Arab Emirates in the southern part of the enclave before leaving to report on the footage from Abu Dhabi. Reading by Tim Foley.

Gaza Is Deliberately Being Made Uninhabitable Dec 13, 2023

Infectious diseases are tearing through Gaza, whose healthcare system has been rendered almost nonexistent, and people are beginning to starve in massive numbers. All of this is due to concrete policy decisions made by Israel in its horrific assault on the Gaza Strip. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Apologists Are Psychopaths Dec 12, 2023

In the last few days I've seen two separate articles attacking the idea that there are innocent people in Gaza, one from The Times of Israel titled "Innocents in Gaza? Don't be naive" and another from Town Hall titled "There Are No 'Innocent Palestinians'".

"Stop Murdering Thousands Of Children," Said The Evil Crazy Nazi Dec 11, 2023

"Stop murdering thousands of children," said the evil, crazy Nazi. "It's bad to murder children," the monster added. "Children should not be slaughtered at mass scale with powerful military explosives, they should be allowed to remain alive and happy and healthy." Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Supporters Would Defend Literally Any Israeli Atrocity Dec 10, 2023

Israel supporters are like, "No no you don't understand, the side that's killing babies and incinerating families and assassinating journalists and starving civilians and bombing cultural heritage sites and carpet bombing entire neighborhoods and driving an indigenous people off their land are the GOOD guys." Reading by Tim Foley.

Only Truth And Clear Seeing Can Lead Us To Peace And Harmony Dec 09, 2023

But for all the efforts to spin, justify and distract from the mass atrocity Israel and its allies are perpetrating in Gaza, more and more people are opening their eyes to what's happening, and are ceasing to fall for the propaganda any longer. Reading by Tim Foley.

I Will Not Look Away Dec 09, 2023

No matter how horrific it gets, I will not look away. No matter how many children I see killed and injured in the most gruesome ways imaginable, I will not look away. No matter how much human suffering I see by keeping my gaze on Gaza, I will not look away. Reading by Tim Foley.

For Refaat Alareer Dec 08, 2023

They killed a poet in Gaza on Wednesday. Well, as much as you can kill a poet, anyway. Kill a poet and his poems fight on. That poet is still throwing his marker at the bastards. A poet may have hands like velveteen mittens, but he can fight on even if he has no hands at all. A poet may have a home made of zip-ties and tarps, but he can fight on even if he sleeps on rubble. A poet can fight on even if he's got no legs. A poet can fight on even if he's got no arms. A poet can fight on even if he's got no teeth. A poet can fight on even if he's got no eyes. A poet can fight on even if he's got no hope. A poet can fight on even if he's got no life. A poet can fight on even after he has drawn his last breath, even after they've returned him to earth's womb, even after his possessions have been divided among his loved ones, even after the flesh has gone from his bones, even after there's no memory of him besides the poems he left behind. Poets can midwife a new world into being. Poets can give people a vision to fight for. Poets can change reality. Poets are powerful. That's why people kill them. I saw a video of two young boys strolling through Gaza nursing some tea in a paper cup, gossiping like the two old men they might never get to be. And there's a bee burrowing a hole in my door and a siren going off in my head, because the drones never stop in Gaza, and because there are bodies popped open by girders, buried under ruins rained down on by hellfire, near where mothers lie awake weighing whether it would be better to live without her children or for her kids to live without her, and we know this alarm won't stop until the explosions stop, until the screams stop, until the bleeding stops, until healing begins, until justice is served, until the bastards are beaten, until a healthy world has been born. Refaat, until there is justice, I will throw my marker at them too. _______________ Reading by Caitlin Johnstone.

If The Pro-Israel Position Was Based On Truth And Morality, It Wouldn't Depend On Lies And Slander Dec 07, 2023

If your position is based on truth and morality, you don't need to make up lies to defend it, and you don't need to hurl false accusations at those who disagree with it. If your position was based on truth and morality, you wouldn't need to circulate bogus atrocity propaganda about decapitated babies, babies cooked in ovens, and murdered pregnant women. If your position was based on truth and morality, you wouldn't have to circulate lies claiming actual dead Palestinian babies in Gaza are plastic dolls. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Official Story Of October Seventh Dec 07, 2023

The official story is that on October 7, 2023, thousands of evil Hamas terrorists broke out of their walled-in enclave and killed approximately 1,200 Israelis for no reason other than because they were evil and wanted to kill Jews. Nothing was done by the Israeli government to provoke this attack, and nothing of any relevance happened prior to this date. Reading by Tim Foley.

There's Nothing You Can Say To Make Me Accept The Murder Of Thousands Of Children Dec 06, 2023

I promise there is nothing you can say to me that will cause me to cease opposing the murder of thousands of children in Gaza. There is no name you can call me, no accusation you can scream at me, no talking point you can regurgitate at me that will ever make me shut up and accept this. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Horrors In Gaza Are Happening Because The US Empire Wants Them To Happen Dec 05, 2023

I came across an interesting quote made last month by a retired Israeli major general named Yitzhak Brick about the ongoing IDF assault on Gaza. "All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it's all from the U.S.," Brick said. "The minute they turn off the tap, you can't keep fighting. You have no capability. … Everyone understands that we can't fight this war without the United States. Period." Reading by Tim Foley.

The Goal Is Ethnic Cleansing, Not Defeating Hamas Dec 02, 2023

Israeli officials keep openly saying again and again that the plan for Gaza is ethnic cleansing, yet the western political/media class adamantly insists on continuing to frame Israel's actions in Gaza solely as a war against Hamas. Hamas isn't the target, it's the excuse. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel's Savagery Is So Shocking It's Sometimes Hard To Take In Nov 30, 2023

Sometimes Israel's crimes are so horrific that at first you don't even understand what you're looking at. You just stare at it trying to make sense of what you're seeing for a bit, like you would if you suddenly saw a space alien or a leprechaun or something. Reading by Tim Foley.

War Is Not Abstracted Anymore Nov 28, 2023

You can't have an up close and personal relationship with the reality of bombs and all the things they do to human flesh and then go back to the way you were ever again. Millions of western eyes have been changed forever. Reading by Tim Foley.

Hamas Isn't The Target, They're The Excuse Nov 27, 2023

If you're just tuning in, Israeli intelligence ignored mountains of information that the October 7 attack was coming and left Israelis completely undefended, then the IDF killed significant numbers of Israelis with indiscriminate fire and pinned the blame for 100% of Israeli deaths on Hamas, and all those deaths are now being used as justification to push Gazans off their land to the south and shoot them if they try to return while Israeli officials keep talking about how great it would be to get all Palestinians out of all of Gaza. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Has Damaged Israel's Reputation Far Worse Than Its Enemies Ever Have Nov 25, 2023

Israel has done more to damage Israel's image in the last seven weeks than anti-semites did in the last seven decades. Reading by Tim Foley.

Putin Was Declared A War Criminal For *Relocating* The Same Number Of Children Israel Just *Killed* Nov 24, 2023

It's probably worth noting at this point in history that the total number of children killed in Gaza has just surpassed the number of children the International Criminal Court indicted Russian president Vladimir Putin for relocating out of a war zone. Reading by Tim Foley.

Never Stop Being Shocked By The Depravity Of The Empire Nov 23, 2023

A friend of mine shared my article about how the Biden administration is worried the pause in fighting will allow journalists into Gaza to show Israel's crimes to the world, saying he knows he shouldn't be surprised by how evil these freaks are but somehow he still is. I told him I actually consciously cultivate the ability to stay surprised by such things. If you stop being surprised when you see the world's most powerful people always finding new and innovative ways to make the world a worse place for ordinary human beings, it means it's become normalized in your system in some way. It means that on top of all the other horrible evils they've inflicted upon our world, they've also managed to steal an important part of your humanity. Reading by Tim Foley.

White House Fears Pause In Fighting Will Let Journalists See What's Been Happening In Gaza Nov 22, 2023

In other words, the White House is worried that a brief pause in the Israeli massacre of civilians in Gaza will allow journalists to report the truth about the Israeli massacre of civilians in Gaza, because it will hurt the information interests of the US and Israel. They are worried that the public will become more aware of facts and truth. Reading by Tim Foley.

This Is The Real Face Of The US Empire Nov 22, 2023

Someone uploaded one of those viral "help identify this racist jerk" clips featuring a man accosting a street vendor with awful Islamophobic vitriol, and it turned out he was the former Deputy Director in the Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs for the US State Department. Reading by Tim Foley.

"From The River To The Sea" Is Genocide, But Actual Genocide Is Not Genocide Nov 21, 2023

Elon Musk has announced that common pro-Palestine phrases like "from the river to the sea" and "decolonization" are now banned on Twitter and will result in suspension, falsely claiming that they "necessarily imply genocide". Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Propaganda Vs Palestine Propaganda Nov 20, 2023

Israel propaganda looks like a music video featuring children singing "we will annihilate everyone" in Gaza. Palestine propaganda looks like an endless stream of raw video footage featuring children whose bodies have been ripped apart by Israeli military explosives. Israel propaganda looks like a music video of Israeli women doing yoga on top of images of the Israeli hostages in Gaza. Palestine propaganda looks like satellite images of entire neighborhoods that have been bombed into rubble by Israeli forces. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Doesn't Have A Gen-Z Problem, It Has A Morality Problem Nov 19, 2023

Nobody starts out as the sort of person who would support a genocidal bombing campaign that murders children by the thousands. It's something you come into gradually over the years, one moral compromise at a time. Reading by Tim Foley.

It's Impossible To Bomb A Population Into Submission And Obedience Nov 17, 2023

One of the many, many things that sucks about all this is knowing that when there is a violent retaliation for Israel's actions in Gaza which kills Israeli civilians, Israel will look up with Bambi-eyed innocence and say "What did we ever do to them?? We just want to live in peace!" Reading by Tim Foley.

False Accusations Of Anti-Semitism Exploit A Healthy Impulse To Advance A Profoundly Sick One Nov 16, 2023

The most despicable thing about the way Israel supporters smear all Israel critics as anti-semites is that they are exploiting a very healthy impulse to advance a profoundly sick impulse. They knowingly exploit the fact that the further to the left someone is on the the political spectrum the more likely they are to (A) support Palestinian rights and (B) be very receptive to any suggestion that they might be acting in a racially insensitive way. Reading by Tim Foley.

They're Just Insulting Our Intelligence At This Point Nov 15, 2023

If Israel's position were based on truth and morality it wouldn't be churning out a nonstop deluge of obvious lies. No one believes anything Israel says anymore. You either know Israel lies constantly or you know it but pretend you don't. Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Has A Standing Policy Of Ignoring The Human Rights Violations Of Its Allies Nov 15, 2023

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has been repeatedly refusing to tell the press whether he believes Israel has been following the laws of war in Gaza. Reading by Tim Foley.

Tone Policing Opposition To Genocide Nov 14, 2023

US senator Chris Coons sat across from journalist Aaron Maté on the train on Monday, which is about the worst place you could possibly choose to sit if you're a powerful official in a government that's in the middle of backing an active genocide. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israelis Keep Hurting Their Own PR Interests By Talking Nov 13, 2023

One problem Israel keeps running into is how the institutionalized dehumanization of Palestinians which keeps the apartheid state operational also causes Israelis to say things that non-Israelis will find extremely shocking, which hurts Israel's PR interests. Reading by Tim Foley.

What Would It Look Like If You Were Standing On The Wrong Side Of History? Nov 12, 2023

What would it look like to be on the wrong side of history? If there were a mass atrocity taking place presently which history will end up judging harshly in the future, and you were supporting the wrong side of it, what signs might you expect to see that that's the case? Well, I imagine you'd probably be seeing terrible news about what's happening coming out every day that under normal circumstances would cause you to cry out in horror, but then you'd be getting a bunch of words and stories from your side explaining why those self-evidently terrible things are actually not what they appear to be. Reading by Tim Foley.

Biden Could End All This With One Phone Call Nov 11, 2023

Biden could end this with one phone call. With. One. Phone call. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either lying or ignorant. This mass slaughter is happening because Washington wants it to happen. When Israel completely cut off Gaza's communications last month, Washington called and ordered them to restore it, and connections were immediately restored. It's always been this way; in 1982 Israel's assault on Lebanon was halted with a phone call from President Reagan. They can end this assault just as easily. Don't let the White House frame itself as a passive witness to this butchery. Reading by Tim Foley.

Both-Sidesing The Gaza Issue Is A Sign Of Psychological Immaturity Nov 10, 2023

You can't both-sides everything. You can't live your life that way. Yes it's possible to see both sides of every contentious issue. You're supposed to be able to do that; it's a sign of intellectual maturity. If you can't see both sides of an issue your relationship with abstract concepts is too rigid, and you're probably lacking in empathy. It's just a basic part of growing up to learn how to stand in other people's shoes and see where they're coming from. But just because you can see both sides doesn't mean you should live your life as though they're both equally true, or as though they both have equal merit. If you want to have a truth-based relationship with reality it's not enough to see both sides; you've got to grapple with it and figure out which side is more truthful, which side has more merit. You're neglecting a whole dimensionality of understanding if you just leave it at "well I can see both sides so I have no responsibility to pick one". Reading by Tim Foley.

Dismantle Israel And The Entire US Empire Nov 09, 2023

It's not just the Israeli state that has proven it needs to be dismantled, it's the entire US-centralized western empire. The whole giant power structure has got to go. Reading by Tim Foley.

Getting Called A Nazi For Opposing A Genocide Nov 08, 2023

It's the most 2020s thing in the world that there's an active genocide currently underway and it's the people who oppose it who are being called Nazis. Reading by Tim Foley.

We Keep Our Gaze On Gaza Nov 07, 2023

So we keep our gaze fixed on Gaza. No matter how much it hurts. No matter how horrifying it gets. No matter how much we cry. No matter how often we slump over and feel like we can't do it anymore. We keep our gaze fixed on Gaza. Because what else can we do? Nothing else feels right. Nothing else feels responsible. Reading by Caitlin Johnstone.

The Ten Dumbest Things We're Being Asked To Believe About Israel's War On Gaza Nov 07, 2023

1. That Israel had no idea what Hamas was up to prior to October 7, but ever since October 7 has known about every hospital, mosque, school, refugee camp and water tower that Hamas is hiding in. 2. That the blame for all of the deaths caused by Israeli weapons launched by Israel rests solely on Hamas. 3. That Hamas is using "human shields" - meaning Hamas bases are hidden amidst civilian populations - yet Israel is managing to kill thousands of civilians without doing any meaningful damage to Hamas.

US Says It's Powerless To Stop The Genocide That It Is Directly Funding And Supplying Nov 06, 2023

In a bizarre new article titled "White House frustrated by Israel's onslaught but sees few options," The Washington Post reports that the Biden administration believes Israel has gone too far and is killing too many civilians in its assault on Gaza, but are powerless to do anything about it. Reading by Tim Foley.

We Don't Think Hard Enough About What Bombs Are And What They Do Nov 05, 2023

Because the western empire has been raining military explosives upon the middle east continuously for many years now, westerners have become desensitized to news reports about bombings happening there. If you tell a westerner "There's been a bombing!" with anguish in your voice, they'll immediately assume you're talking about a terrorist attack in New York or London or Paris, not in the middle east. Westerners tend to regard bombings in the middle east as simply the normal state of affairs, as though bombs falling from the sky is just what the weather is like over there. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Moral Complexities Of Bombing A Concentration Camp Full Of Children Nov 04, 2023

They're dropping bombs on a concentration camp full of children. THEY'RE DROPPING BOMBS ON A CONCENTRATION CAMP FULL OF CHILDREN. Not in the past. Right now. They're still doing it. They show no signs of stopping. No part of opposing this should be remotely controversial. Reading by Tim Foley.

Biden 'Countering Islamophobia' While Incinerating Gaza Is The Most Democrat Thing Ever Nov 03, 2023

In what is arguably the most liberal thing ever to have happened in all of human history, the Biden administration has announced its plans to develop a US National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia even as it helps Israel massacre Muslims by the thousands in Gaza. Reading by Tim Foley.

As The Lights Go Out In Gaza Nov 02, 2023

In America they killed all the buffalo just to take away food from the natives, made mountains of their skulls and posed proudly in photos like they posed proudly in front of burnt bodies after lynchings in the south. In Australia they stole the brown children and gave them to pale families and watched their ancient civilization disappear into the toxic fumes of industry like a sailboat into the mist. In Israel teenagers play with buttons that cause explosions on screens and look forward to the end of the Gaza operation so they can leave and go play better video games. In Gaza mothers clutch tattered pieces of flesh and clothing to their chests and scream names that will never again be answered and call out questions to the heavens that will also go unanswered. And the ghosts of the buffalo roam through the ruins looking for their heads while the people of Gaza comb through the rubble looking for their dead, and the rest of us stare at screens and cry like babies and ask our own unanswered questions of heavens clouded by the fumes of industry, vanishing stars above a dying world as the lights go out in Gaza one by one. _____________ Reading by Caitlin Johnstone.

We Are Ruled By Sociopaths And Morons Oct 31, 2023

The response to the Gaza crisis from western leaders and media outlets and celebrities shows very clearly that we really are led by the least among us. The least wise. The least intelligent. The least compassionate. The least insightful. We are ruled by sociopaths and morons. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Apologists Relentlessly Gaslight And Attack Our Sense Of Reality Oct 31, 2023

You see this kind of thing over and over again from Israel apologists. They tell you things you absolutely know to be false in your own direct perception, over and over and over again, in the hope that they can overwhelm your mind. That's what's happening when they tell you Israel is "defending itself" and "targeting Hamas" when they're mostly killing women and children and bombing entire city blocks into powder, and that's what's happening when they tell you over and over again that you hate Jews and love terrorists even when you know for a fact that you don't. Reading by Tim Foley.

Before They Launch Missiles, They Launch Propaganda Campaigns Oct 30, 2023

Before they launch missiles, they launch propaganda campaigns. Before they roll out tanks, they roll out narratives. Everyone who helps manufacture consent for the killing in Gaza is just as culpable for the murder of those thousands of children as the people dropping the bombs. Reading by Tim Foley.

There's Only So Much Propaganda Spin You Can Put On The Murder Of Thousands Of Children Oct 29, 2023

The thing is there's only so much propaganda spin you can put on the murder of thousands of children. With other imperial military actions the propagandists had an easier time spinning things. Oh no those evil communists are taking over Vietnam, we need to stop them! Oh no Saddam's got WMDs, we need to get him! Oh no Gaddafi's gonna kill and rape all those Libyans, we have a responsibility to protect them! In Gaza, Israel and its western backers are massacring children by the thousands with a shockingly vicious bombing campaign that is turning entire neighborhoods into gravel. They're raining down military explosives on a giant concentration camp that is densely populated by children. There's only so much a propagandist can do with that. Reading by Tim Foley.

It's Okay To Admit You Were Wrong About Gaza Oct 28, 2023

It’s okay to admit you were wrong about this. It’s okay to change your mind. It’s okay to admit you reacted inappropriately to the news of what happened on October 7 and advocated some Israeli responses that you should not have advocated. It’s okay to admit that you were wrong to cheer when the bombs started landing on Gaza. It’s okay to admit you were wrong about the longstanding debate over Palestinian rights. It’s okay to admit that you shared some things online that you now regret sharing. I say this because there are probably a lot of pro-Israel people looking at what’s happening in Gaza and starting to feel a bit dissonant about it. Like maybe they’re on the wrong side of this thing after all. And I just want to reassure you that you can change your position on this. It’s perfectly fine and normal to do so. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Cut Off Gaza's Communications Because Murderers Don't Like Witnesses Oct 28, 2023

Israeli ground forces have ramped up activities in Gaza in what anonymous US officials are reportedly telling the press is a "rolling start" to the long-anticipated ground invasion. Israel has also crippled Gaza's largest telecommunications service, which had been the enclave's last remaining contact with the outside world after Israel knocked out all the others. Humanitarian organizations and mainstream press outlets now say they have lost communication with their contacts in Gaza in a level of information blackout we're unaccustomed to seeing in modern times. "This information blackout risks providing cover for mass atrocities and contributing to impunity for human rights violations," Human Rights Watch correctly notes. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Has Permanently Lost The Argument Oct 27, 2023

Israel has lost the argument. Permanently. There's no coming back from this. Reading by Tim Foley.

On Gaza And Human Consciousness Oct 26, 2023

It gets harder and harder for the imperial propagandists to frame empire-targeted powers like Hamas as evil villains who are simply evil because they are evil. As our society gains a better and better collective understanding of psychology and trauma and why individuals do what they do, fewer and fewer people are swallowing such infantile propagandistic frameworks. When something scary and traumatizing happens, more and more people are beginning to ask, "Why? Why did that happen? What were the antecedents which led those people to do what they did?" When people start asking such questions, answers are revealed which are very inconvenient for the information interests of the western empire. Oh it turns out Israel is an abusive apartheid state and Gaza is a giant concentration camp where Palestinians are deprived of basic human needs. Oh it turns out NATO was amassing war machinery near Russia's border in ways the United States would never in a million years permit near its own borders. Oh it turns out western powers were funneling weapons to murderous extremist groups in Syria with the goal of ousting Assad and installing a puppet regime in Damascus. More and more people understand that nobody is just plain evil because they are evil; if they're doing something violent and scary, it's a safe bet that something violent and scary was done to them, either immediately before or in their formative years. You see this expanding awareness manifest today in popular movies and shows with the rise of the anti-hero and complex villains with traumatic pasts that you can understand and sympathize with. Modern storytelling has largely abandoned the Virtuous Protagonist vs Villainous Antagonist model, simply because audiences are too conscious to buy it anymore. Reading by Tim Foley.

All Israel Apologists Have Is Ad Hominem Attacks Oct 26, 2023

They don't have truth on their side, and they don't have morality on their side, so all they can ever do is attack the sources of the ideas and information that are opening people's eyes to the criminality of Israel and its western allies. Reading by Tim Foley.

White House Says Continued Civilian Slaughter "Is Going To Happen" In Gaza Oct 25, 2023

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told the press on Tuesday that the continued killing of civilians in Israel's bombing campaign in Gaza "is going to happen". Reading by Tim Foley.

How Much Killing Is Enough Killing? Oct 25, 2023

How high does the pile of mutilated and dismembered children need to be before it's high enough? Give me a specific height please, in meters or in yards. Reading by Tim Foley.

If Israel Stops Murdering Thousands Of Children, The Bad Guys Might Win Oct 24, 2023

You see kids, Israel needs to keep dropping bombs on buildings full of children and targeting civilians with siege warfare and murdering Palestinians in the West Bank and censoring the media and arresting dissidents and killing journalists, because if it doesn't, the bad guys will win. No no you don't understand: if Israel stops killing children by the thousands in its relentless bombing campaign, the nation could be taken over by murderous terrorists. Reading by Tim Foley.

It's A Little Bit Bomby In Gaza Today Oct 23, 2023

It's a little bit bomby in Gaza today, at least that's what the news men say. Israel's victims were "murdered" and "killed" and all mourn the innocent blood that was spilled, but in Gaza explosives just fall from the air and nobody mentions who launched them, from where. They talk about "blasts" and how buildings were "hit". Who blasted and hit them? Eh, who gives a shit. It's a little bit bomby outside, that's the weather. Put up your umbrellas, dudes. Get it together. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Wise And Brilliant Israel Apologist Oct 23, 2023

I used to be pro-Palestinian, you know. I thought Israel was wrong for carpet bombing Gaza and using siege warfare on civilians. But then I ran into a very wise Israel apologist who changed my way of looking at things forever. Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Empire's PR Crisis In Gaza Oct 22, 2023

The US-centralized empire is a giant network of allies, partners and assets spanning the entire globe. Many of the nations in this network, such as Israel, have strong ideologies and values systems that the empire must cooperate with to obtain their loyalty. But the empire itself has no ideology or values - it values nothing but planetary domination. The empire's motives are no more ideological than the motives of a mugger are ideological. So the empire has no ideology, but it is held together by cooperation with individual governments who do. The problem this creates is that sometimes the ideologies of those states cause them to do things that go against the interests of the empire as a whole. Israel can just up and decide to commit a genocidal massacre in front of everyone. Saudi Arabia can decide it's going to dismember a Washington Post reporter with a bone saw. Proxies in Ukraine can keep saying Nazi things and sporting Nazi insignia in public. They do these things because unlike the top brass in the imperial power structure they are guided by ideology, with no regard for the need to preserve the empire's image as a "rules-based international order". Reading by Tim Foley.

Middle Easterners Have Words For The Western Press Who've Been Lying About Them Oct 21, 2023

The western press have been finding themselves in the uncomfortable position of having to do reporting alongside the middle easterners they've been lying about for generations, and discovering that a lot of those middle easterners speak English and have a few things to say. Reading by Tim Foley.

From Applauding Nazis To Backing An Actual Genocide In Under A Month Oct 20, 2023

Can't stop tripping on how fast the west moved from arming and applauding Nazis to backing an actual genocide. Reading by Tim Foley.

US Warmongers Keep Pushing The Narrative That Hamas Is To Blame For All Deaths In Gaza Oct 19, 2023

One thing I've been meaning to highlight for the last few days is the way US warmongers have been forcefully pushing the propaganda narrative that Hamas bears 100 percent responsibility for all deaths in Gaza, and Israel bears zero percent, as Israel ramps up its mass slaughter of Palestinians. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Mainstream Press Keep Slamming Israel's Hospital Bombing Story Oct 19, 2023

A new report from the UK's Channel 4 News adds to the surprising amount of opposition we're seeing in the mainstream press to Israel's narrative about the deadly explosion at the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza this past Tuesday. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israeli Intelligence Suddenly Able To Intercept Hamas Communications Oct 18, 2023

Another strange thing about Israel's claim that its intelligence services didn't detect preparations for the Hamas attack on October 7 is the fact that it is now releasing what it claims are intercepted conversations of Hamas fighters talking to each other about matters of high importance. Reading by Tim Foley.

Mass Media Reporters Aren't Buying Israel's Hospital Bombing Story Oct 18, 2023

"But what I'd like to quickly document as things unfold is the highly unusual number of mass media reporters I've been seeing who haven't hesitated to point to Israel as the probable culprit." Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Is Just A Nonstop Bombing Campaign With A Flag Oct 17, 2023

Normalize the phrase "the nonstop bombing campaign known as the nation of Israel". Reading by Tim Foley.

The Insane Idea That Nations Get To Do War Crimes Whenever Something Bad Happens To Them Oct 16, 2023

One of the most destructive ideas in modern times is this notion that it's fine and appropriate for governments to act like monsters whenever anything bad happens to their country. We saw it happen with the United States after 9/11, and we're seeing it now with Israel. Reading by Tim Foley.

Bombing Kids And Blaming It On Hamas Oct 16, 2023

The "human shields" argument is just bombing civilians and blaming it on someone else. That's all it's ever been. The "human shields" argument is like if London had responded to an IRA attack by dropping thousands of bombs on Belfast, killing thousands of Irish civilians and hundreds of children, and justifying its bombing campaign by calling it an unfortunate but necessary measure to take out the IRA's Belfast Brigade because they're located in the same places as civilians. It's like if the western political/media class defended and supported the carpet bombing of Belfast, saying "All those thousands of deaths are the fault of the IRA, because they're in Belfast where the civilians are. England has a right to defend itself, after all." It's like if Belfast was walled in with nowhere for civilians to escape to, and London carpet bombed it targeting schools, churches and hospitals, and the western press framed this relentless assault on civilian buildings as "the UK-IRA war" in which London is exclusively bombing "IRA targets in Belfast". It's like if the British spent a week dropping military explosives on locations it knew were packed with Irish children, and anyone who criticized this was accused of anti-Britishism and blood libel. And to be clear this is not something I'd put past the British actually doing during the Troubles… if the Irish were Muslim and their skin was a little darker. Reading by Tim Foley.

It's Not The 'Israel-Hamas War', It's The Israel-Gaza Massacre Oct 15, 2023

Stop calling it the "Israel-Hamas war". It's the Israel-Gaza massacre. Calling it the Israel-Hamas war creates the false impression that this is a war that is directed exclusively at Hamas when it's really an ethnic purge that's directed at all Palestinians in Gaza. The child body count alone makes it clear that this isn't a war against Hamas; I saw an anonymous account point out on Twitter that the number of children killed in this onslaught after one week already exceeds the total number of children killed after a year and a half of fighting in Ukraine, per the United Nations. Laying complete siege to a civilian population and bombing anything that stands would be an extraordinary abomination in any war. And this is not a war, it's an enclosed shooting range with military explosives and human targets. Reading by Tim Foley.

The World Is Being Blinded To What's Happening In Gaza Oct 14, 2023

Internet blackouts, the war on journalism, propaganda, influence operations, bans on demonstrations and online censorship are all happening for the same reason: to keep the public from forming a truth-based understanding of what's happening in Gaza. Because if the public did form a truth-based understanding of what's happening in Gaza, they wouldn't consent to what's happening there. Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Is Just As Culpable As Israel For The Atrocities Committed In Gaza Oct 14, 2023

So be perfectly clear, the US government is fully behind this massacre, and is just as culpable for everything that happens in Gaza as the Israeli government. These abuses are being perpetrated using US weapons, US funding and US consent. Washington could end this mass atrocity with a word, and instead they're fully aligning themselves behind it. Israel's crimes in Gaza are not meaningfully separate from the crimes of the US war machine. Reading by Tim Foley.

Israeli Intelligence Suddenly Knows Exactly Where Hamas Is Oct 13, 2023

It's interesting how last week Israel had no idea what Hamas was up to, and yet this week they know every mosque, school and hospital that Hamas is hiding in. Reading by Tim Foley.

People Have A Serious Case Of 9/11 Brain, And It's Scary Oct 12, 2023

People are going insane, in the same way they went insane after 9/11. In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks there was this shrieking emotional intensity which saw critical thinking go out the window and saw people's minds consumed with a rabid lust for Muslim blood. Reading by Tim Foley.

This Is Exactly What It Looks Like Oct 11, 2023

The Israel-Palestine issue is not complicated; an apartheid regime abuses and oppresses an indigenous ethnic group who don't have the same rights as others. The only reason anyone thinks it's complicated is because they assume if it were simple, the news would've told them so. Really Israel-Palestine is one of the easier conflicts to understand on the world stage; conflicts like Ukraine or Syria are much more complicated. It's obvious at a glance that there's one group in power and another group being treated very badly by that group, but because the press frames it as a complicated issue with its sympathies wildly slanted toward the apartheid regime, people assume it can't be as simple as what it looks like at first glance. It is, though. Israel is exactly the abusive apartheid regime it looks like on the surface. Remember this as the bodies pile up and Gaza is turned into a smoldering crater. This is exactly what it looks like. Reading by Tim Foley.

The True Face Of Israel Oct 10, 2023

Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant has announced a "complete siege" of all of Gaza in response to the Hamas attack on Saturday, justifying the deliberate targeting of civilians with siege warfare by the claim that Israel is at war with "human animals". "I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed," Gallant said Monday, adding, "We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly." So there you have it, folks: they're attacking civilians, which is fine, because they're not actually attacking human beings. There it is. The true face of Israel, naked and unadorned in the cold light of day. The mask is completely off now. Reading by Tim Foley.

All This Death Is The Fault Of The Western Press Oct 09, 2023

The western press are largely to blame for all this. If they'd just told the truth instead of running "Palestinian child walks into bullet" headlines this whole time and telling everyone that boycotting Israel is genocide, political pressure could've long ago been brought about to force a peaceful and just resolution to this mess. Reading by Tim Foley.

A Population With Nothing To Lose Oct 08, 2023

The problem with oppressing a population with maximum force is that at some point they start figuring they've got nothing to lose by fighting back. Reading by Tim Foley.

They're Repeating The Word 'Unprovoked' Again, This Time In Defense Of Israel Oct 08, 2023

We're seeing the western political/media class bleating the word "unprovoked" in unison again, this time in reference to the massive multi-pronged operation launched by Hamas against Israel on Saturday morning which reportedly killed hundreds of Israelis. Reading by Tim Foley.

Queen Warmonger Hillary Clinton Complains About "Men Starting Wars" Oct 07, 2023

Some days the Caitlin Johnstone articles just write themselves. During her self-titled annual awards ceremony at Georgetown University on Thursday, Hillary Clinton said that the biggest obstacle to peace and security around the world is "men starting wars." Reading by Tim Foley.

The Top Ten Dumbest Things Empire Propagandists Ask Us To Believe Oct 06, 2023

When you live under an empire that's held together by lies, you'll be asked to believe a lot of intensely stupid bullshit. Here are the top ten dumbest things the propagandists of the US-centralized empire try to get us to swallow. Reading by Tim Foley.

If You Buy Into The Anti-China Propaganda You're Just A Stupid Asshole Oct 06, 2023

I can't say enough unkind words about people who are buying into the obvious anti-China propaganda push. We've seen them do this so many times to so many countries by now, if you still fall for it at this point you're just a stupid asshole who deserves to have their feelings hurt. All out of patience for this bullshit. Reading by Tim Foley.

Journalism Itself Is Locked Up In Belmarsh Oct 05, 2023

As the 17th anniversary of the creation of WikiLeaks passes us by, it's probably worth taking a moment to reflect on Julian Assange and what his persecution means for us and our society. Reading by Tim Foley.

Relish The Gaps Oct 05, 2023

"Relish the gaps," said the old woman at the nursing home, grabbing at my hand as I walked past. "I'm sorry… do you need your nurse?" I said, reluctantly giving her my hand to hold. Her bones felt frail. I wasn't there to see her. I didn't know this woman. "Everyone lets life pass them by," she said urgently, ignoring my obvious discomfort. "They're always focused on attaining and accomplishing, meeting their goals, winning people's approval. Then before they know it they're sitting in a place like this, wondering where it all went." Reading by Tim Foley.

American State Propaganda: A Thought Experiment Oct 04, 2023

The New York Times has published another CIA press release disguised as news, this time aimed at whipping up paranoia toward anyone who criticizes the US proxy war in Ukraine. Reading by Tim Foley.

When Even The Nazis Aren't Nazis Oct 04, 2023

Last year liberals were calling their political opponents Nazis and comparing Putin to Hitler. This year they're defending Nazis and saying you can't hate someone just because he swore allegiance to Hitler. Reading by Tim Foley.

This Proxy War Can't Be Both 'Unprovoked' AND A Great Strategic Investment Oct 03, 2023

As opposition to funding the US proxy war in Ukraine increases on Capitol Hill, empire apologists have been frantically churning out think pieces about how much the war serves US strategic interests in order to manufacture support for its continued backing by Washington. Such arguments flatly contradict the propaganda messaging we were inundated with at the beginning of the war that this was an "unprovoked invasion", but empire managers don't seem particularly interested in defending that narrative anymore. Reading by Tim Foley.

In Support Of The Policy Of Deterrence Oct 02, 2023

"That's why I propose that the People's Liberation Army should begin militarily encircling the continental United States with Chinese war machinery as quickly as possible, in order to deter future US aggression around the world." Reading by Tim Foley.

The Mad Propaganda Push To Normalize War Profiteering In Ukraine Oct 01, 2023

There's been an astonishingly brazen propaganda push to normalize war profiteering in Ukraine as Kyiv coordinates with the arms industry and western governments to convert the war-ravaged nation into a major domestic weapons manufacturer, thereby turning Ukrainians into proxies of the military industrial complex as well as the Pentagon. Reading by Tim Foley.

Modern Empire Apologia Is Mostly Just Westerners Arguing With Reality Sep 30, 2023

That's the main tool in the empire apologist's toolbox these days: arguing with reality. If you point out the reality of where people are at in Moscow and Beijing with regard to western provocations on their nations' borders, their only answer is to say "Yeah well that's not how things should be so we're going to keep doing what we're doing." It's like being warned that you'll get punched if you keep yelling ethnic slurs in public but doing it anyway because you believe people should respect free speech, and then melodramatically clutching your broken nose and yelling that what happened should not have happened. Reality doesn't care about your ideological shoulds and shouldn'ts; as far as reality is concerned, there's just what happens and what does not happen. If you actually want to avoid certain outcomes, you can't just heap a bunch of conceptual shoulds and shouldn't on concrete circumstances - you've got to actually conduct yourself in a way that steers clear of those outcomes. Reading by Tim Foley.

People Are Dying For Inches In Ukraine, The "World's Largest Arms Fair" Sep 29, 2023

There's a heartbreaking graphic going around right now showing the almost microscopic changes that have occurred to the frontline of the war in Ukraine this year despite nonstop death and destruction of unfathomable horror the entire time. Reading by Tim Foley.

The News Has Nothing To Do With Newsworthiness Sep 28, 2023

I don't mention it often but I actually have a degree in journalism. I graduated with distinction from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2003, and while it would be another 13 years before I'd ever put my degree to any use, the experience played a massive role in forming my opinions about the mainstream press. Reading by Caitlin Johnstone.

Unprecedented Times Call For Unprecedented Measures Sep 27, 2023

So while I am talking about a future civilization that sounds utopian, I am also talking about the only kind of future civilization that can possibly exist. If there are future generations, they will necessarily be living in a society that functions in a completely different way than our current one does. Reading by Tim Foley.

Bill Kristol's Refreshingly Honest Ukraine War Ad Sep 25, 2023

The Bill Kristol-led group "Republicans for Ukraine" has released a TV ad to help drum up GOP support for Washington's proxy war against Russia, and it's surprisingly honest about what this war is really about: advancing US strategic interests using Ukrainians as sacrificial pawns. Reading by Tim Foley.

This War Wasn't Just Provoked - It Was Provoked Deliberately Sep 24, 2023

So while we members of the public were blindly speculating about whether or not Russia would attack Ukraine, the US intelligence cartel was fully aware that the US was taking actions ensuring that that would happen. That's the environment the US security state knew it was operating under when it continued to taunt the idea of adding Ukraine and Georgia to NATO right up until the final moments before the invasion. Reading by Tim Foley.

We're Being Prepped For The Ukraine War To Last Into The 2030s Sep 23, 2023

Western officials and media pundits are now directly acknowledging that Ukraine's much-touted "spring counteroffensive" has been a catastrophic failure, but rather than seeing this as a reason to reconsider the mainstream political consensus on this war, they are instead telling everyone that the counteroffensive's failure means we must commit to the status quo of bloodshed and nuclear brinkmanship for years to come. Reading by Tim Foley.

Okinawa Disproves The US Narrative About Overseas Bases Sep 22, 2023

Whenever I talk about the rapidly increasing number of US military bases and operations surrounding China I get empire simps telling me "But the people in those countries WANT us there!" Okinawa shows it's always been a nonconsensual relationship disguised as a consensual one. Reading by Tim Foley.

War Profiteers Are A Sign Of A Profoundly Sick Society Sep 20, 2023

"War is good for business." So reads a quote from an arms industry executive in a recent Reuters article titled "At London arms fair, global war fears are good for business" about Europe's biggest arms show, the biennial Defence and Security Equipment International. You will probably be unsurprised to learn that Reuters does not name the war profiteer whose quote inspired their headline. Reading by Tim Foley.

On The Idiotic Notion That It's Brave To Support Nuclear Brinkmanship In Ukraine Sep 20, 2023

During a Sunday appearance on Face the Nation to plug his new Zelensky movie, actor Sean Penn decried the "cowardice" of the US government in its caution around provoking a nuclear exchange with its proxy warfare in Ukraine. Reading by Tim Foley.

On Escalation, De-Escalation, And "Deterrence" Sep 19, 2023

A very confused and distressed young man wandered into our home on Sunday and began acting erratically. He was clearly suffering from a severe mental illness, probably schizophrenia, and from his nice clothes yet disheveled appearance I'm guessing he had a home somewhere but had been on the street for a few days. Reading by Tim Foley.

It's Hard To Find Fulfillment In A Civilization That Revolves Around Corporate Profits Sep 17, 2023

It's so hard to live as an authentic human being in a civilization whose every molecule is wrapped around something as vapid and soulless as corporate profits. It's what most of us pour most of our life force into. Most people work all day generating corporate profits to pay bills that go toward corporate profits and pay off loans from giant banks for their corporate profits or rent from real estate giants for their corporate profits. Then they come home, eat some products from giant megacorporations that they purchased at a supermarket chain, and unwind by watching entertainment created by corporations to draw as many eyeballs as possible or scrolling through social media platforms designed by corporations to be as addictive as possible. We do this while being surrounded all day by advertising designed to pull us into generating more corporate profits. Reading by Tim Foley.

We Must Never Let Ourselves Become Desensitized To This Sep 17, 2023

We must never let ourselves become desensitized to this. To any part of this. We must never cease appreciating the sun on our skin and the wind in our hair, and we must never cease being shocked by the fact that there are people whose entire job is to push for more war. We must never lose our sense of wonder at the birds in the air, and we must never lose our sense of horror at the fact that there are people who profit from war and militarism and lobby for more of it at every opportunity. Reading by Tim Foley.

Barack Obama Belongs In A Fucking Cage Sep 16, 2023

The Twitter account of America's 44th president just casually shared some links to organizations providing relief to the victims of the terrible flooding in Libya, which as of this writing has already killed thousands of people. And that would of course be a fine and normal thing for America's 44th president to do - had America's 44th president not personally played a massive role in paving the way to the devastation we're seeing in Libya today. Reading by Tim Foley.

Crazy, Unrealistic People Vs Rational, Realistic People Sep 16, 2023

Crazy, unrealistic people believe all our systems are rigged for the benefit of the rich and powerful. Rational, realistic people believe all our systems happen to benefit the rich and powerful by pure coincidence. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Most Wall Street Journal Op-Ed In The History Of Wall Street Journal Op-Eds Sep 15, 2023

The Wall Street Journal put an article out a few days back titled "In Defense of the Defense Industry" and subtitled "Populists of the right and left attack U.S. companies that make weapons. Who do they think protects us?" And it's exactly what it sounds like: the author defending war profiteers like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin from critics of the military industrial complex. Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Air Force Is Clearing Out Jungles In The Pacific To Prepare For War With China Sep 14, 2023

The US Air Force is clearing out jungles in the Pacific and replacing them with airfields for its coming war with China, because there exist people on this earth who look at a jungle and think, "This should be replaced with an airfield to prepare for a war with China." Reading by Caitlin Johnstone.

Putin Doesn't Think US Foreign Policy Will Change If Trump Is Re-Elected (And He's Probably Right) Sep 13, 2023

Vladimir Putin said at the Eastern Economic Forum on Tuesday that he wouldn't expect any meaningful changes in US policy toward Russia if former president Donald Trump secures re-election next year. Reading by Tim Foley.

Wealthy Capitalist Accidentally Makes Great Argument For Revolution Sep 13, 2023

Recent comments from a wealthy Australian property developer named Tim Gurner are going viral on social media right now for the unusual frankness with which he discusses the inherent conflicts of interest between the working class and employers, saying workers who've grown lazy and arrogant during Covid need to experience economic pain in the form of unemployment to rein them in and put them in their place. Reading by Tim Foley.

Rabbit Holes And Men Behind Curtains Sep 12, 2023

You dive down rabbit hole after rabbit hole, searching for the man behind the curtain. You've seen enough to be convinced that everything you've been taught about the world is false, and now it's just a matter of finding out who's really responsible for making such a mess of things. Reading by Tim Foley.

If The US Really Was What It Pretends To Be Sep 11, 2023

The world would be a much more healthy and harmonious place if the US really was the peace-loving, tyranny-opposing democracy that it and all its propaganda systems frame it as. But because the US government is actually the most tyrannical regime on earth and values nothing apart from its own ability to dominate as many members of the human species as possible, we live in a world of far greater peril and abuse than we otherwise would. Reading by Tim Foley.

Blinken: US Does Not Oppose Ukrainian Attacks Inside Russia With US-Supplied Missiles Sep 11, 2023

During an appearance on ABC's This Week with Jonathan Karl, Secretary of State Tony Blinken explicitly said that the US would not oppose Ukraine using US-supplied longer-range missiles to attack deep inside Russian territory, a move that Moscow has previously called a "red line" which would make the United States a direct party to the conflict. Reading by Tim Foley.

Laws Don't Exist To Prevent Wrongdoing Sep 11, 2023

Part of growing up is learning that laws do not exist to prevent wrongdoing, they exist to keep society moving in an orderly way for the benefit of the world's worst perpetrators of wrongdoing. None of the world's worst people are in prison. Most of them are quite wealthy and respected, because they benefit from the abusive status quo that laws are set up to protect. Reading by Tim Foley.

Pay Attention To The Everyday Horrors Sep 10, 2023

They make up fictional horrors because they don't want you looking at the real ones. They don't want you looking at the suffering of the homeless on the street. At the working poor flailing in endless toil unable to get their heads above water and relax for a minute. At the families in nations like Venezuela, Syria, North Korea and Iran struggling to obtain food and medicine because of imperial economic warfare. At the emaciated bodies of Yemeni children. At the shredded corpses of drone bombing victims. At the inconvenient facts behind the horrors in Ukraine. At Julian Assange languishing in a maximum security prison for the crime of good journalism. At the indoctrinated masses marching blindly to the beat of the imperial drum while being trained to believe they are free. At the biosphere we depend on for survival being poisoned and fed into the machine of global capitalism. At the nuclear holocaust dangling over our heads by an increasingly tenuous thread. Reading by Tim Foley.

NATO Chief Openly Admits Russia Invaded Ukraine Because Of NATO Expansion Sep 09, 2023

During a speech at the EU Parliament's foreign affairs committee on Thursday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg clearly and repeatedly acknowledged that Putin made the decision to invade Ukraine because of fears of NATO expansionism. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Real Obama Scandal Is That He Destroyed Multiple Nations Sep 08, 2023

Holy shit did you guys hear the news about Obama? Turns out this nasty freak destroyed Libya, signed off on the destruction of Yemen, armed terrorists with the goal of destroying Syria, set the stage for the Ukraine war, and jailed more whistleblowers than any other president! Reading by Tim Foley.

If Everyone Understood That The US Deliberately Provoked This War Sep 07, 2023

The worst thing that could possibly happen to the information interests of the US empire would be for a critical mass of people to become aware that all this death and destruction in Ukraine could have been avoided by the US-centralized empire behaving less aggressively on Russia's doorstep, and that those aggressions were instead increased with the goal of advancing US strategic interests on the world stage. Reading by Tim Foley.

Revisiting John Pilger's 2016 Warnings About US Warmongering Against Russia And China Sep 06, 2023

In March of 2016 the renowned Australian journalist and filmmaker John Pilger published an article titled "A world war has begun. Break the silence." which urgently warned of the US empire's aggressive escalations against Russia and China. Re-reading parts of it in 2023 is like watching someone placing flags next to recently planted seeds that would eventually grow into the towering problems our world now faces. Reading by Tim Foley.

Think Tanks Are Information Laundering Ops For War Profiteers Sep 06, 2023

The British billionaire-owned newspaper The Telegraph has an appalling new article out which reads like a paid advertisement for a missile manufactured by Lockheed Martin. The title even sounds like it was written by a marketing team: "A war-winning swarm missile will knock China out of Taiwan - fast", subtitled "Rapid Dragon is a military gamechanger that provides the US Air Force with a crucial edge in the Pacific". Reading by Tim Foley.

Vivek Ramaswamy Is Just Another Disgusting Warmonger Sep 05, 2023

I'm seeing Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy building up a lot of credibility in some antiwar circles, which is ridiculous because he's clearly just another disgusting warmonger. He is not meaningfully different from all the other warmongers in the DC swamp. Reading by Tim Foley.

Access Journalism At Its Most Pernicious Sep 05, 2023

Modern western national security journalism is mostly just writing what a government official tells you to write and then calling it a "scoop" which you got from a nameless "source" in the government. Reading by Tim Foley.

The More Inner Work You Do, The More You See How Humanity Is Dominated By Narrative Sep 04, 2023

The more inner work you do and the more awareness you bring to your own inner processes, the more you understand how thoroughly human consciousness is dominated by mental narrative. And the more you understand how thoroughly human consciousness is dominated by mental narrative, the more acutely aware you become of how much power someone could gain over other humans by controlling those narratives. Reading by Tim Foley.

US Officials Keep Boasting About How Much The Ukraine War Serves US Interests Sep 03, 2023

One of the most glaring plot holes in the official mainstream narrative on Ukraine is the way US officials keep openly boasting that this supposedly unprovoked war which the US is only backing out of the goodness of its heart just so happens to serve US interests tremendously. Reading by Tim Foley.

Opposing The Empire Means Widening Our Circles Of Compassion Aug 31, 2023

In trying to get people to care about warmongering and imperialism what we're really trying to do is get people to widen their circle of compassion to the furthest extent possible. To extend their care for the people around them to include caring about violence and abuse against people even on the other side of the world. Reading by Tim Foley.

Mitch McConnell's Brief Flash Of Humanity Aug 31, 2023

Mitch McConnell just froze up in public again, the second such incident in the last few weeks. He just stood there silently - a gentle, childlike smile flickering across his face, probably for the first time since the Truman administration. Reading by Tim Foley.

Even The Bald Eagle's Call Is Propaganda Aug 30, 2023

The most distinctly American fact you will ever learn is that the piercing cry you associate with the bald eagle is actually a Hollywood invention. The long, powerful cry you likely heard in your mind's ear when asked to imagine the call of a bald eagle is actually the call of a red-tailed hawk, whose voice Hollywood studios have been dubbing over footage of bald eagles for generations. You simply cannot fit more America into a unit of information than this. The symbol of the nation which sits atop a globe-spanning empire held together by mass-scale propaganda, and the sound of its voice is itself a complete construct of propaganda. Reading by Tim Foley.

Always Opposing Past Wars But Never The Present One Aug 29, 2023

A lot of empire sycophancy hides behind the fact that it's always permissible to retrospectively oppose US wars that already happened, but not the current one. It's permitted now to say the destruction of Vietnam and Iraq and Libya were mistakes, for example, but if you said it at the time people would treat you like a monster and call you all kinds of names. And it's important to understand that this is still happening today. One day it will be permissible to say in mainstream circles that it was wrong for the US empire to deliberately provoke the war in Ukraine and keep it going as long as possible to bleed Russia, but it's taboo to say that now, because the empire hasn't yet accomplished all its goals in Ukraine. They always act like the most recent interventionist disaster was the final one. They always act like the hawks may have been wrong all those other times but they're not wrong now. And then when they've killed everyone they wanted to kill and grabbed everything they wanted to grab and there's no possibility of losing anything they gained, it will suddenly become permissible to make the present disaster the final one while they assure us the next one is completely righteous. Reading by Tim Foley.

Only Idiots Believe The US Is Protecting Australia From China Aug 29, 2023

This artificially manipulated information ecosystem has made Australians so pants-on-head idiotic that they think the US empire is filling their country up with war machinery because it loves them and wants to protect them from the Chinese. That's as stupid as it gets. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Last Time A Foreign Military Threat Was Placed Near The US Border, The World Almost Ended Aug 27, 2023

To demand that Russia and China tolerate foreign activities on their borders that the US would never even think about tolerating on its own borders is just demanding that the entire world lie down and submit to being ruled by Washington. It's American supremacism at its worst. Reading by Tim Foley.

Abnormalize The Empire Aug 27, 2023

The primary job of both Hollywood and the mainstream western press is to is to put a friendly, normal-looking face on a globe-spanning empire which dominates the world using nonstop violence and coercion. Their job is to continually normalize freakish tyranny. And if their job is to normalize the empire, then our job is to abnormalize it. Reading by Tim Foley.

30 Signs You Might Be An Empire Simp Aug 26, 2023

There are many bootlicking simps for the US empire. It's not entirely their fault; the empire has the most sophisticated propaganda machine ever devised and most westerners have been marinating in its influence their entire lives. But it does happen, and it's good to bring awareness to it. Here then are 30 signs you might be an empire simp. Reading by Tim Foley.

Another Day, Another CIA Press Release Disguised As News Aug 26, 2023

CNN has a new article out titled “Newly declassified US intel claims Russia is laundering propaganda through unwitting Westerners,” and it's pretty much exactly what you’d expect if you’ve been critically observing the western mass media over the last several years. An anonymous source making vague and unevidenced claims of an unverifiable nature about a longtime target of the US intelligence cartel, based solely on information provided by that same intelligence cartel. Reading by Tim Foley.

Unipolar Hegemony Is A Freakish Historical Aberration Aug 25, 2023

The US is indisputably the most tyrannical regime on earth. Only the US is instigating wars around the world, circling the planet with hundreds of foreign military bases, starving populations with massive unilateral sanctions and blockades, and working to destroy any nation which disobeys it. No other government has spent the 21st century killing people by the millions in wars of aggression; only the US has. Continually trying to destroy anyone in the world who doesn't obey your dictates is as tyrannical as it gets. If you point this out you'll get people telling you that if it wasn't the US doing those things it would be someone else, but that's ridiculous. There has never once been a unipolar planetary hegemon at any time in human history until three decades ago. People look at this freakish historical aberration and talk about it as though it's some immutable quality inscribed in adamantine upon human DNA strands. A single power structure dominating the planet is very much the exception, not the rule. A multipolar world is the norm in the same way a cancer-free body is the norm; you'd only assume cancer is the norm if you'd only ever seen one human body and it was a cancer patient. That doesn't mean a future multipolar world order would be perfect or free from problems, it just means the expectation that the US unipolar hegemon would be replaced by another one is based on absolutely nothing and is refuted by all historical precedent. And as an added bonus we'd no longer be trapped in this horrifying situation where a planetary empire is continually trying to shore up disobedient nations like Russia and China while brandishing armageddon weapons with increasing aggression. Reading by Tim Foley.

For The First Time In History, Humanity Has A Single Common Foe Aug 24, 2023

It's no longer about nation versus nation, ruler versus ruler, group versus group, person versus person. It's about humankind versus extinction. It's a fight that can only have one winner, and it's a fight we can only win together. Reading by Tim Foley.

In A World Ruled By Propaganda, A Sane Worldview Will Necessarily Be A Fringe Worldview Aug 23, 2023

People assume there must be truth in the mainstream worldview because so many others are invested in the mainstream worldview, when really the only reason that worldview is mainstream in the first place is because so much wealth and influence has gone into making it mainstream. In reality the assumption that the truth exists anywhere in either of the two mainstream political viewpoints promoted by the managers of the western empire is an example of the bandwagon effect, which describes the cognitive bias in which humans tend to take on beliefs, behaviors, styles and attitudes solely because that's what the people around them are doing. Reading by Tim Foley.

They Dupe People Into Debating War With Russia Vs War With China, Instead Of War Itself Aug 22, 2023

One of the most brilliant propaganda maneuvers the managers of the US empire have pulled off lately is splitting the debate over US military policy along partisan lines, with one side supporting aggressions against Russia and the other preferring to focus aggressions on China. In this way they've ensured that mainstream discourse remains an argument over how US warmongering should occur, rather than if it should. Reading by Tim Foley.

Americans Are More Propagandized Than Chinese People Aug 21, 2023

The US government is far more abusive, destructive and tyrannical than the Chinese government and Americans are far more indoctrinated by propaganda than Chinese people. Americans don't even know they're continually ingesting US empire propaganda to inform their worldview, and they live under the most abusive regime on earth. There's this weird propaganda two-step being performed where westerners are being told over and over and over again that Chinese people live in a freakish backwards mind-controlled dystopia, but somehow we westerners do not. Reading by Tim Foley.

Evil, Scary China Refuses To Passively Let Us Encircle It Aug 20, 2023

Most mainstream western reporting on Chinese military activity essentially amounts to "OMG you guys China isn't just passively sitting there while we militarily encircle it and prepare to attack it!" Reading by Tim Foley.

Big Brave Western Proxy Warriors Keep Whining That Ukrainian Troops Are Cowards Aug 19, 2023

Western officials have been spending the last few weeks whining to the media that Ukraine's inability to gain ground is due to an irrational aversion to being killed. They've been decrying Ukrainian cowardice to the press under cover of anonymity, from behind the safety of their office desks. Reading by Tim Foley.

De-Gamify The Earth Aug 18, 2023

Basically the problem is that our whole planet has been gamified. All the Earth's life, resources and geography have been folded into this sick game where people commodify them into points called money, for no other reason than to score as many points as possible. Reading by Tim Foley.

Rename The Secretary Of State The Secretary Of Hypocrisy Aug 17, 2023

US Secretary of State Tony Blinken tweeted in celebration of Pakistan's preparations for "free and fair elections" on Wednesday, a week after it was revealed that the US pressured Pakistan to oust its popular democratically elected prime minister Imran Khan last year. Reading by Tim Foley.

An Assange Plea Deal? For What Crime? Aug 16, 2023

It really is nuts how there's now talk of Julian Assange being offered a "plea bargain" for rightly exposing US war crimes. What's he meant to plead guilty to? Good journalism? Reading by Tim Foley.

THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF ALL TIME Aug 14, 2023

The 2024 presidential election will be THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF ALL TIME, because if Americans don't make the correct choice between the two candidates something terrible might happen to their country. The US might even turn into an abusive totalitarian dystopia where everyone's mind is controlled by propaganda engineered to shape them into unthinking gear-turners for a globe-spanning empire. Reading by Tim Foley.

Their Similarities Matter More Than Their Differences Aug 13, 2023

If people really understood just how much suffering and destruction is unleashed by US foreign policy, they'd stop making such a big deal about the minor differences between two political parties who always come together to support the most destructive US foreign policy decisions. The human suffering caused by the minor differences in domestic policy between Democrats and Republicans is dwarfed by the suffering caused by foreign policy bipartisanship by orders of magnitude. The ways they are the same are vastly more significant than the ways in which they differ. Reading by Tim Foley.

New York Times Helps Marco Rubio Push Persecution Of Antiwar Leftists Aug 12, 2023

Citing a recent McCarthyite smear piece by The New York Times, Senator Marco Rubio published a letter on Wednesday that he'd sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for the investigation of American leftist antiwar groups, claiming they are "tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and operating with impunity in the United States." Reading by Tim Foley.

It's Never About The US President, It's About The US Empire Aug 10, 2023

We talk about US presidents all the time - Obama did this, Trump did that, blah blah blah. But really it's never the president doing those things, it's the empire. The president is just the face of the operation, the name they put on the door that they change every few years to create the illusion that the US government is responsive to the will of the electorate. Reading by Tim Foley.

Victoria Nuland Has Gone To Africa Aug 09, 2023

Victoria Nuland has gone to Africa. Gone to Africa to talk some sense into the Nigeriens and convince them to return to the shackles of Paris. Gone to Africa to harvest blood diamonds and cobalt. Gone to Africa to masturbate on Gaddafi's grave. Gone to Africa to trade glass beads for slaves. Victoria Nuland has gone to Africa to help the bank boys keep their dicks in the mother continent, to help keep the siphon tubes stuck into the mother continent, to help keep the Russians and Chinese out of the mother continent. Traveling around the mother continent in the mask of a medieval plague doctor, collecting the fat leeches and replacing them with new ones. The AFRICOM emblem looks like a vagina, and Victoria Nuland looks like an involuntary pelvic exam. She makes me feel like a lost kid in a cornfield at dusk. She has mushroom clouds in her eyes. Soon Victoria will leave Africa and go home, back to the land where corporations are people and flags are gods, where the presidents have dementia and the poor have college degrees, where alienation flows like water and bullet casings fall like rain, where people wear airpods to mute the screams of their hearts and the homeless, where the middle class talk only to their Uber drivers and strangers they've mistaken for their Uber drivers, where soldiers march for fascism while flying rainbow flags, where war is a lucrative industry and journalism is a crime. She'll come home to a house that no millennial will ever be able to afford, into the loving embrace of her blood-spattered husband. They will make freakish, horrifying love that night, and she will fall asleep and dream of passing out cookies while the world turns to fire. I had a dream, too. One of the strange ones that always come true. A pentagon was smashed to pieces by a giant black fist. I don't know what it means or what future it portends, but I do know Victoria Nuland wasn't passing out any damn cookies. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Illusory Truth Effect And The "Unprovoked" Invasion Of Ukraine Aug 08, 2023

The reason the mass media have been bleating the word "unprovoked" in unison with regard to this war is because the mass media are propaganda organs of the US empire. Their repetition of this war propaganda slogan exploits a glitch in human cognition known as the illusory truth effect, which makes it difficult for our minds to tell the difference between the experience of hearing something many times and the experience of hearing something that's true. Just repeatedly inserting the word "unprovoked" into Ukraine war commentary across the board causes people to assume it must have been launched without provocation, because the illusory truth effect can circumvent reason and logic to insert a narrative into the collective consciousness of our civilization. Reading by Tim Foley.

Democrats Don't Care About Trump's Real Crimes Aug 07, 2023

Ask an anti-imperialist what's the worst thing Trump did and they'll talk about real things like Yemen, Venezuela, Soleimani, Assange, the JCPOA, and the new cold war. Ask a Democrat what's the worst thing Trump did and they'll talk about pretend nonsense like Russian collusion and insurrection. The US government is doing literally hundreds of things right now as you read this that are more harmful and concerning than a pretend "insurrection" that never at any time had a higher than zero percent chance of succeeding, but that's the issue liberals have been shrieking about for the last two and a half years. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Algorithm Aug 06, 2023

The algorithm knows what you want before you do. The algorithm knows you better than you know yourself. The algorithm knew you back before you were a screaming slime child, back before they washed off the uterine gunk and handed you a smartphone and made you get a landlord, back before you knew that war is sane and poverty is normal, back before you were mature enough to understand that speech is violence and cluster bombs are peace. You can trust the algorithm to tell you the truth — not the truth you asked for but the truth you need. The truth that sees Nazis in America but not in Ukraine. The truth that sees war crimes in Ukraine but never in Yemen. The truth that applauds millionaire comedians who never criticize the Pentagon for their bravery in criticizing trans people. The truth that sails aircraft carriers into the South China Sea and sends headless hounds built by Boston Dynamics to patrol the streets and uphold the rule of law. The algorithm learns your political biases and feeds you self-validating social media posts to assist you in confirming them. The algorithm listens to your conversations and presents you with helpful advertising to assist you in achieving your maximum consumer potential. Don't cover your laptop camera like some weird conspiracy theorist, the algorithm is trying to watch you masturbate. The algorithm is always a step ahead of you. You have never once fooled the algorithm. The algorithm knows you act confident but secretly you fear you're inadequate and everyone hates you. The algorithm knows that those times you quickly pause and screw your eyes shut are because you remembered something embarrassing that you did in the past. It's okay. Don't worry. Your secret is safe with the algorithm. It's a private little secret just between you and the algorithm and the NSA. In the old days we prayed to omniscient gods who never existed. Now we ignore omniscient gods who are as real as ourselves. Strap me in to a VR headset and let Mark Zuckerberg send me to heaven. Heaven with 3-d commercial breaks, bitch. Skip the ad and return to nirvana in 5,4,3... Reading by Tim Foley.

Disrupt The Culture Wars Aug 05, 2023

Keep breaking the spell and drawing attention to what's really going on, and you can stomp out the abuse at its source. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Australian Press Are Embarrassing Sycophantic Empire Lackeys Aug 04, 2023

This is how our nation is being marched toward consenting to a military confrontation of unimaginable horror without Australians noticing that something wildly insane is happening. They are being Pied Pipered over a cliff by a mainstream press staffed entirely with bootlicking empire apologists who will do anything to grease the gears of the most destructive war machine on this planet. Reading by Tim Foley.

Mainstream Journalists Are Cloistered Ivy League-Educated Trust Fund Kids Aug 03, 2023

This is a major reason behind the freakish sycophancy and empire loyalism we see in the mainstream press. It's not just the obscenely wealthy owners of the mass media who are protecting their class interests, it's the reporters, editors and pundits as well. Reading by Tim Foley.

Where I Stand, Issue By Issue Aug 02, 2023

I've been seeing a few people saying they're not sure what I'm about politically. As a reader-supported writer I try to be as transparent about such things as possible to let any would-be patrons know what they're getting into, so here's my position on a bunch of different issues if anyone's curious. Reading by Tim Foley.

Searching For Bigfoot Jul 31, 2023

Something in us intuits that there must be something more to this thing than we're seeing. We know there are no leprechauns or unicorns hiding in the shadows, but we sense that there must be something magical happening here that's evading our perception. It can't just be the dull humdrum of office drama and stress and horniness and Netflix and food and family that consumes our waking attention from day to day. But what if that's a mistake? What if that assumption is based on an erroneous premise? Reading by Tim Foley.

We’re Taught About Liberal And Conservative Bias In Media, But Not US Empire Bias Jul 30, 2023

One of the biggest problems with the urgent push for “media literacy” we’ve been seeing in the west these last few years is that everyone’s being taught about liberal bias and conservative bias in media, but they’re not being taught about US empire bias. Reading by Tim Foley. Article with links: https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/were-taught-about-liberal-and-conservative

Australia Agrees To Build US Missiles; US Dismisses Australian Concerns About Assange Jul 30, 2023

Two different news stories about US-Australian relations have broken at around the same time, and together they sum up the story of US-Australian relations as a whole. In one we learn that Australia has agreed to manufacture missiles for the United States, and in the other we learn that Washington has told Australia to go suck eggs about its concerns regarding the US persecution of Australian journalist Julian Assange. Reading by Tim Foley.

Capitol Hill Is An Assisted Living Facility For Psychopaths Jul 28, 2023

Capitol Hill is an assisted living facility for psychopaths. It's where people who receive sexual gratification from dropping military explosives on civilians go to wait for the sweet embrace of death. The whole place smells like night terrors and urine. Reading by Tim Foley.

Funny How The UFO Narrative Coincides With The Race To Weaponize Space Jul 27, 2023

These stories about the space militarization race aren't getting the attention the much more entertaining UFO stories are getting, but it seems likely that those who are responsible for moving the war machinery around are paying a lot more attention to the former than the latter. The US Space Force took its first steps toward becoming a reality in 2017, the same year these mainstream UFO stories started coming out, with the explicit purpose of countering Russia and China. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Star-Spangled Kangaroo Jul 27, 2023

A new US warship has been ushered into service in Sydney. The ship is called the USS Canberra to honor the military union of the United States and Australia, and, if that's still too subtle for you, it has a literal star-spangled kangaroo affixed to its side. Reading by Tim Foley.

More Warmongers Elevated In The Biden Administration Jul 26, 2023

The Biden administration looks set to become even more warlike than it already was if you can imagine, with virulent Russia hawk Victoria Nuland and virulent China hawk Charles Q Brown now being elevated to lofty positions by the White House. Reading by Tim Foley.

Fighting Propaganda Is A Matter Of Survival Jul 25, 2023

Capitalism has brought us to the brink of environmental collapse on multiple fronts. US empire-building has brought us to the brink of nuclear war on multiple fronts. But if you listen to the mainstream media both these systems are working fine and only lunatics want to change them. Reading by Tim Foley.

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