The new imperialism doesn't look like old-school ground invasions, it looks like multi-front cold wars, economic warfare, blockades and starvation sanctions, drone strikes, arming proxy militias, CIA-backed coups, sprawling tech surveillance networks, mass psyops of unprecedented sophistication and narrative management systems to facilitate them. Peace activists need to be looking in this direction, especially as the US gets a new Secretary of State who
China does have its virtues but those virtues can be deeply overshadowed by their human rights issues. That said the USA with over 2 million prisoners over 90% of whom never had a trial is in no position to judge and economically cannot afford to do so.
Whenever I get the usual Trump is a Nazi line from a archetypal Clintonite Dem and I challenged them with the bi-partisan record of crushing millions of people in other countries with sanctions and bombs and try to force them to face up to Obama and Clinton and Biden crimes...
"You are so ridiculous, geopolitics is complicated..." is what I get back. Especially on HRC's nation destruction and racial genocide in Libya. The targeted sub-Saharan Black African minority are just not Black Lives that Matter in the eyes of Clinton voters.
"The rules of internet discourse say that if you don't think nuclear-armed nations should be imperiling the world with propaganda-fueled cold war games it means you love the government of Russia and/or China and think everything they've ever done is awesome."
I think this is an intellectually failure on your part Caitlin. The statement in itself is fine on the surface but it falls into too many traps.
Quite frankly what I find more offensive is that most of the liberal and Youtube based lefty media constantly put Russia and China in the same turn of phrase as if they are similar types of societies. This plays directly into the hands of the lie that Russia is not a free country. China is a very ultra controlled society and every time Russia and China are mentioned in the same breath it paints Russia with a China brush. Thus Tulsi Gabbard would use the phrase "Russia & China" all the time and it would never take an interviewer more than a few seconds to get her to concur that there is nothing good about Vladimir Putin. In Gabbard's ignorant mind that is no less poisoned with archetypal Western ignorance and in fact bigotry toward Russia it is simply not possible that President Putin could actually have any virtues let alone outstanding qualities. Which also made her position on Syria rather shallow and two-faced. She never once criticised Joe Biden for his crimes in Ukraine and like Bernie Sanders voted for sanctions on Russia based on the very crimes that Biden and McCain the authors of the bill had themselves committed in Ukraine. That included installing Fascists and Neo-Nazis into power and unleashing the Donbass War. Chris Hedges who has a show on RT America and is simply two-faced had no problem recently allowing and encouraging a young woman an archetypal DEM who invited him onto a Youtube show to reinforce the notion in her mind that there is absolutely nothing good about Vladimir Putin. If Hedges thinks that way then he would have more credibility not to have a show on RT America. The fact is the ignorance about Russia is so deep among Western lefties it does not even extend to basic human empathy or cultural curiosity. Western lefties know absolutely nothing about Russian civil society nor even popular culture, plenty of which is right there on Youtube. Ironically RT is partly to blame for this because they totally fail to promote popular Russian culture to their international audience.
Being better informed on other countries would enable her or anyone to speak from a stronger position and have the ability to have knowledge based nuanced positions. The issue is not her friendliness or lack of, but one of respect and knowledge.
Nasa isn't military, never has been. quite a bit of debates and efforts over 50 years or more to keep it that way.
whether a civilian science agency is used to further US imperialism or not is worth debating, but listing NASA installations as 'military bases' is just... ill-informed
They are imminently considering a vast new naval base at HMAS Stirling or offshore, near Perth, at which to base an entire new fleet, titled the First Fleet (somewhat sacrilegious considering our forebears arrived in a legendary First Fleet, but I'm sure that won't be a problem).
God help the million citizens of Perth, which is also close to a NUCLEAR MAGAZINE where the US nuclear attack subs keep their payloads for a second strike on China.
Here is an example of that Youtube available popular Russian culture. The host of this "apartment" concert series is Russia's leading bluesman Evgeny Margulis
China does have its virtues but those virtues can be deeply overshadowed by their human rights issues. That said the USA with over 2 million prisoners over 90% of whom never had a trial is in no position to judge and economically cannot afford to do so.
Whenever I get the usual Trump is a Nazi line from a archetypal Clintonite Dem and I challenged them with the bi-partisan record of crushing millions of people in other countries with sanctions and bombs and try to force them to face up to Obama and Clinton and Biden crimes...
"You are so ridiculous, geopolitics is complicated..." is what I get back. Especially on HRC's nation destruction and racial genocide in Libya. The targeted sub-Saharan Black African minority are just not Black Lives that Matter in the eyes of Clinton voters.
"The rules of internet discourse say that if you don't think nuclear-armed nations should be imperiling the world with propaganda-fueled cold war games it means you love the government of Russia and/or China and think everything they've ever done is awesome."
I think this is an intellectually failure on your part Caitlin. The statement in itself is fine on the surface but it falls into too many traps.
Quite frankly what I find more offensive is that most of the liberal and Youtube based lefty media constantly put Russia and China in the same turn of phrase as if they are similar types of societies. This plays directly into the hands of the lie that Russia is not a free country. China is a very ultra controlled society and every time Russia and China are mentioned in the same breath it paints Russia with a China brush. Thus Tulsi Gabbard would use the phrase "Russia & China" all the time and it would never take an interviewer more than a few seconds to get her to concur that there is nothing good about Vladimir Putin. In Gabbard's ignorant mind that is no less poisoned with archetypal Western ignorance and in fact bigotry toward Russia it is simply not possible that President Putin could actually have any virtues let alone outstanding qualities. Which also made her position on Syria rather shallow and two-faced. She never once criticised Joe Biden for his crimes in Ukraine and like Bernie Sanders voted for sanctions on Russia based on the very crimes that Biden and McCain the authors of the bill had themselves committed in Ukraine. That included installing Fascists and Neo-Nazis into power and unleashing the Donbass War. Chris Hedges who has a show on RT America and is simply two-faced had no problem recently allowing and encouraging a young woman an archetypal DEM who invited him onto a Youtube show to reinforce the notion in her mind that there is absolutely nothing good about Vladimir Putin. If Hedges thinks that way then he would have more credibility not to have a show on RT America. The fact is the ignorance about Russia is so deep among Western lefties it does not even extend to basic human empathy or cultural curiosity. Western lefties know absolutely nothing about Russian civil society nor even popular culture, plenty of which is right there on Youtube. Ironically RT is partly to blame for this because they totally fail to promote popular Russian culture to their international audience.
Being better informed on other countries would enable her or anyone to speak from a stronger position and have the ability to have knowledge based nuanced positions. The issue is not her friendliness or lack of, but one of respect and knowledge.
Nasa isn't military, never has been. quite a bit of debates and efforts over 50 years or more to keep it that way.
whether a civilian science agency is used to further US imperialism or not is worth debating, but listing NASA installations as 'military bases' is just... ill-informed
They are imminently considering a vast new naval base at HMAS Stirling or offshore, near Perth, at which to base an entire new fleet, titled the First Fleet (somewhat sacrilegious considering our forebears arrived in a legendary First Fleet, but I'm sure that won't be a problem).
God help the million citizens of Perth, which is also close to a NUCLEAR MAGAZINE where the US nuclear attack subs keep their payloads for a second strike on China.
Here is an example of that Youtube available popular Russian culture. The host of this "apartment" concert series is Russia's leading bluesman Evgeny Margulis
Episode starring Polina Gagarina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM8dm3cKFcA
Episode starring Leonid Agutin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQdSLYjlT-U