Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Western powers insisted that they were trying to prevent this war while doing everything possible to ensure that it happened. Now they say they are trying to end this war while doing everything possible to ensure it continues.
I've been screaming about the risks of nuclear war (and nuclear energy) since I was 14 and had a dream that warships filled the bay in front of my house in Maine. Then the bombs were dropped and that was that. I woke up in a cold sweat. Cold war, cold sweat, cold nuclear winter... Sounds like a Hollywood blockbuster. Speaking of, I used to have this poster on my wall in college: https://imageobjecttext.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/gone-with-the-wind.jpg Most people accepted it as simply the way things were back then (kinda like now)...thought I'd share. Detente is a nice word, I'm sure it will be absorbed and released just like any other healing thought. Problem is, we're living in an age where geopolitics began in 2016 for most people. Seems like so many "woke" up around then. So any nuance is lost including the concept of detente. In my last comment on these pages, a couple of real gentlemen suggested I deserved a jackboot stomping of my head when I recommended something benign and healing. So I'm not sure there's much hope for detente in their minds. Where's the detente in our daily lives when we enter into any kind of debate about current events? I'm hanging on to hope but it's getting more difficult to find.
-------"Western powers insisted that they were trying to prevent this war while doing everything possible to ensure that it happened. Now they say they are trying to end this war while doing everything possible to ensure it continues."-------
I remember when a cross was burned in our front yard and the Coast Guard had to evacuate our family and another from Elizabeth City, North Carolina because my mother had the "temerity" to give a ride to and from the base school to another chief petty officer's children who happened to be black. Not a peep in the local, state, nor national press, so I think this idea that American once was an open society is a fiction Hollywood sells because it's on the DOD/NED payroll. It never was. It's as Chomsky says, open debate within the allowed parameters, and you'll be shut down if you cross the line.
The school had to be on base because Black, Philippine, and other "Non-white" citizens were not allowed into the local schools, but Uncle Sam was okay with situating a base and all it's economic benefits right there.
More than just trying and doing your best, Caitlin, you're providing something unique that I for one need and I think many do. Expert analysis and criticism is great as far as it goes but ... for a couple of years now I've been saying that
>>> There Is No Emancipation in Narratives. I Need a Sermon!
And I'm a died-in-the-wool Darwin-thumping atheist.
I'm afraid the 'Western world' and it's propaganda towards Russia and the gullible masses are also saying, "Fuck your music, fuck your food, fuck your books, fuck your cats, fuck everything about all of you."
Alea iacta est -- the die is cast ( Julius Caesar). It's hard not to hearken back to the CIA's assassination of JFK as the day the die was finally cast in chromium steel. Eradication of the last clarion voice in US politics preaching detente was essential because American empire could not proliferate with that idea in the forefront. Therefore detente could not be tolerated when articulated by a US president. Back then, we mourned a man rather than mourning the real tragedy that the notion of an American democratic republic was complete rubbish. Kennedy was all too clear with his assertion that he sought NOT the infamous Pax Americana, enforced by military might, but a peace actually framed by international efforts at genuine detente.
Never judge events by the words spoken or written.
Always watch the actions taken.
Nobody has registered the possibility that this Ukraine thing is not actually a war.
Putin refers to it as Special Operations which imply a cessation at some point when the objectives are achieved. I think that Russia has no interest in annexing troublesome Ukraine, he is stopping the 8 years of military victimisation of Donbass and taking out the US controlled biolabs which threaten the health and security of the entire world. He is protecting Ukrainians from Neo-Nazi militia & mercenaries.
"I have done my very best. Come what may.” Caitlin
No question or any argument on this statement, Caitlin. You are a sane, but almost lone voice in the wilderness.
Your writings have made so many people realise how little truth there is available, truth being needed for all people who have a right to know what the hell is going on. Yes. So many readers of your articles share the concern that Ukraine may end up having thousands of unwanted casualties, the same readers knowing that Putin had grounds for his actions. It should never have come to this and the reason was the collection of the neocon mass murderers hiding in Washington, representing themselves as protectors of democracy when in reality, they are the opposite.
The really dangerous part is that it is almost all the elected members of both houses in Washington are cheering on the feeble Biden, wanting him to be even more warlike than he has been in his "control" of this carefully programmed matter. That means, in effect, that almost every constituentcy in the USA is now represented by a supporter of war, which must eventually mean nuclear war as each one tries outdo the previous one and this shows in almost all the comments that pour out daily via the corrupted servants of government, the media, right almost across the board.
In other words, the beneficiaries of any war, the military / industrial complex, the big investors like BlackRock and Vanguard, the Pharmaceutical giants who have created a climate of total confusion and death, are now controlling the world's actions….. but not quite the world's thinking....yet. But very close there as well.
The likes of Caitlin and very few others are keeping the doors open, just enough for the light to keep shining in, unreservedly accepting the supremacy of reason and truth.
None of us reading this have it within our power to halt the major decisions that are made.It is after all preaching to the converted,at least as regards myself.Getting the message to the people who influence events seems to be a lot trickier .Still getting it off your chest is worthwhile and educating the next generation of fighters has to be done.
While of course I am disturbed by the war, I am more disturbed by the large number of Americans, including supposed liberals, who have fallen for the propaganda. These are people who went through the lying that accompanied the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and some who can remember Vietnam, Serbia, and Panama, and they should know better. Instead they spend their time posting little blue and yellow hearts to signal their virtue -- to what? The Empire? The Empire operates strictly from Realpolitik, and does not care about anyone's virtue.
If the economic blowback from this scene is what many say it's going to be, they can celebrate their virtue with ten-dollar gas and twenty-dollar hamburger -- if that.
Putin is doing his best to break the bondage the zionist thieves and thugs have on humanity. let's do out bit to help he succeeds. the best thing we can do with limited resources and minimal risk is boycott, divest, and sanction.
When people reflexively say “we can’t give Putin what he wants!”, do they even know what Russia demanded from the West before they launched the invasion? It seems not. But the security guarantees treaties Russia proposed in December boil down to two things: return NATO militaries to their 1997 dispositions and return all nuclear weapons to their owners territory. Since no one in Europe felt insecure in 1997, why should we hesitate to return to those positions now? And why should the US and it alone be permitted to spread its nuclear arsenal not only into European countries but Asia and elsewhere across the globe? So long as these measures, plus the removal of sanctions, is all Russia is asking, why not “give Putin what he wants”? Peace movements across the West have no excuse not to embrace Russia’s proposals and to call on our governments to negotiate a new, peace-promoting security structure in Europe.
The issue is so fraught - I love that word - with the ridiculous that any objective observer would have to conclude we are all, or pretty well all, nuts. Sanctions have taken on the air of magic - a fairy with a wand, neutralizing everything in sight. Dostoevsky banned at a university, Tchaikovsky banned - if they're going to ban Russian music, they might as well ban all music. What the f..k? I've always believed we are essentially a non-serious race of beings who liberally mix fantasy and reality- but this is beyond irony.
And while most pundits preface their views on the Ukraine crisis with - "while we condemn Russia's illegal violence", they go on to compare it with the Iraq invasion of 2003: what the bloody hell? Where was the existential threat to the US, to anybody- especially in the West, 6000 miles away from a country with no nuclear capability? How do you compare the rapid brutal murder of a million civilians and ruination of a great country with an ancient history, to this situation? I find that not just absurd but obscene, non-productive, delusional, mad - and in its wild lack of relevance, a formula for armageddon.
I've been screaming about the risks of nuclear war (and nuclear energy) since I was 14 and had a dream that warships filled the bay in front of my house in Maine. Then the bombs were dropped and that was that. I woke up in a cold sweat. Cold war, cold sweat, cold nuclear winter... Sounds like a Hollywood blockbuster. Speaking of, I used to have this poster on my wall in college: https://imageobjecttext.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/gone-with-the-wind.jpg Most people accepted it as simply the way things were back then (kinda like now)...thought I'd share. Detente is a nice word, I'm sure it will be absorbed and released just like any other healing thought. Problem is, we're living in an age where geopolitics began in 2016 for most people. Seems like so many "woke" up around then. So any nuance is lost including the concept of detente. In my last comment on these pages, a couple of real gentlemen suggested I deserved a jackboot stomping of my head when I recommended something benign and healing. So I'm not sure there's much hope for detente in their minds. Where's the detente in our daily lives when we enter into any kind of debate about current events? I'm hanging on to hope but it's getting more difficult to find.
-------"Western powers insisted that they were trying to prevent this war while doing everything possible to ensure that it happened. Now they say they are trying to end this war while doing everything possible to ensure it continues."-------
Truer words were never spoken.
Thank you Caitlin. May the world hear your warning before it's too late. And I fear that it's already almost too late.
I remember when a cross was burned in our front yard and the Coast Guard had to evacuate our family and another from Elizabeth City, North Carolina because my mother had the "temerity" to give a ride to and from the base school to another chief petty officer's children who happened to be black. Not a peep in the local, state, nor national press, so I think this idea that American once was an open society is a fiction Hollywood sells because it's on the DOD/NED payroll. It never was. It's as Chomsky says, open debate within the allowed parameters, and you'll be shut down if you cross the line.
The school had to be on base because Black, Philippine, and other "Non-white" citizens were not allowed into the local schools, but Uncle Sam was okay with situating a base and all it's economic benefits right there.
More than just trying and doing your best, Caitlin, you're providing something unique that I for one need and I think many do. Expert analysis and criticism is great as far as it goes but ... for a couple of years now I've been saying that
>>> There Is No Emancipation in Narratives. I Need a Sermon!
And I'm a died-in-the-wool Darwin-thumping atheist.
I'm afraid the 'Western world' and it's propaganda towards Russia and the gullible masses are also saying, "Fuck your music, fuck your food, fuck your books, fuck your cats, fuck everything about all of you."
Alea iacta est -- the die is cast ( Julius Caesar). It's hard not to hearken back to the CIA's assassination of JFK as the day the die was finally cast in chromium steel. Eradication of the last clarion voice in US politics preaching detente was essential because American empire could not proliferate with that idea in the forefront. Therefore detente could not be tolerated when articulated by a US president. Back then, we mourned a man rather than mourning the real tragedy that the notion of an American democratic republic was complete rubbish. Kennedy was all too clear with his assertion that he sought NOT the infamous Pax Americana, enforced by military might, but a peace actually framed by international efforts at genuine detente.
Never judge events by the words spoken or written.
Always watch the actions taken.
Nobody has registered the possibility that this Ukraine thing is not actually a war.
Putin refers to it as Special Operations which imply a cessation at some point when the objectives are achieved. I think that Russia has no interest in annexing troublesome Ukraine, he is stopping the 8 years of military victimisation of Donbass and taking out the US controlled biolabs which threaten the health and security of the entire world. He is protecting Ukrainians from Neo-Nazi militia & mercenaries.
We should be grateful.
It's a great reset mind fuck, ALL OF IT.
A clarion call with a relevant suggestion
"I have done my very best. Come what may.” Caitlin
No question or any argument on this statement, Caitlin. You are a sane, but almost lone voice in the wilderness.
Your writings have made so many people realise how little truth there is available, truth being needed for all people who have a right to know what the hell is going on. Yes. So many readers of your articles share the concern that Ukraine may end up having thousands of unwanted casualties, the same readers knowing that Putin had grounds for his actions. It should never have come to this and the reason was the collection of the neocon mass murderers hiding in Washington, representing themselves as protectors of democracy when in reality, they are the opposite.
The really dangerous part is that it is almost all the elected members of both houses in Washington are cheering on the feeble Biden, wanting him to be even more warlike than he has been in his "control" of this carefully programmed matter. That means, in effect, that almost every constituentcy in the USA is now represented by a supporter of war, which must eventually mean nuclear war as each one tries outdo the previous one and this shows in almost all the comments that pour out daily via the corrupted servants of government, the media, right almost across the board.
In other words, the beneficiaries of any war, the military / industrial complex, the big investors like BlackRock and Vanguard, the Pharmaceutical giants who have created a climate of total confusion and death, are now controlling the world's actions….. but not quite the world's thinking....yet. But very close there as well.
The likes of Caitlin and very few others are keeping the doors open, just enough for the light to keep shining in, unreservedly accepting the supremacy of reason and truth.
None of us reading this have it within our power to halt the major decisions that are made.It is after all preaching to the converted,at least as regards myself.Getting the message to the people who influence events seems to be a lot trickier .Still getting it off your chest is worthwhile and educating the next generation of fighters has to be done.
While of course I am disturbed by the war, I am more disturbed by the large number of Americans, including supposed liberals, who have fallen for the propaganda. These are people who went through the lying that accompanied the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and some who can remember Vietnam, Serbia, and Panama, and they should know better. Instead they spend their time posting little blue and yellow hearts to signal their virtue -- to what? The Empire? The Empire operates strictly from Realpolitik, and does not care about anyone's virtue.
If the economic blowback from this scene is what many say it's going to be, they can celebrate their virtue with ten-dollar gas and twenty-dollar hamburger -- if that.
Putin is doing his best to break the bondage the zionist thieves and thugs have on humanity. let's do out bit to help he succeeds. the best thing we can do with limited resources and minimal risk is boycott, divest, and sanction.
When people reflexively say “we can’t give Putin what he wants!”, do they even know what Russia demanded from the West before they launched the invasion? It seems not. But the security guarantees treaties Russia proposed in December boil down to two things: return NATO militaries to their 1997 dispositions and return all nuclear weapons to their owners territory. Since no one in Europe felt insecure in 1997, why should we hesitate to return to those positions now? And why should the US and it alone be permitted to spread its nuclear arsenal not only into European countries but Asia and elsewhere across the globe? So long as these measures, plus the removal of sanctions, is all Russia is asking, why not “give Putin what he wants”? Peace movements across the West have no excuse not to embrace Russia’s proposals and to call on our governments to negotiate a new, peace-promoting security structure in Europe.
The issue is so fraught - I love that word - with the ridiculous that any objective observer would have to conclude we are all, or pretty well all, nuts. Sanctions have taken on the air of magic - a fairy with a wand, neutralizing everything in sight. Dostoevsky banned at a university, Tchaikovsky banned - if they're going to ban Russian music, they might as well ban all music. What the f..k? I've always believed we are essentially a non-serious race of beings who liberally mix fantasy and reality- but this is beyond irony.
And while most pundits preface their views on the Ukraine crisis with - "while we condemn Russia's illegal violence", they go on to compare it with the Iraq invasion of 2003: what the bloody hell? Where was the existential threat to the US, to anybody- especially in the West, 6000 miles away from a country with no nuclear capability? How do you compare the rapid brutal murder of a million civilians and ruination of a great country with an ancient history, to this situation? I find that not just absurd but obscene, non-productive, delusional, mad - and in its wild lack of relevance, a formula for armageddon.