Listen to a reading of this article: The Congressional Progressive Caucus has retracted an extremely mild, toothless letter its members had written to President Biden politely asking him to consider adding a little diplomacy into the mix to help end the conflict in Ukraine. The retraction followed a deluge of public outrage against their slight deviation from the official imperial narrative.
And people believe the bullshit totally. Like that the Ukrainians have Russia "on the run" completely delusional. And now suggesting diplomacy, to obtain peace is suddenly unacceptable. Will they not be happy until the nuclear weapons are deployed? Can we not reign this in before that happens? Clearly Biden is not at the helm. Oh we see him there but in body only I think. So who are the unelected people who really run this bullshit??
John Pilger once met Leni Reifenstahl, Nazi propagandist.
"She told me that the “patriotic messages” of her films were dependent not on “orders from above” but on what she called the “submissive void” of the German public.
Did that include the liberal, educated bourgeoisie? I asked. “Yes, especially them,” she said."
"...Ukraine stands no chance at outright victory in this war...." the war machine wants and needs perpetual war, and have sunk plenty of US taxpayer dollars into military adventures they had no intention of winning; the $ were just passing through on the way to private pockets
The few people who oppose this war who are very visible, like Trump and Musk, are under threat of prosecution. You may not like Trump or Musk, but--against armageddon--take the allies you have.
Col. Douglas Macgregor yesterday explained why he thinks Ukraine is nearly decimated, and Russia is only getting stronger. But this is where the damn warmongers are going to want to use a nuke--because they are losing so badly. Macgregor gets accused of being pro-Putin simply for doing his best to get at the truth in the midst of the fog of war, and the endless, sickening propaganda, and the deep desire for people like Biden, Pelosi, and McConnell to get us all killed.
Its so revolting to see Matt Stoller calling for war with China, and Markos of DailyKos wanting full on war in Ukraine against Russia. I worked with these guys for a decade, always anti-war. They've certainly changed. These progressives are progressive in what way? War is not progress.
This is so stupid that it is almost beyond belief. It is such a relief to be able to read this article - and to follow people like Aaron Maté and Glenn Greenwald and Jimmy Dore and Dave DeCamp - and, of course, Caitlin Johnstone.
The state of politics in the US, the UK, Australia, and most of the west in scary. Yesterday, it was good to wake up and hear that a few politicians were saying something that was slightly good. The fact that they backed down says so much about them. Decent politicians are few and far between.
By curious coincidence, a seriously good political advert came out on YouTube yesterday, which said it all. You don't have to agree with every word of it (there are one or two things about it that I would have said differently) - but it makes the point about the folly of war, and the sad state of our world, very effectively. I think that it is worth watching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULtEZISbj7E
"It was personally slammed by Bernie Sanders, the pope of American progressivism" - I see that "progressivism" has been redefined by the Democrats. And "incrementalism" means "not in your lifetime, which may be shorter than you think, anyway, so STFU". Bernie is merely the pope of the useless "progressive" caucus now. Useful for fund-raising purposes only. Are they selling designer "Tax the Rich" t-shirts for $300 yet?
I would comment further but its all in the title..WORTHLESS house progressives.
The performance theater of the gate keepers who are nothing but the WHORE'S of the status quo.
The USA empire will have to be destroyed...as with all abusers they will never stop till they are stopped ..and sadly the people that will suffer the most for the inevitable earned downfall of american empire will have never have deserved it.. but the people that caused it may go unscathed..but how i dream of the sounds of guillotines and the rolling of heads..
Support for war, almost any war, has long been the common ground of both parties. And somehow, that consensus translates into strength because war is the unifying principle. Minority rights based on ethnicity or gender can be bargained, as can social polices like universal health care, but war is the very essence, the gruel in the stew pot of state that must be kept hot. That has been the case, at least, until now. But "know your enemy", as a cardinal rule of war doesn't figure too prominently in this instance. That Russia is not Iraq seems to elude even Westerners like Sanders. That blind-spot automatically makes us roller-skaters downhill on concrete at 45 degrees - headed for a brick wall.
Scott Ritter’s FAMOUS tweet below (April 6, 2022). He was immediately banned from Tweeter – than reinstated and soon again permanently banned without explanation.
Remember, Scott courageously fought US bipartisan War party’s WMD fraud in Iraq from the very start.
“The Ukrainian National Police committed numerous crimes against humanity in Bucha. Biden, in seeking to shift blame for the Bucha murders to Russia, is guilty of aiding and abetting these crimes. Congratulations America…. We’ve created yet another Presidential war criminal !!”
https://scottritter.substack.com/ Bucha, Revisited - "60 Minutes" regurgitates disinformation about who committed war crimes (Oct. 21, 2022)
And people believe the bullshit totally. Like that the Ukrainians have Russia "on the run" completely delusional. And now suggesting diplomacy, to obtain peace is suddenly unacceptable. Will they not be happy until the nuclear weapons are deployed? Can we not reign this in before that happens? Clearly Biden is not at the helm. Oh we see him there but in body only I think. So who are the unelected people who really run this bullshit??
John Pilger once met Leni Reifenstahl, Nazi propagandist.
"She told me that the “patriotic messages” of her films were dependent not on “orders from above” but on what she called the “submissive void” of the German public.
Did that include the liberal, educated bourgeoisie? I asked. “Yes, especially them,” she said."
"...Ukraine stands no chance at outright victory in this war...." the war machine wants and needs perpetual war, and have sunk plenty of US taxpayer dollars into military adventures they had no intention of winning; the $ were just passing through on the way to private pockets
I agree with every word. Thank you, Caitlin!
I just have this weird feeling that the CIA controls everything...
100% true.
The few people who oppose this war who are very visible, like Trump and Musk, are under threat of prosecution. You may not like Trump or Musk, but--against armageddon--take the allies you have.
Col. Douglas Macgregor yesterday explained why he thinks Ukraine is nearly decimated, and Russia is only getting stronger. But this is where the damn warmongers are going to want to use a nuke--because they are losing so badly. Macgregor gets accused of being pro-Putin simply for doing his best to get at the truth in the midst of the fog of war, and the endless, sickening propaganda, and the deep desire for people like Biden, Pelosi, and McConnell to get us all killed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co-xsyYccZQ
Its so revolting to see Matt Stoller calling for war with China, and Markos of DailyKos wanting full on war in Ukraine against Russia. I worked with these guys for a decade, always anti-war. They've certainly changed. These progressives are progressive in what way? War is not progress.
This is so stupid that it is almost beyond belief. It is such a relief to be able to read this article - and to follow people like Aaron Maté and Glenn Greenwald and Jimmy Dore and Dave DeCamp - and, of course, Caitlin Johnstone.
The state of politics in the US, the UK, Australia, and most of the west in scary. Yesterday, it was good to wake up and hear that a few politicians were saying something that was slightly good. The fact that they backed down says so much about them. Decent politicians are few and far between.
By curious coincidence, a seriously good political advert came out on YouTube yesterday, which said it all. You don't have to agree with every word of it (there are one or two things about it that I would have said differently) - but it makes the point about the folly of war, and the sad state of our world, very effectively. I think that it is worth watching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULtEZISbj7E
And it seems I was there
Where? Everywhere
Every battle ever fought
Every stab, every shot
Through the ages of humans, this killing machine
I could feel everything though
It wasn’t a dream
I was every soldier that had ever fought
With a shield and a sword
All the blood ever drawn
From a dagger, or a bayonet
An axe that will slay your neck
Automatic gats that clap only spraying, death
I was in a tank that exploded in Iraq
In a drive-by in gang wars spraying out of cars
I was in ‘Nam, dropping napalm, but it burned my skin
I was also Viet Minh
I was an Italian massacring Ethiopians
But the bullets only pierced my flesh because I was both of them
I could feel every single wound of the flesh
But also the pleasure of causing the death
I was a soldier of the Caliphate on a crusade, a killer
Using Christ in exactly the same way
I was every woman ever killed in a witch hunt
Or every little girl forced to grow with a split soul
Cause men like to snip clits and zip bits closed
So the rape feels nice
Before they take my life
I was fighting for liberation, a woman and general
Bringing death to cowards that sold my genitals
One moment I killed to be freed
The next, I was a monarch that killed for my greed
Thutmose the Third
Alexander the Fake
Caesar, Napoleon, Francis Drake
The arms of the state, the armies that are great
But I was also the resistance that’s hardly ever praised
I was every indigenous person of America
That died trying to protect their homes from a predator
Then the robe-cladden Roman senator
And every noble that showed you the ways of the treacherous
I was in the Belgian Congo hacking off limbs
In Rwanda, Akazu doing the same thing
I was a Japanese general occupying the Philippines
A Filipino child too young to know what it means
I was at Sharpeville, I was just two
My mother, with a bullet in her head, and I knew
Barely out of her womb, I played with her wound
I knew life was a cycle, she’ll be back soon
I was a soldier of Ashanti resisting the British
But at the same time still selling humans to the Dutch
If you’re honest with yourself and you look back through human history you’d see that we’re totally fucked
Cause I was that little girl in that church in Alabama
Then a grand-wizard, then Margaret Sanger
Then I was Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr
Feeling just fine in a B-29
I did my job
One-hundred thousand dead
-(Greasy. Yellow. Japs)-
I went home to relax
Then I was every child ever born with deformed limbs
Cause they were just pawns on a board to inform kings
I saw sharks following ships, intrigued by the trail that comes overboard
I saw sharks following the ship I was on I knew then that it couldn’t be long
We had tried to get free
But as if that were wrong
We were thrown overboard from the deck of the Zong
So many bodies that the sharks couldn’t finish the flesh
It took the waves to administer death
And I joined the rest at the bottom of the sea
The uncounted millions that dreamed to be free
The next minute I was back on a ship
This time as a soldier of the French
Right off the coast of Haiti we made a gas chamber for African rebels, I couldn’t deal with the stench
Then my head was chopped off
By one of Dessalines’ henchmen
He gave the order for killing all Frenchmen
Then all I could see was pyramids
Can you see?
Designed by man's mind but built by his greed
The strangest pyramids, I ever did see
Was not built by stones, but the bones of families...
"It was personally slammed by Bernie Sanders, the pope of American progressivism" - I see that "progressivism" has been redefined by the Democrats. And "incrementalism" means "not in your lifetime, which may be shorter than you think, anyway, so STFU". Bernie is merely the pope of the useless "progressive" caucus now. Useful for fund-raising purposes only. Are they selling designer "Tax the Rich" t-shirts for $300 yet?
Well, just more confirmation that sending any money to someone who calls themselves a progressive is an absolute waste.
I know what NOT to do, but I have no idea what TO do.
If you care to listen to Garland Nixon pick apart the "piece of trash" letter line by line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPqPWP6znN4
Holy shit, we're doomed.
I would comment further but its all in the title..WORTHLESS house progressives.
The performance theater of the gate keepers who are nothing but the WHORE'S of the status quo.
The USA empire will have to be destroyed...as with all abusers they will never stop till they are stopped ..and sadly the people that will suffer the most for the inevitable earned downfall of american empire will have never have deserved it.. but the people that caused it may go unscathed..but how i dream of the sounds of guillotines and the rolling of heads..
Support for war, almost any war, has long been the common ground of both parties. And somehow, that consensus translates into strength because war is the unifying principle. Minority rights based on ethnicity or gender can be bargained, as can social polices like universal health care, but war is the very essence, the gruel in the stew pot of state that must be kept hot. That has been the case, at least, until now. But "know your enemy", as a cardinal rule of war doesn't figure too prominently in this instance. That Russia is not Iraq seems to elude even Westerners like Sanders. That blind-spot automatically makes us roller-skaters downhill on concrete at 45 degrees - headed for a brick wall.
THANK you... Keep in mind that utterly corrupt Biden and GOP RINOs are all MAJOR US war criminals !!
Interview w/Scott Ritter, April 6, 2022, By Don DeBar -- Bucha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfHohl6gCJY
Scott Ritter’s FAMOUS tweet below (April 6, 2022). He was immediately banned from Tweeter – than reinstated and soon again permanently banned without explanation.
Remember, Scott courageously fought US bipartisan War party’s WMD fraud in Iraq from the very start.
“The Ukrainian National Police committed numerous crimes against humanity in Bucha. Biden, in seeking to shift blame for the Bucha murders to Russia, is guilty of aiding and abetting these crimes. Congratulations America…. We’ve created yet another Presidential war criminal !!”
https://scottritter.substack.com/ Bucha, Revisited - "60 Minutes" regurgitates disinformation about who committed war crimes (Oct. 21, 2022)
The USgov deserves to be destroyed.