INDRAJIT—Empire, instead of changing material reality (maybe don’t commit genocide, the region will still sell you oil anyway) is trying to change immaterial media. Instead of trying to change the charnel, they’re trying to change the channel. Like Elvis, they’re just shooting the TV rather than doing something about their increasingly addled decline. Hence you get the massive, lockstep campaign around stupid but often repeated talking points. ‘Beheaded Babies’ (not true) and now ‘Antisemitism on Campuses’ (do I need to tell you?). It’s all a ruse. A pathetic ruse, while people can see real children being buried alive and people being mass executed in hospitals. The information, an Al Aqsa Flood of information, there’s just too much of it because it’s actually happening. The truth seeps through. Media like Medium censoring me by 80% doesn’t matter, cause there’s 8000% more atrocities out there, and people are talking about it. You can’t demonize, demonetize, and disappear everybody.
ANTI-IMPERIALISM FIGHTERS
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The Destruction Of Gaza SHOULD Be Radicalizing People
19 minutes readCAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Empire managers and propagandists have been pushing the narrative that foreign governments are behind this new protest movement to radicalize young people against Washington and Israel, though as we discussed recently they humorously can’t yet manage to agree on which foreign government that is.
The imperial spinmeisters have been churning out these talking points about radicalization and nefarious support because that’s the narrative bludgeon they plan on using to stomp out the burgeoning antiwar movement the empire has created with its genocidal atrocities in Gaza. If they can establish a narrative that it is the government’s job to shut down political dissent and stop the spread of unauthorized political opinions, then they can justify doing pretty much anything to stop this movement in its tracks.
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ALEX LO—As recounted by Princeton political scientist Gary Bass in The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide, Washington gave the go-ahead to the Pakistani army in 1971 to launch Operation Searchlight that killed at least 300,000 Bengalis and forced 10 million to flee. The genocide was halted by India’s military intervention, leading to the establishment of Bangladesh. In 1965-66, with full support from the CIA and the State Department, the anti-communist purge launched by Suharto after his coup against Sukarno cost the lives of up to a million Indonesians.
About 3 million Vietnamese were killed in the war waged by the US in their country. -
SCOTT RITTER—Faced with this threat, the Georgia Dream Party had no choice but to reintroduce the legislation on transparency on foreign influence. This time, however, Georgia Dream understood the scope and scale of the opposition it would face. Like any good ruling party, it counted the votes before it introduced the legislation, ensuring that it had enough votes not only to pass the bill, but also override any potential veto by the Geogian President, Salome Zourobichvili, a former French diplomat who had joined firmly with the goals and objectives of the Georgian political opposition and their US and European masters.
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Gaza War: Deceptions, Distortions, Misperceptions. What are the Relevant Actual Facts?
78 minutes readCHARLES PIERCE—Hamas and PIJ had demonstrated a willingness to establish and maintain truces (long-term and short-term) with the Zionist state. Israel, however, evidently expected, despite cease-fires in effect, to have impunity as it perpetrated attacks, including assassinations, upon Palestinian resistance organizations. When resistance organizations responded with counter-attacks; Israel subjected Gaza to grossly disproportionate violence. Moreover, the current extreme racist Israeli government increased its persecutions and violations of Palestinian human rights: impunity for settler attacks upon West Bank Palestinians; stepped up grabs of land and water rights; dispossessions and expulsions; arbitrary detentions; increased killings of unarmed Palestinians; blocking of Muslim access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque; continued assassinations of resistance leaders; etc. Finally, Hamas responded with its “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood” (October 7, 2023) against Israeli forces in areas around Gaza.