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Aaron Bushnell-“I will no longer be complicit in genocide.”
One of the last things Aaron Bushnell wrote was: “Many of us like to ask ourselves, “What would I do if I was alive during Slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or the apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?” The Answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.” The world would be a better place if people like Aaron Bushnell lived on, fought day after day, onward into the future. The courage Aaron Bushnell possessed to do what he did, would better serve us all if he had used it day after day, for as long as possible. Waking up to the reality of US foreign policy leaves one isolated, angry, frustrated, and confused. We all have to work on creating a path from there to here today, where we all work together to make the world a better place tomorrow.
ADDENDUM
Pushing back against the Big Imperial Lie is everyone’s duty. Wherever and whenever it may rear its ugly head. Like the Navalny Psyop, for example.
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Alexei Navalny’s political activities were funded by the US government through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) as part of an effort to repeat US-backed 2014 Ukraine regime change inside Russia itself . The Western media had previously (and reluctantly) revealed Navalny as far-right, racist, and xenophobic despite efforts to pass him off as a progressive pro-democracy activist. US government-funded polling agencies consistently found Alexei Navalny extremely unpopular in Russia with single digit approval ratings. After an alleged 2020 “Novichok” poisoning, Navalny’s popularity “surged” to 20% as the Western media accused Moscow of being behind the incident. The US is now exploiting the death of Navalny to advance its anti-Russia policy while the Western media collective omits all relevant context regarding Navalny’s background and US funding.
References:
NYT – Navalny’s Death Raises Tensions Between U.S. and Russia (February 16, 2024): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/wo…
CNN – Putin saw an existential threat in Navalny, the opposition leader whose name he dared not mention (February 16, 2024): https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/17/eu…
Al Jazeera – Alexey Navalny: An archenemy Putin wouldn’t name and Kremlin couldn’t scare (February 16, 2024): https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2…
Reuters – Putin critic Navalny’s approval rating surges in wake of poisoning (October 2020): https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ru…
The New Atlas – CNN + Bellingcat’s Latest Russian Novichok Lies | 12/16/2020 Review (December 2020): 
• CNN + Bellingcat’s Latest Russian Nov…
NED – RUSSIA: POLLING FOR DEMOCRACY, THE YURI LEVADA ANALYTICAL CENTER (September 2011): https://www.ned.org/democracy-story/r…
The Guardian – Alexei Navalny obituary (February 16, 2024): https://www.theguardian.com/world/202…
Wikileaks – A GUIDE TO RUSSIAN POLITICAL YOUTH GROUPS: PART 1 OF 2 (November 2006): https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06…
Wikileaks – RUSSIAN YOUTH POLITICS, OR LACK THEREOF: PART 2 OF 2 (November 2006): https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06…
The Guardian – US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev (2004): https://www.theguardian.com/world/200…
The Atlantic Council – Russia’s democracy movement will survive the death of Navalny (February 16, 2024): https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs…
RFE/RL – Navalny’s Failure To Renounce His Nationalist Past May Be Straining His Support (February 2021): https://www.rferl.org/a/navalny-failu…
Euronews – Racist or revolutionary: The complex legacy of Alexei Navalny (July 2023): https://www.euronews.com/2023/07/07/r…
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3 comments
Self-sacrifice like the Buddhist denial of life and all the Christian monks are in direct opposition of Marxist principles, which are an affirmation of life.
Lies of omission, commission and insinuation.
I previously described how the LEMSO* Mushroom Farms operate, using lies of omission (they keep you in the dark) and commission (they feed you shit).
https://thesaker.is/tag/eric-arthur-blair/
and
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8yxbk3x8poae60jxm299m/TheMushroomPrinciple-Part2.pdf?rlkey=wktk999sp4hr9ulvzczdwh7ym&dl=1
Also important are the LEMSO lies of INSINUATION, as exemplified by some that reported the death of Aaron Bushnell.
Unlike blatant Trolls, those LEMSOs did not overtly state that Bushnell was mentally ill (for which there was zero evidence) but merely appended a paragraph at the end of their article stating that if any readers are suffering from depression or suicidal thoughts after reading it, to ring a mental health phoneline.
That way those scurrilous rags could claim to report news with a responsible social message, while avoiding accusations of slander or libel.
Unfortunately such LEMSO mealy mouthed insinuations may actually have been more effective to discredit Bushnell, a lucid heroic defender of Palestinian freedom, than any extreme Troll.
*Lying Establishment Media Sewer Outlet eg NY Times, WaPo, Guardian etc
All decent US military personnel must reflect upon Aaron’s incredibly brave act of ultimate self sacrifice, of protest against genocide facilitated by the USA. What can you yourself do?
Nothing nearly as brave, painful or selfless.
Simply refuse to follow any orders that aid the genocidal activities of Israel.
In fact it is your CONSTITUTIONAL LEGAL DUTY as a member of the US military to REFUSE to carry out UNLAWFUL ORDERS,
and orders to aid genocide are absolutely unlawful.