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You Only Need To Cage A Bird If It Knows That It Can Fly

Everything you do on this front makes a difference, and don’t ever let anyone tell you otherwise.

Caitlin Johnstone

February 20, 2024

5 minutes

capitalism, dystopia, propaganda, tyranny, US empire, western civilization

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Caitlin Johnstone · You Only Need To Cage A Bird If It Knows That It Can Fly

One point I keep trying to drive home here in as many ways as I can is that this is the dystopia we were warned about. The main difference between this mind-controlled dystopia and the fictional dystopias in novels like 1984 is that in 1984 people knew they weren’t living in a free society, whereas in this dystopia the people believe they are free.

All mainstream and semi-mainstream political factions are owned and operated by the powerful, and propaganda is used to get the public subscribing to them to advance the interests of the powerful. Because the overwhelming majority of us have been manipulated into espousing one of these power-serving belief systems (they give you multiple choices depending on your ideological disposition), the more overtly totalitarian measures described by dystopian novelists are unnecessary. You only need to cage a bird if it knows that it can fly.

But make no mistake: our society is no more free than those in the dark futures imagined by storytellers. If our minds are not free, then we are not free. If we’re being successfully manipulated into thinking, speaking, acting, voting, working and consuming in accordance with the wishes of the powerful, then we’re just as locked down as we would be if we had chains around our necks. Collectively we could not be any more aligned with the will of the powerful than we already are, even if our brains were replaced with computer chips.

There is no more need for dystopian fiction, because the dystopia has already arrived. It’s here. In fact, dystopian fiction is actually destructive because it causes people to imagine that dystopia is a threat that exists somewhere off in the future instead of right here and now all around us.

We don’t need dystopian fiction for the same reason we wouldn’t need imaginary swords-and-sorcery fantasy novels if we we lived in a world of wizards and dragons. People living in dystopian societies do not need dystopian fiction, they need dystopian facts. Dystopian journalism. Dystopian documentaries. Dystopian polemics. We just need true information and reality-based ideas to counter the lies and manipulation we’re inundated with from day to day.

We cannot be free until we have used the power of our numbers to shrug off the control of our dystopian overlords, and we’ll never do that as long as a critical majority of us are unable to see how profoundly unfree we really are. There’s no escaping the mind control matrix of imperial propaganda until you can see the lines of code it is made of.

Our most important task then, at this point in history, is to keep pointing out those lines of code for as many people as possible, in as many ways as we can think of. The one advantage to this type of dystopia is that our rulers need to maintain their nice-guy free society image in order to preserve the illusion that we are free, so they can’t just come out and start imprisoning everyone who spotlights the myriad ways we are enslaved by lies and propaganda. They’ll never grant us a major mainstream platform on which to do this, but we can operate within the margins, waking up one person at a time to the reality of what’s going on.

So go around spreading the truth. Fighting the propaganda. Weakening public trust in the mass media and the political constructs it manufactures consent for. Highlighting the depravity and murderousness of the empire. Use any and all media and forums you find to be effective.

Everything you do on this front makes a difference, and don’t ever let anyone tell you otherwise. The propaganda machine is the linchpin of their power. It’s what holds the empire together. Without the ability to manipulate the public at mass scale, our rulers cannot rule.

Once people are no longer buying into power-serving narratives, we will gain the ability to begin working toward the creation of a truth-based society that works for everyone. But this will never happen as long as we are being successfully manipulated into believing that this model for human civilization is acceptable and serves our interests. The very first step is un-jacking our brains from the propaganda matrix.

ADDENDUM

Assange, Gaza, And The Ugly Reality Of War Crimes

So I thought I’d do another painting of Assange, but this time in the blue press helmet made famous by those other courageous journalists from Palestine.

Caitlin Johnstone

February 21, 2024

2 minutes

Assange, gaza, israel, journalism, palestine, war crimes

Mixed media piece I did while nervously awaiting the resolution of the latest Assange hearing:

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If Gaza taught me anything, it’s taught me what war crimes really look like. War crimes are cruel power abuses where soldiers with bombs and guns prey on babies and moms and grandpas and shop owners. War crimes are not abstract to me anymore. War crimes are brutal. War crimes are flesh-from-bones. War crimes are kids crying in the freezing rain because they can’t find any family. War crimes are snipers picking off patients through hospital windows. War crimes are moms starving to death very slowly under a grave of rubble because no one can rescue them. War crimes are little girls with blown-out eyes from being run over by a tank while she slept in her bed.

And who showed us all this? Journalists. Journalists documenting war crimes.

If the US succeeds in extraditing Assange today, they will set a precedent that any journalist anywhere in the world can be snatched up and taken to the US and locked away for the rest of their lives just for embarrassing the US with evidence of their war crimes.

So I’m not gonna lie, I’ve been pacing around like a nervous Pervis through this latest extradition hearing. So I thought I’d do another painting of Assange, but this time in the blue press helmet made famous by those other courageous journalists from Palestine.

Free Palestine. Free Assange. Free the world.

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FPV drones transform cheap, easy-to-produce drones into precision guided weapons. FPV drones have several disadvantages including loss-of-signal as it begins its attack dive or encounters electronic warfare. AI targeting allows an operator to designate a target while still in signal line-of-sight and before entering an area defended by electronic warfare, for the AI to then automatically guide the drone to its target without any external signal. Russia's large military industrial base lends its an advantage in both quantity and quality over Ukraine and its Western sponsors.

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Shepherd - Russia claims to have developed AI-based aiming system for kamikaze drone (August 2023): https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/la...
TASS - Russia uses AI in combat drones (November 2023): https://tass.com/defense/1708657
Wired - Russia's Killer Drone in Ukraine Raises Fears About AI in Warfare (March 2022): https://www.wired.com/story/ai-drones...
Washington Post - The war in Ukraine is spurring a revolution in drone warfare using AI (July 2023): https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...
The Economist - Russia is starting to make its superiority in electronic warfare count (November 2023): https://www.economist.com/europe/2023...
FT - Military briefing: Russia has the upper hand in electronic warfare with Ukraine (January 7, 2024): https://www.ft.com/content/a477d3f1-8...
Kyiv Post - Russia’s Night Drones Pose a Serious New Threat to Ukraine's Troops (December 2023): https://www.kyivpost.com/post/25459
Kyiv Independent - Minister urges Ukrainians to create drones for army at home (January 13, 2024): https://kyivindependent.com/digital-t...
Forbes - Russian Volunteer Group Claims To Make 1,000 FPV Kamikaze Drones A Day (December 2023): https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidham...
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The discussion focuses on the impending defeats currently faced by the ruling Western establishment, on both the Ukraine and Palestine fronts. The panel ponders the various ways in which these defeats will take shape in 2024 including the West’s betrayal of Volodymyr Zelensky, and the extent to which other Western proxies like Egypt’s Al Sisi and Jordan’s King Abdullah can maintain their regime given the universal disgust that is elicited by their complicity in the ongoing Palestinian genocide.

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31 Dec 2023

Garland Nixon examines the profound ideological underpinnings and contradictions animating the American empire's two most dangerous crises in recent times, Israel, a country supposedly born of its fear and hatred for Nazism, and the Ukraine, a nation whose NATO-supported regime professes Nazism openly in many of its key institutions, including admiration for the Zionist state brutal "Nazi" way of dealing with the Palestinian captive nation and its own population.

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FOREIGN POLICY UPDATE WITH DR GERALD HORNE. - UKRAINE/ISRAEL/CHINA

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Garland and Dr Horne dissect almost all the major developments and flashpoints shaping the current historical moment, from the dangerous decline of the unipolar US Hegemon to the unstoppable rise of Russia and China as alternative centers of global power offering a far healthier and fraternal model of world leadership. A monumental shift is taking place in the world, notes Dr Horne and the signs are everywhere and proliferating. Canada is almost adrift, having alienated China, Russia, the UK, and even the US. Meanwhile, Pres. Putin just got a royal welcome in the UAE and Saudi Arabia, signaling Washington that the previous arrangements are no longer valid and a new order is being put in place. This "global reshuffling of the deck", because US imperialism has lost a great deal of power and prestige, due to its defeats in Ukraine, and appalling backing of the war criminals in Israel, is denying Washington the time and resources necessary to contain China militarily. By 2030 or sooner, Beijing will be well beyond the capabilities of the US military to threaten, let alone defeat in a clash of arms either conventional or nuclear. The US unipolar moment is over.

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GARLAND NIXON is a leading geopolitical analyst, talkshow host, vlogger and anti-imperialist activist. ||| Dr GERALD HORNE is an American historian who holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. Gerald Horne was raised in St. Louis, Missouri. After his undergraduate education at Princeton University, he received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Horne holds the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. He was a contributing editor of Political Affairs magazine.^[3]

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You Only Need To Cage A Bird If It Knows That It Can Fly

You Only Need To Cage A Bird If It Knows That It Can Fly

Assange, Gaza, And The Ugly Reality Of War Crimes