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I’ve had a rough week. I’m feeling very irritated about life, the universe and everything.
After I watched a video of a State Department spokeswoman blaming just about everything the US has done to further Israel’s cause of genocide against the Palestinian people on “Hamas,” I was livid. But then I read a great comment by Mark (@babasonicos) on Caitlin Johnstone’s article that summed up this spokeswoman’s programmed propaganda response beautifully: “Hamas ate my hamster!!!”
It’s the ultimate liar’s “The dog ate my homework!” type of excuse. This coming week I’m sure we’ll hear a version of “You sunk my battleship!” to explain why the US is committing war crimes by bombing Yemeni tribesmen during their celebration of Eid. Nothing new there. But after that belly laugh at the absurdity of the US State Department trying to cover for our total lack of morals and compassion, I knew what was really bothering me.
I’m tired of the bullshit.
I’m tired of being gaslighted.
I’m sick to death of the lame lies we the poor and oppressed are supposed to believe without questioning.
Here we have billionaires like the Elongated Muskrat showing their true colors to the world with their greedy, self-centered, and non-empathetic behaviors, but we can’t even get the simple truth out of a State Department spokesperson about why the US taxpayer is being forced to pay for a livestreamed genocide.
Come on! Give us a break! We all know the real reason behind this inhuman insanity...
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It's been a tiring week. I'm still recuperating from a recent surgery, but I felt it was important to attend a local peace demonstration. I also feel it's important to share information from non-mainstream media sources to a wider audience who has fallen down the rabbit hole into Alice's (nonsensical neoliberal/warmongering propaganda) Wonderland... A place were so-called "peace activists" are actually advocating for sending more weapons to, as well as enforcing a no-fly zone over, Ukraine because in their minds, "War is peace."
Didn't George Orwell say something like that in his dystopian masterpiece of a novel, 1984? I'm sure I've read it somewhere.
Frankly, I don't have enough energy right now to argue with the "President Zelensky can't support Nazis/fascism because he's Jewish" crowd. Yes, he can and here's the link to an excellent article from The Grayzone that explains how Zelensky gave a medal of honor to an openly avowed Neo-Nazi in December 2021.
Yes, he did just that less than four months ago. Read it and learn to think for yourself. I promise you'll thank me for it later. (Or not.) But at least things will start to fall into place for you as you learn how Ukrainian oil oligarch (or, as we call them in the West,"a billionaire") Igor Kolomoisky helped to place Zelenski into power with the help of the US-backed coup in 2014. Click here or the link below to read all about the fun and games of Zelensky and Kolomoisky utilizing Neo-Nazi paramilitary units to further their political and financial aims.
I hope peace activists' voices will eventually break through this toxic fog of propaganda funded by the US government along with its Big Oil and military industrial complex allies. Below I've shared a few good quotes and article links I've come across this week that will help clear that nasty propaganda fog completely from your mind.
One news tidbit that'll cut through the muddy logic of American war-loving propgandists: According to indie journalist Ben Norton, "An estimated 377,000 Yemenis have died in the US-Saudi war on their country, and roughly 70% of deaths were children under age 5."
I hope you'll soon be able to discern that 377,000 Yemenis--most of them children--dying in the ongoing US-sponsored bombing war with Saudi Arabia against Yemen is actually a much more horrific current conflict than the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Horrible that it is, Ukraine hasn't experienced anywhere near the loss of life or property damage. (Less than 400 confirmed deaths, some of them ethnic Russians.) And, yes, brown-skinned Muslim peoples can suffer just as much (if not more) as white-skinned European "Christian" peoples.
Like the Yemeni woman in the meme above, one day soon I'd like to be able to say, "Now they'll see us!" And we will still have enough of our humanity intact to go and rebuild their bombed cities and help them bury their hundreds of thousands dead in Yemen, in Somalia, in Gaza, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya... even if they're not blue-eyed blond Ukrainians who, according to one American mainstream media pundit, "Look just like us."
Uh-huh. Sounds like something a Neo-Nazi would say, doesn't it?
Here are some examples of good independent reporting:
Civilian casualties in Ukraine are relatively few. Despite the strenuous
efforts to find then, actual numbers appear to be in the order of
300-400. For good reasons, Russian forces are calculatingly avoiding
attacks on urban centers; after all, 40% of the population is Russian
and concentrated in the regions where the fighting is taking place.
Moreover, Moscow has no interest in subjugating the country to its rule.
In comparison, the Ukrainian army has been shelling the city centers of
Lugansk and Donetsk, producing casualties estimated by a UN agency at
more than 1,300 (3 or 4 times what objective observers estimate on the
Ukrainian government’s side of the battle lines). Also. the water system
has been destroyed. Yet, these facts are unreported and unnoticed in
the total absence of media presence in an area they have erased from
their reportorial map. --Michael Brenner, Another Casualty of the Ukraine Conflict: The Truth
More concerning than backing Nazi militias in Ukraine is the far more
widespread, far more deadly, and equally white supremacist belief we're seeing throughout the western world that invading a nation of white people is horrific while invading a nation of brown people is normal.
Is what the US and its allies are trying to accomplish in Ukraine worth continually risking nuclear armageddon for? This is the single most important question in the world right now, and hardly anyone seems to be asking it. --Caitlin Johnstone, Every US Enemy Is Hitler
In December 2021, Zelensky would be seen delivering a “Hero of Ukraine” award to a leader of the fascistic Right Sector in a ceremony in Ukraine’s parliamenthttps://t.co/FWGNJST5v4
— David J Farquhar🌹 #Peace&Love (@DavidJFarquhar) March 5, 2022
The US has a history of working to draw Moscow into gruelling, costly
military quagmires which monopolize its military firepower while
leaching it of blood and treasure. Jimmy Carter's National Security
Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, author of US hegemonic manifesto The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives, openly bragged about having lured Russia into its own Vietnam fighting the US-backed mujahideen in Afghanistan for a decade.
Just two years ago then-US Special Representative for Syria engagement said during a video event hosted by the Hudson Institute that his job was to make Syria "a quagmire for the Russians".
So
this isn't something new or out of the blue, and what it means is that
all the self-righteous posturing by the western political/media class
about the need to pour weapons into Ukraine is not really about saving
Ukrainian lives (only negotiating a ceasefire can do that), but about
seizing this golden opportunity to hurt Russia's geostrategic interests
as much as possible. Ukraine on its own is powerless to stop Russia from
taking Kyiv no matter how many weapons are sent, but those weapons can
be used to fight a "long, bloody insurgency" after that happens which
costs many more lives, keeps Moscow militarily preoccupied and
hemorrhaging money, and ultimately hurts Putin's popularity at home. --Caitlin Johnstone, Ukraine Is A Sacrificial Pawn On The Imperial Chessboard
Nowhere could the the revelations from the Pandora Papers
investigation hit harder than in Ukraine. The discovery of offshore
accounts strike at the heart of the current government and power
structure of a ruling class that rose to power on the promise of
fighting corruption, including the television-star-turned-President
Volodymyr Zelensky.
The
worldwide probe, prompted by a massive leak to the International
Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), has included work by
journalists from the Ukrainian media Slidstvо.Info,
which connected the shady financial dealings of Zelensky's television
production company Studio Kvartal 95 to the Ukrainian oligarch Igor
Kolomoisky. Slidstvo found that the laundered money passed through the
Cyprus branch of Kolomoisky-owned Privatbank, according to law enforcement officers. --Livy Bereg,Zelensky's Ukraine, Where the Pandora Papers Hit Hardest
From Jimmy Dore's interview with journalist Aaron Maté: "The Nord Stream pipeline, which was constructed to convey liquid natural gas from Russia to Germany, may run dry if the US government has its way. Suggesting that financial considerations may have played a role in the Biden administration’s refusal to negotiate with Russia, the attack on Ukraine will likely compel Germany to refuse natural gas from Russia and instead remain dependent on US-based suppliers."
Seen on Twitter:
This is what Putin's bombs are doing to children in Ukraine.
Wait, not Ukraine, that's Yemen. And they're not Putin's bombs, they're US bombs. Dropped by our friends the Saudis. Yes, Russia's bombing ppl in Ukraine- It's wrong. So why do you only talk about one of these things? pic.twitter.com/SigmvawzPP
— The ice continues to melt (@squaneenge) March 6, 2022
Is NBC run by "Putin Lovers" too because they told the truth about how racist Nazi ultranayionalist army soldiers in Ukraine put black students from Africa in danger by denying them safe passage out of Ukraine? They were backing it up with US guns by the way. Freedom pic.twitter.com/uMPZfoWbme
The Establishment had a tough time trying to deny the Nazi presence in Ukraine, because everybody acknowledged it for 8 years and the Nazis wouldn't stop coming out publicly proudly pronouncing that they were Nazis.
— Black in the Empire (@blackintheempir) March 7, 2022
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