Quote of the day - 04-04-2025.

Caitlin Johnstone.

Opposing an active genocide is just the bare minimum requirement for not being a shitty human being. It’s no more “virtuous” than pulling a drowning toddler out of your pool; it’s just what one does when one is not a complete psychopath.

Those who call it “virtue signaling”, or accuse anti-genocide demonstrators of participating in some kind of fashionable social media trend, are confessing something very revealing about who they are as individuals. They are admitting that they cannot imagine any reason why anyone might take a forceful stand against an ongoing genocide unless it brought them social clout. They are admitting that they are bad people.

Those of us who have dedicated our time to opposing the genocide in Gaza are not doing anything special, noble, or exemplary. We won’t look back on our action with pride, we’ll just have the ability to look back on our lives at this point in history without shame. When our grandchildren ask us what we did about the Gaza holocaust, we won’t feel the need to lie or hang our heads. That’s it.

The fact that those of us who are aggressively opposing this genocide make up such a small percentage of our society does not say wonderful things about us, it says terrible things about our society. How pervasively our hearts and minds have been poisoned by propaganda and the self-centeredness of capitalism. How warped and twisted our consciences have been made. How many of us have failed to mature as individuals during our time on this planet.

 

 

 

You know who IS acting to stop the genocide of the Palestinians?

Yemen.

https://scheerpost.com/2025/04/04/yemen-is-acting-responsibly-to-stop-genocide-and-the-us-is-bombing-them-for-it/ 

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/04/yemen-is-acting-responsibly-to-stop-genocide-and-the-u-s-is-bombing-them-for-it/ 

Yemen is acting responsibly to stop genocide and the U.S. is bombing them for it

Yemen's Red Sea blockade in defense of Palestinians is squarely supported by international law. But the country is being ruthlessly bombed by the U.S. to ensure Israeli impunity for its continued siege and genocide in Gaza.

As a follow up to what's happening between Venezuela and Guyana.

That is a follow up to this post (https://vultcult.blogspot.com/2025/03/oh-look-us-crapitalism-threatening.html).

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/04/02/exxon-essequibo-and-imperialism/ 

https://liberationnews.org/exxon-essequibo-and-imperialism/

Great deep-dive into the historical backstory and context of what's driving events today.

 

 

If I had any doubts that the controllers of Western Crapitialism are both psychopaths and criminals, look no further than Israel.

https://consortiumnews.com/2025/04/01/every-atrocity-imaginable/

Oh look - US Crapitalism threatening other people again. This time Venezuela.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/30/rubio-threatens-venezuela-with-military-action/

What is it all about? Gee, can you guess from the below?

Last week, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Guyana to attend the military exercises of the US Navy. During his trip, Rubio, an anti-communist hawk, spoke about the possibility of intervening militarily in the dispute between Venezuela and Guyana over the Essequibo, a border area between both nations which has an extension of 159,542 km2. Since 1962, Venezuela has claimed the west coast of the Essequibo River as its own.

Rubio, in a threatening tone, said in Georgetown, the capital of Guyana, that “If [Venezuela] were to attack Guyana or ExxonMobil or something like that, it would be a very bad day, a very bad week, for them, and it would not end well”. The Secretary of State made these statements about the fact that recently, a Venezuelan Coast Guard ship expelled a few support vessels of the ExxonMobil company, which has developed economic operations in Guyana, producing up to 250,000 barrels of oil per day.

 

A book I really want to read -> Another World Is Possible Lessons for America from Around the Globe

https://scheerpost.com/2025/03/31/another-world-is-possible-w-natasha-hakimi-zapata/

 

Have to admit, the Habs won when it counted.

Beating Florida repeatedly this season (the defending Stanley Cup champions no less), is no easy task.

Now, can they do it again?

I envy the Palestinians as well.

In so many ways they are a resilient people - a way forward to how to handle adversity,

 

Why the Zionist entity of Israel is both a failed settler/colonial project for the West, and will eventually collapse.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/03/why-israels-plans-to-forcibly-depopulate-gaza-wont-work/

What Israel and its sponsors still can’t accept is that the Palestinian struggle is not a security matter, but a political issue. Palestinians fight for their rights, and as long as their rights aren’t achieved, they will continue fighting. 

Any mega-projects to change geography, demographics, or the cosmos itself, without a political solution that includes the basic rights of an entire people, will fail.

 

The real reasons for the expulsion of the South Africa Amabassador to the US.

He dared speak about ... reality.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/03/25/i-will-wear-my-persona-non-grata-as-a-badge-of-dignity-said-south-african-ambassador-expelled-by-the-us/ 

Escalating US hostility toward South Africa

US hostility began to escalate after South Africa, like much of the Global South, maintained a non-aligned posture on the war in Ukraine. This intensified after South Africa took Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in January 2024, amid its US-funded genocide in Gaza.

An eye-opening lecture given by Toni Morrison in 1975, that resonates heavily today.

https://blackagendareport.com/lecture-humanist-view-toni-morrison-1975

I've only been through about half of it, but some great insights to be learned. A choice section -

So it would seem that to continue to see a race of people, any race of people, as one single personality, is an ignorance of gothic proportions. An ignorance so vast, so public, a perception so blind and so blunted, imagination so bleak that no nuance, no subtlety, no difference among them can be ascertained. Which may explain in part why in 1975, we are left with pretty much the same mental equipment we had in 1775. The equipment that hadn’t the curiosity to record the names of human beings in a ship’s manifest hasn’t the curiosity to examine the medieval minds of scientific racists, theologic racists, historical racists, literary racists.

No Habs No!

Granted the Blues are a hot team, but thumpings like last night don't bode well.

Let's hope the next road game can turn out better.  Every win matters.

We all know the genocide against the Palestinians is being committed by Israel with the full support of the West.

No real surprises in the article, but what really impresses me is how the Zionist commenters and their lies and propaganda are called out.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/03/four-reasons-why-israels-ethnic-cleansing-of-the-west-bank-is-being-accepted-by-the-world/#comments

Go Habs Go!

A playoff spot this year is yours if you keep on winning.

 

Cheering the slaughter - so the West does.

Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza is the inevitable denouement of its settler colonial project and apartheid state. The seizure of all of historic Palestine — with the West Bank soon, I expect, to be annexed by Israel — and displacement of all Palestinians has always been the Zionist goal.

https://scheerpost.com/2025/03/23/chris-hedges-the-last-chapter-of-the-genocide/