This is another oldie but a goodie, and likely the the modern (more updated) origins behind the American Empire (or hegemony, or imperialism or exceptionalism, or what ever term you'd like to use)
2024-10-17
New term learned (well yesterday): preponderant power.
New term learned today: Posse Comitatus
Granted it's an old term, but one that's meaning has been eliminated by the US Military a few weeks ago.
2024-10-16
RIP Dr. Soma Baroud.
What an amazing woman. Again, brutally her life taken by a few greedy powerful psychopaths.
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/16/no-more-texts-from-my-sister/
RIP Sha'ban al-Dalou.
Your life and how it was tragically taken, is a reflection of why human societies are dooming themselves to oblivion as long as we allow a few rich and powerful greedy people to dominate.
2024-10-14
2024-10-12
A liberated Palestine is a direct threat to the ruling class of the global crapitalist system.
That should be obvious by now, but it needs to be stated out loud.
https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/12/why-a-liberated-palestine-threatens-global-capitalism/
2024-10-11
What a surprise to no one - Israel TOO goes after journalists.
The charge - Doing their job.
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/10/11/israeli-jails-grayzones-jeremy-loffredo/
Israel jails Grayzone’s Jeremy Loffredo, releases him pending investigation
The criminal case against the American reporter fell apart after an Israeli journalist testified that his own article containing Loffredo’s full video report had cleared military censorship. Yet Israel refuses to let Loffredo leave the country.
On October 11, journalist Jeremy Loffredo was ordered released from Israeli jail.
Israeli soldiers arrested the Jewish-American reporter and three other journalists at a checkpoint in the West Bank on October 8. According to one of the jailed reporters, @the_andrey_x, the soldiers blindfolded them tightly, roughed them up, drawing guns on them at one point, and hauled them off to detention in Jerusalem.
2024-10-09
2024-10-08
You really have to wonder when watching this - does she even know what she's doing?
I think it's a reasonable question to ask -
2024-10-07
1 year ago, the settler-colonial project known as Israel began its final ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
Don't kid yourself.
Don't fool yourself.
This had been in the making going back to even before the Nabka of the late 1940s. It's the next step in Zionism.
This Euro-centric racial/religious belief system was born out of exploiting Jews escaping real persecution, and morphed into a white supremacist ideology.
Which dovetailed nicely with the original imperial intent the British had to destabilize the region to obtain, among many things, oil.
That later got replaced with American crapitalist ruling class interests, and has been that way ever since.
But make no mistake -
Just here in the US and 09-11-2001, 10-07-2023 is used to justify implementing that final eradication step. Amazing how it's always black and brown people who bear the brunt of these private and mostly white nation ruling class interest?
So it went with the indigenous peoples in North, Central, and South America, in Africa, and in Asia. And let's not forget all the slavery, brutality, violence, bloodshed, murder, race, extraction, exploitation, purging, and outright destruction that followed.
My sympathy is always with the oppressed, and with the majority.
Only when people around the world free themselves of the bind the legacy media and corporate proto-fascist propaganda, and really see the world as is - only them will we all be truly free and on the collective path to happiness and joy.
2024-10-06
Turns out Dubya's 3rd term is being run for by Kamala Harris.
Why else would she invite the endorsement of 2001-2008 chief of middle management of US Empire ruling class war criminals?
Time will only tell if it will backfire, and that will depend on which ruling class donor is better at fixing elections.
2024-10-04
American (Empire) Exceptionalism on display - by initiating WW3.
Biden Says US and Israel Are Discussing Strikes on Iranian Oil Facilities
The president previously said he wouldn't support strikes on nuclear facilities
2024-10-03
2024-10-01
10 Principles of Peace are nice.
- Mutual respect of all nations for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of other nations;
- Mutual non-aggression of all nations towards other nations;
- Mutual non-interference by all nations in the internal affairs of other affairs (such as through wars of choice, regime change operations, or unilateral sanctions);
- Equality and mutual benefits in the interactions among nations; and
- Peaceful co-existence of all nations.
- The closure of overseas military bases, of which the US and U.K. have by far the largest number.
- The end of covert regime-change operations and unilateral coercive economic measures, which are grave violations of the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other nations. (Political scientist Lindsey O’Rourke has carefully documented 64 US covert regime-change operations during 1947-1969, and the pervasive destabilization caused by such operations.
- Adherence by all nuclear powers (US, Russia, China, U.K., France, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea) to Article VI of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: “All Parties must pursue negotiations in good faith on effective measures relating to the cessation of the nuclear arms race and to nuclear disarmament, and on a treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control.”
- The commitment by all countries “not to strengthen their security at the expense of the security of other countries,” (as per the OSCE Charter). States will not enter into military alliances that threaten their neighbors, and commit to resolve disputes through peaceful negotiations and security arrangements backed by the United Nations Security Council.
- The commitment by all nations to cooperate in protecting the global commons and providing global public goods, including fulfillment of the Paris climate agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals, and reform of UN institutions.
https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/01/jeffrey-sachs-how-neocons-chose-hegemony-over-peace/
None of which will ever happen so long as systems like crapitalism and imperialism are still around.
Quote of the day - 10-01-2024.
"Only the people can save the people"
Meanwhile, people in the southern United States bear the brunt of crapitalism's inability to deal with the catastrophic problems it creates.
Congress failed to allocate relief funding ahead of Hurricane Helene, then skipped town early due to the storm
Volunteers in the US South contend with the massive devastation and inadequate relief efforts, as climate change ensures that the worst is yet to come
In a democratic society, journalism is a critical function.
Journalism is a basic and necessary function in democracy because it serves as check on those in power (i.e. the government).
In capitalism however, that check on power is not only not wanted by the ruling class, it's actually made a crime.
Julian Assange would know -> https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/01/assange-im-free-because-i-pled-guilty-to-journalism/
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