Stop platforming Israeli government officials and professional genocide apologists. Stop asking them what they think. Stop presenting their lies and manipulations as news stories. Stop asking them if they agree with their critics. Stop doing it. Stop.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Stop Giving Israeli Officials A Media Platform To Spout Lies

Things are so fucked up that the only way to get wounded Palestinian children in and out of the United States for medical treatment these days would be to disguise them as Israeli pedophiles.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Treats Israeli Pedophiles Nicer Than Wounded Palestinian Kids

The most important thing to make clear here is that anyone who suggests that Israel's onslaught in Gaza has anything whatsoever to do with hostages is either ignorant or lying.

Reading by Tim Foley.

"Why Doesn't Hamas Release The Hostages?", And Other Reader Questions

They simply look at the actions of October 7 from the prism of their own experience as a comfortable western suburbanite on the other side of the world and think, “I would never conduct such an attack; I am much too virtuous and compassionate.”

No you’re just too comfortable and coddled, and you’re too much of an emotional infant to consciously put yourself in someone else’s shoes.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Those Who Condemn Hamas Lack Empathy And Humility

Saying "I support a two-state solution" does not release you from your moral obligation to ferociously oppose a genocide backed by your own government.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Dear Western Liberal,

This is just what happens when bad people in your life reveal an ugly truth about themselves. If you learn that someone in your life is cool with their government supporting a genocide, you can just sort of let your feelings and natural inclinations lead the way on that.

Reading by Tim Foley.

"What About My Friends Who Don't Care About Gaza?", And Other Questions

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UN human rights experts, Israeli human rights groups like B'Tselem, and the overwhelming majority of genocide scholars all agree it's a genocide. The debate is over. The hasbarists lost.

Reading by Tim Foley.

"It's Not A Genocide" Is Not A Defensible Claim In The Year 2025

Recent hours have seen too much Israeli depravity to write about, including an assassination strike in Qatar to sabotage peace talks, a second drone attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla, and a Guardian article featuring an IDF sniper who discussed killing civilians like a trophy hunter talking about game animals.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Some Days There's Just Too Much Israeli Psychopathy To Write About

The assassin appears to have been able to successfully escape after the killing, so nothing is known about what their motives were. Rightists are braying for civil war and demanding sweeping new authoritarian measures to crush what passes for the political "left" in the United States these days, based on nothing but vibes and feelings.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Thoughts On The Assassination Of Charlie Kirk

You cannot become a high-level pundit, politician or political operative in either mainstream party without being an evil piece of shit. It's part of the job description, because the job requires you to make excuses for the abuses of a globe-spanning empire which is fueled by human blood.

Reading by Tim Foley.

ALL Mainstream American Political Pundits Are Evil Scumbags

The McDonald's flag at Guantanamo Bay was lowered to half-mast in honor of the GOP swamp creature who was assassinated by a sniper the day before 9/11, which I think we can all agree is the most American thing that has ever happened.

Reading by Tim Foley.

They Lowered The McDonald's Flag Half-Mast At Guantanamo

Dude goes two years refusing to call a genocide a genocide, then issues a statement which begins by placing blame for the genocide on the victims of said genocide.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Bernie Sanders Is A Ghoulish Zionist

Westerner: I support a two-state solution.
Israel: There will never be a Palestinian state.
Westerner: Okay then I support a one-state solution where everyone has equal rights.
Israel: You're calling for an end to the Jewish state you monster.
Westerner: Alright then I support the Palestinian resistance.
Israel: That's supporting terrorism. You are Hamas and we can legally murder you.
Westerner: Well can I at least support a permanent ceasefire to end the genocide?
Israel: [cocks pistol] What did I just tell you about supporting Hamas?
Westerner: Okay then, I support Palestinians living as a permanent underclass until they can be slowly salami sliced out of existence as a people.
Israel: Getting warmer.
Westerner: I support removing all Palestinians from their historic homeland via ethnic cleansing or extermination before the end of Donald Trump's presidential term.
Israel: [puts away gun] That's more like it.

Reading by Tim Foley.


"Recognizing" The Rubble Of Palestine

Former Israeli defense minister Benny Gantz has a new op-ed in The New York Times where he explicitly states that opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state is "the heart" of a national consensus among Israelis across the mainstream political spectrum, and that this isn't an obstacle that will go away once Netanyahu is out of power.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Two-State Solution Is A Western Liberal Fairy Tale

The onus is on the party committing genocide to stop committing genocide. The onus is not on the victims of the genocide to sign agreements in the hope of saving themselves from the genocide. This is obvious to anyone who isn't a psychopath.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Trumpanyahu "Peace" Plan, And Other Notes

Who would have imagined five years ago when we were seeing Greta Thunberg amplified by every mainstream western liberal institution that we would one day hear reports that she has been captured and tormented by the Israeli military for trying to bring formula to starving babies?

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Droned Flotilla Activists And Then Abused Greta Thunberg

I’m sorry but it’s just plain hilarious that we’re still expected to hate Hamas after spending two years being shown exactly what it is that Hamas has been fighting.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Only Israelis Could Commit Genocide For Years And Then Demand Sympathy - And Other Notes

When normal people get a ceasefire agreement they think "Good, this means we can finally stop fighting and killing." Whenever Israelis get a ceasefire agreement they go, "This means we have to hurry up and kill as many people as possible before it takes effect."

Reading by Tim Foley.

Thoughts On The Ceasefire News

Israel is so evil it's actually hard to wrap your mind around it.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Tortured And Sexually Humiliated Greta Thunberg

In one of the more freakish acts of genocide propaganda we've seen in the last two years, the official Twitter account of the Israel Foreign Ministry made a post smearing desperate, starving civilians as cruel savages using the false allegation that they "tore apart" a "whale" that had become "stranded" on the beach.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Foreign Ministry Falsely Claims Palestinians Tore Apart A Beached Whale

They're on the back foot. This has never happened before.
We've got a real shot at winning this thing.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Imperial Propaganda Machine Is Failing In Unprecedented Ways

While I was working on this painting of US oligarch Jeff Bezos I kept thinking about a speech he gave in 2019 where he laid out his nightmarish vision for the future of the human species.

Bezos described a future where the overwhelming majority of humans are shipped off to space to live their lives inside “O’Neill colonies” — giant cylinders which rotate to simulate Earth’s gravity. Only a privileged few would get to remain on humanity’s home world, where the ecosystem would be able to repair and thrive now that it’s not being overburdened by more humans than it can handle.

One doesn’t have to stretch the imagination to guess which side of the equation Bezos envisions himself and his family winding up on in this scenario.

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As I was painting I kept thinking about how horrific it would be if Bezos’ plan for humanity was ever put into place, because you know hardly anyone would leave this planet voluntarily. Billions of people would be forced onto space ships bound for these giant spinning space stations, their hearts breaking at the unimaginable loss of their indigenous home world.

It would be like a planet-wide Nakba. A Trail of Tears for our entire species.

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The freaks who rule our world do not have a healthy vision for humanity’s future. Their best ideas are a normal person’s worst nightmare.

Jeff Bezos envisions ecocidal capitalism being allowed to tick along completely unrestricted and unhindered, with humanity rescuing itself from disaster at the last minute by shipping most of itself off planet to live inside giant Amazon space dildos. That’s his best and brightest plan.

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Our rulers are not good people. They are not wise. They are not compassionate. They aren’t even particularly intelligent. They just happen to be good at winning the capitalism game by moving the circumstances of our society around in such a way that the numbers in their bank accounts grow very large.

This is not a healthy way for us to live. We cannot keep doing this.

Reading by Tim Foley.

New Painting: Jeff Bezos

Reading by Tim Foley.

As usual, anyone who wants to set these words to music is free to do so.

Guillotine Song

People are getting dumber, sicker, lonelier, and more and more miserable. And the profit-driven systems we live under have no answers, besides throwing increasingly shitbrained technology at us so we can distract ourselves from how fucked up everything has gotten.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Capitalism Is Shoving AI Down Our Throats Because It Can't Give Us What We Actually Want

You think Hamas killed Israelis because they're a bunch of monsters who hate Jews? Of course you do, you're twelve.

You think Trump is trying to get rid of Maduro because Maduro is an evil dictator who wants to poison Americans with fentanyl? Hell yeah homie, you're twelve.

You think Putin invaded Ukraine because he hates freedom and democracy and wants to conquer the world? Bless your heart my twelve year-old buddy.

You think the US and Israel have been attacking and eliminating rivals in Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Palestine in order to fight terrorism, stop tyranny, and protect the world from nuclear weapons? Yeah, that checks out, you're twelve.

The mainstream western worldview is like a children's cartoon, with the Bad Guys doing Bad Things simply because they are Bad, and the Good Guys striving heroically to stop them. It sounds like a shitty PG-13 summer blockbuster starring The Rock, but it's the consensus worldview of serious professional pundits and analysts who share this perspective on mainstream platforms with serious expressions on their faces, and anyone who calls any part of it into question is dismissed as an extremist or a deranged crackpot. 

Because everyone is twelve now.

Reading by Tim Foley.

You Believe The Mainstream Narrative? Of Course You Do, You're Twelve

The US can make threats, impose sanctions and amass war machinery, but you don't truly know they're serious about attacking a country until they start churning out Pentagon propaganda in the mainstream press.

Reading by Tim Foley.

It's Just Wall-To-Wall News Stories About The US And Its Allies Abusing The World

Generative AI is just high-tech brainwashing. It's the next level of propaganda indoctrination. It is there to turn our brains into useless sludge which cannot function without technological crutches controlled by the imperial plutocrats.

Reading by Tim Foley.

They Want You Relying On Artificial Intelligence So That You Will Lose Your Natural Intelligence

Israeli settlers were filmed torturing lambs which belonged to Palestinians in the West Bank.

Gouged their eyes out. Smashed them with cinder blocks. Beat them to death in front of their mothers.

Lambs.

Reading by Tim Foley.

They Tortured Lambs In The West Bank

Our rulers want us to be stupid, misinformed, distracted, sick, struggling and suffering, because if we all had enough time, information and mental acuity to form an understanding what’s going on in our world, things would get mighty guillotiney real quick. They have a vested existential interest in keeping us all in a mental fog of propaganda, diversion, ignorance, illiteracy, and psychological dysfunction.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Things Are Shitty Because We Are Ruled By People Who Want Things To Be Shitty

Just today I saw two viral tweets that had received Community Notes from Twitter users warning that the posts featured AI-generated videos. Both were shared by right wing accounts with large followings, and both were used to spread Islamophobia.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Artificial Intelligence Is Making Everything Dumber

Secretary of War™ Pete Hegseth said during a speech on Friday that the US is at "a 1939 moment" of "mounting urgency" in which "enemies gather, threats grow," adding, "We are not building for peacetime. We are pivoting the Pentagon and our industrial base to a wartime footing."

Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Empire Keeps Getting Creepier

It's interesting how much the IDF's constant ceasefire violations in Gaza and Lebanon line up with the way people familiar with Israeli culture say Israelis like to test everyone's boundaries to find out exactly how much they can get away with.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Constantly Stretches The Ceasefire Rules Because That's What Israelis Do

This is all the ruling class has to offer you. Fake love. Fake connection. Worthless technological parlor tricks at the expense of our dying biosphere.

Reading by Tim Foley.

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This Is All Our Rulers Are Offering Us

One of the craziest things happening right now is how there's been report after report confirming that Jeffrey Epstein really was an Israeli intelligence operative, based on publicly available documents, and yet it's had no measurable impact on mainstream media or politics.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Sometimes The Media Ignoring A Major Story Becomes The Story

The difference between people who supported the British Empire and people who support the US empire is that those who supported the British Empire knew they were supporting an empire.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Difference Between The US Empire And The British Empire

The way the press have been covering Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Trump while completely ignoring far more significant revelations of Epstein's ties to Israeli intelligence is such a perfect example of how western media ignore anything that doesn't fit neatly into the two-party worldview.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Media Focus On Epstein's Ties To Trump And Ignore His Ties To Israel

Actor Calum Worthy has gone viral for posting an ad on Twitter for the 2wai app he co-founded which promises users the ability upload footage of a loved one which will be converted to an AI avatar that they can continue having a relationship with, years after their loved one has died.

Reading by Tim Foley.

AI Companies Are Encouraging Users To Believe Chatbots Are People, And It's Insanely Creepy

Just as things cool down a bit in the middle east, the US has relocated the USS Gerald Ford from the Mediterranean Sea to the Caribbean while the Trump administration discusses plans to bomb Venezuela.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Empire Only De-Escalates In One Area So It Can Escalate In Another

Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.

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