It's like if someone ran up and sucker-punched somebody at the bar, and then everyone started screaming at the guy who just got punched that he'd better leave the other guy alone and stop being a bully.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Empire Managers Keep Acting Like Iran Is About To Attack Israel Without Provocation

Anyone who wants the US and its allies to attack Iran is a psychopath. People who want to unleash a war of that scale upon our species should be rejected from our society as aggressively as child molesters and Nazis.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Anyone Who Wants The US To Attack Iran Is An Enemy Of Humanity

The more I think about it the more obnoxious I find the Biden administration's "Gee whiz, I sure hope Israel doesn't drag us into a giant war in the middle east" posturing and the imperial media's facilitation of it.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Stop Pretending Biden Is Some Passive Witness To Israel's Warmongering

Both Israel and the US are pretending to be powerless in this situation, when in reality they're both anything but. They're like two muggers getting ready to mug someone and saying "If only there was something we could do to stop this terrible mugging!"

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel's Latest Lie Is That It Has 'No Choice' But To Attack Iran

The destruction of Gaza proves the entire mainstream western worldview is bullshit, because if the mainstream western worldview was accurate, the destruction of Gaza would not be happening.

Reading by Tim Foley.

If The Mainstream Worldview Was Accurate, Gaza Wouldn't Be Burning

So they're really doing it. The Biden administration is really ignoring Australia's request to end the case against Julian Assange, and they're proceeding with their campaign to extradite a journalist for telling the truth about US war crimes.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Assange Extradition Case Moves Forward While The CIA Covers Its Tracks

So as things stand right now it looks like the cycle of escalation between Iran and Israel has thankfully ended or at least paused, which means now all we have to worry about is a horrific massacre in southern Gaza. The Times of Israel reports that Washington has agreed to go along with Israel's planned assault on the city of Rafah so long as Israel doesn't launch a large attack against Iran in response to its unprecedented retaliatory drone and missile attack on Saturday, according to an Egyptian source speaking to a Qatari outlet. A White House spokesperson has denied this, but you'd expect them to.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Escalation With Iran Seemingly Over; Now We Have To Worry About Rafah

The US doesn't support a two-state solution, the US only supports saying the US supports a two-state solution. We know this because the US just vetoed Palestine's bid to become a full UN member state, after lobbying other countries to vote against the resolution - despite continually saying it supports the foundation of a Palestinian state. Washington's words say one thing, but its actions say the opposite.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Doesn't Support A Two - State Solution, It Just Supports Saying It Does

We're not SUPPOSED to be unaffected by this sort of thing. We're not SUPPOSED to be able to find a state of psychological comfort with genocide. It's not natural, and it's not right. Man-made nightmares unleashed upon the waking earth are SUPPOSED to disturb us.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Don't Let Them Numb You To What's Happening In Gaza

They're hunting civilians with armed quadcopters in Gaza.
The drones play recordings of crying babies and women screaming in distress in order to lure people out into the open, and then shoot them.

Reading by Tim Foley.

In Gaza The Sniper Drones Are Crying Like Babies

143 countries, representing the vast majority of the world, voted at the UN General Assembly to support giving Palestine full membership. They were opposed by the US, Israel, and seven other small countries, representing just 5% of the global population. Ben Norton analyzes the geopolitics.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JtHx7hhpFDY

Sources and links here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/05/11/us-israel-vote-palestine-un-member

Topics
0:00 Intro
0:56 Map of UN vote on Palestine membership
1:44 Countries that oppose Palestine
3:13 Europe is divided
3:35 Ukraine supports Israel & opposes Global South
5:11 Global South supports Palestine
5:44 Biden is allied with Hungary's Viktor Orbán
6:20 UNGA resolution
6:47 Venezuela's voting rights taken away
8:02 Read the UNGA resolution
9:02 Hypocrisy of US "two-state solution" rhetoric
10:29 Most Democrats condemn Israel; Republicans support it
11:11 Countries with bilateral relations with Palestine
11:47 Palestine's rights as UN observer state
13:04 China supports Palestine
13:46 Russia supports Palestine
14:11 Outro

USA & Israel defy world in vote to make Palestine full UN member

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