אבי רצון בבוקר - 25-12-22

I'm writing on piano (well, a Bosendorfer Grand Piano present on Logic) as I've got a piano piece commission so I'm triallling ideas for that. Plus, tentatively getting used to the whole new world of possibilities of this DAW.

This is this week's response to the @naviar-records haiku challenge:

The cold forest flaunts
A newly webbed blanket of
Wood anemones

Pritee Rel is a teacher living in Alberta, Canada, with her husband, two children, a dog, and a cat. Besides reading and writing, Pritee likes going on long walks/hikes with her dog.

Seven days to make music in response to the assigned haiku: to participate visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/about/naviar-haiku

Deadline: 31st May 2023

Haiku by Pritee Rel https://twitter.com/PriteeRel

Picture by Annie Spratt https://unsplash.com/photos/pfBwKO8rzjY

webbed (naviarhaiku490)

Yes Roundtree, yes Grovnver!!
FRIDAY
MR ROUNDTREE

Mr Roundtree

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 IDF are just attacking hospitals and mowing down civilians and trying to bury the evidence of their crimes, so naturally we're seeing the western political-media class focus very hard on the problem of antisemitism allegations on college campuses.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Is Turning Hospitals Into Mass Graves While The West Fixates On 'Antisemitism'

If Trump was letting these horrible things happen, we'd feel outraged and upset. We might even feel obliged to get up and go protest the things he is doing, which as we all know can often cause us to miss brunch. But because a trusted Democrat is in office, we can just relax and think pleasant thoughts and drink bottles of wine and Nyquil in the bathtub.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Remember, All This Fascism Would Feel Way More Fascismy Under Trump

Israel is the only issue where the western political-media class treats people's feelings as a matter of supreme importance.
If you're a stressed-out single parent struggling to pay bills and keep a roof over your kids' head, they don't care about your feelings.
If you're an American who's been cast into destitution and homelessness by medical bills, they don't care about your feelings.
If you're a Palestinian whose apartment complex was bombed with your entire family inside, they definitely don't care about your feelings.
But if you're a western Zionist who doesn't like the cognitive dissonance that comes with encountering anti-genocide protesters, or even if you're an Israeli who's upset about anti-genocide protests in whole other country on the other side of the planet, they're very, very interested in your feelings.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel's Defenders Talk So Much About Feelings Because They Can't Talk About Facts

What's happening in Gaza SHOULD radicalize you. It absolutely should.

Right now, even as its own criminality hits fever pitch, the western political-media class is fretting with increasing shrillness about young people getting "radicalized" and turned against their government by the spread of information and ideas at campus demonstrations and on TikTok. 

But young people should be radicalizing right now. Everyone should.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Destruction Of Gaza SHOULD Be Radicalizing People

It's actually a brilliant self-reinforcing scam. It works like this:

Step 1: Murder people in the middle east in the name of fighting "terrorism".

Step 2: This causes people to hate you and your allies and to want to retaliate with violence.

Step 3: Designate these people "terrorists".

Step 4: Send more war machinery to the region to go fight "terrorism".

Step 5: Murder more people in the middle east in the name of fighting "terrorism".

Do you see how this cycle would repeat over and over again, leading to more and more US military expansionism in the middle east? That's exactly what we've been seeing, and it's exactly what the US empire wants.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Empire Deliberately Stokes Hatred And Violence In The Middle East

Our problem is not that more and more people are opposing Israel's empire-backed atrocities in Gaza with more and more aggression, our problem is that people are not opposing it aggressively enough. Our problem is that too many people still have their minds jacked into the mainstream worldview and ignore the most urgent matter of our time, letting their thoughts be preoccupied with frivolous garbage and trusting that our leaders are doing what's best for us.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Problem Isn't Civil Disobedience, It's Civil Obedience

updated track from the "Living L&rge" album.
Updated 12.02.2020

Qootease

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

The US Empire Deliberately Stokes Hatred And Violence In The Middle East

Caitlin Johnstone

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