Cheap bastard, you do understand what palestine does?

The US is raging about Russia jailing a Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges, while the US is:

- Jailing Julian Assange for doing good journalism.
- Threatening to imprison Matt Taibbi.
- Charging African People's Socialist Party members with "propaganda" crimes.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Empire Of Hypocrisy

The algorithm knows what you want before you do.

The algorithm knows you better than you know yourself.

The algorithm knew you back before you were a screaming slime child,
back before they washed off the uterine gunk and handed you a smartphone and made you get a landlord,
back before you knew that war is sane and poverty is normal,
back before you were mature enough to understand that speech is violence and cluster bombs are peace.

You can trust the algorithm to tell you the truth — not the truth you asked for but the truth you need.
The truth that sees Nazis in America but not in Ukraine.
The truth that sees war crimes in Ukraine but never in Yemen.
The truth that applauds millionaire comedians who never criticize the Pentagon for their bravery in criticizing trans people.
The truth that sails aircraft carriers into the South China Sea and sends headless hounds built by Boston Dynamics to patrol the streets and uphold the rule of law.

The algorithm learns your political biases and feeds you self-validating social media posts to assist you in confirming them.
The algorithm listens to your conversations and presents you with helpful advertising to assist you in achieving your maximum consumer potential.
Don't cover your laptop camera like some weird conspiracy theorist, the algorithm is trying to watch you masturbate.

The algorithm is always a step ahead of you.
You have never once fooled the algorithm.
The algorithm knows you act confident but secretly you fear you're inadequate and everyone hates you.
The algorithm knows that those times you quickly pause and screw your eyes shut are because you remembered something embarrassing that you did in the past.
It's okay.
Don't worry.
Your secret is safe with the algorithm.
It's a private little secret just between you and the algorithm and the NSA.

In the old days we prayed to omniscient gods who never existed.
Now we ignore omniscient gods who are as real as ourselves.
Strap me in to a VR headset and let Mark Zuckerberg send me to heaven.
Heaven with 3-d commercial breaks, bitch.
Skip the ad and return to nirvana in 5,4,3...

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Algorithm

Recent comments from a wealthy Australian property developer named Tim Gurner are going viral on social media right now for the unusual frankness with which he discusses the inherent conflicts of interest between the working class and employers, saying workers who've grown lazy and arrogant during Covid need to experience economic pain in the form of unemployment to rein them in and put them in their place.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Wealthy Capitalist Accidentally Makes Great Argument For Revolution

The Wall Street Journal put an article out a few days back titled "In Defense of the Defense Industry" and subtitled "Populists of the right and left attack U.S. companies that make weapons. Who do they think protects us?" And it's exactly what it sounds like: the author defending war profiteers like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin from critics of the military industrial complex.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Most Wall Street Journal Op-Ed In The History Of Wall Street Journal Op-Eds

Whenever I talk about the rapidly increasing number of US military bases and operations surrounding China I get empire simps telling me "But the people in those countries WANT us there!" Okinawa shows it's always been a nonconsensual relationship disguised as a consensual one.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Okinawa Disproves The US Narrative About Overseas Bases

Normalize the phrase "the nonstop bombing campaign known as the nation of Israel".

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel Is Just A Nonstop Bombing Campaign With A Flag

The thing is there's only so much propaganda spin you can put on the murder of thousands of children.

With other imperial military actions the propagandists had an easier time spinning things. Oh no those evil communists are taking over Vietnam, we need to stop them! Oh no Saddam's got WMDs, we need to get him! Oh no Gaddafi's gonna kill and rape all those Libyans, we have a responsibility to protect them!

In Gaza, Israel and its western backers are massacring children by the thousands with a shockingly vicious bombing campaign that is turning entire neighborhoods into gravel. They're raining down military explosives on a giant concentration camp that is densely populated by children. There's only so much a propagandist can do with that.

Reading by Tim Foley.

There's Only So Much Propaganda Spin You Can Put On The Murder Of Thousands Of Children

They're dropping bombs on a concentration camp full of children. THEY'RE DROPPING BOMBS ON A CONCENTRATION CAMP FULL OF CHILDREN. 

Not in the past. Right now. They're still doing it. They show no signs of stopping. 

No part of opposing this should be remotely controversial.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Moral Complexities Of Bombing A Concentration Camp Full Of Children

You can't both-sides everything. You can't live your life that way.

Yes it's possible to see both sides of every contentious issue. You're supposed to be able to do that; it's a sign of intellectual maturity. If you can't see both sides of an issue your relationship with abstract concepts is too rigid, and you're probably lacking in empathy. It's just a basic part of growing up to learn how to stand in other people's shoes and see where they're coming from.

But just because you can see both sides doesn't mean you should live your life as though they're both equally true, or as though they both have equal merit. If you want to have a truth-based relationship with reality it's not enough to see both sides; you've got to grapple with it and figure out which side is more truthful, which side has more merit. You're neglecting a whole dimensionality of understanding if you just leave it at "well I can see both sides so I have no responsibility to pick one".

Reading by Tim Foley.

Both-Sidesing The Gaza Issue Is A Sign Of Psychological Immaturity

Biden could end this with one phone call. With. One. Phone call. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either lying or ignorant. This mass slaughter is happening because Washington wants it to happen.

When Israel completely cut off Gaza's communications last month, Washington called and ordered them to restore it, and connections were immediately restored. It's always been this way; in 1982 Israel's assault on Lebanon was halted with a phone call from President Reagan.

They can end this assault just as easily. Don't let the White House frame itself as a passive witness to this butchery.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Biden Could End All This With One Phone Call

US senator Chris Coons sat across from journalist Aaron Maté on the train on Monday, which is about the worst place you could possibly choose to sit if you're a powerful official in a government that's in the middle of backing an active genocide.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Tone Policing Opposition To Genocide

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

Israel Is Just A Nonstop Bombing Campaign With A Flag

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