Cai Strive for greatness,we're never complacent -- insclife

No I will not be supporting any US presidential candidate. Not because I don't think Australians have any business involving themselves in US political affairs (we absolutely do), but because the elections are fake and the next president will with absolute certainty be another corrupt imperialist monster. I won't be picking any favorites in the next WWE event either.

Reading by Tim Foley.

US Presidential Elections Are Children's Entertainment

Most mainstream western reporting on Chinese military activity essentially amounts to "OMG you guys China isn't just passively sitting there while we militarily encircle it and prepare to attack it!"

Reading by Tim Foley.

Evil, Scary China Refuses To Passively Let Us Encircle It

The worst thing that could possibly happen to the information interests of the US empire would be for a critical mass of people to become aware that all this death and destruction in Ukraine could have been avoided by the US-centralized empire behaving less aggressively on Russia's doorstep, and that those aggressions were instead increased with the goal of advancing US strategic interests on the world stage.

Reading by Tim Foley.

If Everyone Understood That The US Deliberately Provoked This War

They make up fictional horrors because they don't want you looking at the real ones. They don't want you looking at the suffering of the homeless on the street. At the working poor flailing in endless toil unable to get their heads above water and relax for a minute. At the families in nations like Venezuela, Syria, North Korea and Iran struggling to obtain food and medicine because of imperial economic warfare. At the emaciated bodies of Yemeni children. At the shredded corpses of drone bombing victims. At the inconvenient facts behind the horrors in Ukraine. At Julian Assange languishing in a maximum security prison for the crime of good journalism. At the indoctrinated masses marching blindly to the beat of the imperial drum while being trained to believe they are free. At the biosphere we depend on for survival being poisoned and fed into the machine of global capitalism. At the nuclear holocaust dangling over our heads by an increasingly tenuous thread.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Pay Attention To The Everyday Horrors

We must never let ourselves become desensitized to this. To any part of this.
We must never cease appreciating the sun on our skin and the wind in our hair, and we must never cease being shocked by the fact that there are people whose entire job is to push for more war.
We must never lose our sense of wonder at the birds in the air, and we must never lose our sense of horror at the fact that there are people who profit from war and militarism and lobby for more of it at every opportunity.

Reading by Tim Foley.

We Must Never Let Ourselves Become Desensitized To This

There's been an astonishingly brazen propaganda push to normalize war profiteering in Ukraine as Kyiv coordinates with the arms industry and western governments to convert the war-ravaged nation into a major domestic weapons manufacturer, thereby turning Ukrainians into proxies of the military industrial complex as well as the Pentagon.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Mad Propaganda Push To Normalize War Profiteering In Ukraine

As the 17th anniversary of the creation of WikiLeaks passes us by, it's probably worth taking a moment to reflect on Julian Assange and what his persecution means for us and our society.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Journalism Itself Is Locked Up In Belmarsh

The problem with oppressing a population with maximum force is that at some point they start figuring they've got nothing to lose by fighting back.

Reading by Tim Foley.

A Population With Nothing To Lose

Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant has announced a "complete siege" of all of Gaza in response to the Hamas attack on Saturday, justifying the deliberate targeting of civilians with siege warfare by the claim that Israel is at war with "human animals".

"I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed," Gallant said Monday, adding, "We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly."

So there you have it, folks: they're attacking civilians, which is fine, because they're not actually attacking human beings.

There it is. The true face of Israel, naked and unadorned in the cold light of day. The mask is completely off now.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The True Face Of Israel

People are going insane, in the same way they went insane after 9/11. In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks there was this shrieking emotional intensity which saw critical thinking go out the window and saw people's minds consumed with a rabid lust for Muslim blood.

Reading by Tim Foley.

People Have A Serious Case Of 9/11 Brain, And It's Scary

So we keep our gaze fixed on Gaza. No matter how much it hurts. No matter how horrifying it gets. No matter how much we cry. No matter how often we slump over and feel like we can't do it anymore. We keep our gaze fixed on Gaza. Because what else can we do? Nothing else feels right. Nothing else feels responsible.

Reading by Caitlin Johnstone.

We Keep Our Gaze On Gaza

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

Journalism Itself Is Locked Up In Belmarsh

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