Dynamite - Sample Challenge 202

Chop Shop - Sample Challenge 204

Military members who support imperialism get promoted. Those who get to the top go on to work for war profiteers. The war profiteers fund think tanks which promote more wars. The mass media report "news" stories citing those think tanks. These stories manufacture consent for more wars.

The war industry reinforces itself. Those who get to the top of the war machine move on to the private sector and spend their time lobbying for more wars which create more eventual Pentagon officials who go on to lobby for more wars. Peace should be easy. This is why it's not.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The System Is Rigged For Endless War

In the wake of the Afghanistan withdrawal influential promoters of western militarism have been absolutely fuming about the popular idea of ending the forever wars, and their tantrums are not even trying to disguise it as something else. They're literally using that phrase, "ending the forever wars", and then saying it's a bad thing.

I mean, what a bizarre hill to die on. War is the very worst thing in the world, and forever is the very worst amount of time they could go on for, yet they're openly condemning the "doctrine of ending the forever wars". How warped does your sense of reality have to be to even think this is a view anyone who isn't paid by defense contractors could possibly be sympathetic to?

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/warmongers-keep-raging-about-the

Warmongers Keep Raging About The Phrase 'Ending The Forever Wars' And We Should Laugh At Them

Pride, praise and celebration are not the appropriate emotional response to the day. The appropriate response to a decades-overdue withdrawal from a war that should never have happened in the first place is rage. Unmitigated rage at an unforgivable atrocity which amassed a mountain of corpses for no legitimate reason, from which the region will probably not recover in our lifetime. Unmitigated rage at those responsible for starting and maintaining this horror all this time.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Completion Of The Afghanistan Withdrawal Is Nothing To Celebrate

TPC#210#K9N MaD MuLan

The biggest and most widespread blind spot among those who oppose totalitarian control by the powerful is the assumption that it has not already been achieved.

We've been so busy watching out for the next overtly totalitarian dictatorship that wants to put the jackboot on our necks we never noticed the covert totalitarians sliding the shackles around our minds.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/people-dont-understand-how-unfree

People Don't Understand How Unfree We Already Are

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AMP - Producers Corner Samplechallenge 211

BERG - WHEREWA - TPC212

Think about how many technological advancements there have been in the military over the last century. Our rulers have been refining their methods of manipulating our sensemaking abilities to their advantage throughout that entire time, and only a small minority of us have even begun to realize that that manipulation is even happening. We're just learning to play checkers while they're mastering 3-D chess. 

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-science-of-propaganda-is-still

The Science Of Propaganda Is Still Being Developed And Advanced

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