Once again a well writing summary of where we are at right now. Thanks for production as audio as well.

Normal person: I think it would be good if everyone didn't die in a nuclear holocaust.

Crazy person: That means you love Vladimir Putin.

Normal person: No I just think it would be a good idea to try to prevent the horrific death of literally everyone.

Crazy person: How much is the Kremlin paying you to say that?

Fucking lunatics.

Resisting nuclear armageddon is the least partisan position that anyone could possibly have. The least one-sided. The least "campist". It's just being a normal human organism with the most normal human impulse you could possibly come up with. It's absolutely insane that anyone tries to spin it otherwise.

A society where opposing nuclear armageddon is treated as freakish and evil is the most backwards and insane society imaginable. Seriously, try to imagine anything crazier and more backwards than that. A society where everyone walks and drives backwards? That's less crazy and backwards. A society where the dogs own the people? That's less crazy and backwards.

This is it. This is peak crazy. A thinking species which regards as outrageous heresy any opposition to brinkmanship that can cause its extinction cannot get any more crazy. It's turned as far away from sanity as any thinking creature could possibly be.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Evolving Big Brains Only To Go Extinct From Stupidity

We're being driven toward nuclear war on the completely fictional claim that Putin is a Hitler-like megalomaniac who's just invading countries completely unprovoked, solely because he is evil and hates freedom, and won't stop invading and conquering until he's stopped by force.

The news media aren't telling people about the western aggressions which led to this war. They're not telling people the US is keeping this war going with the stated goal of weakening Russia and is rejecting peace talks and refusing to push for peace. All people are being told is that Putin is another Hitler who won't listen to reason and only understands violence. The world's two nuclear superpowers are being pushed closer and closer to direct military confrontation based on a complete fiction which omits mountains of facts.

Reading by Tim Foley.

We're Being Pushed Toward Nuclear War On A Fiction

Reading by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

Some Find

The most powerful weapon the west has given Ukraine is not the HIMARS, it's the US propaganda machine.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Most Powerful Weapon The West Gave Ukraine

We should probably talk more about the fact that the US empire is loudly promoting the goal of achieving peace in Ukraine by defeating Russia while quietly acknowledging that this goal is impossible. This is like accelerating toward a brick wall and pretending it's an open road.

The narrative that Russia can be defeated by escalating against it makes sense if you believe Russia can be defeated, but the US empire does not believe that Russia can be defeated. It knows these escalations are only going to exponentially ramp up death and devastation.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Pretending To Seek Peace In An Unwinnable Proxy War

The Biden administration is reportedly considering opening a national security review of Elon Musk's business ventures which could see the plutocrat's purchase of Twitter blocked by the White House, in part because Musk is perceived as having an "increasingly Russia-friendly stance."

Reading by Tim Foley.

The US Government Sees Silicon Valley As Part Of Its Propaganda Machine

Western propaganda means people always oppose the last war but not the current war. The US provoking and sustaining its Ukraine proxy war is no more ethical than its invading of Iraq; it just looks that way due to propaganda. Ukraine isn't the good war, it's just the current war.

It is only by the copious amounts of propaganda our civilization is being hammered with that this is not immediately obvious to everyone. In the future (assuming we don't annihilate ourselves first), the propaganda will have cleared from the air enough for people to see clearly and realize that they were lied to. Again.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Always Opposing The Last War But Not The Current One

The Congressional Progressive Caucus has retracted an extremely mild, toothless letter its members had written to President Biden politely asking him to consider adding a little diplomacy into the mix to help end the conflict in Ukraine. The retraction followed a deluge of public outrage against their slight deviation from the official imperial narrative.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Worthless House Progressives Retract Mild Peace Advocacy Under Pressure From Warmongers

I stand here before you
in my mother's hand-me-downs,
in this world where mothers must work like they don't have children
and parent like they don't have jobs,
keeping households running and bills paid
while their hearts run around outside their bodies
on tiny little legs that don't yet know where the wolves are,
but don't you dare over-mother them,
or under-mother them,
or get anything wrong while treading laundry
and kung fuing the kitchen
and, oh yeah,
if you could save the world from nuclear armageddon
and environmental collapse when you get a minute
that'd be great.

I stand here before you
in my mother's hand-me-downs,
with my mother's strangled voice,
and my mother's Pinesol hands,
and my mother's weeping back,
and my mother's feral chores,
and my mother's loving patience,
and my mother's gritted teeth,
and my mother's inner beauty
that you never get to see —
her inner world of unheard symphonies
and unpainted art
and oceans of sleeping babies,
neatly stuffed into a housecoat
drowned out by a Helen Reddy song.

I stand here before you
in my mother's hand-me-downs,
glaring with crosshair eyes at eelfaced manipulators
who blacken the children's sky,
who poison my children's water,
who microplastic my children's blood,
who scorch my children's Earth
to turn billionaires into trillionaires,
vowing "I see you,
I'll stop you,
right after this dentist appointment,
right after this assignment,
right after these taxes,
right after this to-do list,
I'll be ready to stop you
in, like, two more weeks, maybe,
or maybe two weeks after that."

I stand here before you
in my mother's hand-me-downs,
with my mother's intuition
(two eyes in the back of her head —
"I can see what you are doing!"),
but my many eyes can only glance
before more dishes pile up
before the to-do list unfurls  —
I'll get to it, I'll get to you,
I'll stop you,
I will,
I see what you are doing,
I just need to take the kids to daycare
but make the sandwiches first
and stop off on the way to work
for a part to fix the air con
before the summer comes
before the heat you stoked
with dinosaur bones
and Canary Island loopholes
and the infantile ambitions
of impotent men
hits our little rental
(that I'm so grateful to have
so grateful I am
on-my-hands-and-knees grateful
your-cock-in-my-throat grateful
please don't kick us out we love you we do)
like a solar wind storm
barbecuing my children
in this tent made of weatherboards
like a tiny funeral pyre
for bad women,
naughty witches,
ladies flying solo
who need to be put in their place.

Just two weeks.
Just two weeks.
Just two weeks more.
Just two weeks and I'll sit in silence for while.
Just two weeks and I'll write this all down.
Just two weeks I need to get this stuff done.
Just two weeks.
Just two weeks.
Just two weeks,
and I'll stop you.

____________________

Reading by Caitlin Johnstone.

Just Two Weeks

Comparisons of Putin to Hitler only sound profound and relevant if you only just began paying attention to US foreign policy and are therefore unaware that literally every single US enemy is always copiously compared to Hitler. It's like The Boy Who Cried Wolf, except there is no wolf, and the boy just keeps crying "Wolf!" over and over again, and the villagers never learn their lesson and never stop believing him.

Because mainstream westerners ignored all wars until Ukraine, they don't know we've seen all these tricks before. They don't know the war propaganda is airing reruns. They think it's new to compare today's Official Enemy to Hitler. They never question the atrocity narratives. They don't know the US always lies about every war. They think it's a crazy conspiracy theory to suggest that the actions and motives of their government isn't what they've been told.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Boy Who Cried Hitler

The official narrative promoted by the entire western political/media class is that Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine in February of this year solely because he is evil and hates freedom. He wants to conquer as much of Europe as possible because he cannot stand free democracies, because he is another Adolf Hitler.

The official narrative is that while Russia is in Ukraine solely because its leader is an evil monster like Hitler, the US is in Ukraine solely because its leaders are righteous. The United States is providing arms, military intelligence, and assistance on the ground from special ops forces and CIA officers to Ukraine, as well as implementing an unprecedented regime of economic warfare against Russia, solely because the US loves its good friends the Ukrainians and wants to protect their freedom and democracy.

The Official Narrative On Ukraine

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

Pretending To Seek Peace In An Unwinnable Proxy War

Caitlin Johnstone

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