Dynamite - Sample Challenge 202

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

Second-hand Futurism (TPC 209)

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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BERG - WHEREWA - TPC212

The globally influential propaganda multiplier news agencies AP and AFP have both informed their readers that a "fugitive" has been extradited to the United States.

"Fugitive businessman close to Venezuela's Maduro extradited to US," reads the AFP headline.

"Alex Saab, a top fugitive close to Venezuela's socialist government, has been put on a plane to the U.S. to face money laundering charges," AP announced on Twitter.

You'd be forgiven for wondering what specifically makes this man a "fugitive", and what that status has to do with his extradition to a foreign government whose laws should have no bearing on his life. The Colombian-born Venezuelan citizen Alex Saab, as it happens, is a "fugitive" from the US government's self-appointed authority to decide which populations on our planet are permitted to have ready access to food. His crime is working to circumvent the crushing US sanctions which have been starving Venezuelan civilians to death by the tens of thousands.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-us-has-placed-itself-in-charge

The US Has Placed Itself In Charge Over Which Nations Get To Eat

The billionaire CEO of the multibillion-dollar corporation that recently purchased the news media outlet Politico has said that its newly acquired employees will be required to support Israel and the capitalist world order.

In a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, Mathias Döpfner, CEO of the German publisher Axel Springer, said that Politico staffers will be required to adhere to a set of principles which include "support for a united Europe, Israel’s right to exist and a free-market economy, among others."

“These values are like a constitution, they apply to every employee of our company,” Mr. Döpfner told WSJ. People with a fundamental problem with any of these principles “should not work for Axel Springer, very clearly,” he said.

I mean, how refreshing is that? How often does a billionaire corporation buy up a media property and just straightforwardly tell you they're going to be using it to push propaganda? They even say what the propaganda will be. It makes you feel like your intelligence is being respected.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Refreshingly Honest Billionaire Says Media Purchase Will Be Used For Propaganda

Triceramisu

Please use headphones or nice speakers with a subwoofer and keep in mind soundcloud, unfortunately, really compresses this file.

The electronics blooming from the acoustic in a symbiotic, intertwined creature like lichen.

Speaker Spit (2021-22) for large ensemble and electronics

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

Refreshingly Honest Billionaire Says Media Purchase Will Be Used For Propaganda

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