Useful Idiots & Shills Misinform Ppl On Geopolitics

Caitlin Johnstone

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

The western press are largely to blame for all this. If they'd just told the truth instead of running "Palestinian child walks into bullet" headlines this whole time and telling everyone that boycotting Israel is genocide, political pressure could've long ago been brought about to force a peaceful and just resolution to this mess.

Reading by Tim Foley.

All This Death Is The Fault Of The Western Press

The Israel-Palestine issue is not complicated; an apartheid regime abuses and oppresses an indigenous ethnic group who don't have the same rights as others. The only reason anyone thinks it's complicated is because they assume if it were simple, the news would've told them so.

Really Israel-Palestine is one of the easier conflicts to understand on the world stage; conflicts like Ukraine or Syria are much more complicated. It's obvious at a glance that there's one group in power and another group being treated very badly by that group, but because the press frames it as a complicated issue with its sympathies wildly slanted toward the apartheid regime, people assume it can't be as simple as what it looks like at first glance.

It is, though. Israel is exactly the abusive apartheid regime it looks like on the surface. Remember this as the bodies pile up and Gaza is turned into a smoldering crater. This is exactly what it looks like.

Reading by Tim Foley.

This Is Exactly What It Looks Like

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

The "human shields" argument is just bombing civilians and blaming it on someone else. That's all it's ever been.

The "human shields" argument is like if London had responded to an IRA attack by dropping thousands of bombs on Belfast, killing thousands of Irish civilians and hundreds of children, and justifying its bombing campaign by calling it an unfortunate but necessary measure to take out the IRA's Belfast Brigade because they're located in the same places as civilians.

It's like if the western political/media class defended and supported the carpet bombing of Belfast, saying "All those thousands of deaths are the fault of the IRA, because they're in Belfast where the civilians are. England has a right to defend itself, after all."

It's like if Belfast was walled in with nowhere for civilians to escape to, and London carpet bombed it targeting schools, churches and hospitals, and the western press framed this relentless assault on civilian buildings as "the UK-IRA war" in which London is exclusively bombing "IRA targets in Belfast".

It's like if the British spent a week dropping military explosives on locations it knew were packed with Irish children, and anyone who criticized this was accused of anti-Britishism and blood libel.

And to be clear this is not something I'd put past the British actually doing during the Troubles… if the Irish were Muslim and their skin was a little darker.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Bombing Kids And Blaming It On Hamas

One of the most destructive ideas in modern times is this notion that it's fine and appropriate for governments to act like monsters whenever anything bad happens to their country. We saw it happen with the United States after 9/11, and we're seeing it now with Israel.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Insane Idea That Nations Get To Do War Crimes Whenever Something Bad Happens To Them

“Stop doing genocide” is the single most reasonable political demand anyone could possibly make. It’s so reasonable it’s insane it even needs to be made. You don’t get to cry if people don’t support your candidate because they didn’t meet that ridiculously reasonable demand.

Reading by Tim Foley.

"Stop Doing Genocide" Is The Most Reasonable Political Demand Ever

American democracy means getting to choose between genocide wearing a MAGA hat and genocide waving a rainbow flag.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Rainbow Flag Genocide Vs MAGA Hat Genocide

Clearly Muslim Americans are seeing something they care deeply about this election season which the rest of the population has decided doesn't matter very much.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Democrats Have Decided To Just Ignore American Muslims This Election Cycle

The Wall Street Journal reports that senior US officials don't think the Biden administration will secure a ceasefire in Gaza before Biden's term is up. Anyone who told you that Biden or Harris were seriously working on a ceasefire lied to you.

I've seen some people calling this a "failure" on the part of the Biden administration, and that needs to stop. It's not a failure. You can only fail at something you tried to do. Biden and Harris didn't "fail" at anything, they SUCCEEDED at their goal of helping Israel destroy Gaza.

Biden could have ended this at any time by withholding weapons, or even by simply threatening to. He could have ended it with a phone call. The killing continued because he and his handlers wanted it to.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Biden Didn't "Fail" To Get A Ceasefire; He Never Tried

Rule 1: Recorded history began on October 7 2023. Maybe some things happened before that date, but nobody can remember.

Rule 2: Anything bad that Israel does is justified by Rule 1. This is true even if it does things that would be considered completely unjustifiable if it were done by a nation like Russia or Iran.

Rule 3: Israel has a right to defend itself, but nobody else does.

Reading by Tim Foley.

15 Rules For Discussing Israeli Warmongering

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