People who believe US military intervention solves problems are as dumb as flat-earthers but infinitely more destructive. It is always disastrous and it never achieves what its proponents claim it will achieve. 

Reading by Tim Foley.
Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/07/15/us-intervention-is-never-ever-ever-the-solution/

US Intervention Is Never, Ever, EVER The Solution

Wait

I'm happy to finally release my first debut EP.

I wrote it 3 years ago, in spring 2020. I was inspired by my hometown — Pavlovsk, Russia, where I spent my lockdown during the Covid pandemic. I was trying to create something simple, but beautiful, cause my main goal in art is ti bring in the world as much beauty as I can.

So, now is 2023, I left my homeland and my life completely changed, so this release warms me ap with good memories from the other life and puts an end to my desperate times in art, because I became more free and I'm going to create a lot of stuff in the near future.

Choir

It works like this:

- As many people as possible are herded into two mainstream political factions who pretend to oppose each other while in reality working together to advance the interests of the powerful.

- Those who can't be herded into the two mainstream factions are herded toward fake "populist" factions, who then herd them into the mainstream factions.

- Those who can't be herded into either category are marginalized into invisibility.

By the time you get down to that bottom tier, their numbers are so inconsequential that you can keep them from having any impact by simply refusing them platforms on mainstream media and letting "democracy" do the rest, because you've got the majority right where you want them.

Most propaganda goes not toward the glaring, obvious lies like the Iraq invasion, but toward mundane control systems like the ideological herding funnel I just described. Really ham-fisted propaganda is the exception, not the rule in the west; the lion's share of the empire's manipulations just go toward keeping people marching to the beat of the imperial machine.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Marching To The Beat Of The Imperial Machine

New toy: First try of Bastl MicroGranny 2.0... surrounded by experimental drums...

HipHopFrequency (MicroGranny&Drums)

Material recorded over several months in numerous locations. All radio wave and/or glitches and malfunctions of recievers and software. Part one of 5 composed today.

Radio Polytope 1

There are no adults behind the wheel of the vehicle that's driving us toward World War Three. We're on a bus that's being driven straight toward a cliff, and it's being driven by infants. If we survive this it will not be because of the experienced leadership of western governments, but completely in spite of it.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Everything's Getting Way More Dangerous And Way More Stupid

The truth of the matter is that you can't vote your way out of a mess you never voted your way into in the first place. You never voted for any of this.

You never voted for your government to circle the planet with hundreds of military bases and continuously work to destroy any government which disobeys it. 

You never voted for your government to imperil the world with rapidly escalating brinkmanship against nuclear-armed nations.

You never voted to base your entire civilization on the pursuit of profit while shoving your biosphere into the capitalist machine like a tree branch into a wood chipper.

You never voted to let plutocrats and war profiteers make decisions for your government while normal people suffer and toil to scrape by.

You never voted to let billionaires live as kings while homeless people shiver in tents.

You never voted for surging authoritarianism with more and more police militarization, surveillance, censorship, propaganda and control.

You never voted to create this freakish dystopia where all political oxygen gets funneled toward vapid culture war debates which threaten the powerful in no way while any effort to effect meaningful change is ground into the dust.

None of those things were ever on the ballot, and they won't be in November of next year either. What will be on the ballot is whether you want all of those things to continue under the office of someone with a D or an R next to their name. 

Reading by Tim Foley.

You Can't Vote Your Way Out Of A Mess You Never Voted Yourself Into

The biggest impediment to free speech is people's belief that they have it. Not censorship. Not refusal to platform critical voices. Not the war on journalism. It's the fact that most people are propagandized into saying what the powerful want them to say, and don't know it.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Propaganda Restricts Speech More Than Censorship Does

Republican politicians have found a way to reconcile the fact that scrutinizing the behavior of the US war machine appeals to their base and wins votes with the fact that the Republican Party is built around facilitating war and militarism at every turn. Their solution? Pour mountains of energy into championing the case that the nation's military has gotten too "woke".

Because everything in mainstream American politics is geared toward channeling the public's political attention down channels that pose no threat to the rich and powerful, and because the United States is the hub of a globe-spanning empire that is held together by mass military violence and the threat thereof, it was only a matter of time before we started seeing the war-weary sentiments harnessed so effectively in Trump's 2016 presidential run diverted into scrutinizing the military in ways that pose no obstacle to US warmongering.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Right Wing 'Populism' Is Fake And Stupid

PURGATORY

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

US Intervention Is Never, Ever, EVER The Solution

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