This was a very coherent assessment of the relative malice of American policy. We need to find a way to get the linkage between the false imprisonment of Julian Assange and the failure in Afghanistan to be seen in their co-relationship. The American desire to criminalize a dedicated defender of the public's right to know the facts surrounding cold-blooded war crimes needs to be seen as a slap in the face to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.

The way people are acting like trust in media-sanctioned narratives should be a given after those institutions literally JUST discredited themselves in front of everyone is insane. You don't have to believe anything odd about the virus or the vaccine to understand the distrust. 

Reading by Tim Foley.
Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/after-russiagate-why-wouldnt-people

After Russiagate, Why WOULDN'T People Be Skeptical About Covid?

The United States is currently circling the planet with hundreds of military bases and waging wars which have killed millions and displaced tens of millions just since the turn of this century. Its sanctions and blockades are starving people to death en masse every single day. It works to destroy any nation which disobeys its dictates by toppling their governments via CIA coups, proxy armies, partial and full-scale invasions, and the most egregious number of election interferences in the entire world.

There is no other government on earth about which you can say anything like any of these things. No other government on earth is doing anything which rises to this level of evil. Not Iran, not North Korea, not Russia or China or any of the other big scary boogeymen we're told we must be afraid of my the mass media. You can argue that other governments have perpetrated comparable evils in the past, but you cannot argue that any of them are doing so currently. In our present reality as it actually exists, the United States is the worst monster, and it's not even close.

Reading by Tim Foley.
Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/you-need-to-understand-that-the-us

You Need To Understand That The US Is The Most Tyrannical Regime On Earth

George W Bush has issued a statement on the situation in Afghanistan, and there are not enough shoes in the world to adequately respond to it.

Reading by Tim Foley.
Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/now-would-be-a-great-time-for-george

Now Would Be A Great Time For George W Bush To Shut The Fuck Up

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

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

จับตา อาฟเตอร์ช็อกสนิม ‘แป้ง’ ในรัฐนาวา ‘ประยุทธ์’

การอภิปรายไม่ไว้วางใจครั้งที่ผ่านมา พล.อ. ประยุทธ์ จันทร์โอชา นายกรัฐมนตรี บอบช้ำมากที่สุด และคนที่ทำให้ พล.อ. ประยุทธ์ บอบช้ำชนิดเกือบเอาตัวไม่รอดในศึกอภิปรายไม่ไว้วางใจที่ผ่านมาไม่ใช่ฝ่ายค้าน แต่มาจากคีย์แมนคนสำคัญของพรรคพลังประชารัฐ ร.อ. ธรรมนัส พรหมเผ่า รัฐมนตรีช่วยว่าการกระทรวงเกษตรและสหกรณ์ และเลขาธิการพรรคพลังประชารัฐ

‘ธรรมนัส’ สร้างแรงสั่นสะเทือนชนิดที่เรียกกันว่าแผ่นดินไหวทางการเมืองกับเกมโหวตล้มนายกฯ กลางสภา แม้ ‘ธรรมนัส’ จะบอกว่าข่าวที่ออกมาเป็นข่าวลือและ Fake News และตามรายงานข่าวคือมีการขอโทษอะไรกันเรียบร้อยแล้ว แต่ถ้าเอาเหตุการณ์ทั้งหมดที่เกิดขึ้นไปจับคำพูดของ พล.อ. ประยุทธ์ ในช่วงเวลานั้น เราจะเห็นรอยร้าวของรัฐบาลชัดเจนขึ้น

‘สนิม’ เกิดแต่เนื้อในตนแล้ว จริงหรือที่ ‘คำขอโทษ’ ในวันนั้นจะทำให้เรื่องราวที่เกิดขึ้นจบลงแบบไร้รอยร้าว จริงหรือที่ พล.อ. ประยุทธ์ จะรู้สึกกับ พล.อ. ประวิตร เหมือนเดิม จริงหรือที่ ร.อ. ธรรมนัส จะไม่โดนเอาคืนทางการเมือง 

แน่นอนว่าหลังแผ่นดินไหวจะมีอาฟเตอร์ช็อก หรือศัพท์ทางวิทยาศาสตร์เรียกว่า ‘แผ่นดินไหวตาม’ อาฟเตอร์ช็อกหลังการอภิปรายไม่ไว้วางใจต้องเกิดขึ้นอย่างแน่นอน และเป็นสัญญาณนาฬิกานับถอยหลังอย่างเป็นทางการของอายุรัฐบาล พล.อ. ประยุทธ์

THE POWER GAME EP.78 อาฟเตอร์ช็อกสนิม 'แป้ง' ในรัฐนาวา 'ประยุทธ์'

פליישמן ורועי- שעה ראשונה- 09-12-21

My submission to the Disquiet Junto Project 0530 with the assignment: "Make the thing you think is the minimum viable music".
I like the elements of my music to have some connection, so three notes to make a chord would have been nice, but only two notes to make a melody is even better. No edits, no fancy timbres (the sounds are sinewaves), no interesting rhythms, the clock even runs at the default speed of 120bpm. But still I recognise this as music. It even sounds like a good ending, because the notes play a cadence.

Major thanks to Saga Söderback for having come up with this project.

More on this 530th weekly Disquiet Junto project — Minimally Viable Music (The Assignment: How much less is just shy of too little? ) — at: https://disquiet.com/0530/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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Minimal [disquiet0530]

Minimal[disquiet0530]

This week's Disquiet project asked us to thin k about times when talking doesn't help. I thought about the way corporations are now talking about "mental health" and "mindfulness" and I think that they might be better thinking about how they could pay us better and reduce our working hours. So this is in tribute to corporate "mindfulness".

More on this 532nd weekly Disquiet Junto project — Other Means (The Assignment: Make music about something you find difficult or unproductive to talk about) — at: https://disquiet.com/0532/

More on the Disquiet Junto at: https://disquiet.com/junto/

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three step breathing [disquiet0532]

Sunday 6woe 22may22

Track list:  https://www.beatport.com/chart/energymaker-4/744050

Energymaker 4, IMFDO 0006, KGS Lyngby, Kanalvej, 03.09.22

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

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