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Soul Suicide in the Ballot Box as Palestinians Are Butchered

Edward Curtin

It’s been a long time but worth remembering, if you can, that when the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center collapsed on September 11, 2001, the whole world watched in horror.  The events of that day were repeated on television over and over and over again, to the point where they became afterimages lodged in people’s minds.

As a result, although the buildings were not brought down by the impact of planes (no plane hit Building 7) but by explosives planted in the buildings (see this and this, among extensive evidence), most people thought otherwise, just as they thought that the subsequent linked anthrax attacks were directed by Osama bin Laden when they were eventually proven to have originated from a U.S. military lab (thus an inside job), and, as a result of a massive Bush administration/corporate media propaganda campaign, most Americans supported the invasion of Afghanistan, the subsequent invasion of Iraq, and decades of endless wars that continue to this day, bringing us to the edge of nuclear war with Iran and Russia.

It is impossible to understand the United States’ full-fledged support today for Israel’s genocide in the Middle East without understanding this history. Israel’s genocide is the United States’ genocide; they cannot be separated.

All these wars involve the machinations of the neo-conservative clique that in 1997 formed the Project for the New American Century that ran George W. Bush’s administration and whose protégées have come to exert great control of the foreign policies of Democratic and Republican administrations since.  It is not that they lacked power before this, as a study of American foreign policy as far back as the Lyndon Johnson administration and its non-response to Israel’s 1967 attack on the U.S. Liberty confirms.

Contrary to the widespread claims that Israel runs U.S. Middle East foreign policy, I think it is important to emphasize that the reverse is true.

It is convenient to claim the tail wags the dog, but it is false.

Israel’s war crimes are U.S. war crimes.  If the U.S. wanted to stop Israel’s genocide and expansion of war throughout the region, it could do so immediately, for Israel is totally reliant on U.S. support for its existence – as they like to say, “It’s existential.”

All the news to the contrary is propaganda.  It is a sly game of responsibility ping-pong: shift the blame, keep the audience guessing as they hit their little hollow ball back and forth.

Control of the Middle East’s oil supplies and travel routes has been key to American foreign policy for a very long time.  Such geo-political control is linked to the United States’ endless war on Russia and the control of natural resources throughout the vast region (a look at a map is requisite), stretching from the Middle East to southwest Asia up through the Black and Caspian Seas through Ukraine into Russia.

In both cases, the attacks of September 11, 2001 and Israel’s genocide of Palestinians whose ultimate target is Iran (America’s key enemy in the region as far back as the CIA’s 1953 coup d’état against Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh), savage wars of extermination have been promoted through decades of carefully orchestrated propaganda.

In the former case, through the mainstream corporate media’s magic of repetitive cinematic images, and in the latter, through their absence.  To be shown photos of many thousands of dead and mutilated Palestinian children does not serve the U.S./Zionist’s interests.  Propaganda’s methods must be flexible.  Show, conceal.

The September 11th attacks and the current genocide, each in its own way, have been justified and paid for with similar but different credit cards without spending limits, the so-called wars on terror waged on the visual credit card of planes hitting buildings preceded and followed by endless pictures of Osama bin Laden, and the genocide of Palestinians on the holocaust credit card minus images of slaughtered Palestinians or any awareness of the terrorist history of the Zionist’s century-long racial nationalist settler movement of “ethnically cleansing” Palestinians from their land.

To know this, one has to read books, but they have been replaced by cell phones, functional illiteracy being the norm, even for college graduates who are treated to four years of wokeness education and anti-intellectualism that reduces their thinking to mush and graduates them with sciolistic minds at best.  I am being kind.

The eradication of historical knowledge and the devaluation of the written word are key to ignorance of both issues.  Digital media and cell phones are the new books, all few hundred words on an issue conveying information that conveys ignorance.  Guy DeBord put it succinctly: “That which the spectacle ceases to speak of for three days no longer exists.”  Amnesia is the norm.

To which I might add: that which the mass media spectacle continues to speak of or show images of for many days exists, even if it doesn’t.  It exists in the minds of virtual people for whom images and headlines create reality.  The electronic media is not only addictive but hypnotically effective, producing cyber people divorced from the material world.  News and information have become a form of terrorism used to implode all mental defenses, similar to the floors at the World Trade Center that went down boom, boom, boom.

The war crimes of US/Israel are readily available for viewing outside the coverage of the corporate mainstream media. Most of the world views them, but these are the unreal people, the ones who don’t count as human beings.  These war crimes are massive, ruthless, and committed proudly and without an ounce of shame.  To face this fact is not acceptable.

Those who pretend ignorance of them are guilty of bad faith.

Those who support either Harris or Trump are guilty of bad faith twice over, acting as if either one does not support genocide or that genocide is a minor matter in the larger scheme of things.

Choosing “the lesser of two evils” is therefore an act of radical evil hiding behind the mask of civic duty.

That it is commonplace only confirms these words from the English playwright Harold Pinter’s extraordinary Nobel Address in 2005:

The United States supported and in many cases engendered every right wing military dictatorship in the world after the end of the Second World War. I refer to Indonesia, Greece, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Haiti, Turkey, the Philippines, Guatemala, El

Salvador, and, of course, Chile. The horror the United States inflicted upon Chile in 1973 can never be purged and can never be forgiven.

Hundreds of thousands of deaths took place throughout these countries. Did they take place? And are they in all cases attributable to US foreign policy? The answer is yes they did take place and they are attributable to American foreign policy. But you wouldn’t know it.

It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.

Little has changed since 2005, except that these crimes have increased along with the propaganda denying them, together with vastly increased censorship – Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Russia via Ukraine, etc. – all targets of U.S. bombs, just like Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, etc.  Now the U.S. has brought the world to the brink of nuclear war and the voting public is all worked up over choosing between candidates supporting genocide and the massively expanded Israel attack on neighboring countries.  It is a frightening spectacle of moral indifference and stupidity as we await the Israel/U.S. bombing of Iran and Iran’s response.

Yet I ask myself and I ask you: Is there a connection between the voting public’s support for these war criminals and attention deficit disorder, amnesia, and dementia?

Or is this embrace of the demonic twins’ – US/Israel – foreign policy a sign of something far worse?  A death wish?

Soul death?

Edward Curtinis an independent writer whose work has appeared widely over many years. His website is edwardcurtin.com and his new book is Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies.

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Manuel Baptista
Manuel Baptista
Nov 10, 2024 6:01 AM

It’s simply the result of fear propaganda upon a brainwashed public, coupled with the survival instinct of scared people who believe the narratives of the supposed winner

antonym
antonym
Nov 1, 2024 2:11 PM

Meet the Bangladeshi volunteers who went to war for Palestine
In the 1980s “Many wanted to liberate Palestine and make Jerusalem the capital. A common goal was to end Israel,”

Muppet Show
Muppet Show
Oct 31, 2024 7:43 AM

what kind of explosives or fire does this?

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Muppet Show
Muppet Show
Oct 31, 2024 7:44 AM
Reply to  Muppet Show

If you cannot see this is not “explosives” then you cannot see much at all…

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Tilly Petersen
Tilly Petersen
Oct 31, 2024 9:19 AM
Reply to  Muppet Show

What are you claiming to see here?

Tilly Petersen
Tilly Petersen
Oct 31, 2024 9:18 AM
Reply to  Muppet Show

That’s just a burned car. Burning debris rained down from the towers and ignited stuff in the street below, including some cars. 🤷🏼‍♀️

antonym
antonym
Oct 31, 2024 7:04 AM

Abrahamic religions 101: there is only our God and HE is an angry, aggressive old white man with a beard. WE are THE chosen people, YOU all are not. All get only one life in this A game and after it is Heaven of Hell, end of our binary narrative.

Three flavors:
light, the oldest, mellowed down, non missionary, non imperialistic, self development central, has a minuscule following, where always envied by their neighbors because applying their minds with success. Tech rich.
Medium: the middle taste, physically peaceful, economically not at all, wants to conquer all hearts on Earth, quite top down, Arts encouraged if in line with the narrative. Big herd of sheep.Oil and tech rich.
Strong: the youngest, very much into permanent physical imperium, violence is normal, also at home, non ideological education abhorred, most Arts banned. Rewards only in Heaven, Earth is useless for that only spoils of war allowed. Big herd of emotional wolves created. biggest victim card players while in minority. Oil rich.

Guess who Western Left-over bureaucracy, journaille, college staff etc. are herded to support under guidance of the Anglo globali$ts around DC, and who to hate? Think Pakistan, Yugoslavia, West Bank/ Gaza, Syria.
For a few dollars more your owned US politician can be hired as bodyguard proxy- with US hardware in the hard-war you love.

P.S. 1: Yezidis, Amedhis, Bahai, Armenians etc don’t count for “genocides”.
P.S. 2: for the strong flavor Hindus, Buddhists, Atheists, Marxists etc. are just road kill; for medium they are conversion candidates.

Muppet Show
Muppet Show
Oct 31, 2024 6:57 AM

As a result, although the buildings were not brought down by the impact of planes (no plane hit Building 7) but by explosives planted in the buildings

Seems that the author is paid to repeat this absurdity in every article he posts.
Where did the rubble from the two 110 storey buildings go?

You cannot answer this question because it doesn’t fit the “explosives” narrative…. The rubble was not on the ground because it was turned to dust in mid-air by unknown microwave technology, hence the big mushroom cloud and the “smoke” that kept rising for days from what was left on the ground, and which was covered with tons of soil trucked into the site…..
Hence the car engine blocks melted next to untouched plastic parts, and other weird effects and debris around the site such as the human teeth popped like popcorn, heated from the inside out, which is a signature of microwaves..

where did the towers go? Search for the website with this title, that Off_G does not want you to see…

On another note, look at the photo here… look at this Palestinian guy who is more concerned with operating his smart phone than the total hell all around him. The programming is strong.

Tilly Petersen
Tilly Petersen
Oct 31, 2024 9:25 AM
Reply to  Muppet Show

Where did the rubble from the two 110 storey buildings go?

The concrete was disintegrated and blasted all over Lower Manhattan. Some of the steel was ejected many feet from the footprint by the force of the blast, resulting in massive girders being embedded into nearby buildings. The remainder of the steel was distributed in a massive pile, many feet high and extending beyond the original footprint. It also partially filled the upper basement areas which were turned to rubble.

There are many photos that show the extent of the rubble pile, but they aren’t in Judy Wood’s book for some reason.

I think that answers your question.

Muppet Show
Muppet Show
Nov 3, 2024 3:56 PM
Reply to  Tilly Petersen

“Many feet high” is not very high at all for two 110 storey buildings… all these non- arguments are demolished in Wood’s website.

Howard
Howard
Oct 31, 2024 4:08 PM
Reply to  Muppet Show

Your take on the Palestinian guy is skewed by the simple fact that unless you have experienced near total destruction of the world around you, you cannot possibly know how one might act/react under such a circumstance. When destruction is all but complete, it seems rational for people to hang on to some piece of sanity in their lives, like a lifeline – something still there, still working that they can cling to.

As to Dr. Wood’s “Where Did The Towers Go?” Dr. Wood Has a tendency to jump to conclusions. If something looks like it supports the DEW scenario, she concludes that it DOES support that view. But, conversely, she brooks no such slip-shod scholarship from the proponents of other views (such as the thermite/controlled demolition view). And when she insists it is not up to her to determine where the DEW beam(s) might have originated, only to determine that DEW was used, she loses much credibility. At least the thermite proponents were able to say precisely where the thermite would have to have been placed.

Muppet Show
Muppet Show
Nov 3, 2024 4:04 PM
Reply to  Howard

That is not what she means- she means that she cannot say who was responsible for the DEW attack, because she cannot prove that. The machines used could have been placed in any of the surrounding buildings that were not destroyed, or even further away.

as for the smart phone , yes I meant it is sad that it has become some sort of “anchor” for an escape from reality even for the most victimised people in the world, who are using the tech created by the same “progress” that is driving their killers.

Muppet Show
Muppet Show
Oct 31, 2024 6:56 AM

As a result, although the buildings were not brought down by the impact of planes (no plane hit Building 7) but by explosives planted in the buildings

Seems that Mr Curtin is paid to repeat this absurd limited hangout propaganda in every article he posts.
Where did the rubble from the two 110 storey buildings go, Mr Curtin?

You cannot answer this question because it doesn’t fit the “explosives” narrative…. The rubble was not on the ground because it was turned to dust in mid-air by unknown microwave technology, hence the big mushroom cloud and the “smoke” that kept rising for days from what was left on the ground, and which was covered with tons of soil trucked into the site…..
Hence the car engine blocks melted next to untouched plastic parts, and other weird effects and debris around the site such as the human teeth popped like popcorn, heated from the inside out, which is a signature of microwaves..

where did the towers go? Search for the website with this title, that Off_G does not want you to see…

On another note, look at the photo here… look at this Palestinian guy who is more concerned with operating his smart phone than the total hell all around him. The programming is strong.

Sam - Admin2
Admin
Sam - Admin2
Oct 31, 2024 12:21 PM
Reply to  Muppet Show

What you are doing is transparent trolling, and it’s completely uncalled for. We’ve hosted many discussions about Judy Wood here. Admin has often invited people to share Wood’s evidence.

There has seemed to be a lack of anything concrete (if you’ll excuse the pun). It’s mostly YouTube links to Wood’s photo essay talks. Wood adherents also like to poo-poo the thermite laboratory evidence despite Wood having no competing laboratory evidence to support her own theories. Other than a lot of inference about ‘dustification’ this Admin has seen nothing solid. Why can’t Wood publish something solid about WTC dust deficit – what dust should we have expected to see, in what formation, compared to what we did see? This should involve case studies and hard numbers and predictions in order to test her hypothesis etc. It appears to this Admin that Wood has never published anything like that.

We do not appreciate the ham fisted assertions Offg are biased. We strongly reject any suggestion our writers are paid for their opinions. This is the sort of evidence-free smearing trolls often resort to. It is unfair to this community, it is unfair to our amazing authors and it is unfair to yourself, you can do better than this.

If you can reform your behaviour and help build trust in this community, rather than sabotage it, Admin will be happy to take you off pre-mod. This will be a negotiation in trust and entirely at admin’s discretion. Thank you, A2

Muppet Show
Muppet Show
Nov 3, 2024 3:53 PM
Reply to  Sam - Admin2

I did not suggest that Off-G itself is paying anyone. I do not care about online “communities” (we cannot even message each other here or see our own past comments) but “transparent trolling” is not when someone disagrees with your position.
Sorry but I have kept an eye on the site regularly (weekly) in the last 4 years and have seen no mention of Judy Wood- only a persistent attack in the comments and an apparent block on links to her site.
She is a materials expert and hence perfectly qualified, and her site contains plenty of technical text apart from a large number of photos showing stuff which cannot be explained by thermite or anything apart from microwaves, some of which effects have been replicated in small scale by a researcher she presents on her site, i think it’s John Hutchison.
9/11 pales into insignificance compared to convid and whatever they may try next so it isn’t something I will waste much time on. It is just unfortunate that people will ignore some pretty obvious evidence but it seems most people’s science education is deliberately terrible.
I don’t actually care for Judy Wood’s speculations on the implications of this tech as regards free energy but they are kept separate from her presentation of the evidence.
The important thing to realise if you care for real understanding and not politics, IMO, is that this was not an explosives job but a real Black Op. Testimonies from people at “ground zero” talk about experiencing things that are not like any kind of explosion or fire.
Yes, this is a problem for the truther community because they are trying to present an understandable scenario (thermite) but the truth is not the “truther”‘s private patch or always easy to grasp. The outright rejection of the idea that the same entities that could pull off the thermite could actually have used secret hi-tech weapons is itself suspect from a truther’s perspective, so you can publish this comment if you’re a bona fide truther  😃 

Sam - Admin2
Admin
Sam - Admin2
Nov 7, 2024 1:35 PM
Reply to  Muppet Show

an apparent block on links to her site.

http://www.drjudywood.com/wp/
https://www.drjudywood.com/oldindex.htm

The outright rejection of the idea that the same entities that could pull off the thermite could actually have used secret hi-tech weapons is itself suspect from a truther’s perspective, so you can publish this comment if you’re a bona fide truther 😃

Yes, the ‘entities’ you mention could well do many things, but many ‘truthers’ fear Dr Wood’s rejection of the thermite evidence – choosing instead to argue from advanced speculation with no laboratory evidence to back it up – to be unnecessarily devise and unfalsifiable, and therefore risks being incredibly counterproductive.

We must be led by the hard evidence, many argue. Thermite was detected. If no one has discredited or explained away its presence then we needs must acknowledge and incorporate this hard evidence into future discussions if we’re arguing logically and empirically. A2

Muppet Show
Muppet Show
Oct 31, 2024 6:51 AM

Yes, pending of course. Limited Hangout is limited indeed.

Vagabard
Vagabard
Oct 29, 2024 2:06 PM

Ways in which the US & Israel can help to redeem their souls (where the ballot box has failed):

– Rescue the 101 (or so) Israeli hostages still stuck underground in in Gazan tunnels. The remnant of those butchered by Hamas over the past year. Fully remove Hamas from Gaza
– Have compassion for the 70,000 or so displaced Israeli refugees in the North of Israel currently unable to return safely to their homes, since the area came under fire from Hezbollah. Help them to return to their homes by effectively dealing with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
– Secure Israel’s borders. Disable Iran’s capacity to strike at Israel. The recent October 26th strikes were a good start on that front.
– And deal effectively with any other nations who still wish to wipe Israel off the map, until they adopt the more moderate approach of Arab nations such as Egypt

Which should be enough to be getting on with.

Then we can all look forward to the Middle East entering a new era of peace. Similar to how the peaceful age of Solomon followed the more conflict-ridden age of David

RegretLeft
RegretLeft
Oct 29, 2024 2:32 PM
Reply to  Vagabard

“Wrong Rally”

TomT
TomT
Oct 29, 2024 7:06 PM
Reply to  Vagabard

Israel is an illegal entity (see Prof Ralph Wilde’s 26-minute speech to the ICJ from Feb 2024) and Zionism is a white colonial supremacist ideology that has as much right to exist as apartheid in the old South Africa. Israel and the US have lost all credibility globally for their genocide and will never be forgiven. Only a dismantling of Zionism and formation of a truly democratic one-state solution for ALL religions with bring lasting peace.

aspnaz
aspnaz
Nov 3, 2024 4:20 AM
Reply to  TomT

A disnmatling of Zionism, Israel and the USA is way overdue.

bohdi
bohdi
Oct 30, 2024 5:53 AM
Reply to  Vagabard

Like all good ingrown toenails you have been watching the wrong bedtime story. You must be thinking of 101 dalmatians while watching zionist propaghanda from hollywood. Here in the real world violence begets violence and murderous thugs get their comeuppance. There is no more ‘north israel’ There is a wasteland until Palestine is restored to its rightful inhabitants.

The time for ‘israel’ to be a mature nation is finished. You blew it. I used to be for a 2 state solution but as mentioned you blew it. Now its time to wipe ‘israel’ from the map.

and don’t go bleating on about your over 400 holocaust films that have been produced since ’45 (see Simon Elmer for further details) we don’t want you dead. We want you alive to scrub the noble Palestinians’ toilets clean. We want you to collect every grain of concrete dust and put Palestine together again.

If you can’t live with the indigenous peoples, in peace. then you must leave Palestine. Go back to New York or Lithunia or wherever your parents / grandparents come from. Clearly you you are not for peace. You are for murderous violence, killing and destruction.

There is no place for you in Palestine.

Your soul is in a perilous position, repent. Put down your weapons. Now. Things are going to get alot worse for you and your people from here on out if you don’t.

As-salamu Alaykum

Bohdi

Vagabard
Vagabard
Oct 30, 2024 1:55 PM
Reply to  bohdi

While waiting for the next Suleiman / Saladin / Sultanate to rule over Palestine, you could try cleaning your own toilet. I’m sure the neighbours would approve.

It’s likely to be a long wait.

Shalom

bohdi
bohdi
Oct 31, 2024 5:59 AM
Reply to  Vagabard

haha funny man, all spiritually stunted archaic tribes that bring concepts like ‘Amalek’ into the 21st century and deny the most basic human yearning for freedom belong in the toilet of history.

just to let you know Soundtrack to the struggle III by lowkey has already reached the bottom end of Africa.

Karmic wheels turn, its inevitable. Colonial endeavors wither and die.

Hollywood gets stale and empathy dries up.

We watch. We take notes of everything. We wait, patiently like the rock of ages.

Nkululeko Palestine.

bohdi
bohdi
Oct 31, 2024 6:33 AM
Reply to  bohdi

haha, what a clownshow youtube is these days. Posted Lowkeys’ , Soundtrack to the struggle 3 and this hillybilly is now the link….. zionist in panic. :D. Can’t even edit it. Admins please delete the hillbilly, he is not relevant.

Vagabard
Vagabard
Nov 1, 2024 8:48 PM
Reply to  bohdi

Wasn’t expecting the George Galloway voiceover. That was a surprise

Howard
Howard
Oct 30, 2024 2:31 PM
Reply to  Vagabard

Where did you get the notion that Israel wants peace? Just like it’s master, the US, it has been at war almost continually since it’s creation.

As to securing Israel’s borders: how can that be done when Israel continually seeks to expand its borders? It wants to incorporate Jordan, Syria, Iraq and even parts of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, as well as a small wedge of Turkey into what it refers to as Greater Israel.

Do you honestly think coveting your neighbor’s property is the best way to secure your own property?

Vagabard
Vagabard
Oct 30, 2024 6:45 PM
Reply to  Howard

Israel has been at war since its creation because the Arab nations surrounding it have repeatedly declared war on it.

Israel held far more land following the Six Day War, portions of which were subsequently given back to Arab nations in exchange for peace eg the Sinai Peninsula back to Egypt; part of the Golan Heights back to Syria etc.

So no, I don’t believe Israel has any designs on the land of any of those countries (Egypt, Jordan, Syria etc). What Israel does want is peaceful borders, with non-hostile nations as neighbours.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Israel

bohdi
bohdi
Oct 31, 2024 6:28 AM
Reply to  Vagabard

have you every asked yourself why? Why ‘us cherubs of god’ evoke such vitriol in our neighnours? Why the holocaust? (The truth will out, major questions over numbers these days)

Like all good parents must ask their child when they come back from school crying that little Gunter punched him, “what did you do?”

When history repeats itself, don’t come crying to me.

https://fablesofaesop.com/the-boy-who-cried-wolf.html

Vagabard
Vagabard
Nov 1, 2024 8:46 PM
Reply to  bohdi

A fair question.

There is (admittedly) a stubbornness streak in the Israeli spirit. A non-conformity to what is expected. A non-bowing down to the assumed worldly Emperor of the day.

Which can be argued to have led to the Roman conquest of Judea in 70AD and hence to the whole 2000-year diaspora in the first place.

But is of course no excuse for those whose ideologies only emerged 6-7 centuries later to take advantage of

Howard
Howard
Oct 31, 2024 3:54 PM
Reply to  Vagabard

You may not believe this, but there is much controversy over who started the various wars Israel was involved in. The USS Liberty incident speaks volumes about Israel’s hostile intent. I’ve heard/read two versions of why the USS Liberty was attacked: 1) because the Liberty was spying on Israel; and 2) because Israel intended to blame the attack on Egypt in order to get the US involved in its war with Egypt – which it could not do because the ship and its crew were not completely destroyed.

I don’t pretend to know what went on in the Middle East, nor do I pretend to know that one or another version of reality is the true version. But there is ample evidence that Israel has never sought peace with its neighbors – instead, it has taken a page from the US playbook and attempted to coerce its neighbors into respecting its sovereignty.

Vagabard
Vagabard
Nov 1, 2024 8:03 PM
Reply to  Howard

The USS Liberty was an interesting case. Much could be said on it.

One thing to consider would be how the US were able to intercept the communications between Israeli pilots and their ground control. And whether the Israelis would have been completely happy with the US having such direct access to such knowledge. Especially in a time of war.

Friend or no friend, ally or no ally, we all need our secrets

aspnaz
aspnaz
Nov 3, 2024 4:25 AM
Reply to  Vagabard

Israel has been at war since its creation because the Arab nations surrounding it have repeatedly declared war on it.

Israel is a racist genocidal savage pretending to be a dingleberry on civilisation. Israel woul dbe nothing without its brainwashed masses of religious fundementalists, it is nutter territory through and through. History tells us that unfortunately religious fundementalists have to be eliminated, there is no conversion back to normaility, no conversion back into people who could exist peacefully in a peaceful society. The omens look dark for Israel and its chosen people.

Vagabard
Vagabard
Nov 3, 2024 7:18 PM
Reply to  aspnaz

“History tells us that unfortunately religious fundementalists have to be eliminated,”

Actually history demonstrates that religion can’t be eliminated. Stalin tried and failed (like all the rest). Religion is hardwired to a human brain. Use it or lose it:

Horizon – God on the Brain (2003):
https://archive.org/download/BBCHorizonCollection512Episodes/BBC%20Horizon%20-%20s2003e11%20-%20God%20On%20The%20Brain.mp4

Junious Ricardo Stanton
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Oct 29, 2024 3:22 AM

In the US it is fashionable to blame the media for America’s somnambulance regarding geopolitical current events. This way no one has to take responsibility for being a coward and not taking a stand for what is right. Americans know Israel is engaged in ethnic cleansing and genocide in Palestine just as we know Western Europeans engaged in genocide in the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, Asia and Africa under the guise of spreading “civilization” bestowing democracy and free market capitalism to the benighted heathens of the world.
Only now the Zionist don’t even pretend they ae not killing innocents or that their genocide will stop any time soon. They point to the Bible as their authority. The American Empire’s days are numbered which means Israel’s are numbered also. The technology and the hubris of the Anglo-American-Zionist hydra has sped up the inevitable collapse to the point we are seeing/witnessing/experiencing the implosion first hand as we pretend not to know what we know is coming. KARMA can be a bitch.
Some are hoping Trump or the Democrats will save us from the fate of all predatory blood sucking empires, not going to happen! The only way to alter the course towards the abyss is direct resistance, non-compliance and non-support of the machine.

judith
judith
Oct 29, 2024 10:37 AM

From the sound of the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden, particularly Guiliani, it does not sound like Give Peace A Chance anytime soon.

As thousands cheered.

Junious Ricardo Stanton
Junious Ricardo Stanton
Oct 29, 2024 1:25 PM
Reply to  judith

I didn’t watch the rally but if the corporate media is successful, the American sheeple will believe it was a Nazi rally to spur on the new Hitler. Peace is not in the cards no matter which candidate “wins” the election . The Neocons and war mongers like Dick Cheney are firmly in Harris’ camp while the rabid Zionists are in the Trump camp. Either way more and more war are on the horizon.

Jez Graham
Jez Graham
Oct 28, 2024 6:28 PM

That photo up top looks completely staged. Not saying it definitely is. I don’t know. But it looks it.

Hornbach
Hornbach
Oct 29, 2024 7:54 AM
Reply to  Jez Graham

That photo could have been staged but with or without photos the reality is the same : civilans are killed, their homes are destroyed and their land is grabbed.

Vagabard
Vagabard
Oct 29, 2024 2:35 PM
Reply to  Jez Graham

The lack of a speck of dust amidst all that building rubble, on anyone but the guy lying down is certainly suspicious

Howard
Howard
Oct 30, 2024 4:03 PM
Reply to  Vagabard

Two things you seem to be overlooking: 1) dust does settle eventually – and it could have been many months between the formation of the rubble and the photo; and 2) the entire background is hazy, which could be fog or it could be the dust you couldn’t find in the foreground.

Ernesto Che
Ernesto Che
Oct 29, 2024 4:21 PM
Reply to  Jez Graham

So, what is your point?

Tom Larsen
Tom Larsen
Oct 28, 2024 3:02 PM

To dovetail with the great Harold Pinter quote:

“The consistent meltdown triggered by the ever present spectre of Donald Trump can be baffling if one only considers what he actually did in office. Why do the liberals hate this man so much when a great deal of what he did was broadly in line with what their own idol, Barack Obama, did whilst in office. Despite talking a big game about bringing the “endless wars” to a close Trump was easily stymied and bamboozled by institutional opposition within the militarist clique that runs the US federal government. The question then remains, why do they get so enraged by Trump? Is this all for show? Is it simply electioneering? There are partial truths in these explanations. American liberals need to give their electoral base in the petit-bourgeoisie a good scare to get them out voting as the Democratic Party has absolutely nothing positive to offer even these relatively better off voters. But the sustained meltdown about Trump is not simply a game, nor is it just about disciplining an electoral base. The psychotic breakdowns you see everyone from the likes of Joe Scarborough to Congresswoman Occasio-Cortez engaging in are not staged, these are real and the root of them lie in the question of language and formalities. Why do these matter exactly?
 
The left and the old Republican Party all needed the language games [emphasis mine] though because to admit to simple crude banditry (as Trump does) forces them to come face to face with the reality of what they are doing. This is something that must be avoided at all costs because for decades now the institutions of the US and British states have been staffed by people with very liberal sensibilities who are obsessed with personal virtue. If you take that away from them then their entire, carefully constructed world falls apart and they are left facing the horrible reality. That reality is that they are servants of the most brutish, rapacious, destructive and murderous imperialist system the world has ever seen.”

Excerpts from Alex McKay.

Ron Marr
Ron Marr
Oct 28, 2024 2:47 PM

It’s all a preplanned agenda in the simulation. Atlantis was the global predator before its destruction. They told us! Sir Francis bacon stated in his time that the newly discovered America would be the next Atlantis. America the global predator sit on the brink of destruction today.

George Mc
George Mc
Oct 28, 2024 1:29 PM

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8yyle2eq2o

Heating or cooling? I’m guessing it depends on the morning toss of the coin.

And look at this shocker:

“The WMO says that the last time the Earth experienced a comparable concentration of carbon in the atmosphere was 3-5 million year ago – when average temperatures were 2-3C warmer than they are now, and sea levels were 10-20 metres higher.”

Ah yes I remember it well!

tuah
tuah
Oct 28, 2024 12:32 PM

Bastards switched off 3G
Good on ya Telstra!
All Telco’s including starlink , may a stealth meteorite impact all your infrastructure post haste
Yes, we of love, will survive and thrive without spy gizmos, radiation etc
Bonza opportunity to look inward, reacquaint with thy neighbors, pachamama etc

Imagine a world with no Telco’s

The gizmo you possess, how did it all come about?

Reminder

We are the only species on earth that pays to live here.
But we’re the most advanced?

CaptainSpock
CaptainSpock
Oct 28, 2024 1:30 PM
Reply to  tuah

A giant solar flare will be coming soon and all satellites rendered useless.

SevereleyRegarded
SevereleyRegarded
Oct 28, 2024 7:15 PM
Reply to  CaptainSpock

*satelloons

fify

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Nov 1, 2024 2:49 AM

This video is undermining my government! Just saying.

Vagabard
Vagabard
Oct 29, 2024 2:16 PM
Reply to  tuah

Same thing’s happening in the UK. O2 the only 3G network left now. And not for long. Forcing everyone to update their equipment

Howard
Howard
Oct 30, 2024 4:09 PM
Reply to  tuah

Unfortunately, humans always find a way to make every other creature on Earth pay for their stay. Humans cannot function without the aid of their money obsession. Now many want to assign a cost to something as innocuous as Free Speech by making it a privilege one must earn.

tubber
tubber
Oct 28, 2024 11:40 AM

Admin,
Broken link? – the U.S. Liberty link contained in the article brings up some spurious architectural site Etudes with “A passion for creating spaces”

Despite my best efforts over the last 20 mins to find it, consortiumnews.com appears to have vanished. Hopefully it’s just temporarily offline for maintenance.

tubber
tubber
Oct 29, 2024 8:31 AM
Reply to  tubber

Consortium news is back online.

George Mc
George Mc
Oct 28, 2024 9:29 AM

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/censorship-center-guise-combating-hate-covid-elon-musk
 
The talk of “hate” is the screamingly obvious tell-tale sign of deep state manipulation. It’s vastly more insultingly asinine than any blathering about hell or Satan. And Rachel Riley is another giveaway. The statement from The Jewish News is boiler plate present age demonology:
 
“Fake news bears much responsibility for the growth in illiberalism, woman-hate, Jew-hate, Muslim-hate, trans-hate and political sectarianism in Britain”
 
What a stream of indiscriminate anonymous labels! And emphasised by the following “activists told Jewish News”.
 
And Riley as always knows perfectly how to play the victim card. Note how she is backing a “small group of friends” who are opposed to “hyper partisan websites” – this creating a sense of the little people up against evil giants.
 
And the ferocious liberal entitlement of Riley is demonstrated here:
 
“The #BoycottRachelRiley hashtag tells you just about everything you need to know about these people.”
 
Yes, imagine anyone having the gall to boycott poor little Rachel – and this even after her admitting that her entire aim here is to persuade advertisers to boycott these “hateful ones”!
 
Such are the eager servile little minions of the parasite class.
 
Also note this bit:
 
“A small group of friends backed by countdown star Rachel Riley is targeting hyper partisan websites by hitting their revenue.”
 
And what does “hitting their revenue” mean? Apparently this:
 
“Organisers say the campaign was inspired by Sleeping Giants in the US, which persuaded brands not to advertise on Breitbart, a website set up by former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and accused of stoking division through disinformation.”
 
And how does this “persuasion” happen?
 
“We just show advertisers where their money is being spent and let them make a decision as to whether to continue to do so”
 
Yeah like fuck you do! Cut the crap! You make them the offer they can’t refuse!

Vagabard
Vagabard
Oct 29, 2024 2:26 PM
Reply to  George Mc

Carol Vordermann was marginally hotter but Rachel’s good with her digits too. But I digress

Thom Sheaffer
Thom Sheaffer
Oct 28, 2024 9:17 AM

When I think about all the shit in the news that doesn’t make sense, when I wonder why anyone in their right mind would do this or that, it’s just starting to hit me … it’s all a ginormous psychological operation.

Martillo
Martillo
Oct 28, 2024 9:16 AM

Can the USSAN populous down on Rancho Goyim rip the stinking ZionaZi albatross from around the neck of the evil Golem that their chosenite, neocohen and pedovore elites have made of this morally and financially bankrupt collection of mutts? As the pepsicola cocacola $elections enter the end spurt the chances of saving the United Snakes from itself are looking ever more unlikely. Whether that is a good or a bad thing only time will tell but one thing is for sure when the deadbeat nation of warmongers and ruling demon$ can no longer con the rest of humanity with its oily IOU fiat filth (ex) Saudimercan toilet paper dollah and “pay” for its global slaughter and the ongoing extermination of the Semitic people of Palestine by rabid squatter ZionaZis, then the paper tiger will disintegrate in an orgy of despair and violence that will make the collapse of the old Soviet Union look like the orderly shutdown of the obsolete behemoth that it turned out to be.
 
 
USSANS armed to the teeth, trained and bloodied in countless Pentacon bouts of global slaughter (serving their country” “on a tour of duty”) for the profit of the ruling merchants of death, accustomed to deception and subterfuge at every level of this debauched society; they will not go gently into the night, rather the disparate ethnic tribes, losing faith in their holy military, will tear each other apart in their long overdue and much heralded civil war reloaded. Imagine if you will the so-called United States fracturing and disintegrating in rampant terror and ever more violence in the next twenty years or fewer as the tribes reshuffle and relocate in the greatest clash of incompatible civilization$ that humanity has ever wittnessed. Karma can never be denied, only postponed for a time and God knows as we all do that that America (sic) has a bill to be paid for crimes too many to be catalogued in any one generation.
 
Onward to justice for the beast and its willing helpers.

Martillo
Martillo
Oct 28, 2024 9:04 AM

Can the USSAN populous down on Rancho Goyim rip the stinking ZionaZi albatross from around the neck of the evil Golem that their chosenite, neocohen and pedovore elites have made of this morally and financially bankrupt collection of mutts? As the pepsicola cocacola $elections enter the end spurt the chances of saving the United Snakes from itself are looking ever more unlikely. Whether that is a good or a bad thing only time will tell but one thing is for sure when the deadbeat nation of warmongers and ruling demon$ can no longer con the rest of humanity with its oily IOU fiat filth (ex) Saudimercan toilet paper dollah and “pay” for its global slaughter and the ongoing extermination of the Semitic people of Palestine by rabid squatter ZionaZis, then the paper tiger will disintegrate in an orgy of despair and violence that will make the collapse of the old Soviet Union look like the orderly shutdown of the obsolete behemoth that it turned out to be.

USSANS armed to the teeth, trained and bloodied in countless Pentacon bouts of global slaughter (serving their country” “on a tour of duty”) for the profit of the ruling merchants of death, accustomed to deception and subterfuge at every level of this debauched society; they will not go gently into the night, rather the disparate ethnic tribes, losing faith in their holy military, will tear each other apart in their long overdue and much heralded civil war reloaded. Imagine if you will the so-called United States fracturing and disintegrating in rampant terror and ever more violence in the next twenty years or fewer as the tribes reshuffle and relocate in the greatest clash of incompatible civilization$ that humanity has ever wittnessed. Karma can never be denied, only postponed for a time and God knows as we all do that that America (sic) has a bill to be paid for crimes too many to be catalogued in any one generation.

Onward to justice for the beast and its willing helpers.

Hornbach
Hornbach
Oct 29, 2024 7:58 AM
Reply to  Martillo

Is this long text (published twice) some artificial work ? We need some artificial votes for it.

mgeo
mgeo
Oct 28, 2024 6:38 AM

The relentless themes:
-. Comply in everything, including work and consumption.
-. You are unimportant, unless you resist.
-. Little can be done for your personal problems; just lower expectations.
-. Almost every issue and its relevance is beyond your understanding; we explain the important ones.

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Oct 28, 2024 5:21 AM

Mr Curtin

You miss the bleedin’ obvious.

When there is the perception that speaking out is career suicide, what do you do, as the average bloke/woman with two kids to feed at home?

Do you speak out for the fallen of Palestine, thereby losing your job, having your home repossessed and social services coming for your kids?

Or do you just do what you can to survive on earth, not sacrificing your own children for whole world beliefs?

That’s the moral choice every ordinary set of parents has to make where US evil is concerned.

Protest was much easier for black people when racism was enshrined in US laws and society: they were ALL in the same boat. They had no rights, so they weren’t really going to lose much worth losing.

Who protested most over Vietnam? Was it students?? Or was it your average construction worker lacking any union rights on site??

Who is protesting right now in the USA? Well, firstly the Jews who feel outraged that their faith, their culture, is being destroyed in the public eye by the actions of animals they are ashamed to be associated with. Students who haven’t yet had the jack boot of employers come down on their necks.

Even if you know it all, Mr Curtin, it doesn’t do you any good if the vast majority are still ignorant or too fearful to speak out. And the ignorant will attack you as an outlier, just as they have done throughout the centuries, which means that you speak out, knowing the effect it will have on your own life’s course.

If your life only has value to you if you speak truth unto power, no matter what, then fine, you do that.

But it’s not realistic to think that everyone else feels the same.

The people most able to speak out are the young and those retired and -financially secure.

Those least able to speak out are those who need to work hard to build up a financial nest egg and to pay for their children’s upbringing and education.

Will there ever be a solution to that situation, short of the obliteration of all of humanity becoming imminent?

I have my doubts, you know.

Howard
Howard
Oct 28, 2024 3:51 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

It’s true that one acting alone is unlikely to effect any change. But it’s also true that millions of “ones” acting in concert can change anything. So the question is what it’s always been: who will be first to put their comfort on the line? And make no mistake, even the poorest of the poor in most Western nations are rich compared to at least half the rest of the world (that wouldn’t be the case if the West did not exploit the rest of the world). So what we call our survival is really little more than our comfort.

As you say, it’s a great moral quandary – which is perhaps why most people are content to limit their moral considerations to trivial pursuits like what one does in bed.

Tom Larsen
Tom Larsen
Oct 28, 2024 4:41 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

RE: Who protested most over Vietnam? Was it students?? Or was it your average construction worker lacking any union rights on site??

The answer to that question is, yeah, it was students and other young people facing the draft (not “construction workers”). The working class as a whole were not opposed to the Vietnam war (until their children started coming home in body bags). Why? Because from the mid 1960’s to maybe 1973 were the period of the greatest income equality in US history. Literally, the working class (if you were white) never had it so good (and would not again…so far).

underground poet
underground poet
Oct 28, 2024 8:58 PM
Reply to  Tom Larsen

It was a great period of stagflation, to many people w/ too few things to do, and as such, took to the stage to display their frustrations.

Tom Larsen
Tom Larsen
Oct 28, 2024 10:25 PM

Stagflation didn’t start until the oil embargo of 1973. The Vietnam War ended in 1975. The early ’70’s also just happened to be the beginning of neoliberalism. This got rolling after the Lewis Powell memorandum of 1971 which was a blueprint for a full-court attack by Big Business on the gains made by the working class from the end of WWII to the end of the 1960’s. Wages for working people have been flat or declining since.

KiwiJoker
KiwiJoker
Oct 29, 2024 6:24 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

Watch what happens…

KiwiJoker
KiwiJoker
Oct 29, 2024 6:40 PM
Reply to  KiwiJoker
David McBain
David McBain
Oct 28, 2024 5:08 AM

Their souls are long dead. Their only souls are their r-souls.

antonym
antonym
Oct 28, 2024 12:49 AM

Regarding Hamas and Hezbollah:

I ask myself and I ask you: Is there a connection between demonstrating woke public’s support for these war criminals and attention deficit disorder, amnesia, and dementia?

Martillo
Martillo
Oct 28, 2024 9:07 AM
Reply to  antonym

ZionaZi war crimes are always kosher. The truth is aunty semithick.

Anonon
Anonon
Oct 28, 2024 12:29 PM
Reply to  antonym

Woke vs anti-woke is a dead end.

antonym
antonym
Oct 29, 2024 12:53 AM
Reply to  Anonon

Not to the only eternal ‘refugees’ on this planet, the “Palestinians”. Living in the UK etc. they bombard Western middle class with adds for donations for Gaza. Considering the frequency they must be getting plenty of money so the eternal victim game stays a good business model. Till now I see well fed mothers and kids parroting in English, so there is scope for improvement in ‘more donations’.

Real refugees want to leave war zones, and plenty of woke Western governments want to have them. Gaza Arabs don’t want to leave, imagine….

Sonny-Raye Hayes
Sonny-Raye Hayes
Oct 28, 2024 12:38 AM

Reading this, it’s hard not to contemplate bodily suicide. There is no way to avoid that reality here in Port Townsend, Washington as we daily watch shipment after shipment of armaments load and depart from the munitions depot dock of death just across the bay.We also see the Ohio class nuclear submarines, the aircraft carriers, the cruise missile ships and destroyers. In addition, we see and hear the warplanes from the air station across the inlet.The living death that Ed describes is a way of life here; the voting charade is rampant, each and every fraud has been embraced with mostly blind or at least complicit enthusiasm. Port Townsend, Washington.

clickkid
clickkid
Oct 28, 2024 12:18 AM

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1156171

‘Entire population of north Gaza at risk of dying,’ warns UN’s top humanitarian official

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Oct 28, 2024 12:02 AM

My impression is that it can’t be a soul death wish, since so many people live a drone-like life, and drones do not have souls. In some circles this kind of person is called an NPC, jargon from the computer gamer crowd.

Johnny
Johnny
Oct 27, 2024 10:16 PM

The grovelling, lickspittle, obsequiousness that 99% of politicians show towards the Israeli/Jewish diaspora is as pathetic as it is appalling.

But what can we do about it?
It has been with us for a long, long time, and seems to be far more perverse now than it ever has been.

It ain’t gonna go away.

All we can do is ride out the storms of iniquity and hope for some kind of Karma or cosmic justice to prevail.

Anne
Anne
Oct 28, 2024 10:22 PM
Reply to  Johnny

That’s alright we have the likes of Costello & Howard sailing in on the Arc to save us all 🙄
Watch all our countryman lap that up. It’s going to be painful

Johnny
Johnny
Oct 29, 2024 9:02 AM
Reply to  Anne

Two evil Turds.

my ways are not theirs
my ways are not theirs
Oct 27, 2024 9:38 PM

I agree with the people who question the focus on Washington to the exclusion of the bigger picture

the Israeli tail does not wag the American dog, but neither does that dog decide who to bite without its master giving the command

if I remember right, Hannah Arendt coined the term “the conqueror from nowhere” to describe the domination imposed by a system that might appear to project power from a particular national center, but subjugates the citizens of all nations equally, privileging none

jubal hershaw
jubal hershaw
Oct 27, 2024 9:17 PM

Australia has given the Ukrainian government 49 of its battle tanks, has done its bit to keep the US war against Russia going. The tanks were headed to the scrap heap anyway but Australia has no doubt earned brownie points from its protector, the USA. Maybe even
got a small discount off the obsolete subs it has purchased, for billions of dollars. from the USA.

jubal hershaw
jubal hershaw
Oct 27, 2024 9:07 PM

The mass media is full of forms of praise for little Israel’s recent ‘show of restraint”. Why ? A few days ago about 100 Israeli warplanes crossed Jordanian airspace to execute Israel’s revenge on Iran for the latter’s recent retaliatory attack on Israel, and, instead of inflicting
considerable carnage & damage, as it is currently inflicting on Gaza and Lebanon, Israel gave Iran a slight slap on the wrist.
Such incredible restraint really goes against Israel’s nature !!
Israel’s attack. of course, was profitable. It learned where most of Iran’s air defenses were,
and, with the might of the United States at it’s back after the current US election is out of the way, will throw off the shackles of its self imposed restraint.
Israel is going to have its pound of flesh, an eye-for-an-eye Israeli style.

underground poet
underground poet
Oct 27, 2024 11:19 PM
Reply to  jubal hershaw

Live by sword, die by sword.

ariel
ariel
Oct 27, 2024 8:55 PM

If we equate what is happening under the blanket umbrella of ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto YOU,’ then yes, soul death is a pretty fair description.

SevereleyRegarded
SevereleyRegarded
Oct 27, 2024 8:53 PM

The war crimes of US/Israel are readily available for viewing outside the coverage of the corporate mainstream media.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/investigations/2024/10/7/war-crimes-in-gaza-i-al-jazeera-investigations

sandy
sandy
Oct 27, 2024 7:04 PM

War Empire is a fixture in my country where people seem fixated on not looking at the big picture history of US policy and execution, budget, spies and foreign CIA coups. It’s as clear as day, to even a cursory scan of the real history of the US. The PTB have been very assiduous in limiting access to this history through it’s media and school education mis/dis-information repeated daily through people’s entire life. But anyone who sees and questions the facts, and digs deeper can easily see the truth. Deep denial and a false consciousness has US residents largely hypnotized. Token anti-war members of the empire like Kucinich or Rand & Ron Paul are just lipstick on the pig. Both Parties are pro-War Empire evident in every facet of what this country does, internally and externally. My only hope for immediate action is that this election results in the worst turnout of eligible voters in US history. Our first best act is to refuse our consent and our spiritual and economic participation in this for-profit Death Machine.

Hornbach
Hornbach
Oct 27, 2024 4:46 PM

Excellent analysis, thank you Mr. Curtin ! I had to look up “sciolistic” (not a word you stumble upon every day) but that is my limitation. About the two candidates you mention, I agree that both are evil but I don’t think there is a third or any other for that matter. Anyway, I’m not planning to vote 🤪

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Oct 28, 2024 12:06 AM
Reply to  Hornbach

You can always vote informally, writing “I do not consent”, or something stronger, on the ballot paper…

Martillo
Martillo
Oct 28, 2024 9:10 AM
Reply to  Veri Tas

Yup…that’ll surely work.

Lost in a dark wood
Lost in a dark wood
Oct 27, 2024 4:29 PM

Israel was a City of London project and required the First and Second World Wars to implement. The US was then exploited as a source of military, financial and technical support.

The plan changed around 2012 when Kissinger reportedly stated that Israel would no longer exist in 10 years time. The intention was that the high-tech part would be relocated to the south-east oblasts of Ukraine; thereby forming the central internet hub for Belt & Road. This would require a genocidal land clearance – hence the 2022 invasion by Russia. The Christian Zionists, however, had other ideas – we lied, we cheated, we stole, we danced, etc!

https://www.timesofisrael.com/kissinger-staffer-ex-secretary-of-state-didnt-make-no-israel-quote

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/en/news/385161
Watch: Former Sec. of State, Mike Pompeo dances with soldiers
Former US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, was recently received by the soldiers of the Armored Corps’ 73rd Battalion with singing and dancing.
Israel National News
Feb 13, 2024

Martillo
Martillo
Oct 28, 2024 9:12 AM

Fatty Pompous, the corrupt Al CIAduh dolt who has recently boasted of his “investment” in a rump Ukrapper bank in the war that he and Obummer and Fatty Nudelman orchestrated. The obese liar is not the sharpest of pencils in the Pentacon box.

SeamusPadraig
SeamusPadraig
Oct 27, 2024 4:18 PM

Contrary to the widespread claims that Israel runs U.S. Middle East foreign policy, I think it is important to emphasize that the reverse is true.

False dichotomy. What if both Israel and the US (and most of the rest of the world, too) are really controlled by the City of London? That would explain modern history so much better.

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Oct 28, 2024 12:07 AM
Reply to  SeamusPadraig

Switzerland is also a strong contender.

thejackalsmark
thejackalsmark
Oct 28, 2024 12:33 AM
Reply to  SeamusPadraig

City Of London, Vatican City, and Washington DC. TOGETHER, actually, but yea. 👍
The shitheads that be split that among the three to limit liability and pass the buck back and forth forever among other reasons. One handles Financial, Legal, etc.. One handles the religions, emotional propaganda, etc. One handles the military strong arm to enforce everything involving the other two.

thejackalsmark
thejackalsmark
Oct 28, 2024 12:41 AM
Reply to  SeamusPadraig

I just wanted to elaborate on my reply a little further. The first one controls the money and economy resources and people’s access to them and the necessities with which they need to survive and they manipulate the various economic factors and artificially induced scarcities to accomplish this. Then you have hearts and Minds. Using religion and even controlling the various supposed opponents of religions in order to better manipulate opinions and loves and hates and fears and concerns of the peoples of all the countries of the world and keep them divided at all costs. And then the last one is the hired thug team for lack of a better term used to enforce the issues controlled by the other two and to keep a constant state of wars and Terror and fear ever at the Forefront of the world’s mind because because as every dictator has known you best control of people through fear and if you keep the world in constant fear then they are very easily manipulated and controlled to the advantage of those who understand psychology far better than your average Layman on the street who’s having it used against them.

Derek Diamond
Derek Diamond
Oct 27, 2024 3:47 PM

“The United States has not only been an empire, but in the opinion of British imperial historians like John Darwin of Oxford University, it has been the most prosperous and powerful empire in human history.” Alfred McCoy

Interview of Alfred McCoy ― Resistance Radio
December 10th, 2017

https://derrickjensen.org/2017/12/alfred-mccoy-resistance-radio/

Lu1
Lu1
Oct 27, 2024 3:37 PM

“bringing us to the edge of nuclear war with Iran and Russia.”

Bolix.

You sound like brianborou.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Oct 27, 2024 3:28 PM

Yes Israel is US Pentagon’s biggest land based Air Carrier. They took over Israel after Perfidious Albin, as US found out they could/would simply take over London’s Empire.

“Connect your mind, connect your soul, connect your body, Enter the darkness, Enter the Simulation.” https://vk.com/video-213201358_456247537?t=21m51s&ref_domain=yastatic.net

Jerry Alatalo
Jerry Alatalo
Oct 27, 2024 2:48 PM

The late, great Harold Pinter’s wise Nobel Prize speech words are currently (October 2024) relevant, to-the-point, and well worth repeating:

It never happened. Nothing ever happened. Even while it was happening it wasn’t happening. It didn’t matter. It was of no interest. The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis.”

underground poet
underground poet
Oct 27, 2024 7:37 PM
Reply to  Jerry Alatalo

Its been said they actually use the legal system to commit the theft(s).

Paul
Paul
Oct 27, 2024 9:44 PM
Reply to  Jerry Alatalo

But who controls America? Is this some conspiracy among white Americans with European heritage? Well yes, but to be more specific, it’s one particular group. Who claims to be of the tribe of Shem, though they are not.

judith
judith
Oct 29, 2024 10:51 AM
Reply to  Jerry Alatalo

I agree with Mr. Pinter’s assessment, however, the crimes of Great Britain and France and Russia and Spain and China, South Africa, Israel and other countries have also been constant, vicious, remorseless in their time.
That’s not to defend the US but we are not the only bullies in the school yard.

Howard
Howard
Oct 27, 2024 2:35 PM

A brilliant essay, beautifully written, which captures the essence of the American Empire in action. Far too many in the Alt Media keep insisting our focus must be on the tail – Israel – and not on the dog – the US. For they insist Israel is calling the shots, the US Empire merely innocently loading the weapons at Israel’s command.

Somehow they can’t see that realistically and logically it cannot be this way. Israel was forcibly created precisely to further the Empire’s goals in the Middle East. And when Prime Minister Netanyahu gets standing ovations by the US Congress, it’s because he’s saying precisely what the Empire wishes to hear. One can almost picture Mr. Netanyahu being primed by a Hill & Knowlton staffer to look mean and tough and speak to Congress in imperious tones so that the tail continues taking the lion’s share of blame. It is a game so threadbare it’s almost surreal how anyone can fail to see it for what it is.

Lizzyh7
Lizzyh7
Oct 27, 2024 5:27 PM
Reply to  Howard

Yes. Although the rest of “The West” is no less innocent than America. Who watches while all this “American” slaughter goes on and does nothing? Who joins in when the US calls them to? Just where does the legacy of colonialism and empire originate? Was Israel only created for the USA Empire, or were other erstwhile empires involved in that as well? If we’re going to be honest here, I think we all know the answers to those questions.

While we all can agree the USA is the biggest murdering country in the world today, did that murderous instinct develop upon American “independence” alone? Or was America’s war for “freedom” simply following along in footsteps already well established? And when the USA goes down the shitter once and for all, as many can hardly wait to happen, just what replaces that murderous empire? Will goodness and light finally reign supreme, or will another murderous empire take its place? I guess we shall find out, and probably rather soon. While many will celebrate the end of the Great Satan, will that Satan truly be vanquished, or does another take its place? If history is any guide an honest person knows the answer to that one.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Oct 27, 2024 8:35 PM
Reply to  Lizzyh7

Ephesians 6:12For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
Which means you should forgive and love all Americans, especially those who come from Oklahoma City!

clickkid
clickkid
Oct 27, 2024 8:04 PM
Reply to  Howard

“Israel was forcibly created precisely to further the Empire’s goals in the Middle East.”

Strange.

“The Soviet Union, despite its official view of Zionism as, in Lenin’s words, “bourgeois nationalism,” became the first country in the world to give legal recognition to Israel on this date in 1948, just three days after the state declared its independence.”

https://jewishcurrents.org/the-first-country-to-recognize-israel

“WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 1957 (UP) – Congressional leaders of both parties today generally supported President Eisenhower’s call to “bring pressure” on Israel to withdraw its troops from Egypt. The congressmen indicated they appreciated the complexity of the crisis and said the President made a good case for the U.S. position.”

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1957/02/21/Congress-leaders-back-Eisenhowers-pressure-on-Israel/5104109412672/

Unconditional US support of Israel began with LBJ.

Paul
Paul
Oct 28, 2024 3:52 PM
Reply to  clickkid

Funny that Lenin failed to mention his Bolshevik party were Jewish communist.

Howard
Howard
Oct 30, 2024 4:21 PM
Reply to  clickkid

It’s instructive that the ’50s in the US was a time of deep recession; and that given the very conservative nature of the US at that time, the issue of “foreign aid” became a political football. No politician, least of all a Republican, wanted to be painted as an advocate of foreign aid.

Big Al
Big Al
Oct 28, 2024 2:32 AM
Reply to  Howard

That doesn’t explain the quest for Greater Israel. (“Israel was forcibly created precisely to further the Empire’s goals in the Middle East.”), nor does it explain the power of AIPAC and the neocons, who are going to run things no matter who is president, nor does it explain the PNAC document and who and why it was written, nor does it explain the incredible history of jews and their control over countries. A country is only a country by which those that control it (Confucius, alleged).

Howard
Howard
Oct 28, 2024 4:38 PM
Reply to  Big Al

There’s a book (currently unavailable for purchase) by Professor Yosef Grodzinsky titled “In The Shadow Of The Holocaust” which posits that many Jews were forced to emigrate to Israel after WWII – yet they wanted to remain in Europe. If true, this reinforces the idea that Israel was almost entirely a creation of Western nations (first Britain then the US).

Just as significantly, all the US has to do is have AIPAC register as a foreign agent – but it won’t. In part because the corrupt politicians want the campaign contributions – but just as likely because it serves US interests in the Middle East.

Big Al
Big Al
Oct 29, 2024 12:25 AM
Reply to  Howard

Well, you kind of sidestep the important questions, but whatever. Not like it makes much difference who is wagging who.