JOHNSTONE

While the antiwar zeitgeist has been quite understandably focused on the genocide in Gaza, over the past few weeks we've been seeing some very disturbing reports about empire managers ramping up nuclear brinkmanship escalations in Ukraine that are worth going over. Reading by Tim Foley.

And this just says so much about the nature of this "democracy" - a word which literally means "rule by the people". If the people were actually in charge, there would be some option available to them to end the worst thing happening in the world right now. But the people are not in charge. When it comes to matters of the most importance, they never get a vote. Reading by Tim Foley.

It's important to understand that there's nothing unusual about the western empire's depravity in Gaza or the mass media's constant lies and distortions about it - they do these things constantly, year after year. What's unusual is that people are waking up to it. Reading by Tim Foley.

Our problem is not that more and more people are opposing Israel's empire-backed atrocities in Gaza with more and more aggression, our problem is that people are not opposing it aggressively enough. Our problem is that too many people still have their minds jacked into the mainstream worldview and ignore the most urgent matter of our time, letting their thoughts be preoccupied with frivolous garbage and trusting that our leaders are doing what's best for us. Reading by Tim Foley.

It's actually a brilliant self-reinforcing scam. It works like this: Step 1: Murder people in the middle east in the name of fighting "terrorism". Step 2: This causes people to hate you and your allies and to want to retaliate with violence. Step 3: Designate these people "terrorists". Step 4: Send more war machinery to the region to go fight "terrorism". Step 5: Murder more people in the middle east in the name of fighting "terrorism". Do you see how this cycle would repeat over and over again, leading to more and more US military expansionism in the middle east? That's exactly what we've been seeing, and it's exactly what the US empire wants. Reading by Tim Foley.

I don't spend my time attacking the US war machine because I have any special love for Hamas, Iran, Russia, China, or any other power. I do it because the US empire is quantifiably the most destructive and tyrannical force on this planet, by an extremely massive margin. Reading by Tim Foley.

When nobody in power will lift a finger to earn your vote but they're falling all over themselves trying to stomp out a robust protest movement, that tells you what the powerful are actually afraid of and where you should really be focusing your political energy. Reading by Tim Foley.

"It's like responding to warnings of another holocaust by babbling about Sauron." Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel supporters are such psychopathic war sluts that they're currently shrieking their lungs out at Biden for making a purely symbolic face-saving statement that he won't give Israel the weapons to annihilate Rafah, despite the fact that he has already given Israel all the weapons it would need to annihilate Rafah. Reading by Tim Foley.

The imperial murder machine has many strengths, but it also has weaknesses. Reading by Tim Foley.