Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Hundreds of US congressional staffers are passing around a letter urging their bosses to call for a ceasefire, there’s a silent mutiny brewing in the State Department
Thanks Caitlin. As the years have gone by who in the Western world has stood up for the Palestinians? I see this as racism, therefore it is no surprise to me that someone would finally come to their aid and of course it's Arabs who are called criminals.
Netanyahu is a criminal, who should be in prison but instead of this, US comes to his aid and offers more money! Money for what?
Wow! That woman was so powerfully articulately on target about "you own everything!" Thank you for the clips. Thank you too for highlighting the "faux completely out of nowhere" Western government/media message.
The reason for this new phenomenon of pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the West is because of alternative media and skepticism of legacy media. People have seen videos of the abuse meted out on Palestinians by the Zionists. People have learned the true history of the Zionist Apartheid State of Israel as I have.
I no longer stand with Israel because I was duped by the Neocons and Zionists in the past. I stand with the Palestinian People and want them to have a nation with a Mediterranean coast.🇵🇸
"The only way to reconcile this fact with a belief in Israel’s innocence is rigorous psychological compartmentalization."
I remember reading Derrick Jensen's claim that "Violence done by those lower in status against those higher is always condemned and punished. But violence from those higher against those lower is not punished or condemned--it isn't even seen as violence." When I first read this about 15 years ago I thought it an extreme statement. But since then I've see instance after instance of its being true. Look at this situation--Hamas kills over a thousand Israelis and that is seen as horrific violence, which it was. But when Israel responds by killing ten times as many, which it always does when Palestinians kill a handful of Israelis, never mind the imprisonment without charge, the locking up of millions, the theft of more and more land, the apartheid regime with different laws for Jews and others--that isn't violence, it's just "Israel's right to defend itself." Every US newscaster howls with horror about dead Israeli children as an especial outrage and crime--but all the Palestinian children killed, well...nothing to get excited about.
The colonial empire is facing revolt in the colonies and at home even.
How will they respond though? By reaching for insight and enlightenment? One is reminded here of Agamben’s work “State of Exception” which would imply that the response will be heightened brutality. Doubling down.
At the end of the day this is a deep state run by Nuland, Kagan, Blinken - virulent racists and totally amoral.
I’d say this the mindless state sponsored violence and repression and censorship is far from over.
Spare a thought here for Assange and Snowden though - they sacrificed themselves to give early warning on all this. But nobody listened. At all.
I have grown old and my injuries and fatigue have put me in my place.
You tell me to take a side?
My ancestors were killed by Romans, “blessed”with Christianity at the tip of Charlemagne’s spear, killed by the French, killed by the Germans, killed by the Russians.
Wherever my ancestors went they built fertile farms but there seems no escape from the blood crazed One-God people.
You ask me to pick a side?
30 years of war and carnage in Europe was not enough for the One-God people. The Enlightenment could not dampen the bloodshed. Science provides more effective weapons instead of the end of abuse.
You think I should pick a side?
The One-God people say to a person:”We are a religion of peace.”, while they hack at bodies or bomb them, each according to their means. They say:”To your peril do you ignore the One God. No morality exists without God.”
You really want me to pick a side?
Don’t they see: There are as many Gods as there are people!
Pick a side, fan the flames, don’t pick a side and still feed the war. You are the fuel for this machine.
Money quote: (please forgive the crude American metaphor):
"The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenge of poverty and oppression for the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice. The other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.” (CLR James, from there book The Black Jacobins, quoted by Chris Hedges in a superb must watch interview of Norm Finkelstein, see:
This is a great bandwagon to be on, and I’m so glad the voices are getting louder and stronger. Israel and the U.S. are taking it in the shorts, just as they should. But in the meantime, let’s not forget that the settler nation of Australia just voted down a referendum that would have allowed for greater representation of the Indigenous People in government. The only way I know this is because I get email from Lakota Law Project. It is absolutely nowhere in the press, not even here in an Australian’s column aimed mostly at injustice perpetrated by settler nations. Don’t let the big flash bangs of Israel and Ukraine blind you to the CONSTANT struggle of the original peoples everywhere against the white Anglo-Saxon incursion and genocide in their lands.
500 American Jews calling for a cease fire to the ongoing Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinians (including children) in Gaza, arrested at US Capitol, by Lee Camp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx15VargZKI
I am glad to see the pushback against the atrocities happening in Gaza. I am heartbroken for all of the bloodshed and loss of life, however, if we can learn something from this madness and move forward in a better, truly more peaceful way, the loss of life will not be in vain.
"Peace doesn’t look like everyone complying with the status quo regardless of its abusiveness, it looks like the absence of abuse."
Peace as an absence of abuse... That's a very good definition of Peace. Complying with an abusive status quo (which is what many Americans do everyday, but which most do not realize since they have health care and a roof over their heads, food in their stomachs, etc.), doesn't make for a peaceful society. It makes for a resentful society, a bleeding society, an unequal society, which will, of course, lead to violent outbursts by the victims of the abuse. These outbursts against the abusers are so predictable that the idea they were "unprovoked" is simply ridiculous and the thought processes of evil mad men. (Guess where Biden and Netanyahu and their ilk fit in.)
Thanks Caitlin. As the years have gone by who in the Western world has stood up for the Palestinians? I see this as racism, therefore it is no surprise to me that someone would finally come to their aid and of course it's Arabs who are called criminals.
Netanyahu is a criminal, who should be in prison but instead of this, US comes to his aid and offers more money! Money for what?
Wow! That woman was so powerfully articulately on target about "you own everything!" Thank you for the clips. Thank you too for highlighting the "faux completely out of nowhere" Western government/media message.
The reason for this new phenomenon of pro-Palestinian demonstrations in the West is because of alternative media and skepticism of legacy media. People have seen videos of the abuse meted out on Palestinians by the Zionists. People have learned the true history of the Zionist Apartheid State of Israel as I have.
I no longer stand with Israel because I was duped by the Neocons and Zionists in the past. I stand with the Palestinian People and want them to have a nation with a Mediterranean coast.🇵🇸
"The only way to reconcile this fact with a belief in Israel’s innocence is rigorous psychological compartmentalization."
I remember reading Derrick Jensen's claim that "Violence done by those lower in status against those higher is always condemned and punished. But violence from those higher against those lower is not punished or condemned--it isn't even seen as violence." When I first read this about 15 years ago I thought it an extreme statement. But since then I've see instance after instance of its being true. Look at this situation--Hamas kills over a thousand Israelis and that is seen as horrific violence, which it was. But when Israel responds by killing ten times as many, which it always does when Palestinians kill a handful of Israelis, never mind the imprisonment without charge, the locking up of millions, the theft of more and more land, the apartheid regime with different laws for Jews and others--that isn't violence, it's just "Israel's right to defend itself." Every US newscaster howls with horror about dead Israeli children as an especial outrage and crime--but all the Palestinian children killed, well...nothing to get excited about.
A million times thank you for that last point. Peace is the absence of abuse. Not the quiet submission to abuse. A million times thank you
The colonial empire is facing revolt in the colonies and at home even.
How will they respond though? By reaching for insight and enlightenment? One is reminded here of Agamben’s work “State of Exception” which would imply that the response will be heightened brutality. Doubling down.
At the end of the day this is a deep state run by Nuland, Kagan, Blinken - virulent racists and totally amoral.
I’d say this the mindless state sponsored violence and repression and censorship is far from over.
Spare a thought here for Assange and Snowden though - they sacrificed themselves to give early warning on all this. But nobody listened. At all.
Meanwhile, the US State Department issued a "Worldwide Caution" travel warning, for THE ENTIRE GLOBE!
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/worldwide-caution.html
Blowback is a bitch.
“I don’t want no peace, all I need is Equal Rights and Justice.” - Peter Tosh
Yoruba proverb: Ti a ba lé Ewurẹ̀ kan ógiri, yió bu éniyan jẹ̀ / If a goat is pushed to the wall it will bite back.
I have grown old and my injuries and fatigue have put me in my place.
You tell me to take a side?
My ancestors were killed by Romans, “blessed”with Christianity at the tip of Charlemagne’s spear, killed by the French, killed by the Germans, killed by the Russians.
Wherever my ancestors went they built fertile farms but there seems no escape from the blood crazed One-God people.
You ask me to pick a side?
30 years of war and carnage in Europe was not enough for the One-God people. The Enlightenment could not dampen the bloodshed. Science provides more effective weapons instead of the end of abuse.
You think I should pick a side?
The One-God people say to a person:”We are a religion of peace.”, while they hack at bodies or bomb them, each according to their means. They say:”To your peril do you ignore the One God. No morality exists without God.”
You really want me to pick a side?
Don’t they see: There are as many Gods as there are people!
Pick a side, fan the flames, don’t pick a side and still feed the war. You are the fuel for this machine.
You are the Gods (,.) you destroy.
Money quote: (please forgive the crude American metaphor):
"The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenge of poverty and oppression for the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice. The other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.” (CLR James, from there book The Black Jacobins, quoted by Chris Hedges in a superb must watch interview of Norm Finkelstein, see:
https://therealnews.com/no-sanctuary-israels-long-war-on-gaza
This is a great bandwagon to be on, and I’m so glad the voices are getting louder and stronger. Israel and the U.S. are taking it in the shorts, just as they should. But in the meantime, let’s not forget that the settler nation of Australia just voted down a referendum that would have allowed for greater representation of the Indigenous People in government. The only way I know this is because I get email from Lakota Law Project. It is absolutely nowhere in the press, not even here in an Australian’s column aimed mostly at injustice perpetrated by settler nations. Don’t let the big flash bangs of Israel and Ukraine blind you to the CONSTANT struggle of the original peoples everywhere against the white Anglo-Saxon incursion and genocide in their lands.
"Sheriff John Brown always hated me
For what, I don't know
Every time I plant a seed
He said kill it before it grow
He said kill them before they grow, and so-and-so
Read it in the news!" ~~~ Bob Marley, I Shot The Sheriff
500 American Jews calling for a cease fire to the ongoing Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinians (including children) in Gaza, arrested at US Capitol, by Lee Camp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx15VargZKI
. . . a multiplicity false flags creates a hall of mirrors for the unwary . . .
I am glad to see the pushback against the atrocities happening in Gaza. I am heartbroken for all of the bloodshed and loss of life, however, if we can learn something from this madness and move forward in a better, truly more peaceful way, the loss of life will not be in vain.
"Peace doesn’t look like everyone complying with the status quo regardless of its abusiveness, it looks like the absence of abuse."
Peace as an absence of abuse... That's a very good definition of Peace. Complying with an abusive status quo (which is what many Americans do everyday, but which most do not realize since they have health care and a roof over their heads, food in their stomachs, etc.), doesn't make for a peaceful society. It makes for a resentful society, a bleeding society, an unequal society, which will, of course, lead to violent outbursts by the victims of the abuse. These outbursts against the abusers are so predictable that the idea they were "unprovoked" is simply ridiculous and the thought processes of evil mad men. (Guess where Biden and Netanyahu and their ilk fit in.)