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From a strategic perspective, Iran achieved all and more of its goals. Iran neutralized US power in West Asia. Impunity reflected in disproportionate savagery is henceforth denied rabid little Zion; USUK will be forced to withdraw from the region. In the larger view, the World System will be remade to reflect the current dominant and multipolar constellation of power in world affairs.
On profound moral loss inherent in the Genocide of Palestine: “The west criminalizes holocaust denial, but denies Gaza genocide happening in plain sight.” The evil doublethink is changing the entire equation of global politics.. the Rest of Humanity flees Psychopathic Generals in their Unreality Labyrinths
Broader implications of Zionist-USUK actions since October 07, 2023, will result in death throws of International Law as a force in international politics:
No body likes US or UK, our embassies are already fortresses and were attacked in the past.. condoning attacking embassies as part of “Rules-based order” in the last weeks will have consequences. [Note the fleeing of zion from 28 or so of its foreign embassies in days prior to Iranian retaliation. This is a Sign and harbinger of Times to come, and already well underway as the French recently shuttered their embassy in Niger … ]A geopolitical sea change in the international system is well underway.
He lapses into habitual imperial exceptionalist contradictions around 35min, regarding China and the Global South. Do they really adhere to International law because they are weaker today? Were these concepts even invented by western “Enlightenment”, or repackaged from several prior civilizations?! One cannot dispense the shared training, weltanschauung and biases of centuries, but he does takes formidable steps in digesting the death of the Old Order.
A Brief History of Bullshit in America – Everything, that is EVERYTHING, is presented counter to reality. There aint NO Money for nothin’ and NO chicks for free. And that’s the whole enchilada …
with thanks from FiveGunsWest and penned by Bones!
Judge Napolitano: “I told Trump, ‘you promised you would release the records of the JFK assassination.’ He said to me ‘If they showed you what they showed me, you wouldn’t have released it either.’ I said ‘Who’s they? What did they show you?’ Trump said “Someday when we’re not on the phone and there aren’t 15 people listening to the call, I’ll tell you.'”
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs: “It has been said that after the Kennedy assassination, there has been no president. They have only been factotums of the system since then.”
Lake Flaccid
Notes on the Magic Christian
Guy Grand, an eccentric billionaire prankster, is rich enough to do whatever he likes. And what he likes is to carefully execute projects where he can cauterize by ridicule what the rest of the world ignores: complacency, greed, corruption, and idiocy.
Determined to “make it hot for people,” Grand spends his billions staging a series of hilarious, sometimes bewildering stunts, lampooning along the way the American holy cows of money, status, power, beauty, media, and stardom.
Concocting deliciously perverse mayhem, he throws a million one-hundred-dollar bills into an enormous vat of steaming offal, proving just what people will do for money, and he promotes a new silky shampoo that turns hair to wire and a deodorant that becomes a time-released stench-bomb.
He inserts subliminally suggestive and perverse images into well-loved classic films, takes a howitzer on safari, and brings a panther to a kennel club dog show.
His most elaborate adventure is an ultra-exclusive cruise aboard the S.S. Magic Christian, where elite passengers are treated to a series of madcap indignities.
The Jackal Gargles With Plasma
A Brief Review of ‘A Brief History of Bullshit in America’
Bullshit can be so many things. It could be anything from a degree in Gender Studies to something simple as a three-word campaign slogan, or even something as complicated as our nation’s 6,550-page tax code.
Political speeches, self-help books, marketing, press conferences, tax code, song lyrics, conspiracy theories, many college majors, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, the multi-billion-dollar diet industry, medicine, and even the Constitution of the United States itself are all some form of bullshit in one way or another.
Bullshit is everywhere all around us. It influences the clothes we wear, shapes our political views, and even determines what food we eat.
Bullshitters are beautiful highly intelligent individuals, and they play a vital role in our world.
They start almost all of our wars, make our drugs, sell us our cars, raise and lower our taxes, regulate our economy, they tell us what to wear, and in many instances what to believe. You should develop some basic bullshit strategies that you can use in your own life as well.
April is Confederate History Month.
‘Good Foot in Heaven, Bad Foot in Hell’
Musings of a Crippled Writer Concerning Post-Modern Mesmerism with our hero James LaFond
Lori, a physical therapist of 30 years, choked back tears as she told me, “You are strong, but you have a serious injury. We can’t have you do anymore work then you are doing until the spinal specialist examines you… In the mean time, when taking the stairs, remember this, ‘Good foot in heaven, bad foot in Hell.’ It’s easy to remember that way. Put the weight on the good foot.”
In the week since then, as I have crawled, shrimped, crab walked, crutched, used a walker, wall walked and counter crawled around the Brickmouse House, and out at my mother’s house whom I visited in Whitebreadistan, I had a prawn’s eye view of the world passing bye. The news is all positively delusional and has the same exact messages as the ball games, the TV dramas, the movies and the commercials.
Everything, that is EVERYTHING, is presented counter to reality.
Worried about crime?
The news profiles dangerous white supremacists being brought to justice on hate crime charges. The news paints a picture of the last likely type of American violence, Ghost on Gawd, as the most likely.
Back to school shopping?
Well, the commercials depict the most common concerned parent, a black man shopping for his son. Would you like to vacation on a ranch in your four-wheel drive vehicle? Black cowboys will be there wrangling cattle.
Is there a threat to world peace?
No, it is not the nation that has 931 military bases in other countries. It is the nation that is the largest exporter of fuel and grain to less well off nations, ruled by a cartoon dictator, who makes all military decisions based on how mean and cruel the result would be for enemy civilians.
The news broadcast to the people of Goodland, is full of images of tyrannical nations that are utterly evil threatening world peace. Materialism, or utility, having the best most recent gadget, serves as a great handle for inculcating falsehoods, such as most cowboys, combat soldiers, and truck drivers are black and most violent criminals are white.
The Magic Christian is a 1969 British satirical black comedy film directed by Joseph McGrath and starring Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, with appearances by John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Raquel Welch, Spike Milligan, Christopher Lee, Richard Attenborough and Roman Polanski. It was loosely adapted from the 1959 comic novel of the same name by American author Terry Southern, who co-wrote the screenplay adaptation with McGrath.
Here’s the whole enchilada …
James continued …
… WWII was so expensive, that it cost so much valuable time and material to be spent on wiping out not enough working class Аrуаns to achieve hive stability, that the Plutocrats decided that war on human flesh and artifacts would only be a stage prop in the real war waged to control the human mind.
When I see the ridiculous news that Doctor Evil is targeting, not tanks and soldiers with his missiles, but “blood banks” “hospitals” and “civilians,” it is clear that the phony war is the one where Eastern Europeans are actually getting killed, and the real war is on the TV and the Smartphone.
The Drang continues after Nuland. Biden fully implements ziocon projects. A mere change in tack: “This is not over yet. This debate is not finished…” (9:20)
Nuland’s Policy Has Collapsed as Ukraine Lost it – Netanyahu Will Lose | Chas Freeman
An old American of the disintegrated Old Order reviews the remains of the day.. How did preeminent retiree diplomats of the British Empire see the glass after the evacuation at Dunkirk? Time has been freed, irrevocably loosed
Chas Freeman chairs Projects International, Inc.
The following article is a response to the scurrilous attacks on our party that have been printed in the Daily Telegraph and the Jewish Chronicle.
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Dr Ranjeet Brar is a lifelong campaigner against racism, against fascism and against zionism.
He has been arrested four times as a direct result of his support for the anti-zionist, anti-imperialist struggle of the Palestinian people. In singling him out again, Britain’s pro-zionist mainstream media are playing their part in a concerted attack on his professional status and medical practice – and therefore also upon the communities he serves.
The timing of these events is not accidental. Our rulers’ support for zionist Israel is coming under the greatest pressure it has ever faced, and their ability to shore up the economic, diplomatic and PR holes in their project is rapidly declining.
The crisis of legitimacy for British politicians and media has been markedly exacerbated by their unashamedly pro-Israel stance in recent months. When ‘democratic’ means of diverting and confusing the public have failed, repression is the only means left for silencing inconvenient truths.
The United Nations’ International Court of Justice recently ruled that Israel is likely to be committing genocide in Palestine. It has awarded provisional measures and ordered Israel to ensure that it stops the commissioning of genocide.
Israeli ‘defence’ minister Yoav Gallant, who famously justified the genocide in Gaza by stating on television that “we are fighting against human animals”, labelled the ICJ as “antisemitic”. Presumably the Israeli judge was also guilty of ‘antisemitism’?
Our party puts Israel’s current crimes in historical context, and Ranjeet has openly and publicly defended Palestine, the Palestinians and their right to exist.
Therefore also – in accordance with UN resolutions (Additional Protocol I to the Geneva conventions of 1949; resolution 2105 of 1965; resolution 2625 of 1970; 1974, resolution 3314 of the UNGA; resolution 37/43, dated 3 December 1982) – he has defended Palestine’s right to resist occupation and genocide. In so doing he is simply stating international law.
We note that zionism, as a genocidal ideology, cannot be accommodated. It must be challenged wherever it raises its head. It is given succour by our politicians and media precisely because it is a tool of Britain’s imperialist ruling class.
In the video above, Ranjeet outlines this position in a historical, factual and antiracist speech given recently at City University in London.
We note that the Daily Telegraph has launched a vicious attack upon Ranjeet and our party for having the temerity to continue speaking out against zionist genocide in a political climate that is increasingly repressive.
This attack on free speech is part of former home secretary Suella Braverman’s pro-genocide campaign to label the millions of working-class Britons who support Palestine as “hate marchers” and “terrorists”.
The Telegraph’s distorted article plays into this narrative, claiming that our party’s anti-zionist views are “racist”.
Compare the doctored quotations in its headlines with the whole speech and decide for yourself whether these allegations stand up to scrutiny. Speaking the truth is not a crime – yet!
We note also the tired trope of ‘vulnerable’ students who must be protected from ‘hurtful’ and ‘offensive’ truths. Where is the Telegraph or City University’s concern for the actual bodily harm being done to hundreds of Palestinian civilians every single day under zionist bombardment?
Why is the illegally occupying power (Israel) deemed to have all the rights and the occupied (the Palestinians) none? Why are those who stand with the oppressed demonised and silenced while those who stand with the oppressors are protected and promoted?
We note in this context the landmark ruling in the case of sacked history professor David Miller that anti-zionist beliefs are a protected characteristic under British discrimination law – further undermining the Telegraph’s really racist (anti-Arab, anti-Palestinian and pro-genocide) and zionist campaign.
Prof Miller said: “I am extremely pleased that the tribunal has concluded that I was unfairly and wrongfully dismissed by the University of Bristol. I am also very proud that we have managed to establish that anti-zionist views qualify as a protected belief under the UK Equality Act.
“This was the most important reason for taking the case and I hope it will become a touchstone precedent in all the future battles that we face with the racist and genocidal ideology of zionism and the movement to which it is attached.
“The determination that I was sacked for my anti-zionist views is a huge vindication of my case all the way through this process. The University of Bristol maintained that I was sacked because zionist students were offended by my various remarks, but it was plain from the evidence of its own witnesses that this was untrue, and it was the anti-zionist nature of my comments which was the decisive factor.
“I also want to note that this verdict is a massive vindication of the approach I have taken throughout this period, which is to say that a genocidal and maximalist ideology like zionism can only be effectively confronted by a maximalist anti-zionism.
“Apologies, debate and defensiveness of the sort illustrated by many on the left, and even in the Palestine solidarity movement, will not work. The zionist movement cannot be negotiated with. It must be defeated.”
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What makes Palestine so important to the imperialists and why can’t the USA stop digging its own grave?
Joti Brar and Garland Nixon: Palestine and Yemen, episode 2
In this second instalment of their regular series, Comrade Joti Brar and radio host Garland Nixon discuss Yemen and Palestine, touching on: the vigour of the Palestinian resistance despite apparently overwhelming odds; the role of Yemeni solidarity in the Red Sea; the importance of the zionist project to US imperialism; the degradation of the US military machine; the export of capital as part of Lenin’s thesis on imperialism; and finally finishing up with a broad overview of the Ukraine war.
Garland begins by asking for Joti’s thoughts on the importance of the debacle in the Red Sea – referring to Yemen’s capture of Israeli ships and the resulting redirection of global trade — a move that revealed the power of a state that is only ever presented as a poor victim in western media (if it is mentioned at all).
Putting the situation into a wider context, Joti points out that although different parts of the middle east are facing their own struggles, the various resistance forces have all “over the years increasingly come to realise that their struggle is centred in Palestine; because zionism is the main weapon that the imperialists use to control all of the middle east. They’re not there to control Palestine, they’re there to control the region.”
And so, the reason Palestine and other peoples in the middle east fight back? Oppression breeds resistance. And as the oppression faced by these countries is largely directed by US imperialism through the state of Israel, Palestine has logically become the centre of their struggle.
So why is the zionist project so critical to imperialism, Garland asks? To the onlooker it appears totally bizarre that the US government is willing to continue funding and arming Israel, staking its (albeit in tatters) international reputation, when public discontent at home grows by the day and workers all over the world are marching and acting against it?
Oil. This is the simple answer given by comrade Joti. The United States of America is the world’s biggest imperialist power, and the imperialist global economy (and its war machines) runs on oil.
Ever the insightful listener, Garland proceeds to describe the degraded state of the USA’s military, calling it “feckless and ridiculous” as compared to its cold war peak. Adeptly summarising the contradiction of the military-industrial complex – where profit-driven public contractors manufacturing the same equipment as its opponents at an infinitely dearer cost are rotting the system of US imperialism from the inside – Garland asks how the system can paradoxically weaken itself in this way?
The huge military power that is the USA is relying on private industry to provide an essential service. In this way, capitalism is shooting itself in the foot. Military contractors need to make a profit in order to survive, and every dime they make is a cost to the US government not borne by its opponents in the middle east, many of whose weapons are made underground, sometimes even without electricity.
In the end, of course, the decisive factor in any war is not weapons but people. The Koreans and Vietnamese long ago proved that a seemingly weak but motivated people, well organised and fighting for a just cause, will ultimately defeat the demoralised troops of an aggressive power far from home.
In these days when the USA fears to put boots on the ground for just this reason, preferring instead to bomb from skies where its planes meet no air defences, the resistant armies of the middle east have also learned the art of tunnel warfare pioneered by the Chinese, Koreans and Vietnamese resistance forces in the mid-20th century.
Little by little, at great and painful cost, they have learned the strengths and found the weaknesses of their imperialist enemies. The successful blockading of the Red Sea to Israeli-aligned ships by Yemen’s Ansarullah government is just one indicator that the axis of middle-eastern resistance has not been wasting its time in the last 50 years.
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