Anthony Fointiat Ⓥ

Vegan, Film addict, Gamer and generally geeky type of person.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

Quentin Tarantino's shortlist for the cast of PULP FICTION.

[Anthony Fointiat Ⓥ @AnthonyFointiat]

@farman4x 98

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Instead of saying “once upon a time,” Korean folktales often begin with the phrase, “back when tigers used to smoke.”

The Korean expression “호랑이 담배피던 시절” roughly translates to “back when tigers used to smoke” or “in the days when tigers smoked.”

Tobacco reached Korea around the early 1600s and became widespread during the Joseon period. People commonly smoked through traditional pipes called dambatdae, made from materials such as bamboo and metal. Long pipes known as jangjuk became especially associated with wealthier Koreans and could even serve as status symbols.

Tigers once lived throughout the Korean Peninsula and became central figures in Korean folklore. They could appear as terrifying predators, mountain spirits, guardians, comic characters, or creatures that behaved almost like humans.

That made the tiger an instantly recognizable character for opening an old Korean folktale. The symbolism remains strong today: a white tiger named Soohorang was chosen as the official mascot of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The AI industry is a mix of military technology, mass surveillance technology, and people trying to become billionaires by turning human laziness and narcissism into a chatbot product.

[Beth McKenzie @iambethmckenzie]

there’s something so dystopian about watching a half-time show about love and diversity taking place in the country with one of the most hateful and bigoted leaders in the world & that man being present at said half time show. couldn’t write this shit. #WorldCupFinal

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Israel is now threatening to bomb the Christian quarter of the ancient city of Tyre

It is trying to pit Christians against Shia citizens who had taken shelter there, demanding they remove “terrorists”

The goal is to instigate civil war and ethnically cleanse the Shia community

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Australia's antisemitism czar released a document which simultaneously asserts that "antisemitism and antizionism are both expressions of hatred towards Jews" AND that "It is antisemitic to conflate the policies of the Israeli government with the views of Jewish Australians".

These two sentences are contradictory and mutually exclusive. They cannot both be true. If it's wrong to conflate all Jews with Israel, then it cannot be right to conflate a rejection of the pro-Israel political ideology with a hatred toward all Jews. It's either one or the other. It can't be both.

Just in case you wanted a little more insight into how absurd and incoherent this fake "antisemitism" panic is.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Thomas Massie has lost his congressional seat against a primary opponent whose Israel lobby funding made the race the most expensive House of Representatives primary in history. Massie has been a rare Republican opponent of Israeli abuses on Capitol Hill.

The spending on Massie’s ouster topped out at a staggering $32 million when all was said and done. The second- and third-most expensive House primary races were also heavily slanted by Israel lobby funding, with AIPAC pouring millions into toppling progressive Democrats Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman.

Americans just watched the Israel lobby openly manipulate yet another election, and then in like two weeks they’re going to hear their government tell them they need to regime change another foreign country to bring “democracy” to its people. Americans themselves do not have democracy.

The ceasefire with Iran is tenuous and could end at any time. Washington is currently drumming up ridiculously transparent pretexts to justify attacking Cuba. And you just know as soon as the bombs start falling on whatever country they’re going to fall on, Americans will be told this is a good thing because it will bring freedom and democracy to whatever population is getting ripped apart by military explosives.

It’s just so silly how often the US propaganda machine bangs on about “democracy” while vast fortunes are poured into slanting the American electoral process to advance the agendas of plutocrats and special interest groups.

Let’s bring democracy to the Iraqi people! Oh no, the Russians are interfering in our democracy!

And meanwhile nothing of the sort actually exists in America. When the elections go toward whoever can afford to spend the most on manipulating and deceiving the public into voting their way, that’s not democracy. That’s plutocracy.

The rich buy up news outlets and social media platforms, pour funding into think tanks and lobby groups, and sponsor the primary campaigns of anyone who disagrees with them, and in so doing they are able to exert enough influence to get the public to vote in whatever way advances their agendas.

That’s why Americans have a joke of a minimum wage and no normal healthcare system. It’s why corporations are allowed to exploit the working class and pollute the environment without consequence. It’s why AI is being shoved down our throats with zero regulation while it consumes our clean water and takes our jobs. And it’s why American-made bombs are still falling in Lebanon and Gaza.

The rich and powerful are going to keep doing this until they are made to stop. They’re going to keep using their wealth and influence to manipulate public behavior until people stop allowing them to. You can’t vote this problem away, because they control the votes.

Forget about bringing democracy to Cuba. Try bringing democracy to the United States.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Graduating speech for the class of 2026.

Excerpt from our latest podcast.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

Former CIA Officer John Kiriakou Drops BOMBSHELL:

"There are 10,000 documents [about JFK's assassination] that are never going to be released [by Trump].

Because every single one of them points directly at Israel.”

[Electrician @OladokunOlale18]

@caitoz The Isrealis have started their own protests

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

These assholes really thought they could commit a genocide in full view of the entire world for years and then expect everyone cheer for them to win.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Iran Is Forcing The World To Care About US-Israeli Warmongering

Westerners are largely apathetic about US military explosives landing on populations on other continents. But once it starts having a direct impact on their personal bank accounts, you can expect them to get a lot more interested in US foreign policy.

Reading by Tim Foley.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

They Lied About The School Bombing In Iran, And They're Going To Keep On Lying

An ongoing internal US military investigation has reportedly found the United States responsible for a Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian girls’ school which killed at least 175 people at the beginning of the US-Israeli onslaught.

Remember all the hasbarists and empire apologists who said it was a misfired Iranian missile that hit the school. Remember how aggressively and uniformly they all pushed this lie, including the president of the United States. Then understand that they���re going to keep lying like this throughout the entire war.

Remember Secretary of War Pete Hegseth boasting about how the US has gotten rid of “stupid rules of engagement” intended to protect civilians, tough talking about how “This was never meant to be a fair fight, and it is not a fair fight. We are punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be.”

Those words land a bit different now that we know he was talking about mass murdering little girls.

In hindsight I guess it shouldn’t have surprised anyone that the guy who wrote a book called “American Crusade” immediately changed his title to Secretary of War and initiated a crusade against the Muslim world.

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Queensland police have begun making arrests of protesters who utter the now-illegal slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” with one demonstrator facing charges which could see him imprisoned for up to two years.

As I’ve said before, this new Queensland state law is the single most bat shit insane assault on free speech in Australian history, which is a very, very high bar. Zionism is poisoning our country and making everything crazy. There is no greater threat to free speech in our society than Israel and its supporters.

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Everyone on social media is making fun of the latest narrative that Iran is planning a drone attack on California, which many are calling an obvious setup for an impending false flag.

This is an entirely reasonable assumption, but it’s worth mentioning that Iran would be absolutely within its rights to bomb the United States right now. It says so much about how divorced Americans are from the reality of the horrors their government inflicts upon other countries that the possibility of Iran bombing the United States while Tehran is being turned into a human slaughterhouse even raises an eyebrow.

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For as long as I’ve been doing commentary I’ve been hearing experts and analysts say Iran will close the Strait of Hormuz if it comes under attack from the United States. This didn’t blindside anybody. They knew it would happen, and they chose to start this war anyway.

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It’s nuts how a huge segment of the Christian religion has been revised and restructured to now completely revolve around giving military support to a nation that’s younger than Dolly Parton.

Christian Zionism didn’t become a mainstream political force until the 1970s. For two millennia Christianity trotted along without any modern state called “Israel” to pay attention to, and even after that state’s whole-cloth creation in 1948 most Christians went decades without taking much notice. It wasn’t until freaks like Jerry Falwell and Billy Graham began herding Christians into the belief that God commands them to vote for politicians who’ll send Apache helicopters to Tel Aviv that this psychotic worldview achieved meaningful purchase in public consciousness.

And at that point it actually transformed into an entirely different religion. For those branches of Christianity, the central figure was no longer Jesus, the Bible or the Church, but this brand new ethnostate run by western immigrants which cannot exist without nonstop military violence. They torched two thousand years of theology and tradition and burnt the whole thing to the ground, and in its place they built up a late-20th century religion which revolves around sending US war machinery to west Asia.

I’m not saying Christianity was a wonderful religion that did nothing wrong prior to the advent of Christian Zionism, but it was undeniably a completely different faith from one which places military support for the modern state of Israel as its central and foremost value. And it’s just plain bizarre how rarely people notice this and talk about it.

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There’s been another synagogue attack, this one in Michigan, reportedly by a man whose family members have been killed by Israeli forces in Lebanon.

Drop Site’s Ryan Grim reports, “The man who rammed his explosives-laden truck into a Michigan synagogue today was named Ayman Ghazaleh, according to a source familiar with the situation. Ghazaleh posted photos overnight of his family members, including young children, who were killed in a recent Israeli attack on the town of Mashghara, Lebanon.”

You know the drill by now.

Step 1: Help Israel murder children in genocides and wars of aggression.

Step 2: Wait for blowback in the form of extremist attacks in the west.

Step 3: Use the blowback to justify authoritarian domestic policies in the name of fighting terrorism.

Step 4: Repeat from Step 1.

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They built an entire empire around extracting resources and labor from the global south to supply the citizenry of the imperial core with bread and circuses that are just barely cheap enough to keep them from guillotining the billionaires who own and run everything.

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Reading by Tim Foley:

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Iran Is Morally Superior To The United States

Iran isn’t continuously bombing and invading countries around the world, toppling governments, circling the globe with hundreds of military bases, targeting civilian populations with siege warfare and brandishing nuclear weapons at its enemies in the name of securing planetary domination. Only the United States is.

Reading by Tim Foley.

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[Anthony Fointiat Ⓥ @AnthonyFointiat]

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[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Fuck the US.

Fuck Israel.

Fuck Trump.

Fuck Netanyahu.

Fuck Zionism.

Fuck Trump supporters.

Fuck the Republican Party.

Fuck the Democratic Party.

Fuck war.

Fuck everyone who helped make this war possible.

Fuck the western press.

Fuck warmongering think tanks.

Fuck the Israel lobby.

Fuck the military-industrial complex.

Fuck the western intelligence cartel.

Fuck the western empire.

I hate everyone who inflicted this nightmare upon my species. If you stand by this senseless US-Israeli act of depravity, then I consider you an enemy. And I will never stop reminding everyone of the psychotic agenda you supported.

You own this. This is on you. It's on you forever.