Luis Ochoa is 17.
He is a U.S. citizen.
He was driving with another U.S. citizen to enlist in the Marines when he was pulled over and ripped from his car by ICE.
Someone started recording.
This is the horrific video.
While the boys were being beaten, they repeatedly tell the agents they are CITIZENS — and are ignored.
One agent told said, "I don't give a damn. Your parents can't help you now."
Both teenagers were detained for hours before being released.
They were preparing to serve this country - yet their citizenship did not protect them from being beaten, pepper-sprayed, and detained by their own government.
This is what the Nazis did then, and ICE does now.
Senator Chris Van Hollen has urged European nations and other ICC members to sanction President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio over their efforts to obstruct investigations into Israeli PM Netanyahu's war crimes.
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There should be a law against this...Nova Peris (and her scaly mates) running around First Nations bush and outback communities literally campaigning for Israel. If i could find a (legal) way to prevent this, i would, but seemingly there is nothing illegal about preaching genocide:
China, China… China can spy on us through electric vehicles??
But, surprise! The Americans can do it too…
“Teslas are truly rolling surveillance platforms,”
said John Davisson, a director at digital rights research group Electronic Privacy Information Center.
Others reveal:
“Tesla’s privacy policy specifically outlines that it may disclose vehicle driving data to government security agencies if the company believes it is "essential to protect national security or public safety."
“This broad language provides for US intelligence or security services to request and receive tracking data or vehicle logs under critical, time-sensitive circumstances.”
https://t.co/ABPk2eL8Tq
And.
https://t.co/wADzVN3Uw5
Sen. Fetterman says Israel is his RED LINE, the one country he will NEVER turn his back on.
Not America. Not the Constitution. ISRAEL.
A sitting U.S. senator just made crystal clear where his absolute loyalty lies.
@SenatorWong@ignaziocassis Nice words. But after Israel’s sham self-investigation into the killing of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom, you called in its ambassador for a cup of tea.
No expulsion. No real consequence.
And still barely a word for the Palestinians aid workers risk their lives to save.
Every so often I like to write out an explanation of who I am and what I’m trying to do here, for the benefit of new followers and for my own mental clarity.
The Caitlin Johnstone project is actually run by two people: myself and my husband Tim Foley, who co-authors all my written works. Tim and I fell in love in 2014, started writing together in 2016 after we got married, and in 2017 we launched the audience-funded platform you see today.
Everything we publish is unconditionally free to view without any paywalls or advertisements; all our funding comes from voluntary donations from readers and viewers who feel inspired to support what we do. All our work is copyright-free, so everyone is allowed to republish, reuse, reappropriate, translate, or outright copy anything we put out without asking permission or providing attribution, so you’ll see things we wrote pop up on all kinds of platforms all around the world in many different languages.
I’ve lived my whole life in Melbourne with some brief stays in the UK. I received a journalism degree from RMIT in 2003 but didn’t do any news media work because I’d learned that the legacy press was too corrupt to do actual journalism in. So instead I focused on raising my kids, healing my inner wounds, and becoming a conscious person.
Tim was born in Philadelphia and lived most of his life in California, where he worked in healthcare. We met in an online discussion forum about spiritual enlightenment in 2011, we fell in love in 2014, Tim moved to Australia in 2016, and we’ve been falling ever since.
This project is basically just an outgrowth of that ongoing romance. We don’t have kids together, so we spend our time making creativity babies in the form of essays, poetry, paintings and books. We are each other’s muse so we’re rarely at a loss for inspiration, which is why we’ve been able to write so prolifically all these years. Our ultimate goal is to help create a healthy world so that we can live extremely long lives together in a harmonious future.
We have long conversations every day about what’s going on in the world and where we’re headed as a species, and our daily articles are generally outgrowths of those conversations. I function as the editor-in-chief of our project, determining the shape, feel, and ideological direction of our work, and having the final say in whatever gets published. Tim does most of the readings and videos because he’s good at reading aloud and I dislike appearing on camera.
Ideologically I sit well to the left side of the political spectrum; I am frequently called a communist, which is fine by me. I want a world where everyone has what they need, where plutocrats can’t leverage obscene amounts of wealth to manipulate our society to their advantage, and where we live in harmony with the global south instead of enslaving its people using military violence and economic coercion. I oppose tyranny, war, militarism, capitalism, imperialism, Zionism, the western intelligence cartel, mass surveillance, government secrecy, police brutality, censorship, propaganda, and the suppression of journalism. I despise racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, western supremacism, and all prejudices which harm marginalized populations.
I believe we live in a tyrannical mind-controlled dystopia at the center of an empire that is fueled by human blood, and that we ordinary people can change this by using the power of our numbers to force the creation of a just system. Westerners are currently too propagandized to understand the urgent need for revolutionary change, but I see signs that we are beginning to awaken from that trance.
Ultimately what’s needed is a radical transformation of human consciousness away from our self-destructive egoic patterning. We know that this is possible on an individual scale in the process commonly known as spiritual enlightenment, so there exists within us the possibility of such a transformation on a collective level as well. Anyone who has ever had a spiritual awakening knows you can hear the same teaching or pointer a thousand times before it finally hits home and rips your mind wide open, so just because we haven’t yet become a conscious species doesn’t mean we can’t become one.
It’s all about helping humanity see through its various illusions and delusions so that we can wake up to reality and create a healthy world. Everything I publish is pointed at this in some way. That’s what this project is and will continue to be, and I am deeply honored that so many people have been eager to come along for the journey.
Why doesn't the media talk about Sudan?
Sudan is bleeding. Sudanese women face drones by day and rape by night—UN confirms 800+ victims. Tens of thousands killed, millions displaced, millions pushed into famine, children died from malnutrition.
Don't be indifferent to Sudan.