The Leftist Perspective

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

Krystal Ball, great job exposing genocidal Democrat Adam Smith. Your audience hates him

So what is stopping you from bringing on his Independent primary challenger Kshama Sawant on!? It’s a jungle primary and Kshama has a real chance. Why the media blackout meanwhile you are willing to talk to her opponent?

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

"It's possible to oppose this war AND oppose the Iranian regime. You can denounce BOTH."

Sure you can. But you shouldn't.

You should not do this. You should not be a pro bono Pentagon propagandist in the middle of a US war of immense consequence. You should not do the hasbarists' job for them. Make them do their own job themselves.

This war already has a huge number of propagandists screaming "REGIME BAD" at the top of their lungs in order to ensure that the slaughter continues. You don't need to add your voice to the chorus, and you shouldn't. You should not help them manufacture consent for more human butchery. You should be using your voice solely and exclusively to end the butchery your government and its allies are inflicting on human beings.

All your "REGIME BAD" sloganeering accomplished was paving the way to the carnage you see before you today. Your self-righteous denunciations of the Iranian government failed to expand the rights of a single Iranian woman or LGBTQ individual. All you accomplished was helping to grease the wheels for a war of unfathomable horror, ensuring that all Iranians now live under more fear and misery than ever before.

If you live under the western empire, you have an ethical obligation to use your voice responsibly in that context. You don't get to just irresponsibly feed into an active war propaganda campaign by regurgitating the same regime change narratives about an empire-targeted government as the US and Israeli governments, and then pretend this doesn't make you culpable for the consequences of your actions. If your words help grease the wheels of the war machine, then you bear partial moral responsibility for what the war machine does with your assistance.

You don't get to just pretend that responsibility doesn't exist. The families who are being torn apart with the help of your pro bono war propaganda efforts do not care about your anarchist or Trotskyist "all tyranny is equally bad" political philosophy or how good your virtuous purity posturing makes you feel about yourself. All they experience is the consequences of your actions.

As a westerner, your one and only duty is to oppose the depravity of the western empire. That's your only job. Don't lean out the window of the Empire of Perpetual Bloodlust to wag your finger at empire-targeted countries in the global south. It's obnoxious.

Curb the murderousness of your own government and its allies. THAT'S your job. If you get your job done, THEN come talk to me about how bad and wrong some random government in west Asia looks to you. Until then, shut the fuck up and do your job.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!

[The Leftist Perspective @LeftOutlook]

@krystalball YOU were telling us to vote for her

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

I've always been basically agnostic on immigration policy -- could just never get that worked up one way or another about what the proper demographic composition of the United States should supposedly be. That said, I recognize lots of people do feel strongly about the subject, and if they can gather enough political support for a more restrictive immigration policy, OK. I'm willing to defer to prevailing attitudes... within reason.

However, "within reason" does not include: establishing penal colonies in El Salvador, arresting random Green Card holders for writing negative op-eds about Israel, ridiculously invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, declaring a new War on Terror, deploying masked federal agents to march thuggishly through the streets, and pumping bullets through the windshield of a female motorist in a situation that no sane person can seriously believe should've required lethal force to deal with.

So that's the big dilemma.

Because in theory, you can support more restrictive immigration policy without psychotically cheering the infliction of completely needless death by armed agents of the state, but I realize not a lot of people are capable of that kind of high-level reasoning.

[The Leftist Perspective @LeftOutlook]

@KimIversenShow Why exactly do you think 2020 election was stolen?

[The Leftist Perspective @LeftOutlook]

@vanguard_pod Still not worse than Biden

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

I’m free! I wrote this on the plane and I’m posting it just after landing at Istanbul. On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. This is after three days and two nights in a Swiss prison cut off from communication with the outside world, in a cell 24 hours a day with one cell mate, not even permitted to contact my family. On Saturday in a police interview in the presence of my lawyer they accused me of “offending against Swiss law” without ever telling me what crime I had committed in Switzerland or listing any charges. As far as I know I have not been charged with any crime whatsoever and I was held in “administrative detention.” On Sunday morning, they took me from my cell for questioning by Swiss defense ministry intelligence agents without the presence of my lawyer, and they again refused to allow me to contact her or my family. I refused to talk to them without my lawyer and told them take me back to my cell. During my imprisonment I refused every meal and every cup of coffee or tea they offered me except the last meal, after I knew I would be going home. I accepted only water, which is the right of every human being. All of this was after I was abducted off the street around 1:30pm on Saturday while on my way to the Palestine teach-in by undercover agents, handcuffed, forced into an unmarked car and sped straight to the prison. My “crime”? Being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and abet it. I came to Switzerland at the invitation of Swiss citizens to talk about justice for Palestine, to talk about accountability for a genocide in which Switzerland too is complicit. But while I was hauled off to prison like a dangerous criminal before I even had a chance to say a word, the Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who declared at the start of the genocide that there are no civilians in Gaza, no innocents, received a red carpet welcome in Davos, a carpet soaked in the blood of the more than 47,000 known victims of the genocide and the thousands more still under the rubble, or who died of deliberately inflicted starvation and denial of medical care. And on this very day Netanyahu freely travels to Poland to make a mockery of the Auschwitz commemoration despite an outstanding ICC arrest warrant. That is the perverse, unjust world we live in. This ordeal lasted three days but that taste of prison was more than enough to leave me in even greater awe of the Palestinian heroes who endure months and years in the prisons of the genocidal oppressor. More than ever I know that the debt we owe them is one we can never repay and all of them must be free and they must remain our focus. The police gave me my phone back only at the gate of the plane so I’m only seeing now the extent of the overwhelming support and solidarity from all over the world. I’m deeply grateful to each and every person who stood up for me. I’m especially grateful to my lawyer Dina Raewel and her team, to our friends in Zurich who I learned afterwards demonstrated outside the prison, to my family and my colleagues at EI and so many others. I honestly had no idea what was happening outside that concrete room! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I want to tell the whole story of what happened, perhaps in an @intifada livestream in the next day or two, because I think it’s important for people to know the depths to which their Western so-called “democracies” have sunk in the abject service of genocidal Zionism. Right now I’m glad to be on my way home. I’m looking forward to hugging my mom and dad, taking a shower and sleeping in my own bed. Journalism is not a crime! Speaking out for Palestine is not a crime! Standing against racist genocidal Zionism is not a crime! Say it with me:

From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free! ❤️🇵🇸✌️

[The Leftist Perspective @LeftOutlook]

@mtracey @Decoherent_ @elonmusk

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

chomsky on bob dylan

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

What a difference 7 years makes.

At least we can file "CIA is responsible for Islamic terrorism" under "things that used to be called conspiracy theories, but are now just fucking obvious."

I love when the empire discredits itself like this.
https://t.co/AEqghHLhZD

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Tulsi Gabbard has put her life on the line to defend this country. People can disagree on issues, but it is outrageous for anyone to suggest that Tulsi is a foreign asset.

[Ron Placone @RonPlacone]

2032: Democrats lose the Presidential election to an AI-programmed serial killer robot who speaks only in snippets of Hitler speeches, runs over household pets and has guns for hands.

MSNBC: Dems ran a perfect campaign. Nothing they could’ve done differently.

[The Leftist Perspective @LeftOutlook]

@vanguard_pod “Kamala blowout” Massive L for the Vanguard

[The Leftist Perspective @LeftOutlook]

@briebriejoy Not his best set but his Tom Brady roast was hilarious

[The Leftist Perspective @LeftOutlook]

@TheRealNews You literally didn’t explain why you fired him. Pathetic

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

That journalists should treat world leaders differently based on whether they are allies of the US Government or adversaries is to posit journalists as agents of the state, and thus their behavior should align with US foreign policy.

That's the role of a State Dept spokesman.

[Sabby Sabs @SabbySabs2]

Lol "we're white liberals!" This is too funny, but so true.

[Dr. Jill Stein🌻 @DrJillStein]

The political system is broken. Over 60% of us now say the two-party establishment has failed us and we need a party that serves the people.

I’m running for President to offer a better choice for the people. Join us!
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[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

I understand now just how racist some people are.

If you see the images of babies chopped in pieces and bloodied from Israel’s bombs in Gaza and your immediate response is to make excuses for Israel rather than demand an immediate ceasefire, you are racist. You clearly do not see Palestinians and Arabs at fully human.