The true power lies in shadow.

Lapsed essayist at Host of WordsOfOthers podcast. Non-partisan. Pro-peace. Anti-empire. Forever seeking balance. Yip Yip.

[The true power lies in shadow. @sbonifides]

@fritztheqat @yashalevine I appreciate Yasha's work and there are some helpful insights in this piece, but I've also noticed a petty streak in his writing over the years. Came to the fore again with the strange shade thrown at @_whitneywebb. With no real analysis. Why?

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

NEW:

BRICS Officially Announces Financial System Similar to SWIFT

The BRICS alliance is developing its own financial messaging system to replace the Western SWIFT network, aiming to reshape global trade.

This new system will enable BRICS countries to settle cross-border transactions without relying on the US dollar, potentially altering the balance of economic power in international markets.

[adam @AdameMedia]

The media is ignoring the fact that two American doctors came back from Gaza saying Israeli snipers are targeting Palestinian children with büllets to the head.

[Synekura Audio @synekura_audio]

This weird instrument is known as the Oramics Machine, invented by composer Daphne Oram in 1957. Oramics in a "drawn sound" technique, wherein 34mm film strips are drawn upon to manipulate the resulting sound. Through this method, pitch, rhythm, dynamics, envelope, vibrato, [1/2]

[Duopoly Destroyer @realnikohouse]

Did they lie about Biden doing his speech live in the White House? And if so, why did they feel the need to lie to us?

[Comrade Misty is Putin’s Buddy @SarcasmStardust]

The attacks on @_whitneywebb over her reporting on Thiel are VERY telling.

[Richard Grove @tragedyandhope]

CIA document 1035-960 from 1967 created a case for using "conspiracy theory" as a pejorative, as a means to secure the truth from being realized by larger numbers of people.

ref: https://t.co/UFawjEOyfH

Still working today. 👇

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Both houses of Congress rising to feverishly applaud one of history's worst genocidal monsters dozens of times as he tells lie after lie is a much better representation of what the US government is about than anything you'll see during the presidential race from now til November.

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

Peter Thiel's Palantir (a CIA front) is harvesting American genetic data from sewers and running the CDC's Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics to help predict "the next pandemic" before it happens. Wonder why Palantir, Thiel and Lonsdale are donating so much to Trump?

[HOT SPOT @HotSpotHotSpot]

Isn’t it curious how ISIS never attacks Israel? Why does ISIS always target the enemies of the United States and Israel?

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The progressive case for Kamala Harris in a nutshell:

[The true power lies in shadow. @sbonifides]

@keith_mchenry @LifeOnthaCouch I can’t wait, Keith. This shit has never made sense to me.

[Just.A.Thought 💭 @e_galv]

Peter Thiel creating technology that will murder innocent people: yay billions of dollars 🤑
Peter Thiel being asked about his technology that has murdered innocent people: uhhh dddddd wellll ddddhhhheeee brrrr I defer to Israel 🫨

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

The single defining feature of this political moment in the United States is that all major presidential candidates favor continuing the perpetration of an active genocide, and that everyone's trying to tap dance around this issue.

That's it. That's the main story here. It's not "American democracy is on the line in this election." It's not "Making America great again" or "Taking back our country" or "Fighting the woke agenda" or any of that braindead nonsense. The main story is that an actual genocide is scheduled to continue no matter whom Americans elect, and everyone's meant to just ignore that point as though it's some small insignificant quibble and focus on the candidates' positions on other issues like immigration reform and student loan debt forgiveness.

The main story is this mind-warpingly insane situation in which progressive-minded Americans now find themselves saying plainly ridiculous things like "Gosh I'm not crazy about this candidate's pro-genocide policies, but I really like what she's saying about tax credits for low and middle income families!" It's that right wingers are now forced to adopt the position "Yeehaw, Trump's gonna end the wars and bring our troops home and Make America Great Again, right after he helps Israel defeat Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, the Shia militias in Iraq and Syria, and oh yeah, also Iran." It's that independents are saying "RFK Jr is going to dismantle the war machine while simultaneously backing a genocide and pledging 'unconditional support' for the front-line aggressor in today's major conflicts throughout the middle east."

That's what all the headlines should be about. Not how Trump's 2024 campaign strategy differs from his other presidential runs. Not the ways Kamala should go after him in their first debate. The main story in US politics is the fact that there's a genocide happening which all viable candidates support, and that an entire country is trying to find ways to psychologically compartmentalize around this horrifying fact.

[Fiorella Isabel @FiorellaIsabelM]

Kamala Harris? I have an entire file on her outlining why she shouldn’t be President from before when she tried to run in 2019 for 2020. And I’ll let those facts speak volumes instead of being a hack for one of the worst politicians of our time:

Direct quote:

“Let me be clear about what I believe. I stand with Israel because of our shared values which are so fundamental to the founding of both our nations. I believe the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable, and we can never let anyone drive a wedge between us…And I believe Israel should never be a partisan issue, and as long as I’m a United States senator, I will do everything in my power to ensure broad and bipartisan support for Israel’s security and right to self-defense.”

[박주현 @hermit_hwarang]

The genocide in Palestine was never the decision of one individual. It’s not Biden; it’s not Netanyahu. It’s imperialism—class war and capital accumulation (exploitation, plunder) at the world scale. We are facing an economic system at war with life on earth. Our work is not done

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Kamala Harris likened Israel’s creation to the US civil rights movement during a 2017 speech to AIPAC

She even claimed she donated to the JNF, Israel’s leading vehicle for land theft

How soulless and sold out must you be to equate the Nakba with Selma?

[Primo Radical @PrimoRadical]

It’s moments like this where you see how history books get filled with pure BS:

Biden’s announcement today will be remembered as a forward-thinking elder statesman progressively passing the torch to a woman of color.

All of the details about why Democrats defended Biden’s mental faculties until after the rigged primaries, why his camp agreed to an extremely early debate in June, why the media suddenly became conspicuously anti-Biden after that debate, and how Party leaders bullied him to drop out will all be forgotten.

The details and questions get tossed aside, and all that remains is the propaganda.