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[Chris Corney @ChrisCorney1]

So often i tell myself dont get angry with our press, just switch them off.

But this...

The real headline is:

"Terrorist plot to attack local mosque with white phosphorus and radioactive dirty bomb"

But Sky call him a "nerd" and leave the mosque threat to one line at the end.

[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

Venezuelan socialism was succeeding until US sanctions, intensified under Obama, began to kick in. US neoliberals will suffocate or blow up any vaguely socialist nation that begins to succeed. Unless they're too strong, like China. The US is an evil, cowardly, extractive bully.

[Media Lens @medialens]

Jeffrey Sachs:
'Come on. This is gangsterism. And it’s in full view.'
https://t.co/gMpMxfSBtL

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@BowesChay I can see the BBC headline already: "......but at what cost?"

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Why is anyone suprised the continent is literally falling to pieces.

[Lee Camp [Redacted] @LeeCamp]

🚨🇨🇳🇺🇸 Wanna know why the US has been waging a cold war of disinformation and economic strikes against China? It's not so hard to figure out.

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

Your Party co-leader Zarah Sultana has called for the United Kingdom to leave NATO, describing it as an "imperialist war machine." "NATO isn’t about “peace” or “security”. It’s an imperialist war machine. Just look at Afghanistan and Libya," she wrote.

"People don’t need forever wars. They need material improvements to their lives," she added.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer, however, has drastically increased UK weapons spending, committing to allocating 5% of its GDP to the military by 2035.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It’s just news story after news story about the US and its allies terrorizing the world today.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been filming themselves committing horrific massacres in Sudan over the last couple of days, reportedly murdering some two thousand civilians. You can see the bloodstains on the ground in satellite images. As we discussed the other day, the RSF and its atrocities are backed by the UAE, a close partner of the United States.

Meanwhile Israel has committed another wave of massacres of its own throughout the Gaza Strip, reportedly killing 104 people in a single day, including 46 children. This is as many Palestinians as would typically be killed on any given day in Gaza prior to the so-called “ceasefire”.

CBS News’ 60 Minutes has released a cartoonishly blatant war propaganda piece on “Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela’s dictator” about how poor and unhappy the people of Venezuela are under their current government. The piece featured an interview with Republican Senator Rick Scott, who said that “If I was Maduro I’d head to Russia or China right now; his days are numbered.”

The US can make threats, impose sanctions and amass war machinery, but you don’t truly know they’re serious about attacking a country until they start churning out Pentagon propaganda in the mainstream press.

In the same interview, Scott also said that if Maduro is successfully ousted, “it’ll be the end of Cuba.”

“America is gonna take care of the southern hemisphere and make sure there’s freedom and democracy,” he added.

The senator’s statements suggest that the US is preparing a push in Latin America similar to what it has been executing with Israel in the middle east, eliminating any powers which refuse to bend the knee. South of the US border the top two disobedient governments are the socialist states of Venezuela and Cuba. In the middle east the US and Israel have spent the last two years bombing Iran and Yemen, securing a regime change in Syria, and doing everything they can to eliminate Hamas and Hezbollah in order to rule the region uncontested.

And of course we’ve still got the horrifying US proxy war in Ukraine, where soldiers continue to be dragged off against their will to fight in a nightmarish conflict that most Ukrainians now oppose, but which Zelensky is saying he intends to keep fighting for years against the will of the public. This whole miserable ordeal could have been avoided with a little diplomacy and a few low-cost concessions, but the western power alliance avoided off-ramp after off-ramp in order to ensure that Russia would get sucked into another costly military quagmire.

All over the world the US and its allies are murdering and abusing people in order to dominate the planet and ensure the survival of the capitalist system with which its power is intertwined. It is a giant murder machine feeding on human blood and the life force of our biosphere while providing nothing but obstacles to a healthy world.

The US-centralized empire is a disease that affects our entire species. We had better find a cure, and fast.

Reading by Tim Foley:

[#BDS #GazaGenocide Physics don't stop for politics @lordofintent]

As @simonmaginn says, it's a #DisabilityHateCrime...!!!

#TakingThePIP

#LabourIsDead...!!!

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@Hutch_Online Yup, always. But now they've all been given a megaphone.

[Tim Hinchliffe, Photographer. @tim_hinchliffe]

@stingerdelux @caitoz Everything you've ever been told about China, for instance.

[Black in the Empire @blackintheempir]

Iraq didn't have WMDs, Gaddafi didnt give soldiers Viagra, babies weren't thrown out of incubators in Kuwait, Assad didn't use chemicals weapons in Douma, and we lost to the Taliban

Russia was provoked, Israel is committing a genocide, and our Govt doesn't care about Freedom, Democracy or Human Rights

[Tim Hinchliffe, Photographer. @tim_hinchliffe]

@widespreadhaze @CraigMurrayOrg They understand it just fine. They're just hoping to hell that we never figure it out.

[Media Lens @medialens]

The left was never 'pro-Assad' as the cynics claimed. The question was always whether West-authored 'regime change' would bring to Syria what it so catastrophically brought to Libya. That, very reasonably, was always the concern.

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@helenmallam How good are you at picking friends?

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@caitoz Cutting the head off the snake won't change the world, but it might make the next snake slightly nervous.

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@AdameMedia Yes.

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@caitoz I don't know the solution either but if there is one I guarantee it'll be built from the ground up, not passed from the top down.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

One great challenge of our time is that while it’s becoming common knowledge that western media is propaganda and western politics is a corrupt sham, fake solutions to these problems are being marketed to the mainstream by the same powers responsible for them. Donald Trump himself will tell you that the media are lying and the political establishment is run by swamp monsters, and then say that the solution is to support Republicans and trust right wing media. Elon Musk will go on Joe Rogan and say the same thing. In 2028 AOC will probably run for president campaigning on the Democratic Party version of the same faux-populist message, just as Bernie Sanders did.

This dynamic poses a major obstacle to those who yearn for real revolutionary change. It’s becoming increasingly necessary to not just stand against the status quo but against the fraudulent political factions which pretend to oppose it. It’s no longer enough to reject establishment politics and media, we also need to reject the fake anti-establishment politics and media which seek to herd a discontented populace away from meaningful revolutionary movements.

There are probably people reading this right now who’ve fallen into this very trap, who started reading my stuff because they see me opposing wars and criticizing the media and assume I support the same things they support, even as they throw their support behind a fraudulent political movement that’s ultimately designed to keep the wars going and make the mass media propaganda more effective. Last time Trump was president I’d always get his fuzzbrained empire simps trying to convince me their guy was ending the wars and fighting against the deep state, twisting themselves into all kinds of cognitive pretzels when I’d present them with hard evidence to the contrary.

It’s a challenge to push back against this new iteration of mass deception, but recognizing where it’s happening for yourself is fairly simple: just look at what they wind up telling you to support. If at the end of the day they wind up telling you to support Republicans or Democrats, or to support the “good kind” of Republicans or Democrats, or to support any other mainstream western political party, then they’re engaged in the exact sort of manipulation I’m describing here. They’re trying to corral you away from a real revolutionary political movement and back into the mainstream flock. Into one of the mainstream political parties which are explicitly designed to undermine all the revolutionary changes you seek.

As capitalism continues to decay and inequalities and injustices become more and more pronounced, public discontent with the status quo is naturally going to rise. Because they can’t end the political and economic systems the empire is built upon without collapsing it, the empire managers have instead devised ways to funnel that discontentment back into support for status quo politics. They don’t just control the opposition, they control the opposition to the controlled opposition.

The empire managers are always a few moves ahead of the masses. There is simply too much power riding on the continuation of the western empire for those in control to allow an authentic revolutionary movement to emerge which could rock the boat. So they give them fake, decoy revolutions to play with while the empire rolls on.

[Tim Hinchliffe, Photographer. @tim_hinchliffe]

@PalestineCultu1 Yes.