scam nation

 i think jeff sachs nails what's behind america's war mongering foreign (and domestic) policy in this scathing article which begins thusly:

On the surface, US foreign policy seems to be utterly irrational. The US gets into one disastrous war after another -- Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Ukraine, and Gaza. In recent days, the US stands globally isolated in its support of Israel’s genocidal actions against the Palestinians, voting against a UN General Assembly resolution for a Gaza ceasefire...

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/corruption-of-us-foreign-policy

appropriate 'horror and disgust'

this very recent article by ted galen carpenter in antiwar.com succinctly sums up the disaster that america's imperial foreign policy since 9/11 has been in parts of the arab world. Most notable about it is the expression of moral outrage at U.S. leaders for the destruction and loss of life they have wrought, an outrage that is notably absent from any lamestream american media outlet or commentator, anywhere. I defy anyone to show me an example. A big part of the propaganda job they do is to treat american war criminality and it's genocidal results with complete and blase equanimity, as if no moral outrage is ever called for regarding anything that america or it's bff israel does. After all, we're the good guys!

https://original.antiwar.com/Ted_Galen_Carpenter/2023/12/21/my-own-brush-with-death-has-intensified-my-opposition-to-u-s-imperialism/

awesome abby on american imperialism and militarism

this 25 minute video from awesome abby martin is an excellent concise elucidation of imperialism in general and american imperialism and militarism in particular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc_dOEkw5Gs

schooled by lebanese american rania khalek

rania khalek is a lebanese american radical journalist currently based in beirut. in this discussion with abby martin, she educated me a lot regarding middle eastern politics vis-a-vis the israeli incursion into the region and the rise of hezbollah as an indigenous lebanese resistance to that imperialist incursion. this education is the opposite of the propaganda churned out by western lamestream media. it strikes me as very nuanced and well informed, as opposed to the cartoonish and shallow characterization of hezbollah as a terrorist group by the west. as rania and abby point out, any group in the middle east that's radically opposed to israel gets labelled as terrorist by western media, while it's in fact the idf (israeli 'defense' force) that murders and terrorizes the regions arabs whose land it covets or already has stolen. together they point out the sheer insanity of israel and it's most powerful supporters in america, with a democratic party establishment that totally supports israel (including that supposed leftist socialist, bernie sanders) and a republican party led by trump that's frighteningly fascist and evil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vCAz3FPBYw

Roger Waters & Abby Martin on Gaza Genocide

 in the vast majority of what is said and the passion behind it, roger waters (of pink floyd fame) and abby martin speak for me in this video:

Roger Waters & Abby Martin on Gaza Genocide

Roger Waters & Abby Martin on Gaza Genocide

gaza concentration camp

 once again today (dec.8, 2023) the u.s. vetoed a u.n. resolution in favor of a cease fire in the so called war (one sided massacre) of palestinian civilians by the israeli military, armed to the teeth as usual with u.s. weaponry given as 'aid' to israel. this resolution otherwise had near unanimous support by all the other nations of the world, a fact glossed over by western media. one must ask the perplexing question: why is the american establishment, both political and the supposedly independent media, as zealously zionist as the war criminal government of israel? what hellish secret(s) lie behind this 'special relationship'?  a question for 'conspiracy theorists' to go nuts over.

this is an excellent 7 1/2 minute video from mintpress news summarizing how zionists have been murdering and stealing land from the non-jewish Indigenous people of palestine for the past century, leading up to the current 'war' between the 2, pointing out that the oct.7 hamas attack against israel was indeed provoked:

Gaza Concentration Camp

Gaza Concentration Camp

and today's norman finkelstein's 70th birthday. he's a courageous anti-zionist american jew who has been persecuted for his stance, as illustrated in this critically acclaimed documentary:

American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein (2009) | WatchDocumentaries.com

American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein (2009) | WatchDocumen... Jewish-American academic Norman Finkelstein, the son of holocaust survivors, makes the controversial claim that ...