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It’s a Julfest Wunderwaffe Wunder.

Plutocrats like Thiel are constantly thinking about the fact that ordinary people vastly outnumber them and can kill them at any time. They think about it way more often than ordinary people do. It’s a point that they are acutely aware of at all times. It consumes their attention. They are always working on manipulating public consciousness to ensure that we don’t think as much as they do about how many more of us there are of them, and how we don’t have to put up with their domination of our society if we don’t want to.

As Michael Parenti once put it:

“I tell students when they say, ‘Oh they don’t care what we think. They ignore us’, and all that, and I say, ‘Oh no, no. That’s the only thing they care about you. The only thing they care about you is what you’re thinking. They don’t care if you eat correctly, they don’t care how your living conditions are, they don’t care that they’ve built up an inhuman and irrational traffic system that’s strangulating us and polluting our air, they don’t care about anything. The only thing about you they care about is what you’re thinking. In the morning, they start, ‘What’s going to be the story today? How do we manipulate, how do we control, how do we contain, how do we influence, how do we act upon what it is that they have in their minds?’”

Manipulating public consciousness is of existential importance to the ruling class, because no matter how many billions of dollars you amass, at the end of the day you’re still a soft skin sack of blood and bones like anybody else, and you share a society with huge numbers of people who can very easily hurt you if they want to. That’s why our minds are constantly being hammered with propaganda into accepting the status quo politics upon which our rulers have built their kingdoms.

Paywall bypass: https://12ft.io/https://theintercept.com/2024/12/05/congress-anti-communism-school-curriculum/

Bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5349

House vote:

Same article on Jonathan Cook’s Substack: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/biden-and-starmer-are-destroying

I think it still remains to be seen if DOGE will have any teeth or if it’s the dog house for Ramaswamy & Musk.

I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.

• Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU
• CounterPunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup
• Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made
• Jacobin, 2022: A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
• Orinoco Tribune, 2022: Former German Chancellor Merkel Admits that Minsk Peace Agreements Were Part of Scheme for Ukraine to Buy Time to Prepare for War With Russia
• Al Mayadeen, 2023: Zelensky admits he never intended to implement Minsk agreements
• Consortium News, 2023: The West’s Sabotage of Peace in Ukraine

It’s a big, bipartisan imperialist club, and you ain’t in it.

On November 27th, ultra-extremist militants Hayat Tahrir al-Sham launched a vast offensive in Syria. Within days, the Turkey-backed faction seized significant swaths of Aleppo, the country’s second-largest city, and advances elsewhere continue. While disinformation on the scale and success of HTS’ incursions abounds on social media, establishment news outlets remain the primary source of manipulation and deceit. No context to the current upsurge of violence is provided, although reference has been widely made to supposedly “peaceful” protests in 2011 that produced the decade-long Syrian civil war.

According to this narrative, pro-democracy demonstrators were brutally attacked by Syrian authorities for taking a righteous, public stand. Yet, the reality of what happened during that fateful time is amply documented in the Syrian government’s own internal documents. Namely, records of the Central Crisis Management Cell, created in March 2011 by Damascus to manage official responses to mass rioting that began weeks earlier.

Mainstream outlets have previously reported on this trove, dubbing them The Assad Files. However, reporters and rights groups have universally misrepresented, distorted or simply falsified their contents, in order to wrongfully convict Syrian officials of horrific crimes. In some instances, quite literally. In reality, the documents show Assad and his ministers struggled valiantly to prevent the upheaval from escalating into violence on either side, protect demonstrators, and keep the situation under control.

Meanwhile, sinister, unseen forces systematically murdered security service officials, pro-government figures, and protesters to foment catastrophe in a manner similar to many CIA regime change operations old and new. This shocking story has never before been told. Now, with dark insurrectionary clouds again pullulating over Damascus, it must be.

On the alleged Syrian Douma chemical attack:

• Aaron Maté, Oct. 2020: Chomsky: OPCW cover-up of Syria probe is ‘shocking’
• Klarenberg, Feb. 2022: Propagandist for Syria terror proxies compromised Amnesty International, leaked docs show
• Maté, Sep. 2022: Chain of corruption: how the White Helmets compromised OPCW investigations in Syria
• Maté, Mar. 2023: In Douma cover-up, OPCW’s new smoking gun backfires
• Klarenberg, Sep. 2023: UK intelligence spun 2013 Syria chemical attack, leaked docs show

No President has the right to use unilateral executive authority to permit a U.S. missile strike against another nation. It invites a retaliatory attack. It is an impeachable offense.