Going Rogue With Caitlin Johnstone

As Democrats get worse and worse the longer Biden's genocide in Gaza continues, I find myself recalling a tweet that went viral back in November by an account with the handle @eyeballslicer, "A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that's going on right now." Reading by Tim Foley.

So let me get this straight. The US wound up building its "floating pier" a few miles off the coast of Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid, but nobody will be able to ship the aid directly to the pier to get it to Gaza. Instead, the aid will be delivered to Cyprus via air or sea, and then from Cyprus the aid will be shipped 200 miles to the pier. From there the pallets of aid will be loaded onto smaller US army boats, which will then carry the aid from the pier to a long causeway on Gaza's actual coast. Those pallets will then be carried from the boats to the shore via the causeway - possibly by British troops or possibly by Israeli troops depending on what source you're reading - and taken into Gaza by IDF troops after careful examination and approval of their contents. All to deliver some 90 to 150 truckloads worth of aid per day, which is far short of the 500 truckloads the UN says Gaza needs. And this is all being done because Israel isn't simply letting people drive an adequate amount of aid through the cu

So, to be absolutely clear, Israel's top government official has announced that charges against himself and other Israeli leaders for obvious war crimes like intentionally bombing and starving civilians would be both "antisemitic" and a "hate crime". Reading by Tim Foley.

In one of the most appalling propaganda segments I have ever seen in my life, CNN's Dana Bash launched into a fire-and-brimstone sermon on Wednesday comparing anti-genocide university protesters to the brownshirts of Nazi Germany - doing so in defense of a fascistic police crackdown against those very same protesters. Reading by Tim Foley.

If Trump was letting these horrible things happen, we'd feel outraged and upset. We might even feel obliged to get up and go protest the things he is doing, which as we all know can often cause us to miss brunch. But because a trusted Democrat is in office, we can just relax and think pleasant thoughts and drink bottles of wine and Nyquil in the bathtub. Reading by Tim Foley.

Aviator sunglasses hide demented eyes in a skull full of bank logos and forgotten AIPAC speeches, boozy nights of rapefinger whisperings and Beltway balrogs, and fundraising wisecracks with smiles made of Gaddafi's bones, brain now crowded with paper shredders  and frantic, sweaty interns staying up all night working  to dispose of the evidence. Aviator sunglasses with glowing pentagons in them, with mountains of skulls in them, with dismembered children in them, with gutted babies in them, with screaming mothers in them, with burning flesh in them, with flattened neighborhoods in them, crushed limbs sticking out of rubble in them, fathers carrying tiny bags of body parts in them, laughing, mocking, blood-soaked soldiers in them, bombs and food falling from the sky together in them. Demented eyes gazing out upon a dying world  through aviator sunglasses full of dead faces, skin illuminated by a burning sky, licking an ice cream cone that is dripping deep red. Reading by Tim Foley.

In Evil Autocracies the leaders commit genocide for hateful and racist reasons, whereas in Free Democracies the leaders commit genocide for noble and righteous reasons. Reading by Tim Foley.

It's like saying "Sure my husband's a serial killer, but he's great with the kids." If someone said that to you, the only conclusion you could possibly come to is that they're really not all that bothered by the serial killing. Reading by Tim Foley.

Those university students should not be responsible for standing against this genocide, and in truth the responsibility is NOT all theirs - it is ours as well. Each and every one of us are responsible for doing everything we can to end this horror. Reading by Tim Foley.

Kids are taking over university campuses around the world for the noblest possible reason anyone could do such a thing in 2024. There are so many reasons to feel pessimistic, but Gen Z's fierce opposition to the Gaza genocide is a massive reason to have hope for the future. Reading by Tim Foley.

The Biden administration has reportedly canned its plans to issue sanctions on an extremist IDF unit for human rights violations in the occupied West Bank, following backlash from Israel and its high-powered supporters within the US government. Reading by Tim Foley.

Empire managers and propagandists are losing their minds about student protests against the genocide in Gaza on university campuses, so naturally we're seeing a mad push to frame this as the result of interference by Russia, China, Iran and Hamas. Reading by Tim Foley.

I mean, you kind of have to wonder what they're thinking. "Yeah, that's it. Violently quash pro-Palestine protests at universities, ban TikTok to ensure the suppression of pro-Palestine content, and saturate the boomer media with obvious propaganda. That'll make the kids love Israel." Reading by Tim Foley.

All the frenzied shrieking about pro-Palestine protests at universities these last few days makes it clear that our civilization is so twisted and insane that it sees protesting a genocide as far worse than committing one. Which is about as backwards as any society could possibly be. Reading by Tim Foley.

Stopping the slaughter in Gaza is more important than your feelings. Your feelings don't matter. Stopping the slaughter in Gaza is more important than playing along with the persecution-LARPing of Zionist university students. Stopping the slaughter in Gaza is more important than some privileged Ivy Leaguers pretending to feel "unsafe" or "unwelcome" on campus. Reading by Tim Foley.

The IDF are just attacking hospitals and mowing down civilians and trying to bury the evidence of their crimes, so naturally we're seeing the western political-media class focus very hard on the problem of antisemitism allegations on college campuses. Reading by Tim Foley.

They're hunting civilians with armed quadcopters in Gaza. The drones play recordings of crying babies and women screaming in distress in order to lure people out into the open, and then shoot them. Reading by Tim Foley.

We're not SUPPOSED to be unaffected by this sort of thing. We're not SUPPOSED to be able to find a state of psychological comfort with genocide. It's not natural, and it's not right. Man-made nightmares unleashed upon the waking earth are SUPPOSED to disturb us. Reading by Tim Foley.

The US doesn't support a two-state solution, the US only supports saying the US supports a two-state solution. We know this because the US just vetoed Palestine's bid to become a full UN member state, after lobbying other countries to vote against the resolution - despite continually saying it supports the foundation of a Palestinian state. Washington's words say one thing, but its actions say the opposite. Reading by Tim Foley.

So as things stand right now it looks like the cycle of escalation between Iran and Israel has thankfully ended or at least paused, which means now all we have to worry about is a horrific massacre in southern Gaza. The Times of Israel reports that Washington has agreed to go along with Israel's planned assault on the city of Rafah so long as Israel doesn't launch a large attack against Iran in response to its unprecedented retaliatory drone and missile attack on Saturday, according to an Egyptian source speaking to a Qatari outlet. A White House spokesperson has denied this, but you'd expect them to. Reading by Tim Foley.