{"id":276423,"date":"2024-10-07T12:01:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T11:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=276423"},"modified":"2024-10-06T09:40:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T08:40:28","slug":"were-the-fucking-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/10\/were-the-fucking-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re the Fucking Terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In case you haven\u2019t figured it out yet, \u201cterrorist organization\u201d is a completely arbitrary designation which is used as a tool of western narrative control to justify war and militarism. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

5 Oct 2024 <\/em>– Hezbollah is killing Israeli soldiers who are invading their country while Israeli soldiers are deliberately killing women and children and medical staff and journalists in Lebanon.<\/p>\n

Guess which side the west calls terrorists.<\/p>\n

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In case you haven\u2019t figured it out yet, \u201cterrorist organization\u201d is a completely arbitrary designation which is used as a tool of western narrative control to justify war and militarism. In effect it just means \u201cdisobedient population who need bombs dropped on them\u201d.<\/p>\n

The open letter to President Biden<\/a> from 99 US healthcare workers who volunteered in Gaza contains a quote from Dr Mark Perlmutter, \u201cGaza was the first time I held a baby\u2019s brains in my hand. The first of many.\u201d<\/p>\n

You know what? We\u2019re the fucking terrorists. We are. All of us who live in the western power alliance who haven\u2019t stopped our governments from backing this mass atrocity.<\/p>\n

The word \u201cterrorist\u201d won\u2019t have any meaning or relevance until it applies first and foremost to the giant globe-spanning power structure that is inflicting this nightmare upon our species.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/x.com\/caitoz\/status\/1842337356378198087<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Democrats are seriously going to do all this evil shit in the middle east and then blame Jill Stein and Chappell Roan if Kamala loses.<\/p>\n

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Normal person: A war with Iran would be disastrous.<\/p>\n

Crazy person: Oh so you love the Ayatollah and you think theocracy is good and you hate gay people and you want all women to wear hijabs.<\/p>\n

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Iran is not Iraq. Iran can fight back. A direct war with Iran would be a nightmare. It would make Iraq look like a walk in the park. It would be vastly more deadly, destructive and destabilizing.<\/p>\n

Iran is not the enemy. The enemy are the pricks in the US and Israel who\u2019ve been pushing us toward this war.<\/p>\n

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Every nation on the top ten proven oil reserves list<\/a> is either a target of US warmongering, has already been ruined by US warmongering, or is part of the US-centralized power structure.<\/p>\n

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  1. Venezuela<\/li>\n
  2. Saudi Arabia<\/li>\n
  3. Canada<\/li>\n
  4. Iran<\/li>\n
  5. Iraq<\/li>\n
  6. Kuwait<\/li>\n
  7. United Arab Emirates<\/li>\n
  8. Russia<\/li>\n
  9. Libya<\/li>\n
  10. Nigeria<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Everyone who\u2019s been watching the daily footage of shredded human bodies from Israeli massacres this past year has a very different attitude toward Israel than everyone who has not. Not just because the footage shapes your views, but because Israel supporters avoid looking at it.<\/p>\n

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    Nobody honestly still believes Israel kills all these women, children, journalists, medical staff and humanitarian aid workers by accident. You either know they do it on purpose and you say so, or you know they do it on purpose but you never admit it in order to protect a political agenda.<\/p>\n

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    https:\/\/x.com\/caitoz\/status\/1841803916977307842<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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    Republicans are calling Biden a liar<\/a> for saying at a press conference<\/a>, \u201cNo administration has helped Israel more than I have. None, none, none.\u201d<\/p>\n

    This is after Trump openly uttered the phrase<\/a> \u201cMake Israel Great Again,\u201d and admitted<\/a> to letting wealthy pro-Israel donors frequent the White House and make political demands that he hastened to grant when he was president. Trump also recently slammed Biden<\/a> for saying Israel should not attack Iran\u2019s nuclear sites, saying he supports targeting them.<\/p>\n

    This election cycle is mostly just Republicans and Democrats having a \u201cwho will give Israel more genocide weapons to start World War III\u201d contest.<\/p>\n

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    So much conflict and confusion arises from the way mainstream political discourse in the US wildly exaggerates the differences between Democrats and Republicans while greatly downplaying the differences between Democrats and antiwar leftists. Both sides do this; the Republican political-media class frames Democrats as a bunch of far left Marxists, while the Democrat political-media class frames the differences between themselves and the antiwar left as so trivial that they should obviously expect the left to vote for them.<\/p>\n

    In reality, Democrats and Republicans have far, FAR more in common with each other than either of them have with the authentic left\u200a\u2014\u200aeven if you include the furthest extremes allowed in the party. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are far closer to each other ideologically than someone who wants to dismantle capitalism and the US war machine is to Bernie Sanders.<\/p>\n

    The obfuscation of these points by the mainstream political-media class is entirely deliberate, and can be explained by the Noam Chomsky quote \u201cThe smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.\u201d Unless you fully understand this quote and make it the lens through which you perceive all mainstream political discourse, you will never see western politics clearly.<\/p>\n

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    Caitlin Johnstone is a rogue journalist, poet, and utopia prepper<\/em>. Contact: <\/em>admin@caitlinjohnstone.com<\/a><\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Go to Original \u2013 caitlinjohnstone.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    5 Oct 2024 – Hezbollah is killing Israeli soldiers invading Lebanon while Israeli soldiers are killing women, children, medical staff and journalists. Guess which side the west calls terrorists. \u201cTerrorist organization\u201d is an arbitrary designation by western narrative to justify war and militarism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":180156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[3339,3264,742,88,2097,1855,234,767,2462,427,880,70,481],"class_list":["post-276423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-mainstream-media-msm","tag-media","tag-middle-east","tag-military-industrial-media-complex","tag-palestine","tag-state-terrorism","tag-usa","tag-warfare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276428,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276423\/revisions\/276428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}