67 year-old Martin Gore suffered total organ failure just hours after receiving vaccine.

We’ve heard plenty of Russia’s alleged internet troll farms, but the corporate media will never cover this:

Inside Israel’s Million-Dollar Troll Army

Known as ‘Act.IL, it has 15,000 internet trolls tasked with “influence(ing) foreign publics” in a pro-Israel direction, of course. Unsurprisingly, the majority of its offices are in the United States, and these trolls are spreading Israeli propaganda to U.S. internet users. Could you imagine if Russia did something similar?

Difficult to watch. There is something strangely similar to Hillary’s behavior throughout 2016. What drugs are the Political Class on?

A couple of headlines caught my attention:

Trump approved Iran attack, but pulled back at the last minute The planes were apparently in the air and ready for a strike in retaliation for downing a U.S. spy drone. Trump had the presence of mind to take into account the possibility that Iran’s attack might have been a mistake, and probably realized that a hasty strike that would purposely kill Iranians would not only drag us into an unnecessary war, but one that could have been easily avoided if the truth about the drone had been given time to emerge. Would Hillary have called off the strike? Being used to the business of murder, it’s doubtful.

And here is a great piece in Rolling Stone: Next Contestant, Iran: Meet America’s Permanent War Formula

It is mind-boggling to think that we are yet again on the cusp of another war in the Middle East. After 18 years of an endless procession of devastating conflicts, instigated and inflamed by the U.S. government, and all ginned up with the same dirty tricks, we are again facing those tricks and false narrative as our murderous and cowardly elected leaders allow our country to arrive at the brink of quite possibly the most avoidable war in history. How can anyone fall for the propaganda? Why does anyone listen to those who lied us into every other conflict?

The U.S. has wanted a war with Iran my entire adult life. For at least thirteen years we’ve been told that Iran is hell-bent on acquiring a nuke and blasting it at either Israel or the eastern seaboard. It has prodded, provoked, sanctioned, and sabotaged the Islamic Republic at every opportunity, goading Iran into a first-strike. Iran has never taken the bait. Instead, it has borne up admirably under the economic sanctions imposed by the U.S., jumping through the arbitrary hoops in order to hopefully relieve its people of the suffering. Despite Iran’s compliance with the nuclear deal, the U.S. has reneged on its side, proving to the entire world that it can’t be trusted.

There is only so much a nation can take, only so many slights to its dignity, only so much deception, and only so many passive acts of war such as economic sanctions before they draw their own line. If Iran is attacked, it will be an all-out war. Thousands of Iranians will die, and our government will be committing mass murder. The U.S. soldiers will not be defenders of the liberty of their native country, but invaders and murderers. It should be infuriating to many more people to see of how little value our Political Class holds innocent life.

Iran has supposedly shot down a U.S. spy drone near its border, and the Political Class is clutching its pearls, crying crocodile tears as it claims that this is the moment we’ve been waiting for, this is the time to launch the war.  The real reaction should be: so what? Iran has been the target of devastating economic sanctions, which are an act of war. They’ve had to sleep with one eye open for years, waiting for the next provocation on the part of our government. They are sick unto death of being in the crosshairs, of the overt spying and sabotage. We are told by professional liars that the drone was in international airspace. If indeed it was, then it was within a hair’s width of Iran’s border, the place where our government parks its warships, nuclear submarines, and other weapons of war.

The war will be fought for Saudi and Israeli interests, which also align with many of the interests of our own Political Class. Yet middle class Americans and their kids will be the ones doing the fighting and dying, and picking up the tab after the smoke clears.

In many ways, D.C.’s treatment of the biggest businesses in any given industry mirrors its foreign policy. The foreign policy of the U.S. is one of fragile egotism, busybody-ism, and micromanagement: our government can’t just leave a regional power alone, it must have its tentacles firmly ensconced in its halls of power. So it extends offers of money, weapons, “aid”, influence over neighboring nations, all so the U.S. Empire can add another jewel to its gauntlet, and can sleep well knowing that it will be able to extract favors from this captive nation.  The United States isn’t just the policeman of the world, it’s the world’s foremost corrupt cop, offering deals under the table while presenting itself as Virtue incarnate.

One thing this Empire can’t abide is a country that asserts its independence, and keeps the United States at arm’s length. The fragile Empire then behaves like a scorned lover, and nations such as Russia, Iran, and Venezuela become the new Axis of Evil. The scorned Empire sabotages these countries at every turn, utilizing every dirty trick short of war to get its revenge. Sanctions, endless provocation, cyber attacks, proxy war, intricate spy networks, the bullying of its captive nations into a refusal to deal with U.S. enemies. It’s a pathetic and reckless way for a government to behave, and one that isn’t sustainable.

And so it is with its dealings with industry. The federal government must firmly establish a well-oiled revolving door within every titan of industry, ensuring an indefinite quid pro quo situation. The company gets cushy government contracts in exchange for favors that the government will periodically call due, in Faustian style.

Just as in foreign policy, the one thing the federal government can’t abide is a company that refuses to deal. It will then unleash a similar bag of tricks on the target business until they fold or fall in line.

The problem with advocating a position at odds with the prevailing belief on a topic as radioactive as vaccine policy is that you run the risk of triggering the defenses of others almost as soon as the topic comes up. Most people are pro-vaccine by default, thanks to a relentless PR campaign that begins shortly after birth, one that has cultivated a reverence of vaccination bordering on religious awe. But since this reverence has been with them since their earliest years, and is reinforced throughout their lives, they’ve never thought to question it, and so encountering someone who does question it elicits a defensive emotional response that is almost impossible to overcome. Even when confronted with the facts surrounding U.S. vaccine policy, many of the reflexively pro-vaccine will refuse to consider them, or offer in response the internal arguments that maintain their belief in the efficacy and safety of the current vaccine schedule. A representative conversation quickly devolves into personal insults launched almost exclusively by one side, and the vicious attacks can reach appalling heights. Granted, these exchanges occur almost exclusively on social media, but the reflexive faith in current vaccine policy on display in those exchanges is representative of the attitude among many state legislatures, the major news outlets, and social media giants. The latter who have been nudged into censoring content critical of vaccines, which is dismissed as “misinformation” regardless of it’s truthfulness. According to this strange orthodoxy, criticism of current vaccine policy is misinformation by default. Mentioning facts at odds with this orthodoxy will immediately draw the ire of the mob, who will respond with venomous anger and ridicule.

The danger lies in the real-world consequences: a refusal to debate the facts by medical professionals who know better, a uniform dismissal of any and all concerns by parents of vaccine-injured children, a constant witch-hunt of medical professionals and scientists who raise legitimate questions regarding vaccine safety, and state legislatures that seek to force through mandatory vaccination bills, normally on the grounds of one “emergency” or another, with the most convenient and commonly chosen one being the measles, as cases normally crest around the time that pro-vaccine rhetoric has hit an emotionally overwrought milestone. The deluge of fact-free, reflexively pro-vaccine editorials similarly reach a peak around this time as well, sheering off once voting has wrapped up and the public stumbles out of the media-induced hysteria, wondering in what manner they’ve been fleeced this time.

A few facts that draw such a lynch mob reaction include the bizarre legal immunity enjoyed by the vaccine industry, the more than $4 billion in settlements paid out to the vaccine-injured over the past 30 years, the toxic levels of aluminum contained within many of the vaccines given to infants, the fact that the rapid emergence and increase in childhood autoimmune disease coincided with the sudden expansion of the childhood vaccine schedule around 1990, the fact that vaccines weren’t responsible for the precipitous decline in infectious disease that occurred during the early to mid twentieth century (improved hygiene, clean water and food, nutrition, and a rising standard of living were the responsible for that), and that measles is a mild, self-limiting infection that confers lifetime immunity, not the rampant killer that the mainstream media paints it as.

A serious debate must happen. What are pro-vaccine professionals so afraid of that they are unwilling to consider it? Even Peter Hotez, appearing on the Joe Rogan show, refused to even consider a debate, despite advocating for a strong-handed censorship of “anti-vaxxers”. Does he really have so little confidence in his position? And what value does a product really have if it requires censorship of its critics to find any customers? Criticism makes products and their manufacturers better. So does competition, something the vaccine industry is utterly devoid of.

There are far too many questions, far too much evidence that “safe and effective” is a slogan inappropriately applied to a pharmaceutical product that has too often proved to be both unsafe and abysmally ineffective, far too much in the way of conflicts of interest between vaccine manufacturers, regulatory bodies, politicians, and the various trade associations that seek to bring physician independence to heel, to give in to the vitriol, the juvenile promotion of censorship, and the effort to bully into silence anyone who doesn’t blindly accept the safety of a pharmaceutical product just because it comes in an inject-able form.

The injuries that have taken place, the lack of testing regarding a pharmaceutical product we are expected to inject into our children, and the risks, must be discussed frankly. And if the reflexively pro-vaccine truly do care about public health, then they should welcome discussions regarding the safety of vaccines.

Unfortunately, criticizing vaccine policy feels all too similar to criticizing a religion, or some new patriotic war that we all must line up behind. Ironically so.

Family wins settlement after meeting burden of proof at ‘vaccine court’.

The war profiteers that grew rich off the War on Terror bubble of the past two decades are feeling the squeeze as the majority of Americans stumble out of the fog of that hysteria and realize that the type of war they’ve been sold has exacted a far higher toll than what they were promised: trillions of dollars in debt now saddled onto their children and grandchildren, thousands of U.S. soldiers dead, hundreds of thousands more crippled, whether physically or mentally, and an entire region laid waste. The propaganda isn’t having the same effect it used to, Americans no longer believe terrorists are hiding just around the corner, or that poor, Third World nations pose any threat to them.

Now, more often than not, Americans are of the opinion that, rather than their defender against terrorism, their own government has been the chief sponsor of terrorism worldwide, and that the primary reason terroristic hatred of the U.S. exists is due to the bombing and occupying of these poor countries. They understand that their own government has run amok across the Middle East, propping up puppet dictators, engaging in covert regime-change operations, cuddling up to Saudi and Israeli butchers, and funneling money to various shady “freedom fighters”, agglomerations of the worst thugs they can find who commence a willy-nilly murder spree for as long as the taxpayer millions flow.

All this is why no one is buying the latest war propaganda targeting Iran. No one believes Iran to truly be a threat, and it is clear to them that the toll from that war would dwarf every other conflict their government has waged in the region. Because of this sentiment, the Political Class is becoming desperate.  A war with Iran, while devastating to the taxpaying class, would be enormously profitable to them, and so they’ve resorted to increasingly crass measures to sell that war here at home, while goading Iran into a first strike, one that would give the green light to Washington for an onslaught. Lining Iran’s border with troops, tanks, and drones, filling the Persian Gulf with warships, etc, Washington is doing everything it can to squeeze a reaction out of Tehran, which to its credit is exercising Olympian restraint. It’s the usual bag of tricks for a deceptive superpower utterly captured by the nexus of interests who derive their wealth from endless war.

The recent attack on a Japanese oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman has been hyped as another reason we badly need war with Iran, despite all evidence pointing to Iranian navy as the heroes: they immediately rescued the sailors of the Kokuka Courageous tanker. The president of the company even stated that he believed his ship to have been damaged by a “flying object”, not magnetic mines as the U.S. claims without evidence. That we are on the brink of war with a nation that has never attacked us, based on lies and at the behest of those with a financial interest in the war, is madness. That American and Iranian soldiers, and civilians, could die over an isolated attack on an oil tanker that has all the symptoms of a false flag is tragic.

The Oman attack is also too conveniently timed: the attack occurred as the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met with the Iranian Supreme Leader to negotiate reduced tensions between Iran and the US. Fishy. Based upon the actions of our own government over the past two decades, we have every reason to distrust the rhetoric that immediately erupted from the various propaganda couriers of the Political Class regarding it as a cause for war.

“War is the health of the State”, said Randolph Bourne. War is the health of the Political Class, who reap all the benefits, while the taxpaying citizens bear the brunt: they fight the wars, pay for the wars, and exclusively suffer the consequences of the wars. The Warfare State is out of control, and it must be brought to heel before another superpower or coalition of powers does it for us.

Two months into the imprisonment of Julian Assange by the UK, for the ostensible crime of ducking bail, and it has become clear that neither the UK nor the US has any intention of waiting for the conclusion of some kangaroo court to exact their vengeance. That punishment has already arrived in the form of the “no-touch“, CIA-style psychological torture. A UN inspector who recently observed Assange found an “alarming deterioration in his mental and physical state”, and retired USAF liutenant colonel Karen Kwiatkowski believes he is being forcibly administered the powerful psychotropic drug 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate.

These methods are far more devastating and insidious than much physical torture due to the fact that the wounds form in the psyche, and are hidden from cameras. No bruises, no broken bones, no signs of the much-maligned “water-boarding”, yet psychological torture inflicts damage just as severe. Similar to the dehumanizing tactics used against Chelsea Manning during her detainment: solitary confinement, forced nudity, prolonged sleep deprivation, a colorful array of psychotropic drugs, etc.. They are meant to break the psyche of their victim. And just as they were used as tools of revenge against Manning, they are just as surely being used against Assange for the same purpose. Who, by the way, isn’t even a U.S. citizen, but an Australian national. That’s right, no one is safe from the U.S. Warfare State. If you’ve sufficiently embarrassed them, or exposed their crimes, it will find a way to get at you.

That the self-proclaimed saviors of the world, the governments of the West, self-described guardians of liberty and vanquishers of tyranny, are openly persecuting an individual for the crime of exposing the predictable outcome of this hypocritical megalomania should inspire widespread outrage and condemnation. For the most part, it hasn’t. Virtually every citadel of power is cheering Assange’s treatment, they want him strung up, because they themselves were also exposed.

The revenge springs from the stinging embarrassment felt by every rung of the Welfare/Warfare State as each new revelation of the Bush/Obama Iraq slaughter emerged: helicopter pilots chuckling while gunning down Reuters reporters and civilians, mercenaries on murder sprees among crowded Iraqi streets, and rampant abuse of the U.S.-supported Iraqi police force. Manning and Assange laid bare the consequences of allowing our government to embark on never-ending war: thugs of the First World unleashing death and destruction on the innocent civilians of the Third.

The wars were sold to us as urgent, limited military actions, with no time to examine the details or ponder the consequences. We were told that Iraq, or Syria, or Libya, was on the verge of massacring thousands of its own citizens, so the bombs had to fly as soon as possible. Shortly thereafter, the wars became open-ended, and resulted in millions of deaths, millions more displaced, obliterating the native social order, and unleashing chaos.

How will Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, and the other nations on the receiving end of U.S. bombs ever rebuild? Who would even do the rebuilding?

Thanks to Manning, Assange, Kiriakou, and the like, their whistleblowing took the wind out of the sails of the Warfare State’s military campaigns, and, ever so slightly, discredited the notion that ‘humanitarianism’ played any role in their formation or execution. Except for the great mass of the voting public, who would never really care about war unless it was fought in their own countries, directly affecting their own communities. And so we have journalists pleading with the public to care about their own government’s crimes on the other side of the world.

If journalism is anything at all, it is what Assange took part in: exposing the criminal nature of the powerful. Which is why he is also so hated among the sycophants, stenographers, and propaganda couriers that comprise the corporate media. They are the ones constantly selling us on every new war as another “humanitarian interventions”, wrap it up in counterfeit patriotism, and brand critics as “anti-American”. I’d say there’s nothing more American that opposing and exposing a corporate class hell-bent on a murderous regime-change war that our children will end up paying for, in both lives and billions of increasingly worthless currency.

Assange’s abhorrent treatment is meant to be the equivalent of a public execution. Every journalist on the planet is watching his mistreatment, and they wonder if it could happen to them. Is it worth the risk? This is not what America was supposed to become: a petty, vengeful oligarchy of warmongers. America was supposed to be the one place in the world where the liberty of the individual was enshrined as an absolute, irrevocable right. The very value of that right lay in what Assange took part in. The First Amendment exists, not to talk about the weather, but to openly criticize the powerful. It’s a shield and tool that is indispensable to a free society. The value a society places on that freedom says much about the value they place on their own liberty. And it’s difficult to resist encroaching tyranny, far easier to settle in to an easy serfdom, and let the government run amok.

The First Amendment desperately needs a reaffirmation, and there’s no better time for it than during Assange’s persecution. But for that to happen, there must exist a sufficient number of people willing to do the uncomfortable task of engaging in the battle of ideas, never ceding the inviolability of the principle that we have a right to expose the criminality of our own government.