REPUBLIC REBORN

War is probably the most quintessentially human activity that our species engages in. As monstrous as it is, it has the remarkable ability to reveal the true nature of the people thrown into its various theaters. I am primarily talking about two Oklahoma soldiers, one a hero, one a murderer. One tortured and persecuted, one pardoned. That hero is Chelsea Manning, who, by taking on the entire Warfare State, has proved herself to be in possession of spinal column composed of pure titanium. She leaked evidence of war crimes to Wikileaks, and was therefore tortured by Obama, before he pardoned her. After Julian Assange, of Wikileaks, was arrested, she steadfastly refused to testify against him, and was promptly thrown in jail for contempt, probably in hopes that she would break down and relent. The black-robed filth clearly underestimated the nature of her character. She rode out her contempt sentence, and was released. Listen to Chelsea for yourself:

The other soldier, Michael Behenna, was tasked with releasing a prisoner. He murdered him instead. This murderer received a pardon from Trump, and applause from the mob of military-worshiping imbeciles that populate this state. Nothing more need be said about the murderer and coward, because that’s all he is.

Tulsi sat down with Joe Rogan for a 2.5-hour long interview today, and her unalloyed, intransigent stance against endless war was on full display. Listening to her feels like listening to Ron Paul, who of course recently said that she is, by far, the best candidate. I would go on, but, well, just watch for yourself!

A person of principle is a rare animal. A politician of principle sounds like an oxymoron, rivaling Bigfoot in mythic status, a creature that nature normally would not abide, yet there sits Tulsi, speaking about the military-industrial complex, and bringing an end to our endless wars.

There is something intensely admirable about a person willing to plainly state what they believe, and what they will do, with no subterfuge To be principled is to say, “I believe this and this, and neither God nor the Devil will convince me otherwise”. It’s a rare quality, but one that strikes fear in the hearts of the filth that lives off the chaos and death of Imperial wars.

From an October, 1923, issue of the Freeman:

“Of all things that human beings fear (and they are a timorous race) the one that strikes them with abject and utterly demoralizing terror is freedom. They are so afraid of it for other people that almost simultaneously they come to dread it for themselves…They are willing to go to the most fantastic lengths in restriction and repression; but the one thing that they never yet have shown the courage to try is simple freedom, which some day they will have the happy surprise of discovering to be the only thing that really works.”

As writers go, Fred Reed is my favorite living stylist of all time. There are no other living writers half as charming, no other columnist comes close. You can almost see, and smell, the sweat and toil that go into producing their tiresome tracts. Fred’s writing comes across as perfectly natural, as if written on the fly before jaunting off to some remote outpost in Mexico. Which is probably closer to the truth than not. If I also counted the dead among favorite writers, I would have to also include Albert Jay Nock. But Reed still walks among the living, and so we are gifted with his thoughts on present-day happenings on a weekly basis at his blog, FredOnEverything. One such happening is the continuous war promotion on the part of the so-called Christians that, for some reason, are allowed to shape foreign policy:

“Tell me, Mr Pompeo, Mr. Pence:. Have you ever seen a child die of starvation? I have heard it described. It takes many days. Crying, crying, crying, slowly getting weaker. The mother, frantic, desperate, going crazy. The child holds out his arms, expecting as children do that their mother will do something. The crying eventually stops.  But maybe  you would get more of a kick out of watching one die of cholera caused by your wars. Death by cholera is quicker, but more interesting: Puking and defecating uncontrollably, crying, crying. The dehydration kills them. Neat, huh? Meanwhile, Mike, you eat prime rib in Washington and talk of the sanctity of your faith. You are a goddamned pious monster. May you rot in hell, if any.

We have Pompeo, a malignant manatee looking to start wars in which he will not risk his flabby amorphous ass also parading his Christianity. Bolton, a mean sonofabitch who belongs in a strait jacket, at least doesn’t pose as someone having a soul. And the Golden Tufted Cocatoo, too weak to control those around him, preening and tweeting. God save us.

Those of a certain age may remember Christianity as a vague though real niceness practiced by people who would have been equally nice without it.  Christmas meant trees glowing with lights and a nativity seen on the town square, this not yet being illegal, and choirs of children singing carols in front of houses, carols on public streets not yet having been found unconstitutional. It means a spaniel-eyed Jesus looking skyward in sappy adoration. It was pleasant. This is not the Christianity of Pence and Pompeo. They are amoral Christians. They are cruel Christians. They are evil Christians.”

These are Christians of the Old Testament, of the Inquisition. But the specific ideology isn’t really the issue. These people are monsters with very limited capacity to employ the higher functions of their brain. Thinking is hard. Better to latch on to an ideology sufficiently strong in order to silence the conscience and the objections of their reason. The type of monster existing within Pompeo and Pence also existed in atheist Soviet Union, among the butchers of the Inquisition, and of every other bloodbath committed by one group against another. The amazing thing is that they probably sleep like babies, secure in their knowledge that God, or Science, is on their side.

Here is a cartoon published last week in the international edition of the New York Times, which received sweeping denunciations from every hall of power, followed by a quick retraction on the part of the Times, and a cancelling of the contract with the cartoonist. But just look at it:

It’s a miracle it made it into a mainstream publication at all, considering it mocks the highest symbol on the totem pole, the US-Israel relationship. It depicts the US being led blindly by Israel, which, of course, accurately depicts the nature of the relationship. And if anyone criticizes that relationship, they hide, cravenly, behind the race card, slinging “anti-Semite!” rapid-fire. Why is this so? Growing up in the midst of Southern Baptist obsession with the End Times, I know that that obsession made it inevitable that they would nurture a similar obsession with the state of Israel. Southern Baptists elect Southern Baptists, and so many legislatures are inhabited by people who sincerely believe Armageddon will arrive at any moment, with the Anti-Christ materializing and ready to wreak havoc on the world. Jerusalem apparently must be Jewish-controlled in order for all of this to happen. Hence the obsession, and the complacent attitude toward Israeli crimes, including the 1967 attack on the USS Liberty, which killed 37 US servicemen. Also something that doesn’t keep them up at night is the obvious control Israel exercises over our own government. They operate an open-air concentration camp of 1.8 million Palestinian civilians. They control the borders, prohibit many, many goods from entering, and conduct random night-time raids to keep the Palestinians on their toes.

But Israel is an ethnic Apartheid State, brought into this world through the modern methods of terrorism: a series of campaigns of unpredictable, indiscriminate mass murders and assassinations,  in order to clear space for their new nation. They’ve never attempted to get along with any neighboring country, instead building a fortress State, and becoming a permanent welfare recipient, and liability, of the United States.

It’s a shame that such a state was built by such a persecuted people in the aftermath of the Holocaust. The world’s goodwill was exploited, and Israel has bizarrely become almost a mirror of Nazi ethnic ideology: the treatment of Palestinians by Israel mirrors the treatment the Jews received at the hands of Hitler’s murderous regime.

Say any of that in public and you’ll be called an anti-Semite, or worse. Such is the power of ideology on the mind.

KAREN KWIATKOWSKI: The chemical torture of Julian Assange: He’s being treated, against his will, with 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate.

BONNIE KRISTIAN: Trump’s latest pardon is an implicit endorsement of war crimes

Truthdig: The Pentagon’s trillion-dollar boondoggle

Health Impact: FDA approves Dengvaxia vaccine that harmed over 100,000 Philippine children, allegedly killing 600

Reason: Oklahoma just passed a major licensing reform for individuals with criminal records

The Guardian: Is Chinese-style surveillance coming to the West?

ANDREW BACEVICH: How the Medal of Freedom became a fraud

Progenitor of the present-day Liberty Movement, Ron Paul, appeared for an interview on RT, throwing his support behind Tulsi Gabbard’s Presidential bid: “She is, by far, the very, very best…She’s the most intelligent, and would be the best, if we had to pick one of them to be our President.”

What a strange feeling it will be to register Democrat, but how thrilling it will be to again vote for someone calling out the “regime-change wars” and intransigently stating that they will end them, once and for all.

Ilhan Omar has become a thorn in the side to the many benefactors of the seamless procession of regime-change wars of the past two decades. Those benefactors now have their sights set on Venezuela, and have unfurled the narrative they pray will set the Imperial War Machine full-force upon that civilian population. That narrative is composed of a variation on a theme of the evils of socialism, of which there are many, but Venezuela’s plight is far more complex than simply socialism wrecking the country. For one, Maduro is not a dictator. Socialism or not, Venezuelans elected him, and love him. Socialism has done damage to the country, but Trump’s effort to topple Maduro and install a puppet regime has led to the imposition of sanctions, a policy that has never forced a foreign leader from power, but has done plenty of horrific damage to the most vulnerable civilians. The economic sanctions, which have been ongoing for the past two years, have caused tens of thousands of deaths, according to a new report released from the Center for Economic and Policy Research. This U.S.-created humanitarian crisis was plainly recognized as such by Ilhan Omar, who, while appearing on Democracy Now!, said,

“A lot of the policies that we have put in place has kind of helped lead the devastation in Venezuela, and we’ve sort of set the stage for where we’re arriving today…This particular bullying and the use of sanctions to eventually intervene and make regime change really does not help the people of countries like Venezuela, and it certainly does not help and is not in the interest of the United States.”

The architects of this foreign devastation came with knives drawn, with VP Mike Pence accusing Omar of choosing “socialism over freedom”. Omar shot back, saying that, “Just as in interventions past, those who oppose war are labeled supporters of dictators and haters of ‘freedom’. We saw this playbook in Iraq. The situation in Venezuela is dire and the Trump Admin is making it worse. We must support diplomacy, not war.”

Much to the chagrin of Trump and his cabal of war pigs , Venezuelans love Maduro. What they don’t love is the world’s foremost superpower poking its nose where it doesn’t belong. That includes shopping around for useful idiots, political pawns they can use as warm bodies to inhabit the puppet government they so desperately wish to install. Juan Guaido has been D.C.’s puppet of choice, due to the fact that in him reside all the best qualities of a foreign puppet: opportunism, greed, gullibility, a conspicuous lack of integrity, a willingness to sell out his own country for a shot at power, and generalized idiocy.

Could you imagine if Russia, or some other foreign power openly conspired with a member of Congress to overthrow an elected leader here? That member would most likely be strung up. That Guaido walks around a free man, holding political rallies in the middle of the day in Caracas, is a testament to the very lack of authoritarianism that Washington D.C. so wishes existed in that South American country. Guaido is puppet whose usefulness is running low, and D.C. is beginning to realize that he may now be more valuable dead than alive, and would surely prefer a nice, clean assassination on the part of the Maduro regime. To their credit, they surely recognize this imbecile for what he is, a traitor to his country. Traitor, due to his open calls for his government’s overthrow at the behest of a foreign power, and actual, real-world collusion with U.S. officials to fast-track his status as President Puppet of Venezuela.

There are too few who criticize the U.S. foreign policy of making corpses of entire nations, of irreversibly ruining the existing social order, unleashing chaos, and sowing the seeds of future wars. Conversely, there are far too many that promote and advocate for never-ending, overseas wars. The political establishment in D.C. speaks with one voice on the topic. Their only concern is their ability to brand the war in such a way that it will be swallowed by enough people to get the war going. The pharmaceutical industry, in its pursuit of profits from the sick and gullible, engages in “disease branding”. Basically, after creating a drug, they look at the side-effects, and then conjure a disease out of thin air that comports with those very side-effects. And so it is with murderous and expensive U.S. military campaigns abroad, rebranded as “humanitarian” to better sell it to a gullible public.

“It has to be this way, or else.”

-Johnny Rotten