There are mountains of evidence that the US and its allies bombed Syria on false grounds in 2018, and yet people who point this out get called "Assadists" and "atrocity deniers". For scrutinizing the most powerful and destructive government on earth using evidence and journalism.
The entire argument that the OPCW scandal is fake boils down to a bizarre conspiracy theory that OPCW investigators collaborated with Damascus and Moscow to spin Douma as a false flag for some reason. This would've been laughed out of the room if it weren't backed by the empire.
It's freakish that you get accused of war crimes denial when actually **trying to get a war crime solved**. The facts are in, the Douma incident needs to be ripped wide open, and @aaronjmate needs to be showered with awards for his excellent work exposing this scandal.
It's 2021 and people are still acting like you're a treasonous freak if you believe the US power alliance might lie and manipulate about a government it openly wants to topple, right next door to Iraq, whose country it has been bombing and occupying.
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The US didn't re-enter Iraq in 2014 to stop ISIS, they re-entered Iraq in 2014 to stop Soleimani from stopping ISIS.
The "war on terror" has never been about defeating violent extremist factions, it's been about keeping the nations in the region from relying on Iran to defeat them. It's been about ensuring the US power alliance, not Iran, is the dominant military force in the Middle East.
It's also used to justify endless military expansionism in a key geostrategic region, of course. Soleimani was the strongest argument that the "war on terror" isn't actually necessary. And that's essentially why he's dead now.
The Rising Threat Of Nuclear War Is The Most Urgent Matter In The World
"This should be the main thing everyone talks about. There is literally no more urgent matter on earth than the looming possibility that everyone might die in a nuclear war." caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-rising-t…
Check out this recent tweet by US Strategic Command, the branch of the US military responsible for America's nuclear arsenal:
This caused a lot of alarm, not because of any inaccuracy in STRATCOM's frank statement, but due to the bizarre fact that our world's increasing risk of nuclear war barely features in mainstream discourse. newsweek.com/us-strategic-c…
The US has killed millions and displaced tens of millions just since the turn of this century and its Secretary of State spends all day tweeting about how other countries are human rights abusers.
No other government has done this. No other government has killed millions and displaced tens of millions since the turn of this century. Yet when you say this, you get accused of "whataboutism". No, idiot, distracting from the world's very worst offender is the "whataboutism".
The contents of this article are so much less significant than the tweet makes it sound, but the replies and quote tweets are full of imperialists ripping their faces off in anguish over the idea of New Zealand allying with China instead of the "Five Eyes" intelligence cartel.
One problem with these paywall articles is people can caption them however they want when they share them and folks have a hard time reading them to verify that that's what it actually says. Get past the paywall here: archive.is/nFra9
And I wonder what they're doing with all that brain matter? The sperm whale has the largest brain of the animal kingdom; it doesn't take that much brain mass to make a tail go up and down.
We don't even know what these creatures are. I wonder if we'll ever meet them? Have a real connection, a close encounter, with these alien life forms in our own oceans, before we wipe them out for good?
Defending the most powerful is always the wrong position. Defending cops from the people. The rich from the poor. The US empire from weaker powers. White people from POC. Men from women. Israel from Palestinians. You're just helping to create a more unjust and imbalanced world.
Most people intuitively grasp this, which is why a lot of effort by the powerful goes into making the up-power party look like the down-power party. But that just proves that power knows it can make itself more powerful by getting more people to defend and side with it.
You'll see such distortion in attempts to spin the leaders of empire-targeted governments as the up-power party just because they're the dominant power within their own nation, even though they've got the might of the entire US-centralized power alliance stacked against them.