The Biden administration has finally admitted that the US is providing offensive material support to Saudi Arabia's genocidal assault on Yemen, directly contradicting Biden's February claim that it would no longer be providing offensive support in that war aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/4/…
We are being lied to about yet another US war by yet another US president. vox.com/2021/4/27/2240…
So the US is maintaining and servicing the war planes that are bombing Yemen and enforcing a blockade which has killed hundreds of thousands and the United Nations warns could kill 400,000 more this year alone if conditions don't change. news.antiwar.com/2021/02/12/un-…
Getting to this point where questions are finally answered about the reality of the Biden administration's Yemen policy has been like pulling teeth, with officials giving questioners the runaround for months on this issue.
Watch this clip of US Yemen Envoy Tim Lenderking dodging questions like George Bush dodges shoes as congressman Ted Lieu tries to get a straight answer as to whether the US has stopped supporting the war on Yemen:
The United States lies about all its wars with the help of the mass media, but up until this year its lies about Yemen have largely consisted of lies by omission. This time, it was just a straightforward lie: Biden said the US was ending offensive support, and it wasn't.
As we've discussed previously, when the people demand something of their government it's a lot easier to simply tell them you're on their side and redirect them than to tell them no. Democrats are especially good at this. caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/02/07/ele…
As awareness grows that Yemen is the single most horrifying atrocity taking place in our world today, pressure is mounting for the US government to use its tremendous amount of leverage over Saudi Arabia to cease the human butchery.
Rather than increasing that pressure by saying no, the Biden administration defused it by falsely pretending to give in to the demands. Because the risk of "losing Riyadh as a key regional partner" was deemed too great.
And meanwhile the slaughter continues, unbroken from Obama to Trump and from Trump to Biden. The names change, the narratives change, but the murderous imperial war machine rolls on uninterrupted.
Hard to blame people for believing dumb conspiracy theories about the powerful, seeing how proven conspiracies by the powerful are far worse. The conspiracy of the US power alliance to slaughter children in Yemen (and lie about it) is far worse than the QAnon stuff, for example.
MSM propaganda is another example. Wealthy elites and government agencies are indeed conspiring to manipulate the thoughts of the entire population; this is a fact that has been studied and documented for decades. It happens in a mundane way, but it's a huge, creepy conspiracy.
I mean, just think about it: powerful elites are engaging in mass-scale mind control to justify murder and genocide around the world. This is a fact. The only reason it doesn't give people the thrill of 5G nanobot mind control conspiracies or whatever is because we're used to it.
It's not just mainstream politics and news media, it's the entirety of mainstream culture: all its movies, books, music, values systems, ideals. It's all inseparably intertwined with the sick status quo we now find ourselves in and the manufactured worldviews which consent to it.
Teenagers understand this better than adults. There's an intuitive rejection of mainstream culture; it feels weird and dissonant. Adults make fun of them for it; "Ooh, it's not alternative enough for you?", but that rejection is arising from a very healthy impulse.
Mainstream culture SHOULD be rejected, because it's what got us into this mess. It's sick. The instinct to reject it is as healthy as the immune system's instinct to attack a pathogen.
"Then it happened. A nuclear weapon was deployed by one side, setting off a chain reaction that had been set in place ready to be triggered long ago, from which there was no coming back.
And the funny thing is, it was an accident." caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-day-the-…
The day the world ended began like any other day. People woke up, had their coffee, checked their social media, kissed their loved ones, went to work.
Nobody knew it was coming. The news reporters and pundits hadn't been informing them that the US and its allies had been simultaneously ramping up aggressions against two nuclear-armed nations in a way that could easily lead to something going catastrophically wrong.
There's no point admonishing the mainstream press for the public's plummeting trust in it. It can't change. A thing that has only ever existed to administer propaganda can't suddenly become journalism, and humanity's relationship with narrative is going to continue to fall apart.
Don't tell the mainstream press to do their job. They ARE doing their job. They're doing it perfectly. It's just that their job isn't what you thought it was. Don't say "Do your job!" Say "It sucks that I used to think you tell us the truth about what's happening in our world."
The MSM are completely and utterly irredeemable, and always have been. It's a waste of energy to try and get plutocratic propaganda institutions to suddenly begin doing journalism; that's not what they're for. Instead, teach people to stop seeing them as journalistic outlets.
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.
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.