Why are people claiming the context of the video makes it better? It clearly doesn't. It's literally the exact same boring Karl Rove talking points people have been hearing on Fox News for decades.
Criticize Beijing's Xinjiang policies all you want, but its deradicalization campaign was indisputably infinitely less draconian than the western "war on terror" which has killed millions and displaced tens of millions since 9/11.
And now it's winding down, while the US empire's "war on terror" has been continually expanding. These two things are not equal. They're not even comparable. The US and its allies are indisputably far, far worse.
All the western hand-wringing about Muslims in China is worse than hypocritical; it's a joke. The US empire pretending to care about Muslims is like Exxon-Mobil pretending to care about the environment.
Few people get how fucked things are. It's not just that we're facing global disaster on multiple fronts and our electoral systems are rigged to prevent us from doing anything about it, it's that the public is being propagandized away from even WANTING to do anything about it.
Our abusive systems are so deeply locked in on so many levels that even people who see things kind of clearly can't really grasp how bad it is. They're still like oh okay they we need a new political party or a new voting strategy or whatever, and it just misses how bad it is.
We're so very, very sick and so very, very, VERY far from any kind of shift toward health and you look at what even the most awake people are talking about and it's often vapid sectarian bickering about nonsense that's light years from having any relevance to our current plight.
Mass Media Hasten To Help Pentagon Exonerate Itself In Afghan Airstrike
"So the Pentagon literally did the 'we investigated ourselves and cleared ourselves of any wrongdoing' meme, and the mainstream press is passing that off as a real thing." caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/mass-media-h…
Mass Media Hasten To Help Pentagon Exonerate Itself In Afghan Airstrike
"AP was told by their source, a senior defense official, that the report is 'independent', and then they passed that claim on to their readers as though it's an objective fact." soundcloud.com/going_rogue/ma…
The mass media are full of headlines announcing that a "watchdog" has concluded in an "independent" investigation that US military personnel did nothing wrong in an August airstrike in Kabul which killed ten civilians and zero combatants. apnews.com/article/afghan…
The review was done by the Air Force Inspector General. How in the fuck is that a "watchdog"?
Literally the only time the word "watchdog" appears in the article is in the headline. An AP editor deliberately inserted it to convey this message to the overwhelming majority who only read headlines.
It's Really Weird How Little We Talk About Humanity's Imminent Doom
"It's like if you knew you had a deadly but treatable disease, and not only did you not pursue treatment, you also didn't think about it much and didn't talk about it with anyone." caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/its-really-w…
It's Really Weird How Little We Talk About Humanity's Imminent Doom
"People bicker and argue about global warming and what should be done about it and if it even exists, but climate change is only one of the many ways our biosphere is moving toward death" soundcloud.com/going_rogue/it…
Did you know the insects are vanishing?
They are. Land-dwelling insects like butterflies, ants and grasshoppers are now half as common as they were 75 years ago.