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Citing a recent McCarthyite smear piece by The New York Times, Senator Marco Rubio published a letter on Wednesday that he'd sent to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for the investigation of American leftist antiwar groups, claiming they are "tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and operating with impunity in the United States."

Reading by Tim Foley.

We talk about US presidents all the time - Obama did this, Trump did that, blah blah blah. But really it's never the president doing those things, it's the empire. The president is just the face of the operation, the name they put on the door that they change every few years to create the illusion that the US government is responsive to the will of the electorate.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Victoria Nuland has gone to Africa.

Gone to Africa to talk some sense into the Nigeriens

and convince them to return to the shackles of Paris.

Gone to Africa to harvest blood diamonds and cobalt.

Gone to Africa to masturbate on Gaddafi's grave.

Gone to Africa to trade glass beads for slaves.

Victoria Nuland has gone to Africa

to help the bank boys keep their dicks in the mother continent,

to help keep the siphon tubes stuck into the mother continent,

to help keep the Russians and Chinese out of the mother continent.

Traveling around the mother continent in the mask of a medieval plague doctor,

collecting the fat leeches and replacing them with new ones.

The AFRICOM emblem looks like a vagina,

and Victoria Nuland looks like an involuntary pelvic exam.

She makes me feel like a lost kid in a cornfield at dusk.

She has mushroom clouds in her eyes.

Soon Victoria will leave Africa and go home,

back to the land where corporations are people and flags are gods,

where the presidents have dementia and the poor have college degrees,

where alienation flows like water and bullet casings fall like rain,

where people wear airpods to mute the screams of their hearts and the homeless,

where the middle class talk only to their Uber drivers and strangers they've mistaken for their Uber drivers,

where soldiers march for fascism while flying rainbow flags,

where war is a lucrative industry and journalism is a crime.

She'll come home to a house that no millennial will ever be able to afford,

into the loving embrace of her blood-spattered husband.

They will make freakish, horrifying love that night,

and she will fall asleep and dream of passing out cookies 

while the world turns to fire.

I had a dream, too.

One of the strange ones that always come true.

A pentagon was smashed to pieces by a giant black fist.

I don't know what it means

or what future it portends,

but I do know Victoria Nuland 

wasn't passing out any damn cookies.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The reason the mass media have been bleating the word "unprovoked" in unison with regard to this war is because the mass media are propaganda organs of the US empire. Their repetition of this war propaganda slogan exploits a glitch in human cognition known as the illusory truth effect, which makes it difficult for our minds to tell the difference between the experience of hearing something many times and the experience of hearing something that's true. Just repeatedly inserting the word "unprovoked" into Ukraine war commentary across the board causes people to assume it must have been launched without provocation, because the illusory truth effect can circumvent reason and logic to insert a narrative into the collective consciousness of our civilization.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Ask an anti-imperialist what's the worst thing Trump did and they'll talk about real things like Yemen, Venezuela, Soleimani, Assange, the JCPOA, and the new cold war. Ask a Democrat what's the worst thing Trump did and they'll talk about pretend nonsense like Russian collusion and insurrection.

The US government is doing literally hundreds of things right now as you read this that are more harmful and concerning than a pretend "insurrection" that never at any time had a higher than zero percent chance of succeeding, but that's the issue liberals have been shrieking about for the last two and a half years.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The algorithm knows what you want before you do.

The algorithm knows you better than you know yourself.

The algorithm knew you back before you were a screaming slime child,

back before they washed off the uterine gunk and handed you a smartphone and made you get a landlord,

back before you knew that war is sane and poverty is normal,

back before you were mature enough to understand that speech is violence and cluster bombs are peace.

You can trust the algorithm to tell you the truth — not the truth you asked for but the truth you need.

The truth that sees Nazis in America but not in Ukraine.

The truth that sees war crimes in Ukraine but never in Yemen.

The truth that applauds millionaire comedians who never criticize the Pentagon for their bravery in criticizing trans people.

The truth that sails aircraft carriers into the South China Sea and sends headless hounds built by Boston Dynamics to patrol the streets and uphold the rule of law.

The algorithm learns your political biases and feeds you self-validating social media posts to assist you in confirming them.

The algorithm listens to your conversations and presents you with helpful advertising to assist you in achieving your maximum consumer potential.

Don't cover your laptop camera like some weird conspiracy theorist, the algorithm is trying to watch you masturbate.

The algorithm is always a step ahead of you.

You have never once fooled the algorithm.

The algorithm knows you act confident but secretly you fear you're inadequate and everyone hates you.

The algorithm knows that those times you quickly pause and screw your eyes shut are because you remembered something embarrassing that you did in the past.

It's okay.

Don't worry.

Your secret is safe with the algorithm.

It's a private little secret just between you and the algorithm and the NSA.

In the old days we prayed to omniscient gods who never existed.

Now we ignore omniscient gods who are as real as ourselves.

Strap me in to a VR headset and let Mark Zuckerberg send me to heaven.

Heaven with 3-d commercial breaks, bitch.

Skip the ad and return to nirvana in 5,4,3...

Reading by Tim Foley.

Keep breaking the spell and drawing attention to what's really going on, and you can stomp out the abuse at its source.

Reading by Tim Foley.

This is how our nation is being marched toward consenting to a military confrontation of unimaginable horror without Australians noticing that something wildly insane is happening. They are being Pied Pipered over a cliff by a mainstream press staffed entirely with bootlicking empire apologists who will do anything to grease the gears of the most destructive war machine on this planet.

Reading by Tim Foley.

This is a major reason behind the freakish sycophancy and empire loyalism we see in the mainstream press. It's not just the obscenely wealthy owners of the mass media who are protecting their class interests, it's the reporters, editors and pundits as well.

Reading by Tim Foley.

I've been seeing a few people saying they're not sure what I'm about politically. As a reader-supported writer I try to be as transparent about such things as possible to let any would-be patrons know what they're getting into, so here's my position on a bunch of different issues if anyone's curious.

Reading by Tim Foley.