JOHNSTONE

The US is going to start a nuclear war with Russia or China and the online left will still be focused on the Leftist Heretic of the Day for several minutes after the first bombs hit.

Reading by Tim Foley.

This is so dangerous. This whole two-front nuclear brinkmanship game is so very, very dangerous, and they keep finding ways to make it more dangerous. And hardly anyone notices it, because the news media outlets that people look to to understand the world aren't telling them it's dangerous.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article with links referenced in recording: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/were-sleepwalking-into-nuclear-war

Charles Bukowski has a quote: “We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”

Terrorized and flattened by trivialities, eaten up by nothing. I think about this quote a lot not just as pertains to the inevitability of our individual deaths, but to the looming death of the entire world.

Reading by Tim Foley.

And I just keep tripping on how weird it is that so few people see the US empire's headlong charge into cold war conflict with two separate nuclear-armed nations as the single most urgent concern of our day. It probably doesn't even make most people's top ten. Very few people seem to believe the most pressing threat to humanity might be all those armageddon weapons we've been stockpiling and how increasingly irresponsibly our leaders are treating them.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Article with links and sources: https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/erm-i-know-youre-busy-but-nuclear

This level of intrusiveness into Venezuela's heavily internationally monitored democratic process is typical of what we've been seeing from the US political/media class with regard to electoral contests in empire-targeted Latin American nations like Bolivia and Nicaragua. Which is really silly, because the US has no more moral authority over the legitimacy of democratic processes than a totalitarian monarchy like Saudi Arabia.

Reading by Tim Foley.

People who defend US foreign policy are terrorist sympathizers.

Reading by Tim Foley.

People who suffer conniptions over someone's failure to adequately criticize China or any other empire-targeted nation universally embody this dynamic. They don't criticize the US empire, or if they do they don't do so in a way that reflects how worthy of criticism those power structures are. Washington is plainly far, far more worthy of criticism than Beijing, but those who bleat "You can criticize BOTH" are never far more critical of Washington than Beijing. Typically, they are considerably less critical.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The US staging a domestic uprising in Cuba and no one showing up for it reminds me of that old saying "What if they had a war, and nobody came?"

Reading by Tim Foley.

Well, it finally happened. We finally received our eviction notice on the crumbling rental we've been living in for the last twelve years.

Reading by Tim Foley.

60 Minutes Australia has churned out yet another fearmongering war propaganda piece on China, this one so ham-fisted in its call to beef up ADF military spending that it goes so far as to run a brazen advertisement for an actual Australian weapons manufacturer disguised as news reporting.

Reading by Tim Foley.