JOHNSTONE

Nothing's more enraging than seeing the western officials who are making this genocide possible weep crocodile tears about how "heartbreaking" it is.

Reading by Tim Foley.

"Liberals only try to compartmentalize these things away from each other to stave off the cognitive dissonance inherent in their contradiction-soaked worldview."

Reading by Tim Foley.

There's a motherfucking genocide happening and we're being told we need to be worried about TikTok and defaced portraits of Lord Balfour.

Reading by Tim Foley.

US airman Aaron Bushnell said the words "This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal" before self-immolating in protest of the genocide in Gaza. That simple line has been reverberating throughout our collective consciousness ever since.

Reading by Tim Foley.

A recently released UNRWA document says its staff report having been tortured while detained by Israeli forces, who pressed them to provide false statements about ties between the agency and Hamas.

Reading by Tim Foley.

"Such a tactic is not meaningfully different from lining up children on their knees on the battlefield and shooting them one by one in the back of the head until the enemy unconditionally surrenders."

Reading by Tim Foley.

Pointing pistols as the man burns,

as Gaza burns,

as civilization burns,

as the planet burns.

I don't need guns 

I need fire extinguishers.

Raytheon racketeers and Pentagon pimps

swollen fat from the blood of unnamed victims

glossed over in headlines by The New York Times

while National Guard troops patrol the New York subways

and babies with legs like toothpicks fill our screens.

Pouring arms into Israel 

while humanitarian-LARPing aid airdrops.

Waving around armageddon weapons

while accusing peacemongers of treason.

Well sure I'd ask for seconds mister president sir,

but see I don't need guns

I need fire extinguishers.

I need someone to put some fat back on those babies.

I need someone to get the plastic out of the oceans.

I need the bombs to stop and the siege to lift

and a healthy planet for the kids to play in.

I need kids to stop getting their limbs blown off

so they can run and play in that healthy world.

Can you drone strike me a thriving biosphere?

Can you ICBM those Gazans some food?

Can you extinguish this fire with your weapons and wars?

No?

Then get outta the way man.

We don't need guns

we need fire extinguishers.

"Free Palestine," the man on fire said.

"FREE PALESTINE!" he screamed.

And then the cops showed up with their guns and their bullets,

because of course they fucking did.

And Gaza still burns,

and the world still burns,

and our eyes still burn,

and our lungs still burn,

and our hearts still burn,

and our rage still burns,

and they promise us the burning will stop

if we just add in a few more guns.

We don't need guns you stupid cop.

We need this burning world to heal.

The Biden administration is supposedly planning to set up a temporary pier in Gaza to allow for the large-scale shipment of sorely needed goods into the enclave, which reportedly will take weeks to build and will still be subjected to an Israeli checkpoint.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Every Hollywood celebrity who fails to speak out against the US-backed genocide in Gaza at the Oscars this Sunday is complicit in that genocide. If you're given a major platform and your government is committing genocide, you are morally obligated use that platform to condemn your government's actions.

Reading by Tim Foley.

We've managed to get a third podcast episode up! Recording it and making enough time to create it and edit it are skills we're still developing, but we've always learned on the job in this weird little project of ours anyway. Personally I think this is our best one yet.

In this episode we discuss Aaron Bushnell and the pathetic performative airdrop of a few meals in Gaza, we make some embarrassing revelations about how we stay productive amidst a daily deluge of negativity, and we answer a few questions from readers and trolls.

Questions we address in this episode:

"Discuss the reasons explaining the impressive level of US support for Israel."

"How do you maintain such productivity in the face of the negativity you're dealing with daily? Mindset, routines, practices?"

"Why weren't you so ragey about the civil war waged on Syrians by Assad about a decade ago, where far more were slaughtered than in Gaza right now?"

"We talk about pro-war corporate media narratives all the time. Who is the narrator? How is the script passed down?"

"Why Joe Biden and Netanyahu are not Behind the Bars?"

Questions and comments and constructive criticism are much appreciated. Enjoy!