JOHNSTONE

Welcome to the empire

Where genocide is self-defense and peace rallies are genocide

Where war criminals are the victims and the hospitals are terrorists

Where calls for freedom are hateful and ceasefires are anti-semitic

Where civilians get called terrorists and real terrorists get Nobel Peace Prizes

Where the propaganda is journalism and the journalism is propaganda

Where the democracy is real and the apartheid is imaginary

Where the corporations are people and the people are corporate resources

Welcome to the empire

Whose bombs are humanitarian and whose provocations are invisible

Whose veterans are heroes and whose victims are forgotten

Whose wars are always just and whose enemies are always Hitler

Whose cause is always righteous and whose critics are always Russian

Whose sufferings are unforgivable and whose crimes are erased from history

Whose atrocities are always an unfortunate accident and whose enemies kill civilians for fun

Whose disastrous interventions are always innocent mistakes no matter how often they happen

Welcome to the empire

Ever the victim of unprovoked attacks from the people it has been strangling

Ever the shining city on a hill of human corpses

Ever the defender of the poor helpless plutocrats of Wall Street

Ever the savior of the families incinerated by missiles made by Raytheon

Ever the protector of natural resources in the soil of foreign nations

Ever the upholder of the rules-based order of a world with a boot on its throat

The empire loves you with a heart made of dollars and oil

The empire watches over you through your smartphone and your computer

The empire is your only friend

The empire is the only one who will ever love you

You can't leave

You can't get rid of the empire

If you get rid of the empire, this world could be taken over by tyrants

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Reading by Tim Foley.

Benjamin Netanyahu said he opposes Palestinian statehood and that Israel must control everything from the river to the sea on the same day Joe Biden said the repeated bombing of Yemen isn't deterring Ansarallah but they're going to keep bombing anyway.

Reading by Tim Foley.

That's right kids: when Yemen sets up a blockade to try and stop an active genocide, that's terrorism, but when the US empire imposes a blockade to secure its geostrategic interests in the middle east, why that's just the rules-based international order in action.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The "rules-based international order" has allowed the incineration of Gaza, and the bombing of Yemeni forces who are trying to stop it.

The "rules-based international order" allowed hundreds of thousands of people to be killed by western-backed Saudi atrocities in Yemen.

The "rules-based international order" allowed NATO powers to knowingly provoke a world-threatening proxy war in Ukraine.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Turns out "Israel has a right to defend itself" actually meant "Israel has a right to commit genocide, and no other countries have a right to stop it."

Reading by Tim Foley.

If you're among those who have only just begun paying attention to US foreign policy and western media bias in light of Israel's destruction of Gaza and Biden's act of war against Yemen, it's important to understand that none of the depravity you're seeing is new. The lies. The insane double standards. The murderousness. The western political/media class always does this.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The US has carried out another air raid on Yemen, with targets reportedly including the international airport in the capital city of Sanaa. This comes a day after US and UK airstrikes on Yemen in retaliation for Houthi attacks on Red Sea commercial vessels.

Reading by Tim Foley.

So the US and the UK just bombed the poorest country in the middle east for trying to stop a genocide. Not only that, they bombed the very same country in which they just spent years backing Saudi Arabia's genocidal atrocities which killed hundreds of thousands of people between 2015 and 2022 in an unsuccessful bid to stop the Houthis from taking power.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Biden has turned out to be everything we were warned Trump would be: a genocidal monster fueling racist violence and crimes against humanity while imperiling the world with insanely reckless foreign policy decisions.

Reading by Tim Foley.

This genocide is being live-streamed. We can't say we didn't know. For as long as we live we'll never be able to say we didn't know.

Reading by Tim Foley.