JOHNSTONE

Western politics is mostly just empire managers making up fake problems to fight so they don't have to address the real problems.

Can't stop waging wars or the western empire will collapse. So they make up fake threats from dictators and tyrants and take action to stop them.

Can't stop inflating the military budget and circling the planet with more and more war machinery or the military-industrial complex will stop reaping profits. So they tell you to be afraid of Muslims and "terrorists" and Russia and China and take action to protect you from them.

Can't stop polluting the world and destroying the biosphere or capitalism will perish. So they split us into two mainstream warring factions arguing about culture war wedge issues and promise to protect each faction from the other side.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel's mass atrocities in Gaza have always been about ethnic cleansing from the very beginning.

Reading by Tim Foley.

I hold out hope because people aren't buying the propaganda like they used to.

I hold out hope because trust in the imperial media is at an all-time low while our ability to attack and discredit the official narrative is at an all-time high.

I hold out hope because more and more people are realizing that capitalism simply does not work.

I hold out hope because empires don't last forever.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Israel was founded on the premise that the country’s previous inhabitants need to be eliminated in some way.

That’s all this has ever been about.

It was never about October 7.

It was never about Hamas.

It was never about hostages.

It was never about terrorism.

It was never about self-defense.

It was never about any of the countless excuses the hasbarists and imperial spinmeisters have offered up over the last three years to justify Israel’s monstrous abuses.

It was only ever about eliminating Palestinians because of their ethnicity and replacing them with Jews.

Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Ask why there's been so much violence in the middle east these last three years and you'll be told it's because of October 7.

Ask why October 7 happened and you'll be called an antisemite.

Ask what specifically transpired on that day and you'll be called a conspiracy theorist.

Reading by Tim Foley.