If Gaza Opened Your Eyes To The Empires Depravity, Make Sure They Stay Open Forever by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2024-06-24 at 23:16:29 )

If Gaza Opened Your Eyes To The Empires Depravity, Make Sure They Stay Open Forever by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Please please please do not let Gaza be a one-off in terms of your opposition to the imperial machine. Keep your eyes fiercely trained on its actions after this is over, and help bring as much attention to its crimes as possible.

One of the most important things to understand about the United States-backed atrocities in Gaza is that the United States-centralized empire is not normally this obvious about its criminality. The relatively undisguised nature of the sadism and savagery in this particular case has been a gift to opponents of the United States war machine, because the empire has made it much easier for us to open peoples eyes to its depravity.

Normally it is a lot harder.

Normally almost everyone is buying into the mainstream narrative about what is going on in Empire-Targeted Nation X because of Evil Enemy Dictator Y, with the empires role in instigating and perpetuating the violence and suffering being swept under the carpet by the narrative-makers in western governments and their obsequious stenographers in the mainstream press.

It takes a lot of in-depth research and critical thinking to punch through the propaganda narratives and understand things like how western powers and their regional allies intentionally plunged Syria into violence and chaos using heavily-armed extremist proxy militias in an entirely premeditated campaign to topple Damascus and install a puppet regime.

Or the fact that the starvation and suffering we heard so much about in Venezuela a few years ago was actually largely caused by United States sanctions.

Or the fact that the "famine" we heard about in Yemen was actually caused by a United States-backed blockade and assault on civilian infrastructure.

Or the fact that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was so deliberately and methodically provoked by NATO powers that a great many western strategists and academics spent years warning that those actions were going to get Ukraine wrecked.

Understanding what is happening in Gaza is a lot easier.

There is nonstop footage of obvious war crimes pouring out of the enclave, and generations of opposition to Israels settler-colonialist apartheid abuse of the Palestinians had already succeeded in gaining a foothold in academia and in many fairly mainstream progressive political circles.

They are still saturating the airwaves with propaganda just like they do with all the empires other crimes, but because of how much light has already been shed on the situation, the obfuscations are not nearly as potent as they normally are, and the mainstream press are even being forced to report on a lot of inconvenient facts to avoid completely losing legitimacy in the eyes of the public.

I emphasize the fact that Gaza is one of the easy ones because it is so important that people whose eyes were recently opened to the criminality of the empire keep those eyes open to that same criminality after this particular mass atrocity is done.

There will with absolute certainty be more evil mass military atrocities performed and backed by the United States war machine, and most of them will probably require a much closer look than Gaza.

It probably will not be as obvious.

The crimes of the empire will probably be a lot more carefully hidden. The victims and victimizers probably will not be quite so easy to discern.

The ones being targeted by the United States-aligned side probably will not be quite as reflexively sympathized with.

As a general guideline, if you ever find yourself thinking things like "This time the United States is on the right side for once" or "Eh both sides are equally bad," that is a pretty good sign that they have suckered you.

The United States empire is the most murderous and destructive power structure on earth by such an immense margin, and is on the wrong side of every conflict so consistently and reliably, that if you ever find yourself viewing a foreign conflict in ways that are not completely hostile to Washington,D.C., it is almost certainly because you have swallowed the propaganda.

And there is no shame in that, to be clear.

The United States empire has the most sophisticated and effective propaganda engine that has ever existed, and its pervasive narrative control and distortions make it very easy to get lost when navigating the complex information ecosystem of the modern world.

If you get something wrong and have to change your position after research and reflection, doing so is just a sign of emotional and intellectual maturity on your part. Everyone makes mistakes.

All this to say, please please please do not let Gaza be a one-off in terms of your opposition to the imperial machine.

Keep your eyes fiercely trained on its actions after this is over, and help bring as much attention to its crimes as possible.

If you are not sure about a particular conflict that is in the news there are many great resources available for helping you sort out fact from fiction with regard to the empire and its propaganda spin.

The empire did not just start getting crazy and evil with Gaza. It was always doing things like this.

It always lies about them. The mass media always help it lie.

Gaza is not some aberration in its usual behavior, it is just more obvious.

Do not ever let them lull you back to sleep with their deceptions.

Keep your eyes open to what they have been opened to.

Keep fighting the empire for the rest of your life, or until the empire is fully destroyed!!

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