Saturday, June 29, 2019

Assange and Trump: Real Hero, Fake Villain

Assange and Trump: Real Hero, Fake Villain

By Frank Scott
Dissident Voice
June 29, 2019

The rapid descent of the nation, the system and the planet under
the domain of private-profit-first capitalism continues with
opposition growing but still far too much acceptance that only
agrees to new employees at the level of state rule who represent
the same class interests but in more polite forms.

This means some benefits for some groups but always at far
more cost to others.

Affirmative Action to mention only one program created to
supposedly amend some of racism’s worst social malevolence
towards a minority, did far more to advance women, who
represent a majority, while bringing growth to the black middle
and upper middle classes, but even greater growth in black
poverty and a massive increase in black prisoners crowding
America’s penal colony.

A profit for some always entails a loss for others and as long
as this system prevails, so will that rule.

A Trump regime more feared by Republican Party wealth than
Democratic Party wealth feared Bernie Sanders is holding true
to those fears in that it might rush the empire to ruin even faster
than what was inevitable anyway.

While Trump has some tendencies that put him left of what under
current perverse standards, passes for liberal, his inability to
maintain a position from the start of a sentence to the end is most
feared by the ruling class, which is why its liberal sect-cult has
been moving towards impeachment since the day before his
inauguration while the conservative-cult-sect has seen to it that
he is surrounded by dunderheads and murderers who make him
seem almost thoughtful by comparison.

As his administration’s policies, not always his, help bring Russia,
China and really the rest of the world closer together both in
immediate fear and long-term hope, the American people have to
understand that we are part of that group and act that way rather
than continue performing as humanity’s self-chosen rulers.

We are fast approaching a point at which not just future
generational threats are forecast but those in which tomorrow
morning could bring on a colossal blunder that creates a war
beyond anything even the brain-dead and morals-free who
cause it might have imagined.

The present crisis with Iran is simply the long term Israeli occupied
American government policy writ larger, more dangerously and if
possible, even dumber than in the past.

But this closely follows the near destruction of Venezuela which
has failed but at critical cost to that nation, suffering along with
too many others the death rattle abuse of an imperial power which
still rules for the moment only as a result of being able to kill more
people more quickly than any other nation.

That awesome and ugly power is fading too, but hoping that
it will happen soon enough isn’t enough.

The American people will have to bring about radical change,
a transformation here that will greatly aid in the transformation
of the globe into a community of cooperation, peace and social
justice, to replace the bloody animosity and injustice so long
accepted as reality.

Present trends are hopeful only under continued lesser evilism that
enables voters to select leaders appealing to minority identity
groups and performing beneficially for them while still aiding and
abetting the system that will create a few more billionaires, but far
more poverty, war, and far less humanity, the longer it is tolerated.

Continued stress on individual villains posing as leaders and
minorities disguising humanity as special identity groups is
the divide and conquer strategy of our rulers.

If there is a single individual that warrants any attention beyond
that of the human race, at least for the moment, it should be
Julian Assange, whose persecution and suffering after performing
as a heroic servant of the people is a disgrace to supposed if yet
unrealized democracy.

The future of a truly informed public able to act with full
knowledge of what rulers are actually doing, after generations of
living in forced atmospheres of propaganda passing for material
reality, is under greater threat than ever.

Assange, and one of his prime sources, Manning, are imprisoned
by social forces that represent a menace to the human race and
by individuals in leadership among that force who have pond scum
between their ears and pus running through their veins.

These are the creatures who can rule that foreign nations must bow
to the imperium or be destroyed because it knows best, is best, and
represents future freedom and democracy, even if present slavery,
mass murder and authoritarianism are its most important tools.

These are the paid servants who report (?) and comment on reality
as stenographers to power and call it “journalism” and “punditry”.

And they are a tiny minority of the human race, running the
nations, the people and the planet into the ground at an ever-faster
pace, while we are distracted by false consciousness beyond
the imagination of past social critics who invented that term.

Showing his contrasting skills, among them the negative of acting
like an oaf with a nuclear weapon in his hand but the positive of
at times being a crystal clear communicator, the ego-maniac in
the White House has popularized the term, “Fake News” instantly
understood by just about everyone as describing the political
establishment, corporate media and those holding power over the
means of communication.

That power is now fading as well, by what is still anti-social,
but has great possibilities of becoming truly social media.

At present it is still a market tool to make some richer at the
expense of consumers, but Assange and Manning are prime
examples of what it can mean in truly spreading information
to the people and not just the latest product for sale or
celebrity to admire or paid politician to vote for.

While the issues of climate and atmospheric plague, threats of
more war, greater poverty, and approaching capitalist bankruptcy
must be confronted and dealt with for the longer term, the short
term threat to Assange and Manning is a crisis for not just them
but for humanity and any possibility of opening the books and files
to reveal real rather than fake news.

Freeing them is far more important than simply getting rid of
Trump.

Not just for them and the American people, but for what that
will say about America to the people of the world.


https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/06/assange-and-trump-real-hero-
fake-villain

Thursday, June 27, 2019

You Are Being Trolled

You Are Being Trolled

In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows
discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people,
[1] by posting inflammatory,[2] extraneous, or off-topic messages
in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room,
or blog) with the deliberate intent of provoking readers ...

By Dmitry Orlov
Information Clearing House
June 27, 2019

The world is on the brink of war, again. And again.

And, yes, yet again.

And then it’s not on the brink of war any more… but wait,
there’s more!

Of course there’s more, there always is.

US aircraft carrier battle groups are steaming toward North Korea…
or not.

They are steaming about aimlessly, nowhere near North Korea,
but in a very threatening manner.

Then Trump and Kim Jong Un meet, get on great, sign a piece
of paper that means nothing and part friends.

Now the aircraft carriers are steaming about far less menacingly.

Then Trump and Un meet again, to sign some other meaningless
piece of paper, but then John Bolton shoots his mouth off and
the deal is off.

But Trump and Un continue to exchange love letters,
so the bromance isn’t dead.

In any case, war between the US and North Korea is not just
unwinnable, but unthinkable.

South Korea’s capitol is within striking range of North Korean
artillery and all US military bases in the region are within
range of North Korean rockets.

War with North Korea is definitely off.

Executive summary: nothing happens.

So, what was that all about?

Now it’s about Venezuela.

Its democratically elected leader is declared to be a usurper and
a suitable replacement is found by the name of Random Guy-doh.

American vassal states around the world are bullied into granting
him diplomatic recognition as Venezuela’s president even though
he’s just a random guy in an apartment in Caracas.

Some trucks get torched on a bridge between Columbia
and Venezuela.

They were carrying humanitarian goods such as spools of wire.

There is talk of military intervention, but it’s just talk.

The Bank of England confiscates Venezuela’s gold, the US freezes
Venezuela’s oil company’s bank accounts in the US and hands them
off to a bunch of shady Venezuelans who steal it.

That part makes sense; the rest of it? Meh!

In any case, a US military incursion into Venezuela is not within
the realm of possibility.

Venezuela has Russian air defense systems which make it a no-fly
zone for the US air force; also, fighting guerrilla action in
Venezuelan selva is not something the US military is capable of.

Executive summary: nothing happens, again.

Now it’s about Iran.

Trump pulls out of the carefully negotiated international deal
with Iran and says he wants to negotiate another one.

If you notice, that’s a truly idiotic move, along the lines of,
“I am never paying you back, so lend me more money.”

If a country is not honoring the deals it has already signed,
why bother negotiate any more deals with it?

That’s a rhetorical question.

Iran announces that since the US isn’t honoring the deal,
Iran won’t either.

A bunch of oil tankers get damaged and the US tries to
blame Iran for it, but nobody believes the US.

And so a couple more oil tankers get damaged and the US tries
to blame Iran for it again, but nobody believes the US again.

And so the US flies a drone into Iranian airspace shadowed by a
reconnaissance plane with an international crew on board, hoping
that Iran makes a mistake and shoots down the reconnaissance
plane.

But Iran shoots down the drone and it falls in the shallows in Iran’s
territorial waters, rather than in international waters 100 feet
deep, which is what the US claims to have happened, but nobody
believes it.

Iran swiftly fishes out and proudly displays the wreckage
of the no longer top secret drone.

The Americans spin a tale about wanting to attack Iran
but calling the attack off at the last minute.

Oil prices go up a bit.

The US oil patch is producing flat out but hemorrhaging
red ink like crazy.

It needs higher oil prices in order to avoid a huge wave
of bankruptcies.

That part makes sense; the rest of it?

Meh again!

In any case, a military attack against Iran is unthinkable.

Iran has the ability to close the Strait of Hormuz to all shipping,
cutting off a third of all of the world’s oil exports and blowing
up the global economy, US included.

Executive summary: nothing happens, yet again.

There are various other non-events in other parts of the world.

NATO ships steam about the Black and Baltic seas, where they are
pretty much sitting ducks in case hostilities with Russia turn kinetic.

So what that tells us is that hostilities will not turn kinetic because
those ships are expensive and there is no money to replace them.

There are also NATO exercises in the Baltics, which are right
on Russia’s border.

They practice invading and slaughtering civilians in quaint medieval
villages staffed with Russian-speaking extras pretending to be
peasants eager to surrender.

(Technically, that should be categorized as a fantasy game rather
than a training exercise.)

The Russians remain unimpressed.

They want nothing to do with the Baltics, which used to be transit
states for Russian exports but now they aren’t needed for anything
at all (except as a NATO stomping ground.

In any case, talking about waging war against Russia with a straight
face is something that only extremely stupid people are capable of
doing.

Executive summary: nothing happens.

Do you notice the refrain?

(I am sure you do.)

What’s going on is that a has-been country, which can’t stop
squandering what little resources it has left on a useless but
ridiculously bloated military-industrial complex, is trying to
generate activity in order to justify continued lavish defense
spending.

All sorts of experts and pundits play along, claiming that the threat
of this or that war is very real and that therefore we should all be
paying attention to what’s happening.

But what’s happening is that you are being trolled.

There being nothing better for it to do, the US is trying very hard
to troll the whole world, but more and more the world is either
refusing to be trolled or trolling the US right back.

• When the US threatens to cut off access to the US financial
system, the world works on circumventing it.

• When the US imposes tariffs and sanctions, the world responds
by reworking its trading relationships to exclude the US.

• When the US threatens countries with military intervention, the
world responds by constructing new alliances and making security
arrangements that isolate the US.

But most importantly, the world simply waits.

The US is now running a budget deficit that is over a trillion dollars
a year and taking on debt at about the same rate as it was during
the height of the previous financial collapse.

What do you think will happen when the next financial
collapse hits?

(According to a lot of authoritative voices, it should hit
either this year or the next.)

Meanwhile, I hope that you enjoy being trolled because I am sure
there will be more trolling from the US, just, you know, to keep
busy, I guess.


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51829.htm

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Dear Zionists

Dear Zionists

By The Last Boy In Line
Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Dear Zionists:


Sincerely,

Sunday, June 23, 2019

Dear President Donald J. Trump

Dear President Donald J. Trump

By The Last Boy In Line
Sunday, June 23, 2019

Dear President Donald J. Trump:


Sincerely,

Thursday, June 20, 2019

Dear Iran

Dear Iran

By The Last Boy In Line
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Dear Iran:


Sincerely,

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Manufacturing Coma

Manufacturing Coma

By Paul Edwards
Information Clearing House
June 18, 2019

Noam Chomsky’s, “Manufacturing Consent” published in 1988, was
a ground-breaking comprehensive analysis of the processes used by
American government to persuade citizens to approve whatever
witches’ brew of deceit, crime, and murder the ruling elite elected
to perpetrate.

Today that idea has a quaint, nostalgic charm since no serious
person would now contend that our government requires anything
resembling consent from its people.

It rules imperiously an intellectually lobotomized public it has
rendered torpid, quiescent, inanimate.

You are now told what it has done or is doing, if you are told
anything at all.

While the stupefied, comatose condition of Americans that allows
them to opt out of the moral universe and assuage their guilt with
petitions, donations, and memberships in faineant feel-good drum
circles is not necessarily permanent, an awakening is most unlikely
since all forces that could break that trance are devoted to
maintaining it.

Government, which Plato, Burke, and the Federalist, argue will
always work to aggrandize itself against all restraint, has
triumphed over the people who theoretically empower it, but
Government is only a device, a giant toy, a Rube Goldberg machine,
and the wholly-owned subsidiary of Capitalism, and the dirty,
tattered cover for its absolute rule.

With apologies to Clausewitz, "American Government"
is the continuation of Capitalism by other means.

Capitalism, controling education, media and culture, ran
an intense PR blitz to create a society of shallow, childish,
insatiable consumers, paradoxically certain that they were
at once utterly worthless and undeniably Number 1.

This infantilization of the people produced a double payoff: a
citizenry without the acuity to oppose the criminality of the state,
but with no limit to their ingrafted materialist, “needs”.

As their regressive, debilitating self-absorption grew, so did their
indifference to their own psychic, spiritual, and social health, as
well as to the full-spectrum horror their country continually inflicts
on Nations that won’t come to Jesus and kneel to submit to our
ravenous Minotaur.

Capitalism, dubiously victorious, is not what it used to be,
evolving as its DNA coding required and Marx described.

It is now so sick with Financial Elephantiasis that it can’t evade its
own voracity and, enchained in unpayable debt, it blindly, greedily
devours itself.

The insanity of world neurosis based on U.S. Capitalist rapacity
is now driven entirely by America’s own economic panic, not
ideology.

There will be no redemption.

Capitalism will crash and come disastrously, catastrophically
undone.

As Marx said, a mode of production’s power continues until
advancing history enforces its replacement.

We are there, and ironically, as the terminally haemorrhaging,
"Capitalist Ghoul" lurches toward its demise, its death throes will
be most agonizingly painful to those zombified American souls who
lost consciousnes to the siren lullabies of their destroyers.


http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/51758.htm

Sunday, June 16, 2019

Dear Father's Day

Dear Father's Day

By The Last Boy In line
Sunday, June 16, 2019

Dear Father's Day:


Sincerely,

Friday, June 14, 2019

Dear Flag Day

Dear Flag Day

By The Last Boy In Line
Friday, June 14, 2019

Dear Flag Day:


Sincerely,

Monday, June 10, 2019

Dear Free Speech

Dear Free Speech

By The Last Boy In Line
Monday, June 10, 2019

Dear Free Speech:


Sincerely,

Friday, June 7, 2019

A Poem For Julian Assange

A Poem For Julian Assange

By Neil Clark
Sputnik International
Friday, June 7, 2019

They dragged him from the Embassy, the plainclothes men
from the Met,

We talk of Britain's 'independence' from Europe, but what
about from the rest?

The captive looked like Ben Gunn, old, bearded and grey,

Sneered at and laughed at by those in the pay,

Those who support Empire told us 'Julian's a cad',

But where is the proof of him doing anything bad?

Accusations are levelled but charges not brought,

Fair-minded people see that extradition must be fought,

Britain tells Sweden: 'Don't you dare get cold feet!'

Assange is a 'traitor' and must be beat!,

But a 'traitor' to whom? is what we all must ask.

Exposing the crimes of illegal war,

Cannot be illegal, that's for sure,

Julian's great crime was to pull back the curtain,

That we were led by liars and knaves, Wikileaks proved for certain,

Now it's time for the elite's revenge,

That revenge will be awful, but only if we allow it,

So don't be cowed by unsubstantiated charges,

Instead, put on your hat and go out for marches.

By exposing wrongdoing, Assange did us all a favour,

So his persecution for publishing the truth is something
we cannot savour,

The wars we paid for, did not protect us,

On the contrary, they actually betrayed us,

They made us less safe and brought terrorism home,

It's those who launched them who should be on trial,

Not Julian, the man who showed us the file,

Until that happens, everything else is a joke,

A confidence trick like a pig in a poke,

Julian is not a journalist, the stenographers decree,

The very same experts who said Iraq had WMD,

One million died because of that obscene, unlawful endeavour,

How many has Julian killed, and I'm not trying to be clever,

No one is saying that the man is a saint,

No man is, in fact, the notion is rather quaint,

And if he was a sexual offender, then, of course, one would
utterly condemn,

But look at the CPS emails to Sweden and consider the gen,

Let's be honest: If Julian was a Russian who'd been treated
like this,

There'd be moral indignation and calls for air strikes
by those now taking the piss,

Laughing at the predicament of a man on the rocks,

His mental health no concern to these absolute cocks,

As for Moreno, he's really no Lenin,

And Jeremy Hunt rhymes with '….', but I won't put my pen in,

Theresa May said that what's happened proves no one is above
the law,

But until Bush, Blair and the rest are at the Hague, that really
sticks in the craw,

International justice is a charade if the guilty always go free,

And the innocent are captured and the propagandists full of glee,

Hence what happens to Assange is of tremendous import,

If he goes the way of Tobermory, Saki's cat who revealed all,

What does it say about us, and our failure to make the right call?

So say a prayer for Julian tonight and wish the lad well,

This one is for all of us, to help us break the spell.


https://sputniknews.com/columnists/201904141074116730-julian-
assange-poem

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

The Murdering of Julian Assange

The Murdering of Julian Assange

By Peter Koenig
Dissident Voice
June 4, 2019

Julian Assange is being slowly murdered by “Her Majesty’s Prison
Service” at Belmarsh prison in the south-east of London.

The prison is notorious for holding people who have never been
charged with a crime indefinitely.

It is also called the British version of Guantanamo and typically
used to detain so-called terrorists, thus called by the British police
and secret service and aped by the British MSM and establishment.

Terrorists that become terrorists by continuous and repeated
accusations, by media propaganda, but not necessarily by fact.

Remember, if a lie is repeated often enough it becomes
the truth in the minds of the brain-dead listeners.

It’s indoctrination of the public to demonize somebody or a group
of people, or a country, who could become dangerous for the
empire’s vicious and criminal endeavors.

That’s what they are doing with Julian Assange.

Exactly the same principal is applied, though on a different scale,
against President Putin and against Russia and China.

And it seems to work in a brainwashed-to-the-core, western
society, ran by their spineless European US-vassalic leadership.

Yes, what is happening to Julian Assange could happen to any
journalist who reveals the inconvenient truth about the empire
and its minions’ criminal machinations, any journalist – or non-
journalist, whistleblower, for that matter – anyone who dares
standing up to the, "Anglo/Zionist" atrocities may end up in
Guantanamo or Belmarsh which is considered a Type A prison
for adult men meaning a, “serious” prison where, “dangerous”
detainees are held for as long as Her Majesty’s Prison Service
considers necessary, and prisoners’ treatments are held secret
and include torture.

Julian Assange’s case goes even farther than breaking all the
rules of “democratic” free speech.

The way he is treated is a serious infraction on Human Rights.

The US and British governments intend to silence and punish
a champion of free speech, torturing him for the world to see,
and especially as a deterrent for would-be whistleblowers and
other free-speech advocates.

Julian Assange has been condemned to a ‘temporary’ prison
sentence of 50 weeks for jumping bail, when he sought and
was granted refuge in 2012 in the Ecuadorian Embassy.

And why did he jump bail?

Because he was about to be extradited to neofascist Sweden
who acting in the name of Washington, accused him with phony
rape and sexual misconduct charges, from where he would have
most likely been extradited to the US where he might have faced
a kangaroo court and a fake trial with a possible death sentence
or indefinite incarceration at Guantanamo.

That’s why he jumped bail and why he escaped to the Ecuadorian
Embassy, because western injustice was already then played out
with false propaganda for everyone but the blind and indoctrinated
to see.

Rafael Correa, then President of Ecuador, saw the truth behind
it all and granted Julian asylum and later gave him Ecuadorian
citizenship – which in 2018 was revoked by Correa’s traitor and
fascist successor US-implant, Lenin Moreno, who as a reward, it
is said, got an IMF loan of US$ 4.2 billion to help the government
carry out its neoliberal economic reform program, meaning undoing
much of the social programs of improving economic equality for the
Ecuadorian population, implemented during the Correa presidency.

Well, how sick can that be?

Unfortunately, acting pathologically or even psychopathically
in today’s world is fully accepted.

It’s the new normal.

This means we are living in an almost-terminally ill, corrupt
and utterly brainwashed society – to be precise, western society.

“Almost-terminally” means that there is only dim hope of healing
for the utter lack of conscientiousness of western society.

Hope of western people’s awakening is fading, as it is sliding ever
deeper into a bottomless abyss.

Julian Assange was first accused by Washington of fake charges
of computer hacking and conspiring to defraud the United States.

In fact what this is all about is the 2010 publication by Wikileaks
of the infamous video that circulated the world a million times
depicting the purposeful, malicious, ‘collateral killing’ of harmless
civilians by the crew of a US Army helicopter – and of other data
of atrocious acts of the US military revealed by Chelsea Manning
and published by Wikileaks.

Chelsea Manning has been and is herself serving prison sentences.

Despite the fact that this little video has been seen around the
world probably by more than a billion people, nobody went on
the barricades – on an endless mass-demonstration – to stop the
rogue-state and killing machine United States of America from
committing its daily and deadly crimes.

Nobody.

And the killing goes on.

And Washington is doing its utmost to silence every future revealing
of their atrocities, by silencing Julian Assange and intimidating any
potential future truth-revealer.

They have now 50 weeks while he is hidden away in a British
Guantanamo-like prison, to slowly kill him on behalf of and as
a little favor to Washington, so he doesn’t have to be extradited
and the US is spared being exposed to the kangaroo trial that
Julian would otherwise receive.

If he dies a, “natural” death in a British prison, Trump may wash
his bloody hands in innocence and those in Congress who want to
send a CIA squadron to murder Assange – I kid you not they are not
ashamed to openly say so – will also be able to whitewash their
criminal and bloody minds.

Nobody will ever know what really happened behind Her
Majesty’s prison walls.

There will be some flareups in the media – and then all
quiets down.

As usual.

The Wikileaks founder will be gone and all potential whistleblowers
and truth-seeking journalists will be on their guard.

Objective achieved.

In the meantime and to reach that objective, Julian is most likely
being tortured, possibly physically and psychologically.

Julian Assange has suffered “prolonged exposure to psychological
torture” the UN’s torture expert, Nils Melzer, said in a BBC
interview, and urged Britain not to extradite Assange to
Washington.

According to retired USAF lieutenant colonel Karen Kwiatkowski he
may have been doped with psychotropic drugs, like 3-quinuclidinyl
benzilate, known as BZ that produces hallucinations, mental
confusion and memory loss.

This may have been the reason why he was unable to speak clearly,
and to participate in a Swedish Court hearing and had to be
transferred to the hospital wing of Her Majesty’s Belmarsh prison.

One of the few pictures that emerged at the time of his transfer
to the hospital was one of a zombie.

Let’s just hope that I‘m totally wrong with this scenario – and that
people’s pressure (at this point it would be a miracle) will pry
Julian loose from the lethal fangs of the empire and its minions.

The Western world keeps looking on.

Worse, they even support Her Majesty’s Prison Service,
to which Julian Assange is subjected.

They largely applauded the brutal British arrest of Julian Assange,
when the police dragged him out of the Ecuadorian Embassy into a
van and off to preventive custody and hours later he was convicted
to 50 weeks on a phony charge for jumping bail.

What can be said – is not better said than by Paul Craig Roberts, “If
the world stands for the US / UK / Swedish judicial murder of an
innocent man, the world does not deserve to exist another second.”

Amen.


https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/06/the-murdering-of-julian-assange