they don't even see themselves as criminals, alas. they criminalize their critics instead. by ANY MEAN_$ at their disposal. [including disposal, of course.]
Funding genocide in Gaza and terrorizing Americans with ICE goon squads flies in the face of the proposition that all human beings have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Genocide and terrorism are polar opposites to what we'd like to call "American values". Nevertheless, the regime spends mountains of money to perpetrate both. And while a few live in obscene excess and luxury, millions of Americans struggle mightily to make it from one day to the next. All of these dots are connected by vicious capitalism, a cancer that has metastasized to every corner of the earth. Vicious capitalism is the disease. Distributive justice is the cure.
"In the interconnectedness of our struggle is how we fight back." -Professor Amin Husain
Great programme. Thank you Prof. Amin for opening our eyes wider. We each need to find a way individually and collectively to work to de-colonise our towns our countries and our world. Our struggles are all connected.
"a racist, apartheid system where the indigenous people are dispossessed and exterminated. But this consciousness has failed to alter the iron support of Western governments for Israel."
A nationalism that finally releases the truth for all colonialism?
Such as U.S colonialism ? and the American Indian ?
The indoctrination of this baby boomer began some 50+ years ago when I was in high school. They held pep rallies for the coming football game to be played against the #1 rival school whose district bordered ours, Cumberland Valley HS.
I lived in a smallish neighboring work town, Mechanicsburg. Ringed with the post WW11 built sprawling suburbs, the stores and shopping malls, a very typical American configuration.
Across the Atlantic Ocean in the Middle East. it was a very different situation. Wars were fought and numerous iterations of colonialism were being cemented in place. The innocent were being slaughtered, wholesale.
Much of it for the purpose of securing the American Dream for its free society. A blind consumer society, that the word obliviousness merely hints at.
We never learned about these things in history class or world cultures.
The alleged rivals were in the same valley as my little town, the Susquehana Valley in south central Pennsylvania. The rallies were a frenzy of chanting, clapping and the general celebration of ourselves. It wasn't a friendly competition of 2 teams of athletes. No, It was more than that. A deep bitterness was being sold. The interesting thing is that it wasn't a conspiracy to get students to despise one another. Rather, it was normalized. Embedded so well that no one noticed it. Just the way things are. Like water to a fish that never breaks the waters surface.
The cult of the self raises its ugly head and bellows the nonsense, chosen for the day.
This was the agricultural district where rich soils had accumulated over hundreds of millions of years from the erosion of the Appalachian Mountains.
We humans are newcomers. We actually own nothing at all. We just tell ourselves otherwise.
My parents divorced and we moved around several times. I understood the very fundamental reality that young people such as myself, live where their parents decide. So I always grappled with the, "we're good and therefore they're bad"mentality. It was just stupid. Should we tighten everything up and just hate the neighbors across the street? Where do we draw the line?
Perhaps it is that apparatus, the institutionalized tribalism that we ought to erase instead the history that accurately describes the brutal fury we impose across this planet.
So, Criminals Are In Charge EVERYWHERE?
they don't even see themselves as criminals, alas. they criminalize their critics instead. by ANY MEAN_$ at their disposal. [including disposal, of course.]
Yes
Cirze's is being dramatic, everyone and everything is not black and white.
Dramatic? Maybe. But too often, accurate. And everyone and.everything may not be black OR white, but some things are.
Funding genocide in Gaza and terrorizing Americans with ICE goon squads flies in the face of the proposition that all human beings have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Genocide and terrorism are polar opposites to what we'd like to call "American values". Nevertheless, the regime spends mountains of money to perpetrate both. And while a few live in obscene excess and luxury, millions of Americans struggle mightily to make it from one day to the next. All of these dots are connected by vicious capitalism, a cancer that has metastasized to every corner of the earth. Vicious capitalism is the disease. Distributive justice is the cure.
"In the interconnectedness of our struggle is how we fight back." -Professor Amin Husain
Great programme. Thank you Prof. Amin for opening our eyes wider. We each need to find a way individually and collectively to work to de-colonise our towns our countries and our world. Our struggles are all connected.
"a racist, apartheid system where the indigenous people are dispossessed and exterminated. But this consciousness has failed to alter the iron support of Western governments for Israel."
A nationalism that finally releases the truth for all colonialism?
Such as U.S colonialism ? and the American Indian ?
The indoctrination of this baby boomer began some 50+ years ago when I was in high school. They held pep rallies for the coming football game to be played against the #1 rival school whose district bordered ours, Cumberland Valley HS.
I lived in a smallish neighboring work town, Mechanicsburg. Ringed with the post WW11 built sprawling suburbs, the stores and shopping malls, a very typical American configuration.
Across the Atlantic Ocean in the Middle East. it was a very different situation. Wars were fought and numerous iterations of colonialism were being cemented in place. The innocent were being slaughtered, wholesale.
Much of it for the purpose of securing the American Dream for its free society. A blind consumer society, that the word obliviousness merely hints at.
We never learned about these things in history class or world cultures.
The alleged rivals were in the same valley as my little town, the Susquehana Valley in south central Pennsylvania. The rallies were a frenzy of chanting, clapping and the general celebration of ourselves. It wasn't a friendly competition of 2 teams of athletes. No, It was more than that. A deep bitterness was being sold. The interesting thing is that it wasn't a conspiracy to get students to despise one another. Rather, it was normalized. Embedded so well that no one noticed it. Just the way things are. Like water to a fish that never breaks the waters surface.
The cult of the self raises its ugly head and bellows the nonsense, chosen for the day.
This was the agricultural district where rich soils had accumulated over hundreds of millions of years from the erosion of the Appalachian Mountains.
We humans are newcomers. We actually own nothing at all. We just tell ourselves otherwise.
My parents divorced and we moved around several times. I understood the very fundamental reality that young people such as myself, live where their parents decide. So I always grappled with the, "we're good and therefore they're bad"mentality. It was just stupid. Should we tighten everything up and just hate the neighbors across the street? Where do we draw the line?
Perhaps it is that apparatus, the institutionalized tribalism that we ought to erase instead the history that accurately describes the brutal fury we impose across this planet.