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‘If You Want Liberty, Go Live In The African Bush…
… otherwise you’re just a LARPer not willing to do what needs to be done to be free.’
Yes, that is an “actual argument” from a Brit on Twitter. Imagine the level of Stockholm Syndrome you must be suffering to believe that people who desire liberty must live like bushmen to achieve it.
If this person were alive in 1852 they would’ve accused slaves who desired their freedom of suffering from “drapetomania.”
The definition of “liberty” is: the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views.
To tell someone that the only way to achieve liberty is to move someplace remote, out of the community they were born into, is to admit that you are not free, and have embraced your chains.
Qassem Soleimani: Why His Killing is Good News for IS Jihadists
“In an editorial of the weekly IS newspaper al-Naba, the group said that Soleimani and al-Muhandis died at the hands of their ‘allies'” – a reference to the US.
It said the enemies of IS were busy fighting each other, which would drain their energy and resources and ultimately benefit jihadists.”
Israel Helped Kill Soleimani
It’s just one throwaway line in CIA asset Ken Dilanian’s new NBC piece on the whiz-bang, super-neato, space-age, Hollywood movie-like, special, high-technology that made the assassination possible.
“Intelligence from Israel helped confirm the details.”
And dammit, I just love the “Oceania has always been at war with the Badr Brigade” line of Iraq War II-denial embedded in all these stories. Dilanian and his assistant demonstrate how it’s done almost perfectly here:
“At the Baghdad airport, Soleimani was greeted by Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy head of an Iraqi anti-American militia and a suspect in the bombing of the American and French embassies in Kuwait in 1983. Al-Muhandis got into the sedan with Soleimani and he, too, was killed in the strike.”
Soleimani reviews his U.S. troops in Iraq War III Update: Former soldiers I know doubt the men on the left are actually U.S. troops. Same difference though.
Sounds like a pretty bad dude. Too bad W. Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Gates, Petraeus and the rest fought a 5 year civil war for him and his friends in the Da’wa Party and Supreme Islamic Council beginning in 2003, and then Obama and Trump fought another on their behalf from 2014–2019.
Oh well, anyway, what’s that you say? 1983 Kuwait embassy something? Oh yeah. We’re all still really mad about that too! Maybe we should ask President Reagan to double his support for Saddam Hussein to get some revenge!
Close Enough For Government Work
Iran admits they accidentally shot down the airliner.
Stirring Words
Drop Everything and Read this Article!
“How to Avoid Swallowing War Propaganda” by Nathan J. Robinson is an extraordinarily important article. I cannot recommend it too highly. Read it now!
Trump Approval At 77%
In Israel. Not as popular everywhere else.
from Mondoweiss:
36,000 respondents were surveyed across 33 countries. 64% of them indicated that they don’t trust Trump “to do the right thing regarding world affairs”, while just 29% said they have confidence in him. 54% said they had favorable views of the United States, while 38% had unfavorable views.
The lowest approval for Trump exists in Mexico and Germany. Just 8% of Mexicans have confidence in him, while 13% of Germans do. The countries with the highest numbers are the Philippines and Israel: 77% and 71% respectively. The President only has a majority of support in six countries.
The good news from the Pew Research Poll is that Americans are still viewed favorably.
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