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STOP. HUMANIZING. WAR CRIMINALS.

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As of this writing, a tweet by disgraced Broadway fraud convict Roland Scahill has 90 thousand shares and 362 thousand likes, which if you’re not used to Twitter is a ridiculously high amount that nobody generally hits. The tweet features nothing but four seconds of video footage from the John McCain funeral, and the caption “George W. Bush sneaking a piece of candy to Michelle Obama is warming my heart.”

That’s it. That’s all it took to win Twitter for the day. Those four seconds of footage have been circulated around TV news stations to ‘ooh’s and ‘ahh’s of fawning establishment pundits yammering incessantly about how the death of War Hero John McCain™ has let everyone Put Aside Our Political Differences™ and Come Together As Americans™ to celebrate the life of a man who dedicated his entire political career to sowing death, suffering and devastation at every opportunity. A war criminal giving a piece of candy to the wife of another war criminal at the funeral of a war criminal is all it took to get mainstream American brains gushing with dopamine and oxytocin.

Because that’s how compartmentalized Americans are from the reality of what war is and what it means. The explosions, the screams, the charred and shredded human bodies, the chaos and displacement and all the suffering, terrorism, slavery and rape that necessarily always comes with it, the million Iraqis killed under Bush, the unfathomable humanitarian disasters created in Libya and Syria under Obama, all the devastation created in all the military interventions McCain helped push for, all of that is so peripheral and distant in American consciousness that it can be dismissed with a wave of the hand and a piece of fucking candy.

And it isn’t really their fault. The more woke Americans who’ve grown to resent their brainwashed countrymen hate it when I say this, but it isn’t. It’s not a coincidence that the nation with the most powerful military in the history of civilization and the most billionaires in the history of civilization also happens to have the most sophisticated propaganda system in the history of civilization, and that propaganda system is pointed at them from a very early age to normalize the war machine that is used to protect the empire of the billionaires.

The United States is the most important player in the imperial alliance centralized around it, and therefore its citizenry are necessarily the most propagandized people on earth. You can’t have the populace of such an important nation suddenly demanding that troops be brought home and the resources being spent on bombs be spent eliminating the economic inequality on which your empire depends instead, so you’ve got to get into their minds early and aggressively to manipulate the way they think about war. Everything from flag worship to the fetishization of military personnel to Pentagon-controlled Hollywood movies are used from early childhood to install the assumption that their nation’s bloated military budget is only ever going toward good and never evil, and to prime their minds for the war propaganda they will be fed by the plutocrat-owned news media.

Day after day after day after day, from when they are small until their dying breath, the American psyche is pummeled with this relentless assault upon its natural sense of empathy and reason. So it’s understandable that every now and then one of them snaps and shoots up a building full of people, inflicting the same kind of mass murder at home they’ve been trained to accept as normal abroad. And it’s understandable that they’d be duped into thinking the monstrous evils that have been inflicted upon our world by Bush, Obama and McCain (and Henry Kissinger, who also made an appearance at the funeral) are innocent little oopsie-poopsies which pale in comparison to something so monumentally heroic as correcting a woman who called Obama an Arab once, or sharing a piece of candy.

But if Americans are ever going to escape from the chains of oligarchy, they’re necessarily going to have to cease consenting to imperialism. Without their resources being funneled into hundreds of bases and countless military and intelligence operations overseas, there’d be a chance to fix America’s infrastructure and make sure everyone gets what they need. Without the US economy being propped up with the barrel of a gun to ensure the success of globalist agendas, Americans would have a chance to create a real economy based on real things that they themselves own and control. Without the ability to use the US war machine to advance their agendas, the oligarchs who control America’s economy, government and media will be unable to rule over the increasingly wealthy and powerful masses. Without the best technology and the brainpower of the brightest Americans being sucked up into the war machine, the nation’s most creative minds will lose their incentive to point their ingenuity at death and destruction, and can point it at useful innovations instead.

And then the propaganda machine which holds the whole empire together will be useless and impotent, and the shackles on American minds will crumble. And the rest of the empire will follow.

The first step in this direction is to cease normalizing the monsters who facilitate human butchery around the world. Stop believing they need to be regarded as “heroes” just because they wore a uniform at some point. Stop believing that it’s ever okay to push for needless wars which butcher innocent men, women and children. Stop believing a man can facilitate the slaughter of a million people and not have that clearly be his single defining legacy. Stop believing that it’s worse to criticize a warmonger than it is to be a warmonger.

Because if it’s up to the bastards who rule us currently, they’ll happily keep shushing us into polite silence while continuing to march us along our current ecocidal, omnicidal trajectory until it gets us all killed. They’ll make saints of warmongering empire loyalists and uphold their murderous lives as exemplary and virtuous, and if we say we want to move things in a different direction we’ll be shouted down with buzzwords about heroism and decency until we shut up. If we leave it up to these pricks, we’ll become the first species to go extinct due to politeness.

Stop letting them normalize and elevate people who embody the very essence of the imperial oppression machine. Stop letting them humanize psychopathic war whores. Stop letting them twist this into a conversation about respecting those with different political opinions and make it about what it is: the mass murder of innocents for power and profit. Refuse to be reprimanded into polite silence. Refuse to die of politeness. Seize control of the narrative and force sanity into our imperiled world.

Caitlin Johnstone



20 Comments on "STOP. HUMANIZING. WAR CRIMINALS."

  1. Luke on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 4:57 pm 

    On this planet, with this species, someone has to be the imperial power. Any vacuum gets filled.
    Instead of self righteously complaining from your smart device about how awful it is, perhaps you should visit an all you can eat buffet and enjoy the bounty of the blessings bestowed upon you…by imperial power.
    Without it, you live in Uganda.

    This was all going on long before you and I got here. We cannot change it (not do we REALLY want to, you SAY you want it changed…but you don’t, do you REALLY want to starve? For your children to starve? Because if the US Dollar isn’t the world Petro currency, starvation is what happens)

    If the masters of the universe let things even out we go to a real bad place.

  2. onlooker on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 4:58 pm 

    Of all the people who should be ashamed of their actions on this planet none as much as those who seek war, profit it from it and support/condone it

  3. onlooker on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 5:16 pm 

    Yes, the blessings of Empire bestowed upon some , taken from others. Spoken like a true Roman. Some times I think we deserve every bit our fate.

  4. makati1 on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 7:05 pm 

    Luke: “Because if the US Dollar isn’t the world Petro currency, starvation is what happens)” BULLSHIT! More American propaganda from a brainwashed American (Davy’s newest clone/sock puppet?). “Exceptional/indispensable” is more pure bullshit from the USMSM propaganda machine.

    The world is going to move on just fine after the US goes down. More and more countries are moving away from the USD every day. Russia, China, Iran, Germany, India, Pakistan, Turkey, even Japan, and more I cannot recall at the moment. Over 40% of the world’s population and growing. When the Saudis switch, it is game over.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-china/saudis-may-seek-funding-in-chinese-yuan-idUSKCN1B413R (2017)
    https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/11/china-will-compel-saudi-arabia-to-trade-oil-in-yuan–and-thats-going-to-affect-the-us-dollar.html (2017)
    https://www.rt.com/business/406373-china-saudi-arabia-yuan-oil/ (2017)

    “Rise of petro-yuan provides dilemma for Saudi Aramco” 9/4/2018

    http://www.arabnews.com/node/1279226

    USD slip slidin’…

  5. makati1 on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 7:12 pm 

    I might add:

    https://www.scmp.com/business/money/money-news/article/1649148/swift-says-15-countries-now-using-yuan-settle-over-10pc (2014)

    and…

    https://www.ibtimes.com/chinese-yuan-now-fourth-most-common-global-payment-currency-behind-us-dollar-euro-2128912 (2017)

    and…

    “African countries eye yuan as reserve currency”

    http://www.ecns.cn/news/economy/2018-05-30/detail-ifyuurnp0995037.shtml

    Slip slidin’…

  6. Davy on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 7:27 pm 

    Not very impressive billy:
    “African countries eye yuan as reserve currency”
    “The bulk of reserves for most countries in the MEFMI region are still held in U.S. dollars, Siwela-Jadagu disclosed, but the rising status of the Chinese economy and burgeoning trade with Africa could alter the balance.”

    Little out of date there Billy:
    “Chinese Yuan Is Now Fourth Most Common Global Payment Currency, Behind US Dollar, Euro, British Pound”
    “10/06/15 AT 11:17 AM”

    There is a flip side Billy:
    “Swift says 15 more countries now using yuan to settle over 10pc of trades with mainland, Hong Kong”
    “On the flip side, despite robust growth in certain key markets, the overall value of yuan trade last month fell 7.2 per cent year on year, against average growth of 0.4 per cent for all currencies. The yuan’s market share was 1.59 per cent, against 1.72 per cent in September. Two of China’s biggest trading partners, the United States and Japan, still clear less than 10 per cent of their trades with China in yuan, according to Swift.”

  7. Davy on Mon, 3rd Sep 2018 7:29 pm 

    “When the Saudis switch, it is game over.”

    What game is that billy?

  8. Cloggie on Tue, 4th Sep 2018 1:42 am 

    the million Iraqis killed under Bush, the unfathomable humanitarian disasters created in Libya and Syria under Obama

    “Under”?

    Obama and Bush are merely PR-employees of the empire. They read aloud in the camera the scripts pushed into their hands by the David Axelrod’s of this world, who represents Carlin’s Big Club of which you ain’t in it.

    For the rest Bush and Obama are expected to play golf and don’t walk in the way.

    I even think that Obama revolted a little against The Big Club during the last year of his presidency when he achieved an agreement with Iran. He could do so because he was still the president and it was too late and too messy to topple him. I liked Obama better than Bush, not to mention McCain:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWW1Q73eY8M

    But in the end of the day, Obama remained loyal to the Big Club and was willing to pay his last respects to Good Goy McCain.

  9. Cloggie on Tue, 4th Sep 2018 4:05 am 

    This article also applies to our resident war crimes apologist Davy-Sum (“100% ally” on Iran) and millimind (gloats about brilliant 9/11 inside job and wants first nuclear strike against Russia).

  10. Theedrich on Tue, 4th Sep 2018 4:13 am 

    Brain cancer was appropriate for madman McCain.  He loved slaughtering through bombing, and then after being shot down was traumatized by gook torture.  Someone suffering from trauma is brain damaged, even though the derangement may not be recognized or admitted as such by psychopathic megalomaniacs like Kissinger, Bush, Obama, et al.  As long-time chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, he was able to indulge his lust for mass death to the fullest.

    Of course, the actuality of war is kept hidden by the kept media, with their concentration on sexual affairs or tax evasions of associates — anything to divert attention away from the horrors being perpetrated by the political gods.  The only inhumanity comparable to what McCain and his friends have wrought in Middle East and North Africa is the kind of grotesque cruelty found in North Korea.  North Korea, of course, as savage as it is, is only a single country, whereas the Bush-McCain-Obama DeepStaters have turned large swaths of the earth into a living hell — never mind the wider effects of their wars.

    McCain loved war, and so do the megamurderers in the State Department, the CIA, the NSA and other paragons of higher morality in the top U.S. power structure.  What the masses think is irrelevant;  that is controlled by the puppet media.

    It was, thus, only poetic justice that a major crime boss in the DeepState had his brain eaten out by a disease symbolic of his homicidal mindset.

  11. Anonymouse1 on Tue, 4th Sep 2018 5:03 am 

    I am sure hell had a room already reserved for McCain, well in advance.

  12. makati1 on Tue, 4th Sep 2018 5:33 am 

    Now if only the other brain damaged maniacs like Soros, Bolton, Wolfowitz, Rice, Haley, etc, would move on to their reserved suites in hell. They deserve it, if there is one. LOL

    http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?450257-The-Neoconservative-Reference-List

    Send them all there and they can party and kill each other over and over and…

  13. fmr-paultard on Tue, 4th Sep 2018 7:38 am 

    hi guys, it’s beginning of the week after labor day and tard anger agenda is in full tilt. anger never did me any good so i’m sad to know tards never learned from it. but hey i can only do so much with a giant heart of mind. supertard (pbuh) tries his best to moderate and that’s a form of help too.

  14. duh on Tue, 4th Sep 2018 11:06 am 

    War criminals? How about cannibal baby raping faggots?
    “Power” is an invention of the chimpanzee.
    Everyone with a gun has equal power so there is no vacuum. The cowards give power to the bullies, the victim to the psychopath.
    If people knew how to be humans you would not need your “imperial leaders” to rape you up the ass every morning.

  15. Cloggie on Tue, 4th Sep 2018 12:17 pm 

    http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?450257-The-Neoconservative-Reference-List

    Reads like the telephone book of Tel Aviv and I should know, eh, Anonymouse1?

    The even have the mastermind of 9/11 on the list, Dov Zakheim. OK, at the bottom, but still.

  16. Anonymouse1 on Tue, 4th Sep 2018 3:50 pm 

    Mak, as evidence clearly shows, being brain-damaged, psychopathic, sociopathic, or just plain murderous, are *not*, and have never really been barriers to service in what is, on paper anyhow, some of the higher offices in amerikaland.

    At the level below the figurehead in chief, and few of the more high-profile posts, such of secretary of snakes and a few others, most people have little direct exposure to the bulk of the uS policitcal sub-elites. Thus the brain-damaged, religious extremists, corrupt crony ‘capitalists’ and all manner of low-IQ whack jobs (like McBrain), Shillary (cough) run around for decades, and they hardly raise an eyebrow. Just part of the background.

    If there is a hell, McBrain will fit right in. Just as easily as he did on ‘capital hill’. In fact, Id be willing to wager he finds hell filled to the brim with former congress-creatures and senators, just like himself.

  17. Plantagenet on Tue, 4th Sep 2018 5:12 pm 

    I think its nice that George W. Bush and Michelle Obama are friends.

    Cheers!

  18. Anonymouse1 on Tue, 4th Sep 2018 5:15 pm 

    Speaking of brain-damaged nut-cases, look everyone, its Plantietard.

    Cheerio retard!

  19. Cloggie on Wed, 5th Sep 2018 1:30 am 

    The West is dying, let’s push it into the grave even faster:

    http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/angela-merkel-in-frankfurt-scheitern-der-brexit-gespraeche-nicht-ausgeschlossen-a-1226571.html

    Merkel says that a no-deal Brexit can no longer be excluded as a real possibility. Germany is creating the conditions for a part of the City to move to Frankfurt. Holland is doing the same.

    Excellent. That means she no longer can rely on the support of her backers in Anglosphere. She now is alone with us, mhowahahaha.

    French threatens to use their navy against the British over the fishing row:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/04/french-navy-ready-act-scallop-war-british-fishermen-erupts/

    Anything that makes the breakup of the West final is good. My worst fear is Bregret. Push Britain where it belongs anyway, but hasn’t the courage to openly admit, not even to itself: in Anglosphere, outside of Europe.

    The future of continental Europe is in Eurasia. Trump and Brexit combined are the once-in-a-lifetime chance to get rid of political correctness, multicult and the NWO.

    In related news… although I do not buy the stories of (effective) Russian meddling in US elections, the other story, namely that Moscow funded the Brexit campaign in order to push Britain out of the European world into Oceania… in order to take its place, that could contain more than a kernel of truth:

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/aug/09/revealed-detail-of-exclusive-russian-deal-offered-to-arron-banks-in-brexit-run-up

    How long will it take until Russian ICBM’s in continental Europe aimed at Anglo targets replace American cruise missiles aimed at Russia. My guess: 2025.

    No-fly zone Britain:

    https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1008916/Brexit-news-no-deal-Britain-EU-planes-grounded-Theresa-May

    Interesting times indeed.

  20. Cloggie on Wed, 5th Sep 2018 2:47 am 

    European right-wingers used to burn (communist) books, US white-wingers now burn shoes.

    Yesterday in prime time Dutch 20:00 news: angry US whites burn Nike running shoes, after the “rebel brand” had embraced a kneeling blackballer:

    https://www.businessinsider.com/nike-advert-with-colin-kaepernick-has-people-burning-products-2018-9

    The Dutch news tries to downplay the racial aspect and frame it as a “patriotic and respect” issue.

    The real interpretation: more signs of a growing racial rift and impending split.


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