I’ve been writing on Medium for over five years and I know that any algorithm is a harsh mistress. Sometimes you’re up, sometimes you’re down, it’s a mystery. But since October 7th I’ve been way down, and I know why. The algorithm hates Palestine. As Audre Lorde said, “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” and right now, ...
Tyranny by teletype (touring a modern-day cargo ship)An empire can be feared or loved, but they cannot be ignored. The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference. This is no different for empires as for men on Earth. For decades America has used sanctions and the fear of sanctions to rule the world. To get natural resources and labor, and ...
I was in my daughters class for her ‘book look’ and I saw something interesting. It was a map of the world by climate zones. The colder countries in the north and the warmer climate to the south. This struck me because it’s a map of why colonialism happened.The cold, sun-poor regions stole solar energy from the south, and the ...
One of the curious things about the Hypocritical Hegemon (America) is that it never declares war and never uses the word ‘siege’. But it’s always at war, and always besieging people!Right now, to take just one example, Gaza is under siege. That’s a simple historical fact, buried in the news. What else do you call cutting off a population from ...
Sabrina Singh, awful personPentagon spokesghoul Sabrina Singh was asked, “We’ve bombed them five times now… If this isn’t war, what is war?” She laughed. Not a funny question, but she laughed ghoulishly and said, “Great question… we do not seek war, we are not at war with the Houthis [Ansar Allah],” as if that explained anything. It doesn’t explain anything. ...
States that have declared support for Texas’s posturing cruelty to migrants, and other states who like to oppress more discretely. ViaThe one thing Americans will fight a civil war about is how to oppress their underclass. Whether they’re legal property (slaves) or illegal immigrants, America requires an underclass, that goes without question. The only dispute is how crass they are ...
An AI representation of the Captain of the USS Eisenhower, ‘Chowdah’ Hill. I didn’t make this. They actually think it’s cool. ViaAmerican propaganda today consists of the Captain of the USS Eisenhower eating cookies, constantly. ‘Israeli’ propaganda consists of soldiers dancing really badly, and also constantly. WTF is going on? I suppose the Empire is trying to convey how dominant ...
Islamic Resistance (Hamas) leader Yahya Sinwar in the ruins of his Gaza house. The inheritor of the ruins.Colonies, colonizers, and the planet they were colonizing are collapsing all at once. It’s hard to tell what’s causing what. It’s collapse within collapse within collapse and the most salient collapse is actually the most superficial. As Nine Inch Nails said, it runs ...
The American State Department right nowThe best way to understand what’s happening to America is to watch Goodfellas or The Sopranos. Eisenhower’s ‘military-industrial complex’ is just a mafia by another name, and they’re completely running the show. Arms dealers run up America’s debt, buy politicians and war secretaries, make a literal killing, and have driven American Empire into moral, military, ...
Within our lifetimes, ‘Israel’ will go the way of Rhodesia‘Israel’ is built for (and on) six-day wars. A quick show of strength, enabling them to live in oppression for years at a time. Deterrence is the name of the game. Defiance needs to be put down fast or the colony overheats and starts to come apart.‘Israel’ is simply not built ...
George Grosz, Eclipse of the Sun, 1926If you look at a map, Europe is not a real continent. Europe is in Asia, with just an imaginary racist line separating them from the horrible hordes of us. If you look at a map of military bases, European countries are not real either. The whole place is occupied by America, with just ...
Jack Nicholson burning up the place mat in The DepartedIn The Departed, a common criminal and a crime boss are sitting in a bar. The criminal says, “You’re seventy fucking years old Frank, I’m just saying. One of your guys is going to pop you. As for running drugs, what the fuck are you doing? You don’t need the money ...
Piece of shit man inside a piece of shit planeThe 737 is a 50-year-old airframe that Boeing is riding, literally, till the doors come off. The Boeing 737 MAX has crashed itself multiple times, had had door-plugs blow out mid-flight, and has a litany of problems waiting to happen. Boeing also makes many US government planes and those, like the ...
‘Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, an 1887 painting by Viktor Vasnetsov. From left to right are Death, Famine, War, and Conquest; the Lamb is at the top.’Everyone in the world — except for America and Israel — supports food as a human right. There have been multiple votes on this in the UN, with only America and Israel voting against. ...
The retreat of a shattered divisionFirst a shattered ‘Israeli’ battalion retreated from Gaza, then multiple brigades fled. Now a whole division has turned tail and run. What else do you call this? A retreat by any other name still spells defeat. A full 25% of ‘Israel’s’ Army has retreated now. They’re turtling.‘Israel’ calls this retreat a ‘phase change.’ Unless you’ve ...
‘The Promised Conquest and Sacred Jihad million-man march that took place in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a.’ After they were bombed. ViaIn the constant dance between sword and shield, offense and defense, chinks in the best armor always appear. Indeed, the ‘best’ armor is often its own worst enemy. China was overrun by Mongols on horseback, imperial Rome fell to ...
Graffiti on the wall around the Gaza ghettoMy kids like ‘Batman’ but Batman sucks. A billionaire, cop-collaborating vigilante? Bleh. So I made up my own Batman, a poor hero whose parents were killed by the cops, and who lives in a junkyard, fighting the capitalist Penguin and helping people unionize and burn debt records. It’s my kid, why not. The ...
Idealized (AI?) image of the Al Aqsa Flood, which is emotionally centered around the Al Aqsa MosqueMost people in the West are calling for ceasefire in Palestine. This is the concept of peace as in ‘leave us in peace.’ Just stop the rapid genocide of the Palestinian people so the slow genocide can proceed without bothering us. However, as Kwame ...
“No to the silencer!” Artwork by Naji Al-Ali, martyred by the collaborators in 1987The 1948 Genocide Convention was immediately abused to perpetrate more genocide. ‘Israel’ was founded the same year. It’s only this year (2024) that Israel is finally being indicted for its crimes. Israel’s crime isn’t really genocide, which they’ve been doing for decades. Their crime is doing it ...
A first look onto the door plug by NTSB investigators (Photo: NTSB) (Via AVHerald)If anything symbolizes the suck of late-stage capitalism, it’s the ‘door’ blowing off a 737 MAX, sucking a boy’s clothes out, and falling into a schoolteacher’s backyard. These planes fucking suck, but people have to keep riding around in them because they’re somebody’s investment. The 737 MAX ...
