By Caitlin Johnstone
March 26, 2023:
Information Clearing House
-- The western
world is solemnly commemorating the 20th
anniversary of the Iraq invasion by blindly
following the US into more conflict and
militarism while repeating all the same kinds of
mass media malpractice.
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If you think it's a coincidence that the
western world suddenly got
super-duper
interested in China's human rights record right
when China began threatening US planetary
domination, then you're a bootlicking moron who
deserves to be shamed in public.
A leaked
2017 State Department memo explicitly
acknowledged that it's US government policy to
ignore the human rights violations of US-aligned
nations while attacking them in nations like
China, Russia, North Korea and Iran. Stop buying
into this performance.
China has been sorting out China's internal
affairs for thousands of years; they don't
suddenly need help from a bunch of white stuffed
shirts in Washington, London and Canberra just
because a few sociopathic think tankers say so.
Leave China's issues to the Chinese to address.
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People who live in the Middle East have every
right to attack the occupying forces there whose
presence they oppose, and those occupying forces
do not have any legitimate right to retaliate.
Every American who is killed or injured by
those opposing US military occupations was
killed or injured because the US empire put them
there. What happens to them is the empire's
fault, not the fault of those rightfully
resisting a hostile occupation.
Claims that
attacks on US occupiers in Syria are
"backed" by Iran should never be taken on blind
faith, but to be clear it is entirely legitimate
for Iran to involve itself in this conflict.
Iran is an ally of Syria and is in Syria with
the Syrian government's permission; neither of
these things are true of the US. Perhaps more
importantly, Iran is in the Middle East,
and therefore has infinitely more legitimacy
than the US in making the Middle East its
business.
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Even if everything US pundits and politicians
are saying about TikTok is true (and of course
it isn't), it's still far
less scary than what the US government does to
us with American apps, and it's still
far less scary than giving
the White House
massive new censorship powers. If you live
anywhere under the thumb of the US empire, then
any information-gathering or censorship policies
the US government sets for itself have real
relevance to your life, because the US
government has actual power over you. The
Chinese government does not. This is obvious to
anyone who doesn't have soup for brains.
It's crazy how the First Amendment
explicitly says "Congress shall make no law"
abridging freedom of speech or freedom of the
press, and yet congress is preparing to do
literally exactly that with all American TikTok
users.
It's also crazy that US congressmen who don't
understand any technology more advanced than a
shovel and think the internet comes from magic
beans are making decisions about online
platforms that affect everyone.
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The problem is not that Australia's corrupt
media
are saying the nation will have to follow
the US into war with China, the problem is that
they're almost certainly correct. This means
Australians must demand we immediately exit our
alliances with the US that would lead to
this. They're not being dishonest when they say
we'll have to follow if the US goes to war
against China, they're being dishonest in their
failure to immediately begin asking "Okay, so
how do we GET THE FUCK OUT OF THIS BAT SHIT
INSANE SITUATION RIGHT THIS VERY INSTANT?"
Because that's the only sane response to
finding out that your nation will have to go to
war with its primary trading partner to
facilitate some dopey agendas cooked up in
Washington, Arlington and Langley: asking how
the fuck do we get ourselves the
fuck out of this situation? What do we need
to do? What alliances need to be shredded? Whose
offices do we need to storm and whose desks do
we need to pound on? Failure to ask these
questions is malpractice. Because going to war
with China will destroy our country. Absolutely
destroy it. It cannot
happen.
The Australian media aren't criminal in
telling us the US is going to drag us into a war
of unimaginable horror, the Australian media are
criminal for telling us we just need to accept
that and get comfortable with the idea. Fuck
you. No. Get us out of this World War III trap
immediately.
Never in history has hard-hitting,
adversarial journalism been so urgently needed
in Australia as it is right now, and never in
history have the Australian media been less fit
for the job.
If you're wondering why I've been writing so
much about my home country lately instead of
focusing on the hub of the empire in the US like
I usually do, that's why. It's because our
worthless, bootlicking press aren't doing their
fucking jobs right when it's most urgently
important that they do.
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