Ernst Wolrab

Nothing contains less signal than Western punditry on Putin. I just dismiss it all summarily. Unsalvageable discourse. A total waste of time.

Orthodox Palestinian Christians celebrating Palm Sunday in Ramallah, Palestine. Christianity is an integral part of Palestinian nationalism, and Easter and Christmas are national holidays in Palestine.

נכון למרץ 2026 כ-9,446 פלסטינים מוחזקים במתקני הכליאה הישראלים. 4,691 מהם בצווים מנהליים - ללא הליך משפטי כלשהו: כתב אישום, משפט או הרשעה וללא שום אפשרות להתגונן. גם במהלך המתקפה הישראלית-אמריקאית נגד איראן, ישראל ממשיכה להפעיל מצפון ועד דרום רשת של מחנות עינויים לאסירים פלסטינים שבהם מתקיימת התעללות שיטתית הכוללת אלימות גופנית והתעמרות נפשית, תנאיםבלתי אנושיים, הרעבה ומניעת טיפול רפואי. 84 פלסטינים שזהותם ידועה, בהם קטין אחד, מתו במחנות העינויים הישראלים בשנתיים האחרונות, וקיים חשש כבד שמספר האסירים שמתו תחת משמורת ישראל אף גבוה יותר. מדיניות זו מתקיימת בגיבוי מלא של המערכת הפוליטית, מערכת המשפט, רשויות הכליאה, וגם של התקשורת הישראלית. שירות בתי הסוהר והשר לביטחון לאומי אף מתפארים בפומבי בתנאים הקשים שבהם מוחזקים אסירים פלסטינים. מחנות העינויים הם חלק מהמתקפה המתוכננת והרחבה שמובילה ישראל נגד החברה הפלסטינית, ושמטרתה לפרק ולהרוס את הפלסטינים כקבוצה. לינק לדו"ח "גיהינום עלי אדמות" >> btselem.org/hebrew/publica…

Trump’s oil blockade is a direct assault on the livelihoods of Cuban women. On this #IWD2026, join the Cuba Solidarity Campaign in demanding the UK government condemn these illegal measures. Solidarity with the women of Cuba-now more than ever! 🇨🇺✊ #CubaNoEstaSola #IWD"

IRÁN RESPONDE CON FURIOSA DIGNIDAD: TEL AVIV ARDE BAJO EL CIELO DE LA JUSTICIA. La noche se quiebra en estruendos de soberanía. Misiles iraníes, hijos de un pueblo que no implora, atraviesan el falso firmamento de la impunidad sionista. Tel Aviv, nido de arrogancia imperial, se ilumina con llamas que no pide permiso para arder. Bases yanquis en el Golfo tiemblan como castillos de arena ante la marea de la historia. Cada explosión es un verso existencial: el oprimido se revela, el horizonte se tiñe de rojo fenomenológico, el ser-en-lucha se hace carne y fuego. El ayatolá no negocia la dignidad; el pueblo persa no se arrodilla ante el verdugo. Desde la existencia doliente brota la resistencia indomable, cantando en árabe, en farsi, en todos los idiomas del dolor convertido en victoria. ¡Que el imperio escuche el eco de su propia caída! ¡Que la poesía de los pueblos libres se escriba con misiles y con verdad! #IránResiste #AbajoElImperialismo #MuerteAlSionismo #DesdeElRíoHastaElMar #PalestinaLibre #TelAvivArde #NoALaAgresiónYanquiSionista #ResistenciaAntiimperialista #VivaIrán #FuegoJusticiero 🇮🇷 🔥 🇵🇸 Comparte este grito si tu alma aún vibra con la lucha de los que no se rinden. La existencia no es sumisión: es rebelión.

AHORA: Comunicado de la familia de Alex Pettri (MÁXIMA DIFUSIÓN) 🖤👇 “Estamos desconsolados, pero también muy enojados. Alex era una persona de buen corazón que quería mucho a su familia y amigos, y también a los veteranos estadounidenses a quienes cuidaba como enfermero de la UCI en el hospital de veteranos de Minneapolis. Alex quería marcar la diferencia en este mundo. Lamentablemente, no estará con nosotros para ver el impacto que tuvo. No uso el término "héroe" a la ligera. Sin embargo, su último pensamiento y acto fue proteger a una mujer. Las mentiras repugnantes que la administración ha dicho sobre nuestro hijo son reprobables y asquerosas. Es evidente que Alex no tenía un arma cuando fue atacado por los matones cobardes y asesinos de ICE de Trump. Tenía su teléfono en la mano derecha y la mano izquierda vacía levantada por encima de la cabeza, intentando proteger a la mujer a la que ICE acababa de empujar al suelo, mientras le rociaban gas pimienta. Por favor, difundan la verdad sobre nuestro hijo. Era un buen hombre. Gracias.”

In light of the recent attacks on 'campism', I want to offer a few thoughts on internationalism. However shrivelled in practice and withered in theory, internationalism is not about 'solidarity' in the abstract. It is not about standing against 'bad actors', whatever that might mean. It is not even about opposing 'state repression' or 'violence' or 'war' — not when our conceptions of these things are abstracted from an assessment of the contradictions both domestic and international that give them shape. Internationalism is not a moral category. Nor is it a set of cookie-cutter principles against which political forces and social formations can be measured and judged. Instead, internationalism is an extended historical tradition whose key pivot occurred with the October Revolution and the subsequent boom in anti-colonial nationalism across the Third World. The theories that took shape in this process reveal three key things. One, that the division of the world among the major capitalist powers means that the main contradiction within capitalism is not between the workers and factory owners in Manchester, but between the imperialists and the oppressed globally. Two, that the super-profits produced by the exploitation of the global periphery enable the imperialists to buy the consent of their working class and sustain the imperialist project. And therefore, three, that the motor force of the global liberation struggle is to be found in the global periphery. It is by severing the arteries of imperial plunder at the source of exploitation — in the colonies and neo-colonies — that capitalism can finally be defeated at the global scale. These are material categories. They do not adjudicate — as many post-colonial thinkers are wont to do — between 'good' anti-colonial struggles and 'bad' anti-colonial struggles. They do not even attempt to make the moral claim that, whether you are 'good' or 'bad', you should not be colonized, starved, or bombed — apparently a controversial position among 'campism's' most ardent adversaries. Instead, they concern the structure of the international system. They make a set of historical and dialectical claims about the nature of imperialism in the present conjuncture. First, that imperialism operates through mechanisms — from sanctions to debt to war to genocide — designed to deflate incomes, shorten lives, fragment states, and weaken anti-hegemonic forces in the Global South, policies that eventually find their way back to the working people of the Global North. Second, that preventing the expansion of that agenda is a historical necessity and a question of our collective survival, something that the genocide in Palestine has made abundantly clear. Third, that the internal contradictions within spaces resisting that agenda are shaped and distorted by the external pressures they face — and should not be overemphasized. Indeed, no one says that the actions of the anti-hegemonic front is immune from critique. To be sure, the national class struggle threads in millions of ways through the international anti-imperialist struggle. But is it useful for the Cuban revolutionary project that Steve in North Carolina thinks its government arrested too many people? Is it useful for Iran that Ulrich from Baden-Württemberg thinks its security forces should have handed out roses to armed rioters ransacking shops, mosques and hospitals across the country? There is an ideological front to the imperialist war, and 'critiques' cannot be abstracted from the broader propaganda apparatus that wields them to throttle solidarities with countries facing assault. People must be given the space to settle their own contradictions. The state, while it undoubtedly exists as an instrument of oppression, also happens to be a vehicle for consensus-formation and collective decision-making. For this, sovereignty and stability are a precondition. A state's oppressive functions heighten in a time of war. Indeed, that is one of the strategies of contemporary imperialist hybrid war: to delegitimize the state, challenge its monopoly on violence, and foreclose avenues for the peaceful resolution of its internal contradictions. It is immeasurably more difficult to demand more bread and higher wages of a state under suffocating sanctions that privilege its capitalist class. And it is all but impossible to take to the streets in protest when your protest faces sabotage by armed reactionaries cooked up in Washington's death factory. The premise of the so-called 'campist' is simple. States that find themselves structurally opposed to imperialism face a full-blown assault by a war machine whose agenda is balkanization, privatization, immiseration, extraction, exploitation, dislocation, and ultimately mass death — policies shrouded and whitewashed through a comprehensive ideological and propaganda apparatus designed to secure our consent. Those of us sitting in North Carolina or Baden-Württemberg would do well to oppose our states' role in that agenda rather than fixating on the shortcomings and contradictions of the forces seeking to defend themselves and, by extension, all of humanity against that assault.

I have no words left, and I fear that even words can wound. I implore the EU and others who are 'preserving dialogue' with Israel: use it to end all unlawful detentions under int'l law. All hostages - Palestinians and Israelis - must be allowed to safely return home.

The only sin Francesca committed is speaking the truth. #protectfrancesca #sueUNWatch #unseatIsraelFromUN

#protectfrancesca #sueUNWatch

⚡️Journalist Anas Al-Sharif reports on the Israeli massacre in Jabalia which resulted in more than 150 Palestinians killed and wounded. "There is now no civil defense, no medical services, no hospitals...Save them now, save northern Gaza, now...We are talking about one of the largest massacres inside the Jabalia camp...Northern Gaza now, northern Gaza is being exterminated at this moment. Hospitals have stopped functioning. Civil defense has stopped. Tens of thousands of families remain trapped. No food. No medicine. No water."

Israeli Snipers Routinely, Deliberately Shoot Palestinian Kids In The Head There’s yet another doctors’ testimony about Israeli forces constantly shooting Palestinian children in the head, this one published in The New York Times. The report, titled “65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza,” begins as follows: “I worked as a trauma surgeon in Gaza from March 25 to April 8. I’ve volunteered in Ukraine and Haiti, and I grew up in Flint, Mich. I’ve seen violence and worked in conflict zones. But of the many things that stood out about working in a hospital in Gaza, one got to me: Nearly every day I was there, I saw a new young child who had been shot in the head or the chest, virtually all of whom went on to die. Thirteen in total. “At the time, I assumed this had to be the work of a particularly sadistic soldier located nearby. But after returning home, I met an emergency medicine physician who had worked in a different hospital in Gaza two months before me. ‘I couldn’t believe the number of kids I saw shot in the head,’ I told him. To my surprise, he responded: ‘Yeah, me, too. Every single day.’” Numerous named medical staff who worked in Gaza then testify in the report about routine encounters with children who’d been shot in the head and chest by Israeli forces, as well as children and infants suffering from severe malnutrition and easily preventable infections. Such reports have been coming out all year. Because Israel has not been allowing foreign press into Gaza, medical staff have in many ways become the de facto western journalists on the ground in the enclave — and they are all saying the same thing. Back in July a group of 45 doctors and nurses who’d been working in Gaza signed an open letter to President Biden testifying that “every single signatory to this letter treated children in Gaza who suffered violence that must have been deliberately directed at them.” “Specifically, every one of us on a daily basis treated pre-teen children who were shot in the head and chest,” the letter continues. Also in July, Politico published an article by two American surgeons named Mark Perlmutter and Feroze Sidhwa titled “‘Nothing Prepared Us for What We Saw’: Two Weeks Inside a Gaza Hospital,” which contains the following passage: “We started seeing a series of children, preteens mostly, who’d been shot in the head. They’d go on to slowly die, only to be replaced by new victims who’d also been shot in the head, and who would also go on to slowly die. Their families told us one of two stories: the children were playing inside when they were shot by Israeli forces, or they were playing in the street when they were shot by Israeli forces.” In April an article titled “‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza” was published in The Guardian, citing nine doctors who’d worked in Gaza after October 7 who “reported treating a steady stream of children, elderly people and others who were clearly not combatants with single bullet wounds to the head or chest.” Forensic pathologists were able to identify bullets used by the Israeli military in these attacks on children: “The Guardian shared descriptions and images of gunshot wounds suffered by eight children with military experts and forensic pathologists. They said it was difficult to conclusively determine the circumstances of the shootings based on the descriptions and photos alone, although in some of the cases they were able to identify ammunition used by the Israeli military.” In February the Los Angeles Times published an article titled “I’m an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn’t war — it was annihilation”. The author, a reconstructive surgeon named Irfan Galaria, writes as follows: “On one occasion, a handful of children, all about ages 5 to 8, were carried to the emergency room by their parents. All had single sniper shots to the head. These families were returning to their homes in Khan Yunis, about 2.5 miles away from the hospital, after Israeli tanks had withdrawn. But the snipers apparently stayed behind. None of these children survived.” So this is happening. The evidence is undeniable, and the sourcing is as solid as it gets. There are mountains upon mountains of rock solid proof that Israeli forces routinely, deliberately shoot Palestinian children in the head in Gaza. The only reason this isn’t being treated as an established fact by the western political-media class is because the Israeli military denies it, telling The Guardian in response to the aforementioned report that “The IDF only targets terrorists and military targets. In stark contrast to Hamas’s deliberate attacks on Israeli civilians, including men, women and children, the IDF follows international law and takes feasible precautions to mitigate civilian harm.” “Doctors say otherwise,” The Guardian wrote. Indeed, there is no longer any fact-based reason to deny that Israel is deliberately targeting children with sniper fire. The facts are in and the case is closed. The only basis anyone can have for denying this established fact is their own personal loyalty to the state of Israel and its military, and/or their own personal disdain for Palestinian lives. This fact punches holes in so many of the narratives used to defend Israel over the past year. That Israel is conducting itself in a more ethical way than Hamas. That Israel is waging a war against Hamas and not the Palestinian people. That the IDF are “the most moral army in the world” and are taking extraordinary measures to avoid civilian casualties. That civilians are being killed in Gaza because Hamas uses them as “human shields”. That this is a war fought for Israel’s self-defense, and not a campaign of extermination driven by racism and hate. There is simply no way to believe any of these things are true when you acknowledge the extensively-documented fact that Israeli forces are routinely shooting children in the head throughout the Gaza Strip.

Good westerners don't start off hating Israel. When our hearts are in the right place we start off giving Israel the benefit of the doubt and assuming the situation must be more complicated than it appears, because we're not just going to reflexively assume the Jewish state is evil like some kind of neo-Nazi. We grew up learning about the persecution of the Jewish people, watching movies and reading books about it and vowing "never again" like everyone else. So for entirely sensible and good-natured reasons we tend to start off viewing anything to do with Jews and Judaism in a sympathetic light. It's not until we start learning and paying attention to Israel's actions that this view begins to change. We come to understand the Israel is in fact a profoundly evil, not because it is full of Jews but because it's a western settler-colonialist project that's inflicting the same kinds of genocide, ethnic cleansing, theft and abuse on the indigenous population of the land that other western settler-colonialist projects like Australia, the US and Canada inflicted in earlier centuries. And we learn that this evil doesn't just pervade the Israeli government but all of Israeli society — not because of Judaism or Jewishness, but for the same reason hatred and racism pervaded the societies of the Jim Crow south and apartheid South Africa. Israelis are indoctrinated from birth to view the non-Jewish indigenous populations of the region as less than human, because otherwise it would make no moral sense for there to be a state where one ethnic group receives preferential treatment over the others, or for that state to have been dropped on top of a pre-existing civilization without the permission of the people who live there. This indoctrination is the glue that holds the whole settler-colonialist project together. We learn that this is what we are seeing when we translate comments Israelis make in Hebrew on social media which look like a page out of Hitler's Mein Kampf, or when we see photos of Israeli soldiers mockingly dressing in the clothing of dead or displaced Palestinian women and playing with the toys of dead or displaced Palestinian children, or when we read polls of Jewish Israelis supporting Israel's daily massacres in Gaza and Lebanon. This is just what it looks like when an entire society is indoctrinated from birth into viewing their neighbors as mindless savages. And we gradually come to understand that just as Jewish Israelis are indoctrinated in a way that warps their perception and their conscience, we ourselves were indoctrinated to see Israel in a sympathetic light. All our news media constantly frame Israel as the victim in whatever violence it is involved in, and all our politicians constantly frame Israel as a friend and anyone who opposes it as an enemy. This happens for the same reason the western political-media class lies to us about every western war: because Israel is a crucial component in the western war machine. That's the only reason its settler-colonialist project is supported by the western empire. Joe Biden has often said that if there wasn't an Israel, the United States would have to create one to protect its interests in the middle east. Having a state which is both (A) artificially constructed from the ground up by western forces and (B) fully dependent on the support of the western empire gives the empire a permanent tool with which to justify the nonstop military presence necessary to dominate a crucial resource-rich region, and to create the violence and chaos necessary to keep the middle east from uniting into a powerful superpower bloc which isn't beholden to western interests. This is why Israel is so important to the western empire, which in turn is why we've always been bombarded with mass media messaging telling us we should support Israel. Good westerners don't start off hating Israel because we grow up marinating in an information environment which programs us to support it, and which exploits the historic persecution of the Jews to manipulate us into backing a murderous apartheid state which cannot exist without nonstop war. Good westerners don't start off hating Israel, but, if they are truly good, they end up hating Israel. A sincere dedication to truth, justice and kindness can only lead one to view the Zionist project with complete revulsion after learning the facts about what it really is, what it really does, and why our western governments really support it.

@SpiritofHo @Lowkey0nline The French military's deliberate torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of Algerian freedom fighters only caused the movement to grow. The rest is history. x.com/nematsadat/sta…

Ignore Their Words; Watch Their Actions Israel has been raining hellfire on Lebanon with such extreme ferocity that as of this writing authorities can only make the roughest estimates of the number of dead. Hundreds of people were killed today. CNN reports destruction “as large as a city block” in Beirut from a strike on six residential towers in what Israel claims was an attempt to assassinate Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. From the looks of things they’ll probably be counting the dead for many days as they comb through the rubble. As you might expect, the imperial spin machine is falling all over itself to wash the US government’s hands of this savagery. Axios has published another of its signature “sources say Biden is privately angry with Netanyahu” pieces, reporting that the president is experiencing such adjectives as “frustrated”, “humiliated” and “livid” toward the Israeli prime minister over rejected ceasefire proposals and increased escalations. We’ve been seeing articles like this for a year now. It’s become a whole new genre of news reporting in the mainstream press to transcribe statements fed to the media by anonymous White House officials saying the president’s feelings are feeling upset feelings toward the Israeli government in order to frame the Biden administration as some kind of reluctant passive witness to all this butchery and genocide instead of the willing participant that it so obviously is. CNN has an article out titled “Blinken issues forceful plea for diplomacy after Israeli strike on Beirut,” which is of course nonsense. “Forceful plea” is an oxymoron; the two words contradict each other. You don’t plead with someone forcefully, you make demands forcefully. This administration could have reined in Israel at any time between last October and today with a phone call, because Israel’s military operations and very existence are fully dependent on US military support. Instead they’re making a performative “plea” that Israel start acting nice, because they don’t actually want these atrocities to end. You can see that the Biden administration is a willing participant in all this bloodshed by simply ignoring their words and their narrative spin and watching their actions instead. While the mass media publish White House press releases disguised as news stories about the president’s feelings and celebrity progressives assure us that this administration is “working tirelessly for a ceasefire,” the Israeli Defense Ministry is announcing that it has secured another $8.7 billion in military aid from the US. That’s really all you need to know to understand what’s really happening here: that this administration is continuing to pour mountains of war machinery into Israel after a year of genocide. Their words say one thing, but their actions say another. Ignore their words, and watch their actions. This is great advice for this current situation in particular and for politicians in general, and even more broadly for anyone in your life whose real motives you’re unsure about. The other day I got into a conversation online with a Kamala supporter who insisted that backing Harris is the best way to support Israel’s victims, because Harris sometimes says nice words about Palestinian people while Donald Trump does not. “Given the current two options, would you prefer a president who urges Netanyahu to cease, who calls for a ceasefire, and calls for Palestinian freedom and rights, over one who does none of those?” he asked. I told him, “You’re asking me if I prefer someone who murders kids while saying nice words or someone who murders kids while not saying nice words. I don’t care. They are exactly the same to me.” But that’s what Democrats have to offer. Nice feelings and words. Vibes. Bombing middle eastern kids to shreds while saying they support human rights and a two-state solution. It’s their whole entire schtick. I saw a liberal think tanker named Maya Luna saying “If you’re not voting for Kamala, you don’t care about Palestinians,” arguing that “it’s objectively the case that Kamala has a policy that will be much more empathetic to Palestinians.” This is the Democratic Party right here. They can’t point to any concrete material reason to believe their candidate would be better on Palestine, so they say their candidate “will be much more empathetic”, i.e. words and feelings as opposed to actions. This is who western liberals are. And Trump supporters are the same. They insist their candidate will bring peace if elected even after he spent four years as president advancing the longstanding agendas of neocons and the US intelligence cartel, with a cabinet staffed with some of the nastiest warmongers in Washington. If they’d ignored his words which occasionally give lip service to peace and watched his actions instead, they’d see that the empire will never let anyone elect a peacemaker as president. Mentally mute the narratives and instead watch the actual material movements of war machinery, troops, resources and wealth. That’s how you sort out what’s really happening in this world from the empty narrative fluff, and that’s how you recognize who the true monsters really are.

1/ As Israel & the US continue genocide in Palestine/escalate ethnic cleansing in Lebanon, we must continue to fearlessly fight for liberation & unapologetically condemn & work to dismantle Zionism & all forms of fascism theintercept.com/2024/09/26/ten…

This is fascinating from the BBC. The masters of propaganda. Hezbollah fired that rocket not at "population centres" but at Mossad HQ on the edge of the city, responsible for the thousands of IEDs that exploded across Lebanon and killed two children last week. As a result, Hezbollah are presented as firing indiscriminately and Israel – who have murdered 560 people in 24h – are presented as justified in their war crimes. The Mossad base is mentioned in the final paragraph but with no linking sentence or verb to suggest this was the target. It's just presented out of nothing. This disinformation fundamentally obscures the average reader's ability to understand the conflict, its motivations, causes, and background. In no sense does this inform but dis-inform.

The election in November will be rigged. This election rigging will not be done by Russia, or by China, or by Iran, or by far right coup plotters, or by some shadowy cabal tampering with voting machines. It will happen right out in the open, and will be perfectly legal. In fact, it's already happening. This election is being rigged by the donor class. It's being rigged by lobby groups. It's being rigged by the plutocrat-owned mass media, and by plutocrat-controlled Silicon Valley algorithm manipulation. It's being rigged by obscenely wealthy people who can afford to extract political favors in exchange for massive campaign donations in ways normal members of the public never could. It's being rigged by people who've bought up so much narrative control in the form of media ownership that they can set agendas for the entire country in ways the average voter has no chance of ever doing. These election meddlers dictate the political framework and information environment in which elections take place. They decide what positions will be considered normal and acceptable, and which will be considered radical and extreme. They predetermine the location and range on the political spectrum at which the election will be contested, and they restrict the Overton window of acceptable political opinion within which debates and discourse will occur. They do this without any regard for the interests of ordinary members of the public, but solely for their own interests. That's why you see candidates arguing not about WHETHER wars should happen, but WHICH wars should happen, and HOW they should occur. It's why you see them accusing one another of being too weak and dovish on foreign policy instead of attacking each other as reckless warmongers. It's why you see them arguing over who loves Israel the most and who will send it the most weapons, rather than who will do the most to end Israel's genocidal atrocities. It's why you see them debating who supports the most fracking and oil-drilling instead of promising to end ecocidal policies and stop the corporate destruction of our environment. It's why you see them arguing over the minute details of what capitalism and imperialism should look like, rather than if capitalism and imperialism should exist at all. It's also why, when you see a candidate show up with a platform of ending war and militarism, stopping ecocide, and curbing the injustices and abuses of capitalism, they are treated as outlandish extremists. Not just by the rich and powerful, but by ordinary members of the public who've been indoctrinated by all this manipulation into accepting status quo politics as the norm. This rigged, controlled political environment is what we were all born into, so we're conditioned to think it's normal. It's very easy to miss how freakish and abominable the whole thing is. How destructive it is. How much needless death and misery and destruction it causes. If we came from a healthy world into this one we would scream in horror, but because we've never lived in a healthy world, we can be manipulated into mistaking the sickness of this civilization for health. Elections are rigged in this way by a fairly small group of plutocrats and empire managers, not just in the United States but throughout the western world. They rig our entire political system in their favor, and then have the gall to tell us we all need to freak out because some Russians made some Facebook memes near election season. This is not democracy. This is plutocracy. This is oligarchy. We're just indoctrinated into calling it democracy, by the very same mass-scale psychological manipulations they use to keep it from being a democracy. All US elections these days come with allegations of election interference, especially from the losing side. But it's important to keep in mind that even in the unlikely event that those allegations were 100 percent true, they'd still be a tiny drop in the ocean compared to the election interference that's already happening right out in the open.

If you vote for Harris or Trump, you should at least have the decency to feel gross about it. I don’t care who Americans vote for in November, or if they vote at all. In order to care I’d have to believe US presidential elections matter. But they don’t matter. No matter who wins, the empire wins. No matter who loses, the world loses. No matter how things turn out this particular time around, Democrats and Republicans will continue to win roughly 50 percent of the time each, and the US-centralized empire will continue to trudge on unaffected by the results. I don’t care how you vote. Vote for Harris or for Trump if that’s what you feel like doing. But I do think if you vote for either of those monsters, you should at least have the decency to feel gross about it. Like you did something very dirty and shameful in order to get by. I just think that would be the mark of someone with a well-developed moral character, who’s entering into this thing without dissociation or compartmentalization. It would indicate that you live your life with your eyes wide open, being real about what’s real and not hiding from unpleasant truths to avoid feeling uncomfortable feelings. Maybe you have some well-founded reasons for believing Trump or Harris is the lesser evil in this election. Maybe you can make some strong arguments that Harris will be a bit better on civil rights, or that Trump might be better on Ukraine. But what you definitely can’t do is make any rational case that as president either of them would be anything besides an immensely depraved mass murderer of unforgivable criminality. If you want to vote for Harris, then vote for Harris. But do it with the full knowledge that you are voting for someone who has spent a year supporting genocidal atrocities, and who has been winning endorsements from some of the most evil warmongers ever to set foot in your nation’s capitol. At the very least have the decency to honor the mountains of victims who will suffer in ways you can’t even imagine under a Harris administration by casting your vote mournfully, resolute in your understanding that despite getting your vote as the perceived lesser evil, she is still your mortal enemy. At the very least you owe them that much. Don’t have “joy” about it. Don’t do it proudly. Don’t make cutesy little memes or make it fun. You are doing something ugly, and it should feel a bit ugly. If you want to vote for Trump, then vote for Trump. But do it with the understanding that he is being backed by some of the most virulent Zionists on earth and will throw his weight behind Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Don’t lie to yourself that he’s going to end the wars and fight the deep state. Be real about the inevitability that he will continue the warmongering of his predecessors and spend his term advancing the depraved longstanding agendas of the US intelligence cartel, just like he did last time. Do it with a heavy heart. Do it with revulsion. Do it with the same amount of pride you would have if you were performing fellatio on a profoundly unkind man in exchange for hard drugs. That’s about the feeling it deserves. If you do this, then I will believe you if you tell me you’re voting for who you sincerely believe is the lesser evil. If your emotional relationship with your vote for Harris or Trump is anything other than this, then you’re probably doing it for some other reason and not being real with yourself about it, like blind partisan team loyalty or something. If it doesn’t make you intensely uncomfortable, it’s because that’s where your comfort zone really is. If we want to live in a truth-based society, then part of our role in helping to build that world is to be true to the truth and to be real about reality. Don’t hide things from yourself. Don’t compartmentalize away from unpleasant facts. Act, and be real about what your actions are, and where they are coming from, and what their effects are likely to be. This is the first step to becoming an authentic human being.

The Western “friends of Ukraine” won’t stop until every Ukrainian is dead.