The worst people on the planet are elevated by the capitalist empire to the highest echelons of power across every field, and they make life worse for everyone, and then they die comfortably of old age, surrounded by loved ones.

That is the real source of our problems. Not immigrants. Not “woke”. Not elections going to the wrong political party. The source of our problems is that we are ruled by murderous psychopaths and do not use the power of our numbers to forcibly cast them from their thrones. That we let tyrants get away with genocide.

Caitlin Johnstone

 We need to talk about Palestine. The zionist lobby is creating a toxic atmosphere of fear and trauma. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago has been captured by the zionist lobby. 

Aunt Jemima was erased in 2021. Nancy Green, the original, was killed by a car and buried in a pauper's grave in Oak Woods graveyard in 1923. In 2023 she got a headstone. She was enslaved and then a servant to the enslaver family for years before she became the face of the pancake brand. Look at this photograph: they actually chained her to the table!

 

It felt creepy when they smashed the encampments. Now it has been near three years, and while the encampments are still gone, America has a Palestine problem. Genocide was, and is, and will always be the ultimate red line. 

 Let us hope and pray for the end of Greater Israel and Make America Great Again. Let us pray for the resistance and for humanity's awakening from the long dark era of the Genocidal Empire.

We are on the brink of a series of catastrophes of our own making that humankind will be exceptionally lucky to survive. There is a path ahead, but being able to see it and where it leads will require – at least from most westerners – a difficult feat of imagination. It will need us to cast aside many of the things we have been taught to most closely identify with. It will demand of us a realization that our most cherished values are actually harmful.

Jonathan Cook

Instead of pressing Israel to stop settlements, Obama made a personal call to Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, threatening to pull $450m in American aid to the Palestinians if Abbas did not withdraw an anti-settlement resolution put forward at the UN security council. In Obama’s address to the United Nations, general assembly, in the first year of his second term, he shifted dramatically from language used in his previous UN speeches. Instead of criticizing Israeli settlements and pressing for a two-state solution, he identified himself with "Israeli victims of Palestinian terrorism", opposed any UN action contrary to Israel’s insistence on direct negotiations between the parties, and condemned challenges to the legitimacy of Israel as a Jewish state.

The reason for Obama’s dramatic retreat is easily inferable from his memoir, A Promised Land, in which he complains about Aipac’s ability to cow American politicians into obeisance by invoking fears of being labelled antisemitic, and emphasized his own particular vulnerability to such threats as “a Black man with a Muslim name who lived in the same neighborhood as Louis Farrakhan”.

Ian Lustick and Eli Clifton

Israel's Lobby