Antony Blinken, The Butcher of Yemen

Genocidal warmonger & architect behind the global violence and misery we inflict, Blinken should be in the docks at the Hague.

I want to make this more than a note because there are a couple of important pieces I’d like to provide context for and links to, most importantly this one to the January 8 broadcast of The Grayzone, which lifts the veil on so much of the horror, duplicity, and bloodshed wrought by the people we call our leaders.

First off, please join me in making sure the Democrats NEVER forget this Genocide, starting with a reminder of the exploits of the Butcher of Yemen, Secretary of State Antony Blinken. A man who never saw a war he didn’t like, his evil and pestilential DNA is all over Gaza as well. He has the gall, the impudence, the unmitigated and shameless brazenness, to deny that Israel’s ongoing slaughter, its city-leveling, hospital-bombing, mother-and-child killing machine, is in fact Genocide.

Here’s a graph charting the insane and lethal disproportionality of Netanyahu’s child-murdering regime:

As you’ll see in the piece below, we’ve received a precious little barbed-wire goodbye kiss from a man who slaughtered, lied, demolished nations, and murdered women and children - a modern Kissinger. The last words from a sociopathic hawk and genocidal war criminal. In addition to the piece below, you can click here to link to the full interview:

With the conclusion of the brutal and duplicitous dirty war in Syria, the United States has now “taken out” 6 of the 7 nation-states targeted for war and regime change by the American Century goon squad: old-school, gangster neo-cons whose schemes were revealed by General Wesley Clark in his 2007 memoir A Time to Lead: For Duty, Honor and Country. This country was hijacked after 9/11, and all of it was planned: the surveillance and censorship laws, the repeal of habeas corpus, the death of the fourth estate, and worst of all the non-stop violence and terror we visit upon those who share this planet with us. Trump will continue down the same path; he and Biden work for the same people and share the worldview of Cheney, Kagan, and Kristol. Nothing has changed, as we saw when Genocide Joe put Victoria Nulan, Robert Kagan’s wife, in charge of Ukraine, after which she became the most powerful person in the State Department.

Biden, Blinken, and Austin should, all of them, be tried for war crimes. And there’s plenty of room to add names to that list.

Now there’ll be — in fact there already is — a propaganda and PSYOP blitzkrieg, as Max Blumenthal details in this very highly recommended interview with Aaron Mate and Patrick Henningsen. There’s already a push for a new “War On Terror.” Bad faith actors like Sean Ryan will wind you up with unsubstantiated rumors claiming they’ve heard about something from a “reliable special-op-post-tactical-intelligence-retrieval source (or some other high-tech mumbo-jumbo)” and they can confirm Al-Queda has “stacks” sleeping in the USA.

The special lingo makes it more effective.

Of course, all of these wild claims are just that, and they are rarely if ever corroborated, as the interview shows:

It’s best to watch it all the way through, but I’ll do my best to paint a faithful picture. The second half, which addresses Syria, is very important, but earlier in the program, as the title indicates, the guests also speak about technofeudalism, which is what the Greek economist Yanis Varoufikas calls our current form of political economy. He argues that late-stage capitalism is no more and that what we are now experiencing is technofeudalism: a form of political economy dominated by massive platform lords, people like Jack Ma and Jeff Bezos, who, in an unholy alliance with SiliconValley, Big Tech, and the military, oversee a vast, global horde of serfs. These serfs live by purchasing back the products they themselves make, and they pay rent to landlords, car dealerships, credit card companies, and so on. They live at subsistence levels, and the ruling class’s increasingly “moderated” content exists for the sole purpose of keeping everyone misinformed, confused, and angry at the wrong people.

Byung-Chul Han, the new Elvis of critical theory and contemporary philosophy (Sorry Žižek), claims in The Burnout Society that we have arrived at a point in history where ideological messaging and sophisticated propaganda have now created a culture in which censorship occurs in, and is performed by, the subject’s own mind: they have taught us to self-censor, which is what all the virtue signaling is about. But I’m digressing.

It’s a sunnier version of Soylent Green, but not for long.

The rich will get richer, creating a more powerful oligarchy, of course, and will end up establishing a worldwide rentier economy of Global Techlords, as Michael Hudson argues, a class of people who do nothing and contribute nothing to society, which sounds exactly like something a guy named Marx once predicted in volumes two and three of Capital, which not many economists other than Hudson focus on. They’ll take the fruits of your labor and force you to work multiple jobs, and all of it will fit neatly under the big umbrella of technofeudalism. Billionaire creeps and sociopaths like Musk and Gates will continue to hold sway over initiatives aimed at dismantling our Bill of Rights and buy up whatever remains of the already severely censored platforms through which hundreds of millions of Americans communicate. Plus, the government now has the right to censor any online content.

It’s legal.

The Chicago school economists and the modern-day robber barons got everything they wished for, more than even Hayek could have hoped for: they dismantled the Bill of Rights; they have us all worshiping at the altar of mass censorship and surveillance; and they have they obliterated our democracy by running hand-picked candidates in rigged elections. Ironic, isn’t it, that after all this…

… It’s capitalism that has led us back to serfdom, Friedrich!

Hopefully, it will now be easier for some to see what’s been going on for so long. Syria is the latest domino to fall. In his memoir, Gen. Clark describes being shown the following memo by a fellow officer:

I just got this memo from the Secretary of Defense's office. It says we're going to attack and destroy the governments in 7 countries in five years - we're going to start with Iraq, and then we're going to move to Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran.

Tragically, it’s played out just like these power-mad and greedy warmongers originally planned. Syria has been handed over to a swarm of terrorists and fundamentalist groups from their own country and abroad, opportunists hungry for power who have now imposed Sharia law. After all that horror, this is what we left them with: a bunch of former (?) Al-Queda members and other sundry terrorists, many of whom hated each other just weeks ago, in positions of immense power. Unfortunately, this is the price we paid to get rid of Assad, not to mention the price paid by innocent Syrian civilians. Worst of all, we’ve done it hundreds of times before. We are Empire: we take what we please, and we mop up the blood later.

If you’re lucky: In Syria they decided to leave that job to an ensemble of sociopathic and ego-mad terrorists.

Also nothing new.

Liberal Democrats have been behind this bloodthirsty and wrongheaded tragedy since day one, and you know why? That’s right — they work for the same people the Republicans do, and just like the Republicans, they do their master’s bidding and are paving the way for full-blown war in the Middle East, perhaps beyond.

The Syrian people, decimated and slaughtered, their cities bombed back into the stone age, are the victims of an international and wholly unnecessary joust for power led by stooges for Capital and Empire. In our case, it’s Genocide Joe Biden. This plan to destabilize Syria was a calculated ploy to help the Israelis get rid of Hezbollah, to ensure Israel would be left alone and have a straight path of attack during future assaults on Iran, and then, to give the land to whatever sociopathic actor or group that would play ball: this time it’s a hodgepodge of terrorists who were recently on CIA kill lists. All to ensure Israel would be left to do as it pleases.

Netanyanu has proven extremely adept at pulling the strings of not only Genocide Joe, but almost everyone at the State Department, and those who have dared speak the word “Genocide” have been forced to quit or retire.

I tried telling everyone Syria was a vile and dirty war, that Aaron Mate had done impeccably solid work proving unequivocally that the OPCW report about the Douma chlorine gas attack was falsified, and that the organization covered it up. It was all part of a plan to gin up support for a needless, dirty war and convince Trump to bomb Syria. The propaganda was bare-thin, non-factual, almost gossamer in its transparency, and yet it still achieved its intended goal of hobbling the Syrian state.

Finally, these actions have delivered to the warmongers their much-anticipated, glorious, final stand, the ultimate wet dream and neoconservative holy grail and apocalypse: War with Iran. It’s spiced up even more by the ever-looming possibility that this mad scoundrel Biden will launch World War III before he moves off to the kingdom of dribble bibs and reruns of Wheel of Fortune. It was all part of creating a new Red Scare, a populace controlled by fear, ready to relinquish all of their most precious rights, and for what?

Americans sacrifice their health, relationships, creativity, financial stability, minds, souls, and even their happiness, all to send more money to the very people who have turned this planet into an epic shitscape of hellish proportions. Watch the interview, and push back if you don’t agree, but don’t remain comatose.

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