Atrocities In Abundance

I just purchased a print of this original work "Repentance" by Inga Solveig. You can, too.

The atrocities committed by Israel seem to escalate with each passing day as if the ICJ ruling that they were likely guilty of genocide accelerated their efforts. I avoid war porn but in the week that U.S. Airman Aaron Bushnell sacrificed his own safety in an attempt to protect Palestinians from violence inflicted by our country, it's surreal how fast the horrors are piling up.

Trigger warning: disturbing content follows.

Video here if you can stand to watch it. This is not what 5 month old babies typically look like, and the mother is reportedly too malnourished to produce milk to feed her infant.)

https://twitter.com/angeloinchina/status/1763138532695298378

The occasion for the massacre: starving people were receiving food aid. More than 100 were killed and hundreds more were injured.

"More than 100 killed as Israeli forces open fire in chaos at Gaza food lines, Palestinian health ministry says" by Abeer Salman & Jeremy Diamond, CNN, Feb 29, 2024 

Al Jazeera reported:

• At least 112 Palestinians waiting for food aid killed and 760 wounded after being shot at by Israeli forces in Gaza.
• “Life draining out of Gaza at terrifying speed,” says UN aid chief Martin Griffiths on aid seeker attack, as death toll in Gaza crosses 30,000-mark.

In some cases, food aid boxes have been dropped into the surf so that people have to swim out to get it. Israeli snipers shot them, too, according to witnesses. Haven't seen any photos of that.

The UN Security Council is set to meet later today about the killing of starving, dehydrated aid seekers. Another veto opportunity for the U.S.? 

And finally, how could we overlook the citizens of Israel out on the borders blocking aid trucks by erecting macabre facsimiles of carnivals with bouncy castles and cotton candy machines to delight the children. 

https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1761147220164845777

Not the beautiful starving children of Gaza, dehydrated, orphaned, and mourned.

Only the well-fed, housed, and hydrated Zionist children. 

Because apartheid is the enormous, vicious lie that some children are worth more than other children.

If you're able to, you might join me in donating to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. It was named as a beneficiary in Aaron Bushnell's last will and testament, a man who could not stay alive in the face of his complicity in all these atrocities.

Gaza Genocide Profiteers Doing Business In Maine

The Navy destroyer Carney fires missiles to counter drone and missile fire by Houthi rebels in Yemen on Oct. 19, 2023, in the Red Sea. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aaron Lau/Navy)

Folks are looking for facts about genocide profiteering in our state (Maine) that they can identify sources for so I made a one-pager that's more like two.  I relied on AFSC's fairly current research published here and also Christian Sorensen's deep research into military contracts available via his substack The Business of War. 

I tried to arrange things so that you can tell which sources apply to which info. Note that within AFSC's section there are many more links to sources for claims.

General Dynamics (source: https://afsc.org/companies-2023-attack-gaza)

• The world's sixth largest weapons manufacturer, General Dynamics, supplies Israel with artillery ammunition and bombs for attack jets used in Israel’s assault on Gaza.
• General Dynamics is the only company in the U.S. that makes the metal bodies of the MK-80 bomb series, the primary weapon type Israel uses to bomb Gaza. The bodies of the bombs are filled with explosives by the U.S. military, and then can be made into a guided bomb using Boeing's JDAM kits.
• It is also the only company in the U.S. that makes 155mm caliber artillery shells, which have been used extensively to attack Gaza. One source reported that, by Nov. 25, one Israeli brigade fired some 10,000 such shells using BAE’s M109 howitzer.
• 155mm shells have been part of the U.S.’s recent weapons shipments to Israel. The U.S. is planning to send “tens of thousands of 155mm artillery shells that had been destined for Ukraine” to Israel. Their use by Israel, according to Oxfam, is “virtually assured to be indiscriminate, unlawful, and devastating to civilians in Gaza.” On Nov. 13, more than 30 organizations issued a letter opposing the transfer.
• General Dynamics also partnered with Flyer Defense to develop an armored patrol vehicle that Israel is testing.
• On an Oct. 25 call with investors, General Dynamics CFO, Jason Aiken, said, “I think if you look at the incremental demand potential coming out of [the attacks on Gaza], the biggest one to highlight and that really sticks out is probably on the artillery side.”

Evidence of carpet bombing in Gaza

source: https://thebusinessofwar.substack.com/p/mapping-the-business-of-war)

General Dynamics OTS -  Saco, ME

Aircraft and crew-served weapons (e.g., Gatling guns, 40 mm grenade weapon system, .50 caliber machine gun); guided missile director (MK 82).

General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW) - Bath, ME

Many supporting facilities in neighboring towns, particularly Brunswick. For full list, see: www.gdbiw.com/contact-us/directions

War ship (destroyer) production. 

Examples of BIW-built ships in action supporting Israel:

sources: CNN https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/31/politics/us-warship-close-call-houthi-missile/index.html 

CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/houthis-target-u-s-destroyer-carney-british-merchant-ship-missile-attacks-red-sea-gulf-of-aden/)

Future plans

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/uss-zumwalt-pioneering-hypersonic-might-for-the-us-navy-amidst-fleet-modernization/ar-BB1iEb9R

excerpt: 

The Zumwalt, initially conceived as a littoral combat ship, has seen its mission evolve significantly. Initially, it was to support ground forces with precision-guided naval artillery shells. However, exorbitant costs and technical setbacks saw the ambitious program for 32 vessels slashed to a trio of ships, compelling the Navy to pivot towards the hypersonic upgrade. The Zumwalt, alongside its sister ships, the USS Michael Monsoor (DDG-1001) and the Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002), are the beneficiaries of this redirected focus, with all three poised to receive the CPS systems.

Destroyers built in Maine are deployed in both the Mediterranean and Red Sea to support Israel.

RTX/Raytheon subsidiary Pratt & Whitney - North Berwick Aero Systems​​​​​​​,     North Berwick, ME

source: https://afsc.org/companies-2023-attack-gaza

The world's second largest weapons manufacturer and largest producer of guided missiles, RTX supplies the Israeli Air Force with guided air-to-surface missiles for its F-16 fighter jets, as well as cluster bombs and bunker busters, which have consistently been used against Gaza's civilian population and infrastructure.

• Pratt & Whitney manufactures engines for F-15 and F-16 fighter jets.
• On an Oct. 24 call with investors, RTX CEO, Greg Hayes, said, “I think really across the entire Raytheon portfolio, you're going to see a benefit of this restocking.”

source: MaineBiz https://www.mainebiz.biz/sponsored/article/pratt-whitney-north-berwick-aero-systems-nbas

Pratt & Whitney’s North Berwick Aero Systems facility produces world-class modules, components, and parts for commercial and military engines. The plant is more than 1 million square feet, and is the largest manufacturing facility under one roof in Maine. This site supports the full life cycle of its products from design and development to production, assembly, overhaul and repair.

 

Young People In The Empire: This Is Their Vietnam

Still from the livestreamed footage of police pointing a gun at a burning man shouting "Get down on the ground!" repeatedly as others scrambled for a fire extinguisher. Australian blogger Caitlin Johnstone described this as, "the most American thing ever."

It has been said -- but I can't recall now who said it -- that Israel's genocide in Gaza is to young people of today what the U.S. war in Vietnam was to my generation.

I think the volume and intensity of protests calling for an immediate ceasefire and to free Palestine gave rise to this interpretation.

Those of us protesting the many, many, many imperial wars since Vietnam may be forgiven for wondering: why this one? Why not the war in Afghanistan, or either of the wars in Iraq (ongoing), Syria, Sudan, Libya, even Korea -- the war that never officially ended?

Young people alive today did not see the carnage of these wars on their television screens the way I once did.

They do see the carnage of Israel's attempt to eradicate Palestinians to finish stealing their land. Despite Israel cutting Gaza off from communications, electricity, food, or even potable water, they see it. Campaigns raise funds to donate esim cards so Gazans can film what is happening to their loved ones. Despite Israel killing a record number of journalists since October 7, the raw videos and testimonies make it onto social media. Youthful reporters Motaz, now in exile, and Bisan are folk heroes for bringing the gruesome facts to our eyes.

Online personalities like Russell Brand and Lee Camp built a following for their comedy but now college students rely on them for current events reporting and analysis.

Even if the evening news were to show a young girl in Gaza vomiting animal feed -- all that's left to eat after weeks of siege -- and then dying, young people would not be watching.

Young people have given up on corporate "news" and have other ways of finding out that a U.S. airman set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC.  Young people will learn of Aaron Bushnell's extreme protest crying "Free Palestine!" over and over as he burned and toppled.

But it probably won't be from the sources where I learned of Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức who burned himself to death protesting in Saigon in 1963.

Or the other self-immolations here in the U.S. that I and others saw reported in the news: 

In March 1965, an 82-year-old woman, Alice Herz, protested the ongoing Vietnam War by setting herself on fire on a Detroit, Michigan, street corner. Norman Morrison, 31, ignited himself eight months later outside the Pentagon, beneath the office window of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. The following week, Roger Allen LaPorte, 22, did the same in front of New York City's United Nations building.

Our imperial managers have decided that such knowledge among the general populace could endanger their hold on power.

They're right about that. Bushnell was intelligent enough to livestream his self-immolation, making it hard to ignore. (For example, what do you know about the person who set themselves on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Atlanta last December? Exactly.)

Spread the word.

Earlier in the day, Bushnell posted a final message on Facebook, alongside a link to a Twitch stream that has since been taken down.

He wrote: "Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you're doing it. Right now."

Rest in power, Aaron.

How The Propaganda Sausage Gets Made: Navalny

Finding a replacement for poster boy Zelensky, ill-fated president of Ukraine, was always going to be tricky. Who else would be so willing, even eager, to abase himself so that his photogenic wife could continue shopping for diamonds and haute couture? Who could be counted on to do the job without growing surly, as Zelensky has? Who could embody the "Putin is literally Satan" NATO line without looking like an incompetent leader who excelled at corruption and begging but not much else? 

Enter Navalny, conveniently dead.

The headlines above are from my local daily newspaper this morning, the Democratic Party-aligned Portland Press Herald. As genocide and humanitarian disaster unfold in Gaza, these were their featured news items: "Kremlin critic" threatened with a criminal's burial whose death provides an excellent pretext for 500+ new sanctions against Russia.

Because the sanctions imposed on Russia so far have been so effective -- not. Unsanctioned Germany's economy is in the toilet but Russia's economy has thrived. Will the fading empire wake up and realize that its sanctions are counter productive and, at this point, embarrassingly so? Believing in 2022 that sanctions would weaken Russia is understandable. Clinging to this now smacks of wishful thinking with only a tenuous grasp on reality.

Widow Yulia Navalny getting a hug from President Biden in a photo released by the White House this week.

So who was Navalny anyway? Unless you've been paying a ton of attention over the past several years, he's probably not who you think he is.

A succinct examination of Alexi Navalny's life and death can be found on the Redacted channel by Natali Morris, a former anchor and reporter for MSNBC, CNBC, and CBS News. Morris addresses four key questions:

1) Was he really a hero worth championing?

2) Was he poisoned, specifically by the Russian government?

3) Was he wrongfully imprisoned?

4) Was he actually Putin's main opponent?

Short answers: no, maybe but not likely, no, and no.

Morris references her main source as Jacques Baud's book The Navalny Case: conspiracy to serve foreign policy. (You may remember Baud as the Swiss diplomat who  offered useful background and context for the Ukraine proxy war that was widely shared in 2022.)

Long answers:

1) Not a hero. 

A Salon article from 2017 called Navalny "the Russian Donald Trump" for his white supremacist and anti-immigrant views, and affiliation with skinhead groups in Moscow. He's especially notorious for a 2007 "Muslim migrants are cockroaches" video that's hard to find these days.

2) Stories abound about what Navalny was poisoned with, when -- like, back in 2020 -- and how. Water bottles? Underwear? Many have posed the cui bono (who benefits?) question pointing out that it makes Putin's regime look bad to have an opponent die in prison. Morris has also published a new video investigating the likelihood that British operatives poisoned Navalny. Following his death, the U.S. quickly slapped 500+ new sanctions on Russia because: Navalny. So you be the judge of who benefited.

Novitchok, the poison believed to have been used, is a NATO favorite and so lethal than anyone near a person poisoned -- or deploying the poison -- must wear full protective gear. None is in evidence in photos of Navalny traveling to Germany to be treated.

Why did Russia allow Navalny to depart on a flight to Berlin if they were the poisoners? 

Here's the UK medical journal The Lancet on Navalny's blood work back in 2020:

3) Navalny was indicted on corruption charges and given a parole (lenient) sentence. He had violated parole multiple times prior to the alleged poisoning, and eventually had his suspended sentence revoked.

4) Putin's main opposition is the Communist Party, not right wing extremists who follow Navalny. "When Russians see the Western press champion someone, they get suspicious that that person is a Western puppet. And there is a lot of evidence that Alexei Navalny was indeed a Western puppet, and supported by American government NGOs and the CIA."

Morris promises to take up that claim and its evidence in a subsequent video, but in the meantime there are plenty of examinations of this particular point from the last few years. 

Most intriguing is this piece by Tony Cartalucci published almost four years ago in the blog Land Destroyer: "Navalny Poisoning -- The Real Target is Russian-German Nord Stream 2 Pipeline."

Hmmm...the plot thickens.

House Minority Leader Still Slinging S**t (As In Bulls**t)

Here's my second post on yesterday's action in the Maine capitol building (first post is here) with an update on our interaction with a legislator who I did not recognize at the time.

(Sorry, I won't be sharing how we got the banner, t-shirts, or "bloody" sheets through security. Because: security.)

But, I can now share the awesome flyers we distributed.

And I can share my observation that Rep. Billy Bob Faulkingham, a Republican from Winter Harbor who is House Minority Leader, shouted a couple of times at us, "Do you support Israel's right to exist?" and was ignored. Then a solitary voice answered "No." (I'm unsure if this was one of the die-in folks, one of our supporters, or just someone in the considerable crowd that had gathered to watch.)

This gave him the perfect opening to shout: "That's genocide! That's genocide!" as he stormed off. (I caught just this portion on video which you can see here.)

It's unclear whether Faulkingham had seen our flyers. Since he didn't address any of the fiscal points raised (e.g. $200 million in tax breaks General Dynamics has received from Maine over the years) I'm going to assume not. Instead he recited some AIPAC talking points for a reporter who interviewed him after the fact.

All photos courtesy of Jim Anderberg

Coalition organizers and media crew have clapped back with a statement addressing his misinformation. An excerpt:

“Nothing could be further from the truth,” said Lisa Savage, an organizer with the coalition, who is a long-time anti-war activist and former candidate for U.S. Senate. “The people of Maine are ill-served by legislative leaders who cloak themselves in purposeful ignorance.”

Reporter Corey Bouchard subsequently interviewed Faulkingham, who expanded on his misconceptions. After viewing the interview, Savage pointed out, “‘From the river to the sea’ is actually a Zionist slogan used to push for displacing indigenous Arab — that is, Palestinian — people from the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

“Also, Jerusalem is the site of the al-Aqsa mosque, where apartheid policies of the occupation have been in full force, with resistance mounting over the years.”

I suspect the Israel lobby, which for years has falsely claimed to speak for all Jews worldwide, has contributed to Faulkingham’s misunderstanding of this key point. Maine deserves better from its elected officials.”

Paige Milligan, an activist who has lived in Palestine and holds a PhD in Arabic literature, commented: “Israel as a state and Zionism as a political project and ideology are fascist, genocidal, racist, and Jewish supremacist. Rep. Faulkingham’s claim that any call to dismantle Israel is ‘genocidal’ shows his ignorance and his own racism, as it conflates the settler-colonial apartheid ethno-state of Israel with all of Judaism's many, diverse cultural traditions and histories, and all Jewish people. This is deeply offensive. 

Judaism, taken as a religion, a culture, a history, and/or an ethnicity that one is born into, is part of one's identity. Zionism, a supremacist, racist, settler-colonial ideology with roots in 19th century European anti-Semitism and colonialism, is not an identity. It's a cult.”

Faulkingham is a well-known Trump (or maybe LePage?) wannabe whose fish stories were deconstructed here, and who the record shows pleaded guilty to throwing human shit on people in 2003. 

Now, I have a new research project: exactly how much AIPAC money has he taken?

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Finally, here is media coverage from two tv channels and that seems to be about it. The Portland Press Herald was there and interviewed me, but published nothing. Someone else who was with us as a photographer noted that Maine Public (aka NPR) didn't cover the event despite being in the state house covering legislation. But participant Kristen Salvatore advises that she will be interviewed by the Maine Morning Star about yesterday's action. Yay!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/palestinian-rights-activists-hold-rally-inside-state-house-and-demand-a-ceasefire/ar-BB1iJwX5

https://www.foxbangor.com/news/state/protester-hold-die-in-at-state-house/article_6fa5530c-d1d8-11ee-93f0-6f0ccd5753e2.html

https://wgme.com/newsletter-daily/palestinian-rights-activists-stage-protest-inside-state-house-maine-gaza-israel-hamas

Maine Tax Breaks For Genocide Profiteers Called Out

Great acoustics in the Maine State House for activists at a Maine Coalition for Palestine event today. The Chamber of Commerce was hosting in the Hall of Flags offering the opportunity to confront General Dynamics and stage a die-in directly in front of them. 

An older guy with GD was angry at our presence and he "accidentally" grazed my head with his shoe and then yelled that I had tried to trip him. He seemed especially aggravated by the chant, General Dynamics you can't hide / we charge you with genocide, yelling, "We're not hiding! We're right here!!" 

So that part alone really made my day.

Overall a great day. The amazing solidarity of our group felt good and our STOP ARMING GENOCIDE t-shirts and strong chanting carried a clear message: Tax breaks for genocide profiteers must go! 

Everyone doing this work has a heart breaking for Gaza, and the children and their families in Palestine, and this is one thing we felt that we could do in response.

After holding the space for about a half hour, we cleared out as requested and headed upstairs to the legislative floor where many more lawmakers and lobbyists were present. I'm sure they had heard us down in the Hall of Flags, and now they could see us. The journalists who had started covering us downstairs followed us. Eventually we let ourselves get kicked out of there, too, and headed downstairs to the exit where there is a waiting area we filled with chanting and clapping for several more minutes. Security guards watched but took no action.  

I was impressed by how broad a swath of the state we drew participants from: MDI, Calais, Deer Isle, Biddeford, Bangor, and Brunswick to name just a few. It was again a multi-generational crowd with college students at one end and boomers at the other. I love that.

Our banner leaders were extraordinary. Our support people were extraordinary. As we exited the legislative floor someone called, "We'll be back." May it be so.

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Some mainstream media coverage will follow. Here's the first one:

https://www.wabi.tv/2024/02/22/pro-palestine-protesters-have-taken-over-maine-state-house/

Good News, Bad News As Assange Extradition Hearing Gets Underway

Cancillería del Ecuador / Flickr

It's shaping up to be quite a month, possibly a turning point in world history. One the one hand we've got U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, opining on CIA cutout Alexey Navalny's death in prison: "The fear of one man only underscores the weakness and rot at the heart of the system that Putin has built."

And on the other hand we've seen evidence that the CIA planned to assassinate Julian Assange and we know the U.S. wants to extradite him for "espionage" aka journalism sharing inconvenient truths about the inner workings of empire. In other words, fear of one man underscoring the weakness and rot at the heart of the U.S. imperial system.

https://twitter.com/SMaurizi/status/1759890416852226357

Today it appears that journalists at the Assange extradition hearing in the UK are being deliberately handicapped in their efforts to cover the proceedings. The palpable fear that we, the public, might have access to this information underscores the weakness and rot at the heart of the system Blinken feeds off of, don't you think?

Some are blaming problematic tech in the very fancy courtroom with poor acoustics and no audio feed to the overflow rooms.

Speaking of very fancy tech that is problematic right now, how about those Houthis shooting down their second $30,000,000 MQ-9 Predator drone? Using technology that costs a few thousand dollars. U.S. military-industrial complex response: ka-ching!

Besides which the Houthis have sunk a British ship carrying fertilizer, and hit two more U.S. ships.

https://twitter.com/SprinterMedia1/status/1759889244313591868/photo/1

Did the Western powers not believe Ansar Allah leaders when they warned that they'll go on denying access to the Red Sea as long as the genocide in Gaza the West is supporting continues?

Meanwhile in the last couple of weeks we saw CIA whistleblower Joshua Schulte sentenced to 40 years for leaking "Vault 7" documents to wikileaks exposing illegal and immoral actions of that federal agency. Here's whistleblower John Kiriakou on the case:

Prosecutors had literally no evidence that Schulte had taken the data from the CIA and transferred it to Wikileaks. But they contended that he was a computer genius who was so brilliant that he was able to cover his tracks. That was enough for the jury..

The CIA leadership apparently thought the leak was so damaging that then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo ordered the Agency to come up with a plan to kidnap or to kill Julian Assange in London. One former Trump Administration national security official said that Pompeo and other senior CIA leaders, “were completely detached from reality because they were so embarrassed about Vault 7. They were seeing blood.”

You remember John Kiriakou right? From his Covert Action Magazine bio:

Kiriakou is the sole CIA agent to go to jail in connection with the U.S. torture program, despite the fact that he never tortured anyone. Rather, he blew the whistle on this horrific wrongdoing.

At this point we're all sorely in need of more good news as we await news on Assange that is likely to be very, very bad. Maybe historian Ilan Pappe's article belongs here: "It is dark before the dawn, but Israeli settler colonialism is at an end."

This historical project has come to an end and it is a violent end  – such projects usually collapse violently and thus it is a very dangerous moment for the victims of this project, and the victims are always the Palestinians along with Jews, because Jews are also victims of the Zionism. Thus, the process of collapse is not just a moment of hope it is also the dawn that will break after the darkness, and it is the light at the end of the tunnel.

Grieving Gaza In The Company Of The Ones Who Also See

Fifty people from all over the state converged on Waterville, Maine yesterday to grieve together. We came together to demand the U.S. government stop funding Israel, and stop arming genocide. It was remarkable to me how many of the fifty I did not know. This is a good thing!

A few who joined us were just passing by, saw our signs and banners, and joined in. Many who passed by honked in support.

Some had come from as far away as Calais up near the Canadian border.

Some had heard about the event from the men's coffee circle at their UU Church.

Some had heard about it from email, or social media, or word of mouth.

Some were on their second event of the day, having started at the annual Lenten vigil at General Dynamics' warship factory in Maine, while some had never protested before.

One person I've stood with many times in Bath spoke words like these: When I see a bomb, I rage. When I see a severed limb, I cry.

One told my husband they have lost a host of former friends who turned out to be Zionists. Yet another heartbreak.

Some were Veterans for Peace. Some were professors. Some were teachers. Some were caretakers, artists, carpenters, organizers, and students.

My husband's sign is hard to read here but it says "Resistance against occupation is a human right." Behind him, the banner reads in full, "No war with Russia." Because we are against that imperial project of death-dealing, too.

It nourished us being together and also knowing that some who could not be with us in person were nonetheless with us in spirit.

We will continue our resistance to genocide in our time, with our taxes. We will escalate our resistance this week, again. We will not stop if the U.S. imposes a temporary ceasefire so that Palestinians can be forced across the border at Rafah into a concentration camp in Egypt.

We will not be done until Palestine is free.

In Way Over Its Head, U.S. Empire Doubles Down

I've written before about suspecting that the decision to brand U.S. imperial wars as Democrat (Ukraine, genocide in Gaza) or Republican (Iraq, Afghanistan) was a strategic error. Case in point: the wrestling match in Congress to pass yet another $95.3 billion for "D" wars, including ramping up a long term military presence to turn Taiwan into the next Ukraine.

Unrelated issues like militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border, a vote and donation magnet for Republicans, are a stumbling block under this strategy. The Punch and Judy show of the two parties battling it out despite having the very same corporate sponsors is now impinging on keeping the debt-ridden empire and its proxy warriors solvent.

What to do?

Simon Ateba, White House correspondent for Today News Africa, summed up the plan succinctly:

Possibly Congress can beat that. Here's what they spent valuable time and effort on yesterday -- condemning evidence-free allegations of rape being used to portray Israelis as victims rather than genociders.

The U.S. empire is on the skids. Broke, ideologically deranged, and clutching at straws to justify its continued aggressive actions around the globe. (For a peek into U.S. ambitions to put nukes in space -- and the resistance -- check out the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space.)

It's understandable that empire managers are panicking. Their worst nightmare has come true. As their decades of global dominance wind down before they even got a chance to dominate outer space, targeted nations are making common cause with one another. 

https://twitter.com/Sprinter99800/status/1754837851756188009

Who could have foreseen this development? Just about everybody who can perceive that the emperor has no clothes.