U.S.-Israel War Uses Boeing's Bunker Buster Bombs To Assassinate Nasrallah

One could consider the thousands of people vaporized or buried under rubble in Beirut collateral damage from the U.S.-Israel attacks intended to take out Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. Or one could consider that the U.S. and Israel had every intention of demoralizing Lebanese people by slaughtering them indiscriminately -- because that never gives rise to more and more vigorous resistance, right?

That PM Netanyahu is said to have ordered the airstrikes from the United Nations in New York where he conferred with U.S. officials is par for the course. Those old enough to remember that the UN was founded after WWII ostensibly to prevent another world war may wonder what happened. Others concerned about our present day descent into hell are observing that the UN is toast and predicting that BRICS will emerge as a multi-polar organization not pre-controlled by the U.S. on behalf of Israel.

Pepe Escobar in the Cradle:

The United Nations has become a parody of itself. As world leaders gathered in New York this week, Gaza, Lebanon, and Palestine were nowhere on the agenda, but a rammed-through US Pact designed to protect the ‘rules-based order’ was right at the top.

In related news it was revealed that Secretary of State Blinken lied to Congress in order to keep the bombs and airplane parts flowing. We have evidence that Blinken knew Israel was blocking humanitarian aid from reaching people in Gaza, but he denied it -- presumably to avoid Congress invoking the Leahy laws which require denying military aid to nations that are committing human rights violations. 

Beirut suburb Dahiye in the aftermath of U.S.-Israel attacks

"Human rights violations" is a euphemism for using bunker buster bombs on clusters of refugees in tents or buildings full of children and their families; the lucky ones were vaporized by the intensity of the blasts, while the unlucky ones are still calling for help under tons of rubble.

Paramedics in Lebanon murdered by U.S.-Israel's bombardments

What U.S.-Israeli act of genocide would be complete without the deliberate targeting of hospitals and health care workers? Israel has "ordered" hospitals in Lebanon to be evacuated, almost as if they believed that Lebanon is already part of greater Israel.

Of course along with the slaughter comes information control. There's this kind of propaganda, where lies are presented in a compelling format:

U.S.-Israel used their tech skills to create this falsified "map" of where Hezbollah has hidden weapons inside buildings.

Then there's the propaganda that directs audience attention away from inconvenient truths, either by distraction as in the war criminal Biden's speech to the UN (also promoting the official U.S.-Israeli lies about October 7):

We are also working to bring a greater measure of peace and stability to the Middle East. The world must not flinch from the horrors of October 7th. Any country - any country would have the right and responsibility to ensure that such an attack can never happen again.

Thousands of armed Hamas terrorists invaded a sovereign state, slaughtering and massacring more than 1,200 people, including 46 Americans, in their homes and at a music festival; despis- - despicable acts of sexual violence; 250 innocents taken hostage.

 

Or you can do propaganda by silencing those who share inconvenient truths. In the past week my Google mail account refused to send messages about resistance to Elbit systems operating in the U.S., and then I heard about Yahoo mail doing the same with messages in support of Gaza.

We know the tech bros invented social media so that they could shut down voices that the U.S.-Israel deems unwelcome. Are we surprised that they invented email for similar purposes? Yes, I know, I'm already using Proton mail despite its clunkiness e.g. the near impossibility of searching my own inbox effectively. Gmail has always had a great search function. And now we know why.

So the U.S.-Israel can use a cannon to kill a very important ant. And then they can keep on firing the cannon because they amass a lot of wealth from it (General Dynamics stock price has risen 42% since October 7). 

They also keep firing because their back is against the wall upon which is written: your imperial ambitions are doomed. Insane levels of violence are all they've got as their international reputation is in shreds. Kind of like the children who once lived in the building where the martyr Nasrallah was working to ensure their eventual defeat.

It is said that Nasrallah was a moderate among Hezbollah leadership. We will now see what assassinating a relatively restrained leader of the resistance portends.

China just successfully tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile -- while U.S. ICBM's fizzle and fail. It's one of many countries that have hypersonic weapons that the U.S.-Israel do not have and also cannot defend against. 

You can kill an ant with a cannon -- just don't expect the rest of the ants to lay down and surrender.

Elbit 8 On Trial Oct 1 In Merrimack (NH) District Court

Google suspended my ability to email from my primary account this morning, so I'm using workarounds to share this press release for the Oct 1 trial of the Elbit 8 protesters.

Also, as some of you are aware, the Merrimack 4 defeated felony charges and will serve 60 days in jail for their actions on behalf of Palestine at Elbit Systems.

Elbit 8 on trial Oct 1 in Merrimack on charges of criminal trespass and resisting arrest at Elbit Systems

A campaign demanding that weapons corporations stop arming the genocide in Gaza continues as eight arrested for protesting at Elbit Systems in New Hampshire are scheduled for trial October 1 at 9am.

Supporters are expected to gather outside the Merrimack District Court at 4 Baboosic Lake Road at 8:30am to express support for an end to genocide in Gaza and opposition to war profiteer Elbit. They will call attention to the 330,000+ people killed in Gaza by Israel’s carpet bombing, sniper, and starvation campaigns.

Eight New England activists held a non-violent protest at Elbit Systems in Merrimack, New Hampshire on Friday March 22 where workers were prevented from reaching the facility in advance of the morning shift. It took most of the day and a total of 70 police to remove the blockade.

Elbit Systems is an Israeli company with locations in the U.S. It has been targeted by protesters in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and in several locations in the UK including Leicester where the facility is now closed. Elbit also recently closed their Cambridge office in Massachusetts due to relentless protests and disruptions by activists there.

On March 26 Governor Chris Sununu discussed the case in a radio interview saying, “we’re going to persecute[sic] this to the full extent of the law.. as opposed to some places around the country who let these protesters just go.” 

“Elbit makes 85% of Israel's drones and land vehicles," said a medical doctor from Maine who is one of the defendants. "Their plant in Merrimack has a history of working on surveillance technology / 'Israeli border security', reflecting its direct involvement in decades of Israeli occupation and apartheid. This plant also received a multimillion dollar contract in 2023 to make  Improved Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems, which are helmet displays for fighter jet pilots to help them murder more Palestinians." 

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References:

WFEA Talk radio interview with Gov. Chris Sununu 3/26/24

https://soundcloud.com/wfea-radio/govchris-sununu-03-26-24

Protester arrested during demonstration at Merrimack company appears in court, by Ray Brewer, WMUR, 4/2/24 

https://www.wmur.com/article/protester-merrimack-elbit-systems-hearing-4224/60372028

Activists block entrance to Elbit Systems in Merrimack in protest of Israel’s actions in Gaza, by Ray Brewer, WMUR, 3/23/24

https://www.wmur.com/article/elbit-systems-merrimack-protest-israel-gaza-32224/60278992

Multiple arrests at pro-Palestinian protest in NH, by Steve Cooper, 7 News Boston 3/22/24

https://whdh.com/news/multiple-arrests-at-pro-palestinian-protest-in-nh

Pro-Palestine protest group blocks road to Elbit America facility in Merrimack, NH, by Phil Tenser, WCBV-Boston, 3/22/24

https://www.wcvb.com/article/pro-palestine-protest-elbit-america-facility-merrimack-nh/60278938

Elbit, company that was protested weekly, confirms it is moving out of Cambridge, Cambridge Day, 8/28/24

https://www.cambridgeday.com/2024/08/28/elbit-company-that-was-protested-weekly-confirms-it-is-moving-out-of-cambridge

American Friends Service Committee, The Companies Profiting from Israel’s 2023-2024 Attacks on Gaza https://afsc.org/companies-2023-attack-gaza

Israel 21C, Israeli technology to keep US borders safe

ISRAEL21c (archive.org)

U.S. Department of Defense, Contracts for July 28, 2023 https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/3475675/

Elbit Systems, Description of Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems

https://elbitsystems.com/product/joint-helmet-mounted-cueing-system-jhmcs/

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Fascists Won WWII: Hear Me Out

These times are so confusing. The candidate Democrats insist I must vote against in order to stop fascism just published an op-ed in The Hill, co-authored by RFK Jr., warning that we must avert nuclear war. I'll admit I did not have that on my bingo card for 2024.

As a writer I was struck by how well-written it was -- by a staffer or two no doubt. When running for office, candidates can employ good writers able to state large truths clearly and elegantly. But once in office, imperial war mongers must employ hacks to spin elaborate confabulations to conceal even small amounts of truth.

Nukes were first used on Japan allegedly to defeat fascism there (but really to warn the communist USSR that we had two different kinds ready and waiting to use on them). Then Nazi rocket scientists and Japanese biological warfare experts were whisked away to the U.S. to found NASA and work for the Pentagon.

The Nuremberg show trials helped goad the United Nations into declaring the final European settler colonial project as Zionists were given Palestine.

Italian partisans fighting fascism in 1945

I'm reminded of something my friend told me her father said about fighting in Europe with the partisans.  Just as they had apparently defeated fascism, he said, the Zionists betrayed the socialist revolution and instead went for the land grab that is Israel.

Weaponizing antisemitism confused a lot of people, because the Nazis were emblematic of antisemitism taken to its murderous Final Solution. Generations of Jewish people around the globe were confused by slogans like "a land without a people for a people without a land."

But as the steadfast resistance of the Arab Palestinian generations denied Zionists their victory, technology ushered in real-time reporting from citizens watching their loved ones blown apart by the Israeli military and beset by pogroms conducted by violent settler militias.

https://x.com/NoorAbdelHaq1/status/1428359017873625090

Videos of gangs beating up on lone Palestinians is extremely reminiscent of depictions of Nazi violence against Jews in Europe, at least for this old history major. Sometimes the victims are Orthodox Jews in traditional clothing and ear locks, because they, too, oppose Zionism.

Young Jews aren't buying it. That's why police departments in the U.S. and Europe are beating the crap out of university students protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Often at the invitation of university officials. That's also why universities came back strong this fall with attacks on student freedom of speech and assembly. It's the fascist playbook, is it not?

Other educators are busy "partnering" with war profiteers who now infest colleges and even high schools and middle schools. These are often presented as exciting STEM initiatives that invite youngsters to admire robotic "dog" weapon systems, or thermal imaging gadgets used to locate warm human bodies to murder.

Fascist leader of Italy Mussolini thought this sort of thing ought to be called "corporatism" i.e. the marriage of state and business interests. Neoliberals in the U.S. like to call it "public-private partnership." But fascism is much more to the point and it fits so much better in headlines.

Controlling information is a key element for fascism to continue succeeding. Silicon Valley's social media products exist for this precise reason, with accounts going dark all over Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Even TikTok has now banned RT and Sputnik accounts after the U.S. engineered a takeover if they wanted to be able to operate in the U.S. The EU is on board and apparently so is the UN.

https://x.com/samhusseini/status/1837844183056351647

So I conclude that, though they may have pretended to lose, fascists actually won WWII. And more significantly, they're now poised on the brink of a life ending WWIII with nukes all round. 

In the words of the great WWII film Underground (Podzemlje), f the motherf'ing fascists.

Genocidal Intentions Lead To Genocidal Acts & Possibly Nuking Lebanon

Photo shared by Mike Hastie via the childrens' father who asked that we share widely.

It's hard to keep up with events unfolding these days, much less my reaction to them. If I take a day to travel in order to reach a large audience for anti-genocide messaging and to enjoy the comfort of being with like-minded friends, I get behind on the news.

Standout in Unity, Maine Sep 21, 2024 along the route to the Common Ground Fair

If I take time to sleep, I get even more behind.

But when I wake up in the morning I can tell what's stuck in my craw from the day before, and I know that is what I probably need to write about in order to process and move on. This video, "History will never forget," which I downloaded from reddit, doesn't cite a creator. Rest assured it wasn't me, because I don't have this level of video editing skills. I'm a writer so I might have rewritten the title to something like "Genocidal Intentions Lead To Genocidal Acts" because the history title is so generic it's impossible to find via online search. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/internationalpolitics/comments/1fm6x2u/history_will_never_forget/

Another disturbing development from overnight news is that the Israeli military raided Aljazeera's offices in Ramallah, a sign that the West Bank will soon be subjected to the horrors of Gaza. And that Israel doesn't want the world to see that. 

The IOF has already killed many Aljazeera journalists, including U.S. citizen Shireen Abu Akleh via sniper while she was present in a press vest at a raid on the West Bank's Jenin refugee camp in 2022. Reports say Zionist storm troopers removed Abu Akleh's picture before shutting down the office for the "45 days."

Also in my news feed this morning was speculation that the rapidly escalating hot war between Israel and Lebanon may have seen the Zionists use a "tactical" i.e. relatively "small" nuclear bomb. Watch the short video on Twitter and see what you think.

https://x.com/DougAMacgregor/status/1837565966500483216

Sometimes on zoom calls people laugh at me for the number of tabs I have open in my  internet browser. If something stays there for days it's probably because I was horrified by it but haven't finished -- or even started -- processing the information. Here's one that's been an open tab for over a week now:

Description: The US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) intends to issue an award on a sole source basis (IAW FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)) with Terra Analytics, Inc., 966 10th Street, Boulder, Colorado 80302-7474, for the research and development of active research programs that focus on modeling impacts on the environment and the impacts of nuclear weapons on farm systems..

https://sam.gov/opp/505b2b2cb4c140239c054f39ef333f81/view

The U.S. and its proxies would rather kick off nuclear war than face up to the reality that full spectrum dominance was always a pipe dream, and the age of multipolar power sharing is upon us. Our friends and allies in locations like New Zealand, the Philippines, and Japan report on the rapid expansion of U.S. military activity there in preparation for war against China. And NATO continues goading Russia via Ukraine to see if they can get Russians to be the first to use a tactical nuke.

If we don't wake up tomorrow, it's been nice knowing you.

Necessary Discomfort: Career Fair Disruption

Cornell student demonstrators after shutting down recruiting by genocide profiteers Boeing and L3Harris at the Statler Hotel in Ithaca, NY  (photo: Karlie McGann/Sun Contributor)
 

Reposting this rocking column by Cornell student organizer Nick Wilson, with permission. 

Necessary Discomfort: On the Sept. 18 Career Fair Disruption

By Nick Wilson

What does it mean to live because other people are dying? A friend posed this question at Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine’s vigil Tuesday night, describing the agonizing cognitive dissonance of living a “normal life” while your country carries out imperialist ethnic cleansing across the globe. How can you know that your tax dollars and tuition are bankrolling an ongoing genocide that has likely already killed upwards of 180,000 people and not spend every waking hour attempting to wash the blood from your hands? How the hell can you apply for a job at Boeing?

Most Cornell students live simultaneously in two realities: one where they are aware that American missiles are being used in one of the most repugnant acts of ethnic cleansing in human history, where every day brings new stories of mothers forced collect the scattered remains of their infant children in plastic bags; and another where they are pursuing a lucrative career that will allow them to live comfortably in the most powerful nation on Earth after graduation. It is time to recognize that these realities are not only simultaneous, but deeply connected — your comfortable life in the imperial core is predicated on violent dispossession and occupation in the rest of the world.

On Wednesday, students disrupted the ILR School’s Human Capital and HR Career Fair, which featured recruiters from weapons manufacturers Boeing and L3Harris. Students organized with the Coalition for Mutual Liberation successfully shut the event down using pots, pans and noisemakers in Statler Hall until both employers left the building. They also delivered an indictment to Boeing and L3Harris recruiters finding both companies guilty of aiding and abetting human rights violations, war crimes and genocide.

This action has significantly altered incentive structures at our university. For the administration, it has been made clear that inviting arms manufacturers to our campus after 70 percent of students voted to sever ties with them will also invite the risk of a negative student response. For students, CML has made it clear that you cannot passively support Palestine or understand the role of American weapons manufacturers in the genocide in Gaza and also make the personal decision to work for genocidaires — your friends and peers are watching and will hold you accountable for facilitating genocide with your labor.

Even when left implicit, the only real argument students make in defense of working for such repugnant firms is that their personal well-being matters more than the survival of Palestinian civilians. Cornell students are a part of the 4 percent of the world population that lives in the United States, and a part of the roughly .079 percent of the American population that attend a university with an endowment in excess of $10 billion. Regardless of your background, attending Cornell allows you to join the global hyper-elite — and even if students believe that they have earned that class position through hard work and merit, they will be faced with countless prime opportunities to perpetrate unspeakable harm towards working people in the Global South. You will likely become, and in some ways already are, immensely powerful. You alone are morally responsible for how you choose to wield your power over others — and you can almost certainly find a job that doesn’t involve constructing missiles that kill children.

But change cannot rely on people collectively deciding to act ethically against their own interests — the underlying incentive structures that shape the role of genocidal firms in our universities must first be shifted. Our university should not be a recruitment pipeline or a corporate partner for companies that profit from ethnic cleansing and imperial violence. Given the Cornell Board of Trustees’ refusal to even hold a vote on divestment from arms manufacturers — University leadership elected to arrest 24 students, graduate workers and staff members instead — it seems inevitable that students would at some point intervene and push this campus forcibly in the direction of humanity.

Wednesday night, VP Joel Malina announced that Cornell will target students who disrupted the career fair with “immediate action including suspension.” This represents Cornell’s own attempt to alter incentive structures for speaking out about our university’s complicity in genocide, making it even easier for students to justify their individual complicity. Cornell should not suspend its students of conscience — but as with the first two rounds of suspensions last spring, suppression tactics would likely only fuel the further growth of CML and its member organizations.

In the ivory tower, it is not just easy to ignore the suffering of colonized peoples around the world — it is a necessary precondition for participation in university life. Wednesday’s disruption may have inconvenienced some students, including plenty that never intended to approach the Boeing or L3Harris tables. But in doing so, they made our university’s role in facilitating an ongoing genocide impossible to ignore — and made visible a strong stigma against working for arms manufacturers. Until Cornell does the right thing and breaks ties with firms engaged in genocide profiteering, life on campus may be uncomfortable — but that is a price we should all be willing to pay.

Nick Wilson is a third year student in the New York State School of Industrial & Labor Relations at Cornell. His biweekly column Interim Expressive Activity provides a perspective on goings-on on campus from those who believe that Cornell should act less like a hedge fund and more like a responsible stakeholder in the Ithaca and global communities. The column does not intend to facilitate, engage in, participate or assist in any violations of University policy. Nick can be reached at nwilson@cornellsun.com.

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Readers of this blog may recall my related post "Bad Boss, Bad Job" about disrupting genocide profiteer General Dynamics' hiring event recently in Augusta, Maine. We are everywhere. Expect us!

Israel Turns The Page(r) On October 7

10-year-old Fatima Jaafar Abdullah is one of the children in Lebanon who died from Israel's pager explosions.

It's pretty certain by now that the thousands of pager explosions in Lebanon yesterday were caused by Israel implanting explosives (and not by overheating batteries) and that Israel's target was Hezbollah operations.

https://x.com/MsJamshidi/status/1836152315306479839

The explosions came on the heels of two significant events recently.

1) Ansarallah in Yemen succeeded in launching a hypersonic missile that evaded the U.S. Navy and Israel's Iron Dome, crossing the Red Sea to strike near Tel Aviv in Israel.

2) Israel published new war plans to include the return of 62,000 settlers in the area directly south of Lebanon. Evacuated in the wake of the October 7 Gaza breakout by Hamas and subsequent shelling by Hezbollah, those settlers have spent nearly a year as evacuees. Their return necessitates a shift of focus militarily from Gaza in the south to the occupied territories in the north.

Those with a long memory may recall that in 1996 Israel used an exploding cell phone to kill Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash in Gaza. This was made possible by a well-remunerated betrayal attributed to Kamal Hamad, a Gaza contractor who was the uncle of Ayyash's host.

One of the exploded pagers

Whose well-remunerated betrayal led to Hezbollah receiving a tainted order of new pagers? Time will tell.

We have not yet heard from Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, but I have seen reports that he was not injured in the attack. Not so lucky were the dozen people who have now died -- including two young children -- and the estimated 2,800 who were injured.

Nasrallah did issue a warning back in February about the dangers of using cell phones.

The mobile phone is a listening device, so we ask our brothers in the border villages and all of the south, especially the fighters and their families, to do without their mobile phones for the preservation and safety of people’s blood and dignities. The mobile phone is a deadly agent that provides specific and lethal information.

As usual, Australian blogger Caitlin Johnstone had a hypocrisy-exposing headline for her post on the latest development in Israel vs. Hamas-Hezbollah-Ansarallah, et al.: Turning People Into Involuntary Suicide Bombers To Fight Terrorism. 

And as usual UK rapper Lowkey weighed in with salient facts. As reported in the substack Palestine Will Be Free:

According to musician, researcher, and pro-Palestine activist Lowkey, the exploding devices were manufactured by Motorola, a company in bed with the Israeli defence establishment. In a Twitter thread, he explained the deep entrenchment between Motorola and the Israeli security apparatus. The main takeaway is that Motorola in collaboration with the Israeli military built a network [for] in-house use that would “prevent counter-surveillance by resistance forces in the region.”

However and by whomever the deed was done, Israel has turned the page(r) on the most recent phase of their genocidal war against Palestinians. 

Will the Zionists launch a massive attack on Lebanon with more conventional weapons in the coming days? Did the U.S. greenlight the escalation, or put the brakes on? What communication devices will Hezbollah now pivot to using? Because among many unknowns one thing is for certain: resistance will continue until Palestine is free.

Hushed Up Self-Immolation Over Gaza At Boston's Israel Consulate

Scant mention of Matt Nelson's protest in corporate media and this misleading headline by NBC10 was corrected before being shared on social media. 

In a statement remarkably similar to that of Aaron Bushnell, a Boston Globe employee explained why he self-immolated across from the Israeli consulate in that city. 

Why across the street? Perhaps he wanted to avoid having an Israeli consulate guard pointing a lethal weapon at him as he burned, an event now memorialized many, many times over.

In the video he recorded in advance a calm tone prevails in marked contrast to the horrifying act he is about to perform.

My name is Matt Nelson and I'm about to engage in an extreme act of protest. 

We are all culpable in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

We are slaves to capitalism and the military-industrial complex. Most of us are too apathetic to care. 

The protest I'm about to engage in is a call to our government to stop supplying Israel with the money and weapons it uses to imprison and murder innocent Palestinians, to pressure Israel to end the genocide in Gaza, and to support the indictment of Benjamin Netanyahu and other members of the Israeli government. 

A democracy is supposed to serve the will of the people, not the interests of the wealthy. Take the power back. 

Free Palestine.

Other similarities between Bushnell and Nelson: both are relatively young white men who cite conscience as the catalyst for self-immolation.

But what a contrast in terms of their career paths. Bushnell was an active duty U.S. Air Force airman while Nelson worked for a major newspaper and had a string of professional accomplishments in his career in audio production.

I've seen Nelson referred to as both the third self-immolation over Gaza and the fifth. I'm only aware of one person besides Bushnell, a woman who reportedly acted in Atlanta but whose name and medical condition remain a mystery.

Perhaps the other two were outside the U.S.? 

Matt Nelson's condition is unknown at this time after he was rushed to a hospital with severe burns. We are holding him and the Gazans he stood up for in our hearts.

 

Soft Propaganda, Opiate Of The Masses

The quintessential guilty pleasure of the 21st century may be binge watching shows on platforms like Netflix. Guilty, because your favorite series was probably designed to serve as a smoothly effective soft propaganda vehicle for policing, military funding, and war. Take the case of the BBC's Call the Midwife one of my all time favorites as it combines socialized medicine, public health, disability rights, and the womanly art of midwifery in a setting that has evolved over seasons to resemble my now vintage childhood. 

That Midwife has been doing hasbara for Israel for a few years will probably not surprise you. To be fair, the show also portrays London's Muslim immigrant community sympathetically, but the Holocaust industry is on full display in more than one episode where the word "Israel" is uttered with a reverence that again is reminiscent of my youth. And of course it is the mighty U.S. and the plucky UK that vanquished Hitler. (Red Army? What Red Army?)

So I was more disgusted than surprised when the new season devoted an entire episode plus bits of a few others to glorifying the U.S. space program.

I'm already surrounded by soft propaganda for the "warfighting domain" undergoing the most rapid expansion in funding and mission at the moment.  

Getting students pumped about space begins in preschool 

and runs right through post graduate research at universities on behalf of aerospace profiteers. 

That this is an Anglicized effort is revealed by Australian educators sick of their government injecting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) curricula with pro-U.S., pro-militarized space content. Also revealed by the rubber bullets fired at resisters to AUKUS and other manifestations of the vassal status of Australia vis a vis the U.S./NATO war machine.

We see Hollywood and professional sports and corporate media and corporate public education work in concert to promote positive views of the military, including Space Force, and the never-admit-it's-military NASA.

All NASA programs are military in nature, no matter what pr they put out to the contrary. You remember how NASA was founded by Nazi rocket scientist Werner von Braun, right? He was one of many who knew that the next world war would undoubtedly be fought using outer space and that space therefore needed to be dominated by the U.S. before Russia or China could gain a toehold.

So it is that the fictional residents of the East End of London gather around the television for breathless witness of the moon landing. Perennial child Sister Monica Joan is the most rapt (and, incidentally, the character most addicted to what we'd now call screen time), her blissed out wrinkled face lit up by the light emanating from the boob tube. 

Some might call it coincidence but the context of U.S. Space Force presently supporting construction of  multiple rocket launch sites in the UK, New Zealand, and Australia seems relevant. RAND think tankers noted that militarizing outer space would be the largest industrial undertaking in the history of the human race. Thus, very expensive. How to get citizens to willingly give up pensions, health care, public transit and other necessities that their corporate overlords have decided they can no longer afford?

https://x.com/TheSurvivalPodc/status/1834300137105227782

Russian President Putin today made crystal clear the role that space technology plays in the current NATO proxy war escalations when he observed that long-range, precision-guided missiles can only be controlled via satellites Ukraine lacks. So, Russia would consider such strikes as evidence of NATO attacking Russia. WWIII immediately began trending on Twitter.

It's what the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space has been saying all along. The GN's latest video "US/NATO Dangerous Alliances" gives the details and invites concerned citizens of the world to join in with Keep Space for Peace activities October 5-12.

Religion was once the opiate of the masses. Television and other forms of digitized entertainment have long since surpassed it. As we face down a potential nuclear Armageddon, keep a clear head if you can.