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.

Live By The Sword...

Yearbook photo of Trump's assailant, 20 year old Thomas Matthew Crooks

I'm not going to share all the blathering by genocide supporters saying "political violence has no place in 'Murica." This country was literally built on political violence, and our collective fealty to weapons drives the death toll around the globe.

Our most theatrical president showed his instincts for playing to the audience even amid an active shooter attack, bleeding copiously but raising a defiant fist before being whisked away. Unless he knew in advance that someone was going to aim at his head but only graze his ear, I must grudgingly admit he came across as courageous in the moment. More than one commentator has observed that his victory in November is now almost certain. Also that the DNC might as well keep geriatric genocide Joe as their candidate because nobody will be able to beat Trump now anyway.

I was of course interested in who the shooter was. Turns out he was a textbook U.S. mass shooter: A young white male with a combat-style gun purchased by a parent, and explosives in his car. Described by classmates as a right wing loner, he chose to wear a Mt. Rushmore with flag t-shirt on high school picture day.

Why did he, a registered Republican, decide to shoot up a Trump rally? We'll probably never know. The Secret Service snipers shot him dead on the roof he was shooting from.

It's already ironic that the party and president most likely to cheer for political violence and act to make sure that everyone, including teenagers, is armed to the teeth were targeted by a mass shooter.

But the "live by the sword, die by the sword" irony deepens. 

The other fatality was Corey Comperatore who attended Trump's rally with his family. Internet sleuths found his social media profile chock full of incitements to and glorifications of violence. A sampling:

Comperatore died before he could experience the effects of nuclear bombing himself, but I'm pretty sure he would not have "gotten over it."

Our corporate overlords would prefer that we have a civil war rather than the revolution we need. Early reports that the shooter was Antifa just made most of us suspect the CIA. Now that we find out the shooter was one of the GOP's own, the event is less useful in that regard. But a lie travels around the world several times before the truth can even get its shoes on, as the saying goes.

With the Democratic convention coming up in Chicago amid an ongoing genocide they're supporting, this summer already had strong 1968 vibes. Will violence break out as Chicago police bash demonstrators against Genocide Joe's continued "leadership"? Almost certainly. Will the unpopular war on Gaza figure prominently in the election? It already has as Trump used "Palestinian" as an insult hurled at Biden during their first "debate". Those who want to find favor with the donors scurry around to appear more Zionist than Netanyahu, and even Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein condemned Hamas.

1968 was a year of riots, police violence, war on Vietnam, and assassinations. RFK's fatal shooting is getting a lot of attention right now as his Zionist son begs for Secret Service protection, but you know who else was assassinated in or around 1968? A whole bunch of revolutionaries, many of them Black: Fred Hampton, MLK Jr., Mark Clark, Bobby Hutton, and Malcolm X to name a few. By 1985 police bombed a home and let fire destroy a neighborhood in West Philadelphia in order to kill 6 Black activists with the MOVE organization, and 5 of their children.

We in the U.S. have lived by the sword for 500 years, slaughtering the indigenous people and then enslaving millions to steal their labor. That we will die by the sword is almost certain. Silence will not protect us.

What to do? Join us to confront General Dynamics at their shipyard in Bath, Maine on Saturday July 27. Tell them to stop arming genocide by building ships that enforce the blockade of Gaza and menace Yemen. Wherever you find yourself this summer, share the news that Israel tortures people to death and has killed tens of thousands of children supported by your tax dollars. Media hyperfocus on violence against one rich white guy is a distraction from what really ails us.