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Guy Mitchell retweeted
Every country that has trusted American security guarantees should study the following sequence:
America makes the promise when it needs you.
America honors the promise while it needs you.
America reassesses the promise when its needs change.
America "faces difficult choices" when you remind them of the promise.
America "operates within complex geopolitical realities" when you press harder.
America expresses regret and moves on.
You are left with whatever the promise was supposed to protect you from.
This is not a theory.
This is the documented history of American alliance management, across continents, across decades, across administrations of both parties.
The sequence does not change.
Only the names of the countries do.
Guy Mitchell retweeted
He exposed Israel's nuclear weapons. Israel kidnapped him and locked him in solitary confinement for 11 years.
On December 21, 1986, a prisoner pressed his hand against the window of an Israeli police van.
Written across his palm were the words:
"Vanunu M. was hijacked in Rome."
His name was Mordechai Vanunu. And this was his extraordinary attempt to tell the world what had happened to him.
For almost ten years, Vanunu had worked at Israel's secretive nuclear facility near Dimona, processing materials used to manufacture nuclear weapons.
Israel had never publicly admitted possessing nuclear weapons.
Vanunu decided the world had a right to know.
Before leaving his job in 1985, he secretly photographed restricted areas of the facility.
In September 1986, he provided his evidence to Britain's Sunday Times.
Nuclear experts examining the material concluded that Israel possessed a sophisticated nuclear weapons programme. Contemporary estimates suggested an arsenal of 100 to 200 warheads.
But before the newspaper could publish its investigation, Vanunu disappeared.
A woman calling herself Cindy had befriended him in London and persuaded him to accompany her to Rome.
She was working for Mossad.
On September 30, 1986, Israeli agents abducted Vanunu in Italy, drugged him and secretly transported him to Israel.
The Sunday Times published its revelations on October 5.
Vanunu was already in Israeli custody.
When he eventually managed to communicate his kidnapping through the police van window, the authorities responded by painting the windows white before his next court appearance.
In 1988, following a secret trial, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison for espionage and treason.
He spent approximately 11 of those years in solitary confinement.
Eleven years.
Amnesty International condemned his prolonged isolation as cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
On April 21, 2004, Vanunu finally walked out of prison.
But Israel immediately imposed restrictions on his movements, foreign travel and contact with foreigners.
He had served his entire sentence. Yet the punishment continued.
Israeli authorities argued that he might still reveal classified information. Vanunu maintained that he had already disclosed everything he knew.
Four decades after his abduction, he was still being prevented from leaving Israel.
Consider the extraordinary contradiction.
Israel refuses to officially acknowledge its nuclear arsenal, even as the international community widely accepts its existence.
The man who helped establish that reality has spent much of his life imprisoned or deprived of basic freedoms.
Mordechai Vanunu exposed nuclear weapons.
He also exposed how far a government was prepared to go to protect its secrets.
Note that Israel has developed the Samson option. Remember Samson? He tore down the temple killing himself, but also everyone else.
Well, if things ever go a little too much against little Israel, it has promised to nuke the entire world. Cause Israel could be overrun, but its nuclear subs would still be around.
Don't give us too much trouble or we nuke the entire world.
Blackmail doesn't come in a bigger shape than that.
Mushroom clouds everywhere.
Guy Mitchell retweeted
'the whispering sound of the cool colonnade' (Cowper)
Poplars are popular with poets because they sussurate with every breeze💛
Their flattened petiole (leaf stalk) flutters in the lightest winds. A beautiful movement which optimises light penetration for the tree💛#SundayYellow
Guy Mitchell retweeted
How do you build a population willing to accept, decade after decade, foreign policy that kills civilians, funds dictators, and destroys sovereign nations abroad?
You build it the same way you build a population willing to accept, decade after decade, domestic policy that produces preventable death, homelessness, and medical bankruptcy at home.
You convince them that the suffering of people unlike them is the result of individual failure rather than systemic choice.
You convince them that the system is essentially fair and the outcomes are essentially deserved.
You give them a story where the main character is never responsible for the plot devices.
The foreign policy and the domestic policy are not separate products.
They are the same product, manufactured in the same plant, by the same logic, and sold to the same population.
The cruelty abroad did not contaminate the kindness at home.
There was never a wall between them.
Guy Mitchell retweeted
Israel has brainwashed you into believing that Palestine with zero fighter jets, zero helicopters, zero tanks, and zero soldiers are oppressing a nuclear superpower with 75-400 nuclear warheads, over 340 fighter jets, 130 helicopters, 1,500 tanks, and 650,000 soldiers.
Stop calling it a war. Israel is not fighting an army; it is fighting defenseless civilians—women, children, and elderly. Call it what it is: GENOCIDE
Guy Mitchell retweeted
The man below standing with indicted ICC fugitive Netanyahu and holding a Barak sniper rifle to be sent to IOF genocidaires is the man UNSG Antonio Guterres has just appointed as the new head of the UN World Food Programme. He is Luke Lindberg, a former Trump administration official and vocal Israel regime supporter who publicly praised Netanyahu in the middle of the genocide in Palestine (wishing him “godspeed”), and who is the son-in-law of Israel lobby darling US Sen. John Thune. In the meantime, WFP has announced it is cutting food aid to half a million genocide survivors in Gaza, as winter approaches and their situation grows ever more dire. This is the UN on its knees before the US empire. It will find the courage to stand up, or it will fade into permanent irrelevance. #Shame
Guy Mitchell retweeted
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs:
"How many wars has China🇨🇳 been in, in the last 40 years? Let me count them…zero. Not one war in 40 years.”
The US has been at war and bombing other countries for approximately 229 years out of 250 years of its existence.
92% of the time throughout its existence, the US has been bombing, pillaging, stealing, and invading.
Brandon Weichert: ‘The US🇺🇸 was NOT supposed to be an adventurous IMPERIAL POWER going abroad in search of monsters to destroy.’
‘The reason I wrote the book is because last year, the Trump administration announced in their National Security Strategy memo and then again in their National Defense Strategy memo: judge us by the wars we don’t fight, not the wars we do fight. That’s what they said.
And we were going to be focusing, they said, on the Western Hemisphere.
Now, obviously, the Donroe Doctrine is not what I had in mind, but the idea that we were going to be doing Western Hemispheric defence on top of focusing on domestic issues here in the United States, that was what I thought was the Trump agenda, the Trump doctrine, if you will.
But then by February 28th, as you know, the whole thing changed. It’s as if the President didn’t even read his National Security Strategy memo.
So I felt compelled to write a book that reminded readers why we are not supposed to be this expeditionary, adventurous imperial power, going abroad in search of monsters to destroy, as John Quincy Adams once famously said, and we are supposed to be focused much closer to home.
And now it’s a tripolar system internationally, trending multipolar. You could already say it is multipolar, but really there’s three main powers right now that are military and economic, and that’s the United States, China, and Russia.
We need to have a better strategy than the one we’ve been using since 1991, because that one was predicated on hegemony. Well, we can’t be a hegemon anymore.
We have spheres of influence, and we’re going to need to enforce the spheres of influence. China’s doing that in their part of the world. Russia’s doing that in their part of the world. We haven’t been doing it in our part of the world.
And the key thing here is when I say enforce the sphere of influence, it’s not military first. It’s not send CIA paramilitaries to a country we don’t like in Latin America and knock off the country. The whole currency of the realm in 21st century international affairs is geoeconomics. It’s trade.
First and foremost, it’s the economy, and so you have to be able to make your first point of contact in terms of foreign policy the economic front. The United States used to be good at this.
This was what the founders wanted us to do. I quote George Washington effusively in the book. This goes back to the founding, a commercial republic, and that’s what we need to go back to. And unfortunately, under this President, we’ve lost sight of that completely.’
—@WeTheBrandon, Author of ‘Fortress Americas: A New Monroe Doctrine’
Watch the full interview in the quoted post below 👇
Guy Mitchell retweeted
You keep saying you were lied to.
Fine.
You were lied to in Vietnam.
You were lied to in Iraq.
You were lied to about Gaza.
How many times can you watch the same trick,
from the same hand,
with the same body count,
and still say you were deceived?
At some point it is not propaganda.
It is preference.
Guy Mitchell retweeted
CARAVANS INTO GAZA NOW.
MAKE IT AN INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN.
8 billion humans. 194 countries. Unable to force a jewish occupation of 7 million settlers to allow shelter to the 2 million Palestinians they bombed and displaced.
We are the reason jewish supremacy exists and thrives.
Guy Mitchell retweeted
Let’s do the actual math of the imperial supply chain.
Take a mother working in a garment factory in Bangladesh.
She works a 12-hour shift.
During that shift, she sews more than 150-200 t-shirts for H&M.
Her pay for the entire day? Less than 5 dollars.
Now look at the other end of the ledger.
H&M takes those exact same shirts and sells them to European consumers for more than 20 Euros each.
That is over 4,000 Euros in retail value. Generated by her hands. In a single day.
Her cut is less than a fraction of a percent. The rest goes straight to shareholders in Stockholm.
What is the human cost of this math?
This mother spends 12 hours away from her child. She works until her body gives out. And she goes home to a wage that barely covers the bare minimum food to share with her family at the dinner table.
This is what Western "free trade" actually looks like on the ground.
The European consumer gets cheap fashion. The corporate boardroom gets record dividends. The Bangladeshi mother gets starvation.
H&M runs massive ad campaigns in Europe talking about "conscious" fashion and "sustainability."
But there is absolutely nothing sustainable about a system that requires a mother to sacrifice her child's childhood just to keep the company's profit margins intact.
This is why the factories are shutting down.
They aren't just striking for a few extra cents. They are striking for the right to actually sit at the dinner table with their kids.
All power to the striking workers of Bangladesh.
They are hitting the empire right in the ledger.
Guy Mitchell retweeted
“How come the people who have protested genocide in European streets have been called terrorists, have been beaten up, have been arrested, have been sanctioned?”
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese (@francesca.albanese.unsr.opt) spoke to @ashfaaqC about how Israel’s methods are now being turned on dissent in Europe: protesters branded terrorists, criticism of a state accused of genocide recast as antisemitism, and migrants and refugees already living without rights.
Full episode on UNAPOLOGETIC.
Guy Mitchell retweeted
Look how excited this thieving skank is. Living on the bones of her arse in America she’s flown into Israel with her brats and waltzed into someone’s villa home taking it over. Now she’s beaming from ear to ear with no shame at all. If this isn’t theft what is? 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Guy Mitchell retweeted
Here’s a thing, I hate labels, but look up ‘lesbian’ in a dictionary and that’s me. Tried boys, we’ll leave it at “disappointing”. So, a follow back is not an invitation to jump into my DMs. Guys it will get you nowhere other than ignored, muted or blocked. Girls, don’t be pushy.
Guy Mitchell retweeted
No faction of the Democratic Party can declare victory after the midterms. The Republican implosion is so great that all Dem factions won, from democratic socialists to corporate centrists. Fascism is not defeated by one election (it can always be reconstituted into something even more dangerous…) but it can be, and we know how to do it. With left economic populism. Too radical? Wrong. One of Trump’s most significant legacies is that he exploded the Overton window. Anything is possible - for worse and for better. That means Democrats no longer have any excuse not to run on - and deliver - the policies that will actually meet people’s basic needs and address our most pressing crises, from systemic political corruption to climate breakdown. Bold, people-first policies is how we beat back fascism for real.
Guy Mitchell retweeted
Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison.
Her clients are in office.
Her clients are on television telling you who to vote for.
Her clients are at international summits setting global economic policy.
Her clients are on the boards of the foundations that fund the NGOs that tell you what social progress looks like.
Her clients are in the intelligence community. Her clients are in finance. Her clients are in media. Her clients are in academia. Her clients are in both political parties of every major Western nation where the operation reached.
We know this. The flight logs are public. The visitor logs to Epstein's properties have been partially released. Investigative journalists have spent years documenting the network.
And virtually none of the clients face any legal consequence.
Because, and this is the part that should make you stop and feel the full weight of what it means, the legal consequence would have to be imposed by institutions staffed by people who are themselves part of the network, or who serve at the pleasure of people who are, or who depend for their careers on a media environment run by people who are.
The accountability mechanism has been captured by the people who would be held accountable.
This is not speculation.
This is the documented, structural reality of why the Epstein network was never fully prosecuted, why the full client list was never released, why the judges who sealed documents sealed them, why the prosecutors who offered the original sweetheart deal offered it.
The system protected itself because the system and the network are not separate things.
They are the same thing.
And they are still running.
Guy Mitchell retweeted
Israel didn’t even allow them to remove their belongings. The soldiers showed up first thing this morning, threw stun grenades into the apartments and made everyone leave. Then they brought in their bulldozers and demolished everything.
The “reason”? Improper building permits.
The real reason: because they can.
This is what American politicians support. This is what American taxpayers are forced to pay for.
Evil is the only appropriate word.
Guy Mitchell retweeted
Israel's conduct was proven not merely genocidal but also antisemitic and a liability for its US supporters instagram.com/bds.movement/p… nitter.gq/dylanotes/status/21184…
Guy Mitchell retweeted
The other day I saw an Israeli flag account on here shrieking that her son got uninvited from a Halloween party because some of the kids said they didn't want to attend a party with a Zionist. Somebody asked her how old her son is, and she said 19.
This is the "antisemitism" we've been hearing so much about. It's grown adults whining that anti-genocide sentiments hurt their feelings. It's people disliking a genocidal apartheid state and its supporters, and then some members of a religious group claiming those opinions shouldn't be allowed to exist because it upsets their feelings. When you drill down on the actual complaints, that is almost exclusively what's going on.
Ultimately the "antisemitism" narrative is mostly just an especially entitled group of white people demanding that governments and institutions use force to protect them from feeling the uncomfortable feelings they experience when someone says their beloved apartheid state is guilty of crimes against humanity.
This is self-evidently ridiculous, and it deserves nothing but a dismissive scoff. You do not have a right to be protected from uncomfortable feelings, no matter what your religion happens to be. You do not have a right to have the government protect you from the feelings of cognitive dissonance brought on by your own genocidal ideology. You do not have a right to silence others because because you find their opposition to mass atrocities emotionally inconvenient. That's not a thing. Grow the fuck up.
Guy Mitchell retweeted
"Israel would say ..."
This is an extraordinary compilation - an exhibit for the genocide museum.
The most painful part is the faces of the people from the region who just have to sit silent through what is essentially genocide denialism. /1
