The governments that facilitate genocide in Gaza are, not surprisingly, the overlords of global genocide… All these military vehicles run on petroleum. So do the supply flights from the US, the Boeings that ferry the missiles over the permanent airbridge. An early, provisional, conservative analysis found that emissions caused during the first 60 days of the war equaled annual emissions of between 20 and 33 low-emitting countries: a sudden spike, a plume of CO2 rising over the debris of Gaza… Western forces pulverize the living quarters of Palestine by mobilizing the boundless capacity for destruction only fossil fuels can give… As the ecocide and genocide in Gaza accelerates, we also get more draconian laws to criminalize protests. 

#CriminalizingDissentIsAutocracy #GooseSteppingTowardApocalypse
#DemocraciesDestroy15MinuteNeighborhoodsThenBombTentEncampments

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/burn-the-planet-and-lock-up-the-dissidents-f65?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

Burn the Planet and Lock Up the Dissidents - Read by Eunice Wong

The fossil fuel industry, and the politician class they own, have no intention of halting the ecocide. As the climate crisis worsens, so do the laws and security measures to keep us in bondage.

The Chris Hedges Report

"'Quietly,'" Palestinian American writer and political analyst Yousef Munayyer scoffed in response to the report. "This is cowardly from the administration. If you are going to be full backers of genocide, own it. We see you and history sees you as well."
"It is scary to think of the world U.S. support for Israel is creating. A world with no rules, no limits in war, where norms don't exist, and where genocide is supportable," he added. "Good luck getting anyone to listen to you about international law after this."
#CivilSocietyRisesAgainstUnspeakableAtrocities
#BrokerASatifactoryPeaceWithJustice

https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-military-aid-to-israel-2667634511

#GooseSteppingTowardApocalypse

'Obscene': Biden Quietly OKs More 2,000-Pound Bombs, Warplanes for Israel | Common Dreams

"Arming a war criminal makes you a war criminal," one critic admonished the U.S. president.

Common Dreams

#GooseSteppingTowardApocalypse: in both cases, they devised and implemented inadequate and counterproductive mechanisms to appear to be “helping”. On climate change, they came up with deceptive concepts like “carbon offset” and “carbon credit” to evade meaningful action and a just, swift transition to renewable energy. On Palestine, they devised unworkable “peace plans” that only serve to deepen Palestinian oppression, while Israel made supposed attempts to “improve” Palestinian life under occupation instead of addressing the fundamental issue of occupation itself, as it must.

Equally cynical is Israel’s routine attempts to confiscate Palestinian lands under the pretext of “environmental conservation”. This tactic, known as “green colonialism”

#CooperationTransparencySubsidiarityAreTheFuture

#GooseSteppingTowardApocalypse: Even if the confrontational approach to China practiced by both Trump and Biden doesn’t lead to war, the next worst thing—a prolonged Cold War—is something we can’t afford, given the number of non-zero-sum problems the world’s nations need to collectively address: climate change, pandemics, the proliferation of nuclear and biological weapons, the militarization of outer space, threats posed by AI, and so on. These dangers, if unaddressed, could in various combinations prove truly catastrophic. 

#CooperationTransparencySubsidiarityAreTheFuture

https://open.substack.com/pub/nonzero/p/the-real-problem-with-the-trump-biden?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

#BrokerASatifactoryPeaceWithJustice

The real problem with the Trump-Biden choice

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