Ouf, Chris Hedges goes dark with this doom video https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/imperial-boomerang-video?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
"Imperial Boomerang"
tl;dw: le fascisme est un impérialisme qui se retourne contre sa population domestique. Nous l'avons toléré (et même encouragé) des décennies, tant que les victimes restaient de couleur et/ou à l'étranger. C'est notre tour maintenant.
THOUGHT 7/ #AlexPretti must have treated many people who had been deployed overseas with similar tactics, training and missions to those of #ICE and #CBP in #Minneapolis: to snatch suspects, kill resisters or objectors, and terrorise communities. He was a part of the machine of violence and the ideology of violence which killed him, in what #ChrisHedges calls the #ImperialBoomerang.
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Imperial Boomerang.
#ChrisHedges on how #Minneapolis is feeling the cruel blast of what the #USA routinely does elsewhere.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/imperial-boomerang
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The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing today of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province. They were terrorized by heavily armed American execution squads for decades.
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#ChrisHedges | Decolonizing The World (w/ Amin Husain) | The Chris Hedges Report
"The most important struggle against settler colonialism today is the struggle for Palestine. The genocide has, on the one hand, raised public consciousness to expose the Zionist project for what it is — a racist, apartheid system where the indigenous people are dispossessed and exterminated. But this consciousness has failed to alter the iron support of Western governments for Israel."
https://archive.ph/ukzkV#selection-301.0-301.65
#Decolonisation #Decolonization #AminHusain #Palestine #Gaza
#ChrisHedges | The Machinery of Terror
"Terror is the engine that empowers dictatorships. It eliminates dissidents. It silences critics. It dismantles the law. It creates a society of timid and frightened collaborators, those who look away when people are snatched off streets or gunned down, those who inform to save themselves, those who retreat into their tiny rabbit holes, pulling down the blinds, desperately praying to be left in peace.
Terror works."
#ChrisHedges | America is a Gangster State
"The kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife solidifies America’s role as a gangster state. Violence does not generate peace. It generates violence. The immolation of international and humanitarian law, as the U.S. and Israel have done in Gaza, and as took place in Caracas, generates a world without laws, a world of failed states, warlords, rogue imperial powers and perpetual violence and chaos. If there is one lesson we should have learned in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya, it is that regime change spawns Frankensteinian monsters of our own creation. The Venezuelan military and security forces will no more accept the kidnapping of their president and U.S. domination – done as in Iraq to seize vast oil reserves -- than the Iraqi security forces and military or the Taliban. This will not go well for anyone, including the U.S."
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/america-is-a-gangster-state
Two semi-related things rattling around in my mind today.
Chris Hedges interviewed William Hartung about his book "Trillion Dollar War Machine: How runaway military spending drives America into foreign wars and bankrupts us at home". Mr Hartung mentions there being 2 paid lobbyists related to military industrial complex (MIC) for each American politician.
It got me thinking about the recent NATO 5%
defense spending pledge. Was that a US initiative? Indeed, yes.
Wow. What a convenient way to expand the market for the US war machine. Oh, here's a reference: “The higher defense pledge could nearly double the addressable market for U.S. contractors"
Wonder how the MIC feels about Trump periodically threatening to invade Canada. It put a chill on that F35 fighter jet order, though I see it's not cancelled yet.
#MilitaryIndustrialComplex #NATO #LockheedMartin #ChrisHedges #War #NorthropGrumman #Military #F35
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