you couldn't make this stuff up if you tried the hypocrisy is so prevalent and obvious once you begin to look into the stuff below the surface, and here its africa we're playing with again;

When US National Security Advisor John Bolton unveiled the new United States plan for Africa last December, few in Congress knew the closely guarded secrets of the plan that was already in progress for almost a year. The journalists, African dignitaries, US government officials, and political groupies in attendance at the Heritage Foundation event built around the announcement were “enlightened” on Donald Trump’s plans for recolonization of Africa.

The Africa policy Bolton revealed the essence of Donald Trump’s mission to assist in the final solution for underdeveloped nations worldwide. Trump’s “American First” campaign promise was the wakeup call to Africa and other continents, a call to pay attention to renewed American aggression. The National Security Advisor, making a speech on policy the Secretary of State should probably have made, warned all in attendance at the event:

“The United States will no longer provide indiscriminate assistance across the entire continent, without focus or prioritization… From now on, the United States will not tolerate this longstanding pattern of aid without effect, assistance without accountability, and relief without reform.”

Bolton went on to proclaim China and Russia as American adversaries on the continent, condemning them for “rapidly expanding their financial and political influence across Africa.” Trump’s right-hand man on dirty dealings around the globe called China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) “predatory practice,” as a stunned audience looked on. The core of his statements are stunningly honest and clear:

“We want something more to show for Americans’ hard-earned taxpayer dollars.”

And that “something” is not in the best interests of the people of Africa, as anyone who’s studied Anglo-European meddling in African affairs can attest. Trump’s Africa plan is more or less the same as all previous US presidents, even though he and Bolton pretend this imperialism is something new. Bolton slung daggers at China for holding debt in Africa, when it is the Paris Club led by Americans that has most African nations over a debt barrel. The United States, Britain, Germany, Netherlands, and France are robbing African nations like the Sherriff of Nottingham, and there’s no Robin Hood in sight. In Bolton’s statements issued by the White House, we find:

“China uses bribes, opaque agreements, and the strategic use of debt to hold states in Africa captive to Beijing’s wishes and demands. Its investment ventures are riddled with corruption and do not meet the same environmental or ethical standards as U.S. developmental programs.”............https://journal-neo.org/2019/01/29/the-new-plan-for-africa-is-just-like-the-old-imperial-one/

here is a clear and concise description of what israel is and how it became that criminal enterprise;

A study by a Toronto-based consulting and research company has revealed that over the past fifty years mainstream reporting about Israel has been distorted to portray the Jewish state in positive terms while ignoring the plight of the Palestinians under Israeli occupation. The media study, based on a computer analysis of 50 years of data, found that major U.S. newspapers have provided consistently skewed, pro-Israel reporting on Israel-Palestine. The slanting in news coverage included subtle manipulations like using word associations favorable to Israel and derogatory to Palestinians as well as persistent publication of stories praising Israel while also avoiding reporting anything supportive of the dispossessed Arab point of view.

The researchers from 416Labs were able to evaluate headlines and articles derived from five major U.S. newspapers: the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal during the time period 1967 to 2017. June 1967 was selected as the starting point to include coverage of the Six Day War and its aftermath, when Israel attacked Jordan, Egypt and Syria to begin its military occupation of Palestinian territory on the West Bank and Gaza.

No one should be surprised by media bias in favor of Israel given the dominance of Jewish owners and editors in the major media, but the study just might have gone one step farther and noted, as did Congressman Paul Findley in his book They Dare to Speak Out back in 1985, that much of the bias stems from the overseas correspondents covering the Middle East for the U.S. and European media also being overwhelmingly Jewish. And a review of the Israel-philia might have gone back even further in time to the foundation of the state in 1948 to find similar favorable coverage..........http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/israels-story/

i'm always amazed at how occupants of the empire believe its our right and duty to act as if we own the world and this author speaks clearly about that fantasy;

It truly is phenomenal. The massive death and destruction from U.S. interventionism in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and the rest of the Middle East isn’t even over with, and yet interventionist dead-enders are now shifting their sights to Venezuela. One almost gets the impression that the dead-enders are saying to America, “Please, give us one more chance. We promise we’ll get it right this time.”

Obviously, the dead-enders are hoping that Americans forget the unmitigated disasters that interventionism has produced on this side of the world, such as in Guatemala, Nicaragua, Cuba, Chile, and others.

The time has come for the American people to raise their sights to a higher level, one that involves not only rejecting more interventionism in Venezuela but one that rejects interventionism entirely. It is the only solution to the foreign policy-woes in which interventionist dead-enders have mired our nation.

That necessarily means the following:

1. Bring home all U.S. troops from everywhere and discharge them into the private sector, since they will no longer be needed.
2. Abandon all U.S. military bases in foreign countries, including the Pentagon’s and CIA’s torture and prison center in Cuba.
3. End all foreign aid, including to pro-U.S. dictatorial regimes.
4. Restore a limited-government republic to our land, which necessarily means the dismantling of the national-security state branch of the federal government (i.e., the Pentagon, military-industrial complex, CIA, and NSA).............https://www.fff.org/2019/01/28/end-all-interventionism-not-just-in-venezuela/

pcr speaks here about how the empire is having its version of the cultural revolution the chinese had when mao was still in charge though here its pervasive and not as obvious;


We know that the white male has been delegitimized. Women’s studies, black studies, Latino studies, and Identity Politics have been demonizing, and teaching hatered of, white males since the 1980s. But where did these hate-filled special interest groups get their power? The answer is that effete white males handed it to them.
It was white male university administrators who created the anti-white male propaganda degrees called women’s studies and black studies. It is the white males in the Democratic Party who endorse Identity Politics, an ideology that puts responsibility for all the evil in the world on white males.
The latest white male collapse is that of the president of Notre Dame University. Catholics, themselves formerly a marginalized people in the United States and Great Britain, are guilty, according to Rev. John Jenkins, Notre Dame’s president, of displaying in Notre Dame’s main building a wall mural painted by Luis Gregori in 1880. In the Identity Politics that now rules even Catholic universities, the 1880 painting is viewed in the 21st century as depicting native Americans in stereotypical submissive poses before white European explorers. https://apnews.com/b94ea91f11e649579326812f3b7c2980
I would bet that most Americans would not read the painting in this way. But in American everything is determined by the few.
Notre Dame’s president has decided that the solution to this “offense” is for the university to cover the mural.
Apparently the only intelligent person present at Notre Dame university is a law student, Grant Strobl, who said that “if we adopt the standard of judging previous generations by current standards, we may reach a point where there are no longer accomplishments to celebrate.”...........https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/01/28/the-delegitimization-of-the-white-male/

kunstler's description of the fbi raid is a good intro to this flight of fancy by 'our' government;


Maybe twenty-nine FBI agents in tactical combat gear and a fleet of SUVs with K-Force LED lights flashing wasn’t enough to flush out the arch-villain Roger Stone from his South Florida hide-out. Ever consider that? He might have charged out of the place like John Wayne in Rio Bravo, brandishing a spatula or a shoe-horn, since he didn’t happen to have a Colt-45 on hand. Maybe they should have sent in a SEAL team and the Boston Patriots offensive line for back-up. Anyway, they got their man! And CNN was there to record it, thanks to their 2018 hire of FBI former special agent Josh Campbell, who had been FBI Director James Comey’s majordomo in a previous career incarnation. Isn’t it a small world? Somehow Josh got wind of the pre-dawn raid.
Roger Stone is not everybody’s cup of antifreeze. I don’t want to go too tweet-mean on the guy, but let’s face it, physically he does look a little like Zippy-the-Pinhead — if, say, Zippy had made it to community college and learned how to manage a four-in-hand necktie. Mr. Stone represents a certain kind of stock character in American politics: The Joker. In the Batman sense of the role: the sociopathic trickster. He made his bones cooking up gags for “Tricky Dick” Nixon, and carved out a long career as a behind-the-scenes political black-opster on the Republican side. American politics, in my lifetime anyway, is just one long game of innuendo — proctology as practiced among the goodfellas in the electoral trade — and ole Roger was famous for finding new and comical ways of putting it to the opposition.
And so, the FBI came a’calling to indict him on various felony counts of lying to them, witness tampering, and obstruction of justice, charges that could put him on ice until the end of his days — unless they can crack him like a four-minute egg for a rich yolk of confession about Mr. Trump’s scheme to sell Arkansas to Vladimir Putin, or something like that...........http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/stone-cold-counter-story/

it seems that the poor misunderstood zionists are facing more anti-semitism;


More than 65 percent of adults in Britain believe that the Holocaust, the alleged genocide of Jews during the Second World War, has not taken place in the way that historians claim, a new study shows.
The study, covering 2,000 adults in the UK and conducted by The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, showed more than two-thirds of British adults “grossly” underestimated the number of people believed to be killed in the historic process.  
According to some historians, around six million Europeans were killed by the Nazi Germany between 1941 and 1945.
The survey showed that five percent of people in the UK, or one in 20 surveyed, believed Holocaust did not happen at all and was a complete lie while one in 12 believed the story was exaggerated.
The findings come at a time when senior politicians and celebrities in the UK have come under pressure by pro-Israeli groups to abandon their anti-Semitist stances.
Many in the UK and other European countries have constantly rejected claims that around two-thirds of European Jews were killed by the Nazi Germany during the Second World War, saying Holocaust was a historic fabrication which helped Israel occupy Palestine under the banner of protection of Jews.
Under immense pressure from Israel and other Semitist lobbies, many European governments have outlawed the denial of holocaust and continue to impose fines and prison sentences on those denying the incident............https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/01/27/586967/UK-adults-Holocaust-denial-study

more releases from the archives in the what the local paper won't print because i have a limited allowance of how many times they'll publish me and there's more roaming around in my head so it hits word docs and then here;

George Orwell in his novel “1984” spoke of what he called doublethink. Doublethink uses “logic against logic” and “repudiates morality while laying claim to it”. Doublethink, doesn’t allow for the contradictions that can plague conscience. In this Big Lie the world is black and white, good and evil, righteous and unrighteous. The Big Lie allows believers to take the comfort they’re desperately seeking; in their own moral superiority at the very moment they have abandoned morality.

The UN had no business partitioning Palestine or handing over more than half the territory to a minority of intruders for a state of their own without even consulting the native Palestinians. Israel’s membership of the UN in 1949 was conditional on the new state complying with UN Resolution 181, which included a guarantee of the rights of minorities and religious rights, including free access to and the preservation of holy places, and the creation of an economic union between the two states; a custom union, joint monetary system, joint administration of main services, and equal access to water and energy resources. It also required Israel’s compliance with Resolution 194 which called on Israel to allow Palestinian refugees to return to their homes. Israel has never fulfilled its obligations so should have been kicked out of the UN.

Zionism, the political form of the Jewish religion, began moving its advocates to Palestine in the early part of the last century. Soon after arriving they began attacking the native Palestinians. This gradually escalated until the end of WW2, when more European Jewish refugees arrived leading to what we see today.

In an operation begun the day before Israel declared statehood in 1948 much of the Arab population was driven from their homes, and many were murdered in the streets, their homes looted. Many Arabs were forced into officially-designated ghettoes, and the Jews were given “legal” title to what had been Palestinian property. Palestinians are described as “terrorists” but they’re victims of a great “ethnic cleansing”. Israel removed 750,000 Palestinians.

There was some hope, before the 1967 war, that Israel and the remaining Palestinians could coexist side by side: the Israeli occupation in the wake of Israel’s stunning victory changed that. A creeping “Nazi-like mentality” can be seen throughout Israel which essentially became a dictatorship the moment it decided to rule millions of Palestinians who are prisoners in their own land. The Israeli colonization of Palestine looks like the genocide against American Indians: Gaza and the West Bank are two big reservations.

Apartheid exists in states that enforce laws and policies that discriminate between people on the basis of race or religion, and this is true in Israel as well as in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

It’s clear from the writings of Zionist leaders that they understood the effects of their activities from the beginning. Theodore Herzl, the movement’s founder, confided in his diary that the indigenous Palestinians would have to be “spirited across the border discreetly”. David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s George Washington, was clear: “We must expel the Arabs and take their places”.

This was always the logic of Zionism, a religious nationalism that claims God promised the Jewish people the land “from the Nile to the Euphrates”. Accomplishing this goal, requiring military conquest, was hidden by early Zionists, who painted a picture of a happy socialistic union of Jewish and native Arab cultures that would make the desert bloom. It was the Zionist equivalent of the “they’ll shower us with rose petals” argument neocons made as they created the Iraq war. This fantasy gave way to realism as Arab resisted their removal, and the horrors of the Nakba, ethnic cleansing, became apparent; Israel became a dictatorship in the 1948 dispossession and slaughter which made the Jewish state possible: Zionism is religious nationalism built on colonization, conquest, and expulsion of indigenous peoples.

We have gotten used to the sight of Israel conducting a shooting-gallery “war” in the open air prison that is Gaza. There’s something new about their recent state terrorism. The Israeli leadership’s reversal of all moral and international legal standards in its conduct of their “wars” looks as if they enjoy the killing of innocents, eagerly creating their own brand of pogroms.

The father of American public relations, Edward Bernays, said The Big Lie is limited only by the propagandist’s ability to understand and speak to the emotions of “consumers”. Most supporters of Israel don’t care to know the truth, which would force them to examine their own self-delusions about Zionist and Western moral superiority, so they swallow the lies fed to them. The Big Lie always finds willing participants in what Bernays called the “logic-proof compartment of dogmatic adherence”. All effective propaganda, Bernays wrote, targets and builds upon these irrational “psychological habits.”

Israel has been secretly allowed nuclear weapons by the Empire. This is ignored by Western government and media as they focus on Iran. This could easily provide the spark that will engulf all of us in the world’s first nuclear war. Israel has regularly attacked its neighbors but its real power is found in its overseas assistants: the Zionist power groups in North America and Europe. The most important of these organizations and individuals operate in America giving Israel over $150 billion dollars in economic and military grants and loans from you in the past half-century. Each year Israel gets billions in tribute, billions in tax-free donations from billionaire Israel loyalists with dual American/Israeli citizenship.

The ‘pro-Israel lobby’ is the most powerful group influencing “our government” today. Israeli power over American Middle East policy has led to the Empire’s invasions of Iraq, Syria and Libya; the economic boycott and blockade of Iran; breakup of Sudan; and bombing Somalia. This has flooded Europe with refugees.

Israeli power in the Empire operates through various political tools in assorted locations. The pro-Israel media moguls at the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and all the TV networks unconditionally defend Israel’s bombing, removal and repression of Palestinians while demonizing any Arab or Muslim states which oppose its brutality, frequently calling for the Empire to impose sanctions and/or to attack Israel’s critics.

The cost of the wars has been expensive for you and more so for the targets: Over a quarter million physical and mental casualties among America’s military; trillion’s of dollars and counting in military expenditures crippling America’s economy and a vast and growing army of Islamist and nationalist rebels opposing American interests throughout the region.