@CommonDreams (Common Dreams) posted a new topic, subject "Decrying Global Violence, Jamaal Bowman Says 'White House Must Act' ". It read:

   Originally published at http://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/11/decrying-global-violence-jamaal-bowman-says-white-house-must-act

Then @illusion said

    MR Bowman------how about we stop doing USA MILITARY ACTIONS KILLING CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD!
    
    LIFT THE KILLER SANCTIONS PUT ON VENEZUELA BY OBAMA----KILLED OVER 40,000!
    
    STOP SUPPORTING THE DICTATORSHIP OF SAUDI ARABIA AND THE USA SUPPORTED BLOCKADE OF THE POOREST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD------STARVING THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN TO DEATH.
    
    LIFT THE SANCTIONS ON IRAN-----WHY IS IT A CRIME TO PROTECT YOUR SOVEREIGNTY?
    
    WHY ARE WE SUPPORTING THIS APARTHEID SYSTEM BY THESE INVADERS OF PALESTINE------CUT THEM OFF AND DEMAND THEY LEAVE THE STOLEN LAND OF PALESTINE!

@Upthepeople (Michael Keleher) replied

    The White House has only acted in support of global violence since Biden's inauguration. Biden also selected a cabinet, and security cabal, proven to support global violence. America doesn't just need regime change, it needs regime housecleaning.

Then @ReconFire (Brian Wilson) said

    It recently got worse, Russiagate is back on the menu. this crazy a$$ NSA lawyer will now be in charge of what secret warrants get sent to the FISA court for the Justice Dept., since the warrants are almost never turned down by the court (kangaroo by any normal standards). This will put the citizens in an even less secure position with this court.
    
    ~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6-FfhIKCy4  
    “Saagar Enjeti: Russiagate CONSPIRACY THEORIST Tapped For Top Spying Position By Biden”  
    The Hill Platform

Then @DavidWales (David Prosser) said

    It has to be time for the U.S. to withdraw from it's leader of the free world capacity. These days it's considered to sponsor state violence in so many places where it is not and has no right to consider itself the State. It funds violence in Iran rather than negotiate a return to a previous agreement i good faith. It sends billions freely to Israel which funds their army oppression of the Palestinians and the weapons that kill them. Stop the funding and make Israel deal fairly with the Palestinians or go under as a State. Let the money saved g towards the starving of the world which much to their shame now includes Americans and their children. 9 mass shootings this last weekend shows it's time to get your own house in order before advising others.

Then @Upthepeople (Michael Keleher) said

    Biden even cited the election interference invented by Hillary's team to cover her election law violations and her criminal handling of official government secrets, in his new Russian sanctions after he swore his oath to god about defending the constitution.

After which, @wingsofadove (valerie ) added

    Better late than never i suppose. (Sarcasm.)

@TheGUM1871 (Alvin Valeriano) replied

    Mr. Bowman decries global violence and gives examples where these are occurring and sadly includes the so-called ethnic cleansing of the Uyghurs in the Xinjiang area in China, which has been shown by fact checkers, such as Max Blumenthal of Grayzone to be a big lie. The basis of much Western media reporting is the alleged findings of a German, fundamentalist Christian, who claims that he is a sort of messenger from God, and his name is Adrian Zenz. Mr. Zenz's research findings are riddled with inconsistencies, and as such, it is not peer-reviewed by other bona fide scholars specializing in China studies. For example, how can ethnic cleansing be happening when the Uyghur population has increased during the past decade, the life span has increased, many mosques, schools, housing, etc. have been built? This disinformation campaign have been linked to the National Endowment for Democracy (the same NED that spent billions pf US tax dollars for the regime change in the Ukraine in 2014). This is well-documented. This reporting by Common Dreams might seem objective, but it is quite unfair for reasons stated above. The gimmick of the empire builders to throw mud at countries that defy the hegemon has ensnared CD on this one.

So @Quinn (S) replied

    I trust the reporting from the Grayzone. Max was on Jimmy Dore last night speaking on this topic. Even corporate media should be having trouble hand-waving this one away.
    
    But I'd also love to have an idea how many religious zealots are cheering on the ongoing conflict as a sign that we're one step closer to their promised rapture (for the Christians) or the coming of the Messiah (for the Jews).

@alan385 (Alan MacDonald) replied

    Yes, Jamaal, my brother, here's what I wrote on “these ‘Times' they aren't a changin” quite yet:
    
    Alan MacDonald  
    Wells, Maine May 11
    
    As I've written since 2007:
    
    We are a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-racial, even post-racial, sectarian, mixing-pot-world of democracies on a small fragile planet — and yet, we are still not beyond the danger of existential death at the hands of ancient and irrelevant tribal ‘empire-thinking'.
    
    As only Kurt Vonnegut's sense of ironic black humor might envision, “It is as if the whole human race was about to sit down to a celebratory picnic for successfully reaching our 21st century, when we are all unexpectedly killed by one remaining giant dinosaur.”
    
    The last people in the world who should want to stay in (or ever promote) a world of tribalism, are the Muslims and Jews ---- based on how they have been abused by various nationalist and other modern “-ism” Empires.
    
    Fighter pilots have a saying that, “speed is life”. But, for all the rest of us, “inclusiveness is life” — and tribalism is death by the oldest lie of empire.
    
    Racism is another deadly old lie of empire, as is aggressively fundamentalist religion.
    
    Nationalism is a somewhat newer lie of empire, proving particularly deadly in the 20th century.
    
    While, economic ideology is the newest, and current, lie of empire (which is causing our economic and environmental collapse).
    
    But all the lies and deceptions of “empire-thinking” lead ineluctably to the very same grave — so choose your empire poison, stupidly. Or choose your inclusiveness, wisely.

Then @alan385 (Alan MacDonald) said

    Illusion, your points are all valid with respect to this behavior of the Middle East ‘border fort' you are justifiably excoriating.
    
    However, you should look more broadly for the nominal HQ of this Global Empire — since ‘we the citizens of our world' need to understand and take prescriptive action in the essential “Our Revolution Against Empire” upon the whole of this Disguised Global Crony Capitalist & Racist EMPIRE (as I mentioned elsewhere on CD, PR, Intercept, “Times”, WaPo, et. al.):
    
    What “I would just like to see” is that this Disguised Global Crony Capitalist & Racist EMPIRE, which is only nominally HQed in and merely ‘posing' as, our formerly “promising” and sometimes progressive country (PKA) America – and it's ‘border-fort' of the Empire in the Middle East – to be given an ‘Empire lobotomy' by ‘we the American people' in a Second American people's peaceful and complete ‘political, economic, socialist, cultural & racial' “Revolution Against Empire” [Justin du Rivage's deeply researched and definitive 2014 work of the same title regarding our first one].
    
    The reason that such a Second American people's peaceful “Revolution Against Empire” must, as Prof. Robinson first correctly diagnosed in his “Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity” (ironically also in 2014) is that only ‘we the American people' are both responsible for the cancerous metastasis of this global Empire and the only people who could possibly do so — as all other peoples who have tried to restrain this Empire have been slaughtered in vast numbers and with total impunity over the last century.
    
    "The U.S. state is a key point of condensation for pressures from dominant  
    groups around the world to resolve problems of global capitalism and to  
    secure the legitimacy of the system overall. In this regard, “U.S.”  
    imperialism refers to the use BY transnational elites of the U.S. state  
    apparatus (hard & soft powers) to continue to attempt to expand,  
    defend, and stabilize the global capitalist system. We are witness less  
    to a “U.S.” imperialism per se than to a global capitalist imperialism.  
    We face an EMPIRE OF GLOBAL CAPITAL, headquartered, for evident  
    historical reasons, in Washington.” [Caps added]
    
    Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity, 2014 Robinson, William  
    Cambridge University Press
    
    “Show me what democracy looks like”  
    “This ain't what democracy looks like”  
    “This is what an EMPIRE looks like”
    
    “Can't see the Forest for the Trees” translates politically in 2021 into  
    “Can't see the Empire for the Issues & Money”
    
    “It's not the economy, stupid”  
    “It's not the COVID-45, stupid”  
    “It's not even the “Issues”, stupid”  
    “It's the effin EMPIRE, stupids”


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