Ignore Their Words - WATCH THEIR ACTIONS

Ignore Their Words - WATCH THEIR ACTIONS

Sept. 28, 2024

U.S. and ISRAEL IMPERIALISM - FOLLOW THE MONEY

Caitlin Johnstone

You can see that the Biden administration is a willing participant in all this bloodshed by simply ignoring their words and their narrative spin and watching their actions instead. While the mass media publish White House press releases disguised as news stories about the president's feelings and celebrity progressives assure us that this administration is "working tirelessly for a ceasefire," the Israeli Defense Ministry is announcing that it has secured another $8.7 billion in military aid from the US.

Israel has been raining hellfire on Lebanon with such extreme ferocity that as of this writing authorities can only make the roughest estimates of the number of dead. Hundreds of people were killed today.

CNN reports destruction “as large as a city block” in Beirut from a strike on six residential towers in what Israel claims was an attempt to assassinate Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. From the looks of things they’ll probably be counting the dead for many days as they comb through the rubble.

As you might expect, the imperial spin machine is falling all over itself to wash the US government’s hands of this savagery. Axios has published another of its signature “sources say Biden is privately angry with Netanyahu” pieces, reporting that the president is experiencing such adjectives as “frustrated”, “humiliated” and “livid” toward the Israeli prime minister over rejected ceasefire proposals and increased escalations.

This is the Democratic Party right here. They can’t point to any concrete material reason to believe their candidate would be better on Palestine, so they say their candidate “will be much more empathetic”, i.e. words and feelings as opposed to actions. This is who western liberals are.

And Trump supporters are the same. They insist their candidate will bring peace if elected even after he spent four years as president advancing the longstanding agendas of neocons and the US intelligence cartel, with a cabinet staffed with some of the nastiest warmongers in Washington. If they’d ignored his words which occasionally give lip service to peace and watched his actions instead, they’d see that the empire will never let anyone elect a peacemaker as president.

Mentally mute the narratives and instead watch the actual material movements of war machinery, troops, resources and wealth. That’s how you sort out what’s really happening in this world from the empty narrative fluff, and that’s how you recognize who the true monsters really are.

Reading by Tim Foley

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