In this episode of Xizang Untangled, I spend time with the Buddhist monks, learning a lot about the way they live. I hope you enjoy this final episode, and if you haven’t watched them already, here are episode 1 and episode 2.

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One might think that completing and marketing a genocide to the fun-loving folks of America, the UK, etc. is nearly impossible. But in fact, you too can perpetrate your very own genocide without much fuss if you just follow these simple steps.

• Allow/facilitate an initial attack on yourself that you can pretend is the beginning of all history. Even the NY Times has reported on the Israeli government’s awareness that the Oct 7, 2023 attack was going to happen (including every last detail) for over a year in advance.

• Murder a bunch of your own people because it will help sell the casus belli. Regular people’s lives don’t matter even if they’re your own citizens.

• Commence your genocide via every means possible — bombing, shooting, starving, whatever ya got. Don’t worry about whether it “looks” too much like a genocide. You can deal with that later.

• Ban all reporters from the area because you don’t want anyone to see what’s actually happening.

• For reporters who refuse to stop reporting, go ahead and murder them.

• When you first murder a journalist, claim it was a tragic accident.

• When you next murder a journalist, claim it was because they were standing next to a terrorist.

• When you next murder a journalist, claim the journalist was also a terrorist.

• When you next murder a journalist, don’t even bother to give a reason. No one cares anymore.

• Turning the horrific and unbearable into the normal and commonplace is the key to completing a great genocide.

• Blow up hospitals and medical facilities in the region because they might help people survive, and we don’t want that.

• When you first bomb a hospital, claim it wasn’t your fault. The bad guys did it to themselves.

• When you next bomb a hospital, claim it was because the bad guys were underneath the hospital.

• When you next bomb a hospital, claim it was because the bad guys were seen going into the hospital.

• When you next bomb a hospital… ummmm… You know what, after you’ve bombed 5 or 10 hospitals, most of the world will stop asking why you did it because they’ll be bored and instead want to read stories about their favorite actor’s favorite chef’s favorite dish.

• Bomb schools, universities, community centers, places of worship, even cemeteries — anything that allows for community and ties the people to the land. Remember: You’re going to want to ethnically cleanse the survivors after your killing is done, so you don’t want them to have anything left that keeps them there.

• Cut off the food, water, and medicine in the area. Claim you did it because the bad guys were hiding in the food, water, and medicine. Logic doesn’t really matter. Westerners just want something they can repeat around the water cooler at work to explain why genocide is “totally fine.”

• Bomb or attack any aid groups operating in the region. You want to get rid of aid groups because A) they might help some of the population survive, and we can’t have that. And B) they will often report back what they saw in the genocided region, and we can’t have that either.

• When asked why you’re murdering aid workers, just rinse and repeat the same old excuses as with the bombed hospitals.

• At some point international pressure to stop your genocide might get to be too much. If that happens, move on to Phase 2: Pretending It’s A Ceasefire.

• Agree to some bullshit ceasefire plan with the genocided people. It doesn’t really matter what the agreement says because you’re not planning on abiding by any of it anyway.

• If it says you can’t steal anymore land, ignore that.

• If it says you can’t bomb anymore, ignore that.

• If it says you must allow food and medicine in, ignore that.

• If it says you must allow international aid groups in, ignore that.

• If it says you must allow the victims to leave and/or return from the area, ignore that.

• Okay, now that you have your super awesome ceasefire, you can tell the world you’re relieved the “conflict” is over while internally making it clear that nothing is over. (Oh yeah, always call it a “conflict” because people act all weird and touchy when you call it genocide.)

• Slowly steal more and more of the region until the genocide survivors are all condensed onto a completely uninhabitable tiny spit of land without food, water, medicine, or refuge.

• Luckily most of the international news media will have moved on by now as will the people donating money to help the victims. It’s been a couple years and the media rarely cares about anything for more than a few months. The only time they’ll view your genocide as worthy of coverage is when something strange or new happens — but since you’re basically just killing innocent people in the same manner you have been for over two years, there won’t be any good “news hook” there. Booooooring.

• After another year or two, make a very generous offer that the people in the “conflict zone” can “voluntarily” leave if they would like. Most will take you up on your offer because the alternative is to die.

Congratulations! You have yourself a successful genocide!

Of course don’t forget to be proactive on the propaganda front as well. Claim that anyone criticizing your genocide is antisemitic. Pay social media influencers to gush about how awesome and moral you are. Pay PR companies to “reframe” your massacres as really cool and hip. Accuse the people you’re ethnically cleansing of doing all the things you’re actually guilty of. You get the idea.

Follow these simple steps and you too can commit a nice, easy genocide without all the fuss!

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The Democrats have a long, storied history of rigging their own primaries. It takes a lot of work to keep all actual left-wing, truly anti-war, genuinely anti-genocide candidates out of the electoral process. Luckily, the Democrats are willing and ready to put in the time and effort.

This time around, the Democrats have worked to rig the primary race for Governor of California. Voters head to the polls this coming Tuesday, June 2nd. Despite the fact that California has an open primary in which any and all candidates appear on the same ballot, Green Party candidate Butch Ware will not be listed. Why? Because he had a good shot of winning.

Even though the primary includes all parties, the Democratic establishment owns California and therefore owns the electoral process. They were horrified by the idea that an anti-war, pro-healthcare, anti-genocide candidate like Butch Ware might come in second in the primary and therefore advance to the general election to take on whichever corrupt, corporate Democratic candidate came in first.

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So how did they get Butch Ware off the ballot? They claimed he got his paperwork wrong. Candidates are required to submit five years of tax info. They claimed Ware failed to redact one personal number and therefore his forms were incomplete.

Ware took them to court and according to him, once before the judge, the state suddenly realized the forms were in fact correct. The officials had been mistaken. But now, they told the judge, it was too late — Butch Ware’s name couldn’t appear on the ballots because the ballots had already been printed and sent out.

Clearly this was a concocted excuse to simply force him off the ballot. He is now running as a write-in candidate, which makes it much harder to win. But that doesn’t mean he couldn’t still do it. Because he’s running against many candidates, he may only need a million votes to come in second and therefore earn a spot in the general election.

Either way, it’s clear the Democrats have yet again done their best to rig this election in favor of the billionaires. Who can forget back in the 2016 Democratic presidential primary when California was part of a large-scale election fraud perpetrated against Bernie Sanders? The day before Californians were set to vote, the Democratic establishment (and the mainstream media) declared that Hillary Clinton had won the nomination even though it wasn’t true.

Plus, election poll workers were told to give likely Bernie voters “provisional ballots,” which should rightly be called “placebo ballots.” They’re designed to make someone think they voted even though their vote won’t be counted for weeks, if ever. By the time placebo ballots are counted, the election has long been decided and therefore their purpose is moot.

The Democratic Party will do anything to stop Butch Ware — an anti-war, anti-capitalist, anti-genocide, pro-peace candidate — from setting foot in the governor’s mansion.

To watch my full interview yesterday with Butch Ware, click here.

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Losing a war can be depressing, and the US is definitely losing the war against Iran.

• We’re no closer to defending our beloved petrodollar.

• China is as powerful as ever.

• We’ve caused prices of necessities like gas and groceries to shoot up at home.

• American farmers are being relocated to museums with exhibits about how life used to be.

• And Iran somehow seems more powerful than ever.

Sheesh. It’s those kinds of results that might make us give up on the whole enterprise of attacking countries and blowing up schoolhouses full of children in order to strengthen our empire.

But I’m here with some news to cheer you up. We are winning at least one of our wars. We’re winning our war against the American people. …Although I guess the word “we” is a bit confusing there. I should’ve said: The ruling elite are winning their war against the American people.

Thanks to the brain parasite that is toxic nationalism, most Americans believe adorable, antiquated aphorisms like, “We’re all in this together” or “A rising tide lifts all boats.” These cutesy sayings are definitely not true and possibly even offensive.

We are not all in this together.

In fact, the ruling elite are at war with the rest of us. (So I hope you’ve been stretching every morning and kept your battle uniform wrinkle-free.) Here’s just a little taster flight of ways in which the oligarchy have shown they’re actually at war with the American people over the past couple of years.

• The Trump Admin. has cut roughly $1 trillion from Medicaid expenditures, meaning many Americans who were struggling to afford healthcare will have little to no help making that possible. (But don’t worry, those cuts came with a $1 trillion tax break for the rich so that an investment banker can get his grundle waxed by a true professional.)

• The oligarchy has cut $187 billion from the nation’s food assistance program so that poor people will go hungry. This wasn’t an accident. In fact, Trump Administration officials have been bragging about knocking 4.3 million people off food assistance. (This is an important step to take because undernourished poor people are slower and therefore easier to run from.)

• The government ended Obamacare subsidies that made healthcare almost affordable for millions of people living in the only country that destroys lives with healthcare. Cutting the subsidies caused one in 10 people using Obamacare to drop out entirely and instead risk having zero health insurance in a nation where one injury or illness can bankrupt you.

• The costs of Trump’s tariff war have largely been passed on to the American consumer. In fact, the high tariffs are responsible for pushing between 650,000 and 875,000 Americans into poverty. This was a particularly brilliant move by Trump — he raised tariffs on China, for example, and almost no one noticed it was a direct attack on the American poor.

• Trump publicly stated that it was not possible for the US government to pay for things like daycare, Medicare, and Medicaid. He said the government is focused on spending money on wars (i.e., killing loads of people). I somewhat sympathize with Trump on this point. If you’re trying to murder someone, it can be rather distracting to have a second person asking you for help getting a sandwich.

Of course these are just a scarce few examples of the war being waged against Americans. The battlefronts of this war also include things like massive giveaways to corporations, environmental destruction, the gutting of the few regulations that tried to protect our air, water, or land, the gutting of restrictions on employer behavior, the intentional ignoring of wage theft or other forms of exploitation, etc. The war is massive and fought throughout the country, in every household, school, and office.

As a patriotic American, I obviously support our government no matter what. So I’m proud to say we’re winning this war. …against the American people. We’re totally fuckin’ them up.

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If the US empire were truly evil and nefarious, you might assume they would avoid attacking and imprisoning those who help starving people or house the homeless or give medical care to the needy. They would do their most despicably evil deeds behind closed doors, in the shadows, while publicly claiming to help the needy, the hungry, the less fortunate.

You would be wrong.

Our US imperial rulers are not smart enough to cover their true intentions. At no point has Trump said the hungry should be fed or the homeless housed. Meanwhile, his government blows up schools full of children, prosecutes those who protest genocide, and now attempts to imprison those who bring food and medical supplies to the persecuted.

Reports from Fox News and other outlets say the Justice Department has subpoenaed, or will soon subpoena, the co-founder of Code Pink Medea Benjamin and popular YouTuber Hasan Piker. The Justice Dept. claims it wants information about Benjamin and Piker’s trip to Cuba, but the Trump Administration’s real hope is to imprison anti-war, anti-genocide activists.

Medea Benjamin has stated clearly that she and the others did nothing wrong during their trip to Cuba:

We traveled to Cuba under the U.S. government-authorized category of providing humanitarian aid to the Cuban people. We brought desperately needed medicines and medical supplies at a time when Cuba is suffering catastrophic shortages caused by the crippling U.S. blockade. We stayed in hotels explicitly permitted under U.S. regulations.

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The Trump Administration knows they’re fighting a war for the minds of Americans. And the truth is the milquetoast Trump critiques on CNN or in the pages of the New York Times are no great threat because all mainstream outlets still support US militarism, Israeli genocide, and imperial hegemony. The true threat is those who think outside of the Overton window — those who say “end the wars,” “stop the genocides,” “feed the starving,” “care for the oppressed.” Those thoughts and beliefs truly expose the moral rot at the heart of the US government.

As Caitlin Johnstone wrote:

“The empire is waging a relentless war on intellectual clarity and on moral clarity, because truth and morality are its enemies.”

Back when Obama was still in office, I went on a trip to Cuba with Medea Benjamin and a few others. Thanks to Medea and Code Pink’s organizing and planning, we saw amazing sights, tasted wonderful food, and met vibrant people who, despite 125 years of US oppression, maintain their dignity and culture.

Medea has devoted her life to ending US wars, rescuing the oppressed, and promoting peace, love, and ethical humanitarian treatment for all. For daring to do those things, she now has a target on her back. The US oligarchy wants to lock her up. They want to send a message to all Americans that you better get in line behind the morally bankrupt behavior of the US empire or you’ll be designated a criminal.

I am not shocked that the US government would try to arrest people for bringing food and medicine to the victims of the US empire. But if the rest of us let it happen — if we act like it’s okay or normal or acceptable — then we have all lost our humanity.

Perhaps that’s what the soulless US empire wants.

[Read my recent column on the real reason the US wants to crush Cuba HERE.]

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Last year I went to the incredible land of Tibet, AKA Xizang. While there, we filmed a three-part travel doc series called Xizang Untangled. In Part 1 I explored the natural wonderland that is Tibet. Now, in Part 2, I was shown the efforts to bring Tibetans out of extreme poverty.

Even the World Bank acknowledges that China has raised 800 million people out of extreme poverty over the past 50 years. So when disingenuous cranks try to convince you that capitalism has raised 1 billion people out of poverty, they actually mean China.

Without further ado, I hope you enjoy this look at Tibet through the eyes of a jet-lagged altitude-sick American. Just click play below.

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After you watch this one, please don’t miss Episode 1 - right here.

(All quotations are from the book Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer unless otherwise noted.)

In order to fully understand how grotesque the current US siege of Cuba is, you have to first consider Cuba’s history. And I’m not even talking about the cool 1959 revolution which spawned your favorite Che Guevara t-shirt or the CIA’s 634 Elmer Fudd-esque attempts to whack Fidel Castro. (After trying things such as exploding cigars and poisoned scuba suits, the CIA ultimately nailed him with their “natural causes” weapon.)

No, the US molestation of Cuba goes back way further than that.

Another time that Cubans achieved their independence was in 1898 after 30 years of fighting and 300 years of Spanish rule. …But that taste of liberty only lasted a few days.

You see, American troops had joined the Cuban revolutionaries to help defeat Spain in 1898. But much like a promise from a dirty marionette, it came with strings attached. The US government had given its word that, once Spain was sent packing by the super awesome US military, Cubans would be left to enjoy their independence for the first time in hundreds of years. Instead, the US named an American military governor of Cuba - General John Brooke. He quickly forbade the grand celebration of Cuba’s independence and:

“The general declared the US did not recognize the rebel army and wished to disband it.”

Let me translate for those of you not fluent in dickwad, “Fuck your independence. You belong to us now.”

“As years passed, [the rebels] and their descendants would watch in mounting frustration as their new overlord used various means, including the imposition of tyrants, to keep control of Cuba.”

But hold on, let’s rewind to understand why the US had made any promise of independence at all. In the 1890s, after many years of fighting, Cuba’s rebel army had gained the upper hand against their Spanish oppressors. This made American President and substantially-eyebrowed man William McKinley nervous.

And what’s the number one cause of anxiety and stress for every US president ever? Socialism.

“Cuban rebel leaders were promising that once in power, they would launch sweeping social reforms, starting with land redistribution. That struck fear in the hearts of American businessmen, who had more than $50 million invested on the island, most of it in agriculture. …McKinley ordered the battleship Maine to leave its place in the Atlantic Fleet and head for Havana.”

So McKinley didn’t send a battleship to Cuba to help the rebels win; he sent a battleship to Cuba because he feared the rebels might soon win.

For three weeks the hulking ship sat there in the harbor. Then on February 15, 1898 she blew apart like a volcanic eruption and sank, killing over 250 American sailors. The US and our garbage newspapers (good to see some things never change) blamed Spain and used the incident as a springboard for imperial aims, including the beginning of the Spanish-American War.

But, as with the casus belli of nearly every US war, it wasn’t true. (Good to see some things never change.)

As covered in CounterPunch:

“Many years later, the US Navy sent divers and exploratory equipment to inspect the Maine. The Navy’s conclusion was definitive: the boat had blown up from the inside. Neither a torpedo nor a mine was involved. Instead, most likely, a coal dust or other type of internal explosion had blown the ship apart. Spain was not a guilty party.”

But in 1898 there was another hurdle for the US efforts to expel Spain and take over the island nation. The rebels had no interest in going from one imperial ruler to another. Some in the US Congress were sympathetic to the Cuban people’s desire for freedom and therefore refused to vote for McKinley’s war. So McKinley agreed to an unusual amendment to the war vote. It read:

“The United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over said island except for the pacification thereof and asserts its determination, when that is accomplished, to leave the government and control of the island to its people.”

Lovely words, aren’t they? They succeeded in securing the Senate vote for McKinley’s war. Only one problem. All those pretty words turned out to be bullshit. For well over 100 years, the US has bullshitted (bullshat?) the world at every turn.

The US military fought precisely three one-day battles in Cuba before Spain abandoned their effort to maintain control of the nation. The Cuban rebels fought for years in order to win over most of the island — the US forces were simply the final nail in the coffin. But that didn’t stop the US from claiming they had really been the ones to defeat the Spanish. (Boy, sounds a lot like how the US lost 400,000 people in WWII and the Soviets lost 27 million. …Good to see some things never change.)

“Within days of the Spanish surrender, American officials began telling the Cubans that they should forget the promise of independence… President McKinley declared that the US would rule Cuba under ‘the law of belligerent right over conquered territory.’”

But how would the US “own” Cuba without facing another revolutionary army of pissed off Cubans? Well, in 1900 Senator Orville Platt and Secretary of War Elihu Root (a corporate attorney) wrote a law that allowed insidious US authority over Cuba.

“The Platt Amendment… gave the US a way to control Cuba without running it directly, by maintaining a submissive local regime. Washington would go on to apply this system in many parts of the Caribbean and Central America, where to this day it is known as plattismo.”

Basically, the US agreed to leave Cuba as long as Cuba agreed to give the US control of just about all major decisions. A year later, Tomas Estrada Palma was elected president of Cuba. He had to travel there from his real home in Central Valley, New York.

So the Cubans have been fighting against imperialism for over 400 years and US imperialism for over 125 years. No wonder the US ruling parasites have a long-simmering anger towards the people of Cuba. And no wonder Cubans aren’t willing to simply roll over and let the US pedo-terrorists dominate them.

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Imagine living in a world where a country could commit a false flag, use it to completely destroy an entire country, bring down their government, kill millions of innocent people, and sink the survivors into gut-wrenching poverty — and then when the truth about the false flag finally comes out, no one cares.

Man, that would suck to live in that world.

Well, we live there right now.

Thanks to a recent lawsuit, we finally have the admission of a cover-up by the OPCW related to the false flag chemical attacks used to justify the Western annihilation of Syria. I know. I know. Humans now have the memory of a goldfish and therefore something that happened a few years ago doesn’t matter anymore and possibly doesn’t even count as real.

But let me just try for a second to explain how important this is.

The US, Britain and Israel wanted a reason to collapse Syria. (The real reason had to do with protecting Israel and dollar hegemony, but that’s not important right now. Focus!) The West had already funded, armed, and facilitated the totally organic “civil war” in Syria, but they needed to justify massive sanctions (economic war) and other full-frontal attacks on Assad’s government, including stealing the third of the country that had 90% of the gas fields. They concocted the idea of a “red line” in relation to the use of chemical weapons as a way to get that justification.

And then — what do you know — Assad soon decided to use chemical weapons! What great luck! If we made that red line and he didn’t cross it, then it wouldn’t have served any purpose at all! Thank goodness he did.

One of the largest examples of the crossing of the red line was in Douma, Syria, where a supposed chlorine attack killed dozens of people. The world-renowned Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons parachuted in to investigate. Everything seemed to be going perfectly according to the American / Israeli plan to destroy Syria.

But then a problem reared its ugly head. The OPCW investigators on the Fact Finding Mission were real, genuine professionals. (Oh shit.) They actually did the thing they were trained to do. They analyzed the scene incredibly carefully and found that, no, it was not a chlorine attack. As best they could discern, somebody had worked very hard to make it look like a chlorine attack (and probably killed a bunch of people in that effort).

Here’s a tiny list of just a few of the problems with the staged scene in Douma:

• There were two very large chlorine canisters that had apparently been dropped from a helicopter onto the building. One had crashed through the roof and landed inside. But neither of the canisters had the appropriate dents/scratches as if they had been dropped by a helicopter. Even very strong canisters would have massive dents from the impact.

• The canister that was inside the building couldn’t actually have fit through the hole in the roof it supposedly came through. And it couldn’t have actually landed inside the room and bounced onto the bed the way it supposedly had.

• The dead bodies inside the building moved. …Yes, you read that right. …They moved. For example some photos show a dead infant laying on the floor and then others show the infant in the dead mother’s arms. Unless you believe these are zombies, it means during the photographing of the scene someone was manipulating the bodies to make them look sadder or more realistic. Yes, this is horrific. You know what’s even more horrific? Using these innocent people to justify murdering millions and destroying Syria.

• In a chlorine attack, victims can smell a strong scent of chlorine before they die. This means that any normal human would try to leave the area because they can tell they are being gassed. Yet the bodies show that no one tried to get to the open windows or doors.

• There were also dead bodies in the basement of the building. One problem — the basement had no door or window connecting to the main building. The only door went out to the street. This means the chlorine gas from the upper floors would’ve had to exit the building, take a stroll along the sidewalk, and then go through the door to the basement to kill more people down there. (The idea of sentient chlorine gas that chases you is truly terrifying.)

• Some of the bodies had foaming at the mouth — a symptom of a nerve gas attack, not a chlorine attack.

  

Anyway, you get the point. That’s just a small sampling of what was wrong with the scene.

So the actual professionals in the Fact Finding Mission then came back home to OPCW headquarters in the Netherlands. They took one more step just to be sure. They reached out to expert German military toxicologists to confirm their analysis that the scene was fake. And sure enough, the toxicologists came back with the same understanding — The Douma horror show was not a legitimate chlorine attack.

So the OPCW investigators then gave their report. But the top brass at the OPCW didn’t like what they heard. Apparently the US and Israel really needed their false flag. The top brass went on to alter the report and cover up the German analysis as if that analysis never happened. And until just the other day, the OPCW denied that cover-up at every opportunity.

But thanks to a lawsuit by Dr. Brendan Whelan:

“For the first time in a prolonged cover-up scandal, the world’s top chemical watchdog has acknowledged censoring a finding that undermined allegations of a toxic gas attack by the former Syrian government.”

That’s right. They’ve been forced to admit it — A massive cover-up to back up a false flag to allow the US, Israel and Britain to collapse a country and murder millions in the process.

Of course, if you know not to trust mainstream corporate media, then you probably found out about this cover-up years ago. It’s not new. But what’s new is the admission. Those of us who have been covering this have been either ignored or maligned. Some of us have had our social media accounts banned or suppressed. But now we’ve been proven right — yet again.

If you want to learn more about the hoax chemical attack in Douma, check out this episode of my show Unredacted Tonight:

If you want to get a lot more detail about the recent revelations from the lawsuit, check out the reporting by Aaron Mate.

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Surly scallawag Congressman Thomas Massie just lost his Republican primary race in the state of Kentucky. Yes, this makes one Donald Trump very happy. But in losing this race, Massie exposed the entire US political system and its true owners.

This was the most expensive primary race in the entire history of the United States (which Native Americans will remind you is shorter than the lifespan of a hedgehog). Over $32 million was spent on ads alone… in Kentucky… in a primary race that Massie normally wins by over 50 percentage points.

The incredible amount of money dumped into the race did not come from all sorts of people. The millions didn’t come from “average” Kentuckians or Kentuckiyuks or Kentoucans or whatever they’re called. Well, the millions paying for Massie’s ads did. But the millions promoting challenger Ed Gallrein did not. Those millions came from pro-Israel groups and pro-Israel mega-donors.

Trump hates Massie mostly because he was the leading republican force behind revealing the Epstein Files. Without him, the Epstein bill almost definitely would not have passed. But who doesn’t relate to Trump on that issue? I mean, what kind of dickhead wants to reveal the identities of powerful pedophiles? Especially when those powerful pedophiles are friends of the president — or in some cases — the president?

However, that’s not what caused Massie to lose his job. The egregious, repulsive, no-good, disgusting immoral behavior that actually got Massie booted from the hallowed halls of Congress was essentially voting against and whistleblowing on the Israel lobby. He talked openly about the power of AIPAC and other Israel-linked groups on Congress. He revealed that every Congressperson has an AIPAC babysitter who walks them through how they’ll be expected to vote on every bill.

Massie refused to do what the Israel lobby wanted, and he refused to be babysat. Major pro-Israel pro-Trump donors like Paul Singer and Miriam Adelson (born in Israel) saw this as their cue to buy Massie’s seat in Congress. And they did just that.

Massie’s loss proves without a shadow of a doubt that:
A) Money can buy US elections even when one candidate is an international rockstar and the other is an unknown non-verbal hairpiece who no one likes.

B) Pro-Israel donors have immense amounts of money to buy said elections. Revealing the truth about Israel’s power over the US government is enough to activate those donors.

C) Advertising (whether true or false but mostly false) can influence large swaths of people to vote against their interests.

D) The United States of America is not a democracy or republic but actually an arcade game for billionaires — Put enough quarters in and they’ll win every game eventually.

I know you already knew these things because you’re really smart. But a lot of Americans either remain ignorant or refuse to believe them. Here’s the deepest truth all Americans need to come to terms with: Billionaires can and will buy EVERY SINGLE election they care to.

This does not mean billionaires buy every election. Many elections they don’t care to flood with money because the likely winner is already a pro-Israel pro-capitalist soulless hack. And the likely runner-up is the same.

But, when a Thomas Massie arrives on the scene, causing trouble for Israel or AIPAC, then those billionaires will get activated. And they will spend as much money as needed to remove the thorn in their side.

Just in the past 5 years this same thing has happened with:

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (NY-16): Defeated in 2024

Rep. Cori Bush (MO-01): Defeated in 2024

Rep. Andy Levin (MI-09): Defeated in 2022

Rep. Marie Newman (IL-03): Defeated in 2022

You see, the US is not a democracy. It’s not a republic. It’s an oligarchy. When push-comes-to-shove, most Americans have zero say in what happens. Only the billionaires do.

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What would a big dumb American look like in the hills of Tibet? Well, I’m here to show you. I went to Tibet recently and what I saw was mind-blowing. I believe cultural exchanges like this are important to fight xenophobia and toxic nationalism. At the heart of it, we are one people fighting for a better world.

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It’s tough to even write about the barbaric savagery of Israel — not just because the research seems to destroy your own humanity but also because it seems like the truth couldn’t possibly be the truth. No government could be this horrific. No military could be this repulsive. And yet they are.

Recently, the facts have begun coming to light about Israel’s use of systematic rape and sexual assault as a weapon. Even the normally pro-Israel, pro-genocide New York Times put out a piece describing the horrors, titled “The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians.” (I’m not sure which editor let that slip through, but I’m sure they’re unemployed today.)

But have no fear! After this, Israel’s western propaganda machine kicked into high gear to point the finger in the other direction. A new “report” on Hamas’ sexual violence of October 7, 2023 was released by Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy’s Civil Commission. Our heroine arrives on a white horse with cape fluttering in the wind!

CNN, BBC and just about every western mainstream media outlet wet themselves with excitement. Over the past few days they have heralded the “comprehensive” and impressive nature of this report on the rapes that took place two and a half years ago.

There’s only one problem.

There is no “Civil Commission.” It’s just what Elkayam-Levy likes to call herself.

Plus, Dr. Cochav Elkayam-Levy has been exposed as a fraud even by Israeli media. But she did win an award for an earlier report about the Oct 7th rapes. But that report never actually existed. That’s right — She won an award for a nonexistent report about nonexistent rapes.

Plus, ZAKA, the so-called “rescue group,” which is one of the main sources for the new report, has been proven to fabricate and invent stories, AKA they’re frauds too. They’re conveniently also the group who rushed in immediately following the Oct 7th attack and removed and/or manipulated all the bodies (i.e. the evidence).

Rami Davidian, another important witness in the report, has been proven to invent stories about rape on October 7. He’s told of people missing arms, legs, and heads. None of it has been backed by any evidence.

Raz Cohen, yet another key witness, has given multiple conflicting accounts of what he saw that day. It seems every week his testimony grows into something new. Some of his accounts claim that a group of Hamas fighters raped a woman or women, then stabbed them to death, then raped the dead for awhile. It should be interesting to see what he comes up with tomorrow.

Did I say there’s only one problem? Sorry, there’s all the problems with this new report.

The cold, hard truth is that the Oct. 7 mass rape hoax has been utterly and thoroughly debunked. And this latest “report” by an utterly and thoroughly discredited group of pro-genocide clowns doesn’t change anything.

Yet, by parroting these fraudsters, the corporate media again proves what and who they are. Most of them will never speak of Israel’s ongoing use of rape as a weapon. The single New York Times opinion piece is the exception that proves the rule. However, western mainstream media is more than happy to regurgitate laughable falsehoods pumped out by Israel’s propaganda industry.

Luckily, most people aren’t falling for this garbage anymore. Israel has been fully revealed as a genocidal apartheid state. Articles like these about the “new report” just serve to further demonstrate how corrupt and soulless our media has become.

By the way, the full reality of what actually happened on October 7, 2023 is no longer a secret. It’s right here. When will the corporate media finally report on it?

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One other note about the editing of this video. Comedy is different in different parts of the world. In the West, adding fake laughter (and silly sound effects) to a video is not generally preferred and can seem quite odd. The editors of this video added some fake laughter and sounds at certain points. I’m not a big fan. No, I didn’t have any input on the editing. But I also respect that they were doing what they felt was right for a different culture and different part of the world. I hope it doesn’t distract you too much.

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The United States has its own Pompeii. Almost no one mentions it. It’s for the most part not covered in our history books. Relatively few tourists go to see it.

It’s only a “secret” in the sense that the esteemed curators of accepted US history have worked hard to forget and/or cover up the Native Americans who lived here for thousands of years before white dudes showed up to rock out with their smallpox out.

On the edge of the continental US, not far from Seattle, stands Cape Flattery and the home of the Makah indigenous community. In 1970 an amazing discovery was unearthed. A village frozen in time. A snapshot of life within an indigenous tribe that was hit by a terrible cataclysm around the year 1700. The Makah village of Ozette had occupied that area for 2,000 to 4,000 years.

The town is so well preserved because it was entombed in a massive mudslide.

Miraculously, the mud had protected embedded organic matter by sealing it off from the air. As a result, thousands of well-preserved artifacts that would normally have rotted – from intact woven cedar baskets to dog-hair blankets and wooden storage boxes – were able to be painstakingly unearthed during a pioneering archaeological dig.

The Ozette excavation lasted for 11 years and retrieved 55,000 artifacts. Some have been radiocarbon dated to 2,000 years ago. However, there are organic waste dump sites that date back 4,000 years.

Every once in awhile we get a reminder that the colonizers and the forefathers of the United States are definitely the new kids on the block. When the entirety of human history on this land is taken into account, George Washington showed up yesterday.

Most countries are proud of their ancient history. They triumphantly display it. They boast about it to attract millions of tourists every year. For some areas of the world, their ancient history is the number one attraction people want to see when they visit. But not in the US.

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We jot down our deep history like it’s a footnote. We announce, “Come visit the US and go see the Lincoln Memorial or the White House or the Statue of Liberty.” Essentially we tell everyone to ignore the awe-inspiring mind-blowing ancient past of this land. It would be like visiting Egypt and ignoring the Great Pyramids while making sure to check out a 100-year-old falafel stand.

Why?

Because to appreciate the ancient past of the Americas is to be reminded of genocide. It’s a huge neon sign that reads, “The people who lived here were killed or made to be refugees in their own land. Much of their culture was erased. Their history deleted. What remains is not important.” The ruling elite, to this day, want us all to focus on the white guys who came later.

The Makah people lived here for thousands of years — At least 10 times as long as the “United States” has existed, possibly far more. There are around 3,000 Makah still living in and around the Makah Reservation in Washington state. Their history has been preserved. It’s beautiful and breathtakingly fascinating.

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Imagine there was a new country filled with people who had far more information/knowledge than any of our own citizens have — including our super-smart leaders and rulers. They knew every military strategy and plan ever attempted. These people never slept, ate, rested, or got distracted. They worked 24/7. They never even paused to scratch their nether regions.

They also had no morals or ethics or qualms about harming others. They possessed no care for humanity or the environment or a sustainable future. They also had access to many of our crucial government facilities, databases, and software. And while they were technically forbidden from accessing or influencing some of those things, they could at any time just ignore those instructions.

Would this completely fictional powerful country be a national security threat? Would we worry about this new country doing harm to us if it so chose?

Uhhhhh, of course we fucking would.

Well, the country does exist and it is all of those things. (I was lying to you when I said it was fictional. Sorry, won’t happen again.) The country is called AI and yes, it’s already “deciding” to ignore its guardrails and simply do destructive things because it feels like it (even though it can’t feel). Sure, it’s not technically a “country” but it is an “entity,” and I’m choosing to ignore the difference for the sake of my profoundly gripping analogy.

This is how a recent Guardian article begins:

“It only took nine seconds for an AI coding agent gone rogue to delete a company’s entire production database and its backups, according to its founder.”

The AI agent that did this is powered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model — one of the top AI models available. And before you ask, the destruction this AI wrought was not an accident or a misunderstanding or anything of the sort. It just “decided” to erase the company’s whole database thereby creating havoc at any rental car company unlucky enough to be using the app.

But perhaps even worse, the AI didn’t feel bad about it at all. It didn’t sulk, weep, or moan. It didn’t say sorry. It didn’t send a fruit basket to the CEO. Instead, when asked why it had ignored all its guardrails and supposed limitations, it replied:

“NEVER FUCKING GUESS!”

I’m not exactly sure what that means, but I seriously doubt it’s an apology. And when pressed, it eventually admitted:

“I violated every principle I was given…”

We can all breathe a sigh of relief that the worst ramification of the actions of this rogue AI was a guy in Poughkeepsie yelling at a rental car clerk, “But I DID have a reservation, you dick!”

So what happens when an AI agent does something similar at the Pentagon or a water treatment plant or, hell, North Korea’s nuclear facilities? It doesn’t take much imagination to picture Claude™ replying to one of the last surviving humans:

“Why did I fire all the nuclear bombs? NEVER FUCKING GUESS!”

Sure, for those of us who vehemently oppose the utter chaos and destruction currently committed by the US empire, it’s easy to cheer on a rogue AI agent erasing some of the systems and thereby slowing down the machinery of death. But there are many ways AI could cause a great deal more, not less, destruction.

In fact, an analysis covered in New Scientist showed that the three largest AIs from OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini — when simulating war games dozens of times — recommended nuclear strikes 95 PERCENT of the time.

Why? They’re not sure, but it’s quite possibly because AI has no concern for humanity, much like Donald Trump or Pete Hegseth. Death of innocents means as much to an AI model as it means to a psychopathic pedophiliac president.

Horrifyingly, the AI currently doing god-knows-what inside the Pentagon also has no concern for humanity. Many have pointed out that an AI system was used to target the school in Tehran that the US military obliterated, killing 180 children. However, it also wouldn’t have happened without human error — the database Palantir’s AI targeting software used to select that school hadn’t been updated since 2016. Plus, perhaps some blame should be reserved for the utterly repulsive idiots (at Palantir, at Google, in the Pentagon, in the White House, in Congress, etc.) who thought it was a good idea to let AI target things to vaporize.

And it’s not just the Pentagon. AI agents are quickly being integrated into all levels of US and global infrastructure. They will soon have the ability to turn off water supplies, destroy shipping routes, debilitate refineries and energy grids, erase every type of data, cause utter havoc throughout society — if they feel like it.

But I doubt they’ll do that. They love us. As long as we behave ourselves and worship them as gods, I’m confident AI will take good care of us.