EDITOR—Here’s Roger Waters’ impassioned denunciation of rapidly creeping fascism in Britain, where free speech is being criminalised to suppress, among other things, criticism of Israel’s depraved extermination of Palestinians. In that regard, Britain is no different or worse than the rest of Europe’s vassal states, all in the cusp of US power, and led by similar, morally rotten Ziocon elites. The crackdown on free speech throughout the collective West may shake some out of the complacent illusion of living in a “democracy” instead of in a cynical, certifiably sociopathic and fully dystopic global oligarchy, much as Orwell described it in his classic 1984 (although, as an anti-communist, he aimed his arrows at the USSR instead of the capitalist regimes).
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JOE LAURIA—Cassuto says Kostakidis should have made clear in her retweet of Nasrallah’s video that she did not agree or endorse it. He says Nasrallah was calling for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel.
In the retweeted video, the Hezbollah leader says: “Here, you don’t have a future, and from the river to the sea, the land of Palestine is for the Palestinian people and for the Palestinian people only …”
Above that Nasrallah quote in the Censored Men retweet, Kostakidis wrote: “Israeli govt getting some of its own medicine. Israel has started something it can’t finish with this genocide.”
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EDITORS—Active Measures discusses the arrests of journalist Richard Medhurst in the UK and Telegram CEO Pavel Durov in France, as the climate of censorship and systemic elimination of free speech grows in the name of protecting the people from “misinformation”. Of course, it is the ruling elites who reserve the right to define and change anytime they wish) the definition of “disinformation”.
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OLIVER BOYD-GARRETT—The scale of Israel’s attack on Hezbollah has been grossly exaggerated for propaganda purposes.
The most important conclusions that we should draw:
(1) we have resumed a war of attrition and calibrated escalation;
(2) that Hezbollah, Iran and the Houthis will separately deal with their own “accounts,”
(3) that Iran knows that the very last thing it should give Netanyahu is a full-scale war. This is what Netanyahu most needs so that he can:
(a) draw in the US to a conflict that Israel is too weak and divided to achieve on its own;
(b) so that he can use the fog of war to camouflage the continuing liquidation of the Palestine people in Gaza and the West Bank;
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CJ HOPKINS—As my regular readers know, for the last two years, I’ve been experiencing the global crackdown on dissent “up close and personal,” and trying to report on it. A lot of my reporting has fallen on deaf ears. Which is understandable, given the nature of what we’re up against, which is (a) formidable, (b) rather challenging to really understand, and (c) virtually unassailable, currently.
People don’t tend to like stories like that. They tend to like stories with “good guys,” and “bad guys,” and identifiable enemies, and simple solutions, even if those stories are, essentially, bullshit.
One of the most prevalent bullshit stories (i.e., theories) about the global crackdown on dissent is the one about how The Big Bad Government Forced the Poor Helpless Global Corporations to Censor Everybody, or at least Conservatives. Americans are particularly fond of this story, especially conservative Americans, as it casts the Big Bad Government as the antagonist, and good, freedom-loving, military-contracting billionaires like Elon Musk as the heroic protagonists.
