Donald Trump is a Child Molesting Zionist Cuck and He Needs You to Fear Trans People

 Believe it or not, I didn't choose to be Queer, I've been raging against my prescribed gender identity since I was barely old enough to kick a priest in the shins, but I do choose to live in what has come to be known as Trump Country. I was born a gender rebel in the Appalachian foothills of bucolic Pennsyltucky and I got my ass mauled by the locals for failing to fit in, but thirty-some years later, I'm still here and I have zero intention of leaving in the next century. That's because, in spite of the bible-thumpers and the Walmart colonialism, I actually fucking love it here.

I love the endless twisting country roads that lead to my found family's homestead deep in the holler. I love the rolling farmlands separated by rusty car parts and the fly infested Amish markets with their barefooted cashiers and diabetic shock inducing baked goods. Shit, I even love the four wheelers, trailer parks and gun shows. This is my home, and I want other Queer people to feel at home here too, so we can grow our own food, defend our own land and deschool our own kids our way.

When it all comes down to it, I am not just a Queer anarchist. I am a Queer agrarian anarchist. I strongly believe that in times of epic societal collapse like these there is no better place for gender outlaws to be free than in the poorly governed backwoods of rural flyover country. In order to live this way however, to build this life for my people, I have had no choice but to work with people who define my existence as a sinful lifestyle choice while they vote for people who do far worse than that. In other words, whether the mainstream left likes it or not, I have had to work with the "enemy."

But who exactly is this enemy? Once you strip away the bullshit of electoral politics, your average deplorable is essentially just another pissed-off poor person who hates the fucking government as much as I do. These are people who would much rather sort things out themselves than call the police. These are people who feel much closer to God half-drunk and fishing than they do in church. These are people like me, who were born poor to this country but wouldn't leave if you paid them because it affords them a level of freedom from the bullshit of modern civilization that money can't buy. 

In other words, there really is no logical reason for us to hate each other so goddamn much and this is precisely why the state, and their globalist corporate benefactors have to invest so much time and money into driving us all fucking crazy.

Few politicians have invested more ill-gotten resources into riling up my neighbors against some mythic Queer agenda than Donald Trump has over the last four years. He has transformed his public persona from a populist potty mouth who would much rather troll John McCain's funeral than the Pride parade to an absurdly philanderous stadium church crowd exciter whooping up hysteria over bearded macho men playing ladybug soccer and mandatory sex change surgeries at a kindergarten near you. 

There is a reason for this. The first four years in the White House alone proved that Donald Trump is just another neocon-hiring missile merchant to anyone actually paying attention, so he has to invest more and more resources into making sure that you're way too pissed off at weird people like me for you to pay attention.

His problems have only been exacerbated ten-fold during his second term. The Donald has been outed by his own base as an Epstein client sheltering pedophile more beholden to Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley than he is to anybody's main street. This is why that two-timing despotic Ceasar has embraced the assassination of Christian-Zionist boy-toy Charlie Kirk like a gift from Satan. 

MAGA inc. was blaming transgender extremists for this pointless act of violence against an equally pointless social media personality before his body was even cold and now that the real killer appears to have possibly had some kind of connection to some kind of trans person, they are yodeling for Queer blood like head-chopping fedayeen assassins.

All around us, Trump's minions and apparatchiks are answering the call to hysteria. Vice President JD Vance pulled Peter Thiel's dick out of his mouth just long enough to host the first post-Charlie Kirk episode of the Charlie Kirk Show from the White House with MAGA Goebbels baby Stephen Miller at his side, howling for vengeance and calling for a vast crackdown against a broad mélange of left-wing opponents. Donald Trump Jr. was slightly less cryptic when he went off on a September 11th Rumble livestream, stating that it "seems like per capita- the radical transgender movement has to be the most violent movement anywhere in the world." Boko Haram was not available for comment.

Now, Kash Patel's Keystone Kops in the FBI are toying with the notion of using the purposely vague terrorist threat category of "Nihilistic Violent Extremist" to target transgender activists and his patrons in the Heritage Foundation are pushing it one step further with a memo calling on the feds to just label all of us as "Trans Ideology Inspired Violent Extremists" This dangerous cuckoo bird bullshit also comes on the heels of the Department of Justice's attempts to strip trans people of our Second Amendment rights by including gender dysphoria in their red flag laws.

Now, I could tell yawl that trans people make up less than 1% of all mass shooters and point out the numerous statistics showing that we are also far more likely to be the victims of violent crime than the perpetrators, but Donald Trump isn't concerned with facts, he is concerned with distraction, so, I am quite simply going to remind you all of exactly what he is trying to distract you from by asking you, my fellow hicks, the simple question of who do you really fucking hate here?

Are transwomen slaughtering Christian babies and leveling Catholic Churches in the Gaza Strip? Did we promise you peace in Ukraine only to turn around and hand Volodymyr Zelensky a Pat Sajak size check for missiles and a greenlight to send more kids to die in the Donbass? Was it an unhinged transgender extremist who buried the Epstein Files and sent Ghislaine Maxwell to a minimum-security summer camp? Is the Queer agenda handing over your tax receipts to the AI auditors over at Palantir? Or have you all been bamboozled by a trash talking, child molesting, Clinton financing, Zionist cuck in populist clothing named Donald J. Trump?

Now, he wants you to embrace gun control, cancel culture and pink-scare McCarthyism just so he can shut down the threat posed by homesteading pagan weirdos with AR-15s? Are you seriously going to let this city-slicking pedophile play you like that? Or are you going to finally wake the fuck up and realize that freedom is just another word for smashing the state and working with other people who just want to be left the fuck alone to live free or die is a much better way to achieve this goal than cutting deals with fucking billionaires?

The only thing that keeps powerful people powerful is a carefully constructed illusion of omnipotence that rests largely upon the notion that poor people need their governments and their armies and their databases just to exist. In no place on earth is this lie more blatantly obvious than on the more rural sections of the map where it wouldn't be hard to forget that any of that shit even fucking existed if we weren't being taxed to pay for it. 

This is why the richest nation on earth spent twenty years dropping bombs on goat herders in Afghanistan and this is why the GOP spends billions trafficking every manner of bigotry imaginable to my next-door neighbors. We are all already living proof that these cowards are powerless and the moment we stop cutting each other's throats over petty cultural differences is the moment that their days of plenty have become numbered.

Take it from a pink trash anti-Zionist bitch like me. Turn that gauge around and fight the real enemy.

Peace, Love & Empathy- Nicky/CH

Soundtrack: Songs that Inspired This Post

* Townies by Wednesday

* Our Town by Iris DeMent

* Me and Bobby McGee by Kris Kristofferson

* Mary Me by Drive-By Truckers

* Fourth of July by X

* American Music by Violent Femmes

* Elderberry Wine by Wednesday

* Hotel Yorba by The White Stripes

* War by Sinead O'Connor

* Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley 

The Project for a New Israeli Century: Outsourcing Neoconservatism in an Age of Imperial Decline

 In case you haven't noticed, Israel seems to be at war with pretty much fucking everybody right now and they show little sign of slowing down anytime in the near future. In fact, if anything, the Netanyahu regime seems to be accelerating the violence to downright dizzying heights of global sadism with every new corner of the map he bombs. 

What began in October of 2023 as a gruesome revenge kick in the Gaza Strip over a Hamas attack that the Nakba made a forgone conclusion has rapidly evolved into a twenty-month rampage against everyone and everything that got in Bibi's way to the maternity ward. Now, nearly 35,000 separate acts of IDF facilitated terrorism have scarred the face of seven separate sovereign nations and counting so far.

Israel currently occupies large portions of Southern Lebanon which the invaders back in Tel Aviv are pushing to forcibly depopulate and turn into a US Military controlled "Trump Zone" complete with a new phalanx of permanent Israeli bases. Meanwhile, just north in Syria, where an Al-Qaeda affiliated government now clings to power largely as a result of Israeli destabilization, IDF forces are pushing deeper and deeper into the long-embattled nation's territory while launching airstrikes on the capitol of Damascus and openly contemplating mandating the forced demilitarization of the entire country.

In Yemen, where the Houthi rebels have shown the region what real solidarity looks like by cutting off Israeli access to the Red Sea, Bibi has bombed power plants, oil refineries, neighborhoods and other forms of civilian infrastructure, assassinating the nation's prime minister Ahmed al-Rahawi and murdering 25 journalists from the nation's two most prominent newspapers in the process. In Doha, the capitol of the Kingdom of Qatar, Israeli airstrikes targeted a gathering of Hamas diplomats meeting to discuss the Trump regime's latest peace proposal. 

This was a remarkably similar set-up to the one that kicked off Israel and America's 12-Day War on Iran, when scores of senior Iranian military officials were lured into a false sense of security by Washington diplomacy only to be obliterated at the peace table. And as if bombing potential peacemakers weren't enough, Israel has even used its bloodthirsty military to target unarmed international activists, launching incendiary drone strikes on boats in the waters off the coast of Tunisia that are being used by the Global Sumud Flotilla to bring aid to starving Gazans.

Amazingly, none of this mayhem has done a thing to slow down Israel's final solution to the Palestinian question in Gaza where more than ten percent of the population is now either dead or dying nor in the West Bank where Israel's sinister Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has proposed a plan to annex 82% of the territory promised to Palestine by the United Nations who have only just recently recognized the Nakba as an actual fucking genocide.

All of this violence in all of these nations is downright dizzying for anyone to comprehend but it really can't be considered incredibly shocking considering that the Zionist state of Israel has always been an expansionist project by nature. 

Israel's own founding fathers announced their intentions for greater conquest all the way back during the United Kingdom's partition of Mandatory Palestine in 1937, with David Ben-Gurion stating "The establishment of a state, even if only on a portion of the land, is the maximal reinforcement of our strength at the present time and a powerful boost to our historical endeavors to liberate the entire country" with Israel's future first president Chaim Weizmann chiming in with "We shall spread in the whole country in the course of time... this is only an arrangement for the next 25 to 30 years."

For those men as well as Netanyahu's, "the whole country" is a Greater Israel based on ancient religious folklore, a land that the ghastly Mr. Smotrich has recently suggested should include all of Jordan and parts of Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Iraq.

Nevertheless, there seems to be something else going on here, something far more global in nature. As noted above, the Trump Administration's involvement in this Abrahamic revanchist jihad has been consistently intimate in nature even by Washington standards, making all of these operations feel eerily familiar to anyone who survived the first decade of George W. Bush's War on Terror. In fact, if I didn't know better, I could swear a neoconservative was still in the Oval Office.

Bibi's rapidly unraveling plans for the Middle East match up pretty consistently with those advocated by the Bush administration and the various neocon think tanks like the Project for a New American Century that filled its ranks, and this is far from a coincidence. 

One of the foundational documents of the modern neoconservative movement, the so-called Clean Break Report of 1996, was put together by Reagan cabinet cancer and Bush Family Svengali Richard Perle at the behest of none other than also then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party. The document outlined a robust new approach to America's relationship with Israel and the Middle East as a whole that included the removal of Saddam Hussein in Iraq, the containment of Syria through a series of US sponsored proxy wars and the total rejection of any Palestinian state.

Many of these same neoconservatives would go on to use the attacks on 9/11 five years later in a disturbingly similar fashion to the way Bibi currently uses October 7th to expand this mission to include the mythical Axis of Evil which would grow to include every major rival to American hegemony in the region, beginning with Iraq and ending with Iran. All of this was part of a quite open strategy to build the Washington military-industrial leviathan into a new Rome on the ashes of the former Soviet Union so as to ensure that America would reign over the globe indefinitely as the planet's only remaining superpower.

It didn't exactly work out as planned. The first target, Iraq, rapidly turned into Babylonian quicksand with the Mullahs wisely using the ensuing chaos to empower their Shia allies in the region. Thus, the Bush administration ended up closing its ambitious 8-year-plan on a sour note of epic failure, leaving much of their own once trigger-happy constituency deeply disgruntled with interventionism itself in the process. In many ways the rise of MAGA has come to be seen as the antithesis of all things neocon, but is it really?

While the current Trump Administration is certainly shifting the weight of our own military forces back towards the Western Hemisphere, we have never seen a White House move in lockstep with Israeli foreign policy quite like this one. Donald Trump has played an obnoxiously outsized role in every single escalation Israel has made towards making Zion great again, from offering to take military control of depopulated chunks of Gaza and Lebanon to using its diplomatic channels to aid Israeli attacks in Tehran and Doha. 

The results speak for themselves. While Trump pretends to be the Antibush and a badly battered American war machine sets its sites on a new Monroe Doctrine to prep the West for a final showdown with China, Washington has essentially just outsourced the project for a New American Century to Israel with similar plans to turn Volodymyr Zelensky into a kind of European Netanyahu. In other words, neoconservatism is alive and well under Donald Trump, it's simply rebranding in trying times. 

 It is important to remember that these rats have always been craven survivalists with few partisan allegiances. After all, the neocon movement began in the Democratic Party under Scoop Jackson before converting to Christian revanchism under Ronald Reagan then transforming into a slightly more secular New World Order under HW Bush. 

The hustle continued even after Dubya sank the ship in 2008 with stow aways in the Obama regime like David Petraeus who briefly oversaw Afghanistan after igniting the proxy wars that would lead to the convenient rise of the Islamic State farther west and Victoria Nuland who would play a decisive hand in overthrowing democracy in Ukraine. They pretty much ran Trump's first administration with neocon dinosaurs like John Bolton and Elliot Abrams at the helm as well as newer true believers like Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley filling up most of the prime defense positions for MAGA's first cabinet.

And who do you think run's Trump's current war machine? Secretary of State Marco Rubio, US Ambassador to the UN Elise Stefanik and the newly rechristened Secretary of War Pete Hegseth; all unreformed and unapologetic supporters of the Iraq War and devoted students of the New American Century.

Benjamin Netanyahu himself can be seen as a lifelong neocon in his own right but those of you who want to put Israel at the top of this pyramid scheme are looking at the blueprint upside down. Israel is and has always been an Anglo-American colony, completely dependent on a $3.8 billion-dollar annual allowance to keep them in hellfire missiles. If this money disappeared overnight, so would the fascist fever dream of a Greater Israel, like a mirage in the desert. A fact highlighted in flames by the 60% of Israel's own citizens in the goddamn streets right now as we speak, calling for Bibi's head on a steak. Only MAGA stands between them.

Zionism is a European export. Part of the same Atlantist-Anglo supremacist contagion that cooked up neoconservatism as a new form of phony American nationalism beholden to the same multinational corporate elites who own Donald Trump's ass like an Epstein whore.

Please, dearest motherfuckers, do yourselves a big fucking favor; forget the brands and fight the war machine birthed by Westphalia under any flag, in every party. By any name, that same foul beast drags us all to Armageddon unless we forget about bullshit politics long enough to start dragging back. 

Peace, Love & Empathy- Nicky/CH

Soundtrack: Songs that Influenced this Post

* Headache by Francis Black

* The Mess Inside by the Mountain Goats

* 100% by Sonic Youth

* Heavy Metal Drummer by Wilco

* Devil's Haircut by Beck

* Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes

* Cinder Block by Samia

* Dylan Thomas by Better Oblivion Community Center

* The Captain by Kacey Chambers

* Stuck Between Stations by the Hold Steady

Corrupt "Democracy" Makes Fascism Inevitable

 I've never been much of an optimist when it comes to America because quite frankly, there is really very little to be optimistic about. A cursory glance at this nation's history should be more than enough to prove that. The arch of history may or may not bend towards progress but there is no bending a colonial machine designed for slavery and genocide into anything worth redeeming. America, as a concept, is existentially fucked and we need to get over it.

Ironically, in the past, it has actually been this rosy outlook on the American nightmare that has led me to roll my eyes at notions made by comrades on the left that Donald Trump is the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler. Not that I've ever held delusions about that foul orange beast being anything south of sociopathic. I just found it hard to believe that a man so bombastically flatulent with his sociopathy could ever pose a bigger threat than men like Bill Clinton or Barack Obama who could sell this same evil as progress to tree huggers at Lilith Fair.

I'm not too big to say that I stand corrected, at least partially. While the Donald's first term was largely a three-ring rodeo fire that did at least as much smoke damage to America's undeserved reputation as it did to its underprivileged people, his second term is clearly something far more satanic in nature and the analogies to the Third Reich feel grossly appropriate. Every day seems to bring another unprecedented breach of the Executive Office into every conceivable facet of American life and the courts that haven't been totally corrupted have been exposed as being completely powerless to stop it.

With that being confessed, I do feel that it is extremely important to point out that the people who made this possible aren't trailer park proud boys or even those mutant millionaires in the Christian Right. Donald Trump was transformed from a charismatically unconfident, soiled rodeo clown into a totally viable Hitler reenactor by the billionaires of Silicon Valley.

All roads lead back to Peter Thiel. The megarich founder of PayPal who invested his early fortune into companies like Palantir and SpaceX which promise to usurp the old gas-powered military industrial complex with something far more technologically dystopian may have very theatrically decided to take a knee during the last two presidential elections, but his influence is all over the second Trump administration. 

Elon Musk, who broke records by donating a quarter of a billion dollars to Trump's reelection campaign is one of Thiel's PayPal era dauphins, which is probably why Thiel essentially continues to run DOGE even after rocket boy abandoned ship to tend to the damage done to his fortune by associating openly with their Frankenstein monster. Other known Thiel acolytes now swimming in the MAGA swamp include AI and Crypto Czar David Sacks and Vice President JD Vance, and their investment is paying off hand over fist.

Every major push by the new and improved Trump junta into frighteningly fascist territory is powered by Silicon Valley, from its AI fueled mass deportation regime to its Golden Dome boondoggle. DOGE is scalping our antiquated federal bureaucracy to make room for a singular high-tech police state that only companies like Palantir can provide, and Trump has already passed executive orders requiring all federal agencies to share data on American citizens. This is how Palantir alone has already netted over $900 million dollars in federal government contracts, and these are the men who made MAGA a terrifying success, the members of America's new cyber oligarchy.

However, these are also the same men who had very recently financed the so-called "liberal order" that Trump was elected raging against which unironically is also the very same order that gifted Donald Trump an idiot-proof executive death star and blackened the name of democracy by using it to sling forever wars and globalist trade deals in the process. Elon Musk donated over $100,000 dollars to Barack Obama in 2012 alone and why the fuck not? Obama had already taken George W. Bush's post-9/11 police-warfare state and expanded it into a massive, all-seeing, NSA panopticon with a swarm of drones to defend it from brown children. Who do you think gave Palantir its first government contracts? The same liberal-progressive who built a gulag archipelago of detention camps that Donald Trump would use to cage toddlers.

This is why even though Donald Trump has become an unprecedented threat who needs to be stopped, his mainstream "resistance" funded by neocon Never Trumpers and the neoliberal DNC need to be thrown out with him for making his reign of terror possible by being only marginally less despotic than Orange-Man-Bad while daring to call their proto-fascistic shell game woke.

This has happened before. In fact, this is precisely how the original Hitler ended up in power. As the German Empire disintegrated in the face of massive popular revolts during the wee hours of the First World War, the German Amy's Quartermaster General, Wilhelm Greener, made a deal with the Empire's last Chancellor and head of the German Social Democratic Party, Friedrich Ebert. Provided that Ebert crush the radical leftists amidst his ranks and allow Germany's military strongmen to remain in power, these thugs would allow Ebert to establish a "social democracy" in the form of the Weimar Republic.

A stalwart patriot already notorious for crushing the antiwar elements within his own party, soon-to-be-President Friedrich Ebert snapped up the deal immediately and while Weimar Germany wore the drag of liberty and progress with a constitution and a parliament, the Republic's first president established a dictatorship in all but name only for the last six years of his life. Friedrich Ebert spent most of his reign ruling by decree with the new Weimar constitution's Article 48, which afforded the Reich President the ability to govern without the consent of the Reichstag so long as he did so in the name of national security.

By the time Ebert had finally dropped dead, an increasingly large segment of Germany's population had taken a hard turn back to the right, largely out of disgust for what had been allowed to pass for the left. Seeing at least some of the writing on the wall, the Social Democratic Party decided to endorse an Imperial German Army general named Paul Von Hindenburg to replace Ebert as president in 1932 in order to prevent a victory by an ascendant Adolf Hitler. 

Hindenburg wasted little time using the despotic executive powers created by the SPD to make the Third Reich a forgone conclusion. He approved the Reichstag Fire Decree suspending civil liberties over an obvious false flag attack, he awarded the Weimar executive office even more power with the Enabling Act of 1933, and he appointed Adolf Hitler to the position of Chancellor of Germany from which the Further used the SPD's Article 48 to establish a military dictatorship by totally legal means.

My point here isn't that liberalism or social democracy are synonymous with fascism. My point is that fascism lurks behind every ideology that shelters an untouchable elite and that free people tend to embrace authoritarian solutions to their perceived problems when democracy is reduced to a shroud used to conceal the true source of those problems. If you send Middle American's children off to die in the Middle East in the name of democracy and gut main street in the name of the free market, you can't exactly be shocked when they reject both for any asshole promising to make their empty lives great again by any means necessary.

You also have little right to be shocked when liberal democracy's financiers approve of increasingly despotic measures when the old illusions fail to pacify the growing rage of the masses.

We cannot confront the threat posed by Donald Trump until we confront the fact that, just like Adolf Hitler, Donald Trump is the product of a morally bankrupt neoliberal plutocracy that dared to call itself a democracy, and we cannot confront the threat still posed by fascism until we confront the fact that time and time again, this phantom is merely the last stage of every state on the brink of collapse.

I've said it before, and I'll be shot saying it ten more times, anarchism is the only order that affords the full consent of the governed necessary for true democracy to thrive and any form of democracy not administered directly through popular consensus is just another lie for phantoms to hide behind.

Peace, Love, & Empathy- Nicky/CH

Soundtrack: Songs that Influenced this Post

* El President by Drugstore featuring Thom Yorke

* John Wayne was a Nazi by MDC

* Toy by Blondshell

* Cherub Rock by Smashing Pumpkins

* The Captain by Kasey Chambers

* Nazi Punks Fuck Off by Dead Kennedys

* Asshole by the Lumineers

* No Values by Black Flag

* Lexicon Devil by the Germs

* Lady Picture Show by Stone Temple Pilots

Nothing Fights Fascism Like Mutiny: A Call to Organize Troops Against Trump

 We've seen this same scenario play out on the international news a thousand times before. Some populist despot on a power binge locks down the capitol with heavily armed and uniformed soldiers on the street. Some kind of crisis is declared. Some kind of enemy is denounced. Both are usually conveniently vague and open to expansive interpretation. Everyone but a few brainwashed zealots know the score and what was once a barely functioning plutocracy is reduced to an armed encampment with soldiers serving as a newly christened dictator's jackbooted errand boys and a quire of armored vehicles singing his praises in a diesel fueled chorus.

Yep, we've seen this same scenario play out a thousand times before but this time it isn't playing out in some third world banana republic, it's unraveling as we speak on the streets of the capitol of the most powerful empire on earth and it's spreading like spilt milk under a refrigerator near you. In the sacred name of law and order, Donald Trump, the Batista of Mar-a-Lago, has federalized law enforcement in Wahington DC and sent in 800 National Guardsmen and another 450 federal law enforcement agents to lord over the national monuments with assault rifles and pose fearsomely for the cameras. One could be forgiven for being tempted to believe that this is just some reckless publicity stunt to throw people off the Epstein trail and I'm sure that played a part in the timing, but this is clearly part of a much larger campaign.

Trump already fed the Tenth Amendment to the tank treads with his brazenly unconstitutional military occupation of Los Angeles, and a series of leaks and executive orders have made it clear that it won't end in Chicago either. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been tasked with establishing a 600 Guardsman "Domestic Civil Disturbance Quick Reaction Force" that can be deployed within hours to cities across the country to quell whatever "civil disturbance" America's increasingly omnipotent Executive Office deems to be a national emergency with a dusty coupon booklet of antiquated war powers.

This isn't a dictatorship yet but this sure as shit is how they start. I know because I've been studying the one's the CIA sets up in third world countries for the better part of my miserable young life. This is also why, even though I am certainly very disturbed by what's transpiring, I am just slightly less than shocked. Our country's vaunted liberal peanut gallery can spend hours in front of the bathroom mirror perfecting their 50s monster movie shriek, but this country has been exporting fascism like Coca-Cola for centuries; did you Karens honestly believe that this poison product would never follow you home? And I'm not just talking ancient history here either. 

I'm talking about our overthrow of Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti in 2004 for the high crime of trying to raise the minimum wage of Disney sweatshops in Port-au-Prince and I'm talking about our decision to replace Manuel Zelaya with a drug peddling junta in Honduras in 2009. None of you people blank twice when America erased these democracy's and now those chickens are coming home to roost.

The only thing separating Donald Trump from fellow executive arbiters of authoritarianism like George W. Bush and Barack Obama is the fact that he finally brought the war home. This may be sickening but it was also inevitable, especially when you consider the fact that all these men did their part to drastically expand the powers of the executive office while growing America's military to the size of a fucking death star. Now, the jig is finally up. The illusion of American democracy has been dashed to smithereens on the petulant whims of a reality television goon and what really rubs his mainstream critics raw is how tacky it makes us look.

With that being said, weapons grade hypocrisy doesn't erase the danger marching through our streets as we speak and the fact that the die was cast several administrations ago doesn't mean that we should all just sit around snarking while Uncle Sam tries on mirrored aviator shades. What it does mean is that we have to get a little more inventive than monkeying around with electoral politics in a Weimar republic and we need to get a little more radical than singing "Give Peace a Chance" in state designated protest kennels. My crazed neurodivergent suggestion is that we actually reach out to the storm troopers.

These aren't well-trained Freikorps'; they're working-class weekend warriors trying to pay off their credit card debt. Many of them are barely out of high school and most of them had no idea what they were signing up for. Signs of discontent among these ranks have already surfaced in Los Angeles after Trump sent 4,000 National Guards to confront the scourge of undocumented maids at the El Segundo Motel 6. In fact, reports of downright aggressive disgruntlement amidst the SoCal barracks have become quite widespread just behind the scenes. 

Multiple advocacy organizations representing military families, including the Sarah Stryder Initiative and the Chamberlain Network, have reported an influx of affected service members contacting them to express their disgust with Trump's mission in the City of Angels. At least 105 members of this deployment have also sought counseling from behavioral health offices and at least one company commander and one battalion commander have been reassigned after expressing their objections to Trump's orders.

This is fertile soil for mutiny which anti-fascists would be wise to sow. History is rife with examples of disgruntled soldiers leading open revolts that ultimately led to the downfall of the very regimes they were tasked with fortifying. A mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin launched by sailors unwilling to die for empire in the Russo-Japanese War ended in disaster but also ultimately sparked the Russian Revolution of 1905, which not only ended the war but set the stage for the October Revolution that would end the reign of the Tsar completely a decade later.

That same year, the Kiel Mutiny of 1918 was lit after a German crew refused to sail into certain death against the British Grand Fleet during the final days of the First World War and would inspire another revolution that would topple the Kaiser and put the final nail in the casket of a fading German Empire. In this case, the mutineers even set up democratic soldier's councils that rapidly spread across the country, erasing the corrupt governments in every city they occupied with little to no resistance before they made the tragic mistake of handing their decentralized direct democracies over to professional politicians who would sell them back to their officers for a Reich.

Perhaps the best example of gestapo in revolt however occurred within the ranks of our own military during the Vietnam War with the GI Movement, a radical antiwar insurgency that spread like napalm across every base from West Point to Danang, ultimately leading to nearly half of all enlisted American soldiers openly revolting against their superiors which nearly sank the whole damn empire before the Pentagon finally pulled the plug on their failed conquest of Indochina. 

Over half a million incidents of desertion were recorded between 1966 and 1973. Another 488 incidents of sabotage on naval vessels were also logged during that time frame including the largest single act of sabotage in naval history aboard the USS Forrestal aircraft carrier in 1972 when a massive fire caused over $7 million dollars in damage and delayed the ships deployment by over two months.

All of this was done with the full support and collaboration of anti-imperialists across the expanse of occupied Babylon, from the Black Panthers of California to the Beheiren movement of Japan. And I say it can be done again! Naysayers will point to America's all volunteer army, formed for the express purpose of avoiding another GI Movement. I will point to a stagnant economy and a shriveling middle class that forces many young men and women to fight for food only to find themselves stop-lossed into an endless loop of deployments to one bombed out wasteland after another. 

Now, these impoverished and deeply traumatized government mercenaries are being ordered to patrol their own streets for a senile billionaire child molester. Lynch me for my morbid optimism if you must but, Dearest motherfuckers, I think we can work with this! 

But first we would be wise to remember that the most important target of any mutiny should always be the fascist construct of the standing army itself. A national guard is really the only armed force any nation should ever require but it should be reserved exclusively for the self-defense of the communities they serve, and this mission should include the defense of communities against their own government. This can only be achieved with the kind of civilian militias advocated by this nation's wiser founding fathers to serve specifically as a bulwark against any attempt to monopolize the use of force with a professional standing army.

The popularity of the anti-interventionist Defend the Guard Act across the left-right spectrum shows an increased awareness among soldiers and civilians alike for the necessity of these kinds of populist limitations on military power and in times of great crisis there is great opportunity for radical acceleration. 

Empires are often at their most despotic before they collapse. Donald Trump just needs a little push, and I can think of a few good men who might just be willing to lend him a hand.

Peace, Love, & Empathy- Nicky/CH

Soundtrack: Songs that Influenced this Post

* Mutiny, I Promise You by the New Pornographers

* Hey Joe by Jimi Hendrix

* California Uber Alles by Dead Kennedys

* What's the Frequency Kenneth by REM

* Street Fighting Man by the Rolling Stones

* Eat the Rich by Motorhead

* Rambozo the Clown by Dead Kennedys

* All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix

* We Gotta Get Out of This Place by Fear

* Doesn't Remind Me of Anything by Audioslave

American Radicals Cannot Afford to Ignore the Epstein Scandal

 Not long after Donald Trump had the Department of Justice unceremoniously torpedo its own investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the President's longtime friend and fellow member of the predator elite, Bill O'Reilly, announced something that I found to be disturbingly telling. During an interview with Chris Cuomo on NewsNation, Bill revealed that he had discussed the Epstein files with the President at the White House months before it reentered the headlines. "I talked to President Trump, man-to-man, eye-to-eye, on St. Patrick's Day about this... And he said- and I agree- 'There are a lot of names associated with Epstein that had nothing to do with Epstein's conduct... They maybe had lunch with them or maybe had some correspondence for one thing or another... If that name gets out, those people are destroyed, because there's not going to be any context."

It was one of those moments that felt too absurd to exist anywhere but cable news. Here were two career newsmongers, jettisoned to the ghetto of the legacy media for their own predatory sexual appetites, chatting with great concern about how deeply disturbed the accused rapist in the White House is over the reputations of fellow oligarchs who chose to associate with a convicted sexual predator. But beyond the bizarro world vibe of this sharply dressed slice of locker room logic, I felt that O'Reilly's revelation actually cut to the very core of the Epstein scandal on many levels.

It reveals the bloated sense of self-importance carried by the elites in this country, it reveals the fluid bipartisan nature of their lives behind the scenes, but perhaps more than anything, it reveals the fear they have of their own supporters. The general gist of Bill O'Reilly's defense of Donald Trump's decision to betray his own voters was that your average yokel couldn't possibly understand the need for powerful men in both parties to socialize with a sex fiend confirmed by their own government to have ran a vast criminal empire trafficking in teenage girls without first being provided with the proper context by the very news media that Trump was elected twice to rail against.

Even more telling was Bill's dire warning that such unfettered access to the truth would destroy what's left of the reputation the powerful hold in this country and on this I am in full agreement with that neocon dinosaur. However, it is my strongly held opinion that every motherfucker who ever played golf with Epstein should be destroyed and not just because I'm a collapsitarian anarchist or even because I'm a survivor of childhood sex abuse. Jeffrey Epstein was not a billionaire who just happened to sling underage girls on the side. Jeffrey Epstein was a sexual predator who appears to have become a billionaire by providing other billionaires VIP access to the local schoolyard.

Court records show hundreds of millions of dollars being paid to Epstein by Wall Street big shots and billionaire tycoons like Leslie Wexner and Leon Black for tax advice he wasn't even professionally qualified to render. JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in America with tentacles reaching into every administration since its inception, made over 9,000 transactions payable to Epstein and his associates between 2005 and 2019 with a combined value of $2.4 billion dollars and these transactions continued well after a 2008 plea deal officially made Epstein a registered sex offender.

To put it simply, there is quite literally no legitimate reason for the most powerful people on earth to even associate with such well-renowned lecherous scum and yet associate they did, over and over again. Former president and former friend of Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, rode on Epstein's Lolita Express on 27 known occasions and invited the man to the White House four times during his presidency, he even visited the bastard in prison after his first arrest for procuring a child. Not to be beat, former prime minister of Israel, Ehud Barak, held three dozen meetings with the by then convicted child predator between 2013 and 2017, at one point hooking up once a month for eleven months straight.

This isn't fucking normal, and you don't have to be paranoid to want some goddamn answers here. Even if these relationships don't qualify as criminal they are at the very least indefensibly immoral, as is the Donald's own account of his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

According to our president's own recent tarmac barkings, he was aware that Jeffrey Epstein was poaching teenage employees from Mar-a-Lago as early as 2000 when Trump admitted that he caught his former friend 'stealing' his 16-year-old towel girl from him. However, three years after this event Donald Trump was recorded by the New Yorker Magazine praising that thief's prowess with young girls, calling Epstein a "terrific guy" and stating "No doubt about it- Jeffrey enjoys his social life." That was in 2003, the same year Trump signed his old golf buddy's birthday album with cartoon tits before telling him "May every day be another wonderful secret." And it would still be another four years before Jeffrey's membership to Mar-a-Lago was canceled.

Yet, the mainstream media in this country consistently tries to downplay this story even while they cover it; gaslighting anyone suggesting that this could possibly be anything bigger than a midterm embarrassment for Donald Trump as indulging in MAGA conspiracy theories. They also keep telling us that public interest is drifting away from the scandal and maybe it is, but a lot of powerful people seem to be working very hard to change the subject and I'm not just talking about Donald Trump's desperately provocative military occupation of the nation's capital.

I'm talking about Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson's bizarre decision to cut the last session of the House short before a bipartisan vote could compel the DOJ to release its files on Epstein and the fact that this maneuver received zero pushback from Democratic House Minority Leader Hakem Jeffries or Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. I'm talking about the fact that Epstein's lead accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, was sent to carry out the rest of her twenty-year sentence for felony sex trafficking at a white-collar club fed after being recorded declaring to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche that both Donald Trump and Bill Clinton were perfect gentleman innocent of any "inappropriate conduct" in her company.

However, in spite of all these efforts or quite possibly because of them, something about this case remains deeply unsettling to the much-maligned deplorables in Donald Trump's base. While Google searches for Jeffrey Epstein may be down this week, the University of Massachusetts Amherst has recently released a national poll showing that Trump's handling of the Epstein scandal has done significant damage to his standing among his core supporters, with 47% of those who voted for him in 2024 showing strong disapproval and 26% of that group indicating that they would not vote for the man again if given the opportunity.

These were the same people utterly unfazed by every scandal, real or imagined, that has dogged Orange-Man-Bad from Stormy Daniels to January 6. The people who seemed willing to follow this asshole straight into the ninth circle of Hell. The American news machine, from Bill O'Reilly to Anderson Cooper, continues to be mystified by the whims of such trailer dwelling proles but these people are my neighbors, my parents and the parents of pretty much every member of my backwoods Queer found family, and while I will be the first bitch to admit that they are far from enlightened, I also happen to know for a fact that many of them voted for Trump largely because they felt like it was the best way to flip the bird to assholes like O'Reilly and Cooper who have gotten rich lying them into one bad trade deal and bullshit war after another. 

The entire MAGA brand may be a pitiless grift but much like the Blackshirts and the Bolsheviks, it is a grift built on the exploitation of a very legitimate populist disenchantment with the current order.

So, why did it take Jeffrey Epstein to finally break the spell? I can't tell you that with any certainty, but I can tell you from very personal experience that a disturbingly high number of Americans including myself have fallen prey to sexual abuse and that most of our abusers remain untouchable due to institutional power. Every 74 seconds someone is sexually assaulted in this country and every nine minutes that person is a child. One in six American women are victims of rape as well as 3% of men.

This means that while your average deplorable may be far from woke, it is also very likely that they and/or at least one person they love has fallen prey to a man like Jeffrey Epstein and now they finally seem prepared to accept that Donald Trump is one of these men too.

This is a recipe for the kind of populist furor that anyone committed to revolutionary politics should embrace as a rare opportunity for critical mass. As an anarcha-feminist committed to bottom unity, I can't tell you how many freshly defrocked Trump supporters I've encountered in the last month who appear to be shockingly prepared to confront rape culture in ways most liberals fail to even comprehend. Coastal cosmopolitans in both parties can scoff at these people all they want but they are smart enough to realize that their system is rigged and now they realize that Trump too is a part of it.

I see no reason why anarchists and leftists shouldn't convert this collective anguish into a rallying cry for a very personal revolutionary retribution, and I say we begin this retribution by making Bill O'Reilly's nightmare a reality and letting the bodies fall where they stand at the country club. Release the files, all of them: destroy the elites, all of them.

Peace, Love & Empathy- Nicky/CH

Soundtrack: Songs that Influenced this Post

* Dicknail by Hole

* Heartthrob by Indigo de Souza 

* Shove by L7

* Cop Car by Mitski

* Heads Will Roll by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

* Not by Big Thief

* Molly's Lips by Nirvana

* Shitlist by L7

* Slip It In by Black Flag

* Mary by Big Thief

A Tale of Two Peace Summits (and No Goddamn Peace)

 Lights! Cameras! Action! The scene is a heavily hyped but quickly slapped together peace summit in the late summer of this year of our lord Satan 2025. The setting is Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, some relic of the last cold war's apocalypse culture on the desolate outskirts of Anchorage, Alaska. Our leading men are one Donald J. Trump, a dayglow corporate-welfare rapist who somehow failed his way to the top of an empire too big to fail without a goddamn apocalypse, and Vladimir Putin, a cold-blooded KGB thug who spent the post-Soviet years breaking legs for neoliberal oligarchs before reinventing himself as some kind of quasi-fascist heartthrob for self-loathing, alt-right, closet queens to toss off to between podcasts.

There was a red carpet, a long walk beneath soaring war machines and towering mountain vistas, and a carriage ride in a luxury vehicle designed to withstand the advances of even the angriest of villagers which whisked the two war criminals away to a secluded and presumably candlelit location where the waiting public was promised that no man would leave unmaimed without signing off on a ceasefire to the long raging proxy apocalypse in Ukraine.

The two lovers surfaced hours later, beaming before a live audience of politico paparazzo for a post-coital press conference. Both men, who collectively lounge on more nuclear hardware than the rest of the planet combined and multiplied ten times, took turns lavishing each other's egos with increasingly flirtatious displays of affection bordering on the downright homoerotic. The typically ice-cold Vladimir Putin showed off his sensitive side, paying special attention to his rodeo clown paramour's "precious" devotion to world peace and Donald Trump boasted proudly that he has long had a very special relationship with 'President Putin' before girlishly correcting himself by referring to the strongman simply as 'Vladimir.'

The two psychopaths both appeared to agree that something magical had transpired that day beneath the Northern Lights but then they both unceremoniously fucked off to their own blood-speckled corners of the world stage without their hotly anticipated ceasefire or even a second date on the calendar.

In spite of all the lovey-dovey talk and breathless self-adulation, the war kept raging in Ukraine with half the country under an air raid alert while Volodymyr Zelensky launched swarms of NATO drones deep into the Rostov and Bryansk regions of Russia. None of this stopped the gnashing heads of the liberal media from ripping their hair out and screaming 'Neville Chamberlain!' at the top of their lungs over the mere shadow of a suggestion that maybe dumping more weapons of mass destruction into this death hole isn't the most prudent way to avoid World War III but as far as I could tell, none of the deadly peace that terrifies such imbeciles so much was actually transpiring. Just two foul Caesars sending each other kissy face emojis while they continued to murder each other's children.   

'What the fuck just happened here?' I found myself asking the blue screen of a merciless television set. But before I could receive an answer, another hastily slapped together peace summit erupted in Washington three days later. Volodymyr Zelensky, fresh from his latest photo shoot with GQ, practically stormed the White House flanked by a dream team of western oligarchs, including British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emanuel Macron and German Chancelor Friedrich Merz, in a united front of NATO solidarity. But the moment these humanitarian crusaders for liberal order found themselves in the same room with Donald Trump, a public make-out session commenced that made the Brokeback bromance in Alaska look tame by comparison.

Each and every NATO superfreak on the scene took turns backing that thing up on Donald Trump's stubby little ego, including Zelensky who had practically been thrown out of the Oval Office by the seat of his pants during his last visit. The freak fest ended in smiles and handshakes and a triumphant announcement by the blushing Donald that Putin had agreed to yet another summit, this time with Zelensky invited to join the menage a troi of peace. 

But, once again, something was seriously off about this powwow. While Donald Trump took another victory lap and NATO breathed a sigh of sweet relief, I couldn't help noticing that nothing concrete had actually come out of this long weekend of long-winded summitry. For all the flowery talk of peace still percolating from both of these dueling love-ins, the war was still raging and, in some ways largely neglected by the western media, it had actually gotten worse.

Between blowing kisses across the room to each other, Trump, Starmer and Macron all kept talking about the kind of 'security guarantees' for Ukraine from NATO nations that Russia has repeatedly made clear were a red line for them. All three of these world leaders even suggested that the deployment of European troops on the ground in Ukraine was on the table. The Russians didn't miss these details either. Their Foreign Ministry called the demands a "sharp escalation" that was "categorically unacceptable to Russia." And this wasn't the only detail that made any notion of either one of these summits having anything to do with peace highly suspect.

Just days before Trump's klondike soiree with Putin in Alaska, Germany announced that it was purchasing $500 million dollars of American military hardware for Ukraine. All part of a NATO bait-and-switch scheme to funnel US weapons to the battle front through European third parties while Trump feigns non-interventionism. The name of this scam is the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List or PURI initiative. Other Eurocrats have already pledged a total of $1.5 billion dollars to this growing arsenal and Volodymyr Zelensky made an offer to buy $90 billion dollars of American death machines through this European back channel during the second so-called peace summit.

If you are confused upon exhaustion by all these bizarre backroom hijinks then step in line, grab a brown paper bag to breath into, and put your head between your knees while I attempt to unwrap this for you. Donald Trump spent most of this last summer actually ratcheting up the war in Ukraine, sending an increasingly unpopular Zelensky regime deadlier and deadlier toys and giving Putin strict deadlines for unconditional ceasefire and then drastically reducing the deadlines without explanation. But Donald Trump also spent most of this last summer losing his base over his attempts to bury his 15-year relationship with billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein as his overall approval ratings hit rock bottom.

So, Donald Trump did what his old buddy Bill Clinton used to do whenever his sexual predations began to clutter the headlines; he created a highly publicized foreign policy diversion. Bill usually bombed baby formula factories or news stations, but Trump needed to distract an audience that has grown a tad more weary of war crimes, so he set up a shameless but feckless lovefest with his neoliberal rivals' favorite boogeyman, Vladimir Putin, who has his own PR demons to slay, to essentially bait his critics into changing the subject to one he could win his base back with, namely being decried as a 'Putin puppet' for merely hinting at the possibility of detente.

However, Trump picked a hell of a time to play this game. Volodymyr Zelensky's own poll numbers are dropping, and Russia is slowly but steadily taking the Donbass back, village by village. Trump's flirtations with isolationism have never amounted to much more than fishing for another offer he couldn't refuse So, NATO did for Trump what Trump did for Putin; they rolled out the red carpet and greased his fragile ego with sultry gestures and suggestive dialogue, and by the time they were done they had handily transformed a phony photo-op for peace-starved MAGA cretins into another thinly veiled covert arms race.

This is what 'peace' looks like on a planet stalked by bankrupt cannibal empires. Behind every door on every stage is another desperate shakedown with rapidly disintegrating superpowers wrestling each other over which hill to die on. Sadly, this is nothing new for Ukraine which has a long tragic history of hosting these kinds of imperial death matches, whether it's the Ottomans and the Czars or the Bolsheviks and the Nazis. The only good new here is that these wild steppes are usually where it ends before it begins again.

Let's just hope that there's something left standing after the next peace summit.

Peace, Love, & Empathy- Nicky/CH

Soundtrack: Songs that Influenced this Post

* Peace Sells by Megadeth

* Charm You by Samia

* Game Shows Touch Our Lives by the Mountain Goats

* If You Should Try and Kiss Her by Dressy Bessy

* Hotel Yorba by the White Stripes

* Who Do You Love by George Thorogood & the Destroyers

* Superman by REM

* Just Like Henry by Dressy Bessy

* International Small Arms Traffic Blues by the Mountain Goats

* The Denial Twist by the White Stripes

* I Knew it, I Know it by Gracie Abrams

* El Scorcho by Weezer

Someone Needs to Stop Israel but It Won't Be the West

 It is getting harder and harder for me to cover the endless holocaust in Gaza. I am not an objective journalist. In fact I reject the very notion of objective journalism as inherently problematic and at times downright toxic. I take shit personally and any attempt to pretend otherwise would merely be an act of deception on my part. I prefer being upfront, defining the problem from my perspective, and then openly seeking solutions while admitting that I am just one voice in what I dearly hope will become a much larger dialogue. I truly believe the conversation on Palestine could benefit a great deal from more international observers taking this approach but this conversation has also become downright excruciating as the Second Nakba just continues to accelerate while the whole world watches screaming from the sidelines.

I don't feel like there is any need to convince the world that what is happening in the Gaza Strip is unspeakably evil anymore. The body count has literally become impossible to keep up with as Israel has taken to killing close to and often far more than 100 civilians a day. The level of depravity being displayed on live television by the IDF and their American conspirators is beyond disgusting. 

Donald Trump's Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has monopolized what little aid still occurs in the region and turned it into another tool for genocide; setting up a handful of sites on the Strip and distributing food to the desperate masses for just minutes a day in order to create stampedes through active warzones which the IDF then uses like turkey shoots. Thousands of starving men, women and children have been machine gunned in mass and this isn't just a dirty secret anymore. There is literally hours of footage online clearly showing uniformed Israeli soldiers opening fire into crowds of visually emaciated people until their clips run dry.

I am beyond appalled. I am furious and I am not alone. Public animosity against Israel has never been higher across the western world. Even conservatives are beginning to break with Zionism as their favorite ally in the Middle East fires American-made tank shells into crowded Catholic churches and tars any priest uppity enough to say "knock it off" as an antisemite. This burgeoning groundswell of popular disgust has led many western governments to speak out for the first time against the increasingly genocidal scourge of the Zionism they once celebrated but Israel just keeps getting bolder and bolder in their sadism. This is because talk is cheap, and money speaks louder than bombs.

Foreign ministers from 25 western nations released a joint statement this July condemning Israel for its "inhuman killing of civilians" and demanding a ceasefire. This included a separate joint statement made by the leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Canada, threatening to take absurdly vague "concrete action" if Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't call off his latest offensive against starving children. Israel responded by letting a few more aid trucks over the border. Amnesty International responded by condemning this toothless PR stunt and rightfully declaring that it was "outrageous and morally reprehensible" that the leaders of the so-called "free world" had taken "nearly 80 days of broadcast starvation and cruelty amidst genocide to exert pressure on Israel."

But I'm afraid that it's actually far worse than that. Emmanuel Macron's France appears to have at least temporarily cut off its shipments of arms to Israel but the UK and Canada don't appear to have even touched the tap. Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney's predecessor and fellow Liberal Party power broker, Justin Trudeau, authorized military exports to Israel as late as January of last year and approved of at least $21 million in new licenses for military exports (mostly bombs) still arriving as we speak. As for the land of Lady George and roses, 15% of the components for Israel's growing arsenal of F-35 fighter jets are still made by British companies to blow up Arab boys on mopeds.

Donald Trump's liberal foils across the western world can cry a river of crocodile tears but until they react to a genocide they have all been facilitating for generations with an actual arms embargo they are every bit as guilty as Orange-Man-Bad and are at least ten times as hypocritical.

For nearly 80 years now the world has been sold the same snake-oil sales pitch from every western globalist institution from the UN and the World Bank to NATO and the EU; that these vaunted institutions of liberal guilt are the only thing keeping the world safe and free from the wrath of another Hitler. Well, hear he is, in fact here's two of them. Both Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are openly and unapologetically carrying out the most overt and unabashed genocide since the Third Reich and the "free world" can't be bothered to commit themselves to anything more severe than telling them to keep it down while white people are watching.

This horror show has proven once and for all that the "international community" is a sick hoax. These people bombed the shit out of Yugoslavia and Libya for committing genocide without even requiring evidence. Now, a Frankenstein monster that they built is literally executing infants before a live studio audience and these humanitarian interventionists can't be bothered to even cut the beast out of their trade deals without months of handwringing and bureaucratic horseshit. And the only reason they're even pretending to give a fuck is because Jewish college kids are throwing their bodies beneath the treads of their tanks while Christian Zionists call them antisemites.

The BDS Movement and organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace have really gone to the mat for Palestine over the last couple years and they have probably achieved more in the way of agitprop than any international antiwar movement since Vietnam. Sadly, it's not enough. Don't get me wrong, the kids need to keep it up but they also need to recognize that the western governments that they are lobbying are as evil as they are toothless. They also need to recognize that at this point the only thing likely to stop Israel from literally erasing Gaza from the map is a full-blown military intervention.

Even if any western nation were willing to commit such heresy, it wouldn't be affective at achieving anything but switching occupiers. The only military interventions that carry the local cache necessary for long-term success are those performed by next door neighbors. This is what finally ended the Cambodian Genocide. Vietnam sent in troops still licking their wounds from American napalm and sent Pol Pot running deep into the jungle where Reagan coddled him until he died a broken old crook in a hut. The only problem is that the United States has either overthrown or bought off everyone who Israel isn't currently bombing but this is where BDS comes in.

Egypt and Jordan both have a few things in common. They both share substantial borders with Palestinian territories, with Egypt to the east of Gaza and Jordan to the west of the West Bank. They both have substantial populations of Palestinian refugees, with over half of Jordan's population being of at least partial Palestinian decent and over 150,000 Gazan refugees languishing in Egypt. They are also both governed by despotic sluts to Pax Americana. The United States has had Egypt on a retainer of $1.4 billion dollars in annual military aid since the 1979 Camp David Accords in which Anwar Sedat and the various toadies who followed him essentially agreed to police the Gazan border for Israel for the price of an arsenal. Jordan has similarly received over $87 billion in US foreign aid since 1946 to look the other way while the West Bank shrinks.

These are both dictatorships with populations that are being violently suppressed as we speak for demanding they act in defense of their Palestinian brothers and sisters. What I'm suggesting is that the international movement built around freeing Palestine shift their weight behind local Arab protestors demanding real action. This means launching protests at Egyptian and Jordanian embassies across the planet, boycotting these nations substantial exports to the west, most of which are textiles and apparel, and going after any company that arms these regimes. The people of Egypt have already overthrown one American quisling and Jordan's massive Palestinian population has been protesting their abuse at the hands of the Heshemite Monarchy for generations.

A simple magnifying glass could easily set off a powder keg in both of these nations and Trump is actively using this fact for leverage in an attempt to convince Jordan and Egypt to contain the refugees he and Netanyahu are attempting to expel. I'm simply calling on the Free Gaza Movement to use their own style of grassroots leverage to compel the opposite. Make them open the borders, not just to anyone and everyone delivering aid but to any off-duty soldier or member of the Palestinian diaspora with a Kalashnikov willing to join what has become a fight against genocide. 

What is the US going to do? Further destabilize two allies in regions thick with Muslim Brotherhood resistance movements. Go for it asshole, see what that leads to. As for Bibi, that motherfucker is running out of fronts to contain. The Axis of Resistance has already given him two, three, many Vietnams to fight, why not help the rest of the neighborhood to give him a few more while the fire's hot?

Israel has surrounded themselves with well-earned and well-armed enemies. If people in the west really want to end this genocide, then we should seriously consider using our activism to further empower them because they may be Gaza's only hope.

Peace, Love, & Empathy- Nicky/CH

Playlist: Songs that Influenced This Post

* Angel of Death by Slayer

* Black Boys on Mopeds by Sinead O'Connor

* Provisional by Fugazi

* Hate My Way by Throwing Muses

* Sugar by System of a Down

* Psycho Killer by Talking Heads

* Ever by Flipper

* Head Like a Hole by Nine Inch Nails

* Kerosene by Big Black