Caitlin Johnstone  ⏳

They're more afraid of you than you are of them. It's true of spiders, snakes, and oligarchic imperialists.

It's a tricky tightrope walk the oligarchs have to do, making sure they don't steal too much of our wealth and freedom all at once so we don't rise up and take it back. It's easy to forget that we're actually the ones with all the power here. Only problem is we don't yet know it.

Please do not feed into the false impression that participating in shameful US coups and foreign interventions is part of Australia's history instead of something it still does and will continue to do.https://twitter.com/patrickkeneally/status/1436457324814557187 …

It's impossible to be a good billionaire, not just because it's immoral to remain that wealthy and because you're a parasitic middleman, but also because in order to obtain that much wealth you generally have to manipulate the movement of civilization to your benefit in some way.

We live in a world of manufactured lack, manufactured enemies, manufactured crises and manufactured consent. We've had sufficient resources to care for everyone for generations. All our wars are based on lies. All our suffering is cooked up by a few psychos with too much power.

There are a lot of people who correctly ask "who benefits?" whenever there's a potential false flag incident but fail to ask who benefits from a religion whose teachings glorify poverty, meekness, humility, docility, and rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar's.

No I'm anti-war, anti-militarism, anti-empire, anti-ecocide, anti-oligarchy, anti-capitalism and anti nuclear brinkmanship. It just happens that the US is at the center of a globe-spanning power structure that is the worst offender on all these fronts by an extremely wide margin.https://twitter.com/covermyears65/status/1437159876652937217 …

Well this would certainly get some people's knickers in a knot. Especially people who promote and benefit from war.https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1436860972782739459 …

A war profiteer can pour money into campaign contributions which incentivize policymakers to push for acts of military interventionism, and pour money into think tanks and lobbying to give those policymakers an excuse to do so. This is all perfectly legal and happens constantly.

It's exactly the same as murdering human beings at mass scale and selling their organs for a tremendous profit, except nobody benefits from their deaths besides those people who sell the murder weapons. And it's deemed perfectly reasonable and acceptable.

It's hard to wrap your mind around, because it's so much more profoundly evil than we're taught to anticipate, but it really is an objective fact that people who make money manufacturing war weapons have an tremendous amount of influence over how and when those weapons are used.

If the US empire ran out of excuses to use and test its extremely profitable military arsenal on impoverished foreigners it would simply invent more excuses.

If there were good billionaires they wouldn't stay billionaires.

History seldom vindicates the peacemongers. Not because they're ever wrong, but because the history books are written by the warmongers.