f{"id":33043,"date":"2024-04-19T13:46:32","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T20:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=33043"},"modified":"2024-04-19T13:46:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T20:46:33","slug":"rules-based-order-means-rules-for-thee-but-not-for-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/19\/rules-based-order-means-rules-for-thee-but-not-for-we\/","title":{"rendered":"“Rules-Based Order” Means Rules For Thee But Not For We"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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<\/a>CAITLIN JOHNSTONE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

APR 18, 2024 (caitlinjohnst.one)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel\u2019s allowed to bomb an Iranian consulate<\/a>, but Iran\u2019s not allowed to strike back. The US is allowed to surround China with war machinery<\/a>, but it would be World War Three if China ever tried to militarily encircle the US. NATO is allowed to expand to Russia\u2019s doorstep and amass proxy forces on its border, but the last time Moscow placed a credible military threat anywhere near the United States, the US responded so aggressively that the world almost ended<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201crules-based international order\u201d that the US-centralized power structure purports to uphold just means an order in which the US makes up the rules and nations had better obey them. It means rules for thee but not for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Democrats are currently committing genocide, pushing through terrifying NSA surveillance powers<\/a>, and working to imprison a journalist<\/a> for life for telling the truth about US war crimes, but it\u2019s very important to support Biden because if Trump wins, fascism might come to America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Assange extradition case is like if the mafia was demanding a snitch be extradited to Italy and multiple nations collaborated with them to help make this happen, except in this case the snitch is a journalist who told the truth, and the mob happens to run a global superpower.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The imperial media are once again trotting out John Bolton<\/a> to help sell the idea of war with Iran. This monster belongs in a cage, not on camera. The fact that the mainstream western press keep having this completely discredited bloodthirsty psychopath on their shows to advocate every possible US war proves that our entire civilization is diseased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmbJohnBolton\/status\/1779922678574354535<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Israel\u2019s actions over the last six months have made it abundantly clear that Biden\u2019s stated goal of preventing the outbreak of more war in the middle east and his stated \u201cironclad\u201d support for Israel are two mutually exclusive positions. You can do one or the other, but not both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Outside the mainstream press the news about Ukraine is a nonstop deluge of stories about how badly things are going for them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some recent articles from Antiwar.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUkraine\u2019s Top General Says Situation on the Battlefield Has \u2018Significantly Worsened\u2019<\/a>\u201d discusses Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi\u2019s acknowledgement that Russia is making steady gains and that the frontlines in Ukraine are at risk of collapsing wherever Russia focuses its offensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUS General Says Russia\u2019s Military Is Bigger Than Before Ukraine Invasion<\/a>\u201d quotes General Christopher Cavoli saying \u201cThe army is actually now larger\u200a\u2014\u200aby 15%\u200a\u2014\u200athan it was when it invaded Ukraine,\u201d an acknowledgement that Washington\u2019s stated goal of using this proxy war to \u201cweaken\u201d Russia has failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRussia Quickly Restores Oil Refinery Capability Hurt By Ukrainian Attacks<\/a>\u201d discusses how badly Russia is damaging Ukraine\u2019s energy infrastructure compared to the damage Ukraine has been able to deal to Russia\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are a couple more from The Libertarian Institute<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUS Official Admits Ukraine Proxy War Failing to Weaken Russia<\/a>\u201d features an acknowledgement from Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell that Russia has reconstituted nearly all of its military losses in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUkraine Tightens Rules on Military Service, Angering Soldiers<\/a>\u201d reports on how \u201cUkraine\u2019s legislature advanced multiple new laws that tighten rules on conscription and extend military services for those already in uniform.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s absolutely criminal how the west pushed this country into sacrificing a generation to a war they always knew was unwinnable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/twitter.com\/caitoz\/status\/1780772693668991200<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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So much suffering and loss has been caused by the way people decided a long time ago that killing one person is murder and therefore immoral but killing thousands of people is \u201cwar\u201d and therefore fine. The actual act is the same; only the narrative and the scale are different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Around the mid-1800s humanity began to notice it doesn\u2019t make sense for a small group of rich people to own everything and for everyone else to continually give that group labor, rent and expenses just to stay alive, and ever since then the media, the mainstream culture and the foreign policy of the ruling class have been intensely devoted to aggressively erasing this realization from humanity\u2019s memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Contributed by Gwyllm Llwydd)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE APR 18, 2024 (caitlinjohnst.one) Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Israel\u2019s allowed to bomb an Iranian consulate, but Iran\u2019s not allowed to strike back. The US is allowed to surround China with war machinery, but it would… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}