Roundup: Israel Lobby Goes To War On Americans, US Declares War On China
Grampa is baby sitting today, so this will be a bit disorganized. This first tweet puts it succinctly:
Anya Parampil @anyaparampil Apr 25
Just to be clear: universities and state gov’ts around the country are cracking down on the constitutional rights of students on behalf of a foreign nation
Cops from Texas to NY and everywhere in between are acting on orders from Benjamin Netanyahu
Who wants their country back?
ABC News @ABC
Speaker Mike Johnson, claiming that Hamas supports the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University and other U.S. colleges, has threatened congressional intervention, including pulling federal funding from the institutions. https://trib.al/yk75DA4
Simple. Netanyahu gives the order to the Israel Lobby, the Israel Lobby passes demands on to State and uni officials, they jump to attention and deploy our militarized government enforcers to use IDF tactics on Americans:
BREAKING:
The US political elite is now setting up snipers aiming at students and professors Protests against Israel are not allowed. A sniper has been stationed on the roof of the Indiana Memorial Union, overlooking a student encampment against the Gaza genocide at Indiana University Bloomington.
It is significant that this - by liberal icon Naomi Klein - has just been published in the house journal of liberal imperialism. There is no way back now.
SIMPLICIUS Ѱ @simpatico771
Watch for the fork.
The Occupy protests that inflamed the country in 2011+ were co-opted and captured, then redirected to serve the elite's social-engineering culture war.
The same stands to happen now. They're already seeding the protests with their agents of subversion.
Alex (Sasha) Krainer @NakedHedgie
Free world y'all!!
Ohio university
Follow the link for the must watch video:
S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y @Sprinterfactory
Student pro-Palestinian protests have erupted everywhere in America. They cover half, if not most, of all universities in the country. Fortunately, all this is happening in a democratic country, and not in some Russia or North Korea. Security forces and protesters interact with each other strictly within the legal framework, respecting each other’s point of view and personal space. The main goal of both is to find common ground and in no case allow violence. Here's a visual illustration. Professor of Economics at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, Caroline Folin consults with the police and together they try to resolve the situation
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Jackson Hinkle @jacksonhinklle
 Atlanta cops have now ARRESTED the Chair of Emory University’s Philosophy Department for opposing the GAZA GENOCIDE!
Laurence (Larry) Boorstein @LarryBoorstein
Police on US college campuses manhandling protesters and then charging them is like having an arm of the "Israel" Defense Forces in the United States.
BREAKING:
Netyanahu said that he does not recognize the court in Hague and that he will not hand over to them even one soldier of Israel who committed war crimes "Under my leadership, Israel will never accept any attempt by the Hague Criminal Court to undermine its fundamental right to defend itself. The threat against IDF soldiers and public figures of Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East and the only Jewish state in the world, is scandalous. We will not give in to him. Israel will continue until victory in our just war against the abominable terrorists who seek to destroy us. We will never stop defending ourselves. While the Hague Tribunal's decisions will not affect Israel's actions, they will set a dangerous precedent that threatens the soldiers and public figures of any democracy fighting criminal terrorism and dangerous aggression." he said.
Who speaks for America?
I want to recommend the following article by an Italian diplomat. It expresses well the political and legal divided which is leading the Neocon American Empire to go to war to subjugate the entire world. This is at bottom nothing but imperial hubris and will to raw power with no concern for consequences—all or nothing.
Washington has lost touch with reality. If it doesn't adapt, the world will pay
In a failing quest to maintain its 'primacy', the US has cast China, Russia and Iran as global villains
The occasion for the article is the US intelligence community’s annual threat assessment. Bear in mind that this threat assessment is the basis for the intel briefing that convinced little Mikey Johnson to turn the US political system inside out, and from which he emerged to define the latest “Axis of Evil”: Russia, China, and Iran. The author focuses on the difference between the rule of law in international affairs and the openly proclaimed—by the US intel community—”US primacy”—i.e., hegemony, rule—over the entire world.
The report’s foreword provides a clear sense of this community’s dystopian and self-referential thinking: …
It continues: “An ambitious but anxious China, a confrontational Russia, some regional powers, such as Iran, and more capable non-state actors are challenging longstanding rules of the international system as well as U.S. primacy within it.”
Iran, Russia and China are thus the main villains for allegedly challenging longstanding rules of the international system. No surprises here; this has been a US policy mantra for years.
The problem, rather, is that it is not clear to which rules the report is referring: the customary international law enshrined in the UN Charter and UN conventions, or the so-called US-led rules-based world order. ...
International law and the UN Charter are the pillars of the global order built after the Second World War, to which the US provided an outstanding contribution. Conversely, the US-led rules-based international system is a more recent evolution of American political thinking: a self-referential mindset twisted to the interests of Washington and its allies.
This order is based on neoliberal ideology and imbued with double standards, of which the tragedy unfolding in Gaza is the latest and most visible example.
Based on a series of assumptions, such as US exceptionalism …, this system … assumes a set of values and connected rules, but is quite careful not to implement them when they collide with its own interests. This order can be summarised by an informal motto: “For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”
Challenging US hegemony
Unsurprisingly, the report from the US intelligence community blames China, Russia and Iran, along with a handful of non-state actors (including Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Palestine and the Houthis in Yemen) for challenging not only the rules of the international system, but above all, US “primacy within it”.
It seems that the real crime is not challenging the system itself, but rather US hegemony. Yet, while such a preposterous position could still have been accepted a few years ago, it is now openly challenged - or at least resented - by many countries across the so-called Global South.
And there’s more. This is the conceptual framework within which to situate the declaration of war against China by Blinken—issued in Beijing today. US hegemony is maintained through King Dollar as the world’s reserve currency. If BRICS expands the dollar faces disaster, because there will be no way for the US to force the rest of the world to accept its debt. Recall from yesterday:
Russia and China must be subjugated or the inflation/debt based Neocon American Empire will collapse. Make no mistake. This means war. You and I didn’t ask for it. This is the Neocons.
Alex Christoforou @AXChristoforou
Blinken threatens China while in China. You couldn't wait until you returned home? Rude.
By the way, we know that sanctioning China has nothing to do with Russia or Ukraine. This is about preventing China's rise and stopping the dollar's demise (which was caused, not by China, but by endless money printing and USD weaponization).
To show the arrogance of what occurred:
Megatron @Megatron_ron
BREAKING:  Blinken threatened China in a press conference after meeting with Xi Jinping with SANCTIONS for helping Russia
He also accused Russia of killing children after the US fully armed and supported Israel in the largest genocide since World War II
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The United States is ready to take new measures and impose sanctions against China against the backdrop of the situation in Ukraine - Blinken said this after negotiations with Xi Jinping
He threatened that if Beijing does not take measures to [end] support Moscow, Washington will do it.
Of course, as the two Alexes at The Duran point out, if China buckles on this they’re on the slippery slope to serfdom to the Neocon American Empire. The demands will keep coming.
Signs are that the Chinese will refuse to kiss Neocon ass:
Megatron @Megatron_ron
BREAKING:
 China has rejected the US request to suspend the purchase of Iranian oil
Today, a record 16 million barrels of Iranian crude oil, worth 1.4 billion dollars destined for China, was spotted by satellites
@IranObserver0
Mega Geopolitics @MegaGeopolitics
JUST IN:   China has invited Hamas and Fatah leaders to visit the country to discuss about the conflict with Israel
The road to November looks increasingly rough. LE unleashed on peaceful Americans at the demand of a genocidal war criminal. The economy looking shakier all the time. And our rulers leading the nation deeper into global war. Events appear to be snowballing.
I wonder why speaker Johnson is trying to do anything on the protest issue. Ace excruciated him in it, basically saying don’t interfere in the Democrats civil war.
In Riverside Ca I have seen pro Palestinian protests a couple of nights during rush hour. 20-30 people. Strange location, just south of the mission inn and about 2 miles from UC Riverside.
The Riverside protesters looked non paid, and actually believe in the issue. My guess is about half are middle eastern UCR students.
That tweet about Occupy Wall St. leading to the woke Wall St. agenda is from this article from last year that Tucker Carlson talked about: https://medium.com/@pamho/the-new-progressive-world-order-or-rage-against-the-deux-ex-machina-983e73905f9b