We really living in the new ear of McCartyism, but in a much more fucked up situation where people who just asking to stop the genocide are the ones getting punished.
The Shock Doctrine vividly shows how disaster capitalism โ the rapid-fire corporate reengineering of societies still reeling from shock.
The book traces its origins back fifty years, to the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman, which produced many of the leading neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinkers whose influence is still profound in Washington today. New, surprising connections are drawn between economic policy, โshock and aweโ warfare and covert CIA-funded experiments in electroshock and sensory deprivation in the 1950s, research that helped write the torture manuals used today in Guantanamo Bay.
The Shock Doctrine follows the application of these ideas through our contemporary history, showing in riveting detail how well-known events of the recent past have been deliberate, active theatres for the shock doctrine, among them: Pinochetโs coup in Chile in 1973, the Falklands War in 1982, the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Asian Financial crisis in 1997 and Hurricane Mitch in 1998.
Poor IDF can't slaughter Palestinians with free hand from a distance as they are used to and blaming Netanyahu for their diaper army facing resistance.
As Infested Flour Becomes a Staple, State Dept โStill Assessingโ Israelโs Aid Restrictions to Gaza
โ This is the most difficult period I have endured since Israelโs genocidal war on Gaza began last year. Everyone is so hungry.
Over the past week, my family and I have resorted to eating canned pet food mixed with poor-quality rice that feels like chewing plastic. We live in Deir al-Balah, and like everywhere else in Gaza, there is nothing to buy in the markets. We typically eat one meal a day, usually some canned food along with olive oil and zaโatar. To bake bread, we have to use bug-infested flour. Some days, when we are unable to find anything else, we are forced to pay absurd prices for vegetables that are rotten. I have severe stomach pains. I would rather fast than eat this.โฆ..โ
What do you call a country that haa been the lifeline for the Israeli government since October 7, and long before that?
What do you call a country that gladly allows Israeli fighter jets using it's airspace to bomb Syria, Iraq and Iran, but protects Israel from Resistance drones and Iranian missiles?
Not to forget that they put people in prison for exposing their "cooperation" with the Israelis?
You can take your moral high grounds and shove it where sun doesn't shine.
After 13 months of genocide, after 18000 children murdered and twice as many lost at least a limb, I have 0 tolerance for people who pretend the BS of these hypocrite genocide enablers has any value other than pleasing gullible hypocrites like you
Slowly moving from faab64@venera.social that seems to have died out. I post anti genocide posts a lot, not putting alt text on every image and curse a lot. If that's not okay with you, don't follow me.