WHY WE MUSTN'T FEAR THE FOREVER-AND-EVER-AND-EVER WARS (WORLD WAR ROUND-UP VOL. 4)
HAS THE WORLD LEARNED NOTHING FROM 9/11?
On September 12th, 2001, Hunter S. Thompson, the greatest journalist of his time, published a column which still sends shivers up my spine.
Twenty-four hours after the Twin Towers fell, the legendary gonzo journalist had already penned these prophetic words:
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for “a very long time.” […]
That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in… The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what’s coming now. The party’s over, folks. […]
The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country.
Make no mistake about it: We are At War now — with somebody — and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.
It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides.
It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy.
Fast forward 21 years, and here we are once again - the state of Israel has been attacked, and Jewish race patriots are behaving predictably. The Stimulus is eliciting the desired Response - calls for revenge, for blood, for the annihilation of the enemy, for the utter destruction of the fanatical, freedom-hating terrorists who dared puncture their Grand Illusion.
In other words, nothing has changed.
Have people learned nothing from the War on Terror?
One wonders where in the hell the people making all the 9/11 comparisons have been for the past 20 years. Did they miss the part where America lost the War on Terror?
Did they not get the memo that trying to bomb an ideology out of existence is a fool’s errand?
Did they fail to take notice that in fighting the boogeyman of “terrorism”, America has not only betrayed everything it once stood for, but has also gone bankrupt in the process?
Has it escaped their attention that the U.S. Empire is teetering on the brink of civilizational collapse?
Have people really still not figured out that the “Plan for a New American Century” has been a colossal failure?
PRIDE COMES BEFORE A FALL
If you ask me, the Americans got drunk on their own Kool-Aid. There was a moment when the neocons felt invincible. There was a time when they believed themselves omnipotent. As the world’s only superpower, the planet was putty in their hands.
Karl Rove even said so, displaying hubris that the ancients would surely have recognized as a severe mental illness.
He said:
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
See what I mean? Hubris is a constant risk for people in power. The Romans knew this, and had customs to keep it in check, but in the end it got the best of them too.
Even now, it seems that America is unwilling to look itself in the mirror, and is too attached to a false image of itself to adapt itself to the new reality.
It seems likely that Israelis will repeat the same mistakes the Americans made, and that disaster will result.
One really has to wonder what reality Israelis think they are are living in. Jews comprise less than 0.3% of the world’s population, yet they seem to think they can take on the world. Why?
What causes this delusion? Are they completely unfamiliar with their own history? The Old Testament is the story of the Israelites (and Jews) being levelled for their hubris time and time again, and they have often suffered devastating losses in more recent times as well.
Of course, according to Zionism, they are always faultless victims, and the world hates them because they are Jewish, irrespective of their actions. So long as Jews persist in this belief, they will be doomed to learn the same lesson over and over again. It’s really quite astonishing that they haven’t figured this out yet.
This is part of the danger of indoctrinating a population with nationalist propaganda. At a certain point people start believing their own hype, and end up overplaying their hand.
I could be wrong, but this certainly seems to be what’s going on.
CJ HOPKINS ON ISRAEL’S 9/11
Thankfully, some people get it. One of them is the inimitable CJ Hopkins, the greatest satirist of our times.
In a recent piece entitled Israel’s 9/11, he shares a moving account of his memories of being in New York City on September 11th, 2001, and his despair at the state of the world.
Sorry, but I’ve seen this movie before.
I saw it in New York in 2001.
On the afternoon of September 11, I stood among the crowd on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and watched what was left of the Twin Towers burn. Walking home as the sun was setting, it appeared to be snowing. It wasn’t snowing. The snowflakes were bits and pieces of paper, burnt ginger orange and rust brown around the edges, which the wind had carried across the East River, contracts, memos, actuarial tables, pages torn out of trashy paperback books, scribbled notes, pink telephone messages, the children’s drawings and affirmations that adorn the colorless upholstered walls of corporate cubicles throughout America.
It was snowing relics, the hideous detritus of thousands of people’s mundane lives.
America had been attacked. It was time to come together as Americans, to put aside our political differences, to rally around the flag, and the president, and go and kill a whole lot of people who had absolutely nothing to do with it.
You might be too young to remember that time. I remember it vividly. I remember it in detail. I remember how the nation “came together.” I remember how the Western world “stood with America.” I remember how we declared a “Global War on Terror,” how we “took the gloves off,” both at home and abroad, how the government and the media whipped the public up into a bloodthirsty, jingoistic frenzy. I remember being called a “traitor,” a “Saddam apologist,” a “terrorist sympathizer,” because I wouldn’t wave the flag, and “stand with America,” and get on board with murdering hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children.
So, forgive me if what follows seems a bit cold. As I said, I’ve seen this movie before.
So have I, and it sucks. Zero stars.
He goes on:
I am not going to condemn the Hamas attack, as hideous as I think it was. I do not condemn things on command, or perform any other kind of tricks on command. If that’s what you’re looking for, get a dog.
That said, I am not going to call the Hamas attack “resistance” or try to justify it. I refuse to justify mass murder. If you’re OK with mass murdering civilians for your cause … OK, but own it. Call it what it is. And spare me the “legitimate resistance” bullshit.
Same goes for Israel. If you “stand with Israel” as it murders civilians, fine. Own it. Give me a break with the “Israel has the right to defend itself” bullshit, and own it.
Whatever “side” of this conflict you are on, at least have the integrity to call things what they are.
Here is what things are, in a nutshell.
Israel is a nation-state. It is doing what a lot of nation-states have done throughout the history of nation-states. It is wiping out, or otherwise removing, the indigenous population of the territory it has conquered. It has been doing this for 75 years. The indigenous population, i.e., the Palestinians, have been trying not to get completely wiped out, or otherwise removed from their indigenous territory, and lashing out at Israel in a variety of ways (i.e., from throwing stones to committing mass murder).
That is what is happening. The rest is PR. Public relations. Propaganda.
It would be hard to argue with his logic, though I’m sure some people will try.
What else can one really say at this point? Peace is simply not on the horizon. We can hope and we can pray for peace, but we can’t deny the reality of the crisis that is now upon us.
This is WWIII, and it’s not going to be over quickly. And there’s no guarantee that either America or Israel will emerge victorious. If I’m being totally honest, I think the odds are against it.
Think about it. How can Israel win a war with Iran? They can’t launch a ground invasion of Iran and they know it. Do they expect the U.S. to do all their dirty work for them? Because that’s a lot to ask at the best of times, and these definitely aren’t the best of times for Uncle Sam.
But who knows? According to the Bible, the Antichrist will rule from Jerusalem. Maybe it’s true.
I’m not going to base my political analysis solely on ancient prophecy, though. I’m going to do my best to be as level-headed as possible.
And on that note, I’d like to drive one point home, which should have been one of the main takeaways from the War on Terror:
YOU CAN’T WIN A WAR WITH NO FRONT LINES AND NO IDENTIFIABLE ENEMY.
What you get when you try to do that is what RFK calls “Forever Wars”.
If you ask me, Israel’s latest campaign against Gaza seems to be a recipe for more and more Forever Wars.
If before we had Forever Wars, now we’ll have Forever-and-Ever-and-Ever Wars. Either that or Israel loses.
Seems like no one on Substack wants to think about that.
ARE THE FOREVER-AND-EVER WARS DESIGNED TO BE NEVER-ENDING?
Now, many people think that the Great Reset is meant to bring in the One World Government long envisioned by the globalists.
These people will point to past examples of the use of the “strategy of tension” - the tactics by which the ruling class pits people against each other by sponsoring sectarian violence to drive people into the arms of the state.
This is very possible, and Nevermore will explore this possibility in the coming days.
Others believe that there already IS a de facto one-world government, and that the rulers of the world artificially keep us pitted against each other, using the age-old empire-building strategy of “divide-and-conquer”.
I’m not so sure. I tend to reject any conspiracy theories that promote the existence of “ONE BIG CONSPIRACY”. I agree with Robert Anton Wilson that it is much more likely that “a multitude of conspiracies compete in the night”.
DON’T BE SCARED, BE PREPARED FOR THE WORST
Personally, I am an optimist. I’m also a man of faith. I believe that good will ultimately triumph over evil. But I also believe in Divine Justice - that people ultimately get what they deserve.
I believe that America’s karma is coming due, and so is Israel’s. And it’s not going to be pretty.
From the time I was a child, my father told me that these days were coming. To me it’s clear what’s happening. The American Empire is crumbling before our eyes, and most people seem to be in denial about what that means.
The simplest explanation for this war is that the enemies of Israel see their chance to vanquish their enemy, and are seizing it.
This isn’t necessarily the correct explanation, but it is the simplest.
When all is said and done, and the dust has settled, and the dead have been buried, or else decayed away, I suspect that the moral of the story will be that constantly antagonizing all your neighbours isn’t the best long-term strategy.
Israel should sue for peace, but that would require humility that the current ruling party does not possess.
And once the war machine is activated, it will do what it was built to do - wreak ruin and rain terror upon the enemy, who will respond in kind.
As MLK said:
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
I believe that now is the time to make peace with oneself, and to align oneself with the Will of God.
For a person of faith, there is nothing to fear.
Ultimately, I believe that this reality is an illusion, and that infinite love is the only truth.
By aligning ourselves with truth, we shine light into the dark recesses of our souls, and cast out the demons that dwell within us. When we are aligned with truth, we become vessels through which Spirit can move.
It is of vital importance that we avoid taking the bait of fear, hatred, and righteous rage. We must instead come together, asserting universal love as our basis for unity.
We must not succumb to sectarianism. We must welcome All Our Relations to join the Circle of All Nations.
We must urge Jews around the world not to identify with the Israeli state, nor to allow atrocities to be committed in their names.
We must shine light upon the disgusting tactics used by the Israeli state to brainwash its citizens into thinking that the world wants to murder them simply because they are Jews.
This lie is central to Zionist ideology, and it must be exposed as the falsehood it is.
We must make the case against nationalism, whether that be Zionism or the religious-nationalism of political Islam.
We must recognize that Fear is our greatest foe, and refuse to be afraid.
We must remember that God is merciful, and that with crisis comes opportunity.
HAS THE AGE OF REVOLUTION BEGUN AGAIN?
Historically, revolutions have taken place when the status quo is experiencing a perfect storm of multiple crises - economic, political, and social. In other words, the exact conditions we now face.
The statists have held much of humanity in bondage for thousands of years.
Perhaps now, at long last, we can rise up against them, and put an end to their rule.
Perhaps now, at long last, we can claim the primal freedom which is our birthright.
Perhaps the Age of Revolution has begun again.
Perhaps this time WE SHALL WIN.
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Yes -- except you're forgetting the basis for Zionist arrogance is the belief that Jews are "the chosen people." God must have told them that in some tripped out version of channeling. How about the rest of the long history of tribes and nation-states claiming versions of the same absurdity? The Greek definition of "barbarian" was those who can't speak Greek. In other words, those who were less human than us. Thanks to modern nation-states (the modern nation state only four centuries old!) all of this chosen people noise of whatever nationalist stripe makes your world religion graph beside the point. Because through modern propaganda, vast numbers of people identify with their "homeland," whether it be "America" or China or whatever. They wave flags and go to war with each another for benefit of the uber-capitalists benefiting from "forever wars." And what makes them murder fellow humans? Outmoded nationalism, fake patriotism, criminal ID with nation-states. We have been tricked, not just the US and Israel. See my book Let's Burn the Flags of All Nations for this. The only way out is trusting enough to love one another because we humans "all are one." And watch out for the WEF's usurpation of that phrase. They are phonies under the control of the billionaires running things. And by the way, speaking about "forever wars," RFK Jr is a treasure, sure, without CHD and a lot else he's done we would still be in a deep hole, but his attitude toward Israel stinks. As Cornel West said about his unconditional support of Zionism and dissing of Arab culture, "Bobby must be smoking crack." The orthodox Jews who reject Zionism and the state of Israel have got it right, though of course I wouldn't touch their way of life with a ten foot pole
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