Garland Nixon has another update with Laith Marouf – excellent – containing several news snippets I hadn’t caught.

Among other things, they discuss what’s happening in Haiti and the 2-way flow of expressions of support and solidarity between Haiti and Palestine.

They touch on history, with the European settling of the Americas, and Napoleon’s plan to resettle European Jews in the Middle East, long before today’s Zionism (a cheap copy of age-old European thoughts about Jews) – and make the point that Israel is simply another European tool (with US as an extension of European imperialism and colonialism).

And they touch on Yemen’s promised surprises for Ramadan, already being unveiled. The hour goes fast at 1.6x, and we could use lots more:

MIDDLE EAST IN DEPTH EPISODE 6 – BIDEN’S PORT – RAMADAN 2024

b has a good write-up of this event at Moon of Alabama, and comments say that another such immolation occurred back in December. The media pretty well hushed that one up, but this one has gained traction.

Personally I don’t find it counter-culture. I think such actions were counter-culture for the Vietnamese Buddhist monks – for anyone who does this, anywhere, in fact.

I think the times dictate the culture rather more than the other way around. The times are hard, and stark, in the US. Personally, I’m surprised we haven’t seen any suicide bombers yet, especially with so many young people condemned to rapid death from the jabs.

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I add to others my own feeling of admiration and respect for this man, Aaron Bushnell. He saw his options very limited to make a statement that would count. He chose the best option. His bravery is vastly beyond my own, his selflessness is simply beyond my ken.

May his sacrifice be seen in heaven and his appeal for a free Palestine be heard.

I would like to steal a direct quote from an MoA comment, a remark from the revered Vietnamese monk, Thich Nhat Hanh:

“The self-burning of Vietnamese Buddhist monks… is somehow difficult for Western Christian conscience to understand. The press spoke then of suicide, but in the essence, it is not. It is not even a protest, aimed only at alarming, at moving the hearts of the oppressors. To burn oneself by fire is to prove that what one is saying is of the utmost importance. There is nothing more painful than burning oneself. To say something while experiencing this kind of pain is to say it with utmost courage, frankness, determination, and sincerity.”

–Thich Nhat Hanh, writing to Martin Luther King

Yes, agreed, cut back. And your summaries will be most welcome and  useful, and I hope will give you some heart’s ease to write briefly in your own view.

It seemed very important to bear witness to the tragedy unfolding, but we must also have time to watch the big picture as well, as the class struggle is both local and global, and in the end there is only so much time. I will try to contribute more here too.

Wonderful how generously you’re taking the reins for Amarynth while she is not here. The site is fantastic, filled with substance and reality.

Many thanks.

Thank you.

In the society imagined to exist in decades past (and that some people probably still do so imagine), that study would be blaring front page headlines on every newspaper in the US.

Could Texas Survive as an Independent Nation?

Spoiler: Armstrong says YES.

Three-minute read.

Thanks for that mention – I have her book on my shelf, I should reread it – it’s not that big.

I’ve been thinking about this whole beginning of the project. It’s been a joke to say, “what do you give the man with everything – his own country.”

But I get a sense of the hubris involved here. Imagine a Rothschild, so powerful and from a family history of such great power, deciding to make a country of his own, to own a nation, for his tribe or at least the rich ones to flout all global laws.

An entity created and held by force of arms (by the common folk, of course, on both sides), and covered in deception from even before the start. A lie from beginning to end.

We’re accustomed to think of countries and their rulers with hubris, but the rich families are greater than countries, in their own experience. So the hubris is even greater.

Everything, indeed, is a rich man’s trick.

Excellent link, thank you.

Jeffrey Tucker does a great job of enlarging the context and pinpointing the crucial things, bringing this home to where we live. And I agree that Weinstein (and Tucker Carlson) did a superb job of setting forth the perils and the warnings in exactly the correct and useful place as we face the immediate future.

This interview does indeed point to the ghost in the machine, the agenda working behind all the last four years. A least the battle lines are now clearly drawn: the battlefield stands revealed.

Highly recommend to all.

Nice video from Hezbollah on the Mt. Meron attack – makes me think of “Fool on the Hill”.

AHH, thanks for the unflagging work you’ve been doing here these hundred days – I read it all, don’t often say thanks, but it’s there always.

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Wonderful the report about Yemen and its air force up-thread…stupendous, awe-inspiring…words fail. The future awaits.

And the analysis later on, regarding the thresholds for a wider war, the pain level that needs to be increased, and yet not to disturb the calculated equilibria – a small glimpse into the fine-grained thinking that underlies and accompanies the activities throughout the theater.

Personally, I find nuggets like these cut through the “miasma” 😉