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Boguslawa El Cheikh's avatar

The masks are completely off. Order understand by our western “democracy” is shut up and do as ordered.

Btw in Georgia they want to have a law preventing political parties from taking money from foreign governments, what is completely understandable. If you take money from foreign government then they become your master. We see it clearly with USA and Israel.

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Andy Vantino's avatar

"But ‘civil society’ used to be a key concept for projecting Western soft power by, in essence, subversion and manipulation". 📢👏🏻

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

There must be an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Pope Francis has said what is needed, now he must do what is needed by going to Gaza and standing for peace, justice and freedom.

Please sign the petition and share widely.

https://chng.it/CRQ7qw4Gzn

Code pink

https://www.codepink.org/cnngaza?utm_campaign=12_15_pali_update_alert_3&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink

Let us also support UNRWA. If our governments won’t act in accordance with humanity, then we will. https://www.unrwausa.org/donate Let us do it to honor Aaron Bushnell, or in memory of Hind Rajab.

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Alan Scott's avatar

But don't hold your breath waiting for the Catholic Church hierarchy to speak out against corporate USA.

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cameron jones's avatar

Thomas Paine "Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness possitively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or

are exposed to the same miseries by a Government, which we might expect in a country without Government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer."

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Susan T's avatar

If you have time to listen to this book, Farenheit 451, it is creepily similar to much of what is happening today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG5QixsoPok

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Alan Scott's avatar

Douglas Adams is more specific, and more up-to-date: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(novel)

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Jim KABLE's avatar

Just four-and-a-half years ago (immediately pre-Covid) I was in Georgia - with a tour group - Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia. A beautiful and very historic part of the world - with three complex and ancient countries in close proximity - a secular Islamic state founded upon even older Zoroastrianism (Azerbaijan) in regular border areas conflict with Apostolic Christian Armenia (i.e. from the first century CE) and amazing Georgia - from its Azerbaijan crossing to almost within sight of the Black Sea - with an amazing guide - a Church cantor, pop/rock singer, deeply knowledgeable about his country - its wines, its cultural expression, its history and its towering landscape. Along the way I noted some foreigners and a ceremony handing over a tractor? Something to do with the EU? Or some NGO personnel. US NGO involvement is generally a negative signal for any independent small player country I have come to believe. But apart from some Russian border unease (with some parts of Georgia annexed by the Russians in earlier conflicts - Georgia struck me as remarkably calm and peaceful. To discover that Georgia is now undergoing US destabilisation is distressing...

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Lê Thanh Trúc's avatar

I only wish that dissidents would use some better metaphor than psychosis or schizophrenia to describe the behaviour of Israel and the West. I've experienced psychosis. Psychosis is unusual beliefs and behaviour for the individual. What Israel and the West is doing is not at all unusual for them.

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Alan Scott's avatar

Blatant hypocrisy is all you can say. The good news is, more people inside and outside the USA are realising the truth about their evil empire. Cracks are appearing in EU and NATO "unity" - first Hungary and now Slovakia speaking out.

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