> Silence over one atrocity serves to legitimize all those that came before and those that follow. After Israel got away with bombing its first hospital in Gaza, it knew it could get away unscathed with bombing all hospitals and clinics in Gaza. And it did.
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> The rules of war are set by the winner. What will the new rules look like after Gaza, where what was once forbidden became standard operating procedure?
> what needs to be explained is the inexplicable. What needs to be explicated is the silence in the face of horror.
> Israel has been brazenly upfront about its plans to subdue Gaza, depopulate it of Palestinians, and seize the Strip for itself.
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#JeffreyStClair #GazaGenocide #RuleOfWar #WesterValues #UnWorthyVictims ...
When the Dead Speak and the Living Refuse to Listen - CounterPunch.org
In this time of silence, many of the words that are spoken have lost all meaning. In fact, their meaning has been inverted, twisted inside out.Jeffrey St. Clair (CounterPunch.org)
Phoniness Agitation
> ... fascist agitation has by now come to be a profession, as it were, a livelihood. It had plenty of time to test the effectiveness of its various appeals, and through what might be called natural selection, only the most catchy ones have survived. Their effectiveness is itself a function of the psychology of the consumers....
> .. the surviving appeals have been standardized, similarly to the advertising slogans, which proved to be most valuable in the promotion of business. This standardization, in turn, falls in line with stereotypical thinking, that is to say, with the “stereopathy” of those susceptible to this propaganda and their infantile wish for endless, unaltered repetition.
> ... their very “phoniness” may have been relished cynically and sadistically as an index for the fact that power alone decided one’s fate in the Third Reich, that is, power unhampered by rational objectivity.
- counterpunch.org/2025/04/11/wh…
#TheodorAdorno via #JefferyStClair #FascistAgitation #PhoninessApeal
Roaming Charges: Who Shot the Tariffs? - CounterPunch.org
The contradictions of life in late-capitalist America under Trump: Most Americans want the return of manufacturing jobs to the US, as long as they don't have to work them.Jeffrey St. Clair (CounterPunch.org)
For international friends of Berlin, here's a good overview what you'll see when you visit. Stucco everywhere, and stucco removed everywhere.
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