Eyes Left podcast: A Guide to Getting Out of the US Military (Now) w/ the GI Rights Hotline

It’s much easier than the Pentagon wants you to think. Whether you’re in the military or know someone who is, this is the definitive guide to walking away. And as Biden’s support for genocide spins out into new US wars across the Middle East, from the Red Sea to Iraq, now would be a good time to walk away.

Featuring special guest Maria Santelli, longtime counselor with the GI Rights Hotline, which provides secure, free and expert support to any service member who wants to leave the military.

CALL the hotline anytime at 1-877-447-4487 for advice, or visit them online at https://girightshotline.org/

Maria is Executive Director of the Center on Conscience and War: https://centeronconscience.org/ GI Rights Hotline

I don’t know the state of things now, but a few days ago Iran had severed its internet due to cyberattacks related to the war.

I think the author’s intent was for 1984 to be read as anticommunist propaganda.

Previously:

Orwell was often disparaging the Soviet Union.

He was also a racist, antisemitic, homophobic, backstabbing snitch: Orwell’s list.

He was also an imperial enforcer in British-occupied Burma. “I loved Burma and the Burman and have no regrets that I spent the best years of my life in the Burma police.”

Animal Farm was Cold War agitprop, which the CIA airdropped on eastern Europe, and they made it into an animated film that you may have seen. The CIA funded the film adaptation of 1984 as well.

More receipts here.

Zeroth of all, this is Lemmy, not Mastodon; followers aren’t a thing here. And first of all, follower-shaming is cringe.

Not only does Pakistan have weapons to reach Israel, it has nuclear weapons to reach it.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaheen-III

Also, Pakistan borders Iran, which means together they could move such weapons much closer to Israel.

Power aside, Iran is also a major exporter in nuclear medicine & medical equipment.

Ali was a pretty smart cookie. Muhammad Ali’s one regret: turning his back on Malcolm X

I’m not stabbing this man, I’m stabbing this man’s liver.

They should put a sign on the door “MASTER RACE ONLY.”

Edit to add: I wonder what bombing protections “second-class” Jews have, meaning Mizrahis, Ethiopians, etc.

Iran’s stockpile is still within the bounds allowed under the nonproliferation treaty that Iran, the US, and all but five UN states are party to. And given what the US and Israel have been up to in West & Central Asia over the last 23 years, why wouldn’t that public taboo have been broken?

General Wesley Clark 📺 “7 countries in 5 years”: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Iran

Tell me you learned nothing from the Iraq War without telling me you learned nothing from the Iraq War.

Chris Hedges: War Deja Vu | The lies told to ignite the war with Iraq have been resurrected to ignite a war with Iran. The assessments of intelligence agencies and international bodies are dismissed, replaced by hallucinations.

Despite Western war propaganda to the contrary, Russia doesn’t presently have expansionist ambitions. Previously. Previously. Previously.

What do propose the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran should do about it?

The whole class of “yeah well what are you doing about it” rebuttals are non sequiturs. They’re BS arguments thrown when you don’t actually have an argument, but feel the need to express one anyway.

The reason that our media have incessantly repeated Iran-backed this, Iran-controlled that for decades is to convince us that Iran is the big bad guy behind the small bad guys terrorizing good guy Israel.

By now it should be obvious that Israel never was the good guy. Israel is a US-backed genocidal, fascist, settler-colonial state seeking Lebensraum for a Greater Israel. And the supposed “bad guys” have just been trying to survive under threat the of the small imperialist state, Israel, a state which only exists thanks to significant, continued support from the big imperialist state, the US.

General Wesley Clark 📺 “7 countries in 5 years”: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Iran

That is why Iran accurately, metaphorically calls the US the “Great Satan” and Israel the “Small Satan”.

No, they didn’t. The Did you learn nothing from the Iraq War?

Many such cases.

Hitting nuclear facilities with conventional weapons is just dirty bombs with extra steps. These attacks are a number of international high crimes, including the nonproliferation treaty.

Imperialism and anti-imperialism are exactly the same. You fool. You absolute buffoon.