Thoughts on Legacy Media and War. (Opinion)

 

If you have studied war to any extent, propaganda from all sides to a conflict is relentless. The common citizen, no matter what “side” they’re on, is left with the task of discerning the veracity of the information they receive. One can be certain that what is currently called “legacy” media broadcast false information, biased points of view or those sticky half-truths where the tools of critical thinking must come into play. The problem is your everyday working stiff doesn’t have the time or energy to seek out alternative and independent media to sort out the truth from the lies. Instead, they rely on mainstream ‘talking heads’ on the six o'clock news for their information. This is unfortunate because these outlets are state propaganda machines, stenographers for the establishment, and can never be trusted. It has only been a week since the US/Israel attacked Iran and Iran’s justified response, and the lies are non-stop.  

The biggest lie came out right from the start: Iran attacked Israel and Israel had no choice but to defend itself. The mainstream outlets stated this falsehood within the first few hours. However, as time passed, this lie could not be substantiated and the truth prevailed. This wasn’t a mistake. This was a brazen attempt to control the narrative and posit Iran as the invading force.  

Since this war began, it has been difficult to keep up with the barrage of information thrown at the public. On can be assured that we will only see one side of the war, that is the US taking one win after another, revealing the enemy is losing. Minimum loss on our side and maximum deaths on the other. Currently we now have somewhat “free” internet. From certain platforms we can see that death and destruction is happening on both sides, particularly in Israel, where the devastation is substantial.  

One of the first war crimes committed within a day of the conflict was the intentional bombing of an Iranian elementary girl’s school, killing over 150 children. This was not reported by any mainstream outlet and only became known because of independent sources on the ground. Of course, government sources denied the atrocity but was later confirmed to be a fact. My point is we would never have heard of this war crime if we only relied on legacy media.  

All governments lie. There is no legitimate reason why this US/Israel vs. Iran war started in the first place. It is astounding to witness our current leaders in the west twisting themselves into knots to explain this major conflict. Today in fact, certain US lawmakers, it’s reported, attended a classified briefing on the war. They went into the meeting with questions and left the meeting with many more. One of the more troubling points these politicians made is that there is no end game. There is no stated goal for the war. It seems these demented neocons are just blowing shit up, killing innocent people and waiting to see what happens! So, if our leaders don’t have a clue, our mainstream media will just start making stuff up to continue to manufacture consent for the war.  

These people are laughably incompetent.  

Bukowski – Tales of Ordinary Madness – Comment

 One commentator describes Bukowski as the “godfather of low-life literature”. The man’s writing certainly delves into the realities of alcoholism, skid row antics, the act of writing, and unpleasant sexual exploits that at times are difficult to read. One wonders where the man has time to write at all considering the amount of alcohol he consumed daily. In many stories he awakes hung over and sick, sleeping in the afternoon, rising with his signature disgust with humankind.  

The man’s output as a writer is quite extraordinary. Thousands of poems, short stories, and several novels published. This doesn’t include the work that never arrived at the printer. In a few of his books, he describes his process of grabbing a bottle of wine, and sitting alone with his typewriter, listening to Mahler and Beethoven on the radio, banging away into the early morning.  

Tales of Ordinary Madness is a collection of short stories that combines the experiences of a drunken gambler, a sex fiend, and musings on Kant, great classical music from the 18th century, and critiques on contemporary writers like Hemingway, Norman Mailer and Ginsberg. He’s the bum in some ally in LA, with vomit on his torn coat, a bottle in his hand, thinking deeply about society, and life’s true meaning.  

There are a few stories in the collection that this reader found exceptionally intense.  

One of the more original and moving stories must be Animal Crackers in my Soup. The protagonist is coming off a bender and walking aimlessly through an unknown town. He’s at the point of collapse, dying of thirst, and randomly knocks on the door of a house. A woman answers and invites him in, giving him water and later a few meals and a bed to sleep in. The man discovers that the woman owns several wild animals: a tiger, monkeys, a baboon, birds and a variety of snakes. All the animals are housebroken, docile and love the woman. He calls the place a “liberated zoo.” The man develops a relationship with the animal/woman and ends up moving in. There’s something mystical about this growing relationship. The woman becomes pregnant, and later, a violent crime occurs in the home. The ending of the tale is the ultimate tragedy. As a reader of Bukowski, this story was unexpected.  

As a reader of this author, he never disappoints because of his skill for realism and absolute honesty. There is no writer today who is quite like him. A master of the down and dirty with flashes of the sublime.  

It’s now Become a Spiritual Battle Between Good and Evil.

Opinion.  

The other day on social media, a person I follow, and respect posted that opening his phone in the morning has become an act of courage because the news around the planet has become so dark, so shocking, that he was thinking of leaving the internet altogether. This sentiment is easy to relate to, as it is for many people around the planet. This action of covering one's eyes and ears to these horrors is never a solution. Remaining informed and vigilant is now a matter of survival. 

The US has always been at war. As a young man during the Vietnam war, joining my first antiwar protest, and later following the regime change debacles in Latin America, Southeast Asia, Iraq, Syria, and beyond, the propaganda that the US was the world’s savior for democracy and freedom, had become obviously false. All these wars are started on false premises. One can boil it down to world hegemony and economics. What is astonishing is that many people continue to believe in the “freedom and democracy” nonsense. These people must either be brainwashed or push the war agenda for personal/political gain.  

The western alliance of democratic countries, who once pushed the “spreading peace and democracy” rubbish, murdering innocents in developing countries to establish dominance and control over (steal) their resources, are currently using the exact fascist tactics on their own people.  

A *blowback* of oppressive strategies overseas, that is busting down doors in neighborhoods of innocent noncombatants, or shooting them in the streets, has come full circle in the suburbs of America. ICE is the new Brown Shirts of Berlin circa 1930s.This blowback also takes the form of extreme censorship, where citizens are jailed for their political views. We see this in western Europe. Journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens are brutally tackled in the street for protesting the slaughter in Gaza. They are jailed for their political views. We are seeing violent authoritarianism writ large.  

My current home in Australia have passed “hate speech laws” prodded by the Bondi Beach terrorist attack last month. From a cursory glance, these new laws are quite vague. Though digging a little deeper, they’re draconian and without legal recourse. Censorship is *the* tool for authoritarian governments.  

Why and who are responsible for this violence and censorship crackdown across western countries? An educated guess would be two-fold: Billionaires and corporations are losing control of the narrative. This small *elite cable* must maintain control and dominance to further their profits and position at the top of the food chain. Secondly, Zionism has spread their parasitic tentacles across the planet. Elected governments, despite Israel’s genocide in Gaza, support this mass slaughter. We see our leaders dropping to their knees and licking the blood-soaked boots of Israel. There is a reason for this slavish behavior, and it goes beyond mere politics.  

Recently, the US Department of Justice dropped a massive collection of Epstein Files. Included in this dump reveals an international pedophile/human trafficking enterprise. Children are being raped, tortured and murdered for personal gratification. Those responsible are our political leaders, high profile scientists, the billionaire class, Hollywood celebrities, and respected writers and academics. Once thought of as a stupid conspiracy, we discover the glaring under current of this vile practice is the Israeli government and our own intelligence communities. Even more outrageous, the black arts are practiced in the form of satanism and the worship of the Old Testament demon, Bael. This is not only a political problem but a spiritual battle against the forces of evil. When you see the murder of children on a massive scale in Gaza, and people bragging about it in gleeful terms, stating that they shoot kids in the head for sport, you realize that this is not only a mental abnormality but a deep spiritual sickness.  

These high profile and powerful individuals revealed in the Epstein files, all appear to actually follow the dark arts, practicing satanic rituals, sacrificing the innocent and celebrating death. The term “selling your soul to Satan” turns out not to be a metaphor for choosing evil, but a real exchange for power, money and success.  

We witness the slaughter of innocents in Gaza, and those in power want to censor us, criminalize us, and remove us from the public square. Israel is committing the ultimate crime against humanity, and their erasing journalists and murdering children, including dozens of medical staff. in the most horrific of methods, and these soulless vessels order us to be silent.   

Again, this goes beyond mere politics, but in the realm of the spiritual, a battle against the forces of darkness.  

The warmongers are central to this darkness. These freaks make billions selling weapons to murder populations. Our intelligence agencies have never been a force for good, but topple governments around the planet, deal drugs on a grand scale, and gaslight us with stupid propaganda.  

The most disturbing aspect of all this is that most or all our politicians and their media are all part of it. The legacy media is still trying to gaslight us or remain silent.  

At this stage what can we as real human beings do about this?  

Frankly, from what has been revealed thus far, commenting, writing and speaking out against this cabal of rot, is the best we can do for now. Real actional solutions will come.  

The best now is to follow Jesus Christ’s proclamation: 

“Get thee behind me, Satan!”