Post-Christmas Doomscrolling
Where Good Vibes Go to Die
Welcome to the first post-Nativity edition of dismal dispatches from the Precarium, where our political, economic and cultural leaders continue to educate us in the wane of the world:
TEACHING YOU THE FEAR
Take one black man, sitting on his own front porch
Snipers on the roof of a church, looking through their scopes
Take one black man, sitting on his own front poarch
Snipers on the roof of a church, peeking through their scopes
Teaching you the fear!
Take one chicano, with his hands cuffed behind his back
Beat him bout the head, let him know where he’s at (he’s in Texas!)
Take one chicano, with his hands cuffed behind his back
Toss him in the bayou, watch him sink like a rat
Teaching you the fear!Try to love another man, get yourself shot dead
Put you up against a wall, with a pistol to the back of your head
Try to love another man, one shot you’re dead
Teaching you the fear!Divide and conquer, well that’s an old old game
Divide and conquer, being used again and again
Hate the n******, hate the c****s, hate the jews
Upper class, lower class
Hate the punks, hate the hippies, hate the cops
Upper class, lower class, MIDDLE CLASS!
Teaching you the fear!
“Teaching You the Fear” is a song by Really Red. It is track #4 from the album Teaching You the Fear that was released in 1981. The duration of this song is 03:15.
Friday on Antiwar.com
Today’s daily podcast with news editor Dave DeCamp summarizing today’s news at Antiwar.com.
News
- US-Funded Group Removes Gaza Famine Report
- Israeli Strikes in Gaza Kill 5 Journalists and 5 Hospital Workers
- Four Babies Die From Hypothermia in Gaza
- Israel Builds a ‘Beachside Resort’ in Gaza for IDF Soldiers
- Israel Loosened Rules To Bomb Hamas, Killing Many More Civilians
- Israeli Airstrikes Hit Yemen, Killing at Least 4
- Israeli Army Moves Deeper Into Southern Lebanon
- Israeli Forces Fire on Syrians Near Golan Heights, Injuring Five
- US Launches Airstrike in Somalia, 2 Killed
- Biden Orders ‘Surge’ of Weapons to Ukraine
- HTS Names UN-Designated ‘Terrorist’ as Intel Chief
- US-Backed Afghan Militias Were Worse Than the Taliban
Viewpoints
- Greg Mitchell on Christmas Here — and in Nagasaki, 1945
- Thomas Knapp on A Man, a (Bad) Plan, a Canal, and Panama
- Dan Grazier on a ‘Flop’: F-35 Proponents Can’t Tell You That It Work
- Nuvpreet Kalra & Tim Biondo: OpenAI Is Using Its Technology To Kill
- Bruce Fein: TikTok Ban Sacrifices Free Speech in Name of National Security
- Norman Solomon says Now It Can Be Told… After All the Harm Has Been Done
- Ted Snider interview: Overwhelming Evidence of US Pushing Ukraine Into War With Russia
- Adam Dick on Righty Tighty: A Simple Way Donald Trump Can End the Ukraine and Israel Wars
- Ramzy Baroud says The World Owes Palestine This Much — Please Stop Censoring Palestinian Voices
- and much more
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Democracy Now! Daily Digest
A Daily Independent Global News Hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González
Thursday, December 26, 2024
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DECEMBER 25, 2024
The West Bank’s Men of the CIA — Why is the PA Killing Palestinians in Jenin?
RAMZY BAROUD
To say that the PA has betrayed Palestinians, however, is an inaccurate statement. The PA was never set up, financed and armed by the US and Israel as a force of liberation, but as an obstacle to Palestinian freedom. We are witnessing the final proof of this claim. It is taking place in Jenin now; in fact, throughout the West Bank.
DECEMBER 25, 2024
Raise a Glass With William Hazlitt!
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
“…But, as a vital, compelling, creative force in American political life, the left is dead and gone, many of its erstwhile or potential members lost in the new Age of Superstition, fretful captives in the thickets of kookdom, whether in the form of 9/11 conspiracism — au revoir Cindy Sheehan! — or gazing aghast at Michael Mann’s bogus hockey-stick graph instead of improving their minds and political potential by reading the Eighteenth Brumaire. What a grim and revealing irony that it was the Medieval Warm Period — which Al Gore and the IPCC have sought to purge from natural history — that gave birth to some of the most glorious chapters in human intellectual and artistic achievement!”
DECEMBER 25, 2024
The Massacre of the Innocents Goes On
RAOUF HALABY
In some ways circumstances in Palestine some two-thousand years ago were no different from what they are today. Palestine was a Roman colony, and as such, the colonizers ruled with a brutal iron fist and exacted hefty taxes. After the Roman Senate declared Herod King of Judea (a vassal king to impose Pax Romana), his paranoiac affliction and ruthlessness inflicted misery on the people of Palestine, Jews and others alike. Fearing that the birth of Jesus, the promised Messiah, would eventually depose him, he ordered the murder of some three thousand innocent children in Bethlehem and environs. In first century Palestine violence and executions, taxation without representation, human rights violations, segregation, slavery, exploitation, xenophobia, expulsion, and the confiscation of personal and communal properties were the norm in a society that demeaned and deprecated its indigenous non-Jewish populations.
Syria’s future will be determined by contending domestic factions and surrounding states like Turkey, which have far more at stake than America.
THE SACRED
Paul Kingsnorth on environmentalism and concerns about technological authoritarianism | The Sacred
Paul is an award winning novelist and essaying, currently best known for his Substack — The Abbey of Misrule.
He spoke about his deep environmental commitments, his conversion to the Orthodox Church and his concerns about authoritarianism brought about through technological expansion.
Read the full transcript here: https://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/comm...
About this scroll’s artist…
REALLY RED
Hey! I’m also open to hearing from you, pro or con. Or if you’d just like to say “hello.” I can be reached here: jjankow63@gmail.com
Thanks for bothering!
