Ever notice that liberals fight leftists but acquiesce to fascists? So did #MichaelParenti.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn_RwIcL7cg

#fascism #capitalism

I just started reading Michael Parenti's 'To Kill a Nation', about the war against and inside of Yugoslavia https://bookrastinating.com/book/482377/s/to-kill-a-nation

6% in, it's breathtakingly sobering. The image from the book is an example of how some murderous bureaucrats view their work, and mainly themselves.

#MichaelParenti #reading #book @bookstodon #Yugoslavia #politics #war #terrorism #NATO

@MindCreatesMeaning
What did Jo say @JoBlakely ' For some reason we can't see their toot.

The Pentagon is where a lot of printed money goes specifically to make other countries worse. Their main goal is to make refugees by selling or giving weapons and debt to extremist factions in a target country.

Have you seen #MichaelParenti's 'War on Yugoslavia' lecture?

#refugeeProducers

@mutter01
An example of a countrtry that had stamped out an illicit trade and with the intervention of the US seems to have revived it. And a host of other problems also.

Don't buy the line that the USA lost in #Afghanistan either, #destabilisation *is* their goal.

There are so many example of #foreignMeddling, interventions, regimeChange etc.

Regrettably #MichaelParenti's War on Yugoslavia speech (1999, 1:17:26) could have been written yesterday.
@augieray

#AmReading #BlackshirtsandReds by #MichaelParenti.

(many hashtags, sorry, but I'm hoping it'll make this thread easier for me to find when I wanna do things like add to it)

It's sad listening to a rundown of the process that melted my parents' capacity for critical thought, but it's certainly all here.

One of the most important things he's stressing so far is the degree to which the people who benefit from fascism do not believe the many images of it they offer to the supporters they need to use (who frequently do).

And so their supporters inherit this kernel of "suffering is good, actually, if nonpeople are the ones doing it" wrapped in the seductive cheese of "a nonperson is whoever I'm not, bc they chose to be Like That and I've chosen to be a person. They wouldn't have issues if they simply also chose to be people, but now They want to turn me into a nonperson too! Like I'm some sort of Them!“ You can tell you've found the cheese when someone is tokenizing. The rest always follows.

(This is, btw, why ableism is everybody's problem. Once you give ideological shelter to the idea that a Malfunctioning Person Unit™️ is not a proper person at all, it's open season on all of us the instant our sacrifice will keep someone else powerful.)

@kazcynski_stan
Holo has the more holistic take.

Find #MichaelParenti's War On Yugoslavia lecture. Then tell us they didn't de-develop the #middleEast that was achieving greater and greater #socialProgress before the #derascination and #controlledDemolition.

If there's one thing we've learned over the past 20 years, bigger weapons don't make you better. They do make countries that use them mentally very hollow.
@Eris @mystik @GrantTK@poa.st @Samhydeigger@poa.st @skylar@poa.st

"We didn't go into Afghanistan to nation-build", says #Biden.

#OREALLY

Try "we went there to #pillage resources, kill hundreds of thousands and produce even more homeless and refugees — setting their development goals generations backward. All so a few fat cats would enrich themselves.

This lecture by Prof. #MichaelParenti could have been given yesterday, it wasn't:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=GEzOgpMWnVs

@seankearney@mastodon.social
Have you seen Prof #MichaelParenti's #WarOnYugoslavia lecture.

The first thing they want are the #television networks.

#oligarchy

#meme #memes #funny #michaelparenti #parenti

The gangs are a bunch of ignorant folk. They could be dealt with in a second but they are the ones who are propped up, and supported by the West.

See #MichaelParenti.

We especially apologise to those people who wasted hours and in some cases, days, of computing power to generate human readable #Tor addresses.

Only to be slapped in the face by developers who seem intent to pass the mantle of human readable afdressing to a "trusted thirdParty".

These people are not playing daft or coy. They know full-well what they are doing.

Tor is actively being #underdeveloped.

See #MichaelParenti on how things are #artificiallyConverted to a #failedState.

#activism

@witchescauldron
The reason we stopped using the hashtag #failbook, is because Facebook is not failing those who it is design to serve, it is completely successful in it purpose to serve the #corporateCabal.

Its not failing them, its failing the people it pretends to be serving relevant content to.

That's why we've switched to using #fakeBook instead

We find it handy to ask, "What is X serving", and go back from there. In the true spirit of the #SocialScience Prof. #MichaelParenti.

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Michael Parenti - Inventing Reality

https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=CHwr2Y7mbhc

More Parenti: http://www.michaelparenti.org

Books: http://www.michaelparenti.org/books.html

Articles: http://www.michaelparenti.org/articles.html

LibGen: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=“michael+parenti”&open=0&res=25&view=simple&phrase=1&column=author

#MichaelParenti #parenti #InventingReality #politics #mass #media #news #msm #press #journalism #newspapers #censorship #corporations #propaganda #capitalism #ideology #democracy #history #lecture #q-a

@ijatz_La_Hojita
Thanks, sounds like an atrocityStory. If even true in entirety, there are atrocities everywhere including in our own country, and perpetrated by us abroad.

#NYtimes are famous for drumming up "#atrocityStories" proven false or misleading for decades. See the #MichaelParenti lecture.

If true and these people want to kill each other and themselves, there's not anything an outsider can do anyway.

Oh wait - stop #weaponsSales to them and their proxies might be a good start.

@kzimmermann
Yes, another term we've heard, used by the great #journalist and #filmmaker, #JohnPilger, is "#CulturalDominance".

He claims that part of the reason for the increase in #militarism and fight over #TechnologicalDominance (see #Huawei) is due to the loss in such #dominance.

#SoftPower is another term we've seen used. "Give us your #television networks," the #CIA said.

(As an aside, today #Australia's #ABCNews interviewed #JohnBolton)

#communityTelevision #MichaelParenti
@alcinnz

@globalviews
Great one! Thanks for sharing.

#NoamChomsky is alright. If you thought that was bad #MichaelParenti goes into more detail on some other aspects here in this speech from the 90s, exploring the #colourRevolution playbook of the US, and how people are gaslit and indoctrinated:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=GEzOgpMWnVs

You'd be forgiven for thinking the speech was today - same sick methods used in #Libya etc etc.

The #powerElite don't invade poor #communities, they invade rich ones like the #freedomSoftware movement.

(Quote adapted from #MichaelParenti's famous speech)

#GNULinux #GNUProject #Congo #Venezuela #Syria #FSF #wealthTransfer #humanEnergy #CEOs #CEO #jeffreyEpstein #money #corruption #BillGates #freeMoney #moneyPrinterGoBrr #Microsoft #github #Mozilla #Cloudflare #Firefox #GNOME #GNOME3 #canonical #ubuntu #oracle #Java #Google #Go #webAssembly

@evenstay
Yawn. Google are the #fascists. Terrorism has always been partly or in whole, funded by US oligrchs and Google serve those oligarchs.

Learn your history.

Start with #MichaelParenti's War on Yugoslavia. If it hasn't been banned by Google like #RichMansTrick was.

@fedilab@toot.fedilab.app @nvsr

@schestowitz
Not lately, but the #corporateState are #EqualOpportunityExploiters

Please listen to this lecture (which happens to be highly entertaining, also) by Prof. #MichaelParenti about the 2000 war on #Yugoslavia:
http://invidio.us/watch?v=GEzOgpMWnVs

The Equal Opportunity Exploiter method explains why so may white people are #protesting alongside #BLM.

The #billionaireClass have been inflicting a massive #inflationTax, and #theft on us.

We need to get #NEOed

@activationfxn@todon.nl
Well said.

According to a podcast we just shared, gentrification is a problem in Minneapolis, too. So yes, the #landSpeculators know how to screw with minorities and the working class all while wearing a White Collar.

We assume that you are familiar with the works of #MichaelParenti on how to #underDevelop and #deindustrialise and #impoverish?

http://invidio.us/watch?v=GEzOgpMWnVs

@kavbojka