Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/mike-pompeos-revealing-hudson-institute-speech ❖ Former CIA director and secretary of state Mike Pompeo gave a speech at the Hudson Institute last week that's probably worth taking a look at just because of how much it reveals about the nature of the US empire
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/empire-to-expand-nato-in-response-to-war-caused-by-nato-expansion ❖ Turkey's President Erdoğan has officially withdrawn Ankara's objection to the addition of Finland and Sweden to NATO membership, with the three countries signing a trilateral memorandum at a NATO summit in Madrid.The removal of Erdoğan's objection was reportedly obtained via
Listen to a reading of this poem:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/holding-hands-on-the-precipice ❖ From our perch here on the edge of armageddon we are safe to gush out our love over everything, because we've got nothing left to save it for and nothing left to lose.I place slippery wet YES kisses on the black crows
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/ten-thoughts-on-abortion ❖One It sure is mighty convenient timing for all political and electoral energy in the United States to suddenly get sucked up into a single issue which affects the powerful in no way, shape or form. I wouldn't have thought
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/western-officials-admit-ukraine-is-crawling-with-cia-personnel ❖ The New York Times reports that Ukraine is crawling with special forces and spies from the US and its allies, which would seem to contradict earlier reports that the US intelligence cartel is having trouble getting intel about what's
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/the-world-is-ruled-by-a-backwards-puritanical-regime ❖ "China is a strange, backwards nation ruled by tyrants," said the nation founded by Puritans who used to execute women for witchcraft and just killed reproductive rights protections because they think Jesus told them to.The world is dominated culturally,
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/imperial-narrative-control-has-five-distinct-elements ❖ All of our world's worst problems are created by the powerful. The powerful will keep creating those problems until ordinary people use their superior numbers to make them stop. Ordinary people don't use their superior numbers to stop the
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/untitled-1 ❖ There's a John Mearsheimer video clip from 2016 that's going viral on Twitter right now, as old John Mearsheimer clips tend to do in the year 2022 when his predictions that western actions would lead to the destruction of
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/lets-fight-ww3-over-lithuania ❖ The problem with anti-imperialists who spend all their time criticizing the evil US empire is that there aren't nearly enough of them. ❖ People who respond to criticisms of the US by babbling about the misdeeds of other governments are just
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/just-for-fun ❖ Just for fun we all pretend to be strangers. Just for fun we pretend we don't know each other on the street, on the train, at the store, at the traffic light.Just for fun we pretend we aren't locked in ecstatic