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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: Serious Question: Have You Done Everything In Your Power To Prevent This? By Caitlin Johnstone
Published: 2017-08-06
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myReLQTVfrE
Title: Serious Question: Have You Done Everything In Your Power To Prevent This? By Caitlin Johnstone
Published: 2017-08-06
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myReLQTVfrE
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can I just in hand if during the reading of my article from August sixth serious question have you done everything in your power to prevent these my childhood idol John Pilger has once again leaned his king comparable voice to the task of warning humanity about the perils inherent in Washington's bipartisan push towards you Cold War escalation in a powerful essay titled how the world may and2/14
that my little face you cannot possibly do justice the legendary journalist describes the way Capitol Hill as needs humanity into the express lane toward extinction with latest sanctions engineer which seems to have been driven by the intention to revoke an all out war he touches on the way to Saint is being silenced and propaganda proliferated and on the end appreciated fact that China will become involved3/14
in the with rush it's well coach is a site which I strongly encourage you to raise concludes is falling one of Obama's last acts of president was to sign a bill that handed a written record six hundred eighteen billion dollars to the Pentagon reflecting the soaring ascendancy of fascist military of them in the governance of the new United States trump has endorsed these buried in the4/14
days I was the establishment of a center for information analysis and response user is the ministry of truth it is tossed with providing an official narrative of facts that we could Harris for the real possibility of nuclear war if we allow it if we allow it Willie this is a serious question and I think it deserves a serious answer from everyone with access to information about5/14
the reality of what's happening here will we allow this much towards direct military conflict between two nuclear superpowers to continue I mean not capable of stopping it are we quite show will not move from okay verbal of bringing the stuff much to hold and we out perhaps giving us those credit full have we tried everything if you look out the window next year and see a6/14
mushroom cloud growing on the horizon we you be up to ten to your loved ones with tears in your eyes and honestly tell them that you did all your cute could I'm sorry to have to put so fine a point on it but this it's important I don't want to victory lane by shifting responsibility for the manipulations of a few billionaires and their Capitol Hill lackeys7/14
but these new Cold War escalations %HESITATION without question the single most dangerous thing happening in the world today and they have to be stopped the risk of every organism on earth being killed has now been needlessly escalated and it is very possible that everything depends upon out bringing that risk down it is easy just associate from our situation here by zooming into the small kitchen perspective8/14
and taking comfort in the fact that nuclear war might not happen or zooming out to a big picture perspective taking comfort in the fact that this is all temporary anyway I am encouraging you here not to do either of these things and instead look around at everything you've ever loved everything you've ever appreciated everything you've ever found useful or interesting and ask yourself if you really9/14
honestly in different enough to the possibility that it'll only three pia because of some idiotic geopolitical power grab by you building kit at least half yeah the beloved quite by American folk hero Utah Phillips the if he's not dying it is being killed and the people who are killing it have names and addresses at the time Phillips who's talking about industrial ecocide which is of course10/14
another grave concern the quake could be even more readily applied to people matching XP things into a new Cold War after we'd barely survived the last one we know he thinks people ha that's right there on public record they've done is around public record they have names addresses adjusters offices and phone numbers should I decide to be polite out way out decide to decrease the risk11/14
of everything dying in a nuclear Holocaust is it worth becoming the first species ever to go extinct Gaeta politeness this may well be the single most important question about time even if you believe everything a television tells you that your elected officials have your best interests at heart and that the Russians really did middle in York country's electoral process and that person is really is a12/14
monster and a threat is it worth it is it have we ever tried just leaving Russia alone without pressuring them with proxy conflicts manipulating the affairs of their neighbors provoking them with senseless acts sanctions and continuously escalating nature expansionism have we ever tried to see what really happens and is it really worth the lives of your family your friends the species and world Nazi is that13/14
where is it to keep continuing down this path instead of giving peace a chance whatever your feelings about Russia trump government and nation is it within is it we can stop face if we want it badly enough we can make a lot of noise and shove hot in the opposite direction we can fight to ensure the survival of our species and of old to risk your