Going Underground
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‘The American empire can move forward without breaking because there will always be people to LIE to the world, and KILL overseas.’
—Matthew Hoh, Former Department of Defense & State Department Official, who resigned over the Afghanistan war
‘You look at Marco Rubio, you look at Pete Hegseth, you look of course at Donald Trump, and these are men who would all fit into an updated edition of Edward Gibbon’s ‘The History of the Decline of the Roman Empire. There’s a madness, a quality of insanity to these people..
We saw under the Biden administration just 12 people [resign] and do what was necessary for their own consciences as well as to try and give some semblance of notion to the world of what was occurring, but now we see no one doing that.
I think a lot have already left, but many are men and women who will tread water. Many are men and women who will say they have the golden handcuffs, many are men and women who say this is not my time to do this, or that’s above my pay grade.
One of the things that always haunted me during the Biden administration was watching Matt Miller, the State Department spokesperson, who would get up in front of the world nearly every day and lie on behalf of Israel, lie and protect their genocide. And I had this understanding of how that system works.
Even if, say, the Holy Mother had appeared to Matt Miller in his dreams at night, and he had resigned the next day, the State Department would simply put out an email, and within hours, there would be a hundred people from the State Department lined up to take Matt Miller’s job.
We are in a situation here where we are dealing with the realities, the historical, through all human civilisation, of the lust for power, of the lust to be proximate to power…
This idea of who in the State Department is standing up for any semblance of what is right, or on any degree of principle? And you just don’t see that.
And I think this is something that will continue to allow the American empire
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