 The Assange case is the U.S. defending its right to lie. Notes from the edge of the narrative matrix. The Assange case is the most powerful government in the world defending its right to lie to you. Question. What's the difference between how the U.S. deals with journalists it hates and how Saudi Arabia deals with journalists it hates? Answer. Speed. The U.S. is currently building a network of long-range missile systems on a chain of islands near China's coast for the explicit purpose of threatening China. You can tell who is the aggressor in U.S.-China tensions by asking yourself what would happen if this situation was reversed. Per Washington's own logic it would be perfectly reasonable and indeed responsible for China to set up military arsenals along both U.S. coastlines to contain it and deter attacks on Latin American nations as the U.S. has an extensive history of launching such attacks and will surely try to again. But we all know what the U.S. response to such behavior would be. It's a bit annoying living in a world that's ruled by a dying empire who's increasing desperation to retain control could lead it to initiate a dangerous military confrontation with a major power at any time. The rise of China crashing into the Washington doctrine that U.S. unipolar hegemony must be preserved at all cost is an unstoppable force meets immovable object situation that could very easily end in nuclear armageddon. If the preservation of U.S. unipolar hegemony requires continually escalating military brinkmanship against nuclear-armed Russia and China as well as powerful forces like Iran, then the claim that U.S. unipolar hegemony makes the world a more peaceful place is plainly false. You currently have a much higher chance of dying as a result of a nuclear war instigated by your government or its allies than as a result of someone else refusing to take a COVID vaccine. You hear about the latter threat but not the former because the mass media exists to protect imperialist agendas from scrutiny. You know you're getting scammed when your government ends a long and expensive war and then the military budget goes up. There is no sector of the U.S. government policy more significant and consequential than the command of the most powerful military force ever assembled. There is also no sector of U.S. government policy with less oversight, accountability or press scrutiny. Besides a brief window after 9-11, the U.S. has never really been able to sell the narrative that governments it wants to ramp up aggressions against are about to attack its easily defended shores. So instead it does ridiculous things like claiming those governments are about to invade Ukraine or Taiwan. The U.S. empire never attacks, it only defends. All its aggressions are always about defending freedom and democracy, defending human rights, defending nations that can't defend themselves, etc. Often it even defends preemptively before the attacker has done anything. Sometimes the attacker is the last to find out that they were planning an attack. Ever since getting our eviction notice, I've struggled to be creative because my mind is so focused on the daunting task of finding a nice yet affordable place to live for my family. And it really makes me feel for everyone for whom housing security is a chronic creativity drain. All to pay for the privilege of living on the fucking planet we were fucking born on. I mean think about how much creativity and innovation our species is missing out on because our dopey, primitive societal models force people to spend so much brain power just figuring out how to stay fed and housed. That brain power could have gone toward improving our world. Really, I'm just a mother. I'm just a mom who wants a healthy planet and a healthy society for her kids and I advocate the things I believe will facilitate that. You can add whatever ists and isms you want to on top of that, but my true ideology is motherhood. Right now being smart and informed is a detriment to happiness because things are shitty and the more you understand the harder it is to be happy. Once we create a healthy world, this will reverse. The more you understand about the world, the more uplifted and optimistic you will be.