US mass-murdering, degenerate, racist, rapist filth, sanctioning ICC Justice

 

Today the CBC had a pretty good article about how the nauseating pieces of shit in the Trump regime are (like all their stinking predecessors) putting sanctions on the International Criminal Court and its justices, for daring to consider whether the zio-nazi scum in Israel, or the USA's own marauding war criminals, should be subject to prosecution for torturing, raping, and killing innocent men, women and children.

 

Kimberly Prost began to feel the effects of the U.S. sanctions immediately.

"These economic sanctions are not symbolic in any way," said Prost, a Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC), who was sanctioned by the Trump administration last year.

Prost's credit cards were cancelled and her access to banking services hindered, she said, because of the U.S.'s wide-reaching impact on the global banking system.

"Every time literally I go to make a bank transfer, I hold my breath because I don't know if it's going to work," Prost said in an interview with CBC News.

"To order an Uber, book a hotel, buy a theatre ticket — everything requires some form of credit card, and so you're sort of struggling to adjust."

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The sanctions on Prost are part of a larger U.S. campaign to discredit and dismantle the ICC, which began in earnest after a February 2025 executive order imposed sanctions for investigating American personnel and issuing arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant.

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Prost was singled out for her role in judicially authorizing a March 2020 preliminary investigation into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan since 2003, including by U.S. service members.

Since 2021, however, the investigation has deprioritized the role of the U.S., focusing instead on the Afghan government and Taliban forces.

"To my knowledge, there's no active investigation of the Americans in that case, but I'm sanctioned."

 

Just a few quotes from the degenerates displaying their sickening hypocrisy:

 U.S. President Donald Trump has since sustained his attack on the international court, calling on member states to immediately "resign from this rogue institution" in a September UN General Assembly speech. Just last month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio threatened to dismantle the ICC "brick by brick" if allies do not "rein in" the court.

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The United States has never been a member of the ICC, and has long expressed concerns that its citizens could be prosecuted.

"As the United States works to bring peace around the world, our diplomats or our soldiers could be drawn into this court," President George W. Bush said the day after the court was inaugurated in 2002. "It's very troubling to me."

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Twenty-four years later, Rubio echoed the same rhetoric about the "dangers" of the global court, warning that American border patrol agents, marines and prosecutors would "be at the mercy of foreign judges," risking imprisonment for defending their own country. 

 

As Ian Welsh says: Banking should be a human right.  We should not acquiesce to giving governments the power to cripple us financially, EVER.  Especially instantaneously through a financial system that now operates electronically the vast majority of the time.

 

In Britain and Germany multiple people have had their bank accounts frozen for supporting Palestine. When government isn’t directly involved banks often do the dirty work themselves, for example German banks debanking AfD politicians. The same happened to Farage in the UK. In Canada we had the government freezing accounts of the protestors against vaccines who parked their trucks in Ottawa. (I didn’t support the truckers, but at the time I said the accounts shouldn’t be frozen.)

As the economy moves more and more to electronic payments, being without a bank becomes more and more a sentence to homelessness. And even the small cash window is often closed In Germany, when the government de-banks you they also make it illegal to give the de-banked person any money so they can eat or pay rent.

This method of control makes organizing against the government almost impossible. It’s done to individuals and organizations. It needs to end.

They do this in Europe to journalists who say things that the European Union's imbecilic leadership doesn't like.

 

The European Union is trying to eliminate sources of information that do not confirm with its official interpretation of real world events.

One of the latest persons hit with official EU restrictions is the former Swiss intelligence official and author Jacques Baud:

Jacques Baud is a former colonel of the General Staff, ex-member of the Swiss strategic intelligence, specialist on Eastern countries. He was trained in the American and British intelligence services. He has served as Policy Chief for United Nations Peace Operations. As a UN expert on rule of law and security institutions, he designed and led the first multidimensional UN intelligence unit in the Sudan. He has worked for the African Union and was for 5 years responsible for the fight, at NATO, against the proliferation of small arms. He was involved in discussions with the highest Russian military and intelligence officials just after the fall of the USSR. Within NATO, he followed the 2014 Ukrainian crisis and later participated in programs to assist the Ukraine.

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A former colonel in the Swiss Army, Jacques Baud, is also listed for acting “as a mouthpiece for pro-Russian propaganda and making conspiracy theories, for example accusing Ukraine of orchestrating its own invasion in order to join NATO.” Former French military officer Xavier Moreau is listed for similar actions.

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The European sanctions aimed at the “heads of the destabilizing activities”, in which they propagandize for the benefit of Russia, have been introduced in October 2024. They provide for the freezing of assets of persons sanctioned, a prohibition of entry on the territory of the EU and the prohibition of making funds available to them.

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The sanctions against Jacques Baud were published today and are now official. In Annex 57 the ‘Statement of Reasons’ claims:

“Jacques Baud, a former Swiss army colonel and strategic analyst, is a regular guest on pro-Russian television and radio programmes. He acts as a mouthpiece for pro-Russian propaganda and makes conspiracy theories, for example accusing Ukraine of orchestrating its own invasion in order to join NATO.

Therefore, Jacques Baud is responsible for, implementing or supporting actions or policies attributable to the Government of the Russian Federation which undermine or threaten stability or security in a third country (Ukraine) by engaging in the use of information manipulation and interference.” 

  

If they felt even the slightest confidence in their own agendas, or in their own moral rectitude, vermin like Trump or the EU-oligarch leadership wouldn't be so desperate and brazen.  They only speed the process whereby other actors will design financial systems outside of the reach of these psychopaths.

It Requires More Than Narrative

 

Some people say that all we have to do is realize that ordinary people vastly outnumber the elites and their institutions of control.  "We are many. They are few."  Some people say that to do this all we have to do is change the narrative(s) that govern our conscious thinking: "We in the West live under democracies.  Capitalism is the best, most efficient system for the allocation of scarce resources among society.  Work hard and play by the rules and you will be rewarded to the extent that your talents deserve it." becomes "We live as the subjects of rapacious, self-interested, short-sighted, oligarchs.  Capitalism is theft.  Which means that we are being robbed.  Democratic socialism is the best form of economics."

A Message To Albertans That Would Benefit the Alberta NDP

 

"Foreign oil company executives don't like you."

That's it.  That's the message.  Alberta's oil industry is majority foreign-owned.  US-American if we aren't concerned with charges of "racism."  They want to keep as much of the money that is earned by Alberta crude oil for themselves as possible.  So, in that light, they pay their workers the minimum they can get away with.  And they pay their whores (I've said earlier in this blog that the Left either takes control of the word "whore" or we come up with a different word that comes up with the sense of selling out everything you believe in for money, to sex-workers, the vast majority of whom were/have been doing what they had to do to survive, ... and stick to that new word.)

But at this moment in time, Alberta premier Danielle Smith is an oil-industry whore.  In that for a mess of pottage, she will sell out the people of her province, the country and all that the monarchical shit-fuck stupid drivel it is supposed to represent in her non-existing brain, ... this paid lobbyist scum, gave all the support she could with "plausible deniability" and now she's pretending that she's not a treasonous paid shill for her degenerate master Donald (child-rapist) Trump.

So, once we've consigned Danielle Smith to the political hell she so richly deserves, we should inform Alberta voters how a great deal of their political choices are determined by propaganda whores like Ezra Levant.  One of the most loathsome of whores.  A serial grifter.  A zio-nazi pussball.  A complete degenerate.  "The Western Standard."  Ha-ha-ha!  You fucking loser Levant! Eat shit!  The same way that all your business ventures have eaten shit. 

These US-American oil companies have been sucking Alberta dry for decades and they've used their pocket-change from the profits to finance a political infrastructure of grifters to bamboozle Albertans about what's really happening.  They see the wages and the royalties they actually have to pay as bothersome.  They're going to block, avoid and ignore any and all changes to their current domination and they're certainly not going to respect Alberta's environment.  Especially when all the oil is gone. 

CBC Avoids Talking About Afghanistan While Talking About Afghanistan

 

Apparently the Canadian government is uncomfortable talking about Canada's war in Afghanistan and some people are upset about it. 

It's not much of a stretch to say the federal government has trouble saying the word Afghanistan.

A couple of weeks ago, late on a Friday, Defence Minister David McGuinty and Veterans Affairs Minister Jill McKnight issued a statement to quietly defuse what some in the veterans community might view as a Remembrance Day bomb. 

They announced that a Senate bill (S-246) currently before the House of Commons — designating service in both the first Gulf War and Afghanistan as wartime service — would be the subject of public consultation in the coming months.

While it is most definitely about Afghanistan, the word Afghanistan does not appear anywhere in the 335-word joint statement.

In the eyes of Canadian law, at the the moment, the service of 40,000 troops over 13 years, the deaths of 158 of them, the wounding of an estimated 2,000 soldiers is reduced to the banal catch-all designation of "special duty area."

The fact the federal government doesn't recognize the Afghan war as a war — and needs to ask the public what it thinks — is jaw-dropping for many people, especially veterans. 

Spoiler alert: Canada finds it difficult to talk about Afghanistan because Afghanistan was a horrible waste of blood and treasure.  The USA toppled a government that had managed to restore a measure of order to a country that had been destroyed to wound the Soviet Union.  The Taliban were grim, medieval-minded religious fanatics with a horribly misogynist philosophy, but most people in Afghanistan appeared to prefer them over the raping and thieving gangsters who had been tearing the country apart after the Soviets left and their allied government eventually fell. 

One thing the Taliban did was to harbour Osama bin Laden who had helped in the war against the Soviets.  When 9-11/2001 happened, the deranged bush II regime demanded that Afghanistan hand bin Laden over, no questions asked.  The Taliban asked for proof of his connection to the attack and the USA invaded and toppled them.  They then installed a government comprised of the warlord gangsters who had misruled Afghanistan before they were defeated by the Taliban.  A warlord, gangster government of drug-dealers, rapists, thieves, pedophiles and scum.  A mafia government, who could only see Afghanistan as a site for plunder.

In the face of such an intolerable situation, the population of Afghanistan, led by the former Taliban rulers, launched a resistance movement.  Canada agreed to assist the USA in crushing this resistance and imposing the American puppet government.  Canadian troops stayed in Afghanistan from 2001-2014.  The whole time, Canadian politicians, military officials, and media, all insisted we were "winning" in the battle against the insurgents.  We were defeating the Taliban on the battlefield and bringing women's rights, education and economic development to the people of Afghanistan.  It was all bullshit.  Most Canadians acknowledged this.  For so doing, shit-assed imbeciles like stephen harper and Peter Mansbridge dismissed us as cretins with short attention spans.  But when Canada left in 2014 the resistance was continuing and it would continue until the USA finally abandoned the country in 2021, and the Afghan National Army evaporated and the US-puppets fled with as much stolen loot as they could carry.

In its 2026 Remembrance Day coverage, the CBC discusses how we have difficulty discussing this topic.  Apparently it's even problematic to refer to it as a "war."  I don't know the significance of that fact and the CBC story never explains it.  Perhaps as a "war" service in Afghanistan means something for Canadian military personnel getting a bigger pension or something.  All the article says is that the government doesn't call it a war and CF people who were there angrily insist that it was.  Anniversaries of events during the war, such as Operation Medusa, aren't officially commemorated by the Canadian government.

Of course, being a crude propaganda outlet, the CBC can't avoid mentioning how horrible and evil the Taliban resistance was:

One of the hallmarks of the war that sticks with veterans is the cruelty the Taliban inflicted on ordinary Afghans.

Former Canadian commander — retired major-general Denis Thompson — recalled how in 2008 insurgents used a 10-year-old boy as a suicide bomber.

"There was a lot of very cynical and vicious attacks," Thompson said, noting how the boy did not control his suicide vest and was remotely denotated by an old, nearby Taliban fighter as the child got close to a Canadian patrol. 

"There are no limits, if you will, to one's imagination when they're coming up with ways to terrorize the population or to get at the security forces."

That our allies raped little boys in front of our soldiers' eyes isn't mentioned.  That its police kidnapped people and killed them if ransoms weren't paid.  That they robbed the people in the areas where they ruled under our protection, ... none of this is mentioned.  And, by failing to mention these facts, the CBC does the job of making the world seem inexplicable, chaotic, mad.  How could such a bestial enemy prevail against the forces of democracy and freedom?  Maybe some people just don't want to be helped! 

 

It is fair to say, however, for many veterans Afghanistan risks becoming the war Canada has already forgotten as a collective institutional amnesia settles over most of Ottawa.

This year saw a remarkable convergence of anniversaries. 

It has been 25 years since Canadian troops first set foot in Afghanistan following 9/11, 20 years since the beginning of major combat operations, 20 years since the first female soldier was killed in combat, 20 years since Operations Medusa, 15 years since combat ended and five years since the South Asian country fell back into Taliban hands.

And yet as those important milestones passed this year, there was mostly silence from Ottawa. 

This is because, even with their heads lodged firmly in their assholes, Canada's politicians, military leadership and media realize that bringing these things up will remind people that it was all for nothing.  It will either cause them cognitive dissonance or it will for force them to acknowledge their delusion and their stupidity. 

The article goes on to mention the stupid and false claims from the degenerate Donald Trump about how neither Canada, nor the rest of the NATO allies, contributed in any meaningful way to the USA's doomed mission to impose a puppet-government of rapist gangsters on Afghanistan.  And how his disgusting, ingrate behaviour got Canadians justifiably angry.  However ...

 Trump's remarks provoked a backlash across Canada. But beneath the anger lay an uncomfortable contradiction.

While Canadians were quick to defend the war's sacrifice online, they have been far less willing, it seems, to talk about the war itself.

Only a handful of federal statements have been issued — five in all. The federal government did mark the anniversary of the end of major combat and the beginning of construction of the long-delayed national memorial.

The prime minister's Veterans' Week statement, released on Nov. 5, specifically mentions the Gulf War and the four soldiers killed last month in Wainwright, Alta., but not Afghanistan.

Historian Sean Maloney, at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ont., said we struggle as a nation to talk about war in general and find it particularly tough to sort out our feelings about Afghanistan.

"Why are we afraid to talk about it?" Maloney asked. 

He spent a decade battling the Defence Department for permission to publish his history of the war. 

"What are we embarrassed about? Who's embarrassed? Is it the bureaucracy? Is it elected officials? Is it both? Is it cultural mavens that this doesn't fit in with?"

Retired general Wayne Eyre, the former chief of the defence staff who led a team to train Afghan soldiers during the war, said Maloney's questions are not easy to answer.

"Part of it is because of how it ended up," Eyre said, in reference to the Taliban victory in 2021.

"Canada has gone through various waves of understanding and commemoration based on the national mood and who's to say that's not going to change in the future with respect to Afghanistan? My hope is that we learn from it, we continue to venerate those that we lost over there."

I suppose it is noteworthy how Canada's political and military officials have the sense to avoid this topic, but they can't bring themselves to admit the reasons WHY they avoid it.  That we're a lapdog to imperialists.  That we're a racist, colonial state.  That, as a capitalist country, we're ruled by greedy psychopaths who put profits before people.

The article instead tries to invent some "danger" out of our failure to remember our "mission" in Afghanistan:

 

Former diplomat Pam Isfeld said she has noticed the same thing and wonders how well equipped Canadians are to face a world that's increasingly more dangerous when they are reluctant to acknowledge their past.

"It's an important part of our history, and the idea that nobody really wants to talk about it, I don't understand," said Isfeld, who served as a civilian adviser to Canada's combat commander in 2006.

  

It concludes with more tripe about how we were seriously trying to build something in Afghanistan, rather than the whole project being launched by idiots with no understanding then (or now) about what was really going on.

 

Canada accepted over 54,700 Afghan refugees who fled the 2021 Taliban takeover, many of them deeply invested in the Western political and social value promises of a better future.

Abdul Razaq Khan, a former translator for Canadian media outlets, said he was grateful for finding a safe haven and often thinks about what his home country could have become.

"Canadians were helping to build our country, and we had to step up for that," Khan said.

Asked if he was angry about the way life has turned out, he replied: "No one leaves their country happily."

The Afghanistan pro-NATO puppet-government was corrupt and vicious from top-to-bottom.  They were so bad that the majority of Afghans preferred the Taliban-led resistance to our rapists and thieves.  The schools we paid to be built fell apart and the teachers were just names some warlord gave us so that he could collect their salaries.  Perhaps if we acknowledge THAT, we can more adequately commemorate how and why thousands of Canadian Armed Forces were traumatized, maimed or killed there. 

 

 

Half-Measures?

 

Some on the Left say that politicians like Bernie Sanders, AOC, and "progressives" among the new crop of Democrats elected in the anti-Trump/anti-inflation "Blue Wave" are just sheepdogs for the Democrats.  Keeping left-leaning voters from straying from the flock.  Voting for such people means guaranteed betrayals, as both the political party and the wider capitalist system either bring such people to heel or they were always mercenaries to begin with.

Some of those on the Left saying such things are delusional crackpots with decades of failure and non-accomplishment to show for their activism.  (Obviously, I'm a different sort of delusional, failed crackpot.)  Even so, they might still have a point.

Is it possible that voting for anyone electorally viable is not only a waste of time, but, worse, losing time and energy that could have gone into more genuinely revolutionary endeavours?  Voting for people who will betray us siphons energy and creates despair when those betrayals are made manifest.

Or is it possible to vote for such people and mitigate the damage done to ordinary people by the capitalist system, thereby creating breathing space and time to develop and advance a farther reaching agenda?

I suppose it's helpful to figure out if these moderate progressives actually mean what they say.  I'd say that most of them do.  They don't see revolution as realistic, and they feel that what they're offering is the best that can be expected, given the circumstances (which includes an electorate that is far from possessing a revolutionary consciousness).  Fraudulent, self-serving "progressives" should be relatively easy to figure out.

Arguments against voting for genuine moderates will have to be more thorough to really make their case. 

CBC News: An Avalanche of Slop

 

I'm trying to focus my thinking about current events.  I only read a few (mostly US-American) websites and I try not to pay attention to the news outside of whatever those sites are talking about.  I've decided to try writing more here to get me to look at the news more comprehensively.  In that spirit, I decided to look at the CBC News website.  I want to know what the CBC is talking about given all the real information about AI, West Asia, Ukraine, etc., that I get from the sites I regularly read.

So, today, November 9th, 2026, CBC News has a bunch of stories about IVF and other reproductive issues, such as egg-freezing.  I suppose that's interesting on some levels, but it isn't exactly crucial information for understanding today's world.  Russell Brand got sentenced to 10 years in prison.  People are using illegal drugs in public.  Somebody in Toronto is removing trees "suspiciously."  They're shooting bears at dumps in Inuvik.  A 19-year old won the PGA.  Some hockey player isn't going to play for Winnipeg's next game.  And 39 people died in a boat accident in Senegal.  There were a few other stories.

Mostly trivial stuff.  Mostly stuff that can't really be connected to the main events and trends going on in the world today.  The rise of oligarchic feudalism and the continued hollowing out of the economy and the majority's living standards.  Nothing about major wars and genocides.  All just unimportant slop.  Stuff to distract us from understanding the world that the CBC (a propaganda outlet) serves. 

Where Is The Left-Wing Opposition To Carney?

 

Mark Carney has taken advantage of Donald Trump's imbecilic attacks on Canada to push a radical, far-right agenda, all while paying lip-service to the idea of "resisting" Trump and pursuing "Canadian sovereignty."  The racist grifter Pierre Poilievre cannot play that role because he spent too many years telling Canadians about his masturbatory fantasies of himself and Trump playing with each other's bodily fluids.  The fact that Carney remains Trump's lickspittle ally doesn't register because Canadians are, essentially, complacent, ignorant people with short attention spans and a corporate media system that works to keep them that way.

Carney is attacking the right to collective bargaining.  He's unilaterally attacking First Nations rights to consultation about Canadian assaults on their lands.  He's going gung-ho on NATO's delusional imperialist agenda.  He's publicly supporting Trump's illegal, murderous assaults on Venezuela, Cuba, Iran and Palestine.  He's subsidizing the fossil fuels industry and its commitment to global heating for short-term profits.  He's all-in on the shit-for-brains/anti-human "Artificial Intelligence" boondoggle.

Carney wouldn't be able to do all of this if the Canadian Left hadn't shown itself to be an irrelevancy decade after decade.  Our electoral system is partly to blame for this.  First-Past-The-Post means that (as is even more the case in the USA) legislative authority is traded between two pro-business parties.  (That was the real reason that the idiot Justin Trudeau reneged on his promise to change our electoral system.  The massive majority the Liberals received when stephen harper made the Conservative brand toxic was the elixer, but it was the way that FPTP limited Canadians' democratic options that was at the base of it.

But elections are one thing.  A Left that has neither strategy nor tactics cannot be expected to be an effective extra-parliamentary resistance.  I have said for years and years at this blog, and I continue to say, that peaceful, one-day marches will not sway politicians who are controlled by corporate capitalists, domestic and foreign.  All the money and power is on the other side.  The people of Canada are fodder for them.  The political class's material self-interest comes out of servitude to the profit-above-all capitalist agenda.  They aren't going to deviate from that course just because we took an afternoon to register our displeasure.

For pointing out this obvious reality I was derided as a negative nelly and I eventually gave up on arguing my case, both online and face-to-face with other leftists.  I'm not going to delude myself into thinking that my exiting myself from the fight is what has doomed the Left to failure.  I'm irrelevant.  The Left has failed all by itself.  With its merely performative protests, its unwillingness to inflict/suffer consequences, its stupid, sanctimonious adherence to non-violence, ... the Left has made itself irrelevant as well.