@EverydayVoices is worth following

Left-wing US blog Thoughts From my Kitchen is well worth keeping track of.

The author, highly critical of US imperialist foreign policy, has moderate influence over Twitter and posts via Wordpress.

https://thoughtsfrommykitchen.wordpress.com/

Examples of comments by the author on recent events include the following, picked up on Twitter.

On reports Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka had an emotional outburst and asked her father to attack Syrian territory illegally, resulting in civilian deaths:

"This is why rich people don't deserve any position of power. They abuse it or use it to serve their own agenda, be emotional or political.

"50 Years Later - How did WWIII start? Ivanka Trump felt emotional after looking at photos of an alleged chemical weapons attack & told her father to strike Syria."

On US Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham's praise for US ally Saudi Arabia's constant massacres of civilians (including the use of chemical weapons) in Yemen:

"John McCain needs to be locked up again. Same with Grah[a]m."

Topics discussed at the blog, Thoughts From my Kitchen, more closely address domestic policy and everyday life in the US rather than international affairs.

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@leftistcritic pointed out US “Human Rights Reports” propaganda failing

"Human Rights Reports" by the US regime's so-called "Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor" are part of its shallow propaganda campaign to justify its policies of aggression and mass murder.

Venezuela has said "the violation of human rights in the United States is serious and massive." Iran said the US regime "due to its very bad and dark record of human rights…is not in a position to comment on the human rights situation in other countries." 

According to Leftist Critic "Such resistance shows that US government efforts to promote "human rights" imperialism, so that Western capitalism can be forced down the throats of the global proletariat, is failing."

Pointing to the US regime's "own terrible human rights problems", China produces its own reports noting the regime's endless hypocrisy, racism, cruelty and other violations (https://twitter.com/NukeNATO/status/839871891515011072).

Leftist Critic writes "the "reports" are part of the "happy" sheen of the murderous US empire, displayed by their promotion in white propaganda outlets such as VOA (Voice for America) and RFE/RL ("Radio Free" Europe/Radio Liberty), the Western media, and anti-Chinese Tibetan media."

The dissident writer points out the regime-authored cynical reports are "propaganda pumped out by "human rights" organizations like Amnesty, HRW, and Human Rights First, while strengthening existing imperial inter-relationships and supporting the idea of "democracy promotion,""

What the US regime seeks is the "promotion of Western bourgeois democracy", which is "central to NED (National Endowment for Democracy), with its tentacles of worldwide imperialist subversion", the dissident told readers.

One form of resistance we can all do, Leftist Critic proposes, rests in "refusing to share content of such "reports" in the future and stand in strong international solidarity with the peoples of the world, especially those who are resisting the march of death by the tentacles of Western imperialism, squeezing the world of its life force, whether it comes in the forms of the Cuban, DPRK, Zimbabwean, Chinese, and Russian governments or other creative, radical leftist ways of resistance."

Comments come from Leftist Critic in Countercurrents on 20 March 2017

http://www.countercurrents.org/2017/03/20/the-state-departments-human-rights-reports-reek-of-imperialism/

The Leftist Critic blog can be read here

https://leftistcritic.wordpress.com/

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Mont Order group appears in fantasy art

An artist at the image-sharing site DeviantArt has produced pictures themed on the Mont Order, with many portraying sword-wielding monks in a fantasy-like style.

The images make the Mont Order comparable with the Jedi knights of the Star Wars films, although the artist may have had something more "sinister" in mind. Some internet users skeptical of the Mont Order group have described the (allegedly) ancient order as something right out of a "bad movie plot". Although these pictures will only strengthen that idea, they certainly look epic enough to belong among your favorite all-time internet searches.

Ferocious-looking demons are portrayed being battled by a devout, humble warrior we can assume to be a knight or other devotee of the Order. A caption reads that the Mont Order has sent its men willingly through the gates of hell, as they were so driven to fight to the death against evil forms. Other pictures portray a "civil war" with one robed figure set against another. The story being told is not clearly something related to the real Mont Order group.

The real Mont Order "society" can be read about and even joined by people at LOrdre.net, with participation at a Facebook group and inclusion in exclusive email lists possible through the Mont Order. It doesn't look anywhere near as exciting as the image below would seem to suggest, however.

Members are not being given cloaks, Lord of the Rings style suits of armor, or swords at the Mont Order, but you may get a free badge and a surge of social media influence if you are part of the society.

For more weird fantasy pictures of the Mont Order, it's well worth adding the gallery of this DeviantArt user to your favorites and reusing the pictures, as these images are free to use under a Creative Commons license.

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