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February 26, 2024

Aaron Burned Himself To Make Us Look At Gaza

Like many readers here I feel helpless about the ongoing genocide against Palestinians committed by U.S. supported Zionist settlers in the West Bank and Gaza. I can not even find the right words to express myself about it.

Others are more consequential. And powerful. Disgust about the cruelty imposed on Palestinians can induce the utmost will to change things.

U.S. Air Force Member Sets Self on Fire Outside Israel’s Embassy in D.C. to Protest War in Gaza - Time, Feb 25 2024

An active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, in apparent protest of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, which he described as a “genocide.”
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The burn victim, who identified himself in video of the incident as 25-year-old Aaron Bushnell, reportedly succumbed to his injuries on Sunday night, according to independent journalist Talia Jane, who posted on social media that she is in contact with Bushnell’s family and friends.

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Bushnell reportedly sent a message to media outlets before his planned self-immolation. “​​Today, I am planning to engage in an extreme act of protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people,” he warned. ...
On Facebook Sunday morning, he also wrote: “Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.” The post included a link to a live-stream of his protest on the web-broadcasting platform Twitch, which has since removed the video for violations of its community guidelines and terms of service. “I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” the airman repeated, in footage reviewed by TIME, as he walked toward the driveway of the Israeli embassy. “But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”

After Bushnell doused himself with liquid and reached for his lighter, unidentified law enforcement or security officers could be heard asking off-screen, “Can I help you?” After setting himself aflame, he repeatedly shouted “Free Palestine.”

A security man decided to 'help' by pointing his gun on the dying man.


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A censored video of the incident is here.

Rest in peace, Aaron Bushnell. Rest. In. Peace.

Posted by b on February 26, 2024 at 13:56 UTC | Permalink

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Ouch! That's pretty extreme.

Posted by: Dave Pollard | Feb 26 2024 14:04 utc | 1

Terrible endeavour.
Do not commend such act.
RIP.

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Feb 26 2024 14:05 utc | 2

The security guard's action speaks volumes about the US: a violent, agressive state.

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Posted by: Aletta | Feb 26 2024 14:07 utc | 4

Páging Norman Morrison, páging Norman Morrison.... I actually heard this in the Phoenix airport while thinking of how to stop the Iraq invasion. I wondered when someone would do this over the murder of 20,000 children.

Posted by: Bagration | Feb 26 2024 14:11 utc | 5

OMG. I cannot comprehend such courage.
Is this what it takes to get the attention of the ruling classes? Is this what we have come to? O brave new world, that has such people in't.

Posted by: pasha | Feb 26 2024 14:13 utc | 6

The immolation of Thích Quảng Đức kicked off awareness of the Vietnam situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c

Perhaps Aaron Bushnell will similarly be remembered.

Posted by: too scents | Feb 26 2024 14:14 utc | 7

Only the fiscal collapse of the USGov via the Treasury market failure can bring this all to a halt. April 15 always brings some brutal remimders of what your money buys.

Posted by: Bagration | Feb 26 2024 14:19 utc | 8

Aaron - is he jewish and if so how come nobodu mentions it?

Posted by: Nessle | Feb 26 2024 14:20 utc | 9

The “security man” guarding the Embassy was obviously an Israeli Mossad agent going to kill him, saw cameras and decided against it. There’s no one “guarding” the Israeli Embassy that’s not in service to Israel.

Posted by: Trubind1 | Feb 26 2024 14:24 utc | 10

Why the hell did they douse him with bloody foam. They should have thrown blankets on him. That foam would do more damage. Anyway, the poor man died.

Posted by: KingCobra | Feb 26 2024 14:26 utc | 11

'xcuse me. What was the name of the "Arab Spring" dude who torched they/them/their selves in Tunis?

Posted by: sln2002 | Feb 26 2024 14:27 utc | 12

Thanks B for acknowledging the protest that this man sacrificed his life over.

Posted by: simon crow | Feb 26 2024 14:27 utc | 13

I'm guessing Yemen will have an avenue with his name soon.


And he has surely earned it...


Posted by: Newbie | Feb 26 2024 14:28 utc | 14

A similar act of self-immolation was attempted (3rd degrees burns) at the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta on December 1, 2023.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/protester-fire-israeli-consulate-atlanta.html

Posted by: too scents | Feb 26 2024 14:28 utc | 15

A similar act of self-immolation was attempted (3rd degrees burns) at the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta on December 1, 2023.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/protester-fire-israeli-consulate-atlanta.html

Posted by: too scents | Feb 26 2024 14:28 utc | 15

In this case he made sure his message would pass uncensored...

Posted by: Newbie | Feb 26 2024 14:30 utc | 16

"Only the fiscal collapse of the USGov via the Treasury market failure can bring this all to a halt. April 15 always brings some brutal remimders of what your money buys."

Posted by: Bagration | Feb 26 2024 14:19 utc | 8

The US treasury market failed in 2008; that's why the put in QE, Quantitative Easing , a fancy name for printing currency out of air.

The US Treasury market and US currency is living on borrowed time that is why, IMO, the US is so focused on a larger war and hamstringing Europe.

Posted by: canuck | Feb 26 2024 14:30 utc | 17

This is the logic of the true soldier, who is usually forced to sacrifice in the wrong war, and this man has chosen to die on the right side of history and humanity.

Posted by: Bagration | Feb 26 2024 14:33 utc | 18

What is censored out of the Youtube is available here.
Link to Colonel Cassad page

Unfortunately, the Russian site did not show Aaron Bushnel speaking in English as he walked to his self-immolation. In the Youtube, you can see this patriot was remarkably composed and rational.

I think his life would have been better used by taking out some Israelis instead. The Buddhist monk back in Vietnam had a religious reason for self-immolation as the preferred form of giving one's life in protest. Non-Buddhist Americans have more American ways, more effective in America. Need I say more ? Please don't burn yourself. If you must get out the gasoline, find something that really needs burned.
May Aaron Bushnell rest in peace.
May the extreme suffering of Palestinians end.
May Palestine get the justice it needs and totally deserves.
May America wake up and end its crimes against humanity.
May Zionism simply end, any way God decides.

Posted by: JessDTruth | Feb 26 2024 14:34 utc | 19

R.I.P Aaron Bushnel. We bear witness and remember.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Feb 26 2024 14:43 utc | 20

Apparently Mossad mocked it on their X account.

"Israel's enemies kill themselves"

Because US military is their enemy.

They deleted the tweet, but not before it was captured. It's made the news now.

Posted by: Mary | Feb 26 2024 14:44 utc | 21

Pointing a gun at a dying man says a lot, says it all. May his ghost haunt them to the end. Even McNamara finally confessed to having a shred of conscience. Not this crowd.

Posted by: Bagration | Feb 26 2024 14:44 utc | 22

Drizzt | Feb 26 2024 14:34 utc | 20

If this man's courage is mental illness then selfish, cowardly and vicious acts, on behalf of career advancement, would probably be signs of a well adjusted personality.
The mental illness involved here is the commission of genocide, not protesting against it.

This man martyred himself to save the lives of others.

Posted by: bevin | Feb 26 2024 14:48 utc | 23

Those critical and derisive of this inevitable act in the face of monsters are the monsters

Posted by: Not Ewe | Feb 26 2024 14:48 utc | 24

May peace be on his soul, this courageous man who stood for humanity and children.

Posted by: Animal | Feb 26 2024 14:48 utc | 25

This is mental illness, not courage. Poor guy could have made general in the current woke US military.

Posted by: Drizzt | Feb 26 2024 14:34 utc | 20

I usually abide by B's rules not to be rude to fellow posters but I am deeply inclined to open an exception for you.

Do you have any proof of mental illness?

His speech is clear and his grievances more than comprehensible for anyone with half a brain and a little heart.

Not enough maybe, but many have protested with their death, throughout history, for what they believe is unfair.

And if this is not courage... grow a pair, and take the time to also grow a brain and a heart.

30.000 innocents were slaughtered, 2 million left homeless, countless starving and you find yourself funny?


Posted by: Newbie | Feb 26 2024 14:53 utc | 26

Worried that our Instagram generation is too focused on Tay Tay & other stupid crap & will completely ignore this incredible act of moral courage

Posted by: Handsome Man | Feb 26 2024 14:54 utc | 27

"This is mental illness, not courage. Poor guy could have made general in the current woke US military."

Posted by: Drizzt | Feb 26 2024 14:34 utc | 20

Sacrificing one's life for a righteous cause is heroic; you are desecrating this man's legacy with your puerile humour.

Posted by: canuck | Feb 26 2024 14:54 utc | 28

RIP.

Unfortunately, I am not convinced it will make a real difference, but I hope it will.

Posted by: Norwegian | Feb 26 2024 14:55 utc | 29

https://twitter.com/SuppressedNws/status/1762030076357435895?t=-M4MpcheB6njHwbkydDXSw&s=19
There's the mossad x post now deleted but captured

Even Laura loomer got in and laughed claiming mental illness.

Posted by: Hankster | Feb 26 2024 14:57 utc | 30

Newbie -- Aaron's name should be fairly easy to fit and spell on street signs in the USA, too. Remember, the Nuclear Freeze Movement began in some town meetings in Vermont. Imagine the AIPAC people trying to block these first small stirrings of courage from the rest of us.

Posted by: Bagration | Feb 26 2024 14:58 utc | 31

His name is Aaron Bushnell

Rest in peace, young man, you rightfully chose to put your life on the altar of justice!
I hope your brave act will prevent the deaths of thousands of ignorant mercenaries of the Anglo-zio racket machine!

Posted by: ThirdWorldDude | Feb 26 2024 15:03 utc | 32

Brave young man, it's good he died though. Nobody would want to live through that. I certainly wouldn't.

I agree with some other posters that I would probably just kill someone else before killing myself. Why waste a death? Wouldn't do anything of course, but neither will his sacrifice. For me it's about justice. Some people just deserve to die anyway, even if it doesn't do anything. Justice demands it.

I think family is really the only thing that keeps me in check. I have religion but I'm a terrible Christian and that probably wouldn't stop me. Hopefully my wife and kids don't leave me because I'm afraid something terrible would probably happen to someone who definitely deserves it. You can't really scare suicidal people with prison or death lol. It's best to just not fuck with them in the first place.

Posted by: Terry Roberts | Feb 26 2024 15:06 utc | 33

This "Dog Soldier" (Cheyenne) has just put his stake in the ground and refused to retreat from the defense of children.

Posted by: Bagration | Feb 26 2024 15:06 utc | 34

Rest in peace, Aaron Bushnell.

“The self-burning of Vietnamese Buddhist monks… is somehow difficult for Western Christian conscience to understand. The press spoke then of suicide, but in the essence, it is not. It is not even a protest, aimed only at alarming, at moving the hearts of the oppressors. To burn oneself by fire is to prove that what one is saying is of the utmost importance. There is nothing more painful than burning oneself. To say something while experiencing this kind of pain is to say it with utmost courage, frankness, determination, and sincerity.”

--Thich Nhat Hanh, writing to Martin Luther King

https://religionnews.com/2022/04/27/buddhist-views-on-suicide-examined-after-climate-activist-self-immolated-on-earth-day/

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Feb 26 2024 15:07 utc | 35

The reason that the Vietnamese monk self-immolation case made to the world press was that the media wanted it to be remembered. It was billed as a protest to a "corrupt" government.

The reason Mr. Bushnell's self-immolation was sanitizes by the US press and played down is the press don't want it to be noticed. It doesn't want you to know it is a protest to a corrupt policy.

Posted by: KitaySupporter | Feb 26 2024 15:08 utc | 36

Memory Eternal !

A hero.

Posted by: Exile | Feb 26 2024 15:08 utc | 37

Aaron Bushnell made sacrifice very few of us can even imagine. A horrific way to die. The hope when undertaking such a symbolic act is to set off a reaction. This is a call to action to stop the genocide. Do what you can, no matter how small it may seem.

Posted by: KMRIA | Feb 26 2024 15:10 utc | 38

Bushnell expressed that we are living in times of genocide and totalitarianism just like the Germans, Russians, Japanese experienced in the 20th century. The Palestinian genocide is our Holocaust. The American carceral state is our Stalinism. The American wars of terror is our imperialism.

Posted by: Wilikins | Feb 26 2024 15:11 utc | 39

Pressing F to pay huge respeck

F

Posted by: Ezzie | Feb 26 2024 15:14 utc | 40

He is correct in his point. The current US gov are the sine-qua-non enabling factor in Israel's wholesale ethnic cleansing + genocide by bombing and starvation, which was put in place in response to the escalatory cycle of Oct 7th.

Posted by: pxx | Feb 26 2024 15:17 utc | 41

“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”


That comment says so much. What a rare and precious person.

Posted by: Caliman | Feb 26 2024 15:22 utc | 42

Thanks for the posting b honoring such a member of our species. It gives me hope that there are those among us with such strength and conviction of their values

Blessings to Aaron Bushnell for his service to humanity and may that service be remembered and honored.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 26 2024 15:30 utc | 43

Aaron Bushnell sacrifice will ultimately have no effect on the atrocities the U.S. and Israel are committing. Not that his actions were in vain, but the U.S. population has become so manipulated that unless they are told to care about the genocide, they won't even notice. Any time I mention the genocide in Gaza to friends, family or coworkers, their eyes glaze over and they change the subject or flat out ignore my comments. They only ones that don't are the rabid Israel supporters that seem to take great pride in the genocide. The world is surely mad.

Posted by: Mattnu | Feb 26 2024 15:36 utc | 44

Below is a quote from a ZH piece about the Atlanta event....read the end...

It's actually not the first time this has happened on US soil in response to the Gaza war, where at this point close to 30,000 Palestinians have died, according to Gaza sources. In December a person self-immolated in front of the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta.

That initial incident received scant media attention, and no information about the protester's identity or even gender were released. Police had only described "likely an extreme act of political protest" - after which the person was hospitalized with severe injuries.

Atlanta's police chief had said at the time that "police are aware of heightened tensions in the Jewish and Muslim community and have stepped up patrols at certain locations, including the consulate." But again, curiously these extreme forms of 'protest' have received little attention in media, possibly because the imagery is so disturbing.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 26 2024 15:37 utc | 45

It was darkly amusing to see the guard clutching that gun for dear life like he was imagining the burnt-to-death guy on the pavement was gonna somehow attack him. The less criminally insane staffers present even shouting "We don't need guns, we need a fire extinguisher!" (what an apropos turn of phrase!) but he almost pointed the gun at them instead.

Posted by: Red Outsider | Feb 26 2024 15:39 utc | 46

"This is my commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends."

RIP Mr. Bushnell.

Posted by: Johnny Dollar | Feb 26 2024 15:40 utc | 47

Quite the statement. Reminded me of Rachel Corrie, how many remember her? Talk about sticking to your convictions.

Huge acts of personal sacrifice. One can only be awed.

The path of truth and freedom is littered with the bodies of Martyres.

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Feb 26 2024 15:42 utc | 48

Extraordinary sacrifice.

Posted by: Scorpion | Feb 26 2024 15:43 utc | 49

The final gesture he did with putting the service cap on in such a sharp and practiced motion felt like a salute. So did his carrying on through to the end and virtually ensuring he'll die by staying up even as his body obviously took lethal damage. I wonder how the Zionist nutter crowd is going to spin this, because that didn't feel deranged, that was dignified of him.

Posted by: Red Outsider | Feb 26 2024 15:47 utc | 50

Rest in peace, Aaron Bushnell.

The mainstream media trying to hide Aaron's motives in their headlines should have the effect of awake people to the complicity of corporate media in this ongoing genocide in Gaza. But it will? I don't want to believe this courageous act was in vain. I hope not. But in our current world most people, good people, simply can't afford the time to think anymore. They assume their personal lives had enough problems already and choose to go along with the narrative lines of events, as they're simplified by corporate media in easy and reassuring words to swallow. Who knows? Maybe his act will shock people back to reality. It is awful to say this, but the fact he was white and a U.S. soldier will speak louder than the dead children of Gaza ever will.

Posted by: CoffinJoe | Feb 26 2024 15:54 utc | 51

The death of another brave individual can be attributed to the genociders.

Don’t let Aaron Bushnell die in vain. Get up and do something about this situation.

“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.”

Posted by: Lev Davidovich | Feb 26 2024 15:54 utc | 52

I was shocked to read of this Aaron Bushnell's sacrifice.
My first thought: He actually has done what I am sure others have contemplated, posing to themselves the same questions.

A few months ago, another member of our little Ceasefire group here and I had "confessed" to each other that we had both, separately, wondered whether we should do it, self-immolate. Would it bring anyone to their senses if citizens started to burn themselves up to get attention for the atrocity in Palestine and the atrocity that is our government.

We both concluded that our corrupt overlords would not even notice.

Now we see how "security" officers actually respond: by killing the messenger twice over.

Leaves one speechless.

Who is this officer?
Will he be indicted for attempted murder of an obviously, by definition, helpless citizen (and a veteran)?

Posing that question seems horrifyingly absurd.

(And BTW, "Ouch" seems like an unspeakably flippant reaction.)

Posted by: Jane | Feb 26 2024 15:58 utc | 53

I wonder how the Zionist nutter crowd is going to spin this

Posted by: Red Outsider | Feb 26 2024 15:47 utc | 52

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Wait and see what Trump says.

Posted by: too scents | Feb 26 2024 15:59 utc | 54

R.I.P Aaron Bushnel. We bear witness and remember.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Feb 26 2024 14:43 utc | 21

This is the appropriate response to this young man's self sacrifice. I only hope is raises the awareness he hoped for.

Nonetheless, this is the sort of will power required to construct and carry out and effective domestic opposition to US imperialism.

If this iron will were shared by millions and devoted instead to a protracted struggle within the US to oust the war crazed imperialist 'ruling class', as he referred to our masters in his final speech, things would immediately improve.

I'm impressed by his noble sentiment and will, but it is ultimately a waste of a good man who, had he lived, could have done more to prosecute the struggle against imperialism in the US.

His name was Aaron Bushnel!

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 26 2024 16:02 utc | 55

Like any truly good soldier, Aaron intends his sacrifice to be a spark to action. If activists do not seize upon this starting point, we all might just abandon hopium and just go fishing. The Southern Hemisphere would be my preference.
Oh, and don't wait around for Victoria N. to alight herself over money for Ukr.

Posted by: Bagration | Feb 26 2024 16:05 utc | 56

@ Lev Davidovich | Feb 26 2024 15:54 utc | 54

Immortal, words. Powerful like a gut-punch, painfully true; a raw rubrick to assess resistance action: You're doing it. Right now.

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Feb 26 2024 16:06 utc | 57

Owen Jones has posted a photo at X of Aaron, who looks straight at the camera in a calm, collected manner. A man who knew exactly what he was doing and why.

Posted by: Pundita | Feb 26 2024 16:07 utc | 58

most unfortunate... the whole spectacle is most unfortunate - the man and what he wants to highlight..

Posted by: james | Feb 26 2024 16:10 utc | 59

Quite the statement. Reminded me of Rachel Corrie, how many remember her? Talk about sticking to your convictions.

Huge acts of personal sacrifice. One can only be awed.

The path of truth and freedom is littered with the bodies of Martyres.

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Feb 26 2024 15:42 utc | 49

I and many Californians remember Rachel Corrie. Israel delenda est!

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 26 2024 16:11 utc | 60

The evil Hootits killed him by causing a shortage of fire extinguishers! Bomb them as punishment!

Posted by: Surferket | Feb 26 2024 16:23 utc | 61

“Do you have any proof of mental illness?” -Newbie

He set himself on fire and died. What more proof do you need?

Posted by: Drizzt | Feb 26 2024 15:45 utc | 51

Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries!

And if ever there are two neurons between your hears, remember that a MAN may be led to circumstances where he choses his death gladly and with meaning. It can be fighting, it can be saving others , it can be attesting his cause with the price of his life.

In your case, may your death be as silly and pointless as your life.

I fart in your general direction !

Posted by: Newbie | Feb 26 2024 16:23 utc | 62

Reuters is not even reporting about Aaron Bushnell currently...that is how significant his death is.

What will the empire spin doctors come up with to minimize the focus on Aaron's sacrifice?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 26 2024 16:24 utc | 63

Re: controlling the narrative

The War Party no longer controls the narrative. If a 25 year old military man is able to reject the war party lies; then one can conclude regimist media is dead.

Posted by: Exile | Feb 26 2024 16:26 utc | 64

Bagration | Feb 26 2024 14:33 utc | 18--

You are 100% correct! Aaron honored his oath of service to the nth degree as the Constitution he swore to uphold and defend is and has been constantly violated since 1945, and very overtly since 7 October. It's unfortunate he didn't include verbiage about that extremely important issue.

The Zionist pimp that displayed the mindset of his Masters was an excellent addition and exemplifies exactly what's happening in Palestine--the Zionists burndown Palestinians and shoot them dead if the try to escape the inferno.

Posted by: karlof1 | Feb 26 2024 16:31 utc | 65

Media spin? F 'em. Revolution from below. Always and everywhere.

Posted by: Bagration | Feb 26 2024 16:32 utc | 66

@sln2002 | Feb 26 2024 14:27 utc | 12

'xcuse me. What was the name of the "Arab Spring" dude who torched they/them/their selves in Tunis?

Mohammed Bouazizi of Tunisia is not widely remembered because the Arab Spring his death ignited did not benefit the Arab people.

I hope Aaron Bushnell's sacrifice will have a better outcome.

Posted by: Cyril | Feb 26 2024 16:35 utc | 67

OMG. I cannot comprehend such courage.
Is this what it takes to get the attention of the ruling classes? Is this what we have come to? O brave new world, that has such people in't.

Posted by: pasha | Feb 26 2024 14:13 utc | 6

No, but it may be what it takes to get the attention of the American masses. This kind of act accomplishes nothing by itself, its power is in activating others, tipping the balance, overcoming inertia. There are millions of armed Americans, many of whom have served in the military and hate their own government. If Bushnell's sacrifice stirs them to action- any kind of action- that will get the attention of the ruling class. Not in a good way, it's going to be brutal, but there's never been any hope that the PTB will have a change of heart and give up power willingly.

Posted by: Honzo | Feb 26 2024 16:40 utc | 68

Posted by: canuck | Feb 26 2024 14:30 utc | 17: Quantitative Easing , a fancy name for printing currency out of air.
Anglo-Saxon banking systems have been printing currency out of thin air (OTA) since about 1693; the current euphemism is "fractional reserve banking." Currently roughly 90%-100% of money in the U.S./Bretton-Woods-controlled system is OTA in the form of debt at interest. The global-reserve-currency status of the US$ allows the U.S. to "borrow" (create OTA) new money to pay old debts, a privilege reserved to the U.S. alone.

The preservation of this system and the attempt to secure the commodities required to extort the rest of the world to observe it is the cause of all the U.S.-generated conflict, with Israel and the Ukraine as current examples. The families that control the U.S. probably consider the end of this system an existential threat.

There is a 46.5-minute docu called MONEY AS DEBT which sums it up, notwithstanding the scary music and occasionally unsourceable quotations.

Posted by: aij | Feb 26 2024 16:47 utc | 69

Some people comment "this [burning act] is mental illness.."

The US policy of "more war equals peace" is mental illness, or burying people if it can make you a quick buck is mental illness.

Posted by: One commenter | Feb 26 2024 16:54 utc | 70

The agents of imperialism and zionism, perpetrators of genocidal violence and lies, are insanely criminal, while fighters who consciously sacrifice their lives for the rest to survive, are eternal martyrs. When they live in imperialist countries, theirs is the most unifying of humanity of all sacrifices.
Aaron Bushnell was killed by the same forces that killed Rachel Corrie. Rest eternally remembered.

Posted by: SlowDL | Feb 26 2024 16:57 utc | 71

He set himself on fire and died. What more proof do you need?

Posted by: Drizzt

I would settle for reading the portents from the disgusting contents of your spilled gutlessness.
I do believe you deserve a very unhappy life.
Im sure you have that handled.

Posted by: Not Ewe | Feb 26 2024 17:00 utc | 72

Bushnell was stationed in San Antonio and worked with computers and intelligence. Some 55 years ago, I was stationed at Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio and worked for the US Air Force Security Service (USAFSS), the branch of the Air Force working under NSA. USAFSS has since then undergone several reorganizations ad bane changes, so I suspect Bushnell worked for a successor of USAFSS.

If so, his work undoubtedly involved signals intelligence supporting Israel's war in Gaza.

Posted by: lysias | Feb 26 2024 17:03 utc | 73

Aaron - “​​Today, I am planning to engage in an extreme act of protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people”.

What an incredible act of self-sacrifice to make a point .... from an American in the US forces no less ...

RIP Aaron. My condolences to your family.

Posted by: Don Firineach | Feb 26 2024 17:05 utc | 74

Much respect Aaron.
The security guard with the itchy trigger finger is obviously Israeli trained or Mossad.
Hope he chokes on a bag of dicks.
My guess is this wont get much air time on the Zio-owned media.

Posted by: JoeDontSurf | Feb 26 2024 17:09 utc | 75

On Friday Feb. 29, there will be a by-election in Rochdale, England to replace a member of Parliament who died. A strong supporter of the Palestinian cause, George Galloway, is running for that seat. Bookies strongly favor Galloway to win the seat. There are many Muslims in the constituency. I suspect Galloway will win in a landslide because of the Gaza issue. Galloway, who once was a Labour MP, but who was expelled from the party because of his strong support of Muslim causes, is running as a candidate for a new party, the Workers Party. If he wins in a landslide, which I think is likely, he will upend politics in the UK.

Posted by: lysias | Feb 26 2024 17:10 utc | 76

and name changes

Posted by: lysias | Feb 26 2024 17:12 utc | 77

Would Aaron Bushnell bumper stickers be appropriate?
Thanks B for the heads up..

Posted by: snake | Feb 26 2024 17:13 utc | 78

“Do you have any proof of mental illness?” -Newbie

He set himself on fire and died. What more proof do you need?"

Posted by: Drizzt | Feb 26 2024 15:45 utc | 51

Drizzt for you Aaron's actions seem insane because you are a narcissitic, irreverent, simple Serf whom can't imagine doing anything selfless.

Posted by: canuck | Feb 26 2024 17:17 utc | 79

Krishnamurti: “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

Posted by: librul | Feb 26 2024 17:19 utc | 80

Israel delenda est!

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Feb 26 2024 16:11 utc | 62

Pascere Sionis Canibus"

Posted by: canuck | Feb 26 2024 17:21 utc | 81

Thanks very much for informing us of this act, b!!!!!

I've wrote a quick article linking to yours here in order to spread the news as it's being suppressed and censored as we would expect. Also, there's a very explicit message Aaron sent to all his fellow members of the military--they must uphold their oath of service and cease working for the government as that government has broken the Constitution they swore to uphold and defend and continues to break it on a daily basis. Any person in the military who stands-down is 100% legally correct to do so. "Aaron Bushnell Honoring His Oath of Service to the Nth Degree".

Posted by: karlof1 | Feb 26 2024 17:21 utc | 82

Posted by: Honzo | Feb 26 2024 16:40 utc | 70

I suppose one way it might get more attention is for all of us to send b's article out by e-mail to everyone we know and ask them to send it to all those they know.

Social media may censor it, but we all may have different e-mail providers, so censorship might be more difficult.

Of course, we may make more enemies of friends, family and colleagues, but a relatively minor sacrifice in comparison to Aaron's.

Posted by: Blue Dotterel | Feb 26 2024 17:23 utc | 83

RIP

Posted by: Apollyon | Feb 26 2024 17:23 utc | 84

on cbc news internet page today - no mention of aaron bushnell, but yet another story on navalny... cbc is pure crap.. 100% crap news outlet.

Posted by: james | Feb 26 2024 17:29 utc | 85

"Anglo-Saxon banking systems have been printing currency out of thin air (OTA) since about 1693.."

Posted by: aij | Feb 26 2024 16:47 utc | 71

Anglo/Saxon paper money was created in 1694-NOT out of 'thin air' but by 1.2 million pounds of silver and gold deposits from bankers and Nolbes who loaned the bullion to King William III for his European war from Nobles and bankers.

The Earl of Marlborough, (later the Duke of Marlborough) John Churchill, was one of the investors.

Posted by: canuck | Feb 26 2024 17:31 utc | 86

@86

RIP +1

Posted by: Fred777 | Feb 26 2024 17:37 utc | 87

Only the fiscal collapse of the USGov via the Treasury market failure can bring this all to a halt. April 15 always brings some brutal remimders of what your money buys."

Posted by: Bagration | Feb 26 2024 14:19 utc | 8

I totally agree with this.

Posted by: vargas | Feb 26 2024 17:38 utc | 88

Not to stir controversy, but I thought it was policy for many media outlets not to publicize suicides.

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Feb 26 2024 17:40 utc | 89

The self-immolations of Buddhist monks in Vietnam were certainly reported by the US media.

Posted by: Lysias | Feb 26 2024 17:49 utc | 90

One good soldier sacrificing changes nothing.
A bunch of good soldiers organising may lead to the necessary regime change.
What needs to be burning to the ground, with the occupiers inside, is the Congress, Wall Street, military Industrial complex, Langley, Pentagon, NATO and EU headquarters, and the Knesset.
I say this because I'm a decent human, for the world to have peace, the trouble makers (non human beats Thati are happy with massacres) have to disappear in ashes or the guillotine.

Posted by: Carlos Marques | Feb 26 2024 17:50 utc | 91

The Once and Future Patriot. Full Stop.

Posted by: abierno | Feb 26 2024 17:50 utc | 92

@ lysias | Feb 26 2024 17:10 utc | 78

thanks for that bit of news...

Posted by: james | Feb 26 2024 17:53 utc | 93

Aaron Bushnell needs a proper obituary. I'd like to know something of his parents, who raised him right, and his siblings. Where is his hometown?

Posted by: Chas | Feb 26 2024 17:54 utc | 94

Please be careful not to conflate the murder of Rachel Corrie with this particular act of ultimate sacrifice.
The similarities exist, but the reality should be emphasized.

Posted by: Not Ewe | Feb 26 2024 18:04 utc | 95

Months after the immolation in South Vietnam, and the promised reforms not delivered, the CIA ended the Diem administration.

Posted by: Charles Peterson | Feb 26 2024 18:05 utc | 96

Aaron Bushnell needs a proper obituary. I'd like to know something of his parents, who raised him right, and his siblings. Where is his hometown?

Chas - 96

I'm showing my age, but 50-60 years ago, most everyone would have known that members of the USAF are referred to as Airmen, and it would have been important to mention his rank. These are signs of just how separated the general society is from the details of the American Military.

Posted by: Eric Blair | Feb 26 2024 18:07 utc | 97

Bruised Northerner | Feb 26 2024 17:40 utc | 91

"Not to stir controversy, but I thought it was policy for many media outlets not to publicize suicides."

They want to suppress the fact of how rife suicide has become on account of what a truly hideous society this has become. It's part of the propaganda function, a form of censorship.

Of course this level of suicide as determined political protest is another thing altogether, to be ruthlessly censored.

Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Feb 26 2024 18:08 utc | 98

Injuries you can not see....able bodied on the outside, bent and broken on the inside....everyone is affected by PTSD, their own or someone they know.

Cheers M

....any sane person not suffering just a little PTSD, in real time, over the Massacre Of Gaza....

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Feb 26 2024 18:11 utc | 99

"Not to stir controversy, but I thought it was policy for many media outlets not to publicize suicides."

Posted by: Bruised Northerner

What do you think would happen if an American airman would burn himself outside Russia's embassy?

Posted by: Apollyon | Feb 26 2024 18:11 utc | 100

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