03/06/2026 Entire blog as a free PDF eBook. … everything in our civilization is aimed at hiding that reality from us. War is made to look heroic and glamorous. Middle easterners are framed as deranged subhuman savages. The flesh-and-bone consequences of western warmongering are hidden from public view as much as possible. They need to do this because the western empire depends on war. War is the glue that holds the empire together. They need the mass-scale bloodshed to continue, and they need the public to provide no resistance to the bloodshed. The empire cannot exist without war. Peace cannot exist without the removal of the empire. This is what Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian journalist, writes about the war in her article published on Tuesday on caitlinjohnstone.com.au: If Westerners Could Wrap Their Minds Around What War Really Is. “One hit and it wasn’t that bad but when the second one hit, suddenly everything exploded. The windows all shattered. Whoever had hookahs were thrown …