Surviving the unimaginable devastation in Gaza. Credit: Palestine Will Be Free
Familiar to most internet and smartphone users, Direct Messaging (DM) is a handy technical innovation that allows one to contact a person or group of people directly by typing out a message using a keyboard. Unlike DM, which may be subject to interpretation, Explicit Direct Messaging (EDM) is a means of communication that doesn’t require a laptop or a smartphone. Considerably more effective than DM, EDM is a method of conveying an explicit goal, intent, and/or mental condition without having to spell it out on a technical device. Aimed at a wider audience like say, the entire world, I like to think of EDM as an unspoken psychological messaging platform, a way of helping people along who have yet to wake up and smell the coffee by offering them a clarifying unambiguous message that directly expresses the real objective of an action or set of actions taken by a person, country, or political organization.
Take, for example, the Israeli occupation and genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza that has maimed and killed tens of thousands of people including journalists, medical workers, aid workers, and innocent women and children. People around the world are appalled by the breathtaking level of violence inflicted by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) that claims to be “the most moral army in the world.” If the Israelis wanted to exterminate the Palestinians they could have done so more efficiently and saved a fortune on bombs, tanks, weapons, torture chambers, and internment camps by simply poisoning their water supply or spraying the entire population with toxic gas. These methods probably would have gotten the job done in 48 hours and kept the infrastructure intact, but it wouldn’t have conveyed to the world Israel’s explicit direct message.
👉 Explicit Direct Message: Make no mistake. We are the out-of-control, narcissistic, self-hating Zionist psychopaths that you suspect we are. We are a sick, soulless, and demented culture living in a hermetically sealed echo chamber and are so out of touch with reality, we can no longer distinguish the difference between matzah balls and pigeon droppings.
Similar to the Nazis, we take pride in the fact that people hate and fear us. We see this as a badge of honor, one that helps galvanize and recruit likeminded Jews into our fold. The more people that loathe us, the more empowered we become which allows us to continue to operate with impunity.
Gaza and the West Bank are just the beginning. We are a small country, but our Zionist goal is to create a greater Israel and infiltrate governments and societies around the world as we have already done in the United States where we have successfully turned the American president and the majority of elected MAGA stooges into compliant Israeli lapdogs.
We have poisoned the minds of our once-innocent children who now joyfully sing and dance about the death and torture of their neighbors. If you have any doubts about who we are and what we are capable of, please let us be clear. We will stop at nothing and will destroy and kill anyone who gets in our way. We have lost what little humanity we had and welcome, with open arms, the demonic forces that join us in exterminating the Palestinians, the Syrians, and the Lebanese.
Who’s next?
Historical Roots of Explicit Direct Messaging
When it comes to Explicit Direct Messaging, the Israelis are not alone. They, like other countries, have learned all too well from their American counterpart, the grand masters of EDM and the number-one supplier of money, arms, and technology currently helping to facilitate the genocide in Gaza. Below is a select shortlist of three American atrocities and their explicit direct messages.
#1: The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Neighborhood reduced to rubble by atomic bomb blast, Hiroshima,1945.
Credit: Bernard Hoffman
By 1945, America’s war with Japan had pretty much run its course and was nearing an end. The Japanese had been running out of fuel, and their rail system and food sources were rapidly collapsing resulting in widespread famine.
With memories of Pearl Harbor (a well-plannedUS false flag operationdesigned to set up the Japanese by allowing them to “surprise attack” the US naval base as a pretext for securing America’s entry into the war) still fresh in the American psyche, president Truman authorized the unprecedented use of nuclear weapons against Japan. The justification offered at the time was that the use of this new wonder weapon would force Japan’s surrender and avoid a prolonged and bloody invasion of the Japanese mainland and save thousands of American lives.
While Japan was the unfortunate recipient of this horrific and immoral attack that instantly killed an estimated 200,000 people, creating decades of genetic deformities and irreparable environmental damage from radiation poisoning, surprisingly, the EDM was not aimed at the Japanese who were thought of as expendable, non-White Asian cannon fodder. On the contrary, it was directed at both Russia and America’s European allies.
👉 Explicit Direct Message: Okay guys, listen up! It’s official. We now have the biggest dick on the planet and are in possession of the greatest threat to humanity.
From here on out, we are calling the geographic, political, and economic shots starting with Bretton Woods, our plan to restructure the world’s economy by establishing the International Monetary Fund and by making the US dollar the world’s reserve currency.
To put it bluntly, it’s our way or the highway. If any of you folks are considering snubbing our agenda, we will open our bomb bay doors and turn your country into a fucking parking lot. Period—end of discussion.
#2: The US Invasion of Panama
Flames engulf a building in Panama City during the 1989 U.S. invasion.
Credit: U.S. Department of Defense
On December 20, 1989, close to 50 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States announced Operation Just Cause, the insidious name established to justify the invasion of Panama under the leadership of President George H.W. Bush, former vice president under Ronald Reagan and former director of the CIA.
At that time, General Manuel Noriega, a Panamanian military officer who rose up through the ranks, was the de facto ironhanded ruler of Panama and had been since 1983. Corrupt, brutal, and cunning to the hilt, Noriega had been a strategic ally of the United States who had received training at the School of the Americas in the Panama Canal Zone, where he participated in courses on infantry operations, counterintelligence, intelligence, and jungle warfare in addition to the special training he received in psychological operations at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, home of the elite 82nd Airborne Division.
Noriega’s brash style was overlooked by the Reagan/Bush administration because he was useful to the United States. He had been on the CIA’s payroll and cooperated with the CIA in many ways, such as offering Panama as a base for contra operations against the popular Sandinista government of Nicaragua.
Around 1987, Noriega’s usefulness was on the downside. His flashy sword-waving defiant stance against the US government coupled with his open drug trading turned him into a convenient target for the Reagan/Bush administration determined to prove that the United States was still a power to be reckoned with in the Caribbean in the face of growing anti-imperialist revolutionary movements in Cuban-influenced hotspots like Nicaragua and El Salvador. This was in addition to the administration’s top priority to take back control of the Panama Canal, reversing President Jimmy Carter’s 1978 treaty agreement with the former Panamanian president.
Claiming that Noriega was a drug trafficker along with the pretext of preserving democracy and the need to protect US citizens living in Panama from hostile Panamanian soldiers, the United States invaded Panama in December 1989 with a force of 26,000 troops.
The US invasion had also afforded the US military the opportunity to test its newly developed Stealth Bomber on Panama’s most vulnerable population. As media-watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) noted at the time, Operation Just Cause saw the impoverished Panama City neighborhood of El Chorrillos pulverized to the point of being referred to by ambulance drivers as “Little Hiroshima.” Hundreds and possibly thousands of civilians were killed. It was estimated that the invasion left 14,000 people homeless.
Needless to say, the clock ran out for General Noriega in 1990 when he surrendered to US Forces and was transported to Miami where he stood trial and was convicted of a host of charges in federal court.
Most of the world would agree with the narrative that Manuel Noriega was the out-of-control drug kingpin and the primary reason for the US invasion of Panama, the perfect bad guy that mainstream media loves to report about with the blessings of the US State Department and the intelligence community. However, at that time, and even the subsequent years following Just Cause, none of the major print and media folks were talking about America’s explicit direct message pointed squarely at sovereign nations in the oil- and mineral-rich countries in the Global South. The same message that is currently being replayed and directed at Presidente Nicolás Maduro and the country of Venezuela, the South American nation that presently holds the world’s largest oil reserves estimated at 303 billion barrels (Bbbl) as of 2023. Given the present US military buildup in the waters off the coast of Venezuela, we are weeks if not days away from Operation Just Cause V.2.
👉 Explicit Direct Message: Lesson #1: Never bite the hand that feeds you. In case you haven’t gotten the message, here is the straight dope from the horse’s mouth: We are privileged exceptionalists and don’t give a flying fuck about international courts of justice, UN codes, regulations, or signed agreements. We will take from you whatever resources we damn well please. And if you think we’re joking, try us and we will bomb the crap out of your shithole country and remove and replace your leader like a dead car battery. ¿Comprendes?
#3: The Wholesale Destruction of Libya
Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi / Credit:WallpaperAccess.com
For many Americans over 30, the name Muammar Gaddafi conjures up a list of demonic labels: dictator, tyrant, lunatic. With the helpful assistance of deep state news outlets, they’ve come to view Colonel Gaddafi as an outrageously corrupt, over-the-top whack-job with an obsession for oversized sunglasses, in dire need of a personal hair and wardrobe stylist.
Dubbed the “Mad Dog of the Middle East” by American President Ronald Reagan for his defiantly anti-Western foreign policies, Muammar Gaddafi, a 28-year-old lieutenant in the Libyan military, amassed a band of revolutionaries and staged a bloodless coup against Libya’s corrupt and highly unpopular King Idres in September 1969.
Despite the ridicule he received from Western countries, Gaddafi had been embraced by South African President Nelson Mandela and many other African leaders for his support for various Black liberation movements both within and outside of Africa. Seen asa champion of the people by the overwhelming majority of Libyans, Muammar Gaddafi remained in power for 42 years until the Western-backed overthrow of Libya and his brutal assassination in October 2011 at age 69.
Looking back on the events that transpired during the course of Gaddafi’s 42 years in power, most would agree that the outspoken, defiant, and somewhat eccentric leader made three fatal mistakes—colossal no-nos in the eyes of Western imperialist powers:
1- He took control and ownership of Libya’s rich mineral and abundant oil resources;
2- he invested heavily in Libya’s agricultural and industrial infrastructure and proliferated the profits among his people, and;
3- probably more important, he attempted to create an alternative currency, a gold-backed African dinar—a move that was seen as a direct threat to US dominance and the dollar’s long-established position as the world’s reserve currency.
Gaddafi’s last fatal mistake was, hands-down, the biggest gaffe any foreign leader could make. Threatening to challenge the position of the US dollar strikes at the heart of Western capitalism and America’s number one colonialist tool for maintaining control and domination. This move was the equivalent of crashing a meeting filled with old-school Mafia bosses, putting your feet up on the table, and announcing a plan to take over loansharking operations for every urban center east and west of the Mississippi.
The US response was swift, painful, and predictable. In March 2011, Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Hussein Obama, the wildly popular “yes we can” president, announced:
Today I authorized the Armed Forces of the United States to begin a limited military action in Libya in support of an international effort to protect Libyan civilians. That action has now begun. In this effort, the United States is acting with a broad coalition that is committed to enforcing United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973, which calls for the protection of the Libyan people. That coalition met in Paris today to send a unified message, and it brings together many of our European and Arab partners.
Unfortunately, the unified message that Obama was referring to did not include America’s EDM, the real motivation for destroying the sovereign nation of Libya and sending in the US-backed head choppers to kill its leader.
Photo Stills of Muammar Gaddafi’s final moments. Photo credit: Reuters
👉 Explicit Direct Message: Call us Yankee scum; no problem. Blow up a truck or a ship, hey—we’ll deal with it. But fuck with the Benjamins in any way, shape, or form and we will hunt you down like a dog and clean your freaking clock—bigtime!
Author’s Note:
After years of observing various kinds of Explicit Direct Messaging, I have concluded that EDM is not universally embraced and appreciated by any particular personality type or culture for that matter. It is a lot like facing reality or listening to the blaring sounds of a heavy metal guitar: Some people can tolerate the ear-piercing decibels; others not so much.