Jonathan Cook – jonathan-cook.net Feb 28, 2025
Walter Salles’ new film I’m Still Here, is a moving, true-story, Oscar-nominated portrait of a middle-class, leftwing family in Rio de Janeiro in the early 1970s struggling to come to terms with the father’s disappearance – 25 years later confirmed as murder – by the Brazilian military dictatorship.
The mother and a teenage daughter spend time inside a regime torture camp too, before being released.
What struck me powerfully in the film was the endless supply of compliant regime officials who impassively, conscientiously carried out the abuse of men, women and children.
It was a reminder that plenty of these people live among us – and that they have been doing very little to hide who they are over the past 16 months.
They are the politicians mangling language and international law by terming as “self-defence” the collective punishment of the people of Gaza through carpet bombing and starvation – crimes against humanity.
They are the police officers raiding people’s homes, and detaining and arresting independent journalists and human rights activists, including Jewish ones, for protesting the slaughter in Gaza.
They are the establishment journalists pretending the carnage inflicted on the people of Gaza is just another routine news story, less important than the death of an elderly actor, or the latest outburst from serial misogynist Andrew Tate.
And, more than anything, they are the army of ordinary people on social media:
- Mocking the families of children shredded by US-supplied bombs;
- Reciting endless claims of “Gazawood” (Gaza-Hollywood), as if the levelling of the tiny territory, visible from outer space, is a fiction and that the only victims are Hamas fighters;
- Defending as a legitimate legal procedure the abduction of hundreds of doctors and nurses from Gaza’s hospitals into “detention camps” where torture, sexual abuse and rape are routine;
- Justifying the destruction of Gaza’s hospitals – leaving premature babies, pregnant women, the sick and the elderly to die – on the basis of entirely unsubstantiated, and self-serving, Israeli government claims that each is a Hamas “command and control centre”;
- Cheering the erasure of the only documentary on Gaza humanising its children because the father of the 13-year-old narrator is a scientist appointed by the Hamas government to oversee what was the agricultural sector before Israel destroyed all the enclave’s vegetation.
These people live among us. They grow more confident by the day.
And one day, if we don’t fight them now, they will be putting a hood over our head to take us to a secret location.
They will be across the desk, asking us the same questions over and over again, making us pore over photo albums to find faces we recognise, people we can inform on.
They will lead us to dirty cells, where there is a hard shelf for a bed, no blanket to keep us warm, no chance to shower, a hole in the ground for a toilet, and one meal to sustain us through the day.
They will escort us silently through long dark corridors to a room where they will be waiting for us.
There will be a chair in the centre of an empty room. They will nod for us to sit down. And then it will begin.
“These people live among us. They grow more confident by the day.”
Wrong !! They aren’t people. They are monsters just like the high viz attack dogs who helped to close the world down in 2020.
Crook’s finally realised that real Evil isn’t goat legged monsters with horns and leatherened wings but actually grey bland bureaucrats, little conformist men with little minds…and little hands…that scurry around the corridors of power..nodding..obsequious little waffling yes men with pockets stuffed full of cash…that smell of fart gas and halitosis…
Who of course know, what’s good for you..and by God you had better agree…or else!..
Starker’s not too different from Genrikh Yagoda.. a jewe murderer and hollow man from Rybinsk.. another Troskyite..
America supported many of these military juntas after WWII and particularly in the 1970s. Now Trump wants control of Venezuelan politics–it’s cheaper than occupation and still gives control of the oil–and America seems to have a willing Colombia on its side. This would be most convenient since losing the dark money they got from Afghanistan’s heroin supply, maybe they want the dark money which control of Colombia’s cocaine supply offers. It’s much closer to mainland USA so easier, cheaper to import. No flying over other countries except maybe a Caribbean island which can be slapped down like Grenada.
Maybe this is why Trump wants to “deal with”, wipe out, Mexico’s cartels? He wants to take their business. If so they won’t be calling him The Don for nothing.
Israel has stopped all humanitarian aid entering Gaza.
Israel can’t stop committing crimes.
Is Israel going to succeed in murdering humanity?
“He’ll is empty, all the Devils are here” W.Shakespeare
”And, more than anything, they are the army of ordinary people on social media” or more to the point……..”And, more than anything, a bunch of C..t’s on social media”
The human race needs to be removed, all around the world people are murdering people/ governments are using police and media as weapons against people and criminals kill for sport. South Africa openly calls for the killing of whites. The problem is not limited to a few places, it is the human disease.
@CHESTERTON
Hitler killed not one jew/cigan !Stalin killed not
one russian ! that did all their little hitlers + stalins .
even Satanjahu killed not one Palestinian . that did
all his little zionists . the devil/demon sits in every
humans brain waiting to get loose . mainly the greedy
politicians for power are their main vulnerable + they
dont know it .
4.5 percent of the U.S. populace my ass.
This evil implosion of this world is a direct consequence of the Jews siccing all of their captive nations on earth against the Third Reich, destroying it, the last bastion of hope for the Aryan race on earth in this time cycle. Nothing will stop the advent of the termination of this Kali Yuga with Ragnarok. Absolutely nothing. Even the gods will die.
International Kikery – Antigen
NSDAP – Antibody
@ aunty yaWEE..
Yes, I’ve heard that one..I’ve also read the bit in the Black Book where man is given dominion over the land and birds and animals..and is exorted to countless slaughters…by the Lord (Baal)…
Now…I’m a betting man and love a good flutter..I’ll put you 10 to 1 that Yawee in the Black Book killed around two million more imbeciles..than the so called Devil…who is actually a Shaitan or adversary..not a hairy Baphomet with a good pair of jugs…
and there’s a reason for this, the first being a Universal God wouldn’t have a ‘chosen people’ that’s abject nonsense especially for a Universal God…
There’s also another interesting element. which is the stated political nature of the fake universal God..which of course is all very ‘jewish’…
You may as well read the swizzler psycho-analist Fraud…. for benediction…
Evil resides in the minds of men..
Middle East politics distracts us from deep evils all round the world, not least in Latin America