Know Your Enemy

If you find yourself in a difficult situation and you’re not sure who you can trust, this handy reminder could save you a lot of woe. Plus tips on how to fight back.

Know Your Enemy

by C. A. Matthews

When working with immigrants in the United States you’ll often hear the phrase “Know Your Rights” or “KYR” for short. KYR cards are business-sized and usually printed in English on one side and Spanish or another language on the other. They’re handed out to immigrants and their supporters to remind them of their rights under the law, and what they should say and do if they are confronted by ICE or the Border Patrol. It’s amazing how helpful these little slips of paper can be in a time of crisis.

I believe it’s time to start handing out another reminder card to the general public—a “Know Your Enemy” card. Ordinary Americans need reminding exactly who our enemies are and what we can do to protect ourselves from them. If you find yourself in a difficult situation and you’re not sure who you can trust, the following handy reminders could save you a lot of woe.

To get all Americans on the same page, the following are NOT your enemies:

1. “Illegal Aliens” (or immigrants) 2. Real Bug-Eyed Space Aliens 3. Russians 4. Chinese persons 5. Iranians 6. Cubans 7. Venezuelans 8. Palestinian babies in incubators (Hamas!) 9. Lebanese villagers and their priests 10. Paramedics, doctors, nurses, other medical personnel, teachers, college professors, and aid workers living in a foreign country under attack by the US and/or one of its allies (including United Nations workers).

The following ARE your enemies:

1. Capitalists (of all persuasions, particularly Fascists and all listed in the Epstein files) 2. The Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) and related corporations 3. Congress, the president, and all politicians and supporters of the duopoly (that is, all members of “Team Red and Team Blue”) 4. Propagandists who cover for the duopolists 5. The Mainstream Media outlets who hire propagandists and censor dissenters 6. “Tech Bros” who shadow-ban dissenters on their social platforms and want to wipe out the working class and replace them with— 7. AIs and their AI programs that pick out military targets to bomb such as elementary schools and hospitals in countries with large non-white populations (and think nuking humans is okay) 8. The IDF and White Supremacists of all persuasions, particularly Zionists 9. AIPAC/ADL/J Street and their off-shoot agencies and lobbyists (because they along with the MIC are doing their best to bribe all of number three). 10. ICE and all armed thugs and state terrorists that do the dirty work of our enemies.

Now that we’re all on the same page, we all know what the enemy looks like, acts like, sounds like, etc., we can work together and come up with ways to fight against our mutual foes and free ourselves from their tyranny, right?

What’s that? You were sure that at least Russia and China should be on our enemies list? Who told you this? Oh, it was the propagandists that work for the duopolists in the mainstream media and Tech Bros that censor all other viewpoints except theirs… I sort of figured that’s where you were led astray. Just more proof of how “Know Your Enemy” cards will come in handy.

You still don’t seem convinced. Okay then, let me ask you something: When was the last time Russia or China invaded the US or even threatened to invade the US? I’ll give you a few minutes to ponder your answer. Next, I’ll ask: What country/countries have recently bombed children’s schools and hospitals? What country is currently committing a genocide—a bonafide genocide as defined by the United Nations—and is invading all of its neighbors in West Asia? What country bombed an entire village in South Lebanon and is taking out all its bridges so refugees have no place to flee?

I hear your excuses—the Israelis are only mass murdering non-white people who don’t belong to your particular church or synagogue so that makes it all right by you. But what they’re doing to the Palestinians still counts as a genocide and all who give them funding and arms are genocide-enablers who have committed war crimes punishable by the International Court of Justice. Zionism (or whatever you may call it) is no legal excuse for genocide. Oops.

The US entered recently into a non-provoked conflict with Iran in order to help its ally Israel steal more land from the region’s native peoples and to fulfill some kind of weird cult prophecy according to Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth. He claims that it’s up to Israel and the US to bring back the “Prince of Peace” (a.k.a. Jesus of Nazereth) to mass murder everyone who doesn’t believe in him (including Jewish people apparently) by a certain date.

And here you were worried about the Chinese landing on the moon before private American corporations did or the Russians coming after you because you support the Azov Battalion (a.k.a. Ukrainian Nazis) who have been ethnically cleansing Russian speakers from the Donbass region for several decades. Rest easy. You won’t have to learn how to speak Russian or Chinese or Farsi or even Spanish, unless you really want to—but kudos to you if you do.

Nobody on planet Earth wants anything to do with the bloodthirsty crazies that run the United States of America and the mindless mob who follows them. The rest of the planet just wants American and Israeli Zionists to go away and take their military bases and proxy wars with them.

To further convince you of who your real enemies are, read this excerpt from We’ve Entered A New Era of American Imperialism:

A former Palantir executive recently confirmed what many have long suspected. In a public statement, the whistleblower said it plainly: Palantir intended to take over the U.S. government, and many of his former colleagues are now installed inside the federal apparatus. He called it an occupied nation.

He is not alone. Thirteen former Palantir employees — engineers, managers, and a member of the company’s own privacy team — signed a letter shared with NPR warning that guardrails meant to prevent mass slaughter and abuse of power have been violated and are being rapidly dismantled.

What Palantir represents is something unprecedented: the convergence of American imperialism, Zionism, technofascism, and surveillance capitalism into a single instrument of control.

Understanding how we got here requires looking at the machine Palantir has built, who built it, and what they believe.

Palantir was founded in 2004 by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp. Its first major investor was In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm, which seeded the company with millions and opened the door to every major intelligence and defense agency. The logic was deliberate: the American ruling class recognized decades ago that the state’s coercive power — surveillance, targeting, data-harvesting — could be run more effectively and more profitably through private contractors. When a government agency surveils its own citizens, there are hearings, FOIA requests, oversight committees. When a private company does it, it is a trade secret.

Now you can see why capitalists, politicians of the duopoly, the MIC, Tech Bros, and Zionists are all listed on our “Know Your Enemy” card. Ordinary people are under more of a direct threat from these heartless bastards than they will ever be from Iranian school girls and Palestinian newborns in incubators.

“But why do these people in power want to do these things to us?” you wonder. Journalist-comedian Lee Camp puts it this way:

The American ruling elite hate you. They fucking despise you. Until Americans realize this, nothing will change...

The ruling elite seek to keep the average American desperate. Desperate for a job. Desperate for rent money. Desperate for healthcare. Desperate for a functioning community. Simply desperate. Why? Because desperate people are willing to work endless hours for low wages. They’re willing to put up with abuse. They’re too busy and exhausted to fight for change. They’re too beaten-down and frustrated to even pay attention to the news telling them their “leaders” are psychopaths and warmongers and pedophiles and dipshits.

Desperate people are the easiest kind of people to exploit. --From America’s Rulers F-ing Hate You.

If you’re tired of feeling desperate and being exploited, the first thing we all must to before embarking on a campaign to rid the world of these evil people is to memorize the Know Your Enemy card. Because if we don’t know who is actually out to hurt us, then we might injure or kill our potential allies by mistake. We might actually befriend those who wish us harm and give them the upper-hand unwittingly. So we must do whatever it takes to educate ourselves and others as to the threat our Enemy poses.

Note how powerful and wealthy our enemies are. The military-industrial complex keeps them well-supplied with weapons and armed thugs. Their propagandists carefully manipulate public sentiment toward their side. This means that we can’t do this alone. We need numbers. There is strength in numbers. We must organize and build large groups to take on our Enemy. With big numbers of dissenters who don’t buy into the lies we will be able to convince our Enemy that we are dead serious that we don’t want to wind up dead. So Step One is to organize, organize, organize!

Step Two is to keep growing our power via numbers. But our members need to be well-informed so they won’t get easily distracted by bright shiny lies. That’s how Trump got elected twice to the White House. He knew how to manipulate voters with bright shiny lies of “Make America Great Again!” and “America First!” This kind of propaganda really hooked those voters who longed for those things. Only through education and the sharing of information do we stand a chance of keeping the easily distracted on board in the fight against our real Enemy.

Town halls—in person or online—are a good way to disseminate information and grow community. Giving talks and showing Powerpoints to civic groups or at a local library could also entice more into the battle. A “science fair” that tours schools (maybe even shopping malls?) could bring a lot more up to speed through the use of graphics demonstrating how local corporations are fleecing the taxpayer by not paying their fair share of taxes.

Photographs and graphs can show how capitalists/the MIC are polluting the environment with their industrial wastes and manipulating local government in order to gain access to community resources such as drinking water. Sharing statistics about how the Tech Bros are planning to steal electricity and water supplies away from communities to build and cool massive data centers—all at the expense of the public’s health and safety—should open a lot of eyes.

Step Three is to consider how organizations that our enemies claim are “dangerous” or “subversive” can become our allies in the fight. Capitalists/fascists, Zionists, and their war machine (MIC) have hurt so many worldwide that it only makes sense that we organize together to take out our mutual enemies.

Together we will have the numbers, and the more we have on our side the stronger we will become. This is why even the mere idea of starting a General Strike—that is shutting everything down at the same time until we gain the results we want—instills so much fear into fascist-capitalists’ hearts. (Taking direct action, such as Earthquake Faction did recently to shut down the genocidaires’ war effort, is even more effective.)

To recap: Step One is to organize and grow our numbers. Step Two’s educational programs will help potential members to get over their prejudices by revealing how they were indoctrinated or propagandized in the first place. Step Three is to use our numbers with other groups of a like-mind and gain even more power over the enemy.

Our Enemy believes we are weak and that only they are capable of using us or destroying us at will. There’s no time like the present to wake them up to the fact that sociopaths and liars never win, only people of goodwill do.

Power to the people!

Know Your Enemy By Staying Informed…

Know Your Rights card (to print out) https://www.nilc.org/resources/know-your-rights-card/

Companies of the Military-Industrial Complex https://www.militaryindustrialcomplex.com/companies.php

Military Empires: A Visual Guide to Foreign Bases https://worldbeyondwar.org/military-empires

“US Imperialism is the Greatest Threat to Life on Our Planet”: Mapping US Imperialism https://www.globalresearch.ca/mapping-us-imperialism/5782752

US to embed Palantir AI across entire military https://thecradle.co/articles-id/36667

Imperial Decline in the Straits of Hormuz https://tomdispatch.com/imperial-decline-in-the-straits-of-hormuz/

Unlike Past U.S. Conflicts, Iran Attack Is Opposed by Most Americans https://archive.is/0Ibci

Israel keeps murdering every Iranian official who is willing to negotiate https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-keeps-murdering-every-iranian

Iran Is Forcing The World To Care About US-Israeli Warmongering https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/iran-is-forcing-the-world-to-care

Elbit Systems’ Critical Czech Site Burned Down https://popularresistance.org/elbit-systems-critical-czech-site-burned-down/

If We Let Them Divide Us They Win https://redneckgonegreen.substack.com/p/if-we-let-them-divide-us-they-win

More Than 1 Million People in Lebanon Have Been Displaced. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/22/beirut-lebanon-displaced-israel-iran-war/

Zionism and Nazism: Accepting Israel’s invitation to make the comparison https://timlawrencebooks.substack.com/p/zionism-and-nazism

5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/21/middle-east-iran-conflict-environment-climate

The Warmongers Will Never Admit They Were Wrong And Will Never Learn From Their Mistakes https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-warmongers-will-never-admit-they

In Photos: A love letter to Gaza https://mondoweiss.net/2026/03/in-photos-a-love-letter-to-gaza/

Israeli soldiers who gang-raped Palestinian prisoner are now free to return to military service https://mondoweiss.net/2026/03/israeli-soldiers-who-gang-raped-palestinian-prisoner-are-now-free-to-return-to-military-service/

Nuestra America Convoy to Cuba https://nuestraamericaconvoy.org

Release of Leqaa Kordia After More than a Year of ICE Detention https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-cair-nj-welcomes-release-of-leqaa-kordia-after-more-than-a-year-of-ice-detention/

‘There Is a Cost to Telling the Truth.’ But Georgia Fort Is Undeterred. https://capitalandmain.com/there-is-a-cost-to-telling-the-truth

Piketon (Ohio) set to become ground zero for new energy megasite https://sciotovalleyguardian.com/2026/03/20/piketon-set-to-become-ground-zero-for-new-energy-megasite/

Prairieland: A Cautionary Tale (protesters convicted of being an “antifa terror cell”) https://mailchi.mp/unicornriot/prairieland-a-cautionary-tale-202

The Only Worthwhile Western Culture Is That Which Opposes The Western Empire https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-only-worthwhile-western-culture