Richard Wolff: The End of the US Empire and the Denial of the US, and the Rise of China and BRICS

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Atrocity Inc: How Israel Sells Its Destruction Of Gaza

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Apparently, the Amsterdam fiasco opened some people's eyes


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The media’s role in lying about Amsterdam violence just keeps getting darker

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The media's role in lying about Amsterdam violence just keeps getting darker

Maccabi thugs in Amsterdam: Better call t a provocation

Maccabi thugs in Amsterdam: Better call it a provocation


The media's role in peddling disinformation over last week's violence in Amsterdam just keeps getting darker.

Owen Jones has interviewed a Dutch woman who shot the footage used by major outlets – from Sky News and the BBC to the Guardian and New York Times – to suggest that locals in Amsterdam carried out "antisemitic attacks" on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans. In fact, as she has noted on social media, her footage shows the exact reverse: Israeli fans attacking local Dutch residents. 

Despite her efforts to get these outlets to correct their mistake, and issue apologies, none has done so, apart from a German news programme, Taggeschau.

Jones’ interview offers insights as to why.

We know that an early report from the scene by Sky News’ reporter was one of the only to correctly describe the video as showing Israeli hooliganism, not antisemitism.

But Sky quickly took down that report, saying it wasn't "balanced". The channel then heavily re-edited the segment and issued a new version that presented the footage – quite wrongly – as evidence of Dutch locals attacking Israeli fans.

That was crucial to shoring up the false “antisemitism” and “pogrom” narratives spread by Western politicians and the establishment media.

Here's where it gets even more disturbing. The Dutch photographer interviewed by Jones says she was interviewed by Sky News about her footage before the second, re-edited report was aired.



In other words, not only was Sky's reporter correct in her first account of the events in Amsterdam, but Sky's news editors back in London knew exactly what the footage showed too – because the Dutch woman who filmed it had told them.

And yet Sky's news team still edited a truthful news report to make it untruthful.

The only conclusion one can draw is that they did so to mislead their audience. They didn't make a mistake. They didn’t act out of ignorance. They knowingly aired disinformation. They intentionally peddled fake news.

That’s something very hard for most of us to accept. It requires a troubling recalibration, a shift of perspective if we are to understand the world we live in. Doing that is the only way to make sense of some of the most significant events that have unfolded over the past two decades.

We know that an early report from the scene by Sky News’ reporter was one of the only to correctly describe the video as showing Israeli hooliganism, not antisemitism.  But Sky quickly took down that report, saying it wasn't "balanced".

Remember the lies we were sold by the Western establishment media about "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq to justify a US-UK invasion and get Western troops into a key oil-rich Middle Eastern state in gross violation of international law?

Remember the years of evidence-free claims from the entire British establishment media about the most prominent anti-racist politician of his generation, Jeremy Corbyn, who suddenly was outed as an unhinged antisemite the moment he became leader of the Labour party? Corbyn also just happened to be the first democratic socialist to head the party in 40 years.

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  • How the hell is the already massively ignorant US public to get an idea about whats happening in Gaza when the filthy media keeps telling them outrageous lies?  Or making the life of just one Israeli worth 10000 Palestinians?


Remember the entire Western media insisting that Israel’s slaughter and maiming of many tens of thousands of children in Gaza, the systematic bombing of the enclave’s hospitals, and the mass starvation of the 2.3 million people there was not textbook genocide? Rather, it was “self-defence”. It was a legitimate war against Hamas.

None of those things should have sounded like they made any sense at the time.

And if they did, we should have noticed that the media’s presentation of the “facts” just happened to coincide precisely with Washington’s interests to prop up its most important client state in the oil-rich Middle East and isolate its one potential military rival, Russia, as part of a strategic policy of “global full-spectrum dominance” – or, expressed another way, its project to be the world’s sole imperial power, to run the planet like some untouchable godfather.

The problem wasn't, as you feared, you. You weren’t losing the plot. Your suspicions were justified. You were being lied to. The media was gaslighting you.

The challenge is to find a way to liberate other minds still desperately clinging to a comforting illusion: that the establishment media can be trusted, that it is free, honest and moral.


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The Dog That Barked in the Night

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The Dog That Barked in the Night

Revelation of a smoking gun for LIHOP 7 October

Sociopathic war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu doing his theatrics before an appreciative audience, the utterly deferential US Congress.


Before I mirror what Moon of Alabama’s Bernhard published today, here’s my short comment related to it:

How to amplify this important news? It sems clear the minutes could provide the smoking gun evidence needed to prove guilt, the crime being the facilitation of an attack on Zionists and the subsequent crime of killing innocent Palestinians and all international aid workers of all sorts.

IMO, mirroring b's report is the best those of us with our own media outlets can do at this point, and that's what I will do.

Many at MoA have advocated very strongly that Zionists knew beforehand what was to take place on 7 October and those efforts appear to be vindicated. The dog that barked is a riff on the Sherlock Holmes story about the dog that didn’t bark that was the key indicator in that mystery. Comment as usual can be made here but IMO it would be more pertinent to make it at MoA where it’s free and simple to do. The link’s in the opening sentence. Now here’s what was published:

Oct 7 2023 - Netanyahoo Knew The Attack Was Coming - He Let It Happen On Purpose

The prime minister of the Zionist entity, Benjamin Netanyahoo, is under fire. New criminal allegations have been raised against him.

People in Netanyaho's office had 'leaked' secret reports obtained by the Israeli military intelligence from some low level Hamas leader. Before leaking the documents, which included proposals for future actions, the leakers manipulated them.

The manipulated documents appeared as 'news' on foreign websites which allowed the censored Israeli media to repeat their content. As leaked the documents claimed that Hamas leaders Yahya Sinwar, accompanied by Israelis taken hostage, intended to escape to Egypt from where he would travel to Iran.

It was pretty obvious that the claims were fake. But Netanyahoo did use them to prevent further negotiations about hostage releases.

Several people involved in the leak of the manipulated top-secret papers have since been arrested.

Another scandal is currently brewing about events which immediately happened before the October 7 incursion of Hamas into Israel.

On October 6 a significant number of Hamas fighters in Gaza activated Israeli SIM cards which would allow them to use their cell phones within Israel. Various survival systems noted this and raised alarm. Meetings were held by several security councils, including the one involving the prime minister, but no further alarm was raised (machine translation):

More than a year after the October inauguration, the political leadership has repeatedly claimed that it did not receive any warning before the attack - but a document revealed this evening (Sunday) indicates otherwise. According to the document, on the night of the attack, at 02:58 a.m., the Shin Bet issued a significant warning to a number of security and political bodies, including the NSC directly subordinate to the prime Minister.
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The alert, which was distributed through a computerized system, included information about unusual activity in the SIM network of several Hamas brigades. The Shin Bet said the activity was unusual and could indicate the possibility of some kind of offensive activity by Hamas.
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Despite the severity of the warning, it appears that no significant action has been taken in its wake. The NSC, for example, did not take any steps following the receipt of the information. The Israeli police did not change their activities either, as can be seen from the fact that the Nuba party in southern Israel took place as planned.

This suggests, like several other ignored warnings imply, that Netanyahoo and others involved in the decisions knew of the incoming attack but had decided to let it happen to then use the aftermath for their own political purposes.

As the details were starting to come out Netanyahoo came under fire. He had claimed that the security services had been negligent in not issuing warnings. But in reality he seems to have been the one who was informed about the incoming attack but had rejected to raise the alarm.

All the national security council discussions about the decisions in the night of October 6 to 7 are noted in its protocols. As the walls were coming in on the prime minister his immediate aides sought to alter the protocols of the relevant meetings.

But the protocols were under control of a certain high ranking military officer. To get retroactive changes applied, which would exculpate the prime minister, Netanyahoo's aides tried to blackmail the officer over an alleged relation with a subaltern woman:

Top aides to Benjamin Netanyahu are suspected of trying to blackmail an IDF officer in the military secretariat of the Prime Minister’s Office in order to modify minutes of top-level security discussions in the hours before the Hamas attack that sparked the war in Gaza, Hebrew media reported Friday.
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Hebrew media indicated the probe was related to a July report on Ynet that Netanyahu’s former military secretary, Maj. Gen. Avi Gil, had some months before warned the attorney general of efforts to change protocols of security discussions.


Below: October 7—an inside job?


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According to Channel 12, as part of the alleged attempt to change protocols, Netanyahu’s aides are thought to have used “sensitive footage” of a military secretariat officer in order to coax him into changing protocols discussions from the night of October 6-7, 2023 — hours before thousands of Hamas-led terrorists stormed southern Israel to kill some 1,200 people and take 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.

Netanyahu has blamed Israel’s security forces for failure to foresee the attack, and resisted calls for a public commission of inquiry to be established into events leading up to it.

Channel 13 said Netanyahu’s aides allegedly stole compromising information about a military secretariat officer from the phone of a woman who works in the PMO. Netanyahu’s aides allegedly took her phone under the pretext that she was suspected of leaking confidential information, but are thought to have sought her personal correspondence with the officer, the report said.

The Kan public broadcaster had on Thursday reported that Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, the IDF chief of staff, had some months ago received a complaint that the PMO was holding, and making inappropriate use of, sensitive footage of an IDF officer. Channel 13 reported that an official in Netanyahu’s circle told Halevi the officer was in an inappropriate relationship with a female worker in the PMO, though an army probe determined the relationship was not an abuse of power.

It is a wild story, and a juicy tale, and several Israeli media have been digging into it. But I have yet to find any media outside of Israel, except Seymour Hersh, which have touched on the latest issue.

There were suspicions from the very beginning that Israeli authorities had knowledge about the Hamas attack on October 7 2023 before it happened but had failed to raise the alarm. Claims were made, unfortunately without any evidence, that this was done not out of negligence, but on purpose.

They let the attack happen on purpose (LIHOP).

All that followed since was, from the very beginning, part of their long-term plans.

The commentator librul ever since 7 October has advocated it was a LIHOP and has provided evidence to support his arguments. Prior to today, I wasn’t 100% convinced that it was a LIHOP. But based on the evidence I’ve read over the past thirteen months, I’m as convinced it was a LIHOP as was Pearl Harbor and 911, and who knows how many others that are precedents.


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Number One Lesson For Lefty Progressives To Learn From 2024

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CARTOON: Number One Lesson For Lefty Progressives To Learn From 2024

Rec·i·proc·i·ty — is the quality or state of being reciprocal : mutual dependence, action, or influence.

By Mark Taylor
DeMOCKracy (11/12/24)

One of the central features of a functional political process is — just as in real life — reciprocity. Reciprocity is the action/reaction of daily life. Someone holds the door for you and you say, “Thank you.”

And they say, “You’re welcome. Have a nice day.”

Reciprocity. Simple!

I’m not sure when reciprocity was mortally wounded in our society, but I know now I’m always a bit shocked when someone returns a phone call or email or people in my neighbourhood help each other. All too rare events in today’s America.

Despite politics being an act of reciprocity between voter and candidate/party in which you support a party and vote for a candidate because you feel confident they have similar values and will work on legislation that can make life better for you, your family and community. In return for that affirmation, donation and vote, the politician and party will — theoretically — advocate for your interests.

A measure of reciprocity is essential to any functional political process.

In politics, reciprocity has been scorched away. Watch the Breaking Points interview (fourth clip below) with Jim Zogby as he describes what things are like now inside the Democratic Party. The only role members of the party are expected to play is to be good little boys and girls, send in money and show up to vote for the candidates those in power have so considerately put in place.

Your role, your voice mean nothing.

As an example, since the beginning of the US/Israel genocide I have called Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) probably 200 times, usually only getting a voicemail. I wrote probably 20 times. Each and every time I provided my name, phone number and request that a staffer call back. I pointed out I voted twice for Baldwin and donated to past campaigns. In response, I have received zero call backs and perhaps three pro forma email responses, the last one completely misrepresenting what I had said in my letter.

Now, I did receive — of course — several fundraising letters. I reciprocated in a proper way for such a request from such a person. I stuffed the pre-paid return envelope with scrap paper, cardboard and cat food labels to beef up the postage cost for her campaign and wrote a personalized message on the back side then dropped it in the mailbox.


I voted for a third party candidate. Baldwin barely squeaked back into office, running against a California multi-millionaire banker. My third party candidate got 1.3 percent of the vote, more than Baldwin’s less than a full point .9% margin of victory.

Political reciprocity

Former Trump Secretary of Defense and CIA Director, Mike Pompeo looked like he was headed back into the circle of the White House with a Trump second term. Pompeo is one of the dankest, spiny creatures from the oiliest corner of the neocon dungeon. Among other things, he’s the one who ordered an assassination plot on heroic whistle blower Julian Assange.

Trump was floating the possibility of bringing Pompeo in as Secretary of State or Secretary of War, or some other post. But the MAGAverse was having nothing to do with such a slimy development.

On November 8 a Twitter/X user identified as Cat turd posted…

Trend it…
#NoPompeo

The post took off, gathering 1.1 million views in a matter of hours. Donald Trump Jr. jumped in midday Tweeting/Xing: “I’m on it”

Five hours later Trump messaged that not only Pompeo, but Nikki Haley too, would not be part of his new administration.

Talk about reciprocity!

Contrast that with how Democrats are responding in the third video below. All the Democratic Congressional positions are remaining the same. Nobody will pay a price for the massive political malpractice of the Harris/DNC campaign. There will be no reciprocity

Johnny Graz Tweeted/X’d out regarding the Pompeo development: “Hey shitlibs — this is how you push a candidate left.”

That’s how politics works when a party or candidate believes you may walk away. And always remember, you don’t owe anyone or any party your vote.

You’re free.

For now.


POLITICS 101: Trump NIXES Pompeo Appointment After Viral MAGA Uproar

Due Dissidence (11/12/24)

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Jon Stewart DESTROYS 'Woke' Dem Autopsy Takes

“There's some evidence their ad and ground game actually were kind of effective. It's because they have zero narrative they have failed to create the right divisive politics and if you don't relentlessly explain your story of the world your, goals principles heroes and villains your opponents they will happily fill in the blanks ergo she's for ‘they/them’, he's for you. So what would a better strategy look like? Well it looks like Bernie's 2016 class first populism, but on steroids. Democrats need to abandon a bland and offensive unity between the Cheneys and AOC and embrace a division that aggressively excises everyone who puts the billionaire's interest over the working class.

“There should be purity tests on everything that is core to that war against the plutocrats and a large public purge of those who are on the wrong side of that divide.

“If you don't agree that billionaires should be abolished, then get the f*ck out. If you don't want to tax the rich, get the f*ck out. If you don't want to radically increase Union power, get the f*ck out. If you don't want to implement a universal jobs guarantee, get out. If you don't want healthcare, get out. If you do support these things but you also have more moderate position on abortion, guns, trans athletes, okay, there can be a space for you here, but these cultural issues can never be central — they are distractions. Because to claim them as central is to void the correct divisive frame and undercut the narrative the war is not between immigrants and Americans. The war is between the plutocrats and the people. Immigrant and trans panics those are ploys to keep regular people divided against each other instead of against the corrupt political media and economic elite who have rigged the system and hogged all the spoils.”
— Krystal Ball

Breaking Points (11/12/24)

Krystal and Saagar discuss Jon Stewart slamming Dems for their delusional 'woke' autopsy for 2024.

13-minute video

 

FAILURE? Nobody In Democratic Party Congressional Caucus Has Learned A Thing From Harris/Walz Stunning Blow-Out

“How are you not questioning the direction of these leaders that have been in place? How are you not questioning everything about your party's approach right now and so to me …they are not interested in really righting the ship.”

Breaking Points (11/12/24)

Krystal and Saagar discuss top Dems facing zero consequences after losing to Trump.

6-minute video


Breaking Points (11/12/24)

Krystal and Saagar are joined by Jim Zogby to discuss the failures of Democrats in the 2024 election.

14-minute video


"Love Me, I'm a Liberal" (for the Dems 2024 Campaign)

“But I’ve gotten older and wiser, and that’s why I’m turning you in.”

4-minute video

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