CLASS COLLABORATION

MATT TAIBBI (et al)—n April 9th, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, reminding him of a subpoena in search of communications between Meta, the FBI, and “alleged foreign influence or election integrity.” Jordan’s office subsequently released a “Facebook Files” series, revealing documents showing Meta executives worrying about “continued pressure… including from the White House” to remove content.

Zuckerberg yesterday sent a letter that in a country with a functioning news media would have major ramifications. Not in direct response to Jordan’s April query, it appears to have been sent at Zuckerberg’s own volition, and is filled with passages deeply embarrassing to authorities. The first is about pressure to “censor” — specifically “censor,” not “moderate” or “exercise oversight”.

ALEX KRAINER—Time magazine described the “vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election” consisting of “shadow campaigners,” whose “work touched every aspect of the election.” For example, the article explains that, “They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears.”

Time magazine revealed all this, and much more, but did so on the pretense that this vast conspiracy was organized not to steal the elections for Joe Biden, but to protect American democracy.

EDITOR—The United Kingdom has played a massive role in the Ukrainian military’s suicide mission in Kursk – and they want you to know about it. Reporters Klarenberg and Rubinstein analyse the bizarre behaviour of the UK’s ruling elites as they press on with their plans to bring down Russia at any cost, and probably increase the chances of a horrendous global conflict.

MAIN EDITORS—The term MICIMATT, coined by former CIA officer Ray McGovern, stands for Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank complex. This concept extends President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s warning about the Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) in his 1961 farewell address, highlighting the expanding and evolving influence of these interconnected sectors over U.S. government policy and decision-making. MICIMATT encapsulates the comprehensive network of interests that drive and sustain U.S. militarism and interventionist policies through various forms of influence, from political lobbying to media manipulation and academic endorsements.

EDITORS—Nonetheless, even if the essence of the internal U.S. conflict is shrouded, a veil on the working of the Deep State has been peeled away: It is widely understood the Biden ouster was masterminded – behind the curtain – by Barack Obama. Pelosi was the ‘enforcer’ (“We can do this [Biden’s ouster] the easy way – or the ‘hard way’”, Pelosi warned the Biden circle).