PATRICK LAWRENCE—There is no need to wonder what causes this departure from observable facts, diabolically purposeful as it often is, and what comes of it. This may seem an unprecedented moment in human history, but there are, indeed, many precedents. Barbara Tuchman told us all about them in The March of Folly (Knopf, 1984): These grand lapses reflect an absence of intellect, vision, and principle at leadership level and lead ineluctably to failure and one or another kind of mess. The Ukraine case, the preoccupation in Munich last week, could not possibly make this clearer.
GREAT HYPOCRISY
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—In reality the nature of the US-centralized empire allows it to run a massive, nonstop international propaganda campaign through mass media platforms which are mostly privately owned. The fact that these mass media outlets look independent but function as propaganda organs for the US empire allows its propaganda to fly into people’s minds without triggering any gag reflex of critical thinking or skepticism, which wouldn’t be the case if people knew those outlets were feeding them propaganda. Propaganda only really has persuasive power if you don’t know it’s happening to you.
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PATRICE GREANVILLE—Musk’s sudden pilgrimage to Israel to hear Netanyahu’s mendacious and transparently self-serving spiel on the Zionist massacre of Palestinians. Did he really need to do that, considering how overwhelmingly obliging the Western media has been toward the Israeli position? No. But it’s all about public contrition, a la HUAC, photo ops, plain old p.r. Opportunism.
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Norman Finkelstein on Israel’s BRUTAL Assault On Gaza
241 mins readEDITOR—A wide-ranging discussion of the situation in Palestine with Middle East expert and anti-imperialist/Zionist Norman Finkelstein, as world opinion is buffeted by the West’s and specifically Israel’s propaganda machine to justify total ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by the Zionist regime, while most of the Global South and alt media present the Palestinian attack on Israel from the perspective of undeniably oppressed, enslaved people seeking liberation. In Dr Finkelstein’s opinion Israel in this case does not deserve the moral right of “self defence” any more than those who serve as guards for concentration camps.
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Sabby Sabs on Latest Events: RFK JR., CORNEL WEST, HAKEEM JEFFRIES UPROAR, BIDEN IMPEACHMENT BOMBSHELL, HILLARY CLINTON ALARM
120 mins + readSABBY SABS—Anya Parampil EXPLAINS Border Issue, RFK Jr. & More. Why are Venezuelan migrants given preference? The DOJ persecution of the UHURU activists is an outrage, and a blatant violation of the Constitutional guarantees afforded all Americans under the First Amendment.