Exposing your mind to Western media is like immersing your head in a filthy cesspool

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Eric Zuesse
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Regime-change in Washington is vastly more needed than is regime-change in Moscow. And that’s the truth. But the billionaires’ ‘news’-media WON’T report it.



Bloomberg News headlined on December 12th, “Can Europe’s Energy Bridge to Russia Ever Be Rebuilt?” and the hired columnist said “I’m with the ‘yes’ crowd — even if Vladimir Putin stays in the Kremlin.” He said that this will be necessary for Europe because “if it’s going to keep its chemical, food and heavy industries competitive, it will need some cheap gas. And there isn’t cheaper gas for Europe than Russia’s.” Well, that’s true. But in order to keep up the U.S.-and-allied billionaires’ propaganda-line that ultimately regime-change in Moscow (turning it into yet another U.S. ‘ally’ or vassal-nation) is a necessary objective (for those billionaires’ international armaments and extraction firms such as Lockheed Martin and ExxonMobil), it had to affirm that regime-change in Moscow is needed: the U.S.-and-allied lie that Russia invaded Ukraine not as a necessary defensive measure against U.S. missiles becoming able to be placed on Ukraine’s Russian border only 317 miles away from Moscow but instead to expand Russia’s ‘empire’ to include a neighboring nation, the lie that Russia invaded Ukraine for aggressive reasons had to be affirmed: “Everything changed in February. Putin turned gas into a weapon, cutting exports to one European country after another, hoping to fracture the bloc’s pro-Ukraine unity.” That pretends the reason why energy prices in Europe soared sky-high after the invasion isn’t the U.S.-and-allied sanctions that cut off Russia’s exports into the EU but instead the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

Regime-change in Washington is vastly more needed than is regime-change in Moscow. And that’s the truth. But the billionaires’ ‘news’-media WON’T report it.

Just think of the contempt for the public and especially for these ‘news’-media’s own audience, that those hired propagandists and their hirers must feel, in order for them to pretend that the sky-high energy-bills that European consumers and businesses now are paying, result from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, instead of from the U.S.-and-allied sanctions against Russian exports: anyone with an IQ above 50 knows that Russia didn’t WANT those penalties to be imposed against purchases in Europe of what till then had been Europe’s least expensive energy (energy that’s pipelined-in from Russia and sold in Russia's largest energy-market, Europe). But the penalties WERE imposed, and the two Nord Stream Russian pipelines of energy from Russia WERE blown-up, destroyed, thus accentuating what the purpose of those sanctions is, which is to cut-off those supplies. That’s how much contempt they have, for their own subscribers.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s new book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.


APPENDIX: Exhibits of blatant disinformation

Keep in mind that this is the rule. Any exposure to Western media will turn up countless examples of deception. What these presstitutes say below is practically all a lie, part of a big, cynical disinformation campaign that is not likely to stop until the very composition of political power changes in the West, and Washington's pursuit of global hegemony is conclusively defeated.


SOURCE: ABC NEWS (US) / DATELINE:  12—14 DEC 2022



Exclusive: Freed American from Russian custody speaks out
MAIN PURPOSE: CONTINUE THE DEMONISATION OF RUSSIA'S IMAGE.



ABC'S OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION BLURB: American Suedi Murekezi who was freed from Russian-controlled territory in Ukraine, speaks exclusively with ABC News about his ordeal. (Dec. 14, 2022)

OUR CRITICISM: This is a demonstrable part of the US broad and virulent disinformation effort to sell the public the Ukraine war, a war wholly provoked by Washington and NATO, but routinely described by the presstitutes as a Russian "unprovoked invasion". After the West banned all major Russian or other critical media, and after the West purged its social media from war opponents and critics of US foreign policy, that is imperialist policy, the media continue virtually unchallenged spreading falsehoods around the clock. Again, as customary, no reliable historical context is provided, and we can certainly doubt even the identity of this guy being exchanged at this point. What was this obviously African guy doing in Ukraine? What was his exact occupation prior to his capture? We can't tell for sure because the report is too shallow and virtually unverifiable lacking an authentic free press or unencumbered access to Russian journalists and commentators. Murekezi is happy to provide, of course, the obligatory tale of Russian evil, lest the American public might begin to doubt the morality of this manufactured war.

Hundreds of migrants cross Rio Grande at US-Mexico border
MAIN PURPOSE: REINFORCING THE NOTION THAT, DESPITE ITS MULTITUDE OF PROBLEMS AMERICA REMAINS THE MOST DESIRABLE NATION ON EARTH. EVERYONE WANTS TO COME TO CAPITALIST AMERICA! YAY!

ABC'S OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION BLURB: Unauthorized border crossings in El Paso, Texas, are surging ahead of next week’s likely end to a Trump-era policy that permits immediately deporting migrants without allowing them to seek asylum. ABC News.

OUR CRITICISM: This is barely a snapshot, not serious reporting. And as usual, the ABC "journalists" do not give us any historical context, except the usual propaganda insinuations (that these people are fleeing tyranny, etc., that's why they supposedly come from Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba (sic), etc.). No mention is ever made of the centuries-old American meddling in Latin America: the naked coups, the invasions, the US-supported local dictators and death squads, and the super-exploitation of the people—the poor— by US corporations in partnership with local elites.


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As a well-compensated puppet of the West, V. Zelensky, an actor, and comedian with excellent skills but no principles is the perfect foil to dispense p.r. BS about the realities of Ukraine 24/7. Few people know the sheer dimensions of the Western disinformation machine dedicated to advancing the Ukraine war project. By some estimates, as such things are usually kept secret, no less than 200 pr outfits are engaged in providing mendacity support for the war (in addition to the regular press and DoD internal assets), and this, perforce, must include denials and obfuscations about the true nature of Kiev's "exemplary democracy"—demonstrably a neonazi dominated regime that has long banned and fascistically persecuted and intimidated the democratic opposition—parties, media and activists—in many cases outright murdering them. Let us recall that Kiev, following NATO instructions and relying on their support, engaged in an illegitimate war against the Donbas since 2014, a war that has cost the Donbas no less than 15,000 victims. This is government terrorism by any standard, and this is precisely what finally triggered the Russian intervention. Thus to present Zelensky as a world example of democratic virtue is not only a despicable exercise in deception, but proof conclusive of the depravity of the Western establishment and all its significant instruments, including of course its media. What TIME magazine is doing here is simply propping up the fake rationales for the Western continuation of the war in Ukraine and beyond. A war that is of course not just extremely dangerous, but highly profitable to many elites connected to the MIC, and which naturally agrees perfectly with the longstanding US imperialist agenda for world hegemony, currently seeking the conquest and destruction of Russia, China and any other truly independent nation.—PG



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Note: It's ironic that Fox News (despite its many despicable programs) still has some corners (i.e., Tucker Carlson, etc.) where the truth can be heard, whereas the supposedly more "respectable" media, overwhelmingly liberal, have deserted the public en masse. Carlson, of course, like the rest of the hosts on Fox News, not to mention the rest of the mainstream media, often presents a deeply flawed picture of reality. Fox—mirroring Republican biases—is for example a "China-hating" network, while the so-called "liberal media" remain obsessively Russophobic. In this brawl, however, the liberal media are firmly covering up and propping up the censorship-friendly "WOKE imperialist" model of fascistoid corporatism in which the Democrats are heavily invested, leaving only Fox and its allies to offer a platform to those voices who oppose such a development. In sum, we are not endorsing Fox, nor the rightwing way of seeing reality, but in the current situation, it is a damn sight better and momentarily more honest than the War-addicted corporatist liberal "center".


1. First things first, The Taibbi thread: THE TWITTER FILES
A typical comment on this thread:


2.REMEMBER THE PRE-HISTORY OF THE CURRENT SCANDAL
It pays to refresh your mind on the "pre-history" of the current scandal, the role of the political class and media in the Russiagate hoax, which not only polluted the waters with Russia, making the Ukraine war inevitable, but has pushed the world to the brink of a completely unjustified nuclear clash. The report below was filed late in 2021. Readers may recall that the expensive and exhaustive Mueller investigation on Trump's alleged collusion with Moscow to influence the 2016 election (released in March 2019), and, in general, Russian meddling in US elections, was a "nothingburger", pretty much a fabrication pushed by the Democrats with the complicity of the MSM and the national security fraternity, especially the CIA and the FBI. The Big Lie of Russian "meddling" in our non-existent democracy is still floated with impunity on many platforms, its countless repetition having acquired, as intended, the veneer of self-evident truth. Unindicted felons like the entire DNC's leadership, including the notorious Neocon Russophobe Adam Schiff, continue their malign work completely undisturbed.


 3. MANAGING THE MESS: SEEKING QUALIFIED HELP
Elon Musk hands over the radioactive "Twitter Files" to Matt Taibbi. This move is sagacious and prudent, considering that Musk is no match for the vile deviousness of the Establishment (i.e., the currently more powerful wing of the ruling class, to which Biden and the Democrats belong).


Matt Taibbi, tapped to share Elon Musk's 'Twitter Files' on Hunter Biden story, agreed to 'certain conditions'

Elon Musk outsourced the disseminating of Twitter documents to the prominent Substack journalist

M att Taibbi, the Substack journalist who disseminated the so-called "Twitter Files" that shed light on the tech giant's suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, told his readers he had to agree to "certain conditions" to receive the major scoop from Elon Musk.

In a note to "TK" readers published ahead of his viral Twitter thread, Taibbi wrote: "Very shortly, I’m going to begin posting a long thread of information on Twitter, at my account, @mtaibbi. This material is likely to get a lot of attention. I will absolutely understand if subscribers are angry that it is not appearing here on Substack first. I’d be angry, too."

"The last 96 hours have been among the most chaotic of my life… There’s a long story I hope to be able to tell soon, but can’t, not quite yet anyway," Taibbi wrote. "What I can say is that in exchange for the opportunity to cover a unique and explosive story, I had to agree to certain conditions."

He continued: "Those of you who’ve been here for years know how seriously I take my obligation to this site’s subscribers. On this one occasion, I’m going to have to simply ask you to trust me. As it happens, there may be a few more big surprises coming, and those will be here on Substack. And there will be room here to discuss this, too, in time."

Taibbi did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment. 

ELON MUSK REVEALS WHAT LED TO TWITTER SUPPRESSING HUNTER BIDEN STORY IN 2020

Matt Taibbi penned a scathing Substack post headlined, "The Russiagate Whitewash Era Begins," which declares the liberal media knew exactly what they were doing by pushing the now-discredited Steele dossier.


The Russiagate Whitewash Era Begins

After the WMD mess, Judith Miller got the blame, while a long list of just-as-guilty media villains failed upward. Now, a nervous press is looking for Russiagate's fall guys

Nov 17, 2021
 

“There is an old saying in journalism: You’re only as good as your sources,” wrote Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler, in a piece about the indictment of “Steele Dossier” source Igor Danchenko. The latter is being set up to take the rap as the dirty Russian rat who hoodwinked poor civic-minded Christopher Steele, the FBI, and the entire American press corps into propping up the biggest hoax since the WMD affair.

After America invaded Iraq and failed to turn up weapons of mass destruction, the press went into CYA mode. Pundits who’d panted for war now cooked up a new narrative, that the WMD “mistake” had been caused by a combination of faulty intelligence, over-confident officials in the George W. Bush White House, and one New York Times writer named Judith Miller. Everyone else who so forcefully screwed the pooch on that story, from New Yorker editor David Remnick to New York columnist Jonathan Chait to current Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, emerged either unscathed, or draped in awards and promoted.

Now, the Russiagate tale many of those same people hyped is falling apart, and the industry is again building battlements to protect careers from a cascade of humiliating revelations. This time, a combination of Danchenko, Buzzfeed editor Ben Smith, and perhaps a few organizations like McClatchy will be tossed out of the lifeboat. If you’re ever tempted to think there’s honor among thieves, check out this recent flurry of Russiagate finger-pointing.
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After a lengthy delay following his big announcement, Elon Musk revealed he had outsourced his findings to Taibbi about what was behind Twitter's decision to censor the New York Post's bombshell reporting about Hunter Biden's laptop in the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election. Twitter alleged the Post's story had violated its "hacked material" policy.

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Taibbi tweeted "there’s no evidence — that I've seen" that the federal government had a role in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story, but that "the decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, with former head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde playing a key role."

"'They just freelanced it,' is how one former employee characterized the decision. ‘Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn’t going to hold. But no one had the guts to reverse it,’" Taibbi wrote. 

Vijaya Gadde, the former Chief Legal Officer at Twitter, had a "key role" in the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020, according to findings shared by Elon Musk. (REUTERS/ Mike Blake)

Taibbi then shared a screenshot of an exchange purportedly between Gadde, Twitter's former Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth and former Twitter spokesman Trenton Kennedy, who wrote, "I'm struggling to understand the policy basis for marking this as unsafe… "

"… can we truthfully claim that this is part of the policy?" Twitter's former Vice President of Global Communications Brandon Borrman similarly asked at the time, according to a separate screenshot shared by Taibbi. 

FROM 'SMEAR CAMPAIGN' TO 'RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION,' LIBERAL MEDIA TEAMED UP TO DISMISS HUNTER BIDEN STORY

Twitter's former Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker replied, "I support the conclusion that we need more facts to assess whether the materials were hacked," Taibbi's screenshot showed.

He added: "… it's reasonable for us to assume that they may have been and that caution is warranted."

Taibbi teased: "There is much more to come, including answers to questions about issues like shadow-banning, boosting, follower counts, the fate of various individual accounts, and more."

Elon Musk has wasted little time making his mark on Twitter since he took over last month. (Getty Images)

Musk had been vocal about being transparent regarding Twitter's past and present actions it takes when it comes to curating content on the platform, including censored content.

Twitter famously blocked its users from sharing the New York Post's reporting of Hunter Biden's laptop in tweets and in direct messages. 

At the time, Twitter Safety alleged the articles were in violation of its "hacked materials policy." Twitter's then-CEO Jack Dorsey admitted his company's actions were a mistake. 

Many critics believe the suppression of the Hunter Biden scandal by Big Tech and the media at large was enough to sway the election in favor of his father. 

4. Musk's rationale

Elon Musk reveals what led to Twitter suppressing Hunter Biden story in 2020

Musk released the revelations about Hunter Biden's laptop on Twitter through Substack journalist Matt Taibbi

Twitter owner Elon Musk released bombshell revelations about what led the tech giant to suppress the Hunter Biden story in the final weeks of the 2020 presidential election. 

After a lengthy delay, Musk outsourced his findings to Substack journalist Matt Taibbi, who published a lengthy thread about what had transpired behind the scenes at Twitter. 

"Some of the first tools for controlling speech were designed to combat the likes of spam and financial fraudsters. Slowly, over time, Twitter staff and executives began to find more and more uses for these tools. Outsiders began petitioning the company to manipulate speech as well: first a little, then more often, then constantly," Taibbi wrote. "By 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. One executive would write to another: ‘More to review from the Biden team.’ The reply would come back: 'Handled.'"

Taibbi shared a screenshot of that October 2020 exchange featuring links to tweets Biden's team allegedly wanted taken down. Many of them were to tweets featuring pornographic images of Hunter Biden found in his laptop, according to Washington Free Beacon investigative reporter Andrew Kerr. 

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"Both parties had access to these tools. For instance, in 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored. However…  This system wasn't balanced," Taibbi wrote. "It was based on contacts. Because Twitter was and is overwhelmingly staffed by people of one political orientation, there were more channels, more ways to complain, open to the left (well, Democrats) than the right."

"The resulting slant in content moderation decisions is visible in the documents you’re about to read. However, it’s also the assessment of multiple current and former high-level executives," the journalist teased. 

FROM 'SMEAR CAMPAIGN' TO 'RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION,' LIBERAL MEDIA TEAMED UP TO DISMISS HUNTER BIDEN STORY

He then quickly pivoted to the "Twitter Files" regarding the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story

Taibbi tweeted "there’s no evidence - that I've seen" that the federal government had a role in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story but that "the decision was made at the highest levels of the company, but without the knowledge of CEO Jack Dorsey, with former head of legal, policy and trust Vijaya Gadde playing a key role."

"'They just freelanced it,' is how one former employee characterized the decision. ‘Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized that wasn’t going to hold. But no one had the guts to reverse it,’" Taibbi wrote. 

Taibbi then shared a screenshot of an exchange between Gadde, Twitter's former Trust and Safety chief Yoel Roth and Twitter spokesman Trenton Kennedy, who wrote "I'm struggling to understand the policy basis for marking this as unsafe."

JAKE TAPPER DECLARES HUNTER BIDEN CLAIMS ‘TOO DISGUSTING' TO REPEAT ON CNN: ‘THE RIGHTWING IS GOING CRAZY’

"Can we truthfully claim that this is part of the policy?" Twitter's former VP of Global Comms Brandon Borrman similarly asked at the time, according to a separate screenshot shared by Taibbi. 

Twitter's former Deputy General Counsel Jim Baker replied, "I support the conclusion that we need more facts to assess whether the materials were hacked" but added "it's reasonable for us to assume that they may have been and that caution is warranted.




Taibbi then revealed that Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna reached out to Gadde about the "backlash re speech," noting that Khanna "was the only Democratic official I could find in the files who expressed concern."

Gadde responded to the California lawmaker by "diving into the weeds" of Twitter's policy, but Khanna warned Gadde "this seems [to be] a violation of the 1st Amendment principles." "I say this as a total Biden partisan and convinced that he didn't do anything wrong. But the story now has become more about censorship than relatively innocuous emails and it's becoming a bigger deal than it would have been," Khanna wrote. 

Taibbi's viral thread shed light on a report Twitter received from the research firm NetChoice "within a day" that allegedly polled at least "12 members of Congress- 9 Rs and 3 Democrats" about the backlash the tech giant was receiving on Capitol Hill at the time. NetChoice warned Twitter of a "blood bath" awaiting them in D.C. and that one figure from Capitol Hill compared its actions to "tech’s Access Hollywood moment."

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Communications among Democratic lawmakers, based on NetChoice's report to Twitter allegedly seen by Taibbi, expressed that social media needed more moderation, saying "the First Amendment isn't absolute."

CNN BOSS, POLITICAL DIRECTOR SPIKED HUNTER BIDEN CONTROVERSY, AUDIOTAPES REVEAL: ‘WE’RE NOT GOING WITH' STORY

Taibbi stressed how seemingly unaware Dorsey was about various actions Twitter took that were decided without his knowledge, pointing to an email he sent to Gadde of an article Taibbi himself penned being critical of Twitter's actions.

"There are multiple instances in the files of Dorsey intervening to question suspensions and other moderation actions, for accounts across the political spectrum," Taibbi tweeted.


Jack Dorsey, former CEO of Twitter, was apparently unaware of the policy actions his company was taking to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story, according to Elon Musk's findings shared by journalist Matt Taibbi. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images). Nerdish tycoons really do not understand politics or are simply bored by it, preferring to entrust their class interests to the "national security apparatus", the disinformation machine, professional politicians and think-tankers.


Regarding the so-called "hack materials" policy Twitter kept citing at the time, Taibbi cited "several sources" who say that policy normally required an official/law enforcement finding of a hack. But such a finding never appears throughout what one executive describes as a 'whirlwind' 24-hour, company-wide mess."

Even actor James Woods was swept up in the Taibbi's Twitter thread, revealing that the Democratic National Committee had requested one of his tweets from October 2020 to be removed. Woods vowed to Fox News' Tucker Carlson that he will sue the DNC for its efforts to silence him. 

Taibbi concluded the thread, calling it a "whirlwind 96 hours for me" but teased that "There is much more to come, including answers to questions about issues like shadow-banning, boosting, follower counts, the fate of various individual accounts, and more."

Musk himself teased "Episode 2 of The Twitter Files" will take place on Saturday as well as a "live Q&A."

Elon Musk has wasted little time making his mark on Twitter since he took over last month.

Musk had been vocal about being transparent when it comes to Twitter's past and present actions it takes when it comes to curating content on the platform, including censored content. 

Twitter famously blocked its users from sharing the New York Post's reporting of Hunter Biden's laptop in tweets and in direct messages. 

At the time, Twitter Safety alleged that the articles were in violation of its "hacked materials policy." Twitter's then-CEO Jack Dorsey admitted his companies actions were a mistake. 

Many critics believe the suppression of the Hunter Biden scandal by Big Tech and the media at large was enough to sway the election in favor of his father. 

5. The Democrat Mob Mobilises : Musk Starts to Catch the Liberal Backlash


Musk’s revelations on Twitter censoring Hunter Biden laptop story prompt liberal rage: ‘Hack stuff'

Democratic congressman Ted Lieu demanded Musk 'stop posting stupid s***'

Liberal pundits rushed to discredit a bombshell Twitter thread from Elon Musk and Substack journalist Matt Taibbi revealing the internal communications of Twitter employees and U.S. lawmakers surrounding the censorship of the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020.

The revelations, dubbed the "Twitter Files," were posted on the social media platform Friday night by Taibbi at the behest of Musk, who provided emails and other documents showing the inner workings of how Twitter had engaged in censorship prior to the 2020 presidential elections, including quashing the Post’s story. 

Among the revelations was that Twitter staff had open channels with powerful third parties, including members of both political parties, so that they could flag tweets they deemed problematic and have them "handled." Taibbi asserted that because there were more liberals within Twitter, requests to throttle conservative accounts were fielded more.

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What, me worry?


Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi revealed the "Twitter Files" on Friday, a thread revealing the inner communications of Twitter employees and U.S. lawmakers surrounding the censorship of NY Post's Hunter Biden laptop story. 

Most notably were the documents Taibbi unveiled showing communications among high level Twitter employees who eventually agreed to emergency moderation measures to stop the spread of the Hunter Biden story, even though many of them were worried they had little justification to employ such measures.

One revealing email depicted former Twitter head of trust and safety Yoel Roth apparently claiming that though "the facts remain unclear" on whether the New York Post story could be stifled, he encouraged staff to muzzle it in light of the "lessons of 2016."

Though liberals on the platform did their best to downplay the information revealed in the "Files," with several of them resorting to attempts at bullying Taibbi and Musk.

"Pod Save America" podcast co-host and former Obama White House staffer Jon Favreau slammed Musk directly: "Elon is spending the evening trying to embarrass someone who’s struggled with addiction so that he can juice engagement on the platform he bought that’s hemorrhaging money. Great guy."


Liberal pundit Wajahat Ali took shots at Musk’s messenger, accusing him of "selling" his soul to the billionaire. Ali wrote, "Matt Taibbi...what sad, disgraceful downfall. I swear, kids, he did good work back in the day. Should be a cautionary tale for everyone. Selling your soul for the richest white nationalist on Earth. Well, he'll eat well for the rest of his life I guess. But is it worth it?"

MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan completely sidestepped the content of Taibbi’s revelations, opting for ad hominem attacks. He tweeted, "Imagine volunteering to do online PR work for the world's richest man on a Friday night, in service of nakedly and cynically right-wing narratives, and then pretending you're speaking truth to power."

He added, "Oh, and doing it at the end of the same week that richest man alive unbanned a bunch of neo-Nazis on this website. But sure, the laptop! The laptop! The laptop!"

NBC News reporter Ben Collins blasted the thread, saying that Twitter’s employees were just doing "regular" work involving the laptop story. He tweeted, "These are regular people and private citizens doing regular comms work and asking good questions. Unbelievable hack stuff here."

Fellow NBC News reporter Brandy Zadrozny slammed one of the thread’s main arguments, tweeting, "To leap to political contributions as the reason the right was more often reported for rule breaking is just bad reasoning and really bad reporting. Good thing this guy doesn't have an editor."

JAKE TAPPER DECLARES HUNTER BIDEN CLAIMS ‘TOO DISGUSTING' TO REPEAT ON CNN: ‘THE RIGHTWING IS GOING CRAZY’

Liberal journalist Molly Jong-Fast attempted to attack some of the revelations, specifically Musk’s claim that Twitter censored Hunter Biden’s laptop and prominent conservative accounts "under orders from the government."  Jong-Fast replied, "You know trump was president in 2020 so how is candidate biden the government?"

She also wrote, "2020 ‘government’ was president trump."

Atlantic writer Tom Nichols claimed to find the same weak point that Jong-Fast did, tweeting, "Hi. As a certified political scientist (sic), I can assure you that Joe Biden was not in charge of the US government in 2020. That was actually Donald Trump. Let me know if I can help with any questions."

The Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson produced a flippant response, tweeting, "Well, back to putting lights on Christmas trees and drinking champagne. Enjoy discussing Hunter's d*** pics."

Wilson also attacked Musk’s claims that if Twitter censored tweets at the Democratic Party’s request that’s a violation of the "First Amendment." He wrote, "God, you're embarrassing yourself on this one at scale."

Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., went after that same point, tweeting, "Dear @elonmusk: I’m in the government and I order you to stop posting stupid shit. See why your post is wrong? Twitter can do whatever it wants as a private sector company when it comes to speech. And the Biden campaign team wasn’t the government. Trump was President in 2020.

Crooked Media editor-in-chief Brian Beutler accused Musk’s revelations of being a stunt done to "settle a political score." He tweeted, "Also: Musk has now seemingly leaked private third-party communications he inherited when he took control of Twitter, in order to settle a political score. I believe it’s the first instance of him doing the nightmare-scenario thing his critics warned he might."

Liberal commentator Brian Tyler Cohen attempted to dismantle the thread’s entire argument, tweeting, "So Twitter was acting under orders of the government except Biden wasn't POTUS in 2020. And it's a First Amendment violation except Twitter can't violate 1A as a private biz. And the takedown requests from team Biden were nudes against Twitter's TOS. But going great otherwise!"


Hunter Biden: A clumsy, errant son, or merely chip off the old block?


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6. THE CAREERIST PROSTITUTED MEDIA REFUSES TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION
On this critical issue, Tucker Carlson provides a desperately needed platform


Tucker Carlson Tonight

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Tucker Carlson: Twitter documents show 'systemic violation of the First Amendment'

Fox News host Tucker Carlson reacts to the bombshell report Elon Musk released about Twitter's censorship of the Hunter Biden story on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'


Glenn Greenwald: The National Security State is in bed with Big Tech

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December 2, 2022

Journalist Glenn Greenwald says the tentacles of the U.S. Security State are in almost every single institution of authority in power on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'


7. WHY ALL OF THIS IS HAPPENING


The origin of the crisis is deep in the DNA of capitalism, the very oxygen of the Western ruling elites, therefore non-negotiable and incurable.

If the public in the West fails to understand the true roots of this (and similar previous crises, except this one is even more dangerous) then we may be about to witness the establishment of an even more efficient, ruthless, and reckless fascist totalitarian dictatorship than the current model. in this video, Caleb Maupin digs up the actual causes of the global capitalist crisis, and why the US ruling class is in the midst of a big Bonapartist kerfuffle that can only lead to a new form of fascism—US style—as the two main wings of the US oligarchy struggle for dominance, while the whole system (still controlled by Big Capital) is also seeking a war across the globe to suppress emerging international rivals. Regardless of the outcome, this does not bode well for most living things on this planet.

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The Long String of U.S./UK/EU Lies Against Russia

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The Long String of U.S./UK/EU Lies Against Russia
By Eric Zuesse


This article and its linked-to documentation will expose so many lies from the U.S.-and-allied Governments and their ‘news’-media and hired academics, as to get almost any reader’s head spinning; but, if so, then that will be the case ONLY because their lies are so profuse as to virtually drown out truth regarding geostrategic and international-relations (or “foreign affairs”) matters. These are the types of issues regarding which truthful reporting and analysis are almost non-existent, because billionaires (who control these countries) tend to care far more about such international matters than about purely domestic matters (such as ‘racial relations’, ‘gay rights’, ‘abortion’, etc.), which dominate domestic politics because (unlike billionaires), most people DON’T control international mega-corporations, and are therefore NOT interested in extending an empire. Imperialism is the game in The West, and only the aristocracy (the billionaires) can play it. And they have the media by which to do it — with constant lies.

So: here goes the truth-cleansing away of these overwhelmingly dominant lies in The West:  


The original, 2012, anti-Russian sanctions were based upon lies by Bill Browder saying that his ‘lawyer’ (who was no lawyer but instead his accountant and bookkeeper) was tortured to death by Russian police, to silence that ‘whistleblower’, who was trying to expose Russian corruption — and all clauses in that accusation were actually lies and have subsequently been proven to have been lies (but the resultant “Magnitsky Act” U.S./UK and EU sanctions against Russia still stand, as if those sanctions had instead been based upon truths — and this further confirms the U.S-and-allied regimes’ evilness and utter unconcern about truthfulness).

The subsequent anti-Russian sanctions were based upon actions that Russia had taken to protect Russia from U.S.-and-allied aggression, in response to America’s February 2014 coup that overthrew Ukraine’s democratically elected President and replaced him by a U.S.-selected racist-fascist or nazi and entirely illegal (and provably so) intensely Russia-hating Ukrainian regime, ruling now a mere 300 miles away from The Kremlin in Moscow — an enormous national-security threat posed by the U.S. regime to blitz-nuke Russia’s central command if Ukraine becomes allowed into NATO. U.S. President Barack Obama’s 2014 coup that grabbed control over Ukraine was the turning-point toward WW III, and Russia has since been acting accordingly, to avoid being checkmated by U.S. missiles becoming posted only 5 minutes missile-flying-time away from The Kremlin. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, refused to allow Soviet missiles to become posted in Cuba 1,113 miles away from hitting Washington DC; Putin in 2022 refused to allow the U.S. regime to post its missiles 317 miles away from The Kremlin.

On 7 October 2019, I headlined “Update on the MH17 Case” and documented that the Dutch court that was dealing with the case of the downing of the MH17 Malaysian passenger-plane over the war-zone in Ukraine was refusing to allow evidence that Russia and also the Donbass republics and also the Malaysian Government wanted to submit, including the black boxes and satellite data, but were considering ONLY evidence that was submitted by the Dutch prosecutors against Russia — all of which was of low quality and far inferior to the ‘evidence’ that was being offered to the court. 

Furthermore:

As I reported back on 24 August 2014, a secret agreement had been signed on August 8th between Netherlands, Ukraine, Belgium, and Australia, that Ukraine would have veto-power over any finding that their official “Joint Investigation Team” (“JIT”) would issue regarding the shoot-down of the MH17. Malaysia was excluded from the Team, but was finally admitted, after agreeing to their secret terms — including not to blame Ukraine.

On 17 November 2022, the Dutch court convicted in absentia three Russians on the basis of the Dutch Government’s allowed evidence. Donbass-Insider’s Christelle Néant headlined that day, “VERDICT IN THE MH17 CRASH CASE – SHOW TRIAL AND PARODY OF JUSTICE”, and John Helmer (a longstanding American journalist in Moscow) bannered “MH17 COURT APPLIES DUTCH LAW OF FINGER-POINTING — GUILT BY ASSOCIATION IF THE PERPETRATOR IS RUSSIAN, INNOCENCE BY ASSOCIATION IF PROSECUTOR IS DUTCH OR UKRAINIAN”. Both reports documented the blatant fraudulence of the Dutch Government’s ‘trial’ ‘findings.’

As I noted in my “Update” article:

President Obama not only perpetrated the February 2014 bloody coup in Ukraine which he had started by no later than 2011 to plan and placed into operation on 1 March 2013 inside the U.S. Embassy in Kiev (months before the democratically elected Ukrainian President whom he was to overthrow decided for Ukraine not to accept the EU’s offer of membership), but Obama and his NATO were so determined to reverse the coup’s resulting breakaway, from Ukraine, of Ukraine’s two most anti-nazi districts, Crimea and Donetsk, that Obama and his NATO then set up the shoot-down of the MH17 airliner by Obama’s newly-installed nazi Ukrainian government, with the objective being to promptly blame it against Russia. Obama was, at that time, in early July 2014, desperate for there to be a pretext on which the European Union would join the U.S. in greatly hiking sanctions against Russia regarding Ukraine. What the most-recent information will show is this: Obama and his NATO were intending to use this false accusation against Russia as a pretext not only to hike anti-Russia sanctions but ultimately to invade both Donetsk and Crimea and risk WW III in order to coerce those two regions back again into Ukraine — now to become (like the rest of Ukraine) under the control of the U.S. regime. The reasons why that plan failed (was aborted) were, first, that Malaysia’s Government held in international law the unchallengeable right of ownership over the airliner’s black boxes; and, second, that there was especially one member of NATO, Angela Merkel, who refused to risk WW III and to join into Obama’s extremely psychopathic scheme, since it risked the whole world over his determination to grab the entirety of Ukraine. Obama always refused to proceed forward with a geostrategic plan if it was strongly opposed by at least one core ally — in this particular instance, he knew enough not to drive Germany to abandon NATO and to ally with Russia (especially since Russia itself was his actual target in his coup to take over Ukraine). By declining to move forward without Merkel, all of those immediate risks to the world were avoided. Furthermore, Malaysia’s holding the black boxes was especially a problem for Obama and NATO, because any preparation for a U.S.-NATO invasion of Donbass and Crimea would spark Malaysia to go public with what it already knew about the U.S.-NATO lies regarding the MH17 incident. Obama possessed no ability to prevent that response from Malaysia. Not only Germany, but also Malaysia, possessed power in this situation, and Obama, fortunately, yielded to it. 

This long string of U.S.-and-allied lies against Russia should also provide its readers access to the proofs that the following pre-packaged and endlessly repeated U.S.-and-allied propaganda-phrases against Russia are likewise false — lies:

“Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine”

“Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine”

“unprovoked war in Ukraine”

“Russian aggression against Ukraine”

The U.S.-and-allied regimes display a contempt of their own ‘citizens’ (or “subjects”) by lying to us constantly, in order to pump up still further the international sales-volumes of America’s international mega-corporations such as Lockheed Martin and ExxonMobil. The aristocracies are playing a dangerous game, with everyone’s lives. (The British aristocracy has long called it “The Great Game”; or, now, “the Anglosphere alliances”; but, really, it’s Rhodesism, which started in 1877 and pits U.S. and UK against Europe and especially against Russia, so that the UK/U.S. “Special Relationship” will ultimately control the entire world. UK/U.S. target all of Europe to be their colonies, to exploit. And their plan seems to be succeeding, though UK itself might become destroyed by it. U.S. is the UK empire’s life-preserver, but that life-preserver might ultimately turn out to be made of lead.)


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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s new book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.


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Although it’s too soon to be sure, the early signs are not looking good for Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of Twitter, thereby demonstrating once again how easily the concentrated power of the media can destroy those whom it turns against.

The South African-born Tech entrepreneur entered the fray having several seemingly huge advantages. He already ranked as the wealthiest person in the world by a considerable margin. His Tesla Motor Company, constituting the bulk of his fortune, pioneered the electric vehicles that have become a major status symbol of affluent liberals, and despite a considerable decline in its stock, was still comparable in value to the combined total of the world’s next half-dozen automobile manufacturers. He simultaneously served as CEO of SpaceX, America’s best hope for continued domination of space, and its associated Starlink satellite network had recently proven itself a huge factor in modern warfare. Musk was not only lauded as an enormous technological hero, but he had also accumulated considerable media influence of his own, with his 118 million followers on Twitter probably giving him the reach of a major television celebrity or even an entire broadcast network.

Indeed, Twitter had become so important to him that earlier this year he boldly offered to buy the struggling social media giant and take it private. A decade ago, a leading Twitter executive had memorably described his company as representing “the free speech wing of the free speech party,” and Musk seemingly intended to roll back the mounting tide of censorship and restore it to that position.

For generations “free speech” had been one of the most universally cherished American values, but after Donald Trump used the power of his free speech on Twitter to unexpectedly win the White House, those prevailing sentiments very rapidly changed, and the need to exclude “fake news” and suppress “hate speech” became the accepted priority of all right-thinking individuals obedient to the narrative of the mainstream media. Beginning with a few extreme cases here and there, the resulting Twitter purges grew exponentially, until by early 2020 these had finally claimed the sitting President of the United States; and powerful elements of American society were very concerned that Musk might try to reverse that process. So his takeover of Twitter, substantially funded from his own pocket, was viewed by many as a horrifying and potentially dangerous threat to American values, with Musk himself increasingly portrayed as a Bond-style super-villain by the buzzing media beehive, an interloper whose nefarious plans had to be frustrated at all costs.

Twitter had already been losing money and the $14 billion in debt Musk took on to help fund his purchase made the situation far worse. Once the media painted him as a dangerous bad-thinker and Twitter suddenly became “controversial” his timorous advertisers—who provided nearly all of its existing revenue—began dropping away, with each public desertion being loudly broadcast by the hostile media megaphone.

All of these major blows came despite Musk’s partial reversal of his self-proclaimed “free speech absolutism,” as he promised to maintain many of Twitter’s existing restrictions and except for a certain former President only reinstated the most milquetoast of purged Tweeters. Musk’s U-turn immediately drew angry denunciations from some of the same individuals who had previously championed his takeover.

When expenses rise and revenue falls, financial problems result, and journalists reported that Musk had privately warned of the risk of bankruptcy as he prepared his drastic cuts to Twitter’s bloated workforce. Meanwhile, most of the company’s previous senior executives were fired or quit.

Earlier this month, Musk had intentionally slashed Twitter’s headcount by 50%, but on Thursday his media critics gleefully reported that one-third of his remaining staff had suddenly quit, with many of his crucial software engineering teams having almost totally disappeared. The front-page headline in the hostile New York Times was “Twitter Teeters on the Edge” and it darkly suggested that the company might be entering a software death-spiral, hardly encouraging news for the remaining corporate advertisers who were so necessary for its survival. I’ve never much used Twitter myself, but if I’d invested years of my time and effort in building up millions of followers, I’d be feeling pretty worried right now.

Perhaps Musk will once again ultimately triumph against the odds, and successfully create the universal WeChat-type service he has envisioned. But right now, I think it much more likely that the seemingly fragile social media giant will continue to decline then ultimately wind up in different hands. And if our media can so quickly and easily crush the aspirations of the wealthiest man in the world, perhaps costing him and his financial backers the $44 billion they had invested, who in the future would dare risk another such challenge?

 

Perhaps by coincidence, a somewhat similar controversy had recently played out in the case of a different high-profile individual, the billionaire black rapper and fashion designer Kanye West. Although I’d previously had only the vaguest impression of him, he was apparently a towering international celebrity, as well as being among the wealthiest black Americans who had ever lived, while having tens of millions of followers on Twitter and other networks.

Apparently for some reason or other, he became angry and agitated over what he saw as the overwhelming Jewish influence in the worlds of business and media, and began loudly saying so in various venues and on his social networks. As might be expected, the media reaction was swift and devastating, portraying him as a moral leper, and thereby forcing most of his business partners to cut their ties, often at enormous financial cost. Apparently 25% of the profits of footware giant Adidas came from West’s line of sneakers, but they abandoned the longtime deal at a total cost of almost $650 million when their media masters proclaimed it as a fundamental issue of morality. At the other end of the spectrum, Goodwill Industries announced that they would no longer offer their impoverished clientele the donated cast-offs associated with such a vile anti-Semite. The rapper’s longtime bank even closed his accounts and would no longer provide a haven for his money.

The immediate result of all these coordinated blows was that the bulk of West’s large fortune suddenly evaporated, while his (Jewish) personal trainer publicly declaredthat if he continued his bad behavior the erstwhile billionaire might end up spending the rest of his life heavily drugged and imprisoned in a mental institution. Almost none of his fellow black celebrities rallied to his side, or if they did, I didn’t hear about it. The story soon dropped from the media, perhaps permanently taking with it the once-iconic global black celebrity.

West’s high-profile transgressions had put our ideological watchmen on full alert and this probably accounted for the new controversy that soon engulfed black basketball star Kyrie Irving, who ran into a media buzz-saw for merely Tweeting out a link to an Afrocentric documentary available on Amazon. The controversial claims made in that video riled up the ADL, and Irving quickly offered public apologies and a payment of $500,000 to salvage his sports career. But that tentative deal unraveled due to his subsequent impolitic remarks, and he was suspended from basketball, while his personal line of sneakers was cancelled by Nike. Yet another abject lesson proving that even the highest and the mightiest should think twice before exercising their right to free speech. The media creates reality and if they decide to declare you a target, you quickly become a human pin-cushion.

Back in the 1990s, Bill Gates was much in the news, with his $100 billion fortune then ranking him as the wealthiest man in the world, a position he had held for so many years that it seemed permanent. His Windows operating system enjoyed a near-monopoly on all personal computers, so his products controlled the technological infrastructure of every country, just as every writer and every financier depended upon his ubiquitous Word and Excel programs. Given such potent assets, he was sometimes half-jokingly described as the most powerful person in the world, having clout that dwarfed that of any President or Pope.

While I did not necessarily dispute such an appraisal, I would always point out the severe limitations of his position. I proposed a thought-experiment in which the Monarch of Microsoft carelessly uttered some highly untoward views on any one of a number of sufficiently touchy subjects. For all his money and influence, he probably would have been quickly annihilated, fried to a crisp by a concentrated media blast and then overwhelmed by the massive wave of public revulsion that it generated, quite possibly losing his company and much of his gigantic fortune in the process. Bill Gates might have been powerful, but the media could have destroyed him at a stroke, snuffing him out like a candle in a gale-force wind. The current fates of Elon Musk, Kanye West, and others suggest that I was probably correct.

 

The ADL seems to have played a central role in all these current controversies discussed above, with Musk quickly bowing to its authority and soliciting its advice, while the organization led the successful attacks on West and Irving. Such developments were hardly surprising given its notorious reputation, but the ADL’s reaction to my own past activities had followed a strikingly different trajectory. As I wrote four years ago:

In our modern era, there are surely few organizations that so terrify powerful Americans as the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) of B’nai B’rith, a central organ of the organized Jewish community.

Mel Gibson had long been one of the most popular stars in Hollywood and his 2004 film The Passion of the Christ became among the most profitable in world history, yet the ADL and its allies destroyed his career, and he eventually donated millions of dollars to Jewish groups in desperate hopes of regaining some of his public standing. When the ADL criticized a cartoon that had appeared in one of his newspapers, media titan Rupert Murdoch provided his personal apology to that organization, and the editors of The Economist quickly retracted a different cartoon once it came under ADL fire. Billionaire Tom Perkins, a famed Silicon Valley venture capitalist, was forced to issue a heartfelt apology after coming under ADL criticism for his choice of words in a Wall Street Journal column. These were all proud, powerful individuals, and they must have deeply resented being forced to seek such abject public forgiveness, but they did so nonetheless. The total list of ADL supplicants over the years is a very long one.

Given the fearsome reputation of the ADL and its notorious hair-trigger activists, there was a widespread belief that my small webzine would be completely annihilated when I first launched my recent series of controversial articles in early June by praising the works of historian David Irving, a figure long demonized by the ADL. Yet absolutely nothing happened.

During the next three months my subsequent articles directly challenged nearly every hot-button issue normally so fiercely defended by the ADL and its lackeys, so much so that a friendly journalist soon described me as the “Kamikaze from California.” Yet despite my 90,000 words of text and the 13,000 comments I had attracted, the continuing silence of the ADL was absolutely deafening. Meanwhile, my articles were read more than half a million times…

When divine wrath fails to smite the heretic and terrifying enforcers of official dogma seem to have suddenly lost their taste for battle, others gradually begin to take notice and may grow emboldened. Eventually leading pro-Russian and Libertarian websites such as Russia Insiderand LewRockwell began republishing some of my most controversial American Pravda articles, thus bringing my factual claims to the attention of broader audiences. After the conclusion of my series, I began directly ridiculing my strangely timorous ADL opponents, publishing a short column entitled “Has the ADL Gone Into Hiding?”which led the redoubtable Paul Craig Roberts to describe me as “the bravest man I know.”

Apparently the combination of all these factors at long last grew too worrisome for the ADL, and stirring from their secret hiding place, its activists have now finally released a short and rather milquetoast response to my material, one which hardly much impresses me. A few days ago, they Tweeted out their column, together with a photo of their new nemesis.

 

Those were the opening paragraphs of my response to that foolhardly ADL attack, which had provided me an excellent opportunity to publish a lengthy article recounting the extremely sordid history of that powerful organization. My piece presented many important facts previously only little known and drew considerable interest, eventually being read nearly 50,000 times:

After that initial exchange, the ADL apparently reconsidered its media strategy and concluded that discretion was the better part of valor, slinking back into hiding. Indeed, the highly counter-productive consequences of any challenge either to myself or to my publication became so obvious that they seem to have issued a general edict, forbidding any mention whatsoever in all the media outlets under their editorial influence. Their leadership rightly realized that although we might suffer from their attacks, by drawing much greater attention to our information, such actions might prove severely damaging or even fatal to their long-term interests.

The reality of this presumably ADL-enforced media blockade became apparent in 2020, when the SPLC and its journalistic allies launched a ferocious wave of coordinated attacks aimed at forcing the resignation of Stephen Miller, perhaps the most hated member of the Trump Administration, a drive that came just a few months before the presidential election. The central charge against Miller was that in his private emails he had promoted several controversial posts by blogger Steve Sailer, all of which had originally been published on our website.

Such attacks typically rely upon guilt by association, and the Sailer pieces in question had run on the same page as articles promoting Holocaust Denial and various other exceptionally controversial topics, so the connection was irrefutable. And if those other issues had been publicly linked to Miller, his political fall would have become certain. But the lengthy research report denouncing Miller and the pieces he had endorsed scrupulously avoided any mention of our website or the vastly more controversial material it contained, and as a consequence Miller managed to survive. Apparently maintaining the prohibition against any hint of our existence was far more important than claiming the political scalp of a top Trump advisor. To the ADL and its allies, we constituted a terrifying Lord Voldemort, and merely mentioning our name might result in their destruction.

 As the heavy blows suffered by Musk, West, and others have demonstrated, the media has enormous potential striking power, but creating an outlet that can effectively wield it is far from an easy task, and merely providing heavy resources may be insufficient.

I recently noted the interesting coincidence that our own publication had been launched almost simultaneously with the Intercept, sponsored by Tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar. Lavishly funded and staffed by a crew of all-stars led by renowned investigative reporter Glenn Greenwald, the Intercept seemed certain to transform journalism, but despite the $200 million it has absorbed since 2013, the results have been less than impressive. Indeed, these days our own webzine attracts roughly comparable monthly traffic along with almost twice as much readership time, despite our having suffered under the handicap of total deplatforming by Facebook and deranking by Google.

The obvious reason for such a striking mismatch between inputs and outputs is that so much of the Intercept‘s content during the Trump Era and afterwards became almost indistinguishable from what was found on so many other websites, a situation very different from the uniqueness of what we offer.

Over the years, visitors have regularly told me that they are aware of no other publication anywhere on the Internet that provides convenient access to such a wide range of ultra-controversial material across so many different subjects, nor many websites that allow such lightly-moderated discussions in its comment-threads. So perhaps this makes us the rightful heir to the mantle of “the free speech wing of the free speech party.”

Obviously, such an approach has its pluses and minuses, and I personally find a great deal of the material we publish both distasteful and wrong-headed, a failing even more common in the regular flood of the often vituperative comments. But from the beginning, the Mission Statement of this alternative media publication had envisioned that situation, and our primary role has been to serve as a content-distribution channel and commenting platform.

Furthermore, a major reason for launching the publication had been to provide a convenient venue for my own future writings, and in that regard I’ve been very satisfied with the body of work I’ve now produced, mostly over the last four or five years.

Highly controversial material, no matter how persuasive or well-documented, almost inevitably requires considerable time to achieve any broader impact. Next week will mark the tenth anniversary of the publication of my own “Myth of American Meritocracy” article, and the legal challenges it inspired to discriminatory admissions practices at our elite universities have only just now finally reached the Supreme Court, which as a result may soon strike down a half-century of Constitutional support for racial preferences, as I discussed in a recent review article:

 

Seen in this light, I’m hardly surprised that the far more recent elements of my American Pravda series have not yet produced much visible public impact, though given their exceptionally controversial nature, I suspect they have been quietly discussed in various quarters, as suggested by the millions of total pageviews they have accumulated.

Taken as a whole, the series is intended to provide a historical counter-narrative to the major events of the last 100 years, one that vastly differs from what is presented in our standard textbooks or mainstream media outlets, and it does so mostly in a sequence of self-contained, bite-size chunks that can easily be individually digested.

Over the last few years, these articles have attracted tens of thousands of comments, many of them quite substantial and fiercely critical, but after carefully considering the arguments made and the evidence presented, I still feel reasonably sure that perhaps 99% of my published analysis is correct, at least to within the limits of confidence that I had originally expressed. But even if only 10% of my conclusions were correct and 90% were totally mistaken, the impact upon our established understanding of the modern world would still be revolutionary. I’m much less certain when or if such unorthodox perspectives will become generally accepted, but that might eventually happen.

It’s always encouraging to discover that others may sometimes see things in the same way. I was recently contacted by a longtime reader of this website, someone with a strong academic background who later became quite financially successful. Although he’d previously read many of my individual articles when these had appeared over the last few years, once he sat down and devoured the total contents of my six American Pravda print collections, he found the combined impact extremely compelling, and he contacted me, wondering how he could assist the project. After a little discussion, he decided to become a financial sponsor of the website, providing an initial payment of $100,000, with his identity to be kept strictly confidential until he might want it disclosed.

From its inception, I’ve funded the website almost entirely on my own, so his sponsorship was very welcome, especially since it represented hard evidence that others had a high regard for the material we have presented.

Additional financial sponsors would also be very much appreciated, and they should regard any assistance they provide as constituting media venture capital. Their confidential involvement would allow them to support a potentially crucial project with little if any downside risk if certain topics remain controversial and forbidden, but which would provide them with enormous potential credit if the political and ideological winds change. Moreover, any such financial outlays would be merely a tiny sliver of the $200 million spent to fund the Intercept, let alone the tens of billions of dollars now invested in Twitter.

Anyone so interested in becoming a financial sponsor of our publication can contact me at Ron(at)unz(dot)com, while for the more paranoid individuals, I also now have a protonmail account RonUnz(at)protonmail(dot)com, though I seldom use it for anything.

As a perfect example of the upside potential of what I am describing, I still find it quite astonishing that for the last thirty months there has been strong even overwhelming evidence that the global Covid outbreak was the result of an American biowarfare attack against China (and Iran), which has also cost the lives of well over a million Americans, but that virtually no one else anywhere on the Internet has been willing to point to that obvious scenario. Perhaps this climate of total avoidance will continue indefinitely, but if the story does eventually come out it would surely rival the two world wars as among the most significant occurrences in all of human history.

Meanwhile, my efforts on that score continue. My Covid/Biowarfare EBook has been downloaded over 13,000 times and my individual articles have accumulated more than 900,000 pageviews on the Internet, while three of my video podcast interviews from earlier this year have reached nearly 2.3 million views on Rumble, each probably more popular than 99.99% than the other videos on that platform.

Kevin Barrett, FFWN • February 16, 2022 • 15m

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Geopolitics & Empire • February 1, 2022 • 75m • SoundCloud Audio

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Red Ice TV • February 3, 2022 • 130m

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