EDITOR—When Stewart first “retired” from the TV spotlight about a decade ago, we were not among the mourners. In fact, as card-carrying contrarians, we celebrated Stewart’s departure in the only way we saw fit: By reposting this classic, hard-to-surpass analysis by Steve Almond of what Jon Stewart and his protegé Stephen Colbert really represent in the maelstrom of American culture. As Almond astutely notes, “far from actually serving a newsworthy role, let alone consistently educating mass audiences and criticizing the empire…Stewart and Colbert are trivializers of evil, their legacy one of defanging the truth about systemic evil by hurling toothless parody at it.”
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Why Is Alexei Navalny’s Death Being Depicted as So Vital for Americans—As Assange Faces Final “Life or Death” Extradition Appeal?
9 minutes readGLENN GREENWALD—Glenn probes the campaign of lies in the Western media describing Navalny as an exemplary hero for opposing Putin, “the corrupt tyrant,” while paying no attention to the fate of real heroes like Julian Assange, being slowly disappeared by the American Deep State and its accomplices as punishment for revealing the Empire’s war crimes.
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EDWARD J CURTIN—With one fell stroke, the calm history lesson about Ukraine, Russia, and U.S./NATO that Putin had just delivered to the world via Tucker Carlson disappeared down the memory hole, as Biden, without any evidence, declared that “Putin and his thugs” and Putin’s “brutality” are responsible for Navalny’s death. This, of course, is a replay of the false charges sans evidence waged against Russia for an earlier poisoning of Navalny, the Skripals (since disappeared by the British government), Alexander Litvinenko, et al.
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ED CURTIN—It’s always encouraging when a country’s military commander-in-chief – President Biden, in this case – announces in advance that he knows how he is going to respond militarily to the killing of three American soldiers at a base that supports an illegal and immoral U.S. “covert” war against Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Iran, and all those who oppose the US/Israel slaughter of Palestinians. Such anxiety to show antecedently that he’s not sitting on his hands is touching.
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NYT Pulls HAMAS RAPE Story from Podcast Over INTERNAL TURMOIL Over SHODDY Reporting: Max Blumenthal
12 minutes readTHE HILL—Editor at The Grayzone Max Blumenthal weighs in on reporting that The New York Times podcast, “The Daily” tabled an episode of the podcast on Oct. 7 set to air earlier this month. #Hamas #Israel