When even The Intercept, which fired its founder Glenn Greenwald because he wouldn't follow one establishment narrative, calls out the Washington Post and CNN for being the propaganda outlets they are, you KNOW it's because the propaganda is simply unbelievable to any rational human being.
It depends what the establishment narrative is. Glenn doesn't care at all about the stupid partisan bullshit, but the Intercept hesitates before publishing something that could be perceived as making the left look bad and therefore giving an advantage to the right. That's why I'm a paid Greenwald subscriber and only a free subscriber to the Intercept.
I agree with you in calling out what happened to Glenn Greenwald, however, there are still worthy writers there, such as Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill, just to name a few. This may be one of those few cases where, when throwing out the baby with the bathwater, they kept some of the bathwater that still retained some usefulness.
I don't even bother with The Intercept after Greenwald left. I know they probably still produce some good work, but there are too many good alternatives out there these days than having wade-through it. What next huge story will they try to spike such as what they did to Glenn's? No thanks.
I don't think they fired him, but he left since they refused to publish his article on Biden's laptop, and e-mails. I saw a video clip of him arguing with 2 other prominent reporters at the Intercept, but forgot their names on Russia-gate. He wanted the proof and they were sitting there looking annoyed and shaking their heads, so I never forgave them their lousy reporting.
I'm sorry, but I don't think Ryan Grim is a writer worthy of anything except contempt most of the time. I don't know Scahill well enough to say. OTOH, The Intercept still does sometimes commit journalism, so you're right about that bathwater having some usefulness.
Commit journalism lol! That was good. It's true, you just need to, like everything try and have a critical view point, nothing is gospel & keep your eyes and ears trained that way. Fuck Al Jazeera is about the only MSM telling the Gaza story right.
Agreed and the bath water is lukewarm and caters to a very middle of the road, uncritical audience. People who don’t know that CNN and Wapo are biased trash I suppose need someone to tell them, because they have no critical thinking capacity, but that’s the only good the Intercept does.
As much as I didn't like what the Intercept did to Glenn, it has managed to retain those good independent journalists you mention.
IMHO the Intercept, although funded by a billionaire, isn't such a propaganda rag as the WaPo, NYTimes, CNN, MSNBC and a whole host of others. Imagine that... isn't 'as bad'?
Ryan Grim has risen to the top of what matters in reporting, IMHO.
Joy— but by censoring Greenwald, the Intercept guaranteed that the guard rails were in place and not even their best reporters will step outside those imposed limits. It’s what our national media has been doing for decades and why the Intercept was founded—to counter those limited and biased narratives of the mainstream. They’ve violated their raison d’etre.
I appreciate what you are saying, and agree up to a point. We have to recognize where those barriers are, but also recognize that some who are still there are covering important matters that no one else is. Death penalty issues with Liliana Segura, is one example.
Maybe. But in a way, reading a compromised news site that does sort of a good job is like drinking milk that has been peed in— you can never be quite sure what you’re getting.
I don't agree. Milk, once contaminated is of a whole, completely integrated and dissolved, but the articles are discrete. It's more like something that doesn't dissolve but is in the milk that can be seen and strained out. One is able to scrutinize and use judgment which is not possible with something dissolved in milk, or added to other fungible goods. Not that you shouldn't be careful, but it is better than the NYT, and many others, and if you know where they fall short, basically they are "Democratic party sycophants," they have some good articles and writers on other topics.
I totally don’t agree. It’s a milieux at any media outlet, set and controlled by the editor, not a bunch of little particles that can think what they want to Everyone in the milieux complies, tacitly, knows where the guard rails are and stays well within them. BTW, seen anything lately about how Killary makes money off the prison system in the US?
They didn't fire him, he left since they would not allow him to publish his article on Hunter Biden's Lab-top. No surprise there. Based on their articles they were very anti-Trump and even bought the lie of Russia-gate, hook, line and sinker. Greenwald in a sit down debate with two of them asked, "Where's the proof." They didn't say much, and didn't feel they had to, since it's a given, it's Trump. Many on the left lost all sense of objectivity based on their Trump hate. Many of the articles written back then have given Biden the line he's using in his campaign now, "We almost lost our democracy on January 6." I guess supporting, and supplying the weapons for Israel to carry out a genocide isn't a threat to democracy and an international crime."
Exactly, they are fucked up too, but a bit better than the ones mentioned & NYT and Fox too. They all have the same journalistic integrity as Fox which is hilarious, more of a comedy show than news all 5 of em
I couldn't find anything on the Intercept site about their criticism of the WaPo. In fact, under their "Israel" section, their most recent posting is from July 2023!!!
To be fair, The Intercept merely confirmed what was already apparent, and has been apparent for a long time.
For instance, from the coverage of the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh, the bullet that killed her just inexplicably came out of nowhere, when she was shot by an Israeli sniper, far from an ay fighting and wearing a flak jacket labeled "PRESS" in large characters.
Cue up Blinken bawling about how Israel Has The Right To Defend Itself (by intentionally killing children and attacking its neighbors, among otber crimes.)
It didn't escape me that when Biden went on his Middle East tour that he made a point of talking to bin Slaman about US citizen journalist Khoshoggi, but hadn't mentioned US citizen journalist Abu Akleh when he was in Israel the day before.
As a one-time newspaper editorial cartoonist journalist I can say that such censorship and conflicts of interest extend down to the local news coverage. It would be great to see every community with a network of local Substackers collaborating to follow and report on the news that is ignored or massaged by local media outlets. Here in the US, local newspapers are falling like leaves from a tree, leaving many communities as news deserts with no coverage of local government.
Last night's coverage of Biden's campaign event near Valley Forge was yet another example of failed network journalism. While focusing on the campaign machinations, the obvious cadaver sin the newsroom -- dead Gazans -- were ignored. Feel free to make use of the cartoon with: CARTOON: Bomb-Dropping Mass Murderer Urps Up Every Myth, Lie & Bromide Imaginable About 'Merican De'mock'racy
I am reminded of a comment by William Blum: "The American people are very much like the children of a Mafia boss who do not know what their father does for a living, and don't want to know, but then wonder why someone just threw a fire bomb through the living room window."
In this case the Israeli propagandists have a hard row to hoe. There is the usual need to pretend that Israelis are the innocent victims, that a massacre of Palestinians by the IDF is "conflict" and that the Arabs/Muslims are probably all "terrorists"--but to achieve Israel's objective i sacrificing a thousand Jews==getting other countries to take all the Gazans, or at least half of them but preferably all so Israel can take over Gaza and develop its offshore gas fields--they need to horrify the world about what;s happening to the Gazans so Egypt or SOMEBODY agrees to take in hundreds of thousands of refugees. Of course so country wants to, Egypt reportedly because it doesn't want more "troublemakers" in its dictatorship, but also because these people are a big burden on the state...and in the case of Arab/Muslim nations, because they don't want to be seen as facilitating Israel's ethnic cleansing. Seems lately like within Israel, they lean toward making the atrocities highly visible, and make forthright statements--which leaves the propagandists elsewhere a monumental task to try to use a tattered figleaf to cover an elephant.
I'll tell you one thing--we should stop using words like Nakba to describe what's happening in Gaza--we should use the word "holocaust', which Zionists have tried to appropriate to refer exclusively to what happened in Europe to Jews in the 30's and 40s. But what the Zionists are doing in Israel is much more like the Holocaust then like the Nakba. When Israelis call Palestinians "human animals " (untermenschen) and say they are the chosen race and God gave Israel to them 2000 years ago (Master Race), and they need more places for settlements (lebensraum), and the untermeschen are getting in their way and they need now to go for a Final Solution--its time to recognize that playbook. Israel has become the Fourth Reich. The fact that the Nazis were speaking Germans and their most numerous victims were Jews, while the Zionists speak Hebrew and English and their victims are Palestinians speaking Arabic is irrelevant.
I don’t agree. I think it is very different because what the Nazis did was standalone racism based on notions of superiority and racial/social purity - and on an industrial scale. While what lsrael is doing is pure settler colonialism. It’s exactly what happened in the Americas, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, except it wasn’t documented and live-streamed. South Africa only fell because of the advent of ubiquitous TV and film/video made ordinary people, external and internal, rise up and reject it. Gaza is this process speeded up because of social media. Yes, lsrael is using dehumanising as a tactic and sophisticated propaganda etc, but for different means - ethnic cleansing of the land because they want it to themselves, free from the reminder of their crime of theft and free from the (literal) thorn in their side. As a Palestinian I can only hope the fall of lsrael as an apartheid state also happens speeded up.
The motivation is different, I agree, Not sure it's exactly "stand-alone racism"--the motive was the need for a scapegoat, because the German people were hurting, because of the Depression that hurt the whole world but also because of an unfair settlement imposed on them after losing WW I. For the Nazis, naming scapegoats--not only, but primarily, the Jews--helped them consolidate power and crush dissent. Whereas the Zionazis don't need a scapegoat, I don't think--they just want to take all the land, have a nice pure white Jewish homeland they can expand into all of...and if they get it, will they be satisfied or will they find some line in the Bible that entitles them to parts of neighboring countries?
As for the advent of live independent filming making people rise up and reject it, this sure makes it harder to get away with land theft and slavery, but it goes on anyway. I have some hope that THIS situation might create a breaking point, though, as we now have an unprecedented gap between what the political leaders and the big media of all the empowered white countries say, and what people within as well as outside those countries, and the leaders of those not in the NATO camp, and a lot of independent media, are saying--this will tend to discredit "mainstream" (corporate) media and direct people toward alternative sources of information, which can only be a good thing.
Sorry it's exactly the same. israel was created out of racism. europe, france and the u.s. created a state out of the state of Palestine because they didn't want Jewish people in numbers. That is racism and exactly what the Nazi's did. Evil begat evil. Many thanks to the People of South Africa and Yemen.
Unfortunately, not a surprise. Their numbers have fallen but not enough as some people just turn on their TV without realizing they are being exposed to conditioning by propaganda. This has been going on for years.
One would think that when their propagandized so called reporting takes place, they'd actually be aware of the documented facts. Where are their morals, ethics, values and judgement? Don't they realize they're actively aiding and abetting genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, Nakba, and out and out slaughter?
Israel is now like the world's psychiatric patient needing treatment for pathological psychosis that threatens everyone and everything on the planet. It's as if they're trying their damnedest to make everyone despise them. And succeeding. They're doing to the Palestinians exactly what the Nazis did to them and reveling in it.
Who do they think is cheering them on besides the arch-fools Biden, Blinken and their band of crazed Zionist asshats? The Zionists (Zionazis) in the US are just as culpable as Netanyahoo and his fascist Likud party.
Israel has written its own death certificate. They aren't going to survive the world's wrath over what they've done and are determined to keep doing. As long as Biden keeps the billions flowing to them, and our warmongering weapons makers keep getting richer every day, they'll keep massacring Palestinians by the thousands. With the whole world watching in horror.
Do they really think we're all going to just forget this, maybe congratulate them after they've exterminated the last Gazan and lay claim to every square inch of sacred Israel? They're not only the most barbaric assholes on earth since 1945, they're also the most delusional. And they will pay a heavy price.
Hedges has put it more eloquently than most. Israel is a lot like the CIA, when JFK said he wanted to break it onto a thousand pieces and scatter them to the winds, not long before they killed him.
They were likely involved but the CIA under Allen Dulles coordinated and orchestrated the deed. James Douglass has given the full account in "JFK and the Unspeakable." Also David Talbot's "The Devil's Chessboard" recounts the same thing. It wasn't just one thing that led to Kennedy's assassination, it was pretty much nearly everything he was trying to do. Chiefly, he was pursuing actual peace with the Soviet Union, and Dulles was having none of that. It's as if Dulles is still running the whole world.
I think Kennedy was one of the worst warmongers of our time, like his father. But he was an American warmonger, and had no tolerance for Israel's single minded obsession with obtaining nuclear weapons. Mossad, unlike the CIA, actually had competence at assassinating people. CIA was full of Ivy league types who had to outsource spying and wetwork to former NAZI spies in Europe. Mossad had means motivation, and created an opportunity. and then Jack Ruby whacked Oswald, conveniently shutting him up. I think peacemaker Kennedy was like second term Obama, who was going to effect all kinds of needed change in his second term. in other words, a myth.
JFK was one of the foremost warmongers of our time, almost took the world to nuclear war in Cuba instead of withdrawing the missiles in Turkey. I don't believe he was whacked for being a peace activist, especially not in an operation directed by the CIA, which has typically outsourced its assassinations because it is not competent at it, or spying for that matter. Mossad, otoh, is competent at it. Israel had a single minded focus on obtaining nuclear weapons by any means necessary, and while Kennedy was a warmonger like his father, he was an American warmonger, and he did not want to share power with Israel or any other country.
Pretselattack: You hit the nail on the head - revisionist history and the media have made JFK into some kind of liberal hero. But the truth is so far from that that it is not even funny.
Well, you can believe whatever propaganda you need to, if you want to believe he was a warmonger, but history doesn't support you there. He certainly wasn't perfect or a saint, because no one is or ever was, but he's easily the most anti-war president we've had since WW2, and one of the most ever. That's not a high bar, granted, since nearly all of them have been warmongers, if war was in the air during their time in office. But read this (you can listen to as well) and tell me this was a man who wanted to start wars.
Not everything he says in this speech was 100% truthful--tell me of a president anywhere who only speaks the absolute truth--and one thing he quotes from a Soviet military publication, which he claimed was a total distortion, was in fact as truthful as any statement about this country can get. As we are witness to in the present.
Kennedy wanted peace, it's almost all he talked about in the months before they killed him, because they had other plans, which they've been carrying out ever since.
I have to disagree wholeheartedly from what I can see. Kennedy was no saint, but he had a very different vision that TPTB have about the future of capitalistic America. He was on the right track, and they knew Kennedy (like Henry Wallace) had to go before they got real traction with the American public who were already enamored with the both of them. The likes of the Dulles Brothers for starters were a prime example of the real movers & shakers in D.C. The 'eveil' level probably goes deeper than those types of on-the-shin players . I don't think we really want to know just how deep. But from what I've seen as a bystander, I can only surmise that the deep state took out Kennedy. He was too much of a real threat to the system.
You need to read James Douglass and David Talbot. It was mainly the CIA, though they had help from probably Mossad, the FBI and the Mafia. But Dulles was evil personified, and would fit right in with all the demons running he world today.
I had the CBS Evening News on for background noise for the last couple of nights. You’d have thought that there weren’t two major wars occurring at this time; the bitch Nora O’Donnell mentioned NEITHER of them.
Her fill-in last week, DID report on Gaza. Do these anchors get to decide what’s “newsworthy”? If not, why the turnaround? Too much objection from the Ziopaths?
Impossible to get legitimate news from the MSM. They prefer fluff pieces over real, actual news.
I Know we have to understand our enemies however, even having it on is support. I no longer care what their take on any given situation. They will support the lie over truth anytime. Hate watching is tempting ha.
Well, Feral, through planning, long term. If you aren't 85 years old you would have missed all the early days of effort using the good old convenient holocaust as the door opener. Best door opener ever, still used today, everywhere. But then through careful planning, (graft) once again capturing the likes of people like Johnson in the 1960's (after they disposed of an unsupportive JFK) to show his true colours in the USS Liberty affair, still unresolved to this day. He called back US Air Force aircraft from saving a US vessel being attacked. Think over that one.
From 1967 with many more thanks to Johnson, they knew they had the US by the vitals as a committed supporter, well on the way to becoming a vehicle for their tilt at world control. The best current example is the make-up of the US Congress and the brouhaha daily over the word 'antiSemitic' and the takeup by the US government against the senior ranks of Academia. If anything makes the US appear weak it is the cross examination that has occurred recently in that house of Jewish control, clearly indicating the extent to which the US is subservient to Israel in all matters. And don’t they know it. The shout if from the treetops.
Something of a joke these days.
As I have advocated for a long time in these columns and elsewhere, until the people in the US agree that everything that has the slightest smell of corruption on behalf of Israel and its stooges, AIPAC and all the others doing Israel's bidding and finally see them as counter to the once well promoted US values, but see them as corrupted US citizens and then investigate their un-American activities, nothing will change. I mention often (tongue-in-cheek) the halcyon days of Joe McCarthy as a bad example of searching out the truth in the 1950’s. Build on that idea but make it professional……. with not an US / Israeli in sight.
AIPAC still not registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act ? What a perfect example.
Mind you, where would you find even one Senator untainted by Jewish graft to conduct an un-American investigation in 2024. Problem #1
On with the motley, then. Let us all sit back and watch the farcical run up to the November elections with a choice of a Biden or a Trump. The devil or the deep blue sea. 360 million people and this is the choice you end up with.
Just a rumour but I hear that Netanyahu, (a.k.a. the Genocider in the US Congress), has been asked to run for the top US job. Will certainly reduce his phone costs.
Grayzone's Friday Podcast has a fun(ny) but also depressing live call to WaPo "reporter" who is really a Zionist agent/agenda setter/settler for Israel.
Pro Israel propaganda has been not only published by major news sources well beyond CNN and the Washington post, but even repeated by President Biden. The first casualty of war is always the truth, and American officials and journalists have reduced themselves to leading sources of disinformation. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/the-first-casualty-of-war-is-the
As much as the genocide in Gaza presents a test of human rights, it also reveals the widespread, institutional, and continuing failure of American institutions designed to supposedly ensure government transparency and accountability. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/the-genocide-in-gaza-is-a-test-of
Just like the State Department and the Pentagon are run by Zionists - look at the top management and ownership of the news media such as CNN and the Post: an improbable percentage of Zionists.
No wonder they do the bidding of the Israeli Genocide Force (IGF).
"The lie goes around the world before the truth gets it's pants on. "
That quote was said in many different iterations by many well known orators and writers spanning many generations.
The "system" of the western allies nations has used it to great effect on it's people.
It does not matter that we who are critical know it. The propaganda is not made for us. Its made for the average westerners to repeat and create the communely reinforced "common knowledge" lie to be spread around as an assumed "fact"
Propaganda has a two fold effect, fool the fools and give moral and intellectual cowards all the excuses they seek.
The average numpty will never think for themselves and just repeat whatever the TV one way lie machine tells them..
I see this every day from friends family and colleques who bolted a cinema display to every spare room and blank wall of their home. And it's gone on to infect most of the world.
It takes guts to accept that your own country are the baddies. Americans especially have been systematically conditioned to be gutless. And israel is their command center and has been for generations. To the point it's become self destructive. And it's all being run by opulent psycopaths.
Today is January 6th Ashley Babbit day. Murdered by armed government agents during a false flag 'insurection' as cover for the biggest coup in American history after JFK assassination.
So many people are absolutely insane. They turn on the tele and watch reruns over and over, they watch ludicrous so called 'news' with out thinking. They are either Cognitively Dissonant, or Brain Washed. If questioned the retort is ' you can't believe the Internet' or ' what do you Know'.
We need another Jan. 6…but we need to include people of ALL ideologies, working together to get rid of the regime as we know it.
We must put our differences aside in order to get rid of the bought and paid for whores in the WH and congress. We all know it ain’t working for the American people.
The time for Revolution is YESTERDAY. And we must be fearless. Remember that during the first revolution, people were not afraid to die for their country.
I agree that To overcome the institutionalized corruption Americans need to Unite against Leviathan. The Arab peoples and all people of consciousness need to Unite against the imposition of a central Tyranny as well. Garet Garrett wrote a short expose called 'The Revolution Was' it's worth a quick read.
Yeah, its ridiculous and absurd how Ashley Babbitt has been made into some kind of "martyr" by people on the far right. Confirmation bias is always at work - no matter how much context is provided, no matter what the facts are, most people will continue to believe what they want to believe. Very few people have the courage to think critically and question their own belief structures, their own world-views, their own unconscious biases.
BTW, this is in no way a critique of the far-right. Every homosapien has biases and the need to belong to their in-group. It applies to people on the left, right AND people that don't belong anywhere on the spectrum of left-right. This need to "belong to a group", to "feel right about one's intuitions", to "feel good about oneself" - all these human needs become stumbling blocks in the application of critical thinking.
I personally, respect a person's opinion more if that person is always questioning his/her thought processes, always questioning their own belief structures, always dissecting their own biases,...
I have never heard that said, nor have I seen any supporting information for such. Please share your sources as enquiring minds Want to know the TRUTH.
It was definitely a false flag. there are so many angles we could visit but i saw a good link to a video by Wooznews, which explains it with frame by frame examination of the footage. Ashli didn't get shot. the bullet would have missed by about 10 feet. she fell back and someone applied fake blood. you can see for yourself in this video. i found it last year. you shoild be able to follow this link. https://rumble.com/v24cfg0-ashley-babbitt-hoax-by-wooz-news-everything-wrong-with-the-capitol-shooting.html
Agreed. and now that Ashli's " husband " is suing, that seems very convenient. like the fake Sandy Hoax parents getting money, and Alex Jones being sued, but still clearing at least 500K a year. lots of BS.
I have filed Ashli Babbet with JFK, RFK, MLK, Jeff Epstein . Meaning I have No way of Knowing the Truth so they are unsolved mysteries with a very high propensity of being Government operations and coverups. More divide and conquer agenda.
When even The Intercept, which fired its founder Glenn Greenwald because he wouldn't follow one establishment narrative, calls out the Washington Post and CNN for being the propaganda outlets they are, you KNOW it's because the propaganda is simply unbelievable to any rational human being.
It depends what the establishment narrative is. Glenn doesn't care at all about the stupid partisan bullshit, but the Intercept hesitates before publishing something that could be perceived as making the left look bad and therefore giving an advantage to the right. That's why I'm a paid Greenwald subscriber and only a free subscriber to the Intercept.
Same here. I'm paying for Greenwald but I still get Intercept notifications in my email.
Before Glenn left the Intercept, I did donate to them, but begrudgingly, because I didn't like other parts or journalists there.
I'm glad he's gone.
I agree with you in calling out what happened to Glenn Greenwald, however, there are still worthy writers there, such as Ryan Grim and Jeremy Scahill, just to name a few. This may be one of those few cases where, when throwing out the baby with the bathwater, they kept some of the bathwater that still retained some usefulness.
I don't even bother with The Intercept after Greenwald left. I know they probably still produce some good work, but there are too many good alternatives out there these days than having wade-through it. What next huge story will they try to spike such as what they did to Glenn's? No thanks.
I don't think they fired him, but he left since they refused to publish his article on Biden's laptop, and e-mails. I saw a video clip of him arguing with 2 other prominent reporters at the Intercept, but forgot their names on Russia-gate. He wanted the proof and they were sitting there looking annoyed and shaking their heads, so I never forgave them their lousy reporting.
Not to mention he was the one that founded The Intercept.
I know, I always, always, liked him. Still do.
I'm sorry, but I don't think Ryan Grim is a writer worthy of anything except contempt most of the time. I don't know Scahill well enough to say. OTOH, The Intercept still does sometimes commit journalism, so you're right about that bathwater having some usefulness.
Commit journalism lol! That was good. It's true, you just need to, like everything try and have a critical view point, nothing is gospel & keep your eyes and ears trained that way. Fuck Al Jazeera is about the only MSM telling the Gaza story right.
...but I'd never actually pay for it.
Agreed and the bath water is lukewarm and caters to a very middle of the road, uncritical audience. People who don’t know that CNN and Wapo are biased trash I suppose need someone to tell them, because they have no critical thinking capacity, but that’s the only good the Intercept does.
As much as I didn't like what the Intercept did to Glenn, it has managed to retain those good independent journalists you mention.
IMHO the Intercept, although funded by a billionaire, isn't such a propaganda rag as the WaPo, NYTimes, CNN, MSNBC and a whole host of others. Imagine that... isn't 'as bad'?
Ryan Grim has risen to the top of what matters in reporting, IMHO.
are you kidding me? he has repeatedly pushed lies.
Yes, I have heard of him and am more than wary of his control via his fortune. My theory of billionaires is not a positive one.
Whenever I have just a tiny bit of optimistic hope, my husband repeats what you just replied verbatim.
Excellent!
Joy— but by censoring Greenwald, the Intercept guaranteed that the guard rails were in place and not even their best reporters will step outside those imposed limits. It’s what our national media has been doing for decades and why the Intercept was founded—to counter those limited and biased narratives of the mainstream. They’ve violated their raison d’etre.
I appreciate what you are saying, and agree up to a point. We have to recognize where those barriers are, but also recognize that some who are still there are covering important matters that no one else is. Death penalty issues with Liliana Segura, is one example.
Maybe. But in a way, reading a compromised news site that does sort of a good job is like drinking milk that has been peed in— you can never be quite sure what you’re getting.
I don't agree. Milk, once contaminated is of a whole, completely integrated and dissolved, but the articles are discrete. It's more like something that doesn't dissolve but is in the milk that can be seen and strained out. One is able to scrutinize and use judgment which is not possible with something dissolved in milk, or added to other fungible goods. Not that you shouldn't be careful, but it is better than the NYT, and many others, and if you know where they fall short, basically they are "Democratic party sycophants," they have some good articles and writers on other topics.
I totally don’t agree. It’s a milieux at any media outlet, set and controlled by the editor, not a bunch of little particles that can think what they want to Everyone in the milieux complies, tacitly, knows where the guard rails are and stays well within them. BTW, seen anything lately about how Killary makes money off the prison system in the US?
ryan grim and jeremy scahill are not worthy writers, limited hangouts at best. the intercept is a omidyar operation..
They didn't fire him, he left since they would not allow him to publish his article on Hunter Biden's Lab-top. No surprise there. Based on their articles they were very anti-Trump and even bought the lie of Russia-gate, hook, line and sinker. Greenwald in a sit down debate with two of them asked, "Where's the proof." They didn't say much, and didn't feel they had to, since it's a given, it's Trump. Many on the left lost all sense of objectivity based on their Trump hate. Many of the articles written back then have given Biden the line he's using in his campaign now, "We almost lost our democracy on January 6." I guess supporting, and supplying the weapons for Israel to carry out a genocide isn't a threat to democracy and an international crime."
Now you said a mouthful there, Fran. I agree.
Exactly, they are fucked up too, but a bit better than the ones mentioned & NYT and Fox too. They all have the same journalistic integrity as Fox which is hilarious, more of a comedy show than news all 5 of em
The intercept is actually pretty in middle east coverage. they tend to be slow about things that could harm democrats, some of the time, I think.
I couldn't find anything on the Intercept site about their criticism of the WaPo. In fact, under their "Israel" section, their most recent posting is from July 2023!!!
https://theintercept.com/israel/
Yeah, GG is good but I'll keep my pants on.
To be fair, The Intercept merely confirmed what was already apparent, and has been apparent for a long time.
For instance, from the coverage of the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh, the bullet that killed her just inexplicably came out of nowhere, when she was shot by an Israeli sniper, far from an ay fighting and wearing a flak jacket labeled "PRESS" in large characters.
They'll kill anybody. they shot an 8 year old boy who was standing by a car in the head, in public.
Cue up Blinken bawling about how Israel Has The Right To Defend Itself (by intentionally killing children and attacking its neighbors, among otber crimes.)
It didn't escape me that when Biden went on his Middle East tour that he made a point of talking to bin Slaman about US citizen journalist Khoshoggi, but hadn't mentioned US citizen journalist Abu Akleh when he was in Israel the day before.
As a one-time newspaper editorial cartoonist journalist I can say that such censorship and conflicts of interest extend down to the local news coverage. It would be great to see every community with a network of local Substackers collaborating to follow and report on the news that is ignored or massaged by local media outlets. Here in the US, local newspapers are falling like leaves from a tree, leaving many communities as news deserts with no coverage of local government.
Last night's coverage of Biden's campaign event near Valley Forge was yet another example of failed network journalism. While focusing on the campaign machinations, the obvious cadaver sin the newsroom -- dead Gazans -- were ignored. Feel free to make use of the cartoon with: CARTOON: Bomb-Dropping Mass Murderer Urps Up Every Myth, Lie & Bromide Imaginable About 'Merican De'mock'racy
https://mark192.substack.com/p/cartoon-bomb-dropping-mass-murderer
Hi Mark
I just loooove “AmericandeMOCKricy”!
Thanks, Gypsy ... feel free to pass along or use any of the work on my substack or website: www.DeMOCKraacy.ink
Thank you.
Another good story Caitlin, thanks much.
I am reminded of a comment by William Blum: "The American people are very much like the children of a Mafia boss who do not know what their father does for a living, and don't want to know, but then wonder why someone just threw a fire bomb through the living room window."
In this case the Israeli propagandists have a hard row to hoe. There is the usual need to pretend that Israelis are the innocent victims, that a massacre of Palestinians by the IDF is "conflict" and that the Arabs/Muslims are probably all "terrorists"--but to achieve Israel's objective i sacrificing a thousand Jews==getting other countries to take all the Gazans, or at least half of them but preferably all so Israel can take over Gaza and develop its offshore gas fields--they need to horrify the world about what;s happening to the Gazans so Egypt or SOMEBODY agrees to take in hundreds of thousands of refugees. Of course so country wants to, Egypt reportedly because it doesn't want more "troublemakers" in its dictatorship, but also because these people are a big burden on the state...and in the case of Arab/Muslim nations, because they don't want to be seen as facilitating Israel's ethnic cleansing. Seems lately like within Israel, they lean toward making the atrocities highly visible, and make forthright statements--which leaves the propagandists elsewhere a monumental task to try to use a tattered figleaf to cover an elephant.
I'll tell you one thing--we should stop using words like Nakba to describe what's happening in Gaza--we should use the word "holocaust', which Zionists have tried to appropriate to refer exclusively to what happened in Europe to Jews in the 30's and 40s. But what the Zionists are doing in Israel is much more like the Holocaust then like the Nakba. When Israelis call Palestinians "human animals " (untermenschen) and say they are the chosen race and God gave Israel to them 2000 years ago (Master Race), and they need more places for settlements (lebensraum), and the untermeschen are getting in their way and they need now to go for a Final Solution--its time to recognize that playbook. Israel has become the Fourth Reich. The fact that the Nazis were speaking Germans and their most numerous victims were Jews, while the Zionists speak Hebrew and English and their victims are Palestinians speaking Arabic is irrelevant.
Keep writing Mary. I would also add no longer using the term IDF, israel GENOCIDE Force is the exact description.
I don’t agree. I think it is very different because what the Nazis did was standalone racism based on notions of superiority and racial/social purity - and on an industrial scale. While what lsrael is doing is pure settler colonialism. It’s exactly what happened in the Americas, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, except it wasn’t documented and live-streamed. South Africa only fell because of the advent of ubiquitous TV and film/video made ordinary people, external and internal, rise up and reject it. Gaza is this process speeded up because of social media. Yes, lsrael is using dehumanising as a tactic and sophisticated propaganda etc, but for different means - ethnic cleansing of the land because they want it to themselves, free from the reminder of their crime of theft and free from the (literal) thorn in their side. As a Palestinian I can only hope the fall of lsrael as an apartheid state also happens speeded up.
The motivation is different, I agree, Not sure it's exactly "stand-alone racism"--the motive was the need for a scapegoat, because the German people were hurting, because of the Depression that hurt the whole world but also because of an unfair settlement imposed on them after losing WW I. For the Nazis, naming scapegoats--not only, but primarily, the Jews--helped them consolidate power and crush dissent. Whereas the Zionazis don't need a scapegoat, I don't think--they just want to take all the land, have a nice pure white Jewish homeland they can expand into all of...and if they get it, will they be satisfied or will they find some line in the Bible that entitles them to parts of neighboring countries?
As for the advent of live independent filming making people rise up and reject it, this sure makes it harder to get away with land theft and slavery, but it goes on anyway. I have some hope that THIS situation might create a breaking point, though, as we now have an unprecedented gap between what the political leaders and the big media of all the empowered white countries say, and what people within as well as outside those countries, and the leaders of those not in the NATO camp, and a lot of independent media, are saying--this will tend to discredit "mainstream" (corporate) media and direct people toward alternative sources of information, which can only be a good thing.
Wanting to take all the land = settler colonialism, which is what I said. No need to go down the Nazi route.
Sorry it's exactly the same. israel was created out of racism. europe, france and the u.s. created a state out of the state of Palestine because they didn't want Jewish people in numbers. That is racism and exactly what the Nazi's did. Evil begat evil. Many thanks to the People of South Africa and Yemen.
Unfortunately, not a surprise. Their numbers have fallen but not enough as some people just turn on their TV without realizing they are being exposed to conditioning by propaganda. This has been going on for years.
One would think that when their propagandized so called reporting takes place, they'd actually be aware of the documented facts. Where are their morals, ethics, values and judgement? Don't they realize they're actively aiding and abetting genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid, Nakba, and out and out slaughter?
Souless, shameless presstitutes.
Israel is now like the world's psychiatric patient needing treatment for pathological psychosis that threatens everyone and everything on the planet. It's as if they're trying their damnedest to make everyone despise them. And succeeding. They're doing to the Palestinians exactly what the Nazis did to them and reveling in it.
Who do they think is cheering them on besides the arch-fools Biden, Blinken and their band of crazed Zionist asshats? The Zionists (Zionazis) in the US are just as culpable as Netanyahoo and his fascist Likud party.
Israel has written its own death certificate. They aren't going to survive the world's wrath over what they've done and are determined to keep doing. As long as Biden keeps the billions flowing to them, and our warmongering weapons makers keep getting richer every day, they'll keep massacring Palestinians by the thousands. With the whole world watching in horror.
Do they really think we're all going to just forget this, maybe congratulate them after they've exterminated the last Gazan and lay claim to every square inch of sacred Israel? They're not only the most barbaric assholes on earth since 1945, they're also the most delusional. And they will pay a heavy price.
Never forget. The blood of the innocents they murder will ensure the irony of their self generated mantra will haunt them forever.
I promise I will never forget. Not a vote, dollar or hr. of work for anyone continuing support of israel. Free Palestine!
Hedges has put it more eloquently than most. Israel is a lot like the CIA, when JFK said he wanted to break it onto a thousand pieces and scatter them to the winds, not long before they killed him.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-death-of-israel-read-by-eunice?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=778851&post_id=140247060&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=2sbuw&utm_medium=email
I think Mossad killed him, for opposing Israel's attempts to get nuclear weapons.
They were likely involved but the CIA under Allen Dulles coordinated and orchestrated the deed. James Douglass has given the full account in "JFK and the Unspeakable." Also David Talbot's "The Devil's Chessboard" recounts the same thing. It wasn't just one thing that led to Kennedy's assassination, it was pretty much nearly everything he was trying to do. Chiefly, he was pursuing actual peace with the Soviet Union, and Dulles was having none of that. It's as if Dulles is still running the whole world.
I think Kennedy was one of the worst warmongers of our time, like his father. But he was an American warmonger, and had no tolerance for Israel's single minded obsession with obtaining nuclear weapons. Mossad, unlike the CIA, actually had competence at assassinating people. CIA was full of Ivy league types who had to outsource spying and wetwork to former NAZI spies in Europe. Mossad had means motivation, and created an opportunity. and then Jack Ruby whacked Oswald, conveniently shutting him up. I think peacemaker Kennedy was like second term Obama, who was going to effect all kinds of needed change in his second term. in other words, a myth.
JFK was one of the foremost warmongers of our time, almost took the world to nuclear war in Cuba instead of withdrawing the missiles in Turkey. I don't believe he was whacked for being a peace activist, especially not in an operation directed by the CIA, which has typically outsourced its assassinations because it is not competent at it, or spying for that matter. Mossad, otoh, is competent at it. Israel had a single minded focus on obtaining nuclear weapons by any means necessary, and while Kennedy was a warmonger like his father, he was an American warmonger, and he did not want to share power with Israel or any other country.
Pretselattack: You hit the nail on the head - revisionist history and the media have made JFK into some kind of liberal hero. But the truth is so far from that that it is not even funny.
Well, you can believe whatever propaganda you need to, if you want to believe he was a warmonger, but history doesn't support you there. He certainly wasn't perfect or a saint, because no one is or ever was, but he's easily the most anti-war president we've had since WW2, and one of the most ever. That's not a high bar, granted, since nearly all of them have been warmongers, if war was in the air during their time in office. But read this (you can listen to as well) and tell me this was a man who wanted to start wars.
https://singjupost.com/full-transcript-president-kennedys-peace-speech-at-american-university-june-10-1963/?singlepage=1
Not everything he says in this speech was 100% truthful--tell me of a president anywhere who only speaks the absolute truth--and one thing he quotes from a Soviet military publication, which he claimed was a total distortion, was in fact as truthful as any statement about this country can get. As we are witness to in the present.
Kennedy wanted peace, it's almost all he talked about in the months before they killed him, because they had other plans, which they've been carrying out ever since.
I have to disagree wholeheartedly from what I can see. Kennedy was no saint, but he had a very different vision that TPTB have about the future of capitalistic America. He was on the right track, and they knew Kennedy (like Henry Wallace) had to go before they got real traction with the American public who were already enamored with the both of them. The likes of the Dulles Brothers for starters were a prime example of the real movers & shakers in D.C. The 'eveil' level probably goes deeper than those types of on-the-shin players . I don't think we really want to know just how deep. But from what I've seen as a bystander, I can only surmise that the deep state took out Kennedy. He was too much of a real threat to the system.
oh i got a message that this wasn't posted, reiterated it above.
You need to read James Douglass and David Talbot. It was mainly the CIA, though they had help from probably Mossad, the FBI and the Mafia. But Dulles was evil personified, and would fit right in with all the demons running he world today.
Now, *why* does Israel get these special privileges?
Because their diaspora is largely in control of major media and tech companies where every in society is fed what they think is the news.
And AIPAC.
Hi Feral
I had the CBS Evening News on for background noise for the last couple of nights. You’d have thought that there weren’t two major wars occurring at this time; the bitch Nora O’Donnell mentioned NEITHER of them.
Her fill-in last week, DID report on Gaza. Do these anchors get to decide what’s “newsworthy”? If not, why the turnaround? Too much objection from the Ziopaths?
Impossible to get legitimate news from the MSM. They prefer fluff pieces over real, actual news.
Pleased you are using that term ziopaths..lol...it's so apt
The Ziopaths!!! Loooove it!
I Know we have to understand our enemies however, even having it on is support. I no longer care what their take on any given situation. They will support the lie over truth anytime. Hate watching is tempting ha.
Well, Feral, through planning, long term. If you aren't 85 years old you would have missed all the early days of effort using the good old convenient holocaust as the door opener. Best door opener ever, still used today, everywhere. But then through careful planning, (graft) once again capturing the likes of people like Johnson in the 1960's (after they disposed of an unsupportive JFK) to show his true colours in the USS Liberty affair, still unresolved to this day. He called back US Air Force aircraft from saving a US vessel being attacked. Think over that one.
From 1967 with many more thanks to Johnson, they knew they had the US by the vitals as a committed supporter, well on the way to becoming a vehicle for their tilt at world control. The best current example is the make-up of the US Congress and the brouhaha daily over the word 'antiSemitic' and the takeup by the US government against the senior ranks of Academia. If anything makes the US appear weak it is the cross examination that has occurred recently in that house of Jewish control, clearly indicating the extent to which the US is subservient to Israel in all matters. And don’t they know it. The shout if from the treetops.
Something of a joke these days.
As I have advocated for a long time in these columns and elsewhere, until the people in the US agree that everything that has the slightest smell of corruption on behalf of Israel and its stooges, AIPAC and all the others doing Israel's bidding and finally see them as counter to the once well promoted US values, but see them as corrupted US citizens and then investigate their un-American activities, nothing will change. I mention often (tongue-in-cheek) the halcyon days of Joe McCarthy as a bad example of searching out the truth in the 1950’s. Build on that idea but make it professional……. with not an US / Israeli in sight.
AIPAC still not registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act ? What a perfect example.
Mind you, where would you find even one Senator untainted by Jewish graft to conduct an un-American investigation in 2024. Problem #1
On with the motley, then. Let us all sit back and watch the farcical run up to the November elections with a choice of a Biden or a Trump. The devil or the deep blue sea. 360 million people and this is the choice you end up with.
Just a rumour but I hear that Netanyahu, (a.k.a. the Genocider in the US Congress), has been asked to run for the top US job. Will certainly reduce his phone costs.
They study the problem and work on it diligently.
Hollywood helps this along big time too, and so do cartoons for the young ones: good guys and bad guys. We need more accurate news and better stories.
Oh Caitie, you can sure scewer CNN & WAPO! Touche'! Bravo!
Grayzone's Friday Podcast has a fun(ny) but also depressing live call to WaPo "reporter" who is really a Zionist agent/agenda setter/settler for Israel.
Pro Israel propaganda has been not only published by major news sources well beyond CNN and the Washington post, but even repeated by President Biden. The first casualty of war is always the truth, and American officials and journalists have reduced themselves to leading sources of disinformation. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/the-first-casualty-of-war-is-the
As much as the genocide in Gaza presents a test of human rights, it also reveals the widespread, institutional, and continuing failure of American institutions designed to supposedly ensure government transparency and accountability. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/the-genocide-in-gaza-is-a-test-of
I surprised.
Just like the State Department and the Pentagon are run by Zionists - look at the top management and ownership of the news media such as CNN and the Post: an improbable percentage of Zionists.
No wonder they do the bidding of the Israeli Genocide Force (IGF).
"The lie goes around the world before the truth gets it's pants on. "
That quote was said in many different iterations by many well known orators and writers spanning many generations.
The "system" of the western allies nations has used it to great effect on it's people.
It does not matter that we who are critical know it. The propaganda is not made for us. Its made for the average westerners to repeat and create the communely reinforced "common knowledge" lie to be spread around as an assumed "fact"
Propaganda has a two fold effect, fool the fools and give moral and intellectual cowards all the excuses they seek.
The average numpty will never think for themselves and just repeat whatever the TV one way lie machine tells them..
I see this every day from friends family and colleques who bolted a cinema display to every spare room and blank wall of their home. And it's gone on to infect most of the world.
It takes guts to accept that your own country are the baddies. Americans especially have been systematically conditioned to be gutless. And israel is their command center and has been for generations. To the point it's become self destructive. And it's all being run by opulent psycopaths.
Today is January 6th Ashley Babbit day. Murdered by armed government agents during a false flag 'insurection' as cover for the biggest coup in American history after JFK assassination.
So many people are absolutely insane. They turn on the tele and watch reruns over and over, they watch ludicrous so called 'news' with out thinking. They are either Cognitively Dissonant, or Brain Washed. If questioned the retort is ' you can't believe the Internet' or ' what do you Know'.
Well,I know enough not to watch television news!
Hi JS
We need another Jan. 6…but we need to include people of ALL ideologies, working together to get rid of the regime as we know it.
We must put our differences aside in order to get rid of the bought and paid for whores in the WH and congress. We all know it ain’t working for the American people.
The time for Revolution is YESTERDAY. And we must be fearless. Remember that during the first revolution, people were not afraid to die for their country.
I agree that To overcome the institutionalized corruption Americans need to Unite against Leviathan. The Arab peoples and all people of consciousness need to Unite against the imposition of a central Tyranny as well. Garet Garrett wrote a short expose called 'The Revolution Was' it's worth a quick read.
It's "Ashley Babbitt day" only for traitors & MAGAts.
You are entitled to your opinion. It was formed for you by the very things Caitlin described.
Yeah, its ridiculous and absurd how Ashley Babbitt has been made into some kind of "martyr" by people on the far right. Confirmation bias is always at work - no matter how much context is provided, no matter what the facts are, most people will continue to believe what they want to believe. Very few people have the courage to think critically and question their own belief structures, their own world-views, their own unconscious biases.
BTW, this is in no way a critique of the far-right. Every homosapien has biases and the need to belong to their in-group. It applies to people on the left, right AND people that don't belong anywhere on the spectrum of left-right. This need to "belong to a group", to "feel right about one's intuitions", to "feel good about oneself" - all these human needs become stumbling blocks in the application of critical thinking.
I personally, respect a person's opinion more if that person is always questioning his/her thought processes, always questioning their own belief structures, always dissecting their own biases,...
wut?
Ashly Babbitt was not shot and killed. that was not real.
I have never heard that said, nor have I seen any supporting information for such. Please share your sources as enquiring minds Want to know the TRUTH.
It was definitely a false flag. there are so many angles we could visit but i saw a good link to a video by Wooznews, which explains it with frame by frame examination of the footage. Ashli didn't get shot. the bullet would have missed by about 10 feet. she fell back and someone applied fake blood. you can see for yourself in this video. i found it last year. you shoild be able to follow this link. https://rumble.com/v24cfg0-ashley-babbitt-hoax-by-wooz-news-everything-wrong-with-the-capitol-shooting.html
happy reading!
Thank you, the video opens a lot of questions.
Agreed. and now that Ashli's " husband " is suing, that seems very convenient. like the fake Sandy Hoax parents getting money, and Alex Jones being sued, but still clearing at least 500K a year. lots of BS.
I have filed Ashli Babbet with JFK, RFK, MLK, Jeff Epstein . Meaning I have No way of Knowing the Truth so they are unsolved mysteries with a very high propensity of being Government operations and coverups. More divide and conquer agenda.
Don’t forget this: William Casey: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
FEBRUARY 4, 1981