There has to be an uprising by the mass population - like what is now taking place under Macron in France. I don't see any way other than a populace movement - as the US govt now has been entirely corporately captured by Wallstreet and the MIC. Those placed in governance are put there not by the will of the american people, but by monied interests and propaganda - and rigged elections.
When about 40% of the US pop are worried about the next rent or mortgage payment, that is a revolution - in the making. It isn't a country, but a bank-owned corporation: it isn't about the welfare of people -except for the myth the cops won't knock your door down middle of the night - as in less "fortunate" countries- but about the steady accumulation of more and more money in fewer and fewer hands.
Yes, you are 100% correct. That's the only way out that I can imagine given the current rampant corruption in the US. No idea what's in the future, but this level of wealth inequality, and money diverted to Imperial wars oversees cannot continue as is. The corrupt dam will eventually burst.
It has never burst in the usa's entire history, J, what, 246 years so why might it burst now. Tho' admittedly BRICS is giving the usa BRICS upside the head so that might work.
I just don't see it continuing the way it is - given the injustice taking place, and the criminality at the top. Maybe I'm wrong Terry - maybe we'll just descend into a dystopia and no one will fight back. We all know DC is now a uniparty, and they're all corrupt as fuck.
I agree totally with you hope for a better usa and world but until usians REALLY get together, NOTHING will ever happen. THe Founding Liars knew what they were doing and it was never, still ain't, "all men are created equal", the biggest bool shtt line ever. The 1% are "equal" and the 99% are, in their eyes, dumb facks who keep voting the 1% into power, demorat or repuglican, it is all the same, they just pretend to be different so the 99% think there is a difference.
Sadly, capture of this government started in 1913 with the Federal Reserve Act and the false claim that the 16th Amendment had been ratified, giving us the illegal income tax. From then on, we became slaves to the banking cartel centered in the City of London.
There is no mass uprising of the population in France. Unlike the Yellow Vests, which were a spontaneous movement, the demonstrations against pensions are organized by trade unions and a left-wing opposition that want, like a dog pissing, to mark their territory but in no way overturn the table. On the subject of France's alignment with American policy in Ukraine, everyone in the political world agrees: Putin is the villain, Zelensky a hero and there are no neo-Nazis in Ukraine. The so-called far-right party has even requested a commission of inquiry into foreign interference in French politics.
François Fillon, Prime Minister from 2007 to 2012, summoned before this commission because since his retirement from political life, he had worked for Russian companies, said that the only interference he had experienced during his term as Prime Minister had been that of the United States, which, in particular, had tapped him and President Sarkozy by the NSA. And he concluded to signify the infamy of this commission: "If I want to go sell rillettes on the Red Square, I will go sell rillettes on the Red Square." (The region of which Mr. Fillon was the elected representative specializes in rillettes).
I've been thinking a lot about how ordinary people change society. The Academy of Ideas (on youtube) has some great answers, as does Vaclav Havel's book, "The Power of the Powerless."
Vaclav Havel did very well with the dissolution of the Soviet Union: even got himself a new, young, glamorous wife, and a great car to go with it. I wouldn't read a billboard he authored.
… you do not become a “dissident” just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society. […]
By breaking the rules of the game, he has disrupted the game as such. He has exposed it as a mere game. He has shattered the world of appearances, the fundamental pillar of the system. He has upset the power structure by tearing apart what holds it together. He has demonstrated that living a lie is living a lie. He has broken through the exalted facade of the system and exposed the real, base foundations of power. He has said that the emperor is naked. And because the emperor is in fact naked, something extremely dangerous has happened: by his action, the greengrocer has addressed the world. He has enabled everyone to peer behind the curtain. He has shown everyone that it is possible to live within the truth. Living within the lie can constitute the system only if it is universal. The principle must embrace and permeate everything. There are no terms whatsoever on which it can co-exist with living within the truth, and therefore everyone who steps out of line denies it in principle and threatens it in its entirety."
This is all pretty talk, something Havel was into, along with pretty wives. The fact is, "Communist Czechoslovakia in the '80s was prosperous by the standards of the Eastern Bloc, and did well in comparison with many richer Western countries." This is an online quote: you disagree with it? Havel, naturally, as its first president after communism, did very, very well. What does that prove? I say he is a hypocrite. The Czech Republic was given a kick-start under communism, but the bastard gives them no credit. Now they're back to square one.
When you think about the future history books of the United States as they will be written about this period, the crimes and hypocrisies of those “leading” the country will jump off the page every bit as much as those most reviled leaders of the 20th century. There is no defense for this.
Nothing will change as long as the political parties serve corporate interests. I am reading The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government.
Book by David Talbot. It's all obviously there; you need to know why things are the way they are now. But it is just a book. Also, the Pentagon papers only helped change opinions about the war; they didn't immediately stop it. And Daniel Ellsberg didn't get the life sentence because of a technicality: Nixon's goons broke into the psychiatrist's office and stole Ellsberg's health records.
Here is very fascinating radio program from 1972 discussing Pentagon papers and JFK. You will see a lot of parallels with the proxy war in Ukraine. The only difference it's civilians today are the one who wants to prolong it.
Another great and nearly entirely ignored book covering the same material--CIA criminality worldwide in service to US imperialist ambitions--is "The Jakarta Method," by Vincent Bevins. Another must read for ever understanding the deep state-led perfidy and radical evil of this whole blood-stained system.
Thank you for this, I’m going to get it and read it. Have you read Listen Liberal? It’s not about the CIA but is about the people who made this all possible, and still are.
Yes, this is a great book. It’s one of the reasons why I believe the US’s downfall started when Truman started the CIA. In other words, at the beginning of our climb to world dominance. You could say mythically that the empire’s demise was seeded at its birth. It’s the only thing I like about us—that democracies cannot be empires, one or the other has to go. Right now, democracy hangs in the balance, but a lot of us aren’t quitting until we get it right.
Remember history is written by the winner. We only need to ask the indigenous people in the u.s. How can change be made as the earlier comments ask. I do not see any change coming within decades with the current system.
Friends over coffee, this topic always comes up. This state of the state is part of End Stage Capitalism as I see it. Over the years for me the time stamp is After Bernie. After Bernie it proved to me there is no changing the collaboration of the ruling two parties. The DNC announcing new terms for primaries was very interesting. I have become an accelerationist After Bernie. I never thought I would take that position ever. People, power to change but no that is not going to happen without complete collapse. I don't like saying or writing that but that's where I am now. War with Russia and China, two war departments of former Defense and State sums that up for me. Sorry, rambling like we're having coffee ha.
Free journalism was very damaging to the US in the Vietnam war. A 'mistake' the Pentagon would care not to repeat. The UK's Falklands war was a model of how to control the media using journalism that the Americans could learn from. The British Govt. filtered who went out with the Navy, who was on the ground, they were all either government friendly journos or tightly controlled (not so hard on an isolated island in the Atlantic). The Thatcher/Murdoch template was adopted by MI6/5 and the CIA and has proved highly successful ever since.
That'd not really applicable to most US wars. Falkland Island is a remote island in the South Atlantic, not so easy for journalists to get to, but access to land wars can be gained overland.
The US embedded selected tame reporters in the Middle East, but journalist from several countries were able to reach the war zone.
That is actually what I said: the Falklands were remote and that made it easy for this kind of control. However, my point was; the principles of modern narrative control were sown there. The UK/US/EU now tightly control journalists in MSM by penalising truth, discrediting truth tellers or by limiting general access to independent reporters work (i.e. Social media bans and censoring as used by Twitter, Youtube and FB) and openly shutting down (like RT).
Medea Benjamin/Code Pink has been showing up since the carnage inflicted upon Afghanistan and then Iraq...where are the rest of the (former) justice/peace groups here in the US? I'll tell you where...NON EXISTENT.
They're not just killing Julian Assange, they're killing political journalism in real-time. By removing the safeguards that protected journalists, they made the profession lethally dangerous, and moreover, they effectively deterred inquisitive investigative reporters from doing their job. Without a doubt, that was the main goal of the plot, and they managed to achieve it. Even if Julian Assange is released now, after so many years of persecution, the trauma will remain in the journalistic society for a long time.
Yes, journalists are captured by the publications they work for...just like our "regulatory" agencies. All MSM fired investigative reporters decades ago.
I have said this before - the election of Obama did more to neuter the antiwar movement than anything Dick Cheney could have dreamed of, not even if he were made Generalissimo and Maximum Leader For Life.
I totally agree. That guy did SOOOOO much damage to the zeitgeist of our country. I think he was the last boot on the neck of the country, but it was such a pretty, yuppie boot. And guess who loved him? BIDEN!!!
That's an interesting idea, worth fleshing out. It does seem to have happened.
So questions include, how did Obama's presidency lead to this? Was it planned or serendipitous (or a little of both)?
Do you know any good sources on where Obama came from? Of course, I've heard a lot about his background, and he's even written his own version, but are there good sources that put things together?
Honestly, I've heard the theories, and I suspect it was serendipity. Or whatever the opposite of serendipity is. Bad luck, I guess.
In 2008, neocons were having a collective freak out, terrified that peace might break out at any moment. Georgia launched its attack on South Ossetia and Abkhazia in fear that an Obama administration would not give adventuring policies blanket support.
I also suspect serendipity, but I haven't done a deep dive on Obama and how he came to be president.
Initially, the 2008 election looked like it was supposed to be a coronation of Hillary, but then along comes first-term senator Obama to take her out. There's got to be some stories and power plays behind the scenes.
Most politicians exhibit behavior indistinguishable from that of high-functioning sociopaths, in the sense that they can fake empathy when they need to.
HRC is famously unlikable for ordinary people because she cannot be bothered to even try faking it.
To me, Obama took Advantage of the deep love the liberals had for MLK and the deep distrust they had for Hillary, but he was also backed by forces more powerful than the DLC, the Clinton’s doomsday election machine. I know these forces included most of the press at that time who played up Obama’s “destiny” appeal and his “constitutional scholar” chains without ever looking at his Law Review writings.
Your thinking about the rise of Obama is similar to my suspicions.
One thing that does seem obvious is that among the "powerful" forces behind Obama were general cultural ones that his messages were extremely effective in tapping into.
But I suspect that there were many people, besides the obvious Obama himself, who were seeking to tap into these forces and use Obama as a vehicle to benefit themselves. These people won out over the people behind Hillary (whose plans were foiled again later by Trump). But these are just suspicions, and the facts behind Obama (and the Clintons, for that matter) remain largely hidden.
I await a clear accounting, either in book or long-form investigative journalistic form.
I had to re-read that about a year ago. It's chilling how accurate Orwell's prophetic imagination really is. And how well it intersects with Huxley's "Brave New World," where the slaves of these narratives are finally so relieved of any critical consciousness that they come to willingly embrace their enslavement. Most of this population is already there.
According to Joe Biden, he graduated in the top of his class, graduated with three degrees, and was arrested in a civil rights movement. He now sits in the highest public office in the land as POTUS.
Julian Assange, receiver of numerous awards in journalism, overseeing Wikileaks, which has a 100% proven track record of accuracy in reporting truth, has now been sitting in Belmarsh prison for 4+ years - without even a judicial trial for the crimes he is accused of by Joe Biden.
So you be the judge where the real scam is taking place: The lying, corrupt criminal in the White House, or the ethical journalist in Belmarsh?
Daniel Ellesberg dying of pancreatic cancer could and can make a difference with Julian's prosecution as he did in the past with Vietnam. How can the media continue to deny Daniel's words.
Because they deny, cancel, censor and otherwise silence ALL words that contradict their controlling narrative. That's how a totalitarian system keeps working.
Yes, I guess my comment was rhetorical. I don't see change coming until End Stage Capitalism plays out to the end. The game of Monopoly doesn't end until there is one winner and we are down to 600 or so in the u.s.
They've effectively already killed him. He's so physically and psychologically compromised he's nearly a vegetable, and this was all done by design. It's been a death sentence by slow asphyxiation. And none of the motherfuckers will ever be held accountable, because they never are.
I COMPLETELY agree. That woman is so hateful and vengeful. She has sold what soul she had for a shot at the Big Time and Assange nearly single-handedly took her down. Jabba the Hutt in drag. She will have her revenge. Wonder what she’s got on Byedone besides Hunter’s laptop? Jeffery Epstein’s files, courtesy of creepy Bill? Inquiring minds want to know.
As Wall Street Journal White House correspondent Sabrina Siddiqi recently acknowledged on MSNBC, the job of the White House press secretary is not to tell the truth, but to "stay on message and control the narrative."
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Another usa flack said it much more directly many long years ago.
"If you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you're stupid."
--- Arthur Sylvester, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, to American journalists, 1965
So anyone, everyone, answer me this. Why the duck have all these generations of usa "news reporter" gone on since the Founding Liars pretending they are doing the phucking jobs they are supposed to do. Of course it is the same in all the western "free and open" "nations" but the usa is far and away the biggest liars on Earth.
While not as bad as the treatment of Assange, the coordinated government/Mainstream Media attack on Matt Taibbi is pretty bad, further knocking the US off the moral high ground when it comes to treatment of journalists.
The US government is just outright criminal along with the rest of the western world. I don't see how we can right the ship
There has to be an uprising by the mass population - like what is now taking place under Macron in France. I don't see any way other than a populace movement - as the US govt now has been entirely corporately captured by Wallstreet and the MIC. Those placed in governance are put there not by the will of the american people, but by monied interests and propaganda - and rigged elections.
When about 40% of the US pop are worried about the next rent or mortgage payment, that is a revolution - in the making. It isn't a country, but a bank-owned corporation: it isn't about the welfare of people -except for the myth the cops won't knock your door down middle of the night - as in less "fortunate" countries- but about the steady accumulation of more and more money in fewer and fewer hands.
Yes, you are 100% correct. That's the only way out that I can imagine given the current rampant corruption in the US. No idea what's in the future, but this level of wealth inequality, and money diverted to Imperial wars oversees cannot continue as is. The corrupt dam will eventually burst.
Jamenta: The corrupt dam will eventually burst.
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It has never burst in the usa's entire history, J, what, 246 years so why might it burst now. Tho' admittedly BRICS is giving the usa BRICS upside the head so that might work.
I just don't see it continuing the way it is - given the injustice taking place, and the criminality at the top. Maybe I'm wrong Terry - maybe we'll just descend into a dystopia and no one will fight back. We all know DC is now a uniparty, and they're all corrupt as fuck.
I agree totally with you hope for a better usa and world but until usians REALLY get together, NOTHING will ever happen. THe Founding Liars knew what they were doing and it was never, still ain't, "all men are created equal", the biggest bool shtt line ever. The 1% are "equal" and the 99% are, in their eyes, dumb facks who keep voting the 1% into power, demorat or repuglican, it is all the same, they just pretend to be different so the 99% think there is a difference.
Sadly, capture of this government started in 1913 with the Federal Reserve Act and the false claim that the 16th Amendment had been ratified, giving us the illegal income tax. From then on, we became slaves to the banking cartel centered in the City of London.
the railroads, mining, logging, and steel industry owned the federal government long before then.
It was even worse than today.
They are the Gate keepers, They are guarding all the doors, They are holding all the keys...Which means...eventually someone will have to fight them.
Truth in plain sight.
There is no mass uprising of the population in France. Unlike the Yellow Vests, which were a spontaneous movement, the demonstrations against pensions are organized by trade unions and a left-wing opposition that want, like a dog pissing, to mark their territory but in no way overturn the table. On the subject of France's alignment with American policy in Ukraine, everyone in the political world agrees: Putin is the villain, Zelensky a hero and there are no neo-Nazis in Ukraine. The so-called far-right party has even requested a commission of inquiry into foreign interference in French politics.
François Fillon, Prime Minister from 2007 to 2012, summoned before this commission because since his retirement from political life, he had worked for Russian companies, said that the only interference he had experienced during his term as Prime Minister had been that of the United States, which, in particular, had tapped him and President Sarkozy by the NSA. And he concluded to signify the infamy of this commission: "If I want to go sell rillettes on the Red Square, I will go sell rillettes on the Red Square." (The region of which Mr. Fillon was the elected representative specializes in rillettes).
Looks like Caitlin's comments section has finally gained the notice of the deep state propaganda blockheads.
There is now so much hypocrisy in the US government that we might as well start referring to it as a “hypocracy.”
Or, demockracy.
Assange is a hero whom Tucker Carlson and many others have valorized, thank God.
I treat no man as an oracle, but Carlson surely was right this time.
I've been thinking a lot about how ordinary people change society. The Academy of Ideas (on youtube) has some great answers, as does Vaclav Havel's book, "The Power of the Powerless."
Vaclav Havel did very well with the dissolution of the Soviet Union: even got himself a new, young, glamorous wife, and a great car to go with it. I wouldn't read a billboard he authored.
Well, read this and tell me what you disagree with.
http://www.wolfenotes.com/2019/08/we-celebrate-a-decade-of-truth-telling/
As Vaclev Havel wrote, to live in truth:
… you do not become a “dissident” just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society. […]
By breaking the rules of the game, he has disrupted the game as such. He has exposed it as a mere game. He has shattered the world of appearances, the fundamental pillar of the system. He has upset the power structure by tearing apart what holds it together. He has demonstrated that living a lie is living a lie. He has broken through the exalted facade of the system and exposed the real, base foundations of power. He has said that the emperor is naked. And because the emperor is in fact naked, something extremely dangerous has happened: by his action, the greengrocer has addressed the world. He has enabled everyone to peer behind the curtain. He has shown everyone that it is possible to live within the truth. Living within the lie can constitute the system only if it is universal. The principle must embrace and permeate everything. There are no terms whatsoever on which it can co-exist with living within the truth, and therefore everyone who steps out of line denies it in principle and threatens it in its entirety."
This is all pretty talk, something Havel was into, along with pretty wives. The fact is, "Communist Czechoslovakia in the '80s was prosperous by the standards of the Eastern Bloc, and did well in comparison with many richer Western countries." This is an online quote: you disagree with it? Havel, naturally, as its first president after communism, did very, very well. What does that prove? I say he is a hypocrite. The Czech Republic was given a kick-start under communism, but the bastard gives them no credit. Now they're back to square one.
When you think about the future history books of the United States as they will be written about this period, the crimes and hypocrisies of those “leading” the country will jump off the page every bit as much as those most reviled leaders of the 20th century. There is no defense for this.
Nothing will change as long as the political parties serve corporate interests. I am reading The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government.
Book by David Talbot. It's all obviously there; you need to know why things are the way they are now. But it is just a book. Also, the Pentagon papers only helped change opinions about the war; they didn't immediately stop it. And Daniel Ellsberg didn't get the life sentence because of a technicality: Nixon's goons broke into the psychiatrist's office and stole Ellsberg's health records.
Here is very fascinating radio program from 1972 discussing Pentagon papers and JFK. You will see a lot of parallels with the proxy war in Ukraine. The only difference it's civilians today are the one who wants to prolong it.
https://youtu.be/_WihJmUcsRk
Another great and nearly entirely ignored book covering the same material--CIA criminality worldwide in service to US imperialist ambitions--is "The Jakarta Method," by Vincent Bevins. Another must read for ever understanding the deep state-led perfidy and radical evil of this whole blood-stained system.
Thank you for this, I’m going to get it and read it. Have you read Listen Liberal? It’s not about the CIA but is about the people who made this all possible, and still are.
Yes. Read Talbot's book a few years ago. A must read along with RFKJR's The Real Anthony Fauci.
Yes, this is a great book. It’s one of the reasons why I believe the US’s downfall started when Truman started the CIA. In other words, at the beginning of our climb to world dominance. You could say mythically that the empire’s demise was seeded at its birth. It’s the only thing I like about us—that democracies cannot be empires, one or the other has to go. Right now, democracy hangs in the balance, but a lot of us aren’t quitting until we get it right.
Remember history is written by the winner. We only need to ask the indigenous people in the u.s. How can change be made as the earlier comments ask. I do not see any change coming within decades with the current system.
More reasons to destroy the current corrupt system and replace it with a fair and just one.
Friends over coffee, this topic always comes up. This state of the state is part of End Stage Capitalism as I see it. Over the years for me the time stamp is After Bernie. After Bernie it proved to me there is no changing the collaboration of the ruling two parties. The DNC announcing new terms for primaries was very interesting. I have become an accelerationist After Bernie. I never thought I would take that position ever. People, power to change but no that is not going to happen without complete collapse. I don't like saying or writing that but that's where I am now. War with Russia and China, two war departments of former Defense and State sums that up for me. Sorry, rambling like we're having coffee ha.
Free journalism was very damaging to the US in the Vietnam war. A 'mistake' the Pentagon would care not to repeat. The UK's Falklands war was a model of how to control the media using journalism that the Americans could learn from. The British Govt. filtered who went out with the Navy, who was on the ground, they were all either government friendly journos or tightly controlled (not so hard on an isolated island in the Atlantic). The Thatcher/Murdoch template was adopted by MI6/5 and the CIA and has proved highly successful ever since.
That'd not really applicable to most US wars. Falkland Island is a remote island in the South Atlantic, not so easy for journalists to get to, but access to land wars can be gained overland.
The US embedded selected tame reporters in the Middle East, but journalist from several countries were able to reach the war zone.
That is actually what I said: the Falklands were remote and that made it easy for this kind of control. However, my point was; the principles of modern narrative control were sown there. The UK/US/EU now tightly control journalists in MSM by penalising truth, discrediting truth tellers or by limiting general access to independent reporters work (i.e. Social media bans and censoring as used by Twitter, Youtube and FB) and openly shutting down (like RT).
Medea Benjamin/Code Pink has been showing up since the carnage inflicted upon Afghanistan and then Iraq...where are the rest of the (former) justice/peace groups here in the US? I'll tell you where...NON EXISTENT.
They're not just killing Julian Assange, they're killing political journalism in real-time. By removing the safeguards that protected journalists, they made the profession lethally dangerous, and moreover, they effectively deterred inquisitive investigative reporters from doing their job. Without a doubt, that was the main goal of the plot, and they managed to achieve it. Even if Julian Assange is released now, after so many years of persecution, the trauma will remain in the journalistic society for a long time.
Yes, journalists are captured by the publications they work for...just like our "regulatory" agencies. All MSM fired investigative reporters decades ago.
I have said this before - the election of Obama did more to neuter the antiwar movement than anything Dick Cheney could have dreamed of, not even if he were made Generalissimo and Maximum Leader For Life.
I totally agree. That guy did SOOOOO much damage to the zeitgeist of our country. I think he was the last boot on the neck of the country, but it was such a pretty, yuppie boot. And guess who loved him? BIDEN!!!
Bill Clinton too.
That's an interesting idea, worth fleshing out. It does seem to have happened.
So questions include, how did Obama's presidency lead to this? Was it planned or serendipitous (or a little of both)?
Do you know any good sources on where Obama came from? Of course, I've heard a lot about his background, and he's even written his own version, but are there good sources that put things together?
Honestly, I've heard the theories, and I suspect it was serendipity. Or whatever the opposite of serendipity is. Bad luck, I guess.
In 2008, neocons were having a collective freak out, terrified that peace might break out at any moment. Georgia launched its attack on South Ossetia and Abkhazia in fear that an Obama administration would not give adventuring policies blanket support.
I also suspect serendipity, but I haven't done a deep dive on Obama and how he came to be president.
Initially, the 2008 election looked like it was supposed to be a coronation of Hillary, but then along comes first-term senator Obama to take her out. There's got to be some stories and power plays behind the scenes.
Most politicians exhibit behavior indistinguishable from that of high-functioning sociopaths, in the sense that they can fake empathy when they need to.
HRC is famously unlikable for ordinary people because she cannot be bothered to even try faking it.
The key thing was sponsorship by Penny Pritzker.
To me, Obama took Advantage of the deep love the liberals had for MLK and the deep distrust they had for Hillary, but he was also backed by forces more powerful than the DLC, the Clinton’s doomsday election machine. I know these forces included most of the press at that time who played up Obama’s “destiny” appeal and his “constitutional scholar” chains without ever looking at his Law Review writings.
Your thinking about the rise of Obama is similar to my suspicions.
One thing that does seem obvious is that among the "powerful" forces behind Obama were general cultural ones that his messages were extremely effective in tapping into.
But I suspect that there were many people, besides the obvious Obama himself, who were seeking to tap into these forces and use Obama as a vehicle to benefit themselves. These people won out over the people behind Hillary (whose plans were foiled again later by Trump). But these are just suspicions, and the facts behind Obama (and the Clintons, for that matter) remain largely hidden.
I await a clear accounting, either in book or long-form investigative journalistic form.
Claims, not chains, but… 🤔
Yes, Medea and her people are fearless, not to say tenacious! They’ve been there fighting the good fight for decades.
Straight up 1984.
I had to re-read that about a year ago. It's chilling how accurate Orwell's prophetic imagination really is. And how well it intersects with Huxley's "Brave New World," where the slaves of these narratives are finally so relieved of any critical consciousness that they come to willingly embrace their enslavement. Most of this population is already there.
Julian Assange is being punished for the “crime” of journalism, and the people with the power to help him are choosing to remain silent.
https://issuechronicle.substack.com/p/deafening-silence-the-cowards-who-b0b
According to Joe Biden, he graduated in the top of his class, graduated with three degrees, and was arrested in a civil rights movement. He now sits in the highest public office in the land as POTUS.
Julian Assange, receiver of numerous awards in journalism, overseeing Wikileaks, which has a 100% proven track record of accuracy in reporting truth, has now been sitting in Belmarsh prison for 4+ years - without even a judicial trial for the crimes he is accused of by Joe Biden.
So you be the judge where the real scam is taking place: The lying, corrupt criminal in the White House, or the ethical journalist in Belmarsh?
Daniel Ellesberg dying of pancreatic cancer could and can make a difference with Julian's prosecution as he did in the past with Vietnam. How can the media continue to deny Daniel's words.
Because they deny, cancel, censor and otherwise silence ALL words that contradict their controlling narrative. That's how a totalitarian system keeps working.
Yes, I guess my comment was rhetorical. I don't see change coming until End Stage Capitalism plays out to the end. The game of Monopoly doesn't end until there is one winner and we are down to 600 or so in the u.s.
Only 600? We should have enough wood for the guillotines on hand.
In my opinion, there is ONE reason why Assange remains in his predicament.
Hillary Clinton.
She won't sign off on it, and everyone else just goes along because... Hillary.
They don't want to try him. He has been sentenced to die in prison.
They've effectively already killed him. He's so physically and psychologically compromised he's nearly a vegetable, and this was all done by design. It's been a death sentence by slow asphyxiation. And none of the motherfuckers will ever be held accountable, because they never are.
I COMPLETELY agree. That woman is so hateful and vengeful. She has sold what soul she had for a shot at the Big Time and Assange nearly single-handedly took her down. Jabba the Hutt in drag. She will have her revenge. Wonder what she’s got on Byedone besides Hunter’s laptop? Jeffery Epstein’s files, courtesy of creepy Bill? Inquiring minds want to know.
“....the job of the White House press secretary is not to tell the truth, but to "stay on message and control the narrative."
Yet they claim to be against dis and misinformation but they are perhaps the biggest purveyors of it.
As Wall Street Journal White House correspondent Sabrina Siddiqi recently acknowledged on MSNBC, the job of the White House press secretary is not to tell the truth, but to "stay on message and control the narrative."
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Another usa flack said it much more directly many long years ago.
"If you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you're stupid."
--- Arthur Sylvester, assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, to American journalists, 1965
So anyone, everyone, answer me this. Why the duck have all these generations of usa "news reporter" gone on since the Founding Liars pretending they are doing the phucking jobs they are supposed to do. Of course it is the same in all the western "free and open" "nations" but the usa is far and away the biggest liars on Earth.
tHe RuLes bAsEᗡ iTnerNaTIona⅃ 0RdeЯ = It's OK when WE do it
We're so pro-journalist in the USA that we prosecute a journalist for showing how the US government literally murders journalists in a war zone.
Surprised nobody also pushed the officials with any questions about the Twitter files and recent cases of government coordinated media censorship.
While not as bad as the treatment of Assange, the coordinated government/Mainstream Media attack on Matt Taibbi is pretty bad, further knocking the US off the moral high ground when it comes to treatment of journalists.