Not to mention the ones that have been murdered. Gary Webb, Michael Hastings, Hunter Thompson.
Of course, there are narratives that "explain away" these events. Just like NIST explained away the obvious controlled demolition of the WTC. (and my own personal embarrassment, "the USA would never have overthrown the government of Chile as shown in the movie 'Missing'")
We're talking "red pill/blue pill" stuff here of course, so I wouldn't expect you to acknowledge, or even consider, what I've presented as "true". Your post is precisely the kind of "head in the sand", brainwashed "whataboutism" that Caitlin just explained.
Did you not read the article?
Or... were you just trying to provide an example of "magic wisdom sauce" from a "galaxy-brained intellectual". Of course, that had to be it! You almost had me there....
I fully agree with you. The USA is an oligarchy, not a democracy. I could quibble: Chelsea Manning is not a journalist and she is not in prison, although she was and should not have been. My point remains: we can criticise China while recognising it is not, at the moment, anything like as bad in many respects as what the West is doing. Although I suspect China's prison conditions - according to such as Ai Wewe - are rather worse.
I've had this conversation before with others. They tell me we should concentrate on the West because, apparently we can't do anything about China/Bahrain/Egypt/Turkey etc. That is not the international solidarity of the socialist movement; that is more akin to the America First movement of pre-WWII infamy. To ignore the suffering of people in "faraway places of which we know nothing", to quote Neville Chamberlain as he excused giving Czechoslovakia to the Nazis, is not to be realistic but to be dishonourable. Should we abandon the BDS movement to free Palestine because, given the history and the lack of success so far, we apparently can do nothing and should concentrate on domestic causes?
Whether Chelsea Manning is or was a "journalist" is irrelevant. The First Amendment protects freedom of speech and freedom of the press, among other things.
One or two?
Donzinger, Assange, Kiriaku, Manning,
Not to mention the ones that have been murdered. Gary Webb, Michael Hastings, Hunter Thompson.
Of course, there are narratives that "explain away" these events. Just like NIST explained away the obvious controlled demolition of the WTC. (and my own personal embarrassment, "the USA would never have overthrown the government of Chile as shown in the movie 'Missing'")
We're talking "red pill/blue pill" stuff here of course, so I wouldn't expect you to acknowledge, or even consider, what I've presented as "true". Your post is precisely the kind of "head in the sand", brainwashed "whataboutism" that Caitlin just explained.
Did you not read the article?
Or... were you just trying to provide an example of "magic wisdom sauce" from a "galaxy-brained intellectual". Of course, that had to be it! You almost had me there....
I fully agree with you. The USA is an oligarchy, not a democracy. I could quibble: Chelsea Manning is not a journalist and she is not in prison, although she was and should not have been. My point remains: we can criticise China while recognising it is not, at the moment, anything like as bad in many respects as what the West is doing. Although I suspect China's prison conditions - according to such as Ai Wewe - are rather worse.
I've had this conversation before with others. They tell me we should concentrate on the West because, apparently we can't do anything about China/Bahrain/Egypt/Turkey etc. That is not the international solidarity of the socialist movement; that is more akin to the America First movement of pre-WWII infamy. To ignore the suffering of people in "faraway places of which we know nothing", to quote Neville Chamberlain as he excused giving Czechoslovakia to the Nazis, is not to be realistic but to be dishonourable. Should we abandon the BDS movement to free Palestine because, given the history and the lack of success so far, we apparently can do nothing and should concentrate on domestic causes?
Whether Chelsea Manning is or was a "journalist" is irrelevant. The First Amendment protects freedom of speech and freedom of the press, among other things.
It says not a word about "journalists".
Guess I was wrong about that galaxy-brain secret sauce.
You missed the entire point of the article.
Which is...?