Events unfolding now shouldn’t be seen as current events, which is how the media always tries to portray the latest crisis. If Americans knew the full extent of the "Bioshield Act" established by the neocons in 2004, and its implications today, much broader strategic situation seems in play. The US has 336 bio labs in 30 countries.
To quote from "The Project for a New American Century and the Age of Bioweapons: 20 Years of Psychological Terror":
The Age of Bioweapons and PNAC
"This anthrax attack led quickly into the 2004 Bioshield Act with a $5 billion budget and mandate to “pre-empt and defend further bioweapon attacks”. This new chapter of the revolution in military affairs was to be coordinated from leading bioweapons facility at the Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick. Since 2002, over $50 billion has been spent on Bioweapons research and defense to date.
The earlier October 2000 RAD document emphasized the importance which the neocon cabal placed on bioweapons (and other next generation war tech) stating: “Combat will likely take place in new dimensions: In space, cyber-space and perhaps the world of microbes… advanced forms of biological warfare that can “target” specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool”.
Want to understand US pro-war propaganda in one song. Listen to Aaron Neville's moving rendition of Dylan's "With God on Our Side." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfmcUeueuhc. To purge any residual exceptionalist brainwashing, I sit at my keyboard and sing it to myself loudly.
I am amazed how crude the propaganda is. No attempt to source anti Russian stories and taking on faith every pronouncement by unknown US government sources. The chemical weapons threat headline in today's Post uses the same size font as would be used to report on aliens landing on the White House lawn. I guess the staff panicked after Victoria Nuland's confession. It appears that the Post and other main stream media news outlets are staffed by not too bright high schoolers. Maybe this is the result of woke education over the last 10 or 20 years, i.e. really uneducated people in jobs way over their heads.
Agreed. It really saddens me that the quality of U.S. propaganda is in such decline. I remember a time when U.S. propaganda was topnotch and we all made fun of the half-hearted mediocre lies the uninspired Soviets printed in Pravda, when even the best lies in the good ole U.S.S.R. started to resemble the drab, lifeless architecture of their apartment buildings.
I mean think of the pure evil cunning and imagination of giving a secret CIA source the code name Deep Throat. Now that was some first class propaganda. How did we ever get to this point where CNN and MSNBC now routinely trot out “former” CIA agents right into their studios to delude us. Those agents even use their Christian names. It’s just so ham-fisted and amateurish, in fact, that it's getting harder and harder to join the mass psychosis. Sorry to get nostalgic, but it's just so dispiriting to see our great institutions of mind control collapsing all around us.
I know Caitlin already mentioned Victoria Nuland's admission earlier in the article, but it needs to be driven home, so add scare quotes and what's in brackets, "'Unproven' claims by the Russian government[, verified by Victoria Nuland's Senate testimony] are laughable absurdities presented without evidence [other than Nuland's admission against interest]." The Russians understand the value of retaining credibility, so they do not lie, and frequently point out the absurdity of Western lies, which is why we can't see RT or Sputnik.
The best way to predict something is if you're planning it. I've been researching for my next YT on Victoria Nuland is Dolores Umbridge. The 2014 coup started soon after VN arrived in Ukraine. The pivotal event that ended it was the sniper attack on the Maidan protesters (NOT on the day that VN and John McCain were handing out cookies to the neo-Nazis, Islamic jihadists and ultra-nationalists who wanted a pureblood Ukraine.) The curious things was that the attack came from a building controlled by the ultra-right protesters.
The next day Yanukovych, on whom it had been blamed, signed an agreement with the right, mediated through the EU, to move the election scheduled in a year up by nine months and limit his power until then. VN's faction rejected it and stepped up their violence! When they took over gov't buildings, Yanukovych fled--a day before the end of the Sochi Olympics that was keeping Russia distracted.
And true to her leaked phone conversation, 'Yats was our guy' put in charge. So another false flag terrorism attack (which is always what biological, chemical or nuclear weapons are since they can't be targeted) would be entirely within her m.o.
The propaganda that looks crude and outrageous to us looks like news to anyone emersed in the Trump Putin puppet COVID mandate bubble for the last 6 years, and that's a hell of a lot of people. Enough to applaud a nuclear war.
Same as it EVER was. ProPublica & my formerly beloved CounterPunch now all jumping on the Atlantic Council, Bell¿ngcat, WaPo, NYT, CNN war wagon. Was it raping nuns, Instagram whores @ BABY hospitals or simply Frack, baby, FRACK propaganda, as Admiral Yamamoto once snarked, "Yeah BABY, when Russia does it: war CRIME. When 'Murika does it... it's TUESDAY!"
Exactly! At first, I'd figured, their stable of cranky curmudgeon contributors always included boomer librul reactionaries. So, as with Guardian, Intercept (now, sadly, ProPublica?) It must just be substance abuse, PASC brain fog, etc. Like Amy Goodman: Atlantic Council, CFR, CAP & Bell¿ngcat funding must be tremendous temptation after decades of having to listen to drunked-up aging yuppies, just to put reduced-crueluty, free range, gluten free, All NATURAL FlavorAid on the air? I notice, Naomi Klein is back & seems to GET the Ukraine/ methane fracking/ run-away AGW connection schtick we're powerless to forestall? The API president's "Time Is Running Out" speech in 1965, would've been cutting shit way too close. Now, DNC™ LLC is simply sentencing our kids to horrid & likely irreversible drought/ flood, fires, plagues, hurricane/ tornadoes, famine, desperate refugees, inflation/ DEBT... And, without ANY independent, astute, alternative journalists, whistleblowers or blog-aggregators (TRY to find balanced, accurate coverage of Russia, COVID, or US political tag-team kleptocracy on OUR internet?)
Your list of all the former hero journalists/writers/organizations who have become Imperial toadies hit me like a brick. I guess I knew that everyone was turning into pod people, but seeing this many turncoat names drives it home.
On a happy note, I wasn’t aware that Naomi Klein departed the Imperial court. I’ll have to try to find her online, though that may be hard since even DuckDuckGo is now downranking "Russian disinformation".
Before Yves Smith moved down to Birmingham (her mom's since passed) I'd the privilege to make it back from a quite literally Dikensian API mill in Steelton to hang out amidst our heroes, drunk, high or crazy (this, a pre COVID Slainte' get together) what a everyday & laid-back bunch of radicals it was, too! Never farther "left" than Ken Galbraith, we're all suddenly simultaneously alt Right/ Anarchists, because a few of us got bopped @ G20 in Pittsburgh; Occupy, here, BLM curfew marches & anti Nazi marches, everywhere? In FAIR.org Katie listed actual journalists, as Bezos', CFR & Atlantic Council's (Ukranian thig financed) Prop'RNot, FB, Google, Instagram, Twitter simply cut journalism and truth from the internet WAY beyond David Brock, Mark Penn, Rick Berman's dreams.
Washington Post: lying scumbags. Liberals have gone insane, you are the problem. Such a tragedy for Ukraine and the young Russian boys fighting and dying, but this has nothing to do with Americans or America. America as a Hegemonic Power is a betrayal of the American people
Some suggestion here in 2018 that the Pentagon was funding 25 military bio laboratories. Installations that could not be run at home as they'd be deemed illegal:
Many of you are lawyers, academics, judges, researchers, and practitioners committed to the protection of human rights and the rule of law. It is precisely because of your collective expertise that I hope someone among you may be willing to examine my situation.
For many years, I have sought investigation and independent scrutiny regarding torture, prolonged coercion, psychological manipulation, professional and social sabotage, and security-related entrapment in Norway. Throughout this period, I have approached police, prosecutors, courts, oversight bodies, lawyers, journalists, human rights organisations, medical institutions, and United Nations mechanisms. I also sought protection in Switzerland after exhausting domestic remedies in Norway.
Despite these efforts, I have never obtained an independent examination or an Istanbul Protocol assessment.
My concern has therefore become broader than my individual case.
What happens when serious human rights violations cannot obtain meaningful independent scrutiny because every institution concludes that examination falls outside its own mandate?
This is what I have come to describe as the accountability gap.
I have assembled a documentary archive spanning several years, including complaints, legal submissions, institutional correspondence, oversight decisions, and communications with domestic and international bodies. My concern is not only the underlying allegations but also the institutional responses to repeated requests for investigation and independent review.
I am not asking anyone to accept my conclusions without examination.
I am asking whether someone within this community would be willing to review the documentation, preserve my testimony, advise on an appropriate avenue for independent scrutiny, or refer me to an individual or organisation with the expertise and independence to do so.
Human rights derive their meaning not only from the rights they proclaim, but from the existence of independent mechanisms capable and willing of examining violations without fear or favour.
If anyone reading this is willing to engage with the documentary record or advise how it might be independently preserved and examined, I would be deeply grateful.
Thank you for your time and for your commitment to the rule of law and the protection of fundamental rights.
I am writing to respectfully request your consideration of a case that I believe raises significant questions concerning torture, coercion, security-related entrapment, and the apparent absence of effective accountability within a Western democratic state.
For several years, I have sought investigation, legal remedies, and independent scrutiny regarding allegations that I have been subjected to torture, prolonged coercion, systematic professional and social sabotage, and security-related entrapment in Norway. I have pursued every available domestic remedy, subsequently sought protection in Switzerland, and have also engaged with international human rights organisations, investigative journalists, lawyers, and United Nations mechanisms.
Despite these efforts, I have been unable to obtain an independent investigation or meaningful scrutiny of the evidence I have accumulated.
I appreciate that Bellingcat does not determine the truth of allegations by accepting personal testimony alone. Rather, your work demonstrates the value of independently examining evidence through rigorous, open-source investigation. It is precisely that methodology that encourages me to contact you.
Over many years, I have assembled an extensive archive of documentation, including correspondence with public authorities, legal representatives, oversight bodies, healthcare institutions, journalists, and international organisations, together with a chronology of events. I believe this material may provide a substantial starting point for independent examination.
My request is not that Bellingcat endorse my conclusions. Rather, I ask whether you would be willing to examine whether my documentation identifies patterns, inconsistencies, institutional responses, or other evidence that merit further investigation.
Beyond my individual circumstances, I believe my case raises broader questions of public importance:
* whether allegations of torture and coercion involving democratic states receive genuinely independent scrutiny;
* whether existing accountability mechanisms are capable of investigating allegations involving security-related activities;
* and whether institutional assumptions regarding democratic states create an accountability gap within the international human rights system.
If such questions cannot be investigated independently, confidence in both democratic oversight and the universality of human rights risks being diminished.
Should your team consider this matter appropriate for review, I would be pleased to provide my documentation, correspondence, and supporting material for your independent assessment.
Thank you for your time and consideration. Regardless of the outcome, I greatly respect Bellingcat’s commitment to evidence-based investigation and transparency.
Caitlin, remember when the US intelligence community was telling everyone that a Russian invasion of Ukraine was imminent? I'll bet you thought that was BS. Remember when Putin was telling the world a few days before his invasion that Russia would not invade Ukraine? At best, you're a Useful idiot.
All the USA’s hypocrisies and brutalities that infuriate me, and that sadly our southern nations and their media go along with, you capture it so beautifully.
I admire and applaud Caitlin's energy in going after WAPO, which like the NYT can easily keep you busy 24/7 rebutting their lies and omissions. I see both of them as CIA briefings, telling us daily what we are supposed to think about everything. It is Sisyphean work , battling the enormous staffs and budgets of these "newspapers" and their government backers, really hard and draining. I used to do it a bit but just have the energy for it anymore.
Events unfolding now shouldn’t be seen as current events, which is how the media always tries to portray the latest crisis. If Americans knew the full extent of the "Bioshield Act" established by the neocons in 2004, and its implications today, much broader strategic situation seems in play. The US has 336 bio labs in 30 countries.
To quote from "The Project for a New American Century and the Age of Bioweapons: 20 Years of Psychological Terror":
The Age of Bioweapons and PNAC
"This anthrax attack led quickly into the 2004 Bioshield Act with a $5 billion budget and mandate to “pre-empt and defend further bioweapon attacks”. This new chapter of the revolution in military affairs was to be coordinated from leading bioweapons facility at the Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick. Since 2002, over $50 billion has been spent on Bioweapons research and defense to date.
The earlier October 2000 RAD document emphasized the importance which the neocon cabal placed on bioweapons (and other next generation war tech) stating: “Combat will likely take place in new dimensions: In space, cyber-space and perhaps the world of microbes… advanced forms of biological warfare that can “target” specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool”.
https://canadianpatriot.org/2020/04/11/the-project-for-a-new-american-century-and-the-age-of-bioweapons-20-years-of-psychological-terror/
A 'politically useful tool' IS terror.
Want to understand US pro-war propaganda in one song. Listen to Aaron Neville's moving rendition of Dylan's "With God on Our Side." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfmcUeueuhc. To purge any residual exceptionalist brainwashing, I sit at my keyboard and sing it to myself loudly.
"Russian verse":
I’ve learned to hate Russians
All through my whole life
If another war starts
It’s them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side.
AND the final verse:
So now as I’m leavin’
I’m weary as Hell
The confusion I’m feelin’
Ain’t no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
If God’s on our side
He’ll stop the next war.
I am amazed how crude the propaganda is. No attempt to source anti Russian stories and taking on faith every pronouncement by unknown US government sources. The chemical weapons threat headline in today's Post uses the same size font as would be used to report on aliens landing on the White House lawn. I guess the staff panicked after Victoria Nuland's confession. It appears that the Post and other main stream media news outlets are staffed by not too bright high schoolers. Maybe this is the result of woke education over the last 10 or 20 years, i.e. really uneducated people in jobs way over their heads.
“I am amazed how crude the propaganda is.”
Agreed. It really saddens me that the quality of U.S. propaganda is in such decline. I remember a time when U.S. propaganda was topnotch and we all made fun of the half-hearted mediocre lies the uninspired Soviets printed in Pravda, when even the best lies in the good ole U.S.S.R. started to resemble the drab, lifeless architecture of their apartment buildings.
I mean think of the pure evil cunning and imagination of giving a secret CIA source the code name Deep Throat. Now that was some first class propaganda. How did we ever get to this point where CNN and MSNBC now routinely trot out “former” CIA agents right into their studios to delude us. Those agents even use their Christian names. It’s just so ham-fisted and amateurish, in fact, that it's getting harder and harder to join the mass psychosis. Sorry to get nostalgic, but it's just so dispiriting to see our great institutions of mind control collapsing all around us.
I know Caitlin already mentioned Victoria Nuland's admission earlier in the article, but it needs to be driven home, so add scare quotes and what's in brackets, "'Unproven' claims by the Russian government[, verified by Victoria Nuland's Senate testimony] are laughable absurdities presented without evidence [other than Nuland's admission against interest]." The Russians understand the value of retaining credibility, so they do not lie, and frequently point out the absurdity of Western lies, which is why we can't see RT or Sputnik.
Check out Greenwald’s latest Rumble.
The best way to predict something is if you're planning it. I've been researching for my next YT on Victoria Nuland is Dolores Umbridge. The 2014 coup started soon after VN arrived in Ukraine. The pivotal event that ended it was the sniper attack on the Maidan protesters (NOT on the day that VN and John McCain were handing out cookies to the neo-Nazis, Islamic jihadists and ultra-nationalists who wanted a pureblood Ukraine.) The curious things was that the attack came from a building controlled by the ultra-right protesters.
The next day Yanukovych, on whom it had been blamed, signed an agreement with the right, mediated through the EU, to move the election scheduled in a year up by nine months and limit his power until then. VN's faction rejected it and stepped up their violence! When they took over gov't buildings, Yanukovych fled--a day before the end of the Sochi Olympics that was keeping Russia distracted.
And true to her leaked phone conversation, 'Yats was our guy' put in charge. So another false flag terrorism attack (which is always what biological, chemical or nuclear weapons are since they can't be targeted) would be entirely within her m.o.
The propaganda that looks crude and outrageous to us looks like news to anyone emersed in the Trump Putin puppet COVID mandate bubble for the last 6 years, and that's a hell of a lot of people. Enough to applaud a nuclear war.
Same as it EVER was. ProPublica & my formerly beloved CounterPunch now all jumping on the Atlantic Council, Bell¿ngcat, WaPo, NYT, CNN war wagon. Was it raping nuns, Instagram whores @ BABY hospitals or simply Frack, baby, FRACK propaganda, as Admiral Yamamoto once snarked, "Yeah BABY, when Russia does it: war CRIME. When 'Murika does it... it's TUESDAY!"
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/03/challenge-response-how-russia-is-countering-western-moves-against-it.html#more
https://www.propublica.org/article/infamous-russian-troll-farm-appears-to-be-source-of-anti-ukraine-propaganda#1276418
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dxJHecyYBno&feature=emb_rel_pause
https://mronline.org/2022/03/12/nuland-u-s-working-with-ukraine-to-keep-u-s-biological-research-facilities-out-of-russias-hands/
https://asiatimes.com/2022/03/bidens-russian-roulette-may-kill-dollar-dominance/
CounterPunch went from punching up to punching down. It should change its name to SuckerPunch.
PS:
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/monopolies-take-a-fifth-of-your-wages
https://theintercept.com/2022/03/12/deconstructed-ceraweek-energy-conference-russia-oil/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04569-5
Exactly! At first, I'd figured, their stable of cranky curmudgeon contributors always included boomer librul reactionaries. So, as with Guardian, Intercept (now, sadly, ProPublica?) It must just be substance abuse, PASC brain fog, etc. Like Amy Goodman: Atlantic Council, CFR, CAP & Bell¿ngcat funding must be tremendous temptation after decades of having to listen to drunked-up aging yuppies, just to put reduced-crueluty, free range, gluten free, All NATURAL FlavorAid on the air? I notice, Naomi Klein is back & seems to GET the Ukraine/ methane fracking/ run-away AGW connection schtick we're powerless to forestall? The API president's "Time Is Running Out" speech in 1965, would've been cutting shit way too close. Now, DNC™ LLC is simply sentencing our kids to horrid & likely irreversible drought/ flood, fires, plagues, hurricane/ tornadoes, famine, desperate refugees, inflation/ DEBT... And, without ANY independent, astute, alternative journalists, whistleblowers or blog-aggregators (TRY to find balanced, accurate coverage of Russia, COVID, or US political tag-team kleptocracy on OUR internet?)
Your list of all the former hero journalists/writers/organizations who have become Imperial toadies hit me like a brick. I guess I knew that everyone was turning into pod people, but seeing this many turncoat names drives it home.
On a happy note, I wasn’t aware that Naomi Klein departed the Imperial court. I’ll have to try to find her online, though that may be hard since even DuckDuckGo is now downranking "Russian disinformation".
Before Yves Smith moved down to Birmingham (her mom's since passed) I'd the privilege to make it back from a quite literally Dikensian API mill in Steelton to hang out amidst our heroes, drunk, high or crazy (this, a pre COVID Slainte' get together) what a everyday & laid-back bunch of radicals it was, too! Never farther "left" than Ken Galbraith, we're all suddenly simultaneously alt Right/ Anarchists, because a few of us got bopped @ G20 in Pittsburgh; Occupy, here, BLM curfew marches & anti Nazi marches, everywhere? In FAIR.org Katie listed actual journalists, as Bezos', CFR & Atlantic Council's (Ukranian thig financed) Prop'RNot, FB, Google, Instagram, Twitter simply cut journalism and truth from the internet WAY beyond David Brock, Mark Penn, Rick Berman's dreams.
https://fair.org/home/tips-for-a-post-mueller-media-from-nine-russiagate-skeptics/
https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/washington-post-disgracefully-promotes-a-mccarthyite-blacklist-from-a-new-hidden-and-very-shady-group/
FYI -- Last summer Vladimir Putin wrote an article about the historical relationship between Russia and Ukraine.
https://russiaeu.ru/en/news/article-russian-president-vladimir-putin-historical-unity-russians-and-ukrainians
In summary - US made Putin intervention "regrettable but NECESSARY".
Washington Post: lying scumbags. Liberals have gone insane, you are the problem. Such a tragedy for Ukraine and the young Russian boys fighting and dying, but this has nothing to do with Americans or America. America as a Hegemonic Power is a betrayal of the American people
Some suggestion here in 2018 that the Pentagon was funding 25 military bio laboratories. Installations that could not be run at home as they'd be deemed illegal:
https://wirralinittogether.blog/2022/03/12/usbiolabs-what-is-the-need-of-military-biolaboratories-of-the-united-states-in-25-countries-%f0%9f%a4%94-question-ignored-in-2018/
An Appeal to the Readers
I am writing to ask for your help.
Many of you are lawyers, academics, judges, researchers, and practitioners committed to the protection of human rights and the rule of law. It is precisely because of your collective expertise that I hope someone among you may be willing to examine my situation.
For many years, I have sought investigation and independent scrutiny regarding torture, prolonged coercion, psychological manipulation, professional and social sabotage, and security-related entrapment in Norway. Throughout this period, I have approached police, prosecutors, courts, oversight bodies, lawyers, journalists, human rights organisations, medical institutions, and United Nations mechanisms. I also sought protection in Switzerland after exhausting domestic remedies in Norway.
Despite these efforts, I have never obtained an independent examination or an Istanbul Protocol assessment.
My concern has therefore become broader than my individual case.
What happens when serious human rights violations cannot obtain meaningful independent scrutiny because every institution concludes that examination falls outside its own mandate?
This is what I have come to describe as the accountability gap.
I have assembled a documentary archive spanning several years, including complaints, legal submissions, institutional correspondence, oversight decisions, and communications with domestic and international bodies. My concern is not only the underlying allegations but also the institutional responses to repeated requests for investigation and independent review.
I am not asking anyone to accept my conclusions without examination.
I am asking whether someone within this community would be willing to review the documentation, preserve my testimony, advise on an appropriate avenue for independent scrutiny, or refer me to an individual or organisation with the expertise and independence to do so.
Human rights derive their meaning not only from the rights they proclaim, but from the existence of independent mechanisms capable and willing of examining violations without fear or favour.
If anyone reading this is willing to engage with the documentary record or advise how it might be independently preserved and examined, I would be deeply grateful.
Thank you for your time and for your commitment to the rule of law and the protection of fundamental rights.
The Accountability Gap
Dear Bellingcat Investigations Team,
I am writing to respectfully request your consideration of a case that I believe raises significant questions concerning torture, coercion, security-related entrapment, and the apparent absence of effective accountability within a Western democratic state.
For several years, I have sought investigation, legal remedies, and independent scrutiny regarding allegations that I have been subjected to torture, prolonged coercion, systematic professional and social sabotage, and security-related entrapment in Norway. I have pursued every available domestic remedy, subsequently sought protection in Switzerland, and have also engaged with international human rights organisations, investigative journalists, lawyers, and United Nations mechanisms.
Despite these efforts, I have been unable to obtain an independent investigation or meaningful scrutiny of the evidence I have accumulated.
I appreciate that Bellingcat does not determine the truth of allegations by accepting personal testimony alone. Rather, your work demonstrates the value of independently examining evidence through rigorous, open-source investigation. It is precisely that methodology that encourages me to contact you.
Over many years, I have assembled an extensive archive of documentation, including correspondence with public authorities, legal representatives, oversight bodies, healthcare institutions, journalists, and international organisations, together with a chronology of events. I believe this material may provide a substantial starting point for independent examination.
My request is not that Bellingcat endorse my conclusions. Rather, I ask whether you would be willing to examine whether my documentation identifies patterns, inconsistencies, institutional responses, or other evidence that merit further investigation.
Beyond my individual circumstances, I believe my case raises broader questions of public importance:
* whether allegations of torture and coercion involving democratic states receive genuinely independent scrutiny;
* whether existing accountability mechanisms are capable of investigating allegations involving security-related activities;
* and whether institutional assumptions regarding democratic states create an accountability gap within the international human rights system.
If such questions cannot be investigated independently, confidence in both democratic oversight and the universality of human rights risks being diminished.
Should your team consider this matter appropriate for review, I would be pleased to provide my documentation, correspondence, and supporting material for your independent assessment.
Thank you for your time and consideration. Regardless of the outcome, I greatly respect Bellingcat’s commitment to evidence-based investigation and transparency.
Kind regards,
Author of The Accountability Gap
Caitlin, remember when the US intelligence community was telling everyone that a Russian invasion of Ukraine was imminent? I'll bet you thought that was BS. Remember when Putin was telling the world a few days before his invasion that Russia would not invade Ukraine? At best, you're a Useful idiot.
It’s perfect, thank you Caitlin.
All the USA’s hypocrisies and brutalities that infuriate me, and that sadly our southern nations and their media go along with, you capture it so beautifully.
Aussie journalism at its finest.
I admire and applaud Caitlin's energy in going after WAPO, which like the NYT can easily keep you busy 24/7 rebutting their lies and omissions. I see both of them as CIA briefings, telling us daily what we are supposed to think about everything. It is Sisyphean work , battling the enormous staffs and budgets of these "newspapers" and their government backers, really hard and draining. I used to do it a bit but just have the energy for it anymore.