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It’s not every day that I say something like this, so please take note.
The Founders (a.k.a. "The Founding Fathers of the United States of America") had a good idea when it came to making a permanent separation between church and state. It may have been one of only a handful of good ideas they ever had, being handicapped with their white, wealthy, Eurocentric, males-only, slavery-is-good-for-business worldview. But it is impressive that they foresaw a day when the need to be a strictly secular state (government) would be to their—and consequently our—benefit. So, for this insight I heartily thank them.
I
do believe there were “Founding Mothers and
Others-of-the-Non-White-Male Variety” as well, but in this case, we're
sticking with the "Fathers" who wrote our founding documents. I was reminded of their wisdom concerning church/state separation when Dr. Jill Stein gave one of the most brilliant rebuttals of all time at the recent Free and Equal Debate.
The Constitution Party candidate, Randall Terry, had just given the most sick and twisted rant imaginable. I don’t know much about the Constitution Party, but if this is their pick for president, I really don’t want to know anything more about them. Terry’s diatribe went along the lines that Americans should believe as he does (seemingly he’s an ultra-conservative, Zionist “Christian”) and that those of the Muslim faith are dangerous terrorists and deserve to be killed in Gaza (and elsewhere). He actually sounded like he would start another Crusade if he ever got into the White House. His verbal vomit of sheer naked bigotry sent shivers down my spine.
Dr. Stein’s reply to Terry’s steaming pile of Islamophobia was eloquent and to the point. Watch a clip on X/Twitter or on You Tube:
Randall Terry’s rant and Jill Stein’s rebuttal starts at approx. 1:20 and goes to about 1:24.
To find out what else would make the Founders proud...
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I enjoy listening to my friend DJ Amjad’s Deep Mix Music and More radio program while I’m writing. The other day I found myself singing along with a catchy chorus from a 1990’s rap song:
Now I know you're sayin' Well why don't he stop beating around the bush Well I'll get there when i get there So there ain't no need to push! Because the point I'm trying to make contains my whole philosophy So listen to what I tell you and repeat it after me
Truth is out of style (out of style) Truth is out of style (out of style) (say what?) Truth is out of style (say what?) Truth (say what?) (is out of style) Truth (is out of style) --from Truth Is Out of Styleby DJ Zero & MC 900 ft. Jesus
Thirty-four
years later, and the words still ring true. The “philosophy” that MC
900 sung in his rap has become the motto of many Western governments: Truth is out of style.
If you don’t believe me, how do you explain the following?
Richard Medhurst,
an independent British journalist was arrested at Heathrow airport and
held for nearly 24 hours under the UK Terrorism Act because of stories
he featured on his podcast.
Mary Kostakidis,
known as “the face of television news in Australia,” has been accused
of supporting ethnic cleansing of Jews because of two retweets about
Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Sharmine Narwani, who founded The Cradle,
an online journal of news and comment, was permanently banned from
Facebook and Instagram. Narwani now stands accused of “praising
terrorist organizations” and engaging in “incitement to violence.”
Professor Danny Shaw was detained by the FBI for three hours in Chicago’s O’Hare Airport after returning from a Free Palestine film festival in London. His computing devices were seized. He had been fired from his job back in April when he was falsely called “antisemitic” for his pro-Palestine comments.
and, of course, Julian Assange of Wikileaks fame...
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If you still have any doubt that we live in a profoundly sick dystopia as deranged as anything that’s ever been imagined in fiction, take note of the fact that the most powerful empire in history is currently trying to propagandize you into thinking an obvious genocide is fine. -- Caitlin Johnstone
When Is A Ceasefire Not A Ceasefire?
by C.A. Matthews
When is a ceasefire not a ceasefire? Recent headlines in the mainstream media confused me, so I did some research to find the answers.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US ambassador to the United Nations, emphasizes that the Security Council’s vote to approve a ceasefire in Gaza is “non-binding,” so that is why the US decided to abstain from voting no to a ceasefire resolution this time around. In her opinion, this ceasefire resolution is not really a “ceasefire,” and it can and will be ignored by the US and Israel.
Meanwhile, this is what the rest of the Security Council thinks about it:
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller on Tuesday characterized the United Nations Security Council resolution 2728 demanding an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza conflict as “non-binding,” a phrase also used by US ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield.
The US was rebuked by China, according to Akmal Dawi at VOA: “‘Security Council resolutions are binding,’ Lin Jian, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said on Tuesday.”
Beijing is correct on the law, and the Biden administration is being disingenuous. If President Biden did not want a ceasefire resolution to pass, he should have vetoed it. By abstaining and letting the world community vote on the matter, Biden has elicited a binding decision, and his officials should stop dancing around it.
The law here is clear.
Article 25 of the UN Charter, to which the US, China and Israel are all signatories, says, “The Members of the United Nations agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council in accordance with the present Charter.”
Moreover, we could consider the actual language of the resolution, in which the UNSC:
“Demands an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan respected by all parties leading to a lasting sustainable ceasefire, and also demands the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, as well as ensuring humanitarian access to address their medical and other humanitarian needs, and further demands that the parties comply with their obligations under international law in relation to all persons they detain”
Even more confusing, Ambassador Greenfield-Thomas complained that this particular UNSC ceasefire resolution doesn’t mention the “mass rapes by Hamas on October 7,” although these lurid allegations have all since been dismissed due to lack of evidence. In fact, there is now ample evidence that these false rape charges were concocted by the Israelis to discredit Hamas while simultaneously downplaying Israeli soldiers’ own sordid war crimes—many of which IDF troops proudly have uploaded to TikTok and other social media platforms.
Apparently a “non-binding ceasefire” to the Biden administration means that the US will supply arms to Israel in defiance of the UN Security Council ceasefire resolution that just passed. Israel can continue to bomb, shoot, maim, torture, rape, and starve Palestinians with impunity, all because their good friend the United States of America will continue running interference for them in the United Nations and elsewhere.
If no other countries are willing or able to take on the US and Israel, this UNSC ceasefire resolution won’t be able to make Israel cease firing bombs/weapons at the innocents in Gaza. It won’t stop war crimes from being committed by Israeli troops. The ethnic cleansing of Palestinian civilians will continue unabated.
So, when is a “ceasefire” not a ceasefire? A ceasefire is not an actual ceasefire when there is no way to back it up (with the use of force, if necessary) to make the parties involved in committing war crimes stop. The bad guys will continue to do what the ceasefire resolution explicitly tells them to stop doing, that is firing upon a civilian population. Worse yet, the bad guys will continue doing what they’re doing without any fear of being charged with, convicted of, or locked away for their war crimes.
When is a “genocide” not a genocide then? You should be able to follow the logic of this conundrum easily enough after the first example.
United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights, Francesca Albanese, submitted her “report on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967” this past week. She gave brief remarks in person about the report as well.
The official name of her report? “The Anatomy of a Genocide”. (You can download the report in full as a PDF file here.)
Here’s the scenario: We have a United Nations human rights special rapporteur calling what is currently happening to the Palestinian people in Gaza a “genocide”. The International Court of Justice at The Hague in January made a preliminary ruling that Israel is committing “plausible genocide” against the Palestinian people while it continues to weigh more evidence. Many human rights organizations and aid groups, such as Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders, who have witnessed similar situations up close and personal previously have also called what is happening to the Gazans a “genocide”.
During Holy Week, a US State Department employee, Dr. Annelle Sheline, resigned her position in protest to the “genocide” occurring in Gaza. In her statement, she uses the word genocide to describe what is happening there.
With a United Nations human rights rapporteur and the assembled justices of the International Court of Justice calling the ethnic cleansing of 32,000+ Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli military a “genocide,” along with a US State Department employee with a conscience and many respected human rights agencies, how could anyone doubt that a genocide is indeed occurring in Gaza? All of the 13,000+ dead Palestinian children just didn’t run into those US-provided bombs dropped onto their homes on purpose, did they? This argument is a no-brainer, isn’t it?
Not to the brainless US government officials and mainstream media it isn’t!
A US State Department spokesman, Matthew Miller, insulted Ms. Albanese, calling her “anti-semitic” because of her report findings. How diplomatic is that phrasing coming from an employee of the State Department!
Simply put, a genocide is not a genocide when the fact of legally designating it as such gets in the way of implementing US foreign policy. The Biden administration has enthusiastically aided Israel in the commission of genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza by providing it with arms and political interference at the United Nations, but it doesn’t like the negative connotations of the word “genocide.” So the US State Department simply won’t use that word to describe what is happening in Gaza.
Let’s be honest. If the current administration could get away with calling what’s happening to the human beings currently trapped, starving, and dying in Gaza a “picnic”, then that is what it would be called. A picnic. And the public would believe it! Which leads us to our next question:
When is “journalism” not journalism?
What the mainstream media is putting out for public consumption recently cannot be defined as journalism. What they’re doing doesn’t even fit the basic definition of journalism I learned way back in high school. It’s all rather pathetic, isn’t it?
Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges laments how American mainstream journalism has become one big propaganda machine for the US and Israeli governments:
PEN America is a sock puppet of the U.S. and Israel… [It has] accepted funding from the Israeli government — which routinely censors and jails Palestinian journalists and writers in Israel and the occupied West Bank and assassinates them and their families in Gaza — for the literary group’s annual World Voices festival in New York. From PEN America Self-Destructshttps://consortiumnews.com/2024/03/26/chris-hedges-pen-america-self-destructs/
I was taught that a journalist must answer the “who, what, where, when, why and how” of the situation in their reporting. This example shows how the “who” or the instigator of the famine in Gaza (the government of Israel) has been completely left out of the articles:
An entire Economist article on famine in Gaza doesn’t say the word “Israel” once. Not even when describing damage to farmland and water facilities or severely restricted aid deliveries. Saying *who* is destroying the farmland and restricting aid seems like basic info to include. https://twitter.com/AssalRad/status/1772862382462636150
The Western mainstream media is happy to manipulate the narrative in order to make their corporate owners (and our paid-off public officials’ biggest donors) happy. Jonathan Cook shows this to be the case in his article, We were lied into the Gaza genocide. Al Jazeera has shown us how: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/we-were-lied-into-the-gaza-genocide
Basic information is ignored or cut out of reportage of events in Gaza altogether. One would think we’d witness some feeling from Western journalists for the tremendous loss of life of their fellow journalists in Gaza over the past six months (more killed than in the entirety of the Vietnam War), but there isn’t any. Many big name Western journalists are perfectly fine with not fully reporting the who, what, where, when, why and how of the situation. They’re making lots of money acting as “stenographers for the oligarchy.” Why let the truth or morals get in the way?
This sad fact leads us to this question: When is “censorship” not censorship?
If a so-called “journalist” working for a big news network has no problems with not reporting the entirety of what’s happening in Gaza, has no problems with repeating US or Israeli propaganda and talking points, then why would they care if the US government (or one of its private agents) shuts down social media platforms or bans freelance journalists from posting? It makes for less competition and fewer embarrassing situations when the "stenographers" are caught out in a lie. Who really needs free speech? (Answer: You don't.) Learn more at:
Last but not least, when is a “terrorist” not a terrorist? Maybe it’s when the terrorists are actually agents of the governments of the United States of America and Israel. These two nations are busily trying to shut down social media platforms for their own benefit, lying to, manipulating, and terrorizing people both at home and abroad in order to advance their agendas. They’re literally getting away with a genocide in Gaza. Don’t these nefarious actions fit the very definition of what makes a nation a "terrorist state?"
Worse yet, these terrorists, these censors of free speech, these manipulators of the media, these murderers of children, they think they’ll get away with it. They don’t see any need to curtail what they’re doing. Ever.
Perhaps it’s time We the People who still possess a conscience and morals rise up and lock these war criminals away once and for all.
But how? It won't be easy, but remember: We outnumber them. We are the workers and the consumers that make this corrupt imperialist-capitalist regime tick. We can shut the system down if we organize and act. But first we must decide that today's the day to end the terrorism.
Keep speaking out. Keep marching. Keep protesting. Keep striking and supporting the BDS movement. Don’t make life comfortable for the terrorists who won’t call themselves what they really are and use the correct terms to describe the evil they're really doing.
Words are powerful, and we have the best ones on our side. We can and we must speak truth to power.
The Nuclear Explosion That Makes US Aid to Israel Illegal (Israel’s nuclear program has been in violation of international law for decades, rendering it ineligible for American assistance.) https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-nuclear-weapons/
On Easter Sunday, active-duty Air Force Senior Airman Larry Hebert began a hunger strike to highlight the plight of the starving children of Gaza.
Larry Hebert, age 26, from New Hampshire, and a member of Veterans For Peace, took authorized leave from his assignment at Naval Station Rota, Spain to participate in demonstrations demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and to visit Congressional offices to press for stopping weapons shipments to Israel, which violate several U.S. laws.
Hebert said, “I was deeply touched when I saw that Aaron Bushnell took his own life at the Israeli Embassy for the people of Gaza and knew that I had to raise my voice in opposition to the U.S. government supplying Israel the bombs and rockets to commit genocide in Gaza. Active-duty members are afraid to speak out and I hope that my example and that of others, like Aaron, can change that.”
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If
western governments need to keep ramping up censorship, propaganda
and the persecution of journalists in order to defend western freedom
and democracy, is it really freedom and democracy? And, is it worth
defending? —Caitlin Johnstone
Canceling
Free Speech
by C.A. Matthews
The
best thing about being American, in my opinion, is The Bill
of Rights. The
best amendment in
particular is
the
First Amendment and the part where it says that We
the People have
the right to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. But Americans
can’t even depend on that bit anymore, and
it sucks.
Thanks
a lot, fascists!
If
you don’t equate free speech with our right to assemble and
protest, then perhaps this recent incident involving arresting the
bail fundraisers for the Cop City (Weelaunee Forest) protesters in Atlanta won’t
upset you like it does me:
Rights
advocates warned Wednesday that the arrests of three board members of
an Atlanta-based bail fund could mark the beginning of a new era in
the United States’ treatment of peaceful protesters—one in which
both demonstrators and those who support them are targeted by law
enforcement.
...The
Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Atlanta Police Department
carried out the
arrests of Marlon Scott Kautz, Savannah Patterson, and Adele
Maclean of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund (ASF).
Atlantans
can’t exercise their right of free speech to protest the building
of a “Murder Academy” on the one remaining piece of virgin forest
in their region. They’ll risk arrest if they do, and then their
compatriots will be arrested when they raise funds to bail the
original protesters out of jail. Our government says murder by cops is okay, but the bailing out of peaceful
protesters isn’t to be allowed and those who do bail them out risk being locked up as
well.
So
much for the
First Amendment!
The
fact of the matter is that free speech has been weaponized. (Read
Weaponizing Free Speech for a sample or two of
what I mean.) Anyone expressing an opinion that isn’t sanctioned by
the status quo can expect to be censored, arrested, charged and/or
thrown into jail without even the possibility of being bailed out.
To
this black mark on the First Amendment and The Bill of Rights I say: God
bless America! Let “freedom” ring! (Yeah, right. *cough, cough*)
We’re
living in an era of “Cancel Culture.” Free speech isn’t seen so
much as a right as a suggestion. If
what you say doesn’t upset the powers-that-be and their sycophants and paid trolls, you’re okay, but
don’t you dare express an opinion they don’t like. Oh no. They can't have critical thinkers who can read between the lines, can they?
This
fascistic outlawing of protesters is not
just happening in the US—it’s a worldwide phenomenon. A recent
video from The Juice Media out of Australia demonstrates just how
inventive a “Five-Eyesdemocracy”
can
be when it comes to squashing voices of dissent.
This short video says it well. You
don’t like something your government is doing (or allowing a big
corporation to do) and you and
your friends get out in the streets to protest
it—you’ll
wind up in jail and totally bankrupt. “Cool and normal” as the
Aussies say. That phrase
translates
to roughly, “Bend over and take it,” in American English.
Freedom
of speech and freedom of assembly have
been effectively
canceled. God bless… the fascists, or so it seems.
Persons
of conscience are being
forced into making one of two difficult choices: Go along with whatever those
in charge of our “democracy” tell you is “correct thinking”
nowadays and shut up, or if you can’t “love it” you're told to “leave
it.”
But
where can we go? More importantly, why
should we
be forced from our homes because fascists desire endless wars for oil
and want us to cooperate with the immoral death machine, a.k.a. the
Military-Industrial Complex? Don’t we lovers of peace and harmony
deserve to live here as much as the warmongers?
God bless... those who don't believe the lies.
The
West sure loves to brag about its love
of “freedom
and democracy” and its “free press,” but it sure
doesn’t
act like it gives a flying Flag Day about them. Without independent
journalists and media outlets, we wouldn’t have
known
about the jailing of the
Atlanta protesters
and their bail bond funders. Without the indies' reportage, we wouldn’t know
about
the US national security apparatus funding and endorsing coups
d’etat
around the globe, would we?
Journalists
of integrity are fast becoming a rare and endangered species. They
find themselves harassed and threatened with prison. Journalist Matt Taibbi did after his Congressional committee
testimony concerning the Twitter Files. (Read Digital McCarthyismabout
how Taibbi was called a “so-called journalist” by members of
Congress.)
Reporters Veronica Coit and Matilda Bliss in North Carolina were actually arrested and charged with trespassing while covering the eviction of homeless people in Asheville’s Aston Park. During their trial,
Judge James Calvin Hill refused to acknowledge their press status or
that this was a First Amendment case. He found the duo guilty. In his
decision, Judge Hill stated, “They may be journalists, but there
was no evidence provided to the court that they are journalists.”
American reporter Gonzalo Lira is now sitting in a Ukrainian jail because of
his in-depth coverage of the war in Ukraine. When
asked if
the US
government
would help free Lira,
a government spokesperson wouldn’t say if US officials would
even consider
asking
their Ukrainian counterparts for his release. Our
so-called “representatives” are
okay with letting a journalist rot in jail.
No
precedence there, is there?
Meanwhile
in the UK, journalists can find themselves treated like terrorists,
grilled for hours, and their computer devices taken. This is what
happened to The
Grayzone’s
Kit Klarenburg.
As
soon as journalist Kit Klarenberg landed in his home country of
Britain on May 17, 2023, six anonymous plainclothes counter-terror
officers detained him. They quickly escorted him to a back room,
where they grilled him for over five hours about his reporting for
this outlet. They also inquired about his personal opinion on
everything from the current British political leadership to Russia’s
invasion of Ukraine. From British police detain journalist Kit Klarenberg, interrogate him about The Grayzone
Aw...the
smell of “freedom and democracy” wafting in on the early summer’s
air! It covers over the stench of those pesky truth-telling
reporters like Kit, Gonzalo, Veronica, Matilda, and Matt. Kit might even find himself locked up at Belmarsh Prison with fellow
truth-seeker Julian Assange if a judge decides he's “not a journalist.”I
sincerely hope not.
God bless... independent voices who keep reporting what's really happening in the world in spite of threats from the fascist state.
This summer isn’t particularly
a good time of
the year for
me.
It’s not that I don’t enjoy sunshine and picnics, because I do.
It’s
just that I’m
not that into American “patriotic holidays” like
Memorial Day, Flag Day, or
the
Fourth of July. There’s not much to celebrate when your mind
connects theseholidays
with endless wars for American hegemony, senseless killing for
profits, and locking up persons who protest violence and report on war. Others simply
associate
these holidays with hot dog eating contests, fireworks,
parades,
and apple pie, but I just can't anymore.
There’s
little joy to be found in any patriotic holiday pretending to be
supportive of our First Amendment rights like free speech and freedom of assembly while our so-called “elected representatives" are
ripping those very rights out of the people's hands. The fascists in power have ruined things for me. I honestly can’t
see myself wearing red, white, and blue and waving a little
flag while watching an Independence Day parade ever again.
I just
can’t, knowing what I know. I can’t approve of the evil status
quo hiding behind those once sacred symbols of the
flag
and The Bill of Rights. I’ll have to find myself another holiday to
celebrate this time of year.
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It
was bound to happen sooner or later. And it did—a
self-proclaimed
“very important person in government” would
impugn
the integrity of a journalist who—gasp!—actually posts
his/her/their work online for others to read. That this government
VIP is Congress-thing Debbie Wassermann-Schultz of Florida comes
to
no surprise to anyone who followed the Bernie Sanders saga on
this blog.
So,
here we are in the year 2023 and Miss Debbie and
her Democratic Party friends findit
suspect
that
an
award-winning
journalist like
Matt
Taibbi
has a Substack page and
edits a digital magazine.
The nasty implications the
Dems
leveled at Matt ata
Congressional "Weaponization of Government" hearing this
week reveal just how terrified the establishment is that We the People
might actually wake up and learn
the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth
from a Tweet or a Substack post.
The
Dems acted so contemptuously that even a
non-voting delegate from the US Virgin Islands called Matt a
“so-called journalist” and didn’t even apologize for her
rudeness. That’s
rich
coming from a “so-called Congress member” who doesn’t even have
voting privileges! By comparison, the Republicans on the committee
came off sounding like angels as they questioned Matt and his
fellow
journalist Michael Shellenberger. (Guess
the Dems'
billionaire donors
told the
Dems
it’s the Red
Hats’
time to win, so go ahead and act like ill-mannered brats, huh?)
The
nasty implications the
Dems
leveled at Matt
reveal just how terrified the establishment is that We the People
might actually read a Tweet or Substack post and realize how corrupt the US government truly is and how far they will go to censor this truth. In
this instance, Matt and Michael, who
both
worked on The Twitter Files,
discovered and revealed
nefarious
attempts
at social media censorship by
various US government agencies and related organizations working on their behalf to censor tweets they didn't like. These censorship actions could possibly get folks
in the current administration into
big trouble.
But nothing
good ever comes from revealing
the
truth, now
does it?
That designation
really hurts.
Just because we
want everyone to have clean air, land, and water doesn’t make usdomesticated at all. Far from it. And
I apologize for any “terror” having drinkable water and less
pollution in our food, skies, and bodies of water causes you, but
there you have it.
I’m one of those crazy people like Matt Taibbi
who make
pointed
observations
about
our
society and publish
their thoughts online.
We have an overwhelming desire to shareinformation
with
others so they can know the truth and
learn to think for themselves.
Miss
Debbie and
the Kool-Aid Drinking Cult of Democrats will
just have to get over their
terror of We the People finding out
what’s been going on behind the scenes in the world of government
propaganda and censorship as well as
the running of the government itself.
The
Ministry of Truth—or the DHS
Bureau
of Disinformation or whatever it’s being called nowadays—worked
overtime to cover up their disinfo
operations
in
“Russiagate.”They
are royally ticked off to have had their manipulationsexposed,
which
possibly explains Miss Debbie’s surliness.
All the smart kids now have no excuse to believe Russia had anything
to do with the 2016 presidential election thanks
to Matt and others revealing this in The
Twitter
Files.
The
“Censorship-Industrial Complex” has
been exposed.
Even
The
New York Timesrecently
was
forced to
reveal that Russiagate was all
a
big lie
perpetuated
by a supposed "Russian propaganda tracking" dashboard called
Hamilton 68
or Jefferson Airplane 747
or something like
that. Matt Taibbi discovered it
was
all an
operation to cloud the issues and confuse voters in order tocover
up
the simple
fact
that warmonger/DOMA supporter Hillary Clinton couldn’t beat her
good
friend,
used
car salesman Donald Trump, in something called the US 2016
presidential election.
Nothing
important really. The
billionaires of the US Military-Congressional-Industrial Complex got
their war in Ukraine eventually. They even used the four years Trump
was in office to further
smear
Russia’s reputation via the Russiagate hoax and make people forget
all about the Maidan Coup of
2014 and the eight years of Ukraine bombing the civilians of the
Donbass region. In
the end, the arms manufacturers were glad the Orange Man won. They’re
rolling in money nowadays.
An
award-winning journalist named Seymour Hersh revealed this truth to
the worldlast
month.
For
his courage and hard work, he
is being slandered and libeled by his lesser peers
at the behest of the government propagandists that
Miss Debbie and her
darling
Dems keep protecting and
accusing Matt Taibbi of exposing in The
Twitter Files.
One
of their biggest smears concerning
Sy Hersh’s
journalistic integrity and
impeccable career
is that he
first
published his Nord
Stream 2 explosion article
on his Substack, probably
because US government propagandists pressured mainstream media
outlets not to publish it.
How
can the US governmentfool
We the People into thinking that a small group of
“Pro-Ukrainian non-state actors” blew up pipelines of such a
grand
size, found
underwater at a depth only a professional military operation handled
by US Navy deep sea divers could have done? The
New York Times
and Washington
Post
are trying hard with this
rather wimpy
story (possibly written by the Disinformation Bureau), but it’s not
having as much success as Sy Hersh’s better researched story.
The
massive
amounts of
time and money spent
brainwashingWe
thePeople into thinking the “Uni-party that Goes
by Two
Names”
isn’t corrupt and
owned by billionairesisa
crime—not what Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger do for a
living.
Just
think
of what could have
been done
with all
the
energy and resources wasted
by our
government’s
propagandists…
Maybe
we could have tackled
homelessness in America and
forgiven
thousands of student loan debts.
Medicare
For All could have been enacted and saved millions of Americans their
lives and their personal finances.
I
realizenow
those
things
aren’t
important to well-off
Miss
Debbie and her fellow VIPs
in
Congress,
but they are important to We the People, the workers, the 99%.
A
whole lot of our family members, friends, and neighbors who suffered
or are still suffering from homelessness, student loan debt,
and no health care could be alive,
healthy, and happy today if Miss Debbie and her kind actually cared
enough
to
work for us instead of their billionaire donors
with
their insatiable need to
shut down indie journos like Matt and
company.
Senator
Joseph McCarthy became infamous for calling journalists,
authors, actors, and others
“Communists” in the 1950s. Sen.
McCarthy
destroyed the
careers
and lives of
innocent Americans with
his baseless accusations and
all for what? To shut up people he didn’t agree with and didn’t
want others to learn important
facts from.
Now
we’re living in the era of “Digital McCarthyism” where the
politician-puppets
working
for the
billionairesshut
down
truth-tellers
online via
shadow-banning and outright closing
down of social media accounts. Censorship
and destroying
the reputations of others
was wrong seventy years ago, and it’s still wrong today.
I
asked you to do a couple of things a few weeks back in regards to the
East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment story. Are you still doing
them? Are you making notes of how and
when
the mainstream media ignores big
stories or
tries to slant them in
a way to
cover up for whatever billionaire, corporation, or government official might
be at fault? Are you still comparing and contrasting news articles/stories by
independent journalists with the "so-called journalists"
of the mainstream media? Keep it up.
Watch
out for ad
hominem (personal)
attacks that are made by those in authority (and their sycophants)
against the messengers (like Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger,
and Seymour Hersh) of potentially embarrassing messages. Always
focus on the message
and not the medium (newspaper, TV, radio, podcast, blog, Tweet,
etc.)
that the message happens to occur in. Do your research and find out
who the messenger
really works for and
what’s in it for them.
Are they working to spread propaganda for the government or a private
corporation?
What has this person or organization got to lose if the truth comes out?
Why
do the powerful feel that turning independent journalists into
pariahs will keep them, the elites, safe from
We the People exacting justice upon them?
When
the truth reveals itselfin
time,
the shit always
hit the fan. And
the results aren’t pretty. Why tempt fate?
Guess
what—we’re
suspect too! Follow us on Substack at
therevolutioncontinues.substack.com It’s where all the cool kids
like Matt Taibbi,
Caitlin Johnstone, Aaron Mate, Chris
Hedges, Seymour
Hersh and so many other independent journalists post their
work. I’m assuming you’re not living in the 18th
century like Miss Debbie and her
friends,
and are, in
fact, reading this article on a computer, cell phone, tablet, or
similar device. I really doubt you’re reading this via smoke
signals or on the remains of dead trees. Please, replant those dead
trees if you are. Our planet
needs all the trees we can grow to
avert the climate catastrophe to come.
We
“domestic terrorists” want to save all the trees that we can,
like
the ones in Atlanta.
Thank you.
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Seen on Twitter:
Debbie Wasserman Schultz rigged the 2016 Democratic primary against Bernie Sanders, then appeared to rig her own election in 2018: A judge ruled that paper ballots were illegally destroyed after Wassernman Schultz challenger @Tim_Canova filed a lawsuit. pic.twitter.com/6jpxieDHfn
