Caitlin Johnstone is a brave journalist, political junkie, relentless feminist, champion of the 99 percent. And a powerful counter-propaganda tactician.
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—“Dear world”.—These propagandists can delete all the tweets they like, but people like me will never forget. We will always remind the world of how the highest echelons of American mainstream media collaborated with a blatant psy-op in an attempt to manufacture support for western military interventionism in Syria.
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^0Americans are the most over-entertained, uninformed people on the planet.^3000
Ignorant about domestic and geopolitical issues mattering most.^3000
The most important act anyone can do is stop using all mainstream media.^3000
No exceptions whatsoever. It’s brainwash propaganda. ^3000
Toxic sludge for the mind.^3000
Voices like this are NEVER heard on the mainstream media.^3000
The "1%" is the global plutocracy, the billionaires.^3000
A sociopathic, puny segment of humanity.^3000
These people pretend to honor and defend democracy.^3000
But are its murderers and undertakers. ^3000
Gross injustice, war, grotesque inequality is their handiwork. ^3000
And the murder of the planet^3000
Just 8 billionaires own as much wealth as HALF of all humanity.^3000
That's 8 guys are richer than 4 billion people.^3000
The corporate media is their main line of defense.^3000
That's why the best way to break their hold on us...^3000
Is to break their media.^3000
The corporate chokehold on political information is killing us.^3000
Save humanity, the planet and its innocent creatures.^3000
Increase public distrust in the mainstream media.^3000
Defeat their power to mislead.^3000
They lie 24/7. They sell you war. Injustice. Death. Confusion.^3000
And they never stop.^3000
Some more obviously than others, but they all lie. ^3000
So trust no one on the Big Media.^3000
And beware of "entertainment shows". ^3000
Most also carry highly toxic imperialist propaganda.^3000
Like the fungal NCIS series. Or "24", glorifying DHS. ^3000
The police state.^3000
Or CBS Madam Secretary. ^3000
A ridiculous show, like The West Wing. ^3000
Telling us the US government is good.^3000
That the president is good...that its cabinet is good.^3000
That the US establishment—which they represent...^3000
has noble aims. Rubbish!^3000
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Defeat the presstitutes. The media felons.^3000
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Parting shot—a word from the editors
The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found
In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” — acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump — a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report
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Hiroyuki Hamada shared Vanessa Beeley’s post.
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The fact that a child, who was used by the west backed violent terrorist forces as a war propaganda tool in a war that has killed 1/2 million people, publishes a book from a major corporate publisher in order to forward the very criminal war indicates the severity of the illness within the corporate culture. And the fact that a prominent “cultural figure”, J K Rowling, mocking people–who are criticizing the absurdity of the western narratives–as being “Assad apologists” firmly confirms the fatality of the illness.
The area in Aleppo that was occupied by terrorist forces has been liberated by Syrian forces. Today, we have tons of material evidences, witnesses and analysis all indicating the criminality, atrocity and inhumanity of the terrorist forces backed by the western establishment. There is absolutely no excuse for anyone today to support replacing president Assad’s government–chosen by the Syrian people–with the head-chopping terrorists backed by the western colonial forces.
From Vanessa Beeley:
“#BanaAlabed Every video I watch of this child confirms my opinion [and that of many others] that she has been coerced into producing the statements and images that have propelled her to war propaganda stardom at such a young and impressionable age.
This video was taken 3 months into Bana’s manipulated campaign in East #Aleppo. Al Hamdo [her terrorist english teacher] is prompting her on every word.
#JKRowling must have compassion for this child but not for the reasons she is marketing..this is a child of a terrorist family. Her father was the Sharia Court judge aka the decision maker whether a civilian prisoner should die, be imprisoned or tortured by Nusra Front and other extremist factions in East Aleppo. He repaired the heavy armoury of Nusra Front in the district where they lived. This included the Hell Cannon that were placed on the rooves surrounding Bana’s house and which fired mortars and gas canisters filled with glass, shrapnel, explosives, sometimes toxic gas into the civilian areas of West Aleppo. These Hell Cannon repaired and serviced by Bana’s father Ghassan, murdered, maimed and mutilated thousands of children over the 5 years of Nusra Front occupation of East Aleppo.
Bana’s house was surrounded by 20 Nusra Front military and command centres. One centre was next door to her house.
The detrimental effects upon Bana, being used as a propaganda tool, are immeasurable – the torment suffered by thousands of other children across Syria is unimaginable but is being steadfastly ignored by JK Rowling and the child’s PR team who are using Bana to ensure the bloodshed does not end.
Stop exploiting children to promote a war that will kill more children.”
https://www.facebook.com/vanessa.beeley/posts/10157190359138868
Also from Vanessa Beeley:
“Thanks for pointing this out Caity Johnstone
“Speaking of deleted posts, the Twitter account which propelled Bana Alabed to international fame has been removing its pro-interventionist tweets lately. Here’s an article I wrote back in May of this year in which you can see two embedded tweets which were active at the time of publication are no longer active on the account. Other tweets by @AlabedBana remain, but the ones I’d used to illustrate how aggressively the account pushes for western military intervention against Russia and the Assad government are now missing. The tweets are still archived here and here, however.””