EDWARD J CURTIN—Here’s a film about the 1950s – “The World As It Was” – that will tell you a great deal about life in the U.S.A. today, while disabusing anyone of the notion that nostalgia for that mephitic decade is in order, for it was a time when “democracy” tended toward totalitarianism. In doing so, it sowed the bitter fruit that is poisoning us today. Without understanding the long-standing effects of those years, it is impossible to grasp the deepest dimensions of our current nightmare. Chapter One of the documentary series, Four Died Trying, directed by John Kirby and produced by Libby Handros, appropriately subtitled: “To see where we are, look where we’ve been,” does that brilliantly.
CIA / INTEL AGENCIES
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THIERRY MEYSSAN—The Biden Administration has therefore invited General Benny Gantz, the former alternative Prime Minister and since October 12 Minister without Portfolio, to consult in the United States, despite the opposition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s a kind of backlash to the way the latter was invited to deliver a speech before Congress against the advice of President Barack Obama, in 2015. The United States is keen to show that it is in charge and no one else.
The United States feels compelled to act. Russia has invited sixty Palestinian political organizations to Moscow. It urged them to unite and convinced Hamas to accept the PLO charter, i.e. to recognize the State of Israel.
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EDITOR—Sabby comments on the grotesquely disproportionate complaints and whining proffered by Zionist apologists over a speech that, wile well-intentioned, and even courageous, considering the venue, was nowhere near clear and strong enough to convey the main points. Jonathan Glazer didn’t even utter the word genocide. Instead, he nervously read something that sounded like classic “bothsidism”.
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EDITOR—Touchy issues of sex, gender, LGBQT politics, direction of the military, etc., are discussed with Gen. Anthony Tata (Ret.). Note that Gen. Tata is apparently deeply disliked by the Deep State. This is reflected in a highly inflammatory and tendentious Wikipedia page, a reliable barometer of what the hidden establishment thinks of public figures. Tata, unfortunately, like many senior members of the US military and countless people of right-wing/conservative persuasion, is unfortunately poisoned by the (unofficial) religion of America, hatred of communism, a doctrine he, like many others in the same tribe, knows practically nothing about, except the caricaturesque indoctrination all Americans receive in schools, media and other opinion-shaping institutions. Thus he, like Trump, et al can call capitalist/imperialists like Obama, “a communist”. Or, believe, like Trump has declared, that Putin would have never invaded Ukraine on his watch out of fear of American retaliation. Which is patently ridiculous, besides showing massive ignorance about the basic realities of international affairs. Fortunately, Jimmy Dore dispenses straightforward correctives to all this nonsense, while schooling the general and the audience about the essential facts.
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EDITOR—ABSOLUTELY MUST SEE—HAITI IN CRISIS – WITH KIM IVES – EDITOR OF HAITILIBERTE.COM
Kim Ives, editor of Haitiliberte.com (English edition) describes, vividly, how he came to know the much maligned Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier, and chronicles his evolution from fearless police leader to people’s champion. At the more personal level, Ives also describes how a protégé, Karine Jean-Pierre, currently Biden press secretary, after starting as an anti-imperialist communicator, due to her obvious careerist ambitions, was sucked up by the Democratic Party machine, and is now shamelessly serving the goals of US imperialism.