PATRICK RIGOLOT—If the pressures are anti-war, as in the Johnson and Nixon examples Draitser gives, then why not add to the pressure? If the pressures are to prevent dialog between nuclear powers, or re-install a “neoliberal/neoconservative consensus”, then maybe those pressures are not such a good thing.
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August 2018
“TRUMP’s right about major media fake news with a caveat. To a fault, he loves Fox News, appearing on the cable channel regularly, along with relying on its fake news for information he considers reliable – far from it. US print, cable and broadcast news suppress vital information important for everyone to know, especially on geopolitical issues, notably on Russia and other invented US adversaries. They cheerlead US wars of aggression, reporting nothing about about its high crimes of war and against humanity, falsely blaming them on victims. They serve as press agents for wealth, power and privilege, betraying their readers and viewers, feeding them rubbish, journalism the way it should be abandoned…”—S. LENDMAN
JOHN VIBES—n recent years, as the horror that the Israeli government unleashes upon the prisoners of Palestine has been exposed, global public opinion is finally beginning to shift against the apartheid state. In response, the governments in the U.S. and Israel have both been forcing legislation to keep a lid on the genocide that is taking place. Last month, The Free Thought Project reported that South Carolina passed a law to legally define criticism of Israel as “anti-Semitism,” showing a concerted effort to stifle criticism of a government that is indiscriminately killing innocent people, and keeping an entire population in poverty and constant terror.
STEPHEN LENDMAN—Undemocratic Dem committee vice chairman Mark Warner turned truth on its head, claiming “(f)oreign operatives…by design slip between our free speech guarantees and our legal authorities.” Wednesday’s hearing came a day after Facebook removed 32 pages of “inauthentic” content. The State Department praised the move, falsely claiming pages removed were “orchestrated from abroad (to) foment division and violence inside the United States,” suggesting Russian involvement.
GLEN FORD—The Democratic Party and corporate media, speaking for most of the U.S. ruling class — and actually bullying one of its top oligarchs, Mark Zuckerberg — is on its own bizarre and twisted road to fascism. (Donald Trump’s proto-fascism is the old fashioned, all-American type that the white supremacists want to celebrate on August 12.) With former FBI Director Robert Mueller at the head of the pack, they have created a pseudo legal doctrine whereby “Russians” (or U.S. spooks pretending to be Russians) can be indicted for launching a #MeToo campaign of mimicry, echoing the rhetoric and memes indigenous to U.S. political struggles, while the genuine, “authentic” American political voices — the people who are being mimicked — are labeled co-conspirators in a foreign-based “plot,” and their rights to speech and assembly are trashed.
