It’s quite clear Washington gave the green light to the vile puppet regime it just installed in Bolivia to humiliate both Mexico and Spain, nations which did not show great enthusiasm for the American coup. America’s criminality is contagious.
Yearly Archives
2019
Narrative Managers Claim White Helmets Founder Was Driven To Suicide By Syria Skeptics
11 minutes readCAITLIN JOHNSTONE—On Christmas Eve PBS aired a bizarre segment on the death of James Le Mesurier, the former military intelligence officer who founded the extremely shady propaganda construct known as the White Helmets. The segment makes relentless, ham-fisted appeals to emotion, even attempting to associate the White Helmets with Armistice Day using wistful camera pans over poppy flowers and misty war memorial art exhibits…
GILBERT MERCIER—Well-compensated propagandists package information and ideas like products for mass consumption. The advance of technology was supposed to free mankind; instead it has created invisible chains. The fact of being constantly wired is an assault on our free will and cognitive functions, which behavioral information warriors study and harvest, to put them in giant blenders where all comes out inoffensive and predictable.
The Real News takes aim at the top 5 mainstream myths that bolster income inequality and tout the ultra-rich.
Pro-Coup Venezuelan Soldiers Who Fled to the US Now Locked Up in ICE Detention Center
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The Venezuelan soldiers who participated in the U.S.-backed coup attempt in April of this year and subsequently fled to the U.S. have been incarcerated in ICE detention camps ever since. Telemundo, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal, secured an interview with Major Hugo Parra, the highest-ranking of the handful of soldiers who answered self-declared President Juan Guaidó’s call to overthrow the government of Nicolas Maduro. After the coup ended in spectacular failure, Parra revealed that he fled the country, ending up in the United States on April 11, where he expected to be given a hero’s welcome for his part in the Trump-approved insurrection.
