EXPOSING CAPITALISM'S MULTITUDE OF VICES AND INCURABLE PROBLEMS

At least for the moment, the bipartisan project (momentarily led by the Rrepublicrats) to muzzle the US population is hitting a bump on the road and causing even a bit of a ruling class fracas due to the Biden admin's oafish move to create a DHS department dedicated to "combat online disinformation", seen by many as a transparent attempt to really police free speech, which is totally unconstitutional.

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This is being done because the empire is actually losing the battle of communications at a critical moment in its troubled history. Global capitalism simply cannot cope with the very issues it continually trigers:  economic immiseration for the masses and grotesque inequality; endless wars; an unstoppable ecocide, and, perhaps, the most politically flammable issue, incurable unemployment. This reality, inherent in capitalism, is now aggavated by the digital revolution, which has made a vast and growing number of workers superfluous.

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None of these ills have a cure within the usual corporate policy playbook. Any bourgeois government that implemented real cures to such problems would liquidate capitalism itself. The crisis is further aggravated by the rise of peer powers like Russia and China, two truly sovereign nation-civilisations bent on a different and much more democratic path, and neither of which is willing to accept the US diktats any longer. In such circumstances, the only solution the globalists can see—besides enlarging their military footprint around the globe—is absolute narrative control. For an empire built on lies and shameless hypocrisy, this is now indeed indispensable. In any case, let's begin at the starting line. Meet Ms Jankowics, when she's not doing her audition for Mary Poppins, and the reaction she's getting to her narcissistic antics.—The Editor

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Here's proof that the newly-minted "disinformation" bulldog is herself a serious disseminator of falsehoods. Everything she says here to a suitably sympathetic TV host is a lie.

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New disinformation czar Nina Jankowicz talks Russia and Ukraine on BBC World News.

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Jan 19, 2022

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Reaction on the (real) left to Nina Jankowicz' appointment to DHS online disinformation dept, and TikTok video.

By The Jimmy Dore Show / w. Max Blumenthal “Disinformation Governance Board” Chief Is Huge Spreader Of Disinformation Apr 30, 2022 Joe Biden has announced the formation of something called the “Disinformation Governance Board,” which will operate within the Homeland Security Department as a sort of Orwellian “Ministry of Truth,” pointing out what the administration considers to be “disinformation” in the public discourse. Because who better to identify propaganda than the US government? Jimmy and The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal discuss this chillingly authoritarian turn in the so-called war against misinformation and fake news.

BY THE CONVO COUCH— IN ORWELL'S LAND: New AUMF for Ukraine, PayPal Bans Consortium News, Obama Boss, Trevor Noah Is A Hack, 2000 Mules May 3, 2022 By the Convo Couch team. This is probably one of the best wide-ranging discussions of the establishment's unfolding attack on free speech and the (now undeniable) persecution of Western dissenters from imperial narratives. Pasta and Fiorella tease out the truth from the lie in the New York Times' elaborate assault on Tucker Carlson (they are weaponising the "Far Right", using the toxic effluvia created by the Trump derangement syndrome, Russiagate, and the rest of the phony paranoias peddled by the Democrats and their utterly corrupt media).  The team also directs due attention to the pathetic fake left narcissistic ritual, the "White House Correspondents Dinner," this year spotlighting one of the biggest establishment hacks around, Trevor Noah. They correctly identify this complacent and cowardly crowd as nothing but smooth non-threatening narrative managers. Fiorella also comments on the spreading financial censorship plague against radicals being carried out by PayPal, and soon possibly other banks and money-handling platforms. So far they have banned Caleb Maupin, Consortium News, etc. ANYONE who speaks up against the official narrative is now subject to retaliation.

The DHS Created Their “Ministry of Truth” By The Convo Couch Apr 30, 2022 The Convo Couch Craig Pasta Jardula and Fiorella Isabel discuss the new Orwellian Ministry of Truth on The Convo Couch. In his 1984 visionary novel Orwell was attacking the Soviet Union as the ultimate totalitarian dictatorship controlling thought (Orwell was an anti-communist and British agent despite his prior creds as a leftist), but he was wrong. The enemy of humanity was and still is global capitalism, and surviving monarchies like the British crown. (Segment recorded on April 29th, 2022).

By Richard Medhurst: Biden's New "Ministry of Truth" Is a Dystopian Nightmare May 1, 2022 Richard Medhurst

Reaction on the right to Nina Jankowicz' appointment to DHS online disinformation dept, and tiktok video.  

By Tucker Carlson (Fox News) This is easily one of the most potent pushbacks against Biden/CIA's attempt to set up an Orwellian Ministry of Truth. Delivered by Tucker Carlson, an unpredictable iconoclast often embracing both left and right positions. Premiered Apr 28, 2022, and already seen by almost 3 million people. Tucker: This the point where we have to draw the line

Apr 29, 2022 Fox News 'Outnumbered' panelists discuss the possible impacts of Biden's new disinformation governance board on free speech. #FoxNews Tomi Lahren The panelists, being on Fox, and thereby following the rightwing, conservative script, are prone to tell as many idiocies and lies as they denounce. The most notorious in this bunch is Emily Compagno. The best—from our perspective—is Tomi Lahren. Lahren, who sees herself as a commentator, not a journalist, is, unfortunately, a Trump supporter. The Daily Beast, a filthy rag funded by the warmongering imperialist cabal, described her as a "right-wing provocateur" in 2018. That said, although Lahren is certainly better than her colleagues on this Fox perch, she is still beyond the pale on many issues of importance, including racial matters. Accordingly, like most Fox News hosts, she is almost obsessive about the "threat" posed by Latino migrants.

Emily Compagno hits back at Sunny Hostin: This is simply about free speech Fox News / May 2, 2022 'Outnumbered' panelists discuss attacks from liberal media commenters on Elon Musk's potential takeover of Twitter. #FoxNews

Hannity: I don’t think the Disinformation Governance Board will ‘fact-check’ themselves Apr 29, 2022 Fox News Sean Hannity discusses the executive director for the Disinformation Governance Board, Nina Jankowicz, and how she is raising some questions on ‘Hannity.’ #FoxNews #Hannity

Sen. Johnson blasts DHS's new misinformation board as 'Orwellian' May 1, 2022 Fox News Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Rep. James Comer, R. Ky., join 'Sunday Morning Futures' to react to the Department of Homeland Security's new Disinformation Governance Board to combat online disinformation and discuss the Bidens' business dealings.

 

 

BUT, while the right, and some REAL people on the left (The Grayzone, Jimmy Dore, this publication, etc.), denounce this dangerous power grab by the woke imperialists, the pseudo left, comprised of pro-empire liberals like the folks at The Young Turks (TYT), run interference for Biden. Observe:

By TYT—
The Young Turks—a fake left outfit, and well funded by Democrat-leaning billionaires, joins the lynching mob and steps up to badmouth Tucker Carlson. The result, this video, with the message deviously delivered by an African American—
Tucker’s DANGEROUS Lies On Combating Disinformation

Apr 30, 2022
Tucker Carlson is at it again with his lying ways and his time he is inciting violence and fear-mongering over the Department of Homeland Security’s new Disinformation Governance Board. While the board claims to quell misinformation about the southern border and Russia cyber attacks, Tucker thinks the department is sending armed agents to hunt down anyone who “thinks the wrong things”, mainly people who don't like President Biden. Cenk Uygur, Jayar Jackson, and Francesca Fiorentini discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET.

As we have said numerous times, we don't agree with much of what Tucker says, his slanderous take on migrants, for example, his ignorant hatred for China, or other Trumpist tropes we can certainly do without. BUT, and this is a HUGE but, Carlson is also the ONLY figure in the mainstream media reaching millions of people, many critically working-class people, with a message of cogent denunciation of the corrupt status quo and the complicity of repugnant establishment politicos and media critters. Tucker is the only major voice standing up against the choir of warmongers in Washington, from the whores in the war lobbying industry to the whores in corporate media, and those sitting in Congress. Not only that, he is also the ONLY person with a big media platform to offer genuine voices of the left a venue for their viewpoints and analyses. In that sense alone, he is vital to the future of the First Amendment and the possibility of pushing back against the encroaching fascism.

—The Editor