AMERICAN DUPLICITY

A sampler of videos by prominent figures denuncing Julian Assange’s imprinsoment by the empire’s minions, and the cynical betrayal of all concepts of internaitonal law and uman rights by the governments of Ecuador, the US and the UK, while the mainstream media applauds. Doesn’t get more disgusting than that.

Philip Mudd, a former CIA agent and counterterrorism analyst on the network’s payroll, made the first false accusation during a Wednesday morning appearance on “New Day.” (The abject and sleazy cowards quickly withdrew the video, no longer available on YouTube.)“I think there’s an effort to protect WikiLeaks from a pedophile who lives in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London,” Mudd said, referring to the WikiLeaks founder.  WikiLeaks quickly fired back via social media, threatening a lawsuit against CNN.

JIM NAURECKAS—Whoever runs as the Democratic nominee for president will have to contend with the co-dependent relationship between corporate media and Donald Trump—which can only be strengthened by his running as an incumbent. With that in mind, it can only be encouraging that all the Democratic candidates together got more coverage—slightly—than Trump by himself, with 23,677 vs. 19,895 mentions.

Trump—sleazy as he is—did not create sleaze in Washington, reminds us Jimmy Dore. Obama, the Clintons, and many other politicians in both parties set records for unethical behaviour long preceding Trump’s emergence as a factor in US politics.