AMERICAN DUPLICITY

PATRICE GREANViLLE—Woke CIA? Are you kidding? In this episode Jimmy, Ron Placone and Stef Zamorano comment on the sheer absurdity if not downright imbecility apparently penetrating even the sociopathic CIA, as it turns to recruit self-defined “progressives”, but maybe it is just one more opportunistic, perhaps brilliant move by an organization that in many ways helped to spawn a cultural shift toward postmodernist identitarian insanity. All to bury any understanding by the masses of the need to wage a politics of unity, world peace, and class struggle.

Incidentally, since the woman in this CIA package uses deliberate “woke” lingo, like “intersectional”, “cisgender”, and “imposter syndrome,” all of which sound like the whinings of a well-heeled egotist, I doubt that many “regular” people will fully understand on first pass what she’s talking about. So below we have supplied a couple of definitions to help you along. As well, we have added to this post two solid analyses of this new phenomenon, by sober-minded leftists. (See our addendum).

GLENN GREENWALD—This is an obvious scam — they have not “independently confirmed” anything but rather merely acted as servants to the same lying security state agents who planted the original false story — but they do it over and over, creating the deceitful perception that a fake story has been “confirmed” by multiple outlets, thus bolstering its credibility in the public mind. It was the favored tactic for spreading debunked Russiagate frauds and is still used. One of the most vivid examples occurred in December, 2017, when CNN falsely reported what it hyped as “a major bombshell”: that Donald Trump, Jr. had advance access to the WikiLeaks archive.

Aaron Maté and Glenn Greenwald discuss the effects of BlueAnon, especially the never-ending Russiagate hoax, whose malignant roots have penetrated the soil of practically the whole Western media apparatus. 

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—When people object to criticisms of the US-centralized empire, it isn’t because those criticisms are unfounded. It’s because if those criticisms are valid, it will mean everything they believe about the world is wrong. It would be a kind of death for them, and people fear death. Because perception is reality, finding out that your entire worldview is wrong is experientially the same as losing your entire world. Losing your entire world, your belief systems, your knowing, your understanding and all the stability it gives you, is like experiencing death.

That’s why we’ve got whole cognitive defense systems in place designed to keep information that is incongruous with our worldview out of our heads. We protect our worldview like we’re protecting our own identity, because, in a very real sense, we are.

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—The Biden administration has finally admitted that the US is indeed providing offensive material support to Saudi Arabia’s genocidal assault on Yemen, directly contradicting Biden’s February claimthat it would no longer be providing offensive support in that war. We are being lied to about yet another US war by yet another US president.

“The United States continues to provide maintenance support to Saudi Arabia’s Air Force given the critical role it plays in Saudi air defense and our longstanding security partnership,” Pentagon spokesperson Jessica McNulty has informed Vox reporter Alex Ward.