AMERICAN PROPAGANDA

STANSFIELD SMITH—During the 21st century, the US, working with corporate elites, traditional oligarchies, military, and corporate media, has continually attempted coups against Latin American governments which place the needs of their people over US corporate interests. US organized coups in Latin American countries is hardly a 20th century phenomenon.

However, this century the US rulers have turned to a new coup strategy, relying on soft coups, a significant change from the notoriously brutal military hard coups in Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, and other countries in the 1970s. One central US concern in these new coups has been to maintain a legal and democratic facade as much as possible. 

In a move that should come as a surprise to absolutely no one, CNN Business has chosen to honor Pfizer’s Albert Bourla as the network’s “CEO of the Year.” Pfizer has enjoyed more than $30 billion in profits thanks to the coronavirus vaccine, and has spent plenty of those gains on advertising, much of it on CNN. But no doubt this selection had nothing to do with that. Jimmy and comedian Kurt Metzger discuss this big win for Bourla.

Douglas Macgregor, a retired US Army Colonel and former Pentagon senior advisor, analyzes the US-Russia standoff in Ukraine; the aftermath of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan; Trump’s failure to act on 2016 campaign anti-interventionist rhetoric, only to surround himself with neocons; and the ongoing, overlooked US military occupation of Syria after the decade-long CIA dirty war.

“The Military Industrial Congressional Complex,” Macgregor says, “seems to be more powerful than anyone who occupies the office of the presidency.”

Dr. Robert Malone, immunologist and developer of the technology powering the mRNA vaccines, has been banned from Twitter following his appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast. Dr. Malone has been a vocal opponent of the government handling of the coronavirus pandemic and vaccine protocols, and now it appears he has become a sufficient threat to elite interests that social media outlets are beginning to crack down on him at the establishment’s behest. Jimmy and comedian Kurt Metzger discuss this latest act of social media censorship.

Yonden Lhatoo’s speech on Western hypocrisy should be watched by all those—including J-school students—who see themselves as mass communicators and influencers representing the world’s “best values”.