AMERICAN PROPAGANDA

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”. 

GLENN GREENWALD— System Update with Glenn Greenwald. On this week’s episode of System Update, Glenn Greenwald talks to journalist Vincent Bevins about his newly launched book, The Jakarta Method. The book examines the series of mass murder programs engineered by the CIA with the purported goal of fighting communism during the Cold War, and how the consequences of these programs shape the global order — and U.S. politics — to this day.

Thorn is among the most prominent figures within the loosely knit collective of YouTube influencers known as BreadTube. Inspired by the title of anarchist Peter Kropotkin’s tract, The Conquest of Bread,BreadTube advances a hyper-identitarian, imperialism-friendly interpretation of socialist politics that has earned its creators enthusiastic promotion from establishment interests. 

The New York Times, for example, published a lengthy 2019 profile of a young man named Caleb Cain who supposedly “fell down the alt-right rabbit hole” on YouTube. Cain claimed he was de-radicalized through exposure to videos by Thorn and other popular BreadTubers like Natalie Wynn of Contrapoints. During the Trump era, as the Google-owned YouTube implemented a raft of stringent speech codes, it began amplifying BreadTube influencers through its algorithm.

LUIS LAZARO TIJERINA—Although bitter adversaries, John McCain and Trump had one thing in common — they both detested communism and any form of socialism, and they both were committed to giving arms to the Kiev junta in the Ukraine. Only two days after the murder of rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko, a report in The Guardian stated, “Washington is ready to expand arms supplies to Ukraine in order to build up the country’s naval and air defence forces in the face of continuing Russian support for eastern separatists, according to the US special envoy for Ukraine.”