AMERICAN PROPAGANDA

JEFF J. BROWN—I am truly honored to have John-Paul Leonard and Andrew Schlademan on the show today and would like to thank Patrice Greanville, Editor-in-Chief of The Greanville Post, for putting us in touch. We are together today to discuss their just published book, Presstitutes: In the Pay of the CIA-Confession from the Profession, the English translated version of Udo Ulfkotte’s sensational, best-selling book in Germany.

KOLLIBRI TERRE SONNENBLUME—As Kimberley illustrates, the history of the US is very much the history of white supremacy, pivoting on slavery and its aftermath. Every president from the beginning has either been a southerner defending southern racism or a northerner afraid to challenge it for fear of losing southern votes (all the while denying northern racism).

MoA—Around that time this writer was the chief technical officer of a large Internet access company. When we had to select a firewall platform for our internal networks we cynically discussed if it would be preferable to buy Cisco equipment, to then be spied on by the NSA, or to buy from the Israeli company Checkpoint which likely had a Mossad backdoor. (We bought both and stacked them.)

ERIC ZUESSE—As for Democrats who don’t understand what a neocon or shill even is, they’d do both the Party and the nation a favor by entirely avoiding to vote, at all, and letting the Party’s progressives take over the Party, so as to win the war, to restore democracy to America and advance it further in the progressive direction.

MATTHEW JL EHRET —One little known film stands out quite a bit however, and since so little is known of this small masterpiece, a word must be said now. Ten years after Kennedy’s murder, Trumbo, Edward Lewis, David Miller, Mark Lane and Garry Horrowitz created a film which could be called “Trumbo’s last stand”. This film was called Executive Action (1973) and starred Kirk Douglas’ long-time collaborator Burt Lancaster as a leading coordinator of the plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy.