PATRICK LAWRENCE—There is no need to wonder what causes this departure from observable facts, diabolically purposeful as it often is, and what comes of it. This may seem an unprecedented moment in human history, but there are, indeed, many precedents. Barbara Tuchman told us all about them in The March of Folly (Knopf, 1984): These grand lapses reflect an absence of intellect, vision, and principle at leadership level and lead ineluctably to failure and one or another kind of mess. The Ukraine case, the preoccupation in Munich last week, could not possibly make this clearer.
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Is Tucker Carlson a Harbinger of a New Information Age?
20 minutes readP. GREANVILLE—Irrepressibly, largely spontaneously, and with ever greater force and speed, a new information paradigm is being born to meet the urgent survival needs of humanity. This paradigm, conceived in a still hotly contested digital matrix where the dying system still exerts heavy influence through a variety of advantages, is nonetheless largely grounded in truth. State power, corporate ownership, and huge chunks of badly brainwashed humanity can delay the process, and they do, but eventually reality will win. Moral integrity in mass journalism is an idea whose time is come.
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INDRAJIT—This was my jam on Medium. Capitalist disavowal was my niche. Complaining about capitalism and America within an American capitalist platform, while paying withholding tax to the American government. I might have been smart, but the people making money off me were genius. Palestine, however, is a one-way ticket to demonetization. What’s the difference?
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The Western press are just printing straight up Nazi propaganda about Middle Easterners now
18 minutes readCAITLIN JOHNSTONE—There is zero chance that The Guardian’s editors would have even for a second entertained the idea of publishing such a cartoon about Israeli leaders in the year 2024, but apparently publishing the exact same sort of rehashed Nazi propaganda about Iranian leaders is perfectly fine.
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CNN’s CEO Is Making Staff Churn Out Israel Propaganda
26 minutes readCAITLIN JOHNSTONE—”These are the people who’ve been pulling the wool over the eyes of the mainstream public and manipulating the masses into thinking, speaking, working, consuming, and voting in ways that serve the interests of the ruling power structure. In this way they are able to ensure that revolutionary opposition to that power structure remains a fringe minority position, even as that power structure wages wars, sponsors genocides, destroys the biosphere, and keeps everyone poor, sick, and stupid…”