DEEP STATE

ALAN MACLEOD—en Nimmo, a former NATO press officer and current senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, has announced Facebook has hired him to “lead global threat intelligence strategy against influence operations” and “emerging threats.” Nimmo specifically named Russia, Iran and China as potential dangers to the platform.

His announcement was greeted with joy by several NATO officials but was not met with such enthusiasm by others. “More censorship on the way as the former NATO press officer turned Pentagon-funded ‘researcher’ who labeled real people as Russian bots and peddled disinformation to link Jeremy Corbyn to Russian active measures moves to big tech,” responded investigative journalist Max Blumenthal.

Noteworthy that, for reasons best explained by Greenwald himself, the supposedly progressive Democrat affiliated media have completely downplayed or suppressed this entire story exposing Joe Biden’s corruption in the eve of what they claim to be a historically decisive election. So Glenn finds in Tucker Carlson, a Fox News commentator, a platform willing to give him access to a wider audience. Yes, many in Carlson’s audience already discount the moral or professional integrity of the smug liberal media constellation—after all Trump has (for his own narrow reasons but accurately) called them “Fake News”—but Greenwald’s denunciations of the corporate press also extend to the role of US intel agencies, which is no-no territory for many rightwingers, even if some are now aware of spooks’ efforts to cripple or overthrow the Trump regime. The CIA set out to sabotage the Trump administration, says Greenwald, because Trump questioned just a few of their pieties, and that is not to be tolerated in Washington. “Whoever does that, must be destroyed.” 

ERIC ZUESSE—In America, the Deep State ‘justifies’ itself in the ‘news’-media that it owns, and does so by falsely ‘defining’ what the “Deep State” is (which is actually the nation’s 607 billionaires, whose hired agents number in the millions). They mis-‘define’ it, as being, instead, the taxpayer-salaried career Government employees, known professionally as “the Civil Service.” (Although some Civil Servants — especially at the upper levels — are agents for America’s billionaires and retire to cushy board seats, most of them actually are not and do not. And the “revolving door” between “the public sector” and “the private sector” is where the Deep State operations become concentrated.

PATRICE GREANVILLE—As US troops—at last!— leave their illegally occupied zone in Syria, all hell breaks loose on the US media front, with Democrats and the Deep State shills denouncing Trump’s move as triggering a huge human rights catastrophe, reigniting ISIS, yada yada. Turkey’s long expected invasion in pursuit of the US-allied Kurds may have provided the perfect pretext—amplified by the usual arsenal of manufactured images—for all the wailing, but this is as phony as the arguments that justified American meddling in Syria in the first place. (Do you hear that Obama?)

PHILIP GIRALDI—The most recent “former intelligence agents’” blast against Trump appeared in the Business Insider last month in an article entitled “US spies say Trump’s G7 performance suggests he’s either a ‘Russian asset’ or a ‘useful idiot’ for Putin.” The article cites a number of former government officials, including several from the CIA and FBI, who claimed that Trump’s participation at the recent G7 summit in Biarritz France was marked by pandering to Putin and the Kremlin’s interests, including a push to re-include Russia in the G-7, from which it was expelled after the annexation of Crimea.