DISINFORMATION

Left-wing journalistic outlet The Grayzone has been targeted by British celebrity journalist Paul Mason, according to a cache of private emails that have recently been leaked. The emails reveal an elaborate plan to deplatform, discredit, lampoon and defund The Grayzone. When questioned, Mason refused to deny the accuracy of the emails, but instead chalked it all up to Russian psyops. Jimmy and his panel consisting of The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and American comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the exposure of this not-so-secret plan to take down The Grayzone.

The Biden administration has been steadily beating the drums for war with Russia, and the corporate media has been playing along right in tune. Most recently NBC News’ Richard Engel aired a segment where he, wittingly or otherwise, aired propaganda from the Ukrainian Azov Battalion, which is made up of dedicated neo-Nazis. Jimmy and The Grayzone’s Aaron Maté (https://mate.substack.com/) discuss the Biden team’s bumbling toward a possible World War III and the media that’s cheerleading it all the way there.

JACQUES PAUWELS—Western historiography tends to focus on the Wehrmacht’s spectacular advances and victories in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa, while ignoring or minimizing its losses; conversely, the Soviet losses receive plenty of attention, while any Soviet successes tend to be ignored or downplayed. Even though the Wehrmacht’s performance did indeed appear to be very impressive, Hitler’s blitzkrieg in the east started to lose its blitz qualities after only a few weeks. Robert Kershaw, a specialist in the German-Soviet war, has described how “Blitzkrieg momentum petered out” as early as the first week of July, “the tempo faltered” in the following weeks, and the vanguards ceased “sprinting as they had done in the Polish and French campaigns.”

Ben Norton tells it like it is about Cuba, and how the Empire is doubling down on its longstanding demonisation campaign against Cuba in the hope of promoting a regime downfall. Norton denounces the US fake news offensive against Cuba, an effort that has even used pro-government demonstrations as “evidence” of anti-communist protests. The clueless US population, of course,can;t tell which is which.

ERIC ZUESSE—The views of Alexei Navalny in Russia and in the United States are virtually opposites of each other.

In America, for example, on June 20th, the New York Times headlined “U.S. Preparing More Sanctions Against Russia, Sullivan Says”, and sub-headlined “The national security adviser raised the issue of more penalties in the poisoning of Aleksei A. Navalny days after President Biden met with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.” The Hill online bannered “Sullivan says US preparing more Russia sanctions over Navalny”, and the “Best” or most popular of the many hundreds of reader-comments was “Putin is too chickenshit to face Navalny in an election”. In other words, the view is: Putin is aiming to kill Navalny because Navalny represents democracy and Putin is the dictator. That is the dominant view of Navalny not only in the United States but in its allied countries.