NICK CRUSE—A masterful deconstruction of Cornel West’s numerous deviations from the radical, anti-imperialist path to please the capitalist establishment. We really got under Cornel West’s skin Tonight I’m going to take his doctorate away after destroying all his horrific arguments that even made the entirety of Bad Faith commentators to turn on him.
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EDITOR—Israel has unleashed a horrific war of collective punishment against the people of Gaza, the latest in a long history of anti-Palestinian oppression. As corporate media shamelessly provides cover for what is undoubtedly a genocide unfolding in real time, the need to ground our understanding of the conflict in its proper history is more important than ever. Norman Finkelstein joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss Israel’s 17 year blockade of Gaza and its crucial significance to understanding the events of the past two weeks.
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KIT KLARENBERG—Subsequent investigations showed how Henry Kissinger helped oversee the recruitment of 400 high-ranking Italian and NATO officers as P2 operatives in 1969. The US was so grateful for Gelli’s anti-communist purge that it made him a guest of honor at the inauguration ceremonies of US Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.
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Matt Taibbi testifies before Congress on the underhanded growth of digital McCarthyism
22 minutes readMATT TAIBBI—We learned Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other companies developed a formal system for taking in moderation “requests” from every corner of government: the FBI, DHS, HHS, DOD, the Global Engagement Center at State, even the CIA. For every government agency scanning Twitter, there were perhaps 20 quasi-private entities doing the same, including Stanford’s Election Integrity Project, Newsguard, the Global Disinformation Index, and others, many taxpayer-funded. A focus of this fast-growing network is making lists of people whose opinions, beliefs, associations, or sympathies are deemed “misinformation,” “disinformation,” or “malinformation.” The latter term is just a euphemism for “true but inconvenient.”
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Glenn Greenwald: Unmasking the status quo’s shameless hypocrisy, and the lies that keep people enslaved
7 minutes readA must-watch video for anyone who cares about the preservation of freedom and truth. In his entire career, Glenn Greenwald has never produced a more urgent, lucid, or braver anatomy of disinformation in the modern age. Let this program stand as a guide to the manufacturing of lies in support of tyrannical power everywhere, and especially in the United States.