CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—The war that Trump has started must be opposed forcefully and aggressively. Do everything you can to wake people up to what’s going on. This could get very, very ugly.
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—The propaganda machine is only able to manipulate people away from inconvenient truths when people trust it; if you can weaken their trust in the plutocratic media and the political class which regurgitates their narratives, you will cripple the machine’s ability to manipulate them in that way. It’s not enough to simply expose the truth. You must also fully, repeatedly and consistently expose the ones who are telling lies.
RAMIN MAZAHERI—I expected online commenters to object to my treatment of Aoun in my previous two articles. I did not expect anyone to publicly stand up for Samir Geagea – no one did. His supporters are the types who leave anonymous, racist, ill-informed comments. Bombing churches, assassinations of Christian leaders, fighting alongside Israeli Defense Forces – his crimes were the most atrocious of his era, and he was the only warlord to serve jail time for that reason. And yet he was released. (This is obviously in contrast to the ‘Arab Nelson Mandela’.)
PATRICK MARTIN—There are no such issues of democratic rights in the conflict between Trump and the Democrats, who are acting as the political front men for the CIA and other sections of the national security apparatus. The significance of Sondland’s testimony lies not in what he revealed about Trump, but in his account of the everyday relationship between American imperialism and Ukraine, a small, dependent nation that has been turned into a vassal state by successive administrations in Washington.
CANADA’S DISGRACEFUL ROLE—The treacherous liberal Justin Trudeau, whose ascent to power was hailed by many US liberals as an event to celebrate, is now leading the charge on the siege against the government of Venezuela. Canada’s abject (and criminal) vassalage is now undeniable