LIBERAL BETRAYALS

P. GREANVILLE—In one of his most scathing exposés Jimmy Dore indicts the legion of lavishly paid hypocrites in the mainstream media, all complicit in the persecution of Julian Assange, guilty of nothing else than committing real journalism.
“What is Julian Assange being prosecuted for?”—asks Jimmy. “For revealing war crimes of the United States. That’s what this is about. It’s not about Russia…or about Wikileaks emails with the Trump campaign” (all red herrings, anyhow, to deligitimize Wikileaks).

RAMIN MAZAHERI—PressTV feels it is critical to broadcast the DSA’s blacklisting of Iranian media because DSA’s prejudice has many political implications within the country that has waged such devastating capitalist-imperialist war on Iran since 1979. Iran, too, has a critical election coming up to prepare for – in June 2021. Regardless of the timing of the US presidential election – and Iranians reject the absurd, pathetic and amateurish recent claims that Iranian operatives have meddled in the 2020 US election – it is critical to broadcast this information to Iranians so they can have a proper amount of time to absorb and incorporate the implications of DSA’s anti-Iran prejudice into their own analyses as voters and responsible citizens. 

GLENN GREENWALD—It is important to note that Strangio’s views are mostly definitely not shared by everyone at the ACLU. Many of the group’s more traditional free speech advocates still prioritize its civil liberties principles over liberal politics and liberal political causes. As I noted when I defended the organization in 2017 for its free speech representation in Charlottesville, the ACLU has defended Milo Yiannopolous against the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s refusal to allow ads for his book, and this year publicly defended the National Rifle Association against the efforts by New York State General Letitia James to disband it.

JONATHAN COOK—Biden isn’t over the finishing line quite yet, and there are likely to be recounts, court challenges and possibly violence over the result, but he seems all but certain to be crowned the next U.S. president. Not that that should provoke any kind of celebration. The rest of the world’s population, future generations, the planet itself – none of us had a vote – were always going to be the losers whichever candidate won. The incumbent, Donald Trump, miscalculated, it seems, if he thought dismissing his opponent as “Sleepy Joe” would be enough to damage Biden’s electoral fortunes. True, Trump was referring to the fact that Biden is a dried-out husk of the machine politician he once was. But after four years of Trump and in the midst of a pandemic, the idea of sleeping through the next presidential term probably sounded pretty appealing to liberals. Most of them have spent their whole political lives asleep.

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.”