LIES & PROPAGANDA

ED CURTIN—Maybe a hawk killed the bluejay, but if so, it didn’t gloat over its body.  It would have been operating under the laws of necessity, where as far as we know, compassion has no place. Not true for Che’s killers. Here they are posing for the camera, guns still aimed at the dead man, as if he still posed a great danger to them.  They were right, at least in the long term.

There are occasions when Bill Maher imprudently chews more than he can swallow. This is an occasion when Maher, an unabashed apologist for Israel and Democrat party corruption, meets his match in Glenn Greenwald.  Too bad Glenn’s machine-gun delivery is a bit overwhelming and probably not attractive to general brainwashed audiences—who will be left in the propaganda dust—when listening to his exposés. Note that Maher’s panel also has on board the notorious Joy Reid, later to become a major tool for the distribution of the Russiagate hoax, and good exponent of the Trump Derangemet Syndrome.  As a bonus, we also present Jimmy Dore’s 3-part interview with Glenn on the media and ideological divides keeping Americans fighting over political fantasies instead of realities.

GILAD ATZMON—The Jewish progressive activist basically insisted that any such criticism of Israel was ‘antisemitism.’ She was also naive to prematurely vindicate the Jewish State of involvement in the unlawful assassination: a crime that may lead to unpredictable and lethal consequences in the near future. Today’s news reports that Israel was deeply involved in the targeted assassination of the Iranian general. The Times of Israel ‘s headline this morning reads: “Israeli intel helped US carry out strike that killed Iran’s Soleimani.”

YASHA LEVINE—I’ve been trying to write about the liberal xenophobia that undergirds so much of today’s elite panic about “Russia” and “the Russians.” Since Trump’s election, the usual stereotypes and tropes about Russians have morphed into an all-encompassing racist conspiracy. It’s become totally fine — and even respectable — in American liberal media circles to bombard viewers and readers with all sorts of plots that feature shadowy Russians infecting “our” society and lurking behind everything that’s going wrong in America and around the world.

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Any think tank with the words “foreign policy” in its title is nothing other than a group of intellectuals who are paid by plutocrats to come up with the best possible arguments for why it would be very good and smart to do things that are very evil and stupid, and Naveed Jamali sits comfortably there.