MEDIA SCOUNDRELS

PATRICE GREANVILLE—As US troops—at last!— leave their illegally occupied zone in Syria, all hell breaks loose on the US media front, with Democrats and the Deep State shills denouncing Trump’s move as triggering a huge human rights catastrophe, reigniting ISIS, yada yada. Turkey’s long expected invasion in pursuit of the US-allied Kurds may have provided the perfect pretext—amplified by the usual arsenal of manufactured images—for all the wailing, but this is as phony as the arguments that justified American meddling in Syria in the first place. (Do you hear that Obama?)

TERJE MALOY (TRANSLATED)—he clandestine cooperation between Western intelligence services and the media has been known for decades and is well documented. The following case shows just how closely and comprehensively even leading European journalists have been cooperating with secret services such as the CIA.

From 1961 to 1989, former Austrian journalist Otto Schulmeister was editor-in-chief and publisher of Die Presse, one of the most renowned daily newspapers in Austria. In 2009, his former CIA dossier was made public — with remarkable details about the decades-long covert collaboration.

BILL WILLERS—Stephen Colbert has become another animal altogether. The introductory monologue has [been] more or less obligatory for nighttime talk show hosts since the middle of the last Century. In Colbert’s tenure, the monologue has long since morphed into what is arguably the Democratic Party’s most powerful and persuasive voice — and, conversely, one of loudest and most effective anti-Trump forces on daily TV.

PHILIP A. FARRUGGIO—We only need go back a few short years to see the utter magnitude of what Swinton was talking about. Remember the illegal and immoral USA invasion and occupation of Iraq? Most of the ‘levers of empire’ were pushed to accommodate that bit of lying, disinformation and half truths. This writer remembers when Phil Donahue had his nightly news/talk show on MSNBC. By February of 2003 or thereabouts, Jeff Cohen, Phil’s producer, recalls how he was told to have TWO pro invasion guests on for every anti invasion guest. Remember, at that time General Electric Corp. owned MSNBC. Yet, that was not enough to satisfy the empire.

MoA—A publicly well known unit, which for more than 50 years acted as a small arms training center, is now ‘destabilizing Europe’ with operations that were, like the Skripal affair, obviously made up by ‘western’ spy services, or failed amateur coups attempts like in Montenegro. Its commander’s personal data are available on the net. The NYT story itself confirms that there are even pictures from inside the training unit’s premises.