MICHAEL BRENNER—Isn’t the near total absence of informed, fair and critical coverage of American misadventures abroad a matter of cardinal importance that helps explain the malady that afflicts the Republic – personified by, but far deeper than Donald Trump? The Washington Post is… nothing but a loud-speaker for the neo-cons and aggressive nationalists who dictate our policies abroad.
MEDIA SCOUNDRELS
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ADAM JOHNSON—the US not only doesn’t recognize the International Criminal Court, but has a law on its books (dubbed “the Hague Invasion Act,” passed in 2002) that if an American is ever held by the ICC for committing war crimes, the US is obligated to literally invade the Hague and free them.
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NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE AND WARNING FROM A WAR CORRESPONDENT
28 minutes readANDRE VLTCHEK—There can be no ‘objectivity’ in this work: objectivity is just an illusion, a fairytale dispersed by mainstream media. But you should never lie: you witness and say what you have to say, the way you believe it should be said, and while you do it, it is your obligation to inform your readers and viewers where precisely you stand.
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Is the buildup to World War I being repeated for WW III?
13 minutes readERIC ZUESSE—In WWI, there was a long list of neutral countries (including Switzerland, and all of Scandinavia, plus the Western Hemisphere south of the US); and, in a prospective WWIII, there would also be many such countries on the sidelines. (All of them, however, would become subject to the intense nuclear radiation after the War, and would therefore likewise become unlivable — neutrality wouldn’t save any country from destruction.)
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Why Are Trump’s Troops Training ISIS Terrorists?
12 minutes readERIC ZUESSE—The aristocracy, in any country, don’t want the public to understand international relations, and why they are doing what they are doing, because, if the public knew, the aristocrats would be in a very dangerous situation. And that’s also a reason why billionaires build and buy all of the major newsmedia, so that the public won’t understand these things. [AND ROUTINELY TURN TRUTH AND REALITY UPSIDE DOWN.]