THE EDITOR—TGP has long been regarded as one of the finest sources of anti-imperialist news and commentary around the world. We strive for a world of peace grounded in individual and international justice, in ecoanimal respect (where a change of moral direction is urgent), and a political system that truly represents the interests and wishes of the people. That, in the eyes of our enemies, makes us their enemies—we go to the root of society’s problems. We upset the applecart.
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JIMMY DORE/ AARON MATE—For six years the words “Havana Syndrome” have been stirring fear in the hearts of American diplomats across the globe, but now CIA Director William Burns has come out and admitted, in an admittedly halting, wishy-washy manner, that there’s no such thing as Havana Syndrome and whatever these folks are suffering from, it ain’t “sonic attacks” from a malicious foreign power. Jimmy and America’s comedian Kurt Metzger discuss whether anyone with a shred of skepticism should have seen through this phantom ailment from the beginning. Also focus on how the US continues to steal Syria’s oil and food resources in broad daylight.
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British Simon Tisdall demonstrates that presstitutes in the developed West can have a prosperous career spreading disinformation in the service of the Anglo-American oligarchy, even when they openly push for nuclear confrontation. Basic decency is a concept these media scum do not recognise. Literally, everything Tisdall says or imputes in this piece is a high-handed lie. Everything.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—All of our world’s worst problems are created by the powerful. The powerful will keep creating those problems until ordinary people use their superior numbers to make them stop. Ordinary people don’t use their superior numbers to stop the powerful because the powerful are continuously manipulating people’s understanding of what’s going on.
Humans are storytelling creatures. If you can control the stories humans are telling themselves about the world, you control the humans, and you control the world.
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DOUGLAS MACGREGOR—Diogenes, one of the ancient world’s illustrious philosophers, believed that lies were the currency of politics, and those lies were the ones he sought to expose and debase. To make his point, Diogenes occasionally carried a lit lantern through the streets of Athens in the daylight. If asked why, Diogenes would say he was searching for an honest man.
Finding an honest man today in Washington, D.C., is equally challenging. Diogenes would need a Xenon Searchlight in each hand.
