MEDIA SCUM

JAY JANSON—A great many Americans voting believe the lies their criminal corporate media pours out daily, and are therefore gung-ho proud of Americans killing media-designated ‘bad guys” all around the world. These completely fooled Americans are happy to vote for the next commander-in-chief, but a substantial amount of Americans voting know they have been frightened into voting for what they hope is the lesser of two evils and are unhappy with what they feel is a mockery of the so called democratic process that has them voting for a choice that still represents evil.

Caleb Maupin and Lionel discuss the truth about North Korea, and why that nation is so hard to understand by Westerners—could that have something to do with decades of induced ignorance and vile disinformation?

AARON MATE—Maddow not only cast Trump as a Russian stooge for daring to discuss – and possibly de-escalate – the Venezuelan crisis with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the top-rated liberal cable news host expressed sympathy for John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, the most militaristic members of the Trump administration.

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.” 

JON. COOK—Activism in solidarity with Palestinians in the US and Europe has been similarly targeted. Ads for films, as well as the films themselves, have been taken down and websites removed. Last month, Zoom, a video conferencing site that has boomed during the Covid-19 pandemic, joined YouTube and Facebook in censoring a webinar organised by San Francisco State University because it included Leila Khaled, an icon of the Palestinian resistance movement now in her seventies. On Friday, Zoom blocked a second scheduled appearance by Khaled – this time in a University of Hawaii webinar on censorship – as well as a spate of other events across the US to protest against her cancellation by the site. A statement concerning the day of action said campuses were “joining in the campaign to resist corporate and university silencing of Palestinian narratives and Palestinian voices”.

The decision, a flagrant attack on academic freedom, was reportedly taken after the social media groups were heavily pressured by the Israeli government and anti-Palestinian lobby groups, which labelled the webinar “antisemitic”.