ERIC ZUESSE—End NATO Now! It is the greatest-possible threat to there being a World War III. It turns more and more countries into tripwires for WW III — and into Russian (and now also into Chinese) military targets. But something exists which is as evil as NATO, and it’s the U.S.-and-allied ‘news’-media that fool their publics into accepting and even endorsing this horrific global injustice that sustains NATO and that could very likely produce a Third World War, which would kill billions and harm everyone.
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Tucker Carlson & other rightwingers are now drawing the line against the DHS push to criminalise thought
4 minutes readWhile the fake left applauds and cheers the establishment of a truly Orwellian department to police thought crimes, it is rightwingers like Tucker Carlson and even the despicable jingo-exceptionalist Sean Hannity, or, hard to believe, Ron DeSantis, who step forth to defend the First Amendment. The real left of course still has some powerful voices—Jimmy Dore, Max Blumenthal, Caleb Maupin, Caitlin Johnstone, Fiorella Isabel, Margaret Kimberley, Danny Haiphong, Jeff J. Brown, Jay Janson, Ed Curtin—to name a few in that distinguished and brave handful— but they lack the heavy-duty megaphones the enemies of humanity enjoy.
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DeSantis Vows To Fight Biden’s “Ministry Of Truth”
3 minutes readOn the heels of the Biden administration’s announcement of a “Ministry of Truth”-esque “Disinformation Governance Board” in the Homeland Security Department, Florida’s GOP Governor Ron Desantis responded by insisting that he will do everything in his power to protect liberty and not let the federal government stifle free speech under the guise of exposing propaganda and misinformation by foreign governments. Jimmy and The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal discuss how the Democrats are becoming authoritarian and ceding the freedom-defending zone to right-wingers like Ron Desantis.
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Overthrow: 100 Years of U.S. Meddling & Regime Change, from Iran to Nicaragua to Hawaii to Cuba
6 minutes readAs special counsel Robert Mueller continues his probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, we take a look back at Washington’s record of meddling in elections across the globe. By one count, the United States has interfered in more than 80 foreign elections between 1946 and 2000. And that doesn’t count U.S.-backed coups and invasions. We speak to former New York Times reporter Stephen Kinzer, author of “Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.”
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EDWARD J CURTIN—The Russian President Vladimir Putin and its Foreign Secretary Sergei Lavrov have just warned the U.S. that such involvement has made nuclear war a “serious” and “real” risk, in Lavrov’s words “we must not underestimate it,” which is a mild form of diplomatic speech. Putin said that Russia has made all the preparations to respond if it senses a strategic threat to Russia and that response will be “instant, it will be quick.” The U.S. response is to shrug these statements off, just as it has done so for many years with Putin’s complaints about NATO forces moving up to its border. Incredibly, Biden has said, “For God’s sake, this man (Putin) cannot remain in power.”