Abby Martin accurately dives into what this kerfuffle is really all about, and guess what, despite the usual indignant calls for an apology, and cries of anti-semitism, SNL was actually spot on. This segment is an eloquent denunciation of brutal Israeli apartheid, the topic the world’s mainstream media does not dare touch.
MOA—The U.S. and its allies are hostile to China. Threatening to cut its oil supplies is probably the most powerful tool in their box. Any alternative supply routes for China make this tool less powerful. The idea then is to prevent the possible use of these routes.
Since its foundation after World War II Myanmar was ruled, sometimes more sometimes less brutally, by its anti-colonial military.
The first U.S. plan to gain control over Myanmar was to install a ‘democratic government’ (sic) that would do its bidding. In 2010, under pressure of U.S. instigated color revolutions, the military conceded to allow a civilian government but kept much of its constitutional and economic power. In 2016 the U.S. preferred candidate Suu Kyi, the daughter of the former military leader and Father of the Nation Aung San, was installed at the head of a new government.
WILLIAM I ROBINSON—Contrary to mainstream accounts, the coronavirus pandemic did not cause the crisis of global capitalism, for this was already upon us. On the eve of the pandemic, growth in the EU countries had already shrunk to zero, much of Latin America and sub-Sahara Africa was in recession, growth rates in Asia were steadily declining, and North America faced a slowdown. The writing was on the wall. The contagion was but the spark that ignited the combustible of a global economy that never fully recovered from the 2008 financial collapse and had been teetering on the brink of renewed crisis ever since.
PATRICE GREANViLLE—Woke CIA? Are you kidding? In this episode Jimmy, Ron Placone and Stef Zamorano comment on the sheer absurdity if not downright imbecility apparently penetrating even the sociopathic CIA, as it turns to recruit self-defined “progressives”, but maybe it is just one more opportunistic, perhaps brilliant move by an organization that in many ways helped to spawn a cultural shift toward postmodernist identitarian insanity. All to bury any understanding by the masses of the need to wage a politics of unity, world peace, and class struggle.
Incidentally, since the woman in this CIA package uses deliberate “woke” lingo, like “intersectional”, “cisgender”, and “imposter syndrome,” all of which sound like the whinings of a well-heeled egotist, I doubt that many “regular” people will fully understand on first pass what she’s talking about. So below we have supplied a couple of definitions to help you along. As well, we have added to this post two solid analyses of this new phenomenon, by sober-minded leftists. (See our addendum).
SCOTT RITTER—The most recent defense expenditure authorization required that the ODNI establish a “social media data analysis center” to coordinate and track foreign social media influence operations by analyzing data voluntarily shared by US social media companies. Based upon this analysis, the ODNI would report to Congress on a quarterly basis on trends in foreign influence and disinformation operations to the public. As envisioned by Congress, the intelligence community would determine jointly with US social media companies which data and metadata will be made available for analysis.
In short, the intelligence community, using data obtained from the social media accounts of American citizens, will report to Congress how this data influences the political decision making of these same American citizens. If this does not make the most ardent defender of the US Constitution ill, nothing will.