AJAMU BARAKA—Objectively, there was never much ideological space between the right-wing policies of Dick Cheney or John Bolton and the neoliberal right-wing policies of Democratic party policy-makers. The differences were always merely tactical and not strategic in the sense that they all want the North Koreans to be supplicants.
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To make matters even worse, Facebook’s move to control advertising only helps traditional media. But you might ask, how so? Well, the key is in the word “traditional,” and a kind of digression back to the way news/propaganda once was. Even though you read of media advertisers screaming at Facebook for the political ad controls, these companies only stand to win from the policy. In short, their feigned outrage is a PR move. In my opinion, Facebook is doing the NSA’s work by squashing any counter-narrative from outside the U.S. media bubble. So for those inside the iron dome of Washington propaganda, you won’t be seeing the end of the world in the ad section of your Facebook page. Pretty soon CNN will be your only source for breaking news on how Trump invaded Syria. And, if it’s decided you don’t need to know that… Then what?
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“We will soon kick the ass of that Indian shit [president of Bolivia, Evo Morales] … You think we care about money? We have plenty of money! We don’t care if we lose millions of dollars, even tens of millions! We will spread insecurity, uncertainty, fear, deficits and if we have to, even hunger… We’ll bleed those Indians to death!”—Local Bolivian aristocrat.
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MIKE HEAD—Last Sunday, Australia’s Channel 7 network broadcast an interview with Jennifer Robinson, an Australian-born, London-based lawyer who represents WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange. She issued a clear demand for the Australian government to carry out its responsibility to secure his freedom, as an Australian citizen.
The interview and 10-minute segment on the nationally-televised “Sunrise” morning program was a significant break in the general silence within the Australian corporate media on the more than seven-year detention of Assange. -
GEOFFREY O’NEILL—Most Americans are unaware of the amount of human suffering the U.S. government has inflicted on others throughout the world, especially post 9/11. We are incessantly told it is our duty to support the troops and our leaders who invade, bomb or otherwise intervene in other nations. The motives offered might be to stop genocide, to take down a maniacal despot, or to spread democracy and American values. Our government purportedly acts with reluctance as well as with compassion, respect for others, and good intent. We are reminded that the troops keep us safe, all the while helping spread the American way of life to a needy world. Why? It is because we are “exceptional.”