PATRICK LAWRENCE—The Deep State — and at this point it is mere pretense to object to this term — long ago made it a priority to turn the mainstream press and broadcasters to its purposes — to make a free press unfree. This has gone on since the earliest Cold War decades and is well and responsibly documented.
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P. GREANVILLE—Those who know their history will surely remember that the CIA-engineered Indonesia coup of 1965 (Operation Djakarta), was one of the bloodiest—genocidal, some have rightly called it—anti-communist coups in the 20th century, with upwards of 3/4 of million people killed by the army supported by millions of mobilised fanatics, a coup that put ecologically and strategically precious Indonesia firmly in the exploitative basket of the corporatised West. Even today, Indonesia is a disgraceful, utterly corrupt and backward Western satrapy that remains a multinationals’ playground. Obama himself, of course, not only betrayed the public by NOT pushing for single-payer healthcare when he had the votes and a clear mandate, selling us instead “Obamacare”, a charlatan’s dream concocted by libertarian think tanks.
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Hysterics, theatrics, a touch of insanity and plain bad faith disinformation: The case of Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann
10 minutes readPATRICE GREANVILLE—The CIA Democrats pretended to be or got so unhinged over the election of Donald Trump that they promptly normalised a culture of paranoid commentary that continues to permeate many media platforms. As is standard operating procedure for almost all media figures, we bet that some of the histrionics are cold-blooded career calculations, sheer hypocrisy (think Maddow here), although in some instances, like Olbermann’s, we may be dealing with something far more severe. Jimmy Dore and his gang dissect the situation.
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Tiresome Bill Mahr continues his political implosion by stuffing panels and guest spots with Democrat loyalists
5 minutes readP. GREANVILLE—Maher’s self-destruction as a political wit of consequence began decades ago, when his “politicaly incorrect” barbs got a rather no-nonsense rebuke from the folks who really run things. Maher, a man of financial practicality after all, decided to do the opposite of Saul and quickly defanged himself. Sitting pretty on his perch at HBO, Maher has become a walking imposture, a man pretending to be progressive and rational while defending a morally unacceptable status quo.
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Why Withdrawing US troops from Northern Syria is GOOD
17 minutes readRICK STERLING—Advocates of US intervention claim that the Kurds were fighting and dying “for us”. That is not true. They were defending their own community. To the extent that they accepted and welcomed US air support, equipment, weaponry, etc. it was for their own benefit. There were two parties trying to use each other.