Fucking perfect quote from Scahill there, "If you don't understand that the American Exceptionalism story is the Grand Lie that fuels the elites, the congress, the politicians, the political parties in this country, if you don't understand that that is a big lie, everything that you say, your whole analysis, is going to be based on fraud."

"Kompromat" and "Desinformatsiya" are also ridiculously Russified words that people like to bandy about. As if no one in history has used (compromising) disinformation before Stalin invented it.

Yet if you talk about the evils of imperialism and they say what about Communism that is not Whataboutism. It only goes one way.

Podcast makes a great point about enhancement of fear by terms such as "Slavic." The US government does this constantly in terrorism cases by using Arabic words when there are perfectly reasonable, innocuous English words. https://aymplaying.wordpress.com/2018/03/22/more-government-generated-anti-arab-bias-scaring-people-with-innocuous-arabic-words/

check out "draining the sea," a US tactic developed in response to guerilla warfare in which US forces intentionally displace and kill civilians who might back the guerilla

history is total Howaboutism. How about it?

This week we’re heading to a Brazilian hospital — more specifically, the bedside of former President Jair Bolsonaro — to bring you an exploration of the disgraced, grotesque and criminal Bolsonaro family. We’ll be learning how the melted Brazilian right wing emerged from a post-80s yearning for military dictatorship. How the police, criminal right-wing militias and politicians formed an unholy alliance. And how, unfortunately, this corrupt and violent blob led to the brutal murder of a socialist city council woman and human rights activist in Rio de Janeiro. Along the way we’ll be talking about jewel smuggling, whale molesting, and a bouquet of failsons. Our guest writer for this very special episode is Caio Almendra, who’s an editor at The Intercept Brasil. 

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News Brief: Substance vs Vibes in VP Kamala Harris' Gaza PR Reboot

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Episode 402: Sparks 2

Since the beginning of what’s generally called ‘RussiaGate’ three years ago, pundits, media outlets, even comedians have all become insta-experts on supposed Russian propaganda techniques. The most cunning of these tricks, we are told, is that of “whataboutism” – a devious Soviet tactic of deflecting criticism by pointing out the accusers’ hypocrisy and inconsistencies. The tu quoque - or, “you, also” - fallacy, but with a unique Slavic flavor of nihilism, used by Trump and leftists alike in an effort to change the subject and focus on the faults of the United States rather than the crimes of Official State Enemies. 

But what if "whataboutism" isn’t describing a propaganda technique, but in fact is one itself: a zombie phrase that’s seeped into everyday liberal discourse that – while perhaps useful in the abstract - has manifestly turned any appeal to moral consistency into a cunning Russian psyop. From its origins in the Cold War as a means of deflecting and apologizing for Jim Crow to its braindead contemporary usage as a way of not engaging any criticism of the United States as the supposed arbiter of human rights, the term "whataboutism" has become a term that - 100 percent of the time - is simply used to defend and legitimizing American empire’s moral narratives.

We are joined by Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of The Intercept.

Episode 66: Whataboutism - The Media's Favorite Rhetorical Shield Against Criticism of US Policy

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