When Carlson sounds right, and Congress sounds obtuse, we've got a political propaganda problem - as this article says.

Thanks for the hopeful note on the end.  You were going full Chris Hedges there for a moment.

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The reason it's good and important to celebrate the deaths of war sluts who facilitated mass military slaughter is because it helps bring clarity and proportionality to the horrors of war. You're making it clear that John McCain's victims matter more than his daughter's feelings.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Celebrating John McCain's Death Is Good, Actually

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Sommeil profond, Pt. 20

Facts:

- There are Chinese people with real grievances against their government.
- The US empire's propaganda machine will spin current protests in China to advance imperial agendas.
- Western intelligence agencies will become more and more involved in these protests the longer they go on.

Reading by Tim Foley.

China Keeps Aggressively Surrounding Itself With US Bases

You don't live in a free country. And no, it's not because they make you pay taxes or that time they made you wear a mask or whatever. The real reason you don't live in a free country is much, much bigger than that: you don't live in a free country because the minds of your countrymen are imprisoned.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Empire Is Built On Our Closed Eyes

You can't just conduct yourself as though these propaganda campaigns aren't a thing. If you live in one of the member nations of the US-centralized power alliance, you can't just pretend your expressions of support and solidarity mean the same thing as if they were coming from someone in Latin America, Asia, or Africa. You're not the same. You're speaking from within the most powerful empire that has ever existed, and you are always necessarily in some kind of relationship with that empire's campaign of global conquest and the propaganda operations which grease its wheels.

And you need to be responsible with that relationship. If you live in the US or any of its imperial member states like the UK, the EU, Australia or Canada, it simply is not possible for you to lend your voice to the cause of protesters in empire-targeted nations without facilitating the empire's propaganda campaigns about those protests. It cannot be done. You either have a responsible relationship with this reality or an irresponsible one.

Western leftists who go out of their way to amplify protests that are part of an ongoing imperial propaganda operation have an irresponsible relationship with that reality. They're not doing anything that actually helps the people in those countries, but they are absolutely doing something that could end up hurting them. And if they're really honest with themselves they know this. But they do it anyway because it looks good in front of their propaganda-addled leftish friends and followers.

Reading by Tim Foley.

You're Not Actually Helping When You "Support" Protesters In Empire-Targeted Governments

The war in Ukraine is so aggressively marketed and PR-intensive and so interwoven with US corporations we should just call it the McProxy War.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The McProxy War Continues

Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.

The McProxy War Continues

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