THE OTHER SIDE OF TRUTH:  ‘Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.' - Albert Einstein; 'As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.'-Josh Billings; 'Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.'-Andre Gide; 'Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.'-Konrad Lorenz; 'Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.' -H. G. Wells; And the Best='Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth - to see it like it is, and tell it like it is - to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.'-Richard Nixon

Reality can never be known completely but it's there and we're capable of possessing more and more of it. Cynicism is why we have rule by violence.

The best way to live a life based in truth, and the best way to be of use to the world, is to expand consciousness both inwardly and outwardly. Deeply investigate your own consciousness, divest yourself of the misperceptions and erroneous assumptions around thought, perceiving and selfhood which are driving your behavior, and discover your true nature. Also, learn everything you can about what's going on in the world, how people are being subjected to needless suffering by abusive systems, how power is really structured, what the mechanics of our civilization's dysfunctions are, and where some possible solutions might lie. Do both of these things.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Ken Wilber video: https://youtu.be/5TUr949kmZk

Look With Both Eyes

This week, on the Global Research News Hour we intend to place an end point on coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic by focusing on a few stories not yet covered in detail that further advance concerns about what was done that should be reconsidered as the pandemic appears to retreat into the distance and the body-counts continue to grow. In our first half hour we are joined by Dr Naomi Wolf, the journalist and founder and CEO of the Daily Clout who has been hit by censorship following an interview with her on a radio program about the files she researched on PFIZER’S vaccine records obtained through a Freedom of Information request. In our second half hour, with International ME/CFS Awareness Day having past less than a week ago, we turn to emerita professor and celebrated environmental toxicologist Magda Havas to warn of the links between COVID-19 and the massive build up of Radio frequency Radiation in our communities, particularly in the US, Canada and Western Europe. In our last few minutes, we offer Manitoba’s Chief Provincial Public Health Officer Dr Brent Roussin the opportunity to respond briefly to some of the concerns expressed on this program on behalf of concerned citizens throughout our community and around the globe.

COVID-19: Camouflaging even Greater Threats to Democracy and Public Health

Wars the US waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan following September 11, 2001 caused at least 4.5 million deaths and displaced 38 to 60 million people, with 7.6 million children starving today, according to studies by Brown University.

VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=owjYEjib23M

Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/05/18/us-911-wars-million-deaths-displace

US post-9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths, displaced 38-60 million people, study shows

The biggest problem with the western left is that it doesn't exist.

To look at leftist discourse you'd think the left's biggest problem is that some leftists have the wrong beliefs about this or that issue, or that the left pays too much or not enough attention to identity politics, or places too much or not enough emphasis on electoral politics, or is too sympathetic toward enemies of the US empire or not sympathetic enough, or that this or that faction gets it all wrong — but it's not. The biggest problem is that there aren't anywhere remotely close to enough leftists to get anything done in the west today.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Biggest Problem With The Western Left Is That It Doesn't Exist

Republican politicians have found a way to reconcile the fact that scrutinizing the behavior of the US war machine appeals to their base and wins votes with the fact that the Republican Party is built around facilitating war and militarism at every turn. Their solution? Pour mountains of energy into championing the case that the nation's military has gotten too "woke".

Because everything in mainstream American politics is geared toward channeling the public's political attention down channels that pose no threat to the rich and powerful, and because the United States is the hub of a globe-spanning empire that is held together by mass military violence and the threat thereof, it was only a matter of time before we started seeing the war-weary sentiments harnessed so effectively in Trump's 2016 presidential run diverted into scrutinizing the military in ways that pose no obstacle to US warmongering.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Right Wing 'Populism' Is Fake And Stupid

"The truth will set you free" is an aphorism we've all heard so many times it's lost a lot of its meaning and doesn't sound especially profound when we hear it again, but it really does contain the answer to humanity's most difficult problems. A truth-based relationship with reality is the only way to move into peace and harmony, whether you're talking about the inner peace and harmoniousness of an individual or the peace and harmony of our entire species.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Truth Will Set All Of Us Free

The algorithm knows what you want before you do.

The algorithm knows you better than you know yourself.

The algorithm knew you back before you were a screaming slime child,
back before they washed off the uterine gunk and handed you a smartphone and made you get a landlord,
back before you knew that war is sane and poverty is normal,
back before you were mature enough to understand that speech is violence and cluster bombs are peace.

You can trust the algorithm to tell you the truth — not the truth you asked for but the truth you need.
The truth that sees Nazis in America but not in Ukraine.
The truth that sees war crimes in Ukraine but never in Yemen.
The truth that applauds millionaire comedians who never criticize the Pentagon for their bravery in criticizing trans people.
The truth that sails aircraft carriers into the South China Sea and sends headless hounds built by Boston Dynamics to patrol the streets and uphold the rule of law.

The algorithm learns your political biases and feeds you self-validating social media posts to assist you in confirming them.
The algorithm listens to your conversations and presents you with helpful advertising to assist you in achieving your maximum consumer potential.
Don't cover your laptop camera like some weird conspiracy theorist, the algorithm is trying to watch you masturbate.

The algorithm is always a step ahead of you.
You have never once fooled the algorithm.
The algorithm knows you act confident but secretly you fear you're inadequate and everyone hates you.
The algorithm knows that those times you quickly pause and screw your eyes shut are because you remembered something embarrassing that you did in the past.
It's okay.
Don't worry.
Your secret is safe with the algorithm.
It's a private little secret just between you and the algorithm and the NSA.

In the old days we prayed to omniscient gods who never existed.
Now we ignore omniscient gods who are as real as ourselves.
Strap me in to a VR headset and let Mark Zuckerberg send me to heaven.
Heaven with 3-d commercial breaks, bitch.
Skip the ad and return to nirvana in 5,4,3...

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Algorithm

The primary job of both Hollywood and the mainstream western press is to is to put a friendly, normal-looking face on a globe-spanning empire which dominates the world using nonstop violence and coercion. Their job is to continually normalize freakish tyranny.

And if their job is to normalize the empire, then our job is to abnormalize it.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Abnormalize The Empire

A lot of empire sycophancy hides behind the fact that it's always permissible to retrospectively oppose US wars that already happened, but not the current one. It's permitted now to say the destruction of Vietnam and Iraq and Libya were mistakes, for example, but if you said it at the time people would treat you like a monster and call you all kinds of names.

And it's important to understand that this is still happening today. One day it will be permissible to say in mainstream circles that it was wrong for the US empire to deliberately provoke the war in Ukraine and keep it going as long as possible to bleed Russia, but it's taboo to say that now, because the empire hasn't yet accomplished all its goals in Ukraine.

They always act like the most recent interventionist disaster was the final one. They always act like the hawks may have been wrong all those other times but they're not wrong now. And then when they've killed everyone they wanted to kill and grabbed everything they wanted to grab and there's no possibility of losing anything they gained, it will suddenly become permissible to make the present disaster the final one while they assure us the next one is completely righteous.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Always Opposing Past Wars But Never The Present One

Mitch McConnell just froze up in public again, the second such incident in the last few weeks.

He just stood there silently -  a gentle, childlike smile flickering across his face, probably for the first time since the Truman administration.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Mitch McConnell's Brief Flash Of Humanity

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