CNN has a new article out titled “Newly declassified US intel claims Russia is laundering propaganda through unwitting Westerners,” and it's pretty much exactly what you’d expect if you’ve been critically observing the western mass media over the last several years. An anonymous source making vague and unevidenced claims of an unverifiable nature about a longtime target of the US intelligence cartel, based solely on information provided by that same intelligence cartel.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Another Day, Another CIA Press Release Disguised As News

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

This artificially manipulated information ecosystem has made Australians so pants-on-head idiotic that they think the US empire is filling their country up with war machinery because it loves them and wants to protect them from the Chinese. That's as stupid as it gets.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Only Idiots Believe The US Is Protecting Australia From China

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

One of the most glaring plot holes in the official mainstream narrative on Ukraine is the way US officials keep openly boasting that this supposedly unprovoked war which the US is only backing out of the goodness of its heart just so happens to serve US interests tremendously.

Reading by Tim Foley.

US Officials Keep Boasting About How Much The Ukraine War Serves US Interests

Modern western national security journalism is mostly just writing what a government official tells you to write and then calling it a "scoop" which you got from a nameless "source" in the government.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Access Journalism At Its Most Pernicious

I'm seeing Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy building up a lot of credibility in some antiwar circles, which is ridiculous because he's clearly just another disgusting warmonger. He is not meaningfully different from all the other warmongers in the DC swamp.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Vivek Ramaswamy Is Just Another Disgusting Warmonger

The British billionaire-owned newspaper The Telegraph has an appalling new article out which reads like a paid advertisement for a missile manufactured by Lockheed Martin. The title even sounds like it was written by a marketing team: "A war-winning swarm missile will knock China out of Taiwan - fast", subtitled "Rapid Dragon is a military gamechanger that provides the US Air Force with a crucial edge in the Pacific".

Reading by Tim Foley.

Think Tanks Are Information Laundering Ops For War Profiteers

The worst thing that could possibly happen to the information interests of the US empire would be for a critical mass of people to become aware that all this death and destruction in Ukraine could have been avoided by the US-centralized empire behaving less aggressively on Russia's doorstep, and that those aggressions were instead increased with the goal of advancing US strategic interests on the world stage.

Reading by Tim Foley.

If Everyone Understood That The US Deliberately Provoked This War

Part of growing up is learning that laws do not exist to prevent wrongdoing, they exist to keep society moving in an orderly way for the benefit of the world's worst perpetrators of wrongdoing. None of the world's worst people are in prison. Most of them are quite wealthy and respected, because they benefit from the abusive status quo that laws are set up to protect.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Laws Don't Exist To Prevent Wrongdoing

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

Think Tanks Are Information Laundering Ops For War Profiteers

Caitlin Johnstone

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