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Syria Spinmeisters Fumble Attempts To Narrative Manage OPCW Leaks
Syria Spinmeisters Fumble Attempts To Narrative Manage OPCW Leaks It’s been over 72 hours since The Grayzone published new leaks further exposing how the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has been lying about its investigation into an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria two years ago. These new documents make it abundantly clear that OPCW leadership were […]
Seeds Of Awakening: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Seeds Of Awakening: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix If we’re honest with ourselves, electoral politics has failed and we need a revolution. If we’re really honest with ourselves, revolution will fail until propaganda is eliminated. If we’re really really honest with ourselves, everything will fail without a mass-scale awakening. ~ The most revolutionary thing […]
Is It Time for a New Direction?
Is It Time for a New Direction? If Americans are not doing some serious soul-searching in the midst of this crisis, they need to start. Where America goes from here is not some sort of esoteric debate. What we do at this point has life or death consequences. Get it wrong, and suffer more death, […]
The Empire’s War On Oppositional Journalism Continues To Escalate
The Empire’s War On Oppositional Journalism Continues To Escalate Journalist Glenn Greenwald has been charged by the Bolsonaro government in Brazil with the same prosecutorial angle used by the US to target WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Per The New York Times: Citing intercepted messages between Mr. Greenwald and the hackers, prosecutors say the journalist played a “clear […]
The Geopolitics of Epistemological Warfare: From Babylon to Neocon
The Geopolitics of Epistemological Warfare: From Babylon to Neocon I think any sane human being can agree that while war was never a good idea, war in the 21stcentury is an absolutely intolerable one. The problem we currently face is that many of the forces driving world events towards an all-out war of “Mutually Assured […]
A Surefire Cure For Despair
A Surefire Cure For Despair “I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”~ Samuel Beckett Sometimes it just gets to be too goddamn much. You just finished a soul-draining argument with a family member who insists that Putin controls all major world events because that’s what the TV said so it must be true, then you […]
Empire in Decline – Propaganda and the American Myth
Empire in Decline – Propaganda and the American Myth “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive…ourselves.” – With apologies to Sir Walter Scott. If only life was as neat and orderly as my ancient history text book showed it to be. There it was on glossy paper, spread out […]
Have You Noticed How Social Media Purges Always Align With The US Empire?
Have You Noticed How Social Media Purges Always Align With The US Empire? Twitter has suspended multiple large Cuban media accounts for reasons the social media platform has yet to explain as of this writing, a move which journalist Dan Cohen has described as “the equivalent of silencing CNN, Fox, WaPo and NPR’s accounts” for that nation. The Union of Cuban Journalists has […]
Falling From Grace
Falling From Grace Years ago, Doug Casey mentioned in a correspondence to me, “Empires fall from grace with alarming speed.” Every now and then, you receive a comment that, although it may have been stated casually, has a lasting effect, as it offers uncommon insight. For me, this was one of those and it’s one […]
Ship of Fools: Britain, America and the Iranian Oil Tanker Incidents
Ship of Fools: Britain, America and the Iranian Oil Tanker Incidents Taking over from Britain’s colonial role in exploiting the country, the US has bullied and tried to intimidate Iran for decades. The ongoing pretext for strangling Iran economically is that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency repeatedly finds no evidence for […]
US is a Classic Empire and Is Becoming a Repressive Police State at Home
US is a Classic Empire and Is Becoming a Repressive Police State at Home As I set out to fly home from the UK on Monday following a short film project in Cambridge, I found my boarding pass, which I had been blocked from obtaining online the night before, carrying a bold-faced SSSS stamp in […]
The Dying Days Of An Empire
The Dying Days Of An Empire Something’s been nagging me for the past few days, and I’m not sure I’ve figured out why yet. It started when Donald Trump first called off the alleged planned strikes on targets in Iran because they would have cost 150 lives, and then the next day said the US […]
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Accelerating Imperial Decline
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Accelerating Imperial Decline Washington’s foreign policy towards Iran is driven by desperation rather than a reasoned understanding of a world in historically significant flux. That can lead only to a continuing succession of failures. The kinetic events of the past week in Washington, Tehran, and the Persian Gulf were nothing if not revealing. President […]
The Force that is Ending Freedom
The Force that is Ending Freedom Every empire is a dictatorship. No nation can be a democracy that’s either heading an empire, or a vassal-state of one. Obviously, in order to be a vassal-state within an empire, that nation is dictated-to by the nation of which it is a colony. However, even the domestic inhabitants […]
