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June 29, 2024 Readings
Attempting a new format (that I will probably fiddle with for a week or so) for sharing articles of interest. Below you will find a number of links to those articles. Note that I may add a few before the day ends so check back. Hope this works for everyone… First-Responder Trauma: A New Framework […]
Assange Is Free, But Justice Has Not Been Done
Assange Is Free, But Justice Has Not Been Done Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Julian Assange is free. As of this writing he is en route to the Northern Mariana Islands, a remote US territory in the western Pacific, to finalize a plea deal with the US government which will see him […]
Our Propagandized Society Is Like A Sick Man Who Doesn’t Know He’s Sick
Our Propagandized Society Is Like A Sick Man Who Doesn’t Know He’s Sick Subscribe I write a lot more about the problems our society faces than I do about solutions. I do this because we are so far from being able to implement real solutions that most people don’t even really know the problems exist […]
They Can’t Control the Gaza Narrative Because Too Much Has Been Seen
They Can’t Control the Gaza Narrative Because Too Much Has Been Seen A lot of mainstream-adjacent progressives act like Gaza is some radical deviation from normal US behavior, which is infantile nonsense. The US inflicts similar horrors on the world all the time; the only major difference is (A) this one’s being live-streamed and (B) […]
Western Journalists Are Cowardly, Approval-Seeking Losers
Western Journalists Are Cowardly, Approval-Seeking Losers Listen to a reading of this article: Research conducted by New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics into Russian trolling behavior on Twitter in the lead-up to the 2016 US presidential election has found “no evidence of a meaningful relationship between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and […]
Pentagon Wants To Return Special Ops Propagandists To Ukraine
Pentagon Wants To Return Special Ops Propagandists To Ukraine Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ An article by The Washington Post titled “Pentagon looks to restart top-secret programs in Ukraine” contains some interesting information about what US special ops forces were doing in Ukraine in the lead-up to the Russian invasion last year, […]
They’re Not Worried About “Russian Influence”, They’re Worried About Dissent
They’re Not Worried About “Russian Influence”, They’re Worried About Dissent Listen to a reading of this article: Being labeled a Russian propagandist all day every day for criticizing US foreign policy is really weird, but one advantage it comes with is a useful perspective on what people have really been talking about all these years […]
Western Journalists Are Cowardly, Approval-Seeking Losers
Western Journalists Are Cowardly, Approval-Seeking Losers Research conducted by New York University’s Center for Social Media and Politics into Russian trolling behavior on Twitter in the lead-up to the 2016 US presidential election has found “no evidence of a meaningful relationship between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and changes in attitudes, polarization, or voting behavior.” […]
No Such Thing As An Objective Journalist: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
No Such Thing As An Objective Journalist: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ I feel like we haven’t been talking enough about the fact that US government agencies were just caught intimately collaborating with massive online platforms to censor content in the name of regulating the “cognitive […]
Advocating World War Three Is Just Mainstream Punditry Now
Advocating World War Three Is Just Mainstream Punditry Now Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Mainstream punditry in the latter half of 2022 is rife with op-eds arguing that the US needs to vastly increase military spending because a world war is about to erupt, and they always frame it as though this would […]
We’re Being Pushed Toward Nuclear War On A Fiction: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
We’re Being Pushed Toward Nuclear War On A Fiction: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ We’re being driven toward nuclear war on the completely fictional claim that Putin is a Hitler-like megalomaniac who’s just invading countries completely unprovoked, solely because he is evil and hates […]
The US Empire Is Accelerating Toward Global Conflict On Two Fronts
The US Empire Is Accelerating Toward Global Conflict On Two Fronts Vladimir Putin has announced that referenda will be held in four regions of the eastern part of Ukraine whose populations will now vote on whether to join the Russian Federation, much like the Crimea referendum of 2014 which resulted in Russia’s annexation of that territory. Putin announced that 300,000 […]
We’re Being Trained To Worry About ‘Russian Propaganda’ While Drowning In US Propaganda
We’re Being Trained To Worry About ‘Russian Propaganda’ While Drowning In US Propaganda Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ One of the weirdest, most insane things happening today is the way the entire western world is being trained to freak out about “Russian propaganda” — which barely exists in the west — while ignoring […]
Three Illuminating Quotes About The War In Ukraine
Three Illuminating Quotes About The War In Ukraine Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, and Chris Hedges have lent their expertise to the subject of the war in Ukraine with some recent comments that help bring some much-needed clarity to an often confusing and always contentious issue. Here they […]
Ukraine Is The Most Aggressively Trolled War Of All Time: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Ukraine Is The Most Aggressively Trolled War Of All Time: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ There’s a lot going on in America and the people are very stressed out and frightened, but don’t worry, there’s nothing the US government won’t do to make sure […]
