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rhetoric (25)in #media • 7 years ago
RE: BBC Reporter Discourages Syria Questions Due To “Information War” With Russia
What stood out to me about that interview with Lord Admiral West was not his skepticism about the veracity of the claim that the Syrian government was associated with the…
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rhetoric (25)in #syria • 7 years ago
RE: The US Empire Has Been Trying To Regime Change Syria Since Long Before 2011
“ It is Israel which is behind the war on Syria and which is pressing for further conflict. ” The history of the conflict in Syria detailed in the following link goes back…
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rhetoric (25)in #russia • 7 years ago
RE: When A Government Declares A Verdict Before An Investigation, It’s Because There’s A Preexisting Agenda
You posit that it is a western empire that is entering post primacy. Although looking at the U.S. and NATO as an empire may be helpful in some analyses as a rubric, a clear-eyed…
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rhetoric (25)in #usgovernment • 7 years ago
RE: State Dept Accuses Russia And Syria Of Gassing Civilians Before Any Investigation
I'm not as sanguine as you about Trump, his administration, or the Republican Party, but I agree with your conclusion: Give Trump a Chance! For one thing, it doesn't cost…
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rhetoric (25)in #usgovernment • 7 years ago
RE: State Dept Accuses Russia And Syria Of Gassing Civilians Before Any Investigation
Trump has tweeted, recklessly. One almost feels relieved that this follows on the heels of many such inchoate Twitter utterances. The question now: is he playing to the crowd, or…
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rhetoric (25)in #trump • 7 years ago
RE: Ignore The Words Of US Presidents. Watch Their Actions Instead.
I think you still have your finger on the pulse. This is the issue of the moment (along with taxing Amazon). Trump has already canceled the CIA’s covert funding of “rebel” groups…
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rhetoric (25)in #trump • 7 years ago
RE: Ignore The Words Of US Presidents. Watch Their Actions Instead.
The Kurds who "rose up" did so as a close ally of Israel, making the domestic excuses for their sedition more opaque. Add to them the Takfiri rebels, who also enjoyed Israeli…
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rhetoric (25)in #wikileaks • 7 years ago
RE: The Persecution Of Assange Proves Him Right
Well, there’s always going to be something wrong with taking someone’s correspondence or business records and making them public without their consent. That wrong could be…
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rhetoric (25)in #media • 7 years ago
RE: If Western Media Were Honest About Russia:
Russophobia/Russomania has hit a fever pitch, and seems unstoppable simply by refutation. What kind of counter-narrative could derail it is the question of moment. Not having an…
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rhetoric (25)in #syria • 7 years ago
RE: New Syrian Chemical Weapons Attack Being Reported By All The Usual Suspects
Caitlin posits a Western Empire as being behind — well, nothing at the moment, but which could end up being — another false flag act of obverse provocateur-ism, this time to…
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rhetoric (25)in #censorship • 7 years ago
RE: Check Your Mute List On Twitter For Possible New Censorship Shenanigans
It might be helpful here to compare the situation to that in other countries. I used to think America (and by extension Australia, and Europe) were quite separate and distinct in…
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rhetoric (25)in #politics • 7 years ago
RE: Oligarch-Owned Media Outlets Really, REALLY Want You To Love George W Bush
It continues to be common to hear remarked that W’s invasion of Iraq was a mistake, a failure, had unintended consequences, or should have been handled differently. It should be…
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rhetoric (25)in #russia • 7 years ago
RE: Truth Is The First Casualty In War. Especially In Cold War.
The election of Putin to another term as President has become a lightning rod for inane proclamations. A Facebook Friend from High School posted an article from the Washington…
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rhetoric (25)in #censorship • 7 years ago
RE: More Evidence That Twitter Is Unfollowing People From Anti-Establishment Accounts
An appropriate frame for these Twitter observations is Yasha Levine’s new book on the history of the Internet, Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet…
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rhetoric (25)in #government • 7 years ago
RE: Six Things We Can Learn About US Plutocracy By Looking At Jeff Bezos
I remember when Bezos and Amazon were coming up. We thought of them like Earth Shoes and the Whole Earth Catalog. Hippie start-ups. And then when he got bigger, what was…
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rhetoric (25)in #politics • 7 years ago
RE: The “Alt-Right” Label: What’s Real, What’s Fake, And Why It Matters
Alt-Right is defined here by you and those you cite in terms much narrower than those used generally. Generally, outlets like Breitbart are described as Alt-Right, and as you…
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rhetoric (25)in #trump • 7 years ago
RE: Trump Promotes Longtime Russia Hawk Just As Russiagate Loses Momentum
Thank you for posting this interview with the Tea Party Triumphalist Pompeo (and Wichita Liberty TV for preserving this artifact). During this interview he prides himself on…
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rhetoric (25)in #caitlinjohnstone • 7 years ago
RE: 10 Facts About Caitlin Johnstone, From The Guy Who Knows Her Better Than Anyone
A few contradictions here. She’s never met Mike Cernovich, and yet, “ she personally doesn’t mind working with on some specific issues.” I guess you could say she was working…
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rhetoric (25)in #propaganda • 7 years ago
RE: Mass Media Propaganda Is The Only Thing Keeping Us From Rising Like Lions
As a fellow J-School grad (the Dean of my college of Journalism was a former U.S. Press Secretary), I couldn’t agree with you more. Shortly after graduating, I asked the major…
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rhetoric (25)in #caitlinjohnstone • 7 years ago
RE: This Job Sucks Sometimes
This, I imagine, is in a small measure what Russia feels like: Constantly maligned, distorted, and lied about. (Syria, too.) I don’t know about Australians, but it sometimes…
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