In a video recorded in 2022, author Douglas Valentine discusses his book The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World (2016) with a particular focus on Chapter 9 which covers the history of the agency’s long project to use Ukraine as a tool to weaken the Soviet Union and Russia.
The CIA as Organized Crime in Ukraine
Tag: Journalism
Sweden Expands Espionage Law, Endangering Freedom of Journalists and Whistleblowers
Sweden’s parliament adopted a major espionage law expansion that will permit the country’s police to investigate journalists, publishers, and whistleblowers if they reveal secret information that “may damage Sweden’s relationship with another state or an international organization.”
Sweden Expands Espionage Law, Endangering Freedom of Journalists and Whistleblowers
AP fired a reporter after a dangerous blunder. Slack messages reveal a chaotic process.
A 10-minute miscommunication on Slack between journalists at the Associated Press resulted in an erroneous report last week that appeared momentarily to bring tensions between NATO and Russia to their highest point since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
AP fired a reporter after a dangerous blunder. Slack messages reveal a chaotic process.
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Marine Corps bans journalist and veteran James LaPorta from Camp Lejeune base
On 5 February 2017, you participated in inappropriate and unethical activities by attempting to interview a victim of an alleged crime aboard Marine Corps base, Camp Lejeune, (MCB CAMLEJ); which is in violation of [a regulation], by gathering information/taking photographs/videotaping/exposing TV motion picture film within the Camp Lejeune area without prior approval of the Consolidated Public Affairs Office. Additionally, you violated [another regulation]; which states “Personal interviews and telephonic communications between prisoners and media representatives is not authorized, unless a determination is made that such an interview serves the legitimate public interest, or is in the best interest of the military.
Based upon the serious nature of your misconduct, you are being debarred from MCB CAMLEJ. I have determined that your presence aboard MCB CAMLEJ is detrimental to the security, good order and discipline of the Installation. Accordingly, you are hereby notified, upon the receipt of this letter, that you are ordered not to reenter, or be found within the limits of MCB CAMLEJ.
The Atlantic Is A Shitty Propaganda Rag Run By Elitist Wankers
The Atlantic, which is owned by billionaire Laurene Powell Jobs and run by neoconservative war propagandist Jeffrey Goldberg, has published a pair of articles that are appalling even by its own standards.
The Atlantic Is A Shitty Propaganda Rag Run By Elitist Wankers
There’s Something About Tulsi
Interesting information about Tulsi’s connections (it’s a long one)! See the bottom for her connections to other Intelligence Agencies and the WEF. H/T: The Popular Show (they mentioned the Twitter thread, towards the end of the video, but didn’t expound on it).
Read More »The New York Times Discovers Biden’s A Liar
By Tim Graham
The New York Times is signaling that they’re not wild about Joe Biden running for president again. Suddenly, they announced his statements are routinely un-factual. He’s a habitual liar. Why is this discovery emerging now?
The online headline of their October 11 story was: “Biden, Storyteller in Chief, Spins Yarns That Often Unravel: President Biden has been unable to break himself of the habit of embellishing narratives to weave a political identity.”
The New York Times Discovers Biden’s A Liar
H/T: Calculus of Decay
NPR is Not Your Friend
NPR is a problem. Good and proper leftists who read Current Affairs may already realize this. “Of course. NPR (Neoliberal Propaganda Radio) is a bastion of establishment groupthink and orthodoxy that gives cover to imperialism and corporate capitalism.” By contrast, readers on the Right who find themselves consuming Current Affairs may have an equally disdainful but entirely different critique. “Of course. NPR is an elitist liberal propaganda cult that serves as a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party, is openly hostile to any conservative voices, and ought to be defunded!”
NPR is Not Your Friend
Silencing the Lambs — How Propaganda Works
By John Pilger
Leni Riefenstahl said her epic films glorifying the Nazis depended on a “submissive void” in the German public. This is how propaganda is done.
Silencing the Lambs — How Propaganda Works
The Historic Collapse of Journalism
Accuracy no longer matters. Witnessing no longer matters. Conformity matters, writes Patrick Lawrence.
The Historic Collapse of Journalism
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