American Media’s Perception on US – China Phase 1 Trade Deal

“U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, one of the lead negotiators in talks with Chinese officials, also told reporters it would still be wise to be skeptical of whether China would deliver on certain agreements. He also said there would be no new tariffs as long as China negotiates in good faith.”

Already showing signs that it might fall through. Lighthizer’s phrasing, “as long as China negotiates in good faith,” is similar to Mike Pompeo’s taunts towards Iran, such as the U.S. won’t negotiate with them until they act like a “normal nation.” Laughable, if you know the true history of the American government intervening in Iran’s business!

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Manufacturing Fear and Loathing, Maximizing Corporate Profits! A Review of Matt Taibbi’s Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another

Matt Taibbi’s must-read new book Hate Inc. describes how the media stokes fake conflicts to prevent consideration of real issues.
— Read on www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/11/manufacturing-fear-and-loathing-maximizing-corporate-profits-a-review-of-matt-taibbis-hate-inc-why-todays-media-makes-us-despise-one-another.html

The Exceptionally American Historical Amnesia Behind Pompeo’s Claim of ‘40 Years of Unprovoked Iranian Aggression’

Someone attacked two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week. The Trump administration wants the world to believe that Iran is the culprit. Yet there is no serious evidence that Tehran was behind the attacks on the Norwegian and Japanese ships. Not only is there no proof of Iranian involvement, such an attack by Iran makes no sense at all. Japan and Iran are friends. | By
— Read on www.commondreams.org/views/2019/06/20/exceptionally-american-historical-amnesia-behind-pompeos-claim-40-years-unprovoked

Taunting Trump: CNN’s Fareed Zakaria wants more blood spilled in Venezuela (and elsewhere)

Source: MEDIA NOTES / PATRICE GREANVILLE

Since the empire seemingly feels a shortage of native born warmongers and bloodsuckers, they also warmly embrace (and richly reward) foreigners like Fareed Zakaria, an ambitious interloper happy to join the crowded ranks of the nation’s imperial verminocracy. Zakaria, a longstanding disinformation asset at CNN and the WaPo, both equally notorious for their Olympian disregard for truth, has been one of the network’s battering rams against Trump, who, let’s say it here for the umpteenth time, amply deserves to be attacked, but not in the utterly dishonest way the Democrats and their media shills, like Zakaria, do, for motives that only resonate within the narrow folds of the US ruling class. Zakaria, who also, channeling the CIA, earnestly but deviously recommended in 2014 that Snowden simply give himself up, and entrust his fate to the tender mercies of American justice (Why Snowden should stand trial in U.S), has been a fierce competitor for the “Never-Trumper” Obsession Award (chief rival being MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, of course) and one of the WaPo’s leading resident russophobes, another crowded field, a role he also fills at CNN, naturally. Here’s Zakaria delivering his poisoned screed. We tried people at Nuremberg for promoting “wars of choice”, properly calling them a capital crime. This guy—whose Ivy League credentials confirm both his and these institutions’ moral and educational bankruptcy, as they obviously crank out far more sociopathic Machiavellis than honest interpreters of world affairs (he holds diplomas from Yale and Harvard), should keep that in mind as he continues to pollute the public mind with lies and innuendo that only benefit the Deep State, even if that fattens his bank account. The malignant effects of the continued pressure toward war—a cataclysmic one—exercised by these forces on the collective mind, including their own, cannot be overstated. About two years ago, Glen Ford, Black Agenda Report’s founding editor, and easily one of this nation’s most lucid public intellectuals, had this to say on this topic:

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