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Blogosphere Blogosphere The January 6th Scam Margaret Kimberley: Democrats are using the hearings investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol as one long campaign commercial. They believe that saying the name Trump often enough will inspire disappointed and angry people to vote for them despite their lies and failures. ... While the dog and pony show goes on, there doesn’t seem to be much effort to protect votes around the country. ... If Trumpers can gather to say that their president won despite all evidence to the contrary, then surely progressives can coalesce around the life and death issues that matter to millions of people... [ Visit Website ] Jun 23, 2022, 3:56pm Blogosphere Assange Is Doing His Most Important Work Yet Caitlin Johnstone: Assange’s willingness to resist Washington’s extradition attempts benefit us all ... because his refusal to bow down and submit forces the empire to overextend itself into the light and show us all what it’s really made of ... Washington, London and Canberra are colluding to imprison a journalist for telling the truth ... Assange has also exposed the lie that the so-called free democracies of the western world support the free press and defend human rights ... Extraditing a foreign journalist for exposing your war crimes is as tyrannical an agenda as you could possibly come up with... [ Visit Website ] Jun 18, 2022, 9:45am Blogosphere We’re Here To Become As Conscious As Possible Caitlin Johnstone: By expanding their consciousness of what other people’s experience of the world is like, a slow realization begins to dawn that we’re all basically the same and it doesn’t make much sense for some people to be treated differently from others. ... We will either keep expanding our awareness of what’s really going on in this weird universe our mothers birthed us into, or we will wipe ourselves out via nuclear war or ecocide. ... We can help spread awareness of what’s going on in the world by fighting the lies we’ve been told by the powerful... [ Visit Website ] Jun 16, 2022, 1:06pm Blogosphere The Problem with Juneteenth Margret Kimberley: Juneteenth was a people's holiday with deep meaning for the descendants of enslaved people. But the declaration of an official federal holiday has turned it into an opportunity for corporate exploiters and cynical politicians to show pretend concern for Black people ... Turning what was a peoples’ celebration into an occasion for opportunism and window dressing has actually damaged the cause of Black liberation and the understanding of history... [ Visit Website ] Jun 15, 2022, 4:21pm Blogosphere U.S. Effort to Hurt Russia Undermines Itself and the World Margaret Kimberley: The U.S. drive to dominate creates self-inflicted wounds and self-imposed crises. It also creates suffering around the world with only the most servile vassal states willing to do what Washington wants. ... The United States continues to shoot itself in the foot in its futile effort to damage the Russian economy. ... the rest of the world has refused to join in U.S. and EU condemnations or accept that they must live with privations caused by the reckless actions of other nations ... African nations are not the only ones who face serious crises because of anti-Russian sanctions. ... The U.S. expects India and China to give up supplies of Russian oil and cause hardships in those countries... [ Visit Website ] Jun 8, 2022, 12:14pm Blogosphere Mass Shootings, Empire, and Racist, Copaganda Dog Whistles Margaret Kimberley: The anger and grief after mass shootings are followed by lies and pretense that violence here is somehow mysterious. ... A settler colonial state founded on indigenous genocide and African enslavement that is still addicted to the doctrine of racial domination will be violent. ... How could it be otherwise? ... Uvalde showed what abolitionists have long maintained, that police don’t deter crime, exist to lock up marginalized groups, and show up only after crimes are committed. ... The empire goes on, politicians talk out of both sides of their mouths, and the public are left stunned... [ Visit Website ] Jun 1, 2022, 2:05pm Blogosphere Liberals Drive State Censorship Margaret Kimberley: Liberals are the force behind censorship efforts. They defend the state and seek to silence anyone who questions its narratives. ... the Department of Homeland Security announced the establishment of a Disinformation Governance Board ... conservatives and those who are truly on the left saw the danger in what some called a Ministry of Truth, as described in George Orwell’s 1984 ... But liberals are joined at the hip with the democratic party and that means they are the worst purveyors of misinformation and the group most interested in censorship ... Liberals are the heart of the establishment... [ Visit Website ] May 18, 2022, 12:21pm Blogosphere Israel’s PR Problem, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Caitlin Johnstone: Israel’s mounting PR crisis boils down to the fact that its violence and oppression isn’t happening in some far off land as in the case with US wars, it’s happening right at home surrounded by video cameras and enforced by police and soldiers who are not adept PR spinmeisters. ... They don’t think how it’s going to look when they, for example, assault mourners at the funeral of a Palestinian American journalist who was slain by IDF sniper fire. ... Public approval of the Israeli apartheid regime, like approval of the US police, has plummeted in direct proportion to the ubiquitousness of video cameras.... [ Visit Website ] May 14, 2022, 11:28am Blogosphere Obama and Liberals Killed Abortion Rights Margaret Kimberley: The left wing of the democratic party won't mobilize effectively on abortion.Their dependence on liberalism and treacherous democrats renders them powerless. ... As a presidential candidate in 2008 Obama promised to sign the Freedom of Choice Act , which would have codified abortion rights into federal law. But once in office he never pushed congress to pass it. ... In particular, senators have the ability to end the filibuster which would give the senate the ability to pass a Freedom of Choice Act with their small majority margin... [ Visit Website ] May 11, 2022, 11:54am Blogosphere The Poor Peoples Campaign Dishonors Martin Luther King Margaret Kimberley: It is disheartening to hear movement leaders say they are inspired by Martin Luther King while also supporting the U.S. proxy war against Russia. Like all wars it endangers the lives of civilian populations, enriches the military industrial complex, and robs Americans of public resources. Once King chose an anti-war stance he did not waiver in his condemnations of U.S. empire. ... Rev. Barber and the Poor People’s Campaign are preparing for a Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls taking place on June 18, 2022. ... It is sad to see the name Poor People’s Campaign, which was launched by Martin Luther King, being used to support the war machine... [ Visit Website ] May 4, 2022, 10:38am Blogosphere Oh God It’s Going To Get SO Much Worse Caitlin Johnstone: The Department of Homeland Security has secretly set up a “Disinformation Governance Board“, only informing the public about its plans for the institution after it had already been established. ... The disinformation board, which critics have understandably been calling a “Ministry of Truth“, purportedly exists to fight disinformation coming out of Russia as well as misleading messages about the US-Mexico border. ... No government entity has any business appointing itself the authority to sort information from disinformation on behalf of the public ... Nothing about the state of the world tells us that the people who run things are doing a good job... [ Visit Website ] Apr 30, 2022, 11:47am Blogosphere Everyone’s Anti-War Until The War Propaganda Starts Caitlin Johnstone: ... war is the very worst thing in the world, and no healthy person relishes the thought of it ... Being truly anti-war isn’t easy. ... It’s standing up against the most sophisticated propaganda machine that has ever existed ... Being truly anti-war is necessarily a commitment to finding out not just what’s true about all the war narratives currently promulgated by the imperial war machine, but all the narratives you’ve been fed about the world since you were young. ... It’s a commitment to truth... [ Visit Website ] Apr 29, 2022, 12:00pm Blogosphere Obama Wants Censorship Margaret Kimbrley: Barack Obama and his ruling class bosses are losing legitimacy with more and more people. They have decided that censoring information will resolve their problems. ... The only way out for discredited liberalism is to shut down anyone who might utter inconvenient truths. ... While Facebook and Twitter are already arms of the state, and restrict access to anyone who strays from their narratives, Obama would like them to do more harm ... Of course they should be regulated, but as public utilities which guarantee access to everyone. ... Just know that whatever Obama and the EU want is not good for the public. Their goal is to silence those who oppose them, and long-winded speeches shouldn’t fool anyone into thinking otherwise... [ Visit Website ] Apr 28, 2022, 11:49am Blogosphere The US Cries About War Crimes While Imprisoning A Journalist For Exposing Its War Crimes Caitlin Johnstone: You would think a power structure that had recently been caught red-handed committing war crimes and is currently in the process of imprisoning a journalist for exposing those war crimes would at least have the sense not to yell too loudly about war crimes for a little while. ... it is also attacking the free press for reporting the truth about the powerful while at the very same time engaging in a massive propaganda operation which holds that it is involved in Ukraine to protect its freedom and democracy... [ Visit Website ] Apr 20, 2022, 11:32am Blogosphere The Ukraine Crisis Can't Save Biden Margaret Kimberley: The U.S. propaganda victory over Russia will do Joe Biden and the democrats little good. Their willingness to act on their promises and meet the people's needs will be the deciding factors in determining their political fate. ... What Ukrainian people need are good faith peace talks to end their suffering. ... The American people need public money to stay here at home. ... It should not be sent overseas to fight a war meant to fulfill neocon fantasies about breaking up Russia... [ Visit Website ] Apr 20, 2022, 11:26am More Headlines

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