The US occupation of Afghanistan was a giant money laundering scheme & i expose how — on the latest episode of Redacted Tonight
Aidan Jonah, the editor of “The Canada Files,” sat down with me to expose Canadian imperialism — on VIP
Eleanor Goldfield & I inspect what the US’s failure in the face of Hurricane Ida says about our country right now — and more on this episode of Common Censored
Joe Rogan recently platformed a hilarious anti-North Korean propagandist on his podcast — on Moment of Clarity
Biden’s popular and long overdue withdrawal from Afghanistan triggered a big media meltdown that exposed its de facto merger with the military — on The Grayzone
The Supreme Court chose not to stop Texas from attacking abortion rights — on Truthout
In an irony only public radio could miss, "On the Media" hosts an hour on the perils of "free speech absolutism" without interviewing a defender of free speech — on TK News w/ Matt Taibbi
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Hilarious Anti-North Korea Propaganda On Joe Rogan
Hurricane Shitstorm & Congratulating War Criminals
Canada’s Dark Imperialist Secret
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Afghanistan Was A Giant Money Laundering Scheme
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6-Week Abortion Ban in TX Goes Into Effect as Supreme Court Refuses to Intervene
Truthout | Chris Walker
A Texas law that bans abortion after six weeks of pregnancy went into effect on Wednesday after the United States Supreme Court chose not to enjoin it from being enforced.
Many had expected the Court to intervene, by placing at minimum an injunction on the law to allow for further review at a later time. But as the midnight deadline on Wednesday morning passed, no action from the Court came about.
Afghanistan collapse reveals Beltway media’s loyalty to permanent war state
The Grayzone | Gareth Porter
In the wake of a remarkably successful Taliban offensive capped by the takeover of Kabul, the responses of corporate media provided what may have been the most dramatic demonstration ever of its fealty to the Pentagon and military leadership. The media did so by mounting a full-throated political attack on President Joe Biden’s final withdrawal from Afghanistan and a defense of the military’s desire for an indefinite presence in the country.
NPR Trashes Free Speech. A Brief Response.
TK News | Matt Taibbi
The guests for NPR’s just-released On The Media episode about the dangers of free speech included Andrew Marantz, author of an article called, “Free Speech is Killing Us”; P.E. Moskowitz, author of “The Case Against Free Speech”; Susan Benesch, director of the “Dangerous Speech Project”; and Berkeley professor John Powell, whose contribution was to rip John Stuart Mill’s defense of free speech in On Liberty as “wrong.”
Just in -- truly unbelievable:
Conservative FTC Commissioners are PROTECTING Facebook from any break-up... !!??!! This is truly outrageous -- almost unimaginable
Lina Khan Leads the Government's New Attempt to Break Up Facebook - by Matt Stoller - BIG by Matt Stoller (substack.com)
Republican Commissioners are PROTECTING Facebook from break-up !!??
The vote among the five commissioners at the Federal Trade Commission was 3-2, as both Republican Commissioners, Noah Phillips and Christine Wilson, voted against bringing it.
One major risk here is the Republican Party establishment. For a few years, populists made headway there; conservative legal titan Clarence Thomas came out against Google’s power, and Trump himself was able to bring antitrust suits against Google and Facebook (even though he was very good for big tech). But now, there’s a counter-attack, and libertarians like Jim Jordan, if they gain more power, will try to destroy the FTC as an institution in order to protect dominant firms, using culture war arguments as a shield. That battle, which is taking place on the right, continues.
In a sane world, the remarkable allegations in these complaints would be enough to have Zuckerberg put in jail and Facebook restructured. Instead, a fearful judge forced the FTC to do a bunch more homework before even being able to bring Facebook to trial. We do not have a coherent state that can govern in any meaningful way, and not just in America, but across the West. By contrast, the Chinese government made a decision to restructure its tech sector, and within two years, it has basically done that. That’s not because the Chinese government is authoritarian, but because Chinese leaders understand, as Americans and Europeans used to, what it means to have a state.