➜⇢➤Guaido Representative Threatens FBI Investigation Into Journalists Exposing Her Dealings
From the Twitter account of her communications firm, Asymmetrica, Vanessa Neumann accused four journalists of a “criminal conspiracy” to support Venezuelan vice-president Delcy Rodriguez. “There is a price on your head,” she threatened. Vanessa Neumann, the U.K. ambassador of self-declared President of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, claims that she is working closely with the FBI in an investigation exposing a “transnational criminal network” of journalists, including John McEvoy, Pablo Navarette, independent outlet Venezuelanalysis and former MintPress News contributor Camila Escalante.
From the Twitter account of her communications firm, Asymmetrica, Neumann said that the four sources were involved in a “criminal conspiracy” supporting Venezuelan vice-president Delcy Rodriguez. “There is a price on your head” she informed them, “welcome to the rule of law, guys.” https://www.mintpressnews.com/vanessa-neumann-fbi-investigation-journalists-exposing-her-dealings/269194/
➽➜⇢➤ Afghan Bounty Scandal Comes at Suspiciously Important Time for US Military Industrial Complex
The latest scandal, like others before it, is based on scant testimony by anonymous officials and has had the effect of pushing liberal opinion on US foreign policy into a far more hawkish direction. https://www.mintpressnews.com/afghanistan-bounty-scandal-comes-at-suspiciously-important-time-us-military/269138/
➽➜⇢➤ Lee Camp: How the Media Used the Bounty Scandal to Stop the ‘Threat’ of Peace in Afghanistan
Peace seems to have exceedingly, ridiculously, laughably bad timing, this latest time in Afghanistan, says Lee Camp. https://www.mintpressnews.com/connecting-dates-us-media-used-stop-threat-peace-afghanistan/269150/
➽➜⇢ ENEZUELAJune 29, 2020
Trump used looted Venezuelan public money to build border wall with Mexico
An estimated $24 billion of Venezuelan public money has been looted, and the Trump administration has used at least $601 million of it to construct a militarized wall on the US-Mexico border.
By Ben Norton
Since the United States initiated a coup attempt against Venezuela’s elected leftist government in January 2019, up to $24 billion worth of Venezuelan public assets have been seized by foreign countries, primarily by Washington and member states of the European Union.
President Donald Trump’s administration has used at least $601 million of that looted Venezuelan money to fund construction of its border wall with Mexico, according to government documents first reviewed by Univision. https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/29/trump-stolen-venezuelan-money-border-wall-mexico/
➜⇢➤ China detaining millions of Uyghurs? Serious problems with claims by US-backed NGO and far-right researcher ‘led by God’ against Beijing
Claims that China has detained millions of Uyghur Muslims are based largely on two studies. A closer look at these papers reveals US government backing, absurdly shoddy methodologies, and a rapture-ready evangelical researcher named Adrian Zenz. By Ajit Singh and Max Blumenthal
The US House of Representatives passed the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act on December 3, legislation which calls for the Donald Trump administration to impose sanctions against China over allegations that Beijing has detained millions of Muslim-majority Uyghurs in the western region of Xinjiang. https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/21/china-detaining-millions-uyghurs-problems-claims-us-ngo-researcher/
⇢➤ Uncovering John Bolton’s ‘distorted’ tales in ‘The Room Where It Happened’
Red Lines host Anya Parampil responds to ABC’s interview with former White House National Security Advisor John Bolton about his new book “The Room Where It Happened”.
Anya dissects Bolton’s warped perspective on Syria, Russia-US relations, and Korea. https://thegrayzone.com/2020/07/01/uncovering-john-boltons-distorted-tales-in-the-room-where-it-happened/
➽. 53 Admitted False Flag Attacks https://www.globalresearch.ca/53-admitted-false-flag-attacks/5432931
➜⇢Tyranny Without a Tyrant: The Deep State’s Divide-and-Conquer Strategy Is Working “In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless, we have a tyranny without a tyrant.” ― Hannah Arendt, On Violence
What exactly is going on? https://www.globalresearch.ca/tyranny-without-tyrant-deep-state-divide-conquer-strategy/5718038
➜⇢➤ Invisible Rainbow: 5G Electromagnetic Radiation and the Evolution of Life on Planet Earth In his recently revised and updated book The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life, scientist Arthur Firstenberg has made both science and history comprehensible by explaining the importance and significance to life on Earth of a vital consideration that has long been ‘invisible’: electricity.
Indeed, as Firstenberg makes clear, if we want to understand life on Earth, we cannot do so without understanding the role that electricity plays in making life possible, healing it and, if abused, threatening us all.
Firstenberg’s book is unusual on at least two counts. Based on decades of scientific research, he carefully explains each point in language accessible to the non-scientist while documenting his case with exceptional clarity and detail complemented by a 138-page bibliography.
If you want to really understand this issue, and what is at stake, you will be doing yourself a favor by reading this book. https://www.globalresearch.ca/invisible-rainbow-5g-electromagnetic-radiation-and-the-evolution-of-life-on-planet-earth/5718033
➽➜⇢➤ Racism in America: Police Choke-hold is Not the Issue
by AHRAR AHMAD
While the abject inhumanity of slavery may have been legally mitigated to some extent, the institutions, practices and values of exclusion, exploitation and devaluation were not. Constitutional guarantees, and Supreme Court decisions, could be cleverly subverted by States. For example, Black people were denied the right to vote through poll taxes, arbitrary registration requirements, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, white primaries and so on. In 1940, 70 years after they had received the right to vote, only 3% of Blacks in the South were registered as voters. Less overt voter suppression efforts continue to this day. More
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/07/09/racism-in-america-police-choke-hold-is-not-the-issue/
➜⇢➤ UPRISING: Police, Prisons & the Pentagon
In the era of Covid-19, climate change and an increased focus on longstanding structural racism, a new approach to “security” is desperately needed, writes William D. Hartung Think of it as a war system that’s been coming home for years. The murder of George Floyd has finally shone a spotlight on the need to defund local police departments and find alternatives that provide more genuine safety and security. The same sort of spotlight needs soon to be shone on the American military machine and the wildly well-funded damage it’s been doing for almost 19 years across the Greater Middle East and Africa.
Distorted funding priorities aren’t the only driving force behind police violence against communities of color, but shifting such resources away from policing and to areas like jobs, education, housing, and restorative justice could be an important part of the solution. And any effort to boost spending on social programs should include massive cuts to the Pentagon’s bloated budget. In short, it’s time to defund our wars, both at home and abroad. https://consortiumnews.com/2020/07/08/uprising-police-prisons-the-pentagon/
➽➜⇢➤AMERICAN EMPIRE, CENSORSHIP, COMMENTARY, ECONOMY, FOREIGN POLICY, MEDIA, MILITARISM, PROPAGANDA
In an Insane World, Madness Looks Moderate & Sanity Looks Radical
July 8, 2020
Caitlin Johnstone targets status quo bias, arguing that this psychological glitch reinforces the U.S.-centralized empire and blocks the way to necessary change. https://consortiumnews.com/
Read more →
CONSTITUTION, GUN VIOLENCE, POLICE BRUTALITY, PROTESTS, THE BUSH-43 ADMINISTRATION, TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
UPRISING: Protesters Attacked by Police Sue to Vindicate Constitutional Rights
July 8, 2020
Police have deployed toxic chemical and sonic weapons, dangerous projectiles, intrusive surveillance, physical violence and “kettling” to trap demonstrators, writes Marjorie Cohn. https://consortiumnews.com/
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ARTICLE, NEWS
As Long As Mass Media Propaganda Exists, Democracy Is A Sham https://caitlinjohnstone.com/
JULY 09
ARTICLE
Patriotism Is Bullshit, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix https://caitlinjohnstone.com/
JULY 08
ARTICLE
In An Insane World, Madness Looks Moderate And Sanity Looks Radical https://caitlinjohnstone.com/
JULY 07
ARTICLE
Fractal Agent Smiths https://caitlinjohnstone.com/
JULY 05
ARTICLE
Ghislaine Maxwell, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix https://caitlinjohnstone.com/
JULY 04
ARTICLE, NEWS
Seriously, Get The Hell Out Of Afghanistan https://caitlinjohnstone.com/
JULY 03
ARTICLE
America’s Two Right-Wing Parties Keep Accusing Each Other Of Being Far-Left https://caitlinjohnstone.com/
JULY 02
ARTICLE, NEWS
Why The US Empire Works So Hard To Control The International Narrative About Russia https://caitlinjohnstone.com/
JULY 01
ARTICLE
Real Revolution Means Expanding Consciousness, Both Outwardly And Inwardly https://caitlinjohnstone.com/
JUNE 30
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/
➽➜This is John Bolton. Actual John Bolton. They brought on actual, literal John Bolton as an expert analyst on intelligence claims about a US-targeted government, AND, ALSO, did NOT inform their audience that this person has built his entire career on lying about these things.
Rachel Blevins
When an anonymous report citing “intelligence sources” claims Russia is going out of its way to target US soldiers in Afghanistan, the MSM uses it to try to revive Russiagate for the 2937th time and brings on *checks notes* John Bolton as their expert...
https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1277379763003244545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1277379763003244545%7Ctwgr%5E&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2020%2F07%2F07%2Fin-an-insane-world-madness-looks-moderate-and-sanity-looks-radical%2F
➜⇢➤ The Racist Underpinnings of the American Way of War
The deadly interplay of racism, genocide, and denial at the heart of American white society has been reproduced in the country’s wars. The U.S. military command’s pushback against President Donald Trump’s attempt to use the military against people demanding racial justice has received a lot of good press.
But let’s not overdo the praise. For most of their existence, the U.S. Armed Forces were racially segregated. It was only in the 1950s that the slow process of integration began, with racial discrimination still a major problem in the ranks today.
While race has been widely discussed with respect to the composition and organization of the military, much less attention has been paid to the way racism has been a central feature of how the United States has waged its wars.
The military is an institution of American society, and as such its origins and development have been centrally influenced by the political economy of U.S. capitalism. https://fpif.org/the-racist-underpinnings-of-the-american-way-of-war/
➽➜⇢➤The Camo Economy: How Military Contracting
