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30 May, 5 tweets, 2 min read
The Screams Of A Dying Empire

"Ana Kasparian's infamous Young Turks tantrum about Aaron Maté was the screams of a dying empire."
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Some want to dismantle the imperial slaughter machine and create a harmonious world; others just want the imperial slaughter machine to give them healthcare. These are two entirely different positions. It's not strange that these factions feud—it would be strange if they didn't.
US progressives who smear The Grayzone and other anti-imperialist media never have any other equally anti-imperialist media that they promote and uphold as good. This is because they are imperialists.
The only way to do actual foreign policy journalism in the western world is to make a conscious decision to tell the truth without being bullied into accepting any unproven US narrative, no matter how bad they smear you and no matter how hard it is to find work and make a living.
The Screams Of A Dying Empire (Audio)

"The blame for public distrust in government and media institutions rests solely on those government and media institutions."
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30 May
America's solution to the PR crisis caused by the horrific consequences of its military interventionism has been to switch to sanctions, blockades, and proxy wars where violence is outsourced to other powers so they take the blame as the preferred method of imperial slaughter.
Syria is a perfect example of all of this. The US power alliance absolutely demolished that country by arming jihadist proxy forces and then sanctioning the hell out of it to keep it from rebuilding, all with the goal of eventually toppling Damascus, but hardly anyone knows this.
The number of westerners who know Obamacorp destroyed Syria is far smaller than westerners who know Bushcorp destroyed Iraq. Yes it's not always as effective (Saddam's dead while Assad is still there thanks to Russia's direct intervention in 2015), but the PR fallout is far less.
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29 May
Israel Narrative Management Is Getting Incredibly Desperate And Brazen

"They're blowing up entire press offices and arresting Palestinian journalists. This is narrative management at its least subtle."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/israel-narra…
The National Director Emeritus for the Anti-Defamation League has announced on Twitter that he is cancelling his subscription to The New York Times, accusing the outlet of "blood libel" against Jews.
According to Foxman, this is what constitutes the advancement of the ancient antisemitic canard known as blood libel: humanizing the children who've been killed by Israeli military explosives.
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28 May
When you're losing control of the narrative.
Israel is now holding 13 Palestinian journalists in "administrative detention".
rsf.org/en/news/israel…
This is after deliberately destroying more than 20 Palestinian media outlets in Gaza. This is narrative control at its least subtle.
theintercept.com/2021/05/18/gaz…
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28 May
If Moscow hadn't intervened in Crimea in 2014 and Syria in 2015, the US wouldn't have begun training us all to hate Russia in 2016.
At some point Russia and China both realized that if they don't start taking bold action to prevent the US empire from absorbing the entire world, they're going to slowly see their allies and trading partners disappear until they've got no choice but to join. That's all this is.
If Russia would've just let the US do its thing with the Ukraine coup and the proxy war to topple Damascus, there never would've been a Russia panic. But then Russia would've eventually found itself surrounded by a sea of hostile empire and forced to relinquish its sovereignty.
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27 May
If I wanted to sabotage the pro-Palestine movement, I would make myself a part of the conversation by criticizing Israeli abuses and supporting Palestinian rights, then I'd start going "This rise in anti-semitism sure is concerning though, can we pause and focus on this please?"
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26 May
The US Empire Is A Self-Reinforcing Trauma Factory

"The status quo of the US empire guarantees that there will always be new offenders to imprison, new extremists to bomb, new justifications for blockades, sanctions and apartheid oppression."
caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/the-us-empir…
American corporate media are having a field day with a rise in violent crime across the country, seizing on the opportunity to declare that it proves last year's calls to defund police have been thoroughly invalidated. Image
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