One of my favorite thinkers and writers in journalism, @MazMHussain, is interviewed by one of the most heterodox and provocative interviewers, @nassimtaliban, and the result is as good and nutritious as you'd expect. Highly recommended:

niccolo.substack.com/p/the-khyber-p…
Just as a taste: here Maz explains his experience growing up with first-generation or second-generation immigrants, how they think about social issues, and the capacity (lack thereof) of corporate engineering propaganda to re-mold their views in accordance with liberal orthodoxy:
One more great passage: here's Maz on what it was like growing up in the post-9/11 west as a Pakistani Muslim, and the various costs and benefits that come from that. Please just read the whole interview so I don't have to bombard your feed with more excerpts:
One last one (I promise!): Maz on the amoral DC Swamp monsters who profited off Afghanistan for 20 years, sacrificing the lives of Afghan civilians and working-class American soldiers for their own petty benefits, and now, instead of doing the honorable thing, they live & thrive:

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6 Oct
The Latest CIA/Media Fraud: Claiming Cricket Mating Sounds are a Russian Sonic Microwave Attack

When you put this together, it's arguably the most unhinged and humiliating fraud they perpetrated: always with the same set of Russiagate/CIA "journalists":

rumble.com/vndi1n-the-lat…
For the last 5 years, the US has been drowned by deliberate, toxic disinformation: not from Trump boomers on FB or QAnon sites or alt-right teenagers on 4Chan, but the same axis of NBC/CNN/NYT/Atlantic propagandists who say what CIA orders them to. Just look at how they behave:
I don't really have words left to express how recklessly these outlets spread CIA lies and propaganda. Watch what NBC & @mitchellreports did to spread this lie.

It's always the same CIA spokespeople involves: @KenDilanianNBC, @NatashaBertrand, @juliaioffe, NBC, @AdamSchiff, etc.
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5 Oct
Democrats and Media Do Not Want to Weaken Facebook, Just Commandeer its Power to Censor

greenwald.substack.com/p/democrats-an…
Facebook "whistleblower" Frances Haugen is a vital media and political asset because she advances their quest for greater control over online political discourse.

Their aim is not to erode Facebook and Google's vast power but to *transfer* it to themselves for their own use.
There is no doubt, at least to me, that Facebook and Google are grave menaces. Along with Apple and Amazon, they have become classic monopolies.

But none of the anger or activism in Washington and among liberal outlets is about solving that. They want to be the overseers of it.
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3 Oct
Russell Brand made a video that went viral which cast doubt on the various Russiagate frauds propagated by corporate media, and also questioned the justness of vaccine mandates, and overnightmedia branded him mentally unwell, alt-right and desperate for cash. That's what they do.
I spoke with @jimmy_dore about the overnight attempt by industry rags and liberal outlets to destroy @rustyrockets. You can watch the full segment below, but the most important point is that these journalists are so (justly) hatred, they lost this power.

Ten years ago, if these digital liberal outlets and other corporate media united to attack you, it could harm you. Now, because of how widely despised they are, the opposite happens: it helps. And they know they're hated and nobody trusts them and that's why they're so bitter:
Read 9 tweets
29 Sep
Just the latest episode in an endless line proving that the leading agitators for more censorship -- the prime enemies of free discourse in the US -- are employees of corporate media outlets. They don't just approve of the huge censorship wave. They're angry more isn't censored.
The fact that we're so accustomed to corporate journalists being the leading activists *for censorship* has normalized it and obscured how utterly warped and sick it is.

As I've said before, it'd be as if the leading cheerleaders for more cigarette smoking were cardiologists.
The only thing creepier than corporate journalists leading the demands for more online censorship by Big Tech is that the majority party in the DC is constantly issuing dictates to tech monopolies demanding more political censorship:

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29 Sep
Aside from the sick sadism in this headline -- you can feel the arousal at the idea of stripping one's political opponents of their jobs in the middle of a pandemic -- it's premised on an absolute lie about who the unvaccinated are.
Who are the unvaccinated in America that sociopaths like @AmandaMarcotte are so eager to punish and strip of their livelihood? It's not who that headline claims:

greenwald.substack.com/p/an-nba-star-…
Liberals give themselves license to erase any people of color that get in the way of their narrative.

They erased massive Latino & Black (& female) Bernie support to push the Bernie Bro narrative.

Now they disappear all the Black/Latino vaccine-hesitant people to push this lie:
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27 Sep
It's been 6 days since POLITICO reporter @SchreckReports published a new book verifying the key emails from Hunter's laptop, including Joe's role in the China deal.

Not one outlet that spread the CIA lie that it was Russian disinformation (except POLITICO) has even mentioned it.
That means that CNN, NBC News, MSNBC, PBS, @HuffPost, @TheIntercept and so many others spent weeks before the 2020 election spreading what they know is a lie from CIA.

And now that there's new proof from a mainstream reporter that they lied, they won't even mention that.
The most damaging and aggressive agents of disinformation in the United States are large corporate media outlets.

All journalists make mistakes. The way to know that they're deliberate disinformation agents is when they ignore evidence that they lied. That shows it's purposeful.
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