At noon EST today, I'll be live on Rumble discussing the war in Ukraine and the debate over what role the U.S. Government should play, if any, in its outcome.

rumble.com/vvrd3t-the-war…
Whenever war breaks out, emotions are extremely high, as are nationalism and tribalism. Especially at the start, there typically is lockstep unity among political/media elites. There's thus no point in using social media to do anything but read from that script. Chomsky on TV:
Here's the second part where Chomsky -- 30 years ago -- explained why the constricting structure of television (requiring "concision": the demand to make all points in 5 minutes between commercials) precludes conventional wisdom from being challenged. Social media is even worse:
Here's what the climate is producing toward any American who is even slightly off-key or mildly questioning the unified script. If you think this is healthy, I think you ought to re-consider that.
Given that social media's primary use in times of high patriotism and war fever is to hunt for heretics ("traitors") and distort out-of-context tweets -- as demonstrated above -- here's the 90-minute live broadcast I did today on Rumble on Russia/Ukraine:

rumble.com/vvrd3t-the-war…

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Feb 25
In the US, "the left" means Bernie/AOC. But so often, they're far from the left internationally -- as we see with Corbyn & Mélenchon's opposition to vaccine mandates, or you'll see if you ask Bolivia/Cuba/Venezuela/Ecuador/Lula what they think of Russia, and now with Ukraine:
Here's Varoufakis -- the leftist former Finance Minister of Greece and current member of Parliament -- elaborating on his view that the US should provide Russia its vow never to put Ukraine in NATO or militarily defend Ukraine in exchange for Russia withdrawing its troops:
And here's Varoufakis arguing that the "rules-based international order" wasn't destroyed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine (which he condemns) but by the US attack on Iraq and NATO/Clinton's bombing of Yugoslavia with no UN permission, among many other prior lawless Western acts:
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Feb 23
Please remember that any criticisms of the President of the United States during this crisis is immoral, disloyal, plays into Putin's hands, and likely means that you're a Kremlin asset or useful idiot. Now is the time for caution and patriotism, not criticism or questioning. 🇺🇸
Important reminder from the past about our collective responsibilities now (though such reminders aren't really necessary given how often and emphatically employees of media corporations such as @kasie are saying the same thing or worse):
Just a stunning thing to read from someone whose corporate job title is "journalist" -- criticizing the president is illegitimate:

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Feb 22
I thought in 2012 that Obama was right about Russia and Romney was wrong, and I still think so: the idea that Russia is the greatest threat to the US is absurd.

But everything about Dem politics and rhetoric requires Dems to do what @PaulBegala did:

There's a major irony when it comes to partisan politics and Russia: Obama was everything Trump was accused of being. Obama was eager to avoid confrontation with Putin. He resisted sending lethal arms to Ukraine (Trump did) and denied they were a grave threat (even after Crimea).
There's no way to overstate the utter insanity of the US media and the Democratic Party spending 5 years affirming a completely deranged conspiracy theory -- that Trump was controlled by and captive to the Kremlin through blackmail -- when everything negated that demented tale.
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Feb 21
This is the moment when US journalists really get to shine. They put on their toughest war rhetoric. Tell Americans about the virtues of sacrifice. And summon the courage to all unite to denounce Putin and assure everyone all the blame lies with him and him alone. It's inspiring.
Under Obama, Russia annexed Crimea.

Under Biden, Russia recognized the sovereignty and independence of two territories of Ukraine.

Under Trump, he did none of this.

Should this cause any reevaluation of whether Trump was, in fact, a blackmail-controlled puppet of the Kremlin?
Please be advised that any questioning of US policy or. the prevailing US narrative during this sensitive time constitutes the crime of treason, according to Harvard Law Professor @tribelaw. Treason is punishable by death, so it's probably best to tread *very* carefully.
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Feb 21
NEW: The Neoliberal War on Dissent in the West

greenwald.substack.com/p/the-neoliber…
Those who most flamboyantly proclaim that they are fighting fascists continue to embrace and wield the defining weapons of despotism.

The tactics Trudeau is employing are a decade in the making, and are part of a much broader plan to criminalize and then crush dissent.
Episodes like this demonstrate just how propaganda functions. We're so well-trained to instantly recognize these tyrannical attacks on dissent as autocratic and tyrannical when used by enemies of the West, but barred from seeing them the same way when used by our own governments.
Read 7 tweets
Feb 21
NEW VIDEO: Banishment from the Financial System: the War on Dissent

The tactics used to choke the finances of Canadian tuckers and other dissidents has been a decade in the making.

rumble.com/vvgyol-banishm…
Many have forgotten that the reason @FreedomofPress was created -- by @DanielEllsberg, Laura Poitras, transparency activists, myself -- was neocons like Joe Lieberman pressured financial companies and Amazon to choke off WikiLeaks and terminate their access with no due process.
In 2010, when the Obama DOJ tried but failed to find evidence of criminality against WikiLeaks, neocons like Lieberman opted for *extra-legal punishment* - pressuring companies to ban them like Dems do now to demand adversaries be censored by Big Tech.
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