Please read this definitive account by @mtaibbi of how the liberal outlets sooo concerned about disinformation perpetrated the worst disinformation campaign in modern US history -- right before the 2020 election -- and now refuse even to acknowledge the proof let alone retract:
To see what utter contempt media corporations have for you and the truth, look at this attempt by Vox to claim that what everyone knows is true -- the CIA, media and Big Tech united to say the Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation" -- never happened.
The CIA's lie that the Biden laptop was "Russian disinformation was *central* to the media's disinformation campaign. That's what allowed them to suppress it and, worse, Big Tech to censor it. They just won't admit they lied, so instead, they re-write history right in your face👇
They know we all remember the media screamed the laptop was "Russian disinformation," and that's what Big Tech used to ban the story. They know you remember that.
But they can't admit what they did - can't retract it - because that reveals who the real disinformation agents are.
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Western media spent years warning the Azov Battalion and related militias were not just neo-Nazis but were the most powerful neo-Nazi force in Europe given their integration into the military and state.
That's now not only taboo to say but these same outlets have renounced this.
Back in 2015, when James Clapper wanted Obama to flood Ukraine with lethal arms -- something Obama opposed because, he said, Ukraine wasn't vital enough to the US -- I detailed the power of Azov using mainstream media sources. This is all now erased:
Azov's power doesn't justify a Russian invasion of Ukraine. But that doesn't make it irrelevant.
At the very least, efforts should be made to prevent the massive amount of lethal arms flooding Ukraine ending up in their hands. And we shouldn't make stars of their adherents.
In every war, in every country, anyone off-key in any way, who questions government orthodoxies and policies, is automatically branded a traitor, guilty of being "on the other side," propaganda mouthpieces for the Enemy. Neocons perfected this dark art and it's most visible now.
There has never been more dissent-free unity and lockstep consensus among the 2 parties since at least 9/11. Those demanding US involvement in the war for Ukraine have won. Votes in Congress look like Israel votes: 426-7. Public opinion has shifted radically. Very little dissent.
There are like 11 people with a platform who question or deviate in any way from the bipartisan DC consensus -- supported by Bernie Sanders to Marco Rubio and all in between. Yet there's an obsession on this tiny pocket of dissent because religious unity needs heretics to hate.
Julian Assange is marrying his fiancee @StellaMoris1 today in a high-security prison because the US and UK - so deeply committed to democracy and press freedoms that they'll risk war to defend them -- have imprisoned him for 3 years and are working to keep imprisoned for life:
The Brazilian prosecutor who led the prosecution of Lula and became a national hero among some, was just ordered by a court to pay Lula $75,000 for defaming Lula by publicly accusing him of being head of an organized crime ring. Meanwhile, Lula leads all 2022 polls.
In 2019, Lula was in prison on a 10-year sentence. His judge, @SF_Moro was the all-powerful Justice Minister. Now, Lula is free and the favorite to be win. That judge, also running, is disgraced and 30 points behind. And now this prosecutor has to pay Lula. Quite a turnaround.
(Correction: the lead prosecutor and former national hero, @deltanmd, has been ordered to pay Lula R$ 75,000, not $75,000. It was for this laughable, third-grade Power Point he made and showed to the public to "prove" Lula was the Kingpin of all organized crime).
Ukraine's President Zelensky suspends 11 opposition parties, using the same rationale Putin invokes when doing so: they're subversive, with ties to foreign enemies. One of the parties has 10% of elected seats in Ukraine's parliament:
This is a great, nuanced article by @arisroussinos on serious neo-Nazism in Ukraine's military. It's false to say Ukraine is run by Nazis, worse to claim it justifies Russia's invasion. But the West is radically and dangerously minimizing their power:
As Roussinos writes: Europe "has many extreme Right-wing groups, but only in Ukraine do they possess their own tank and artillery units, with the state’s support." @fbfsubstack adds vital nuance. Russia's claims are false, but the West's erasure also is:
Both @thetimes and the @guardian published articles today claiming Russian cosmonauts, in a display of great bravery, chose to wear the Ukrainian colors to protest the war. Read this thread and decide if it’s true.