Why was the professional activist left so irritated by MTJ’s call to #DefundTheFBI? When every DSA-endorsed candidate votes to fund the feds & for $40 billion to Ukraine while a crude right-winger slams the security state & NATO, it deepens the US left’s painful identity crisis.
As ideological boundaries blur and the contradictions of the US professional activist left rise to the surface, its influencers spend increasing energy gatekeeping and punishing heretics (Dore, Tulsi, etc). They are clinging to a precarious identity and fragmenting community.
The security state now views Trump/MAGA as a threat to “national security” - not necessarily the activist left, as the FBI did during its 60s heyday. The activist left convened around Bernie, who rolled over for the establishment, and BLM, which was co-opted by the NGO class.
The organized US left in its current incarnation poses little threat to entrenched power, and often functions as its shield. This is a private source of humiliation to many activists, prompting them to overcompensate by ritually abusing heretics and performative radicalism.
There is also the professional left element which reacts with open glee as the security state runs wild on MAGA, the same way many of them celebrated deaths of unvaccinated right-wing septuagenarians with Covid. The culture wars define their shared identity & trump any principle.
*by MTJ I mean MTG
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Ayman al-Zawahiri held the loyalty of the most powerful faction of the US-backed Syrian "rebels"
He dictated strategy, ordered bombings in Aleppo, and was a hero in the province of Idlib which they control under NATO's watch
Now that the dirty war's over Zawahiri is expendable
Here’s US anti-ISIS envoy Brett McGurk stating “Idlib is the largest Al Qaeda safe haven since 9/11, tied directly to Ayman Al-Zawahiri.”
Beltway regime changers were furious at McGurk for his comments on the real nature of Syria’s armed opposition.
Zawahiri ordered terror attacks in Aleppo killing 70 Syrian govt personnel in 2012, helping transform the city's eastern districts into a base for the NATO-backed dirty war.
When E. Aleppo was liberated in 2016, the US accused Syria of genocide at the UN. haaretz.com/2012-02-11/ty-…
A UK-based, USAID-funded Ukrainian intel firm, @molfar_global, has been emailing journalists to offer a dodgy dossier containing my personal details and recycled, bogus smears of me.
The mass email distributed by USAID-funded @molfar_global to journalists falsely accuses me of getting "money from Kremlin" to wage "aggressive campaign against Ukraine" & claims to have "explored in detail [my] anti-Semitic stance."
I gave this response to @M_Star_Online
It's notable that a USAID-backed cutout like @molfar_global took issue with my factual reporting on the US arming of jihadists in Syria & neo-Nazis in Ukraine.
USAID was the main channel for funding these extremists.
So I must wonder, is USAID behind Molfar's smear campaign?
Covid lockdowns are among most overlooked factor in Sri Lanka's collapse: "The World Bank estimates 500,000 people have fallen below the poverty line since the beginning of the pandemic, the equivalent of five years’ progress in fighting poverty..." theguardian.com/world/2022/jan…
"The loss of jobs and vital foreign revenue from tourism, which usually contributes more than 10% of [Sri Lanka's] GDP, has been substantial, with more than 200,000 people losing their livelihoods in the travel and tourism sectors" theguardian.com/world/2022/jan…
Last December, I spoke to @toby00green about his work documenting the devastating impact of lockdowns on the global south, and their pivotal role in driving up food prices, plunging countries into debt, and spawning new migration crises. rokfin.com/stream/10545/F…
.@Smithsonian’s Folklife, normally a free international music festival featuring acts from across the world, was essentially bought out this year by the UAE and turned into a boring, virtually music-free Emirati soft power operation on DC’s National Mall.
UAE Amb. Yousef Otaiba stopped by the propaganda operation he helped set up on the National Mall and lied to my face about the UAE’s participation in the assault on Yemen.
One person showed up among unusually small Folklife crowds to protest the UAE’s shameless propaganda op and its central role in one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
“The UAE… has been waging what appears to be a genocidal war against the people of Yemen since 2015.”
The Guardian's latest piece of McCarthyite propaganda is a prime example of the malign tactic we exposed in concrete detail with our #masongate reporting: UK intel using cutouts to smear antiwar figures w/o evidence as Russian stooges.
Every outfit cited here is a UK/US asset.
.@TheSyriaCmpgn is the PR arm of the US-UK state funded White Helmets info op, whose spook founder committed suicide after his corruption came to light.
Since I published this expose of the Syria Campaign, it has deployed its media assets to smear me. thegrayzone.com/2016/10/02/syr…
We've reported extensively on Big Tech zillionaire @Pierre Omidyar's role as a pass-through for US information war ops.
His Luminate Strategic Initiatives is listed as a sponsor of this McCarthyite farce, alongside a collection of other intel cut-outs. thegrayzone.com/2019/02/18/eba…
We've updated our report to reflect that Paul Mason's intel compatriot/handler, Andy Pryce, is now UK Head of Public Diplomacy in the EU, and likely also serves in the Foreign Office’s newly-founded Counter Disinformation Unit. Why's this significant? 1/ thegrayzone.com/2022/06/13/pau…
Andy Pryce boasted to Mason of engineering YouTube’s recent ban on “Russian stuff.”
Further, UK ministers confirmed the CDU where Pryce is likely posted was responsible for the ban, and that it was “working closely” with social media platforms to remove "disinformation." 2/
So a very likely culprit behind YouTube's removal of my and @aaronjmate's livestream on #masongate in violation of its terms of use & policies on "bullying and harassment" is Andy Pryce and/or the UK Foreign Office's CDU.
Pure security state censorship.