The UK is the West's most authoritarian country. Its elite culture is repressive. No free press guarantees.
They're imprisoning Assange (as most British journalists cheer). They forced the Guardian to destroy its computers. Now, redolent of what they did to my husband in 2013:
As part of the Snowden/NSA story, I did reporting in 2 dozen countries. The UK Govt, and its servile media, were by far the most authoritarian, threatening, and pro-spying.
The GCHQ was used to do the dirtiest work even NSA wouldn't. A small portion of what they did.
Many mock their reverence for monarchy. They like to pretend it's just fun tradition, but it shows the authoritarianism at the heart of UK's elite culture.
This insane 2013 interview I did on BBC's flagship news show highlights its media's subservience:
The NYT just reported how the UK media - led by the Guardian - long protected Nick Cohen from widely known complaints of his harassment (stop calling him a "left-wing columnist").
Its media is the worst: the planet's most hive-minded, incestuous pack of homogenous herd animals.
Here's the NYT article on how the British media united to shield Cohen from harassment allegations which - if it had been someone who challenges establishment pieties - they would have gleefully weaponized. Even now, most UK media refuses to mention it:
The Grayzone is anti-establishment and its reporting opposes the US/UK Security State, so the UK media will ignore what the UK did to this reporter (if not cheer it), the way they have fueled Assange's persecution.
Everything in the UK media is about one's in-group status.
How do you get yourself to do this? I guess it's all they have left.
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The drone strikes in Moscow targeted residential buildings.
Ukraine previously blew up a Russian blogger's car, killing his daughter. It exploded a bomb in a St. Petersburg café, killing a journalist, injuring 19.
Is this terrorism? Does the US support this type of targeting?
Finally: what's the limiting principle for US involvement, if there is one?'
Biden has repeatedly reversed himself, now sending F-16s.
If we send F-16s, why not bigger bombs? Why not let them use the F-16s to bomb Moscow? Why not tactical nukes? Why not US boots on the ground?
The Dems' new beloved Twitter star, Rep. @danielsgoldman (D-LeviStrauss), is one of Congress' 20 richest members, due entirely to the unearned wealth he got from his dad, also an heir.
As he venerates FBI, he has major holdings in Big Tech, Big Pharma and military contractors.
He won his seat for 2 reasons:
1) His billionaire family is close friends of the Sulzbeger Family, so the NYT endorsed him (gold for Manhattan voters).
2) He spent 3 times more than the Black incumbent, @MondaireJones, due to his own money and cash from his dad's rich friends.
Nobody can help how they're born. But if you're a billionaire heir; everything handed to you; you're always told you're better, surrounded by sycophants:
It's hard to avoid being a snide asshole with a superiority complex. This shows he never managed:
Democrats revere the US Security State. Criticizing the FBI or CIA is taboo in liberal politics now. Polls show Dems regard these agencies with great trust.
We continue to get abundant evidence that FBI abuses its power. Yet for Dems, opposing FBI is a sign of bad character.
The FBI still works in the "J. Edgar Hoover Building" in DC. Numerous investigations over the last 3 years concluded FBI abused its power for political ends. They have repeatedly broken the law in how they spy.
Yet they abuse their power for Dems, and Dems thus revere them.
One can't conjure a more perfect avatar of authoritarian Dem politics than @danielsgoldman That's why liberals swoon as he speaks.
A billionaire heir from Manhattan who reeks of entitlement syndrome, he decrees that only those of bad character would criticize the sacred FBI.
After Elon Musk accurately said Bellingcat exists to spread "psy ops" for the US and EU Security State, multiple NBC and CNN personalities rose to their defense.
Neither network disclosed they are official partners of Bellingcat, nor disclosed Bellingcat's funding sources:
MSBNC's @chrislhayes - one of Biden's most devoted TV loyalists - purported to refute these claims by inviting a Bellingcat operative on: so 2 people, as usual, in full agreement.
Never once did he mention this partnership or Bellingcat's US/EU funding.