[FROM LARRY JOHNSON — A new author for sonar21.com. He prefers to keep his identity a secret. However, he has something important and useful to share.]
I first became acquainted with Matt Taibbi when he came to Moscow in the late 1990s and
was co-editor of a newspaper called The eXile, along with another American, Mark Ames.
The eXile’s motto was “We $#it on everybody equally.”
Ames and Taibbi wrote all manner of expose articles on the corruption of the Boris Eltzin administration,
the World Bank, the IMF, and USAID. One of their favorite targets was that pompous moron, Michael
McFaul, then a World Bank “consultant” who later became U.S. Ambassador under O’Bongo. Arguably
our worst-ever ambassador, the Russian Foreign Ministry basically ignored him, and then threw USAID
and many US backed NGO’s out of the country for good. But Ames and Taibbi also investigated many,
many Russian Government officials and exposed their corrupt dealings. They also regularly published
columns by Eduard Limonov, a Russian dissident and head of the banned “National Bolshevik Party.”
As Matt’s co-editor Ames once wrote, “we’d be sued out of existence within a few weeks of appearing in any
Western democracy, but here in Russia, in the so-called kleptocracy, the power elite has been too busy stealing
and killing to give a f**k about us, allowing us to fly around the capital beneath their radar, like a cruise missile.
A real democracy would never let us get off the ground.”
Flash forward 20+ years, and after a stint at The Rolling Stone, suddenly over the past few months, Taibbi became
a household name here in the USA, culminating with his being the front guy for the release of all that material proving
how various U.S. “intel” agencies conspired with Twitter and other social media platforms to censor the news,
manipulate public opinion and possibly to influence the outcome of elections, Oh My!
On the relationship between the USSR, resp. Russia and the USA, resp. NATO
NATO was founded in 1949 by the USA. The USSR wanted to join NATO. When NATO rejected this, six year later the USSR formed the Warsaw Pact in 1955 – as a reaction to this rejection. (Ideologies were different, but military alliances are another matter.)
(The monstrous Stalin was not a Russian, but a Georgian, under whom the Russian population suffered the most).
Yeltsin and afterwards Putin also wanted to lead Russia into NATO.
Putin to Clinton during his visit to Moscow in 2000:
What does America think about Russia joining NATO?
Clinton’s response was (as Putin said) “we say very reluctant.”
Putin: “If you don’t want us as friends and allies, why are you making an enemy out of us”?
Why is the USA making an “enemy” out of Russia?
Because they need such an “enemy” to be able to invest even more of their national wealth in the war machinery, to become even stronger militarily, and then to dominate the whole world.
Thereby, Russia is to be smashed, and the huge Siberian mineral resources are to be plundered. That is an old USA strategic goal. It’s (almost) always about earth resources.
Even Henry Kissinger (after his retirement) stated this publicly. But the related YouTube video has been deleted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AetGRpg0p6s&list=PLpzSpevFD7qw367OhrdLRXedgPZySrOlX&index=41
John Pilger, among many others, has also reported on this:
John Pilger’s Guide To Propaganda
(54:20 Main goal = to smash Russia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZZbK4Y-YM
That was/ is now tried with this Ukraine war organized by the USA & GB (Maidan coup in 2014 against a democratically elected president), but can by no means succeed. This time they have overestimated themselves enormously and this will have catastrophic consequences for them.
Who does not seek peace, who organizes coups of the democratically elected foreign governments, causes (by lies) and leads wars (worldwide)?
Just to mention a few examples: Hawaii, Guatemala, Panama, Vietnam (3 million murdered, mostly civilians, children, and women), Iran (1953), Iraq (1 million murdered, mostly civilians, children, and women), Syria …. up to Ukraine?
8000 murdered in Srebrenica (no children and women among them) the UN courts qualified as GENOCIDE. Compare 8000 with the above-mentioned MILLIONS.
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Just one more example:
According to the clearest report commissioned by the EU, under the leadership of Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini – Georgia was the aggressor and Russia merely retaliated, paid back, and then withdrew.
Already in 2004 and 2006 Georgia (egged on/ misused by the USA, otherwise they would never have dared) undertook military operations against Russia and the UN Security Council even passed a resolution calling on Georgia to refrain from such actions in the future.
How many of you, in your “free world” with your “free media” and “democracy” were informed objectively also in this matter?
Why don’t you know it?
Because most of the media spread the lies/ propaganda of the high-ranking NATO experts and even Jens Stoltenberg’s, who still today (06. 04. 2023) accuses Russia (against the best knowledge) to have invaded/ attacked Georgia in 2008
1: 50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bEFg9oZKeY
Such persons must not be believed a word. In Stoltenberg’s eyes you can see discomfort and fear, but he has to do it because he is ordered to do so by Washington.
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The USA government and CIA poisoned Alexey Navalny with Novichock (= typical USSR/Russian) to defame Putin. If Putin wanted to do it, he would have done it by another means.
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USA/ NATO officers and soldiers participate directly in this war against Russia from the beginning (and later this year will no longer do it secretly, but massively, but will not have much time to regret it). Proof:
Oberst bestätigt: NATO Soldaten kämpfen bereits in der Ukraine!
(2: 23 ff. High number of Western/ NATO soldiers) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wur4YRSrwIk
When you say 8000, think 6 million. Both numbers are gross exaggerations for victimology propaganda purposes. There are a lot of testimonies and clues to confirm the claim that there have been mass executions of military-age Bosnian Muslim men, there have been sporadic war crimes by paramilitaries against men they captured while they were fleeing but from all gathered material evidence, the total number of victims of such war crimes is 1800-2000 at most. And no hard evidence has ever been provided that Ratko Mladić has ordered any or had foreknowledge of them. That’s why they invented in the Hague the crime of “not knowing but being in a position to know and doing nothing to prevent”. The court decisions in the ICTY, I have read those against Karadžić and Mladić and several other Serbs, have been so egregious, I very much doubt they would have passed any regular court anywhere in the world. But then, the indictments against Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova tell you all you need to know about legal standards in international courts.
PS: Though when I say any regular court in the world, I may be having a pipe dream, given the “legal” persecution of Julian Assange.
The day after Sebrenica fell my Dutch liberal newspaper NRC (www.nrc.nl) published an article that said that in the three years the town had been protected by Dutch forces Muslim terrorists operating from the town had murdered between 1200 and 1500 Serbian people living in the nearby area. This was the first and the last time the paper wrote about this matter and I hadn’t seen it mentioned elsewhere.
I recall that the very first trial of people accused of war crimes in Bosnia nd Hercegovina was some Serbian nobody of low rank. The prosecution spent most of its time making a case for crime of “Joint Criminal Enterprise”. This had nothing to do with the accused and so I presume his lawyer ignored this. Well, the outcome was predictable, else they would not have picked this particular accused but the guilty verdict also established the crime of “Joint Criminal Enterprise” as being a proven fact by default. People that this was intended to be applied to were not there to dispute this at the outset of this and I guess when it mattered, it was already a undisputed fact by virtue of prior court case. After watching countless police shows and court dramas on TV, from USA, I can only imagine that this maneuver was something that US members of prosecution would have brought to the table.
Indeed. Contrary to continental law where every case must be judged on its own merit, such initial cases in the ICTY served the purpose of creating legal “innovations” that could be used as precedents.
“The court decision [in Common Law] when approved, becomes mandatory in the subsequent consideration of similar cases. This creates a principle with the binding force of law.”
I can’t belive that people still buy that shit. They have realised that CNN is lying about everything now, but still can’t grasp that it was lying all the time. All of those CNN war crimes were fake.
CNN was created for that purpose. For US wars propaganda! Eventually some CIA department. I think even Americans forget that in just 3 wars the US spent 60 years at war after WW2! And today the problem is much more serious than Eisenhower’s simple warning about the MIC. The problem is the financial power that also holds the MIC. The problem is the financial markets after Bill Clinton’s deregulation of the financial markets! It was this deregulation that killed industrial capitalism, the economy, democracy and US sovereignty! And it is from this financial power that controls globalism that the global south is now trying to escape! Which eventually will still generate some more wars. The financial power of neoliberalism, from the big corporations to the biggest fortunes, from the big banks to the biggest investment funds it originated, that today 1% of the global population owns more wealth than the remaining 99% according to the late Credit Suisse! And that only the richest 1% already hold 50% or more of all the money in the world! And war and the natural resources that wars allow to steal is just one of the areas of activity that contribute to the concentration of world wealth as we know it today. On the way to feudalism.
The best definition we can find today for the US after WW2 is that it was essentially a state of war and it’s always just a matter of guessing the next one. I even ask how they found time for so many wars? That in this century alone, according to the latest study by Brown University, produced 4 million deaths and 40 million refugees.
Lest we forget, the United States has instigated the vast majority (80 percent) of the 200 or so armed conflicts that are estimated to have occurred globally from the end of World War Two until 2001. If we include the post-9/11 Decades up to the present, the American responsibility for global violence might be as high as 90-95 percent. And this is for a nation whose population is only 4.25 % of the globe. How utterly nefarious and condemnable is that odious record?
It justifies a television like CNN! With its employees always staying in entire floors of the best hotels in all theaters of operation and the war in Yugoslavia was a good example. Where they only moved in better armor vehicles than most Chiefs of Staff in the entire world. To report US war propaganda to us!
Stalin was not a “monster”. You are willing to question contemporary propaganda but believe everything that was said in the past must be true? Why on Earth would that be the case?
I like Taibbi. He has guts. He’d have to, to have gone out on so many limbs over the years but while being grilled in Congress, he folded like a cheap umbrella.
Sorry, Matt – I watched this hearing and I don’t recall Taibbi “folding like a cheap umbrella.” I found the whole thing (Congress hearing) rather surreal, and this fake representative, Plaskett, plain rabid. Everybody fancies himself, the hero, watching a battle from the sidewalk. Would you do better in his shoes?
That’s exactly my point. To be subjected to the surreal slings and arrows unleashed at Taibbi by such Democrats and to respond factually yet meekly, to me is ‘folding like a cheap umbrella’…and this was while he had so many Republicans running interference for him.
Maybe, as a liberal it had something to do with his discomfort at being attacked by so-called ‘liberal democrats’ in such a ‘surreal’ and insulting way and equally supported by conservatives, both in furtherance of their agendas that had nothing to do with his own, or maybe it was his breaking voice that unfortunately carries little authority in itself, or maybe it was the realization that to stand too firm before his inquisitors would relegate his entire career and future to the funeral pyres (which they’re attempting anyway).
Maybe I’m being too harsh and yes, you’re right. I might have done no better in his shoes although I flatter myself to imagine otherwise from my armchair. I’m confrontational by nature with (sometimes to my detriment), a voice that’d have overshadowed those hearings and probably would have been called in contempt numerous times (if they have such a thing in those hearings). This crap just has gone on too long for a functioning ‘democracy’, even in name only and is leading nowhere but to the horsemen of nuclear apocalypse that are slowly beginning to appear in every thinking man’s rearview mirror. Not sure if I’d done what he’d done in 90’s Moscow though with the Exile. I was there at that time too just making money and used to read his stuff. He has balls, to be sure.
Sorry for the rant. These are rant-invoking times we live in.
I first learned of Taibbi when he wrote a column entitled Flathead in 2005 mocking imbecile Thomas Friedman. While it’s probably generally best to not mock the imbecilic, Friedman deserved it fully, as he’d been embraced by the elites as a Deep Thinker. Last time I saw Friedman’s wiki page (which I’m sure he manages himself), his picture shows him deep-thinking.
Taibbi also described Goldman Sachs as a “Giant Vampire Squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”
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If you demonstrate against somebody we like
I’ll slip on my wig and see if I can start a riot
Transform you to an angry mob
And all your leaders go to jail for my job
But we ain’t the Russians, political trials are taboo
We’ve got our secret ways of getting rid of you
Fill you full of LSD
And turn you loose on a freeway, whee!
I am the owl
I seek out the foul
Wipe ’em away, keep America free
For clean-livin’ folks like me.
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Thank God for gutsy guys like Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Max Blumenthal,
Aaron Mate, and of course, Julian Assange.
Few people could withstand the kind of crap they face day-in day-out just reporting the truth.
“It is not our task to secure the triumph
of truth but merely to fight on its behalf.”
—Blaise Pascal
Dore is amazing and I can listen to him all day. He’s said he must be a populist now since progressives do something or other that irritates him. Sorry. I can’t recall what it was. Greenwald was interviewing him….
He’s still strongly in favor of “Medicare for all” and he doesn’t seem to care that “provide health care to all” isn’t one of the enumerated powers. But a class act any way you slice it. He started doing his videos in his garage with his wife’s help.
I am concerned that the vax may have done him some real harm….
I am always amazed at how Larry is able to connect so many dots in so many places. Now, Taibbi. Of course, that is actually “Daniel L” but kudos to Larry for guesting writers like Daniel and others so their voice can be heard. I’m lucky to work here in Tokyo, where the Japanese just don’t care much about crazy foreigners who write in that not-real language English. “Gaijin” does not equal foreigner. Rather it means “Outsider”. Kinda like the Village Idiot. But I get hired on occasion precisely for that “outsider” point of view to sort out some of the confusion about the bewildering world of the West.
There is a lot of information on the Internet and elsewhere — and it is easy to drown on it.
Analysts like Larry, Brian Berletic, Alex Mercouris, Aleks at Black Mountain Analysis, John Helms, Alastair Crooke and others throw us lifelines to keep our heads about water.
Analysts like Larry, Brian Berletic, Alex Mercouris, Aleks at Black Mountain Analysis, John Helms, Alastair Crooke and others throw us lifelines to keep our heads about water.
So, why do I still feel like I’m drowning?
(I’ve never felt this way before, ever – so I know it’s not a neurosis).
A defector from Rolling Stoned, this almost gave me some hope for a few seconds.
South Park was also good at dumping on everybody and there was a recent substack riff on the hilarious Team America-World Police body parts song regarding Brandon, the Cackler and the current state of society post COV-LARP.
What was the breaking point for comrade Tiabbi, the Boston Crock Potter on the cover or the CPUSA (D) going full NSDAP?
The elites in USA/EU censor anything and everything that runs against their own interests. Unfortunately, since last week the Moon of Alabama website has become unreachable from this location i.e. Iran-Tehran, showing Access Denied. Do other commenters face similar issue with the MoA? Is it being hacked by the same democratic body?!!
Regarding Mr. Lira, it looks like the US State Dept. is not going to help to free him. We might have better luck appealing to the Chilean diplomatic services to intervene, if they haven’t already, since I believe Gonzalo had dual citizenship.
You can say anything but the truth in the US. If you try, someone is going to deny it and offer reams of proof from deep in the shaft they hid the new documents in. Automatically. This suggests disruption is part of the plan. It is both ends of the UniCon Party. They are waiting to recall the troops and think they are going to protect them?
Investigations of why 2/3’s of our government is taking bribes, insider trading, secret offshore retirement accounts for those underpaid civil servants. I wonder how many are involved in schemes making bank off of their Ukraine connection. If they won’t investigate crimes that appear to be treason, what exactly is left of our institutions?
If you just switched the names from Putin to Biden and the show hosts to Joe Scarborough, Rachel Maddow & Whoopi Goldberg, the article could be reprinted under the title: “A Day Inside Biden’s Surreal Television Empire, How the nonstop blare of United States’ state media fuels the war effort—and blurs reality.”
What is really so interesting is that in Russia the people support their leadership and the struggle in Ukraine and the majority of the Global South are with them… however, the message delivered by the much better funded and more sophisticated US/Western media, that this is a war was unprovoked, being fought to save democracy and that Russia is a threat to the world falls flat to a good many in the United States and the majority in Global South.
It seems like Russian media is more in accordance with the reality that everyday people perceive than the US media which requires you to continuously suspend common sense and believe in the most unlikely and absurd scenarios.
My guess here is that most of us at Sonar21 would prefer Russian media, which sounds more in accordance with Matt Taibbi, Glen Greenwald, John Mearsheimer, Aaron Mate, Tucker Carlson, Scott Ritter, Gonzalo Lira, Douglas Macgregor, etc.
The fact that this was published in Foreign Policy indicates that our elites are blind to or actually believe in the Western propaganda. (sigh)
Back when I was a tad younger & more left leaning . . . . (I’m too much of a ‘tell-the-truth’, look after the weak to have stayed a liberal the way the prog lunatics have 180ed it) I saw a video of some citizen journalist trying to get a quote from Amy Goodman on 9/11 & the “inconsistencies” in the ‘official narrative’. She ran like a cat with a pack of Pit Bulls chasing it!! So just another bought-&-paid-for pretend alternative journo.
@Rokossovsky above gave a reasonable list of Journos/opinionists to listen too (over Ukraine at least) plus Larry, John Helmer (“Dances with Bears”),Brian Berletic (“New Atlas”) & Jimmy Dore for his anti war stance. Apologies to any I’ve missed that I will no doubt remember as soon as I push ‘Post Comment’
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According to the News channel Vesti another Patriot air defense system was destroyed near Kiev (Zhuliany airport) during the latest massive attack with drones, cruise missiles, etc. Another billion dollars up in smoke? https://www.vesti.ru/article/3377110
During the attack on Kyiv near the Zhuliany airport, an “imported air defense installation” was destroyed. This is reported by a number of media and telegram channels. According to some reports, we are talking about the American-made Patriot anti-aircraft missile system.
Also, according to preliminary information, the launch base for Ukrainian drones became the target of Russian missiles. Kiev air defense was taken by surprise .
Earlier, another massive blow was dealt to the capital Nezalezhnaya [= 404 Not Found]. They became a response to the terrorist act of the Ukrainian special services against the Crimean bridge. It is known that during the previous attack, local residents were not allowed into the subway .
The vaunted Patriot has already become a victim of Russian weapons: on May 16, the Ministry of Defense reported on the destruction of an air defense system hidden in a residential area with a hypersonic “Dagger”. Then the enemy lost five launchers of the battery of the American missile defense system.
“It’s Memorial Day weekend. Do you think this is what so many fought and died for to be happening in the USA or funded with your tax dollars and mine?”
American Tax dollars? Oh please. Get real.
The IRS is collecting record taxes and still running record deficits. Debt is what is running the government not American Taxpayer Dollars. American Taxpayer Dollars mean nothing. The American Taxpayer means nothing.
Write about that. Celebrate that.
The anonymous author of this article might as well be a party troll, just like Matt Taibbi.
Matt Taibbi wrote for “The Rolling Stone Magazine,” once a beacon for everything that was once great and wonderful about the United States, and is now one of the biggest sellouts to the current regime running the United States. Just like Matt Taibbi. The magazine is a picture postcard perfect representation of a totally controlled, manipulated, propagandized mainstream U.S. Media. Just like Matt Taibbi.
Now Matt Taibbi is running around essentially saying: “I used to be a member of the Nazi Party.” Once a Nazi, always a Nazi. Once a cheater, always a cheater.
This is a drive-by comment and you should be banned because your attempted character assassination is entirely fact-free. It’s a lie to quote Taibibi as ever having been a Nazi. Pure fabrication. Ethnically at least, Taibibi is Jewish, and unlike a few famous Jews in the Ukraine, he has never had any association with Nazis of any stripe.
I’ve been reading Matt Taibibi for 20 years now, off and on, starting when he wrote for Exiled Online. When he and Mark Ames left Russia in a hurry (a somewhat funny story; their prank with a fake fax p.o.’d the wrong people in Moscow), and moved back to the US, Taibibi’s writing became more relevant. Some of his Rolling Stone pieces were absolutely superb and extremely important, while others were “Meh.” If Taibibi ever did anything underhanded, I’ve never seen it. Anyone who wants to make that claim has the burden of providing the evidence. So either post your links to whatever sort of proof you think you have, or else stay off the site. Obviously I don’t speak for the site owner, but I do speak for everyone who wants to keep garbage out of the comments.
This notion that Americans fought and died for our freedoms is a joke. Besides the Revolutionary War all the other US wars were for conquest. Just rile the rubes and off they go to die for some politician’s wet dream. If only our dumb leaders would have listened to George Washinton’s wise counsel. …
Even the “Revolutionary War” was really fought for conquest – the English Government was preventing the colonies from attacking and colonizing the Native American lands to the west…
People look at me like I am insane when I say I plan on moving overseas. Those countries are crazy! They’ll just throw you in jail!
Taibbi. IRS agents at the door. He had visibility and money to fight it. They have weaponized the IRS. The DOJ. The FBI. I am a retired police officer. Some of you folks don’t understand how this works. They’ll find someone. A true scumbag. He gets arrested. He already has some hits. Looking at some serious time. Do you know anything about Joe? Yeah, if you know “anything” about Joe, we could cut you a deal. And he “remembers” something. And a friendly judge gives the warrant. And then during the warrant? The thumbdrive gets put on your computer. And “then” they find the kiddie porn on it. And that means that your kids get taken and put in a gladiator childcare facility for their “safety”.
They’ll come at you sideways. They will come at your wife. Your kids. Your family. You think you are going to fight them? Do you have anything you care for? A dog? They will kill it. Or worse? They will seize it. And put it in a facility that death would be a relief from.
This is America. And they are just getting started.
Curt, thanks for this honest description of reality in the US today.
I suspect it has been the reality for part of the population for a long time but has now been extended to anyone who is not aligned with the deep state.
Exile content is still available online.
Read it to understand what Russia was like in the mid to late 90s, and the sheer comedy that often arose from really fucked up material that was true.
Reading their stuff also should help people understand just how straitlaced even the “gonzo” media types in the heyday of supposed American democratic journalism was. A very 90s style of journalism like Motley Crue’s legendary touring behavior. http://www.exiledonline.com
Yes, the Exiled Online.com had lots of material where first you laugh but then you think a bit more and you want to cry. It showed something of what Russia descended to, in the 1990’s, but you have to get beneath the layer of expat privilege, which Ames and Taibibi almost always did, somewhere in each of their stories.
Yeah, I used to read it – especially “the war nerd”. I miss him.
BTW, what is the mystery here people?
The jews of the CCCP and Deutschland have moved the center of their operation here(US) long time ago. Add the 1965 immigration act, Jackson-Venik and You have the U.S.SR V.1.2 here. Or the Weimar Republic.
It is a carbon copy.
These are the sort of environments jews establish to be able to live as they see fit.
Then they usually need to move out fast – if history is any indication…
Seriously, since Julian Assange was arrested during the Trump administration maybe the conTards of right-wing Republicans should not point fingers.
Maybe party politics is a retard cult, and card carrying members are down with the retard sickness. Unless Americans can spit out the red and blue pill into face of our oligarch overlords, nothing in this country is ever going to change.
I saw this term for Nazi Era government
agency.
Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment.
That is a perfect name for our mainstream media and St. Pierre’s job function.
At this point, one has to ask a simple, two-part question. Just exactly WHY is truth being suppressed in “the West” and what “good” is it supposed to do to expose and detail the truth?
The logical answer to the latter part is that the vast majority of “the People” would vote differently than they have in previous elections if they knew “the truth”, right? After all, how else do The People get rid of 536 warmongering Rs and Ds if not by not voting for them and instead voting for other parties and their candidates? — by violent revolution? And if violent revolution, just exactly WHAT happens the day AFTER that violent revolution?
If getting rid of these warmongering Rs and Ds is NOT the goal of all the alternative media people, just exactly WHAT is — provoking miraculous divine intervention?
Here’s something that I’ve never heard coming out of all the alternative media’s collective mouths. Shouting to “the world” that they have to stop buying US treasury bonds, because it is only by the sale of those bonds that “the US” can afford to conduct its perpetual wars of theft, sanction and regime-change on the world.
Why do all these brilliant people (Hudson, Desai, Wolff, Ritter, MacGreggor, Johnson, Martyanov, Raevski, Lauria, Galloway, Chomsky, etc. etc. etc.) never speak this ultimate truth — that when people, central banks, mutual funds, hedge funds, etc. buy treasuries, they become accessories to the US’s crimes against humanity?
Because the very existence of “the US” depends upon “the US” going ever deeper into debt, in perpetuity, the legislative branch is, once again, giving the “Treasury” (what a misnomer!) permission to raise the “debt ceiling” (to borrow even more trillions from insatiable creditors) and then the tsunami of bond sales will begin.
Just think. What if there are no buyers of those trillions of bonds? Would the Federal Reserve become the one and only buyer? It would be nice to find out.
Let’s face it. Other than 100 million US voters NOT voting for Rs or Ds in future elections, the only other legal way that the US’s perpetual wars will stop is if “investors” stop “investing” in US Treasuries and the perpetual wars that that “investment” money is funding.
Wouldn’t this be something worth repeating day after day after day instead of trying to come up with some reason why “the US” behaves the way “it” does? BTW, “it” behaves the way it does because “investors” tell “it” to behave that way every time they “invest” in US Treasury bonds, not because “it” just plain hates Russians.
I have been thinking along the same lines, I can’t remember where I heard this, but “corrupt money creates a corrupt culture”. At 69, I am afraid of financial collapse, as all my savings would probably be worthless, but more and more I think that may be the only way to give the g-kids a fighting chance to rebuild.
@ Rachelk, that is why you should spread your risk, not have all your accumulated wealth in the form of USD in bank accounts or pension accounts (assuming that is where you are). Some in cash USD, sure. Depending on how wealthy you are, have a big proportion of it in real wealth – your own debt-free house, a vegetable garden, your own energy supply if possible, useful practical skills and in a community that offers some real security. Beyond that, in other forms of money to store value in. Only two seem at all viable at this time – gold/silver in your own possession and Bitcoin in your own cold wallet. This way you have some insurance for a variety of scenarios ranging from severe societal collapse to a transition to a new money-economy. One or more of these might not prove useful, but unlikely that all will fail you in being able to provide you with shelter, food and some security beyond the next meal. The world will not end (well, unless . . . ) and life will go on and people will continue to be economic animals. A new equilibrium will be reached eventually. Hope this helps.
Mercenaries from the United States and Poland took part in an attempt to break through a sabotage group in the Belgorod region
Why did we respond to the Belgorod raid with missiles, but not with an informational counterattack?
This week, Belgorod confirmed that during the breakout of saboteurs into the region, foreign mercenaries, including those from Poland and the United States, took part in the action. The West pretended not to notice the invasion of former NATO servicemen into the territory of the Russian Federation.
We talked about this on Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda on the air of Igor Vittel and Ivan Pankin with Andrey Marochko , a military expert, retired lieutenant colonel of the LPR.
– The governor of the Belgorod region Gladkov said that among the saboteurs who attacked his region were Poles and Americans.
– Our command very correctly reacts to such provocations. That’s just in the information field, this is not much advertised. Our attacks on enemy temporary deployment points have become more frequent. Recently, such a point was destroyed in the Kharkiv region, where foreign mercenaries were based.
– Why did such an operation by Ukraine towards Belgorod become possible?
– There was serious training by NATO instructors, professional saboteurs who developed this operation. I do not agree that it was just a “sabotage group”.
– What was it?
– This is a small military special operation. There were also tanks and foreign armored vehicles. Foreigners themselves actively participated there.
Why don’t we focus on these facts?
– If this happened three or four years ago, there would be uproar in the world community. And we would ring all the bells. And now everyone understands that, in fact, the entire NATO bloc is waging a proxy war with us.
– Are Ukrainians running out in Ukraine?
– Yes. If you open Ukrainian social networks, everything is flooded with pictures of new cemeteries, videos of laying flowers on the graves of boys who still have to live and live. In the Donbass, a huge number of them found themselves a fate that was not at all valiant. Now in some areas, including in Artemovsk, after demining, the bodies of the dead are being searched. Many find Ukrainian militants, who are almost impossible to identify.
– And they find mercenaries?
– The fact that foreigners are present here is not news. In 2014, the regular army of Ukraine already had an international brigade. It included mercenaries from the Baltic countries and Poland. And its number was about 3 thousand people.
– And now?
– Approximately 20-30 thousand foreigners on the territory of Ukraine participate in hostilities on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. These are people from post-Soviet countries.
– Do we take into account this specificity?
Yes, they are taking action. Including, in order to further neutralize such provocations on the part of the militants.
– There is no feeling that we are weakly working out such intrusions in terms of information?
– This is a problematic issue. There are few information specialists in our military structures. Many officials believe that the information field is not the most important thing. The main thing is success on the battlefields. But there is a hybrid war going on. Time is often lost during approvals – a key factor in the information field. It is necessary to reconsider tactics and strategy in this regard.
– Do we need a similar center like CIPSO in Ukraine?
– Needed. And he should be engaged in monitoring social networks, information space, supplying operational information, sending out to all news agencies. Reports of the Ministry of Defense are very stingy. Now there are speakers in the field. But the process is slow.
– And how do we need to work in the information direction?
– It is necessary to clearly identify problematic issues and deal with the fight against the enemy with his own weapons with the involvement of professionals.
This Matt Taibbi appears to have been a lifelong Jack of all trades. But if he could explain the subprime crash to all Americans – far from over – the US owed Matt Taibbi an enormous debt! How the biggest investment banks robbed the entire world because the toxic bonds rapid spread through global banking and all the world’s taxpayers continue pay for their heist still today. Or their Casino, if you prefer.
In the biggest debt transfer from private to public that there is memory to protect investors and creditors instead of the regular people who had nothing to do with the greed that led to the global crash! Through the rating agencies of same croocks that Russia is now also trying to get rid of. Because there is no economy without banks and the states were obliged to save the banks and transfer the debt for your balance. That all tax payers pay. All because someone in the US also remembered to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act! With almost a century old, of FDR’s fight to the crash of 1929!
Just happened to come across this today so would appreciate Larry’s take on they ex-CIA herr professor’s comments. From this take you would think that 404 is decimating the Russkies. He even refers to 404 still in Bakmudt.
I don’t have words to describe the stupidity and banality of this guy. If he is representative of the “quality” of CIA personnel then you can easily understand why the CIA is a wreck.
“Freedom of the Press, etc. and is being orchestrated – ironically enough – by Libtard left-wing Democrats!’
How many times must this be said?
Liberals and/or Democrats are not ‘left’.
They are enthusiastic proponents of the capitalist system.
Anyone who is really ‘left’ is an opponent of the capitalist system.
Calling ‘liberals’ ‘leftists’ is a smear aimed equally at both – but it is a confection of the US establishments campaign to libel ‘leftism’ as being as foul and crazy as ‘liberalism’
Again, for clarity ‘Liberals are not ‘Left’ – and the left has nothing to do with ‘Liberalism’
On the relationship between the USSR, resp. Russia and the USA, resp. NATO
NATO was founded in 1949 by the USA. The USSR wanted to join NATO. When NATO rejected this, six year later the USSR formed the Warsaw Pact in 1955 – as a reaction to this rejection. (Ideologies were different, but military alliances are another matter.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxhLkwmSu98
(The monstrous Stalin was not a Russian, but a Georgian, under whom the Russian population suffered the most).
Yeltsin and afterwards Putin also wanted to lead Russia into NATO.
Putin to Clinton during his visit to Moscow in 2000:
What does America think about Russia joining NATO?
Clinton’s response was (as Putin said) “we say very reluctant.”
Putin: “If you don’t want us as friends and allies, why are you making an enemy out of us”?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/__DnpU8-20w
Why is the USA making an “enemy” out of Russia?
Because they need such an “enemy” to be able to invest even more of their national wealth in the war machinery, to become even stronger militarily, and then to dominate the whole world.
Thereby, Russia is to be smashed, and the huge Siberian mineral resources are to be plundered. That is an old USA strategic goal. It’s (almost) always about earth resources.
Even Henry Kissinger (after his retirement) stated this publicly. But the related YouTube video has been deleted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AetGRpg0p6s&list=PLpzSpevFD7qw367OhrdLRXedgPZySrOlX&index=41
John Pilger, among many others, has also reported on this:
John Pilger’s Guide To Propaganda
(54:20 Main goal = to smash Russia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZZbK4Y-YM
That was/ is now tried with this Ukraine war organized by the USA & GB (Maidan coup in 2014 against a democratically elected president), but can by no means succeed. This time they have overestimated themselves enormously and this will have catastrophic consequences for them.
• Organizers of the Maidan coup:
• Phone call Victoria Nuland – Pyatt
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwAcbZGDXww
• Nuland phone call
• https://youtu.be/WV9J6sxCs5k
• Some White House staffers call Victoria Nuland the “Mad Jewish Arsonist of War.”
• 0:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmlScyYF_UM
• Noam Chomsky – The Crimes of U.S. Presidents
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BXtgq0Nhsc
• Wikileaks
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naLzrXvnoXE
• About Maidan coup + other coups of USA, long E
• https://youtu.be/p84KzkdKZb4
Who does not seek peace, who organizes coups of the democratically elected foreign governments, causes (by lies) and leads wars (worldwide)?
Just to mention a few examples: Hawaii, Guatemala, Panama, Vietnam (3 million murdered, mostly civilians, children, and women), Iran (1953), Iraq (1 million murdered, mostly civilians, children, and women), Syria …. up to Ukraine?
8000 murdered in Srebrenica (no children and women among them) the UN courts qualified as GENOCIDE. Compare 8000 with the above-mentioned MILLIONS.
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Just one more example:
According to the clearest report commissioned by the EU, under the leadership of Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini – Georgia was the aggressor and Russia merely retaliated, paid back, and then withdrew.
Already in 2004 and 2006 Georgia (egged on/ misused by the USA, otherwise they would never have dared) undertook military operations against Russia and the UN Security Council even passed a resolution calling on Georgia to refrain from such actions in the future.
How many of you, in your “free world” with your “free media” and “democracy” were informed objectively also in this matter?
Why don’t you know it?
Because most of the media spread the lies/ propaganda of the high-ranking NATO experts and even Jens Stoltenberg’s, who still today (06. 04. 2023) accuses Russia (against the best knowledge) to have invaded/ attacked Georgia in 2008
1: 50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bEFg9oZKeY
Such persons must not be believed a word. In Stoltenberg’s eyes you can see discomfort and fear, but he has to do it because he is ordered to do so by Washington.
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The USA government and CIA poisoned Alexey Navalny with Novichock (= typical USSR/Russian) to defame Putin. If Putin wanted to do it, he would have done it by another means.
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USA/ NATO officers and soldiers participate directly in this war against Russia from the beginning (and later this year will no longer do it secretly, but massively, but will not have much time to regret it). Proof:
Oberst bestätigt: NATO Soldaten kämpfen bereits in der Ukraine!
(2: 23 ff. High number of Western/ NATO soldiers)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wur4YRSrwIk
When you say 8000, think 6 million. Both numbers are gross exaggerations for victimology propaganda purposes. There are a lot of testimonies and clues to confirm the claim that there have been mass executions of military-age Bosnian Muslim men, there have been sporadic war crimes by paramilitaries against men they captured while they were fleeing but from all gathered material evidence, the total number of victims of such war crimes is 1800-2000 at most. And no hard evidence has ever been provided that Ratko Mladić has ordered any or had foreknowledge of them. That’s why they invented in the Hague the crime of “not knowing but being in a position to know and doing nothing to prevent”. The court decisions in the ICTY, I have read those against Karadžić and Mladić and several other Serbs, have been so egregious, I very much doubt they would have passed any regular court anywhere in the world. But then, the indictments against Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova tell you all you need to know about legal standards in international courts.
PS: Though when I say any regular court in the world, I may be having a pipe dream, given the “legal” persecution of Julian Assange.
The day after Sebrenica fell my Dutch liberal newspaper NRC (www.nrc.nl) published an article that said that in the three years the town had been protected by Dutch forces Muslim terrorists operating from the town had murdered between 1200 and 1500 Serbian people living in the nearby area. This was the first and the last time the paper wrote about this matter and I hadn’t seen it mentioned elsewhere.
I recall that the very first trial of people accused of war crimes in Bosnia nd Hercegovina was some Serbian nobody of low rank. The prosecution spent most of its time making a case for crime of “Joint Criminal Enterprise”. This had nothing to do with the accused and so I presume his lawyer ignored this. Well, the outcome was predictable, else they would not have picked this particular accused but the guilty verdict also established the crime of “Joint Criminal Enterprise” as being a proven fact by default. People that this was intended to be applied to were not there to dispute this at the outset of this and I guess when it mattered, it was already a undisputed fact by virtue of prior court case. After watching countless police shows and court dramas on TV, from USA, I can only imagine that this maneuver was something that US members of prosecution would have brought to the table.
Indeed. Contrary to continental law where every case must be judged on its own merit, such initial cases in the ICTY served the purpose of creating legal “innovations” that could be used as precedents.
From https://iqdecision.com/en/the-continental-and-common-law-judicial-systems/
“The court decision [in Common Law] when approved, becomes mandatory in the subsequent consideration of similar cases. This creates a principle with the binding force of law.”
I can’t belive that people still buy that shit. They have realised that CNN is lying about everything now, but still can’t grasp that it was lying all the time. All of those CNN war crimes were fake.
CNN was created for that purpose. For US wars propaganda! Eventually some CIA department. I think even Americans forget that in just 3 wars the US spent 60 years at war after WW2! And today the problem is much more serious than Eisenhower’s simple warning about the MIC. The problem is the financial power that also holds the MIC. The problem is the financial markets after Bill Clinton’s deregulation of the financial markets! It was this deregulation that killed industrial capitalism, the economy, democracy and US sovereignty! And it is from this financial power that controls globalism that the global south is now trying to escape! Which eventually will still generate some more wars. The financial power of neoliberalism, from the big corporations to the biggest fortunes, from the big banks to the biggest investment funds it originated, that today 1% of the global population owns more wealth than the remaining 99% according to the late Credit Suisse! And that only the richest 1% already hold 50% or more of all the money in the world! And war and the natural resources that wars allow to steal is just one of the areas of activity that contribute to the concentration of world wealth as we know it today. On the way to feudalism.
The best definition we can find today for the US after WW2 is that it was essentially a state of war and it’s always just a matter of guessing the next one. I even ask how they found time for so many wars? That in this century alone, according to the latest study by Brown University, produced 4 million deaths and 40 million refugees.
Lest we forget, the United States has instigated the vast majority (80 percent) of the 200 or so armed conflicts that are estimated to have occurred globally from the end of World War Two until 2001. If we include the post-9/11 Decades up to the present, the American responsibility for global violence might be as high as 90-95 percent. And this is for a nation whose population is only 4.25 % of the globe. How utterly nefarious and condemnable is that odious record?
It justifies a television like CNN! With its employees always staying in entire floors of the best hotels in all theaters of operation and the war in Yugoslavia was a good example. Where they only moved in better armor vehicles than most Chiefs of Staff in the entire world. To report US war propaganda to us!
Very informative comment. Thank you
For Memorial Day:
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/memorial-service/
Stalin was not a “monster”. You are willing to question contemporary propaganda but believe everything that was said in the past must be true? Why on Earth would that be the case?
The “Vampire Squid” image will never be forgiven by well need i say?
I like Taibbi. He has guts. He’d have to, to have gone out on so many limbs over the years but while being grilled in Congress, he folded like a cheap umbrella.
Sorry, Matt – I watched this hearing and I don’t recall Taibbi “folding like a cheap umbrella.” I found the whole thing (Congress hearing) rather surreal, and this fake representative, Plaskett, plain rabid. Everybody fancies himself, the hero, watching a battle from the sidewalk. Would you do better in his shoes?
That’s exactly my point. To be subjected to the surreal slings and arrows unleashed at Taibbi by such Democrats and to respond factually yet meekly, to me is ‘folding like a cheap umbrella’…and this was while he had so many Republicans running interference for him.
Maybe, as a liberal it had something to do with his discomfort at being attacked by so-called ‘liberal democrats’ in such a ‘surreal’ and insulting way and equally supported by conservatives, both in furtherance of their agendas that had nothing to do with his own, or maybe it was his breaking voice that unfortunately carries little authority in itself, or maybe it was the realization that to stand too firm before his inquisitors would relegate his entire career and future to the funeral pyres (which they’re attempting anyway).
Maybe I’m being too harsh and yes, you’re right. I might have done no better in his shoes although I flatter myself to imagine otherwise from my armchair. I’m confrontational by nature with (sometimes to my detriment), a voice that’d have overshadowed those hearings and probably would have been called in contempt numerous times (if they have such a thing in those hearings). This crap just has gone on too long for a functioning ‘democracy’, even in name only and is leading nowhere but to the horsemen of nuclear apocalypse that are slowly beginning to appear in every thinking man’s rearview mirror. Not sure if I’d done what he’d done in 90’s Moscow though with the Exile. I was there at that time too just making money and used to read his stuff. He has balls, to be sure.
Sorry for the rant. These are rant-invoking times we live in.
Speaking of Paskett, why are black women always so angry and full of rage?
Because black men prefer white women.
Washinton D.C. operates like WWE (pro wrestling), except WWE is an honest business, while D.C. is a Mafia that survives on the ignorance of voters.
When somebody like Taibbi or Trump starts to expose the con, the D.C. Mafia orders them gone.
Kayfabe
I first learned of Taibbi when he wrote a column entitled Flathead in 2005 mocking imbecile Thomas Friedman. While it’s probably generally best to not mock the imbecilic, Friedman deserved it fully, as he’d been embraced by the elites as a Deep Thinker. Last time I saw Friedman’s wiki page (which I’m sure he manages himself), his picture shows him deep-thinking.
Taibbi also described Goldman Sachs as a “Giant Vampire Squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.”
How can you not like a guy like that?
“It’s all right when we do it.”
To reprise an old Dead Kennedys’ song,
🎶
If you demonstrate against somebody we like
I’ll slip on my wig and see if I can start a riot
Transform you to an angry mob
And all your leaders go to jail for my job
But we ain’t the Russians, political trials are taboo
We’ve got our secret ways of getting rid of you
Fill you full of LSD
And turn you loose on a freeway, whee!
I am the owl
I seek out the foul
Wipe ’em away, keep America free
For clean-livin’ folks like me.
🎶
Nothing changes…
California Über Alles, Ukraine too, Germany not so much.
Thank God for gutsy guys like Taibbi, Glenn Greenwald, Max Blumenthal,
Aaron Mate, and of course, Julian Assange.
Few people could withstand the kind of crap they face day-in day-out just reporting the truth.
“It is not our task to secure the triumph
of truth but merely to fight on its behalf.”
—Blaise Pascal
Matt Taibbi was always an honest progressive like Jimmy Dore and so I have always been able to listen to them. Although I’m constitutional populist.
Dore is amazing and I can listen to him all day. He’s said he must be a populist now since progressives do something or other that irritates him. Sorry. I can’t recall what it was. Greenwald was interviewing him….
He’s still strongly in favor of “Medicare for all” and he doesn’t seem to care that “provide health care to all” isn’t one of the enumerated powers. But a class act any way you slice it. He started doing his videos in his garage with his wife’s help.
I am concerned that the vax may have done him some real harm….
I am always amazed at how Larry is able to connect so many dots in so many places. Now, Taibbi. Of course, that is actually “Daniel L” but kudos to Larry for guesting writers like Daniel and others so their voice can be heard. I’m lucky to work here in Tokyo, where the Japanese just don’t care much about crazy foreigners who write in that not-real language English. “Gaijin” does not equal foreigner. Rather it means “Outsider”. Kinda like the Village Idiot. But I get hired on occasion precisely for that “outsider” point of view to sort out some of the confusion about the bewildering world of the West.
There is a lot of information on the Internet and elsewhere — and it is easy to drown on it.
Analysts like Larry, Brian Berletic, Alex Mercouris, Aleks at Black Mountain Analysis, John Helms, Alastair Crooke and others throw us lifelines to keep our heads about water.
Analysts like Larry, Brian Berletic, Alex Mercouris, Aleks at Black Mountain Analysis, John Helms, Alastair Crooke and others throw us lifelines to keep our heads about water.
So, why do I still feel like I’m drowning?
(I’ve never felt this way before, ever – so I know it’s not a neurosis).
Because ignorance is bliss. Knowing that things are going bad, and being completly powerless to change anything feels quite unpleasant.
Hands up those who would be surprised when – not ‘if’ – Taibbi finds himself banned anew on Twatters.
If only for lese majeste.
Nah, nor will I.
A defector from Rolling Stoned, this almost gave me some hope for a few seconds.
South Park was also good at dumping on everybody and there was a recent substack riff on the hilarious Team America-World Police body parts song regarding Brandon, the Cackler and the current state of society post COV-LARP.
What was the breaking point for comrade Tiabbi, the Boston Crock Potter on the cover or the CPUSA (D) going full NSDAP?
Vigano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXXM_BH4b7Y
Conoco…a pvt Houson TX company…is being protected by US Troops in Syria.t Syria, the kurds…Isis…its’ lots of fun.
$3
We have been sold out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndt3PPp_T2s
Do you think Black Rock would have you killed…for talking about the UKR deal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndt3PPp_T2s
The elites in USA/EU censor anything and everything that runs against their own interests. Unfortunately, since last week the Moon of Alabama website has become unreachable from this location i.e. Iran-Tehran, showing Access Denied. Do other commenters face similar issue with the MoA? Is it being hacked by the same democratic body?!!
Working here in 🇬🇧 .
Nothing new from Bernard for a couple of days. He does go offline periodically. Should be back soon.
Why, no one asks the question what about Gonzalo Lira, what about him, is he alive.
Regarding Mr. Lira, it looks like the US State Dept. is not going to help to free him. We might have better luck appealing to the Chilean diplomatic services to intervene, if they haven’t already, since I believe Gonzalo had dual citizenship.
Chile will do what Washington tells it to do, in this case nothing
Here is an update on Gonzalo and what The State Department is doing to get him released from a Ukraine prison:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-05-28/state-department-pleads-fifth-when-asked-about-american-detained-ukraine
You can say anything but the truth in the US. If you try, someone is going to deny it and offer reams of proof from deep in the shaft they hid the new documents in. Automatically. This suggests disruption is part of the plan. It is both ends of the UniCon Party. They are waiting to recall the troops and think they are going to protect them?
Investigations of why 2/3’s of our government is taking bribes, insider trading, secret offshore retirement accounts for those underpaid civil servants. I wonder how many are involved in schemes making bank off of their Ukraine connection. If they won’t investigate crimes that appear to be treason, what exactly is left of our institutions?
He is some more irony, a real head scratcher, from Foreign Policy magazine of all places:
A Day Inside Putin’s Surreal Television Empire
“How the nonstop blare of Russian state media fuels the war effort—and blurs reality.”
https://archive.fo/Sc37D
If you just switched the names from Putin to Biden and the show hosts to Joe Scarborough, Rachel Maddow & Whoopi Goldberg, the article could be reprinted under the title: “A Day Inside Biden’s Surreal Television Empire, How the nonstop blare of United States’ state media fuels the war effort—and blurs reality.”
What is really so interesting is that in Russia the people support their leadership and the struggle in Ukraine and the majority of the Global South are with them… however, the message delivered by the much better funded and more sophisticated US/Western media, that this is a war was unprovoked, being fought to save democracy and that Russia is a threat to the world falls flat to a good many in the United States and the majority in Global South.
It seems like Russian media is more in accordance with the reality that everyday people perceive than the US media which requires you to continuously suspend common sense and believe in the most unlikely and absurd scenarios.
My guess here is that most of us at Sonar21 would prefer Russian media, which sounds more in accordance with Matt Taibbi, Glen Greenwald, John Mearsheimer, Aaron Mate, Tucker Carlson, Scott Ritter, Gonzalo Lira, Douglas Macgregor, etc.
The fact that this was published in Foreign Policy indicates that our elites are blind to or actually believe in the Western propaganda. (sigh)
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2023/05/28/exposing-democracy-now-as-democracy-never-deceit-to-hide-dictatorship-by-the-billionaires/ Matt should be quetioned on what he thinks of Amy Goodman at Democracy now funded by Soros
Back when I was a tad younger & more left leaning . . . . (I’m too much of a ‘tell-the-truth’, look after the weak to have stayed a liberal the way the prog lunatics have 180ed it) I saw a video of some citizen journalist trying to get a quote from Amy Goodman on 9/11 & the “inconsistencies” in the ‘official narrative’. She ran like a cat with a pack of Pit Bulls chasing it!! So just another bought-&-paid-for pretend alternative journo.
@Rokossovsky above gave a reasonable list of Journos/opinionists to listen too (over Ukraine at least) plus Larry, John Helmer (“Dances with Bears”),Brian Berletic (“New Atlas”) & Jimmy Dore for his anti war stance. Apologies to any I’ve missed that I will no doubt remember as soon as I push ‘Post Comment’
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According to the News channel Vesti another Patriot air defense system was destroyed near Kiev (Zhuliany airport) during the latest massive attack with drones, cruise missiles, etc. Another billion dollars up in smoke?
https://www.vesti.ru/article/3377110
During the attack on Kyiv near the Zhuliany airport, an “imported air defense installation” was destroyed. This is reported by a number of media and telegram channels. According to some reports, we are talking about the American-made Patriot anti-aircraft missile system.
Also, according to preliminary information, the launch base for Ukrainian drones became the target of Russian missiles. Kiev air defense was taken by surprise .
Earlier, another massive blow was dealt to the capital Nezalezhnaya [= 404 Not Found]. They became a response to the terrorist act of the Ukrainian special services against the Crimean bridge. It is known that during the previous attack, local residents were not allowed into the subway .
The vaunted Patriot has already become a victim of Russian weapons: on May 16, the Ministry of Defense reported on the destruction of an air defense system hidden in a residential area with a hypersonic “Dagger”. Then the enemy lost five launchers of the battery of the American missile defense system.
“It’s Memorial Day weekend. Do you think this is what so many fought and died for to be happening in the USA or funded with your tax dollars and mine?”
American Tax dollars? Oh please. Get real.
The IRS is collecting record taxes and still running record deficits. Debt is what is running the government not American Taxpayer Dollars. American Taxpayer Dollars mean nothing. The American Taxpayer means nothing.
Write about that. Celebrate that.
The anonymous author of this article might as well be a party troll, just like Matt Taibbi.
Matt Taibbi wrote for “The Rolling Stone Magazine,” once a beacon for everything that was once great and wonderful about the United States, and is now one of the biggest sellouts to the current regime running the United States. Just like Matt Taibbi. The magazine is a picture postcard perfect representation of a totally controlled, manipulated, propagandized mainstream U.S. Media. Just like Matt Taibbi.
Now Matt Taibbi is running around essentially saying: “I used to be a member of the Nazi Party.” Once a Nazi, always a Nazi. Once a cheater, always a cheater.
@ blame-e:
This is a drive-by comment and you should be banned because your attempted character assassination is entirely fact-free. It’s a lie to quote Taibibi as ever having been a Nazi. Pure fabrication. Ethnically at least, Taibibi is Jewish, and unlike a few famous Jews in the Ukraine, he has never had any association with Nazis of any stripe.
I’ve been reading Matt Taibibi for 20 years now, off and on, starting when he wrote for Exiled Online. When he and Mark Ames left Russia in a hurry (a somewhat funny story; their prank with a fake fax p.o.’d the wrong people in Moscow), and moved back to the US, Taibibi’s writing became more relevant. Some of his Rolling Stone pieces were absolutely superb and extremely important, while others were “Meh.” If Taibibi ever did anything underhanded, I’ve never seen it. Anyone who wants to make that claim has the burden of providing the evidence. So either post your links to whatever sort of proof you think you have, or else stay off the site. Obviously I don’t speak for the site owner, but I do speak for everyone who wants to keep garbage out of the comments.
I’m back in the USSA,
You don’t know how lucky you’re gay,
Back in the US
Back in the US
Back in the USSA
Well the tranny girls really knock me out, …
( Lenin and McCarthy )
Very witty
This notion that Americans fought and died for our freedoms is a joke. Besides the Revolutionary War all the other US wars were for conquest. Just rile the rubes and off they go to die for some politician’s wet dream. If only our dumb leaders would have listened to George Washinton’s wise counsel. …
Even the “Revolutionary War” was really fought for conquest – the English Government was preventing the colonies from attacking and colonizing the Native American lands to the west…
While China reaches for the stars
https://www.rt.com/news/577078-china-manned-moon-mission/
US politicians reach into children’s undies
https://www.marshallnewsmessenger.com/opinion/ann-coulter-the-great-epstein-cover-up-part-1/article_d55f41ae-731f-11ec-b6e2-336d5f7e8090.html
People look at me like I am insane when I say I plan on moving overseas. Those countries are crazy! They’ll just throw you in jail!
Taibbi. IRS agents at the door. He had visibility and money to fight it. They have weaponized the IRS. The DOJ. The FBI. I am a retired police officer. Some of you folks don’t understand how this works. They’ll find someone. A true scumbag. He gets arrested. He already has some hits. Looking at some serious time. Do you know anything about Joe? Yeah, if you know “anything” about Joe, we could cut you a deal. And he “remembers” something. And a friendly judge gives the warrant. And then during the warrant? The thumbdrive gets put on your computer. And “then” they find the kiddie porn on it. And that means that your kids get taken and put in a gladiator childcare facility for their “safety”.
They’ll come at you sideways. They will come at your wife. Your kids. Your family. You think you are going to fight them? Do you have anything you care for? A dog? They will kill it. Or worse? They will seize it. And put it in a facility that death would be a relief from.
This is America. And they are just getting started.
Curt, thanks for this honest description of reality in the US today.
I suspect it has been the reality for part of the population for a long time but has now been extended to anyone who is not aligned with the deep state.
Exile content is still available online.
Read it to understand what Russia was like in the mid to late 90s, and the sheer comedy that often arose from really fucked up material that was true.
Reading their stuff also should help people understand just how straitlaced even the “gonzo” media types in the heyday of supposed American democratic journalism was. A very 90s style of journalism like Motley Crue’s legendary touring behavior.
http://www.exiledonline.com
Yes, the Exiled Online.com had lots of material where first you laugh but then you think a bit more and you want to cry. It showed something of what Russia descended to, in the 1990’s, but you have to get beneath the layer of expat privilege, which Ames and Taibibi almost always did, somewhere in each of their stories.
Weird. That link dead ended. But this one worked: http://exiledonline.com
Yeah, I used to read it – especially “the war nerd”. I miss him.
BTW, what is the mystery here people?
The jews of the CCCP and Deutschland have moved the center of their operation here(US) long time ago. Add the 1965 immigration act, Jackson-Venik and You have the U.S.SR V.1.2 here. Or the Weimar Republic.
It is a carbon copy.
These are the sort of environments jews establish to be able to live as they see fit.
Then they usually need to move out fast – if history is any indication…
– by Libtard left-wing Democrats!
Seriously, since Julian Assange was arrested during the Trump administration maybe the conTards of right-wing Republicans should not point fingers.
Maybe party politics is a retard cult, and card carrying members are down with the retard sickness. Unless Americans can spit out the red and blue pill into face of our oligarch overlords, nothing in this country is ever going to change.
I saw this term for Nazi Era government
agency.
Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment.
That is a perfect name for our mainstream media and St. Pierre’s job function.
At this point, one has to ask a simple, two-part question. Just exactly WHY is truth being suppressed in “the West” and what “good” is it supposed to do to expose and detail the truth?
The logical answer to the latter part is that the vast majority of “the People” would vote differently than they have in previous elections if they knew “the truth”, right? After all, how else do The People get rid of 536 warmongering Rs and Ds if not by not voting for them and instead voting for other parties and their candidates? — by violent revolution? And if violent revolution, just exactly WHAT happens the day AFTER that violent revolution?
If getting rid of these warmongering Rs and Ds is NOT the goal of all the alternative media people, just exactly WHAT is — provoking miraculous divine intervention?
Here’s something that I’ve never heard coming out of all the alternative media’s collective mouths. Shouting to “the world” that they have to stop buying US treasury bonds, because it is only by the sale of those bonds that “the US” can afford to conduct its perpetual wars of theft, sanction and regime-change on the world.
Why do all these brilliant people (Hudson, Desai, Wolff, Ritter, MacGreggor, Johnson, Martyanov, Raevski, Lauria, Galloway, Chomsky, etc. etc. etc.) never speak this ultimate truth — that when people, central banks, mutual funds, hedge funds, etc. buy treasuries, they become accessories to the US’s crimes against humanity?
Because the very existence of “the US” depends upon “the US” going ever deeper into debt, in perpetuity, the legislative branch is, once again, giving the “Treasury” (what a misnomer!) permission to raise the “debt ceiling” (to borrow even more trillions from insatiable creditors) and then the tsunami of bond sales will begin.
Just think. What if there are no buyers of those trillions of bonds? Would the Federal Reserve become the one and only buyer? It would be nice to find out.
Let’s face it. Other than 100 million US voters NOT voting for Rs or Ds in future elections, the only other legal way that the US’s perpetual wars will stop is if “investors” stop “investing” in US Treasuries and the perpetual wars that that “investment” money is funding.
Wouldn’t this be something worth repeating day after day after day instead of trying to come up with some reason why “the US” behaves the way “it” does? BTW, “it” behaves the way it does because “investors” tell “it” to behave that way every time they “invest” in US Treasury bonds, not because “it” just plain hates Russians.
I have been thinking along the same lines, I can’t remember where I heard this, but “corrupt money creates a corrupt culture”. At 69, I am afraid of financial collapse, as all my savings would probably be worthless, but more and more I think that may be the only way to give the g-kids a fighting chance to rebuild.
@ Rachelk, that is why you should spread your risk, not have all your accumulated wealth in the form of USD in bank accounts or pension accounts (assuming that is where you are). Some in cash USD, sure. Depending on how wealthy you are, have a big proportion of it in real wealth – your own debt-free house, a vegetable garden, your own energy supply if possible, useful practical skills and in a community that offers some real security. Beyond that, in other forms of money to store value in. Only two seem at all viable at this time – gold/silver in your own possession and Bitcoin in your own cold wallet. This way you have some insurance for a variety of scenarios ranging from severe societal collapse to a transition to a new money-economy. One or more of these might not prove useful, but unlikely that all will fail you in being able to provide you with shelter, food and some security beyond the next meal. The world will not end (well, unless . . . ) and life will go on and people will continue to be economic animals. A new equilibrium will be reached eventually. Hope this helps.
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27508/4770207/
Mercenaries from the United States and Poland took part in an attempt to break through a sabotage group in the Belgorod region
Why did we respond to the Belgorod raid with missiles, but not with an informational counterattack?
This week, Belgorod confirmed that during the breakout of saboteurs into the region, foreign mercenaries, including those from Poland and the United States, took part in the action. The West pretended not to notice the invasion of former NATO servicemen into the territory of the Russian Federation.
We talked about this on Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda on the air of Igor Vittel and Ivan Pankin with Andrey Marochko , a military expert, retired lieutenant colonel of the LPR.
– The governor of the Belgorod region Gladkov said that among the saboteurs who attacked his region were Poles and Americans.
– Our command very correctly reacts to such provocations. That’s just in the information field, this is not much advertised. Our attacks on enemy temporary deployment points have become more frequent. Recently, such a point was destroyed in the Kharkiv region, where foreign mercenaries were based.
– Why did such an operation by Ukraine towards Belgorod become possible?
– There was serious training by NATO instructors, professional saboteurs who developed this operation. I do not agree that it was just a “sabotage group”.
– What was it?
– This is a small military special operation. There were also tanks and foreign armored vehicles. Foreigners themselves actively participated there.
Why don’t we focus on these facts?
– If this happened three or four years ago, there would be uproar in the world community. And we would ring all the bells. And now everyone understands that, in fact, the entire NATO bloc is waging a proxy war with us.
– Are Ukrainians running out in Ukraine?
– Yes. If you open Ukrainian social networks, everything is flooded with pictures of new cemeteries, videos of laying flowers on the graves of boys who still have to live and live. In the Donbass, a huge number of them found themselves a fate that was not at all valiant. Now in some areas, including in Artemovsk, after demining, the bodies of the dead are being searched. Many find Ukrainian militants, who are almost impossible to identify.
– And they find mercenaries?
– The fact that foreigners are present here is not news. In 2014, the regular army of Ukraine already had an international brigade. It included mercenaries from the Baltic countries and Poland. And its number was about 3 thousand people.
– And now?
– Approximately 20-30 thousand foreigners on the territory of Ukraine participate in hostilities on the side of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. These are people from post-Soviet countries.
– Do we take into account this specificity?
Yes, they are taking action. Including, in order to further neutralize such provocations on the part of the militants.
– There is no feeling that we are weakly working out such intrusions in terms of information?
– This is a problematic issue. There are few information specialists in our military structures. Many officials believe that the information field is not the most important thing. The main thing is success on the battlefields. But there is a hybrid war going on. Time is often lost during approvals – a key factor in the information field. It is necessary to reconsider tactics and strategy in this regard.
– Do we need a similar center like CIPSO in Ukraine?
– Needed. And he should be engaged in monitoring social networks, information space, supplying operational information, sending out to all news agencies. Reports of the Ministry of Defense are very stingy. Now there are speakers in the field. But the process is slow.
– And how do we need to work in the information direction?
– It is necessary to clearly identify problematic issues and deal with the fight against the enemy with his own weapons with the involvement of professionals.
This Matt Taibbi appears to have been a lifelong Jack of all trades. But if he could explain the subprime crash to all Americans – far from over – the US owed Matt Taibbi an enormous debt! How the biggest investment banks robbed the entire world because the toxic bonds rapid spread through global banking and all the world’s taxpayers continue pay for their heist still today. Or their Casino, if you prefer.
In the biggest debt transfer from private to public that there is memory to protect investors and creditors instead of the regular people who had nothing to do with the greed that led to the global crash! Through the rating agencies of same croocks that Russia is now also trying to get rid of. Because there is no economy without banks and the states were obliged to save the banks and transfer the debt for your balance. That all tax payers pay. All because someone in the US also remembered to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act! With almost a century old, of FDR’s fight to the crash of 1929!
Just happened to come across this today so would appreciate Larry’s take on they ex-CIA herr professor’s comments. From this take you would think that 404 is decimating the Russkies. He even refers to 404 still in Bakmudt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJz49ZyID-c
I don’t have words to describe the stupidity and banality of this guy. If he is representative of the “quality” of CIA personnel then you can easily understand why the CIA is a wreck.
“Freedom of the Press, etc. and is being orchestrated – ironically enough – by Libtard left-wing Democrats!’
How many times must this be said?
Liberals and/or Democrats are not ‘left’.
They are enthusiastic proponents of the capitalist system.
Anyone who is really ‘left’ is an opponent of the capitalist system.
Calling ‘liberals’ ‘leftists’ is a smear aimed equally at both – but it is a confection of the US establishments campaign to libel ‘leftism’ as being as foul and crazy as ‘liberalism’
Again, for clarity ‘Liberals are not ‘Left’ – and the left has nothing to do with ‘Liberalism’
I remember Taibbi and Ames when they were publishing The Exile. That paper was some outrageously funny shit.
no american soldier ever died for “freedom.” not one.
perhaps that’s what they believed. but USA has always been a cartel of private capital speculators and financiers. that’s who the soldiers die for.