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Moment Of Clarity with Lee Camp    

Geopolitical Economy Report   US politicians are scapegoating China and Mexico for the deadly opioid crisis, but it was actually caused by large pharmaceutical corporations like Purdue Pharma, owned by the billionaire Sackler family, which made huge profits by lying about highly addictive drugs such as OxyContin and flooding poor states with painkillers.  

globinfo freexchange   Όπως είχαμε γράψει ήδη από τον Δεκέμβριο του 21, οι ολιγάρχες ξέρουν καλά ότι ο Μητσοτάκης δεν πρόκειται να πετύχει ξανά αυτοδυναμία σε επόμενες εκλογές, όποτε και αν γίνουν αυτές. Γι'αυτό και ετοιμάζονται για το Plan B, που είναι μια νέα συγκυβέρνηση ΝΔ-ΚΙΝΑΛ.  Τα σχέδια όμως χάλασαν, αφού η αποκάλυψη του μεγάλου σκανδάλου των υποκλοπών, με αρχι-υποκλοπέα τον Μητσοτάκη και έναν εκ των παρακολουθούμενων, τον Ανδρουλάκη, έκαψε το χαρτί συγκυβέρνησης ΝΔ-ΚΙΝΑΛ τουλάχιστον με τα σημερινά δεδομένα. Παρόλο που είναι βέβαιο ότι διάφοροι βαρόνοι-μνηστήρες της ηγετικής καρέκλας στη ΝΔ επιθυμούν διακαώς να ξεφορτωθούν τον Μητσοτάκη (και για τον λόγο ότι δεν θέλουν να τους συμπαρασύρει σε μια πιθανή εκλογική συντριβή), ο Μητσοτάκης κατάφερε να επιβιώσει ακόμα και μετά από δύο προτάσεις μομφής εναντίον του. Και αυτό γιατί πιθανόν να τους απειλεί με αποκάλυψη βρόμικων υποθέσεων που προέκυψαν από τις παρακολουθήσεις. Τώρα όμως οι μπλε βαρόνοι σε συνεργασία με τους ολιγάρ

At least two 9/11 hijackers had been recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation that was covered up at the highest level, according to an explosive new court filing. by Kit Klarenberg Part 3 - A most ‘unusual’ CIA unit   Alec Station’s formal remit was to track bin Laden, “ collect intelligence on him, run operations against him, disrupt his finances, and warn policymakers about his activities and intentions. ” These activities would naturally entail enlisting informants within Al Qaeda. Nonetheless, as several high level sources told Canestraro, it was extremely “unusual” for such an entity to be involved in gathering intelligence and recruiting assets. The US-based unit was run by CIA analysts, who do not typically manage human assets. Legally, that work is the exclusive preserve of case officers “ trained in covert operations ” and based overseas. “CS-10”, a CIA case officer within Alec Station, concurred with the proposition that Hazmi and Mihdhar enjoyed a relationshi

The Grayzone Jeremy Loffredo reports from Paris for The Grayzone , covering the national uprising against French President Emmanuel Macron's plans to impose neoliberal austerity measures through unpopular pension reforms. Hear from the protest rank-and-file as they describe repression at the hands of militarized police, arbitrary jailing, and their fight against the billionaire president's aggressive rollback of economic rights.  

The Jimmy Dore Show   For more than a decade Syria under President Bashar al-Assad has been ostracized by most other Arab nations and excluded from the Arab League. But now that’s changed and Syria has been invited to re-join — a move that has left the United States apoplectic. But it seems that other member states don’t much care what the U.S. wants as they demonstrate an increasing willingness to thumb their noses at the globe’s declining superpower.  

Geopolitical Economy Report   Economist Michael Hudson responds to the misleading arguments against de-dollarization that New York Times columnist Paul Krugman made, as part of an attempt to defend US hegemony and the dollar system. 

Amid a national hysteria claiming the popular video-sharing app is a Chinese Trojan Horse, a MintPress News investigation has found dozens of ex-U.S. State Department officials working in key positions at TikTok.     by Alan Macleod Part 2 - State Department-affiliated media   For quite some time, TikTok has been recruiting former State Department officials to run its operations. The company’s head of data public policy for Europe, for example, is Jade Nester. Before being recruited for that influential role, Nester was a senior official in Washington, serving for four years as the State Department’s director of Internet public policy. Mariola Janik, meanwhile, left a long and fruitful career in the government to work for TikTok. Starting out at the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Janik became a career diplomat in the State Department before moving to the Department of Homeland Security. In September, however, she left the government to immediately take up the position of TikTok’

Thirteen ways of looking at disinformation   by Jacob Siegel   Part 1 - Prologue: The Information War  In 1950, Sen. Joseph McCarthy claimed that he had proof of a communist spy ring operating inside the government. Overnight, the explosive accusations blew up in the national press, but the details kept changing. Initially, McCarthy said he had a list with the names of 205 communists in the State Department; the next day he revised it to 57. Since he kept the list a secret, the inconsistencies were beside the point. The point was the power of the accusation, which made McCarthy’s name synonymous with the politics of the era. For more than half a century, McCarthyism stood as a defining chapter in the worldview of American liberals: a warning about the dangerous allure of blacklists, witch hunts, and demagogues. Until 2017, that is, when another list of alleged Russian agents roiled the American press and political class. A new outfit called Hamilton 68 claimed to have discovered hundre

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