Posts Tagged ‘journalism’

NY Times “reporters” ask Ukrainian Nazis to hide their Nazi patches for photographs. That is pure propaganda.

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Journalists Are Asking Ukrainian Soldiers To Hide Their Nazi Patches, NYT Admits

Bob Roberts, thirty years later, remains the most poignant, hard-hitting American political film of all time.

“And they complain and complain and complain and complain and complain.”
–Bob

Bob Roberts is one of the most hard-hitting, smart, and funny political satires ever produced in the U.S. This is a “mockumentary” supposedly produced by a British team assigned to cover the senatorial campaign of Bob Roberts.

Roberts (Tim Robbins) is running to be senator of Pennsylvania, and he is up against Gore Vidal’s incumbent character, a tired, worn-out pragmatist.

As a mockumentary, everything plays as in real time, and the camera runs on, much as This Is Spinal Tap purported to do previously.

The “crypto-fascist clown” Roberts is also on a folk-music tour for the entire film. He has combined reactionary-right “folk” music, his stock trading operation, and his political campaign into one tsunami of entertainment and political intrigue.

Tim Robbins, we find out, can actually sing as Roberts twists around Bob Dylan type protest songs into mangled anthems of nationalism and greed. The lyrics are “Let the Eagle Soar” button-pushers. One could imagine Ashcroft and Condi Rice belting out a few of Roberts’ fictional songs, if the real world crypto-fascist clowns were unaware of the authorship.

Even the media’s ownership is fair game, something hardly ever seen in this country. The “Saturday Night Live” type variety show is called out. John Cusack, the “host,” and one of the show’s producers rebel against “corporate” and their accommodation of Roberts on the eve of the election.

This is a high-stakes battle, seemingly for the soul of America. Roberts is the new breed of yuppie corporate authoritarians, and his ruthless immorality seeks to sweep away the old more liberal status quo.

Characters represent Iran/Contra styled insiders. Alan Rickman plays an Oliver North type covert law-breaker. He’s on Roberts’ staff.

Bugs Raplin, played flawlessly by Giancarlo Esposito, is Roberts’ nemesis. A radical journalist in search of the truth is the enemy of the crypto-fascist. It’s all so well done I can’t recommend this film highly enough. Funny and yet terrifying because as far as it goes out on a limb, it’s probably still not far enough.

“…the My Lai massacre revelation. That story was published in five installments, over five weeks in 1969, by the underground media group Dispatch News. I had tried to get the two most important magazines in America, Life and Look, to publish the story, with no success. Editors at both publications had earlier invited me to do some freelance writing for them, but they wanted nothing to do with a story about a massacre committed by American soldiers.”

The Crap on the Wall
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BELLINGSHAT discredited by its own sponsors in MI6.

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Consortium News interviews Hersh.

Western media “whitewashing” Ukraine conflict. Systemic censorship. War since 2014.

What the CIA’s Nazi friends do

Covert Action Quarterly:

Ukrainian “Hit List” Publishes Names and Addresses of Alleged “Russian Propagandists:” Turns Out To Be Based Not in Ukraine But in Langley VA

“The West is supporting Nazis and delivering them weapons to kill civilians.”

Alina Lipp

“German journalist Alina Lipp said she was facing three years in prison in her home country for her reporting on crimes committed by Ukrainian forces against civilians. She also said that Germany would hold court hearings without her. They will not allow her to present her case as it would hamper the process. She is accused by the German authorities of supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine and faces three years in prison under article 140 of the constitution or a monetary fine.” – India Today

The Gray Zone

Scott Ritter & Richard Medhurst

Ritter calls Azov a “regiment” instead of a battalion, but it is widespread across Ukraine. These old labels serve to obfuscate how many members it has–of course by design.

“[Ukraine] is allowing tens of thousands to exist.”

Scott Ritter