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 Covid is a Global Propaganda Operation                                               https://rumble.com/vkppo0-covid-is-a-global-propaganda-operation.html At the link you'll find an interview, at Asia Pacific on Rumble, with Dr Piers Robinson, who is an expert on communication, media and world politics, focusing on conflict and war and especially the role of propaganda. He is presently Co-Director of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies, Convenor of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media and Associated Researcher with the Working Group on Propaganda and the 9/11 'War on Terror’ From 2016 – 2019, he was Professor and Chair in Politics, Society and Political Journalism at the University of Sheffield. Dr Robinson has served on the boards of several academic journals. He has lectured at the NATO Defense College in Rome and briefed senior UK military commander...

  WE ARE MANY. THE OPPRESSORS ARE NOT. By Hiroyuki Hamada  Source : https://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2021/08/03/we-are-many-the-oppressors-are-not/ Kadhim Hayder (1932-1985), title unknown, Iraq   I remember chatting with a man from Iraq in 2016.  He was driving a taxi in Germany.  I wrote about him in one of my essays [1]: “Last month, I was chatting with an Iraqi taxi driver in Berlin. My 12 year old son and I took a cab from the Museum for Contemporary Art to our hotel. I couldn’t help but ask the cab driver why he ended up in Berlin. He said it was something to do with the availability of the visa. He stressed that he had to leave because he didn’t like Islam. He said Muslims were killing each other.   I felt very slightly sad because he sounded like he had to say that to prove that he wasn’t a “terrorist”. I told him that it was the US that supported Saddam when it was convenient. Then, the US flipped, changing its policy, as doing ...

Germany’s largest newspaper BILD apologizes for Covid coverage -- 'We ask your forgiveness'... Are we witnessing the first stirrings of an adversarial press?

  FASCISM: THREE BRIEF INSIGHTS Source:  https://winteroak.org.uk/2021/06/10/fascism-three-brief-insights/ by  winter oak by  Paul Cudenec I seem to have spent a lot of time over the last few years reading and writing about fascism, rather than about the positive ideas which inspire me. I have felt obliged to do so because of our society’s worrying general blindness concerning what fascism was, historically, and what it has evolved into today. It seems apparent to me that this state of affairs has not come about by accident. The new breed of fascists, who currently hold the reins of power almost everywhere, have worked hard for decades to brew up this fog of confusion. Our culture has taught us not only to hate and fear fascism, particularly its German incarnation, but also to regard it as very much “other” to our contemporary military-economic complex, even as its complete opposite. The current system is a global one, while fascists were focused on the national...