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Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/free-those-who-expose-government-misdeeds-jail-those-who-try-to-conceal-them ❖ The consistently insightful Branko Marcetic has a new article out with Jacobin titled "After the Ukraine Documents Leak, Mainstream Media Is Missing the Story" about the way imperial narrative managers have been manipulating the discourse

Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/you-have-to-be-trusted-by-the-people-that-you-lie-to ❖ The widespread refusal to accept that the US government bombed the Nord Stream pipelines is based solely on the faith-based belief that the US government would never do something so evil, despite its having done many things that are

Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/a-prison-where-the-prisoners-dont-know-theyre-in-prison ❖ Talking about Russia's invasion of Ukraine without also talking about the ways the US empire provoked and benefits from this war is the same as lying. ❖ One of the main differences between myself and other commentators who talk about an

Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/free-speech-doesnt-matter-if-propagandists-determine-what-people-say ❖ None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.None are more hopelessly ignorant than those who falsely believe they're informed.None are more hopelessly propagandized than those who don't know they are propagandized.Living in a liberal western democracy means

Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/when-will-foreign-leaders-start-asking-to-speak-to-americas-real-government ❖ During the furor over Nancy Pelosi's incendiary Taiwan visit last week, I was watching an appearance by Antiwar's Dave DeCamp on the show Rising which brought up the under-discussed point that US officials going to Taipei is actually a

Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/the-mainstream-worldview-is-self-evidently-bullshit ❖ They've lied about every war, and they've openly acknowledged lying about this very war, but you're a Kremlin agent if you say they're lying to us about this war. ❖ The mainstream worldview is self-evidently bullshit. If our media and education

Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/its-about-the-system-not-the-individuals ❖ If the working class had as much class solidarity as the ruling class has there never would've been a ruling class. ❖ Stealing someone's labor is worse than stealing their property, because it's theft of their life; you can replace property