The Skinny: Spin Doctrine

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A Perfectly Proper Pig Empire Propaganda System

Originally published on October 8th, 2019, this edition of The Skinny examines three (still) ongoing political issues in which the narrative framing of the establishment (media and political) discourse has lead the public to understand the problems in a completely erroneous way. First up we look at The Guardian’s efforts to normalize Orwellian “enforcement” practices against migrants at the US Border. Then I talk a little bit about how restating ending the forever war in Syria as “abandoning the Kurds” has twisted even portions of the left to support the goals of empire. Finally we wrap up by exploring the shell game the media and political classes use to hide the fact that its the Pig Empire that’s funding militant Sunni terrorism; whether we’re talking Al Qaeda, ISIS or the Mujahedeen – the same western money is sloshing around in the background.

Naturally of course, even today as I write this in March of 2021, absolutely nothing has changed.

“So in response to public demand for security or outrage after an attack, you change the leaders around, you stop funding one guy and start funding another – but the funding networks, the training camps, the state intelligence agencies that sponsor the radical militant Sunni forces, always remain to help project Pig Empire power into hostile neighboring countries. From that lens the real problem with the horrifying attacks on 9-11 wasn’t the innocent dead people, it was that the whole thing got captured on live television for the entire world to see. Remember, at the end of the day the CIA’s real enemy is governments that won’t let us install colonialism for the benefit of corporations. We’d rather work with dangerous right wing fundamentalists who do murders than even a moderately left wing Social Democrat country in “our MENA.”

Check it out on my (always free to read) Patreon Blog by clicking on the quotation block above, or the title header below:

False Balance Helps Fascism, Syria & Western Origins of MENA Terrorism

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