The News Churn Memory Hole: How The MSM Lies Even When Telling The Truth

[caitlinjohnstone.com]

{It is a fact that far more news media energy is going into one trivial aspect of an impeachment agenda that will with absolute certainty fail to remove Trump from office than there is for the known fact that the US government fought to suppress indisputable proof that American officials have been consistently lying about an 18-year military occupation which continues to this day.}

But this is how cold within compliance we have become. Hundreds of thousands in innocent civilian deaths, countless harmed, not even the 2700 deaths of our own can bring us together in denouncing the politicians leading this crime, let alone, the media? I'd ask, but it seems that's just never going to sink in at any moment. Add Iraq and we're looking at nearly 7700 deaths and tens of thousands harmed and living with mental issues within our own family members all over proven lies in which it will be costing us another trillion in care over decades.

One lie covers another lie. Because everything we're getting from the impeachment circus is a lie also. And while the truths are so few, what little you're hearing is a micro fraction of the entire story purposely being held from you to know. They, the media and establishment, have the vast majority of the population essentially swimming in deceit and self sacrifice! Literally sacrificing the lives of our families, blood, money, mentality, and compromise of future descendants and the society they will face. Our families, the world population, have essentially become a measure of tax, a subsidy, for the survival of the weapons industry and the capitalist system it depends on.

I'm not sorry for my cold calculation, it has to be said and put out there.

{A lot of dissident-minded optimists got hopeful that maybe once the lies of the Iraq war were exposed, people would lose trust in the political/media class which deceived them about such a massively significant atrocity. These hopes were of course dashed as public attention was simply paced on to the next new, shiny thing, and then on to another and then on to another, and on now to the point where everyone’s babbling about impeachment over some political shenanigans with Ukraine and Joe Biden without hardly anybody bellowing in unmitigated rage that this same party refused to impeach Bush over mountains of literal war crimes. There is no actual correlation between a story’s newsworthiness and the amount of news coverage it ends up getting, so the still earth-shakingly consequential repercussions of Bush administration’s malfeasance have been eclipsed by today’s set of sparkly keys.}

On Contact: Afghanistan Papers with Spenser Rapone

[rt.com]

Chris Hedges talks to Spenser Rapone, former combat veteran and US Army officer, about the Washington Post’s series the ‘Afghanistan Papers’. Drawing on thousands of pages of international government documents about the war in Afghanistan, the series exposes the lies, deceit, mismanagement, waste, corruption, fraud, and failed schemes that both Democratic and Republican administrations pursed in Afghanistan, the longest conflict in US history (18 years and counting), which has claimed tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money.

"Out Of The Illusion " Group