I've fucking had it with this shitbrained idea that it's somehow an act of courage to risk the life of every terrestrial organism rolling the dice on nuclear war to advance your personal geopolitical preferences, and that anyone who doesn't want to do this is a coward.
Zelensky is both proxy war spokesman and professional hostage. He had a peace deal with Russia in April 2022, but shady dealings behind the scenes by his US-UK overlords — coupled with longstanding threats from Ukraine’s far-right — led him to back out.
I joined Russell Brand on 9/11 to discuss the financial censorship of anti-establishment voices by Silicon Valley social media and crowdfunding companies.
This was one of Brand's last shows before YouTube demonetized his channel following the tabloid publication of sexual abuse allegations. YouTube has justified its move on the basis of its vague "creator responsibility policy," which forbids "real world harm" to YT "users, employees, or ecosystem."
The Google-owned company's move will inevitably harden the perception that Brand is the target of a coordinated hit, and should raise questions about the influence of state actors on the company's decision. (YouTube threatened The Grayzone with a strike following our livestream about British journalist Paul Mason's collaboration with the UK security state. The stream was permanently deleted.)
As @Jonathan_K_Cook has pointed out, Brand's antics were no secret in Hollywood, but only became an issue after he rehabilitated himself and emerged as one of the world's most prolific critics of corporate media.
As unsettling as some the allegations against Brand might seem, he has not yet been convicted of anything in a court, he has denied the charges, and has not clearly violated YouTube's terms of service through any of his online content. But a jury of faceless corporate functionaries has nonetheless found him guilty in the privatized, politically co-opted space that serves as our digital commons, and punished him with financial sanctions.
Whatever you think of Russell Brand, his shady celebrity connections or his problematic behavior toward women is fine. But what’s undeniable is that the media, Hollywood, or Google didn’t seem to care at all until he started saying things that went against their chosen narrative.
President of Brazil speaking at the opening of the UN General Assembly today: "It is fundamental to preserve the freedom of the press. A journalist like Julian Assange cannot be punished for informing society in a transparent and legitimate way" | via @GloboNews#UNGA
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Bush was a terrible president.
Obama was a terrible president.
Trump was a terrible president.
Biden is a terrible president.
Stop fighting over which neocon is better than the other.
Presidents in the US serve two agendas: endless austerity and war.
Caught up w/ the Ukrainian diaspora delegation on their way into the Capitol to cheer for Zelensky
They told me $45 billion wasn't enough, neo-Nazis do not exist in Ukraine and the banning of the Russian wing of the Orthodox Church & oppo parties was justified bc "martial law"
When you thought the world couldn’t get any crazier, the FBI now claims that the words of its own agents in tons of emails revealed by #TwitterFiles are conspiracy theories and misinformation.
Sorry but Zelensky traveling thousands of miles to the U.S. Capitol to beg for more weapons that only place the world at danger of World War III makes him neither courageous nor heroic.
It makes him a criminal servant of Western imperialism.