Columbia had students who said this was true arrested, expelled, and stripped of their degrees. They were falsely accused of antisemitism by the international press and government for speaking out. What will the consequence be for the perpetrators admitting it? Probably nothing.
Former senior CIA agent John Stockwell:
"We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, Cuban rapists. We ran fake photographs that made every paper in the country. It was pure raw false propaganda to create the illusion of Communists eating babies for breakfast."
I do wonder what the cause of Gen Z pessimism is. No major war, no big recession, street violence and terrorism at basically all-time lows, low unemployment. I really think it's just that social media structure privileges negative affect. 1/2
If it’s “easy to be a communist” in the so-called free countries, ask the Americans who lost their jobs during McCarthyism, the Black Panthers targeted by the state, the up to one million people massacred in Indonesia in 1965–66 for alleged communist sympathies with U.S. backing, Chile after 1973, where thousands of communists were killed, imprisoned, or tortured, and Latin America, where leftists were hunted through coups, dictatorships, death squads, and U.S.-backed repression.
Quite a coincidence that every country in the western world is simultaneously proposing similar censorship agendas over the internet at exactly the same time
The planet's most fanatical Israel loyalists now own and control (or are about to) Paramount, CBS, TikTok, Warner Brothers, CNN: all acquired in the last two years by Netanyahu's close friend, Larry Ellison, right as public support for Israel in the US and the west collapses:
There was a point, 3 yrs ago, when Israel felt compelled to explain its attacks on hospitals. Then it realized Western govts aren’t fussed about such war crimes & Western media was happy to justify them. And so here we are: dozens of hospitals bombed in Gaza, Iran & Lebanon.
The most disturbing part about this video is if she did have a right hand, the ticket would stand, her insurance rates would go up, if she had a cdl, her company might fire her.
We give entirely too much weight to the testimony of cops who refuse to believe they were ever wrong
The postwar boom was a historical anomaly only made possible by the destruction of World War II, but its duration convinced generations that this was "normal" capitalism. In fact capitalism is now merely returning to its normal state of chronic crisis and insecurity for workers.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a socialist.
Malcolm X was a socialist.
Fred Hampton was a socialist.
Angela Davis is a socialist.
W.E.B. DuBois was a socialist.
Elaine Brown was a socialist.
James Baldwin was a socialist.
Are you sensing a theme here?