The New York Times told its readers in 1936 that Stalin's Moscow show trials were legitimate legal proceedings. Walter Duranty had already spent years laundering Soviet atrocities through the paper's pages, and the pattern held: the Times reported the confessions of Zinoviev, Kamenev, and fourteen other defendants as genuine admissions of guilt.
Every single defendant had been tortured. NKVD interrogators used sleep deprivation, beatings, and threats against family members to extract confessions to crimes that never happened. Zinoviev and Kamenev were shot in August 1936 within days of their sentencing.
Stalin bears responsibility. But so does a press institution that chose ideological sympathy over basic skepticism, and paid no price for that choice. The Times won a Pulitzer in 1932 partly on Duranty's work. It never returned that prize.
This is what state power without accountability produces: mass murder dressed up in courtroom procedure, and credentialed journalists applauding the costume. You are living with the downstream consequences of a media culture that learned it could cover for state violence and face no professional reckoning. The incentive was set then, and it has never fully reversed.
I think people should believe him when he says things like this and then act in accordance with those beliefs. That is, one should recognize him as the monster provocateur that he is and dissociate.
Sam Altman @sama creador de @OpenAI advierte hoy en la @ONU_es que está frenando a su propio Frankenstein por el bien de la humanidad.
Este es un buen momento para leer y/o escuchar: Cómo Defender La Libertad Y NO Suicidarte En El Intento 👇
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BOOM: @RonDeSantis gives the blunt truth
“If there’re things you wish Republicans would have done—well, they’re definitely not gonna get done if you put the DSA in charge!”
We can (and must) challenge R’s in the PRIMARIES—but the midterms are SURVIVAL.
Netanyahu says Israel is the only country in the Middle East where the Christian community is “growing, thriving, succeeding.”
“Everywhere” else, he said, Christians are “being persecuted and hounded.”
This is one of the finest essays on the moral inheritance of Western classical liberalism I have ever read, and I strongly recommend it if you can make the time.
"Lenin is one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century. But you aren't allowed to talk about how the Bolshevik Revolution fits into his work, because Derp Bolshevism bad! And if you do, that means you're anti-intellectual."
Qué jodidas tienen que estar las cosas en las fuerzas del incel-digo del “cielo”, 🇦🇷 para tener que aplicar la típica populista de resucitar al enemigo externo para distraer a los pobres argentinos de sus muchos problemas internos.
Lo bueno es que la última vez que un presidente argento usó ese mecanismo populista con las Malvinas, la Maggie Thatcher lo mandó de vuelta sin Malvinas, sin dignidad y sin resolver ni un solo problema externo, mucho menos, interno.
😮😮😮----> Dr. Peter McCullough: "Epstein wanted to have investment funds <which> would invest in FUTURE pandemics" @P_McCulloughMD
Jeffrey Epstein, high finance and his pandemic for profit models with Bill Gates EXPOSED:
The West: Why did you commit the terror attack?
Terrorist: My religion dictates it.
The West: So climate change?
Terrorist: No, my religion.
The West: So beard bullying?
Terrorist: No, my religion.
The West: So, violent video games then?
Terrorist: No, my religion.
The West: So, American imperialism then?
Terrorist: No, my religion.
The West: So the Zionist entity forced you to defend yourself?
Terrorist: FFS, it's MY RELIGION.
Conclusion from the West: Terror attacks stem from a confluence of paleo-botanical-sociocultural-ethnopolitical forces that requires a nuanced analysis. What is absolutely clear though is that this has nothing to do with religion.
On his 2024 Moscow trip to interview Vladimir Putin, @TuckerCarlson also filmed a sit-down with "Putin's brain," Aleksandr Dugin.
Dugin said the English-speaking world's problems are rooted in individualism... "Everything started in the Anglo-Saxon world with Protestant reform"