The Hidden Message

In the last three days or so, we have been subjected to a number of articles from CNN (going after Jimmy Dore in an “exposé” on YouTube advertising), the BBC (against Vanessa Beeley and other bloggers and journalists), and NPR (a smear against Anoa Changa by Atlanta’s NPR affiliate), all concerning alternative theories surrounding what is happening in Syria — or, failing that, simply suggesting that before dropping bombs somewhere as a reaction to an internal chemical weapons attack, perhaps those responding could verify whether or not it was in fact Assad and his forces which did so, or perhaps suggest a motive for those attacks, or perhaps outline a particular overarching strategy whereby those guilty of similar attacks on civilians (such as those in Yemen) would be met with an analogous and morally consistent response.  The Guardian has chimed in about the supposed Pentagon claim of “4000% increase in Russian bot activity” which followed the Syria strikes, and identified one of those Russian bots whose name was Ian and appeared suspiciously human in a follow-up interview on SkyNews.  (Links for these are forthcoming, but I don’t wish to further delay the publishing of this message; all of these are easily found on social media.) Continue reading →

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