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How the CIA Cultivates a Fake Left: From the Cultural Cold War to Intersectional Imperialism

Published: May 11, 2021

Ben Norton was invited to give this talk about the fake left and imperialism. He discusses how the CIA's "woke" recruitment ad is not new; it is rooted in an "intersectional imperialist" history going back to the first cold war, in which the CIA poured money into cultivating anti-communist, pro-imperialist progressive groups, using fronts like the Congress for Cultural Freedom and billionaire-funded foundations like Ford and Rockefeller.

Bernie Sanders, 1992.

If you told me this video was filmed in 2019, I would have believed you. Some Americans say “Bernie’s too old,” “Bernie’s old news,” or “Bernie isn’t saying anything new.” Those people fail to realize that the problems we face today, are the same problems Bernie has been trying to fix for over 27 years. They haven’t been fixed, and, in fact, many have only gotten worse. 

Instead of a US Peace Plan for the Middle East, How about a US Peace Plan for the US? BY Thomas L. Knapp

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo describes the Trump administration’s plan for peace between Israel and Palestinian Arabs as “unexecutable.” President Trump says Pompeo “may be right.”

Good! As addiction counselors say, the first step is admitting you have a problem.  With addiction, the way out is not “if at first, you don’t succeed, try, try again.” It’s admitting that the thing you’re…

I'm really annoyed at how everyone thinks this Boko Haram thing wasn't a priority for the US government. The fact of the matter is that the Nigerian government received multiple offers from multiple nations to help them sort this mess, and has been excruciatingly skeptical and isolationist about the whole thing. It hasn't been a matter of "white folks don't care about African kids," it's been a matter of "the Nigerian government doesn't like or trust us, and we don't want to breach national sovereignty over this."

But the trendy neo-libs want intervention to assuage a percieved obligation to Africa, and the right-wingers want to blame Obama for not getting involved, despite the fact that he is doing his damnedest. It's not the media that's the issue. The Nigerian government is the one that's been denying all help until pressure was applied, and it seems like few people are understanding that.