Putin & Trump and Journalists

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Am 30.01.2017 um 12:20 schrieb ish mailian:
> "Who claims Truth, Truth abandons. History is hir'd, or coerc'd, only
> in Interests that must ever prove base. She is too innocent, to be
> left within the reach of anyone in Power,-- who need but touch her,
> and all her Credit is in the instant vanish'd, as if it had never
> been" (MD 350).
>
> We used to say that truth is the first casualty of war. Or something
> like that. The governments are withholding information, manipulating
> facts, images, fabricating, marginalizing dissidents, forestalling
> with propaganda any public debate.
>
> Of course we assumed there was a truth, but we can't assume that
> anymore. Or can we?

Chris Hedges:

"Reality is under assault. Verbal confusion reigns. Truth and illusion 
have merged. Mental chaos makes it hard to fathom what is happening. We 
feel trapped in a hall of mirrors. Exposed lies are answered with other 
lies. The rational is countered with the irrational. Cognitive 
dissonance prevails. We endure a disquieting shame and even guilt. Tens 
of millions of Americans, especially women, undocumented workers, 
Muslims and African-Americans, suffer the acute anxiety of being pursued 
by a predator. All this is by design. Demagogues always infect the 
governed with their own psychosis."

"The lies fly out of the White House like flocks of pigeons: (...)"

"It is an avalanche of absurdities."

"This mendacity would be easier to repulse if the problem was solely 
embodied in Trump. But even in the face of a rising despotism, the 
Democratic Party refuses to denounce the corporate forces that 
eviscerated our democracy and impoverished the country. The neoliberal 
Trump demonizes Muslims, undocumented workers and the media. The 
neoliberal Democratic Party demonizes Vladimir Putin and FBI Director 
James Comey. No one speaks about the destructive force of corporate 
power. The warring elites pit alternative facts against alternative 
facts. All engage in demagoguery. We will, I expect, be condemned to 
despotism by the venality of Trump and the cowardice and dishonesty of 
the liberal class."

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/american_psychosis_20170129

See also:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/30/does-rachel-maddow-want-russia-bombed/
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