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[Mark Kohut]

The "predictability" as the article states, of the attacks on Sally Rooney
only accent the dishonesty, the way so many Jewish--and other folk--Ruth
Franklin is a Christian, I believe-- think and want us to think that
criticizing the state of Israel is an anti-Semitic act. It is not. Good
that the Intercept writer cited Human Rights Watch.

How can one look at oneself the same after saying this: “I fully expect
people like Sally Rooney to be antisemitic. It’s not a surprise. I’d be
surprised if she wasn’t.”

This article is so good, so detailed and to build to Coetzee's ending is
f'in superb. Love Chabon, too. Thanks, Joseph. Been too busy lately.  I now
want to buy Rooney's books, not just get from a library as I did one.
Her action, as the ripples show, is making some kind of difference. I'm
sending it everywhere I do and it will be part of discussion groups I am
part of.


The other article I reject wholesale, however. All those guilt by
association quotes you find so telling and I find in their scare quotes way
to be a failed high school paper level presentation--I still sting at a
college-level course I took in high school where, basically, the teacher
said "wtf?" about some unanchored, even unattributed quotes. ; that
McCarthyism that starts with ignoring that this report begins in being
about 'adversaries", which needs understood, deconstructed first to see IF
there are and what they are doing and what this
response might therefore mean if it is true. "In a chilling disclosure, the
report said explicitly that “the objective of Cognitive Warfare is to harm
societies and not only the military."--and is this about--also about?--
what those 'adversaries' are trying to do to NATO countries? ...And is this
whole "hacking into one's brain" just another way of speaking about
propaganda, controlling what enters our consciousness as we can? Old news,
new dog tricks if so. On both sides.

Besides all the Right Wing conspiracy sites repeating this vapid shit--and
there are Google pages full of them, of course, including one called
Communist News, I found the left-leaning, but knowing how to read and
think, London Review of Economics piece a decent place to start with
something I had not heard about before. It is below but:

This comes from RT, Russian Times, no lover of NATO, of course: "For
example, a 33-page meditation
<https://www.innovationhub-act.org/sites/default/files/docs/WoNS.pdf>
on the* “weaponization
of neurosciences,”* authored by Herve Le Guyader, professor of evolutionary
biology at Bordeaux’s Institut de Cognitique
<https://ensc.bordeaux-inp.fr/fr>, avowedly *“uses fiction and mixes actual
facts and events, fairly logical foresights and some fictitious
extrapolations,” *and *“a few dramatization tricks, at the cost of being a
bit provocative to try and keep the reader’s interest,” *to weave an
extensive, sensational fable about the steps NATO could take to launch a
cognitive war."    Solid fact-based stuff, eh Joseph? Give up your moron
commentators.

"like the plague", Joseph? Again, still so wrong, seeing "the mainstream"
akin to the way those pre-emptive condemners of Rooney see her. "I fully
expect to see "the mainstream" miss this because I know the mainstream and
it always does and has never changed" even though, of course, using your
own words and judgments, you do not seem to be aware that 'fascism' and
"authoritarianism" and what's causing the Havana Syndrome mind "attacks"
and so much more is almost all "the mainstream" IS consumed with these
days. If this had reality enough to have legs, it would be all over "the
mainstream", I suggest.

Pull quote: "At this stage, the discourse about future warfare within NATO
is rather abstract".

https://www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/Assets/Documents/updates/LSE-IDEAS-NATO-and-the-Future-Character-of-Warfare.pdf








On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 8:20 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

>
> https://theintercept.com/2021/10/16/lies-told-sally-rooney-refuses-ignore-israeli-apartheid/
> <
> https://theintercept.com/2021/10/16/lies-told-sally-rooney-refuses-ignore-israeli-apartheid/
> >
> Lies Are Being Told About Sally Rooney Because She Refuses to Ignore
> Israeli Apartheid
> Robert Mackey makes some astute observations concerning the Sally Rooney
> vortex.  The Irish have many historical reasons to recognize and oppose
> colonial theft, oppression, apartheid.
>
>  mad magazine would have loved this:
> https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/08/nato-cognitive-warfare-brain/ <
> https://thegrayzone.com/2021/10/08/nato-cognitive-warfare-brain/>
> Western governments in the NATO military alliance are developing tactics
> of “cognitive warfare,” using the supposed threats of China and Russia to
> justify waging a “battle for your brain” in the “human domain,” to “make
> everyone a weapon.”
>
> Some would discount Ben Norton but he does his homework and just the
> quotes from the NATO  materials is so off-the-wall fascist it deserves a
> certain awareness since the mainstream avoids this kind of thing like the
> plague.  This really is some weird shit.
>
>
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