Catch 22 and the cult of loyalty

[Joseph Tracy]

Below is a link to a long intelligent and literate discussion between Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirin about the Durham report, a report  that concludes about the origins and development of russiagate mania that there were no Russians, no collusion dirt, no telling emails but a fair number of drinks. The sad part is there is also no acknowledgement by mainstream media of any value for this attempt at a conclusive neutral review,  no admission of McCarthyist witch hunting, no learning from past mistakes, and no renunciation of the dangers posed by over 50 well funded private and government operations to censor the kind of skeptics who got russiagate right, those doubters  who questioned the safe and effective narrative, who questioned WMDs in Iraq  and who  currently question the US’s headlong rush toward WW3?  After years of research showing no evidence supporting the Russiagate accusations ( I have always despised Trump and would be happy to see him convicted of a real crime) it is time to accept that political propaganda is dangerous, corrupting and expensive and that a media guided by political, commercial or  blind government loyalty does not serve our still precarious attempt at a constitutional democratically-elected republic.
  The discussion in the last 3rd of the show about Catch 22,  focusing on the loyalty oath, is particularly relevant and illustrates the power of well constructed satire vs  the political arguments taking place in a world where everyone wants to have their own facts.


https://www.racket.news/p/episode-39-america-this-week-with?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=1042&post_id=122552662&utm_medium=email#details <https://www.racket.news/p/episode-39-america-this-week-with?utm_source=podcast-email,substack&publication_id=1042&post_id=122552662&utm_medium=email#details>