Robert Parry: Existential Question – Who Can We Trust?

Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency
Robert Parry

The Existential Question of Who to Trust

Special Report: An existential question facing humankind is who can be trusted to describe the world and its conflicts, especially since mainstream experts have surrendered to careerism, writes Robert Parry.

The existential issue before us is whether – blinded by propaganda and disinformation – we will stumble into a nuclear conflict between superpowers that could exterminate all life on earth or perhaps leave behind a radiated hulk of a planet suitable only for cockroaches and other hardy life forms.

Phi Beta Iota: A full read is recommended — documents the deceit of all so-called experts, the prevelance of lies as the standard. This web site has been focused on information pathologies for some time.

See Especially:

Graphic: Information Pathologies

See Also:

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Disinformation, Other Information Pathologies, & Repression

CounterPunch: Slandering Populism

Cultural Intelligence

Slandering Populism: a Chilling Media Habit

I imagine I’m not the only political and media observer sickened by the dominant (“mainstream”) corporate media’s habitual reference to xenophobic, right-wing, white-nationalist, and neo-fascist politicians like Donald Trump, Geert Wilders, Nigel Farage, and Marine Le Pen as “populists.”  Populism properly understood is about popular and democratic opposition to the rule of the money power – to the reign of concentrated wealth. It emerged from radical farmers’ fight for social and economic justice and democracy against the plutocracy of the nation’s Robber Baron capitalists during the late 19th century.  It was a movement of the left.

Mongoose: Duterte Has Bigger Balls Than Trump — Smashing the Rothschilds and Banks, Advancing the Public Interest

Commercial Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Uncategorized
Mongoose

President Duterte Kicks Rothschilds Out Of Philippines

President Duterte has vowed to “eradicate all traces of Rothschild financial criminality” from the Philippines, announcing that he will no longer respond to pressure or financial blackmail from the US government or Rothschild-controlled global banking institutions.

Phi Beta Iota: Russia was the first to ban the Rothschilds. This trend will continue.

Bruce Schneier: NSA & CIA Cyber Leaks – Blaming Russia [Robert Steele Disagrees, Suggests Inter-Agency Warfare]

IO Impotency, IO Secrets, Officers Call
Bruce Schneier

Who Is Publishing NSA and CIA Secrets, and Why?

Lawfare as produced by Brookings Institution

For both of these leaks, one big question is attribution: who did this?

My guess was, and is still, Russia in both cases.

Phi Beta Iota: Worth a full read.  Many flawed assumptions. Robert Steele's long comment is below.

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