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“We found $4.5B worth of payments from the US Agency for International Development to pay off Ukraine’s sovereign debt. Much of which is owned by the global investment firm BlackRock.” @MaxBlumenthal found the receipts. US taxpayers are getting hosed. pic.twitter.com/GN4k4VVzbG
— Marty Bent (@MartyBent) July 2, 2023
Guest Post by Caitlin Johnstone
Alternative media circles have been buzzing for the last two days ever since news broke about the arrest of Grayzone journalist Max Blumenthal, who was reportedly jailed for two days after a SWAT-style police team showed up threatening to break his door down last Friday.
Blumenthal is charged with simple assault alleged to have taken place five months ago during the notorious standoff when the US government was working to remove the official Venezuelan government from its DC embassy and replace it with diplomats from the Guaido-led puppet government it was attempting to force into power. Dissident journalists, including Blumenthal, stationed themselves in the embassy in opposition to the illegal eviction and to document the behavior of the evictors. Blumenthal calls the assault charge “a 100 percent false, fabricated, bogus, untrue, and malicious lie.”
“This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men.”
John Perkins
‘Whatever happens, the [1997 Asian currency] crisis probably signaled the beginning of the end of the American empire and a shift to a tripolar world in which the United States, Europe, and East Asia simultaneously share power and compete for it.’
Chalmers Johnson, Blowback, 2004
“The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology.”
Michael Parenti
“We helped create ISIS and ruined cities to destroy it. We armed the “rebels” and enabled Al Qaeda to take Idlib. We helped fuel the worst refugee crisis since WWII. We even bombed Syria on the basis of social media. We don’t leave footprints, we leave lasting scars.”
Max Blumenthal