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Sanctions Are a Form of Warfare
“Sanctions are a form of war. They’re economic warfare. And they destroy people’s lives.”
Joshua Landis (https://twitter.com/joshua_landis), Sandra Mackey Chair in Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, is one of the foremost experts on Syria. This week, as Syria, along with neighbor Turkiye, grapples with the aftermath of the devastating earthquake, Professor Landis joins the Useful Idiots to explain the deadly consequences that sanctions pile on to the damage.
“America likes to talk about all its precision bombing and hitting someone with a drone to avoid collateral damage,” Landis explains. “But sanctions? It’s all about collateral damage. Very little of it is targeted.”
But if you read corporate media outlets like the New York Times or Washington Post, you’d find a much different story. Both papers this week published headlines that were hastily changed when they realized they were being a little too truthful. See if you can tell the difference:
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"Shameful" New York Times Changes Headline to Protect Sanctions
“Sanctions are a form of war. They’re economic warfare. And they destroy people’s lives.”
Joshua Landis (https://twitter.com/joshua_landis), Sandra Mackey Chair in Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, is one of the foremost experts on Syria. This week, as Syria, along with neighbor Turkiye, grapples with the aftermath of the devastating earthquake, Professor Landis joins the Useful Idiots to explain the deadly consequences that sanctions pile on to the damage.
“America likes to talk about all its precision bombing and hitting someone with a drone to avoid collateral damage,” Landis explains. “But sanctions? It’s all about collateral damage. Very little of it is targeted.”
But if you read corporate media outlets like the New York Times or Washington Post, you’d find a much different story. Both papers this week published headlines that were hastily changed when they realized they were being a little too truthful. See if you can tell the difference:
The ...
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Free preview: Matt Taibbi Exposes Russiagate Bots
With Matt Taibbi’s Twitter Files and Jeff Gerth’s new in-depth reporting for CJR exposing the years of lies spread by Russiagaters, bitter attacks from outed journalists are rolling in.
Gerth and Taibbi, who come from the old style of journalism where you fact check your work and don’t accept government officials’ claims on faith, have each shown clear, indisputable evidence of disinformation campaigns pushed by corporate reporters. And since the so-called journalists can’t argue the facts, they dig themselves a deeper hole with more lies and name-calling.
Jeff Gerth has been working as a reporter for decades and published, in the very mainstream Columbia Journalism Review, a 20,000-word report on his findings, only to be called a liar and misdirecting magician in the most self-important article by Mother Jones’ David Corn (“The true media failure is that Trump got away with it and that articles like this one that you are now reading are still necessary.”) And possibly worse ...
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Emphasized "Dancing with 88
I have altered space here— to
a rupture in the silent fabric,
where every atom reclaims its song.
A change, seen on my 90° angle,
becomes the pivot of a daring ballet,
the precise intersection where fate unspools.
In that crisp right-angle lie the secrets
of all absorbed twilight and reborn dawns,
a moment where geometry becomes prophecy,
transmuting static lines into dynamic rhythms,
inviting the cosmos to twirl in unexpected arcs.
And then—
I find myself dancing with 88,
a numeral of resonance, a muse of mystery.
It whispers in binary beats,
each pulse a portal leading into
symphonies scribbled on the canvas of space-time.
This is no choreographed routine,
but a wild, liberated waltz
where dimensions bend and merge—
where the old order crumbles
under the heat of relentless transformation
and every step unearths a layer of being.
At that 90° juncture,
the universe unfolds like a secret map,
revealing uncharted realms in every fracture,
while 88 becomes the score for a cosmic ballet,
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Cory Booker’s Israel Panic Flub Turns Into An ‘Arrested Development’ Moment
Plus, Aaron and Katie compare their latest debates on Piers Morgan
This week the Democrats have folded themselves end-over-end in a superfluous effort to prove to the public something that everyone’s known for some time: “We’re pushovers!”
On this Thursday Throwdown, Katie and Aaron are spotlighting two Democratic tools of the Zionist lobby: NJ Senator Cory Booker, who has received over $800,000 from the Israel lobby to vote at their will, and 2028 presidential hopeful Governor Gavin Newsom. Both were asked simple questions about Israel.
Booker was asked: “Do you think Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal?”
His answer: “I, I, I, again, these are these are questions that a lot of people think are the important litmus tests that are loaded and hot…I get these questions all the time that to me undermine my urgency… Here’s a here’s a yes or no for you: Do I think Netanyahu’s worse than Trump? Yes.”
After a mess of an answer, does he think you’re allowed to substitute a different yes-or-no question for the one asked? Is that how it works? But as if to make Booker’s answer sound intelligent, Gavin Newsom sunk even lower.
His interviewer says: “I will not vote for a candidate that takes $1 from AIPAC.”
Newsom’s response: “That’s interesting. I mean, it’s it’s interesting I haven’t thought about AIPAC. And it’s interesting you’re like the first to bring up AIPAC in years, which is interesting. Not, not relevant to the my day-to-day life. Which is just interesting. It’s interesting you say that…it’s just interesting.”
That response was… thought-provoking.
And we couldn’t help but see a parallel between these two joker Dems and a certain favorite Arrested Development moment:
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Secret Meeting Files PROVE 50-Year Media Conspiracy w/ David Sirota
Watch a free preview of our episode and subscribe for the full chat with David Sirota on why billionaire elites installed Bari Weiss at CBS
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Useful Idiots fan-favorite David Sirota returns this week with a new book that dives into the dark money plot for elites to take full and final control of mainstream media. Subscribe for the full interview with David on Bari Weiss’s takeover of CBS News, the rise of tech oligarchs in America, and David’s message for disgruntled leftists.
Here’s a preview of our chat:
Useful Idiots: You have this great new book out called Master Plan: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America. It’s really relevant to so much of what’s happening today when it comes to media conglomeration, but it’s also relevant to a scary lawsuit that’s being headed by Vice President JD Vance that could have a damaging effect on some of the last campaign finance laws in this country.
David Sirota: Master Plan tells the story of the fifty year secret plot to legalize corruption in a systematic way: deregulate the campaign finance system and make it nearly impossible to prosecute bribery. This plot started in the early 1970s with the Powell Memo, a memo written by Lewis Powell before he became a Supreme Court Justice. He was worried about corporations and oligarchs losing power, and he wrote this call to arms about how corporations, oligarchs, and the like had to invest in politics to make sure, essentially, that democracy didn’t continue to get ‘destroyed.’
There were secret meetings in which some of the most powerful people in the country laid out how they were executing the Powell Memo. There was an effort to take over media, which we’re now seeing culminating in the Paramount-Skydance takeover with Donald Trump and Bari Weiss.
Powell writes these memos that have never been seen before: he engineers a ruling extending constitutional protection for money as speech. Money is speech. Right now, as we speak, JD Vance is spearheading a low profile but huge case at the Supreme Court to try to give the now 6-3 conservative court an opportunity to eliminate all of the remaining limits on campaign contributions directly to candidates.
Useful Idiots: So what’s the playbook for selling all this to the public? As a victory for the working class? For freedom? JD Vance fashioned himself as being pro-working class, but I don’t see anything in his record that supports that. So is this just an effort to push this through and hope nobody notices? Or is there a massive propaganda campaign to get people to buy into this agenda?
David Sirota: I think their theory is: ‘We don’t care.’ There is no public-facing argument in the effort to deregulate campaign finance. They are making a straight up First-Amendment-legalistic-technical-argument to the Supreme Court, hoping the Supreme Court gives them what they want, because once they get what they want, then it unleashes unlimited spending for them.
I don’t think they’re going out to the public saying, ‘hey, we’re deregulating campaign finance. We’re making sure the anti-bribery laws can’t be enforced. We’re doing this for some higher purpose.’ They’re doing this expecting that the media and the public will not follow the ins-and-outs of campaign finance law and anti-bribery law, knowing that if they’re successful, it will give them more power under the law to spend as much money as they want, making the political discourse and public policy whatever it is they want.
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And don’t miss this week’s Thursday Throwdown: Fmr Congressman Reveals What Happens at Closed-Door AIPAC Events
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Fmr Congressman Reveals What Happens at Closed-Door AIPAC Events
Plus: Do masked men with big guns scare you? You could get deported if the answer is yes
“I remember my first AIPAC reception,” said former Congressman Matt Gaetz on a podcast this week.
“You get there and you wear this name badge and there’s a QR code on it. We were supposed to go talk to donors and then if they liked you, they scanned your QR code to make a donation on the spot. Can you just imagine how demoralizing that is? To be told that your job is to go chat people up, hoping they would scan you like a can of tomato soup.”
And yet they claim the Russians are the foreign agents meddling in US society while Israeli lobbyists are literally buying US politicians auction-style. If media and politicians had the integrity to call out the actual foreign-interference campaign, we’d instead be talking each week about Israelgate.
But that’s not the only way Israel weaseled itself into this week’s Thursday Throwdown: on the 2-year anniversary of October 7, NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani released a statement calling out Israel for committing genocide, but began it with a loud condemnation of Hamas, incorrectly claiming that Hamas killed 1,100 people on October 7.
And even with the wishy-washy disclaimer, CNN was NOT happy with even the notion of harsh words against Mother Israel. And on October 7 of all days!
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