Introduction
A friend of mine sent me a link to a New York Times article, an interview/discussion between ‘two luminaries’, as my friend described them, asking for my thoughts on it. The discussion was between a conservative Republican and a Liberal Democrat. It was a very cordial exchange of views. Both are columnist/journalists. However I have not heard of them since I don’t follow mainstream outlets, like the NY Times or the Washington Post, whom they write for. Read on and you will see why.
Personally, I found their exchange pretty thin. Such conversations don’t have to be confrontational, indeed, the opposite is the case. That’s why I won’t mention any names, because this is not about personalities: it is about how influencers are paid to induce narrative control. Manufacturing Consent.
Culture Wars as Divide and Conquer Distraction
One of the issues they discussed was Culture Wars. I consider these to be manufactured controversies, designed to create a ‘divide and conquer’ mentality between Conservatives and Liberals, neither of whom actually understand what’s going on.
It’s not Culture War, it’s about “Endless War Abroad, Class War at Home”, which is headed towards Nuclear War, as the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists warns us about. The doomsday clock is closer than ever to ‘Midnight’.
Another topic was the understandably real concern about the misuse of AI. There was discussion about Pope Leo, who has rightfully expressed concern. Meanwhile, my friend Regis Tremblay had a long time Roman Catholic peace activist on his substack.
Aug 11, 2026
Jack Gilroy came up with the idea of writing a letter to the American Pope, Leo, to call for an urgent meeting of the leaders of the nuclear-armed countries to end all wars, and to abolish nuclear weapons.
He emphasized the urgency of avoiding nuclear war that is closer now than during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. He shared how it was Pope John XXIII who made an appeal to John Kennedy and Nikita Krushchev that touched both of them and led to the end of the crisis.
Question: Why Is Nuclear War Not on the Radar of ‘Luminary’ Columnists?
George Bush’s Elections and Journalistic Negligence
What really got my dander up, though, was an offhand comment that, all in all, George Bush Jr. won both his elections. This is the kind of negligence that causes a childlike naivete in the supposedly intellectual class, that actual pays the New York Times to lie to them.
As my first real mentor following the September 11th attacks, Mike Ruppert, warned, “Don’t give your money to people who lie to you”.
How George Bush Clearly Stole the 2000 Election and Probably the 2004 Election
In 2000 I was working for Ralph Nader of the Green Party. As the voting proceeded, it was obvious that manipulation was going on.
Black Box Voting: How the Voting System was hacked in both elections.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking_Democracy documented the hacking of voting machines in both elections “Filmed over three years it documents American citizens investigating anomalies and irregularities with electronic voting systems that occurred during the 2000 and 2004 elections in the United States,”
Followup investigations show that a recount of votes—which the Supreme Court (dominated by Republicans) denied in an unsigned decision would have handed Florida to Al Gore. “Al Gore, not George Bush, should be sitting in the White House today as the newly elected president of the United States, two new independent probes of the disputed Florida election contest have confirmed.”
Jeb Bush, George Bush’s brother was governor of Florida. He had significant influence over the voting process, a serious conflict of interest
In the 2004 election, the head of George Bush’s Ohio campaign committee was also the head of the Bush reelection campaign, a serious conflict of interest. “”The secretary of state is supposed to administer elections — not throw them,” says Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a Democrat from Cleveland who has dealt with Blackwell for years. ”The election in Ohio in 2004 stands out as an example of how, under color of law, a state election official can frustrate the exercise of the right to vote.” The full article can be found here and is quite thorough. https://www.globalresearch.ca/was-the-2004-election-stolen/3692
Further evidence of Journalistic Incompetence If Not Malpractice
Digging further into the background of the Liberal progressive, I found to be quite telling. Apparently, he (like Judith Miller of the NYT) and other so called progressives, bought the lie of Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction. Which were later never found, of course. A lot of blood spilled over a lie. This individual later regretted his earlier backing of the war, as have many others. “Oh what a horrible mistake”. Other than than, no accountability for promoting a war narrative with catastrophic consequences.
The problem there is that I knew that the WMD story was a lie. Before the war was unleashed on Iraq. How? Because I don’t rely on the NYT to get my information! Instead there was this:
As a [Scott Ritter] Chief Weapons Inspector with the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) in Iraq from 1991 through 1998, I was intimately familiar with the intelligence used by the U.S. Intelligence Community to underpin the case for war (which I debunked in June 2002 in an article published in Arms Control Today). Armed with the unique insights that came from this experience, I can state clearly and without any reservation that Ari Fleischer, once again, has misrepresented the facts when it comes to the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq in March 2003.
In 2002, I was reading from the Website, Globalresearch.ca, which was all over the WMD lie. https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-invasion-of-iraq-2003-and-weapons-of-mass-destruction-ari-fleischer-lied-and-people-died/5672601
Likewise, Ray McGovern, a high CIA official responsible for intelligence (not CIA dirty tricks) who provided the Daily Intelligence Briefing to US Presidents, also knew about the WMD lie. He founded VIPS, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, and spoke out against war in 2002. So between him, Ritter and others, I didn’t fall for the NYTimes war propaganda. https://www.counterpunch.org/2003/06/23/washington-lied-an-interview-with-ray-mcgovern/
This current administration had decided by September 2002 to make war on Iraq–five months before Secretary of State Colin Powell’s speech at the UN. What was missing was the intelligence basis to justify the decision for war.
But the intelligence is still not conclusive. And in the case of the uranium Iraq was said to be seeking, it was based on forged documents.
That didn’t make any difference. In retrospect, the train of thought in the White House at the time is clear: How long can we keep the forged documents from the public? A few months? In that case we can use the documents to get Congress to endorse war with Iraq and then wage it and win it before anyone discovers that the “evidence” was bogus.
However, these so called journalists have a nasty habit of swallowing lies they are told, then feel sorry after the war starts. And then fall for the next set of lies, in this case the US war against Russia, following the 2014 coup, led by Democrat Joe Biden. The Democrats initially voted against funding the neo Nazi Azov battalion, but then changed their minds, and welcomed their front man, Zelensky, and even Azov fighters! Many if not most “progressive democrats” fell for this. And most still do!
This video from 2014 documents the May 2014 massacre by neoNazis of ethnic Russians in Odessa. Why weren’t you told about it then ? And why don’t our New York Times and Washington Post journalists know about it and tell you? Instead they’ve swallowed the neocon lie about Ukraine going on since 2014!
https://odysee.com/@World-United-News:0/20140512---The-Odessa-Massacre---What-REALLY-Happened:9
Your tax dollars have been paying these people, and you are told you are defending Ukraine’s democracy!
Why is it that I have known about this problem in Ukraine since 2013, when I first started researching, yet well paid New York Times reporters, and their Washington Post counterparts haven’t known? Is this simply negligence and incompetence, or are they dutifully looking the other way? Promoting a false narrative that the US is defending democracy in Ukraine, when in fact it staged a coup against the democratically elected president using Nazis shows just how toxic the Western legacy media has become.
https://bumblebuddhist.wordpress.com/2015/07/15/666/. Here is my original article written after my visit to Sevastopol, Crimea in 2015.
But you see, it’s all in service of US ‘Endless war abroad, class war at home’. That is their real job. To keep you in the dark about important issues, while diverting your attention with secondary issues.
The Solution
Any time someone makes an assertion, ask two questions: 1. Is that really true? Do historical research. The powers that be want facts to go down the Memory Hole. So restoring historical memory is important. 2. Ask who benefits? Most people’s jobs depend on what they are told to believe. Yesterday, I was talking with a German, whose grandfather was a police officer during WWII. When asked what that strange acrid smell was, he said it wasn’t his business. Don’t want to know. They were crematoria at a concentration camp near his town, but as long as his salary got paid, who cares?
When you identify a source that shows a pattern of either ‘mistakes’ or deliberate falsehoods—-like the New York Times has been engaged in for years, for example with
the fake Gulf of Tonkin incident that sparked the Vietnam War, or
“the incubator babies” that Saddam’s soldiers threw on the floor—a total lie.
Or Saddam’s WMD, or
Russia’s “Unprovoked attack on democratic Ukraine”, or
Iran’s imminent nuclear bomb that Israel has been warning about for 25 years—Be very skeptical. And above all:
Don’t give your money to people who lie to you!
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