JOHNSTONE

I keep thinking about a talk I listened to by Julian Assange back in 2017 where he warned that one day AI could be used to facilitate the propaganda interests of the powerful by manipulating news media and information in ways that are too subtle for the human mind to notice. Reading by Tim Foley.

US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee claims that anyone who opposes Trump’s war with Iran is being blinded by Satan. Like, the actual, literal devil character from the Bible. Reading by Tim Foley.

The real source of power in our world is not money, nor resources, nor armies, nor weapons. The real source of power in our world is narrative, and the ability to control it. Reading by Tim Foley.

Now that the war in Iran is costing Israel support from American voters, they're trying to pretend they had nothing to do with that whole mess. Reading by Tim Foley.

"The Republicans didn't lose the midterms because Americans dislike war, they lost because the Iranians beat the shit out of them." Reading by Tim Foley.

The New York Times has published a story about a supposed Iranian plot to use chemical weapons which nobody actually believes. Reading by Tim Foley.

I never want to hear another American compare their media's malpractice to North Korean propaganda ever again. Westerners are more aggressively propagandized than any other population on earth. Reading by Tim Foley.

"There are a whole lot more of us than there are of them, and we can force revolutionary change whenever we want." Reading by Tim Foley.

As CENTCOM meets with Trump to plan more Iran strikes, the war propaganda is dumber than it has ever been. Reading by Tim Foley.

The viral Red Baron Pizza worker and his $500,000 fundraiser is not a feel-good story, it’s a feel-bad story. Everything about it says horrible things about where our society is headed. Reading by Tim Foley.