the unbalanced evolution of homo sapiens

Amid a national hysteria claiming the popular video-sharing app is a Chinese Trojan Horse, a MintPress News investigation has found dozens of ex-U.S. State Department officials working in key positions at TikTok.     by Alan Macleod Part 4 - Political Theater   TikTok is an immensely influential medium shaping how the world understands itself, particularly for younger generations. A 2021 study found that 31% of people aged between 18 and 24 worldwide had used the app in the past week, with 9% using it as a primary source of news. This is, no doubt, part of the reason U.S. officials are so concerned with it. Last month, TikTok CEO Chew Shou Zi was brought before Congress and challenged on his company’s connections to the People’s Republic of China. Though TikTok is a subsidiary of Chinese firm ByteDance, it insists it operates as an independent entity and that it has never shared any user data with Beijing. Nevertheless, questions persist about the app’s practices and security features.

Thirteen ways of looking at disinformation   by Jacob Siegel   Part 3 - Trump’s Election: “It’s Facebook’s Fault” No one thought Trump was a normal politician. Being an ogre, Trump horrified millions of Americans who felt a personal betrayal in the possibility that he would occupy the same office held by George Washington and Abe Lincoln. Trump also threatened the business interests of the most powerful sectors of society. It was the latter offense, rather than his putative racism or flagrant un-presidentialness, that sent the ruling class into a state of apoplexy. Given his focus in office on lowering the corporate tax rate, it’s easy to forget that Republican officials and the party’s donor class saw Trump as a dangerous radical who threatened their business ties with China, their access to cheap imported labor, and the lucrative business of constant war. But, indeed, that is how they saw him, as reflected in the unprecedented response to Trump’s candidacy recorded by The Wall Street

του system failure   Το αποτέλεσμα των βουλευτικών εκλογών Μαίου εξέπληξε σχεδόν τους πάντες, καθώς κανείς δεν περίμενε μια τέτοια μεγάλη διαφορά μεταξύ ΝΔ και ΣΥΡΙΖΑ. Το αποτέλεσμα βγάζει νόημα μόνο αν παραδεχθούμε ότι έχουμε να κάνουμε με μια κυβέρνηση με καθαρά καθεστωτικά χαρακτηριστικά, που από την επόμενη κιόλας μέρα ανάληψης της εξουσίας επιχείρησε - και απ'ότι φαίνεται το κατάφερε -  να ελέγξει όλους τους κεντρικούς μηχανισμούς και να στήσει αυτό που τα στελέχη της ΝΔ βάφτισαν "επιτελικό κράτος".    Μετά από τέσσερα χρόνια αποτυχιών και σκανδάλων, με την χειρότερη ίσως δεξιά που κυβέρνησε τη χώρα μεταπολιτευτικά, η μιντιακή υπεροπλία του καθεστώτος Μητσοτάκη καράφερε να δημιουργήσει μια εικονική πραγματικότητα δήθεν σταθερότητας και επιτυχιών.  Είναι βέβαιο ότι η εικονική αυτή πραγματικότητα επηρέασε ένα κομμάτι των ψηφοφόρων που δεν βιώνουν άμεσα τις συνέπειες των πολιτικών Μητσοτάκη και είναι εξαιρετικά επιρρεπείς στη μιντιακή προπαγάνδα. Αυτό όμως δεν αρκεί  γι

The Jimmy Dore Show   The notorious Ukrainian “kill list” that identified the Zelensky regime’s opponents like Aaron Maté, Scott Ritter, Roger Waters and even Henry Kissinger has added a new name: Jimmy Dore. The list is ostensibly maintained by an independent group, but an investigation into funding reveals that the Ukrainian government is behind the effort, as well as U.S. and NATO cutouts.  

The Jimmy Dore Show   A new Harris-Harvard poll has some shocking results showing Americans are not buying what the mainstream media is selling, whether about Russiagate, the Hunter Biden laptop story or widespread spying from intelligence agencies. According to the poll, a majority of likely voters also rate Joe Biden as too old and mentally unfit for the office of President.

Geopolitical Economy Report   Wars the US waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan following September 11, 2001 caused at least 4.5 million deaths and displaced 38 to 60 million people, with 7.6 million children starving today, according to studies by Brown University.

At least two 9/11 hijackers had been recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation that was covered up at the highest level, according to an explosive new court filing. by Kit Klarenberg Part 4 - Quite some coverup   Another of Canestraro’s sources, a former FBI agent who went by “CS-23,” testified that after 9/11, FBI headquarters and its San Diego field office quickly learned of “ Bayoumi’s affiliation with Saudi intelligence and subsequently the existence of the CIA’s operation to recruit ” Hazmi and Mihdhar. However, “ senior FBI officials suppressed investigations ” into these matters. “CS-23” alleged, furthermore, that Bureau agents testifying before the Joint Inquiry into 9/11 “ were instructed not to reveal the full extent of Saudi involvement with Al-Qaeda. ” The US intelligence community would have had every reason to shield Riyadh from scrutiny and consequences for its role in the 9/11 attacks, as it was then one of its closest allies. But the FBI’s eager complicit

by system failure   The last four years with Kyriakos Mitsotakis in charge of Greece could be easily characterized as one of the worst periods in country's history since the fall of military junta in 1974.    From the beginning of his term, Mitsotakis took full control of the National Intelligence Service and the Athens News Agency. This was a first strong sign that his administration was about to be transformed eventually into a regime that would defy fundamental democratic principles.    Shortly after, Mitsotakis started to put his own people in key positions in Greece's national television and radio broadcaster. In this way, he managed to control the entire landscape of Greece's mainstream media as the big private TV stations that belong to the local oligarchs, did everything to bring him in power and fully support him to this day. Mitsotakis and his cabinet had also become the only option for the Brussels-Berlin directorate of the EU, as well as for the US imperialist b

failed evolution   On 11 April 2019, the Ecuadorian government of traitor Lenin Moreno, invited the Metropolitan Police into the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and they arrested Julian Assange . Since then, Assange is kept in Belmarsh high security prison in London, without actual charges.   The real reason world's number one political prisoner is still kept in this high security prison, is because he exposed horrendous war crimes carried out by the US imperialists and their allies.   The ruthless Western imperialist regime wants to punish the No1 real journalist in the world and make him an example for any Whistleblower or real journalist who will attempt to expose its big crimes in the future.   And the Anglo-American axis has now become officially a fascist coalition , framed by the rest of its Western pets. UK's Home Secretary Priti Patel, one of the most ruthless ever, decided to extradite Julian Assange to US. No surprise of course. The only question we had in mind is

Geopolitical Economy Report   To analyze the conflict in Ukraine, political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by economic geographer Mick Dunford. They discuss the aggressive neoliberal reforms being imposed by the Ukrainian government and Europe's suicidal policies.