I didn't follow the trial much, so your big picture summary was useful. It is a sign of the times that your deep-reaching article has 2 likes, whereas the partisan finger-pointing articles made the career of several hundred "journalist-types". So much that it seems over the top, to me at least.
I noticed you used the word "deep" a bit, but not the phrase "deep state". The funny thing is, I'm pretty sure it actually does exist- but it is completely unlike how Trump and friends characterize it. I think it is/was largely an informal culture of anti-Bolshevism created by the Dulles Bros and "Edga" Hoover in the 1920s-1950, which peaked in November '63 (cough, cough). It seems said "deep state" has moved from right to left- whichever team is more likely to start WWIII with Russia gets its endorsement.. so its leftist now. The right has been too busy chanting "the Jews will not replace us" by torchlight to hate on Russia. Now, which country of note focused its hatred on Russia, Jews, Communists and socialists about 88 <sic> years ago?
Its just führer proof that we live in a post-truth society.
ps: The most credible conspiracy theory surrounding Epstein, Mossad, etc. which comports to your understanding of Iran-Contra (re: the Mossad were the point of sales for our sale of Hawk/TOW missiles to Iran) is this bad boy, here:
Almost all of it is factual info already reported by the NY Times, Post, etc. from the 40s to 90s- Webb just put the dots together- and the picture it paints is astonishing. Its no wonder that the site has drawn so little traffic since publishing said content. There ain't no truth like post-truth!
While I'd certainly like more reach than I get, I also think I haven't done the work to create that kind of platform here, for better or worse.
Partisan shit gets people's hackles up, which gets their attention.
As for the deep state, I didn't like the term before it was coopted by Trumpists/Qanon and it hasn't gotten better with age. It kind of implies a unified aberrant state of politics under the surface, but it's literally just how politics actually works. People develop networks of shared interests & alliances outside official channels.
Often toxic for sure and almost always corrupt, but it's not a question of bed people sneaking into the halls of power but of the moral hazard and messy incentives of formal hierarchy in a bureaucracy.
You mentioned anti-communism and that's really savvy: AC has been the dominant ideology of the national security state at least since AG Mitchell Palmer's raids that deported a ton of leftists including Emma Goldman in 1919.
I think of AC mainly as a tool to justify budget increases & to discipline state & private labor, particularly between the 1930s and 1960s.
And yes, I'm very familiar with Whitney Webb. I have mixed feelings on her skills as an analyst, but I do think most of the connections she puts out in that piece are on point.
I didn't follow the trial much, so your big picture summary was useful. It is a sign of the times that your deep-reaching article has 2 likes, whereas the partisan finger-pointing articles made the career of several hundred "journalist-types". So much that it seems over the top, to me at least.
I noticed you used the word "deep" a bit, but not the phrase "deep state". The funny thing is, I'm pretty sure it actually does exist- but it is completely unlike how Trump and friends characterize it. I think it is/was largely an informal culture of anti-Bolshevism created by the Dulles Bros and "Edga" Hoover in the 1920s-1950, which peaked in November '63 (cough, cough). It seems said "deep state" has moved from right to left- whichever team is more likely to start WWIII with Russia gets its endorsement.. so its leftist now. The right has been too busy chanting "the Jews will not replace us" by torchlight to hate on Russia. Now, which country of note focused its hatred on Russia, Jews, Communists and socialists about 88 <sic> years ago?
Its just führer proof that we live in a post-truth society.
ps: The most credible conspiracy theory surrounding Epstein, Mossad, etc. which comports to your understanding of Iran-Contra (re: the Mossad were the point of sales for our sale of Hawk/TOW missiles to Iran) is this bad boy, here:
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Almost all of it is factual info already reported by the NY Times, Post, etc. from the 40s to 90s- Webb just put the dots together- and the picture it paints is astonishing. Its no wonder that the site has drawn so little traffic since publishing said content. There ain't no truth like post-truth!
Thank you for the thoughtful comment.
While I'd certainly like more reach than I get, I also think I haven't done the work to create that kind of platform here, for better or worse.
Partisan shit gets people's hackles up, which gets their attention.
As for the deep state, I didn't like the term before it was coopted by Trumpists/Qanon and it hasn't gotten better with age. It kind of implies a unified aberrant state of politics under the surface, but it's literally just how politics actually works. People develop networks of shared interests & alliances outside official channels.
Often toxic for sure and almost always corrupt, but it's not a question of bed people sneaking into the halls of power but of the moral hazard and messy incentives of formal hierarchy in a bureaucracy.
You mentioned anti-communism and that's really savvy: AC has been the dominant ideology of the national security state at least since AG Mitchell Palmer's raids that deported a ton of leftists including Emma Goldman in 1919.
I think of AC mainly as a tool to justify budget increases & to discipline state & private labor, particularly between the 1930s and 1960s.
And yes, I'm very familiar with Whitney Webb. I have mixed feelings on her skills as an analyst, but I do think most of the connections she puts out in that piece are on point.