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      U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a speech during his visit to a Lockheed Martin facility in Troy, Alabama on May 3, 2022.

      Diplomacy Ruled Out in Ukraine War

      How George Orwell's doublethink became the way of the world.

      Noam Chomsky
      David Barsamian
      Jun 19, 2022

      David Barsamian: Let's head into the most obvious nightmare of this moment, the war in Ukraine and its effects globally. But first a little background. Let's start with President George H.W. Bush's assurance to then-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that NATO would not move "one inch to the east"--and that pledge has been verified. My question to you is, why didn't Gorbachev get that in writing?

      If you imagine some extraterrestrials, if they existed, they'd think we were all totally insane. And they'd be right.

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      Noam Chomsky
      The War on Words in Donald Trump's White House: How to Fudge, Obfuscate, and Lie Our Way Into a New Universe

      The War on Words in Donald Trump's White House: How to Fudge, Obfuscate, and Lie Our Way Into a New Universe

      The strategies employed in Washington to confuse and mislead the public have subtly eaten away at the country’s collective mindset, creating fertile ground for Trumpian-style lying to successfully take root.

      Karen Greenberg
      Nov 21, 2019

      These days, witnessing the administration's never-ending cruelty at the border, the shenanigans of a White House caught red-handed in attempted bribery in Ukraine, and the disarray of this country's foreign policy, I feel like I'm seeing a much-scarier remake of a familiar old movie. The cast of characters and the headlines are different, but the thinking underlying it all is, in many ways, eerily reminiscent of what we as a nation experienced during the early years of the Global War on Terror, particularly when it comes to the interactions between the White House and the public. As then, so today, there is distrust, there are conflicting facts, and there is little in the way of a widely agreed upon narrative about what's happening, no less how to interpret those events.

      The most blatant attack on facts comes in the form of the unabashed lying of President Donald Trump, who obfuscates and changes his many stories with impressive regularity. By this October, after almost 1,000 days in office, according to the Washington Post's Fact Checker's database, he had made 13,435 false or misleading claims. He had lied about immigration, the stock market, the impact his sanctions and tariffs were having on the American economy, U.S. troop withdrawals from the Middle East, the size of his crowds, and even the weather, which, of course, is just the beginning of a far longer list.

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      When the Fringe Is Mainstream and the Mainstream Is Fringe: On Orwell and US Oligarchy

      When the Fringe Is Mainstream and the Mainstream Is Fringe: On Orwell and US Oligarchy

      The Democratic Party and the mainstream press are doing their best to make all records tell the same tale, and they’re doing it as part of a systematic coup by the oligarchy that has been four decades in the making.

      John Atcheson
      Oct 03, 2019

      In 1984, George Orwell said, "And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed--if all records told the same tale--then the lie passed into history and became truth."

      The Democratic Party and the mainstream press are doing their best to make all records tell the same tale, and they're doing it as part of a systematic coup by the oligarchy that has been four decades in the making.

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