Final Curtain Shows Colors: Acts and Utterances of warped brains, rabid militarists, men (women) without conscience

EXPOSED 

“In the space of several minutes” “corporate media” demonstrates its partnering “… in … crimes” of the outgoing regime.

“Official journalists of major daily newspapers and television news (outlets) have refused to characterize the Israeli operation in Gaza as genocide; and … (have) bolstered the White House narrative (and mantra) … ‘Israel has a right to defend itself’” and, in that process, extirpate a people: slaughter “tens of thousands of Palestinians,” most of them “women and children.”

US Major Media label reporters who ask questions of US government officials “‘hecklers’” and “‘activists’”; and declare that “silencing” them is “‘a testament to American democracy.’” (Cable ‘News’ Network and its Alex Marquardt) 

Perhaps “American” “democracy” is something quite different from what is generally understood as democracy or what common people mean when they use the term. Americans (and their partners) in positions of power and influence have a penchant for capriciously and arbitrarily redefining terms as it suits their fancy. War is humanitarianism and slaughter is self-defense. Criminal courts, prosecutorial systems, courts of justice exist for trying “other” people. 

Infiltrative

in Press and Government

Questionable Allegiances

Blinken Element Incorporated

During “Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s final press conference, … journalist Sam Husseini was forcibly removed by security personnel after he insisted that Blinken answer questions about US support for the Israeli genocide in Gaza.” Reporting January 17, 2025: Reed, Kevin “Reporter dragged from Blinken’s final press briefing for asking about US support for Gaza genocide” WSWS January 17, 2025, https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/01/17/xwtu-j17.html

The BLINKEN ELEMENT boasts genetic and ideological linkages and allegiances to Jewish European and West Asian settlers; multinational finance; and military industrial consulting. Antony Blinken, at least since 2009, has been permitted to hold top-level positions governing US foreign policy and foreign relations.

Suppression of a free press Bahraini Alex MARQUARDT viewed as “‘a testament to American democracy.’” Marquardt is a native of Kingdom of Bahrain, a small West Asian islanded country in the Persian Gulf between State of Qatar and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s northeastern coast; majority populated by “foreigners”, or “non-Bahrainis” whose majority are natives of “India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Egypt.” 

Marquardt's Bahrain also hosts the US Fifth Fleet (US Naval Forces Central Command).

• One news source wrote this week, “Journalist MAX BLUMENTHAL (removed from the room) set the tone during Blinken’s farewell address to the State Department press (asking):
• ‘Why did you allow the Holocaust of our time to happen?’ 
• ‘How does it feel to have your legacy be (that of) genocide?’”

• Reporter SAM HUSSEINI “was physically dragged out of the room yelling 
• ‘Why aren’t you at The Hague?’” ZirafaMedia January 16, 2025 “Max and Sam give Blinken the farewell he deserves”

Due Diligence

Responsible and Free Press

Investigative Journalist 
MAX BLUMENTHAL

Blumenthal is an investigative journalist and author, a documentarian, filmmaker, founder and editor-in-chief of The Grayzone (established “to shine a journalistic light on America’s state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions”).

His books include 

• Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party (2009)
• Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel (2013)
• The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza (2015)
• The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump (2019). https://thegrayzone.com/author/max-blumenthal/

Independent Journalist
SAM HUSSEINI

Usamah “Sam” Husseini is an independent journalist and author who has written extensively about Palestine and international law writes at “husseini.substack.com” and “regularly attends US State Department briefings, asking tough questions.” He is senior analyst at the Institute for Public Accuracy, founder of ‘VotePact.org’ (which “encourages left-right cooperation to undermine the establishment duopoly”), and a visual artist. 

• 2011 Husseini’s “questioning of al-Saud (Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, KSA prince and former government official) during the 2011 Arab uprisings led to being suspended from the National Press Club, a decision reversed by “the ethics committee of the Press Club.” 

• 2018 Husseini “was dragged out of the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki for trying to ask about the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty which 122 countries voted in favor of but the two ‘superpowers’ have blocked.” 

• 2022 (with virologist Jonathan Latham) Husseini “co-authored the in-depth investigation ‘Did West Africa’s Ebola Outbreak of 2014 Have a Lab Origin?’” HUSSEINI’s tough questioning of high-level officials, in addition to the Saudi prince, has included former US State Secretary Colin Powell, former US Vice President Mike Pence, former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, among others https://husseini.substack.com/about

The duty of the press is to serve the public, often a wide and varied, global, far-flung public. Not to spread fear or prejudice, shill or carry propaganda, distract or sensationalize. Journalists have a sacred duty to question and diligently ferret out the truth on behalf of the public.

International journalist 
SORAYA SALAM

At the turn of 2025 regarding a major happening within the United States, Soraya Salam cautioned the press about the consequences of accepting and transmitting a prevailing narrative versus practicing responsible journalism.

Journalists should “ask more questions,” Soraya Salam wrote. Responsible journalism does not merely “extrapolate reporting from official statements,” without delving into “the broader context of facts.” Official narratives have “consequences” for “real lives,” the lives of many people and cultures all across the global sphere.

Often that consequence is immediate and deadly.

Reporting must “centre the facts and the context necessary to paint the most accurate and responsible picture.”

We owe the public the fullest possible unveiling and reporting of “the whole truth.”

Manager of Al Jazeera English Online, Soraya Salam oversees aljazeera.com, managing teams across Doha, London, Kuala Lumpur, Washington and New York. She is an international journalist, who has also directed documentaries and produced interviews with some of the world's most prominent political players and thinkers.”

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Americans Choose Careless Alpha Labeling Over "Due Diligence"

Fort Bragg to New Orleans to Las Vegas 

An Insightful Voice from the Field of Journalism

American “influencers” are a very clever breed. From the Ivy Leaguers, neocolonialists and billionaire caste to the Beck, Joe-Blow, and hangers-on caste—these influencers spend a lifetime formulating alphabetical listings of “bogeyman” (bogeyman according to their convenient definitions of bogeyman). And, in the public sphere, they declare their creation “terrorist.”

These clever influencers manufacture meanings for dictionaries and weave subliminal messages into audio, visual and textual environments tailor made for mass media and school curricula, from children’s basic readers to motion picture scripts and images. Theirs is a singular “us-them” - “we good-they bad” (white hat-black hat) narrative and indoctrination intended particularly to warp the minds of generations of the citizenry of the United States of America.

In contemporary times, United States loose talkers and a variety of personalities loosed on the public airwaves and the World Wide Web shout to the rooftops when US police or government investigative agencies “politicize” laws enforcement. But these conveniently “outraged” personalities are strangely silent when these agencies and critical sectors of the public leap to predetermined conclusions affecting other people and groups.

Leading media headlines in the New Year is an example of prejudicial mischaracterizing of crimes (whether at home or abroad). Hearing of two incidents on US soil (one in New Orleans, one in Las Vegas, both involving US military personnel or US military-trained individuals who had gone through a North Carolina military installation), US influencers, right out of the gate (so to speak), attempted to wrap the situations in their convenient alphabetical imaging and “terrorist” language.

• No need to investigate the happenings. 
• No need for due diligence on the part of public officials, public figures, or journalists. 
• Just slap on a label, let it go viral on the World Wide Web; and go on home to supper with the family, TV watching, or betting on sports team. 

• Who cares about the people who have been slandered by the contrived alphabetical / “terrorist” labeling? 
• Who cares about American immigrants? 
• Who cares about international relations between and among peoples and cultures? 

Not these American influencers and their “followers.”

In the current period of mass hysteria and deliberate misrepresentation, one international journalist broke through, and pleaded the case for due diligence. She is Soraya Salam, an international journalist, who “has directed documentaries and produced interviews with some of the world’s most prominent political players and thinkers. She is currently manager and overseer of Al Jazeera English Online (and aljazeera.com), engaged in managing news reporting teams working in major cities of Qatar, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, and the United States of America.

“In the Louisiana city of New Orleans, the new year began with a horrible tragedy after a man ploughed his truck into a crowd of revelers in the early hours of January 1, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens of others,” Soraya Salam reports. The suspect (dead at the scene) in the New Orleans incident “was not an impressionable youth but a middle-aged military veteran with significant life experience and a lot of baggage.” And though the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and current US president have said publicly “that the attacker (dead suspect) was ‘inspired’ by (alphabet) ‘ISIL’” and the FBI almost immediately began “treating the incident as ‘an act of terrorism’”—neither the US president nor the FBI revealed “the full extent” of the FBI’s “evidence.”

In the early days of this tragedy, media entities in the US-led collective west “seem to be choosing the easy path, … following a well-tested formula when covering this tragic story…, a narrative (that) conveniently ignores the complexity of (the dead suspect’s) circumstances and (that) sidesteps deeper questions about his mental state, his time serving in Afghanistan and the personal crises he faced.”

Soraya Salam poses the question 

“How do we, as journalists, extrapolate our reporting from official statements versus the broader context of facts?” 

“For all we know,” she writes, the dead suspect “may have been ‘radicalised’ by what he experienced during his time in the US military…. We just don’t know enough yet. What we do know is that we should be asking more questions.”

In this insightful January 2, 2025, editorial, well worth reading in full, Soraya Salam concludes: 

“As journalists, we know that the process of reporting developing stories is a journey. First, we break the story with the few facts we know, often relying on official lines because that’s all we have at the time. This is an understandable and necessary first step. But as more information comes to light, it is our responsibility to avoid oversimplifying what is often a complex and multilayered story.”

Narrowly drawn narrative-driven coverage, however, negatively affects the lives of many people. Moreover, journalists “owe it to the families of the victims to uncover and report the whole truth of what happened that day. They deserve to know the real motives of the attacker and whether anything could have been done to prevent the tragedy.”

“… None of this is to say we should ignore potential evidence of something bigger at play here.” The key is “discernment,” Soraya Salam says. Going forward in reporting on this tragedy, she concludes, “let us centre the facts and the context necessary to paint the most accurate and responsible picture.” Salam, Soraya Al Jazeera Editorial January 2, 2025 “Do not fall for simplistic portrayals of the New Orleans attacker” “We owe it to the public, the victims and marginalised communities to report responsibly and challenge official narratives when necessary.” https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/1/2/do-not-fall-for-simplistic-portrayals-of-the-new-orleans-attacker

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