The Post-Partisan Emporium

American Pravda: Remembering the  Liberty President Lyndon Johnson and World War III? RON UNZ   Audio Player 00:00 00:00 Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. Concealing the Deliberate Israeli Attack I’m not exactly sure when I first heard of the  Liberty  incident of 1967. The story was certainly a dramatic one, the attack upon an almost defenseless American intelligence ship by Israel’s air and naval forces late in the Six Day War fought against several Arab states. Over 200 American servicemen were killed or wounded by Israeli machine-guns, rockets, napalm, and torpedos, representing our greatest naval loss of life since World War II. Only tremendous luck and the heroic actions of the sailors prevented the  Liberty  from being sunk with all hands lost. The Israeli government quickly claimed that the attack had been accidental, a consequence of mistaken identification and the fog of war, but none of the survivors ever believed that story,...

Horse-Bleep: How 4 Calls on Animal Ivermectin Launched a False FDA-Media Attack on a Life-Saving Human Medicine Our investigative reporters dug up the FDA memos documenting the start of a propaganda campaign, and got The New York Times to correct its false reporting. Mary Beth Pfeiffer  and  Linda Bonvie The Propaganda That Started The Big Lie: In a hokey  tweet  on August 21, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration told Americans the obvious: “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it.” Everyone knew what “it” was: an animal form of the drug ivermectin that folks were said to be using, widely, for covid-19. Don’t, said FDA. Within two days, 23.7 million people had seen that Pulitzer-worthy bit of Twitter talk. Hundreds of thousands more got the message on Facebook, LinkedIn, and from the  Today Show ’s 3 million-follower Instagram account.  “That was great!” declared FDA Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock in an email to her media team...