The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Disinformation, Fact Checkers and Stupid Elites HANS VOGEL Hans Vogel discusses the elusive nature of disinformation, urging readers to think critically and highlighting the interplay between truth and falsehood in a world where governments weaponize the term to suppress inconvenient facts. What is disinformation? No wait, wait, don’t ask Wikipedia, just think for yourself for a moment. Actually, everything one reads, hears or sees, is information, everything. Some of it is true or may turn out to be so, some is relatively true (or untrue) and some is untrue. Such is the case in everyday life, but most notably in science and all other academic disciplines and in detective work, where the sleuth has to find out who committed that crime. In that context, the information that does not serve to attain the stated goal needs to be discarded. One might perhaps call such information “disinformation,” because it leads one away from the stated goal. However, during the process of attaining it,

 Go to the source to listen to the entire interview... Cynthia McKinney: Jamaal Bowman Denounced Me Under AIPAC Orders But it didn't save him KEVIN BARRETT En route to Congress, Jamaal Bowman was forced to issue a ritual denunciation of one of his heroes, six-term Georgia Congresswoman and 2008 Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney. We know Bowman admired McKinney because he put her, alongside Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and others, on his Cornerstone Academy “wall of honor.” But Bowman’s ritual denunciations of McKinney didn’t save him. AIPAC, the Jewish billionaire lobby that runs America as its private fiefdom, couldn’t allow anyone to remain in Congress who doesn’t enthusiastically support the genocide of Gaza. Cynthia McKinney, during her six terms in Congress, got a close-up-and-personal view of the Jewish billionaires’ stranglehold over American government. If she had let them buy her the way they’ve bought almost everyone else (except Thomas Massie?) she m