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Major Shift In Global Power

President of the LaRouche Organization and Editor of the Executive Intelligence Newsletter, Harley Schlanger, rejoins the program to break down the escalating tensions around the world. We discuss the war in the Middle East and what it signals about the shifting balance of global power—and how these shifts are driving behavior that is anything but typical on the world stage.

We also discuss my landmark lawsuit and why Harley believes it carries implications far beyond my personal situation, touching on issues that affect the broader public and the future of independent voices worldwide. Here’s more from Sarah Westall on Business Game Changers.

Israel Cranks Up Propaganda

Ian Carroll offers a comprehensive history of Israeli propaganda in America. When has it been used? How has it been used? What have been the detrimental effects as far as impacting American freedom of speech and press?

Why the focus now? Because we’re seeing more Israeli propaganda than ever. In Carroll’s words, “it’s flailing up in an unprecedented way.”

In some respects, this is to be expected. Israel is seeking to counter the growing American criticism toward genocidal policies in the Gaza region. But Carroll says Americans must beware “of the way the Israeli government is affecting free speech in America.” The impacts are much more onerous than we’ve seen from other foreign propaganda campaigns.

FARA, standing for the Foreign Agents Registration Act, is the key set of regulations governing how foreign governments or entities can market in the United States. These documents generally are required to be on file with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Here, Carroll goes through recent FARA permits pertaining to Israel’s Hasbara. That’s essentially Israel’s public relations campaign abroad and, particularly, in the United States.

Internet’s Pervasive Espionage

Some of us worry about federal law enforcement agencies spying on what we say online, what we read or who we count as friends. But Edward Snowden — the former National Security Agency consultant, now living in exile in Russia — says the spying runs much deeper than that.

Here, he talks about how the spy agencies even track how we play video games to gauge what motivates us to win or to succeed. So we are being judged by the moves we make in our gamesmanship as much as by whether we read Karl Marx or John Birch Society pamphlets. This is taking freedom of press, or speech, to entirely different levels than most of us ever imagined.

Are these agencies violating our rights? How about the Internet riff-raff, like the giant firms of Google or Meta, that frequently sell off data on specific blocs of customers? Here’s more from XAndrewX.

BLM: A Bunch Of Shady Grifters

Some members of the leftwing media are still pushing the notion that Black Lives Matter is a legitimate enterprise, but the shady side of the BLM is coming into much greater focus. Drive-by shootings, including a London attack on a BLM activist by another violent gang, are demonstrating that this is ragtag organization.

And now we have a student, with an attorney for a father, who is threatening to sue her school district for $2 million after no  one published her BLM poem. Someone should teach her lesson: Freedom of press does not mean anyone has to publish your wretched poetry! More from Mark Dice.

 

 

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