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The inauguration may have been moved indoors, but the cold didn't deter enterprising MAGA merch sellers and various proselytizing religious groups from taking to the DC streets:
You never know who you may run into at an inaugural ball...
Watch Michael Tracey's interview with Jim McGovern (D-MA) at the progressive, anti-war themed "Peace Ball":
For years, U.S. officials and their media allies accused Russia, China and Iran of tyranny for demanding censorship as a condition for Big Tech access. Now, the U.S. is doing the same to TikTok. Listen below.
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The hostility @RobertKennedyJr experienced at his hearing was directly proportional to how much Pharma money each Senator received. In fact, each of them simply repeated the same attacks we just saw flood the mass media (all of which were blatant lies).
Thanks for the show on Monday night about Anthony Fauci and the censorship and free speech crackdown over the origins of the coronavirus pandemic. I also loved your accurate comment about it being a huge scandal. In my opinion, it is the biggest one of my lifetime. And there are a lot to choose from in the last couple of years.
I also really appreciated the coverage of Bobby Kennedy's confirmation hearing on Tuesday. It is the first time I ever watched a full senate confirmation hearing, and your synopsis of it was refreshing after sitting through that parade of unhinged attacks. I don't know how you watch and read everything you do, without getting enraged at some of the unhinged and out of touch interpretations of almost everything.
When are the people finally going to get some accountability for all of the lies and massive fuck ups we've endured from seemingly every institution of authority over the last many years?
Can you please do more analysis and interviews shedding light on the ...
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It has long been forgotten by many, but it was completely prohibited during the first year of the COVID pandemic, even to question the virus's origins. That's because Anthony Fauci had his various minions issue a decree in The Lancet in a now notorious proclamation at the very start of the pandemic, announcing – falsely – that it was already scientifically proven that COVID began with an organic, natural zoonotic leap, from animal species to humans. As a result, they proclaimed, any discussion of the possibility that the virus leaked from the coronavirus lab in Wuhan, China, was deceitful disinformation, racism and an attack on science.
Since then, the FBI and the elite scientific unit of the Department of Energy under Joe Biden rejected that certainty and concluded that it is more likely than not that the virus came from a lab leak, not from a zoonotic animal-to-human leap. The CIA this week announced findings of an investigation conducted under the Biden administration that concluded the same thing: it is the agency's official position now that COVID came from a leak in the Wuhan lab.
It goes without saying that the mere fact that these agencies believe this to be true does not prove that it is in fact true: they often lie. But the issue here is not that they made mistakes, but that they prevented those mistakes from being examined by asserting a certainty as a basis for censoring discussion of what they were claiming.
CNN’s Jim Acosta was told that he could stay at the network only if he agreed to host a show in the middle of the night. Nobody watches CNN in prime time - imagine how lonely it would be to host a show at 1 a.m. As a result, he announced on the network that he was leaving CNN, making clear he was doing so because he did not want to be relegated to the bewitching hours. He took the opportunity – needless to say – to once again depict himself as a singularly and shockingly brave reporter who has become the Conscience of the Nation through his relentless and noble bravery in standing up to power whatever the cost.
Liberals and other assorted democratic partizans are – for totally understandable reasons – lamenting Acosta's departure. In fact, they're indignant about it. If you were them, wouldn't you be? He was a 24-hour-a-day propaganda machine for the Democratic Party masquerading as a journalist. But given that he has in fact been held up by some, including his own colleagues, as some sort of model of American journalism, it is well worth using his portrayal and now his forced resignation to examine the vital questions of what has been meant by the words “journalist” and “journalism” inside these corporate news outlets, and to see how they are possibly changing.
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Donald Trump nominated two lifelong Democrats for key positions in his cabinet: RFK, Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services and Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence – and it just so happens that Senate Democrats are most determined to sink those two nominations. The U.S. Security State and, therefore, their corporate media servants are determined to destroy her nomination and are engaged in an escalating and intensifying smear campaign based on lies to accomplish just that.
We’ll also talk to Garrison Lovely, a freelance journalist who has long reported on AI. We are happy to have him here tonight to navigate through the significance of what China has done with DeepSeek and why it has sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley and parts of the U.S. stock market.
Finally, in our third segment, the American journalist Ali Abunimah was arrested in Switzerland, where he had traveled at the behest of Swiss citizens to give a speech on the war in Gaza. He was just released a couple of hours before we aired this program but all of this continues to exemplify what we have spent ample time covering: the intensifying crackdown against free speech in the West and in the United States, all to shield and protect Israel.
The leaks of Edward Snowden that took place back in 2013 – when it began – led to the Pulitzer Prize for the journalist and the newspapers that reported them and to all sorts of reforms around the world protecting people's privacy.
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Tonight, we welcomed one of our most popular and frequent guests, international relations professor at the University of Chicago, John Mearsheimer.
As always, there is an ample amount of topics to cover with him and our interviews with Professor Mearsheimer are always very popular. I think they bring a lot of light, they illuminate a lot of complex topics and the one we had today is certainly no exception.
The interview: John Mearsheimer
G. Greenwald: Prof. Mearsheimer, always great to see you. Thanks so much for taking the time to talk to us today.
Prof. John Mearsheimer: My pleasure to be here Glenn.
