🎥🎤🇪🇨🇺🇸Investigative journalist and Grayzone editor Ben Norton joined Soapbox's Rania Khalek for an Instagram live discussion about the elections in #Ecuador

https://thealtworld.com/rania_khalek/us-meddles-in-ecuador-as-region-resists-imperialism-w-ben-norton

🗞🇺🇸 Corporate media outlets appear to have so completely internalized the grim logic of neoliberal capitalism that they see single mothers being evicted, children in debt, or octogenarians working in the gig economy as unremarkable facts of life, not damning indictments of a broken system.
✒️ Alan MacLeod

https://thealtworld.com/alan_macleod/media-frames-teen-using-college-savings-to-save-mom-from-eviction-as-uplifting-puff-piece

💉🇷🇺 Well, how about that? Even the US media – so often irrationally hostile to anything Russian – are now even admitting that the #SputnikV #vaccine against #Covid_19 could be “a global success story”.
✒️ Finian Cunningham

https://thealtworld.com/finian_cunningham/victory-jab-for-russia

🌐 We each inhabit two very different worlds simultaneously: the real world, and the narrative world. Manipulators exploit the differences between these worlds to trade narrative-world currency for real-world resources.
✒️ Caitlin Johnstone

https://thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/the-real-world-and-the-narrative-world

🇺🇸🇸🇾 Many of Biden’s first moves in the #MiddleEast, including the building of a new base in #Syria, suggest his term will be more of the same rather than a break with the old.
✒️ Alan MacLeod

https://thealtworld.com/alan_macleod/new-us-military-base-in-northeast-syria-latest-of-bidens-warlike-moves

🎥🛰 The US #Space Force ( #USSF ) is the newest branch of the US Armed Forces. Its personnel are referred to officially as "Guardians" versus "soldiers," "sailors," "airmen," and "Marines" of other branches.
✒️ Anthony Cartalucci

https://thealtworld.com/anthony_cartalucci/the-problem-with-us-space-force

🇺🇸🇨🇳 If Biden really knew President Xi as well as he thought, then he wouldn't have taken their countries' “extreme competition” for granted.
✒️ Andrew Korybko

#China
https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/bidens-envisioned-extreme-competition-with-china-is-very-bad

🇺🇸🌐 The prize for the truly awful story of the week goes to the appointment of AIPAC monster to head Pentagon planning for the #MiddleEast.
✒️ Philip Giraldi

https://thealtworld.com/philip_giraldi/off-to-a-diverse-start-biden-doubles-down-on-some-bad-policies-and-appointments

🇺🇸 Anyone who can recognize disinformation and the untrustwortiness of authorities should be more alarmed, not less. To know you are being lied to, yet remain unconcerned certainly indicates a casual lack of concern.
✒️ Paul Craig Roberts

https://thealtworld.com/paul_craig_roberts/are-americans-insouciant

🇺🇸🇨🇳 The mere playing with war rhetoric is reprehensible and speaks of American desperation to salvage its diminishing global power.
✒️ Finian Cunningham

#China
https://thealtworld.com/philip_giraldi/washington-telegrams-china-of-red-lines-and-aggression

💰🇺🇸 Biden’s choice of Neera Tanden to oversee federal spending has sparked a lot of heat and fury among Republicans and more-progressive Democrats over her past vitriolic comments.
✒️ Finian Cunningham

https://thealtworld.com/finian_cunningham/why-bidens-pick-of-neera-tanden-for-budget-chief-might-signal-a-good-thing

🇺🇸 The 2024 hopeful can’t decide who she wants to be—the leader of the post-Trump GOP or a “friend” to the president who tried to sabotage democracy.
✒️ Gordon Duff

https://thealtworld.com/gordon_duff/nikki-haleys-choice

✊🏻🇮🇳🇺🇸 #Twitter’s actions are quite a departure from 2019 when it delayed a network upgrade in #Iran at the behest of the US government for what it could interfere with anti-government demonstrations.
✒️ Alan MacLeod

https://thealtworld.com/alan_macleod/american-tech-giants-are-partnering-with-indias-strongman-leader-to-crackdown-on-dissent

🖥🇨🇳 While this was clearly a tit-for-tat decision, many in the media still managed to frame it as a chilling blow for free speech in #China, ignoring decades of media repression in the West.
✒️ Alan MacLeod

#CGTN
https://thealtworld.com/alan_macleod/cnn-declares-bbc-banned-but-cgtn-withdrawn-as-uk-and-china-fire-off-in-propaganda-battle

🇨🇺🇺🇸 It is time to unify and take a collective diplomatic route to calling out the U.S. illegalities against #Cuba.
✒️ Ramona Wadi

https://thealtworld.com/ramona_wadi/time-for-political-initiatives-against-the-illegal-u-s-blockade-on-cuba

🇺🇸 The most dangerous predators are the ones you don't see. It's true in nature, it's true in interpersonal relationships, and it's true in politics.
✒️ Caitlin Johsntone

https://thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/when-america-voted-out-fascism-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix

🎥🇷🇺🇪🇺 #Russia Expels Meddling EU Diplomats
✒️Anthony Caralucci

https://thealtworld.com/anthony_cartalucci/russia-expels-meddling-eu-diplomat

🎥🇺🇸🇮🇷 #CENTCOM chief General Kenneth McKenzie was constantly moving to keep troops on the ground in Iraq and American ships in surrounding waters, all to demonstrate U.S. power and increase tensions with #Iran.
🎤 Gareth Porter

https://thealtworld.com/gareth_porter/ep-5446-gareth-porter-on-the-latest-chapter-in-the-manufactured-iran-crisis

🎥 On @ukcolumn today to discuss #BBCMediaAction #Syria #UKFCO operations to infiltrate #Lebanon's Army, Intelligence & government. #Tripoli - watch until the end for more shocking whistleblower testimony.
🎤 Vanessa Beeley

https://thealtworld.com/vanessa_beeley/uk-column-news-10th-february-2021

⚡️🇮🇷🇺🇸 #Iran’s role in the #MiddleEast can be understood as a response to the absolute control the US attempts to exert over this part of the world through military interventions, waging wars and attempted regime change.
✒️ Elijah Magnier

https://thealtworld.com/elijah_magnier/why-the-us-sees-irans-role-and-behaviour-in-the-middle-east-as-malign-and-dangerous