“If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed” ~ Mark Twain

Editor’s Note: Whether your main concern is American domestic issues or whether it’s foreign policy, you should be very concerned about the source of your news, whom you trust to tell you the truth. Matt Taibbi‘s “beat” over the last few years has been American media, and how they have let us down. The price he is now paying for sticking to this beat is that he is being vilified by all sides of the political spectrum, particularly by liberals, who suspect that his criticism for instance of MSNBC and Rachel Maddow, means that he has sold out to the political right. Nothing could be further from the truth. To really understand what he’s doing, you have to first grasp how thoroughly American corporate media have become corrupted and instruments of propaganda, often engineered by the intelligence agencies in concert with some political players. If this all sounds like a conspiracy theory to you, hold that thought until you have watched the Chris Hedges interview with Matt Taibbi below. Then consider — hopefully reconsider — what is the biggest source of conspiracy theories in our political culture? You owe it to yourself to understand this. Here Taibbi talks about Hamilton 68, a fraudulent organization created to feed misinformation to the media, under the guise of offering it trusted information. Taibbi found incontrovertible proof of this fraud by means of his privileged access to internal Twitter records. Ignore Taibbi’s revelation at your peril (the peril of continuing to believe the propaganda). One of the ongoing results of the Russiagate fraud, by the way, is the generally intractable unwillingness of the Biden administration to support a diplomatic resolution of our war with Russia in Ukraine, with the usual result: the ongoing suffering of the innocent people of Ukraine.  [Don]