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May 14, 2024 - System Update - Glenn Greenwald
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Jen Psaki's Lies Expose the Fraud of "Disinformation"; Israelis Endanger Americans and Block Humanitarian Aid

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has become one of the most consequential and deceitful terms in our political lexicon.
Most of the liberal sector of the press, meaning the dominant strain of media devoted to the victory of Joe Biden, the Democratic Party, or more accurately, stopping Donald Trump at all costs, continuously herald themselves as the guardians of truth and our protectors against the evils of disinformation.
And yet it is hard not to notice something quite odd about our courageous, noble media combatants against disinformation.
Namely, that they are the ones who lie more frequently, more casually, and with far greater impact than any other societal or political faction.
And when they get caught in these lies, they never correct them, never explain them, and certainly never retract them.
They instead simply move on to the next set of partisan lies because they genuinely believe, they really do believe, That their cause of defeating Donald Trump and his movement is so obviously just and so overarchingly righteous that anything and everything they invoke to further that aim, including overtly lying, is inherently justified.
As most of you likely know, Jen Psaki is the former Biden White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host, the ultimate redundancy.
And she perfectly illustrates this twisted dynamic as much as anyone.
She is constantly hectoring and sermonizing about the grave harms of disinformation from her cable purge.
And yet she is also, at the same time, one of the most prolific and egregious spreaders of disinformation.
Just as South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem was just forced to do, Psaki just announced that she would have to edit her new book in future editions in order to remove a blatant lie that she inserted in that book in order to defend Joe Biden, an act she was forced into only because her fellow corporate media employees denounced her for that lie since they were the ones who were originally reporting on it and were quite upset about it.
Now, this is, to put it mildly, not the first time that Jen Psaki has been caught spreading blatant lies, though it may be the first time she was forced to admit it.
And this test case vividly illustrates the utter fraud of this newfound anti-quote disinformation industry.
Then, the U.S.-backed Israeli war in Gaza is now grinding into its eighth horrific month.
Back in March, President Biden said that Israel must not enter the refugee camp in Rafah, proclaiming that to be a red line, at least unless the Israelis presented a credible plan to evacuate civilians in it.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promptly announced that he would simply ignore Biden's red line.
Why wouldn't he?
And then proceeded to do exactly that.
While Biden has symbolically quote suspended the transfers of a few weapons to Israel, ones that Israel is already fully stocked with thanks to Biden and therefore has no impact on its war effort, the Biden administration continues to fund the Israeli war in full and promises to continue to send even more arms even though Netanyahu violated what Biden called his quote redline.
All of this comes in the face of a new report about 20 American healthcare workers who are trapped in Gaza, unable to leave, as a result of Israel taking over the border crossing into Egypt.
Despite having arrived there fairly recently, these American doctors and nurses are already documenting how malnourished they are and unable to access basic health care that they need.
Imagine how bad the situation in Gaza is if newly arrived American doctors and nurses are already malnourished to the point that they need IV drips.
Earlier today, Israeli militants blocked the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza via the West Bank by ransacking trucks filled with food and medicine.
Destined for the starving population in Gaza.
So many new pieces of conclusive evidence of the famine and horrors in Gaza have emerged over the past several days that we believe it vital to examine them to get an even fuller picture of the horrors and atrocities the US government is enabling.
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If you had to identify the most significant political development in the West over the last seven or eight years, you would be hard pressed to identify something more consequential than the sudden emergence of the so-called anti-disinformation industry.
You have all kinds of people in academia, in politics, and especially in media proclaiming themselves with no explanation to be anti-disinformation experts or disinformation warriors, people saving the country, becoming the bulwark between ourselves and all of the harms of being deceived through disinformation.
And as we've demonstrated and recounted several times, this is a credential that is completely fake.
There's no such thing as being a disinformation expert.
There's no person who's more capable or more competent to identify disinformation than others as sort of a floating expertise.
Obviously, when it comes to medicine, you would rather listen to a surgeon than someone completely untrained in medicine.
If it comes to engineering, you'd prefer to listen to someone trained as an engineer than someone who's not.
If it comes to aviation, someone who's trained as a pilot rather than someone who's not.
That's obvious, but there's nobody who's capable of just being a floating, all-purpose disinformation expert.
And yet that is the claim that they've made.
They have organizations, new organizations, amply funded by many billionaires and Google and Facebook and the U.S.
security state because disinformation has become the excuse, along with hate speech, for why we need to have the government censor the internet and why we should trust the government to do so because they're working with anti-disinformation experts.
And the irony always is that the people, the very people, the very sectors of media and politics who claim that they are the ones who are standing tall and firm combating disinformation are the people who get caught spreading lies more than anybody, more frequently, more harmfully than anybody.
One of those people who is a perfect test case, a perfect illustration of this dynamic, is the former White House Press Secretary for Joe Biden and now the current MSNBC host, Jen Psaki.
She has lied repeatedly over many years, always with an obvious intent and result to advance her pro-democratic party agenda.
She doesn't just lie arbitrarily or through carelessness or recklessness.
It's obviously intentional and calculated because all of her lies are designed to advance the same political cause, namely the promotion of the Democratic Party.
And yet so often, as happens today, Jen Psaki gets caught lying.
This queen of anti-disinformation, who constantly hectors and sermonizes and just goes on and on about how important it is to combat disinformation, is herself one of the most prolific agents of disinformation.
Earlier today it was Axios that pointed out an obviously false passage in Jen Psaki's new book, which I'm certain liberals are going to put on the bestseller list, just like they did with Liz Cheney before her, and every other Anti-Trump book?
And here in Axios, you see the headline, which is pretty straightforward.
Quote, Jen Psaki's new book falsely recounts Biden's watchtech in a troop ceremony.
As you may recall, Joe Biden appeared at a ceremony to commemorate the soldiers who were killed during the U.S.
withdrawal in Afghanistan in 2021, when there was a very poorly planned withdrawal, where they told the American people that they had vanquished the Taliban, the Taliban wouldn't be coming back, and the Taliban marched right back in.
And they had no plans against it.
And as a result, many soldiers lost their lives in an attack on the Kabul airport and other places where the Taliban surged.
And when Biden went to a ceremony, he offended many parents of soldiers killed both in general and in that attack.
For two reasons.
One is that he pretended that he himself had gone through that, pretending that his son, Beau Biden, died in a combat attack in Iraq, when in fact his son died of brain cancer.
Now, Joe Biden might argue, and I believe does argue, that the reason his son got brain cancer is because he served in Iraq where he was exposed to certain chemical agents.
But he didn't die in Iraq.
He didn't die in the war.
He didn't die in combat.
And yet whenever Joe Biden meets parents of combat soldiers who died on the battlefield, he always talks as if he himself understands that experience because his son also did.
And they get offended because that's not true.
But they also got offended because during the ceremony, he visibly showed that he was bored.
He looked at his watch to try and determine how long he had to stay, how much longer he had to stay.
When was this finally going to be over?
It may not be the biggest deal in the world, but the media did what they should do, which was reported on how he did that.
Not just that he did it, but how much it offended the parents of the fallen soldiers, who Joe Biden supposedly was there as their commander in chief to commemorate.
And Jen Psaki, in her book, Not only denied that account, but accused the media of spreading, quote, disinformation.
When doing so, even though there's ample documentation, the people who are at the ceremony, photos, videos, showing exactly that.
And obviously Axios was one of the media outlets that reported it.
This was a case where other people in corporate media denounced Jen Psaki's lies, which is why she was forced to apologize, only because of that reason.
And the reason they denounced it was simply because they were among the people reporting it, who she was accusing of disinformation.
Quote, former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki claims in her new book that President Biden never looked at his watch during the ceremony for soldiers killed during the U.S.
withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, contradicting news photos and firsthand accounts of Gold Star families.
In her new book, Say More, Psaki writes that, quote, the president looked at his watch only after the ceremony had ended.
Moments later, he and the First Lady headed toward their car.
Psaki, now a star anchor at MSNBC, who has described herself as a journalist, writes that Biden's critics were engaged in, quote, misinformation and used the image to make, quote, him appear insensitive, concerned only about how much time had passed.
The story stands out because her account of Afghanistan is one of the few parts of the book where Psaki goes deep behind the scenes of the Biden White House.
Psaki's new account is at odds with fact checks at the time, news agencies' photos from the ceremony at Dover Air Force Base, and on-the-record statements from Gold Star families who were there.
The Associated Press photographer on the tarmac snapped two photos of Biden looking at his watch twice.
10 minutes apart as fact-checkers at USA Today and Snopes and Snoops noted afterward Snopes.
Psaki also mistakenly cited a passage from the Washington Post to bolster her account.
Psaki initially declined to comment But after the story was published, he said in a statement that, quote, the detail in a few lines of the book about the exact number of times he looked at his watch will be removed in future reprints and the e-book.
So you notice there, she at first ignored it, as she always does when people document her lies.
Always.
But because it came from the liberal sector of the corporate media, namely Axios, and other reporters who were offended, she was forced to answer.
And when doing so, she made it seem like it was just some irrelevant detail.
Even though she chose to write about it in her book, accused other journalists of engaging in, quote, misinformation, the term she applies to everybody who says things she dislikes, like most of her fellow Democrats.
And it turns out she was the one lying all along.
And it wasn't just about how many times Biden looked at his watch.
She didn't say, oh, it was only one time when in reality it was three.
She denied that it happened at all.
She accused the press of lying when in reality she was the one who was lying.
Here is her full statement that she gave to Axios once she realized that Axios was actually going to denounce her, which rarely happens.
Quote, the story on Afghanistan is really about the importance of delivering feedback, even when it is difficult to told through my own experience of telling President Biden that his own story of loss was not well received by the families who were grieving their sons and daughters.
And the detail in a few lines of the book about the exact number of times he looked at his watch Will be removed in future reprints and the e-book.
So she finally is forced to admit that she lied.
She got caught lying red-handed in order to defend Joe Biden, which is what she does all the time.
And the only reason she had to acknowledge it was because the people she cares about in corporate media were the ones who were pointing it out because they were the ones she was really accusing of having lied when in fact it was her who lied.
This happens constantly.
Let's remember that two weeks before the election in 2020, when the New York Post and Fox News and the Daily Caller and other outlets that were willing to report incriminating information about Joe Biden issued numerous reports about the Biden family's attempts to trade on his influence in countries like Ukraine and China in order to generate profit for themselves.
And the Democrats and the liberal sector of the media panicked because this was a story Based on Hunter Biden's own laptop and the documents from it, that played into one of Joe Biden's weaknesses, namely that he's corrupt, that he uses his influence in order to profit his family.
There was a story forever about how Hunter Biden had obtained a very lucrative position on the board of a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, even though we had no in expertise in the information in the energy sector at all, let alone in the Ukraine energy sector.
And he was paid 60 or $50,000 a month for sitting on this board at the exact same time that Joe Biden, by his own boasting, was essentially running Ukraine.
And obviously this was pure influence peddling.
And it was The New York Times who reported that and they attacked the reporter.
They were very frightened of anything that suggested that Joe Biden was sleazy because of how long he had been in Washington.
And that was when the CIA, obviously intending to sabotage Trump's campaign as they did back in 2016 when they fabricated the Russiagate story that Jen Psaki also pushed, decided to invent an absolute lie to shield Joe Biden from this negative reporting, namely that you should ignore the Hunter Biden documents because it's fabricated and it comes from Russia.
And here was Jen Psaki on October 19th, 2020, just a couple of weeks before the 2020 election.
And she said, quote, Hunter Biden's story is Russian disinformation.
Dozens of former Intel officials say Once Biden was safely elected, all of these media outlets acknowledged that that was a lie.
That the documents from the Hunter Biden laptop were entirely authenticated and authentic all along.
They had nothing to do with Russia and they were completely authentic.
And yet look here, this is what they always do.
This is what she did in her book as well.
Whenever somebody reports truthfully in a way that reflects poorly on the Democratic Party or Joe Biden, Jen Psaki, like so many of them, used the word disinformation To claim that the truthful reports about Biden is a lie.
That's what the term disinformation is for.
It's supposed to be this technical term that you use and since it's the liberal wing of the media that combats disinformation, they're the only ones with credibility to proclaim what is disinformation or not.
She was saying that what was disinformation Were the documents from Hunter Biden's laptop when in reality what was disinformation was the lie that Jen Psaki was spreading along with her allies in the CIA and the media in order to manipulate election outcomes.
That's what I mean when I say that the people who constantly proclaim themselves the warriors against disinformation are in fact the people who most spread it.
Here is Jen Psaki when she was still the White House press secretary on September 24th, 2021.
The president has said and you have tweeted that allegations of wrongdoing based on files pulled from Hunter Biden's laptop are Russian disinformation.
There is a new book by Politico reporter that finds some of the files on there are genuine.
Is the White House still going with Russian disinformation?
I think it's broadly known and widely known, Peter, that there was a broad range of Russian disinformation back in 2020.
Okay.
Obviously, she didn't answer the question at all.
The reporter asked, You said, and the Democrats said, that the documents from the Hunter Biden laptop were disinformation, Russian disinformation.
A political reporter who we interviewed at the time had just written a book called The Bidens And in it, he did a lot of original reporting that confirmed the authenticity of those documents, that they weren't Russian disinformation at all.
And as I've said many times, all of the evidence of the authenticity of those documents was available before the 2020 election, when these people were calling it Russian disinformation.
They just didn't want to acknowledge it because they're liars.
And so he asked Jen Psaki, do you still Continue with this lie, even though a political reporter just proved its authenticity that those documents are Russian disinformation.
And she ignored the question and said, I think there was a lot of Russian disinformation before the 2020 election.
If she were even minimally honest, this great guardian against disinformation, she would have said, no, what we said was false.
We were in error.
But she doesn't say that.
She'll never say that.
None of them have said it.
Not one media outlet that spread that lie has retracted it, has acknowledged that they spread a lie.
And she's the kind of person who wants you to believe that she's qualified and devoted to the task of combating disinformation when, again, she is the most casual spreader.
But you see how she lies without even moving her face with the slightest discomfort?
These are sociopathic liars.
Remember, she was the State Department spokesperson under President Obama.
Imagine how often she lied in that job to defend U.S.
foreign policy.
Here's Jen Psaki again in April of 2022.
While she is at the White House still.
Let me give you a sense of who she is.
She's an expert on online disinformation.
This is when that whole controversy happened, when the Biden administration tried to create a Ministry of Truth inside the Department of Homeland Security, where they were going to appoint that crazy cartoon of a resistance Democrat, Nina Yankovich, to Be the head of this department within Homeland Security to decree what was truth and what was falsity, exactly what George Orwell warned about and mocked and parodied?
She was asked, of course, by a Fox News reporter, Jackie Heinrich, about this attempt to create a Ministry of Truth within the Homeland Security Department by appointing a so-called disinformation expert, Nanny Yankovich, that's how she describes herself to this very day, who in fact is a tawdry vulgar partisan who lies constantly.
And here's what Jen Psaki said.
Give you a sense of who she is.
She's an expert on online disinformation.
She was formerly in the Wilson Center's disinformation.
She was formerly a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center.
She's testified before Congress as well as the United Kingdom and European Parliaments, advised a Ukrainian foreign minister.
particularly relevant in this moment, under the auspices of a Fulbright Public Policy Fellowship and overseeing Russia and Belarus programs at the National Democratic Institute.
Any hiring decisions are up to the Department of Homeland Security, but this is a person with extensive qualifications.
What I will tell you about the board and what the board is doing, this is a continuation of work that began at the Department of Homeland Security in 2020 under former President Trump.
So, there you see it.
That's exactly how they do it.
She says Nia Yankovich is a scholar at the Wilson Center in disinformation.
She has been working on disinformation.
She testified before the Congress on disinformation.
Now, any of you who have seen anything that this preposterous individual has ever said or how she says it would just cackle in uncontrollable laughter at the idea that she's some sort of disinformation expert.
And this is the scam that they're running to control the flow of disinformation by decreeing themselves to be the ultimate arbiters of what is true and false, even though they lie constantly.
Here is Jen Psaki's colleague at MSNBC, Joe Scarborough.
Who yesterday posted the following in what became a viral tweet.
He said, the UN halves the estimates of women and children killed in Gaza.
So as you know, the estimates of women and children killed in Gaza has been something like half or 60 or 70% of the overall number of people killed, which is 30,000, 34,000.
is 33,000, 34,000.
And Joe Scarborough claims that the UN cut in half the number of women and children killed And he went on and said, apparently the Hamas figures repeatedly cited are false.
Now, this obviously is not the first time that Israel has bombed Gaza.
They've done it continuously, killing Gazan civilians.
And the Economist and other outlets that are in favor of the Israeli war in Gaza have documented that every time in the past when Hamas reports the number of people in Gaza killed, it's either accurate or it's undercounted.
Because their counts are nothing more than the number of individuals who go through the morgue.
And, as the U.S.
government itself has said, the reason the Hamas numbers almost always undercount the number of deaths in Gaza from Israeli airstrikes is because many people end up buried underneath rubble and cannot be rescued, especially now that there's an electricity cutoff, and they obviously aren't counted among the people because they don't go through the morgue.
There's hundreds, if not thousands, of people underneath the rubble who can't be counted.
But the idea that the UN cut in half the number of people reported to have died in Gaza who are women and children is an absolute lie.
Joe Scarborough posted an absolute lie that went viral that I promise you he will never acknowledge.
Here's the report itself that he was citing from Reuters.
This was yesterday.
It says the following, quote, the UN says Gaza death poll is still over 35,000, but that not all bodies are identified.
We're going to get that on the screen in a second.
Can we put this on the screen?
So there you see it.
The UN, that's the headline, the UN says the Gaza death toll is still over 35,000, but not all bodies are identified.
So what they're saying is, we don't know the identity of some of the people killed, but we know that the number is still 35,000.
They haven't halved anything.
Quote, the death toll in the Gaza Strip from the Israel-Hamas war is still more than 35,000.
35,000 people who have been killed since October 7th by Israel and Gaza.
But the Enclave's Ministry of Health has updated its breakdown of the fatalities, the U.N.
said on Monday, after Israel questioned a sudden change in numbers.
U.N.
spokesperson Farhan Haque said the ministry's figures, cited regularly by the U.N.
in its reporting on the seven-month-long conflict, Now reflected a breakdown of the 24,686 deaths of, quote, people who have been fully identified.
Quote, there's about another 10,000 plus bodies who have still to be fully identified.
And so then the details of those, which of those are children, which of those are women, that will be reestablished once the full identification process is complete, occult reporters in New York.
Israel last week questioned why the figures of the deaths of women and children had suddenly halved.
It was Israel that claimed it halved.
The UN said it wasn't halved.
The number of killed still is the same.
The issue is that certain people are under the rubble, certain people haven't been able to be brought to the morgue, certain people haven't been identified.
But they didn't halve anything.
They didn't change the number of people killed.
It's still above 35,000.
And Joe Scarborough just asserted that it was the UN that said this, when it wasn't the UN at all.
Now all kinds of people said in response to Joseph Scarborough posting that, no, you lied.
You just obviously very visibly and obviously inaccurately described what the UN report said and it's still up there.
He will never retract it.
Why?
Because it advances his cause.
He's a fanatical supporter of Israel and so pretending that only half of the people we thought died who are women and children in Gaza advances his agenda and therefore he's never is going to be forced to retract it.
Now just to give you a sense for how extreme things are in this regard, I always bring this up maybe once or twice a year because I remember it at the time and it was such an extreme example of how the media functions.
This was in November of 2018 when the Russiagate craze was still raging.
And The Guardian went online and published this report that went super viral for obvious reasons.
All these liberals thought it was the smoking gun proving Russiagate once and for all.
It said the following, quote, Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy.
There you see the headline on the screen that Paul Manafort held secret talks with Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy.
Exclusive Trump ally met WikiLeaks founder months before the emails hacked by Russia were published.
Now obviously if that were true, it was a complete lie, a total fabrication and invention.
But if it were true, it would be fairly supportive of the Russiagate narrative, namely that the Trump campaign was plotting with WikiLeaks on how to get these documents hacked and then published.
Why else would Paul Manafort be secretly meeting with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy?
Now, I knew the minute I saw this article that it was false.
The Ecuadorian embassy is one of the most surveilled buildings on the planet because Julian Assange was inside of it.
I visited there.
I visited Assange there.
I know how surveilled it is.
In fact, unbeknownst to me, the CIA had a contractor working at the embassy and they were taking the documents and other information Of American citizens, including myself, our passports, our other data, and giving it to the U.S.
government.
The U.S.
government was spying on American citizens without warrants.
But obviously they were filming every single person who went into and out of the embassy.
They had cameras all in the embassy.
So the obvious issue was if Paul Manafort really visited Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy, as the Guardian claimed, where are the photos?
Where are the videos?
Where's the proof?
How do you publish a story like that without asking those questions?
If Paul Manafort had visited Julian Assange inside the embassy, of course there'd be all kinds of documentary evidence, photographic evidence, video evidence.
And there was none.
It was so obvious the story was false.
Julian Assange instantly denied it.
He said, I've never met with Paul Manafort, let alone inside the Ecuadorian embassy.
And the more The Guardian was pressed for evidence to support this very explosive claim, obviously they couldn't provide it because it was completely made up.
And it was made up by a serial liar named Luke Harding, who wrote a book claiming to prove Russiagate once and for all.
It went to the top of the New York Times bestsellers, obviously.
And there's an interview that Aaron Maté, who knew more about Russiagate than almost any working journalist, it did with Luke Harding, and he pressed him for 40 straight minutes.
On what evidence Luke Harding had that proved that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government, and obviously Luke Harding couldn't answer, couldn't provide any evidence, just kept accusing him of being a Russian agent, until he finally stormed out of the interview by hanging up.
up.
He's a serial liar.
I worked with him at At The Guardian.
And so this story was completely made up.
Now, once it became apparent that this story was false, where even the liberals who were so excited about this story started abandoning it and distancing themselves from it, did The Guardian retract the story?
Did they apologize for publishing a lie?
A total, obvious, demonstrable lie?
No.
All they did was take the headline with the lie and just added on the phrase, quote, sources say.
So now it reads, Manafort held secret talks with Assange at Ecuadorian Embassy, sources say.
And their excuse for leaving this story up, even though they've never really accounted for it, I've asked for comment many times, they just don't comment on this.
But I presume their excuse is, well, look, it is true that sources said this to us.
Do you see how they very subtly and quietly edited their own story to go from this happened to, oh, sources told us this happened once it got debunked?
This is too valuable a story for them to admit they got wrong.
And this is exactly what Jen Psaki did, too.
I've seen defenders of Jen Psaki in response to the tweet, Hunter Biden's story is Russian disinformation, dozens of former intel officials say.
And they'll say, well, the excuse is that dozens of former intel officials did say this.
Now, in reality, dozens of former intel officials did not say that the Hunter Biden story was Russian disinformation.
What they said was, it seemed to have the hallmarks of that.
And they emphasized that they didn't have proof and weren't asserting it was true.
So this statement, even as is, if you take it on face value, is a lie.
But this is not journalism.
You cannot go around stating false claims and then say, oh, well, sources told me that.
Like Jen Psaki is a pedophile, sources say.
And then it proves to be untrue.
And I said, well, sources told me that.
That is not journalism.
That is disinformation.
And this is what they do constantly.
I mean, this Guardian article is so amazing.
This is like National Enquirer level fabrication.
And it had a big impact at the time.
And instead of retracting it, they just added this, sources say, I appended to it.
I was actually quite relieved that earlier today, the Times of London, a mainstream centrist outlet in the UK, and these types of outlets, centre-right, establishment, Love this idea of the disinformation industry because they constantly use it to claim that Russia is manipulating the outcome of our elections through deceiving the population, and the media outlets want to keep hold of a monopoly over the flow of information, and one of the weapons they use is this disinformation industry.
And yet the Times of London yesterday published a big editorial condemning the fraud of the disinformation industry, the headline of which was "The Times' View on Press Ratings Agencies: 'Arbiters of Truth'." And then the sub-headline underneath that right here reads, "Self-appointed monitors of news accuracy, such as the Global Disinformation Index, can undermine objective reporting by penalizing sites they disagree with."
So now these media outlets are starting to be targeted by these, quote, disinformation experts and now they're starting to raise their voice.
Quote, what makes the influence of the GDI, the Global Disinformation Index, so pernicious, says the Times, is the dubiously broad construct of, quote, disinformation it now employs.
Not content with identifying false information, it now seeks to damage the financial model of websites it deems to be publishing, quote, adversarial narratives.
According to its founder, Claire Melford, this extension of its remit has enabled the GDI to target outlets whose work was judged to be merely, quote, harmful or divisive.
The creeping manner in which its self-ascribed remit, a British word for mission, has shifted illustrates a sinister irony of the anti-disinformation industry.
In setting themselves up as neutral arbiters of accuracy, the influence of their own biases risks creating a new form of misinformation.
That is exactly the point.
When somebody proclaims themselves to be the arbiter of truth inside Homeland Security or in highly well-funded think tanks or new organizations, you know that what they're really doing is trying to seize control of the flow of information to discredit and ultimately suppress and censor any information that contradicts their political agenda.
That's why it's so necessary to examine this, not because Jen Psaki's lies matter, I mean, she's a White House Press Secretary and an MSNBC host.
Of course she lies all the time.
That wouldn't be worth covering by itself.
The important part is that this is part of an overall effort to create an entire industry based on a fake term, disinformation, and a fake expertise, disinformation expert, So that they can seize control of the discourse, not to correct it, but to disseminate their own lies under coverage of this title.
And you see that in Jen Psaki.
You see it in so many others of them.
And that's what makes this entire industry so pernicious.
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It is very difficult to avoid talking about the ongoing war in Gaza that is perpetrated by the Israelis with the full support and aid and financing of the richest and most powerful country on earth, which is the United States government.
I can't think of a reason why one should try and avoid it, but it's not a war that is stagnant by any means.
It is a war that is getting more and more severe, especially when it comes to the conditions, the standard of living, the suffering for the people in Gaza.
There are people who have been through war zones all over the world, and you'll hear over and over, when they go to Gaza and then come back, they will say that they have never seen anything that remotely compares to the conditions on the ground in Gaza in terms of civilian suffering.
Now, earlier today, the Jerusalem Post reported, and there is video where you can watch this happen as well, that Israeli protesters torched aid trucks that were headed for Gaza through the West Bank.
This is not food and aid and medicine that Israel is providing.
This is medicine and food that aid organizations are providing to the population of Gaza, the starving population of Gaza.
And as the Jerusalem Post says, no left-wing outlet they, protesters have repeatedly blocked aid trucks headed for Gaza in recent months.
These are Israeli citizens who are Not arguing that Israel should refrain from feeding the people of Gaza, but who are actively and physically, often through the use of violence, blocking food, water, and medicine from entering Gaza and saving the lives of women and children and innocent men, civilians in Gaza.
Quote, protesters from the Zav Nine movement vandalized several humanitarian aid trucks that were headed to Gaza Near Hebron at the checkpoint in the Southern West Bank on Monday.
Remember, the entranceway into Gaza through Egypt has been seized by the IDF as part of their invasion of Rafah.
And so now they're using the West Bank, aid groups are, to try and get aid into Gaza.
And the fanatics and the radicals and the extremists, the Israeli extremists, are torching these aid trucks, are ransacking it and sabotaging it.
They don't want food getting into the people of Gaza.
"and they want them to starve." Quote, "Later in the evening, "protesters torched the trucks and the aid on them." A photo of the incident circulated on social media with the text, quote, "A torch for the hostages from Negahot." Negahot is a settlement near where the aid was torched.
The torch is an allusion to the torches lit at the annual Independence Day ceremony in Israel.
Quote, it is unfathomable to the mind and heart that precisely on Remembrance Day, the Israeli government opens a supply route from the Palestinian Authority in Hebron to the Hamas terrorists in Gaza, said the movement on Monday.
Quote, we will not be the silver platter on which the Gaza Strip was given for the establishment of the Palestinian state.
Now, consider the irony here, that they're doing this in the name of the protesters, or the hostages rather.
And yet the hostages themselves are in Gaza, deprived of the same food, access to medical care as everyone else in Gaza.
How does starving the hostages in Gaza help the hostages in Gaza?
Many of the hostages who were released said, When they were encouraged to talk about the abuse at the hands of Hamas, which many of them said they did not suffer, said that the thing they feared most while in captivity with Hamas was Israeli bombs, and talked as well about how they couldn't eat much, but they ate the same portions as their captors.
Their captors would get food and share it with them in equal portions.
And they were malnourished.
This was back in November and December when those early hostages were released.
How does it help the hostages to destroy Gaza with bombs or to make sure that no food gets in?
The hostages are a pretext for waging this war, not the objective of it.
Quote, right-wing protesters have repeatedly blocked aid trucks headed for Gaza in recent months, including recent incidents in Jerusalem, Mitzir Rahman, and the West Bank.
Here is video of that happening, in case you doubt it, even though it's in the Jerusalem Post.
You can see here at that border crossing these extremist Israelis, settlers, occupying land illegally under all international law, who are attacking these aid trucks. who are attacking these aid trucks.
A bunch of Israeli men just stealing packets of food and other assistance from these trucks They're breaking them on the ground.
They're stomping on them while they wave Israeli flags.
They're just taking one after the next and destroying as many of them as they can.
You can see the truck there.
This was all taken off the truck by them.
Sabotaging and ransacking the aid truck.
There's no bombs here.
There are no weapons.
It's just food stuff.
And they're smashing it on the ground with a lot of violence, with a lot of aggression, obviously.
These are extremists.
They're celebrating.
They're dancing up and down.
And now here is another video of the similar boarding crossing that contains a video showing similar acts.
- - Do you hear one of them narrating what they're doing?
And they're showing the, all of the destroyed food packets, a bunch of it is spilled on the ground Remember, the World Hunger Organization, headed by Cindy McCain, wife of John McCain, one of the most steadfast supporters of Israel in all of Congress.
Again, this is not a question of whether Israel should pay for this.
This is not coming from Israel.
as well.
And here are aid trucks that are trying just to bring rice and food.
You see the rice or the sugar just all over the ground in the bags that have been opened and thrown off the trucks and destroyed by these extremists.
So again, this is not a question of whether Israel should pay for this.
This is not coming from Israel.
It's coming through the West Bank, which is not part of Israel, even though Israel occupies it.
Here is Yeram Magal in a report earlier today.
She said, quote, he said, quote, a truck delivering aid to Gaza was set on fire in Mount Hebron, which is part of the West Bank.
And then here on social media, there is a photo of the truck on fire with Hebrew writing.
And the translation is, quote, a torch for the hostages from Negev, which is the Israeli settlement in the West Bank.
Now we've shown you before a video of the independent journalist Jeremy Lafredo who went to the West Bank and asked the people of the West Bank, Israeli settlers, what they think about the people in Gaza and what they want for Gaza.
And we'll just show you a couple minutes to get a sense for how hateful and extremist and even genocidal a lot of these people are.
What are we trying to do?
We're trying to block the aid trucks from crossing into Gaza.
This was when the aid was still coming in through the passing in the Egyptian-Gazan border.
And they were having hordes of Israeli extremists going to that checkpoint and blocking the trucks from entering, also using violence and sabotage against these trucks, while the IDF stood by and protected them, encouraged it, and permitted it.
This, again, was food entering the Gaza Strip, when World Health Organizations are all saying that the people of Gaza face famine.
And so Jeremy Lafredo went to the West Bank, went to this border crossing, and he asked them, What they're doing, and obviously most of these were in Hebrew, and you see the translation on the screen.
What are we trying to do, says one of them, to block the aid trucks from crossing into Egypt.
And from Egypt it will go to the people of Gaza, and to Hamas, it will help Hamas.
It's very successful.
Look, the aid trucks were supposed to be entering Gaza from 10 in the morning today, and we are blocking them from entering.
It's been days since any A-trucks have passed through, so there you have it, it works.
I think what we need, I don't know, we need to be united and kill all of them.
Now this to me, maybe it's just me, seems to be a lot more dangerous, and a lot more destructive, and a lot more malicious, and a lot more impactful, than anything a bunch of 19 and 20 year old protesters on college campuses have been doing in the United States.
These are people who are saying we want them all to die, not Hamas.
We want them all dead.
And as a result, we're blocking food sent by international aid organizations and the U.S.
government and other governments.
We will not permit them to enter Gaza.
And they're physically blocking them because they said they want them all to die.
He said, quote, we all need to go back into Gaza and control all of it, make it part of our country.
And then you see on the trailer of this truck is wheat flour for the starving and besieged people of the Gaza Strip.
It's wheat, but this humanitarian aid and thousands more aid shipments are not making it to the Palestinians in Gaza because Israelis have decided to engage in a direct action of blockade.
There you see them all waving the Israeli flag.
Quote, the people of Israel live.
For over a week, I embedded myself with Jewish Israeli nationalists who believe it's a worthy cause.
There you see kids being indoctrinated with hatred and violence against Palestinians, much like some Palestinians are indoctrinated to hate Israelis as well.
their occupiers, the people who bomb them.
And these are the extremists in Israel, many of whom have their views, these are not fringe movements, they have their views represented quite robustly by some of the senior officials in the Netanyahu government.
Which is why the IDF doesn't remove them, doesn't stop them, but protects them and shields them.
I want to play for you a video that was released today.
It's from a British surgeon, Dr. Nick Mallinard, and he goes around to war zones, has for many years, using his skills as a surgeon to help people in war zones.
He just went to Gaza.
He spent several weeks there.
He has now come back, and he described in this account what it is that he witnessed there.
Listen to what he said.
I'm a surgeon.
I had two young female patients, Tala who was 16, Lama who was 18, both of whom had survivable injuries, both of whom died last week as a direct result of malnutrition.
I've just returned from Gaza for my second trip there since October 7th.
I came out of Rafah, one of the last people to leave on Monday.
What I saw over the last two weeks, the first thing I'd like to highlight really is the direct targeting of health care workers.
We know about this.
We know that the hundreds that have been killed and also hundreds that have been abducted.
Now, just to give you an example of one of the things that he was referring to, There was a top surgeon at Al Sharif Hospital, which Israel has now destroyed.
He was an orthopedic surgeon, the chief of orthopedics in the Palestinian hospital system in Gaza.
And back in December, he was abducted, detained by the Israeli military.
And the Israeli military claimed that this top doctor was somehow participating in helping the terrorists, which is the excuse Israel uses for everything it does, just like the US government after 9-11 used that excuse for everything it did.
Oh, the people we're torturing are terrorists.
The people we're imprisoning with no due process, terrorists.
We're dropping bombs and killing people, all terrorists.
It's the all-purpose term to justify anything.
You just yell terrorist, and a lot of people say, oh, OK, then keep doing it.
And a lot of people, his family and colleagues in international human rights monitors, when he was in detention under the IDF, he was transferred to a prison institution that was run by the IDF.
And they said that based on conversations with him, based on visits of him, that he was clearly being tortured, maltreated, He was 50 years old, perfectly healthy at the time he was detained by the IDF.
Last month, in April, he died inside an Israeli prison run by the IDF, while his colleagues and family members were saying that he was being tortured.
And it was reported in Divulge only earlier this month in May, and Harris has been investigating his death.
And says that the IDF refuses to answer any questions to account for how it is that he died in IDF custody.
And so now you have this Dr. Maynard who is saying that healthcare workers are being targeted by the IDF, being killed by them, being detained, being tortured, because obviously the healthcare system has been deliberately and utterly dismantled.
There's barely any working hospitals inside Gaza as they continue to bomb.
I met two young healthcare workers who I knew and spent a considerable time with them last week.
One young doctor, one young nurse, both of whom had been abducted.
One of them kept in captivity for 45 days, the other one for 60 days, giving me very graphic and stark descriptions of their daily torture at the hands of the Israeli Defence Force.
And of course we know there are many, many other examples like this, but hearing it from Those individuals themselves was extremely harrowing and I think there will be many other stories like that.
Over Christmas and New Year, I spent the whole two weeks operating all the time on major explosive injuries to the abdomen and to the chest.
And it was really non-stop.
But the very strong narrative of the patients I was treating over the last two weeks were those with terrible infective complications as a direct result of malnutrition.
And this was very stark indeed.
So you can choose to believe or not that there's famine all over Gaza.
You can dismiss it as reports of Hamas, even though international hunger organizations and aid organizations are all saying that there's famine.
Even though Western doctors and nurses and other health care workers and aid workers who go into Gaza all come back reporting mass famine and malnourishment.
commitment.
I mean, you can willfully decide you don't believe it because you don't want to believe it, or you can look at the mountain of evidence proving that this famine is real.
Braced on many patients in the last two weeks who had awful complications from their abdominal surgery related to inadequate nutrition and particularly those with abdominal wall breaking down so literally their intestines end up hanging outside and the intestinal repairs that have been carried out to deal with the damage to the bowels Leaking, so their bowel contents leaking out from different parts of the abdomen, covering their bodies, covering their beds.
The lack of resources to deal with these inadequate numbers of colostomy bags, wound management devices and nutritional support.
And they get this vicious cycle of malnutrition, infection, wounds breaking down, more infection, more malnutrition.
So, devastating and we will see far more of that over coming months.
So, I mean, I can show you a hundred of those similar accounts from Western aid workers and medical doctors and nurses who go around to war zones all saying the same thing.
Earlier today, my former colleague at The Intercept, Ryan Grim, along with a journalist in Gaza, we should get her name, I believe, no I don't want to guess, reported that there are American medical missions trapped in Gaza.
And they're facing death by dehydration as the population clings to life.
In other words, there are American medical workers who have gone to Gaza to help the people of Gaza using their medical expertise.
They're American citizens.
And they cannot get out of Gaza now because the IDF controls the border crossing into Egypt as part of their invasion of Rafah and refuses to let them out.
And they're not there all that much time and they're already suffering severe malnutrition and health erosions because of it.
Imagine how severe the situation is for the civilians of Gaza who have been there from the beginning.
When you're hearing about American citizens, doctors and nurses who are there for only a short period of time and are already facing severe malnutrition.
This is what the article says, quote, we're continuing to work around the clock with the government of Israel.
And this is the American response.
To that, actually, first it says, the article says, quote, upward of 20 American doctors are trapped in Gaza as a result of Israel's post-invasion closure of the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, according to sources with knowledge of the plight of two ill-fated medical missions.
And here's Ryan Grimm giving an update on that story that's also included in the article where he says, quote, one of the American doctors trapped in Gaza By Israel's siege is Adam Hamaway, an army veteran who famously saved the life of Senator Tammy Duckworth after her helicopter crash in Iraq.
He was a medic in Iraq.
He saved Tammy Duckworth's life.
She's had her legs amputated, but her life was saved and he was credited for it.
Now he's in Gaza.
And the journalist, by the way, is Han Koutari, who's the Gazan journalist who wrote this article with Ryan Grimm.
So that gives you a sense of the credibility of the people who are making these reports.
Now, here from Telegram and the Yadat News, which is an Israeli news outlet, also from today, They have a report, quote, the Israeli army opened fire on United Nations rescue aid workers vehicles in Rafa, wounding one of its workers.
I believe one of them actually ended up dying.
So it's another attack by Israel on UN aid workers.
And at least one was wounded.
I believe that that one ended up dying.
Now, remember that back in March, when Joe Biden was interviewed on MSNBC, And the Biden government said, we do not support Israel entering the refugee camp in Rafah unless they first present a comprehensive plan to save the civilians who are sheltered there.
More than a million Gazans are internally displaced and we're in Rafah, the only place where they could be safe.
That's where Israel told them to go.
And the U.S.
government knew that if the Israelis bombed and invaded it, tens of thousands more Palestinian civilians at least would die.
And it would reflect poorly on the Biden administration politically, but also on the U.S.
government internationally.
And so the Biden administration said, that's our red line.
That's what President Biden called it, a red line.
And Netanyahu proceeded to ignore it, even though it's the U.S.
that finances that war, that arms that war.
They ignore whatever the United States wants.
Here from Time Magazine, May 9th, 2024, Biden said that Rafa was a, quote, red line.
Now what?
That's a president declaring they cannot do this.
This is a red line.
Netanyahu crossed right over it.
And although the Biden administration did symbolically suspend some weapons transfers, there's no impact yet on the Israeli military or the Israeli war machine.
Now, earlier today, Reuters reported that, quote, top Biden officials doubt that Israel can achieve, quote, total victory in Gaza.
It's very similar to the war in Ukraine.
When the Biden administration and NATO proclaimed at the beginning that they would fight this war until Russia was expelled from every inch of Ukrainian territory, including Crimea, which they controlled since 2014 in response to the U.S.
helping the Ukrainian government, the elected Ukrainian president, be overthrown to replace him with a more pro-Western leader.
And in the face of that threat to Russian security, they took over Crimea.
And now everybody realizes, except President Zelensky, that it's completely impossible.
That idea is a pipe dream.
They will never expel Russia from every inch of Ukrainian territory.
Certainly not Crimea and probably not any of the provinces in eastern Ukraine.
In fact, Russia is moving and advancing deeper into Ukraine.
And here is the Biden administration now admitting that the Israeli goal of eliminating Hamas is not possible.
You create more militants the more you do this to a population.
We've seen that over and over and over.
Quote, the Biden administration does not see it as likely or possible.
That Israel will achieve, quote, total victory in defeating Hamas in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, U.S.
Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said on Monday.
Quote, in some respects, we are struggling over what the theory of victory is, Campbell said at a U.S.
summit in Miami.
Quote, sometimes when we listen closely to Israeli leaders, they talk about mostly the idea of a sweeping victory on the battlefield, total victory.
I don't think we believe that is likely or possible and this looks a lot like situations that we found ourselves in after 9-11.
Where after civilian populations have been moved and lots of violence that the insurrections continue.
All of this was so predictable.
Days after the October 7th account, we started explaining why I thought that the attack by Hamas on Israel was unjustifiable because of the civilians that were targeted, but it was so obvious that history would repeat itself, that we were going to use the same excuses, the same pretext, the same mentality, the same tactics from the same people that we used after 9-11 that failed so radically.
Finally, eight months into the war, the Biden administration is admitting that's the case.
What plan does the IDF have for governing Gaza, even if they could eliminate Hamas?
And how would they possibly totally eliminate Hamas when they're supported by the population?
They're embedded in the population.
They're integrated into it, just like the Taliban was in Afghanistan.
Just like the insurrectionary movements in Iraq were embedded in the population.
These are not armies that stand alone from the population.
They are part of the population.
They're supported by it.
And it's impossible that Israel will eliminate Hamas.
This is slaughter and famine motivated by vengeance and bloodthirst over a people whom Israelis largely do not regard as human, whose lives they do not value.
And this is land that the Israeli government, the senior officials in the Israeli government, have long believed is theirs to take into control.
Destroying Hamas, rescuing the hostages, these are the pretext for war.
The goals of the war are extremely clear.
They're warped.
And the results of this war reflect that those were priorities.
And yet this is not just an Israeli war.
It is absolutely an American war.
And the person singularly responsible for supporting it and financing it and arming it and continuing to do so is Joe Biden.
That concludes our show for this evening.
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As another reminder, I was in Toronto over the last several days for an event on free speech, and particularly in Canada where there's this law, C-63, that the Trudeau government is advocating.
It would be the single harshest and most repressive online censorship law yet and it doesn't just affect Canada.
Every time one of these governments goes a step further in its censorship powers, it's a signal to all the other governments of the West that they can now go that step forward as well.
We've seen that over and over.
And so I traveled to Toronto along with Rumble.
It was an event sponsored by Rumble.
Rumble, as you might know, was a Canadian company.
Its founder and CEO, Chris Pawlowski, is a citizen of Canada.
And I went there along with Donald Trump Jr.
and Kimberly Guilfoyle, both of whom have shows on Rumble, as well as Chris, the CEO and founder of Rumble, and Viva Frye, who is a Canadian analyst and commentator who talks a lot about free speech.
I gave a speech by myself on the law, but on the trends of censorship and free speech in the West that you can watch.
It's on our Rumble page.
For those of you who haven't seen it, it's about 30 to 35 minutes.
I also was interviewed by Kimberly Guilfoyle about my career, about all my work, my different issues, including my work with animals.
You can see that on her page.
And then there is a panel discussion that we ended the event with, myself, Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle.
I know how strange this is.
What can I tell you?
Sometimes life is unpredictable.
And I thought it was a great event.
I thought it was a really interesting event.
I think this ability of disparate political factions to unite around free speech and against censorship is both important and encouraging.
And to me, that's what it symbolized.
And so if you want to check out that event, you can find it online.
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