Maybe, though I’m not so sure that @TheTechnician27@lemmy.world is as obtuse as he presents himself to be.

In October 2021, she was brought on as an intern at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), a CIA propaganda project founded by notorious spymaster Allen Dulles which nominally separated from the Agency in the 70s.

I think she probably knew what she was doing in joining a US military-propaganda-industrial “news” outlet run by the USAGM.

Habibiazad frequently collaborates with Deepa Parent, the disgraced former fashion blogger turned Iranian protest-whisperer who deleted her Twitter account this February after The Grayzone exposed her role in fabricating protest death tolls. Like Parent, Habibiazad rocketed to mainstream media prominence during the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests which shook Iran in 2022.

That’s how corporate media works. If you peddle for empire you get promoted, and if you challenge empire you never get work again.

US Media’s Iraq War Pushers 20 Years On: Where Are They Now? Rich and Influential.

Indeed, not only have none of the hawks who promoted, cheerled, or authorized the criminal invasion of Iraq ever been held accountable, they’ve since thrived: they’ve found success in the media, the speaking circuit, government jobs, and cushy think tank gigs, and they currently occupy the Oval Office. Meanwhile, those in the mainstream who openly opposed the war—like, for example, Phil Donahue and Chris Hedges—were either fired or relegated to alternative media outlets. The almost uniform success of all the Iraq War cheerleaders provides the greatest lesson about what really helps one get ahead in public life: It’s not being right, doing the right thing, or challenging power, but going with prevailing winds and mocking anyone who dares to do the opposite.

To be expected from The Grayzone.

Ironically The Grayzone is more often correct than Wikipedia.

Yes, specifically a colossal fuckup in attempting to exfiltrate enriched uranium.

It’s Official: US Boots-On-Ground Deep Inside Iran Amidst Another Day of Humiliating Losses

The geolocated wreckage of the C-130s which were apparently using a local “agricultural airstrip” (32.223369, 51.897678) just happens to be right over a mountain, about 35km away, from Isfahan’s nuclear facility, where Iran’s ‘near-weapons grade’ enriched uranium is alleged to be stored.

In an article just last month, [Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency] Rafael Grossi stated the following:

Almost half of ‌Iran’s uranium enriched to up to 60% purity, a short step from weapons-grade, was stored in a tunnel complex at Isfahan and is probably still there, U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Rule 1. Substack blog, not an actual news source.

Another visitor from Lundistan 🤷

The people in Crimea and the Donbas requested military assistance from Russia to stop Ukraine’s ethnic cleansing of them. Or do you think this war started in 2022?

They’re genocidal is what’s wrong with them.
They’re indistinguishable from Nazis.

I doubt Trump is involved enough to be choosing the targets. Mostly he watches TV news and plays golf.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Antisemitism

Pathetic.

It’s unfortunate that you believe the lies the West tells you about its enemies.

First you have to find Anna.

I blame Sun/Java for popularizing this. I give find a pass due to its age.

Fighting against your oppressors makes you no better than them, so just close your eyes and think of England.

Everything I don’t like is tankie.

It is neither our whole thing nor is it wholly our thing. Again, the vote was 123 to 3, with abstentions mostly from imperial core / “always the same map” states. They’re the states that benefited from classical imperialism and are still benefiting from neo-imperialism.

[the linux kernel developers group] bent over backwards to comply with the american government’s overreach when they kicked out russian developers.

I though that was mostly due to Linus being a typical Russia-hating Finn, but I never investigated.

it’s short for not a snowdog’s chance in hell 😐

My laptop’s TPM requires a pint of blood to allow booting to an OS. Two pints if it’s Linux.

If not already, I assume they’ll offer a for-fee API for bots.

4chan has good word of mouth: potty mouth.