Western Mainstream Media Outlets as Propaganda Tools of the "Empire of Lies"

"When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals." - Julian Assange

It's almost two years since I woke up to realize that Western mainstream media outlets are nothing but propaganda tools of the "Empire of Lies" and its "oligarchs". They tell lies after lies as if to breathe. The more lies of theirs I'm exposed to, the more disgusted I become, but the more helpless I also feel as what is at stake is a whole complex that is far beyond the power of individuals.

I even feel more helpless when I encounter people after people who consume these lies as if they were facts, without being aware that they are brainwashed. A recent poll in the US showed that only about 30% still trust mainstream media.

It's rather hard to believe this number as a number of individual journalists I trust and follow say that the US is the most propagandized nation on the planet. Most of my friends in Jerusalem seem to relate to Western mainstream media in blind faith. Some of them treated me as if I were a propagandist, repeating the same propaganda of these outlets to accuse whistleblowers as propagandists.

The last nail in the coffin for me with regards to these propagandists, or the "stenographers" of the "Empire of Lies" was their utter silence or intentional ignorance of the trial of Julian Assange in one colony of this empire. Corporate journalism is long dead for me, but this trial served for me its official deathday.

"If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry." - Edward Snowden

PS: List of my favorite independent journalists

PPS: Please allow me to recommend you a courageous and eloquent Australian independent journalist named Caitlin Johnstone, who has been criticizing Western mainstream media outlets as propaganda tools of the "Empire(s) of Lies". The following are some of her best gems on this issue:

• Propaganda Isn't Something That Only Happens to Others
• Awakening from the Narrative Matrix
• Psychological Tyranny Is Still Tyranny
• A Prison Where the Prisoners Don't Know They're in Prison
• Most Propaganda Looks Nothing Like This
• Propaganda Restricts Speech More Than Censorship Does
• Why Propaganda Works
• Fighting Propaganda Is a Matter of Survival

Historic Interview of Tucker Carlson with President Vladimir Putin

* Update (2024-02-16): Links to some commetaries were added at the end of this post as PS.

As a kind of historical record, therefore without much ado, I'd like to recommend all of you to watch a two-hour historic interview of Tucker Carlson with President Vladimir Putin, which was recorded on Tuesday, February 6 in Moscow and broadcasted on Thursday, February 8, in English and/or Russian if you haven't watched it yet and especially if you've never listened to President Vladimir Putin in his own words:

• English
  • Tucker Carlson's website
  • Tucker Carlson's X account
  • Tucker Carlson's Rumble channel
  • Kremlin's website in English (with transcript)
• Russian
  • Sputnik's Rutube channel
  • RT's Rutube channel
  • Kremlin's website in Russian (with transcript)

I have much to say about President Vladimir Putin, Tucker Carlson and the contents of this historic interview as well as all the fuss Western "journalits" have made about it. But I've decided to add nothing personal here so that you may watch it with no prejudice and labeling.

Enjoy!

PS (2024-02-16): Some commentaries on the interview worth checking

• Tucker's First Discussion since the Vladimir Putin Interview by Tucker Carlson
• Tucker Carlson Interviews Vladimir Putin by The Duran
• The Vladimir Putin Interview - Part One by William Schryver
• The Vladimir Putin Interview - Part Two by William Schryver

Additional Educational Initiative in the New Place

One of my boyhood dreams was to become a polyglot. Since then I've learned 12 foreign languages and become fluent in four of them, so I can probably say that I've realized this dream of mine.

Later in my life something I hadn't even dreamed of happened. I fell in love with Hebrew, which was one of these 12 languages, and decided to dedicate my life to its study. I ended up receiving my PhD in Hebrew linguistics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and then even tenure in Hebrew linguistics at another Israeli university.

Something even less expected happened afterwards. I decided to leave this tenured position of my own free will and started spreading through language what transcends language, first in Israel, then in this new place after leaving Israel at the end of September 2023.

Though I had no appetite for teaching languages per se, I continued to look for some way to make the best use of my experiences of learning and researching languages (and linguistics) for many years, until I had two fateful encounters in this new place in the middle of last month.

When I visited the local library of this new place to see if I could participate in some group of volunteers, I saw many high school students studying there in silence. Some of them must have been studying English. I was sorry for them as I felt they were wasting their precious time learning English in an inefficent manner. Then I was reminded of one method I encountered about 44 years ago when I was in their age.

Thanks to this method, my proficiency in English made a dramatic program. As I continued to study 11 more languages as an undergraduate, then graducate student in three universities, I applied this method of learning foreign languages to the study of all these languages and became fluent in four of them, which were (and still are) important to me. I didn't want to invest the equal amount of my time and energy in the study of the rest of the languages I studied as they were less important. Now I'm applying this method to my renewed study of Russian - my most beloved language.

I never told about this method to anyone else. At the same library later on the same day I had an even more fateful encounter. I stumbled upon a book that explains in a very convincing manner with evidential proofs why this method works. It's based on the principles of the so-called neuroplasticity. I felt a sudden urge to share it with these high school students as well as adults.

There must be many people who teach English and other major languages here (and elsewhere in the world), but I wonder how many people teach how to learn foreign languages by rewiring our brain. With this in mind I launched an additional educational initiative called "Multilingual Brain".