Martin Armstrong — Congress Authorized Propaganda Against Americans

Martine Armstrong reminds us that it is now legal for the US government to lie not only to foreigners, as previously, but also to Americans domestically.

That's a curious view of freedom of the press.

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Congress Authorized Propaganda Against Americans
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Naomi Wolf picks up where Naomi Klein left off

Naomi Wolf on the next iteration of Naomi's Klein's exposé of disaster capitalism. Now it's on steroids as it comes home to roost in the US after having been tested and improved abroad. What did you think that the Patriot Act, DHS, and militarizing the police were for anyway? Fighting terrorists in Peoria?

Read the whole post at The Guardian (UK)
The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy

by Naomi Wolf
(h/t  wilwon32 in the comments)

It's clear from the comments at The Guardian that this suppression of first amendment rights is trashing US moral authority abroad and showing up the US as a hypocritical rogue state that doesn't practice what it preaches and violates its own ideals as it finds convenient. This is going to have international repercussions for a long while.

UPDATE: The other side of the story from an OWS supporter

Naomi Wolf’s ‘Shocking Truth’ About the ‘Occupy Crackdowns’ Offers Anything but the Truth

When you don’t “connect” wholly disparate “dots,” what you get is far less dramatic. Mayors in a handful of cities, responding to local political pressures, decided to break up their local occupations — decisions that were announced to the press well in advance — and were advised as to how best to do so.

Update: Naomi responds to Joshua


Naomi Wolf Versus Joshua Holland: Was There a Coordinated Federal Crackdown on Occupy Wall Street?

Joshua responds to Naomi


Occupy Crackdowns: Naomi Wolf's Response to My Critique Largely Evades the Issue at Hand