EDITOR—The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate weigh into the debate around the motives behind active duty Air Force member Aaron Bushnell’s extreme act of protest against US support for Israel’s assault on Gaza.
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“The Brits Did It,” said Gil Doctorow about Navalny’s demise, before the West shifted the narrative.
GIL DOCTOROW—What is new and led Natali Morris to reopen the issue was the announcement a day ago by the head of Ukrainian intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov, that Navalny died of natural causes, namely from a blood clot. She remarks that the Ukrainians are thus agreeing with what the Russian government said following their autopsy of Navalny. The reason for Budanov’s remark to a journalist was to counter accusations that some, myself included, have made about Ukrainian involvement in the foul deed acting on orders from their British curators.
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EDITOR—The people running the West, notes Medhurst, are the same people who are bombing Gaza and who put Julian Assange in prison. They are beholden to the Deep State and the CIA (arms of the global financial oligarchy). Same politicians, same corporations. More than 130 Palestinian journalists murdered by Israel so far, for exposing Israeli crimes. Julian Assange is being killed for exposing US war crimes. Little can be expected from them until there’s a much wider mobilisation…
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—In case you haven’t been following the story, back in December the Times published an article titled “‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7” which was riddled with glaring plot holes that were exposed by research from outlets like The Grayzone, Electronic Intifada, and Mondoweiss. Later it came out with the help of an anonymous Twitter account named zei_squirrel that one of the three authors of the New York Times piece — Anat Schwartz — is a genocide-supporting Israeli intelligence veteran who had never worked in journalism before, and that another author of the piece — a food writer named Adam Sella — is her partner’s nephew.
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MIKE PRYSNER—So we know Aaron Bushnell had courage. Far, far more than the commanders who rise through the ranks—the ones who take us to war, who sell it on cable news or in the Pentagon press room. What courage is there in pretending, in myth-making? A force for good, for democracy, for human rights, for self-defense… what a lie. A story peddled by cowards who casually direct murder from the safety of command centers, who sell the weapons from their boardrooms, or who spin fantasies in Congress. People who are revered as our leaders. Those who will no-doubt call Aaron Bushnell crazy or disturbed or misguided, but who really only see those qualities in the mirror.
