Comments by "Animal Farm" (@animalfarm7467) on "The Grayzone" channel.

  1. I once saw a Nazi medallion with a Swastika on one side and the Star of David on the other. I read some vague text about the origins of this medallion and why it was struck to acknowledge the alliance between Zionists and Nazis, and how the Zionists worked with the Nazis on the relocation of Jews to Palestine. And then Max educates me and fills in most of the blanks. Thank you Max; keep up the excellent work.
    7
  2. And never forget those corporations that "supported" the military on a "cost plus" basis; where Halliburton and others (e.g. KBR) extracted around $380 billion dollars from the US taxpayer in the Iraq War since 2004. And those construction companies paid to "rebuild" the infrastructure just pocketed the money and walk away leaving a devastated nation. How the US sent $12 billion in cash to Iraq to pay contractors and just watched it vanished. Sure, most of the extortion of the American people happens through corporate subsidies (e.g. $100 billion - Oil& Gas), and the Congressional Military Industrial And Intelligence Complex, but there are a lot of other games on the side stripping wealth from the taxpayer. It won't be too long till most Americans will wake up and find themselves slaves of plutocrats in their own country; and that same military (Obama & Posse Comitatus) will be bought onto the streets to keep them in line should they complain.
    4
  3.  @L98fiero  :Correct; there is no difference: Same plutocrats that own the US and all branches of government - same strategies to achieve their imperial goals - but different faces on the puppets to sell the idea you live a democracy and you have a choice.
    4
  4. I always appreciate the efforts of Aaron Maté and Max Blumenthal to present the facts along with a comprehensive analysis; they do an excellent job. But may I suggest you take another step back from your current position on the Iowa caucus and think again. The goal of the plutocrats is to kneecap the people's candidate - Bernie Sanders. Now what are the tools the plutocrats have to achieve the task – their Democratic establishment and their Republican establishment? May I suggest the plutocrats have understood the popularity of Sanders for a while and in June 2016 the plutocrats observed how rapidly the people changed affiliation when the Podesta emails and other events exposed the corruption of the Democratic establishment. The plutocrats watched as many rushed to Trump as the perceived lesser evil. Have you ever considered, maybe this current Iowa disaster was intentional. Have you considered the plutocrats want to repeat the 2016 Podesta disaster that played right into their hands? If the plutocrats can convince a majority of the people the Democratic establishment is again corrupt, many should repeat 2016 and again head for the Trump exit. If you doubt what I say, just look at the 6% “bump” in the polls after the Democrat “Impeachment” failed; this should have been no surprise to anyone. The plutocrats understand the majority of the people are shallow and only want to be associated with “winners”; so how the mainstream media reflects the character of the candidate (winner or loser) does affect that candidate in the polls. Just think of the Democratic establishment as being sacrificial to the ultimate cause - to kneecap Bernie. The plutocrats will still be able to resurrect the Democratic establishment for future use as people have such short attention spans; most of the lead (Pb) water addled and mainstream propagandized majority would have forgotten all of this by 2024. I became suspicious when the company who created the application was named Shadow Inc.; that’s something right out of Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Surely they couldn’t be serious; this must be a joke? If this is really the strategy of the plutocrats, expect to see Buttigieg fall away probably being replaced with Bloomberg somewhere down the track as Max said. But if Bernie persists in the polls, also expect a covert option to throw their sacrificial Democratic establishment under the bus and push the voters towards Trump if Bernie persists to top the polls. If Bernie makes it as the Democratic nominee and the polls say he would beat Trump, expect to see some real fireworks. But if Bernie ever makes it to the inauguration, I would recommend you be anywhere except the western front of the U.S. Capitol building.
    3
  5. Sometimes intent goes past Ideology and encroaches on the economic realm (Cui Bono). Have you ever considered there may be a greed component to the actions of the Plutocrats and Israel in the Middle East? Have you ever considered the CIA Operation “Timber Sycamore” might be motivated by more than just politics? Even the CIA admits their Operation is based not only on Israeli interests but on pipeline access: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88B00443R001404090133-0.pdf But I’m sure you are well aware of this document. The greed component to the actions of the Plutocrats and Israel may also be driven by those parties behind Genie Energy illegally drilling in the Golan Heights. Just take a look at some of the names on the advisory board of Genie Energy: Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch, James Woolsey, Larry Summers, Bill Richardson (former Governor of New Mexico, ex-ambassador to the United Nations and United States Energy Secretary), Jacob Rothschild, and Mary Landrieu, former United States Senator from Louisiana.
    3
  6. Thanks Aaron for keeping us informed; but I believe Bjartmar Alexandersson is going to be disappointed when his "colleagues" in the US either ignore or corrupt his story for domestic consumption. Call me cynical, but I just can't see Rachael Maddow or the New York Times presenting this story in its correct context.
    2
  7. The Israeli government defending the rape of prisoners, the starving and slaughtering of innocents, sniping unarmed civilians and medical staff in the "Right of Return", mowing the lawn? Now consider the Secretary of State under Clinton (Albright) who said it was worth it when her sanctions killed half a million Iraqi children through starvation and disease. When the Democrats say "We and the Zionists have shared values", maybe they are correct. A little advice; when someone tells you who they really are - LISTEN!
    2
  8. The fraudster, criminal, and now ex-CIA controlled Washington puppet Guaidó must be getting very nervous about being removed from any political power in Venezuela. Guaidó must understand what happens to treacherous sleaze like him that are of no further use to the corrupt Imperial Washington establishment. If I were Guaidó, I would make sure my life-insurance is paid up, I wouldn’t be seen in open spaces, I would think about recruiting a food taster, and I certainly wouldn’t be taking any rides in a small plane.
    2
  9. Have you ever considered the US might be more "complicit" than "arrogant"? You have exposed innumerable lies by the US administration over the years, so why wouldn't they also be lying about their role in the expanding war in the Middle East. They are supplying the dollars; they are supplying the weapons; why wouldn't they be pulling the levers and just using Netanyahu like they are using Zelenskyy as an actor to redirect the public perception of their intent? After all, the real game is plausible deniability to hide the intent of the empire.
    2
  10. ​ L98FIERO: The political parties (DNC, RNC) are corporations owned by the plutocrats and the politicians are just the puppets of the plutocrats used to cryptically convey their master's intent to the people. To maintain the illusion of democracy, each election cycle the people get to choose between fascist and fascist-lite. The mainstream media is one homogeneous propaganda machine and the whole political scene is just one big stage act with each actor (politician) playing their part. And the script being written by the plutocrats and their minions (e.g. Kissinger) and the minders of the politicians. It appears with Biden they were scraping the bottom of the barrel; couldn't they at least find a puppet whose history wasn't all lies and deception; someone that could hold a thought for more than a minute? The average voter is as dumb as toast and many still believe (Can I have a drink of water) Obama was working for their interests; but with incompetent actors like Biden, even the greater fool must eventually wake to this scam.
    2
  11. Hartmann is also a Russiagating imperialist supporting US Empire. It appears Sanders and Hartmann are two Controlled Oppositions paid by the same interests (e.g. Soros).
    2
  12. It's no coincidence that diplomats and honest and credible gentlemen like Hans von Sponeck have been filtered out of governments, just as honest journalists have been filtered out of the mainstream media. The same thing is happening to academia and many other institutions that once served the interests of the people.
    2
  13. Just as we had the first round of Nuremberg Trials in 1946 to prosecute the fascists of the Third Reich; in the next round of the Nuremberg Trials to prosecute contemporary war criminals after the fall of the Fourth Reich (USA), we should put the crimes of media foremost. Those traitors of the people in the western media who have so willingly lied to protect and promote the interests of the plutocrats and their Fourth Reich should be prosecuted and swing in the gallows before the corporate-government Imperial war criminals themselves. The intent of this action is to send a message to subsequent "journalists" who may contemplate using the media to intentionally lie to future generations for financial gain.
    1
  14. But no one is asking the question "why". Why is the US targeting Syria? One could say because Syria was on the Pentagon's hit list from the Pentagon memo exposed by General Wesley Clark in 2007, but that still doesn't give the reason for the ongoing attempt to overthrow the elected government of Syria. If you go back further, you will find a 1983 CIA memo that may yield a reason: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP88B00443R001404090133-0.pdf If one reads this memo, one comes away with the actual reason for the attack on Syria and why it was included in the Pentagon's "Seven Countries in Five Years" memo.
    1
  15. In the all encompassing Western Neoliberal World of corruption and propaganda, the Free World owes much to Real Journalists like Aaron Maté, Max and Ben. To give more insight into what could have influenced the Executive Council of the OPCW to lie, I am wondering why Aaron didn't include the threats (“We Know Where Your Kids Live”) of John Bolton directed towards the first director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons - José Bustani. Bolton was threatening Bustani to quit as director-general of the OPCW prior to the Iraq War, despite the fact that he had been unanimously re-elected to head the 145-nation body just two years earlier. Including this historical event of US corruption and influence on the OPCW may have given further impetus to Aaron's declaration and given some insight into the motivation to corrupt reality. But given the breadth and intent of this imperial corrupting influence, it makes one question the credibility and integrity of the United Nations itself. Given the obvious corruption of the OPCW, one must also ask whether the UN isn't just another NATO; just another malignant tool of the Anglo-American Empire disguised as a benign independent entity working for human rights and peace.
    1
  16. Have you ever considered that Washington may be the puppet-master and the Zionists are the puppets? Have you considered that Washington may just be using another version of its "Plausibility Deniability Doctrine" and will eventually sacrifice Israel as the curtain recedes further and we see how the empire actually works. Always remember the words of an earlier Biden, "If Israel didn't exist, we would have to create it". The plutocrats may even sacrifice their puppet Biden saying it was his feebleness that caused this atrocity.
    1
  17. Anya 26:47 "I have to give Biden credit for genuine sentiment and feeling about this war". LMAO Don't these people understand Biden is an actor in a plutocratic choreographed production to manipulate the rubes? Don't they understand that while Biden is making this statement, he is reading from an Autocue? There are no genuine statements or emotions from this shallow and hollow sociopath; Biden is a lying, plagiarizing sleaze who had to drop out of his 1988 presidential campaign because a then-credible media exposed his lies. And now you're giving this obsequious puppet credibility for genuine emotions; again - LMAO.
    1
  18. I'm not sure why so many continue to keep talking about Biden as if he is the one who is actually making the decisions. Like nearly all recent presidents, Biden is just a puppet that follows orders from his masters. And who are his masters; those covert families that created such think-tanks and institutions as the Council of Foreign Relations (e.g. Rockefeller). Biden is an excellent example of political puppetry; his incoherence and stumbling exposes the scam more than most before him. Like Trump and George W. before him, Biden is the only fool they could find to play this role. Yes, with Biden the plutocrats were certainly getting to the bottom of the puppet barrel. This choreographed production is just a scam to give the infantilized and brain-dead fools that vote the idea they have an actual leader; instead of a puppet. It's just another scam in the litany of scams to create the illusion of democracy. Think of Biden as a statue of Ronald MacDonald outside of a MacDonald's franchise. If the customer (voter) gets a stale burger, they can throw it at the statue (puppet) instead of abusing the franchise owner (plutocrat). Yes, Biden is just another “stalking horse” for the plutocrats and this familiar face has been installed to create the illusion of leadership for those whom Gore Vidal described as “The United States of Amnesia”.
    1
  19. I would like to agree that Crowdstrike's confession would help Julian Assange, but when it comes to Anglo-American justice, you are dealing with pure hegemonic corruption. Just look at the recent exposure of conflict of interest between the British judge and the Assange case. Because the corruption of British justice is now so overt and obvious to most, it appears the British judiciary no longer cares about public opinion and will openly commit criminal acts to appease their masters. So it is clear by the contrived Swedish collusion in legal fraud, the corruption of the British judiciary, and the intentional inhumane treatment of Julian; British Justice has been transformed into a sycophantic lynch mob for the global plutocratic Mafia.
    1
  20. Have you ever considered that the actions of Israel are just the actions on orders being given covertly by Washington? After all, Washington is funding Israel, Washington is supplying weapons to Israel, Washington is giving political cover to Israel at the UN, and Washington is giving military support to Israel in the Mediterranean. Washington also said that its support for Israel is "unconditional"? Think about the word "unconditional"? Were the Congressional ovations to Netanyahu just a ploy to stimulate the emotions of the American people and direct attention away from Washington and towards Israel? Could this be staged and could Israel be just another Washington proxy like Ukraine? Could this be the old "Plausible Deniability" doctrine to protect empire from public opinion yet again?
    1
  21. The Grayzone team of real journalists has devastated the lies of Western corporate mainstream media. Thanks to Max Blumenthal, Anya Parampil, and Aaron Mate and the Grayzone Team for your exposure of the truth. You have made it difficult for these so-called international bodies for peace to now ignore the truth. They can no longer hide behind the plausible deniability provided by the corporate mainstream media. If only the UN or the ICC had the intent and ability to act and prosecute for the war crimes of sanction and siege. Keep up the good work Max; keep exposing the mainstream media for the lying corporate sleaze it is.
    1
  22. You need to consider WikiLeaks criticisms of the US Corporate Government’s Fourth Reich as similar to the Poison Kitchen’s criticism of Hitler’s Third Reich. The Poison Kitchen was a name Hitler gave to The Münchener Post, a socialist newspaper critical of the fascist dictator. The fascists crushed The Münchener Post in 1933 just as I expect the contemporary fascists will also eventually crush WikiLeaks. Sadly, the only crime in both accounts was speaking the truth to power; something that is not in the lexicon of contemporary “journalists” in a world of consolidated corporate media controlled by Western fascists. What you have really missed in your analysis is the lack of intellectual honesty within those who attack Assange on the basis some misguided loyalty to the corrupt Democratic Party and its affiliations (DNC, DCC, etc.). These weak minded and morally bankrupt cretins are a product of the corruption inherent in a failing empire. Think of these mindless fools as those in the failing Roman Empire watching the Bread and Circus shows as the empire crumbled. In my opinion, when the population has degraded to such an extent there is little that can be done to recover. You can see pockets of rebellion from those with some integrity and honesty, but sadly those individuals measure too few in Western nations of today. The Western corporate mainstream media combined with cheap money and materialism with which these fools have used unwittingly used as a noose, have been effective tools of the plutocrats to trap the corrupt and gullible.
    1
  23. It's refreshing to watch a real journalist make this fascist, lying, and war-criminal sleaze of the Fourth Reich squirm. If this war criminal had any credibility with any fool that may have been watching, it should have been extinguished as soon as this plutocratic puppet and spin merchant used the words “Russian Barrel Bomb”. This war criminal put’s the efforts of Goebbels to shame. If it is ever possible to assemble a contemporary Nuremberg, I will be looking forward to the day I watch these imperial psychopathic scum hanging from the end of a rope.
    1
  24. ​ @ericdemel8489  Verstehe, dass die deutschen Mainstream-Medien von Washington kontrolliert werden. Lesen Sie das Buch von Dr. Udo Ulfkotte "Journalisten for Hire: How the CIA Buys the News“.
    1
  25. Is Trump still seeking regime change in Venezuela? What Trump wants doesn't actually matter as he is only a puppet of the plutocrats. But I believe his plutocratic masters sure want a "regime change" in Venezuela. Especially those plutocrats who own those Corpus Christie oil refineries in the "Gulf of America" designed to refine Venezuelan heavy crude.
    1
  26.  S  When you know that democracy doesn't exist and all you are watching is a show to get you to vote to give consent to a corrupt system, you can't possibly vote for either of the two parties in this one party totalitarian fascist (corporate owned) state.
    1
  27.  S  : If any candidate was ever found to actually work for the interests of the people, their life expectancy would be severely diminished. Understand, you are talking about families like the Rockefellers (e.g. Council on Foreign Relations) who thought nothing about slaughtering families of coal workers when they attempted to strike. Lookup Ludlow Massacre and you will see what I mean. Psychopathy is in the genes.
    1
  28. Aaron, I have nothing but total respect for you and your excellent work, buy I believe your current guest Samuel Moyn, 15:35 "We should make sure not to get burned again when we elect Democrats", is a naive Idiot. Doesn't he understand the US is a two party state where both parties work for the same imperial interests? Doesn't he understand the adversarial politics between Democrat and Republican is an illusion; a choreographed production with political actors playing their parts to give the rubes the illusion of democracy? Doesn't he understand the Democrats wear the White Hat and the Republicans wear the Black Hat in this deceptive Hollywood production of Good-Cop/Bad-Cop?
    1
  29. The more I listen to Aaron Maté, the more I learn about how the world actually works.
    1
  30. Of course the FBI accepted using Crowdstrike as an intermediary in the investigation of the DNC server; the FBI is nothing more than a stooge for the Democratic establishment and domestic muscle to serve the interests of the plutocrats. Sadly Kash Patel used the word "frustrating" when criticizing the FBI, when he should have used the words "criminal conspiracy".
    1
  31.  @bozo5632  Agreed, but I used the Democratic establishment in this example because this was a time when the FBI were dedicated to serving the interests of the Clinton cabal. And it's not that often when the intent of the FBI becomes so obvious.
    1
  32. Why so many continue to give credence to anything that comes out of Biden's mouth confuses the hell out of me. Biden has shown himself to be an inveterate liar, a plagiarist, a war promoter and a criminal guilty of sex crimes. Are people that naive and stupid; are their morals so corrupted they would actually consider Biden an alternative? Sorry, but all I see is the old adage of "People get the government they deserve", coming home to roost once again. You should have listened to Biden the one time he was speaking the truth to Wall Street, "If I'm elected, nothing will change". After Trump's "Drain the Swamp" and Obama's "Hope and Change", how many times can the establishment fool these poor pathetic cretins that continue to believe the delusion of political choice and democracy?
    1
  33. Don't get suckered yet again with Trump's anti-Neocon speech; this is just the establishment tapping you on your nose to make sure you go in a certain political direction. Trump is nothing more than Controlled opposition reading from an Autocue and recruited to feed you a narrative to ensure you continue to vote and give legitimacy to the one-party state. How are you going to feel when Trump fails to "Drain the Swamp" yet again? Voting third party may be a waste of a vote in a bipartisan one-party state, but it will send a message.
    1
  34. Tell Arkin he can find the word "hegemonic" in the Webster's Dictionary: Definition of hegemonic 1 : preponderant influence or authority over others : e.g. domination battled for hegemony in Asia. 2 : the social, cultural, ideological, or economic influence exerted by a dominant group.
    1
  35. If Bitcoin were to ever threaten the plutocrats' financial Ponzi game, they would legislate to make it illegal. The same way they control RobinHood are looking to legislate against the little guy from betting against the interests of Wall Street.
    1