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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>John,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I don’t know who </span><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><a href="https://www.facebook.com/raul.fernandezberriozabal?hc_ref=ARQzZhYNRopHjfB3r0rn7PzGWvP_3-Usb1jz1oCtqafRawVI-71ptvbPK4gLB6ORPvA&fref=nf" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>Raúl Fernández-Berriozábal</span></b></a> is either, but I agree with everything he says and I have felt that way for several years now about Democracy Now, which I use to watch every day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>I started to sour on them during the destruction of Libya and their HOERRIBLE coverage and analysis. And it kept getting worse over time. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>It is a real shame because they USE to be great. But, that is how this system is set-up. When you take corporate foundation grant money or have corporate advertisers, eventually they will control you. He who pays the piper calls the tune.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>If you want, I can privately e-mail you a list of the sources I refer to, which are non-corporate and most important have had a very reliable track record of accuracy over time. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>David Johnson</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Peace-discuss [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces@lists.chambana.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John W. via Peace-discuss<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 12, 2018 1:14 PM<br><b>To:</b> Karen Aram<br><b>Cc:</b> Peace-discuss List (peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net)<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] If you still listen to Democracy Now, please read below:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>So where does <a href="https://www.facebook.com/raul.fernandezberriozabal?hc_ref=ARQzZhYNRopHjfB3r0rn7PzGWvP_3-Usb1jz1oCtqafRawVI-71ptvbPK4gLB6ORPvA&fref=nf" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#365899;text-decoration:none'>Raúl Fernández-Berriozábal</span></b></a> recommend that we get news which is ideologically and financially pure, untainted by any "pro-establishment" positions or "imperialist" sources of revenue? And what are <a href="https://www.facebook.com/raul.fernandezberriozabal?hc_ref=ARQzZhYNRopHjfB3r0rn7PzGWvP_3-Usb1jz1oCtqafRawVI-71ptvbPK4gLB6ORPvA&fref=nf" target="_blank"><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#365899;text-decoration:none'>Raúl Fernández-Berriozábal</span></b></a>'s bona fides?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'>On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 8:44 AM, Karen Aram via Peace <<a href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank">peace@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div id="gmail-m_4149437574501057168u_fetchstream_8_2f"><div id="gmail-m_4149437574501057168u_fetchstream_8_2g"><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1D2129'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:6.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1D2129'><a href="https://www.facebook.com/raul.fernandezberriozabal?fref=nf" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#365899;text-decoration:none'><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:6.0pt;text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#365899;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><a href="https://www.facebook.com/raul.fernandezberriozabal?fref=nf" target="_blank"><span style='color:#365899;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:~WRD000.jpg" alt="Image removed by sender."></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:windowtext;border:none;text-decoration:none'><o:p></o:p></span></a></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1D2129'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><div><div><div><h6 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:1.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;vertical-align:middle'><span class=gmail-m4149437574501057168fwb><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#616770'><a href="https://www.facebook.com/raul.fernandezberriozabal?hc_ref=ARQzZhYNRopHjfB3r0rn7PzGWvP_3-Usb1jz1oCtqafRawVI-71ptvbPK4gLB6ORPvA&fref=nf" target="_blank"><span style='color:#365899;text-decoration:none'>Raúl Fernández-Berriozábal</span></a></span></span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1D2129;font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h6><div id="gmail-m_4149437574501057168feed_subtitle_263;597857571;10155814345247572;10155814345247572;1523340270"><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;background:white;vertical-align:middle'><span class=gmail-m4149437574501057168fsm><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#90949C'><a href="https://www.facebook.com/raul.fernandezberriozabal/posts/10155814345247572" target="_blank"><span style='color:#616770;text-decoration:none'>April 9 at 11:04pm</span></a></span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#616770'> · <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style='margin-top:4.5pt' id="gmail-m_4149437574501057168js_4ge"><div id="gmail-m_4149437574501057168id_5acf5f2b3c7d75e46148294"><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1D2129'>I used to like and respect Amy Goodman, but she insists on perpetuating several pro-establishment positions, such as the corporate media's imperialist propaganda about Libya, Syria, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela, the official narrative of 9/11, the DNC' paranoia about the Russians "hacking the elections", calling the Imperialist/Wahhabi plot in Syria a "civil war", while referring to the White Helmets (Al Qaeda) as "humanitarians".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1D2129'>Amy surprisingly supported sanctions in Ir<span class=gmail-m4149437574501057168textexposedshow>aq where undreds of thousands of deaths and human suffering occurred because of these sanctions, including the deaths of approximately 500,000 Iraqi children.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1D2129'>Furthermore, Democracy Now! sandwiches "fake news" between real news while running interference for imperialism because it is beholden to funding sources such as the Pacifica Foundation, the Ford, Carnegie, the Lannan Foundation and Patrick Lannan, the capitalist mogul who founded the organization, sat on the board of ITT corporation in the late 70s and early 80s.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1D2129'>The ITT corporation was instrumental in the CIA-backed fascist coup that overthrew the democratically elected socialist Salvador Allende in 1973.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1D2129'>So-called international non-profits such as the Ford Foundation have a long history of receiving enormous donations from the wealthiest individuals and corporations to achieve imperialism's objectives around the world. Foundations wield a form of "soft power" on behalf of US imperialism. Their main purpose is to provide a "civil society" infrastructure in targeted nations capable of fomenting conditions of regime change.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1D2129'>In conclusion Democracy Now! Sandwiches some lies between truths and some truths between lies receiving funds from the oppressor to pretend to advocate for the oppressed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:4.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:4.5pt;margin-left:0in;background:white'><span style='font-family:"inherit","serif";color:#1D2129'>Is not that special ?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:justify'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Peace mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Peace@lists.chambana.net">Peace@lists.chambana.net</a><br><a href="https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace" target="_blank">https://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>