Manufacture Dissent

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Lt. Wesley Van Dorn was a Navy pilot who lost his life in the MH‑53E Sea Dragon, a helicopter known for its heavy‑lift power and its long record of catastrophic failures.

Long before the crash that killed him, he had been raising alarms about the aircraft’s design flaws, neglected maintenance, and the systemic problems that kept putting crews at risk.

His story is not just about a dangerous machine. It’s about a pilot who pushed for safer conditions, a family forced to confront an avoidable loss, and a military system that repeatedly dismissed warnings until it was too late.

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These deposition clips of Ghislaine Maxwell were not publicly visible on the Department of Justice site and cannot be found through ordinary searches. They were scraped together and shared by @SarahisCensored on Twitter, making rare video segments from her 2016 testimony accessible.

What stands out is her demeanor. She sits with the ease of someone who feels insulated, rolling her eyes, answering with sarcasm, and reacting as if the entire process is beneath her. Her lawyers interrupt repeatedly, shutting down nearly every meaningful question while she calmly sips her coffee.

Throughout the footage she denies, sidesteps, and shows no interest in offering clarity. The contrast between her comfort and the suffering of the girls whose lives were damaged is impossible to ignore. These clips raise a larger question about the system that allowed her to sit so casually while survivors continue to fight for truth she has no intention of giving.

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The Occupation of the American Mind asks a question that remains urgent today. Why has global outrage over Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land and its repeated assaults on Gaza never taken hold in the United States and much of the West? The documentary traces how a coordinated communication system has shaped Western understanding of the conflict, turning the people living under military rule into the ones portrayed as the threat.

Narrated by Roger Waters and featuring leading analysts of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and U.S. media culture, the film shows how the Israeli government, the U.S. government, and powerful lobbying networks have worked together to influence media coverage. Their interests differ, but their messaging aligns. They promote narratives that justify Israeli force, erase Palestinian suffering, and redirect public sympathy away from communities facing daily dispossession. The documentary follows these efforts from the 1980s onward, revealing a long-running campaign to secure Western support, funding, and political protection even as international criticism of Israeli policies intensifies.

What makes the film even more relevant today is how clearly its warnings have come to life. The propaganda system it exposes never stopped operating. It continues to shape headlines, political speeches, and public opinion across the West. Palestinians are still framed as the aggressors, while Israel is consistently presented as a state acting in self-defense. Even when entire neighborhoods are destroyed, when civilians are killed in staggering numbers, when the evidence of systemic violence is overwhelming, the narrative is reshaped to hide the reality of occupation and shift blame onto the people enduring it.

And here is the truth the documentary could only hint at when it was released. If not for social media, most of the general public would still be trapped inside that manufactured narrative. For decades, Western governments and media outlets held a near-total monopoly on information. They controlled the images people saw, the language used to describe events, and the emotional cues that shaped public perception. Without the unfiltered footage, eyewitness accounts, and real-time documentation shared online today, many people would still believe the carefully crafted storylines that portray Palestinians as the source of the violence inflicted upon them.

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Social media did not end the propaganda machine, but it cracked it open. It allowed ordinary people to see what official narratives worked so hard to conceal. It exposed the gap between what Western institutions say and what Palestinians live. It forced millions to confront a reality that had been hidden from them for decades.

The documentary helps viewers understand how this system was built, how it maintains itself, and why it remains so effective. Watching it now makes clear that the struggle over public perception is not a historical footnote. It is ongoing, deliberate, and central to how Western power continues to justify policies that harm Palestinians while silencing or discrediting those who speak out.

The original 84 minute version, released seven years ago, is available here:

The film is narrated by Roger Waters and features Amira Hass, M. J. Rosenberg, Stephen M. Walt, Noam Chomsky, Rula Jebreal, Henry Siegman, Rashid Khalidi, Rami Khouri, Yousef Munayyer, Norman Finkelstein, Max Blumenthal, Phyllis Bennis, Norman Solomon, Mark Crispin Miller, Peter Hart, and Sut Jhally.

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An exchange today between Carrie Prejean Boller and a group of Zionists at the White House’s Religious Liberty Commission.

“I’m a Catholic, and Catholics do not embrace Zionism, just so you know. So are all Catholics anti-Semites according to you?”

“In a country built on religious liberty and the First Amendment,do you believe someone can stand firmly against anti-Semitism, including what you experienced, and at the same time condemn the mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza or reject political Zionism or not support the political state of Israel?

Or do you believe that speaking out about what many Americans view as genocide in Gaza should be treated as anti-Semitic?

Because in my view the United States cannot and must not make loyalty to a particular theology about Israel”

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A whistleblower reports that women detained by ICE in Baltimore were forced to lie in feces, vomit, and urine, overcrowded on the floor in scenes he compared to enslaved Africans chained in the hulls of slave ships. Women on their periods were denied sanitary products and told to use diapers, which piled up in boxes because their rooms had no trash cans. He described women treated like goats in a cage. Days after reporting the abuse, he was fired for not being a good fit.

"I saw people lying in feces, throwing up, and sleeping in urine," said the whistleblower.

Women were packed on the floor like "pictures that I saw in school of how they brought slaves over from Africa."

"We didn't always have sanitary stuff for them if they were having their cycle. They were given diapers."

"And because you can't put the diapers in the toilet, and the rooms didn't have trash cans, some of us would give them boxes. And they would fill up with these diapers."

Days after reporting the conditions to his supervisor, he was fired for not being a "good fit."

The abuse occurred at the ICE detention facility in Baltimore, Maryland.

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