‘It’s Time to Reject the Brainwashing and Think for Ourselves’

Thanks, David Talbot, for writing two perceptive and frankly scary columns over the last two weeks for “The Kennedy Beacon” Substack — “All the News the CIA Sees Fit to Print” and “How Jack Ryan Captured Hollywood.”

Today, Talbot explains how the rigid national security mindset has even captured publications like Rolling Stone, once the home of countercultural free thinking, and writers like Tom Hayden, David Harris, Dick Goodwin — and frankly me.

The clampdown on free speech has taken hold at social media giants. That's why I'm suing YouTube — and its parent company Google — which has censored me and many others.

As Talbot writes:

“Democracy can’t function without a free press. But there is no such thing as unfettered journalism when secretive agencies control the media. Spooks have no place in the newsroom. And yet most of our reporting comes from closely supervised news outlets or even subsidiaries of the permanent government.

“It’s time to reject the brainwashing and think for ourselves.”

Read Talbot’s recent post here.