Charlottesville - don't believe everything you see read and hear in the mainstream media

for starters:

Charlottesville: What You Wish Upon Others, You Wish Upon Yourself. Moon of Alabama. Aug. 13, 2017.

Conflicting narratives about Charlottesville. Robin Westenra, seemorerocks. Aug. 14, 2017.

"People need to learn to discern between idiot, angry, miseducated sociopathic post adolescents like this sick twist and FBI/CIA concocted Nazis like David Duke and real, actual fascists seeking a mass base and actual political power. Kicking the shit out of the former feels good to a lot of folks - I understand the impulse. But it is not fighting fascism, and, in fact, helps advance the agenda of the real McCoy."
---Don DeBar, via Facebook

Best explanation yet of what happened in Charlottesville: Stefan Molyneux and Faith Goldy report the truth you won’t hear in the media. Natural News. Aug. 12, 2017.

As usual, everything you’re being told about what happened in Charlottesville by the mainstream media is distorted for political effect. To sort it out and find out what really happened (and why it matters), you need to listen to independent, intelligent analysis from someone who was on the scene and saw exactly how many of the key events of the day were staged to deliberately unleash the Antifa mob onto the streets to instigate violence.

On Charlottesville: Why the Center Is Okay with Nazis but Hates the Left. Ian Welsh. Aug. 13, 2017.

Establishment Main Stream Media Narratives, Remember Who They Serve Re: Charlottesville. Sane Progressive. via youtube. Aug. 13, 2017.


Is America Headed for a New Kind of Civil War? Robin Wright, New Yorker. Aug. 14, 2017.

America’s stability is increasingly an undercurrent in political discourse. Earlier this year, I began a conversation with Keith Mines about America’s turmoil. Mines has spent his career—in the U.S. Army Special Forces, the United Nations, and now the State Department—navigating civil wars in other countries, including Afghanistan, Colombia, El Salvador, Iraq, Somalia, and Sudan. He returned to Washington after sixteen years to find conditions that he had seen nurture conflict abroad now visible at home. It haunts him. In March, Mines was one of several national-security experts whom Foreign Policy asked to evaluate the risks of a second civil war—with percentages. Mines concluded that the United States faces a sixty-per-cent chance of civil war over the next ten to fifteen years. Other experts’ predictions ranged from five per cent to ninety-five per cent. The sobering consensus was thirty-five per cent. And that was five months before Charlottesville. 

“We keep saying, ‘It can’t happen here,’ but then, holy smokes, it can,” Mines told me after we talked, on Sunday, about Charlottesville.

Of course, as pointed out on naked capitalism, some of these comparisons are highly unfair and as such this doesn't amount to critical analysis.

Certainly in Afghanistan, Colombia, El Salvador, and Iraq — not to mention Libya and Syria — the United States fomented and engineered these so-called Civil Wars. They didn’t just “happen.”

as per Justin Miller of the Daily Beast:

America is no closer to Civil War II than it is to Shariah law.

Paul Craig Roberts on Charlottesville. via seemorerocks.

A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand. PCR.