2. We need a real full-blown dissection of MEK: this is a cult which started off with a syncretic ideology fusing Marxism, feminism & political Islam. Until recently, it was classified (accurately) by the USA State Dept as a terrorist group. Naturally conservatives love it.
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3. Where does MEK get its funding from? Why are very prominent American public figures (of both parties) working so hard to legitimize it? I assume there is a Gulf oil connection but we need reporting.
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4. Some context: conservative media has long had a big payola problem, being easy targets for PR firms that want to place articles. This
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5. It's telling that foreign actors who want to influence American foreign policy are very aware that right-wing media is an easy date: you can quickly place articles for very little $$, and they have a far reaching impact. In fact, there's a long history of this.
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6. Going back to at least the 1950s, a wide variety of foreign actors (Chinese nationalists, South Africa, Rhodesia, Pinochet's Chile) were able to get right-wing outlets (notably National Review) to publish raw propaganda. The MEK is following in that tradition.
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7. There's another thing about this MEK story worth pondering: the thinness of Iranian opposition that the USA/Saudi Arabia are allied with. You have the MEK (a tiny cult that creates sock puppets) & the son of the Shah. Hardly people to win the masses. https://theintercept.com/2019/06/09/heshmat-alavi-fake-iran-mek/ …
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Shame on every elected official who goes along with this.
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So we should not be letting President* Trump and Jared Kushner sell nukes to Saudi Arabia against the wishes of Congress?https://twitter.com/ifindkarma/status/1099416462865747969?s=21 …
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Many righteous nations working on behalf of god, want a scuffle in Venezuela too! The only truth is"there's oil." Everything else is lies......
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