CIA openly flaunts warm hand off on MasterClass platform legitimized partially through Noam Chomsky's celebrity
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I recently viewed a remarkable MasterClass ad on YouTube. My only prior understanding of this online education platform was that it could connect me with the likes of Hillary Clinton and her resplendent insights on the topic of the power of resilience. I began to scroll through the substantial archive of vocational courses across subject content ranging from business, sports, arts, design, and beyond. According to an article at www.clay.com, How Much Did Master Class Raise? Funding & Key Investors, "MasterClass stands at the cusp of significant growth opportunities, driven by the increasing demand for online education and the unique appeal of celebrity-led content."[1]
As I continued to navigate the site I came to a familiar name, someone who had endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in 2016 and now was a MasterClass colleague of hers. The anointed leftist rebel icon, Noam Chomsky, who facilitated his own MasterClass, Independent Thinking and Media's Invisible Powers. [2] It would make sense that a person who so vociferously endorsed Hillary Clinton as the "lesser evil" for president in 2016, Noam Chomsky would also contribute his considerable political capital to help growth opportunities for the MasterClass platform’s massive fundraising efforts.
So, who was the celebrity expert on that YouTube MasterClass advertisement that caught my eye? The Central Intelligence Agency! So much to learn, so little time, on the topic of Learn declassified techniques on how to assess risk, strengthen relationships, and get ahead of life and business. Skills so good, they've been kept secret, until now.[3] Spectacular! This repository for video-based vocational courses by different experts in their fields of expertise, as of February of this year raised 461.4M, with a current market valuation that is not publicly disclosed. Key investors include leading financial services corporations, global and later-stage venture capital firms, all with uber futuristic unamazing titles. [4]
Let's characterize this MasterClass ad for what it is, a C.I.A. coming out party targeting a society that has been suckled and weaned on untold amounts of their propaganda for decades. How did we get to this place? The three-letter agency to end all, being made palatable for any American Exceptionalist fool willing bite. An organization previously known by leftists, progressives, liberals, and even some centrists, to be the source of limitless covert suffering and death, a massive black budget sink hole, and the true but hidden face of the United States around the globe. This truth has been systematically blurred by liberalism’s compromising requirements. It has been diluted and repackaged into a complete misunderstanding of the CIA and the terrifying meaning behind its existence. This confusion has been fully realized and adopted by many within the liberal spectrum who have absorbed Blue MAGA to such an extent, this is where we now find much of the pro-Ukraine iconography and ignorant support for that U.S. proxy war with Russia.
This was not the CIAs first foray into a mask-off moments. In 2021 they released a teaser ad showcasing a self-prescribed Latinx intelligence officer who identified as a cisgender millennial, living with generalized anxiety disorder. [5] The video is an insane and ballsy attempt to weaponize liberal ideology for the explicit purpose of the propagandizing of the American Public through, "woke washing". This extraordinary piece of propaganda cannot be explained through writing and must be viewed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHckeZoYx04
This latest CIA public relations campaign has partnered with MasterClass to help harness public figures in a range of fields to help moralize the agencies within the western imperialist capitalist project. While Hillary will be honored to be alongside these spooks and killers, Noam Chomsky is most likely a fearful, ignorant, and aging dupe. Hillary Clinton’s MasterClass contribution took place first on December 9th, 2021, and Noam Chomsky presents his on July 13th, 2023. Chomsky is either not willing or not able to recognize this platform as an anti-leftist, pro-capitalist/war, corporate shit sandwich, an indication of just how much he has become a declining shadow of his former radical self. If we begin to examine this from an anticapitalistic perspective, we can see this as a crucial part in the progression of moral confusion infecting liberals surrounding the reality of the United States’ influence around the globe and the current volatile situation originating from with within.
We must call out the urgency and seriousness this attempted mainstreaming operation by the CIA represents for the anti-capitalist left and our fight for revolution. Those who comprise the radical unflinching left are able to easily characterize and therefore resist the open xenophobia and warmongering of the likes of Lindsey Gram, Glenn Beck, and Mike Huckabee. We recognized these individuals within the upper echelons of neoconservative circles as insane true believers in the American Christian Zionist Imperial project. The difficult fight is the other side representing the same outcomes but with an alternative ideology, one that is fully in support of American aspirations for full western spectrum global dominance. This is the confusion created by a liberal MasterClass/TED Talk sect and its ability to cross the political divide with this specific brand of psychological operation. This confusion, packaged in liberalisms, I-feel-your-pain rhetoric best characterized today by politician's posing as leftish alternatives within the system like Bernis Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
The outcomes fit perfectly with this psyop. One example would be the unconcluded deliberation on whether or not the, February 19th, 2023, Rage Against the War Machine march and rally were a positive or negative for the antiwar left. This event was a rebuke of the new "Red Scare" that has been deployed to give the insane U.S. proxy war with Russia in Ukraine legitimacy, specifically within the ranks of the purported pacifist left. The World Socialist Web Site Publication titled their critique of the rally, The forces behind the "Rage Against the War Machine" rally: Libertarian Party turns to anti-Semites and the fascist right. [6] A headline fit for the New York Times! While antiwar.com in their online article, February 19 Rage Against War Rally - a Historic Success, points to the necessity for solidarity on matters of war that cross ideological lines, placing class above the divisive agenda of woke politics. [7] Is it always good to protest war? We used to know the answer.
The left must hold war, imperialism, and the complete environmental destruction of planet earth as the measuring stick for determining our morality, to counter this moral confusion. The forces that benefit from this mass moral mystification have been able to fragment the left to a point where the CIA can try to show its face in polite company and there is a certain number of people who can be so ignorant of the truth due to their self-induced amnesia. Liberalism’s mandate is to muddy the water, only able to endorse distant reforms, and always squarely positioned within the capitalist sphere. Why would Noam Chomsky allow himself to be used by an entity that is propping up and platforming a war criminal corporatist like Hillary Clinton and worse? This is how contemporary "woke propaganda" works. Turds like Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice, the fucking CIA, are shuffled into a deck along with unknowing celebrity pawns like Jodie Foster, Bill Nye, and Noam Chomsky, and the game is played.
The success of this rebranding attempt by the CIA, is well illustrated and seen around the United States from city apartment windows to suburban porch flags and most commonly observed in the social media profile pics of people living all over America flaunting the blue and yellow colors of the Ukrainian flag. These people have been fooled, hoodwinked, and totally flipped. The primary benefactors of the United States proxy war with Russia are by far the war profiteers like BAE, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman which are taking in massive profits, their $2.5 billion spent on political lobbying fully justified.[8] There is no rational or moral justification for the endorsement of this new packaging of war to the American public. War profiteering and resource extraction is priority one, two, and three in this conflict. The peace-loving people endorsing the pro-Ukraine narrative are confused and there is a hell of lot of them. And from this confusion stems the fragmentation of a leftist's ability to mount a populist movement that could lead to a revolution away from capitalism’s endless war.
Examples of liberalisms confusion and the damage to the left it has wrought are now numerous and yet go largely unexamined. I would refer the reader to the damage caused by a recent betrayal of the left by woke Democratic politics through their apparatchiks. The defanging and absorption of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) Movement. Best characterized by the late Black Agenda Report former editor Glen Ford who reminded us, "that Black Liberation cannot be found over a cheese plate and mimosas in a $6 million southern California Mansion."[9] Chronicled in a New York magazine article titled, "Black Lives Matter Secretly Bought a $6million House", which highlighted this betrayal of the left by the BLM leaders Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Melina Abdullah. This led to disastrous consequences for the left, scattering this movement to the wind and giving real ammo to the right in the United States allowing them to take this betrayal and with it dismiss the entire history of and struggle for black liberation.
We must also take a hard look at Bernie Sanders the two-time loser presidential candidate, and his refusal to stand with his supporters fight against the corporate Democratic Parties sabotage of his own presidential run. Where are all the social Democrats and left leaning masses that populated his two campaigns now, scattered to the wind. What is he doing now with the last scraps of his legacy? Herding the throngs of liberal Democrats that opted to vote for the Democratic Parties elites' presidential candidates, over him, back into this corporate Party’s tent. He and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) are the last members of this crumbling party with any widespread political capital. Political capital that is garnered from, in Bernie's case, decades of fence straddling, never willing to go beyond the tepid capitalist ideals of social democracy occupying an amorphous leftish view.
That is until August of this year during a Dana Bash interview where he clarified his position as an unapologetic Zionist. Dana asked him, "Do you believe in the notion of Isreal as a Jewish state?" Bernie Sanders response, "Yeah, I do for a lot of reasons."[10] This is the real danger that stems from lionizing the likes of Noam Chomsky, AOC, and Bernie Sanders which is so difficult to fight against. Liberals do unbelievable acts of moral gymnastics to hold onto heroes who occupy positions of power, academia, and celebrity, because to let go of the lingering belief in the last hopes for change through capitalist reformism is outside the scope of their paradigm and is terrifying to them. It is terrifying for what it means about maintaining their dreams for a future where they do not have to make any meaningful sacrifice or changes to their lives for a transition away from capitalism. What Bernie Sanders clarified in his response to Dana is that he believes in the greater Isreal project and is an overt Zionist. He is hoping that his followers continue to refuse to understand the gravity of his statement and continue to allow for him to muddy morality.
The acumination of liberalisms moral confusion is best evidenced by the fact that there were just shy of 75 million votes for Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential election. I believed I knew prior to the election that with a genocide documented in high definition, initiated under a Biden/Harris Democratic administration there be a massive shift away from the Democratic Party. As the lead up to the election continued I participated in multiple disagreements with liberal Democrats who when confronted with the word genocide, used the process of semantic bleaching to scrub the original meaning and severity behind the term, effectively redefining it into, "the g-word". I continued to see footage from Gaza of the most horrific kind which was bleeding out all over my social media. I was reposting imagery and content as well as citing articles from international independent media sources confirming the obvious genocide taking place, but they refused to link the Biden/Harris arming and funding of the genocidal Zionist State of Isreal to their upcoming predictable vote. In July roughly five months before the election the respected medical journal The Lancet, published research estimating conservatively that 186,000 Palestinians deaths could be attributed to the conflict at that time. [11] Unbelievable, these are the peace-loving people who supposably abhor the neoconservative push for endless war and domination experiencing what can only be described as complete trump derangement syndrome, incapable of any moral clarity.
AOC, Bernie Sanders, and even post 2016 Noam Chomsky, are seen by the anti-capitalist/war left as a real danger to the promotion and realization of revolution. For those of us who are leftists there is no discussion or compromised view on our fight against capitalism’s pursuit of endless war. It is our belief that these celebrities and liberal capitalist actors pose as large a threat to the collective fight against endless war and imperialism as their neocon counterparts. They are not benign actors; the confusion they sow has real life consequences which have the impact of setting back the left by the legitimization and therefore continuation of capitalism. All of us at some point who have lived in the west have fantasized about change coming from within the capitalist system, so we have ignored political betrayals committed. When we allow this to occur over and over we become stuck. People in the United States have very little understanding of the reality that a class war is being waged on all of us who are not part of the ruling elite. The Central Intelligence Agency is an apparatus for the subjugation of the entire planet by the ruling class. For the left this institution has absolutely no legitimacy and we will fight to resist these forces of death with all means necessary.
We all need to think about Noam Chomsky's voluntary participation in the MasterClass platform as not only the serious loss it is to his legacy but more importantly the stumbling block to our (the left’s) ability to unite and call out anyone who whether through enticement of wealth, status, ignorance, or most likely in the case of Noam Chomsky, fear, mystifies the impacts of the United States and the dark forces of control and domination that govern it.
In closing, watch the one minute and nine second Noam Chomsky MasterClass ad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpzrIljG7hU
Read the title which has in it, "the Media's Invisible Powers" and then watch the one minute and forty second CIA MasterClass ad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bupn1w3PzE4
and ask yourself, what the fuck are these two contradictory video clips doing originating from the same source and what can I choose to learn from this?
SOURCES:
[1] https://www.clay.com/dossier/masterclass-funding
[3] https://www.masterclass.com/classes/the-art-of-intelligence?&campaignid
[4] https://www.clay.com/dossier/masterclass-funding
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHckeZoYx04
[6] https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/03/03/uew1-m03.html
[10] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dllagHInX4
[11] https://electronicintifada.net/content/why-kamala-harris-must-be-defeated/49016