CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Luckily, because a full scale invasion of Iran would be far more costly and deadly than the invasion of Iraq, support for this will need to be manufactured not just in America but within an entire coalition of its allies. This will be extremely difficult to do, but by God they are trying.
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The Beginning Of The End Of American Empire
13 minutes readFRANK SCOTT—The growth of liberal fascism can seem an over statement, but when reactionary free market fanatics and racist foreign policy felons begin to sound thoughtful by comparison to what often passes for progressive political voices in America, it is no laughing matter.
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A Principle to Organize Around this Trumpian Winter: Plunder the Pentagon and Leave “Entitlements” Alone
29 minutes readANDREW LEVINE—This was a concern with Hillary Clinton too. Not content with wars against enemies that couldn’t fight back, she and her liberal imperialist co-thinkers were itching to antagonize “adversaries” that, as it happened, actually were armed with weapons of mass destruction. They can’t give up on that either. Watch MSNBC or CNN and see them go at it.
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Universalizing Resistance: To Fight Trump, Fight the System
34 minutes readCHARLES DERBER—What is the nature of this system? First of all, it’s a system of enormously concentrated economic and political power where we have 1% of the population [actually far more like 0.0001%] pretty much dominating politics and the political agenda and much of our social and economic life.
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Iran protests: Western salivation, agitation & desperation
26 minutes readRAMIN MAZAHERI—Iran’s Basij Resistance Bases – or volunteer militias, in Western terms – are far more deeply embedded in all levels of society than Chavismo colectivos. They are more more akin to the Chinese Communist Party (minus the formalised and incredibly rigorous testing and selection policy) as they compose perhaps 11 million people in an 80-million person country.