PEPE ESCOBAR—To dominate assorted “primitive” peoples, Britannia replaced the iron and the sword with trade. Like any monotheistic faith, they believed there was only one way to be; one way to drink your tea; one way to play the game – any game. Everything else was non-civilized, savage, brute, at best providing raw materials and acute headaches.
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Racist Israeli singer Lior Narkis serenades Israeli soldiers preparing to invade Gaza. Racism and blatant dehuminasation against Palestinians pervade Israeli culture.
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BEN NORTON—Extremist Javier Milei won Argentina’s presidential election on a far-right platform, pledging to abolish most government ministries, abandon monetary sovereignty, and adopt the US dollar, while cutting ties with China and withdrawing from BRICS. Ben Norton explains how a history of debt and colonialism keeps the South American nation trapped in seemingly endless crisis.
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JANINE JACKSON—(quote) “I think part of the media story is that most people in Argentina, as well as your audience, don’t know this historical record. I mean, imagine if all the voters knew that in the past 20 years, you had the majority of that time when the Peronists were in power, the numbers that I just told you; people did quite well in terms of reducing poverty enormously. And the real wage growth was 34% under the Kirchners, for example, over that period. And all these things happened, and increased spending on cash transfer programs, everything. And they did extremely well…”
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BILLY BOB—When people’s entire world view is consumed by “what is in the best interest of the group I identify with” instead of what is in the best interest of humanity based on an informed consideration of morality and justice, truly problematic behavior can begin to flourish.
