MARK TAYLOR—(Editor’s Note: I was a little shocked to see this piece in The Guardian, but — hey — good for them. The article is a devastating portrayal of the soulless corporate monsters running this country. They are, truly, the personification of Jewish intellectual and writer Hannah Arendt’s classic book ‘The Banality of Evil’. — Mark Taylor)
-
-
GLEN FORD—Three-quarters of the 50 Black full-voting members of the U.S. House ought to be on Black Lives Matters’ shit list (the organization’s and the wider movement’s) as Class A Enemies of the People, based on their votes for the 2018 legislation that made cops a protected class and assault on police a federal hate crime. Black Democrats have for nearly half a century been the hands-on managers of mass Black incarceration, gentrification and austerity in Black America. They don’t give a damn about Africa, including the slaughter of six million Congolese at the hands of U.S. client regimes – the worst genocide since World War Two. They stand (or kneel) with Nancy Pelosi, who keeps the nation and world safe for the oligarchy.
-
BILLY BOB—China’s planned socialist economy did not allow massive slums to sprawl as they always do as an unwanted consequence of capitalist development and economic growth. Instead, China built hundreds of cities from scratch, including twenty cities that house over a million citizens. China developed the world’s greatest high-speed rail network, they became the world’s leading manufacturer of green energy as well as the world’s greatest user of green energy. China developed a world-class education system that leads the world in the number of patents and published research papers. Perhaps most importantly, China is working with the developing world and offering them a hand up, instead of a knee on their necks (as is offered by the Western imperialists).
-
EDITOR—Garland and Regis discuss how the US “official narrative”—especially the US foreign policy lies—keep a criminal empire “legitimate” in the eyes of the population, and how the Gaza genocide may have finally broken the almost century-long “disinformation hypnosis” and precipitated a confrontation with the reality that Israel is a criminal entity, and that US citizens do not enjoy irrevocable, Constitutionally guaranteed rights, but merely “privileges” at the whim of a tiny, obscenely rich and sociopathic oligarchy. Now that the very nature of the US state is at issue, that its “goodness” can’t be taken for granted, what is the globalist establishment likely to do in the face of a still-growing protest movement?
-
FRED REED—Americans are not an historically aware people and so have little idea of how or why they are regarded as they are abroad. Consider Mexico, where I live. People here know of the Mexican-American War (of which, preposterously many Americans have never heard) as well as the bombardment of Veracruz and Pershing’s incursion. Peoples remember their defeats and humiliations as the victors do not. Mexicans know they are powerless against America, resent it intensely. Latin Americans in general know of the almost endless list of invasions, coups, dictators installed, economic exploitation that Americans have never heard of. Today they see the persecution of Cuba, the attempt to starve Venezuela into giving Washington control of its oil, the coups and murder attempts against Maduro, the coup in Bolivia, other attempts in Ukraine and Byelorussia, on and on.
Many countries have endured American manipulation exploitation, invasion. Americans seldom know of these things, but the countries involved do.
