BRIAN BERLETIC—US foreign and domestic policy is developed with think tanks funded by the most powerful corporate-financier interests across the West Policy papers published by these think tanks are turned into bills by lawyers, brought to Washington by lobbyists, and signed off by Congress and the White House regardless of political affiliation or supposed political agenda. Multipolarism has challenged US political, military, and economic power by creating alternatives to the corporate-financier monopolies in the West driving US policies at home and abroad. Americans can create a better balance of power by redirecting their monthly income, time, energy, and attention away from these corporate-financier interests and toward local and foreign alternatives.
CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM
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EDITOR—Garland and Laith, a well-respected geopolitical analyst, videographer, and cultural historian living in South Lebanon, discuss how the war between the Axis of Resistance, led by Iran, and the collective West and Israel, is gaining momentum on both sides, as the anti-imperialist alliance, supported by Russia, carefully plans its next moves, while warning treacherous countries like Jordan, Egypt and Turkey not to meddle this time in defense of the Zio-American bloc, which may find itself confronting more enemies on every side than they bargained for. Laith speaks as Israeli bombs and missiles shake his neighbourhood. Both Garland and Laith are convinced that the coming wars created by Western imperialism in Ukraine and the Middle East, which are already detonating serious social and political disturbances in the West, and a wave of anti-Muslim chauvinism in the UK and the Continental EU, probably son to be seen in the US, will also bring martial law, mass repression, totalitarian censorship, and concentration camps, as fascism with a democratic face extends its hold over the globe. Fasten your seatbelts, girls and boys, it’s gonna be a bumpy flight!
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GARLAND NIXON—The President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has stated the need for dialogue and deliberation regarding the role of the media and the manipulation of public opinion through false news and biased information favoring powerful groups in society. He has affirmed that the people must have access to truthful, professional information that is independent of economic and political power. He has highlighted the work of alternative media and independent journalists and, to this end, has proposed holding the First Hemispheric Conference of Independent Journalists (HMIJ).
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ED CURTIN—Facetiousness aside, the voting public either doesn’t know or doesn’t care that the U.S.A. is a warfare state; it’s as simple as that. Without waging wars, the U.S. economy, as presently constituted, would collapse. It is an economy based on fantasy and fake money with a national debt over 35 trillion dollars that will never be repaid. That’s another illusion. But I am speaking of pipe dreams, am I not? And whether they choose to be aware of it or not, the vast majority of Americans support this killing machine by their indifference and ignorance of its ramifications throughout the society and more importantly, its effects in death and destruction on the rest of the world.
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STRAIGHT FROM THE CBS MOUTH: Israeli lawmaker defends alleged rape of Hamas prisoner as far-right protesters rage over IDF troops’ detention
19 minutes readCBS—Ultra-right-wing Israeli nationalists stormed two military facilities late Monday, protesting the detention and questioning of nine Israel Defense Forces reservists suspected of raping and abusing a Palestinian prisoner whose injuries were so bad he had to be hospitalized. Social media videos show guards at the Sde Teiman military base and prison, near Beersheba in southern Israel, shouting at and pushing military police who’d arrived to question the reservists, seemingly in defense of the suspects.