IRINA L BOYKO—I’m afraid to assume, that this is Frankfurt an der Oder. It was the first German border town, that the Soviet train Moscow-Wünsdorf entered in the GDR. The train arrived there at night. A toy town, with peacefully sleeping houses, neat clean streets, with Trabants standing in parking lots in neat, orderly lines. German customs officers entered the carriages to check passports. They were strict but unfailingly polite. And with a slightly funny German accent, they always pronounced in Russian, apparently difficult words for them to pronounce – Hello and Goodbye. Such a nice East Germany in my memories. And where are you?
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DOROTHY LENNON—Observing America, it is obvious the nation is addicted to numerous things. But one of its supreme addictions is the act of humiliation. You see it on talent shows such as American Idol when the judges laugh and mock a contestant who attempts to sing. You see it on the set of an adult film where women are forced to humiliate themselves for men. You see it in gutter television such as Springer and Maury who propagate racial stereotypes to humiliate their guests. Most important, you see it in the form of neoliberalism the oligarchs have imposed on America. They not only continue to economically cripple the poor and working class, they humiliate them too.
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It’s an election year, so it might come as a surprise to learn that Joe Biden is taking this opportunity to deny Medicare recipients a promised rate cut and instead funnel additional funds to private insurers. Yet that is precisely what the President has planned to do, likely as part of the long-term plan to entirely privatize Medicare – just the thing to satisfy the health insurance companies and other healthcare industry interests that have funneled millions of dollars to Biden over the years. Jimmy and his panelists, The People’s Party’s Nick Brana, The Dive host Jackson Hinkle and American comedian Kurt Metzger, discuss Biden’s crackerjack plan to piss off seniors just before an election.
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CYNTHIA CHUNG—The people of Donbass have understandably asked for independence from Ukraine, yet the Ukrainian government has refused to allow this nor intervene for a peaceful resolution. What does this mean? The war can only end when one side is fully dead.
Not only is it publicly known that the US and NATO have been funding and training neo-Nazis, but they have also been supplying a massive supply of arms (as previously mentioned). It got to such a point where in 2018, Congress had to ban the United States from sending further arms to Ukraine militia linked to neo-Nazis, specifically mentioning the Azov Battalion. For some reason this ban was to only last for three years thus it is apparently fair game now? But you may say, what about Russia’s crimes against the Ukrainian people, aren’t they far worse than even vicious neo-Nazis? Namely the bombing of the Mariupol theater and the Bucha massacre. Thorough journalistic investigations have already been done on the former, which can be found here, that conclusively shows the bombing of the Mariupol theater was a false-flag. Ditto for the Bucha “massacre”.
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Last Wednesday, 4 May 2022, Caleb Maupin filed what is surely one of his most important chats, covering, as usual, a variety of topics, but the outstanding part comprised a couple of subjects rarely discussed with such honesty and lucidity, namely, the issues that define what is being “on the left” in the US, and the urgent need for a completely new approach to regain relevancy. Up to this point, says Maupin, the Right is eating our lunch. While the left has spent much of its political capital on what he defines as depressing and even pessimistic “causes” (abortion rights, overpopulation, anti-imperialist struggles, environmental destruction, etc.), all of which are valid and even urgent, Maupin notes that they also usually trigger a negative reaction in the working class, thereby opening the door to the Right, with its misty-eyed hymns to family, patriotism, praise for the invididual, “democracy”, “freedom”, “free enterprise”, and so on.
