MARGARET KIMBERLEY—The political system in this country rewards mediocrity, mendacity, and treachery. Black elected officials either go along to get along and are fully on board with acting against the interests of their people, or think they can preen for the cameras like Bowman and pretend they are different when they are not.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Justice would look like a hero’s welcome and a hero’s honors from Australia upon his arrival, and a serious revision of Canberra’s obsequious relationship with Washington.
Justice would look like formal apologies to Assange and his family from the editorial boards of all the mainstream press outlets which manufactured consent for his vicious persecution — including and especially The Guardian — and the complete destruction of the reputations of every unscrupulous presstitute who helped smear him over the years.
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EDITOR—A tour de force analysis of how the US Empire is imploding, as it fights its multiplying contradictions and the collapse of long-held myths giving it legitimacy—starting with the illusion of American democracy, freedom, and ruling class patriotism—while its military supremacy is also eroding fast and has actually been surpassed by peer nations such as Russia and China. In this context, the Western totalitarian ruling class sees no way out from the necessity of imposing ever more stringent censorship and repression on sectors of the population that insist on spreading “inconvenient truths”. Same extreme methods are being used to keep the Empire’s vassals in line, which the Empie is cannibilising. Trump obviously offers no real change, but, as a super imperialist anchored in nationalism, he promises to make the working class gets its share of the imperialist loot.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—It sure is a crazy coincidence how western politicians and media always start urgently telling us about an invisible epidemic of left wing antisemitism every time western military ties to Israel are subjected to widespread public scrutiny.
It’s getting bad, and it will likely get worse.
The mass media are filling up with op-eds and cable news segments about how antisemitic leftist anti-genocide protesters are becoming.
Instagram progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently hosted two virulent Zionists in a livestream where the three spent their time concern trolling about the rise of antisemitism in left-wing activist circles.
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MOATS—Everyone wants to be in the big chair, says Miko Peled, as Israeli war hawk Benny Gantz quits Netanyahu’s government. He thinks it’s his moment. It’s not really about ideology, says Peled. Things will remain the same toward Palestinians no matter who is at the top of the current government. Israelis, by a wide margin, have been looking for ways to attain complete ethnic cleansing of Palestinians for many years. Some polls, as other sources have noted, show that most Israelis believe the government is not doing enough to eliminate Palestinians. Their expressions of undying hatred for Palestinians can be read on any social platform publishing opinion in Hebrew.
