Garland Nixon and Rainer discuss what the US ruling class may be hatching for the American people as it maneuvers to cling to power at any cost while the Empire crumbles across the globe. The Empire is probably bringing home the sordid methods of mass repression they have employed in a multitude of countries. The headlines sum it up nicely: COUNTER INSURGENCY – US IMPERIALISM GOES TO WAR WITH ITS CITIZENS. Everyone should take note.
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EDITOR—Garland and Joti Brar unmask the largely hidden face of the ruling elite, a tiny, obscenely rich segment of humanity that uses a “Mandarin class” (corporate execs, politicians, military figures, media flunkies, etc.) to run the world for them.
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HELEN SANTORO—From 2018 to 2022, out-of-pocket costs for Medicare enrollees climbed for nine of the 10 drugs. The average annual out-of-pocket cost for Stelara, an injectable drug that treats autoimmune conditions, rose the most from $709 per enrollee to $2,058. For non-Medicare U.S. patients, Stelara can be considerably more expensive, especially since drugmakers charge far higher prices in the US than they do elsewhere. A 2019 report found that the regular price for Stelara was $16,600 per dose in the United States, compared to $2,900 per dose in the United Kingdom.
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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—”These are the people who’ve been pulling the wool over the eyes of the mainstream public and manipulating the masses into thinking, speaking, working, consuming, and voting in ways that serve the interests of the ruling power structure. In this way they are able to ensure that revolutionary opposition to that power structure remains a fringe minority position, even as that power structure wages wars, sponsors genocides, destroys the biosphere, and keeps everyone poor, sick, and stupid…”
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JOHN McEVOY—One of LFI’s main activities is taking Labour MPs on “fact finding” missions to Israel. According to the Electoral Commission, LFI has spent over £150,000 on such trips since 2002. Over 60 of these delegations were reportedly organised in the past decade. The trips are designed to cultivate support for Israel and build ties between key Labour figures and Israeli politicians and businesspeople.
