INDRAJIT—The colonizers of the Raj played political Jenga, corrupting local elites with imported goods, education for their children, and filthy lucre from the enslavement of their own people. Splinter colonization is still the policy of the day, divide and conquer the masses using local elites. It goes back to the great grand pappy of White Empire.
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EDITOR—After a historically brief postwar period when the working class (especially in Europe) could enjoy a more tolerable standard of living thanks to the adoption of social democracy out of fear for the Soviet example— better wages, unemployment cushions, healthcare, free education, etc.—the inexorable capitalist crisis is forcing a shrinking of the “goodies” with which the ruling class bought the passivity of the masses. This is inherent in capitalism which, due to its internal dynamic always goes from boom to bust, a problem now magnified with the extension of capitalism to global dimensions under US imperialism.
Thus, the working class today in practically all capitalist countries is feeling the pain of living under totally non-representative increasingly tyrannical oligarchies and fake democracies, a situation aggravated by a decadent set of blatantly hypocritical “civilised values” (i.e., the rise of “WOKE imperialism”), and the grotesque lies implicit in the pretend fight for human rights and against anti-semitism, that serve to muzzle free speech, protect Israel from retribution for its multitude of heinous crimes, and facilitate the deletion of democratic norms.
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OLIVER BOYD-BARRETT—This incident has the gravest possible significance. It has blind-sided Hezbollah on the very eve of a war that Israel has declared on Hezbollah. If, as seems possible, Hezbollah defenses are significantly impaired as a result, then of course the anticipated Israeli assault has more chance of winning. That possible eventuality, its probable chances now greater than before, may be sufficient to force Iran’s hand in the defense of Hezbollah and, also, Lebanon and Syria, igniting the regional war that Netanayu badly wants.
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EDITORS—One of Scott Ritter’s most compelling videos, admitting his ignorance about the Uhuru trial, thinking it was about “Black nationalism”, while it is about free speech, which affects us all, and the urgent work that needs to be done in America to disinfect the American mind, once and for all, of its age-old and highly dangerous Russophobia, a case of mass, manufactured hatred by the elites. As well, Scott provides a convincing picture of what is really going on in Ukraine, and how the war has been conclusively lost by the West, leaving Washington and its meddling only one sane option: fold the tent and go home.
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EDITORS—Jeffrey Sachs clarifies the motives behind the West’s deeply misguided assault on Russia via proxy Ukraine, and the consequences of the project’s inevitable defeat, as well as the growing warmongering noise for war on Iran. Sachs and the judge also discuss the rapidly changing political map in Europe, especially the rise of populist parties of the right and the left in Germany, France, etc., as a result of widespread deindustrialisation triggered by the US destruction of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, a conduit which assured cheap quality gas for Europe. The new “populism” opposes the expansion of the Ukraine war. Meanwhile, Turkey and other major nations seek admission to BRICS (which already surpassed the G7 in GDP), while rejecting the US right to impose sanctions on any country trading with partners Washington disapproves of.
