EDITOR—When Stewart first “retired” from the TV spotlight about a decade ago, we were not among the mourners. In fact, as card-carrying contrarians, we celebrated Stewart’s departure in the only way we saw fit: By reposting this classic, hard-to-surpass analysis by Steve Almond of what Jon Stewart and his protegé Stephen Colbert really represent in the maelstrom of American culture. As Almond astutely notes, “far from actually serving a newsworthy role, let alone consistently educating mass audiences and criticizing the empire…Stewart and Colbert are trivializers of evil, their legacy one of defanging the truth about systemic evil by hurling toothless parody at it.”
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BILLY BOB—John Steppling and Ian Kummer join the blowback roundtable to discuss the recent events of the past week. Topics include the breaking news of Navalny’s death, the Ukraine conflict, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, the upcoming US elections, and struggles of Western imperialism to respond to the many growing threats that are overwhelming the West’s capacity to control everything. Also, Ian shares some photos of his recent visit to a Moscow presentation of NATO war trophies.
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PEPE ESCOBAR—As we keep searching for light in the darkness of insanity – complete with a genocide running 24/7 – we may visualize the pedestal standing in the middle of a vast desert, painted by Shelley with a couple of sublime alliterations, “boundless and bare” and “lone and level.”
This is all about a vast empty space mirroring a political black void: the only thing that matters is the blind obsession for Total Power, the “sneer of cold command” asserting the perpetuity of a hazy “rules-based international order”.
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SCOTT RITTER—A philosophical journey into the root causes of war, and the prospects of peace. Please donate to Waging Peace, Scott Ritter’s film and campaign for nuclear disarmament: https://WagingPeace.fund. In this video, Ritter discusses with Col. Khodakovsky the many ways US propaganda against Russia impedes a true understanding of Russian realities and motives for pursuing the Ukraine War.
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PATRICE GREANVILLE—In this post, my friend and colleague Jeff J. Brown, editor-in-chief of our sister site China Rising Radio Sinoland, TGP’s Associate Editor, and founding editor of the SEEK TRUTH FROM FACTS FOUNDATION, explains the reasons for the merging of our mailing lists in the face of nonstop attacks by the Empire forces and their legion of hacks and collaborators in media, Big Tech and government agencies. (Sounds like Stars Wars, doesn’t it?). It’s clear the liberal interventionist establishment wants to liquidate any challenges to its total narrative control, ever more important for their rule now that they have lost military and economic primacy.
So please read Jeff’s message carefully. We hope to count with your support as we engage in this vital battle of communications.
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