ADAM JOHNSON—All of these nuances and qualifications are lost. Instead, the viewer is fed only panic-inducing talking points of an axiomatically expansionist and sinister Chinese threat and a brave US empire that simply needs more money to keep up. This kettle logic, inherent in all military propaganda, is central to every single talking point O’Donnell gets across: The US military is simultaneously all-seeing and all-powerful but also woefully underfunded and in urgent need of hundreds of billions more dollars.
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EDITOR—The panel discusses the personality of Trotsky, his political posture, his opportunistic tendencies, and why the bourgeoisie has traditionally seen Trotsky and his movement as a tool to divide and defeat the unity of world Bolshevists, and thereby world revolution. In 1903 Lenin formed a party “of a new type”, Bolshevism, to effect real revolution, separating his group from social democracy. Trotsky, on the other hand, a ferocious egotist, was content with the drift of social democracy, and opposed Lenin on all major points endorsed by the Leninist tendency, acting in effect, like a bourgeois revolutionist, a “Menchevik”. There were also fundamental differences regarding tactics and strategies.
As early as 1903, in making revolution, there was the question of class alliances. Lenin favoured an alliance with the peasantry, the Mensheviks, and Trotsky, favoured the bourgeoisie. Had he emerged victorious in that contest, the Bolshevik revolution would have been doomed.
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JEFF J. BROWN—NATO is reduced to plowing billions of dollars and euros of weapons into Ukraine to slow down the eventual victory of Russia there. In desperation, will NATO go nuclear there, when the obvious is known to all of the world that it has lost against Russia? All NATO has done in Palestine is to create a holocaust against women, children, old people, starving them to death and destroying their entire infrastructure. They have gained absolutely nothing in terms of military victory.
NATO has always been very good at slaughtering old people, women, children and defeating much weaker opponents like Grenada, Panama and Libya. Uncle Slaughter’s delusional psychopathy of controlling the world’s peoples and their resources lasted about ten years, from 1990 to 2000, when Wall Street and the City of London were raping and plundering what was left of the USSR, driving the people into destitution, starvation and misery.
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ROGER BOYD—The construct of “hate speech” has been extensively utilized, together with the manipulative misuse of the term “misinformation”, to support extensive new censorship laws as well as the outright banning of non-compliant media outlets such as Russia Today. With the intensification of the ruling class war against the rest, and the increasingly desperate measures to somehow hold back the inevitability of the rise of the Other 7 Billion spearheaded by China and Russia, must come greater cultural control at home. Note the highly coordinated fashion of the rise of “anti hate speech” laws across Western nations recently:
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EDITOR—Tim Walberg, a Republican US politician that somehow represents the utterly benighted people of Southern Michigan, is emblematic of the repugnant state of American politics. This moral imbecile, who in any country with some functional media, political culture, and education, should not be elected to ANY public office, has now proposed to “nuke” Gaza. This pathetic coward is now trying to walk back his idiotic and criminal utterance, but it’s hard to disavow something so vile as his proposal. We know that the long-suffering Palestinian people have no friends in the US political class of either party, as both faces of the uniparty are completely in the pocket of the MICIMATT (Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank) complex, a confabulation of interests and nstitutions constantly pushing, hypocritically and sanctimoniously, for war and imperialism. It is in this rigged cultural cesspool that Americans “make their presidential choice” every four years, a particularly cruel joke in 2024 as Donald Trump is as pro Israel as any Democrat. Yes, this is the best Democracy that money can buy. Look what it gets us.
