EDITOR—Garland discusses the place of nonconformist thinking—including “conspiracy theorists”— has in a healthy society, especially as it relates to the questioning of narratives and concepts bolstering a particular social arrangement or ruling class, and the reasons why the term has become a way for the establishment to denigrate and contain such individuals, thereby preserving the status quo and normalcy. Examined questions: who has the right to revise the laws? Social deviancy. Conspiracy theorists. The nature of mainstream beliefs. The role of media. Collective belief system organised by the ruling class.
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JOE LAURIA—Cassuto says Kostakidis should have made clear in her retweet of Nasrallah’s video that she did not agree or endorse it. He says Nasrallah was calling for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel.
In the retweeted video, the Hezbollah leader says: “Here, you don’t have a future, and from the river to the sea, the land of Palestine is for the Palestinian people and for the Palestinian people only …”
Above that Nasrallah quote in the Censored Men retweet, Kostakidis wrote: “Israeli govt getting some of its own medicine. Israel has started something it can’t finish with this genocide.”
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EDITOR—Keaton and Russell dissect the demagogic contortions being used by the so-called “progressive” wing of the Democrats, as crystallised by AOC’s answer regarding the question of Palestine. Given the stakes and the corrupt nature of US politics, presenting ever more rotten politicians as “choices”, the American electorate is continually faced with the dilemma of the duopoly, whose cynicism has reached new heights in the current period of imperial decay. It is noted that AOC, like the rest of the Democrats —from leaders to rank and file—are so conditioned by now to speak only or mostly of identitarian issues, that their election discourse now rarely or never refers to economic or foreign policy issues, and much less to class questions, making cultural matters such as abortion and transgender problems the putative central issues of the nation (and the world). This in the midst of a blatant systematic genocide and as the world continues to slide toward a nuclear clash.
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G. DOCTOROW—Indeed, in view of the seeming consensus that the Russian recovery of Kursk is proceeding apace, with 4,000 of the estimated 12,000 invaders having been killed up to last Thursday, I also foresaw an early end to the conflict, though not necessarily measured in one week. As I explained, the Russian Ministry of Defense only claims territorial gains when it has thoroughly combed the territory and assured itself there are no enemy forces hiding out here or there. The 1,000 square kilometers initially occupied by the Ukrainians are a lot of ground to comb
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EDITOR—Joe Biden’s speech Monday at the DNC was so full of whoppers that even mainstream media outlets typically in the tank for establishment Democrats like PBS and CNN took note, running “Fact check” pieces on the President. Among his lies included widely-debunked accusations against Donald Trump as well as outrageous exaggerations of his own accomplishments in office. Jimmy and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the parade of lies and fearmongering reflected in what will likely be the last major speech of Biden’s presidency.
