CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—We’re seeing free speech eroded in the west as authorities suppress critics of the genocide in Gaza, just as we saw a huge spike in censorship with the NATO proxy war in Ukraine. They say these wars are to protect the west and its values, while ruining the west and its values in order to protect their ability to manufacture consent for these wars. War, genocide and tyranny are the west’s real values.
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EDITOR—A sharp dissection of the US Empire’s multitude of crimes, deceptions, and ineradicable evil by a witness who speaks through his own awakening. The US empire is not ruled by democracy—despite the constant refrain—but by a tiny, invisible oligarchy which also owns the political class, the judicial branch, the media and the repressive arms of the state (intelligence agencies, army, police, etc.). The US Empire seems formidable and unassailable, but, due to its incurable flaws—structural, economic, political, spiritual, and moral—it is now collapsing, bleeding its hegemony, due to its own over-reach, pathetic leadership, and, in the process, becoming ever more dangerous to its own citizens and humanity in general.
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THOMAS FAZI—The Wagenknecht phenomenon is fascinating — and unique — for several reasons. Not only has she managed to establish the BSW as one of the country’s major political forces in a matter of months, but she’s also running on a platform that is unique in the Western political panorama, at least among electorally relevant parties. Though Wagenknecht tends to avoid framing her party in tired Left-Right terms, its platform can best be described as left-conservative.
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PATRICK LAWRENCE—Meta’s accusations of [The Cradle] “praising terrorist organizations” and engaging in “incitement to violence” largely stem from posts and videos that relay information or quotes from West Asian resistance movements like Hamas, Hezbollah, and Ansarallah — blacklisted by many western governments — who are an essential part of the news stories unfolding in a region on the precipice of a major war.
It is also essential to recognize that these are major West Asian political organizations that have deep institutional and civic roots within Lebanon, Palestine, and Yemen and are part of the very fabric of these societies. They are represented in governance, run schools, hospitals, and utilities, and disperse salaries to millions of civilian workers.
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DAVID P GOLDMAN—Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the last living torch-bearer of his family’s political dynasty, endorsed Donald Trump in a scorched-earth August 23 speech denouncing the American foreign policy establishment for provoking and perpetuating the Ukraine war.
In particular, he blamed the American Neocons for the Ukraine conflict and declared that Trump’s promise to reopen negotiations with Russia and end the war as soon as he took office were reason enough to endorse the former president’s campaign.
