Glenn Greenwald’s lucid denunciation of Fox News’ sordid maneuvers to gag Tucker Carlson under penalty of law and pocketbook. Tucker has become a meteoric figure in America’s media firmament, raking in more millions of viewers for a single show than anyone else before. This is making the establishment very nervous. In this post we also resent Tucker’s latest broadside (Episode 4). If you watch it, you’ll quickly understand what the fuss and agitation is all about.
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EDITOR—NATO’s bread and butter is bombing the shit out of poor people with no air cover, not fighting a land-war against an industrialized nation. NATO has also somehow lost its last 20 year war against poor people with no air cover (in Afghanistan). America’s great imperial innovation is making money by losing wars. As a result they’ve developed highly complex and bloated weapons systems that get defeated by dudes in Toyota Hiluxes. These are Ukraine’s ‘allies’.
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PROMETHEAN CITY BUILDERS VS FINANCE CAPITAL MALTHUSIANS: MULTIPOLARISTS VS ANGLO-AMERICAN EMPIRE PART II
43 minutes readBRUCE LERRO—There are far more commonalties between liberals and conservatives than there are between liberals and socialists because capitalism divides them. There are far more commonalities between liberals and fascists than between liberals and socialists because both liberals and fascists support capitalism. The linear political spectrum is too simple for today’s complex politics
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DR. TONY MONTEIRO – WILL 2024 BE THE ANTI-NEOCON ELECTION? Plus: Why Trump matters • The reality behind WOKE • The emerging united front
11 minutes readEDITOR—A wide-ranging discussion of the various political currents shaping the direction of the US empire as it enters its period of rapid decline. Garland and Dr Monteiro concur that the political confusion abetted by the treacherous Democrats with their phony leftism (“WOKE imperialism”) is a major obstacle in the struggle to form a united front of diverse ideologies —socialists, libertarians, communists, etc.— to fight the main and common enemy of humanity, global imperialism. They correctly suggest that “Woke” is but a shield, a mask, for corporate imperialist business as usual, and that “Wokism”, as evidenced by the calamitous LGBQT-dominated San Francisco political elite, is nothing but the rule of mostly upper-middle class and upper-class liberals. The plague of incurable dysfunction and homelessness we see in San Francisco and all other major cities in the US is proof that class—in this case oligarchic, or rather plutocratic interests, and their Neocon/Neoliberal ideology—drive the national, state and city agendas.
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The Contours of the New World: Discussion by Michael Hudson with Kin Chi Lau, Global University, Hong Kong
77 minutes readMICHAEL HUDSON—No. I was on Chinese television two weeks ago, you were there. As I explained, this is simply a charade. There was never a debt problem, but it was presented nightly on the news, like a wrestling match between the good guy and the bad guy. And the pretense was that somehow the Congress had to come together and agree to remove the debt ceiling in order for Congress to pay for the programs that the Senate and Congress already had approved.