BRUCE LERRO—Two points are worth mentioning. First, revolutions begin when situations get desperate enough to where formerly indifferent or hostile groups recognize they have more in common with other groups than they had first suspected. In this case the soldiers, who were supposed to be loyal to their commanding officers. But in reality, most soldiers are working class. They have more in common with the people in the streets than with their officers. When a critical mass of soldiers refuses to follow orders, it undermines and limits what loyal soldiers can do.
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MAIN DESK—BIDEN’S BIG BOY SUMMIT—The roundtable discusses Biden’s carefully scripted but underwhelming “Big Boy” press conference, which, to no one’s surprise, turned out much more an electoral campaign speech—often mumbled—than a presidential presser, the whole concoction punctuated by hilarious gaffes that Biden’s mental deterioration now make almost inevitable (like confusing Zelensky with Putin—of all people). In addition, guest Jeff Brown paints a comprehensive picture of the global strategic situation, with a focus on Asia, where America’s futile attempts to surround China with military bases and alliances in order to stop its rise to global prominence, (already a fait accompli), is opening yet another front for a major kinetic war threatening humanity with nuclear Armageddon. A SECOND VIDEO-THE WEAPONISATION OF IGNORANCE—is also part of this outstanding package.
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Le Pen’s pro-France, anti-war right got 50% of the people’s vote, crushing Neocon-neolib Macron and woke-WEF-anti-Yellow-Vest Mélenchon!
41 minutes readJEFF J. BROWN—The United States hasn’t had an honest election since George Washington. But, I mean, it’s built into the US Constitution just with each state having to be given the responsibility of conducting the elections. And of course, if the Democrats are in power, they’re going to make sure that they get reelected. And if it’s a Republican, they make sure they get reelected. And so all kinds of ballot stuffing stolen ballots, etc. And then of course, now with the United States almost exclusively electronic voting machines, all you have to do is control that little chip in the hard drive and you can predetermine the election.
And so there’s that problem. And the fact that again, Macron has had most of the votes in the legislature since 2022 makes it more difficult for the Right. What’s more disturbing in this situation for July 7th, the final round, is when the Right won the first round again handily beating the Left and Macron again came in third. He’s destroyed his movement. He doesn’t care. He doesn’t care about the people. And so Macron and Mélenchon got together and colluded.
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RAMIN MAZAHERI—More accurate, however, is celebrating the fact that the French left has once again proven to be the most leftist in the pre-1991 West. Yes, Labor won power in the UK just a few days ago, but nobody can compare Labor’s platform with that of La France Insoumise (France Unbowed).
Facing a far-right threat – and Macron is, I must remind you, far-right in terms of economics, democracy, foreign policy, etc – the French people stood up to the would-be dictators and bullies.
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POLL: Half of French youths are willing to die to help U.S.-&-allied billionaires take over Russia.
by eric zuesse13 minutes readERIC ZUESSE—The goal of Obama (and of the billionaires who had funded his political campaigns) was to get Ukraine into NATO so that America could place a nuclear missile there only 317 miles, or five minutes of missile-flying time, away from The Kremlin — checkmate against Russia. Those French youths don’t know anything about any of that, because their nation’s ‘news’-media hide it from them.
Their nation’s ‘news’-media had similarly hidden from their parents the unassailable fact that in 2003 when the U.S. invaded and destroyed (that video had been quickly removed by YouTube) Iraq, it was 100% on the basis of lies to the American people