CALEB MAUPIN—Kamala Harris being peddled for VP slot; Bob Aviakian, head of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), a small but loud Maoist group, relic of the 1970s, urges everyone to vote for Biden; irrelevance of the synthetic left, their broken anti-imperialist compass; inability of “woke” people to act as genuine revolutionary vectors; why we must go to the masses; there has been a massive shift in consciousness: the old “Cold War” paradigm is dead, a new order is possible. What was the “Hungarian revolution” and its most unusual features? This and much more.
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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, has fully embraced the demand by the US intelligence agencies that technology monopolies censor political speech on the internet. At a hearing Wednesday at the House Financial Services Committee, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to “take down lies.” “So you won’t take down lies or you will take down lies, it’s just a pretty simple yes or no?” Ocasio-Cortez demanded.
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NORMAN SOLOMON—After many years of carefully refusing to launch a single campaign in support of brave whistleblowers who faced vicious prosecution during the Obama administration — including Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, NSA whistleblowers Thomas Drake and Edward Snowden, and CIA whistleblowers John Kiriakou and Jeffrey Sterling — MoveOn.org has just cherrypicked a whistleblowing hero it can support. [Well you guessed it, they picked a whistleblower who is no whistleblower, but a CIA agent helping to launch a coup against Trump.—Ed)
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BILL WILLERS—Stephen Colbert has become another animal altogether. The introductory monologue has [been] more or less obligatory for nighttime talk show hosts since the middle of the last Century. In Colbert’s tenure, the monologue has long since morphed into what is arguably the Democratic Party’s most powerful and persuasive voice — and, conversely, one of loudest and most effective anti-Trump forces on daily TV.
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Liberal egalitarians tended to insist that what mattered were institutional solutions to current inequalities; past injustices weren’t relevant, and arguments that relied on historical claims were rejected.
