EDITOR—Laith and Garland comment on current events in the Middle East, the Ukraine, and US politics. Laith and Garland’s shows are being severely censored—shadowbanning and other forms of “algorithmic deletion”—are being applied, with the result that their platforms have lost considerable traffic. Only after some energetic protests did the invisible censors in charge of YouTube, Twitter, etc. relented some, but the ultimate outcome is still obscure. Commenting on the war in Gaza and Lebanon, Laith offers invaluable news and clarifications not found on regular media channels. He notes that key information and political personnel of pro-Palestinian and Hezbollah organisations continue to be assassinated, Israel’s favourite way of fighting. He also notes that America’s special envoy, Hochstein, who expected a complete cave-in by Lebanese leaders, a surrender, was practically given the finger by Lebanese authorities and went home empty-handed. Laith stresses that the IDF is not making much headway into Lebanon, despite their massive use of firepower, etc. Meanwhile, Israel’s campaign to invade and occupy Lebanon is costing Tel Aviv (and Washington) dearly in terms of equipment and personnel. The Axis of Resistance continues to attack Israeli targets, while the Zionist/American alliance increases its pressure on all parties in hopes of breaking the anti-Zionist forces.
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EDITORS—In the wake of an ugly eruption of violence on the streets of Amsterdam, the media coverage of the story has been put under the microscope with editors scrambling to revise headlines, rework narratives, and reframe video content.
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EDITOR—Global activists and thinkers, dreamers and doers came together during IGNITE! to chart a path towards a society built on justice, equity, democracy, peace, and liberation. The Transnational Institute celebrated its 50th anniversary with a festival of radical ideas! We live in dark times — obscene levels of inequality, uncontrolled corporate greed, rampant militarization, a rising far-right, and ecological breakdown. Most disturbing of all, Western governments’ complicity with the ongoing genocide in Palestine has normalised brutal levels of dehumanisation with profound consequences for all vulnerable people worldwide. We need radical, systemic change.
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EDITORS—An eloquent discussion of the evolution of US imperialism from the end of WW2, when it quickly rose to global supremacy, to its marked 21st century rapid decline. Americans—misled by the political and media classes, live in denial, says Wolff, not to mention the noxious exceptionalist/chauvinist indoctrination all Americans receive, making them practically immune to unpleasant truths about their nation’s realities and despicable deeds around the globe, from Ukraine to Palestine, Europe, and the Far East, all part of Washington’s penchant for constant war, which is now courting a global disaster by seeking a possible nuclear confrontation with Russia, China, and Iran. The Transition, notes Wolff, from FDR social democracy, when the economy was in good shape due to its robust set of income supports, to the free-marketism of “Neoliberalism” in the 1970s, which culminated with Reagan’s presidency and the massive offshoring of jobs and manufacturing to low-wage nations such as China, were the decisive points in US capitalism’s trajectory from affluence and power to oligarchic decrepitude.
