It’s symptomatic of the degeneration of the so-called left in the US that it is libertarians like Rand Paul who are getting the credit for opposing the US government blatant effort to completely control political speech.
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Praising Warmonger Albright Reveals Brain-Dead Western Media
11 minutes readFINIAN CUNNINGHAM—The widespread Western public ignorance over what is happening in Ukraine – the violent background to the present conflict, the CIA coup in 2014, the Nazi paramilitaries attacking Russian-speaking people in the Donbass, the relentless NATO weaponizing of the Russophobic regime, training of its Nazi paramilitaries by NATO troops and so on – is largely due to the Western media’s systematic lying, omission, and distortion.
However, the brain-dead function of the Western media is especially highlighted this week by the death of Madeleine Albright and the total silence about how her career is tightly entwined with today’s conflict. The war in Ukraine is but the front line of a wider proxy war between the United States, NATO and Russia.
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Pomp’s article below is illuminating on the sneaky ways the US government is suffocating free speech, by using its enormous power over the financial ecosystem of “the West” (read: Washington’s abjectly dominated bloc of nations). The videos we include, by Caleb Maupin and about the rebel Canadian truckers, are eloquent. Caleb is a longtime activist for social change, peace, and justice, and a respected political analyst. In the video Caleb details how PayPal has already jumped on the financial censorship bandwagon by suddenly shutting down his account for no valid reason, thereby crippling his political work. As usual, the move was ut into effect with no appeal. (We first heard about such underhanded and illegitimate things when the US went after Wikileaks in 2012, and more recently when Trudeau froze access to the truckers’ own bank accounts).
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Caleb discusses the reasons why he is certain Breadtubers like Vaush and Jason Unruhe are doing US imperialism’s bidding, while pretending to be on the radical left.
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Left-Wing YouTubers Co-opted By Security State
7 minutes readCaleb Maupin is the author of “BreadTube Serves Imperialism: Examining The New Brand of Internet Pseudo-Socialism,” a book describing the ways “left-leaning” YouTubers have been co-opted and manipulated by elite interests to shepherd anti-establishment and revolutionary energy back toward the center and into traditional, corporatist outlets like the Democratic Party. Jimmy talks to Caleb about this phenomenon and how establishment interests seek to contain and control youthful disaffection with the status quo.