FALSE LEFT

EDWARD CURTIN—While ostensibly about European anti-war and anti-NATO activists caught on the horns of a dilemma, the piece goes on to assert that although US/NATO was guilty of wrongful expansion over many years, Russia has been an aggressor in Ukraine and Georgia and is guilty of terrible war crimes, etc.

There is not a word about the U.S. engineered coup in 2014, the CIA and Pentagon backed mercenaries in Ukraine, or its support for the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and Ukraine’s years of attacks on the Donbass where many thousands have been killed. It is assumed these actions are not criminal or provocations.

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.

FINIAN 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.

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).

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.