My dear friend and senior contributing editor to this publication, Paul Edwards, has just alerted me to Tom Feeley’s struggle to stay alive. For those in the genuinely progressive, anti-imperialist community, who, for some reason, never heard of Tom, let me just put it simply: Tom Feeley is editor at Information Clearing House, which he correctly describes as, “A fiercely, independent source of news and information.” Yes, ICH is a key link in the ridiculously thin line of grotesquely underfunded websites still devoted to truth, truth when it matters most. ICH is a massive archive of genuine independent leftist analysis, and an invaluable tool in the contest with the forces working to impose an Orwellian world of fake democracy, constant war, widespread oppression and exploitation, and capitalogenic ecocide. Indeed, ICH would not be around without Tom’s unwavering dedication. This is why Paul’s fraternal words resonate so much in this quarter:
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EDITOR—Garland carefully examines Russia’s options in the face of unrelenting hostility and aggression by the West through its Ukraine proxy, and now directly through NATO assets in a new phase of the Ukraine conflict involving the firing of long-range missiles on Russian cities and sensitive strategic infrastructure. Garland does not believe that, even at this dangerous juncture, Moscow will resort to nuclear weapons or other drastic forms of military retaliation but, instead, will simply use its enormous economic clout to seriously wound the NATO alliance by denying the West a large number of sensitive resources its requires for its normal economic and strategic functioning. Things like oil, heavy petroleum, titanium, etc., all of which are essential for the production of advanced aviation, computers, electricity generation (via nuclear plants), domestic fuel for heating, and so on. If Russia does this, there will not be a nuclear war, but the Western populations will experience first-hand the huge problems created by the betrayal of their ruling circles as a consequence of their slavish alliance with Washington and support for its criminal and idiotic wars.
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EDITOR—Episode 21 of Garland’s indispensable chats with Joti Brar, examining the ever more deranged behaviour of the US regime as its hegemonic power to dictate to the world diminishes in the face of enormous changes in the political and economic complexion of the world, as the vast majority of nations seek a path of sovereignty, cultural independence, egalitarianism, and peace that rejects the “American model”. Topics include: the rapid rise of fascism in the US empire, and the capitalists’ recourse to permanent wars and chaos across the planet to maintain their dominion. This is a MUST-WATCH, MUST SHARE discussion. Be sure to send to friends, kin or workmates.
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J. PAUWELS —In comparison with other capitals, Paris looked über–bourgeois after 1871. It is hardly surprising that the city was admired, visited, and praised by bourgeois women and men, young and old, conservative as well as avant-garde, from all over the world, that is, the “Western” world that was becoming increasingly industrial, capitalist and, indeed, bourgeois. From the four corners of the earth, well-to-do burghers converged on Paris like Catholic pilgrims converge on Rome or Muslim pilgrims on Mecca. Conversely, a bourgeoisified Paris, most effectively symbolized by “Haussmannian” town planning and architecture, migrated to cities all over the world where the bourgeoisie likewise triumphed politically, socially, and economically.
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GEORGE GALLOWAY—If Israel can’t defeat a handful of militants in Gaza with AK-47s they’re not going into Lebanon against battle-hardened Hezbollah with sophisticated weaponry: Elijah Magnier. This may be the first time Israelis are beginning to realise they may have gone too far in their cynicism and brutality toward Palestinians. Follow MOATS on YouTube
