GLENN GREENWALD—If you go and study fascism in any first-year undergraduate college, you’re going to learn that one of its defining hallmarks, as implemented by Mussolini and then by Hitler, is the merger of corporate and state power, so that there’s no such thing as a private sector ever working at odds with the public sector. The government and corporate power are always merged to control the population: exactly what the Democratic Party, the liberals who support it, and largely the left that supports it as well, are in favor of doing.
LIBERAL IDIOCY
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JIMMY DORE—Jon Stewart is a comedy legend who pioneered an entirely new way to deliver scathing but also funny commentary on the news. But now he’s apparently decided to piss away all the credibility he built up by interviewing and giving a virtual tongue bath to war criminals Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice, whom he allows to spew transparently false narratives about the American war machine with nary a peep of disagreement. Jimmy and his panel of Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger and The Grayzone’s Anya Parampil discuss Stewart’s embarrassingly cringe-worthy performance.
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In less than half an hour Saby conclusively shows that the US (and much of the world) may be dying because the left in the US doesn’t really exist, and the rest of the West is not doing so well, either. To compound the problem, its devious incarnation, WOKE liberalism, constantly aggravates matters, by discrediting the true left. This doesn’t make the Right’s message much better, but, to WOKE liberals’ chagrin, it is the Right that is now increasingly saying what needs to be said.
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Caleb Maupin calls out Chomsky’s crude anticommunism
6 minutes readPATRICE GREANVILLE—For all his anti-imperialist rhetoric, Chomsky remains a controversial and deeply contradictory individual. Defining himself often as an anarchist—a form of adventuristic ultra-leftism—he is prone to criticise in harsh terms Lenin and Stalinism, that is any truly existing socialist government, be it China, Cuba, North Korea, Nicaragua, Venezuela, or the Soviet Union. In that way he ends up denouncing imperialism but canceling the denunciation by also attacking socialist nations under Imperialist attack. This is the “plague on both your houses” approach that is typical of many so-called “liberal progressives”. Chomsky also has a terribly naive conception of how the working class can attain power. In his book Turning the Tide, he argues that socialism can be secured in the US via the ballot box.
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Free Speech-Hating Liberals Attack Elon Musk
3 minutes readProminent liberals like former Labor Secretary Robert Reich were up in arms about the prospect that mega-billionaire Elon Musk might purchase controlling interest in Twitter and change the social media site’s policies about banning content deemed “misleading” or “inflammatory.” The idea that actual free speech might be brought back to Twitter is apparently unthinkable for Reich and his ilk. Jimmy and American comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the threat of free speech to authoritarians on the left.