MORAL BACKWARDNESS

JAY JANSON—Today, Global South lives are still considered less important than the lives of white descendants of the conquering colonialists, who have retained a substantial amount of hegemony over most of the planet largely through powerful international reach media.

This difference in the value and importance of lives is apparent in the Middle East now. For example, the lives of a hundred Israeli hostages certainly are being given much more importance than the lives of 39,000 Arabs and the 90,000 injured, including thousands of amputees, and another thousand buried under the ruble of what was the cities of Gaza.

DAVID WALSH-In his own speech to the court, Weinstein explained that he thought the relationships with the various women were consensual and suggested, in the words of the New York Times, that “he was the victim of a rush to judgment.” He argued, according to the Times, “that the #MeToo campaign was similar to the Red Scare of the 1950s and compared himself to the screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was jailed and blacklisted after joining the Communist Party. ‘I think that is what is happening now all over this country,’ Mr. Weinstein said.”

OK, I guess it’s a simple case of class solidarity among the uber rich.  And, of course, all is forgiven, Georgie boy. In her latest kerfuffle, Ellen DeGeneres reminds us (in no particular order), that,
a) Rich liberals have skin-deep political and moral principles
b) that hanging with the Uber Rich is dangerous for your progressive creds
c) that Ellen, posturings aside, has joined the ruling class media’s campaign to rehabilitate the image of war criminal George W Bush and his ilk.

JOHN SPRITZLER— Yes, a revolution to remove the plutocracy from power and create an egalitarian society without oppression will involve some violence, inevitably. But if a revolution is ever going to succeed in the United States it will be because a huge revolutionary movement develops and it gains the support of a critical mass of members of the military, so that when ordered to attack the movement those soldiers refuse and use their weapons to defend the movement from those who would attack it violently. This is what happened in the February, 1917 revolution in Russia that led to the Czar abdicating. A similar thing happened in Iran, which is why the Shah, even though he thought he had the largest military force in the region, had to flee the country. A revolution most certainly does not mean half the population shooting the other half.

Tulsi Gabbard defends Assange and condemns the US government for trying to stifle free speech, preferring coverups to transparency. While answering CNN’s Jake Tapper’s question, Tulsi also teaches this vile presstitute the basics of true journalism.