EDITOR—Russell and Keaton discuss the appallingly low state of US government integrity, as lying by its highest officials about any policy—including foreign policy—seem to be the standard operating procedure. This is made manifest by the way Matthew Miller effectively shuts down Grayzone reporter Liam Cosgrove when he asks for an explanation about the Biden admin glaring double standard in the way it accuses other nations (China, Russia, Iran, etc.) of being rogue states led by dictators, while openly supporting—diplomatically and militarily— a horrid genocide in Palestine.
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JIMMY DORE— Beating on the poor! Scapegoatinh migrants. Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance has been at the forefront of the Trump campaign’s criticism of the Biden-Harris border policy, specifically reiterating the widely-debunked story about Haitian immigrants eating household pets in Springfield, Ohio. And while Vance has offered up legitimate complaints about the harmful impact of dropping tens of thousands of migrants on a depressed midwestern town, he’s also leaving out a huge part of the story — the part of the story his donors don’t want told.
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EDITORS—Signs of desperation. As the wars continue to expand, the empire’s henchmen are everywhere trying to stamp out free speech and crack down on citizen journalists and activists, such as Richard Medhurst, Scott Ritter, Danny Shaw, Craig Murray and many others, while also heavily policing so-caled “misinformation” on various social media platforms such as Twitter, Rumble, TikTok, etc., under various pretexts (the spectre of Russia, China, Iran, “antisemitism”, etc.), all in defence of the Empire’s utterly mendacious official narrative. The multiplying problems and the widening crisis are at the core of the capitalist system, essentially the collapse of its profits and the rise —again—of “overproduction”, both incurable in the present system. Under such circumstances, the capitalist rulers look to wars and “austerity” to save their system at the expense of everyone else.
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EDITOR—The team discusses how the government’s repression against free speech threatening the lies protecting Israel’s crimes and those of its accomplices, such as the US empire, is reaching new heights in cynicism and lawlessness. The case of prof. Danny Shaw ads one case to the number of outrages making the news. Pretty soon, with the alternative press muted, the public won’t even hear about these illegitimate policies. Fact is, the FBI is acting in completely unconstitutional ways in a clear campaign of intimidation aimed at chilling the speech of supporters of Palestinians in the midst of an obvious Israel-conducted genocide. Keaton suggests that a possible way to fight back is through a national strike.
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EDITORS—Netanyahu’s address to Congress was indeed the spark for a huge rally, which the police tried hard to dampen, without success. This Washington DC march communicated the disgust of tens of thousands of people against the presence of war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu and the repugnant servile reception accorded him by the US Congress and media. The rally reflected a wide distribution of opinion, from students to labor unions to ordinary unaffiliated citizens. Jewish activists were prominent in the rally (especially JVP, Jewish Voice for Peace), many orthodox anti-Zionists, and other groups and denominations. Netanyahu, true to the official propaganda script, called the protesters “useful idiots of Iran.”
