EDITORS—On this stream: Political analyst and author Caleb Maupin joins to discuss his censored book on Kamala Harris – Russ debut’s his star wars themed video essay “Russ Strikes Back” – Controversial opening ceremony act in the style of the last super – and more.
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EDITORS—Due Dissidence interviews the legendary founder and current chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party, Omali Yeshitela, who the US state has been persecuting for decades. Omani describes his struggle, and the manner in which the US ruling class has sought to eliminate him and his organisation as a factor in US politics.
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LARRY JOHNSON—Most of the Western media leaped on this story as further proof of the depravity of Hezbollah, while ignoring Israel’s routine bombing and killing of Palestinian children in Gaza and the West Bank. NPR, to its credit, did acknowledge Israel’s bombing of a school in Gaza earlier that same day.
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EDITORS—Young women were reportedly observed selling hugs, kisses and their company from street stalls, reigniting widespread social media discourse about the paid companionship economy.
Next to a subway station in Shenzhen, a young woman set up a stall with a sign that read, “One yuan (14 US cents) for a hug, 10 yuan for a kiss, 15 yuan to watch a film together.”
Two other women set up stalls in a pedestrian street square, with signs reading, “20 yuan (US$2.8) to help with household chores, 40 yuan per hour to drink with you.”
Mainland reports suggest that some of them can earn 100 yuan in a single outing. Opinions about the street girlfriends are mixed on mainland social media.
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DON HANK—The occupiers of Palestine are finding themselves backed into a corner and with few friends. It won’t get better as long as they continue the bloodshed. The problem is, they have been committing atrocities for 7 decades but each time, the US government and media have covered for them. And now that this cover is gone, they are so used to committing these crimes with impunity that they have developed a bad case of normalcy bias, and this is destroying their reputation. They keep expecting the US to save them from themselves as before, but they have slammed the door on their own impunity.
