THOMAS FAZI—[The intent behind Galloway’s persecution] is clear: to criminalise people’s right to protest — or even to vote for candidates who oppose the uniparty’s policies on key domestic and/or foreign policy issues. All in the name of the “fight against extremism” (Sunak mentioned the term 13 times throughout his speech). In this sense, Sunak’s speech heralds a dangerous turning point in the authoritarian and anti-democratic regression of British society — and Western societies more in general — which has been unfolding for various years now.
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JOHN VAROLI—What’s most shocking and perplexing, however, are those colleagues who don’t merely remain silent, but rather, vigorously join in the persecution of dissenters. I suspect this is because we are reminders of their own cowardice and betrayal.
And so it transpired last week that an old journalist friend reached out to me. His goal was to shame me for being skeptical of Big Brother’s narrative on Russia. Even though I have a university degree in the study of Russia and Ukraine, as well as 30 years work experience with both countries, my research and opinions make him uneasy.
I thought long and hard about doing this, and then decided to do it. Below you’ll find our correspondence. I take privacy very seriously and always protect the identity of my sources and companions. So, to protect his privacy, let’s call him “S”. -
EDITOR—The panel discusses the personality of Trotsky, his political posture, his opportunistic tendencies, and why the bourgeoisie has traditionally seen Trotsky and his movement as a tool to divide and defeat the unity of world Bolshevists, and thereby world revolution. In 1903 Lenin formed a party “of a new type”, Bolshevism, to effect real revolution, separating his group from social democracy. Trotsky, on the other hand, a ferocious egotist, was content with the drift of social democracy, and opposed Lenin on all major points endorsed by the Leninist tendency, acting in effect, like a bourgeois revolutionist, a “Menchevik”. There were also fundamental differences regarding tactics and strategies.
As early as 1903, in making revolution, there was the question of class alliances. Lenin favoured an alliance with the peasantry, the Mensheviks, and Trotsky, favoured the bourgeoisie. Had he emerged victorious in that contest, the Bolshevik revolution would have been doomed.
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Scott Ritter: Israel Crossed Iran’s Red Line and TOTAL WAR may be Coming
by Scott Ritter8 minutes readEDITOR—Former Marine Corps Intelligence Officer and UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter reacts to Israel’s latest escalation with Iran that left several of its top military brass slain in Syria. What happens next will shock you. Scott stresses the fact that Iran cannot easily replace the key military leaders they just lost, and that a tit-for-tat retaliation may unleash an escalation cycle with Israel for which Iran may not be ready. Ritter advises calm and deliberate continuation of the strengthening of the “Axis of Resistance”. Otherwise, much could be lost, including the loss of world focus on the Gaza tragedy, which is looking like it could finally deliver a change of policy in the region and a Palestinian state or integration in a non-Apartheid Israel. Scott notes that Israel is set to receive a large number of F-15s, long-distance fighter-bombers, needed for an strategic blow against Iran. This indicates the direction Washington and Tel Aviv are thinking. Scott also says it’s a foregone conclusion that the Americans knew the Israelis would be hitting the WCK food aid workers. The current war is highly integrated between the US and the Israelis, notes Scott, so the claim the Americans were surprised by the attack on WCK is a complete lie.
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ROGER BOYD—The construct of “hate speech” has been extensively utilized, together with the manipulative misuse of the term “misinformation”, to support extensive new censorship laws as well as the outright banning of non-compliant media outlets such as Russia Today. With the intensification of the ruling class war against the rest, and the increasingly desperate measures to somehow hold back the inevitability of the rise of the Other 7 Billion spearheaded by China and Russia, must come greater cultural control at home. Note the highly coordinated fashion of the rise of “anti hate speech” laws across Western nations recently: