GLEN FORD—All of our fates are entwined with that of Julian Assange, a political prisoner of the global imperial state. Assange, an Australian currently held in solitary confinement in Britain’s Belmarsh prison, faces 175 years behind bars if extradited to the United States, the imperial power whose international crimes and domestic machinations have been severely compromised by Wikileaks, the journalism operation Assange founded.
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Blade Runner Cinema Poetry: Roy Batty’s Tears in the Rain
15 minutes readGUILERMO ST-I’ve sadly had to see many actors pass away throughout my life, but this one feels sadder than most. Rutger Hauer made possible one of my favorite cinematic experiences during my childhood, which helped me love cinema to this day. One thing’s for sure: his legacy won’t be lost in time, like tears in the rain. There are way too many people who love this movie like I do to let that happen. Time to die… but you will be forever remembered.
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KOLLIBRI TERRE SONNENBLUME—As Kimberley illustrates, the history of the US is very much the history of white supremacy, pivoting on slavery and its aftermath. Every president from the beginning has either been a southerner defending southern racism or a northerner afraid to challenge it for fear of losing southern votes (all the while denying northern racism).
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US puppet Guaido given a “people’s welcome” in Venezuela. Many Venezuelans are not fooled.
7 minutes readNo matter how hard the shameless Trump gang and their accomplices in the US Congress try to sell the world the notion that CIA-supported Juan Guaido is the legitimate president of embattled Venezuela, many of the people in that nation clearly see what a traitor and murderer Guaido is, and react accordingly.
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ERIC LONDON—The proposed cuts would transfer trillions of dollars from the masses of working people into the hands of the financial aristocracy and affluent upper-middle class, having devastating consequences for hundreds of millions of workers from cradle to grave and exposing the utter fraud of Trump’s claim to represent the “forgotten men and women.”
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MoA—Around that time this writer was the chief technical officer of a large Internet access company. When we had to select a firewall platform for our internal networks we cynically discussed if it would be preferable to buy Cisco equipment, to then be spied on by the NSA, or to buy from the Israeli company Checkpoint which likely had a Mossad backdoor. (We bought both and stacked them.)