Interviewed by Jimmy Dore, Aaron Maté pushes back against liberals and the MSNBC corral because he does not want to see people looking for alternatives to Trump believe such people (and what they shill for, the Democrats) are a genuine resistance to what he represents, in fact quite the opposite. “Liberals represent the limits of permissible, within-the-system criticism,” he reminds us, as Chomsky himself once noted. “Since these people are warmongers, and pretty much sign off on what the establishment wants, it’s important to expose them for what they are. They are not real challenges to Trump, they are not real progressives…they are really propagandists, for their own selfish reasons.” Maté and Jimmy Dore basically unmask Rachel Maddow as yet another conspiracy theorist, but of the worst and most mendacious sort.
May 2019
ROBERT HUNZIKER—Bavarians will implement a sweeping set of conservation measures, including: (1) Setting aside 13% of state land in special ecological zones, inclusive of ecosystem infrastructure of hedgerows, meadows, and wetlands (2) Organic agriculture must be practiced in 1/3rd of Bavarian farmland as well as cutting out fertilizers on all state-owned farms to reduce nitrogen pollution (3) Protection of wetlands, waterways, and threatened insect populations by eliminating insecticides as much as possible.
The Yellow Vests Are Just The Start Of The Global Working Class Revolution That’s Underway
9 minutes readRAINER SHEA—But while it’s certain that the next decade will see great efforts to reject the current system, a vision for what we want society to look like next hasn’t yet been adequately articulated. This clarification of our collective goal for the future is where the anti-capitalist movement will be needed. We can’t water down our demands and accept a setup where capitalism continues with some reforms. We need to infuse our protests with an explicitly pro-socialist message, which can be articulated through signs at demonstrations, posts on blogs and social media, and public statements on behalf of the protesters. The world’s poor and working people must unite under an agenda which includes taking the means of production away from the capitalist class.
NEIL CLARK—Another big difference between de Gaulle and the politicians of today was his attitude to money. Has there ever been such an uncorrupt leader? As I noted in 2008, “Despite occupying the highest office in the country for a decade, he died in relative poverty. Instead of accepting the pension he was entitled to as a retired president and general, he only took the pension of a colonel. The contrast between de Gaulle and the money-obsessed career politicians of today could not be greater.” Jonathan Fenby relates how, as president, de Gaulle even insisted on paying for his phone calls and the electricity bill for his quarters in the Elysee Palace.
