For some time now Mark Ruffalo has stood out as one of Hollywood's most acerbic critics of Israel. The latest event, currently in an official "cease fire",  an outrage clearly provoked by Israel's policies originating in its Zionist vision for that region, made Ruffalo come out and declare that Israel was engaging in genocidal Apartheid. That righteous and correct position was not to last. The response from the always hypersensitive Zionist lobby must have been swift and strong because within a couple of days Ruffalo resurfaced to offer a shameful apology. Obviously, as Jimmy Dore put it in his show a few days back (a rather long segment that has now curiously vanished from YouTube) Ruffalo was confronted with a clear ultimatum: apologise in no uncertain terms, eat your words, or else you're finished in Hollywood. Ruffalo apparently thought career, wealth and fame were more important to him than principle. The upshot is this ugly episode now making the rounds, with a plethora of Zionists gloating over Ruffalo's pathetic and clearly imposed cave-in.  Too bad that Ruffalo failed the test. But then again it was always too much to expect a Hollywood shitlib to rise to the challenge. Principles are tested when the game gets rough, when a real price is to be paid, not when it's easy and there are no unpleasant repercussions. For the nth time we see again that liberals can't be trusted. It's what makes liberals liberals, after all. Incidentally, did I mention that, as noted by Jimmy Dore, Ruffalo's recantation from his heretical sins was couched in a language that also smeared genuine anti-Zionist activists? For his spinelessness, Ruffalo was (surprisingly) slammed by some fellow actors and other celebrities on the Twitter and YouTube channels.

Since the overpaid corporate media whores will never risk their careers to report the truth, the world must rely on citizen journalists to provide the facts that explain reality. After systematically corrupting the entire media, thereby hijacking the mainstream narrative, corporate power, led by the US, has practically killed democracy wherever it managed to survive, including in the US itself, easily one of the most heavily propagandised nations in history. The consequences of this disgraceful situation can be seen everywhere, and that's why the fight for the truth has never been so vital. We stand on the edge of an ecological abyss precipitated by a cancerous industrial system devoid of any moral restraints. Furthermore, dripping hypocrisy, the West has unilaterally declared war on China, Russia and Iran, which threatens a nuclear confrontation, plus other nations like Venezuela or Cuba that also dare to resist the tyrannical diktats emanating from Washington. It's clear that war, ceaseless propaganda, and the immiseration of labor is the chosen solution of the empire managers to the capitalist system's incurable crisis, a crisis rendered all the more intractable by the computer revolution which has only deepened capital's legendary "overproduction" contradiction. 

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