MAX PARRY—It is apparent that the caricature of the Soviet Union in both productions is really a stand-in for the present-day Russian government under Vladimir Putin. As only American exceptionalism could permit, Hollywood did not hold the same disdain for his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, whose legacy of high inflation and national debt have since been eliminated. In fact, most have forgotten that the same filmdom community outraged about Russia’s supposed interference in the 2016 U.S. election made a celebratory movie back in 2003, Spinning Boris, which practically boasted about the instrumental role the West played in Yeltsin’s 1996 reelection in Russia.
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JOHN R. HALL—It occurs to me now that all those protests were just good physical exercise, and little more. Even less successful if you were among those who got arrested, gassed, or had their heads busted in the process. The thing is…fixing one small piece of a system that’s already hopelessly broken is an act of futility. Women’s rights? Forget it. Gay rights, minority rights, immigrant rights, gun control, equal internet access…all just lounge chairs on the deck of the Titanic, and no matter how you arrange them…you know the rest.
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Jeffrey Epstein, Jay-Z, and the Miserable World Created by the Billionaire Ruling Class
19 minutes readDANNY HAIPHONG—There would be no Jay-Z/NFL collaboration without Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and the hundreds of young, mostly Black men around the country whose lives have been taken prematurely by way of police murder. Disaster capitalism feeds off Black death. And to protect the inevitability of Black death, the real billionaire capitalists such as Epstein who control the means of production (including fictitious finance) must operate in relative secrecy while Jay-Z and the rest of the Black misleadership class publicly shame and condemn any independent and politically left striving that emerges from the Black polity.
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‘We are waiting for war’: Lebanese say Israel has gone too far/
21 minutes readANDRE VLTCHEK—Israel has been regularly attacking Syria and bombing Palestine for decades. But Lebanon is a totally different story: only its airspace has been habitually violated by the Israeli jets flying towards the Syrian targets. Bombing Iraq is also clearly an escalation of Israel’s bellicose strategy. A bizarre escalation, considering that Iraq is still de facto a state occupied by Israel’s closest ally – the United States.
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The Epstein case: Media still giving you the grand bum steer
10 minutes readBOB STEFFENS—It’s obvious by now that the corporate media (read: the media owned by the same type of plutocrats involved in the Epstein blackmail op) has no intention of ever telling you the truth about this sordid crime. Like the JFK lingering “mystery” this one will go into the state secrets bin and never emerge from that black hole, at least not in any major media platform. Meanwhile, these same media, so transparently in cahoots with the actual perps, are busy blowing smoke in our eyes.