Late night chat with Caleb! Political crisis in America: debunking libertarian hogwash about capitalism, and other mendacities. Caleb reminds everyone that it’s impossible to refute savage libertarian capitalist claims while being a fake leftist, “anti-stalinist leftists”, or a “state dept. socialist”. Only “tankies” can do that. Yea, old fashioned leftists. In every case examined, state centrally planned economies do much better than the mantras peached by free marketers. Free market insanity, this utopian capitalism, neoliberalism, needs to be opposed for what it is: an ideological cancer tightly coiled at the core of non-socialist societies.
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We covered this story extensively, but here’s Jimmy Dore’s take, which we find useful due to Jimmy’s talent in bringing all sorts of topics to the mass public with conviction and no condescending simplification. Jimmy and Max Blumenthal (who exposed this fraud) discuss the many ways in which the “respectable” mainstream press is hoaxing their own publics about these extremely important stories. Max also denounces how US government and mainstream media assets (starting with many lavishly funded disinformation sources such as AXIOS, Bellingcat—frequently used by the NYTimes et al—try to defame truth tellers like Max Blumenthal, Jimmy Dore and this very publication. Yes, and a lot of the hoaxing of mass audiences against China is coming from the so-called “left media”, who thereby show, by doing the bidding of Trump’s warmongering moves against China, that when it comes to imperialist goals there is no oppositional party in America.
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Jimmy Dore: Blue-Check HOLLYWOOD Won’t Push BIDEN To Help People! (And why Democrats stink and are no alternative to the GOP)
4 minutes readJimmy Dore analyses the unsurprising hypocrisy and cluelessness of Hollywood celebs, as they browbeat everyone to vote for Biden. Meanwhile, they keep everyone from pressing popular needs mirroring desperately needed measures: like Medicare for All, infrastructural reconstruction programs, a generous UBI, extensive and well-funded environmental protection programs, quick shift to non-hydrocarbon fuels, and much more.
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Welcome to the Era of the Great Disillusionment
30 minutes readJONATHAN COOK—This approach will throw up more Donald Trumps, Boris Johnsons and Jair Bolsonaros. And these men, while charming us with their supposed lack of orthodoxy, will still, of course, be exceptionally accommodating to the most powerful corporate interests – the military-industrial complex – that really run the show. The other option, which has already been road-tested under the rubric of “fake news”, will be to treat us, the public, like irresponsible children, who need a firm, guiding hand. The technocrats and professionals will try to re-establish their authority as though the last two decades never occurred, as though we never saw through their hypocrisy and lies.
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The Biden campaign and the attempt to “rescue” American hegemony
20 minutes readANDRE DAMON—In the four years since Trump became the Republican nominee, a ferocious conflict has been raging within the ruling class, centered on differences over foreign policy, and in particular the “hot war” being waged between the Ukrainian government and pro-Russian forces in its Eastern regions after the US-backed coup in 2014.
Instead of focusing on the conflict with Russia that has been the preeminent concern of much of the foreign policy establishment, the Trump administration has been preoccupied with stunting the economic growth of China while building up US military capabilities to fight a war in the Pacific. But here, too, the military and intelligence figures aligned with the Biden campaign feel that the White House has been ineffective. As two of the letter’s signatories wrote in an article in Foreign Policy magazine, “Trump has confronted China by starting trade wars with everyone else” rather than involving other imperialist states. “Major democratic powers including Japan, France, and Canada are desperate to work with the United States to blunt China’s predatory technology policies.” From the standpoint of the ruling class, it is primarily these differences over foreign policy, not domestic policy, that are being fought out in the election. Facing the greatest social and economic crisis since the Great Depression, domestic policy has been conducted on a largely bipartisan basis.