DUE DISSIDENCE—On this stream: Hillary Clinton appears on Rachel Maddow and suggests Americans who spread “propaganda” should be criminally punished – details emerge on trump suspect after he’s detained by police – Russia lays out red lines for Ukraine to avoid global war with NATO – and more.
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EDITOR—RBN’s Nick Cruse gets into a dust-up with the ADL over whether Jews should feel threatened on campuses. As documented by Keaton and Russell, the smear attempt backfired.
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EDITOR—The team discusses how the government’s repression against free speech threatening the lies protecting Israel’s crimes and those of its accomplices, such as the US empire, is reaching new heights in cynicism and lawlessness. The case of prof. Danny Shaw ads one case to the number of outrages making the news. Pretty soon, with the alternative press muted, the public won’t even hear about these illegitimate policies. Fact is, the FBI is acting in completely unconstitutional ways in a clear campaign of intimidation aimed at chilling the speech of supporters of Palestinians in the midst of an obvious Israel-conducted genocide. Keaton suggests that a possible way to fight back is through a national strike.
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EDITOR—Keaton and Russell dissect the demagogic contortions being used by the so-called “progressive” wing of the Democrats, as crystallised by AOC’s answer regarding the question of Palestine. Given the stakes and the corrupt nature of US politics, presenting ever more rotten politicians as “choices”, the American electorate is continually faced with the dilemma of the duopoly, whose cynicism has reached new heights in the current period of imperial decay. It is noted that AOC, like the rest of the Democrats —from leaders to rank and file—are so conditioned by now to speak only or mostly of identitarian issues, that their election discourse now rarely or never refers to economic or foreign policy issues, and much less to class questions, making cultural matters such as abortion and transgender problems the putative central issues of the nation (and the world). This in the midst of a blatant systematic genocide and as the world continues to slide toward a nuclear clash.
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EDITORS—The Due Dissidence team comments on Biden’s warmongering NATO speeches and notorious gaffes, underscoring the mix of tragedy (for the world) and hilarity that makes Biden’s interventions unique in recent history.
