AMERICAN BRAINWASH

The manufacturing of imperialist wars is a “normal” operation for the American media. 
The Gulf Wars initiated by the Bush dynasty were both (as were other imperial wars of the same period) sold to the US public on the basis of carefully orchestrated propaganda campaigns based on filthy lies. Executives and owners of PR fims like Hill & Knowlton, long the image cleansers of crooks, despots and tyrants, not to mention genocidal criminals, and imperialism itself, across the globe, should be indicted for war crimes and punished accordingly.

MARGARET KIMBERLEY—Of course Trump’s rant was vigorously attacked as it should have been. But the offended progressives didn’t question Pelosi, the person responsible for the ugly episode. Anyone paying attention could see the fake outrage in action. Unnamed Democratic Party sources suddenly claimed to have evidence that the woman popularly known as AOC is a drag on the party  and will doom Democrats to defeat. 

ERIC LONDON—The Democratic Party is a party of reaction, based on an alliance of the military-intelligence apparatus, Wall Street, and the affluent, identity-obsessed upper middle class. Its differences with Trump have always been tactical in character. The Democrats’ chief concern is that Trump is undermining the key strategic imperatives of American imperialism—particularly in relation to Russia—and that his unpredictable and erratic behavior will destabilize domestic politics, stoke popular opposition, and further endanger their foreign policy goals. When it comes to cutting taxes, lowering interest rates and increasing military spending, the Democrats and Trump agree. Both support Trump’s oft-repeated threat that “America will never be a socialist country.”

Election 2016: In the Lions’ den. Jimmy Dore covers some Trump rallies, comments on his clueless followers. Not that Hillary was preferable, not even acceptable as a “lesser evil”. Not in 2016. That year the US electorate truly had no choices worthy of a rational and mentally healthy nation, let alone a real democracy. A compulsive lying narcissist and proto-fascist and a certifiable war criminal dripping corruption. In those days Jimmy was still part of the The Young Turks team, an org he has since left to fly with his own (reliably radical) team.