CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Throughout the segment Cenk takes great pains to say he doesn’t want war with Russia, but saying that while demanding even more “signs” that this administration isn’t beholden to Putin is like saying you support racial segregation but oppose racism. You can’t have your cake and eat it too, Cenk. You don’t get to keep the progressive face you’ve built your career on while advancing the neoconservative narrative that has neutered all opposition to this administration’s world-threatening escalations against a nuclear superpower.
AMERICAN BRAINWASH
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ERIC ZUESSE—This holier-than-thou and upside-down presumption, of Russian-government guilt and American-government innocence, is reeking throughout that pompous article; but what’s even worse is that the reality is exactly the opposite of the story-line that’s portrayed in it.
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ANDRE VLTCHEK—First of all, the expression democracy: It loosely means ‘rule of the people’. It doesn’t stipulate that a truly democratic country has to follow a Western multi-party/corporate model, or more concretely, a model in which big corporations and ‘powerful individuals’ are financing political campaigns (while backing the candidates), and de facto selecting the governments. In the West, and in its ‘client states’, most of the ordinary people are destined to serve the corporate interests, and the government is there to make sure that they do not break ‘the rules’. China simply cannot follow such model. Chinese people fought hard for their independence, they struggled during the great revolutionary war, and all this in order to create a system which would be serving the people.
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ROBERT FANTINA—Kushner is tasked with resolving a decades-old problem that the U.S. hardly even sees as a problem, and one on which he sides with the aggressor. That side is one nation whose government discussed ways of taking advantage of Kushner’s naiveté and complex business problems.
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RON JACOBS—With this cancerous approach to economics, capitalism destroys the planet. Yet, it continues to expand. This is one of the most important messages of this book. It is why capitalism itself must be defeated if we are to survive. There is no other path.