AMERICAN PARTY DUOPOLY

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Obama is not the poor widdle victim here, the American public is. Remember that not even a year after the taxpayer took the brunt of the damage from the banks’ idiotic gamble on subprime loans, he was out there inspiring rallies of people with his talk of hope and change, but at the exact same time as he was promising the American people that he would take Wall Street to task, in private he was allowing Citigroup to handpick his cabinet.

ERIC ZUESSE—People I know who live in Russia have told me that it’s a Western lie that Navalny has ever had any significant political support inside the country, and that he is widely considered to be just a front for the U.S. and allied governments and their mainstream fake ‘news’-media in order to stir a movement in Russia to overthrow Putin, who is widely respected by Russians. I don’t know whether that’s true, but certainly any ‘journalists’ who allege — without documentation — that “The most popular opposition leader challenging Putin, Alexei Navalny,” is an example of fake ‘news’-media that are trying to stir support of their own population for action (sanctions, etc.) against Russia. In other words: they’re propagandists.

MoA—Unruly individualism—as seen in college kids— and deeply-entrenched religiosity may complicate and worsen matters in America. The media report that, “Two weeks ago, amid the coronavirus pandemic, about 70 students from the University of Texas at Austin partied in Mexico on spring break. The students, all in their 20s, flew on a chartered plane to Cabo San Lucas, and some returned on separate commercial flights to Texas.
Now, 44 of them have tested positive for the virus and are self-isolating. More students were monitored and tested on Wednesday, university officials said, after 28 initial positive tests…Students at the University of Tampa, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and other colleges have tested positive after returning from spring break trips to Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and elsewhere.”

DAVID WALSH—What preoccupied official “radical,” academic and even artistic circles, however, in the months and years preceding the present crisis was the increasingly unhinged and selfish politics of race, gender and sexuality. Countless articles, books and pronouncements of various kinds informed the public that the “defining issue of our time” was, for example, “white privilege,” reparations for slavery, the #MeToo campaign or sexual harassment—or, for that matter, baleful “Russian interference” in the great American democratic project.

DIEGO DIEZ—How did Biden win? Well, here in Chicago Sanders hasn’t campaigned much. This month he held a big rally at Grant Park in the centre of the city. Ten thousand people (of course it was much more than this official MSM figure – I saw it), a huge US flag, “socialism with American jingoist characteristics” to the non-believers/socialist militants, perhaps. Biden however, is supposed to hold a rally at Malcolm X College. It may be cancelled due to Coronavirus.