EDWARD J CURTIN—Here’s a film about the 1950s – “The World As It Was” – that will tell you a great deal about life in the U.S.A. today, while disabusing anyone of the notion that nostalgia for that mephitic decade is in order, for it was a time when “democracy” tended toward totalitarianism. In doing so, it sowed the bitter fruit that is poisoning us today. Without understanding the long-standing effects of those years, it is impossible to grasp the deepest dimensions of our current nightmare. Chapter One of the documentary series, Four Died Trying, directed by John Kirby and produced by Libby Handros, appropriately subtitled: “To see where we are, look where we’ve been,” does that brilliantly.
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MARGARET KIMBERLEY—The response to millions of people expressing outrage over genocide was treated as a public relations stunt, which is what SOTU and the U.S. presidency have become.
If nothing else SOTU laid bare the utter fraudulence of the Biden presidency. It is harder to make the case of lesser evilism or holding one’s nose to vote when the betrayals are so blatant. Claims of moving Biden to the left or holding feet to the fire were always made by the cynical to the naive. Both the con artists and their targets have a lot of explaining to do when Biden used the SOTU speech to appeal directly to the Trump voters we are otherwise told to view as deplorable.
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Garland Nixon Fest: Talking politics, manufactured poverty, & Empire with Joti Brar and Dr Anthony Monteiro
8 minutes readEDITOR—In these videos Garland chats with Dr Tony Monteiro and Joti Brar about the state of the world, the nature of the current crisis (detonated by the reckless and criminal policies of Western imperialism and its incurable contradictions), and the posture of various parts of society that ultimately will determine the course of history. Garland and his guests discuss the tactics of the global ruling class, the betrayals of socialism by people who profess to be on the left (“democratic socialists”, Trotskyists, fake labor parties, fake unionists, fake progressive parties, and so on) and the implications of such betrayal. Garland, Joti and Dr Monteiro exchange rich commentary, definitions, and clarifications on the enormous opportunities presented by the present historical juncture, as the capitalist system, increasingly unable to overcome the digital revolution’s pressure to eliminate jobs, continues to oppress humanity through its colossal inequality, economic insecurity, push for global war, and alarming neglect of nature.
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SIMPLICIUS—When it comes to Rasmussen’s report, it’s clear that the ‘super elite’ serve to become pillars of influence-making in society, acting as the enforcement guardrails to further manage and regulate the interests of the most exclusive managerial class, tied to the old banking families. In short: it’s a well-oiled, highly-selective pipeline which continually funnels the “right people”—ambitious, but malleable and servile to globalist interests—to the top.
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PAUL EDWARDS—[In the USA] Besides a chiseling, senile sap and War Machine whore President, and his shifty, sleazy, flashing con man opponent who will be our next Chief Embarrassment, we have a whole Congress of Sunaks and Starmers. There is no trace of principle or integrity among either gang of closet criminals who inhabit our governing asylum. A man or woman of actual integrity would never be considered, much less allowed, to run for office under this system of tyranny that despises and forbids the championing the people.
England, to its royal chagrin, let Galloway slip in a back door and now they’ve got to deal with him. Unlike poor Jeremy Corbyn, who was vilified and brutalized by the deceit of the Establishment, George won’t turn the other cheek and meekly kowtow.