AMERICAN PARTY DUOPOLY

LEE CAMP—The government can’t truly represent the people unless the people know what the government is up to. But we’re not told most of what the government does. And when a whistleblower reveals what our government is up to — or a journalist like Julian Assange — they’re horribly persecuted and imprisoned. Furthermore, even if you wanted to claim we have a free democracy in the US, the two corporate parties agree on 90% of the core issues of our country. They agree on capitalism, on militarism, on Wall Street, on environmental destruction, on unlimited surveillance, on a massive prison state, on dystopian policing — they agree on just about everything. So if our choice is between those two parties, then it’s no choice at all. None of our elections are legit in this regard. 

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Critics say a worrying pattern has emerged during Biden’s tenure, with his administration handing out drilling permits at a rate of more than 300 a month since his inauguration, a faster pace even than under Donald Trump.

At the Glasgow talks, known as Cop26, the US also declined to sign on to an agreement to end coal mining, or to phase out gasoline and diesel cars. “It truly calls into question whether the Biden administration’s climate agenda is nothing but broken promises,” said Jeremy Nichols of WildEarth Guardians, an environmental group.

On this episode of System Update, I discuss the FBI’s targeting of James O’Keefe, and hallmarks of authoritarian attacks on press freedoms. Read the transcript below.

Sometimes a single article or video can teach far more about the complicated and shifting reality we inhabit than all the bloviating we see on the Establishment TV and print channels. This is the case with these two videos by Jimmy Dore, impeccably supported by a formidable journalist, Max Blumenthal (The Grayzone), whose capacity to peel off the layers of deception cynically manufactured by the imperial system has few equals. Watch these closely and learn.  There are important facts and lessons here, and valuable confirmations for those who have been longtime critics of the capitalist system and its myriad social morbidities.