AMERICAN PARTY DUOPOLY

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—The good news about imperial narrative control being our only real obstacle is that that means the only thing chaining us in place is a thin strand of mind fluff. People’s trust in the mass media is at an all-time low while our ability to network and share information is at an all-time high. All we need to do to break the spell of relentless propaganda which holds the entire empire in place is exploit and exacerbate this reality. Without public trust, the imperial propaganda machine cannot function. Without the ability to propagandize its citizenry, the imperialists cannot rule.

Jimmy Dore has been trying to show that Elizabeth Warren is a joke and a fraud as a possible leader capable of giving the US a new direction. Nonetheless, the media and many establishment liberals continue to rally to her cause for all the usual wrong reasons. Here’s a moment that shows Warren in a rather poor light, as she seems ill-prepared to keep her aplomb when confronted with a wrinkle in the carefully managed scripts of her campaign.

Impeachment Bombshells Explode In Democrats Face—as they try to manufacture a case without actual evidence.

Abby Martin sits down with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges to discuss the ignored reality behind Trump, the bipartisan road from neoliberalism to fascism, how the Democratic elite are an institution of corporate power, and how there’s no way out through the #2020election without destroying the system.

JAKE JOHNSON—News of Obama’s decision to “cash in” following his eight-year presidency drew significant ire, particularly given his administration’s failure to enact sufficient structural changes to the financial system following the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression. As Abelson observes, Obama’s “Justice Department prosecuted no major bankers for their roles in the financial crisis, and he resisted calls to break up the biggest banks, signing a regulatory overhaul that annoyed them with new rules but didn’t stop them from pulling in record profits.”