AMERICAN PARTY DUOPOLY

In the age of runaway “financialization”, American capitalists treat the economy, and the people who depend on it, here and abroad, as their own private game, a rigged game in which they also control practically all the chips. This is a form of extreme “socialism for the rich,” with the wins going to the top 0.0001% manipulatng the markets, while ordinary citizens absorb all the risk and certainly all the losses. 

ERIC ZUESSE—What can one say when a well-respected investigative journalist exposed both Joe Biden and Barack Obama as closeted fascists, and the entire mainstream ‘news’-media has ignored it? This was a news-report that would be a candidate for the Pulitzers if the Pulitzer prizes were at all honest — but it is instead utterly ignored. What does that say about the reality of ‘freedom of the press’ in the U.S.A.?

ERIC ZUESSE—Of course, this country is the United States of America — none other — a ‘democracy’ that accuses, as being authoritarian and corrupt, the nations (such as Venezuela, and Iran, and Syria, and Russia, and China) that it aims to strangulate by imposing economic sanctions, and coups, and invasions, or whatever else its aristocracy (through the government that they directly control, the United States Government) can do, in order to grab. The U.S.A. is the world’s global-imperial country. Its aristocracy want to control everything. This is clear. And that’s why it’s also the world’s most corrupt nation.

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Biden, like Bill Maher, is inadvertently giving progressives all the information they need. Yes, they should change it. And the very first thing they should change is a political dynamic which elevates warmongering Wall Street cronies like Joe Biden. There’s absolutely no reason for anyone to accept a status quo that insists the only way to beat Trump is to take a Hail Mary gamble on trying to elect a Democrat who’s no better than Trump.