AMERICAN PROPAGANDA

For decades Europe has streamlined supplies and specifically matched its processing capabilities for the Russian Urals blend which means that now Europeans cannot just suddenly switch to whatever little and bad oil blends are found elsewhere. It just does not work that way. If any of that is attempted, the result will be absolutely disqualifying higher prices and costs plus un-thinkable risks for the whole European economy.

The Americas Summit has begun, even without the participation of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, which were banned from the event by the Biden administration, or Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who refused to attend without his socialist-led neighbors. These absences didn’t entirely protect attendees, however, as a protester stood up in the middle of a symposium to accuse Organization of American States head Luis Almagro of being a “murderer” for supporting a bloody coup against Bolivian President Evo Morales. Jimmy and his panel consisting of The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and American comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the United States’ shrinking influence and control over its neighbors.

The People’s Party is a populist party. These board members wanted to convert it into a more liberal and woke party. They had already begun reorienting the party’s message away from economic populism and towards identity politics, a transformation that alarmed many volunteers. They were supported by contractors who abused their positions of authority in the party to attack our own volunteers, delegates, and even Ralph Nader — who spoke at the opening meeting of the National Organizing Committee — as sexists, racists, and white supremacists for seeking to build class solidarity.

Until recently Lyudmila Denisova worked as Ukraine’s human rights chief and main propagandist, but she has now been fired after outside groups have been able to uncover zero evidence to support the multiple allegations of mass rape Denisova lodged against invading Russian forces. Denisova’s propaganda was widely disseminated in the west and parroted by the pro-Ukraine corporate media in the United States.

Jimmy and his panelists, The Dive host Jackson Hinkle and American comedian Kurt Metzger, break down the story of the war propagandist who took things too far.

ANDREI MARTYANOV—Ridenour’s documenting of the evolution of American Imperialism of the 1960s, to its newer, much less competent and thus more dangerous modern-day version, from US unleashing the bloody war in Syria to a blatant neo-Nazi coup in Ukraine, is excellent. It shows a continuity of American exceptionalist views, based, to a large degree on a complete [and characteristically arrogant] ignorance of Russian history, culture and intentions.