ANTI-CORPORATISM

ED CURTIN—But let us also ask where the writers and presenters of the mainstream and alternative media get their money.  Although “to follow the money” is a truism, few do.  If we do, we will learn that money talks and those who take it toe the line, nor do they live in shacks by the side of the road or rent like so many others.  They invest with Black Rock and their ilk and have money managers who can increase their wealth while shielding them from the ways that money is made on the backs of the poor and working people.  And they lie about people like Assange, Daniel Hale, Reality Winner, Craig Murray, et al., all imprisoned for daring to reveal the depredations of the power elites, the violence at the heart of predatory capitalism.

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YOEL BITRAN—In 1989, a combination of mass protests and rising international condemnation forced the dictatorship to call for elections. But the Chilean oligarchy—which consists of the traditional land-owning aristocracy and newer generations of capitalist families—knew that though the dictator would fall, their constitution would stay intact. This meant, as Guzman predicted, that any significant changes would be rendered impossible. Thirty years later, Chile continued to have an extremely high level of economic inequality, with the highest income gap in the OECD countries.

ALVARO GARCIA LINERA—Now the planet is plunged into an uncertainty of fate. The ruling elites diverge on how to get out of the economic and environmental quagmire they have caused, the poor no longer blame themselves for their poverty, the neoliberal utopia is fading and the priests of the free market no longer have parishioners at their feet to bamboozle with future redemptions in exchange for present complacencies.

When it comes to US liberals, Jimmy Dore is the best of the lot—by far—says The Finnish Bolshevik, and we agree. Although Jimmy is still traveling left and is not yet what we might call a “formulated Marxist”, his intelligence, personal integrity and decency propel him to seek and finds real solution to the world’s problems. We only hope that Jimmy will avoid the pitfalls of social democracy, the somewhat misleading influence of people he may at this point admire, and finally escape completely from the clutches of liberalism. Here’s The Finnish Bolsehvik’s enlightening evaluation.