JOHN GERASSI—Che Guevara had no illusions about what this will mean in Latin America. He wrote: “The present moment may or may not be the proper one for starting the struggle, but we cannot harbor any illusions, we have no right to do so, that freedom can be obtained without fighting. And these battles shall not be mere street fights with stones against tear-gas bombs, nor pacific general strikes; neither will they be those of a furious people destroying in two or three days the repressive superstructure of the ruling oligarchies. The struggle will be long, harsh, and its battlefronts will be the guerrilla’s refuge, the cities, the homes of the fighters–where the repressive forces will go seeking easy victims among their families–among the massacred rural populations, in the villages or in cities destroyed by the bombardments of the enemy.”
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DOROTHY LENNON—In the past, I’ve written about how late night comedians are the court approved jesters of the oligarchy. When I post my commentary, someone usually asks, “But what about John Oliver? He is usually better.” No, he’s not. My analysis is applicable to the HBO host. During the 2016 election, he castigated those who dared to venture outside the two corporate parties. When dissecting Green Party nominee Jill Stein’s proposal to cancel all student debt, he compared it to Donald Trump’s proposal to compel Mexico to pay for a border wall. Recently, he defended and omitted information about transgender athletes and puberty blockers for children being peddled by Big Pharma.
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ERIC ZUESSE—Whereas the Reuters ’news’-report had a false headline, and their following news report was incomprehensible about what is causing Europe’s economies to suffer — and the headline’s implication was that Vladimir Putin was to blame, and that Putin caused it when he made the decision on February 24th that (supposedly) caused Europe’s economic plunge — this news-report from Russia (unlike the Reuters one) had no need to lie. That’s the difference between propaganda versus news. Propaganda is fake ‘news’. Fake ‘news’ comes from the approved ‘news’ media.
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The life of Mariupol residents caught in the crossfire. Mariupol Resident Show How Ukraine Snipers Killed Civilians. (Video By Nadezhda Lancaster).
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CALEB MAUPIN—Many important facts about China, which the US media (and its mendacious allies in the rest of the Western world) hide and distort, are laid out in this highly interesting and timely conversation between Caleb Maupin and Li JingJing. An hour well spent! Defeat the empire’s criminal objectives and lies by simply obtaining the truth about these crucial subjects. And be sure to pass it on!
