EDITOR—If you have wondered why all of a sudden TV audiences are being flooded with commercials that improbably include every race under the sun and every hue, gender, sexual orientation, and color that nature created, but rarely whites, or straight couples, Garland Nixon has the answer: it’s all a cynical ploy by the US ruling class to sell the utterly ridiculous idea that the American empire has already built a totally (and absurdly) sexually liberated, multi-racially harmonious and happily integrated society.
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Argentina’s New President Milei Sticks A Fork In BRICS Plus
15 minutes readROGER BOYD—As I have stated in previous posts, here, here, here and here, South American nations have been in a continuous contest between the landed oligarchs, financiers and foreign capitalists on one side and the modernizing nationalist bourgeoisie on the other since their independence from Spain and Portugal; and the former keep winning. There have been periods of success for the latter, as with the Import Substitution Industrialization (ISI) model of the post-WW2 period, but every time these have been crushed by the latter and the nations plundered and de-industrialized back to the status of agricultural product and natural resource exporters dominated by foreign interests.
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• RBN’s Nick Cruse on The Need for Black-Leftist Media, Combatting Breadtubers & Fake Leftists
75 Mins readEDITOR—Interested in an “unapologetic Black, leftist, working-class” perspective on current sociopolitical events? If so, join us as we speak with Nick Cruse, citizen journalist and co-founder of Revolutionary Blackout Network (@RevBlackNetwork on Twitter and “Revolutionary Blackout” here on YouTube). We discuss a variety of topics, including the importance of independent Black, working-class commentary in an age of corporatized journalism, the leftist failures of electoral politics in the US, the absence of an established leftist perspective in mainstream media, the challenges of social media activism (particularly the “BreadTube” effect), as well as the potential to change the current status quo through ground-up, working class solidarity.
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EDITOR—There’s a tremendous amount of disinformation and number of outright lies being spread by Israeli officials and their apologists about the assault on Gaza. Journalist and political commentator Caitlin Johnstone has compiled what she believes are the ten biggest lies currently circulating as a means of spreading pro-Israeli propaganda. Jimmy and his guests Russell Dobular and Keaton Weiss from Due Dissidence discuss these lies one at a time and comment on each.
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BRUCE LERRO—People’s identity can be made sense of as existing in the cross-fire between our biological, psychological and social lives. This helps us to understand the differences between someone’s temperament, personality and self. Among social psychologists such as George Herbert Mead, the species homo sapiens is not fully human until we have been socialized. What are the skills necessary to build this social identity? Why is it that some skills have to be built before others? As adults we assume that our inner psychology and the objective world are separate. But research shows that it probably takes the child seven or eight years to develop both a subjective and objective self.