CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM

RICHARD SANDERS—Why, PM Trudeau, are Canadians supposed to memorialize Nazis as the “victims of communism? And, why are we supposed to “stand with” these Nazis’ descendants if they have still not faced the truth about their forbears’ complicity in the Holocaust and in the Nazis’ mass murder of almost 30 million Soviets?? Shame on you Mr. Trudeau and shame on your Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland for your shared, Cold-War McCarthyism, for your virulent Russophobia and for your equation of Nazis and communists.

Ben Norton launches his exclusive Rokfin show Propaganda Today discussing corporate war profiteering in Afghanistan, debunking media myths claiming Washington supposedly “spent $2 trillion and got nothing for it.” In the rest of the video, Ben talks about the history of US meddling in Afghanistan, and how the CIA gave birth to the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and other Islamist extremist groups.

Abby Martin, host of Empire Files, discusses the multitude of dirty tricks and maneuvers deployed by the CIA in its decades-long regime change operation against Cuba.

KIT KLARENBERG—A tight-knit cast of characters has sought to destabilize the Syrian government by convincing Syrians, Western citizens, foreign states, and international bodies that the CIA-backed Free Syrian Army is a legitimate, “moderate” alternative, while flooding news across the globe with opposition propaganda. Its key actors have also played a central part in high-profile chemical weapon deceptions, participating in the attacks’ staging, generating media coverage, orchestrating official investigations and even legal actions, all with the clear goal of cultivating Western support for regime change. 

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—The systems of capitalism are very complex by design, and a tremendous amount of thievery happens in those mysterious knowledge gaps on financial and economic matters where only the cleverest manipulators understand what’s going on. But the basics of our problem are quite simple: money rewards and uplifts sociopathy. The more willing you are to do whatever it takes to become wealthy, the wealthier you will be. Those who rise to the top are those who are sufficiently lacking in human empathy to step on whoever they need to step on to get ahead.