R S AHTHION—It is time to stop being a liberal apologist and transition to a more egalitarian society whereby a small number of people cannot earn wealth beyond what they could ever hope to spend in 200,000 lifetimes off the backs of the labour of others.
CAPITALIST FRONTS
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STEPHEN LENDMAN—Ahead of the 2003 Iraq war, she disgracefully promoted it on air, including with video clips featuring “experts.” They included hawkish neocons Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and others, claiming America was “morally” obligated to remove Saddam.
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Harvey Weinstein, the Democratic Party and the Power of the “Creative Class” – Thomas Frank on RAI (9/9)
31 minutes readRNN—Take a step back, earlier in ‘Listen, Liberal’ I wrote about the Clinton Foundation and what the Clinton Foundation does. I’m not talking here about the various accusations that people made of them, acting as a slush fund or that sort of thing. What I’m talking about is the way that they act as a — how would you put this– a moral exchange, for people who are quite bad. A lot of foundations do this, so my argument is that this is what liberalism is—
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Protests in Iran: Made in the USA and Israel
8 minutes readSTEPHEN LENDMAN—Protests in Tehran and other Iranian cities have a familiar character to them. They don’t erupt spontaneously. They’re manufactured, needing leadership. Color revolutions are a US specialty, numerous ones staged earlier. Orange revolution 2.0, the most recent previous one, ousted Ukraine’s democratic government, replacing it with putschist [neonazi] tyranny.
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If Hillary Clinton Had Won, We’d Be Even Worse
11 minutes readTED RALL—Clinton’s liberal supporters always glossed over her long history of hawkish, arguably far-right, approaches to military matters. Those who mourn her loss to Trump today have completely forgotten that she convinced Obama to back military coups against the democratically-elected leaders of Honduras and Egypt. She also successfully advised Obama to arm and fund radical Islamist militias in Syria and Libya…