JEREMY KUZMAROV—The part of the ruling class that hates Trump is in favor of aggressive imperialist actions to strengthen the U.S. empire, whereas the wing supporting Trump is less aggressive internationally because their economic base is rooted in domestic manufacturing, which Trump had promised to revitalize in part through revival of Nixonian protectionist policies, and less in finance.
CAPITALIST SICKNESS
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As the natural world shrinks due to myopic and misguided human agency (wars, oceans and water pollution, rainforest devastation, climate change aggravated by anthropogenic factors, etc., our effort to help people and animals must be redoubled. The best thing in the world is being able to help someone in need. Sometimes this must be done through radical and enlightened political means, especially if we wish to achieve lasting and meaningful improvement affecting entire categories of beings. Other times, as seen in these videos, through direct action. Exercise your compassion imagination. Practice it as much as possible. We go around only once.
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Dislodging the Neocons, Difficult But Necessary
52 minutes readRON UNZ—As the elections of both Barack Obama and Donald Trump demonstrated, even the surprising political victory of someone perceived as an extreme outsider seems to have much less impact upon American foreign policy than might be expected. Over the last couple of decades, the political establishments of both parties have been so heavily absorbed into the Neocon worldview that it might take a geopolitical earthquake of generational magnitude to dislodge their hold on power.
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GARLAND NIXON: JUST SAY NO TO EMPIRE – WITH JOTI BRAR
9 minutes readTHE EDITOR—Garland Nixon performs a public service by introducing Joti Brar, one of Britain’s most lucid anti-imperialists, to American audiences. Joti Brar is a leader of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist). She is the daughter of Harpal Brar and the sister of Ranjeet Brar.
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The “Rotten, Rancid Core” of Today’s Left: Mehdi/Taibbi, Woke Politics, & More | Norman Finkelstein
11 minutes readTHE EDITOR—With his razor-sharp mind, Norman Finkelstein wastes no time destroying the misleading conceits circulated by the WOKE “left”, pretending to represent the real left, while also castigating their older, equally fraudulent mainstream corporate liberal progenitors, currently deeply embedded in the Democrat party.