ERIC ZUESSE—The subsequent finding that the Top 400 Donors give 29.86% of America’s political donations, and the Top .01% give 57.16% of America’s political donations, is entirely consistent with the proven fact that America is ruled by corruption: that DESPITE ITS HAVING A RATHER DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION, America is an aristocracy not a democracy.
CAPITALIST SICKNESS
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MULTIPLE ECONOMIC FRACTURES IN MORDOR: DAVID HARVEY AND THE CONTRADICTIONS OF CAPITALISM
46 minutes readBRUCE LERRO—The use value of a house is contained in the cost of its production. This includes all the materials that went into building the house as well as the cost of labor to complete the house. The use value of the house is its protection from bad weather conditions, prowlers, a place of comfort, privacy and social reproduction, including sex and taking care of children. The use value of a commodity is relatively stable. But the exchange value of housing is not fixed. It is interdependent on surrounding houses. Property values can go down on my house if my neighbors’ houses are not kept up, even if my house has been kept up. On the other hand, a house that is not kept up can sell for a high price if it is located in a gentrifying neighborhood.
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Glenn Greenwald: Unmasking the status quo’s shameless hypocrisy, and the lies that keep people enslaved
7 minutes readA must-watch video for anyone who cares about the preservation of freedom and truth. In his entire career, Glenn Greenwald has never produced a more urgent, lucid, or braver anatomy of disinformation in the modern age. Let this program stand as a guide to the manufacturing of lies in support of tyrannical power everywhere, and especially in the United States.
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PATRICE GREANVILLE—What Glenn Greenwald is saying here is simply spot on and irrefutable. The liberal artillery—whose personnel is usually better educated than the rightwing legions, and whose temperament, probably as a reflection of class, tends to be more devious and snide, are jumping with characteristic ferocity on Taibbi and Greenwald, accusing them, of all things, of journalistic betrayal, which is exactly what their own media heroes are guilty of. Fact is, for these people, despite the posturing, the First Amendment is a mere situational tool to be used according to ideological predilection.
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SPECIAL DOSSIER: The Democrats’ Coup Against the First Amendment
87 minutes readPATRICE GREANVILLE—It’s ironic that Fox News (despite its many despicable programs) still has some corners (i.e., Tucker Carlson, etc.) where the truth can be heard, whereas the supposedly more “respectable” media, overwhelmingly liberal, have deserted the public en masse. Carlson, of course, like the rest of the hosts on Fox News, not to mention the rest of the mainstream media, often presents a deeply flawed picture of reality. Fox—mirroring Republican biases—is for example a “China-hating” network, while the so-called “liberal media” remain obsessively Russophobic. In this brawl, however, the liberal media are firmly covering up and propping up the censorship-friendly “WOKE imperialist” model of fascistoid corporatism in which the Democrats are heavily invested, leaving only Fox and its allies to offer a platform to those voices who oppose such a development.