PATRICE GREANVILLE—Twittergate—almost unwittingly and probably reluctantly—a scandal detonated by Elon Musk, a nerdish billionaire with scant political acumen except where it concerns his own financial interests and personal quirks—now threatens to (finally) engulf the Biden administration, which might prove momentarily beneficial for those fighting censorship and election fraud in the US. Meanwhile, the War Party is doing its best to destroy Musk and the “maverick” oligarchic power he represents.
CAPITALIST SICKNESS
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PAUL EDWARDS—The fate of humanity in the immediate future will be determined by the undeclared but entirely real war between the American Empire and Russia and China. Both gigantic and exceedingly powerful nations are perceived and treated as enemies, one already engaged in proxy war with America in Ukraine, and the other menaced and provoked by American policy on Taiwan.
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JIM KAVANAGH—The Jesuits were formed as the vanguard of the Counter-Reformation and have historically been attached to reactionary politics, but the order is also highly adaptable to the changes in social ideology, while maintaining a consistent commitment to educating the future elite. By the time I was in high school, some good men like Daniel Berrigan, were teaching smart students to see the world through lenses of intellectual and moral honesty, helping them lapse to the left. Like Fidel, who said the Jesuits who ran the high school he attended, “influenced me with their strict organization, their discipline and their values. … They influenced my sense of justice.”
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The Global South births a new game-changing payment system
10 minutes readPEPE ESCOBAR—The EAEU is designed to implement free movement of goods, services, capital, and workers between member countries. Ukraine would have been an EAEU member if not for the Maidan coup in 2014 masterminded by the Barack Obama administration. Vladimir Kovalyov, adviser to the chairman of the EEC, summed it all up to Russian newspaper Izvestia. The focus is to establish a joint financial market, and the priority is to develop a common “exchange space:” “We’ve made substantial progress and now the work is focused on such sectors as banking, insurance, and the stock market.” A new regulatory body for the proposed joint EEU-BRICS financial system will soon be established.
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STALIN: THE HISTORY AND CRITIQUE OF A BLACK LEGEND
23 minutes readPATRICE GREANVILLE—The all-out demonisation of revolutionary leaders is an old habit that has become almost an industry in the capitalist West. The defamation of a leader about whom the masses are not just massively ignorant but aggressively disinformed is a devious shortcut to the demonisation of a nation and its threatening system, in this case communism, the direct antidote to capitalism, threatening, that is, to the class interests of the bourgeois elites that control the West.