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.
CAPITALIST SICKNESS
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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.
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The Government’s Attack on the First Amendment / American Pravda: Elon Musk, Kanye West, and Much Riskier Targets
58 minutes readPATRICE 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.
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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.”