JIM MILES—If you support the military it is impossible to be green for various reasons. As above, militaries are used mainly to support corporate powers and their allied governments in order to extract materials and profits from indigenous territories. Importantly as well, militaries are the largest institutional users of carbon energy and dangerous chemicals in the world. Regardless of a personal belief in the current mantra’s of “terrorism” or “aggression” by ‘others’, it becomes cognitive denial to then side with the Greens.
CAPITALIST SICKNESS
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FRANCESCO SISCI—On the eve of China’s October 1 National Day celebrations, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 1 expelled former vice-minister for public security Sun Lijun – not for corruption but serious political crimes almost tantamount to something like an attempted coup.
Specifically, he was accused of “serious violations of discipline” and building cliques and cabals to take over a key government department.
Sun, apprehended about a year ago, is guilty of “overweening political ambitions” and “arbitrarily disagreeing with central policy guidelines,” the mighty party disciplinary committee CCDI wrote in a statement on its official website.
The ex-vice minister had “created and spread political rumors, taken actions against others, wove a web of deceit to obtain political capital and … used unscrupulous means … to form gangs, cliques, and interest groups within the party and build his personal power,” the statement said, thus implying he had gravely violated party centralism and allegiance to the top leadership.
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JIMMY DORE: YouTube’s New Censorship Rampage Over Vaccines
5 minutes readLike Facebook and Twitter, and other social media, Big Tech is certainly deeply committed to the corporate state censorship campaigns in the name of eliminating “misinformation”, as if that were possible, but the company that has led the charge is none other than Google, which also owns YouTube. (Big Tech is full of huge monopolies). That’s why the Democrats since 2016, with the assist of their regular mainstream media accomplices (NYTimes, CBS, CNN, etc.) have created something of a panic about “fake news” and “lies on the internet”, something which is both ironic and utterly ludicrous because for close to a century, the biggest engine of disinformation—fake news—has been the mass media in the US, always in accord with the dictates of its owners, the oligopolies which also control the US government.
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#TheGrayzone From Hunter’s laptop to ‘Havana syndrome,’ Russiagate disinformation hits new low
8 minutes readGlenn Greenwald weighs in on a series of new embarrassments for the Russiagate disinformation campaign targeting the US public: Hunter Biden’s laptop confirmed; Hillary Clinton’s lawyer indicted; and ‘Havana syndrome’ debunked. Plus, the CIA’s war on Julian Assange.
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AOC Offers a Hard Lesson on the Need to Dump the Duopoly
15 minutes readDANNY HAIPHONG—AOC has tacitly supported imperialism by regurgitating the State Department’s narrative of humanitarian imperialism on nearly every major instance of U.S. aggression. She has labeled Venezuela a “failed state” but has yet to demand an end to U.S. sanctions under Joe Biden. On Palestine, AOC has offered a variety of word salads when questioned on her opposition to Israeli colonialism . She has also professed her loyalty to the CIA-backed Dalai Lama . These instances of capitulation to imperialism have only aggravated frustrations held by progressives and leftists who rebuke her tendency to privilege spectacle over meaningful political action in the fight for a so-called “progressive” agenda.