MoA—With unrest in Jerusalem, pogroms in Israeli cities, a potential third intifada in the occupied West Bank and a ground invasion of Gaza the Israeli army will be very busy. If it comes to that during the next few days the time could be right for Hizbullah, already on full alarm, to step in and to attack the occupation on the grounds that it is holding.
CAPITALIST SICKNESS
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China did it! A quick blog post on the latest recycling of the Wuhan lab conspiracy theory
23 minutes readCHRIS KANTHAN—A lot of even smart people say that, “Since the virus was first found in Wuhan, the virus must have originated in Wuhan.” They usually go on to say, “If the virus had started elsewhere, other countries would have detected it.”
Really? Look around the world. Country after country remains clueless until the pandemic explodes in their face. For example, in the middle of April, India proudly announced that COVID-19 had been contained. Two weeks later, they were registering 300,000 cases! India was totally oblivious to the double/triple mutant that caused the colossal second wave.
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CHRIS KANTHAN—Since 2007, U.S. corporations have spent trillions of dollars on stock buybacks. In 2018 alone, they will spend $800 billion on this financial engineering tool (which has also led to a massive stock market bubble). They won’t use the billions to hire Americans, boost wages or innovate new products. Instead, the CEOs will buy yachts and tell you that Chinese or Mexicans stole your jobs.
Do the low-wage employees of Disneyland get any shares or stock options? A silly question, indeed.
Thus we have a situation where American employers ruthlessly exploit American workers. This isn’t a good model for a country. China and Mexico don’t make us poor. Corporate greed does.
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How the CIA cultivates a fake left: From the cultural cold war to intersectional imperialism
10 minutes readBen Norton was invited to give this talk about the fake left and imperialism. He discusses how the CIA’s “woke” recruitment ad is not new; it is rooted in an “intersectional imperialist” history going back to the first cold war, in which the CIA poured money into cultivating anti-communist, pro-imperialist progressive groups, using fronts like the Congress for Cultural Freedom and billionaire-funded foundations like Ford and Rockefeller. Ben goes through the book “The Cultural Cold War,” and talks about supposed “leftist” CIA assets like feminist leader Gloria Steinem and Trotskyite civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, then analyzes examples of astroturfed, Nonprofit Industrial Complex-backed pseudo-left campaigns in the US, Western Europe, and Latin America.
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Jimmy Dore blasts suffocating pro-Israel bias in mainstream media and political class
7 minutes readBoth the corporate media and political class in the US are blatant in their support for Israel
NO ONE CARES THAT ISRAEL IS A CALLOUS and BRUTAL APARTHEID STATE. MEANTIME, to please the Israeli lobby, the Biden administration has stonewalled United Nations Security Council efforts to call for a halt to Israeli-Palestinian violence, which of course can only mean a massacre for Palestinians. But never forget this is a lethal BIPARTISAN disease that will end only when real changes occur in the composition of the US power structure and the banishment of corporate influence and billionaires’ money from politics and media.