CAPITALIST SICKNESS

PATRICE GREANVILLE—Whoever was holding hope that AOC and other “justice Democrats” were going to turn the party around to a more decent (and actually left) course can now abandon that expectation, as events continue to prove the complete capitulation of this group as seen in AOC’s own actions, reeking of corruption.  The Democrat party, a wing of the plutocrat-controlled duopoly, and a criminal imperialist organization in policy if not in outright rhetoric is beyond salvation.

PATRICE GREANVILLE—A recruitment ad featuring a self-described cisgender millennial Latin intelligence officer drew volcanic rebukes from right and left, but when all is said and done Abby Martin explains it best. 

JOHN RACHEL—What authority the woke mob claims is based on an inversion of the mechanism which has underpinned moral imperatives in the rich philosophical traditions of both East and West. Traditionally, after rigorous and thorough dialectic, we did what we did because it was the right thing to do. By inverting this, all that is done in the name of woke activism is right because it’s what they do. The woke have dispensed with the cumbersome process of arriving at moral truths by free, open, and constructive conversations, then respectfully and judiciously soliciting consensus and compliance. By unilaterally deciding they are on the right side of history and all important issues, their actions are deemed a priori correct and unassailable. It’s remindful of the German nation being led to believe in the 1930s that they were a super race of ascendant humans, thus their actions could not be evaluated and judged by external standards.

WILLIAM I ROBINSON—Contrary to mainstream accounts, the coronavirus pandemic did not cause the crisis of global capitalism, for this was already upon us. On the eve of the pandemic, growth in the EU countries had already shrunk to zero, much of Latin America and sub-Sahara Africa was in recession, growth rates in Asia were steadily declining, and North America faced a slowdown. The writing was on the wall. The contagion was but the spark that ignited the combustible of a global economy that never fully recovered from the 2008 financial collapse and had been teetering on the brink of renewed crisis ever since.

The CIA “woke recruitment ad” campaign is making waves, being laughed at and denounced by both people on the right and the left. The real intentions behind it remain murky. But the CIA should never be underestimated as a culture shaper.