JEREMY KUZMAROV—Very clearly what we are seeing is a process of scapegoating in which failing corporatist candidates seek to blame Russia for their defeat and the intelligence establishment uses Russia to try and smear candidates who are not to their liking. This strategy represents a sad caricature of the McCarthy period, which is viewed by historians as the worst period of repression in American history.
CAPITALIST SICKNESS
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Burning the Future: the Growing Anger of Young Australians
15 minutes readBILL SPENCE—No less than 23 former fire chiefs and emergency leaders attempted to warn the government for months in 2019 that more resources were urgently needed to tackle bushfires. What did the government do? Some would say, “nothing”. But actually, that is not true. On top of ignoring the warnings from their own fire experts, government officials spent most of their time actively opposing any moves to limit climate damage and prevent bushfires.
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Bloomberg Versus Bernie: The Upcoming Battle?
19 minutes readGARY LEUPP—Isn’t it special that Bloomberg has promised to spend a billion dollars to elect the next Democratic president, even if the nominee isn’t him? He pairs that commitment with a promise to back whatever candidate is selected at the party convention. It is an implicit demand that the other candidates (who do not have a billion dollars) to similarly promise to back him should he successfully buy the election. Fair? Bloomberg will back Bernie if he gets the nomination through mass mobilization; Bernie will back Bloomberg if he gets enough votes from saturating the media with misleading ads targeting the African-American community. That at least is the proposed deal, the gentlemanly norm in bourgeois parliamentary politics.
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Bloomberg Has Spent Enough to Give a Nickel to Every Person Whose Life He’s Ever Damaged
42 minutes readDAVID SWANSON—Bloomberg, like Buttigieg and Biden, regularly promotes misleading health-insurance industry attacks on Medicare for All. Bloomberg, like Biden and Trump, has repeatedly advocated cuts in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits (but not military spending) – once calling for higher Medicaid co-pays so poor people would “think twice before they use services.” He’s promoted the right-wing line that the Wall Street meltdown was caused not by greed, fraud, or predatory lending, but by the curtailment of the racial discrimination in lending known as “redlining.”
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Thanks to the obscene control the American presstitutes —the billionaires’ media—exercise on the US public mind most Americans never learn about truly meaningful political protests. Fake heroes and heroics by Washington’s pawns in various color revolutions, o yea. Plenty of that. That’s why we hear so much about the “Hong Kong freedom/democracy fighters”, or the brave Venezuelans trying to topple “the tyrant Maduro”, so often praised by mendacious bullies like Pompeo , but virtually zero, nada, about genuinely popular non-CIA manufactured (and therefore truly independent) mass protests being violently repressed by regimes Washington supports in Chile, Ecuador, France and other points like that on this boiling planet.