EDITOR—If you have wondered why all of a sudden TV audiences are being flooded with commercials that improbably include every race under the sun and every hue, gender, sexual orientation, and color that nature created, but rarely whites, or straight couples, Garland Nixon has the answer: it’s all a cynical ploy by the US ruling class to sell the utterly ridiculous idea that the American empire has already built a totally (and absurdly) sexually liberated, multi-racially harmonious and happily integrated society.
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GARLAND NIXON—Garland argues that Seldowitz, morally repugnant as he is, may be accidentally doing us all a favor as, due to his own arrogance and probably stupidity, and feeling himself backed by the Israeli-Western empire establishment, is showing the true face of the Empire, and why it requires ever increasing amounts of huge lies and coercion to maintain its legitimacy. Now that he’s basically outed himself Seldowitz is no longer of much use to the empire, so he may be relegated to obscurity—but one never knows in a system built on criminality. In a sense, suggests Garland, Seldowitz resembles Trump, also a figure to be distrusted by the ruling elites, due to his loose canon propensity to tell embarrassing truths about the establishment.
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• RBN’s Nick Cruse on The Need for Black-Leftist Media, Combatting Breadtubers & Fake Leftists
75 Mins readEDITOR—Interested in an “unapologetic Black, leftist, working-class” perspective on current sociopolitical events? If so, join us as we speak with Nick Cruse, citizen journalist and co-founder of Revolutionary Blackout Network (@RevBlackNetwork on Twitter and “Revolutionary Blackout” here on YouTube). We discuss a variety of topics, including the importance of independent Black, working-class commentary in an age of corporatized journalism, the leftist failures of electoral politics in the US, the absence of an established leftist perspective in mainstream media, the challenges of social media activism (particularly the “BreadTube” effect), as well as the potential to change the current status quo through ground-up, working class solidarity.
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CAM—The CIA has long had a presence on American college campuses—whether as recruiters or in political science and Russian Studies Departments. Foreign CIA assets or political leaders or intellectuals receiving funding from the National Endowment For Democracy (NED), which finances propaganda, have been frequently appointed to faculty positions at prestigious universities.
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Speaking of politically obtuse celebrities (the vast majority)
55 minutes readEDITOR—Even though things have been changing pretty fast since Russia began its SMO in Ukraine in February 2022, and accelerated even further since Hamas’ audacious assault on Oct. 7 last, American imperial soft power (which includes other Western “news” services and media) is still huge today because it’s been around for far longer than its ideological competitors and is rooted in enormous transnational platforms with considerable resources dedicated to the manufacturing of political reality, not to mention a pop culture that has not yet lost its seductiveness to many naive souls around the world.