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CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Journalist Max Blumenthal tweeted about Patel’s remarks, “According to this State Dept flack, Julian Assange’s jailing is justified because he ‘harmed US national security.’ But Assange is not an American citizen. By this logic, the US can kidnap and indefinitely detain any foreign journalist who offends the US national security state.”

It is good that activists and journalists have been doing so much to highlight the US empire’s hypocrisy as it crows self-righteously about its love of press freedoms while persecuting the world’s most famous journalist for doing great journalism. Highlighting this hypocrisy shows that the US empire does not in fact care about press freedoms at all, save only to the extent that it can pretend to care about them to wag its finger at governments it doesn’t like.

NICK BRANA—Biden is the antithesis of what Bernie claims to believe. Bernie is a traitor to his own political revolution. This is how every attempt to reform the Democrat Party ends. Because the party doesn’t actually have primaries. It has coronations. During the 2017 DNC Fraud Lawsuit, the party said that it rigs the primaries and that it has the right to. It admitted in court that the primaries are a charade and that the DNC simply chooses the nominees.

Garland explains how and why the Biden admin is going after the Uhuru Movement, an African socialist formation, for endorsing positions that push against the warmongering imperial narrative. The charges are of course ridiculous, and glaringly anti-constitutional. None of this seems to disturb the legions of dumbed-down liberals still marching within the corrupt self-serving folds of the Democrat party. Garland not only denounces this latest outrage but suggests (and we agree) that the Democrats may be pissed that there’s yet another group pushing for a third party, one well outside of, and truly oppositional to, the utterly corrupt duopoly.

Economist Michael Hudson analyzes the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate, and Signature Bank, explaining the similarities to the 2008 financial crash. He also addresses the US government bailout (which it isn’t calling a bailout), the role of the Federal Reserve and Treasury, the factor of cryptocurrency, and the danger of derivatives.

JIMMY DORE SHOW—Robert F. Kennedy jr. is mulling a run for the Presidency and challenging Joe Biden for the Democratic Party nomination. Kennedy admits that the United States no longer has a functioning democracy, and that the Democratic Party is already manipulating the 2024 primaries and refusing to hold debates — all in order to protect Biden. Jimmy talks to Kennedy about the 2024 race and why he believes he can break through despite the party’s rank corruption