RAMIN MAZAHERI—The Yellow Vests is a political party that is invariably labeled as “far-left” and “extreme left” in the mainstream media (although I rank them as simply “left”), and which is led by Jean-Luc Melenchon, who to the mainstream media is invariably a “far-left firebrand”. How can this be true and yet the Yellow Vests are also right-wing xenophobes? They are leftist in economic and political ideology yet far-right racists in cultural matters? What an absurdity and falsehood!
FAKE LEFT
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GREENWALD DISPATCHES: The US Anti-War Left is Dead. The Squad’s $40b War Vote Just Killed It.
3 minutes readGlenn discusses the recent origins of AOC’s political career, and how much she has already distanced herself from her initial anti-establishment positions. The charitable interpretation is that AOC could not resist the forces of corruption that define the US duopoly, but that would require us to see at least some attempt on her part to oppose such forces, instead of simply caving in almost at once. The fake left co-optation rhetoric continues, of course. And the same goes for the rest of the “Squad” and the notorious Bernie Sanders.
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Rand Paul Trashes “Disinformation” Chief To His Face
3 minutes readIt’s symptomatic of the degeneration of the so-called left in the US that it is libertarians like Rand Paul who are getting the credit for opposing the US government blatant effort to completely control political speech.
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Those who still follow Bernie Sanders are suckers
13 minutes readP GREANVILLE—We have said it many times, that Bernie Sanders has always been nothing but a shameless sheepdog to corral the progressive instinct still beating in some people’s hearts, and bury it deep in the treacherous soil of the Democrat party, whose mission it is to be the grave for all such movements.
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CALEB MAUPIN—Caleb discusses the effects of the fake left on YouTube and other critical social media platforms. He and his hosts zero in on the BreadTubers highly disruptive maneuvers against the real left, and their almost invariable support for the empire’s crimes and adventures.