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.
GREG MAYBURY—If anti-Semitism is more pernicious, or for that matter more prevalent, than any other form of racial, ethnic or religious bigotry, intolerance, prejudice and/or animus (and this writer is not inclined to this view), then right-thinking, fair-minded Jewish folks—in particular those with a strong sense of individual morality and common decency towards those not just of their own ethnic, racial, cultural or religious persuasion, but to the people who’ve been mercilessly and relentlessly hounded out of their homes and homelands and upon whom extraordinarily vile, hideous and inhumane injustices have been perpetrated and atrocities visited in their name—ethnic cleansing bordering on genocide—have an inarguable obligation to stand up and be counted.
The debate on Grover Furr is always about form – the person, his writing style, his alleged motives, his allege dishonesty or lack of qualifications, and never about content – the evidence presented, what it shows, and whether it’s true or not. The infantile pseudo-left responds to science with provocation, facts with hostility, reason with insults, ideological questions with personal attacks, and the deep questions posed by Furr’s work with shallow criticisms. This is not to say that anyone who has criticisms of Furr’s work is automatically opposed to socialism. Far from it – criticism is an essential part of being a Marxist-Leninist. But by and large the criticisms of Grover Furr are not made from a principled standpoint.
KIM PETERSEN—The US is a country established through genocide and dispossession of the Indigenous peoples, and it set up an apartheid reservation system for those Indigenous peoples that survived. From this vantage point, it seems no wonder that Israel escaped criticism by the US since the US lacks a moral basis from which to castigate Israel. The same holds true for Canada, a country that still practices apartheid with its Indian Act and reserve system. Canada also steadfastly supports Israeli apartheid.
P. GREANVILLE—Those who know their history will surely remember that the CIA-engineered Indonesia coup of 1965 (Operation Djakarta), was one of the bloodiest—genocidal, some have rightly called it—anti-communist coups in the 20th century, with upwards of 3/4 of million people killed by the army supported by millions of mobilised fanatics, a coup that put ecologically and strategically precious Indonesia firmly in the exploitative basket of the corporatised West. Even today, Indonesia is a disgraceful, utterly corrupt and backward Western satrapy that remains a multinationals’ playground. Obama himself, of course, not only betrayed the public by NOT pushing for single-payer healthcare when he had the votes and a clear mandate, selling us instead “Obamacare”, a charlatan’s dream concocted by libertarian think tanks.