FALSE DEMOCRACY

Ecuador seems to be now on te brink of a civil war due to the rastic and treacherous measures implemented by Lenin Moreno, policies designed in Washington.

CARLOS AZNAREZ—The famous phrase by Bertold Brecht was confirmed in what followed since then; “Nothing worse than a frightened bourgeois.” Cornered, Moreno miscalculated his level of strength and he is now trying to escape forwards, unleashing a brutal repression against his people after implementing a state of emergency that allows him to have soldiers in the streets.

ERIC ZUESSE—Fascism is unification by means of force, specifically the force of the “penal power” or the police and the military and the law and the chief executive officer of the nation — an imposed order or unity upon the society, the nation being tied together by means of enforced order that represents the powerful against the weak.

In satire mode, Lee Camp analyses the eternal war on truth waged by the corporate media. His focus is on the many important (and huge) protests around the world that did not merit an image or a mention on US tv screens. While the Hong Kong protests-organised by the US and its allies to destabilise China—receives saturation coverage.

C J HOPKINS—Terrorism isn’t what used to be. Back in the day (i.e, the 1970s), there were terrorist groups like the PFLP, ANO, BSO, IRA, RAF, FARC, the Weather Underground, and so on … in other words, actual terrorist groups, committing acts of actual terrorism. More recently, there was al Qaeda and ISIS. Nowadays, however, more or less any attention-seeking sociopath with a death wish and a knock-off AR-15 (or moron with a bunch of non-exploding pipe bombs) can be deemed a bona fide “domestic terrorist,” as long as it serves the global capitalist ruling classes’ official narrative.