MARGARET BERKELEY—Our political education must take place within revolutionary educational structures. If it doesn’t, we will believe that World War II started in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. It actually began in 1937 when Japan attacked China. What ought to be a simple and commonly known fact is lost because white supremacy centers the European experience. When we learn new information and unlearn falsehoods, the process of decolonizing begins. At that point no one has to direct us to ignore royal weddings or funerals or unveilings of Barack and Michelle Obama’s new portraits. We know the truth and free ourselves from believing in state propaganda.
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ERIC ZUESSE—Murray (left) was saying that this new model of national and international tyranny consists of governments in which there is a two-Party ‘democracy’, such as the UK (Conservatives v. Labour) or U.S. (Republicans v. Democrats), but both Parties actually represent only contending segments of the aristocracy (the super-rich), NOT the public nor any significant faction of the public.
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ERIC ZUESSE—After the recent French Parliamentary elections, the current French President, Emmanuel Macron, who has often been ruling by decree, will do so even more than before. As the Iranian journalist in Paris, Ramin Mazaheri, recently said: “Elections at just 46% turnout are a hair’s breadth away from not having democratic credibility, but that must be added with [to] the constant use of the 49-3 executive decree and the certainty of a Brussels’ veto for any legislation they don’t like. It combines to modern autocracy – rule by an oligarchical elite.”
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STEPHEN GOWANS—The Stone and Kuznick view is, really, rather quite silly. They believe that Mao and Kim decided to become guerrillas, and Stalin, a Bolshevik, because these were routes to the acquisition of personal power, self-aggrandizement, and iron-fisted control. Yet, at the time, guerrilla and underground revolutionary were hardly the most promising career paths for people who lusted for power and self-aggrandizement. If Stalin really lusted after these things, why didn’t he link up with Tsarist forces, rather than the Bolsheviks, which until mid-1917 were a minor political force that no one (including many Bolsheviks) expected to take power?
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Left-wing journalistic outlet The Grayzone has been targeted by British celebrity journalist Paul Mason, according to a cache of private emails that have recently been leaked. The emails reveal an elaborate plan to deplatform, discredit, lampoon and defund The Grayzone. When questioned, Mason refused to deny the accuracy of the emails, but instead chalked it all up to Russian psyops. Jimmy and his panel consisting of The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and American comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the exposure of this not-so-secret plan to take down The Grayzone.
