GLOBAL NEOLIBERALISM

THE EDITOR—We hope our readers will help us disseminate this article as widely as possible. The reason is obvious: associate editor Bruce Lerro has built here a powerful instrument to approach and persuade tens of millions of people still very much stuck in a completely useless and self-defeating fake liberalism represented by the Democratic Party. These people, many of whom have grown accustomed to following the abominable misleadership of the DNC cabals—the Pelosis, the Clintons, the Adam Schiffs, the Schumers, and their hacks, and the numerous virtue-signalling politicos allied with Wall Street and the Military Intelligence/Media/Academia complex , all sporting the right identity credentials and not much else—are not only wasting their time and betraying their own self-interest, financial and ideological, they are humanity’s biggest obstacle to a genuinely progressive politics capable of rescuing America and the world from the profoundly anti-democratic death cult of neoliberal imperialism.

PETER KOENIG—In some European countries, covid-unrest already clearly visible, i.e., Slovenia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Spain – and of course, in the very Germany. Civil and societal unrest is also boiling hot in France, currently one of the most repressive regimes in the western world.

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—It’s getting harder and harder to understand what’s happening. My news feed is full of people arguing about whether the American left has lost its mind and whether groupthink in journalism is out of control, my social media notifications are a whole hodgepodge of contradictory and generally illogical theories about a shadowy cabal being behind these protests and what they’re trying to achieve, and people are either being honest about the fact that they don’t know where this is all going or they’re dishonestly pretending that they do. We seem to be getting closer and closer to a point of narrative white noise, where conventional means of understanding the world just aren’t holding up anymore.

PEPE ESCOBAR—Charges that French intel has manipulated black blocs and inserted undercover agents and casseurs (persons vandalizing property, specifically during protests) to discredit and demonize the Yellow Vests are widespread. As I’ve witnessed in Paris first hand, the feared CRS have been absolutely ruthless in their RAND-conceptualized militarized operations in urban terrain – repression tactics – without excluding the odd beating up of elderly citizens. In contrast, mob rule in Hong Kong is excused as protest against “totalitarian” China.

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