IMPERIAL WHORES

An informal chat with Caleb Maupin as your guide to the multitude of news, lies, distortions, rumors, idiocies, hypocrisies, and ideologies that shape our world. Caleb discusses Joe Biden’s speech. While admitting that Biden said some encouraging and highly unusual things (for a US president), such as a debunking of trickle down economics, and recognising the need for a big jobs and infrastructure program, and other progressive notions, Maupin warns about the sinister undertones in the address, especially the effort by Biden (the collective Biden) to equate anti-imperialist nations and activists with “rightwing terrorists”—homegrown or foreign. Fact is, anti-imperialist states—Russia/Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, Vietnam, Iran, China, etc.— have always been firm allies of progressives everywhere, and that makes them also anti-racist activists. Beware, says Caleb, of the emerging “woke imperialism” being promoted by the Biden crowd, representing the current “solution” chosen by the Democrats/Deep State wing of the US ruling class as a cure for the multitude of crises besetting a neoliberal leviathan unable and incapable of finding true solutions. 

The move by Prague came amid a diplomatic standoff between Moscow and Washington that began midweek, after US President Joe Biden ordered 10 Russian diplomats out of the country over the Kremlin’s alleged interference in the 2020 presidential election and its claimed involvement in last year’s SolarWinds cyber-espionage case. More than 30 Russian individuals and organizations were also sanctioned, while American companies were banned from directly buying shares in Russia’s national debt.

Moscow delivered a tit-for-tat response on Friday, with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stating that 10 American diplomats would be expelled from Russia, and promising measures that would bar US funds and NGOs from interfering in its internal affairs.

RON RIDENOUR—Lasso gained a majority, in part, because of promises he made to improve the failed economy under Moreno’s administration by increasing foreign investments, cutting taxes for businesses while raising the minimum wage, and a vow to vaccinate nine million citizens during his first 100 days in office.

CHRISTOPHER BLACK—The method of attack is wide. The Canadians, on U.S. orders, have essentially kidnapped and still hold hostage, Meng Wanzhou, Chief Financial Officer of the technology company, Huawei. At the same time, the U.S. used the arrest as a warning to others trading with Iran. They have increased their military provocations off the Chinese coast with the U.S. and its vassal states sending naval ships, time and again, through the Taiwan Strait, claiming to be enforcing “freedom of navigation” but in reality declaring that Taiwan, a province of China, is their protectorate.

International law is quite clear about every countrys right to self determination, yet, at least in the anglophone media, no one mentions that the US/UK/EU sanctions are completely illegal and an atack on the sovereignty of the targeted nations.