ALVARO GARCIA LINERA—Now the planet is plunged into an uncertainty of fate. The ruling elites diverge on how to get out of the economic and environmental quagmire they have caused, the poor no longer blame themselves for their poverty, the neoliberal utopia is fading and the priests of the free market no longer have parishioners at their feet to bamboozle with future redemptions in exchange for present complacencies.
NEOCONS & NEOLIBERALS
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Hard to believe, but the Putin-Biden summit may have actually opened the road to an improvement in the global situation, at least a recognition by the US that its power is not unlimited, and that endless hostility toward sovereign nations like China or Russia may prove ultimately counterproductive and downright deleterious to American power. As well, if this summit opens a path to peace in the Donbas, everyone will be the winner. Russia’s rapid and highly impressive military mobilisation during the last US-precipitated crisis in Ukraine may have opened the eyes to some Western planners, forcing them to accept the fact Russia is a major world power, capable of global strategic muscle.
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PATRICE GREANVILLE—The Young Turks’ persistent smears of journalists who have exposed the Syrian disinformation campaign for what it is, cynical lies to justify the West’s regime change in Damascus, is discussed here by Jimmy Dore and one of TYT’s targets, Grayzone’s journalist Aaron Maté, currently in Syria on a fact-finding mission. The show is enlightening as usual, but a couple of things need mentioning. (1) Jimmy’s assumption that having mainstream corporate journalists on the ground in Syria would make them see the light, so to speak, and turn them into truthtellers, is terribly naive. Many of the careerist disinformers working for the West’s media know what they are doing, and a trip to Syria itself would likely not change their positions at all. It’s in fact quite possible to visualise such individuals returning to HQ to write even more “authoritative” exposés of “Assad’s crimes”. Let us recall that although the imperialist press degeneracy we see today is certainly scandalous and appalling in its cynicism and criminal performance, the US media and their counterparts in Western Europe have maintained (and some still do, such as the NYTimes as well as CNN, CBS, etc. ) “on the ground” correspondents for generations, and yet their barrage of outright lies, omissions of truth and distortions has never faltered.
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Caleb Maupin’s thoughts on the 2020 election
8 minutes readCALEB MAUPIN—Many celebrate Trump’s defeat without realising they have not defeated the forces that made him possible. In fact they just voted them back into power. Caleb’s chats are the ideal tool for those who wish to acquire a solid understanding of contemporary history in an easy, accessible manner. “This was a victory for the American establishment. Make no mistake about it.” The country and the world suffer terribly because we lack the politics of a communist party. The country is in a crisis, and the only way out of this is through the class line, through the optimistic building of a socialist society. Caleb agains sketches the class division in the US ruling class, something people should understand. With Biden, the older, more powerful wing of the establishment has regained full control. It represents the older, bigger fortunes and the new mega corporations of Silicon Valley. The “Managerial Wing” of the ruling class. Count here the Rockefellers, DuPonts, Carnegies, Jeff Bezos, the Big Tech billionaires, etc. Trump had the newer shorter-thinking capitalist mob only interested in short-term profits: The Home Dept, Hobby Lobby, Casino magnates, and so forth. Let’ call them the “entrepreneurial wing”. This clash remains unresolved.
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PAUL STREET—Damaged young men and adolescents like the Kenosha street-shooter Kyle Rittenhouse, a Trump fan and police devotee (his social media account is filled with “Blue Lives Matter” posts) are being sparked into a fascistic frenzy by a fascist president, a white-nationalist (Republican) party, and neofascist media outlets who tell them that the Great White Fatherland is under existential assault from Communist totalitarians masquerading as civil and human rights advocates and allied with the other leading national party – the supposedly “radical Left” Democrats.