THE WORLD

THE SAKER—he world is headed for war and has been headed that way for quite a while now.  Several times, just at the brink, the West decided to pull back, but each time it did that, its ruling elites felt two things: first, they felt even more hatred for Russia for forcing them to back down, and, second, they interpreted the fact that no shooting war happened (yet) as evidence, at least in their minds, that standing on the brink of war is a pretty safe exercise.

YOEL BITRAN—In 1989, a combination of mass protests and rising international condemnation forced the dictatorship to call for elections. But the Chilean oligarchy—which consists of the traditional land-owning aristocracy and newer generations of capitalist families—knew that though the dictator would fall, their constitution would stay intact. This meant, as Guzman predicted, that any significant changes would be rendered impossible. Thirty years later, Chile continued to have an extremely high level of economic inequality, with the highest income gap in the OECD countries.

FORREST HYLTON—Ninis (young people without education or job prospects) from urban peripheries have been the leading force on the barricades and they have faced the brunt of police terror – some of it captured on cell phone videos, including sexual assault, torture and murder – in Bogotá, Medellín, Pereira, Cartago, Buga, Tuluá, Cali, Popayán, Pasto, Bucaramanga and Barranquilla. They and their families account for perhaps half the population, and on the rare occasions they are interviewed, they say things like: ‘We have no future because they have taken everything from us, even fear. We have nothing left to lose.’ This was already true before Covid-19 hit, but lack of basic income support during the pandemic has made daily life impossible.

Both the corporate media and political class in the US are blatant in their support for Israel
NO ONE CARES THAT ISRAEL IS A CALLOUS and BRUTAL APARTHEID STATE. MEANTIME, to please the Israeli lobby, the Biden administration has stonewalled United Nations Security Council efforts to call for a halt to Israeli-Palestinian violence, which of course can only mean a massacre for Palestinians. But never forget this is a lethal BIPARTISAN disease that will end only when real changes occur in the composition of the US power structure and the banishment of corporate influence and billionaires’ money from politics and media. 

Since the overpaid corporate media whores will never risk their careers to report the truth as they are supposed to do—the world must rely on spontaneous journalism provided by anyone conversant with the facts and brave enough to disseminate them. This is not hyperbole. After systematically corrupting the media entirely, thereby hijacking the mainstream narrative informing most people’s minds about world realities, corporate power, led by the US, has practically killed democracy wherever it managed to survive, including in the US itself, easily one of the most heavily propagandised nations in history. The consequences of this disgraceful situation can be seen everywhere, and that’s why the fight for the truth has never been so vital.