MEDIA SCUM

PATRICE GREANVILLE—We got this email promoting Frontline’s latest program this morning.  Neither the tone nor the subject shocked us too much. We have been witnessing Frontline’s disintegration as a news source, its transformation into another fake news purveyor, for years.  It bears noting that the degeneracy of this program accelerated during Trump’s obvious kakistocracy, when Frontline, a prominent member of the Democrat/liberal choir, became completely absorbed by the imperialist blob, apparently afflicted like the rest of liberaldom by Trump’s derangement syndrome. Proof? Just look at this latest poisonous broadside against China. The allegations and innuendos are classical State Department smears.

LARRY ROMANOFF—To paraphrase Michael Lewis, “One of the qualities that distinguishes Americans from other people is their naive conviction that every foreigner wishes to be one of them, but even the most zealous Japanese patriot has no illusions that other peoples want to be Japanese”. The Americans not only believe everybody secretly wants to be like them, they believe no nation can succeed or even progress without being like them and adopting the entire American value system. It isn’t possible. There are no alternatives to the American way and, if there were alternatives, God would be displeased with them.

P. GREANVILLE—The facts the elites live by a different legal and social standard becomes compellingly clear as top governors betray the public interest and no penalties are ever filed.  Rick Snyder, former Michigan governor, grossly disregarded the Flint water poisoning scandal, yet the courts treated the whole thing as a misdemeanor. 

Navalny is a well known Russian chauvinist and racist (hates Muslims and Chechens, among others), a crook, and a known, documentable hybrid war asset in the service of the West, which makes him a traitor. He has been used by the Western propaanda machine for many years to demonize Russia, and create the conditions for a color revolution. None of that would be apparent to anyone reading the Western press, of course, as he remains one of their new heroes, in the style of lionized “Soviet dissidents” of yore.

Now, under conditions of unprecedented crisis, the ruling class is escalating its censorship campaign. It is significant that the IYSSE page and SEP leaders first targeted by Facebook are in Michigan, where the SEP and WSWS have a significant influence in the working class. Last March, as the pandemic was beginning its massive spread in the US, autoworkers in Michigan launched wildcat walkouts against being forced to continue working under unsafe conditions.