JON. COOK—Assange did not help a rival state to gain an advantage, he helped all of us become better informed about the crimes our own states commit in our names. He is on trial not because he traded in secrets, but because he blew up the business of secrets – the very kind of secrets that have enabled the west to pursue permanent, resource-grabbing wars and are pushing our species to the verge of extinction.
BARBARA MACLEAN—As the conservative churches and elected politicians took over in the late 70’s and early 80’s there was a “backlash” against the women’s movement. As the U.S. slid more pronouncedly to the right, what it meant to be liberal was increasingly compromised. The Democratic Leadership Council, supposedly liberal, never developed a program for dealing systematically with content issues from a liberal, feminist perspective, let alone anything more radical. In fact, they were very open about pushing for a movement away from the leftward turn it had taken from the 60’s to the 80’s. Hillary was a key leader of the DLC during her term as a senator. This crypto-identity politics came to a head in 2008 when Obama won the election simply because of his form – tall, light-skinned Afro-American, articulate, and well educated.
MARGARET KIMBERLEY—Of course, law enforcement is a reflection of the very ethos of the country it represents. Facebook, the enforcer of official narratives masquerading as entertaining social media, allowed a group calling itself the Kenosha Guard to announce their presence in that city. Their invitation read, “Any patriots willing to take up arms and defend our city tonight from the evil thugs?” Their much-vaunted rules meant little, even as the event was flagged 455 times by Facebook users who pointed out that groups espousing violence are allegedly not allowed to appear on that platform. Mark Zuckerberg apologized after the double murder and blamed a contractor for “an operational mistake.” The contractor knew one very important thing, that right wing violence is meant to keep black people under control and is therefore nothing for them to be concerned about.
ED CURTIN—Trump, Biden, Pence, Harris, and their clownish sidekicks, Pompeo, Michelle Obama, et al., are performing daily under the umbrella’s shadowy protection. For The Umbrella People run a three-ring circus, and although their clowns pop out of separate tiny cars and, acting like enemies, squirt each other with water hoses to the audience’s delight, raucous laughter, and serious attentiveness, they are all part of the same show, working for the same bosses. Sadly, many people think this circus is the real world and that the clowns are not allied pimps serving the interests of their masters, but are real enemies.
ANDRE VLTCHEK—Whether elections were to be held or not, attacks against Ms. Lam and Beijing were planned to continue. They were clearly ordered by the Western establishment, “no matter what happens.” We will return later to ‘criticism of postponement of the elections,’ but first, let us see what was written just a few hours earlier when all major Western media outlets still thought that the elections would take place as scheduled.