ALEX LANTIER—These are political lies as shameless as US lies in 2002 that Iraq had “weapons of mass destruction,” which served as a pretext for an illegal US invasion of Iraq in 2003. The genome of the coronavirus causing COVID-19 has been mapped out in China and examined by biologists internationally. They have established that the virus is a previously-unknown, naturally-occurring coronavirus that originated in bats, which was not previously in the possession of any lab.
US EXCEPTIONALISM
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RAMIN MAZAHERI—Absurd extremes aside, the coronavirus overreaction has turned into a major test case for today’s Western worship of both technocracy and scientific secularism. Since 1980 they have insisted that national cultures should not play any shaping role in public policy because Westerners have discovered a system of “universal values” which should guide all national governments. (The Western system is – of course – actually based on aristocratic/bourgeois neoliberalism & neo-imperialism.)
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JEFF J. BROWN—Here’s the problem. The BLPM is so ruthlessly effective at brainwashing people around the world that even if it started outside China, it started in there anyway. Truth has nothing to do with. Western oligarchs destroying Baba Beijing, in order to enrich their global capitalism is all you need to know. China will be convicted in the BLPM’s worldwide star chamber, corrupt judges and grand juries will find the Chinese nation guilty as charged, and they will assess against China grotesquely bogus monetary compensations that total in the trillions of dollars.
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MoA—A Chinese double blind study of remdesivir, previously published in Lancet, had come to the conclusion that the drug had no statistically noticeable influence on the length of recovery and the outcome. One wonders how much White House influence was used to push that drug. White House influence may also have been used in this ventilator acquisition that was paid for but never received the goods.
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Noam Chomsky, Lesser Evilism, and Democracy
33 minutes readMICHAEL K SMITH—Over the years Noam Chomsky has advanced a scathing indictment of U.S. elections, saying that they are really more “public relations extravaganzas” than ideological contests, that they therefore mean very little, especially at the national level; that he himself votes “less and less” at that level; that the system is not generating issues that resonate with the public; that there really aren’t any political parties, but only “candidate producing organizations” driven by marketing concerns; that the quadrennial farce that plays out at the presidential level is worth no more than “five minutes time,” and this, only to determine which candidate represents the greater threat, in order to vote against him; and that, in view of all this we should reserve our main political energy for vastly more meaningful work, such as popular education, union organizing, and cultural resistance.