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MoA—That the ‘rules based international order’ is supposed to include vague concepts of ‘democracy’, ‘human rights’, ‘fundamental freedoms’, ‘diversity’ and more makes it easy to claim that this or that violation of the ‘rules based international order’ has occurred. Such violations can then be used to impose punishment in the form of sanctions or war. That the above definition was given by a minority of a few rich nations makes it already clear that it can not be a global concept for a multilateral world.

BARBARA MACLEAN—Even before I became a socialist, I never bought that the US went into other countries to bring them the fruits of civilization. But I didn’t understand how US foreign policy was connected to the workings of capitalism. When capitalists have a unionized working class and they must compete with other capitalists for land, both of these conditions limit the rate of profit for capitalists. Capitalists are also constrained by the natural resources in their home territory. All three of these limitations are overcome when capitalists become imperialists, seizing cheap land and non-unionized cheap labor abroad.

MAX BLUMENTHAL—Pushback with Aaron Maté A new open letter signed by prominent pundits and intellectuals warns of a growing problem with cancel culture. The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal says that signatories of the “Cancel Culture” letter fail to practice what they preach, while fueling an internecine liberal dispute that sidelines vital issues and cancels foreign lives. Guest: Max Blumenthal, editor of The Grayzone and author of “The Management of Savagery.”

Here’s Jimmy Dore talking about several topics that need more attention and discussion.  All of this in late March and early April, 2020. The main takeaway seems to be what many of us have been saying and many more intuit for some time: the confusion in the political system, much of it product of the constant dissemination of indecent lies by the establishment media and institutions, this fact made worse by the truth implosion of the liberal center (mostly represented by Democrats in he USA) has left people flailing in all directions, and traditional labels are no longer terribly reliable to chart events. This means that people must find truth wherever they can find it (assuming they can recognise it), EVEN on the lips of Republicans rather than “progressives”. 

Most importantly, the article is written by journalist Simon Schuster. He gives the same opinion as given by many American “experts”. Thanks to America’s favorite Russian conspiracy of how they helped Trump “Make America Great Again”, there is now a new different allegation. American experts think that for Putin, he doesn’t have enough influence on just the West. For a while now, he has spread his politics all over the world, hoping to cobble up the whole planet.