Ben Norton traveled to Ecuador to report on the historic February 7 election, which pits a wealthy US-backed right-wing banker against a left-wing economist who pledges to continue the socialist Citizens’ Revolution launched by former President Rafael Correa. In this dispatch, working-class Ecuadorians explain why they support leftist candidate Andrés Arauz and oppose the repressive Washington-allied government of Lenín Moreno. ||| The Grayzone ||| Find more reporting at https://thegrayzone.com Support our original journalism at Patreon: https://patreon.com/grayzone
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Rhetorical Question of the Day: Is the Sudden Deplatforming of Indie Media Supported by the Biden Admin?
6 minutes readThe Biden adminustration is entering a new world of censorship, says, Jimmy Dore, and his guests Graham Elwood and Jordan Chariton agree. Both have been the target of demonetisation and other hostile measutes designed to cripple their work in recent days. Jim Dore himself could be silenced any time now. Freedom of speech does not exist for real critics of the neocon status quo in the pseudo antifascist playbook backed by the Democrats and their numerous allies in the “security state”. The mainstream media, of course, applaud.
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INDISPENSABLE Liberation Videos— Russiagate implodes; A new social media platform rises to defeat Big Tech censorship
8 minutes readA weekend edition of our INDISPENSABLE videos encompassing key stories for activists and political educators, featuring The Russiagate hoax implosion, and perhaps one of the most promising developments in the mass communications field: as Big Tech, joined at the hip with the deep State, starts to deplatform and silence progressive voices, a new platform based on blockchain ecnology promises to offer unlimited freedom of speech to all dissidents.
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ERIC ZUESSE—America does most of the entire world’s invasions and coups and sanctions. This has been the case ever since 1945. These invasions, coups, and sanctions, aren’t being done in order to conquer a country that attacked America, but are instead being done purely for conquest — 100% aggressive — though “national defense” is always the main excuse that the U.S. Government gives. Only a single quasi-exception to the falsehood of the “national defense” excuse (i.e., the only instance of that excuse having been partly true) has existed, and it was America’s 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, which country likewise had not invaded America, but Al Qaeda had located its headquarters there and so America conquered Afghanistan’s Government, using the 9/11 attacks as its ‘justification’, and this invasion made things even worse for almost everybody (as usually happens from America’s invasions, coups, and sanctions). U.S. imperialism — like that of other countries — doesn’t benefit anyone except the aristocracy (the super-rich) of the invading, coup-promoting, and/or sanctioning, power.
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The American Farce Unravels: Shreds of January 6th
65 minutes readJIM KAVANAGH—For the U.S. left to build a working-class socialist movement, it must become what it decidedly is not, and hasn’t evinced much interest in being—a pole of attraction for millions of people who are not socialists, do not agree with many of the motley commandments that have become the dogma of the “woke” American left, and are still largely held as “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” (Steinbeck actually said “capitalists”) in capitalist ideology. Given the enormous ideological work done by the Fox-MSBNC, Breitbart-NYT media universe, which is the primary source of political education in this country, what else could you expect?