While the presstitutes coalesce around Kamala Harris as the best shot to defeat Trump and give the nation another 8 years of Obama-brand (which put to sleep most of the combative liberals), Harris does her best to score cookie points with her real constituency: the plutocrats more interested in endless wars to keep their empire going and further “austerity” for the clueless masses.
C HERBERT TULLY—So, let’s be clear about it. We are talking here about a crowd pushing policies that threaten our lives, indeed all planetary life, via probable nuclear war, a threat that grows with each passing day as russophobes (plus sinophobes and more recently iranophobes) are allowed to command the heights of informational access to peddle contemptible if not deranged views with impunity.
P. GREANVILLE—In this episode first published in July 2018, Jimmy Dore comments on the bizarre information world we inhabit, with US intel and its media arm (the “free press”) dictating the official narrative that no one dares to defy—except for (another huge surprise) mavericks like Fox News’ Tucker Carlson. Tucker is for the most part unclassifiable, not typical of the “right” nor the “left” media in the US. Indeed, although he says things that any solid progressive would be proud of, with a constant refrain fostering anti-China sentiment, he is certainly no consistent progressive (probably could not afford to be and still retain his tv pulpit with Fox), but he does speak uncomfortable truths about the establishment from time to time, and when he does he performs and invaluable service. Not only does the truth—regardless of its messenger—have a refreshing energizing effect; on Carlson’s lips it reaches an essential segment of the US population lterally off limits to left views: working class and Trumpian folks who have long embraced some of the most reactionary and spurious beliefs fueling US exceptionalism. In the current climate of totalitarian disinformation, this is almost miraculous.
P. GREANVILLE—We are not exactly fans of Trevor Noah, whom we classify, along with the rest of the establishment courtiers (Steven Colbert, Bill Maher, John Oliver, etc.) as merely a mouthpiece for establishment views, albeit served in a faux oppositional wrapper. That said, this episode packs some interesting facts worth your attention, including Noah’s revelation that some giant telecoms like ATT are claiming fraudulently to be offering 5G when in reality it is nothing of the kind.