PAUL EDWARDS–Americans, long taught that they were a superior people in the most just, honorable, wise, heroic nation on earth have had their faith battered and broken, gradually, against their will, by decades of crime and folly, with each new outrage and imbecility hard-sold to them as what it was not: an action of the most heroic humane kind, for the most admirable of motives.
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Reporting from the US: This is the ‘model system’ to follow?
13 minutes readRAMIN MAZAHERI—The situation in Kenosha is a microcosm of the United States in 2020 – tragedy on top of tragedy on top of tragedy: A Black man wantonly paralysed by cops, his three sons forced to watch, ethnic-based violence deteriorating a community already gutted by anti-patriotic neoliberal economics, shops frantically boarding up their windows after having been shuttered during a pandemic lockdown, a 17-year old shooting and killing two protesters – there is just a complete lack of security everywhere over here.
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ISRAEL SHAMIR–But Belarusian suppression is not something to write home about. The crowds aren’t big, for Belarusians are quite civil and obedient folk, they even wait for the green light (a rare quality in the East). Despite provocateurs and Soros-trained revolutionaries, there are few wounded, much less than your average confrontation between globalist protesters and local police, whether they be called Gilets Jaunes or Black Lives Matter. One protester tried to throw a hand grenade into police ranks; by his own miscalculation the grenade exploded in his hand and he died of his wounds. This incident is already being presented by the mass media as “mass murder” and even “genocide”.
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Jimmy Dore: Criminal Presidents are “a Protected Minority”!
5 minutes readPATRICE GREANVILLE—Non-criminal presidents are the exception—the rare exception. For no one can climb to the imperial throne without swearing allegiance to the consensual imperial policies adopted by the ruling elites, which for generations has included as its cornerstone meddling in other countries affairs, invasions and outright wars, overt and covert—all such actions regarded as the highest form of international crime by the Nuremberg court. That’s why the system’s propaganda arm —the American media and their subsidiaries abroad—has long “sacralised” the office of the president, according it the treatment of kings ordained by God. It’s cruelly ironic that after slaughtering countless millions around the world in the name of “democracy”, America is neither a true democracy nor a republic in practice or spirit.
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A Book Review Essay: Chasing the Light by Oliver Stone
37 minutes readED CURTIN—He tells us he didn’t wake up until he was nearly thirty-years-old – in 1976.
Ever since he has devoted his life to the art of waking up his fellow Americans through writing and filmmaking, which he had the great good fortune to learn at NYU film school from that other passionate New York filmmaker, Martin Scorsese, who was his professor. Scorsese shone a light on Oliver after he had made a short film without dialogue called Last Year in Vietnam. It was shown to the class, a tough group of critics, but before anyone had spoken, Scorsese said, “Well – this is a filmmaker.” It was an epiphany that Stone says he will never forget. A pure gift that set him on his way to eventually make his great films. But the journey was hard and took years to complete.