WESTERN EXCEPTIONALISM

ANDRE DAMON–Bolton is a professional advocate of aggressive war, a sort of Dr. Strangelove without the charm. He somehow comes off in his writing as even more icy and detached than he does on camera. Reading this half-deranged bureaucrat’s observations is unnerving, recalling Hannah Arendt’s observations about the banality of evil. Throughout the conflicts Bolton narrates, the dominant factor is the utter debacle facing US imperialism on the world stage.

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DAVE LINDORFF—Instead of sharing the bomb with the USSR, which, remember, was America’s ally in World War II, and then working for its being banned, the US began producing dozens and eventually hundreds of Nagasaki-sized atom bombs, moving quickly from hand-made devices to mass produced ones. The US also quickly started pursuing the development of a vastly more powerful bomb — the thermonuclear Hydrogen bomb — a weapon that theoretically has no limits to how great its destructive power could be.

CALEB MAUPIN—Kamala Harris being peddled for VP slot; Bob Aviakian, head of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), a small but loud Maoist group, relic of the 1970s, urges everyone to vote for Biden; irrelevance of the synthetic left, their broken anti-imperialist compass; inability of “woke” people to act as genuine revolutionary vectors; why we must go to the masses; there has been a massive shift in consciousness: the old “Cold War” paradigm is dead, a new order is possible. What was the “Hungarian revolution” and its most unusual features? This and much more. 

GODFREE ROBERTS—CNBC reports that China is testing electronic warfare assets at fortified outposts in the South China Sea. The move allows Beijing to further project its power in the hotly disputed waters. [MORE]. China News reports that several US Growler electronic warplanes went out of control for a few second over the South China Sea then withdrew. According to the pilots, their instruments  became chaotic and the planes could not communicate with the outside world. The United States demanded that China dismantle the electronic equipment immediately, but was ignored