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PE—You may say that all stupidity is malevolent, which I won’t deny, but the common forms of it are accidentally so, and it is chiefly an introduced quality in America, where elements of cruelty and hatred are cultivated non-stop by what is risibly called Capitalist culture.  It seems the toxicity is really in his DNA, since all he does exudes the nasty tang of venom, ...

GP—All of this filth—the manipulation of the rules, the discrimination, and the corruption—reveals two entwined issues, pervasive and polluting: the total disregard for the law by the rich and powerful, particularly Trump and other demagogues; and the socio-economic doctrine of greed and division, which affects the lives of everyone everywhere. An unjust reductive system that reduces everything to a commodity and everyone to a consumer ...

BB—Trump tells his oligarch vassals that if they appreciate and value this system that the US maintains and guarantees through a system of violently imposed sanctions, assassinations, wars, regime change operations, genocides, a global military network that includes 800+ foreign military bases, and the greatest propaganda apparatus the world has ever seen, then they need to start paying more tribute, it is as simple as ...

PG—For his World War I service, the French government awarded Bullard the Croix de guerre, Médaille militaire, Croix du combattant volontaire 1914–1918, and Médaille de Verdun, along with several others.[14][18] After his discharge, Bullard returned again to Paris ...

DD—Full Episodes On this stream: US government releases text of Iran Deal Memorandum of Understanding, and it spells total capitulation - Trump goes rogue at astounding G7 press conference - MAGA media struggles with disastrous war outcome - and more ...

NORA HOPPE—The arts – in their truest and noblest forms – have always posed a serious threat to despotic powers because they represent a freedom of spirit and independence of thought. During the Third Reich, the Nazis engaged in “Cancel Culture” by censoring various forms of music, literature, films, theatre plays that were considered an “insult to German feeling” and which they condemned as “Entartete ...