Biden’s bailout will not alter the structural inequities and other fundamental underpinnings of America’s death spiral.
Chris Hedges: Bandaging the Corpse
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Into the Memory Hole
Erasure or sublimation of memory makes it easier to shape the present by controlling or editing history. Doing so preserves a mythic version of a country’s identity, postulates Michael Brenner.
The Blob Insists on Clinging to an Obsolete Past
The United States needs to recognize that the 20th century is gone for good, writes Andrew J. Bacevich.
UK Tops Moscow Military Spending & Offers Nurses 1% Raise
When inflation is taken into account, it represents a pay cut, Phil Miller reports. Meanwhile, Russia is 70 times the size and has more than twice as many inhabitants.
The Truth is a Joke Zionism Can’t Accept
Lawrence Davidson considers the conflation of an ethnocentric political ideology with Judaism, a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural religion.
Markel’s Royal Row, Like Spencer’s, Will Ensure Nothing Changes
What the Oprah interview does – is designed to do – is derail the intersection of class and race in politically damaging ways, writes Jonathan Cook.
Consent Manufactured by Propaganda Is Not Informed Consent
Biden’s ‘Plan’ for Central America
The plan, which is praised by right-wing regional leaders, seeks to end restrictions on foreign domination of industries and markets, Ben Norton reports.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Poison in Prison
A private food service company “accidentally” sold dog food to feed prisoners mis-marked as “ground beef for tacos.” There was no punishment for the company or its executives.
The Crucial Amazon Union Vote in Alabama
Unions don’t just raise worker wages, says Sam Pizzagati. They also help flatten grand plutocratic fortunes.
The Litmus Test for Biden’s Support of Unions
Labor unions are the single most effective way organized workers can counter the power of organized money known as a corporation, writes Thom Hartmann.
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Biden Iran Envoy Boasted of Causing Civilian Deprivation
Max Blumenthal reports on the sadistic contents of Richard Nephew’s book on the “art of sanctions.”
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Enforcing Orthodoxy
To censor is an act of deprivation, a taking away. To enforce an intolerant orthodoxy is an act of imposition. The two cannot be understood separately from one another.
COVID-19: Head of WHO Calls for Patent Waivers to Halt Pandemic
The chief of the global health agency speaks out against vaccine monopolies.
How France and the US Cooperate
Danny Sjursen delves into the destabilizing Franco-American Sahel “stabilization” mission.
Pentagon Could Use Some Cancel Culture
William J. Astore provides a tour of some major weapons systems that should be on the scrap heap, and a rare case of one that finally is.
Countering the Establishment’s Message
The idea that China or Russia pose a threat to you is so self-evidently ridiculous, so transparently absurd, that the only way to make you believe it would be to propagandize you, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
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The Right to Live in Peace
It is a phrase for effectively challenging the system now managed by people such as Biden, Modi and Piñera, writes Vijay Prashad.
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MLK & Fred Hampton Versus J Edgar Hoover
James DiEugenio tracks the FBI boss and his renegade violence against any sign of a Black Messiah through two current films.
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Lawmaker Rips US Opposition to ICC Probe of Israel
Rashida Tlaib said the international court has a duty to investigate and deliver justice to victims of human rights violations and war crimes in Palestine.