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  VIDEO: A New Book By Leftist Ben Burgis Explores Why the Left's Political Culture is So Alienating Central to "Canceling Comedians While the World Burns" is the question of whether the western left wants to win. Watch my 50-minute discussion with the author. Glenn Greenwald 28 min ago 21 4 The philosophy professor and writer  Ben Burgis is as much on the political left as it is possible to be. A writer at the  socialist magazine  Jacobin , vocal supporter of Bernie Sanders, and advocate of socialist economic policies in the name of stopping corporatism and neoliberalism and elevating the quality of life for the working class, the  bona fides  of Burgis’ leftism are impossible to contest. Yet his new book takes critical aim squarely at the political faction in which he resides. Entitled  Canceling Comedians While the World Burns: A Critique Of The Contemporary Left , the book explores the numerous recent developments in leftist politics in both the U.S. and the west gene

  A “Leap” toward Humanity’s Destruction The world’s richest medical research foundation, the Wellcome Trust, has teamed up with a pair of former DARPA directors who built Silicon Valley’s skunkworks to usher in an age of nightmarish surveillance, including for babies as young as three months old. Their agenda can only advance if we allow it. BY WHITNEY WEBB A UK nonprofit with ties to global corruption throughout the COVID-19 crisis as well as  historical and current ties  to the UK eugenics movement launched a global health-focused DARPA equivalent last year. The move went largely unnoticed by both mainstream and independent media. The Wellcome Trust, which has arguably been second only to Bill Gates in its ability to influence events during the COVID-19 crisis and vaccination campaign, launched its own global equivalent of the Pentagon’s secretive research agency last year, officially to combat the “most pressing health challenges of our time.” Though first conceived of in 2018, thi