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Shamir is one of Unz’s resident Jewish-born Judeophobes, in case you don’t know. I found this to be a great article regardless of what you think of such types. Global neoliberalism is speaking in unison through newspapers and other news-sites across the continents, and the message is hate the Russians and do not speak a word against beloved Israel – that makes you an anti-Semite – and even if you don’t say bad things about Israel, Facebook can find a way to call you one and ban your deplorable azz. Show no appreciation of the comeliness of French women. If you do, Zuckerberg will ban you for being a disgusting sexist. And on and on go the identity police. The unwashed masses cannot be trusted with free speech or any such twaddle. This is about freedom. Freedom from hearing things the global elites have decided are out-of-bounds, that is. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Harvard scientists insisted last year we had been visited by guests from a galaxy far, far away. Well, alm...

FaunaAndFlora linked to this over at http://newlevellers.blogspot.com/2019/01/naked-capitalism-topic-why-green-new.html and I thought it well-deserved its own topic, so here it is. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Editor’s  note:  This article originated as a controversial speech given at the Black Hills International Survival Gathering on the Pine Ridge Reservation in July 1980. A member of the Oglala Lakota tribe, Russell Means was perhaps the most outsized personality in the American Indian Movement, beginning with the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee. He also had an acting career beginning with his role as Chingachgook in  Last of the Mohicans . He died Monday morning at age 72. The only possible opening for  a statement like this is that I detest writing. The process itself epitomizes the European concept of “legitimate thinking”: what is written has an importance that is denied the spoken. My culture, the Lakota culture, has an oral trad...

This first chapter is going to seem trite.  And it probably is.  But I thought storytelling might be a fun thing to do on Digger.  And I need to set things up.  Please be gentle! ------------------------------------------------ Downfall Chapter 1 Drums in the distance. Could this be salvation? With a dull thud of unwanted reality, Sonya spasmed into wakefulness.   “Come on honey, we have to move”.   She poked Marco in the ribs.   “Wh-where are we?” Marcos bolted awake.   He looked at Sonya with those eyes, those wide, terrible brown eyes of fear, where there had only been confidence and love a year before. “I don’t know,” she said.   “Somewhere in Montana, maybe.   There’s mountains.   And it stinks in here.” She groaned out of the car.   The shantytown spread around her, the smoke of fires of the tents mingling with her breath.   There wouldn’t be any coffee, or bagels, or Starbuck...

Excerpt: By Isabel Roy and Johannes Stern  17 January 2019 The protests by “yellow vests” in France have exposed the anti-working class character of the Left Party in Germany. The Left Party leadership and its affiliated media reacted with hostility to the first mass demonstrations which took place in late November in Paris and other French cities. “Language of Violence” was the title of the Left Party daily  Neues Deutschland (ND) on November 26. The paper was not referring to the brutal actions of the French police and security forces, but rather to the mostly peaceful demonstrators who took to the streets to protest against higher fuel taxes and for higher wages and more social justice. “The ‘Yellow vest’ demonstrations which were not approved by the police have” degenerated into violence “and it took hours for the police ‘to restore calm,’” the paper complained. For the Left Party leadership the biggest social protests in France since the general strike of 1968,...

Excerpt: Meanwhile, the neocon metamorphosis is nearly complete as many of the neocons, who started out as Democrats, have returned home, where they are being welcomed for their hardline foreign policy viewpoint. Glenn Greenwald  reports that , based on polling of party supporters, the Democrats have gone full-Hillary and are now by far more hawkish than the Republicans, unwilling to leave either Syria or Afghanistan. The neocon survival and rejuvenation is particularly astonishing in that they have been wrong about virtually everything, most notably the catastrophic Iraq War. They have never been held accountable for anything, though one should note that accountability is not a prominent American trait, at least since Vietnam. What is important is that neocon views have been perceived by the media and punditry as being part of the Establishment consensus, which provides them with access to programming all across the political spectrum. That is why neocon standard-bearers lik...

Excerpt: SEPTEMBER 03, 2018,   BY  MICHAEL HOWARD Earlier this year  Diana Johnstone , author of “Fool’s Crusade” and other books, wrote  an article  for  Consortiumnews.com  critical of the left’s most self-regarding media outlet,  CounterPunch . In it she analyzed the website’s creeping embrace of establishment narratives vis-à-vis Russia and Syria; she also touched on its efforts to legitimize “Antifa” shenanigans. (To its credit,  CounterPunch  ran a number of counterarguments, a few from Johnstone, attempting to save the “Antifa” enthusiasts’ souls. Alas, these were mostly drowned out by a deluge of screeds from “Antifa” pamphleteers, who seem to comprise a tiny yet ferocious army.) Implicitly, Johnstone announced a split from her erstwhile political ally—she does not appear to have published in CounterPunch since. Nor could I help noticing that articles written by Mike Whitney, once one of the website’s most prolific c...