Category Election
Chris Hedges: The Great Delusion
“The message of the Biden administration to progressives and left-wing populists is very clear – ‘Drop dead.'”
Matt Taibbi: For What Are America’s Wealthy Thankful? A Worsening Culture War
“…both politicians and the bigger media organizations…keep playing up these tensions as click-generating theater, not caring about the consequences of wishing actual sectarian battle into existence.”
GOP Trail of Tears: Giving Thanks to Indigenous Voters
“If it were up to White folk, Trump would have walked away with Arizona, but Indigenous precincts in Navajo Nation lands reported a 60% to 90% vote for Biden-Harris.”
On Contact: Hedges and Street on the Strength of Right-Wing Populism
“Despite losing, Donald Trump has solidified support from an angry, disposed working class that cuts across racial lines.”
Shredding journalistic credibility: Matt Taibbi on Chris Hedges On Contact
Marginalizing the news as propaganda for Democrats or Republicans. Igniting a 2020 firestorm. Includes traditional news sources and social media.
Tom Engelhardt: Murder, He Said, America’s Maestro of Death and Destruction
“Trump has proven to be America’s twenty-first-century maestro of death and destruction, the P.T. Barnum of, as he put it predictively enough in his Inaugural Address, “American carnage.” In fact, he’s been a master of carnage in a way no one could then have imagined.”
Democracy Now! How Fascism Works: Trump’s “Law and Order” Is Lawlessness, Fueling Racist Violence and Chaos
“…to connect these dots, from the Republican National Convention to white supremacists in the streets of U.S. cities to the president’s embrace of fringe conspiracy theories…”
Voter Roll Purge Errors: The ACLU of Georgia released a report by the Palast Investigative Fund
“Unsurprisingly, the state’s removals will likely affect the most vulnerable: young voters, voters of lower income, and citizens of racial groups that have been denied their sacred right to vote in the past.”
Press Normalizes Trump’s Lawlessness as Use of ‘Tools of Presidency’ to ‘Broaden Appeal’
“USA Today (8/26/20) framed the Trump campaign’s flagrant violation of laws against the use of the Executive Branch for political purposes as a partisan disagreement.”
Greg Palast with Ralph Nader, Thom Hartmann, Mike Papantonio, on Voting by Mail, Scott Walker, and more…
“Almost 2 million ballots were cast but not counted in the 2016 presidential race. And not just anyone’s ballot gets tossed. The chance of having your vote simply go uncounted, “spoiled,” is 900% higher if you’re Black than if you’re white.”
Ilhan, Antone and the Price of Inclusion, by Ricardo Levins Morales
“Inclusionists demand equal participation at all levels of the empire and its institutions while transformationists call for fundamental change.”
Save the U.S. Postal Service! Reasons the Mail Must Get Through
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
The Role of Palestine in the US Elections, WAMM webinar in two parts
“Enormous amounts of money pour into various political campaigns around the U.S. with the apparent goal of influencing elections and manipulating governance throughout the nation.” How is that affecting the 5th District in Minnesota, an epi center for recent activism arount the murder of George Floyd.
How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt for America’s Vanished Voters, by Greg Palast
But that left 534,510 — over half a million purged — for a reason identified only as “System Cancels.”
Chris Hedges on Biden vs. Trump, Bernie Sanders, Corporate Media, Assange & State of the Left
A fixed election system, mainstream corporate media, and more.
Some Progressives Are in Denial About Trump’s Fascist Momentum
“Fascist politics exchanges reality for the pronouncements of a single individual, or perhaps a political party. Regular and repeated obvious lying is part of the process by which fascist politics destroys the information space.”
Palast on Staying Home with Josh Fox: All we’re asking is that the voters choose the politicians and not the opposite way around
“It was brutalizing to watch. When I saw the videos of people in Milwaukee in the rain, six feet apart, standing there for hours to be able to vote because there were only five polling stations open in the entire city, it broke my heart…”
Greg Palast: How Trump Stole 2020
“Vote suppression is the key issue to the 2020 Election and Palast is the expert to explain why…”
Noam Chomsky: Bernie Sanders Campaign Didn’t Fail. It Energized Millions and Shifted U.S. Politics, on Democracy Now!
“It’s common to say now that the Sanders campaign failed. I think that’s a mistake. I think it was an extraordinary success, completely shifted the arena of debate and discussion. Issues that were unthinkable a couple years ago are now right in the middle of attention.”
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