EDITOR—Garland and Joti Brar unmask the largely hidden face of the ruling elite, a tiny, obscenely rich segment of humanity that uses a “Mandarin class” (corporate execs, politicians, military figures, media flunkies, etc.) to run the world for them.
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BRIAN BERLETIC—The editor of The New Atlas files a haunting message in homage to Aaron Bushnell’s sacrifice for the sake of Gaza’s salvation. Moral cowards will attack him as being an extremist or a mental case, but Bushnell was not mental. He simply woke up to the horrors of what his country does and has been doing, and wanted no part of it. Bushnell chose self-immolation to arouse attention and hopefully action against the perverted and hypocritical involvement of America and its equally complicit allies in possibly one of the greatest crimes in history. It took a long time and millions of people to create this evil system; it will take a long time and millions of people to bring it down, notes Berletic. So join those who are working to build a different world. Support the alternative media. Break out of your isolation. Fight today, fight tomorrow, don’t give up.
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EDITOR—A masterful lesson on how the capitalist/imperialist system really works, which is something the rulers can’t afford to allow because it unmasks their criminality and complete disregard for democracy and all the rest we have been taught to believe in. Fact is, the truth instantly erodes the legitimacy of the international rules-based order, and the credibility of the ruling class in the US, UK, and other members of the US empire, the so-called “collective West”. As Joti Brar notes, we enjoy free speech, “as long as no one is listening…when they begin to lose the quiescence, the passivity of the masses, free speech is over.”
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EDITOR—Matt Orfalea in one of his inimitable spoofs demonstrates that for all its ostensible diversity, US media does not dare deviate from the official monotonic narrative on any of the important topics defining reality for most people in the West. This was seen, for example, with the phenomenon of Russiagate, still an unchallenged hoax now making a comeback with the expected victory of Trump in 2024, and currently the narrative gyrations covering the Ukraine fiasco, the imperial genocide of Palestinians, and the constant demonisation of Washington’s main designated enemies, Russia, China, and Iran.
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RANIA KHALEK—Israel’s genocide in Gaza has shocked the conscience of the entire world, with an endless flow of videos and images of Palestinian children cut into pieces by American bombs dropped by Israeli warplanes deliberately intended to destroy a civilian population. Despite the explicitly genocidal rhetoric of Israeli officials, Western leaders continue to proclaim their support for Israel’s right to “defend itself.”
But this war on Gaza is different from past wars, not only in the level of Israeli aggression, but in the reaction on the street, from the Middle East to the United States. Israel is losing the narrative war.
