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Russia is depicted as Stalinist, when the audience are right wingers, and as fascist religious fanatics when the audience are progressives. (That Ukraine wholeheartedly embraces fascist narratives is conveniently left out of this last one.)

In this, russophobia resembles the antisemitism of not so long ago. Jews were depicted as bloodsucking capitalists and at the same time made out to be bomb throwing revolutionaries and pointy headed intellectuals.

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n.b. one of the amusing ironies is that the Russian Federation is quite multicultural, offering minorities extensive rights, the right to education in a minority language, right to petition courts and government bodies in the minority language, rights to regional autonomy in majority-minority regions, etc..

Contrast with Ukraine which is an aggressively centralizing regime that is seeking to galicianize everyone else in the country.

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But Neocon founders were/are jewsh originally... Biden as kept many in the government. That's why they know very well how to be nazi with the rest of the world...

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Good reminders of the depths of the intricate deceptions the American people and we the people around the planet are being asked to decipher. The weight of the propaganda is extreme.

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Actually the hope is Americans are NOT going to decipher the propaganda. Russia bad > U.S.A. good. Can't get much simpler, huh?

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USSA is the current regime. The Feral DC Gov is the Tyrant. We The People had better decipher quickly before We have to pay even More for "our" government's sins.

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Yes, but the USSA serves their globalist puppet masters at World Economic Forum, Bilderberg, etc. Lots of tyrannical kleptocrats with fingers in the pie.

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The globalist powers are certainly playing Americans for fools, lol.

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Claudia...have the German people lost their minds...this is insanity on steroids...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buvztavdd6Y

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It's the same everywhere though. It's just that Baerbock is dumb enough to say out loud what they all think. None of the Western 'leaders' care what their voters want, it simply doesn't matter anymore because we live in a post-democratic world.

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thx for this link. don't often catch Jimmy Dore. I try to keep up with Dore and Russell Brand

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I think I'm still registered with the Green Party but I'd best "opt out"

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What????? Are you telling me there is NO "Light at the End of the Tunnel" in Vietnam ??????

next you will be telling me that Huber is not about to Indict those responsible for the Criminal Clintonista Cartel Foundation !!!!

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So tired of "unprovoked Russian invasion".... NATO??

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They have their terminology down which makes it easy to spot them and their puppets.

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The fact that the propagandists must always say "unprovoked" indicates that the invasion was in fact, provoked.

Otherwise, it's like saying "liquid water, which, by the way, is powerful wet. Just so you know."

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The Atlantic is Laurene Powell Jobs’ menstural rag. Lefties love war now because they want to fly trans and BLM flags over every embassy, it’s the new cultural imperialism. DEI CRT struggle sessions in the military are designed to give the left control of the last non politicized institutions so they can crush dissent. Meanwhile, they will continue to disarm law abiding citizens while letting criminals run free. As Mao said, political power grows from the barrel of a gun.

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Disarmed Citizens deserve the Free Train/Bus Rides to the FEMA Happy Camps. Hilarity Clintoon said "Deplorables" needed to go to Happy Camps in 2016. JoBama is just repeating the same Theme on MAGA Repubs now. democRats are Bolsheviks, rinoRats are Quislings.

Keep your Guns, Mao had that right.

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You have proved one thing. You have no idea what lefties want or who they are. You are obviously conflating shit-libs and DemocRATS with the left. A tiresome bit of propaganda.

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I know many people who identify as liberals, and still are, but many lost their way when Trump arrived on the political scene. Many "liberals" bowed down to everything the democrats said, as did the left wing sites who swallowed Russia-gate like it was candy. Yum. Only a few of those sites retained any journalistic integrity during the Trump years, and many self identified liberals also lost their capacity for independent thought. As you might have noticed the dems continue their war on Trump and his base. Now that Biden is in office many so called lefties have sworn allegiance to Biden and the democrats and anything, and everything they say goes. There are of course some who maintain their independence from the rubbish the democrats continue to spew, especially when it comes to Russia. That's what happens when you divide the world and it's people into the good and the bad which Biden continued to do in his speech as soldiers blocked MAGA their escape from hell into the world of the good. Liberals who bought the split during the Trump years lost any capacity for individual thinking and democrats can easily pull their strings. Of course anti-Russia sentiment has always been an easy sell in this country.

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"as did the left wing sites who swallowed Russia-gate" This is how you can identify the fake left. The Sanders faction, as well as the rest of the tea party level stupid partisans of the DemocRAT(ICK) party are not leftists. If you support war mongering American death cult propaganda and are hopelessly immersed in the clown show of electoral politics... you are not a leftist. Duh.

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Shit-libs and DeomcRATS and the left all vote the same way with the same disastrous results. RINOs are no better, but please illuminate who the real left is and what they want.

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Sep 6, 2022·edited Sep 6, 2022

You remain stubbornly ignorant, and wittingly or not, are spreading the already ubiquitous right wing propaganda that these neoliberal chickenhawk capitalist war mongers are the left. The left is anti-war, first and foremost. The left is anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, anti-censorship, anti-surveillance state, anti-authoritarian& wants cops and war criminals held accountable for their crimes against humanity. The shit-libs and DemocRATS are on the wrong side ALL THOSE THINGS. You seem to think the partisan circus encompasses every last political thought in this country. Far from it. Left erasure is transparently a tool of fascists once you look at it closely.

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Elucidate please. They all Seem Conflated to me too

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There is really not too much of a Left left. Traditionally, the Left represented the desire for freedom, equality, peace, and autonomy, and while many Americans want these things for themselves and their kind or group, most of them don't particularly want them for other people. The attachment of liberals to war and imperialism in the 20th century alone has been pretty consistent, going back to Roosevelt (Teddy, that is) and Wilson, followed by Roosevelt 2, Truman, Kennedy, LBJ and so on. I'm afraid Mr. Bezmenov has it about right. I suppose if there were a real Left, it would be propagandized out of existence, if not actually locked up.

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Thanks, that's what I would call a "traditional liberal". While political parties switch and change to gather votes, basic fundamentals can persist. The 1960's anti-war Liberal/leftist could be a MAGA today, same for traditional blue collar workers are MAGA just to keep jobs if nothing else.

The Corporist Repub of the 60's is now an Internationalist and many are Democrats, including the Bankers. Big Gov is definitely DemocRat dominated with Estab/Rino Repubs in the minority od the Gov/Industrial complex. Universities have remained Leftist but with a Bolshevik Totalitarian Flavor of anti-free speech, sorry Berkley no more Free Speech.

Trump is certainly not a traditional "Conservative", but is a "Populist" like in Wisconsin's past Robert M. La Follette.

Round and Round We go, as long as We don't lock up the opposition with a Feral Polezi as the democRats are doing today.

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Thanks, that's what I would call a "traditional liberal". While political parties switch and change to gather votes, basic fundamentals can persist. The 1960's anti-war Liberal/leftist could be a MAGA today, same for traditional blue collar workers are MAGA just to keep jobs if nothing else.

The Corporist Repub of the 60's is now an Internationalist and many are Democrats, including the Bankers. Big Gov is definitely DemocRat dominated with Estab/Rino Repubs in the minority od the Gov/Industrial complex. Universities have remained Leftist but with a Bolshevik Totalitarian Flavor of anti-free speech, sorry Berkley no more Free Speech.

Trump is certainly not a traditional "Conservative", but is a "Populist" like in Wisconsin's past Robert M. La Follette.

Round and Round We go, as long as We don't lock up the opposition with a Feral Polezi as the democRats are doing today.

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See above.

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How Sanders and his DSA cohorts can presume to accept the killing rationale while waving a social justice banner for domestic change is, I think, an insight to the price of admission into the faux democratic process as put on by the single-party tyrants.

The self-described “rebels” can talk about corporate graft until they’re blue in the face. They can tweet about America’s apartheid partner in the Middle East, and stand tall against the baseless claims of anti-semitism, but they cannot confront the baseless claim of “unprovoked” that has been used to rewrite the history and backstory of the Ukraine war. If Sanders and other progressives are going to pay the devil to hold office in Washington, only to cover their eyes and mouths when it comes time to honestly address America’s imperialism, they are fooling nobody but themselves. They are subservient and neutered by their own compromises. I believe that if Sanders and Co. were serious and honest, they’d recognize that resigning and starting a truly adversarial political party us in order.

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Sanders is my rep and I have respected him for many years. He never failed to respond to correspondence...untl recently. Let's say the past 2.5 years. No response concerning either the medical narrative or the war narrative.

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I contributed to his campaign in 2016, but if he is okay with how Hillary and Donna Brazil boxed him out of the nomination (which he was on his way to winning), then I’m keeping my money. He is no more than a token for the neolibs to brandish, proving their tolerance.

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He was always a war hawk in South America, helped sell chain guns (modern Gatling guns) manufactured in Vermont to kill civilians there. He really went bad on nearly all issues after he divorced his first wife, who was a positive influence on him, and married con-artist and grifter Jane. I guess Jane taught him how to lie and feel good about pulling one over.

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Sanders is a Grifter like the majority in the DC Swamp. He and his criminal wife have done very well by bowing out to the Clintons. Most Marxists like Sanders are just lazy grifters, some are True Believers and murder millions.

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Sanders is neither a grifter or a Marxist. He’s a marginalized

promoter of change that has compromised his integrity to sit at the table. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/02/the-us-has-a-ruling-class-and-americans-must-stand-up-to-it

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Sanders sure got more houses to live in after running out of the democRat primaries, Comrade.

btw, Has Sanders Ever had a non-Gov "Job"? or is counting his being bounced Out of a Farming Commune still on his resume?

Sheesh, Vermont sure went downhill after the Revolution of 1776 and the Green Mountain boys died off. Now Vermonters love their NYC Bolshevik. Buy him another house while your'e at it.

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Having more than one house doesn’t excuse ad hominem labeling. I think he’s the least unsavory character in the Senate. He is giving the DP an alternative to the status quo, and the party mandarins are ignoring him..to their shame.

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Controversy & Confusions amongst the Bolshevik democRats are Deceptive, invented to keep the Republic Patriots guessing and attempting to compromise their Liberty for Safety.

Sheeple get "fatigued" by all the political strife, just better to submit and accept "the peace" of tyranny. Please no more mean Trump tweets so upsetting, the UniParty is sooo comforting, "everyone agrees" or is a domestic tourist.

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Got LGBTQ+ACDEFHIJKLMNOPRSUVWXYZ, but politics in the USA is still binary, even the concept of left doesn't equal liberal is beyond intelligent discussion. That's a good indication of where the money wants discourse to go, i.e.: to hell in a basket.

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That certainly seems like a redesigned alphabet. See it soon introduced in textbooks.

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"War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class men off to die."

~George Carlin

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One of the more pathetic developments around the Ukraine war is the newly resurrected process of buying indulgences. The catholic church realized that forgiveness was a product to be sold as far back as the middle ages, the left has now learned that they can salve their soul for the crime of not standing up to an unjust war by giving money to "relief" organizations which are really nothing more than private money laundering operations. The modern day indulgences are just as pathetic, craven and cynical as the old world form in the church. The left tells themselves they are helping by donating money to victim relief funds but never really keep track of the status of those funds and don't really care about the results of their donation after its been made. At least they are sleeping well at night.

There are now 100s of identified scam websites for ukraine aid, fund raisers for ukraine are happening in almost every major company in America. I would bet billions have been raised for humanitarian relief. The problem is most of it is just one more angle to steal from people.

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The current liberal support is a derivative of the Clinton Russia-gate campaign. Putin and Russia were demonized.

Lies are deadly.

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Behind the majority of rottenness one experiences in life - one can usually find a deliberate lie.

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Sep 6, 2022·edited Sep 6, 2022

"You can take issue all you like with his use of the word "left" to describe liberal supporters of capitalism and empire who just want the empire to be a bit less embarrassing and maybe forgive their student loans, but that's the fault of the generations of psyops that have gone into sabotaging the left and destroying its memory, not Tierney's."

Not entirely. The use of the word "left" to describe liberals and DemocRATS is the fault of people just like Tierney... all of whom should know better. You yourself, Caitlin, used to regularly conflate these disparate groups, but to your credit, have mostly removed that from your writings. One of the things I appreciate about you.

All leftists should take issue with being marginalized, smeared and disappeared by the those presstitutes who think there is a tent large enough for peace advocates and war mongers, for American exceptionalists and socialists, for anti-fascists and fascists, for free speech advocates and censors, and for authoritarian bootlickers and revolutionaries. This is a long term right wing propaganda coup enabled by people like Greenwald, who unlike this author, refuses to be corrected, but instead doubles down with even more left-punching propaganda which discredits his own articles much like a turd in the punchbowl.

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For once I can not totally stand behind that. What is basically wrong with the whole article is that liberals are equated with the left. That is fundamentally wrong and completely distorting the picture. US liberals are neo-conservatives and a bunch of self proclaimed phony progressives who would probably just barely pass for social democrats anywhere else.

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schiz•o•phre•ni•a,

n.

1. Psychiatry Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.

2. a state characterized by the coexistence of contradictory or incompatible elements.

That is exactly what it is with this 'war'. Everything is justified to the brim. We couldn't ask more of fanatics who are unable to hear any other arguments as hard as you try to convince them.

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I wouldn't hit the link and read that article, but from the excerpts you provide, I sense a strong sickly smell of smug enjoyment in rubbing "the left's" nose in their hypocritical warmongering.

I put "left" in quotes, because the author smears the left (intentionally) by mistaking it for what professor Nancy Fraser calls "Progressive Neoliberalism" (do the Google), a pose deployed by Democrats, where identity politics is used to mask pro-corporate economic and pro-war foreign policies.

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The unintended consequences of this War reveal to what strenuous lengths the current social politic will go to Not to give Peace a chance.

It’s this social politic of speaking to everyone as if to achieve social unity is an

utter fantasy. The Left, right, centre dialogue is just nonsense taken seriously by the manipulative.

To find the truth through having many diverse voices speaking up is entirely the opposite. The truth comes first, and not the social unity with its social correctness cowering all who disagree.

The Atlantic journalist is dead wrong in his myopic focus of what’s important in the creative dynamic of war showing the worst of a immoral mortal world , people have been trying to overcome for millenniums.

Boring to death to those who are appalled by the stupidity of our social leadership to solve anything practical like finding peace. It requires real courage unlike living in the paranoid fantasies of fear for social entertainment ?

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You didn't mention the all important.

nUkraine came as an out for the hacksxxxxines viruganda big Harmacide.

They changed the narrative to maintain it, duh.

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American democracy is a lie, and a weapon. American democracy is a bioweapon

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Sep 6, 2022·edited Sep 6, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO9zgNRwmKY

Strike "American", Madison was well read on what happened in both Greece and Rome, and designed his fraud with deliberate care, after buying up a great deal of national dept racked up from the 1776 War to transfer the masses from the (e: k)ing's rule to the slave owners rule. He'd have died a pauper if the soft coup had failed. Everything else is just following his cookbook with local spices.

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