Remember when the War on Terror ended and the War on Populism began? But seriously, go back and scan the news. The President of the United States is apparently both a Russian intelligence operative and literally the resurrection of Hitler.
The Guardian has dispensed with any pretense of journalism and is just making stories up out of whole cloth. The leading theory is that the Russians are behind it. But, seriously, all that actually happened back in the Summer of was the global capitalist ruling classes recognized that they had a problem. The whole smiley-happy, supranational, neo-feudal corporate empire concept is not going over very well with the masses, or at least not with the unwashed masses.
The global capitalist ruling classes needed to put a stop to that i. When a system is globally hegemonic, as our current model of capitalism is, every war is a counter-insurgency i.
If you think things are batshit crazy now which, clearly, they are , strap yourself in. The neoliberal corporate media, psy-ops like Integrity Initiative , Internet-censoring apps like NewsGuard , ShareBlue and other David Brock outfits , and a legion of mass hysteria generators will be relentlessly barraging our brains with absurdity, disinformation, and just outright lies as will their counterparts on the Right, of course, in case you thought that they were any alternative.
Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright, novelist and political satirist based in Berlin. He can be reached at cjhopkins. Maybe Spain quite soon. CJ, enjoy your writing and perspective but I think Trump is a force of nature and Macron is just another pretty man in a nice suit. Recall, the French uprising did not happen before Trump, but after Trump. Testosterone is a communicable commodity. I find CJ a welcome edition to Unz. Thanks, Ron. Come on, CJ. Can you understand what much of the rest of us here are trying to say?
