LUMPENPROLETARIAT—[Thursday, 02 MAR 2023] Here are some of today’s media/press notes to help us track and make sense of this plandemic dystopia we all find ourselves living through in the 2020s, including inverted totalitarianism, medical authoritarianism, medical apartheid, police state, post-COVID-19 controlled demolition of the global economy, looming food crisis, the rise of neo-feudalism, houseless encampments of the neo-peasantry, nuclear danger, creeping WWIII provoked by US/NATO/AUKUS imperialism against the BRICS nations and the global south, military pollution, petrol pollution, corporate pollution, chemical pollution, geoengineering, chemical cloud seeding, endocrine disrupting chemicals in the food and water, a worsening global fertility crisis, and industry-induced climate change leading to a climate crisis of melting ice caps, record heatwaves, tornadoes, floods, drought, drying rivers, and other extreme weather events, which threaten life on Earth.
Let’s learn together and find solutions together. Let’s build working class solidarity. Let’s build human solidarity. Let’s form groups and “act for justice”. “[There’s] power anywhere where there’s people,” as Fred Hampton said. Siempre hay esperanza. (Please see below for samples of today’s news cycle.)
I think our priority should not be electoral politics. I think our priority should be building disciplined, organized, militant popular movements. And electoral politics can be part of that movement, but shouldn’t be the primary focus. We have to rebuild those organizations because the only strength we have is in our numbers. And, if we use those numbers correctly, we can pit power against power. But that requires organization.
Chris Hedges (quoted from a 2021 talk at Brooklyn College)
OTHER SALIENT OBSERVATIONS:
- “US EMPIRE GOING DOWN IN FLAMES” by Garland Nixon [via Rokfin], 2 MAR 2023. [46min 09sec] [06:35 PST] (Additional notes on this presentation below.)
- “Survival Strategies in the Era of AI Taught by Stanford | Stanford AIRE Director” by EO [via YouTube], 2 MAR 2023. [9min 37sec] | Thumbnail Image QUOTATION: “How We SURVIVE From the Era of ChatGPT” | logic flaw: The well-meaning Stanford professor said people, who do not learn to use AI will not be able to compete in the modern economy, which humanity has known since the days of David Ricardo would be facing technological unemployment. Your author would ask the Stanford professor to read Robert Skidelsky and others, who ask: Why must technological unemployment lead to wage slavery and misery, instead of human liberation? Why must humans “compete” against one another? I mean I get it. In a meritocratic society, people would compete for jobs, so that the best applicants are selected. This notion presupposes there are not enough jobs. The professor is implicitly acknowledging there are not enough jobs in society for everyone, or, at the very least, there aren’t enough jobs, which provide gainful employment with pensions or a realistic pathway to retirement. In other words, why acquiesce to a society where people are forced to compete for scarce jobs, which technological unemployment will increasingly make even scarcer? In other words, why compete, instead of cooperate? Why set up society to make winners and losers because there isn’t enough gainful employment for everyone? Why compete, as a society, when we can cooperate? If we look at a simple political compass with two dimensions, we usually plot the range of economic possibilities on a horizontal axis. On the right side of the axis is unbridled competition, capitalist modes of production. On the left side of the axis is unbridled cooperation, socialist modes of production. Which do you choose? The right side leads toward monopolistic competition and cartelization of industries and super-exploitation of labor and/or wage-slavery. The left side leads to social cooperation, a classless society and human liberation. Which do you choose? Now, I imagine you’re thinking: But socialism is authoritarianism! Hold on. The economic system doesn’t necessarily dictate the role of the state. That’s a separate dimension. So, returning to our graph of a simple political compass, on a vertical axis, we graph the role of of the state. On the top half of our graph, we have authoritarianism. On the lower half, we graph libertarianism. Then, we can plot some examples. In the upper left corner, leftist authoritarianism, we can plot Stalin. In the upper right corner of our graph, we can plot Hitler. So, you see that authoritarianism is not necessarily synonymous with socialism because we can also have authoritarian capitalism, like Hitler’s Germany or modern-day USA. In the lower half of the graph, we can plot libertarian examples, which admittedly have never been allowed because of feudalism, capitalism, and coming soon neofeudalism colonized and enslaving the whole world. But an example of leftist libertarianism would be led by someone, like Ghandi or Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. On the lower right side, rightist libertarianism, well, I leave it to you to think of an example because your author thinks this is a dead zone because, increasingly, scholars and others are recognizing the incompatibility between capitalist modes of production and democracy. And, since libertarianism requires a democratic society, you can see why this area of the political spectrum is untenable. Capitalism can only lead to authoritarianism because it is incompatible with democracy. (cf. “Americas Stunted Political Spectrum” by Second Thought, 24 APR 2020 & “America’s Two-Party Corporate Duopoly” by Second Thought, 25 SEP 2020) The tech sector will never be able to employ everyone, not even if everyone passed all the required coursework and training. For an example of a utopian technocratic society, look at Star Trek. In that fictional world, humanity has matured beyond its societal infancy. Technology produces everything; and only about ten percent of the populationis needed to run the technology. Money has become obsolete. And people compete to enter the academy to earn the privilege of being awarded one of the few jobs needed to operate the machinery, the technology. Everyone else is liberated to engage in meaningful, self-directed activity, to be care for their families and each other, to be free. Technological unemployment will increase. But capitalists prefer to enslave those, who will become unemployed, rather than liberate them, as Gene Roddenberry envisioned for humanity. The problem isn’t an education problem. It’s a problem of economics.
@LumpenProles, last modified/edited/updated on 9 MAR 2023 at 08:29 PST.
MEDIA NOTES, NEWS, VIEWS, WORKING CLASS BLUES, INFORMATION, INSPIRATION, PERSPIRATION, AND AGITATION FROM A WORKING CLASS PERSPECTIVE*
[Ideally, your author would have included links to all programs listed below. Programs listed are based on past scheduling and have not yet been verified. Please check relevant websites for actual programming. / Notes will be modified/edited/updated as time and labor constraints allow. Working class solidarity. ✊🏽✊🏼✊🏿✊]
Thursday, 2 March 2023
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*The opinions expressed by the hosts, guests, journalists, authors, and other speakers in today’s sampling of news and information are not necessarily the views of Lumpenproletariat.
The free speech Pacifica Radio Network, perhaps the world’s oldest listener-sponsored, definitely the world’s first and only listener-owned radio network, includes KPFA (the first Pacifica Radio station; Berkeley, CA), WBAI (NYC), KPFK (Los Angeles), WPFW (D.C.), and KPFT (Houston), and has many other affiliate stations. The U.S. government, having undergone a corporate coup d’état in slow motion (if not a military coup on 22 NOV 1963), and being inimical to the Bill of Rights, is opposed to free speech radio. After the 1999 KPFA Lockouts, listeners won democratic governance of the Pacifica Radio Network. Unfortunately, since then, a liberal (i.e., pro-capitalist or non-anti-capitalist) faction, including KPFA news bosses (Aileen Alfandary, Mark Mericle, et al.), have colluded to undermine democratic governance and to NPR-ize Pacifica Radio. Free speech Pacifica Radio is your radio network, built to broadcast news and information, which the establishment tries to distort or hide from you. We cannot hope for a democratic society without an informed citizenry. Please support free speech Pacifica Radio. Become a member with full voting rights for as little as $25 per year. Then, hold your Pacifica Radio stations accountable and keep Pacifica Radio true to the Pacifica Mission Statement. Then, help expand free speech radio and digital media. Most media/press is state-corporate propaganda. The airwaves belong to the people. Don’t let Democrat partisans colonize free speech radio. Don’t let Democrat partisans keep the working-class imaginary confined within the false left-right paradigm, within the false opposition party that is the Democrat Party, within the corporate two-party dictatorship. The working-class needs institutional power to build political power, not just cultural awareness or cultural celebration, not just “identity politics”, which are mostly cultural, not political, concerns. Political education is as necessary for working-class liberation, as it is central to the Pacifica Mission Statement. Unfortunately, the Democrat Party, the two-party system, the establishment is dumbing down America. And this process of depoliticization and demobilization is being advanced within Pacifica Radio by certain people, apparently connected to the Democrat Party and/or the U.S. government. Please support free speech Pacifica Radio; then, hold it accountable to its Mission Statement. Oust the sophists. Lift up the truth-seekers. This daily column is dedicated to the Pacifica Mission Statement, dedicated to exposing sophistry and deception, dedicated to the liberation of the working-class through communication, dia logos, encouraging mindful action within and between wisdom-cultivating communities. As Einstein suggested, like Socrates before him, the important thing is to not stop questioning.
02:00 PST / 05:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > CODEPINK Radio with CODEPINK Collective
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05:00 PST / 08:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman and company
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06:00 PST / 09:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Equal Rights and Justice with Mimi Rosenberg
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“US EMPIRE GOING DOWN IN FLAMES” by Garland Nixon [via Rokfin], 2 MAR 2023. [46min 09sec] [06:35 PST]
NOTES: [TW] … (c. 14min 30sec) Garland Nixon: ‘If you wanna know what it’s going to look like [in the EU, as it continues to follow the US agenda], watch World War Z or Dawn of the Dead. That’s what the US empire is doing. That’s where they’re taking the EU. Done. Dystopian hellscape.’ (c. 14min 45sec) … | THE MIDDLE EAST > ZIONIST ISRAEL/OCCUPIED PALESTINE (c. 17min 26sec) “The leaders have lost it, collapsed. Israel has pretty much collapsed into fascism. Let’s be honest.” … | (c. 24min 05sec) SYRIA > ‘House Overwhelmingly Approves House Resolution to Maintain Syria Sanctions after Earthquake’ … | UKRAINE … | INDIA > allies with BRICS to defend itself against looming US/NATO/AUKUS imperialist aggression … | HAITI > suffers neocolonialism under US/NATO imperialism … | GERMANY > ‘Germany is toast, as a result of allying itself with US/NATO imperialism [Indeed. As a wise person said, it’s dangerous to be an enemy of US, but it’s fatal to be an ally…] | SUPER CHATS
COMMENTS: Garland Nixon can usually be counted on to provide his audience with a healthy dose of common sense… Also, listen to Garland Nixon on the free speech Pacifica Radio Network, including WBAI.
06:00 PST / 09:00 EST, WPFW [D.C.] > On the Margin
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07:00 PST, KPFK [Los Angeles, CA] > Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod
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07:00 PST / 10:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > CODEPINK Radio with CODEPINK activists
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07:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] > UpFront with Brian Edwards-Tiekert
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COMMENTS: UpFront is some of the worst Machiavellian perception management, which will never inform the working class, which is oppressed by the power elite, nor help them connect the dots between issues to help the public see the larger truths to be able to learn from past experience. This is liberal [i.e., pro-capitalist or non-anti-capitalist] entertainment and Democrat Party apologism masquerading as critical leftist [i.e., anti-capitalist] journalism and analysis. [ 2? ]
08:00 PST / 11:00 EST, WPFW [D.C.] > Code Pink Radio
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08:00 PST / 11:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Joy of Resistance with Fran Luck
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09:00 PST / 12:00 EST, PRN.Live [NYC] & WBAI [NYC] (simulcast) > The Gary Null Show
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COMMENTS: This program, The Gary Null Show, is one of the most honest, compassionate, and hard-hitting shows on Pacifica Radio, or anywhere for that matter. This program is easily as important, as the best of them: Flashpoints; Project Censored; On The Ground: Voices of Resistance From the Nation’s Capitol; Covid, Race & Democracy, Guns and Butter, et al.
10:00 PST / 13:00 EST, PRN.Live [NYC] > Leid Stories with Utrice Leid
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COMMENTS: This program, Leid Stories, is dedicated to free speech, but free speech with common sense, courtesy, and focus. Listeners are invited to call in to speak freely about a particular question posed by the host, Utrice Leid. Unlike other call-in shows, like Thom Hartmann, Kris Welch, Mitch Jeserich, and many others on free speech Pacifica Radio, callers aren’t screened or filtered, dissonant voices aren’t cut short, or otherwise handled to control the narrative. Instead, the host, Utrice Leid, helps callers make their point, as long as it’s a cogent argument. Utrice Leid encourages critical thinking. On Fridays, the discussion theme is “Free Your Mind Fridays”, where listeners are invited to call in to articulate an opinion on any topic they wish. KPFA listeners deserve a radio host, like Utrice Leid, during weekdays, instead of partisan hosts, such as Kris Welch, who perpetuate phony establishment narratives, and stifle call-ins. | Leid Stories is one of the most honest, hard-hitting, yet compassionate, programs on the free speech Progressive Radio Network, or anywhere for that matter. This program is easily as important, as the best of them: Project Censored; Flashpoints; The Gary Null Show; On The Ground: Voices of Resistance From the Nation’s Capitol; Guns and Butter; Clearing the FOG; Covid, Race & Democracy; et al.
10:00 PST / 13:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Leonard Lopate at Large
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COMMENTS: This program, Leonard Lopate at Large, suffers from the same “liberal bias” (which Dr. Noam Chomsky has warned about since at least the 1990s), as UpFront, Democracy Now!, Letters and Politics, Talkies, Rising Up, et al. Democrat Party apologism and a refusal to critique or interrogate the two-party dictatorship is the common thread between all these liberals (i.e., pro-capitalists or non-anti-capitalists)…
10:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] & KPFK [Los Angeles, CA] (simulcast) > Letters and Politics
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COMMENTS: This program, Letters and Politics, suffers from the same “liberal bias” (which Dr. Noam Chomsky has warned about since at least the 1990s), as UpFront, Democracy Now!, Leonard Lopate at Large, Talkies, Rising Up, et al. Democrat Party apologism and a refusal to critique or interrogate the two-party dictatorship is the common thread between all these liberals (i.e., pro-capitalists or non-anti-capitalists)…
10:00 PST / 13:00 EST, WPFW [D.C.] > Your Rights at Work
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11:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] > Talkies with Kris Welch
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COMMENTS: This program suffers from what Dr. Noam Chomsky described circa 1991 as “the liberal bias”. Kris Welch is a stalwart defender of Democrat Party reformism. But, of course, the defense is done with subtlety and nuance. Uncritical listeners might even project their own views on to her liberal rhetoric and see what they want to see. But, make no mistake, Kris Welch is a staunch Democrat, a Wellstone Democrat to be precise. The Democrat Party will always be a corrupt, corporate party. Yet, some Democrat reformists never stop with their false left-right paradigm, operating from an underlying assumption or from the presupposition that the Democrat Party is a sincere opposition party to the racist, anti-working class Republican Party. Over time, a pattern of Democrat Party apologia emerges. This seems implausible as an ideological stance. Such apologia only makes sense coming from shills on some payroll.
11:00 PST / 14:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Take Charge of Your Health with Corrine Furnani & Carol Petersen
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12:00 PST / 15:00 EST, PRN.Live [NYC] > All Together Now with Eleanor LeCain
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COMMENTS: Your author is new to this radio program on the Progressive Radio Network (PRN). Your author has been listening to free speech radio KPFA since childhood, since junior high school (aka ‘middle school’). But, since the 1999 KPFA Lockouts, liberals, like Doug Henwood, a political ally of Sasha Lilley (a host of Against the Grain), have been watering down honest, hard-hitting, yet compassionate free speech radio… An honest, pro-labor, program, like All Together Now, ought to be on KPFA, instead of synthetic left programs, like Behind the News…
12:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] > Behind the News
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COMMENTS: This program, Behind the News, suffers from the same “liberal bias” (which Dr. Noam Chomsky has warned about since at least the 1990s), as UpFront, Democracy Now!, Leonard Lopate at Large, Letters and Politics, Talkies, et al. Democrat Party apologism and a refusal to critique or interrogate the two-party dictatorship is the common thread between all these liberals (i.e., pro-capitalists or non-anti-capitalists). Doug Henwood, like the hosts of Against the Grain (Sasha Lilley and C.S. Soong), deserve some credit for providing some informative programs, which are of interest to left-leaning people. And, I must admit, they had me fooled for years into thinking that they are actually leftists. But, at this point in my life, I finally understand that Doug Henwood, like C.S. Soong and Sasha Lilley, will never critique the Democrat Party nor the two-party dictatorship as thoroughly as they may critique the Republican Party. Notably, Sasha Lilley is a political ally of Doug Henwood, helping him get on the KPFA broadcast schedule back during the years when Sasha Lilley was KPFA’s interim Program Director. I remember at least one KPFA ally, speaking against Doug Henwood, calling him a “hack” back then, when I naively perceived Doug Henwood as more leftist than he actually is. Liberals, like Doug Henwood, Sasha Lilley, and C.S. Soong are the most clever of Pacifica Radio liberals because they seem sincere, honest, leftist. But, when you listen closely to them, especially for decades as your author has done, you start to see the liberal bias and the Democrat Party apologia very clearly. It’s obvious over time, especially taking notes on their broadcasts. But such liberals can perpetrate a fraud against occasional listeners, as they have done for years, but all the while contributing to a general dumbing down of free speech Pacifica Radio listeners, especially when it comes to what Dr. Peter Dale Scott, Dr. Peter Phillips, and others call “deep politics”, especially when it comes to moments of kairos, turning points, such as 9/11 and the COVID-19 psyop (chimeric virus is real, most likely lab-engineered through gain of function research; but the statistics and statistical modeling was fraudulent and inflated for fearmongering purposes). All we get is gaslighting from such liberals masquerading as anti-capitalists when it comes to deep politics. Ultimately, this is liberal entertainment for shallow and demobilized types. It takes more sincerity, more willingness to challenge power structures with specifics, naming names, to truly elevate the consciousness of listeners, to activate and politicize and mobilize listeners to go from being passive to active. We need people like Doug Henwood, Sasha Lilley, and C.S. Soong to stop bullshitting listeners, when it comes to deep politics, even when it comes to the two-party dictatorship. Such liberals need to interview and learn from other more honest broadcasters, such as Mickey Huff, Bonnie Faulkner, Dennis Bernstein, Esther Iverem, Gary Null, Steve Zeltzer, et al.
12:00 PST / 15:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Resistance Radio with John Kane and Regan de Loggans
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13:00 PST / 16:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod
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13:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] >
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14:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] > The Visionary Activist
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COMMENTS: This show, The Visionary Activist, is, perhaps, the most egregious example of dishonoring the Pacifica Mission statement. Instead of calling this show The Visionary Activist, it ought to be called The Demobilizing Activist, fomenting analysis paralysis. Fake deep statements. Fetishism of indigenous stuff? Liberals (i.e., pro-capitalists or non-anti-capitalists).
14:00 PST / 17:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Driving Forces
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14:00 PST / 17:00 EST, WPFW [D.C.] > Sojourner Truth with Margaret Prescod
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15:00 PST / 18:00 EST, WPFW [D.C.] > U Must Learn
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15:00 PST / 18:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Democracy Now! Evening with Amy Goodman and company
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COMMENTS: Evidently, a truncated 30-minute version of the morning’s Democracy Now! program functions as WBAI’s nightly newscast.
15:30 PST / 18:30 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Chris Hedges Report [30min]
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16:00 PST / 19:00 EST, WBAI [NYC] > Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley [60min]
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16:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] > Hard Knock Radio with Davey D
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17:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] > Flashpoints with Dennis Bernstein
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18:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] > The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays
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COMMENTS: The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays is usually, honest on basic social justice issues, but KPFA newscast bosses tend to gaslight listeners on COVID-19 (never mention VAERS data, VAERS deaths, assaults on informed consent, assaults on parental consent, no mention of litigation in India against the World Health Organization, etc.) and also gaslight listeners regarding establishment Democrat Party politics (i.e., usually engaging in Democrat Party apologia and perception management to keep people within the Democrat Party imaginary and away from the third-party politics imaginary, in the sociology sense of the term, ‘imaginary’). I.e., in other words, ‘it’s all good, just don’t question 9/11, COVID-19, nor establishment electoral politics.’ Having said all that, this is still a better nightly newscast than most. I’m hard-pressed to think of a better one, especially since the demise of Free Speech Radio News (FSRN), particularly regarding local news coverage. But that doesn’t excuse the KPFA news bosses’ intellectual dishonesty, lying by omission, and other deficiencies of journalistic integrity. WION is pretty good on global news; but there, too, one can detect the liberal bias, which Dr. Noam Chomsky has warned about since at least the 1990s.
19:00 PST, KPFA [Berkeley, CA] >
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[ 1 ] UpFront is some of the worst kind of Machiavellian gaslighting in radio. This type of Machiavellian talk radio hides its lack of concern for the suffering of others behind a veneer of journalistic objectivity or journalistic professionalism—professionalism, the journalistic refuge of scoundrels. Liberals (i.e., pro-capitalists or non-anti-capitalists), like this host, appear to be professional amnesiacs, conveniently forgetting lessons from their own past interviews, if such lessons threaten the status quo, not to mention other common sense lessons from the broader society. There are so many examples of when listeners can remember a key piece of information, which can help an interview reach deeper conclusions or attain new insights, but the liberal host feigns ignorance or simply failed to make the connection. And listeners are given the mushroom treatment, as Nicole Sawaya used to say (former KPFA manager, described the long-standing culture behind the scenes at Pacifica Radio): ‘keep them in the dark and feed them bullshit.’ At any rate, the listeners, who listen because they care about social justice, are the losers because these liberal hosts force each conversation to start at square one. Important insights culled from interview A will never show up on interview B or C. Sure, such liberals will go into meticulous and sophisticated detail. But only when it doesn’t impact the status quo. Of course, there are exceptions at Pacifica Radio, such as Flashpoints and Guns and Butter (which was forced off the air at KPFA), but they are viewed as the black sheep by the bosses, not supported or embraced as allies. Oddly, during the first quarter of 2022, Mickey Huff was on Letters and Politics. I’ll have to relisten, if possible. It’s plausible Mickey Huff is open to collaboration and cooperation. But it’s not plausible entertainers, like Mitch Jeserich, would ever do anything with sincere educators and truth-seekers, like Mickey Huff, without an ulterior motive, such as reputational rehabilitation. Examples of established ideas and conclusions, which can help liberate the working class, but which are marginalized or ignored by such liberals, as the hosts of UpFront, Letters and Politics, Talkies, etc., include modern monetary theory, the job guarantee program, the two-party dictatorship, the fact that two-party systems are polarizing, benefits of ranked-choice voting, proportional representation, the incompatibility between democracy and capitalism, and so on. And these are not partisan issues. They’re only partisan issues, if you’re an antidemocratic partisan, a fascist, or an authoritarian. Otherwise, we all have the common sense to identify basic democratizing features of a healthy democracy. These are undisputable conclusions about a healthy democracy versus a diseased democracy, which have been accumulated after listening to voices advocating for social justice for decades. When you listen to voices for peace and justice for years and decades, it’s hard not to learn basic truths over time. Yet, somehow, some people never learn anything. They still haven’t grasped the fundamental contradictions within capitalism, for example. Only willful ignorance seems adequate to explain this. The underlying presuppositions of such liberals deny all of these realities and begin with the false left-right paradigm, in which the Democrat Party is assumed to be a sincere opposition party, when, in fact, as Chris Hedges, Ralph Nader, et al, have long admitted, we have a two-party dictatorship because America has undergone a corporate coup d’etat decades ago. But you’d never know any of this from listening to liberals, such as this particular host.
[02 MAR 2023]
[Last modified/edited/updated on 9 MAR 2023 at 11:14 PST]
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