Source: Caitlin Johnstone, Rogue Journalist
by Caitlin Johnstone
“Obama continued and expanded Bush’s most evil policies. Trump continued and expanded Obama’s most evil policies. Biden continued and expanded Trump’s most evil policies. Now Trump is preparing to keep the streak going. The face at the front desk changes, but the corporation stays the same. Trump’s insanely pro-Israel cabinet of bloodthirsty Iran hawks suggests that Trump is going to expand the evils of the Biden administration in the middle east. This is a great example of the point I often make that the empire uses Democrats and Republicans the way a boxer uses the jab-cross combo to set up knockout blows. Democrats and Republicans are different from one another, not in the ways they claim to be different, but in the same way the jab and the cross are used differently in boxing.” (11/15/24)
“In Britain and most other countries today, the birth rate has fallen below replacement levels – usually defined as 2.1 babies per woman. Fertility first fell below replacement levels in about 1973, and since 2010 has fallen steadily to about 1.55 babies per woman. In a few countries, including China and Japan, there have already been absolute population declines. These trends are now prompting a lot of doom-laden commentary from demographers, economists and politicians. They claim that an ageing population, with ever-fewer working-age people supporting ever-more retirees, is creating an unsustainable burden for society. But these fears about an ageing population are not as new as they seem. In fact, in 1939, during a House of Lords debate on ‘population problems,’ Viscount Samuel expressed concerns about Britain’s falling birth rate that are very similar to those being expressed today.” (11/16/24)
“Donald Trump’s 2025 election victory was resounding and, it appears, realigning. The Democrats, for their part, are engaging in a rather public autopsy of their misfortune. While almost all claims that a party will be in the wilderness for years to come are exaggerations, there are at least three major mountains in the way of any realignment back in the Democrats’ favor. First, it must be said that Trump’s triumph and the Democrats’ loss has much to do with the economy. Yes, there were other factors such as immigration, crime and cultural issues. Even so, it was economy that was at the center of this election.” (11/15/24)
“Although Americans were warned—including by this publication—that President-elect Donald Trump would staff his administration with loyalists, few expected the shock of his calamitous selections for top positions in his administration. The common theme is that he is constructing a kind of anti-government—not in the sense of being for smaller government, but in the sense of being government’s evil twin. Every appointee is selected as a deliberate negation, even a mockery, of the function of government he or she will be in charge of.” (11/16/24)
Source: Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
by Ari Paul
“In speeches and public talks, Trump has repeatedly expressed his fondness for retribution. In 2011, he addressed the National Achievers Congress in Sydney, Australia, to explain how he had achieved his success. He noted there were a couple of lessons not taught in business school that successful people must know. At the top of the list was this piece of advice: ‘Get even with people. If they screw you, screw them back 10 times as hard. I really believe it.’ Knowing this about Trump, Democrats and liberals worry that he will use the Department of Justice, especially if Matt Gaetz is confirmed as attorney general, as an unrestrained vehicle to pursue the prosecution of political enemies.” [editor’s note: So blackmailing social media sites (as the Dems essentially did) to get them to censor your opponents is somehow NOT “a war on press freedoms?” – SAT] (11/16/24)
“Marco Rubio has finally found a place for himself … on a Mount Rushmore of putzes. Oh, sure, he’s kind of the Teddy Roosevelt — the one who doesn’t really belong — but in joining the ranks of Trump’s first-round picks — Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, etc. — Sen. Rubio is now in a terrific position to judge himself by the company he keeps. Some of you will know the old Polish proverb: ‘Not my circus, not my monkeys.’ Welcome to your circus, Little Marco. Meet the monkeys.” (11/15/24)
“Once upon a time, on a planet called Earth, there was born a global-capitalist empire. It was the first global empire in the history of empires. It dominated the entire planet. No one knew what to call the empire, because there had never been anything like it in history. It had no external adversaries, so it had nothing left to do but ‘clear and hold,’ i.e., neutralize internal resistance and consolidate its domination of the planet. So that is what it set about doing. It did this first in the territories of its final ideological adversary, an empire called the Soviet Union, the ideology of which was known as ‘Communism.’ This was known as the ‘Post-Cold-War Era.’ It did this next in the Greater Middle East, where people were still trying to live their lives according to a religion known as ‘Islam.’ This was known as the ‘Global War on Terror.'” (11/15/24)
“‘The last of all oppressions’ … That’s how Thomas Jefferson described the military draft. Because of widespread opposition to it, the federal government didn’t actively draft men into the military until the Civil War. But, during the War of 1812, it tried – and would have likely moved forward with the plan were it not for intense opposition from New England states.” (11/15/24)
“In the aftermath of its loss on Nov. 5, the left has turned its lonely eyes to Joe Rogan. The irreverent, world-conquering podcaster — 14.5 million Spotify followers and counting — is considered a symbol of Donald Trump’s ability to use unconventional media outlets to reach disaffected voters, especially young males, aka ‘bros.’ Trump’s interview with Rogan has garnered 50 million views on YouTube, while the podcaster endorsed the former president in the final hours of the campaign. With Trump showing extraordinary strength among young men, progressives are wondering how they can get into the Joe Rogan-type game. As a headline in The New York Times put it, ‘Trump’s Win Leaves Democrats Asking: Where Are Our Bro Whisperers?’ … Progressives are correct about the power of Rogan and his cohort of bro podcasters, but they don’t understand how thoroughly anathema their ideology and cultural sensibility are to this kind of programming.” (11/16/24)
“The U.S. has enabled the slaughter and starvation in Gaza for more than thirteen months. Conservative estimates from medical workers that have served in Gaza put the overall death toll at nearly 119,000, and that number will have risen significantly in the weeks since then. We have seen the same pattern repeat for all that time: the Israeli government commits grievous crimes against the Palestinian civilian population, the administration tut-tuts and asks that Netanyahu and his allies be slightly less sadistic, the Israeli government blows through whatever lines the administration has drawn, and then the U.S. shrugs and takes their word for it that they are improving. The Biden administration will never find Israel in violation of any law because they do not want to withhold the weapons that the Israeli military uses to commit war crimes.” (11/15/24)
