People’s World, a U.S. leftist newspaper, reported that the White House earmarks millions of dollars to collect bad news on Cuba and spread it inside the island. According to the publication, Washington gives money to a group of organizations to have it transferred to Cuban real or imaginary opposition groups, both within the island and in other countries.
US Earmarks Millions of Dollars on Negative News About #Cuba
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Since 9/11, FBI Has Destroyed People Based On Their Race, Religion, Or Country Of Origin
[Editor’s Note: To mark the 20th anniversary of the rise of the American security state after the September 11th attacks, The Dissenter presents aretrospective on this transformation in law enforcement and government. Each entry in the series, “Twenty Years In A Security State,” will connect with whistleblower stories where possible.]
Since 9/11, FBI Has Destroyed People Based On Their Race, Religion, Or Country Of Origin
The New National American Elite
The New National American Elite
More and more Americans are figuring out that “wokeness” functions in the new, centralized American elite as a device to exclude working-class Americans of all races, along with backward remnants of the old regional elites. In effect, the new national oligarchy changes the codes and the passwords every six months or so, and notifies its members through the universities and the prestige media and Twitter. America’s working-class majority of all races pays far less attention than the elite to the media, and is highly unlikely to have a kid at Harvard or Yale to clue them in. And non-college-educated Americans spend very little time on Facebook and Twitter, the latter of which they are unlikely to be able to identify—which, among other things, proves the idiocy of the “Russiagate” theory that Vladimir Putin brainwashed white working-class Americans into voting for Trump by memes in social media which they are the least likely American voters to see.
Constantly replacing old terms with new terms known only to the oligarchs is a brilliant strategy of social exclusion. The rationale is supposed to be that this shows greater respect for particular groups. But there was no grassroots working-class movement among Black Americans demanding the use of “enslaved persons” instead of “slaves” and the overwhelming majority of Americans of Latin American descent—a wildly homogenizing category created by the U.S. Census Bureau—reject the weird term “Latinx.” Woke speech is simply a ruling-class dialect, which must be updated frequently to keep the lower orders from breaking the code and successfully imitating their betters.
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YouTube – Twin Problems: Social Media and Power Concentration by Economist Ashley Hodgson
Far-Right Intellectuals Are Offering Workers a Rotten Deal
Far-right intellectuals like Steve Bannon claim to speak for a working class put upon by out-of-touch liberal elites. But their anti-modernist, hierarchical vision of the world doesn’t offer workers what they really need: more money in their pockets, and more power at the workplace.
Far-Right Intellectuals Are Offering Workers a Rotten Deal
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Myths over History: the Strange Story of 21st Century Traditionalism on the Far Right
Facial recognition is getting better at making matches around face masks
Race—a capitalist invention
It was the birth of capitalism, and the growth of the slave trade it depended on, that was to change everything.