The Monthly Review — March 2025
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➊ IT’S TIME TO HEAR FROM THE OTHER SIDE
When American mainstream media outlets and publications talk about Russia’s “unprovoked” invasion, they strategically do so to make you forget that speeches like this one from the Russian president Vladimir Putin, delivered eighteen years ago—warning of NATO’s encroachment on Russian territory—ever took place.
Putin, in 2007, said:
“It turns out that NATO has put its frontline forces on our borders, and we continue to strictly fulfill the treaty obligations and do not react to these actions at all. I think it’s obvious that NATO expansion does not have any relation with the modernization of the Alliance itself or with ensuring security in Europe. On the contrary, it represents a serious PROVOCATION that reduces the level of mutual trust. And we have the right to ask: against whom is this expansion intended?”
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2007 Munich Security Conference
Delivered: February 10, 2007
Translated: AI
To understand the geopolitics of today, study the geopolitics of yesteryear. History often provides context. Revisit this landmark moment in history during which Vladimir Putin delivers a critical speech at the 43rd Munich Security Conference. As the description reads: “He openly criticizes the U.S. for its striving for a unipolar world, its unrestrained use of force, and its disdain for international law. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, he made clear that Russia does not intend to fit in this kind of world order. Despite his criticism, Putin didn’t seek confrontation but called for a new partnership on a fair basis. The Western mainstream media, however, distorted his speech and portrayed it as a malicious attack. Watch and judge for yourself.”
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➋ COMMUNIST SMEAR TACTICS: THEN AND NOW
G. Edward Griffin lectures on Communist smear tactics in 1969. More than fifty years later, many of these same smear tactics are observed among the Woke Left and the Woke Right.
➌ “FEEL THE BERN”… OF A POLITICAL PARTY BURNING TO THE GROUND
The Democrat Party is thinking of running AOC in 2028. Because of course the party that has nothing but identity politics to give the people would deliver them the most vapid identitarian of them all. The buffoon who’s somehow still managing to swindle voters. The Socialist herself. What could possibly go wrong?
This must be Bernie’s version of passing the torch. One last shameless heist from the voters he abandoned in 2020 — giving AOC his platform, whatever remains of that tattered legacy.
It all makes sense now why AOC was desperately asking Trump supporters, post-Democrat election loss, what podcasts and shows Trump voters regularly consumed, and which outlets they read and pay attention to. It was never to actually learn from the American people during a period of reflection. It was simply a soft launch for her coronation as the frontrunner for the 2028 elections. Also worth noting that her inquiry was an effort to ensure which outlets need to be clamped down against during the next election cycle.
What’s remarkable about Bernie and AOC practically campaigning together on their “Fight Oligarchy” tour is that the American Left is so overwhelmed by propaganda that they’ll eat this all up without a single critical thought. They’ll argue that “AOC is exactly what that country needs right now because there is no better woman to be the first female president. She’s young. She’s a person of color. She’s a woman. She’s ‘working class.’ She’s progressive. She’s the natural follow up to Bernie’s campaigns. She’s the antidote to a Trump-JD Vance-Elon Musk presidency. And she represents the American Dream.”
Tell yourselves whatever you need in order to cope. Reality is operating on a different timeline, and it’s not looking good for Democrats who still believe that this is the way forward.
➍ ISRAEL-FIRST, FREE SPEECH LAST — ON CAMPUS PROTESTS
Trump’s admin is currently overcorrecting by censoring, deporting, punishing dissident citizens with long sentences, and classifying green card holders who challenge Israel’s genocidal campaign as “terrorists” and “Hamas supporters.” All of this because the entire admin is comprised of political figures who are completely subservient to Israel.
➎ TRUMP’S DOMESTIC WAR ON TERROR
If we are to allow Trump’s admin to define who/what counts as “Anti-American,” “Hamas supporter,” “terrorists,” surely it will be you and me very soon for holding the stance that innocent people—who do not belong to one of many U.S. client states—should not be slaughtered, and that Israel should not be funded to the tunes of billions of dollars.
The Left has spent the past five years defining what “misinformation” is. And we witnessed how quickly that swept up actual legitimate scientists, intellectuals, everyday truckers in the Americas, social media users, and much more, who pushed back on the prevailing Covid/vaccine narrative.
The road to America’s Domestic War on Terror was laid by the Biden admin (many have written at length about this over the past several years). I think the smart thing here would be to push back in order to prevent the current admin from finishing that job.
➏ “YOU’RE A DISSIDENT JOURNALIST? STRAIGHT TO JAIL!”
It’s ironic that by holding fast to “America-First” values, you’re perceived as “Anti-American” by the administration that ran on—wait for it—America-First policies.
Under Trump’s administration, an American journalist who reports on Israeli military attacks that kill Palestinian journalists is apparently to be labeled a “Hamas supporter.”
To the folks who’ve been saying this issue isn’t about free-speech and that American citizens are not at risk of facing similar repercussions as green card holders are—is it making sense yet??
No, you won’t be getting deported, but you will surely be silenced by the regime, made to lose your livelihood, perhaps even be detained for simply reporting on anything remotely critical of Israel.
➐ VIOLENCE AS THE LANGUAGE OF THE PARTY OF TOLERANCE
The party that screeched about the “insurrection” at the Capitol are committing serious acts of violence because they don’t like the people in power.
When their party can’t successfully rig elections, they turn to their base to activate them as foot soldiers who will use violence to accomplish their goals.
It’s why many of them were all over Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook last year openly expressing their disappointment that Trump’s would-be assassin didn’t succeed. They all desperately pleaded openly for “the next shooter to have better aim.”
This is their language. This is what they know. Violence, when all else—including coercive tactics—fails. This is the so-called party of tolerance, of diversity, of acceptance, of equity, of inclusion, of “live and let live,” of love is love, of safe spaces.
It’s THEIR way or NO WAY. What they accuse others of, they are guilty of. It’s conformity or die.
And rest assured, political figures like Trump and Musk are very much still in this “tolerant” party’s literal crosshairs should they continue on the track they’re on. It’s only been two months. Before Trump’s attempted assassination, we witnessed lots of rhetoric and coverage in the media painting Trump as Hitler, Nazi, etc. Now, we’re seeing an uptick of the same for Musk matched with acts of violence against all things Tesla. Stay vigilant. Normalcy is a thing of the past.
➑ MEET THE NEW BOSS, SAME AS THE OLD BOSS
When Biden’s admin labeled Jan. 6th protesters as “right-wing domestic extremists” and “militia groups,” we all had an issue with that.
Now that Trump’s admin is labeling arsonists and others vandalizing Tesla property as “terrorists,” rhetoric that not only mirrors the Biden admin playbook, but follows the 9/11 strategy of waging war against any entity that can be labeled as “terrorists,” we should all be deeply concerned.
There are laws already in place to prosecute people who vandalize and commit foolish crimes—put them behind bars.
Glenn Greenwald touched on this subject of the Domestic War on Terror back in 2021. Today, journalist Ken Klippenstein is carrying the torch and sounding the alarm.
➒ “FOLLOW OR DIE”
When you think about industries like journalism, when you think about the social media experience, and much more—this is essentially what has been indoctrinated into the populace: “Follow the trends, and the algorithm will shower you with views. You’ll go viral and bask in the spotlight. Dare to stray, refusing to trade craft for clicks, and you’ll be buried. You’ll get fewer views and fewer shares, so good luck getting discovered.”
And so the entire culture embraces following not leading. Originality is discarded for the trendy. Children and young adults join the latest mindless trends on Instagram and TikTok because they know they’ll algorithmically get rewarded for it. Fewer kids and young adults pursue real, creative ideas that stimulates the artistic mind and sensibilities. Mainstream journalists normalize conformity and doing access journalism over taking risks that come with bold investigative reporting because they know that not stirring pot gets rewarded and lands bigger opportunities. As journalist Glenn Greenwald always notes, the more corporate journalists are able to lie, the more they are able to advance their careers.
This is our culture. And it has been deliberately and systematically normalized.
➓ THE WEAPONIZATION OF GUILT
I’m genuinely not surprised that white women who have been brainwashed by black activists to feel guilty for their “white privilege,” that they loudly denigrate themselves and others for being white are the same ones who are willing to sacrifice women’s safety and sacred spaces in order to adopt men cosplaying as women into women’s sports.
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