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In reply to the discussion: Suspend your concerns about Hartmann for a moment and read this.... [View all]PatrickforB
(15,485 posts)incisive description of end-stage capitalism.
People have unfairly attacked him because he ended up on a Russian network for awhile, but truth is truth, and Hartmann speaks the truth. And, yes, that truth is uncomfortable for many here, and for virtually all Republicans, who would consider Hartmann a version of Satan incarnate, and of course the Wall Street greed-lizards hate him.
Remember that in the face of the Lewis-Powell-engineered right-wing propaganda apparatus and the near stranglehold corporate power has on this republic, individual voices of truth like Hartmann, Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, and others struggle to be heard, but they are points of light in the darkness of greed-fueled profit-over-human-life-every-single-time capitalism.
And don't anybody dare 'cancel' Chomsky for a statement he made about a MIC-serving book about Pol Pot that came out in the 70s. He actually said that our MIC's role in the creation of Pol Pot was underplayed in the book. Much like when Bill Maher got cancelled back in 2001 when he implied that Al Qaeda had been at least partly created by us and our policies in the mid-east. Certainly the drone death-toys created more terrorists than they killed...