The Post-Partisan Emporium

  What the Left Gets Right—and Why Anti-genocide protestors deserve everyone's support KEVIN BARRETT   The Zionist genocide of Palestine is not a left-versus-right issue. It is a question of right-vs.-wrong. But the media don’t see it that way. They have created an “Overton window” of acceptable mainstream opinion, and divided into two windowpanes: a left windowpane overlooking a scene in which it’s okay to call for a ceasefire as long as you condemn Hamas; and a right windowpane looking out on a madly counterfactual landscape in which Israel is supposedly “defending itself” by slaughtering tens of thousands of women and children. Both perspectives are insane, in the sense that they bear little relation to objective reality. Nobody looking through the mainstream’s Overton window can see what’s really happening in Occupied Palestine. During recent weeks, a snowballing series of student protests on campuses in the US and around the world have challenged the mainstream media’s anti-Pa

 Thanks to Saint Jimmy for bringing this essay to our attention... Cthulhu Gazes Right The Regime Dons a Skin Suit ISAAC SIMPSON “But, given our present political conditions under which every office seeker must cater to the vote of the masses, the only means by which the born leader can lead is the expert use of propaganda….Ours must be a leadership democracy administered by the intelligent minority who know how to regiment and guide the masses.” -  Edward Bernays , Propaganda (1928) — Super Bowl 58. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. I put a lot of stake in the images that uncontrollably flash into my mind, and when I woke up the next morning I kept seeing the same thing: Post Malone’s bolo tie.  The Ozempicked pop star eschewed his wiggerish priors for a clean cut cowboy rendition of “America the Beautiful.” Why was I thinking about this? Where had I seen it before? At the Grammys, Beyonce had appeared in cowboy gear wearing a bolo tie with a similar turquoise clasp to promote her