Trump was ideologically incoherent and crassly transactional. But the threat he posed to American empire and thus the gargantuan security state helps establish a motive for why the FBI and CIA intervened in both the 2016 and 2020 elections. As president, Donald Trump lavished the rich with tax cuts and deregulation. Yet, contradictorily, he also threatened the structure of American global hegemony that does so much to keep the American one percent tremendously wealthy. In fact, Trump undertook the most […]
I know it's Grayzone which has been cringe recently but this is Parenti's son and it's a very good read so.
The 2020 BLM movement was almost certainly infested with feds at the national level. All the actual leaders of the OG BLM movement were assassinated after the 2014 Ferguson protests. When the Minneapolis protests started, it wasn't the local orgs that had actually organized the initial police protests that were chosen for TV and interviewed, it was members of a national organization that had nothing to do with those protests. The same thing went for the online discourse, the #BLM stuff felt extremely astroturfed at first until it caught on with the mainstream. Hard to tell with online stuff though, as it is usually incredibly reductive.
The 2020 BLM movement was almost certainly infested with feds at the national level. All the actual leaders of the OG BLM movement were assassinated after the 2014 Ferguson protests. When the Minneapolis protests started, it wasn't the local orgs that had actually organized the initial police protests that were chosen for TV and interviewed, it was members of a national organization that had nothing to do with those protests. The same thing went for the online discourse, the #BLM stuff felt extremely astroturfed at first until it caught on with the mainstream. Hard to tell with online stuff though, as it is usually incredibly reductive.