Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/worthless-house-progressives ❖ The Congressional Progressive Caucus has retracted an extremely mild, toothless letter its members had written to President Biden politely asking him to consider adding a little diplomacy into the mix to help end the conflict in Ukraine. The retraction
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/democrats-love-saying-that-ar-15s-should-only-be-used-on-foreigners ❖ Every time there's a mass shooting in America with an AR-15, high-level Democrats line up to proclaim that those weapons should only ever be used to kill impoverished foreigners.The latest example of this ongoing phenomenon was Illinois Senator and
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/ukraine-is-the-most-aggressively-trolled-war-of-all-time ❖ There's a lot going on in America and the people are very stressed out and frightened, but don't worry, there's nothing the US government won't do to make sure more High Mobility Artillery Rocket systems get to Ukraine.Rest assured
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/the-squad-doesnt-exist-outside-of-social-media ❖ The US House of Representatives has voted 368-57 to spend $40 billion on a world-threatening proxy war while ordinary Americans struggle to feed themselves and their children. All 57 "no" votes were Republicans. Every member of the small faction
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/fake-political-parties-in-a-fake-democracy ❖ I remember feeling such solidarity with Democrats who opposed Bush's warmongering. I sincerely did not know it was just empty political posturing for them and they'd happily sign off on any war no matter how insane as long as
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/the-most-joe-biden-thing-ever ❖ A hostile military alliance expanding to Russia's borders isn't a provocation, sending weapons to be used by CIA-trained fighters backed by US intelligence isn't a proxy war, those Nazis aren't Nazis, you're being censored for your own good, trust
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/super-serious-news-reporting ❖ Hi I'm a very serious news reporter. The Russians are controlling our thoughts with Facebook memes and scrambling our brains with invisible ray gun attacks. In other news, capitalism is working fine and our wars defend freedom and democracy.
Chevron—the actual corporation—just sent a lawyer to prison for standing up to the fossil fuel industry, and now British judges are weighing whether or not to send a journalist to a US jail cell for practicing journalism. Western nations need to shut the fuck up
Listen to a reading of this article:https://soundcloud.com/going_rogue/electoral-politics-does-not-work ❖ It says a lot that AOC wasn't even able to vote against an Israeli apartheid measure that everyone already knew would pass regardless of her vote.I mean, how far gone is your progressive revolution if you're not even allowed
Journalists should be exposing inconvenient truths about powerful people in their own nation and its allies. Instead the people we call "journalists" criticize enemy nations, smear political dissidents, demand increasing amounts of censorship, and advance narratives that are convenient for the powerful. ❖ The "war on terror"