I couldn't agree more. It is a religious issue. In the West, the religion of Capitialism has replaced the decaying supernatural religion of Christianity (and other brands). There is presently no model to develop the people you notice are missing.

It is important for the Left to understand how completely the right wing, in particular in the US which spread the demonization and dismantling of the Left throughout the West, has  put billions of dollars in  neutering the Left. After WWII in the US with the passage of Taft-Hartley, unions were made to kick out socialists and  communists, the ones who built the unions in the 30's. Them the AFL-CIO got compromised by the CIA and the whole Red Scare push further fractured and destroyed any real radical Left movement over the next 30 years, it operating pseudo Left magazines in Europe and post modernist thought. Then you get the Powell Memo and the Trilateral Comission. Left needs to understand what it is up against if it is to revitalize.

If the site allows links, here is an example of one of the things I mention. I post it so the Left has to understand all the ways that it is being undermined to avoid it in the future.  https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-reads-french-theory-on-the-intellectual-labor-of-dismantling-the-cultural-left/

Common Eider, King Eider return to Cyclic Law with their 13th full length album "Yearn". Since 2012, A.C. and B.S.s. have been crafting a unique aesthetic vision around modern composition, dark ambient, and black metal using voice, viola, percussion, and organic objects such as bone and antler to create a sonic world drenched in animism and project mythology. "Yearn" follows suit with five extended arrangements for viola, percussion, and voice. The pieces slowly unfold as if remembering a dream… Fragments move in and out of focus, light and darkness considered equals in the creation of this landscape. Concealment and revelation. Hope and hopelessness. Decay and birth. 
With sonic visitations by Treha Sektori, and Lars Ennsen (Ultha, Unru, Sun Worship).

CD edition of 300. Packaging in 6 panel Digisleeve. Duotone printing entirely in black and metallic green on ultra matte stock. Horned God and title depicted in clear spot varnish. This release is a collaboration between Breath Sun Bone Blood, and Cyclic Law. 5 Tracks. Runnning Time 40:25

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Yearn

Common Eider, King Eider - I - Excerpt

À l’aube,
Un petit duc sonne la cloche du village et réveille les rossignols,
Solo de mobylette qui dessine le paysage,
Un bourdon drague un saxophone,
L’eau capricieuse se fraie un chemin jusqu’au vignoble d’un mélomane, 
Le boulanger guette le vent…
Au commencement était le son.

Avec la participation de Vincent, Georges, Stéphane, Victor, Emma, Jacques, Marc et Myriam.

Création sonore collective réalisée par Ana Sany, Anaïs Binggeli, Celia Dessardo, Cicely Fell, Déborah Benarrosch, Irazema Vera, Jacob Redman, Léa Roger, Marie Casanova et Mathias Arrignon.
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Réalisée durant le stage de prise de son animé par Félix Blume à Azillanet (Avril 2023) dans les locaux du Couvent géré par le Foyer Rural d’Azillanet.

Remerciements à Nicolas Darzacq, Sara Lana, Martine Rousseaux, les membres du Foyer Rural et la Mairie d’Azillanet.

Le Chòt

Nihat'la Sivrisinek (03 Mayıs 2023)

Wednesday was World Press Freedom Day, and it saw US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, and Deputy State Department Spokesman Vedant Patel confronted about the glaring hypocrisy of the Biden administration's persecution of Julian Assange for the crime of good journalism.

Reading by Tim Foley.

Multiple US Officials Confronted About US Assange Hypocrisy On World Press Freedom Day

Donald Trump spent four years proving to everyone that he wasn't bad because he was similar to Hitler, he was bad because he was similar to Obama. He wasn't terrible because of the ways he differed from other presidents, but because of the ways he was the same.

The tiny smattering of violence that occurred in the US because of Trump was microscopic compared to the death and destruction he inflicted upon the world outside the nation's borders. But the mainstream worldview can't acknowledge those actions, because the mainstream worldview is designed to support and facilitate those actions.

Yes, Trump is evil. Yes, you should be alarmed that monsters like him exist. But not because he is a unique aberration and deviation from the US government's status quo; rather, you should be alarmed because he perfectly exemplifies and bolsters the US government's status quo. 

Reading by Tim Foley.

Trump Is Bad Because He's Similar To Other US Presidents, Not Because He's Different

The biggest problem with the western left is that it doesn't exist.

To look at leftist discourse you'd think the left's biggest problem is that some leftists have the wrong beliefs about this or that issue, or that the left pays too much or not enough attention to identity politics, or places too much or not enough emphasis on electoral politics, or is too sympathetic toward enemies of the US empire or not sympathetic enough, or that this or that faction gets it all wrong — but it's not. The biggest problem is that there aren't anywhere remotely close to enough leftists to get anything done in the west today.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Biggest Problem With The Western Left Is That It Doesn't Exist

Finalerne vælter over os i disse uger, hvor City fik sikret sig The Double og nu fokuserer på The Treble. Imens står West Ham foran en stor tur til Prag på onsdag.

I resten af Premier League er der fuld fart hos sportsdirektørerne, der gør klar til transfervinduets åbning om lidt. Vi tager den helt store rundtur hos alle PL-klubberne og giver vores vurderinger af oplagte transfermål.

Der er altså dømt finaler, transfernørderi og godt humør i sæsonens sidste udgave af PL Showet!

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I studiet: Clark James, Jonatan Rying Larsen og Daniel Sichlau

Finale & Transfer Show - 05.06.2023

Renown Swiss historian Daniele Ganser discusses his new book "USA: The Ruthless Empire", the Military-Industrial-Complex and Security State, the Washington elite, and how the establishment continues to falsely pretend that America is not an empire. Illegal NATO regime change operations and expansion provoked Russia's illegal Ukraine invasion. He is convinced the multipolar world is here and in the making. U.S. elite don't want a strong Europe and the Nord Stream false flag was a demonstration of that. He believes we are witnessing 'imperial overstretch' as tactics such as color revolutions become less successful. He also comments on COVID-19 and the danger of "digital empire" and the Chinese-style social credit system coming to the West.

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Daniele Ganser, born in Lugano in 1972, is a historian who specializes in contemporary history since 1945 and international politics. His main research focuses on peace studies, geostrategy, covert warfare, resource conﬂicts, and economic policy. He is the founder and director of the Swiss Institute for Peace and Energy Research in Basel, and is the author of Illegal Wars: From Cuba to Syria—How NATO Countries Sabotaged the UN.

*Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Daniele Ganser: America is a Ruthless Empire, but Multipolarity is in the Making #372

In an interview shortly before his death Daniel Ellsberg said the US runs a "covert empire", which is a really good way of putting it. A giant globe-spanning cluster of nations consistently moves in alignment with the dictates of Washington, but they all keep their official flags and their official governments, so it doesn't look like an empire despite functioning as one in every meaningful way.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The USA's Covert Empire

1. Why does nothing change no matter who we vote for? 
2. Why does US foreign policy always continue along the same trajectory regardless of the president's party or platform? 
3. What keeps our voting population split right down the middle into two political factions of equal size, with neither side ever gaining enough of a majority to democratically change society in any meaningful way? 
4. Why does the stalemate described in #3 always seem to benefit the rich, the powerful, and the war-horny? 
5. Why is it that the most consequential US government policies like plutocratic influence, privatization, globalization, ecocidal capitalism and nuclear brinkmanship are never on the ballot? Why do these things keep happening, against our interests, without our ever voting for them or electing anyone who campaigned on the pledge to enact them? 
6. If our federal government's behavior never changes no matter who we elect, could it be that there are other bodies involved in government policy-setting whom we did not elect, and who remain in positions of influence regardless of the comings and goings of our official elected government? 
7. If the above is the case, then who is it? Who's really calling the shots in this country? 
8. Could it be that everything we've been told about our country, our government, our political processes and our world is untrue? 
9. If so, what are the implications of the fact that our schools and our media have been feeding us lies since we were small? 
10. What forces would be responsible for keeping all these lies flowing throughout our society? What might keep an ostensibly free press spinning more or less the same lies throughout the western world day after day, year after year, generation after generation? 
11. Is it possible that our entire electoral system is a sham designed to give the public the illusion of control so that they'll let oligarchs and empire managers run the country undisturbed? 
12. If the electoral system is a sham, then how do we enact the changes we so desperately need? 
13. Is it possible that there are other ways to effect change in the United States which don't involve casting a pretend vote in a fake election? 
14. Could it be that those other means of forcing change are precisely what the charade of casting pretend votes in fake elections is meant to divert us from? 
15. Should we perhaps spend less energy bickering about who should get sworn into the White House a year and a half from now, and more energy examining other possible avenues toward advancing meaningful change?
______________

Reading by Tim Foley.

15 Questions That Are More Useful Than "What Presidential Candidate Should Americans Vote For?"

Lost in a sea of feedback, we found this recording washed ashore and apparently having stemmed from an afternoon of live tinkering between DoomDalk and Letherique. Before engaging their sonic arsenal, they asked themselves one simple question: what if John Carpenter and Stephen King went on an uncontrolled bender together and came up with a movie pitch about a horde of killer boats from outer space invading Earth with a cargo full of shapeshifting entities, ready for total assimilation of the planet’s precious resources – including the human race?

Echoing from the heart of these phantasmagoric entities floating through a dark ocean of fears, “The Ultimate Harvest” acts as a fictitious OST of this twisted narrative. Alone, it sparks pure sci-fi atonal madness in a dark and unsettling universe, where the only constant is the relentless and hypnotic pulse of imminent doom.

Mastered b Chris McCormack

The Ultimate Harvest OST

DoOmDalk & Letherique - Invasion

Readings of all Caitlin Johnstone's articles, usually by her co-writer Tim Foley.

The Biggest Problem With The Western Left Is That It Doesn't Exist

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