The Failure of Alternative Media

Now is a good time to click through the internet and take note. We are on the brink of another "Missiles of October" moment with Russia proclaiming that any U.S. missiles fired at Syria will be shot down and their launch sites targeted, and Trump responding by taunting Russia that "nice new and smart missiles" are headed for Syria.

Yet Jacobin, the smart-set magazine of the coming socialist revolution, is silent. So too is Glenn Greenwald's The Intercept. Democracy Now conducted an interview with Phyllis Bennis yesterday which was very basic. Bennis made the connection between what is happening currently with the previous Iraq wars under Bush I and Bush II. This morning the broadcast is focusing on Michael Cohen's legal difficulties and Mark Zuckerberg's Capitol Hill testimony, which is pretty much the same as right-wing Breitbart. Infowars was silent on Syria yesterday, but today has a largely mainstream write-up.

So that's the alternative media. Not much help. You need to visit The Saker, MofA or 21st Century Wire.

This is a "Which Side Are You On?" moment. Look around.

Clearly the Douma chemical attack was fabricated. It has only been verified by anti-Assad groups.

There is no large, organized anti-war opposition in the United States. The Democrats are more hawkish than Republicans. My local congresswoman, whom I campaigned for and donated to based on evidence that she was the most anti-war candidate in the field, has become one of the up-and-coming traffickers of the New McCarthyism.

This boil has to be lanced. Maybe the Russians are correct. Maybe the only way to check the destructive, slaughtering proclivities of the U.S. warfare state is to bring the planet to the brink of nuclear annihilation.