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Ruling Class “Crisis of Legitimacy” is Behind “Bernie Blackout”
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
12 Nov 2019
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The ruling class is attempting “to establish its legitimacy, once again, without the popular mandate of broad sections of the people,” said Duboisian scholar Dr Anthony Monteiro. The corporate media “blackout” of Sanders “and others who represent anti-austerity proposals” like Medicare for All is part of the oligarchs’ repression of dissent. Similarly, Russiagate is designed to stir up a new Cold War and scare people into supporting the continued rule of the rich, said Monteiro.

Crisis of Capitalism

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