GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Georgia on my mind
In the State of Georgia a run -off election for two Senate seats this coming week will determine who controls the US Senate.
The outcome will determine how effective the upcoming Biden administration will be on everything from their Covid-19 response to Foreign Policy and Trade – issues which will significantly impact on the World economy and our own.
It would be really nice if we saw or read some informed news coverage of this unprecedented event and its international iimplications in our own mainstream media.
Yes , it’s not as if we can do anything about it or affect the outcome of these run-off elections, but we are citizens not just of New Zealand but of the World and keeping us reliably informed about significant world events (such as how the future of the upcoming US government is on a decision knife edge) is surely one of the functions of our news gathering organisations.
Bryan Bruce is one of NZs most respected documentary makers and public intellectuals who has tirelessly exposed NZs neoliberal economic settings as the main cause for social issues.
Whilst it would be good to have the NZ populace informed about the political situation in the US, that situation is largely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.
Whichever party in in control, the policies are more-or-less the same: pump additional fictional -created out of thin air- money into Wall Street; pump additional fictional money into military spending; pump additional fictional money into subsidies for big agriculture and big pharmaceutical; trash the environment; lie to the general populace. The criminal will simply take over from where the madman left off.
It would be far more productive to have the NZ populace informed about the dire energy predicament, the dire financial predicament and the dire environmental predicament.
However, we should not hold our breath on any of that, since the corporatised NZ media are primarily concerned with advertising revenue and not scaring the horses. Which means plenty of distraction and trivia, and no significant reporting or analysis. Never forget that these clowns/saboteurs had Candy Floss on prime time telling us NOT to wear masks for protection against Covid-19.
Thus, the NZ corporate media play a major role in making everything that matters worse. And will keep doing so until they can’t.
Jacobin Magazine for latest on Yesterday’s Man.
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/joe-biden-survival-checks-covid-19-georgia-elections
For a preview of how Biden will get things done.
You want a $2000 stimulus cheque? I’ll deliver the stimulus cheques *if* you vote the two Dems into power in Georgia.
He knows how to buy votes.
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/joe-biden-survival-checks-covid-19-georgia-elections
How Biden operates. Today in Jacobin magazine:
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/joe-biden-survival-checks-covid-19-georgia-elections