arvind
@dialecticalmusings@app.wafrn.net
marxist voice from the imperial periphery biologist by training, jack of many things by vocation dialectical takes on society, science, technology, arts, geopolitics… longform blogs/essays at https://bahuroopi.bearblog.dev/ avatar pic: cross-section of a mushroom
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@GrumpyOldFart@expressional.social
Carole Cadwalladr's basic framework for today's world is that of liberal capitalism gone wrong. She doesn't think there is anything wrong with capitalism itself, or even with imperialism, as long as it is of the "liberal" variety. (Read her deleted tweet mentioned in this article, as one point of evidence.)
Her "expose" of present-day Bilderberg comes from the same perspective. She believes that the Peter Thiel coterie has hijacked the good old West, causing it to discard liberalism and "good capitalism", and that the coterie now pushes that agenda at Bilderberg.
Also note that in the same report (on Bilderberg), she flaunts her fandom of Anne Applebaum. This is the same Anne Applebaum who, all the way back in 2002, advocated for Israel to target and kill Palestinian journalists. Two years after that advocacy, Applebaum won the Pulitzer Prize. She is today a highly decorated "journalist" and a purported historian. She sits on the board of Columbia University. You can read Adam Johnson's March 2025 piece for what that may signal to students of Arab origin. Cadwalladr is supposedly a fierce critic of Israel's slaughter of journalists today, but she cannot draw any line from her idol Applebaum's advocacy for precisely this kind of slaughter to its industry-scale implementation today.
All in all, I don't think Cadwalladr's perspective is helpful for anti-imperial and anti-capitalist folks. Frankly, @GrumpyOldFart@expressional.social , I am surprised that you consider Cadwalladr's work worth sharing, even if it sounds critical of the Peter Thiel coterie. Even as an investigative journalist, she is sloppy and bombastic. (A Kit Klarenberg she is not.) She is pretty much on the spectrum of what you call the "Vichy media". (You don't otherwise get nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.) She does not belong in the same league as a Ramzy Baroud or a Klarenberg or many of the other folks whose work you routinely share here. (I do appreciate your posts sharing all those perspectives.)
In June 2025, Nel Bonilla did, from a German perspective, a less dramatic but far more informative and perceptive deep dive into Bilderberg and other conferences of that ilk. I recommend that as a superior alternative to Cadwalladr's post.
@iriyan@kolektiva.social
#Bilderberg #Thiel #PeterThiel #Palantir #CaroleCadwalladr #Cadwalladr #Israel #Palestine
