"The leader of the most murderous and tyrannical power structure on earth can’t take a stand against the real problems in our world, because the power structure is the source of those problems. So instead he has to invent fictional monsters to fight."
"The wealth that's extracted from Imperialism goes into the coffers of the select few, whereas the costs of empire are paid out of the common treasure of the people."
-Thorstein Veblen, 1906
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And this is exactly how "Privatizing Profits and Socializing Losses" works in Capitalism..
Mr. Veblen's words prove prescient today, as the oligarchs and uberwealthy continue to grow richer and greater in influence, while the rest of us common folk become poorer and the gap between the two groups widens
Gaza, 21,000 children murdered , 21,000 +, maybe 100,000, but whose counting, better still for the empire, where is Gaza, and who’s talking about children?
Does the mass need ‘communism’ to be diverted? Distracted? Delusional? Forgetful?
Gaza ? Not one mention on this thread. I would call that condition ‘MISSION ACCOMPLISHED’. .
John Turcot, I see your point. But Caitlin goes at it (Gaza) 9 days a week. And I am in court on a similar matter (Maxwell. v Trump). But it's the BIG HOLD that -- maybe -- that's keeping the horrified public from deploying the normal mechanics of justice.
Pls see Reiner Fuellmich's new statement (from his prison cell in Germany today) that the Mission is not yet accomplished and that 'they' are panicking. Yay!
According to Google AI, Reiner has not released any statement about anything lately.
In essence, I will assume that you would be hard-pressed to find one person in a million who has ever heard about Reiner Fuellmich .
I can only wish that Gaza and the slaughter of tens of thousands of children would indeed be the daily concern of humanity, but the last time I heard anyone talk about Gaza except through Francesca Albanese was when Moses was floating down the Nile…
“Rescue the Gazans” ? I can think of a few methods, but not the wisest to suggest for extended longevity.
While impeachment might stir some pots, silencing 450 Israeli lobbies in the U.S might prove to be much more problematic. While looking at the Israeli mindset from 30,000 ft, I would suggest that we have been playing Monopoly with world banking economics for decades, and that the Empire won.
Maybe limiting the Power of Wealth could change things. For starters, how about limiting the number of residences for anyone and any thing , anywhere on the planet, including institutions, to 3 , generously speaking. The regulation might rustle the interests of students in Economics 101 towards innovative discourse.
Sorry if I wasted your time. The genocide in Gaza in plain sight has added a new dimension to my pessimistic vision about the future of our species.
Trump and Associates are hoping resurrecting the Commies will distract voters from their obvious failures but nobody cares about them anymore and it won’t work. The fact this is the last name on the Enemies List says more about their desperation than anything.
The distraction is meant to divert our attention from their ongoing great reset/greater Israel project (which is not simply the middle east but the whole world). We will own nothing because they will own everything. Duh.
This is what happens when a small incestuous group of people have the unlimited wealth of Banksters. They dont create anything but pain & suffering- child trafficking, PEDOE Billionaires devouring everything and then DEMANDING that the Peasants worship them for Their corruption.
WHY are good people allowing these Parasitic Predators to go on with Their Evil?
There are more of us than there are of them, but the whole of humanity just continues to OBEY these Monsters? When will this subservience to Evil end?
Why is everyone smiling at the Butcher?
"Cosmic Justice is a Whirlwind, it's a Promise not a Threat." - Jesse Welles, troubadour
They have spent the last 70 year beating class consciousness out of the American people and it is working.
And I mean really, it's laughable how they consider what are basically conservatives who are just less greedy as communists. Mamdani, AOC, Platner, Lander...are all war mongers and just liberal zionists. The reason they are considered communist is because the Republicans are so awful and hideous and so in your face greedy and bloodthirsty that in comparison make these moderates look like communists.
The "compatible left" is the modern reincarnation of the "national-socialists." Both were fanatical anti-socialists and accomplices of imperialism, but they cloaked themselves in "leftist" and "socialist" rhetoric.
AOC has about as much to do with "democracy" as Hitler had to do with "Socialism".
"Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial complex would have to remain, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. "
-George F. Kennan, 1987
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"I think this is the beginning of the new cold war. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. This expansion would make the Founding Fathers of this country turn over in their graves"
well said ms van eyk, it is the same old story over and over. They invent an "other" or "enemy" to become a convenient scapegoat to deflect from the real issues facing the society, and create a "justification" for conflict and military operations abroad, it is contemptible
Thanks, Aamir. Once we recognize this pattern, hopefully we'll no longer fall for it, and see who's raking in the money at our expense, and at the expense of ordinary people all over the world.
agreed, my hope is that more people can recognize this pattern soon, learn from it and not fall from it, and we can build a better, more equitable and just system and world
A fascist dictatorship ALWAYS needs an external or internal threat in order to keep the rubes in check and prevent any meaningful dissent. It's a tired old playbook that's well worn out and dog eared. And if there aren't any actual threats, just invent them. Works every time.
"In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to War Psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace"
-John Foster Dulles, the U.S. Secretary of State (1888-1959) and older brother of Allen Dulles (fmr head of the OSS/CIA), financed the Bond sales for Nazis to rearm Germany after WW1
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"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear."
"While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our political leaders almost a greater fear of peace than is their fear of war."
-Douglas MacArthur, five-star general
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"Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial complex would have to remain, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. "
-George F. Kennan, 1987
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"The village needs an enemy"
-Killary "Rotten" Clinton, probably the most disgusting war pig ever..
President Trump said that “communism is the greatest threat to our country” and would lead to “the ultimate annihilation of civilization.” baa haa haa ha. That gave me a good laugh. Said by the person who is the greatest threat to the safety of the world, who does not know what truth is, who cannot take responsibility for any of his corrupt behaviour and who has an entire administration that thinks he is the "king",
"Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the [Democratic Socialists of America] Party."
Adapted from Senator Joseph McCarthy's opening question to every suspect and witness at the House Commmitee on Un-American Affairs hearings in the 1950s.
The intellectual cowardice when HUAC was making a show of shouting them down with threats and bully tactics is really a point in American history where working people went to bed citizens, and woke up consumers. It could have been a forum for a national discussion, but the hearings just showed submissive liberals who pleaded no contest to right wing brow beating.
I think there were a few who basically told Joe McCarthy to piss up a rope, but the moment called for an anti-McCarthy, someone who knew the Constitution and its amendments, and used the hearings as a referendum on right-wing verbal thuggery.
If the intellectuals had stood up and explained why they had every right to believe as they did, and why they would continue to do so, we might actually have a real, genuine left wing in the empire. And that empire would look a lot different than it does today.
I think there’s no question that the lawyers representing the accused were anti-communist. That farce wouldn’t have been staged if there was any uncertainty that the hearing would be a huge propaganda stunt.
No communism has a real definition but the west has no concept.. they were miseducated by Mossad textbooks. Robert Maxwell owned McGraw Hill scholastic publisher and they did a Goebbels on history.. at least USA was provided with that nonsense.
USA and Zionism are terrified of communism so they spend a lot of time lying about it
I know who the Zionists were and their history. Have never been one nor apologized for them. Am totally committed to the Free Palestine movement. I was pointing out that the Russians have had a history of anti-Semitism as well as the Ukrainians for that matter. I don't need a lecture from you. Am grateful that the Russians liberated the camps AND grateful that my Jewish grandparents made it out of Russia to safety. I can hold both thoughts in my brain. That may seem a bit complicated for some but with a little energy it can be done.
Russians don’t hate Jews.. that is the typical Zionist whinging though.. Russia gave them the JAO which is far larger than Palestine but the zios don’t like it because ALL the neighbors there are prepared to expel any expansionist attempts.
Right. 🙄 The pogroms of Czarist Russia that slaughtered Jews did not cause over 2 million of them to emigrate en masse from "Mother Russia" in the late 19th century to the United States and other western countries. My bad.
They weren’t just Russians. They were Soviets, the soldiers from many National Republics of the USSR.
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I think you’re still missing the point that Zionism/Israel has always been an Anglo-American Imperialist colonial project.
It has nothing to do with race/nationality or religion, these are all smoke and mirrors. It's pure Geopolitics.
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The first words of the Balfour Declaration define it pretty well: "My dear Lord Rothschild"...
The most vigorous Zio engineers in the UK:
Winston Churchill, Lloyd George, Lord Balfour, Mark Sykes. Serving Alfred Milner’s Round Table system. Liaison agent: Chaim Weizmann.
The U.S. is just the British Empire's nepo baby.
Pax Britannia became Pax Americana after WW2. It is all part of globalism (Imperialism) that was carried out by the fascists of the 19th-21st Centuries.
U.S. Sen. Scoop Jackson started the project after 1967 to use Israel as a major U.S. proxy in the Middle East.
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"The number one weapon of 20th century Imperialism is Zionist dollarism, and one of the main bases for this weapon is Zionist Israel. The ever-scheming Imperialists wisely placed Israel where she could geographically divide the Arab world, infiltrate and sow the seed of dissension among African leaders and also divide the Africans against the Asians."
-Malcolm X, after visiting Gaza in 1964
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"The State of Israel was not created for the salvation of the Jews; it was created for the salvation of Western interests."
-James Baldwin, 1979
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"Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect our interests in the region"
-FJB, 1986-2024
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One should think of Israel as the biggest of 800+ overseas U.S. military bases, "Unsinkable ? carrier", created to control (bomb) this whole oil-rich region.
Especially the Suez Canal and the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important oil transit chokepoint.
It allows Western Imperialist Oligarchy to control the Oil prices and maintain the hegemony of PETRODOLLAR.
Plus even though I resent your lecturing tone, totally agree re: the imperialist colonial project. The Balfour Declaration simply used Zionist aspirations to further the hegemonic collaborative goal. The desperation of the Holocaust survivors fit in with this goal perfectly as none of the involved countries wanted a bunch of filthy immigrants overwhelming their borders. The United States in particular turned ships carrying refugees away with the result that many on those ships were returned to a fate of work camps and gas chambers.
Guess what you arrogant @$$hole. My father was an American Communist who lived through the McCarthy Era. I don't need your effin lessons on who the Soviets were as opposed to Czarist Russia. They damn sure made sure they got rid of Trotsky and Rosa Luxemburg. Just sayin.
Too many idiots use the word "Commie" like Zionists use the word "Anti-Semite"…
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In 2009 the European Parliament instituted an annual commemoration on August 23rd, to “mark the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of All Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes”. This is just one of several modern-day initiatives to perversely conflate Communism and Nazism, while transforming Wehrmacht and SS collaborators, Holocaust perpetrators, and fascists in countries liberated by the Red Army into victims, and laying blame for World War II at Soviets' feet.
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And No one ever mentions that the Socialists and Communists were the first prisoners in Nazi concentration camps, not "Jews". Like the Communist Party of Germany, the leader of which, Ernst Thälmann, was tortured and executed by Nazi regime..
Okay Okay. And nobody ever mentions the vicious anti-Semitism and pogroms perpetrated by the Russians on their Jewish citizens. Which led to the influx of Jewish immigrants to the U.S. late 19th century. My grandparents some of those. And O yeah. There was that Broadway musical and a film called "Fiddler on the Roof". What was that all about? Sure the Russians were allies in WWII but it wasn't for love of Jews - trust me. That said - your points are real. Lots of things nobody mentions. Maybe that's why the facts of history are always a revelation the more deeply they are buried.
Seriously how American can you be??? Hard to tell you Idiocracy folks from the 🇮🇱 Zionists you’re all pointing at others and crying victim while you rape pillage and steal.
You both are correct. The Red Army did liberate Auschwitz and other camps in the East and the Soviet Union did suffer the most losses to its people in the Great Patriotic War or WW2, if you prefer, than the other allied nations. Also many people with physical disabilities and mental illnesses, gay people, communists etc were put in these horrific places. Many German children with disabilities were euthanized just b/c they didn’t fit in with the Nazi ideals of a super human or whatever they called it. They were taken from their families, placed in these hospitals or clinics and murdered by the so called doctors and then a letter was sent to the family of such individual stating their loved one passed away. Having said all of that Jews were victims of czarist Russia’s pogroms just like depicted in the movie, “Fiddler on the Roof”(I saw the movie several times and love the music from it). They were also targeted by the SS as well as the Ukrainian nationalists who sided with the Nazis when Hitler invaded the former Soviet Union in June 1941(these were the followers of Stephen Bandera, a Nazi sympathizer/collaberator).
"I will draw the very last out of this country (Ukraine). I did not come to spread bliss. I have come to help the Führer The population must work, work, and work again.. for some people are getting excited that the population may not get enough to eat. The population cannot demand that. One has only to remember what our heroes were deprived of in Stalingrad . . . . We definitely did not come here to give out manna. We have come here to create the basis for victory."
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"What happens to the Russians, to the Czechs, does not interest me in the slightest. What the nations can offer in the way of good blood of our type we will take, if necessary, by kidnapping their children and raising them here with us. Whether the other nations live in prosperity or starve to death interests me only insofar as we need them as slaves for our culture; otherwise, it is of no interest to me. Whether 10,000 Russian females fall down from exhaustion while digging an anti-tank ditch or not interests me only insofar as the anti-tank ditch for Germany is finished."
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"We are a master race, which must remember that the lowliest German worker is racially and biologically a thousand times more valuable than the population here."
-Erich Koch, Nazi Reichskommissar (Gauleiter) in Ukraine from September 1941 until August 1944
Also, Brits and muricans had invented concentration camps long before German Nazis did (US Civil War, Andersonville, also known as Camp Sumter, 1865; Brits' 2nd Anglo-Boer War, 1899–1902)
"Why keep pretending Israel’s war crimes are separate from America’s war crimes."
Indeed. It takes a war criminal to recognize another war criminal. They both long to take over the other's power and use it to conquer their own real or imaginary enemies. Perhaps that's why Trump wants to hook up the US military to the IDF--he's afraid he'll need the combined power to take on the "communists." It would be laughable if the idiot didn't have the nuclear football and the Israelis have nukes they don't admit to and aren't afraid to use.
They are attempting to bring back McCarthyism with a vengeance. "Sir, are you not ashamed?"
Joe McCarthy, the Republican Senator from Wisconsin became famous for his list of communist "subversives" in the 1950s. A made up list (205 names) that infamously targeted his political opponents, including homosexuals, Hollywood stars, and political dissidents. Joe died an early death from likely alcoholism in 1957, after being discredited, despite having ruined the careers and lives of many good Americans - including the great Charlie Chaplin.
It’s used on social media by propaganda bots defending the indefensible. Apartheid South Africa propaganda used it a lot against human beings calling out their sins too. Really lame and pathetic.
Thank you Caitlin. Not that Today's Communism is the answer, but "They" have this brainwashed American population right where they want them and don't want the plebian slaves hearing about any alternative to the Capitalist system of exploitation they have going for them now.
It’s all be a construct. Capitalism vs Communism; Race, Religion, Women vs Men, etc etc. It’s not apparent to me these points of view over the years have been exploited beyond belief. Divide and conquer; keep the masses at each other’s throats.
Starting with Hitler, fascists unite around their opposition to communism, by which they mean liberals, social democrats, democratic socialists, Marxists, and anyone even one inch on the left. It's the big Tent of hatred.
Democratic socialists, contrary to those confused by labels, has no fixing ideology other than promoting equality and the working class, which can begin with strong collective bargaining rights or universal healthcare and lead, because it is democratic (a concept that lacks a limit), to communism or a world of workers coops...anywhere the democratic will leads. Today, it is leading towards uniting against Trump's fascism and the failure of capitalism to make the world's rich nation livable and affordable. Where it leads, no one knows.....
So Trump will use the Nazi tactic and meanwnile,more and more, voters (the vast majority of Democrats and the young) are ignoring the old tactics and think not of Soviet Communism (where Democratic Socialists were killed as enemies) but of Norway, where a hybrid economy and a robust welfare system has led to a prosperous, free, and happy nation.
Let me put it this way: because the longest journey begins with a few footsteps, democratic socialism as an umbrella label is today taking those few footsteps to find a foothold to gain power but it should not be judged by those few footseps which are but the beginning of an experiment that has never, except for a brief period in the 30's, had any power in the US and we are brought back to the words of FDR about the need for "ferocious experimenation," a term that signals forging new paths because the old are leading nowhere but down. It is likely we will hear the accusation of communism a thousand times before November but it is today less a weapon than noise.
While I appreciate your answer, aren't what you doing (in the way you represent Democratic Socialism) is simply 'reframing' the debate on Reform vs. Revolution when it comes to making changes and getting rid of Capitalism?
That's the point. Those ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it. Or perhaps those 'in charge' are not ignorant of history and just wish to complete a failed prior mission. Whatever. We ARE aware of history and will not allow these criminal mafioso thugs to take away our freedoms.
"Netanyahu didn’t create Israel’s violence and racism. Israel’s violence and racism created Netanyahu." - Exactly. Looks like Central Casting will discard the big-eared brute. That shouldn't fool anyone ...
The first words of the Balfour Declaration define it pretty well: "My dear Lord Rothschild"...
The most vigorous Zio engineers in the UK: Winston Churchill, Lloyd George, Lord Balfour, Mark Sykes. Serving Alfred Milner’s Round Table system. Liaison agent: Chaim Weizmann.
David Lloyd George, the UK Prime Minister from 1916 to 1922, was one of the 20th century's most pivotal Christian Zionists. His alignment with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann is widely recognized by historians as the critical "sine qua non" period for the foundation of Israel
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The U.S. is just the British Empire's nepo baby.
Pax Britannia became Pax Americana after WW2. It is all part of globalism (Imperialism) that was carried out by the fascists of the 19th-21st Centuries.
U.S. Sen. Scoop Jackson started the project after 1967 to use Israel as a major U.S. proxy in the Middle East.
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"Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect our interests in the region"
At least as I see it, our current Corporate Fascist regime might actually have more in common with Communism than Capitalism. The political and economic sides of government can be seen as one and the same when the government meshes with business by not doing its part with fair taxes and controlling greed, fraud, and rape of the common people. And the corporations, in turn, control and manipulate our lives with little input from the populace, in effect a government. None of this acts in the interests of the people, which Communism supposedly does but never did.
Today, the US have that huge PRIVATE Prison Industrial Complex, which is a modern form of slavery..
For example, the "UNICOR" Corp., being part of the Military Industrial Complex, has more than 150 private prison factories. In 2021, the inmates' hourly wage there was between $0.23 and $1.15, while the minimal wage of a "free" American was $7.25. How? Thanks to that nice little exclusion in the 13th Amendment that basically equates prisoners and slaves..
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The largest private prison Corps in the U.S. are GEO Group and CoreCivic. These two companies collectively manage over half of the private prison contracts in the United States with combined revenues of $3.5 billion in 2015.
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The Largest prison population on the planet. And the Largest arms expenditure.. Coincidence?
There has never been a true communist country in history of mankind.
The communist manifesto calls for the abolishment of State, currency and Private ownership for the means of production.
No country has done this and therefore there aren't any and never has been a communist country.
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The USSR under Lenin was ruled by and electorate which sought to bring about communism but never did for different reasons, including constant Imperialist Wars against them.
They were communists, but their country was not communist.
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It is called communism because it is the idea that every issue should be resolved in local communities.
Notice how the capitalist (and therefore eventually Imperialist) countries have ALWAYS gone to a great length to prevent the young socialist/communist countries from developing their economy - including State Coups, Terrorism and Embargo.
So, ask yourself - If the Capitalists are so sure that Socialism/Communism doesn't work and always fails, why do they spend so much effort and resources trying to destroy them?
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And Remember: Every failure of a socialist nation is blamed on it being socialist; but NO failure of a capitalist nation is ever blamed on it being capitalist.
U.S.A.‘ans, the immediate job in front of us is to do what we can to flood our Senate representatives with our opposition to the Senate companion provision to Section 219. The Senate provision is 1217. A related job is to vote out every traitorous member of the House Armed Services Committee who supported Section 219 in the House and blocked a floor vote. A problem, though, is that Committee members took a voice vote on Section 219 so there is no written record of individual votes and the members who supported the provision can’t be held accountable to the people. We do know, however, that support for the provision was bipartisan and that Democrat Adam Smith of Washington was a sponsor. Of course he’s also taken a lot of money from AIPAC. Smith is being challenged in Washington’s August primary by Kshama Sawant, a former Seattle City Council member who is running as a member of the Socialist Alternative Party. (This is different than the DSA). Sawant is a strong supporter of Palestinian rights and pushed through one of the first significant hourly wage hikes in the country as a member of the Seattle Council. The Democratic Party, with the assistance of local legacy media, has done all it can to derail her campaign. I may have misunderstood her column, but Caitlin seemed to diminish the significance of the recent primary wins of strong opponents of the Israeli-U.S. genocide (with European complicity) in NY State, Colorado and elsewhere (e.g., NJ). I believe that whatever chance we have of cutting off the funding for the genocide (and the illegal war on Iran and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon) should not be easily dismissed. Several other primaries are coming up, e.g., in Missouri, Michigan and Tennessee, pitting opponents of the genocide against establishment Democratic supporters of Israel. Go to the websites of A New Policy or Justice Democrats to see who they are. Their votes on a genocide are more important than their labels.
"The leader of the most murderous and tyrannical power structure on earth can’t take a stand against the real problems in our world, because the power structure is the source of those problems. So instead he has to invent fictional monsters to fight."
Say no more. Say no more. That is sufficient.
"The wealth that's extracted from Imperialism goes into the coffers of the select few, whereas the costs of empire are paid out of the common treasure of the people."
-Thorstein Veblen, 1906
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And this is exactly how "Privatizing Profits and Socializing Losses" works in Capitalism..
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youtube.com/shorts/w5jxUYkXQZU
youtube.com/shorts/Ms9MXILqsK4
In this respect, among others, nothing has changed in 120 years.
Mr. Veblen's words prove prescient today, as the oligarchs and uberwealthy continue to grow richer and greater in influence, while the rest of us common folk become poorer and the gap between the two groups widens
Gaza, 21,000 children murdered , 21,000 +, maybe 100,000, but whose counting, better still for the empire, where is Gaza, and who’s talking about children?
Does the mass need ‘communism’ to be diverted? Distracted? Delusional? Forgetful?
Gaza ? Not one mention on this thread. I would call that condition ‘MISSION ACCOMPLISHED’. .
John Turcot, I see your point. But Caitlin goes at it (Gaza) 9 days a week. And I am in court on a similar matter (Maxwell. v Trump). But it's the BIG HOLD that -- maybe -- that's keeping the horrified public from deploying the normal mechanics of justice.
Pls see Reiner Fuellmich's new statement (from his prison cell in Germany today) that the Mission is not yet accomplished and that 'they' are panicking. Yay!
Mart,
According to Google AI, Reiner has not released any statement about anything lately.
In essence, I will assume that you would be hard-pressed to find one person in a million who has ever heard about Reiner Fuellmich .
I can only wish that Gaza and the slaughter of tens of thousands of children would indeed be the daily concern of humanity, but the last time I heard anyone talk about Gaza except through Francesca Albanese was when Moses was floating down the Nile…
No malice intended
Here is the Reiner statement which is very encouraging.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwDWPqgyXPk
I realise it does not touch Gaza (or Sudan, where baby are starving now, maybe on account of US citizens such as myself). I AGREE WITH YOU.
Let me paraphrase Caitlin: "Anyone who does not rescue the Gazans is a worthless POS."
But I admit I don't know how to rescue the Gazan's. Do you? (I guess an impeachment would be a starter.)
“Rescue the Gazans” ? I can think of a few methods, but not the wisest to suggest for extended longevity.
While impeachment might stir some pots, silencing 450 Israeli lobbies in the U.S might prove to be much more problematic. While looking at the Israeli mindset from 30,000 ft, I would suggest that we have been playing Monopoly with world banking economics for decades, and that the Empire won.
Maybe limiting the Power of Wealth could change things. For starters, how about limiting the number of residences for anyone and any thing , anywhere on the planet, including institutions, to 3 , generously speaking. The regulation might rustle the interests of students in Economics 101 towards innovative discourse.
Sorry if I wasted your time. The genocide in Gaza in plain sight has added a new dimension to my pessimistic vision about the future of our species.
Sorry for the typo.. I meant Mary.
My favorite paragraph.
If it wasn't Communism, they'd find another bogeyman to scare their population with, and to justify invading other countries with.
Trump and Associates are hoping resurrecting the Commies will distract voters from their obvious failures but nobody cares about them anymore and it won’t work. The fact this is the last name on the Enemies List says more about their desperation than anything.
The distraction is meant to divert our attention from their ongoing great reset/greater Israel project (which is not simply the middle east but the whole world). We will own nothing because they will own everything. Duh.
Yes, that is the Rothschilds-Epstein Class plan.
This is what happens when a small incestuous group of people have the unlimited wealth of Banksters. They dont create anything but pain & suffering- child trafficking, PEDOE Billionaires devouring everything and then DEMANDING that the Peasants worship them for Their corruption.
WHY are good people allowing these Parasitic Predators to go on with Their Evil?
There are more of us than there are of them, but the whole of humanity just continues to OBEY these Monsters? When will this subservience to Evil end?
Why is everyone smiling at the Butcher?
"Cosmic Justice is a Whirlwind, it's a Promise not a Threat." - Jesse Welles, troubadour
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They have spent the last 70 year beating class consciousness out of the American people and it is working.
And I mean really, it's laughable how they consider what are basically conservatives who are just less greedy as communists. Mamdani, AOC, Platner, Lander...are all war mongers and just liberal zionists. The reason they are considered communist is because the Republicans are so awful and hideous and so in your face greedy and bloodthirsty that in comparison make these moderates look like communists.
The "compatible left" is the modern reincarnation of the "national-socialists." Both were fanatical anti-socialists and accomplices of imperialism, but they cloaked themselves in "leftist" and "socialist" rhetoric.
AOC has about as much to do with "democracy" as Hitler had to do with "Socialism".
youtu.be/r1Awbilg2c8?t=148
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How the CIA Created the Modern "compatible" Left:
substack.com/home/post/p-182241105
youtube.com/shorts/k1HetD-XTMY
youtube.com/watch?v=O1sJ2uZ4aaQ
"Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial complex would have to remain, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. "
-George F. Kennan, 1987
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"I think this is the beginning of the new cold war. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. This expansion would make the Founding Fathers of this country turn over in their graves"
-George F. Kennan on NATO expansion, 1997
See my comment below. Yes, they have plenty more than one option.
well said ms van eyk, it is the same old story over and over. They invent an "other" or "enemy" to become a convenient scapegoat to deflect from the real issues facing the society, and create a "justification" for conflict and military operations abroad, it is contemptible
Thanks, Aamir. Once we recognize this pattern, hopefully we'll no longer fall for it, and see who's raking in the money at our expense, and at the expense of ordinary people all over the world.
agreed, my hope is that more people can recognize this pattern soon, learn from it and not fall from it, and we can build a better, more equitable and just system and world
That's my hope too, Aamir.
A fascist dictatorship ALWAYS needs an external or internal threat in order to keep the rubes in check and prevent any meaningful dissent. It's a tired old playbook that's well worn out and dog eared. And if there aren't any actual threats, just invent them. Works every time.
"In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to War Psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace"
-John Foster Dulles, the U.S. Secretary of State (1888-1959) and older brother of Allen Dulles (fmr head of the OSS/CIA), financed the Bond sales for Nazis to rearm Germany after WW1
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"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear."
"While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our political leaders almost a greater fear of peace than is their fear of war."
-Douglas MacArthur, five-star general
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"Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial complex would have to remain, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. "
-George F. Kennan, 1987
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"The village needs an enemy"
-Killary "Rotten" Clinton, probably the most disgusting war pig ever..
President Trump said that “communism is the greatest threat to our country” and would lead to “the ultimate annihilation of civilization.” baa haa haa ha. That gave me a good laugh. Said by the person who is the greatest threat to the safety of the world, who does not know what truth is, who cannot take responsibility for any of his corrupt behaviour and who has an entire administration that thinks he is the "king",
Drumpf is America's greatest threat, the sooner they get shot of him the better for the whole world.
"Every accusation by the Anglo-murican Empire is a confession"
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youtu.be/iyIeiQeWPrg?t=744
"Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the [Democratic Socialists of America] Party."
Adapted from Senator Joseph McCarthy's opening question to every suspect and witness at the House Commmitee on Un-American Affairs hearings in the 1950s.
The intellectual cowardice when HUAC was making a show of shouting them down with threats and bully tactics is really a point in American history where working people went to bed citizens, and woke up consumers. It could have been a forum for a national discussion, but the hearings just showed submissive liberals who pleaded no contest to right wing brow beating.
I think there were a few who basically told Joe McCarthy to piss up a rope, but the moment called for an anti-McCarthy, someone who knew the Constitution and its amendments, and used the hearings as a referendum on right-wing verbal thuggery.
If the intellectuals had stood up and explained why they had every right to believe as they did, and why they would continue to do so, we might actually have a real, genuine left wing in the empire. And that empire would look a lot different than it does today.
It is pearl-clutching by those who get easy-money and status from the system, isn't it?
Puch-down; kiss-up.
;-/
I think there’s no question that the lawyers representing the accused were anti-communist. That farce wouldn’t have been staged if there was any uncertainty that the hearing would be a huge propaganda stunt.
Public lashings... ;-(
Can't wait for the heariings; hope those wil be televized.
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" Gil Scott Heron 1970 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw
Note tha, as a matter of practical politics, "communist",.like "fascist", is one of those all-purpose words meaning "anyone I don't like".
No communism has a real definition but the west has no concept.. they were miseducated by Mossad textbooks. Robert Maxwell owned McGraw Hill scholastic publisher and they did a Goebbels on history.. at least USA was provided with that nonsense.
USA and Zionism are terrified of communism so they spend a lot of time lying about it
Ironic because many of the early Israeli kibbutzim were founded on Marxist principles. But that's a different story.
Zionists in the 1930s proudly called themselves "Fascist Zionists" and greatly admired Benito Mussolini and how he bombed Ethiopian civilians:
youtu.be/aNEBW-DWHWc?t=47
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The founder of Revisionist (far-right) Zionism Ze'ev Jabotinsky also founded the "Jewish legion" of the British army during WW1:
youtu.be/jKtIyRyS3Xk?t=121
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And today's Israeli ruling parties come from Jabotinsky's far-right wing of Zionism.
youtube.com/watch?v=aQeU3XiESfQ
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Revisionist Zionist ideologue Abba Ahimeir openly praised Hitler and Mussolini in 1930s
youtu.be/jKtIyRyS3Xk?t=272
I know who the Zionists were and their history. Have never been one nor apologized for them. Am totally committed to the Free Palestine movement. I was pointing out that the Russians have had a history of anti-Semitism as well as the Ukrainians for that matter. I don't need a lecture from you. Am grateful that the Russians liberated the camps AND grateful that my Jewish grandparents made it out of Russia to safety. I can hold both thoughts in my brain. That may seem a bit complicated for some but with a little energy it can be done.
Russians don’t hate Jews.. that is the typical Zionist whinging though.. Russia gave them the JAO which is far larger than Palestine but the zios don’t like it because ALL the neighbors there are prepared to expel any expansionist attempts.
Right. 🙄 The pogroms of Czarist Russia that slaughtered Jews did not cause over 2 million of them to emigrate en masse from "Mother Russia" in the late 19th century to the United States and other western countries. My bad.
They weren’t just Russians. They were Soviets, the soldiers from many National Republics of the USSR.
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I think you’re still missing the point that Zionism/Israel has always been an Anglo-American Imperialist colonial project.
It has nothing to do with race/nationality or religion, these are all smoke and mirrors. It's pure Geopolitics.
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The first words of the Balfour Declaration define it pretty well: "My dear Lord Rothschild"...
The most vigorous Zio engineers in the UK:
Winston Churchill, Lloyd George, Lord Balfour, Mark Sykes. Serving Alfred Milner’s Round Table system. Liaison agent: Chaim Weizmann.
The U.S. is just the British Empire's nepo baby.
Pax Britannia became Pax Americana after WW2. It is all part of globalism (Imperialism) that was carried out by the fascists of the 19th-21st Centuries.
U.S. Sen. Scoop Jackson started the project after 1967 to use Israel as a major U.S. proxy in the Middle East.
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"The number one weapon of 20th century Imperialism is Zionist dollarism, and one of the main bases for this weapon is Zionist Israel. The ever-scheming Imperialists wisely placed Israel where she could geographically divide the Arab world, infiltrate and sow the seed of dissension among African leaders and also divide the Africans against the Asians."
-Malcolm X, after visiting Gaza in 1964
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"The State of Israel was not created for the salvation of the Jews; it was created for the salvation of Western interests."
-James Baldwin, 1979
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"Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect our interests in the region"
-FJB, 1986-2024
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One should think of Israel as the biggest of 800+ overseas U.S. military bases, "Unsinkable ? carrier", created to control (bomb) this whole oil-rich region.
Especially the Suez Canal and the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important oil transit chokepoint.
It allows Western Imperialist Oligarchy to control the Oil prices and maintain the hegemony of PETRODOLLAR.
youtube.com/watch?v=SzryRhH79Cc
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Plus even though I resent your lecturing tone, totally agree re: the imperialist colonial project. The Balfour Declaration simply used Zionist aspirations to further the hegemonic collaborative goal. The desperation of the Holocaust survivors fit in with this goal perfectly as none of the involved countries wanted a bunch of filthy immigrants overwhelming their borders. The United States in particular turned ships carrying refugees away with the result that many on those ships were returned to a fate of work camps and gas chambers.
On that note will end our conversation.
Guess what you arrogant @$$hole. My father was an American Communist who lived through the McCarthy Era. I don't need your effin lessons on who the Soviets were as opposed to Czarist Russia. They damn sure made sure they got rid of Trotsky and Rosa Luxemburg. Just sayin.
Too many idiots use the word "Commie" like Zionists use the word "Anti-Semite"…
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In 2009 the European Parliament instituted an annual commemoration on August 23rd, to “mark the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of All Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes”. This is just one of several modern-day initiatives to perversely conflate Communism and Nazism, while transforming Wehrmacht and SS collaborators, Holocaust perpetrators, and fascists in countries liberated by the Red Army into victims, and laying blame for World War II at Soviets' feet.
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And No one ever mentions that the Socialists and Communists were the first prisoners in Nazi concentration camps, not "Jews". Like the Communist Party of Germany, the leader of which, Ernst Thälmann, was tortured and executed by Nazi regime..
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youtu.be/iI3ucytnbXo?t=1041
Zionists hate/fear communism/socialism because that’s what defeated their allies the Nazis and it’s the way to defeat the Zionazis
Okay Okay. And nobody ever mentions the vicious anti-Semitism and pogroms perpetrated by the Russians on their Jewish citizens. Which led to the influx of Jewish immigrants to the U.S. late 19th century. My grandparents some of those. And O yeah. There was that Broadway musical and a film called "Fiddler on the Roof". What was that all about? Sure the Russians were allies in WWII but it wasn't for love of Jews - trust me. That said - your points are real. Lots of things nobody mentions. Maybe that's why the facts of history are always a revelation the more deeply they are buried.
Seriously how American can you be??? Hard to tell you Idiocracy folks from the 🇮🇱 Zionists you’re all pointing at others and crying victim while you rape pillage and steal.
Seriously beast before you point at others look at your OWN place.. typical American idiot
Thank you for sharing.
You both are correct. The Red Army did liberate Auschwitz and other camps in the East and the Soviet Union did suffer the most losses to its people in the Great Patriotic War or WW2, if you prefer, than the other allied nations. Also many people with physical disabilities and mental illnesses, gay people, communists etc were put in these horrific places. Many German children with disabilities were euthanized just b/c they didn’t fit in with the Nazi ideals of a super human or whatever they called it. They were taken from their families, placed in these hospitals or clinics and murdered by the so called doctors and then a letter was sent to the family of such individual stating their loved one passed away. Having said all of that Jews were victims of czarist Russia’s pogroms just like depicted in the movie, “Fiddler on the Roof”(I saw the movie several times and love the music from it). They were also targeted by the SS as well as the Ukrainian nationalists who sided with the Nazis when Hitler invaded the former Soviet Union in June 1941(these were the followers of Stephen Bandera, a Nazi sympathizer/collaberator).
"I will draw the very last out of this country (Ukraine). I did not come to spread bliss. I have come to help the Führer The population must work, work, and work again.. for some people are getting excited that the population may not get enough to eat. The population cannot demand that. One has only to remember what our heroes were deprived of in Stalingrad . . . . We definitely did not come here to give out manna. We have come here to create the basis for victory."
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"What happens to the Russians, to the Czechs, does not interest me in the slightest. What the nations can offer in the way of good blood of our type we will take, if necessary, by kidnapping their children and raising them here with us. Whether the other nations live in prosperity or starve to death interests me only insofar as we need them as slaves for our culture; otherwise, it is of no interest to me. Whether 10,000 Russian females fall down from exhaustion while digging an anti-tank ditch or not interests me only insofar as the anti-tank ditch for Germany is finished."
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"We are a master race, which must remember that the lowliest German worker is racially and biologically a thousand times more valuable than the population here."
-Erich Koch, Nazi Reichskommissar (Gauleiter) in Ukraine from September 1941 until August 1944
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phdn.org/archives/holocaust-history.org/works/imt/imtnew/03/htm/t406.htm
BTW Hitler greatly admired the genocide of indigenous Indian population of America:
youtu.be/ooMCvGlbbc4
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When Nazis would forcibly sterilize a woman, they called it the "Indiana procedure":
youtu.be/1WNFFoABnNc
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Also, Brits and muricans had invented concentration camps long before German Nazis did (US Civil War, Andersonville, also known as Camp Sumter, 1865; Brits' 2nd Anglo-Boer War, 1899–1902)
Don't forget who built the Concentration Camps and who liberated them.
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WW2 losses of the Soviet Union were about 27,000,000, only officially.
Hey I'm not forgetting! I'm well aware.
Lil one you’re American and raised on racism and Russophobia
Better look at your own house first chick
"Why keep pretending Israel’s war crimes are separate from America’s war crimes."
Indeed. It takes a war criminal to recognize another war criminal. They both long to take over the other's power and use it to conquer their own real or imaginary enemies. Perhaps that's why Trump wants to hook up the US military to the IDF--he's afraid he'll need the combined power to take on the "communists." It would be laughable if the idiot didn't have the nuclear football and the Israelis have nukes they don't admit to and aren't afraid to use.
All of the rhetoric about "communism" is so they can use NSPM7 to arrest them all and remove them.
They are attempting to bring back McCarthyism with a vengeance. "Sir, are you not ashamed?"
Joe McCarthy, the Republican Senator from Wisconsin became famous for his list of communist "subversives" in the 1950s. A made up list (205 names) that infamously targeted his political opponents, including homosexuals, Hollywood stars, and political dissidents. Joe died an early death from likely alcoholism in 1957, after being discredited, despite having ruined the careers and lives of many good Americans - including the great Charlie Chaplin.
I wonder if Americans will fall for it again?
Many of the ignorant are already falling for it.
The communists under the bed McCarthyism? That was hilarious, certainly good for a laugh for those of us NOT in the US.
Sort of like Russiaphobia in Europe right now.
It’s used on social media by propaganda bots defending the indefensible. Apartheid South Africa propaganda used it a lot against human beings calling out their sins too. Really lame and pathetic.
Thank you Caitlin. Not that Today's Communism is the answer, but "They" have this brainwashed American population right where they want them and don't want the plebian slaves hearing about any alternative to the Capitalist system of exploitation they have going for them now.
It’s all be a construct. Capitalism vs Communism; Race, Religion, Women vs Men, etc etc. It’s not apparent to me these points of view over the years have been exploited beyond belief. Divide and conquer; keep the masses at each other’s throats.
Starting with Hitler, fascists unite around their opposition to communism, by which they mean liberals, social democrats, democratic socialists, Marxists, and anyone even one inch on the left. It's the big Tent of hatred.
Democratic socialists, contrary to those confused by labels, has no fixing ideology other than promoting equality and the working class, which can begin with strong collective bargaining rights or universal healthcare and lead, because it is democratic (a concept that lacks a limit), to communism or a world of workers coops...anywhere the democratic will leads. Today, it is leading towards uniting against Trump's fascism and the failure of capitalism to make the world's rich nation livable and affordable. Where it leads, no one knows.....
So Trump will use the Nazi tactic and meanwnile,more and more, voters (the vast majority of Democrats and the young) are ignoring the old tactics and think not of Soviet Communism (where Democratic Socialists were killed as enemies) but of Norway, where a hybrid economy and a robust welfare system has led to a prosperous, free, and happy nation.
Let me put it this way: because the longest journey begins with a few footsteps, democratic socialism as an umbrella label is today taking those few footsteps to find a foothold to gain power but it should not be judged by those few footseps which are but the beginning of an experiment that has never, except for a brief period in the 30's, had any power in the US and we are brought back to the words of FDR about the need for "ferocious experimenation," a term that signals forging new paths because the old are leading nowhere but down. It is likely we will hear the accusation of communism a thousand times before November but it is today less a weapon than noise.
While I appreciate your answer, aren't what you doing (in the way you represent Democratic Socialism) is simply 'reframing' the debate on Reform vs. Revolution when it comes to making changes and getting rid of Capitalism?
This tired old refrain will resonate with no one.
I dunno. How many Americans even know about Joe McCarthy these days - except baby boomer retired yokels?
I am a retired baby boomer/not a yokel but a die-hard socialist. These 'blanket' names have to go.
ok. Who do I write to?
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That's the point. Those ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it. Or perhaps those 'in charge' are not ignorant of history and just wish to complete a failed prior mission. Whatever. We ARE aware of history and will not allow these criminal mafioso thugs to take away our freedoms.
Oh yes it will.
An uneducated populace always falls for the same old shit.
"Netanyahu didn’t create Israel’s violence and racism. Israel’s violence and racism created Netanyahu." - Exactly. Looks like Central Casting will discard the big-eared brute. That shouldn't fool anyone ...
Too many ppl still prefer to remain willfully ignorant of the fact that Zionism/Israel has always been an Anglo-American Imperialist colonial project:
youtube.com/watch?v=IZjSVkkAjVk
youtube.com/watch?v=vEGVSvL6yQU
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The first words of the Balfour Declaration define it pretty well: "My dear Lord Rothschild"...
The most vigorous Zio engineers in the UK: Winston Churchill, Lloyd George, Lord Balfour, Mark Sykes. Serving Alfred Milner’s Round Table system. Liaison agent: Chaim Weizmann.
youtube.com/shorts/hZ9pI-lLICw
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David Lloyd George, the UK Prime Minister from 1916 to 1922, was one of the 20th century's most pivotal Christian Zionists. His alignment with Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann is widely recognized by historians as the critical "sine qua non" period for the foundation of Israel
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The U.S. is just the British Empire's nepo baby.
Pax Britannia became Pax Americana after WW2. It is all part of globalism (Imperialism) that was carried out by the fascists of the 19th-21st Centuries.
U.S. Sen. Scoop Jackson started the project after 1967 to use Israel as a major U.S. proxy in the Middle East.
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"Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect our interests in the region"
-FJB, 1986-2024
At least as I see it, our current Corporate Fascist regime might actually have more in common with Communism than Capitalism. The political and economic sides of government can be seen as one and the same when the government meshes with business by not doing its part with fair taxes and controlling greed, fraud, and rape of the common people. And the corporations, in turn, control and manipulate our lives with little input from the populace, in effect a government. None of this acts in the interests of the people, which Communism supposedly does but never did.
Your grade school texts were from McGraw Hill I bet.. that Mossad miseducation is showing
Notice how ppl keep mentioning "gulag" all the time, while GITMO is STILL functional..?
This is exactly how Propaganda works..
youtu.be/NhPOrkGbpxk?t=393
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Today, the US have that huge PRIVATE Prison Industrial Complex, which is a modern form of slavery..
For example, the "UNICOR" Corp., being part of the Military Industrial Complex, has more than 150 private prison factories. In 2021, the inmates' hourly wage there was between $0.23 and $1.15, while the minimal wage of a "free" American was $7.25. How? Thanks to that nice little exclusion in the 13th Amendment that basically equates prisoners and slaves..
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The largest private prison Corps in the U.S. are GEO Group and CoreCivic. These two companies collectively manage over half of the private prison contracts in the United States with combined revenues of $3.5 billion in 2015.
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The Largest prison population on the planet. And the Largest arms expenditure.. Coincidence?
There has never been a true communist country in history of mankind.
The communist manifesto calls for the abolishment of State, currency and Private ownership for the means of production.
No country has done this and therefore there aren't any and never has been a communist country.
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The USSR under Lenin was ruled by and electorate which sought to bring about communism but never did for different reasons, including constant Imperialist Wars against them.
They were communists, but their country was not communist.
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It is called communism because it is the idea that every issue should be resolved in local communities.
There is nothing authoritarian about that.
Notice how the capitalist (and therefore eventually Imperialist) countries have ALWAYS gone to a great length to prevent the young socialist/communist countries from developing their economy - including State Coups, Terrorism and Embargo.
So, ask yourself - If the Capitalists are so sure that Socialism/Communism doesn't work and always fails, why do they spend so much effort and resources trying to destroy them?
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And Remember: Every failure of a socialist nation is blamed on it being socialist; but NO failure of a capitalist nation is ever blamed on it being capitalist.
youtube.com/watch?v=nFUC0UWgdGY
U.S.A.‘ans, the immediate job in front of us is to do what we can to flood our Senate representatives with our opposition to the Senate companion provision to Section 219. The Senate provision is 1217. A related job is to vote out every traitorous member of the House Armed Services Committee who supported Section 219 in the House and blocked a floor vote. A problem, though, is that Committee members took a voice vote on Section 219 so there is no written record of individual votes and the members who supported the provision can’t be held accountable to the people. We do know, however, that support for the provision was bipartisan and that Democrat Adam Smith of Washington was a sponsor. Of course he’s also taken a lot of money from AIPAC. Smith is being challenged in Washington’s August primary by Kshama Sawant, a former Seattle City Council member who is running as a member of the Socialist Alternative Party. (This is different than the DSA). Sawant is a strong supporter of Palestinian rights and pushed through one of the first significant hourly wage hikes in the country as a member of the Seattle Council. The Democratic Party, with the assistance of local legacy media, has done all it can to derail her campaign. I may have misunderstood her column, but Caitlin seemed to diminish the significance of the recent primary wins of strong opponents of the Israeli-U.S. genocide (with European complicity) in NY State, Colorado and elsewhere (e.g., NJ). I believe that whatever chance we have of cutting off the funding for the genocide (and the illegal war on Iran and ethnic cleansing in Lebanon) should not be easily dismissed. Several other primaries are coming up, e.g., in Missouri, Michigan and Tennessee, pitting opponents of the genocide against establishment Democratic supporters of Israel. Go to the websites of A New Policy or Justice Democrats to see who they are. Their votes on a genocide are more important than their labels.