It is doubtful president Tariff ever had an original thought. He relies and gets his marching orders from the real president of the United States of Israel, Bibi.
Whatever Bibi wants, Bibi gets , and the rich keep getting richer… and richer…. and, guess what… richer.
He is the president of Peace alright, but spelled Piece’, as in the Nobel prize for getting another big ‘Piece’ of the economic pie, which is the only ‘Piece’ that matters.
So true. A friend of my Son's works as a nurse for a hospital now owned by private equity. They cut her hrs. to 35 and now she can pay her rent, or pay her car payment while supporting her Daughter and Grandson who live with her. I have paid her rent off and on when emergencies come up while she looks for part time work that pays more than the cost of going to it. This reminds me of the stories my Grandmother told me about the mid to late 1920s.
That is rotten. A nurse should be able to afford all that without a struggle, once out of training.But, you said it's private so they get paid big bucks from patients who think the treatment is better.
There is no "thinking" in US government. Only ass-kissing. Kakistocracy is the rule by most incompetent. Not that Ds were any better. Genocide Joe case in point.
well said Mr. Douglas, if there were any thinking at all, perhaps the support for the genocidal occupiers could have been rightfully stopped many years ago. Certainly it seems to be a ton of sucking up to the people in authority. No the other blue side was not any better, two sides of the same corrupt, warmongering bloodstained coined. Neither side cares for the interests or well-being of the people, only what the wealthy oligarchs and powers that be want them to do.
Someone once said no matter who you vote for you get John McCain. The uniparty is the war party. These cretins have even become worse than John McCain at this point.😞🙁😔🤔
Voting for people is totally meaningless. Ask me more if you don't believe so. If it had any meaning do you really think they would allow us to do it? All that stuff about voter fraud, that is just rattling the rabble. It's so interesting to watch when you finally figure out the game.
I wish Americans would pay more attention to what their governments are actually doing to other countries instead of building up healthcare and help for people in need. Seems all the artilery the make never helps those causes one tiny bit, yet Israel gets both on the taxpayers dime
Virtually the entire country is ready for revolution--but 35% of us have drunk the Koolade about the enemy being immigrants and brown people and libs in cities, and another 35% think if we can just get Democrats elected we can fix it. The problem is, as Caitlin tirelessly says, CONTROL OF THE NARRATIVE. Give the bastards credit for being smart enough to realize that creating two separate and mutually opposed narratives keeps them in the driver's seat.
@Mary Wildfire, Davina & Landru: "We are the Halluci Nation" and the spirit of John Trudell is our blessed presence within guiding those of US tired of bitching and just putting shoulder to wheel to lift US out of rut.
Here's my non-certified prescription: Get thee some in-spired motivation and join US out here in the ruts (Mebbe the Who could redo their big hit of my well-spent yoot "Out Here In the Fields)..."
Someone can always use a helping hand, even if simply out of
loneliness and the isolation of our default kaputilist system...
Rest In Playful, Purposeful Peace dear Todd Snider
Hi Diana, I hate to rain on your thought however, I am : ) I worked for Jill Stein during her last Presidential run. I collected signatures for her ballot in IL. I spent four weekends collecting and getting the sigs. notarized. Made calls to get her campaign to pick them up. NOPE not a word. I keep them in a folder on my desk and look at them the next time an Rep. Cortez (never a friend) comes telling me how IF only I would work harder. Jill did not even make the ballot in New York while friends who had to collect the same number of sigs managed to do it like Jose Vega. Jill is not serious, very bright, kind and caring however, quiet speaking like she doesn't want to be heard. The traitor Bernie had the voice of serious campaigner, loud and proud. I don't see anyone who is a change from the Duopoly. Mamdani showed himself to be a traitor now turning on Palestinians, Venezuelans. I confess, I donated to Mamdani, I don't live in New York however I wanted change somewhere. A show of success and Mamdani turned into Duopoly. I see no one raising to the stage. It sounds so Accelerationist however maybe that is the only way change will come. From a breadline. I have the same look on my face you do if you read this : (
A friend of mine who ran for office of Mayor from a city near by ran as third party, the city 30% Latin and he is doing the work he campaigned on. John is a good person and so far uncorrupted. The Mayor he replaced will soon be fighting to stay out prison in discovery his law firm was representing the gambling/hotel group. I think we are past the tipping point on many if not all issues the world faces. The Nation of Caitlin : )
Like you, I will not give up hope. As in the past someone steps up who inspires people, like Bernie. Bernie could have taken the movement to third party and won. I had known Bernie through a friend teaching in Vermont. I supported Bernie as a Senator while living in Chicago area. Bernie's run for President I joined on the night he announced. We held a party at a large convention center and the place filled. 4,800$ later and we got " Joe Biden is a friend of mine he would make a great President" I knew he was a traitor at that moment. Bernie and Cortez (I am not her friend now) failing to speak out against the Genocide ended my hope they would help working people. People are starting to understand this is Up Down not Left Right. I don't know who that person is now I see no hint. As the u.s. financial system collapses as in the 1920s people will see the Duopoly for it's self serving cruelness. The only labor leader who I would vote for is the President of the flight attendants union, Sara Nelson. There are no politicians like Kshama Sawant who fit the fight. I support Kshama in her run for CONgress in Wa. Born in India we will not see her beyond Senator. My first vote was for the President of Peace Jimmy Carter who then preceded to sign a bill sending millions in weapons to murder the East Timor people. I thank him for that lesson, trust none of them only their actions speak. Eugene Debbs running for office from prison hasn't arrived at our door yet : ) He will : )
I'm in Canada, so don't know who some of these people are. But, yes, AOC and Sanders lost me over their unwillingness to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza.
As activists, I think our biggest task now is to keep our societies from going full on fascists.
ICE could just as easily be the Nazi brownshirts, and western nations are in lockstep around 5% of GDP going to NATO, calling support for Palestine anti-semitic, being anti-immigrant.
The combination of propaganda and decades of austerity often leads to fascism, which is exactly what those who are profiting from all this war and austerity want. It detracts from those who are creating these conditions.
We need solidarity in order to stop all this militarism and raise our standards of living. Fascism not only makes life horrible, but has us blaming the wrong people for our problems.
I agree with you my friend. This is a global issue. Our gov. in the u.s. is fighting with all the Fascist tools to hold on to power both militarily and economically. Othering is just one of the tools. When Genocide Don started threatening the takeover of Canada, I thought he is farther down the mentally ill path than I thought. We may be to late to stop the Brown shirts from taking control of the streets. Jan. of this year the Internal Revenue Service (tax collection) will now be notified if anyone withdraws more than 1,000 $ from any account. Just another tool of the Fascists. : (
If you call reporting the dark and hardly princely charming truth about Venezuela's deeply if alternatively corrupt newly instituted former opposition leader Nicholas Maduro revolutionary, kinda like Dr Jill Stein's separated-at-birth reform candidate of energy bonanza Venezuela then have I got an Andrew Cuomo to sell you!
This is the closest thing to an opposition figure in Venezuela and barely merits any coverage in corporate-captured U.S. Mass Media Identity Politics Sweepstakes!
Don't let the Socialist label and revolutionary fatigues fool ya! Maduro ain't bringing any shift from the institutional corruption Washington insiders have been feeding since Venezuela was confirmed an underground energy windfall!
"Venezuela: Maduro brandishes sword and vows to defy any US attempt to overthrow his government
"Donald Trump, like his predecessor Joe Biden, does not recognise Nicolas Maduro as the country's leader. He is currently on his third term after being declared the winner of last year's presidential election, despite evidence that the opposition defeated him by a 2-to-1 margin."
Wednesday 26 November 2025 05:34, UK
Tio Mitchito
Beaverton\Aloha\Hillsboro, Ore
I'm outta primaries after life as impotent Democrat
and losing life-line on blue collar wages that were
I'll up-vote this single line advocacy of a 3rd Party option being perennial Presidential candidate from the Greens being the medical Dr. Jill Stein. There are many better potential 3rd Party challengers or even DNC challengers, certainly the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) whose candidate for Mayor of Empire City of the Empire State (NYC, NY), Zohran Mamdani won the primaries and then the race against Democratic Party heir apparent Andrew Cuomo to become the current Mayor of NYC and Wall Street. As improbable as that seems given Mamdani's ties to anything labelled even partly Socialist.
"In a 2024 interview with Haaretz, (Israel's leading daily newspaper) Stein said the Green Party was an alternative to the "rigid two-party system [in which] both parties are widely regarded as sponsored by and serving the economic elites, and share their core interests. They're both parties of war and of Wall Street. They may differ on social issues, but on core policies they're very much the same".[8]
Meanwhile, the front-running and best funded if most scandalous currently serving NYC Mayor (after his failed bid for NY state Governor), son Andrew Cuomo of perhaps NY City and State's most unassailable candidate for city, state or national office (and a personal candidate of my own choice were I still resident in the Empire City or State, namely Mario Cuomo who emerged hardly unscathed from charges of associating with demonstrably corrupt Gotham and Empire state political machines during my well-spent yoot in the Institutional Corruption capital of these United States:
Meanwhile I would never support Mario Cuomo's son Andrew, not even before the sexual abuse allegations rolled in and went unprosecuted after exceeding the alleged crimes' statute of limitations for prosecution. Those cases and additional allegations began coming forth and were being in the process of adjudication as Andrew Cuomo's first campaign neared:
Andrew Cuomo's donor list and big buck haul alone should in the context of institutional corruption advise against endorsement except by the most cynical politically engaged citizens. From the wiki dossier:
"Beginning in late 2020, Cuomo faced numerous allegations of sexual misconduct.[9][10]."
"A January 2021 report by state attorney general Letitia James found that the Cuomo administration had undercounted COVID-19-related deaths at nursing homes by as much as 50%.[5][6] As of May 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice has an open investigation into Cuomo's testimony on his involvement with a questionable report used to combat criticism of his handling of the pandemic.[7][8]"
"Beginning in late 2020, Cuomo faced numerous allegations of sexual misconduct.[9][10] A report from independent investigators commissioned by (state Attorney General) James found in August 2021 that Cuomo sexually harassed at least 11 women from 2013 through 2020 and retaliated against victims who made complaints about his conduct.[11][12]..."
"...Following the release of James's report, there were widespread calls for Cuomo's resignation, including from President Joe Biden. On August 23, 2021, in the midst of an impeachment investigation against him,[13] Cuomo resigned from office.[14][15]"
"After his resignation, criminal investigations from the district attorney offices for New York County, Nassau County, Westchester County, and Oswego County were closed without charges being filed.[16][17] A criminal charge in Albany County was dropped in 2022.[18]"
"In 2025, Cuomo mounted a political comeback bid and ran for mayor of New York City in that year's election. Despite leading in most Democratic primary polls, he lost to Zohran Mamdani in what was considered a major upset. He continued his run as an independent, then lost again to Mamdani in the general election."[19][20][21]
Didn't take long for Mamdani to turn traitor. Mamdani now anti-Venezuelan, anti-Palestinian. I am not proud I donated to him. I don't live in New York either : (
This entire planet I've come to realize is just fucking upside down and the psychopaths and killers are the rulers who should be protecting the commonfolk.. while they do the very opposite in reality
When did humanity collectively decide to not only let the wolves into the barnhouse, but also gave them the key and leadership rights to kill maim and rape to their hearts content... And not only get away with it but be applauded and protected for being the vile creatures they are
Humanity is diabolically Insane and I'm so fucking happy it's now undeniable to most sane people as we head into year 2026
There's a historical law: a rising empire invades by waging open war, a declining empire proclaims peace while engaging in terrorism. Let's not delude ourselves that it's any different!
Are they only going to give him the Peace Prize? Why not also the Chemistry Prize, the Literature Prize, the Dance Prize, the Art Prize, the Love Prize, the Wisdom Prize, the Kindness Prize? ALL OF THEM! Let's see if that inflates his mega-ego so much that it finally explodes! 💥
It is also worth saying that there is good reason for the US/Trump et al to ignore the "UAE backed" conflict/RSF/genocide/famine in Sudan. UAE is no different from USrael. About 65% of the UAE's weapons come from the USA. It's all about profit, oil and the weapons industry and it has been for decades. And the US & bigger players in Europe and the oligarchs who run them all want to divvy up Sudan's rich natural resources: Significant deposits of gold, oil, and natural gas, alongside abundant arable land along the Nile for agriculture (while the Sudanese starve) and the Nile River itself as a crucial resource for irrigation and potential hydropower. Other key minerals include iron, copper, zinc, silver, chromite, gypsum, mica, uranium, and the rare earths the Empire is continuously lusting after.
One can only maintain the delusion of Strawman Trump as the President of "Peace" if one doesn't dig deeper for what is NOT said about these wars. Once the reality and truth are fleshed/flushed out, the dots are connected, and the lies melt away like the Wicked Witch of the West. The US/multinational oligarchy was built upon and grows fat on its addiction to war, destruction and death.
>>"One can only maintain the delusion of Strawman Trump as the President of "Peace" if one doesn't dig deeper for what is NOT said about these wars. Once the reality and truth are fleshed/flushed out, the dots are connected, and the lies melt away like the Wicked Witch of the West. The US/multinational oligarchy was built upon and grows fat on its addiction to war, destruction and death."
Yes, but they are not all 'equally stupid' Presidents that are intent on sowing the seeds of their own destruction (i.e. Trump seems to 'take the cake' when it comes to stupidity).
WHAT is the matter with these people? Do they see sending bombs and weapons to a country committing genocide as peace making? Or ICE as a peaceful bunch? Is it peaceful to call Somalians or anyone else "garbage"? Murdering people in a boat on the Caribbean because Trump has decided that they are "narco-terrorists" with no evidence? The rhetoric about Trump being the "President of Peace" is insanity. Sadly, many of the world leaders have somehow fallen prey to this insanity. They are, as you say, Caitlin, delusional.
They’re not delusional—they’re calculating. Calculating to see how far they can go to get everything they want before they’re forced to stop. I have no idea when that will be or how it will happen but it will happen. Every empire falls and ours will not be any different.
Quite remarkable that there is no mainstream news media call for physical accounting of the remains of the suspect motor-boat alleged hauls of cocaine or smuggled narcotics or precursor chemicals. How long has it been since the first (and by now normalized) attacks by U.S. Naval Air gear via U.S. air to sea ballistics targeting these comparatively small smuggling motor-boats after no reported Coast Guard encirclement with U.S. Naval calls for surrender of weapons and the boarding of these boats in lieu of air-to-sea rocket launch!
Search online and please point out to U.S. who among the staffs of mainstream U.S. news media's muck rakers (not cuck makers like our two-term Commander In Chief or his Secretary of War's) staff have ever fielded questions pertaining to any demand for "physical evidence" before undertaking multiple such rocket attacks from air to small civilian "smuggling" boats. This is like living in a Twilight Zone episode or a sequel to that Bill Murray alternative time comedy "Groundhog's Day." Except reality in this case is less plausible than Hollywood's fable of bureaucratic metaphysics!
>>"many of the world leaders have somehow fallen prey to this insanity"
I don't think they've 'fallen prey' to it. They understand it and go along with it because it serves their interests. Some also fear possible retribution from the U.S. if they go against America.
Most of these 'so-called world leaders' are DEEPLY lacking in morals, and some might even be psychopaths and sociopaths (we know several already - Trump, Netanyahu, Modi, Javier Milei, MBS, quite a few more...)
Cemeteries are peaceful places. Donald Trump is working for Gaza to become a cemetery. The biggest, meanest most beautiful cemetery there ever was, no doubt!
Trump is no better than Biden, Trump barks and shows you the chaos upfront, while Biden hisses and bites like a snake. Yet both ultimately serve the same neocon agenda quietly running the show from behind the scenes.
Trump is particularly compromised through Jared Kushner, Bibi’s loyal ally and family insider, who treats U.S. foreign policy like his own business portfolio. With Kushner’s financial ties to settlements and his ambitions to cash in on Gaza’s “reconstruction” — casinos, real estate, the whole grift package — Trump’s loyalties couldn’t be more obvious.
And to keep his future deals alive, he tiptoes around Saudi and Qatar. It’s all money, zero principles — just transactional politics masquerading as leadership. That’s exactly why he pushed for a faux ceasefire in Gaza: not out of compassion, but to appease Qatar and KSA and safeguard his business interests.
the masterful demented con man is a fraud and mass murderer. His grandiose delusions have gone overboard along with 80 plus dead fishermen/sailors torn to pieces via american bombs. Peace maker? 😂
Yet again, dating back to the early poll results of Trump's first national political campaign in 2015. My question (certainly not mine alone, I got to thinking on this track by some of my better regarded national journalistic reporters (often from publications rarely cited such as the Village Voice...) is of the shifted paradigm of muck raking investigators looking for proof of some political disease of the eternal carpet-bagging candidate, while overlooking the high early to late polling results of a clearly and repeatedly diseased body politic in advancing such charlatans who wear their disease like gold nugget cuff links, each such candidate exiting the primaries as a potential Nobel Peace Prize winner don't we know(!)
It is doubtful president Tariff ever had an original thought. He relies and gets his marching orders from the real president of the United States of Israel, Bibi.
Whatever Bibi wants, Bibi gets , and the rich keep getting richer… and richer…. and, guess what… richer.
Are you saying the rich are ... getting richer?
He is the president of Peace alright, but spelled Piece’, as in the Nobel prize for getting another big ‘Piece’ of the economic pie, which is the only ‘Piece’ that matters.
Yep, and he makes sure his cut is always the bigger piece.
If enough of us pissed on him it might actually bring us real peace in the end.
Roger
Good one!
That is an expert pun my friend : ) , and so true.
Landru,
“Friend” is not a word that comes my way very often. Thanks for overlooking my gaffs a while back.
What they call Peace - even Piece is the wrong spelling. The correct spelling is actually PIss.
They sure aren't getting poorer, which is telling because the rest of us are.
So true. A friend of my Son's works as a nurse for a hospital now owned by private equity. They cut her hrs. to 35 and now she can pay her rent, or pay her car payment while supporting her Daughter and Grandson who live with her. I have paid her rent off and on when emergencies come up while she looks for part time work that pays more than the cost of going to it. This reminds me of the stories my Grandmother told me about the mid to late 1920s.
That is rotten. A nurse should be able to afford all that without a struggle, once out of training.But, you said it's private so they get paid big bucks from patients who think the treatment is better.
In Australia, States run hospitals are fantastic.
The odd thing is; if "bibi" doesn't get his pardon, and burns Israel, it would save so many,many other lives.
Which means that the poor are becoming more numerous, and poorer.
And most could still afford a pitchfork if they weren't so brainwashed.
Would eating one rich person feed millions? Just kidding. Although I think Caitlin could sell those T-shirts ha.
well said Mr. Turcot. Sadly true, who knows how much of what is actually going on and getting done is actually The Tariff's actual thinking or ideas
There is no "thinking" in US government. Only ass-kissing. Kakistocracy is the rule by most incompetent. Not that Ds were any better. Genocide Joe case in point.
well said Mr. Douglas, if there were any thinking at all, perhaps the support for the genocidal occupiers could have been rightfully stopped many years ago. Certainly it seems to be a ton of sucking up to the people in authority. No the other blue side was not any better, two sides of the same corrupt, warmongering bloodstained coined. Neither side cares for the interests or well-being of the people, only what the wealthy oligarchs and powers that be want them to do.
Someone once said no matter who you vote for you get John McCain. The uniparty is the war party. These cretins have even become worse than John McCain at this point.😞🙁😔🤔
Voting for people is totally meaningless. Ask me more if you don't believe so. If it had any meaning do you really think they would allow us to do it? All that stuff about voter fraud, that is just rattling the rabble. It's so interesting to watch when you finally figure out the game.
Party politics: the great psyop.
JP Sartre essay: 'Voting-a trap for fools'
The person who came up with that saying was Tom Woods.
(Whose influence is probably one of the main reasons that I found Caitlin Johnstone.)
Thank you for letting me know. A wise man indeed.
Both parties want war. I wish Americans would pay more attention to Jill Stein of the Green Party.
I wish Americans would pay more attention to what their governments are actually doing to other countries instead of building up healthcare and help for people in need. Seems all the artilery the make never helps those causes one tiny bit, yet Israel gets both on the taxpayers dime
Davina, If Americans aren't so conditioned and brainwashed and dumbed down, they would have started a Revolution by now.
The slogan will be, Revolution comes via standing in a breadline clutching a phone that has no network : (
One never knows how many it takes to start a revolution. Some could be wishing there was one they could join????
Virtually the entire country is ready for revolution--but 35% of us have drunk the Koolade about the enemy being immigrants and brown people and libs in cities, and another 35% think if we can just get Democrats elected we can fix it. The problem is, as Caitlin tirelessly says, CONTROL OF THE NARRATIVE. Give the bastards credit for being smart enough to realize that creating two separate and mutually opposed narratives keeps them in the driver's seat.
@Mary Wildfire, Davina & Landru: "We are the Halluci Nation" and the spirit of John Trudell is our blessed presence within guiding those of US tired of bitching and just putting shoulder to wheel to lift US out of rut.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4xwN3yPZA0
"The Halluci Nation - We Are The Halluci Nation Ft. John Trudell & Northern Voice (Official video)"
The Halluci Nation
233K subscribers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MD8IK19aec
Here's my non-certified prescription: Get thee some in-spired motivation and join US out here in the ruts (Mebbe the Who could redo their big hit of my well-spent yoot "Out Here In the Fields)..."
Someone can always use a helping hand, even if simply out of
loneliness and the isolation of our default kaputilist system...
Rest In Playful, Purposeful Peace dear Todd Snider
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBydsvJX8vM&list=RDBBydsvJX8vM&start_radio=1
Tom Jones Unexpurgated Welsh burrrrr Recording & U. of Tube presentation on
more of the ideas of our fellow pride of Beaverton, Ore namely Todd Snider that didn't make the 3 minute cut above....
"Well, y'know\Within reason..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UobQc4QZCVc
Warmly, even if I'm all wet
Tio Mitchito
USA? Divide and conquer.
🎯
I think they go hand in hand, Davina. Less war spending should equal better health care and a stronger social safety net.
Hi Diana, I hate to rain on your thought however, I am : ) I worked for Jill Stein during her last Presidential run. I collected signatures for her ballot in IL. I spent four weekends collecting and getting the sigs. notarized. Made calls to get her campaign to pick them up. NOPE not a word. I keep them in a folder on my desk and look at them the next time an Rep. Cortez (never a friend) comes telling me how IF only I would work harder. Jill did not even make the ballot in New York while friends who had to collect the same number of sigs managed to do it like Jose Vega. Jill is not serious, very bright, kind and caring however, quiet speaking like she doesn't want to be heard. The traitor Bernie had the voice of serious campaigner, loud and proud. I don't see anyone who is a change from the Duopoly. Mamdani showed himself to be a traitor now turning on Palestinians, Venezuelans. I confess, I donated to Mamdani, I don't live in New York however I wanted change somewhere. A show of success and Mamdani turned into Duopoly. I see no one raising to the stage. It sounds so Accelerationist however maybe that is the only way change will come. From a breadline. I have the same look on my face you do if you read this : (
I'm in Canada, and try not to pay too much attention to American politics, so that's news to me about Jill Stein, and disappointing news.
AOC and Sanders lost me when they failed to support Palestine.
I don't know what the answer is, but the duopoly seems like they're two sides of the same coin, both pandering to the rich and ignoring everyone else.
And it's not much better in Canada nor, I suspect, in the rest of the western world.
Grassroots organizing? Maybe that's the place to start.
Small autonomous groupings are emerging, with full administration of them a huge challenge, to be quietly worked out, under the radar.
Thanks for this good news, George. I hope they're successfully worked out.
It seems the only recourse at this point.
A group could start as a discussion gettogether and go from there.
It's probably a matter of survival by now.
A friend of mine who ran for office of Mayor from a city near by ran as third party, the city 30% Latin and he is doing the work he campaigned on. John is a good person and so far uncorrupted. The Mayor he replaced will soon be fighting to stay out prison in discovery his law firm was representing the gambling/hotel group. I think we are past the tipping point on many if not all issues the world faces. The Nation of Caitlin : )
Like you, I will not give up hope. As in the past someone steps up who inspires people, like Bernie. Bernie could have taken the movement to third party and won. I had known Bernie through a friend teaching in Vermont. I supported Bernie as a Senator while living in Chicago area. Bernie's run for President I joined on the night he announced. We held a party at a large convention center and the place filled. 4,800$ later and we got " Joe Biden is a friend of mine he would make a great President" I knew he was a traitor at that moment. Bernie and Cortez (I am not her friend now) failing to speak out against the Genocide ended my hope they would help working people. People are starting to understand this is Up Down not Left Right. I don't know who that person is now I see no hint. As the u.s. financial system collapses as in the 1920s people will see the Duopoly for it's self serving cruelness. The only labor leader who I would vote for is the President of the flight attendants union, Sara Nelson. There are no politicians like Kshama Sawant who fit the fight. I support Kshama in her run for CONgress in Wa. Born in India we will not see her beyond Senator. My first vote was for the President of Peace Jimmy Carter who then preceded to sign a bill sending millions in weapons to murder the East Timor people. I thank him for that lesson, trust none of them only their actions speak. Eugene Debbs running for office from prison hasn't arrived at our door yet : ) He will : )
I'm in Canada, so don't know who some of these people are. But, yes, AOC and Sanders lost me over their unwillingness to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza.
As activists, I think our biggest task now is to keep our societies from going full on fascists.
ICE could just as easily be the Nazi brownshirts, and western nations are in lockstep around 5% of GDP going to NATO, calling support for Palestine anti-semitic, being anti-immigrant.
The combination of propaganda and decades of austerity often leads to fascism, which is exactly what those who are profiting from all this war and austerity want. It detracts from those who are creating these conditions.
We need solidarity in order to stop all this militarism and raise our standards of living. Fascism not only makes life horrible, but has us blaming the wrong people for our problems.
I agree with you my friend. This is a global issue. Our gov. in the u.s. is fighting with all the Fascist tools to hold on to power both militarily and economically. Othering is just one of the tools. When Genocide Don started threatening the takeover of Canada, I thought he is farther down the mentally ill path than I thought. We may be to late to stop the Brown shirts from taking control of the streets. Jan. of this year the Internal Revenue Service (tax collection) will now be notified if anyone withdraws more than 1,000 $ from any account. Just another tool of the Fascists. : (
Wow! That's quite an invasion of privacy.
If you call reporting the dark and hardly princely charming truth about Venezuela's deeply if alternatively corrupt newly instituted former opposition leader Nicholas Maduro revolutionary, kinda like Dr Jill Stein's separated-at-birth reform candidate of energy bonanza Venezuela then have I got an Andrew Cuomo to sell you!
This is the closest thing to an opposition figure in Venezuela and barely merits any coverage in corporate-captured U.S. Mass Media Identity Politics Sweepstakes!
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/edmundo-gonzalez-the-retiree-who-could-take-down-venezuelas-dictator-a-a566dc43-6f86-4444-879e-b60d23f76824
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmundo_Gonz%C3%A1lez
Don't let the Socialist label and revolutionary fatigues fool ya! Maduro ain't bringing any shift from the institutional corruption Washington insiders have been feeding since Venezuela was confirmed an underground energy windfall!
https://news.sky.com/story/venezuela-maduro-brandishes-sword-and-vows-to-defy-any-us-attempt-to-overthrow-his-government-13475505
"Venezuela: Maduro brandishes sword and vows to defy any US attempt to overthrow his government
"Donald Trump, like his predecessor Joe Biden, does not recognise Nicolas Maduro as the country's leader. He is currently on his third term after being declared the winner of last year's presidential election, despite evidence that the opposition defeated him by a 2-to-1 margin."
Wednesday 26 November 2025 05:34, UK
Tio Mitchito
Beaverton\Aloha\Hillsboro, Ore
I'm outta primaries after life as impotent Democrat
and losing life-line on blue collar wages that were
union-negotiated to benefit DNC Swells!
Sorry my friends in Venezuela tell a far different story. They are not rich.
Why does she get no airtime anymore?🤔
I'll up-vote this single line advocacy of a 3rd Party option being perennial Presidential candidate from the Greens being the medical Dr. Jill Stein. There are many better potential 3rd Party challengers or even DNC challengers, certainly the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) whose candidate for Mayor of Empire City of the Empire State (NYC, NY), Zohran Mamdani won the primaries and then the race against Democratic Party heir apparent Andrew Cuomo to become the current Mayor of NYC and Wall Street. As improbable as that seems given Mamdani's ties to anything labelled even partly Socialist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Stein
"In a 2024 interview with Haaretz, (Israel's leading daily newspaper) Stein said the Green Party was an alternative to the "rigid two-party system [in which] both parties are widely regarded as sponsored by and serving the economic elites, and share their core interests. They're both parties of war and of Wall Street. They may differ on social issues, but on core policies they're very much the same".[8]
Meanwhile, the front-running and best funded if most scandalous currently serving NYC Mayor (after his failed bid for NY state Governor), son Andrew Cuomo of perhaps NY City and State's most unassailable candidate for city, state or national office (and a personal candidate of my own choice were I still resident in the Empire City or State, namely Mario Cuomo who emerged hardly unscathed from charges of associating with demonstrably corrupt Gotham and Empire state political machines during my well-spent yoot in the Institutional Corruption capital of these United States:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Cuomo
Meanwhile I would never support Mario Cuomo's son Andrew, not even before the sexual abuse allegations rolled in and went unprosecuted after exceeding the alleged crimes' statute of limitations for prosecution. Those cases and additional allegations began coming forth and were being in the process of adjudication as Andrew Cuomo's first campaign neared:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo's donor list and big buck haul alone should in the context of institutional corruption advise against endorsement except by the most cynical politically engaged citizens. From the wiki dossier:
"Beginning in late 2020, Cuomo faced numerous allegations of sexual misconduct.[9][10]."
"A January 2021 report by state attorney general Letitia James found that the Cuomo administration had undercounted COVID-19-related deaths at nursing homes by as much as 50%.[5][6] As of May 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice has an open investigation into Cuomo's testimony on his involvement with a questionable report used to combat criticism of his handling of the pandemic.[7][8]"
"Beginning in late 2020, Cuomo faced numerous allegations of sexual misconduct.[9][10] A report from independent investigators commissioned by (state Attorney General) James found in August 2021 that Cuomo sexually harassed at least 11 women from 2013 through 2020 and retaliated against victims who made complaints about his conduct.[11][12]..."
"...Following the release of James's report, there were widespread calls for Cuomo's resignation, including from President Joe Biden. On August 23, 2021, in the midst of an impeachment investigation against him,[13] Cuomo resigned from office.[14][15]"
"After his resignation, criminal investigations from the district attorney offices for New York County, Nassau County, Westchester County, and Oswego County were closed without charges being filed.[16][17] A criminal charge in Albany County was dropped in 2022.[18]"
"In 2025, Cuomo mounted a political comeback bid and ran for mayor of New York City in that year's election. Despite leading in most Democratic primary polls, he lost to Zohran Mamdani in what was considered a major upset. He continued his run as an independent, then lost again to Mamdani in the general election."[19][20][21]
https://www.nyccfb.info/ftmsearch/IEDS/196-234-C10301.pdf
"Andrew Cuomo is bankrolled
by Donald Trump’s biggest donors."
"FACT CHECK: TRUE"
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/andrew-cuomo-new-york-city-mayor-billionaires/
"The Bipartisan Billionaires Behind Andrew Cuomo’s Comeback"
"Who’s afraid of Zohran Mamdani? Check the fine print."
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Didn't take long for Mamdani to turn traitor. Mamdani now anti-Venezuelan, anti-Palestinian. I am not proud I donated to him. I don't live in New York either : (
WAR is PEACE
PEACE is WAR
This entire planet I've come to realize is just fucking upside down and the psychopaths and killers are the rulers who should be protecting the commonfolk.. while they do the very opposite in reality
When did humanity collectively decide to not only let the wolves into the barnhouse, but also gave them the key and leadership rights to kill maim and rape to their hearts content... And not only get away with it but be applauded and protected for being the vile creatures they are
Humanity is diabolically Insane and I'm so fucking happy it's now undeniable to most sane people as we head into year 2026
Egg-sack-lie
There's a historical law: a rising empire invades by waging open war, a declining empire proclaims peace while engaging in terrorism. Let's not delude ourselves that it's any different!
Hmm, interesting... Thanks!
Are they only going to give him the Peace Prize? Why not also the Chemistry Prize, the Literature Prize, the Dance Prize, the Art Prize, the Love Prize, the Wisdom Prize, the Kindness Prize? ALL OF THEM! Let's see if that inflates his mega-ego so much that it finally explodes! 💥
Is there a prize for the best fake tan? Best comb-over? Fastest healing bullet hole?
Comment of the day, Loam! Donny's ego is proportional to the size of his fat, orange arse. And inversely proportional to his cerebral capacity.
Nobel prize for Math my friend goes to you : )
I am flattered!
Yes and what about the 'Building Enhancement' award - putting his name on every building he has so tastefully 'renovated' ......
Thank you Caitlin.
It is also worth saying that there is good reason for the US/Trump et al to ignore the "UAE backed" conflict/RSF/genocide/famine in Sudan. UAE is no different from USrael. About 65% of the UAE's weapons come from the USA. It's all about profit, oil and the weapons industry and it has been for decades. And the US & bigger players in Europe and the oligarchs who run them all want to divvy up Sudan's rich natural resources: Significant deposits of gold, oil, and natural gas, alongside abundant arable land along the Nile for agriculture (while the Sudanese starve) and the Nile River itself as a crucial resource for irrigation and potential hydropower. Other key minerals include iron, copper, zinc, silver, chromite, gypsum, mica, uranium, and the rare earths the Empire is continuously lusting after.
One can only maintain the delusion of Strawman Trump as the President of "Peace" if one doesn't dig deeper for what is NOT said about these wars. Once the reality and truth are fleshed/flushed out, the dots are connected, and the lies melt away like the Wicked Witch of the West. The US/multinational oligarchy was built upon and grows fat on its addiction to war, destruction and death.
Well said Liana Chenoweth Kornfield!
>>"One can only maintain the delusion of Strawman Trump as the President of "Peace" if one doesn't dig deeper for what is NOT said about these wars. Once the reality and truth are fleshed/flushed out, the dots are connected, and the lies melt away like the Wicked Witch of the West. The US/multinational oligarchy was built upon and grows fat on its addiction to war, destruction and death."
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Malignant Narcissists = Executive Branch +CONgress+ Judaical Branch. I think that's all the math we need until the revolution.
To be totally fair, they're all garbage presidents, red or blue makes no matter.
Yes, but they are not all 'equally stupid' Presidents that are intent on sowing the seeds of their own destruction (i.e. Trump seems to 'take the cake' when it comes to stupidity).
He's just more brazenly open about it than some other presidents, although ....a LOT of masks have fallen off these past 2 years...
Yes. This is where he accomplishes gargantuan, heroic feats, well worthy of a prize. He has left his only competitor, W Bush, in the dust.
100%
WHAT is the matter with these people? Do they see sending bombs and weapons to a country committing genocide as peace making? Or ICE as a peaceful bunch? Is it peaceful to call Somalians or anyone else "garbage"? Murdering people in a boat on the Caribbean because Trump has decided that they are "narco-terrorists" with no evidence? The rhetoric about Trump being the "President of Peace" is insanity. Sadly, many of the world leaders have somehow fallen prey to this insanity. They are, as you say, Caitlin, delusional.
They’re not delusional—they’re calculating. Calculating to see how far they can go to get everything they want before they’re forced to stop. I have no idea when that will be or how it will happen but it will happen. Every empire falls and ours will not be any different.
Quite remarkable that there is no mainstream news media call for physical accounting of the remains of the suspect motor-boat alleged hauls of cocaine or smuggled narcotics or precursor chemicals. How long has it been since the first (and by now normalized) attacks by U.S. Naval Air gear via U.S. air to sea ballistics targeting these comparatively small smuggling motor-boats after no reported Coast Guard encirclement with U.S. Naval calls for surrender of weapons and the boarding of these boats in lieu of air-to-sea rocket launch!
Search online and please point out to U.S. who among the staffs of mainstream U.S. news media's muck rakers (not cuck makers like our two-term Commander In Chief or his Secretary of War's) staff have ever fielded questions pertaining to any demand for "physical evidence" before undertaking multiple such rocket attacks from air to small civilian "smuggling" boats. This is like living in a Twilight Zone episode or a sequel to that Bill Murray alternative time comedy "Groundhog's Day." Except reality in this case is less plausible than Hollywood's fable of bureaucratic metaphysics!
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>>"many of the world leaders have somehow fallen prey to this insanity"
I don't think they've 'fallen prey' to it. They understand it and go along with it because it serves their interests. Some also fear possible retribution from the U.S. if they go against America.
Most of these 'so-called world leaders' are DEEPLY lacking in morals, and some might even be psychopaths and sociopaths (we know several already - Trump, Netanyahu, Modi, Javier Milei, MBS, quite a few more...)
It seems that humans have a 'knack' for selecting 'the wrong leaders' CONSISTENTLY. This acknowledged observation is dramatic but recurring: many societies end up handing power to individuals who seem — for cruelty, incompetence, or immorality — the worst among us. (https://trustinscience.com/2025/09/24/when-the-worst-becomes-the-boss-why-humanity-chooses-cruel-leaders/)
Well said Chang
Cemeteries are peaceful places. Donald Trump is working for Gaza to become a cemetery. The biggest, meanest most beautiful cemetery there ever was, no doubt!
Part of the tactic is to accelerate the wrong-doing to keep ahead of the polity.
Trump is no better than Biden, Trump barks and shows you the chaos upfront, while Biden hisses and bites like a snake. Yet both ultimately serve the same neocon agenda quietly running the show from behind the scenes.
Trump is particularly compromised through Jared Kushner, Bibi’s loyal ally and family insider, who treats U.S. foreign policy like his own business portfolio. With Kushner’s financial ties to settlements and his ambitions to cash in on Gaza’s “reconstruction” — casinos, real estate, the whole grift package — Trump’s loyalties couldn’t be more obvious.
And to keep his future deals alive, he tiptoes around Saudi and Qatar. It’s all money, zero principles — just transactional politics masquerading as leadership. That’s exactly why he pushed for a faux ceasefire in Gaza: not out of compassion, but to appease Qatar and KSA and safeguard his business interests.
That burns me up watching Jared scooping up deals while posing as a negotiator.
Jared is out for Jared.
Yes, and he is also an ultra Zionist. Bibi and he and his family are close friends.
Transactional self enrichment.
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How long now before they change the name of the Dept. of Defense from The Dept. of War to The Dept. of Peace❓❓❓
HaHa - well said!
Not till after the Hegseth boy is removed. He wants to role-play an action hero with real weapons and lots of violence.
But, surely, ALL in the Noble "ZioChristian" Pursuit of "Peace Through Strength"
the masterful demented con man is a fraud and mass murderer. His grandiose delusions have gone overboard along with 80 plus dead fishermen/sailors torn to pieces via american bombs. Peace maker? 😂
Yet again, dating back to the early poll results of Trump's first national political campaign in 2015. My question (certainly not mine alone, I got to thinking on this track by some of my better regarded national journalistic reporters (often from publications rarely cited such as the Village Voice...) is of the shifted paradigm of muck raking investigators looking for proof of some political disease of the eternal carpet-bagging candidate, while overlooking the high early to late polling results of a clearly and repeatedly diseased body politic in advancing such charlatans who wear their disease like gold nugget cuff links, each such candidate exiting the primaries as a potential Nobel Peace Prize winner don't we know(!)
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Relabeling war as peace, an increase in homelessness as a booming economy and authoritarianism as freedom. The hallmark of a peaceful guy. Ommmmmmmm
Thank You Caitlin
"War is Peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." 1984
Und arbeit macht frei....
They are bullshitting, in Professor Frankfurt's sense of that word.
For sociopaths, truth or facts are of interest, solely to the extent that they can be weaponized.