The United States is a democracy only for the 1% cliques.

 

 

To Jimmy's question about Sanders' 2020 campaign being a psy-ops operation to curtail any progressive action momentum -

I would assert that not only was this true, but his 2016 campaign was as well. I think (now) that Sanders had never any real intention of actually running for PUSA.

I think the establishment understood that the Occupy Wall Street movement represented a real and serious threat to their hegemony. They understood that the best way to curtail this was to present a pretend-candidate who can cosplay the whole progressive schtick enough; to convince the progressive supporters to end up voting blue no matter who. The goal was to ultimately derail and defuse the movement, which is what ended up happening.

That's enough to know that the United States never has been (and never will be) a democracy for the majority. It's the illusion of democracy for the majority. Only the 1% really benefits from this capitalist system, and I would argue they themselves are now destroying it. Reason being - to re-organize things into a more fascist system.

 

Wow - war is the ultimate business.

Seriously, I cannot make this shit up.

Bankers Upgrade Lockheed Stock After Iran Strikes at Israel

https://scheerpost.com/2024/04/22/bankers-upgrade-lockheed-stock-after-iran-strikes-at-israel/

You go Rania!

Never underestimate psychopaths, especially those in wealth and power.

https://www.liberationnews.org/what-is-israels-military-strategy/

A nice day.

Weather-wise that is.

We'll see how long it lasts.

Proof that the demented Biden's quip about releasing Assange was just electioneering posturing.

Oh look - the Central Idiot Agency covering up their asses.

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/18/assange-case-moves-forward-as-cia-covers-its-tracks/

No really, what does the US Empire REALLY think about Palestinian Statehood?

Answer - they don't.

https://scheerpost.com/2024/04/18/leaked-cables-show-biden-pressuring-nations-to-oppose-palestines-un-membership/

So much to unpack from Margaret's message.

https://blackagendareport.com/lessons-china

So many lessons to learn indeed.

Downtown Seattle as the sun comes up.

 

Quote of the day - 04-15-2024.

From Scott Ritter -A reminder about the missiles of April ...

 "The Iranian missile attack on Israel did not come out of the blue, so to speak, but rather was retaliation for an April 1 Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate building, in Damascus, Syria, that killed several senior Iranian military commanders.

While Israel has carried out attacks against Iranian personnel inside Syria in the past, the April 1 strike differed by not only killing very senior Iranian personnel, but by striking what was legally speaking sovereign Iranian territory — the Iranian consulate."

Remind the narcissists, sociopaths and psychopaths who continue to defend the settler-colonial project known as Israel - that facts matter.

 

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/15/scott-ritter-the-missiles-of-april/

Well look what these women did.

Not sure what exactly the implications would mean for the future, but only time will tell.

https://scheerpost.com/2024/04/14/a-group-of-women-took-switzerland-to-court-over-climate-inaction-and-won/

Four years ago, a group of women, aged 64 and up, filed a lawsuit before Europe’s top human rights court against Switzerland for violating their rights by not protecting them from the health impacts of climate change. 

On Tuesday, the court decided in their favor, marking the first time an international court has ruled on governments’ legal obligations regarding climate change.

“It is clear that future generations are likely to bear an increasingly severe burden of the consequences of present failures and omissions to combat climate change,” said Siofra O’Leary, president of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, following the verdict, which cannot be appealed.

Given all of this, I do wonder what the 1% here in the US is gaining.

Other than just accelerating the collapse of the current global crapitalist system (presumably to then reorganize it into a more fascist one):

https://scheerpost.com/2024/04/10/are-embassies-off-limits-ecuadorian-and-israeli-actions-signal-dangerous-precedent/

If I had a list of most admired people in this part of the world ...

... Faye Guenther,would be on it.

https://popularresistance.org/can-grocery-workers-take-back-their-union/

We're all complicit in the 1% endless pursuit of wealth and power.

Whether we like it or not.

https://otherwords.org/last-year-you-spent-more-than-a-months-rent-on-pentagon-contractors/

https://scheerpost.com/2024/04/11/last-year-you-spent-more-than-a-months-rent-on-pentagon-contractors/ 

Illustration by Sarah Gertler / Institute for Policy Studies. Available for republication with attribution.

Last Year, You Spent More Than a Month’s Rent on Pentagon Contractors

A dollar by dollar look at how our taxes enrich military contractors — at the expense of things that actually make us secure.

By Lindsay Koshgarian | April 10, 2024

 

1. Pentagon contractors ($1,759) vs. the Child Tax Credit ($110).

2. Lockheed Martin ($249) vs. renewable energy ($11). 

3. Boeing ($87) vs. the Federal Aviation Administration ($23).

4. Federal prisons ($32.29) vs. substance use and mental health programs ($31.69).

5. Foreign militaries ($112) vs. wildfire management ($14).

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