That is, a new term for me.
https://burningbooks.com/products/on-necrocapitalism-a-plague-journal
For reference, I got it from this truly amazing editorial ->
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/the-case-for-abandoning-the-burning-house/
2024-11-04
New term I learned today: Necrocapitalism
Until the Blue No Matter Who'ers and the MAGA Reds really and truly see the impact of the actions of the US Empire ruling class, nothing will ever change.
Headlines like these - even now - result in denial and refusal to even read.
https://scheerpost.com/2024/11/04/israel-killed-over-50-children-in-jabalia-in-48-hours-un/
Israel Killed Over 50 Children in Jabalia in 48 Hours: UN
By Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com
Israeli strikes in Jabalia, northern Gaza, killed over 50 children in just 48 hours, the UN’s child relief agency, UNICEF, said in a statement on Saturday.
“This has already been a deadly weekend of attacks in North Gaza. In the past 48 hours alone, over 50 children have reportedly been killed in Jabalia, where strikes leveled two residential buildings sheltering hundreds of people,” said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell.
Israeli Scholar Lays Out ‘True Brutality’ of Ethnic Cleansing Now Underway in Gaza
By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams
Much alarm has been raised over the so-called “Generals’ Plan,” an ethnic cleansing proposal for northern Gaza that has reportedly garnered attention in the highest reaches of the Israeli government.
But Israeli scholar Idan Landau argued in a column published in English by +972 Magazine on Friday that what the Israeli military is actually doing in northern Gaza “is even more appalling” than the plan outlined by a group of retired generals. Landau argued that focus on the details of the Generals’ Plan has served to obscure the “true brutality” of Israel’s deadly operations in northern Gaza, which has been rendered a hellscape of death and destruction by the military assault and siege.
Terms like 'genocide', 'ethnic cleansing', 'war crimes', 'crimes against humanity', and so on, mean nothing to psychopaths.
Until they mean something to the American Public, then's it up to the rest of the world to take action.
Regardless of which ruling class elites fix the 2024 US elections, it won't matter.
Because elections in US crapitalism don't matter for the majority.
Either Trump or Harris will continue the fund the ongoing genocide of brown people, by largely white European people.
2024-10-31
Quote of the day - 10-31-2024
Francis Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/31/south-africa-files-overwhelming-evidence-of-genocide/
“Given Israel’s lack of respect for decisions of the court, it becomes imperative that these decisions have teeth,” Boyle added. “The U.S. veto at the U.N. Security Council has prevented that body from doing its job. So, the U.N. General Assembly should utilize its Uniting for Peace procedure to take control of the situation and recommend an arms embargo and economic sanctions against Israel as well as other measures. That’s what was done to apartheid South Africa because of its illegal occupation of Namibia.”
A glimmer of hope in the World?
https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/31/the-brics-summit-in-kazan-a-manifesto-for-a-rational-world-order/
I am somewhat skeptical, but optimistic that it can work.
Great to see Jamarl back in action.
https://blackagendareport.com/life-and-times-russian-propagandist
As always, he hits it out of the ballpark.
I wonder if this means anything regarding US politics?
In relatively recent history, the Yankees winning the Major League Baseball World Series Championship typically occurred during Democratic Brand Administrations and Presidencies.
Hmm ...
2024-10-28
Oh and just so you think that only the Global North can be the only tyrants of the world.
There's the psychopaths that are wrecking India. Yes that idiot Modi and the BJP.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/10/24/left-parties-in-india-protest-arms-exports-to-israel/
Left parties and civil society groups oppose the Modi government’s policy shift on Israel-Palestine, including alleged arms deliveries which have helped to prolong the Israeli genocide in Palestine. They held a press conference in August, criticizing India’s growing ties with Israel and distancing itself from its historical support for Palestinian resistance. Nationwide protests were also organized by the left on the anniversary of the beginning of Israel’s genocide on October 7.
Modi government’s alignment with Zionist policies
Modi’s pro-Zionist stance has sparked government crackdowns on anti-Israel protests, with arrests and detentions of protesters and the criminalization of Palestinian resistance symbols.
India was one of the first countries to recognize the Palestinian state, supporting a two-state solution and viewing the Palestinian liberation movement as an anti-colonial struggle. However, since the rise of the Hindu-supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2014, India has grown closer to the Zionist regime, developing defense and other partnerships.
Some key reminders about all things Israel.
They are a settler-colonial regime. They are an artificial creation of the Global North, designed to steal resources and de-stabilize the region to continue their ongoing theft.
They are the furthest thing from democracy, in that they are an apartheid society.
Their military is occupying another country. They are the Israeli Occupying Force.
Oh, and they don't like journalist who, you know, actually report on what they are doing.
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/10/27/israel-kills-five-journalists-in-sunday-gaza-attacks/#gsc.tab=0
https://scheerpost.com/2024/10/28/israel-kills-five-journalists-in-sunday-gaza-attacks/
2024-10-25
Destroying a hospital - and all those in it and around it - is a war crime.
How can any rational human being look at this -
And say that this isn't a crime? Some options -
1) You are a psychopath.
2) You are a liar.
3) You are deeply deluded.
4) Some combination of 1, 2, or 3.
2024-10-24
2024-10-21
16th BRICS Summit
https://brics-russia2024.ru/en/summit/
Will be curious to see what comes out of this.
Cuba survives Hurricane Oscar, but what's really going on?
The world stands with Cuba
Amid Cuba’s blackout, the member states of the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America (ALBA-TCP), expressed in a communiqué their support to the Cuban government and offered their help to overcome the difficult times the island is going through: “The complex situation that [Cuba] is experiencing today is a consequence of the economic war, financial persecution and [the refusal to sell] fuel supplies by the US administration, which seeks to asphyxiate Cuba in its commitment to the well-being of the Cuban people”.
Furthermore, the communiqué adds “The policy of maximum pressure through unilateral coercive measures and the blockade against the nation is cruel and inhuman and has been categorically rejected by the majority of the countries of the world, since […] it only seeks a change of regime, in open violation of the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter and the norms of International Law.”
But what's really going on?
https://www.liberationnews.org/psl-statement-the-u-s-blockade-plunges-cuba-into-darkness/
While the blockade has been in place for generations, the severity of the U.S. economic war on the island often varies from administration to administration. As part of its intensification of efforts to strangle the Cuban Revolution, the energy sector was one of the main targets of the 243 new measures imposed during the Trump administration. In 2019, new measures targeted two Cuban enterprises called Cubametales and Panamericana – which were central to oil and gas purchases. Since then, the importation of fuel has been an even more profoundly difficult task for Cuba, and the system finally reached a breaking point. These Trump-imposed measures have been maintained by the Biden administration.
The economic situation is also badly affected by the ridiculous inclusion of the country in the State Department’s list of “state sponsors of terror”. The pretext for this designation was absurd, citing Cuba’s role in supporting peace talks between the Colombian government and guerilla groups. It is even more ironic now that the U.S. government has armed the biggest terrorist regime in the world – Israel – as it conducts a genocide against the Palestinian people. Like the 243 additional measures that tightened the blockade, the “sponsor of terror” designation was imposed by Trump and upheld by Biden.
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