This time, it's Mexico.
https://non-gmoreport.com/mexico-defends-gm-corn-restrictions-with-science/
2024-05-02
Another country kicking the US Empire's ass.
Hey, what's been happening to NewsClick?
Looks like more bullshit and harassment -
... the investigations by the Delhi Police and other agencies are attempts to target our independent journalism. NewsClick’s coverage of protests and critiques of the government’s policies is being portrayed as anti-India. All the allegations levelled against us are concocted and baseless.
2024-05-01
2024-04-30
Can you say 'False Flag'?
Are they this incompetent for being caught, or is it that we're all more on to it now?
2024-04-28
Is there any credibilty in the corporate media?
Today's generations certainly don't think so.
Neither do I.
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/27/watch-protestors-confront-white-house-correspondents-dinner/
2024-04-26
2024-04-25
Gee - one set of cliques is angling to really continue the illusion of democracy US capitalism perpetuates.
First banning non-compete agreements -> https://www.yahoo.com/news/ftc-moves-forward-ruling-ban-234818776.html
Then, enabling net neutrality -> https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technology/fcc-restores-net-neutrality-in-effort-to-make-internet-faster-more-equitable/ar-AA1nFIyU
On the other hand ....
https://www.barrons.com/news/us-economic-growth-slows-significantly-in-first-quarter-83959bf7
US Economic Growth Slows Significantly In First Quarter
2024-04-24
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.
2024-04-22
Wow - war is the ultimate business.
Seriously, I cannot make this shit up.
Bankers Upgrade Lockheed Stock After Iran Strikes at Israel
2024-04-20
2024-04-18
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/
2024-04-17
So much to unpack from Margaret's message.
https://blackagendareport.com/lessons-china
So many lessons to learn indeed.
2024-04-15
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.
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.
2024-04-12
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):
2024-04-11
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/
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.
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).
2024-04-10
2024-04-09
Well gee, this isn't good.
Even more worse made by the fact that this guy used to be a Boeing consultant.
2024-04-08
Centuria - 21th century Neo-Nazis.
https://thegrayzone.com/2024/04/07/centuria-ukraines-western-neo-nazi-army/
Ah white supremacy at its most extreme.
Oh? You think it doesn't go on in your neighborhood ... ? Well ...
In September 2021, George Washington University’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) published a detailed and deeply unsettling report which documents how Centuria was nurtured by a “self-described order of ‘European traditionalist’ military officers that has the stated goals of reshaping the country’s military along right-wing ideological lines and defending the ‘cultural and ethnic identity’ of European peoples against ‘Brussels’ politicos and bureaucrats.’”
IERES reported that Centuria’s military wing began training in 2018 in Ukraine’s Hetman Petro Sahaidachny National Army Academy (NAA), Kiev’s “premier military education institution and a major hub for Western military assistance to the country.”
The paper revealed that “as recently as April 2021, [Centuria] claimed that since its launch, members have participated in joint military exercises with France, the UK, Canada, the US, Germany, and Poland.”
I've said it before - the most dangerous bigots aren't the ones wearing white sheets.
It's the ones with a law enforcement badge, or some connection to a branch of military, government or industry (Hey look how I threw that Iron Triangle meme in!), that are the real danger - because they have a stamp of approval.
The irony of this article, is that the settler-colonial owners of Israel and the US capitalist empire don't give a fuck about Biden.
He may need them to get 're-elected' (that's a whole other story), but they would just turn to Trump, as they did before.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/biden-has-no-emotional-attachment-to-israel-its-about-politics/
In American crapitalism, it's the divine right of the rich and powerful to meddle in every country's affairs.
2024-04-05
2024-04-04
Next time someone around you is singing the praises of AI ...
... show them this ... https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-ai-targets
... and remind them that any technology is only as useful or effective as how it was built, and how it's used.
RIP Amr Abdallah
A victim of settler-colonialism's crimes - > https://scheerpost.com/2024/04/03/chris-hedges-the-death-of-amr/
This is the 1%.
This is the system they use - the final collapsing era of late-stage capitalism.
Empire. Hegemony. The rich and powerful. Whatever terms you would like to use to describe those who are responsible for slowing destroying the planet and everyone and everything on it.
Like a cancer, it just continues to feed and consume its host, until it itself dies with it.
2024-04-03
2024-04-02
Hooray Israel for linking genocide to ecoside!
Released Friday ahead of Palestine’s Land Day, the analysis by the London-based research group Forensic Architecture (FA) shows that Israel’s ground forces—including tanks and other military vehicles—have advanced over half of Gaza’s farms and orchards, critical food sources that the besieged enclave’s population has worked tirelessly to cultivate in the face of decades of occupation.
“Since 2014, Palestinian farmers along Gaza’s perimeter have seen their crops sprayed by airborne herbicides and regularly bulldozed, and have themselves faced sniper fire by the Israeli occupation forces,” FA said. “Along that engineered ‘border,’ sophisticated systems of fences and surveillance reinforce a military buffer zone.”
Comparing satellite imagery from prior to Israel’s invasion and the present, FA found that roughly 40% of Gaza land that was previously used for food production has been destroyed by Israeli forces. Nearly a third of Gaza’s greenhouses have been demolished, according to the investigation.
2024-04-01
Not everything in life is an April Fools.
https://thehockeywriters.com/hockey-history-april-1-bossy-gretzky-howe-hall-hossa-stevens/
On April 1, 1919, the sixth and final game of the Stanley Cup Final was canceled because of an influenza epidemic. The series was a rematch of the 1917 Stanley Cup Final between the NHL champion Montreal Canadiens and the Seattle Metropolitans of the Pacific Coast Hockey League.
The Metropolitans won Games 1 and 3 before Game 4 was considered a tie after no goals were scored through two overtime periods. The Canadiens won Game 5 in overtime to even up the series at 2-2-1. Game 6 was canceled less than six hours before it was scheduled to begin as multiple players on both teams became ill. Canadiens player Joe Hall died of pneumonia brought on by the flu, four days later.
Originally the Canadiens wanted to forfeit the Cup to Seattle because they couldn’t dress a full lineup, but the manager-coach of the Metropolitans, Pete Muldoon, refused to accept it because the illness caused the shortage of players. No winner was ever declared, marking this as the only time the Stanley Cup was not awarded after the playoffs had begun.
2024-03-29
The theater of crapitalism is as follows.
The 1% pay the wealthy to tell the middle class that the poor and working class are their enemy.
You want scientific evidence?
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/mexico-brings-science-to-a-trade-fight-over-gmo-corn
Amazing how US crapitalism continues to deny reality in the name of endless profit.
Mexico looks to important research on this toxicity, including recent studies conducted in Mexico. Anxieties go beyond plants. Herbicide traces have been detected in breast milk and blood. Investigations found glyphosate in the urine of Mexican children, consistent with the latest research into similar experiences worldwide.
Mexico pinpoints important risks from glyphosate. This includes liver cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. Moreover, research finds glyphosate can lead to infants developing “neuronal damage, diabetes, obesity and impaired lung function.” In sum, science-based reasoning isolates risks in eating GMO corn and in eating corn exposed to glyphosate.
Credit to 'Kurt' - he spotted the reformist rhetoric in this article.
https://scheerpost.com/2024/03/27/more-for-them-less-for-us/#comment-88101
It is authors like this and Ralph Nadar who are like monastic monks flagellating themselves before the God of capitalism in penance for their sinful begging and pleading to the ruling class Kings for a kinder, gentler reformation of capitalism.
Sarah Anderson says, ” We know we need change when corporations are rewarding a handful of top executives more than they are contributing to the cost of public services needed for our economy to thrive.”
Earth to Sarah, that is how capitalism works, and sorry to inform you, YOUR KIND OF CHANGE ISN’T COMING!
The kind of change Sarah Anderson speaks of is an impossibility in a system of extreme exploitation for endless profit where all three branches of the government are merely remoras hanging on their corporate shark.
The author asks, What can we do to break this cycle? She then goes on in fantastic, verbal naivete
Congress MUST, Congress can TACKLE, Policymakers HAVE, endlessly begging and pleading for the corporate entity of government to listen while that government watches from the box seats of their ruling class masters as the working class is pilloried and fed to the lions at the corporate Circus Maximus.
it is time for the working class here in the US and globally to stop listening to this illogical, obfuscating nonsense that reformation is possible. This is just another hook forced into the backs of the working class, the creators of all wealth in society, that is dragging them toward the abyss. Change will only come from the global working class educating themselves to the fact that the power for change resides with them and them only. Humanity cannot continue under an exploitative system that must grow at 3% GDP yearly. It will only survive under a global socialist system of human need over profit controlled by the working class who believe in a future of humanity on earth.
2024-03-28
More evidence of a dying empire?
Look who doesn't want US troop in their country anymore - Niger.
Why?
Perhaps it has something to do with the settler-colonial/imperialistic nature that is crapitalism -
“Niger regrets the intention of the American delegation to deny the sovereign Nigerian people the right to choose their partners,” a government spokesperson said in a televised address, canceling the military agreement and denouncing the “condescending attitude” of U.S. diplomats.
The United States now faces the prospect of losing three military bases — including one of the world’s largest drone facilities located in the city of Agadez — and more generally, its major strategic foothold in the vast Sahel region. U.S. officials are currently scrambling to find diplomatic ways to salvage some military presence.
Unless Niger reverses course, the United States stands to lose more than just a launching pad for its drone assassination and surveillance spy programs. These bases are also anti-immigration hubs designed to clamp down on African migration northward toward Europe, and are platforms that project U.S. power southward toward the Gulf of Guinea where 60% of Africa’s oil production is concentrated.
2024-03-27
Correct - it's not voter 'apathy'. It's that capitalism and its handlers (1%) control elections. Guess what - 'Nobody' knows.
From here -> https://blackagendareport.com/index.php/its-not-voter-apathy-youre-not-listening, I did a little searching, and found this.
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