TCS, India’s largest software company, has announced plans to layoff around 2% of its global workforce this year which would translate into over 12,000 mid and senior-level employees losing their jobs.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/08/06/atomic-bombings-at-80-trumans-human-sacrifice-to-subdue-moscow/
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/08/05/atomic-bombings-at-80-the-enduring-myth-of-hiroshima-nagasaki/
Next time some one tries to sell you on the notion or belief that the United States is the most awesome force in the universe, remind of this criminal reality.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/alan-macleod-israel-google-genocide/290317/
Thugs and bullies always end up in positions of power in US Crapitalist Empire - why?
Because it's the basic function of the system.
I mean, how many times can Warner Brothers (or DC, or Time-Warner, or AOL/Time-Warner, or whatever the fuck they call themselves today) ... tell the same 'origin' story of an 'alien' (the lone survivor who makes it to Earth, and is by remarkable coincidence a white guy) who is raised by two white farmer (installing good ole' American Homeland values of hard work and loyalty) and may critique the system, but ultimately never challenge it?
Besides - calling it 'live-action' is questionable at best. Most of it is computer-generated imagery.
To me, it's a reminder that Hollywood is essentially the de-facto propaganda arm of the US Crapitalist Empire, and it always has been.
Telling an original and entertaining story (without trying to turn it in to repeatable/profitable venture) is beyond their realm.
Ding dong - you're wrong!
The Knesset’s decision is an attempt to legalize a de facto annexation, says Omar Assaf
Peoples Dispatch spoke to Palestinian political activist, analyst, and writer Mr. Omar Assaf to discuss more about the repercussions of the Knesset’s decision on the political situation in the West Bank.
Assaf argues that the endorsement of the annexation by Israeli lawmakers is part of the age-old Zionist colonial project, which is based on the concept of “a land without a people for a people without a land”, and therefore entails the extermination of the Palestinian people to seize their homeland.
The Palestinian political writer, indicated that Theodor Herzl, who is widely recognized as the founder of political Zionism, entrenched this concept by linking it to biblical narratives, which promotes Joshua’s perpetual servitude of the Indigenous people of Canaan, who chose to stay in their lands as “hewers of wood and carriers of water”, in order not to be otherwise “banished or exterminated”.
“Israeli historians Ilan Pappé and Tom Segev also suggested that forced displacement and ethnic cleansing represent the essence of the Zionist Project,” Assaf added.
He added that the forced displacement of the people of his home village Bayt Nabala by the Israeli military on July 13, 1948, is a clear example of the ethnic cleansing policy, which Israel has implemented since it was established. The entire population of his village was forcibly displaced, although Bayt Nabala was under the sovereign control of the Arab State in accordance with the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine (known as Resolution 181) adopted in 1947.
This in turn, confirms that the Knesset’s resolution is nothing more than a procedure to legalize actions that have already been implemented on the ground including settlement projects, and isolating the areas of the occupied West Bank from each other by setting up gates and checkpoints, turning them into cantons.
“The Knesset’s approval of the motion would further undermine any efforts towards the two-states solution or the establishment of a Palestinian state,” Assaf affirmed.
https://blackagendareport.com/us-media-barely-touches-epstein-links-israeli-intelligence
I mean it's pretty obvious considering who is accomplice - Ghislaine Maxwell - is ...
“It’s not beyond the realm of possibility that Epstein had connections to the [Israeli intelligence community],” Brown said in a July 2021 interview with The Times of Israel to promote her book, Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story. “Robert Maxwell certainly had those kinds of connections, and Epstein had a close relationship with Robert Maxwell.”
Unlikely story
Maxwell is the British media mogul who had secretly worked for Mossad before drowning under mysterious circumstances in 1991. A 2022 BBC documentary series, House of Maxwell, revealed how Epstein helped Maxwell hide millions of his assets in offshore accounts after the newspaper tycoon was accused of plundering his employees’ pension funds.
Ultimately, more than a billion dollars was found missing from the Maxwell firms.
Epstein and associate Ghislaine Maxwell, the youngest of Robert Maxwell’s nine children and reportedly his favorite, recruited and trafficked underage girls who were sexually abused by Epstein and, it is contended, at least by some of the many powerful individuals he made a point of meeting and catering to.
Amazing how the metoo movement is pretty silent on all things Epstein.
Universal Health Coverage dominates global health policy, yet millions remain excluded as governments fail to address issues of power and justice in health.
"More and more of the world is in motion, seeking to break from neoliberalism and imperialism and assert sovereign rule and paths of development. More and more people across the world seem to understand the futility of permanent austerity. But their projects are fragile and appear in ways that are not necessarily progressive. As of yet, the quantity of areas that seek to break from the current world order is not widespread or powerful enough to change the quality of the world order. But change is on the horizon. It is at the heart of the global class struggle. Something is bound to happen."
The New York Times.
The organization called Writers Against the War on Gaza recently released a “dossier” which listed “high-ranking editors, journalists and executive officers at the Times” who the group alleges have “material and ideological ties to occupation and apartheid.”
Covering up slime, one crime at a time.
Turns out, they have a LOT in common.
The climate “movement” and international human rights network will never address ecocide or genocide at scale until they become fully independent institutions that aren’t beholden to any political party, especially the Democrat party, or a philanthropic regime that will never allow for any organization it funds to advance an anti-capitalist agenda. Neoliberal political parties and pro capitalism philanthropists enjoin the climate “movement” from naming and dismantling the root causes of climate change - white “supremacy” ideology, patriarchy, and colonization (which is to say racial capitalism) in the same way they enjoin liberal human rights networks from naming and dismantling the root causes of the livestreamed genocide we are witnessing in Palestine - zionism, western imperialism, and colonialism.
This, in turn, results in far too many Institutions that make up the climate “movement” and the international human rights network fostering a culture of rationalization that permits the calamities of genocide and ecocide, as well an acceptance of the forces and actors driving both. And worse yet, these institutions also conjure a culture of illusion by making people believe they are doing all in their power to dismantle genocidal war machines and fossil fuel cartels alike by clicking on a link to sign a petition or attending a one off rally bereft of concrete demands or an organizing methodology to advance these demands. All this is done to maintain the status quo of capitalism and white “supremacy” under the guise of “resistance.” The proof of this guise can be found in the fact that much like the climate “movement” refuses to stipulate that their political/organizing support for any candidate or lawmaker is contingent on denying blood money from, or association with AIPAC, the human rights network refuses to stipulate that their political/organizing support is contingent on supporting comeuppance for perpetual human rights violations committed by fossil fuel cartel corporations.
... The crime is still a crime.
And that there will never be justice as long as the West dictate the bullying terms to the rest of the World.
The original voice of Heavy Metal has finally met his maker.
Thank you Ozzy for being that voice, for so long.
A part of my growing up has died.
His Theo Huxtable character on the The Cosby Show was part of that.
He was so relatable. I almost felt like if I ever met Malcolm in person, he'd be chill.
My condolences to his family. Tragic way to go.
Take this example:
Everything else is just narrative control.
Crapitalism is the cancer of human civilization. It feeds on it like a cancer, perpetually growing until it too has died.
Caitlin Johnstone
The Israel apologists have lost the argument. They might not know it yet, but they have. Public sentiment has turned irreversibly against them as people’s eyes are opened to the truth of what’s happening in Gaza, and more and more propagandists are choosing to rescue what’s left of their tattered credibility instead of going down with the sinking ship.
Truth is slowly beginning to get a word in edgewise.
I mean why would the Israel Mossad let one of it's honeybee blackmail operations against various US political figures go to waste?
If the establishment comes after those who dare pose the question, don't be too shocked if they become unalived.
I mean, what else can you call setting up concentration camps?
It's certainly not Camp Crystal Lake - people there at least survived.
Don't think that's going to be happening any time soon though.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/09/the-us-makes-most-compelling-case-for-nuclear-proliferation/
Disturbing as in, this is the future of modern job interviewing.
Now consider this -.> https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/09/250-million-indian-workers-and-farmers-on-the-streets-in-a-national-strike/
The strike was called by the trade unions and farmers groups against anti-workers labor codes and failures of the government to enact a legal support price for farm products.
This is just the beginning.
https://scheerpost.com/2025/07/10/the-texas-flash-flood-is-a-preview-of-the-chaos-to-come/
There is no longer much debate that climate change is making many of these events demonstrably worse. Scientists conducting a rapid analysis of last week’s extreme heat wave that spread across Europe have concluded that human-caused warming killed roughly 1,500 more people than might have otherwise perished. Early reports suggest that the flooding in Texas, too, was substantially influenced by climate change. According to a preliminary analysis by ClimaMeter, a joint project of the European Union and the French National Centre for Scientific Research, the weather in Texas was 7% wetter on July 4 than it was before climate change warmed that part of the state, and natural variability alone cannot explain “this very exceptional meteorological condition.”
That the United States once again is reeling from familiar but alarming headlines and body counts should not be a surprise by now. According to the World Meteorological Organization, the number of extreme weather disasters has jumped fivefold worldwide over the past 50 years, and the number of deaths has nearly tripled. In the United States, which prefers to measure its losses in dollars, the damage from major storms was more than $180 billion last year, nearly 10 times the average annual toll during the 1980s, after accounting for inflation. These storms have now cost Americans nearly $3 trillion. Meanwhile, the number of annual major disasters has grown sevenfold. Fatalities in billion-dollar storms last year alone were nearly equal to the number of such deaths counted by the federal government in the 20 years between 1980 and 2000.
The most worrisome fact, though, may be that the warming of the planet has scarcely begun. Just as each step up on the Richter scale represents a massive increase in the force of an earthquake, the damage caused by the next 1 or 2 degrees Celsius of warming stands to be far greater than that caused by the 1.5 degrees we have so far endured. The world’s leading scientists, the United Nations panel on climate change and even many global energy experts warn that we face something akin to our last chance before it is too late to curtail a runaway crisis. It’s one reason our predictions and modeling capabilities are becoming an essential, lifesaving mechanism of national defense.
Both it's political, as well as racist/supremacist ones.
And, as a bonus, it's ongoing need to control.
https://blackagendareport.com/index.php/terrible-origins-july-4th-1
https://blackagendareport.com/index.php/necessity-birthright-citizenship-black-people
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/27/vijay-prashad-beyond-green-capitalism/
Or really less of a staycation.
Let's see -
Doctor's appointments, dentist appointment, driving people to and from their work or their appointments.
It's gotten so there's barely any time to take a piss in between it all.
But despite taking some time off about a month ago, I'm actually looking to level-set on a few things and get my musical endeavors in order.
The common denominator is racial supremacy.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/06/25/indias-shameful-foreign-policy-shift-at-the-time-of-genocide/
India’s growing alignment with Israel highlights the paradoxical nature of Hindutva’s so-called “de-colonization” project. While the Modi government aggressively renames roads, cities, and railway stations in its cosmetic purges, it is increasingly becoming an enabler of imperialist violence and settler-colonial brutality by moving closer to Israel and the West.
Despite being founded at the height of the Indian independence struggle in 1925, RSS was absent from the Indian independence struggle. So, it does not come as a surprise that under an RSS-linked government, India is moving closer to Western powers, even as they carry out a colonial genocide in Gaza.
Regarding this -> https://blackagendareport.com/tactical-failure-israelus-attacks-iran-leading-both-strategic-disaster
I have my doubts about what this can mean down the road, given the following.
That being said, I did finally get an apt description to something I've always wondered about.
For the people of Iran and all of the peoples and nations involved in the ongoing struggle against Western imperialism, we all have one decisive weapon that will inevitably serve our interests at some point – the psychopathology of white supremacy. This affliction, representing a non-material conceptual frame has had a material impact on the lives, societies, cultures of millions of since the first significant contacts between the peoples later to become “Europeans” or white, and the non-European world.
This phenomenon is:
A racialized narcissistic cognitive disorder that centers so-called white people’s and European civilization and renders the afflicted with an inability to perceive objective reality in the same way as others. This affliction is not reducible to the race of so-called whites but can affect all those who have come in counter with the ideological and cultural mechanisms of the Pan-European colonial project.
Check this link from time to time, and see how it's evolved -
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/comprehensive-list-2025-tech-layoffs-134836336.html
It's not a bug.
It's not a feature.
It's how crapitalism operates. It's their basic function.
Rules for thee (the majority), and not for the oligopoly.
Combine crapitalism, private investors, horrible acts, and a lack of software testing.
This is what's coming.
Vijay Prashad
The greatest spur to nuclear weapons proliferation will be this attack on Iran.
Slowly, larger and larger groups of people have begun to drift onto the streets, horrified by the implications of this hyper-imperialist attack by Israel and then by the United States. There have been statements from groups across the world to condemn these attacks and to assert the fact that peace and development are the desires of the world’s people, not war and backwardness. There is no confusion amidst the people of the Global South that this attack by Israel and the United States has nothing to do with Iran’s behavior but everything to do with the war aims of the Global North to dominate West Asia.
Obviously I'm not.
And this episode of this podcast makes it clear why.
In any crapitalist system - Any time technology and it's evolution is under the control of a few, they will use it to further their own interests over all else.
After all, this is the same Iranian government that was secretly negotiating with the Ronald Reagan 1980 US Presidential Campaign to delay releasing the hostages until after said referenced election.
It's also the same Iranian government that participated in sales of weapons, funds of which were diverted to the Contras in Nicaragua (in violation of several American laws).
With those in mind, it does make me wonder then why they'd blunder into any limitations around the development of nuclear energy technology (back in 2016).
It also makes me wonder why these same facilities are evidently left to relative open attack by US weapons (sent from US Military bases around the region).
Almost like this is a war that's been planned for a very long time. None of which changes the fact that people have been killed, crimes have been committed, and more will die, all to enable a few group of powerful and wealthy accrue more power and more wealth.
And of course, it benefits Israel.
https://blackagendareport.com/unhoused-why-its-always-about-land
For those of us who aren't white or rich, having land means something.
Which means for those who control the US Crapitalist Empire, that means taking it wherever and whenever possible.
Throughout the U.S., disproportionate numbers of unhoused people are of African and Native descent, depending on which part of the country the analysis centers. When figures who directly serve the ruling class, like Donald Trump, publicly commit to “buying and owning Gaza” to make it into a site for future development, connections must be made to fully understand what that means. Trump says he wants to clean out 1.5 million Gazans remaining (inadvertently admitting to understanding that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were slaughtered throughout the duration of the genocide, while corporate media holds steady at an estimated 50,000 deaths). In the U.S., while cities and towns are not being literally burned as in the past, they are being figuratively torched via policies designed to ensure the same outcomes of people with no place to live and a government that serves the wealthy, operating with callous disregard for its citizenry. When Western organizations such as the World Economic Forum initiate so-called economic recovery plans for The Great Reset , we must recognize that the actions of a psychopathic ruling class, intent on the centuries-old practice of clearing, just like in Palestine, in a myriad of forms, continue unabashedly.
Israel also cut off internet and telecommunications services to large parts of the Gaza Strip on Sunday, imposing an effective media and information blackout on millions of Palestinians as Israeli strikes continue to rain down on them.
Israeli forces also continued to impose a total closure on the occupied West Bank since Friday, including the roads between West Bank towns and cities. Closures have caused a total halt to public transportation in several parts of the West Bank.
Alongside the closures, Israeli forces raided the Palestinian cities of Hebron, Bethlehem, Nablus, and Ramallah, arresting at least 35 Palestinians, including a woman and four children, according to the Wafa news agency. In Hebron, residents reported that Israeli soldiers threatened Palestinian families during the raids with unspecified “consequences” for whoever celebrated Iranian missile strikes on Israel.
Over the past decades, Iran has called for the establishment of a Middle East Nuclear Free Zone, a strange idea coming from a country accused of wanting to build a nuclear weapon. But this idea of the nuclear free zone has been rejected by the West, largely to protect Israel, which has an illegal nuclear weapons programme. Israel is the only country in the Middle East with a nuclear weapon, although it has never tested it openly nor acknowledged its existence. If Israel was so keen on eliminating any nuclear threat, it should have taken the offer for the creation of a nuclear-free zone heartily.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/16/vijay-prasahd-the-illegal-attack-on-iran/
Chief among them - Israel.
This settler/colonial entity of the West sure knows how to stir up shit and be the bully.
Attacking no less than five (5) countries in the last twelve (12) months alone - Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, and Iraq.
Wow, seriously?
https://coolopolis.blogspot.com/2025/03/jeffrey-epsteins-ties-to-montreal.html
So much ugliness there.
Israel isn’t simply assembling a reactive sequence of military gestures; it’s a calibrated strategy of provocations that create the conditions for American leverage. Israel acts; the United States, while nominally uninvolved, capitalizes on the fallout, and even invokes the specter of its own military involvement as both a deterrent and a bargaining chip.
The strikes are less about immediate tactical gains than they are about constructing a field of pressure. Their strategic ambiguity is weaponized to test red lines and gauge responses.
In this scheme, Washington appears to maintain a distance, but its fingerprints are never entirely absent. The more Israel escalates, the more the U.S. can posture as the moderating force — while simultaneously tightening the screws on Iran through sanctions, backchannel warnings, or displays of force in the Gulf.
The result is a strategic double-bind: Iran is meant to feel besieged from multiple directions, but never entirely certain where the next blow might come from.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/06/israel-started-a-war-with-iran-but-it-doesnt-know-how-it-ends/
The Western crapitalist countries that either are or move in lockstep with the American Empire will never stop the genocide of the Palestinians.
New term learned - overshooting.
Hard to think we on this planet aren't already at the point of eco-collapse.
When knowledge of what needs to happen is met with an inertia that’s unwilling to exercise the necessary steps to make it happen, the conditions have been set for a revolutionary response - this irrefutable conclusion, in itself, vindicates the need for a BRT lens to inform, influence, and shape any discussion about the climate crisis as well as the collective initiatives necessary to confront and dismantle it. Robin D.G. Kelly, in discussing the BRT, adroitly espouses this idea, once writing, “the need to politicize the link between capitalism and racial domination is itself a response to how this link has been depoliticized and concealed by liberal and influential left theorists of capitalism.” Dr. Kelly could easily be describing a growing chorus of liberals, and even some leftists, who are calling for so-called Abundance theory that completely perambulates the myriad and incontrovertible ways that the climate crisis is also a crisis of racism and exploitation of poor and working class people and fails to connect environmental racism to fascism.
An understanding of the symbiotic relationship between racial capitalism and the climate crisis has yet to be demonstrated by the mainstream environmental community in the U.S. and globally. There are many reasons for this, chief among them is the fact that these liberal nonprofit organizations and institutions are not anti-capitalist in the slightest and believe that capitalism can be tweaked to be fairer, safer, and less racist. We saw this when far too many climate groups touted Biden and the Democrats’ so-called Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) while also knowing that numerous elements of the bill would sacrifice Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor environmental justice communities.
This is why I have not much hope for most environmental advocacy entities in America
So many dimensions and layers behind this. It may take more than one view.
Brown people killed by white people.
Independent audit finds patterns of racial, pro-police bias in Maryland’s chief medical examiner’s office.
Originally published in Baltimore Beat .
An unprecedented independent audit found that 36 deaths in police custody over a two-decade span in Maryland should have been ruled homicides by the state’s top medical examiner, a stinging rebuke of Maryland‘s past efforts to investigate the deaths of those once held by law enforcement.
The yearslong audit, shared exclusively with The Baltimore Banner ahead of Thursday’s release, cited a likely reason behind the massive failure: racial and pro-police bias in the work of the state’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, which had been led for nearly 20 years by Dr. David Fowler.
Before the audit, the deaths had been classified as accidents, natural causes or simply undetermined. But many of them involved police restraining people during arrests or shocking them with Tasers. The affected cases were spread across the state with the most — 12 — connected to Baltimore.
My youngest does reading every evening. So I have him reading to me. He normally picks a book and starting reading to me. Last evening, he picked this book.
Oh my.
No, not his reading - it's getting better.
I mean the book.
Never have I seen such a compact and concise combination of capitalism, white supremacy, delusion of a religious kind, and female privilege, all wrapped into a single 'children's' book.
Where do I possibly begin? Well let's start with the plot -
'Santa' is up in the Arctic/North Pole with his favorite 'cat'; his 'snow cat', who's his object of devotion and love (no Mrs.Claus in this book, but we'll get to that later). Oh, and the 'Wind' and 'Moon' are devoted to this cat also.
'Santa' then goes on his yearly 'Christmas Eve' trip to give all the American children (apparently he only goes to once place - New York City) presents. While on the trip (i.e. up high in the sky), the cat falls out of the sleigh and - amazingly - lands safely on the ground without turning into a plop of red furry mush.
The rest of the book is all about this 'cat' trying to then find 'Santa' in New York City, while she goes from place to place, house to house, causing all sorts of destruction, mischief, breaking and entering, foraging in people's houses, trespassing, and general idiocy.
Eventually 'Santa' finds her and saves her. And they return to the North Pole, where they continue their lovefest and devotion.
Yes - that's basically the story. But don't take my word for it. Here's the 'summary' from the book itself -
Santa and his favorite cat search for each other after she falls out of his sleigh and lands in New York City on Christmas Eve.
So let's start deconstructing this mess along the following areas -
Capitalism - Children's books are nothing more than a way to sell shorter/crappier 'content' to really the parents of children. Indeed the idea of taking a fictional character from a religious background is itself something businesses do all the time, and have done so for hundreds of years.
And to be clear, the character of Santa Claus is just that - a fictional character invented by a set of businesses many years ago from religious invention (this this case Western Christianity) to be a vehicle to sell all sort of merchandise (media, toys, etc.).
White Supremacy - Santa Claus is a character of profit, but that's ignoring it's origins. The very idea of a fat jolly white man living in the Arctic/North Pole reeks of racism, colonialism, and imperialism all in one. What about the Indigenous People who'd been already living there for centuries? In any lore told about Jolly Ole Saint Nick, none of them exist. It may have something to do with the reality that those Indigenous People originated from somewhere in Asia, and - by remarkable coincidence - aren't white-skinned.
Delusion - Writing about fictional characters isn't an issue, but pretending to children that they are real is wrong. A lie is a lie is a lie. It always bothered me when presumably grown adults like to convince especially small and young children that 'Santa Claus' will come down their chimney (as if kids today live in homes with those). But just the idea that this character is derived from a 'Christian' character - Saint Nick - speaks volumes about the level of malevolence Christians will go to to inflict their beliefs on others.
Female Privilege And then there's the 'writers' of this book - two (presumably) white women from the birthplace of capitalism itself - England. The actual main character of this book (i.e. the cat) is white and female. The 'cat' is drawn pretty much exactly the same way on every page - with absolutely no emotion or visual impact whatsoever. Certainly no personality. She's all about attention from all the other characters, and an object thereof. She exists only to be loved and devoted to by all the other 'characters'.
So there you have it - just one example of the garbage inflicted on people - both knowingly and unknowingly.
To think, we paid $7.99 for this at Half-Price Books. The writers/publisher should be paying me to have survived their crap.
We must first stop calling the US “complicit” in genocide. The US is NOT complicit – it is committing genocide. This is no more an Israeli genocide than it is an American genocide. If anything, it is Israel that is complicit, by being the US “Hit Man” – a co-conspirator.
Whatever the US Empire’s reason for committing genocide in Palestine – whether it’s the off shore gas and oil reserves or simply its penchant for evil deeds – there’s no possibility of the US compelling or even pleading with the Israelis to stop its Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Nor will the US ever allow any other nation or group of nations to intercede on behalf of the Palestinians.
We’re constantly told the world has gone crazy. The proof of this universal madness is that the only hope for peace on Earth is for Americans to wish their country out of existence.