Oh how the mighty will fall.
And it's the majority in America who'll eventually bear the brunt of it.
2025-11-30
2025-11-29
Quote of the day - 11-29-2025.
Caitlin Johnstone.
Explore your own consciousness. Inquire deeply into the nature of self and the mind until clarity dawns on you. Heal your inner wounds. Remove from within yourself all the mental hooks of fear and hatred so that the propagandists can find no psychological purchase with which to manipulate you. Follow the faint whisperings of your muse, and learn to help your inspiration birth new creative expression into the world.
These are the kinds of things we’ll have to do to preserve ourselves as we move into this strange new world, on top of the usual business of staying informed and learning to see through the propaganda illusions. Luckily these things are all good for us anyway; the path toward protecting our humanity also just happens to be the path toward becoming a healthier human being and making the world a better place.
Honestly, you can replace 'Zionism' with 'Crapitalism' and it amounts to pretty much the same thing.
A reminder to never underestimate the power of propaganda ->
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/how-zionism-was-sold-to-the-world/
Bader: There are a lot of myths about Israel, from the idea that the land was vacant to the idea that Israelis made the desert bloom. How were these ideas popularized?
Malinowitz: Both ‘a land without people for a people without a land,’ and ‘they made the desert bloom’ are marketing jingles, to appropriate a term from Israeli expat and anti-Zionist Moshe Machover. But despite these being preposterous lies, the phrases stuck. It’s like the idea that Columbus ‘discovered’ America, which you believe until you encounter evidence and become aware that it is absurd.
I also think that phrases like “making deserts bloom” are appealing because they give Israelis almost supernatural abilities. It makes them sound like they’re capable of doing miraculous things, and it elevates them in the popular imagination. As long as Zionist adherents remain snug in the logical bubble of organizations like the Jewish National Fund, the World Jewish Congress, Hillel, and Birthright, they receive a hefty payoff: a sense of fellowship and belonging.
I sense a trend with these - wondering if it'll go in the direction I think it needs to?
Italy holds third general strike in three months, against war budget and for Palestine
Workers in Italy have launched their third general strike in under three months, demanding an end to Meloni’s war agenda and budget.
Hundreds of thousands protest anti-labor legislation in India
Farmers joined the factory and public sector workers across the country on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the historic Delhi protests which had forced the extreme right wing government to withdraw anti-farmers laws
2025-11-28
Midwifery and C-sections - a connection?
One of the things I've noticed in the last few years is how much both the narratives and the movement around women's reproductive rights have shifted very much away from what they used to once be.
Case in point - years ago, the context behind legalizing abortions rested on the concept of (essentially) her body - her choice. That last word being key.
But in the years since the COVID-19-related pandemic, there's been a subtle but clear shift away from the concept of 'choice' and just focus on abortion 'access'. Which lines up coincidentally with one side of the crapitalist non-choices - the Blue-No-Matter-Whoers. The elimination of 'choice' lined up quite nicely with the need for one of that entity's chief donors (Pfizer) pushing an untested and unsafe COVID vaccine and making billions off it. It also illustrated that to most of that entity's largely white/suburban female voting bloc - abortion was in essence the only real definition of reproductive rights.
Let me point out the obvious - it isn't. There are many aspects around reproductive rights that aren't covered at all. For example, the levels of pre-natal care, choice of birthing, post-birth treatment, and ...
... the option of midwifery. That seems to no longer exist here in the United States, why?
All of this leads to this point ... why the sudden and accelerated increase in c-sections in the United States over the last couple of decades ... (Here's a hint - there's a profit motive) ...
https://liberationnews.org/high-us-c-section-rate-symptom-of-capitalist-healthcare/
Midwifery was a standard global practice until the 20th century.Midwives would travel to the homes of women and babies to offer holistic care surrounding their pregnancies and births (A Brief History of Midwifery). Anti-midwife advocates, including many doctors who looked down upon the practice, campaigned for laws and educational restrictions that effectively dismantled the profession in America within the past century.
This was a massive blow to women’s ability to receive a form of personalized maternity care that many understaffed hospitals cannot provide due to the sheer volume of patients coming in for other ailments. Still, doctors have opposed the practice of midwifery on the grounds that a more Western, “scientific” approach is preferable. In practice this means relying on hospitals for birth and prioritizing quick pain relief over holistic care. It is also a profit-driven practice that is intended to save money for hospitals by shortening mothers’ stays and relying on medication instead of care staff.
Belgium and Arizona .... wait ... there is a connection?
Yes indeed.
Belgian workers reject Arizona’s austerity in three-day strike wave
Workers across Belgium are wrapping up a three-day strike wave opposing the government’s austerity plans, including salary freezes.
Wednesday, November 26, marks the final day of a nationwide wave of strikes and protests against the anti-social policies of Belgium’s so-called Arizona government. Workers in transport and public services, joined by thousands across other sectors, remain outraged by Prime Minister Bart De Wever’s agenda, which includes attacks on pensions, wages, and public services, all while increasing spending on militarization.
Picket lines sprang up across the country, with workers rejecting the government’s plans. Reporting from the strike at the port of Antwerp, Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB-PVDA) General Secretary Peter Mertens wrote: “Workers are furious that the government is coming for their pensions, trying to steal their wage indexation and, on top of that, wants to raise taxes on gas and fuel. ‘No way,’ they’re saying here.”
This week’s strike wave, launched Monday and preceded by a day of action against gender-based violence, builds on previous mobilization. In October, around 140,000 people marched in Brussels to oppose Arizona’s plans. Despite record turnout, De Wever’s administration failed to take the workers’ grievances seriously. “This contempt and lack of respect are unacceptable,” the trade union confederation FGTB-ABVV wrote in its call for the strike. “Today, a historic wave is sweeping across the arid desert landscape of Arizona – a movement calling for a society based on solidarity, equity, and justice.”
2025-11-25
The connections between media, weapons, violence, and destruction - are billionaires and corporations.
I seriously can't make this shit up.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/the-seven-richest-billionaires-are-all-media-barons/290572/
It's like a gallery of evil villains - Joker, Lex Luthor, Green Goblin, Skeletor, etc.
Why am I not surprised that Mexico's 'Gen Z Rebellion' is a fraud?
Perhaps because it IS a fraud ...
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/11/23/second-anti-sheinbaum-protest-loses-momentum/
Second anti-Sheinbaum protest loses momentum
After the highly-watched violent protest reportedly drew around 17,000 people, the second one barely managed to gather 200. Analysts see the marches as an attempt to destabilize the executive branch.
Mexico’s ‘Gen Z Rebellion’ Exposed as Right-Wing Plot
Intent on toppling Mexico’s popular president, local oligarchs and an international right-wing network backed a youth-led anti-corruption uprising, Wyatt Reed and Kit Klarenberg report.
2025-11-24
It's time to face facts - the US Empire is the true cause of all the misery of the world.
And they'll stop at nothing to fuel itself (pun intended) -
Who the fuck knew indeed - the US Labor Movement and Zionism.
Win-win for the US Establishment.
Keep the working class in the US away from solidarity with other countries, while their union 'leadership' kowtows to the Empire and racism.
Heck, even the Communist bloc was in on it for awhile too!
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/the-ongoing-battle-over-israel-within-the-u-s-labor-movement/
2025-11-23
"...building lasting political power".
Can't say it any better than that.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/after-the-ceasefire-what-next-for-global-solidarity-with-palestine/
Just as crucial is the need to go beyond conventional protests and episodic mobilisation that rise in crisis and fade under repression. It must develop the infrastructure, alliances, and strategies that ensure longevity, especially when media attention fades.
Digital organising, counter-disinformation work, and secure communication networks must become central tools. Alliances built over the past two years with anti-colonial, labour, feminist, climate, and racial justice movements must be deepened, so that the Palestinian struggle is understood not as an isolated crisis but as part of a global fight against systems of domination.
2025-11-21
What does the species of human civilization need, now more than ever?
- We need to recognize that the environmental crisis of climate change is a direct result of this global political/economic system of neoliberal capitalism.
- Said system needs to be replaced with one that eliminates the hierarchical inequalities that created this and other crises - one that rids us of greed, competition and pursuit of profit and money.
2025-11-19
You know ... when someone contacts me and uses the word 'stalk' as it's meant, I'm generally not inclined to view that positively.
Judge for yourself this statement -
'I don't usually stalk profiles, but when I do, I probably have a career opportunity for you'
I'll pass.
It's pretty obvious why the US establishment media doesn't really want to talk about the true relationship between Epstein and various politicians and others in power and business.
It would reveal that -
- Epstein was in the employment of Israel.
- The entire operation that he and Maxwell ran, was designed to keep those ensnared under their control.
- Blue No Matter Who leads to the same shit as MAGA Red. It would establish once and for all, that the United States isn't a democracy, and never was.
Should I be concerned for South Africa?
After all, they are (I believe) the 'S' in BRICS.
Somehow I have to wonder if US Hegemony is behind all of this.
On the other hand ... maybe's it's just plain ole' neoliberal capitalism at work ...
The ANC’s abandonment of the socialist policies it espoused in its iconic 1955 Freedom Charter for a pro-business, neoliberal approach in government has left apartheid more or less intact, materially speaking. With an official unemployment rate that has hovered above 30 percent for much of the 30 years, two of every three Black South Africans remain mired in poverty, or roughly 30 million people out of a total population of 52 million; the percentage of white South Africans living in poverty is about 1 percent.
Similarly, whites account for 7.3 percent of the population but continue to own nearly three-quarters of all farmland while Blacks account for 81 percent of the population yet own 4 percent of the land.
Meanwhile, ANC politicians’ penchant for living high off the hog while their constituents suffer, combined with a series of corruption scandals has turned public opinion against the ruling party. In 2022, a former intelligence officer accused South African President Cyril Ramaphosa of attempting to cover up the theft of $4 million in cash from his game farm in the northeastern Limpopo province.
Who doesn't like US military bases on their land? Ecuador, that's who!
Big Loss for US Empire: Ecuador Votes To Reject Foreign Military Bases
Ecuadorians reject Daniel Noboa’s attempt to change the constitution
One of Noboa’s key goals has been to change Ecuador’s constitution, which is one of the most progressive in the world.
Ecuador’s constitution bans foreign countries from creating military bases in its territory.
Noboa held a referendum on 16 November to try to change the constitution to permit the US to open military bases in Ecuador.
The measure was rejected in a landslide, with 61% of Ecuadorians voting against it, according to the official results from the National Electoral Council (CNE).
Hmm ... really?
The United Kingdom losing it's UN Security Council seat?
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/19/craig-murray-how-britain-can-lose-its-un-veto/
Go Scotland!
2025-11-18
While I commend the PSL for speaking out on this ...
... https://liberationnews.org/outrage-at-the-un-gaza-resolution-tramples-palestinian-sovereignty/?utm_source=one_signal&utm_medium=desktop_alert&utm_campaign=liberationnews
Why are countries like China and Russia not being called out for weasling out (aka 'abstaining')?
It sure is a stain on humanity. A very bloody one.
2025-11-13
Another month, another Saturday of work.
This time it'll be a little longer than normal.
We'll see how well things go. After all, it does apparently keep me employed.
As touched on before, to Zionists 'ceasefire' just means everyone ELSE stops fighting.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/one-month-in-the-ceasefire-in-gaza-exists-only-in-name/
Inducing poverty and starvation is the worst form of terrorism, because it acts so slowly and day-by-day.
Those Zionists committing these crimes know this.
But this is no surprise to most black and brown people of world.
Before countries like India can truly move forward, they need to make their air breathable.
I mean seriously - AQI-400?
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/11/12/delhi-chokes-as-pollution-rises-to-severe-levels/
Delhi chokes as pollution rises to severe levels
Delhi is officially recording AQI levels higher than 400, but many suspect that the real levels are much higher. According to the WHO, an AQI level above 50 is unhealthy to live in.
In India an AQI between 200 and 300 is considered “poor”, between 300 and 400 is “very poor”, and beyond 400 is “severe” for health.
For the World Health Organization (WHO), any AQI level above 50 is considered unhealthy.
The AQI remained above 400 on Wednesday as well and has been recording above 200 daily since mid-October.
Unofficial sources claim AQI levels in Delhi are even higher, with allegations emerging that the government is trying to manipulate and suppress the actual figures to avoid accountability.
2025-11-11
America, a Banana Republic?
Gee, ya think?
https://scheerpost.com/2025/11/11/chris-hedges-america-is-a-banana-republic/
To me, it's simply the next step in the collapse of US Crapitalism. Nothing more.
2025-11-09
Boycott establishment media.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/11/why-writers-must-boycott-the-new-york-times/
No, the New York Times isn't enough. It's all establishment media that must be cut off from attention and support.
That's the only tool the establishment has left - propaganda. Once that's gone, it's down the shitter for them.
The beginning of yet another fun week at work.
I feel like every time I arrive there (we're supposed to be there more than few times a week, and we're tracked for attendance, like school kids), I have a target on my back and every person is after me for things that aren't done.
Never mind the fact that all of this is part of a an effort that's supposed to launch in the not-too-distant future, 'or else'.
Yeah - as if I don't have enough problems - I'm also working next week Saturday (my day job),
Hooray.
It does make me wonder how much longer I can last in this business.
2025-11-07
How did I miss this?
In a landslide vote, McGill University professors and librarians endorse the academic and cultural boycott of Israel
In a 114-8 vote, the McGill Association of
University Teachers endorsed the academic and cultural boycott of
Israel. The win came after years of organizing, demonstrating the
collective power of professors, librarians, and students against
genocide.
The US's 5 options for Attacking Venezuela.
Which one will they choose? Here's what Vijay Prashad suggests.
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/07/vijay-prashad-5-options-for-attacking-venezuela/
Scenario 1: The Brother Sam Option
Scenario 2: The Panama Option
Scenario 3: The Iraq Option
Scenario 4: The Gulf of Tonkin Option
Scenario 5: The Qasem Soleimani Option
Not sure about that last one, as Iran's government is still here, and has been since 1979.
2025-11-04
Dick Cheney is dead.
May his legacy be that capitalism is a fundamentally broken sysyem; in that the victims of his actions - on behalf of his donors - never received justice while he was alive. And that system made all this possible.
Remember that.
2025-11-03
Imagine if we tried this here in the US.
Of course to do that, we'd have to replace crapitalism with a system the prioritizes the needs of all, over the greed of a few.
Left-ruled Kerala becomes the first Indian state to eradicate extreme poverty
The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Alliance (LDF) government achieves a unique feat in India which, according to the World Bank, has the world’s largest number of extremely poor.
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