Holy fuck!

Not sufficient indeed

https://blackagendareport.org/news/1663/33/The-Demand-For-a-Ceasefire-is-Necessary-But-Not-Sufficient-The-Demand-Must-Be-for-Decolonization-and-Palestinian-Self-Determination

 

Chris Hedges makes it clear - Israel is out to exterminate the Palestinians, and take over the entire region as a ethnostate.

https://scheerpost.com/2023/11/05/israels-final-solution-for-the-palestinians/

This it not to say the rest of the world agrees. Even in the US it's not the case, despite what the US crapitalist ruling class wants -

 

 

UK

US

No racial or gender bias in schools here in the US - you say?

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/0013189X231189444

https://scheerpost.com/2023/11/06/we-analyzed-over-3-5-million-written-teacher-comments-about-students-and-found-racial-bias/

Our study showed that teachers wrote more when describing behavior incidents of Black students compared with white students. They also used more negative emotions, words like “anger,” “hurt” and “disrespectful,” and used more verbs, such as “scraped,” “hit” and “spanked.” We found the opposite was true for Asian and Hispanic students compared with white students.

Further, we found that teachers used more words, negative emotions, verbs and impersonal pronouns when describing incidents for boys compared with girls.

 

Pretendians - a futher violation of Indigenous People in North America

And to think, I grew up thinking this person was a legitimate Cree native born in Saskatchewan. 

Indeed - I remember her Sesame Street appearances.

Normally I would not link to something from the CBC (I grew up on them, but consider them these days as corporate propaganda), but I've always respected the program 'The Fifth Estate' -

https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/buffy-sainte-marie

The part that really bothers me isn't just the personal or professional deception - that's pretty awful.

What I find really disturbing is that the media and entertainment businesses that obviously knew about this long ago, and never bothered to correct this because she made money for them.

And I don't buy the idea that she never knew her own background -

Even Sainte-Marie herself confirmed that she was born in the United States.

In March 1982, she signed a marriage certificate making her union with Hollywood composer Jack Nitzsche official. On the certificate, obtained from the County of Los Angeles, Sainte-Marie certified that she was born on Feb. 20, 1941, in Massachusetts to Albert and Winifred St. Marie.

 

 

It's simple isn't it?

It's simple.

The ruling class (or 1%, or the rich, or elites, or MIC, or whatever term one would like to describe that small group of people who control the vast majority of wealth and power) of the US capitalist system do not see the United States as a country. They see it as just another market to exploit, land to plunder, wealth to steal from the majority, resources to extract and consume, etc.; like any other that's a part of its empire.

And they themselves are trying to destroy this country under the assumption that they can reform and reorganize it into a more fascist one where the corporations they control and the government are fused together. What they fail to understand is that they are following the same path as how previous empires collapse and die.

Or to put it a different way -

Capitalism needs the illusion of democracy to keep the majority working class under control and obedient to the ruling class.

Fascism gets rid of this illusion altogether for same goals as above, because they don't think it'll be needed.

In either case, it'll be game over for us here in the US, as well as the rest of the world. The US capitalist ruling class is unable respond to the very existential problem its created - climate change. The system of capitalism is only capable of doing nothing more than virtue signal about climate change. Even if the empire doesn't crumble completely, I highly doubt the successor system of fascism will do any better; because it will be more hyper-focused on exploiting the majority and the land even more that it already has.

Our only hope as a species - is for the working majorities around the world in each country to unite together in a broad movement. And mass against the status quo systems of governments:

- to create a new system in a more humane and democratic format

- to stop the endless consumption and destruction of the planet.

Only when the lands and resources are under democratic control, can we as humans really take steps to stop the destruction of the planet, and reorganize governments to really serve the needs of its people, over the rich and powerful.

The challenge is two-fold:

1) Getting the majority of people around the world to recognize that - by in large - it's their systems of governments (and the ruling class that controls them) that are the causes of the suffering and destruction of their lives and their futures.

2) That only a more socialist and democratic form of government - one that the people can truly channel to address issues like climate change - is the way forward.

Can always count on the Black Agenda Report to call things as they really are.

Biden being the 'Greater' and 'Less Effective' Evil at the same time:

https://blackagendareport.net/news/874/33/Biden-is-the-Greater-and-Less-Effective-Evil

Israel being called out for their war crimes and reacting with pure projection:

https://blackagendareport.net/news/872/33/Israel-Declares-Most-of-Humanity-Illegitimate-and-Irrelevant