Daily News Digest December 4, 2024
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Capital Rules Through Its Two Parties: Democrats And Republicans
Since World War I, ‘the war to end all wars’, there have been perpetual wars for perpetual peace, this Laura Gray’s cartoon from the front page of The Militant August 18, 1945, Under the Banner Headline: “There Is No Peace”There is No Democracy! When Less Than 1% Control the Wealth, Production, and Price of Everything Produced and Consumed in the World! In the present period of unfettered Capitalism, the pretense of democratic rule does not exist, except in the minds of ‘socialists’ like Bernie Sanders and the Labor Bureaucracy! Capitalists view all struggles as struggles against capitalist rule! Transition demands immediately become revolutionary demands! Therefore, any resistence to the attack of capitalists has to be organized by those that understand this!
Today, the United States Capitalists are Consolidating Themselves as the Supreme Capitalists! Capitalism’s Gluttony is Demonstrated by It’s Quest for More and More Profits at the Expense of Humanity! The Rise of Capitalism was Under the Banner of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity! Now There is Less Liberty, More Inequality, and Less Fraternity of Humanity! Every Day, From Global Warming to Global War There is a New Example of Capitalism in Imperialist Decay!
Capitalism as a Failed System: World Capitalism Has Been Aware of the Comming Catastrophe of Global Warming Over 6 Decades Ago and Did Nothing!: Under Capitalism — Human Lives Don’t Matter Capitalism Does Not, and Never Has, Worked for the Masses! In Its Death Agony, Capitalism Is Traveling About The World Like The Five Horsemen of the the Apocalypse, Spreading Racism, War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, and Misinformation! The very future of Humanity Is Now At stake!
During This Economic Crisis, Capitalism’s Three-Point Political Program: Austerity, Scapegoat Blacks, Minorities, and ‘Illegal’ Immigrants for Unemployment, and The Iron Heel! For Decades, Blacks Have Been Subjected to The Iron Heel! Currently, the US Capitalist Class is Divided Over When — Not If, to Apply It to Everyone! Globaly, With the Current Gaza War, The Right of Assembly is Under Attack! Due to Years of Austerity, Cuts to Public Health Care, And An Anti-Science and Profiteering President, The United States Still Leads the World In Coronavirus Cases and Deaths in the World!
The Majority of the World, Despite the Media Monopoly’s Lies, are Opposed to the Palestinian Genocide and Global Warming — The 1% Minority Funds Them! At, this Time in History, Capitalism is Exposing the Fact That it is Opposed to Majority Rule/Democracy!
Always Remember: That President Obama, With a Majority Democrat Legislature Supported the Wall Street Bailout and Remember, That he Established, in writing, the United States Capitalist Austerity Program. — The Race to the Bottom/Pauperization of the 99%!
Democracy?: As the Capitalist Robber Barons Steal from the 99%, Only the 1% Voted For Austerity! The 99% Should Decide On Austerity — Not Just The 1%, Who Profit From Austerity!! Under Austerity, All of the World Will Eventually Be Pauperized, Humbled, and Desecrated Like Greece and Puerto Rico.! Socialism Means True Democracy, that the 99% Will Rule, Not the Few!
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Podcasts/Vide0s of the Day:
The Kind Of Ceasefire Where One Side Keeps Firing Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): ❖ In less than a week of its supposed “ceasefire” agreement Israel has reportedly attacked targets in Lebanon around a hundred times, leading to a single retaliation from Hezbollah on Monday which resulted in zero casualties.…
Mr. President, the Russians have a ‘Wonder Weapon’
United States:
The United States is not a Democracy (A government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly)! Only the 1%, through their ownership of the Republicrats and who profit from war and the war budget, vote for War and the war budget — A policy, which Gore Vidal called a Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. — The 99% Should Decide On War — Not Just The 1% Who Profit From War! Under a Democracy, The 99% would have the right to vote on the policy of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace! The United States takes from the poor and gives to the Rich. Tax the Rich! — They Can Afford ford To Pay! Both Parties Support U.S. Capitalism’s Wars! (The Only War the Democrats Opposed was the Civil War!)
Migration isn’t the Problem! The Migration of Wealth to the 1% is the Problem! The most significant “migration problem” is not the movement of people across borders, but rather the migration of wealth into the hands of a small elite (1%) which ultimately drives people to migrate in search of better economic opportunities! Addressing wealth inequality is key to tackling the root cause of global migration issues! — Roland Sheppard
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both. — Louis D. Brandeis Quotes/
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I cannot be Silent. ― Martin Luther King Jr.
Happy Native American Heritage Month From the Army That Brought You the Trail of Tears
After 250 years of armed attacks, forced relocations, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of Native Americans, the U.S. military wants to celebrate. To celebrate Native American Heritage Month, the Pentagon has gone all out with ceremonies across the United States, from an Air Force-sponsored intertribal powwow in Florida to a celebration of Native American aircraft nose art in Oregon. The military has also been pumping out feel-good stories about Native American troops: one South Dakota National Guardsman from the Oglala Sioux tribe was allowed to grow out his hair, and an Air National Guardsmen from the District of Columbia who belongs to four different tribes reflected in his Lakota, Seneca, Navajo, ad Comanche heritage. The top official involved in the commemorations, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, gave a speech calling this month “a time to remember the achievements of indigenous peoples throughout our nation’s history” and proceeded to begin that history with a reference to the Navajo “Code Talkers,” who used their native language to create an unbreakable code for U.S. Marines during World War II. There is, however, quite a bit of history that Hicks’s historical timeline skips: roughly 170 years of armed attacks, forced relocations, ethnic cleansing, and even genocide of Native Americans carried out by the U.S. military.
Who Is Winning All the Wars? The Weapons Makers The more companies and countries become dependent on the profits of war, the harder it will be to shift funding towards other urgent priorities. Revenues at the world’s top 100 global arms and military services producing companies totaled $632 billion in 2023, a 4.2% increase over the prior year, according to new data released by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
Trump vs The ‘Deep State’ The weeks that follow a presidential election, when the outgoing President occupies himself with putting the finishing touches on his legacy while leaving it to the President-elect to put together the team that will take the reins of power, are usually a fallow period in US politics. Not this time. On the one hand, the outgoing president is engaged in a breathtakingly cynical and reckless game of brinkmanship against Russia. Joe Biden’s approval of the use of ATACMS missiles inside Russia, which Putin has described as “an act of war”, is aimed less at undermining Russia’s military campaign, on which it will admittedly not have any serious effect, and more at sabotaging Donald Trump’s road to the Oval Office by making it harder for him to make a deal with Russia over Ukraine. The intention is to pull Putin and Trump into a spiral of escalation that Trump would have a harder time to extract himself from. Meanwhile Trump, who has learned much from his first term in power, is preparing a team to take on his enemies within the state apparatus. This could become the outline of an almighty struggle to come, inside the American state. What we saw on 5 November was a pitchfork rebellion. Trump won a thumping victory, not just in the popular vote, but in every single swing state. Millions of voters made clear that they are fed up: fed up with inflation, fed up with insecurity and fed up with the establishment. Not least of all, they are fed up with these endless, expensive wars being waged by the ruling class while ordinary people struggle to pay bills, to feed their children, to juggle multiple jobs.
United States Armed and Funded Terrorist Middle East War/Palestinan Genocide: When Biden Says ‘He’s a Zionist’ —Believe Him!
Biden Supports Genocide in Gaza Because He Agrees With It Biden supports genocide because, for almost 14 months, this is exactly what he has done. Everything else is window dressing, moral performance, unfalsifiable theory of mind assumptions, and collective partisan delusion.Fake behind-the-scenes maneuvering, supposed electoral necessity: all cover to avoid the unseemly fact that Biden simply supports genocide in Gaza because he thinks it’s justified In his final weeks as president of the United States, Joe Biden is using whatever remaining time and capital he has to continue his lockstep support for Israel as it continues violating the so-called ceasefire in Lebanon, as it further immiserates, starves, and destroys what remains in Gaza, and as it codifies the ethnic cleansing and permanent settlement of Northern Gaza.
US Arms Used in Illegal Israeli Strike on Lebanese Journalists, raising Questions of American Liability Human Rights Watch – (Beirut, November 25, 2024) – An Israeli airstrike in Lebanon on October 25, 2024, that killed three journalists and injured four others was most likely a deliberate attack on civilians and an apparent war crime, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch determined that Israeli forces carried out the attack using an air-dropped bomb equipped with a United States-produced Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) guidance kit. The US government should suspend weapons transfers to Israel because of the military’s repeated, unlawful attacks on civilians, for which US officials may be complicit in war crimes.
President of Refugees International Condemns Biden Admin for Role in Gaza Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees International, an independent humanitarian organization, and former head of disaster assistance at the U.S. Agency Beginning with the Biden administration’s most recent letter sent to the Israeli government—stating that Israel had 30 days to take “urgent and sustained actions to reverse” the humanitarian crisis in Gaza—Konyndyk plainly condemns the U.S. for failing to impose any consequences for Israel’s almost complete disregard to the letter.
These Billionaires Subsidize the Israeli Military Through a US Nonprofit A US nonprofit funnels money from billionaires like Home Depot’s co-founder to effectively subsidize Israeli troops. Israel’s war on Gaza — marked by extensive war crimes, and widely seen as an ongoing genocide — has been backed by the U.S. government, which has provided Israel with billions of dollars in weapons to be used against Palestinians. … “The main and sometimes only machinery of repressing, killing, genociding and ethnically cleansing Palestinians is the IDF,” Haim Bresheeth, author of the wide-ranging history of the Israeli military, An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defense Force Made a Nation, told Truthout. “This is an illegal, immoral army.” In the U.S., there’s one group that has long worked to mobilize ironclad support for the Israeli military: the
The Lesson to be Learned: You Cannot be Independent If you get a Government Grant, Your at the Mercy of the 1%’s Grantees! Biden Makes His Own Attack On Nonprofit Over Palestine It’s Comply orBe Undfunded!: “If we are not funded, it could set a larger civil society precedent for any future federal funding.” Climate Justice Alliance was the only program grantee to speak out on Palestine — and the only one whose funding is delayed. The Climate Justice Alliance is the only group of the 11 grantees that has engaged publicly on issues related to Palestine — and the only one that hasn’t received its funding. Climate Justice Alliance Executive Director KD Chavez said the organization, which was recently attacked by right-wing politicians and media, has been targeted because of its anti-war stance. Palestine is hardly a focus of the Climate Justice Alliance’s work, but past statements calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and denouncing apartheid in Palestine have come under a microscope amid a political climate that is increasingly hostile to any form of support for Palestinians.
Israel Committing War Crimes, Ethnic Cleansing in N. Gaza: Former Minister of Defense Moshe Yaalon Former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon accused the army on Sunday of committing war crimes in the northern Gaza Strip and attempting to hide these crimes from the public, Anadolu Agency reports.
Environment:
Fund Climate! — Not Genocide! One of Many Ways to Begin to End Global Warming: Expose ‘Greenwashing’ — Tax the Polluters 100%! After World War II Rosa Luxenburg Coined the Slogan: ‘S0cialism or Barbaism’! Now the Slogan Should Be: ‘Ecosocialism or Ecocide’!
We Must Hold These Monsters to Account!
The Calf Canyon Fire Review: An Indictment Of The Forest Service’s Land Management Strategy In April Of 2022, Three Wildfires Were Ignited In The Santa Fe National Forest By Three Separate US Forest Service Escaped Prescribed Burns. 378,000 Acres Of The Santa Fe National Forest, Carson National Forest And Private Lands Were Burned. As A Result Of The Two Larger Of These Fires, The Calf Canyon Fire And The Hermits Peak Fire, Entire Communities Were Catastrophically Impacted – 900 Structures Including 340 Homes Were Burned Down, Thousands Of People Were Displaced, And A Traditional Way Of Life Was Forever Altered. Three People Died In The Aftermath Of The Fire From Post-Fire Flooding. The Cost Of Recovery Efforts Will Be Well Over $5 Billion. It Is Unknown How Much Conifer Regeneration Will Occur On The Approximately 82,000 Acres That Burned At High Severity. Although A Review Of The Causes Of Hermits Peak Fire Was Released In June Of 2022, I Had Been Waiting For Two And A Half Years For The Analysis Of The More Impactful Calf Canyon Fire To Be Released. It Was Strangely Delayed.
Black Liberation Civil Rights:
George Monbiot: This Society Lauded a Police Officer Who Lied and Cheated and Ruined Lives. At Last, a Reckoning As a ‘spy cop’, Bob Lambert betrayed a string of innocent women. The official inquiry must ask harsh questions of him – and the state It’s the testimony we’ve long been waiting for. On Monday, at the undercover policing inquiry, the man whose cruel and disgusting deceptions have come to epitomise the “spy cops” scandal will be questioned. Many of us are hoping for answers, not least because his story suggests a closing of ranks across the British establishment. Even if you think you’ve heard it all, some of the details in this column will take your breath away. Bob Lambert worked for the Metropolitan police’s Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) in the 1980s and 1990s, first as an undercover cop infiltrating environmental and animal rights protests, then as operational controller of the squad, supervising other spy cops doing similar work. In the course of his undercover assignments, while posing as a radical activist called Bob Robinson, he deceived four unsuspecting women, innocent of any crime, into starting relationships. He stole his identity from a dead child. With one of the women, Jacqui, he fathered a child. Two years later, he vanished. She discovered his true identity by chance more than 20 years later, and has yet to recover from the devastating shock. She says she feels “raped by the state”. The person she loved and trusted was a ghost. “I feel like I’ve got no foundations in my life …. your first serious relationship, your first child, the first time you give birth – they’re all significant, but for me they’re gone, ruined … I was not consenting to sleeping with Bob Lambert, I didn’t know who Bob Lambert was.”
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Economy:
Trump’s Nominee for FBI Director, Kash Patel, Has Businesses Financially Intertwined with Trump Based on his Trump-related online merchandise offerings, Kashyap (Kash) Patel exudes the persona of a slick marketing agent and image handler for President-elect Donald Trump rather than a serious candidate for Director of the FBI. Nonetheless, Trump nominated Patel for the post of FBI Director on Saturday, keeping with his penchant for naming outrageously unsuitable candidates for high office. Patel’s merchandise offerings include a children’s book trilogy he authored, titled The Plot Against the King. Patel, apparently, has no problem profiling Trump as a King to whom he owes unwavering loyalty. Patel portrays himself in the books as the brilliant wizard who reveals the truth to the populace.
World:
French Government Set to Fall Barring a dramatic turn of events, the Barnier government will fall tomorrow or Thursday. A new reprieve could only come from a last-minute retreat by the RN (National Rally) or the PS (Socialist Party). But these two parties would have nothing to gain – and a lot to lose. … As we explained at the founding congress of the Revolutionary Communist Party (PCR) this weekend: “This is the central element in the calculations of Marine Le Pen and her clique. It’s her real ‘red line’ – and not, as she claims, the ‘purchasing power of the French’. The RN is not prepared to upset a large section of its electorate on behalf of the Barnier government. (…) According to a recent poll published by Le Monde, 25 percent of RN voters consider the NFP (New Popular Front) to be the real opponent of the Barnier government. This is what the RN leadership cannot accept indefinitely.” We added: “After the fall of the government, the pressure will heavily increase on the most hated man in the country: Emmanuel Macron. The leaders of the RN and the FI – among others – will call ever louder for Macron’s resignation and the organisation of early presidential elections before a new general election. And this demand will find a broad echo among the mass of the population. According to a recent poll published by BFM, 63 percent of those polled want Macron to resign if the government falls.” For a detailed analysis of this new stage in the crisis of the French capitalist regime, we refer the reader to the introduction to our discussion on ‘Perspectives for France’ from our National Congress this weekend. In it, we put this political crisis into its general context: that of a profound crisis and an irreversible decline for French capitalism.
Health, Education, and Welfare: