Daily News 11/04
Daily News 11/04
Daily News Archives Since June 20
US Election: The People Voted for Trumps’s Impeachmentp, But Opposition
to the Decine in the Costs of Living. Did notWin The Bipartisan Politics of Putting Warfare ov\ver the Welfare of the People Continues! The Real Vitctors are the War Profiteers! Will there bt lew war?— No! Will All Trymp’s Cuts bs Restored?— No! Will The US Stop Burning Fossil Burning Fue;?— No! Will Workerd Get Real Wages Inreases. — NO! Figureing for Inflation. worker have no gotten a real wage increase since 1975 and the ‘Labor Bureaucarcy’s Partership with the boss’ at the expense of the working class! Instead of a Partnership With Boss, Workers new a partnership with with Oppressed not the Oppressor Capitalis Classs! To Make Real Change we need Ecosoialist change!
The Chris Hedges Report: Thoughts on the Midterm Elections. The Democrats may have taken control of the House and the Senate, they may have humiliated Donald Trump and the Republican Party, but the real fight is only beginning. It is not simply a battle to hold the corrupt Trump regime to account, something that can only be done if the Democrats are willing overcome their reluctance to carry out impeachment proceedings against the president. It is as well a battle to sweep away the corporate-indentured hierarchy of the Democratic Party, including Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. The Democratic Party since the presidency of Bill Clinton, who gave us NAFTA, the greatest betrayal of the working class since the 1947 Taft-Harley Act, and gutted programs such as Welfare, is a more polished version of corporate and oligarchic rule, abjectly subservient to the war machine, the Israel lobby and their funders in the billionaire class. The country is broken. Corruption, in both parties, is endemic. Federal agencies have been gutted and destroyed. The courts, including the Supreme Court, have been handed over to right-wing ideologues. The working class is crippled with debt peonage and substandard wages. Constitutional norms and protections have been erased. Billionaires, including Trump, pay little to no income tax. The 2010 Citizens United supreme court ruling, which allows big business to fund their hand-picked candidates, sustains a system of legalized bribery. The public may clamor for a raise in the minimum wage, Medicare for All, regulation of the big banks and private equity firms, an end to arms shipments to Israel and campaign finance reform, but no one in the leadership of the Democratic Party listens or cares. They serve their paymasters. Will cutthroat capitalism, sold to us under the sanitized name of neoliberalism, be allowed to continue to impoverish the citizenry and funnel wealth upwards into the hands of the 1 percent? Will corporations be regulated and policed? Will corporate criminals be brought to trial? Will our democracy be restored? Or will the grotesque sight of a trillionaire, Elon Musk, gutting federal agencies and pouring hundreds of millions into elections to try and control the outcome be normalized?
Video: Chris Hedges: Bearing Witness to Violence
Video: Michael Hudson: Trump Is LOOTING America | Michael Hudson on Billionaires, Wall Street, and the Oil Wars Michael Hudson is an economist, financial historian, and distinguished research professor of economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. In this episode, Michael and Robinson discuss how financialization has changed the American economy, why working for a living has become harder, and the growing power of billionaires. More particularly, they talk about Trump and political influence, oil wars involving Iran and Russia, their consequences for fuel and food prices, and Hudson’s argument that China is using the industrial model America abandoned. They also discuss private equity, public banking, de-dollarization, AI, ancient debt jubilees, and the difference between creating wealth and collecting economic rent. Michael’s most recent published book is Temples of Enterprise (2024).
Corumption and Decadence During the Decline and Fall of the United States Emppire!: Democracy Now Video: “Princes and Thieves” Author Matthew Cole on Jared Kushner & the “Secret Plot to Remake Middle East” Vanity Fair recently published an excerpt from longtime investigative reporter Matthew Cole’s new book, Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East. The excerpt alleged that during President Trump’s first term, Saudi and Emirati leaders secretly put at least $2 billion into bank accounts and gave access to Kushner. At the time, Jared Kushner was serving as senior adviser to President Trump, his father-in-law. He is now Trump’s special envoy. Kushner’s lawyers responded by demanding that Vanity Fair retract the article and threatening legal action against the book publisher, Simon & Schuster. Jared Kushner denied the report, saying, “The allegations made by this author are completely insane, categorically false, and never happened. We denied every one of these claims on the record, yet the author failed to provide a single shred of evidence to substantiate any of them.” His lawyers say no such bank accounts existed and that the allegations are unsupported by the verifiable evidence. In an extended interview with Democracy Now!, author Matthew Cole stood by his reporting. “This book is a result of more than 50 sources. There was an enormous amount of fact-checking and legal vetting that went into this book,” says Cole. “There’s plenty of information and reporting in the book that lets us establish and understand that there was … an unholy alliance between Jared Kushner and the leader of the UAE, the leader of Saudi Arabia and, at the time, Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel.” On Friday, Congressmember Jamie Raskin, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, called on Kushner to recuse himself from Middle East and Ukraine negotiations and to produce a “comprehensive list of bank accounts or other financial instruments” that he had access to during his time in government.
Trump claims US will end military aid to Israel by end of this year US president makes surprise election day announcement, saying country does not ‘need’ $4bn annual payment
Video: We’ve Entered Climate Overshoot – What Happens Now?The latest UN climate report is out and we’ve blown past 1.5 degrees of warming. We’re now in “overshoot” – an acknowledgement that global temperatures will rise beyond 1.5 degrees, but can theoretically be brought back down again through cooling efforts. But with the world on track fo r2.8 and even as much as 4.5 degrees of warming by 2100, is the challenge of keeping temperatures at a manageable level politically and technologically feasible? As scientists argue whether “overshoot” is failure, conditions at Thwaites glacier in Antarctica are also worsening. The so-called “Doomsday” glacier is melting and an integral ice shelf is on the verge of collapse. Now models show the melting is locked in – and can’t be stopped even if we keep global temperatures down. If it collapses, it could reshape the entire coastline of the world.
Video: Warm water surge heading toward Bay Area
Video:UN Climate Report 2026: Global Warming Target Slipping Away
UN reports warn of large-scale damage to Earth’s ice from climate change
The Real Emergency Is Dirty Air and Higher Bills While Polluters ProfitWhen our government makes decisions about how we get power in our communities, they are also making decisions about whose health and wealth we protect; we should not have to pay the price while corporate polluters and data centers benefit.
Ohio Denies Evidence of Fracking Waste in Drinking Water. Its Own Records Show Otherwise. As more than a billion gallons of oil and gas wastewater flood beneath Ohio, pollution concerns reach its heated governor’s race. 30 October was an important day of struggle in Italy, which marked a new qualitative leap for the movement. The demonstrations saw a very large turnout: at least 50,000 in Milan and Turin, 40,000 in Bologna, and 20,000 in Naples and Rome. In total, several hundred thousand people took to the streets, a resounding show of strength against the government and its attempts at repression. t is also significant that there were so many marches in smaller towns, involving thousands of people. Indeed, in some places where the strike organisers had not arranged anything, other local groups or collectives called for demonstrations.
Even if US democracy can be salvaged from Trump, Europe is moving on
Italy: organise to bring the country to a standstill!
Azerbaijan’s hijab protests: disobedience opens cracks in the Kingdom of Fear