A vivacious and funny video ! The working class Left is well aware of the neo-liberal vilification of white working class people . We are mostly " deplorables ", right Hillary ? In fact, the mainstream news media -especially the insidious advertising - creates images of the white working class as the " New-N-word ". As a democratic socialist I just can't connect the virtues of Western Civilization with some RACE gene. But there might be a Darwinian factor in the creation of pretty white women . One besotted the F. Scott Fitzgerald hero " The Great Gatsby ". Even her legal husband thought her a PERFECT Aryan ! But WHO gets to design the human DNA of the future ? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Remember that " Twilight Zone " episode ?
A militant INDEPENDENT democratic socialist's attempt to expose the truth of our culture – in all its rich irony and absurdity.
Friday, November 30, 2018
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Will pure ZOOLOGY oppose the New World Order ?
Sanders declares caravan members lack a “credible” claim to asylum
No individuals have a right to call themselves SOCIALIST who cannot see that jackass reverence for the NATION STATE is a quasi-religious idea that can only divide the human race . It sanctions divine capitalism, divine imperialism - even for a " progressive " , politically correct , proudly " godless " state. The intellectual representatives of capitalism and imperialism always go brain dead on this matter ( where " free thinking " must never penetrate ) . Does the Pentagon program any of its mechanical or human robots for skepticism ?
We working class people would FEEL a lot FREER if we could go anywhere and WORK anywhere without having to grovel before state authorities or risk losing citizenship rights in our native land. To be free as a bird someday -with a bird's eye view of the Good Earth !
There is a three billion year record of Life on Earth which includes human life . Not even natural boundaries between species survived the battle of TIME.
At some point pure ZOOLOGY will oppose the New World Order.
We working class people would FEEL a lot FREER if we could go anywhere and WORK anywhere without having to grovel before state authorities or risk losing citizenship rights in our native land. To be free as a bird someday -with a bird's eye view of the Good Earth !
There is a three billion year record of Life on Earth which includes human life . Not even natural boundaries between species survived the battle of TIME.
At some point pure ZOOLOGY will oppose the New World Order.
Reports: Boston Native Killed In Combat In Afghanistan
The other side of the story :
[ US airstrikes kill at least 30 civilians in Afghanistan
By Oscar Grenfell, 29 November 2018
The strikes were part of a surge in US bombings aimed at terrorising the population ]
We best HONOR sacrificed soldiers by getting out of Afghanistan - another Vietnam War " mistake ".
No DEMOCRATS opposing stupid imperialist war in recent years
[ US airstrikes kill at least 30 civilians in Afghanistan
By Oscar Grenfell, 29 November 2018
The strikes were part of a surge in US bombings aimed at terrorising the population ]
We best HONOR sacrificed soldiers by getting out of Afghanistan - another Vietnam War " mistake ".
No DEMOCRATS opposing stupid imperialist war in recent years
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Why are poor white kids invisible in the " liberal " news media ?
Besotted with vicious and vacuous " identity politics " the Democratic Party continues to unmask racists and racism under every bed in the manner that old Joe McCarthy unmasked RED communists loyal to Moscow in " The Haunted Fifties " ( a book by I.F. Stone ) .
You would think that the Civil Rights Movement led by Martin Luther King ended as a sad failure.
I don't trust sanctimonious " liberal " zealots who see racism and nothing else . Most poor people are white in capitalist USA. They don't enjoy " white privilege " .Why are poor white kids invisible in the " liberal " news media ?
I voted for SOCIALISTS - not Trump -in 2016.
[Among Gilens’ findings:
– The portrayal of the poor as black began in the mid-1960s, coinciding with a shift toward more negative news coverage of poverty and welfare.
– Both the press and the public exaggerate the extent to which poverty is a black problem.
– 65 percent of poor Americans shown in network television news are African American.
– 62 percent of poor Americans shown in newsmagazines are black.
– In surveys, over half of the public says most poor people are black; only one out of four say most poor people are white.
– In reality, African Americans make up only 29 percent of the country’s poor. ]
Mississippi Republican victory - cries of " racism " ring hollow
Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith Wins Miss. Senate Runoff After Racially Charged Campaign
These frequent cries of " racism " from snobby liberal Democrats - enemies of ALL the American working class- are clearly starting to ring hollow. How many oh-so-anti-racist Democrats ever condemn Zionist Apartheid Israel ?
I don't think the majority of white voters in Mississippi have any affinity for the KKK or lynch mob hangings. How many Democratic politicians even oppose the death penalty ? None who expect to be president some day . How many black persons on death row ?
I don't think the majority of white voters in Mississippi have any affinity for the KKK or lynch mob hangings. How many Democratic politicians even oppose the death penalty ? None who expect to be president some day . How many black persons on death row ?
We are a long way from health care as a basic human right
Discussion on World Socialist Web Site
Plead for charity or die: A blunt message from the American health care system
In no way has health care become a basic human right with so called " Obama Care " - a miserable bipartisan compromise.
Contrary to the religious Right there is no RIGHT TO LIFE under capitalism unless they wish to " save " life in the womb so that it might later be sacrificed as cannon fodder in another stupid imperialist war.
This is perhaps a common experience for many working class and middle class American families: I was in the room with my woman companion Dorene - sick with bone cancer from an earlier breast cancer- when she was told over the phone by some major cancer center that they don't take Medicare. They are as cold blooded as lizards !
Would a humane health care system allow any doctors or dentists or hospitals or nursing homes or cancer treatment centers to refuse Medicare patients ? But what then about the RIGHTS OF MONEY ?
Medicare did allow my Dorene to pass away peacefully with dignity in April 2017 at the Hope Hospice Center in Providence, R.I.
This is how capitalism treats precious human beings ?
Contrary to the religious Right there is no RIGHT TO LIFE under capitalism unless they wish to " save " life in the womb so that it might later be sacrificed as cannon fodder in another stupid imperialist war.
This is perhaps a common experience for many working class and middle class American families: I was in the room with my woman companion Dorene - sick with bone cancer from an earlier breast cancer- when she was told over the phone by some major cancer center that they don't take Medicare. They are as cold blooded as lizards !
Would a humane health care system allow any doctors or dentists or hospitals or nursing homes or cancer treatment centers to refuse Medicare patients ? But what then about the RIGHTS OF MONEY ?
Medicare did allow my Dorene to pass away peacefully with dignity in April 2017 at the Hope Hospice Center in Providence, R.I.
This is how capitalism treats precious human beings ?
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Since when has the Ukraine become a dear old , precious America-NATO ally ?
Russia-Ukraine stand-off over Azov Sea continues as Poroshenko declares martial law
[ Meanwhile, US media foreign policy and think tank officials have been beating the war drum, urging a “tough” response to alleged “Russian aggression” by the Ukraine, NATO and the US. ]
More than two years of the HATE RUSSIA New McCarthyism hysteria in the United States can hardly culminate in " peaceful coexistence " with post communist Russia.
The United States military industrial complex simply must have a major villain ENEMY .
Are working class Americans suddenly brainwashed into thinking that the Ukraine is an old and dear NATO-America ally ? A necessary and sufficient excuse for nuclear World War III ?
Is not the Kafkaesque Mueller investigation more daily political propaganda against " evil " Russia - which attacked " OUR democracy " -than against President Donald Trump ?
I still not have met any working class persons who lose sleep over the defeat of " Corrupt Hillary " in the 2016 presidential election- this unpardonable assault on " OUR democracy ".
More than two years of the HATE RUSSIA New McCarthyism hysteria in the United States can hardly culminate in " peaceful coexistence " with post communist Russia.
The United States military industrial complex simply must have a major villain ENEMY .
Are working class Americans suddenly brainwashed into thinking that the Ukraine is an old and dear NATO-America ally ? A necessary and sufficient excuse for nuclear World War III ?
Is not the Kafkaesque Mueller investigation more daily political propaganda against " evil " Russia - which attacked " OUR democracy " -than against President Donald Trump ?
I still not have met any working class persons who lose sleep over the defeat of " Corrupt Hillary " in the 2016 presidential election- this unpardonable assault on " OUR democracy ".
Russian Ukraine and our 1848 war with Mexico
Ukraine Parliament Approves Martial Law After Naval Skirmish With Russia
Let us not pretend that the Ukraine is suddenly a dear NATO ally . Does not Russia have an equivalent of the Monroe Doctrine ? Consider this note on our war with Mexico around 1848 :
[ " Unlike Lincoln, President Polk supported going to war with Mexico. One of the spoils of this 22-month conflict was the American acquisition of land that eventually became the states of California, Nevada, and Utah. The U.S. also acquired portions of what would later become Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming. This land acquisition through war became known as Manifest Destiny. The U.S. became swept up in it, the president was very popular, and generals Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor– who became the twelfth president of the United States in 1848– became celebrated war heroes. "]
How hypocritical is U.S. condemnation of Russian actions in the Ukraine. No working class Americans lose any sleep over this far away border dispute involving thousands of Russian nationals.
[ " Unlike Lincoln, President Polk supported going to war with Mexico. One of the spoils of this 22-month conflict was the American acquisition of land that eventually became the states of California, Nevada, and Utah. The U.S. also acquired portions of what would later become Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming. This land acquisition through war became known as Manifest Destiny. The U.S. became swept up in it, the president was very popular, and generals Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor– who became the twelfth president of the United States in 1848– became celebrated war heroes. "]
How hypocritical is U.S. condemnation of Russian actions in the Ukraine. No working class Americans lose any sleep over this far away border dispute involving thousands of Russian nationals.
Since when were national borders sacred ?
Defend immigrant workers from state violence!
"The Socialist Equality Party (US) appeals to US citizen workers: Defend your immigrant brothers and sisters from state violence! Don’t drink the nationalist poison—the migrant caravan’s slogan “we are international workers” is your slogan, too! "
This is the centuries old position of HUMANITY going back to the Great French Revolution of 1789 : " Liberty , Equality , Fraternity ! "
But what CONCRETE demands can socialist parties and organizations make here while they lack effective political power ?
Is it really naïve to raise the United Nations banner here ?
It seems that the nation state would have to be abolished FIRST before OPEN BORDERS can become a reality .
It is indeed patriotic rubbish to think that the United States as a super power is on a higher moral level ( so EXCEPTIONAL ) than its growing lists of enemies .
Remember how WE stole land from Mexico in a war that outraged President Abraham Lincoln. Sacred national borders ? Since when ?
This is the centuries old position of HUMANITY going back to the Great French Revolution of 1789 : " Liberty , Equality , Fraternity ! "
But what CONCRETE demands can socialist parties and organizations make here while they lack effective political power ?
Is it really naïve to raise the United Nations banner here ?
It seems that the nation state would have to be abolished FIRST before OPEN BORDERS can become a reality .
It is indeed patriotic rubbish to think that the United States as a super power is on a higher moral level ( so EXCEPTIONAL ) than its growing lists of enemies .
Remember how WE stole land from Mexico in a war that outraged President Abraham Lincoln. Sacred national borders ? Since when ?
[ " Unlike Lincoln, President Polk supported going to war with Mexico. One of the spoils of this 22-month conflict was the American acquisition of land that eventually became the states of California, Nevada, and Utah. The U.S. also acquired portions of what would later become Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Wyoming. This land acquisition through war became known as Manifest Destiny. The U.S. became swept up in it, the president was very popular, and generals Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor– who became the twelfth president of the United States in 1848– became celebrated war heroes. "]
Monday, November 26, 2018
Remember American Socialist Norman Thomas ?
Bernie Sanders On 2020 Election And Future Of Progressive Movement
It is not just age . There are just too many " socialists " in capitalist countries who talk as if SOCIALISM is taboo. It IS to the American ruling class.
It is like a Catholic being silent about core beliefs. Unless EXPRESSED they just vanish into some collective unconscious.
FAITH does matter. American socialist Norman Thomas had faith in both God and socialism. I just browsed in a public library his dusty old political biography. Well worth reading and relevant today.
' [ Although Thomas and his brother Evan did not formally resign from the Presbyterian Church until their mother died in 1931, both referred to themselves as agnostics after their church failed to support their pacifism during World War I. But in the 1950s Thomas still said, "I am no atheist. Indeed, I am almost haunted by religion and often wish that I could regain the comfortable Christian theology of earlier years" (Swanberg, p. 367). In the end he asked for a Christian burial rather than a socialist funeral. "I am not an orthodox Christian," he said, "but the Christian tradition is so much a part of our life, of my life, and Christ is to me so commanding a figure who so released all that I care most for that I feel justified in asserting a Christian service which should not play up personal immortality" (Swanberg, p. 407) ] '
It is like a Catholic being silent about core beliefs. Unless EXPRESSED they just vanish into some collective unconscious.
FAITH does matter. American socialist Norman Thomas had faith in both God and socialism. I just browsed in a public library his dusty old political biography. Well worth reading and relevant today.
' [ Although Thomas and his brother Evan did not formally resign from the Presbyterian Church until their mother died in 1931, both referred to themselves as agnostics after their church failed to support their pacifism during World War I. But in the 1950s Thomas still said, "I am no atheist. Indeed, I am almost haunted by religion and often wish that I could regain the comfortable Christian theology of earlier years" (Swanberg, p. 367). In the end he asked for a Christian burial rather than a socialist funeral. "I am not an orthodox Christian," he said, "but the Christian tradition is so much a part of our life, of my life, and Christ is to me so commanding a figure who so released all that I care most for that I feel justified in asserting a Christian service which should not play up personal immortality" (Swanberg, p. 407) ] '
Faith in God AND Socialism |
WHO wants to " replace " white people ?
Why They Want To Replace White People - Duration: 8:40.
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Here are reasons why maniac elites want to replace White people.
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Bernie Sanders - the ideal socialist leader for successful ( Jewish ? ) dentists ?
Bernie Sanders On 2020 Election And Future Of Progressive Movement
The Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky might have described " Independent ", " Socialist " , "Democrat " ( ??? ) Bernie Sanders as the ideal socialist leader for successful ( Jewish ? ) dentists .
Demand " that the wealthy and the powerful start paying their fair share of taxes".
No real democratic socialists talk about the wealthy " paying their fair share of taxes ". They question the moral legitimacy of ALL " legitimate " wealth guided by Marx's labor theory of value. In the passionate tone of an Old Testament prophet Karl Marx condemned THE SYSTEM of capitalism.
Only the international Pseudo-Left admires Bernie Sanders. When he talks sense he merits a measure of critical support, I think .
The Talk Radio land far right IMAGINES that the neo-con Democratic Party is about to be taken over by SOCIALISTS . I just heard a" Red Eye Radio " host say that socialism is based on jealousy and envy. How scholarly and profound. Why should EXPLOITED and OPPRESSED working class Americans put up with this wonderful capitalism for another day ?
Would good Mother Earth endorse capitalism ?
Demand " that the wealthy and the powerful start paying their fair share of taxes".
No real democratic socialists talk about the wealthy " paying their fair share of taxes ". They question the moral legitimacy of ALL " legitimate " wealth guided by Marx's labor theory of value. In the passionate tone of an Old Testament prophet Karl Marx condemned THE SYSTEM of capitalism.
Only the international Pseudo-Left admires Bernie Sanders. When he talks sense he merits a measure of critical support, I think .
The Talk Radio land far right IMAGINES that the neo-con Democratic Party is about to be taken over by SOCIALISTS . I just heard a" Red Eye Radio " host say that socialism is based on jealousy and envy. How scholarly and profound. Why should EXPLOITED and OPPRESSED working class Americans put up with this wonderful capitalism for another day ?
Would good Mother Earth endorse capitalism ?
Will brainwashed army defend the plutocracy's WAY OF LIFE ?
US military, border police attack asylum seekers at US-Mexico border
A sardonic smile for the United States FREE WORLD alliance that also features barbaric Saudi Arabia and Apartheid - always sanctimonious - Zionist Israel .
Could MILLIONS of working class soldiers ever be amassed to defend the American plutocracy's " way of life " ?
I recall a really inspiring scene in the movie " Doctor Zhivago " when the Czar's army cracked.
Could MILLIONS of working class soldiers ever be amassed to defend the American plutocracy's " way of life " ?
I recall a really inspiring scene in the movie " Doctor Zhivago " when the Czar's army cracked.
The Army will crack ! |
Does First Lady Michelle Obama suggest white working class kids can be ignored ?
In Dorchester, Michelle Obama Encourages Young Women Of Color To Dream Big
" Former First Lady Michelle Obama was in Dorchester on Saturday encouraging young women of color at the Boys & Girls Club to dream big. "
The oppressed working class of America is daily told to DREAM BIG by capitalist boosterism. And that is what the capitalist system still offers " people of color " and white working class " deplorables " now invisible in the " progressive " agenda of the neo-con, war mongering, identity politics besotted Establishment Democrats.
Happy day dreaming , kids No amount of " affirmative action " can nullify the CLASS structure of American capitalist society. And " affirmative action " is itself racist and undemocratic .
The oppressed working class of America is daily told to DREAM BIG by capitalist boosterism. And that is what the capitalist system still offers " people of color " and white working class " deplorables " now invisible in the " progressive " agenda of the neo-con, war mongering, identity politics besotted Establishment Democrats.
Happy day dreaming , kids No amount of " affirmative action " can nullify the CLASS structure of American capitalist society. And " affirmative action " is itself racist and undemocratic .
Listen to Tijuana mayor 's HELP call to the United Nations !
U.S. Agents Spray Tear Gas At Migrants, Briefly Close Tijuana Border Entry
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Played down in the American news media is the Tijuana mayor's HELP call to the United Nations. THAT is the only humane and practical solution to this migration crisis for the present. No capitalist nation state on earth can accommodate daily caravans of refugees. Capitalist USA is hardly a worker's paradise. But for American imperialism the chickens are coming home to roost.
A unified SOCIALIST North America, South America, Central America, Mexico can create equilibrium across borders.
Geological science teaches that even continents move. A future human race might find itself in a second Pangea - a vast supercontinent . Perhaps by then WE can all get along .
In Nature no life forms respect artificial national borders.
Played down in the American news media is the Tijuana mayor's HELP call to the United Nations. THAT is the only humane and practical solution to this migration crisis for the present. No capitalist nation state on earth can accommodate daily caravans of refugees. Capitalist USA is hardly a worker's paradise. But for American imperialism the chickens are coming home to roost.
A unified SOCIALIST North America, South America, Central America, Mexico can create equilibrium across borders.
Geological science teaches that even continents move. A future human race might find itself in a second Pangea - a vast supercontinent . Perhaps by then WE can all get along .
In Nature no life forms respect artificial national borders.
Tijuana declares 'humanitarian crisis,' seeks help from UN - AP News
[3 days ago - TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — The mayor of Tijuana has declared a humanitarian crisis in his border city and said Friday he was asking the United Nations for aid to deal with the approximately 5,000 Central American migrants, most of whom were camped out inside a sports the approximately 5,000 Central American migrants, most of whom were camped out inside a sports complex. ]
Saturday, November 24, 2018
We humans approach a new Permian Dark Age while the indifference cosmos yawns
Climate Change Is Already Hurting U.S. Communities, Federal Report Says
Climate change has been a reality on the planet earth for millions of years now, long before the appearance of fatuously self-named HOMO SAPIENS . Trump and even some honest scientists can be forgiven if they are skeptical about the HUMAN role in climate change of the PRESENT .
Whatever its immediate CAUSE , WE as a species must adapt to it . Our" intelligent " species has its scientific knowledge and its advanced technology - but this is paralyzed by PRIVATE OWNERSHIP of the means of production and natural resources. Adapting to climate change is also paralyzed by the division of the world into mutually hostile nation states ( each imagining that it is more moral and " civilized " than the other nation states ) .
Unless WE dramatically transform ourselves into a really INTELLIGENT species , we will live to see a new Permian Dark Age - another " Great Dying " - while an indifferent cosmos yawns.
As the famous scientist Stephen Hawking said : " While there is life there is hope ". The only hope might be in the rats and cockroaches .
Whatever its immediate CAUSE , WE as a species must adapt to it . Our" intelligent " species has its scientific knowledge and its advanced technology - but this is paralyzed by PRIVATE OWNERSHIP of the means of production and natural resources. Adapting to climate change is also paralyzed by the division of the world into mutually hostile nation states ( each imagining that it is more moral and " civilized " than the other nation states ) .
Unless WE dramatically transform ourselves into a really INTELLIGENT species , we will live to see a new Permian Dark Age - another " Great Dying " - while an indifferent cosmos yawns.
As the famous scientist Stephen Hawking said : " While there is life there is hope ". The only hope might be in the rats and cockroaches .
The best emotional argument against Zionism and the most cogent one
European Jewish Association slanders left and urges dialogue with far-right
I can understand those intellectual Jews nostalgic for a " way of life " fostered by Western Civilization that actually made social progress and the rise of science possible ; that encouraged free thinking and free speech. But what characterizes decaying capitalist societies today is the CLOSING of the mind. Neither the far right nor the pseudo-Left besotted with identity politics offer any enlightenment to the common people.
Zionism was humanly excusable ( but still wrongheaded ) after World War II and the Holocaust nightmare.
The best emotional argument against Zionist Israel today is that it can only lead to revived anti-Semitism and a political disaster for the Jewish people.
The internationalist socialists have a more cogent argument : In the last two centuries NATIONALISM has proven toxic to the human race.
If ordinary people cannot resist drinking this " kool aid " ( a fanatical identification with one's country and ethnic group ) then another Great War like that of 1914 is inevitable. And with that the eclipse of civilization.
Since the Cambrian Explosion of life a half-billion years ago there have been no " Chosen Species " on the planet earth. But OUT THERE is the Moloch asteroid . And a hint of " divine justice " !
Zionism was humanly excusable ( but still wrongheaded ) after World War II and the Holocaust nightmare.
The best emotional argument against Zionist Israel today is that it can only lead to revived anti-Semitism and a political disaster for the Jewish people.
The internationalist socialists have a more cogent argument : In the last two centuries NATIONALISM has proven toxic to the human race.
If ordinary people cannot resist drinking this " kool aid " ( a fanatical identification with one's country and ethnic group ) then another Great War like that of 1914 is inevitable. And with that the eclipse of civilization.
Since the Cambrian Explosion of life a half-billion years ago there have been no " Chosen Species " on the planet earth. But OUT THERE is the Moloch asteroid . And a hint of " divine justice " !
Friday, November 23, 2018
" OUR democracy ", you say ?
Trump Roasts Judiciary, Defends Saudis After Televised Thanksgiving Call To Troops
It is clear to any honest socialist that the " independent judiciary " - like the executive branch and the legislative branch of the government - like the entrenched two party system- is hardly independent of the ruling capitalist plutocracy . The " balance " here is intended to give THEIR system a high degree of stability.
The idea that THE LAW is above economic interests is just naïve nonsense.
THEIR system seems wonderful and " democratic " only to themselves in their Washington , D.C bubble world. For the privileged class everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds .
" OUR democracy " , you say ?
The idea that THE LAW is above economic interests is just naïve nonsense.
THEIR system seems wonderful and " democratic " only to themselves in their Washington , D.C bubble world. For the privileged class everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds .
" OUR democracy " , you say ?
" Hitler Trump " becoming the Voice of Israel
Trump Roasts Judiciary, Defends Saudis After Televised Thanksgiving Call To Troops
In defending the bloody Saudi prince President Trump is clearly doing favors for Zionist Apartheid Israel . Check this out for cynicism. From Israel News Haaretz :
'[ Netanyahu and his aides, led by U.S. Ambassador to Israel Ron Dermer, have been working around the clock to protect Trump and to prevent his administration from “throwing out the prince with the bathwater,” as Dermer put it. Netanyahu has volunteered to serve as Trump’s human shield to protect him from widespread demands by both Democrats and Republicans to punish the crown prince and his kingdom for the Khashoggi assassination.] '
In establishing the New Colonialism in the Middle East the United States and Israel and Saudi Arabia are partners in crimes against humanity.
'[ Netanyahu and his aides, led by U.S. Ambassador to Israel Ron Dermer, have been working around the clock to protect Trump and to prevent his administration from “throwing out the prince with the bathwater,” as Dermer put it. Netanyahu has volunteered to serve as Trump’s human shield to protect him from widespread demands by both Democrats and Republicans to punish the crown prince and his kingdom for the Khashoggi assassination.] '
In establishing the New Colonialism in the Middle East the United States and Israel and Saudi Arabia are partners in crimes against humanity.
Zionist Israel want United States to treat the bloody Saudi prince with kid gloves
At least 85,000 child deaths in Yemen highlight Saudi-US war crimes
Trump does seem to be doing Israel a favor here . Just in today ( Nov 23 ) , Israel News " Haaretz :" Why we should go easy on the Saudi prince " :
' [ However, this time it’s necessary to treat the suspect [ The Saudi prince] with kid gloves. Trump’s peace initiative, if it is ever put on the table, is apparently the direct result of pressure by Mohammed bin Salman, who wishes to legitimize Israel before embarking on open cooperation with it. For 50 years we’ve prayed for a key Arab leader who agrees to sign a significant pact with Israel. Such a leader has finally arrived, and calls to depose him, such as those by former U.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro in an op-ed in Haaretz (October 21) are destructive and in keeping with the best Obama tradition. Anyone waiting for a world of the purely just will have to struggle all his life with the purely evil.] '
How humorous - Non-religious Zionists " praying for a key Arab leader " ! Why does " Hitler Trump " sound more and more like the Voice of Apartheid Israel ?
Why does the " respectable " Left continue to treat Israel with kid gloves ?
' [ However, this time it’s necessary to treat the suspect [ The Saudi prince] with kid gloves. Trump’s peace initiative, if it is ever put on the table, is apparently the direct result of pressure by Mohammed bin Salman, who wishes to legitimize Israel before embarking on open cooperation with it. For 50 years we’ve prayed for a key Arab leader who agrees to sign a significant pact with Israel. Such a leader has finally arrived, and calls to depose him, such as those by former U.S. Ambassador Dan Shapiro in an op-ed in Haaretz (October 21) are destructive and in keeping with the best Obama tradition. Anyone waiting for a world of the purely just will have to struggle all his life with the purely evil.] '
How humorous - Non-religious Zionists " praying for a key Arab leader " ! Why does " Hitler Trump " sound more and more like the Voice of Apartheid Israel ?
Why does the " respectable " Left continue to treat Israel with kid gloves ?
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Working class people lack general ideas ...Socialist parties must teach them
The only answer to Brexit is the United Socialist States of Europe
".. . the sense of deep despair that leads even the government to appoint a minister for suicide prevention and civil society to report in depth on unheard-of levels of loneliness and isolation…"
Working class people everywhere know the truth about their own lives , but as Orwell's character Winston Smith observes in " 1984 " they lack general ideas.
Marx explained long ago that the ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class. He hardly meant that progressive SOCIALIST ideas do not have a chance and therefore progressive social change is impossible. That would be plain absurd.
Until they become mass parties socialist parties have the educational role of spreading generalizing scientific ideas about the capitalist economic order to the best and brightest working class individuals. The rest absorb these ideas almost by osmosis in pre-revolutionary times.
I think the German working class was far better educated at the turn of the 20th century . They were far more generally literate and scientifically literate than many American high school and college graduates today. Back then a socialist press ( with the help of many European Jews ) was thriving. And those dastardly " immigrants " brought their advanced thinking into the USA. As seen in Upton Sinclair's classic " The Jungle ".
In today's USA nobody will get any dangerous " socialist " notions from radio , TV, and the movies. Nor from Christian evangelical preachers of the " Gospel of Wealth " : Jesus wants you to be rich !
Working class people everywhere know the truth about their own lives , but as Orwell's character Winston Smith observes in " 1984 " they lack general ideas.
Marx explained long ago that the ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class. He hardly meant that progressive SOCIALIST ideas do not have a chance and therefore progressive social change is impossible. That would be plain absurd.
Until they become mass parties socialist parties have the educational role of spreading generalizing scientific ideas about the capitalist economic order to the best and brightest working class individuals. The rest absorb these ideas almost by osmosis in pre-revolutionary times.
I think the German working class was far better educated at the turn of the 20th century . They were far more generally literate and scientifically literate than many American high school and college graduates today. Back then a socialist press ( with the help of many European Jews ) was thriving. And those dastardly " immigrants " brought their advanced thinking into the USA. As seen in Upton Sinclair's classic " The Jungle ".
In today's USA nobody will get any dangerous " socialist " notions from radio , TV, and the movies. Nor from Christian evangelical preachers of the " Gospel of Wealth " : Jesus wants you to be rich !
Have we humans entered into a new Permian Age - another " Great Dying " ?
What fools imagine that decaying capitalist USA has any EMERGENCY plan for NUCLEAR attack ? Nature along with extreme climate change is cruel enough . Another Permian Age " Great Dying " is upon us ?
Homo Sapiens must live up to its self-flattering scientific name.
All this criminal negligence inspires young people to fight for the American police state in alliance with partners like barbaric Saudi Arabia - an alliance against " terrorism " indeed ?
So called FAMILY VALUES helped humanity to survive even in the Ice Age or times of the Great Plague. But cruel capitalism would atomize the human race into half-insane, completely atomized, self-centered individuals in pursuit of what - LONELINESS ?
Behind all the crazy violence in the USA is the socially cultivated , grown monstrous , individual EGO, the very stuff of our " Culture of Narcissism ". And President Donald Trump is the perfect representative of " OUR way of life " approaching its nightmare Pompeii finale.
When you see yourself as the voracious center of the universe how can you ever stand to let go ? While watching the Academy Award winning movie last night ( " A Theory of Everything " ) about the life of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking I was reminded that even Black Holes explode and disappear one day. Nothing is forever - not even NOTHING !
Homo Sapiens must live up to its self-flattering scientific name.
All this criminal negligence inspires young people to fight for the American police state in alliance with partners like barbaric Saudi Arabia - an alliance against " terrorism " indeed ?
So called FAMILY VALUES helped humanity to survive even in the Ice Age or times of the Great Plague. But cruel capitalism would atomize the human race into half-insane, completely atomized, self-centered individuals in pursuit of what - LONELINESS ?
Behind all the crazy violence in the USA is the socially cultivated , grown monstrous , individual EGO, the very stuff of our " Culture of Narcissism ". And President Donald Trump is the perfect representative of " OUR way of life " approaching its nightmare Pompeii finale.
When you see yourself as the voracious center of the universe how can you ever stand to let go ? While watching the Academy Award winning movie last night ( " A Theory of Everything " ) about the life of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking I was reminded that even Black Holes explode and disappear one day. Nothing is forever - not even NOTHING !
Not even BLACK HOLE is forever ! |
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Something missing in story on Clydesdale Tavern " Die Nazi Scum " graffiti
Turdo " was concerned that she may have been targeted as a result of political commentary on her personal Facebook page. "
Would not any ordinary " curious " reporter check out her comments on Facebook to see just why they invited this ugly response ?
There are fascists on the Left as well as neo-Nazis on the right in today's troubled USA .
Again and again some " Anti-Fa " group identifies somebody as a " hater " when they are just not conforming to the views of ILLIBERAL LIBERALISM. And they are hardly non-violent.
Would not any ordinary " curious " reporter check out her comments on Facebook to see just why they invited this ugly response ?
There are fascists on the Left as well as neo-Nazis on the right in today's troubled USA .
Again and again some " Anti-Fa " group identifies somebody as a " hater " when they are just not conforming to the views of ILLIBERAL LIBERALISM. And they are hardly non-violent.
An American general, Smedley Butler , confessed to being " a gangster for capitalism " in 1914
Eleven military-intelligence Democrats win US House seats
Of course , " military intelligence " is often an oxymoron . In a wonderfully critical essay on West Point Gore Vidal mentions an American general's ( Smedley Butler ) " most devastating attack on American capitalism " :
" In short I was a racketeer , a gangster for capitalism .... Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service... I helped make Mexico- and especially Tampico- safe for American oil interests in 1914. I decided to make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in... "
Later General Butler declined an invitation to join a " Liberty League " conspiracy " to help them remove President Roosevelt " ( 1933 ).
Do college students in the USA today read this stuff ? DECONSTRUCTION should also apply to national " patriotic " myths .
" In short I was a racketeer , a gangster for capitalism .... Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service... I helped make Mexico- and especially Tampico- safe for American oil interests in 1914. I decided to make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in... "
Later General Butler declined an invitation to join a " Liberty League " conspiracy " to help them remove President Roosevelt " ( 1933 ).
Do college students in the USA today read this stuff ? DECONSTRUCTION should also apply to national " patriotic " myths .
Honest socialists - despite internal quarrels - should form a world united front
US vice president beats war drums in Asia
Honest socialists should combine in a united front . United action can be effective and principled. Few mass movement socialists can hope to follow even the justified but convoluted quarrels " on the Left ". I am wary, of course, of the ubiquitous " pseudo-Left " so often honestly exposed on the World Socialist Web Site.
Socialists must build bridges to broad humanity - including millions influenced by the world's great religions. In no way does religious faith contradict the common sense and sense of justice of working class people. The vociferous and often offensive New Atheists fail to understand that.
Socialists must build bridges to broad humanity - including millions influenced by the world's great religions. In no way does religious faith contradict the common sense and sense of justice of working class people. The vociferous and often offensive New Atheists fail to understand that.
" Conservatism " and " Liberalism " and " Radicalism " are also broad philosophies of life
Pelosi's Democratic Opponents Go Public, But Still Lack Challenger
Oddly enough, I find credibility in two right wing radio talk show hosts Gary McNamara and Eric Harley ( early morning " Red Eye Radio ) . They are what I call honest conservatives - don't need the BIG LIE to defend their pro-capitalist, " patriotic " point of view. For nearly two years now Gary and Eric have laughed at the Mueller investigation and criticized it with cogent logic. " Where is the CRIME ? " they ask again and again.
I am a political opponent of both President Donald Trump and conservative thinkers like these two " Red Eye Radio " hosts. But that does not blind me to respectable arguments. Not rarely President Trump shows some refreshingly crude honesty .That is why HE is president today - not " Corrupt Hillary ".
" Conservatism " is not just a stubborn political orientation . Along with " Liberalism " and " Radicalism " it is a broad philosophy of life. At times in the history of civilization one of these ways of thinking is wiser than others.
In recent decades " Conservatism " shows more REASON in the cultural wars - along with the Catholic Tradition so much scorned by that generic " Left ".
" Conservativism " , however , is muddled in imagining that the capitalist epoch in history is forever, that there is no real MOTION in history.
Sadly the " liberalism " of the Democrats has nothing in common with a great tradition . It is now besotted by vicious and vacuous " identity politics " - a long way from FDR and the New Deal
I am a political opponent of both President Donald Trump and conservative thinkers like these two " Red Eye Radio " hosts. But that does not blind me to respectable arguments. Not rarely President Trump shows some refreshingly crude honesty .That is why HE is president today - not " Corrupt Hillary ".
" Conservatism " is not just a stubborn political orientation . Along with " Liberalism " and " Radicalism " it is a broad philosophy of life. At times in the history of civilization one of these ways of thinking is wiser than others.
In recent decades " Conservatism " shows more REASON in the cultural wars - along with the Catholic Tradition so much scorned by that generic " Left ".
" Conservativism " , however , is muddled in imagining that the capitalist epoch in history is forever, that there is no real MOTION in history.
Sadly the " liberalism " of the Democrats has nothing in common with a great tradition . It is now besotted by vicious and vacuous " identity politics " - a long way from FDR and the New Deal
Monday, November 19, 2018
Nancy Pelosi is not the root of evil in the hopelessly corrupt Democratic Party
Pelosi's Democratic Opponents Go Public, But Still Lack Challenger
Young Democrats -not yet corrupted by a completely corrupt political party- might see the light here : replacing old hack Nancy Pelosi will not begin to purify the Democratic Party for any " progressive " purpose. Nor do their puffed up stars, Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren , represent any break from capitalist politics.
The TWO PARTY SYSTEM is bankrupt . The ideologists of the Democratic Party are morally and intellectually bankrupt. They cannot offer a single damning clear thought on American foreign policy , on our FREE WORLD allies barbaric Saudi Arabia and Zionist Apartheid Israel.
These party leaders promote the HATE RUSSIA New McCarthyism . Are we to believe that Putin's Russia seriously violated " OUR democracy " ? Well our plutocracy beat Putin to it !
The TWO PARTY SYSTEM is bankrupt . The ideologists of the Democratic Party are morally and intellectually bankrupt. They cannot offer a single damning clear thought on American foreign policy , on our FREE WORLD allies barbaric Saudi Arabia and Zionist Apartheid Israel.
These party leaders promote the HATE RUSSIA New McCarthyism . Are we to believe that Putin's Russia seriously violated " OUR democracy " ? Well our plutocracy beat Putin to it !
" Our special relationship" with Israel ? |
More explanation needed for " Nazi Scum " vandalism
Being called " Nazi scum " needs a little more explanation here. There would be more detail if the person - who seems perfectly decent- were smeared as " anti-Semitic ". The " liberal " Democrats are very reckless at name calling . So many " haters " in this country in their view ?
Just what self-appointed moral elite set themselves up as the high priests of political correctness ?
Gutter politics is becoming the norm in " OUR democracy ".
Just what self-appointed moral elite set themselves up as the high priests of political correctness ?
Gutter politics is becoming the norm in " OUR democracy ".
Stop the lynch mob circus in front of Richard Gardner's Washington Park home
This released convict Richard Gardner- who does have legal and HUMAN rights- should be defended by ACLU.
I commend a lawyer named Horowitz - mentioned on local radio today - for protesting the lynch mob circus outside Gardner's Washington Park home. My family lived in a very different Washington Park in far better times- the 50s and 60s.
To the " anxious " mob : " Have YOU no decency ? "
I commend a lawyer named Horowitz - mentioned on local radio today - for protesting the lynch mob circus outside Gardner's Washington Park home. My family lived in a very different Washington Park in far better times- the 50s and 60s.
To the " anxious " mob : " Have YOU no decency ? "
WE THE PEOPLE should junk the whole U.S war machine
North Korea Denuclearization Plan Has Gone Nowhere Since Trump-Kim Summit
Is there any " liberal " Democrat calling for the de-nuclearization of the United States ? If our nuclear arsenal is so wonderful a protection for us , why would a nuclear arsenal not also be for North Korea, Iran ?
And what a waste of tax payer money . In fact, WE THE PEOPLE would be safer and saner if we junked the whole U.S. war machine . So would the rest of the world .
The old imperialist rot countries wants to establish a new world order ?
Congressional Democrats push Russia probe, censorship
Not a single " liberal " Democrat has backed away from the HATE RUSSIA New McCarthyism. Not a single " liberal " journalist sees the Kafkaesque Mueller investigation for what it is : keeping alive the idea that post-communist Russia has done some terrible injustice to the American people, to " OUR democracy ". Trump's " collusion " ( certainly false ) is a secondary concern here. Presidents come and go but imperialist wars must never stop.
And all the other nations that offend " our way of life " - China, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela ? The FREE WORLD centered on Imperialist USA , Old Colonialist Europe , barbaric Saudi Arabia, and Apartheid Israel must establish a new world order?
Working class youth of military age- inspired by Wilsonian blather- must sacrifice their lives for this rot ? Make the world safe for plutocracy ?
Our institutions of " higher education " are dedicated to mass producing useful idiot graduates ( do they ever read a book after graduation ? ) who cannot even imagine a social order very different from rat race capitalism .
Our ruling class has nurtured the most servile and docile intellectual class in human history. They make old Aristotle seem dangerously subversive.
Saturday, November 17, 2018
No point in soft talking the truth about Jewish slumlords and black tenents
[ This NYC Politician Says Blasting 'Greedy Jewish Landlords' Doesn’t Make Him an anti-Semite ... NEWS HEADLINE :
Thomas Lopez-Pierre is running against a Jewish city council member for the Harlem vote, where he claims Jewish landlords are using Israeli money to push black tenants out ... ]
No point in soft talking the truth !
Thomas Lopez-Pierre is running against a Jewish city council member for the Harlem vote, where he claims Jewish landlords are using Israeli money to push black tenants out ... ]
No point in soft talking the truth !
Are medical doctors getting cruelly cautious in prescribing pain medicine ?
Two Years After Voters Legalized It, Recreational Marijuana Is Almost Ready To Buy Legally
Legalizing marijuana should also open minds to the foolish and costly WAR ON DRUGS . Individuals should be able to decide for themselves what drugs to take for their idiosyncratic pains or just to FEEL GOOD - a basic human right .
The doctor's prescription here should be a thing of the past . Already they are getting cruelly cautious with old people in need of pain medication . Don't worry about 80 year olds becoming addicted.
Also, ALL doctors and dentists, hospitals and nursing homes , all cancer treatment centers, should be obliged to accept ALL Medicare and Medicaid patients.
Presently we are nowhere near HEALTH CARE AS A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT .
And why does Medicare continue to think that dental health has nothing to do with general physical health ? How stupid . As for PAIN what compares to the average tooth ache ?
We remain the most backward " advanced " country on earth in health care
The doctor's prescription here should be a thing of the past . Already they are getting cruelly cautious with old people in need of pain medication . Don't worry about 80 year olds becoming addicted.
Also, ALL doctors and dentists, hospitals and nursing homes , all cancer treatment centers, should be obliged to accept ALL Medicare and Medicaid patients.
Presently we are nowhere near HEALTH CARE AS A BASIC HUMAN RIGHT .
And why does Medicare continue to think that dental health has nothing to do with general physical health ? How stupid . As for PAIN what compares to the average tooth ache ?
We remain the most backward " advanced " country on earth in health care
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