https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/08/coup-j08.html
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The day after President Donald Trump mounted a fascist insurrection at the US Capitol in an attempt to subvert the Constitution and install himself as dictator, more details are emerging regarding the coconspirators within the police, military and far-right who took part in the insurrection.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/07/pers-j07.html
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The fascist insurrection in Washington DC—which resulted in the storming of the US Congress, the panicked dispersal of terrified senators and members of the House, the delay of the official validation of Joseph Biden’s Electoral College majority, and even the occupation of the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi—is a turning point in the political history of the United States.
https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2021/01/07/fascist-violence-and-the-form-of-the-state/
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White supremacists stormed the Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2021, brandishing KKK-inspired nooses.
Below is an excerpt from an article by Sam Marcy, a leading Marxist thinker and fighter of the second half of the 20th century. It was written shortly after Ronald Reagan’s inauguration in 1981 — that is, at the beginning of the long period of reaction that is peaking today.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/01/07/the-coup-in-washington-why-is-anyone-surprised-by-trumps-fascist-politics/
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Photograph Source: DrDannielle – CC BY-SA 4.0
The dramatic events that occurred at the United States Capitol Building yesterday, January 6, 2021 demonstrate just how far down the path to authoritarian / fascist rule the U.S. has traveled. In fact the latest reports, from Newsweek, are that 4 people died in the events. Some commenters have labeled the actions by the Trumpista Mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol Building as a “coup d'etat”. A more accurate label for the ongoing operations, by Trump and his minions at all levels to overturn the Presidential Election results, would be Auto-Golpe'. In an Auto-Golpe' a head of state and his coterie stay in power, by using tactics similar to those that a cabal of Coup d'etat plotters would use in trying to seize state power. The process of an Auto-Golpe' is often smoother because the head of state already has levers of power available to him/her. Donald J. Trump, while he retains control over many of those levers of power, has encountered significant resistance to his more strident demands from various parts of the U.S. Government apparatus. Most significant in this internal power structure resistance are the repeated statements by the military high command and such figures as the 10 living Secretaries of Defense, that the U.S. military must not and will not directly intervene in American politics to keep Trump in power. (See “All 10 living former defense secretaries: Involving the military in election disputes would cross into dangerous territory”, Jan 3, 2021, Ashton Carter, Dick Cheney, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon Panetta, William Perry and Donald Rumsfeld, Washington Post, at < https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/10-former-defense-secretaries-military-peaceful-transfer-of-power/2021/01/03/2a23d52e-4c4d-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html >: “Ten Angry Men: What the Incredible Letter From Former Defense Secretaries Should Tell Americans”, Jan 4, 2021, James Stavridis, Time, at < https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ten-angry-men-incredible-letter-214010429.html >).
Below we have 22 states in which local media reported Nazi demonstrations obviously coordinated with the assault on the U.S. capitol, plus five more states in which local media suppressed stories of coordinated Nazi violence nevertheless reported by Associated Press.
That’s 27 states total or 27/50, which is 54 percent.
Plus based on these findings and my own 60-odd years’ professional knowledge of such matters, I’d guess local media in at least a dozen more states suppressed reports of Nazi violence due to the protective censorship imposed by chambers of commerce and/or other Ruling Class organizations, as is typical in most less-urbanized states.
So 39/50 – 78 percent – is almost certainly a more accurate estimate.
Which, curiously enough, equals the percentage of the total U.S. Caucasian population proven to be incurably white-supremacist by their responses to post-Katrina polls.
As to the proof itself, firstly there is this from Associated Press: Protesters swarm Statehouses across US; some evacuated .
Next I checked the websites of local newspapers in eight cities, but found all news of the Nazi assaults – local or national – to be censored by paywalls.
Finally I settled on the following, which I assembled by reviewing the websites of at least one major local (non-FOX) TV outlet in every U.S. state capital, a tedious process that took four hours and 52 minutes to complete:
Alabama – https://www.wsfa.com/2021/01/06/trump-supporters-rally-outside-alabama-capitol/
Alaska – none locally reported
Arkansas – https://katv.com/news/local/trump-supporters-rally-at-the-arkansas-state-capitol
California -- https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2021/01/06/sacramento-trump-capitol-sacramento-arrests/
Colorado – none locally reported.
Connecticutt – none locally reported.
Delaware – none locally reported.
Georgia – locally suppressed; reported by AP.
Hawaii – locally suppressed; reported by AP.
Illinois – none locally reported.
Indiana – none locally reported.
Iowa – https://www.kcci.com/article/dozens-of-stop-the-steal-protesters-gathered-at-statehouse/35142662
Kentucky – none locally reported. This Kentucky story from a West Virginia tv news channel:
https://wchstv.com/news/local/member-of-an-eastern-ky-church-in-washington-as-violence-erupts
Louisiana – none locally reported.
Maine – none locally reported.
Maryland – none locally reported.
Massachusetts – none locally reported.
Michigan – https://www.fox47news.com/news/political/protesters-gather-in-lansing-as-lawmakers-certify-election
Minnesota – none locally reported.
Mississippi – none locally reported.
Missouri – none locally reported.
Montana – none locally reported.
Nebraska – none locally reported.
Nevada – locally suppressed; reported by AP .
New Hampshire – none locally reported.
New Jersey – none locally reportedly
New Mexico – https://www.kob.com/new-mexico-news/armed-trump-supporters-rally-outside-roundhouse-in-santa-fe/5970329/
New York – none locally reported.
North Carolina – https://www.wral.com/a-couple-dozen-for-and-against-president-trump-exchange-words-at-nc-capitol/19460061/
North Dakota – none locally reported.
Ohio – locally suppressed; reported by AP.
Oklahoma – locally suppressed; reported by AP.
Pennsylvania – none locally reported.
Rhode Island – none locally reported.
South Carolina – https://www.wistv.com/2021/01/06/protestors-gather-sc-statehouse-support-stop-steal-movement/
South Dakota – none locally reported.
Tennessee – https://fox17.com/news/local/tennessee-lawmakers-hold-prayer-rally-in-support-of-trump
(Complete with Nazi salutes; see photo.)
Utah – https://fox17.com/news/local/tennessee-lawmakers-hold-prayer-rally-in-support-of-trump;
Also relevant: https://kutv.com/news/local/protestors-gather-at-utah-state-capitol-building
Vermont – https://www.wcax.com/2021/01/06/stop-the-steal-protesters-in-montpelier-call-for-accountability/
Virginia – none locally reported.
Washington – https://www.newsbreak.com/washington/olympia/news/2140060994666/protesters-break-through-gate-of-gov-inslees-home
West Virginia – none locally reported.
Wisconsin – none locally reported.
I
also apologize for the use of full URLs rather than highlighted links;
for a non-Nurd such as I to convert them would have added more than an hour
to the preparation of this report, and in this instance I felt speed
took precedence.
LB/02:32PST 7 Jan 21
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...Thus to Complete the Coup They Began 22 November 1963.
By Loren Bliss
I RAISE THIS as the ultimate question because history proves such purposeful atrocities are many -- among the most notable are the Reichstag Fire (which the Nazis manipulated into seizure of absolute power in Weimar Germany), plus of course the original Bloody Sunday -- the massacre organized by a Russian Orthodox Priest named Georgi Gapon.
This "Father Gapon" -- an agent-provocateur for the Okhrana (the Tsar's secret police) -- organized the incident precisely to provide Tsar Nicholas II the excuse for the relentless genocide by which he then exterminated hundreds of thousands of Russian progressives.
Might Trump thus be another Gapon?
LB/18:40 PST 6 Jan 21
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by Loren Bliss
(Originally self-published at Dispatches from Dystopia,https://www.dispatchesfromdystopia.net/2021/01/though-i-have-long-foreseen-the-nazi-lynch-mob-thats-captured-dc-it-is-not-my-preferred-return-to-bl.html)
FOR THE PAST several weeks I have been working on a new, definitively apolitical Dispatches
format essentially based on the Royokan haiku I regard as our species'
best-ever expression of gratitude in the wake of hopelessly ruinous
loss:
The thief
left it behind:
the moon at my window.
But the seizure of our national capital by a Trump-spawned Nazi lynch mob has interrupted that quarantine-enabled growth process, and my own resurgent journalistic ethics demand response:
Because I (involuntarily) lived in the South for most of my first 24 years, I know entirely too well the bottomless, irremediable Evil of our national Southron/Neoconfederate mix of reactionary Christian misogyny, racism and general hatefulness.
Hence despite the constant disinformation from the "Democratic" [sic] Party's cult of mandatory positivism, I have been warning for years of the danger of a ChristoNazi revolution.
Now we are at the inevitable pivot-point wherein the government's response to this (armed?) rabble that has captured D.C. will answer three pivotal questions:
(1) -- the extent to which Trump's ChristoNazis have subverted the military and the police;
(2) -- the extent to which Trump's modern-day Sturmabteilung is organized for actual warfare (commanders, chain of command, training, armament etc.);
(3) -- the extent to which the Ruling Class opposes or supports the continuation of at least a charade of constitutional governance in the imperial United States.
The answers to these three questions determine our future.
But the answer to the first question is already obvious in the alleged "unpreparedness" by which the Capitol Police (and D.C. law enforcement in general) compromised the defense of the Capitol Building.
It is even more outrageously obvious in how the militarized cops are treating these traitorous ChristoNazi insurrectionists with a respectful gentility so notably absent in the murderous violence of their everyday responses to people of color or any of the rest of us on the (real) Left.
The international response to this Nazi insurrection will also be most revealing -- and could indeed be the ultimate factor in determining in its outcome.
LB/16:16 PST 6 Jan 2021
(Auto-complete's misspelling of "capitol" -- weirdly appropriate, given the givens -- corrected at 20:54 PST.)
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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/30/bezo-d30.html
Amidst an unprecedented transfer of wealth from the working class to the billionaires this year, sections of the bourgeoisie have decided to “donate” a small fraction of these ill-gotten gains to philanthropic causes.
https://socialistworker.org/2007-1/630/630_08_Laziness.php
From the Meaning of Marxism Series
PAUL D'AMATO explains why a socialist society would produce a flowering of universal creativity.
Since 2008, the US has spent $20–35 trillion on corporate bailouts. It’s about the same “unaffordable” amount that Medicare for All has been projected to cost — used for lining corporate pockets instead of providing health care to people who need it.
Two articles on the trading of water...
