~~ Written by dmorista ~~
Saturday, April 3, 2021
Friday, April 2, 2021
Culture of Violence ~~ LAURA FLANDERS
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/03/29/culture-of-violence/
~~ posted for collectivist ~~
To Win Significant, Long-Term Change in America, We Need Class Struggle ~~ NICK FRENCH
~~ posted for collectivist ~~
Monday, March 29, 2021
Saturday, March 27, 2021
Amazon Hires Off-Duty Cops to Harass Workers, the Press, and Supporters ~~ Madeleine Freeman
https://www.leftvoice.org/amazon-hires-off-duty-cops-to-harass-workers-the-press-and-supporters
Bessemer, Alabama’s police chief has confirmed that off-duty officers have been hired by Amazon to act as “security” for the BHM1 facility in the middle of a historic and intense union drive. Two Left Voice reporters who were recently expelled from Amazon’s premises by the cops: report from the ground.
Backstabber Biden Denying At Least 30 Million Desperately Poor Pensioners Our Promised $1400 Stipends, Confirming Democrats' Continued Function as Republican Fifth Column
In Yet Another Epic Betrayal, Forcible-Disarmament-Fanatic Joe Has Sneakily Renewed His Opposition to Legalized Marijuana -- Probably to Radically Intensify Prosecutions of Otherwise Lawful Gun Owners
THANKS TO A pair of sources -- The Stand, Washington State Labor Council's excellent on-line daily, plus a much-appreciated news tip from fellow journalist William Boardman -- we now have our clearest-yet sense of the hatred and contempt that unites the "Democratic" (sic) and Republican parties in the ecogenocidal solidarity of their Neoliberal (Neonazi) war against U.S. Working Families and the global Working Class in general:
- The Stand tells us President Joseph Biden's ongoing "bipartisan" collaboration with the Trumpists who have sabotaged the Social Security Administration and the VA is the reason at least 40 million of us may not get our $1400 "stimulus" checks until 31 December -- if even then.
- And Mr. Boardman's tip -- for which again my gratitude -- tells us the Biden Regime is already betraying the huge majorities of the imperial homeland's adult citizens who stupidly believed the Democrats' Big Lie a Biden/Harris victory would legalize marijuana.
These are among the most damning proofs yet the "Democratic" (sic) Party has reverted to its post-JFK function as the Republican Party's Neoliberal (Neonazi) Fifth Column.
And, of course, the Mainstream Media Propaganda Machine, the world's first privately owned, for-profit version of Josef Goebbels' infamous Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, is protecting the Democrats by suppressing the story -- or at the very least, sugar-coating it with the nauseatingly fecal propaganda routinely excreted in service to the Moronic Majority's cult of mandatory optimism.
Again demonstrating our fatal lack of a genuine Left, nearly all the so-called "alternative" media is doing likewise.
Hence our two courageous sources have provided genuinely revealing information:
Firstly. as you probably know, many Republicans and at least a few of their "Democratic" (sic) Fifth Column co-conspirators sadistically wanted to deny -- say again DENY-- stimulus checks to any of us whose sole sources of income are the murderously miserly welfare, Social Security or veterans' stipends that define us as unexploitable for profit, too impoverished to be liable for income taxes and therefore -- in the merciless Ayn Randified eyes of our Neoliberal Masters -- as "life unworthy of life."1
Why withhold the money? Obviously, it's another aspect of our Masters' Final Solution to the problem of overpopulation by those of us who are hopelessly poor: the longer we are denied our $1400, the more acute our anxiety. More of us will therefore sicken and die -- which of course leaves more money for the Empire's Neoliberal (Neonazi) owners and their political marionettes.
Moreover the Democrats and their Republican co-conspirators have sneakily given the SS and VA bureaucracies until 31 December 2021 to make the payments2 -- obviously to further maximize the Covid19 death toll.3
Secondly, apropos the "Democratic" (sic) Party's resumption of opposition to legalized marijuana, as an analytically minded member of the Second Amendment community's hard-Left faction, I saw this coming years ago. The fact marijuana is legal prescription medicine in a growing number of states is federally meaningless -- and as Biden now demonstrates, so it shall remain.
Why?
Because any firearms owner who merely draws a breath of air containing
marijuana smoke will urine-test positive for drug use and is therefore
subject not only to confiscatory forcible disarmament, but to ten years'
slave labor on the for-profit prisoner plantations that despite Biden's deceptions continue to expand, amassing profits comparable to those extracted by antebellum slave owners.
Hence anyone who believed Biden/Harris would legalize pot or end for-profit prison slavery was either hopelessly naive or more typically a member of the Moronic Majority, a useful idiot brainwarped by the Ruling Class and thus totally oblivious to the fact our Masters intend to completely disarm us -- to reduce us literally to mandatory pacifism and compulsory victimhood -- the latest expression of their fear our hopelessly dumbed-down brains might someday figure out how to foment a (real) revolution.
Doubt me? Note that some forcible-disarmament fanatics are already calling for mandatory monthly drug tests and annual psych evaluations for all firearms owners -- millions more dollars for the for-profit medical predators, with firearms ownership by us poor folk permanently prohibited by these proposed additional costs.
Thirdly, behind his cloak of Big Lies, disinformation and euphemisms, Biden is obviously just another example of "change we can believe in," different from the Trumpite version mainly in the extent to which Biden hides Neoliberalism's Neonazi agenda -- Trump's premature disclosures of which separated our Masters into at least two mutually hostile factions and ensured Trump's loss in last November's election.5
How then did the "Democratic" (sic) Party become the Republican Fifth Column it is today? My journalistic guess is the Democrats were terminally compromised by their collaboration with the Republicans in the murder of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and the still furiously controversial deceptions necessary to hide the Ruling Class coup of 22 November 1963 -- its reality since proven by the now-irremediable (boiled-frog) imposition of Neoliberal Neonazism.4
Perhaps the most pivotal lesson I've been taught by Moron Nation is that investigative journalism is utterly pointless -- that too many of whatever small percentage of the population has retained the ability to read with comprehension has also been reduced to such submissive moral imbecility they are genetically incapable of feeling the empathy or concerns essential to humanitarian action.
In other words, in the psychological sense -- regardless of race or gender -- they are already naught but slaves.
All
of which thrusts me ever closer to concluding there truly is no hope
for us -- not for ourselves, our nation, our species, our Mother Earth.
___________________________
1"Life Unworthy of Life" is the English translation of the phrase by which the German Nazis condemned elderly or disabled people to death for being unprofitable -- an ultimate example of the criminalization of poverty that has become so popular amongst U.S. politicians.
2HR1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021,
is among the most infuriatingly censored legislative packages ever
enacted by Congress, which is why most of us remain unaware its
Ayn-Rand-minded authors gave the federal bureaucracy nearly a year --
specifically until 31 December 2021 -- to send us our $1400 relief
payments. Scroll to Page 137, "Timing and Manner of Payments...No refund or credit shall be made or allowed under this subsection after December 31, 2021." This is the most outrageously tolerant approval of bureaucratic obstructionism I have ever encountered.
3Apropos the viciously extended disbursement deadline, I turn 81 on 30 March; even fully vaccinated -- I go off quarantine at midnight -- my comorbidities may not let me live long enough to see the now indefinitely delayed $1400 -- and the same applies to anyone like me. Obviously, this is no accident; its potentially deadly anxieties are precisely what our Masters intend -- another atrocity in their ever-more-lethal criminalization of poverty.
4Though it is seldom recognized as such, neoliberalism is the most toxic variant of Nazism to emerge thus far. Note the identical, might-makes-right ethos of absolute moral imbecility promulgated both by Hitler in Mein Kampf and by Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged. Indeed, Neoliberalism's submit-to-capitalism-or-die mandate expresses the same submit-to-the-übermenschen-or-die ruthlessness of Nazism's German founders; the differences between the two are thus more illusory than real. Rather than requiring an individual tyrant, Neoliberalism crowns the corporate aristocracy as our species' divinely ordained, absolute-power ruler; building on Josef Goebbels' methodological foundation, it achieves its intended tyrannies by the most compelling psychological warfare ever unleashed against our species and -- cunningly exploiting the induced ignorance of Moron Nation -- by other methods far more readily concealable than the German Nazi agenda of military conquests, death camps and Zyklon B. It does so by glorifying Ayn Rand's sociopathy and by weaponizing disaster, pollution and disease to eradicate the few remnants of democratic process and reduce the Working Class to inescapable forms of modern slavery. Given the many variants of fascism that have reduced what was originally a proper noun to a lower-case generic, I propose doing likewise with Nazism. This gives us neonazism (or nazism) as more emotionally accurate description of what we now label "fascism," its lower-case forms the correct spelling for all "nazi" references save to the Third Reich's N.S.D.A.P., the original Nazi Party, which should of course still be capitalized accordingly.
5Is Trump down for the proverbial count? I fear not. I have no doubt whatever non-nazified historians might abide in the future -- that is, if we somehow manage to seize ourselves a future -- will define the nazis' 6 January 2021 uprising as eerily equivalent to Hitler's 1923 Munich Beer Hall Putsch. Obviously I cannot predict what measures the U.S. nazis will next attempt. But I am absolutely certain we the people of these helplessly (dis)United States no longer collectively possess the empathy, integrity, knowledge, skill, determination, solidarity-- and most of all the titanium-ovaried, brass-testicled courage -- necessary to defeat (any) nazi onslaught. We saw these requisites demonstrated by the Soviet people, as many as 43 million of whom died saving us all from Hitler and his allies, but alas I cannot imagine such capability in the present-day United States. Goddess grant this time my usually accurate pessimism is flat out wrong.
LB/27 March 2021
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Thursday, March 25, 2021
One Night in Miami (A Film Review by Collectivist)
One Night in Miami (A Film Review by Collectivist)
Monday, March 22, 2021
8M: For a revolutionary feminism, which is not a cover photo but a struggle against all exploitation ~~ Cecilia Zemudio
~~ posted for collectivist ~~
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
Rising Food Prices and War ~~ Thom Hartmann and Richard Wolff
https://www.rdwolff.com/thom_hartmann_rising_food_prices_could_bring_world_war
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Monday, March 15, 2021
Capitalism and Healthcare: The Con of “Nonprofit” Hospitals ~~ Merrily Mazza
https://www.leftvoice.org/capitalism-and-healthcare-the-con-of-nonprofit-
Nonprofit hospitals operate under the guise of “charity” in order to avoid paying taxes. Capitalist healthcare cannot safeguard public health — but a nationalized system under democratic, worker control can.
Friday, March 12, 2021
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Monday, March 8, 2021
THE SIEGE OF THE CAPITOL: ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROBERT MERCER ~~ Alex Constantine
https://constantinereport.com/the-siege-of-the-capitol-all-roads-lead-to-robert-mercer/
~~ article recommended by dreamjoehill2 and Introduction by dmorista ~~
Friday, March 5, 2021
Thursday, March 4, 2021
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
Sunday, February 28, 2021
How Poor Black Lives Matter to U.S. Capitalism Today: Reflections on “The New Jim Crow” ~~ Paul Street
https://www.blackagendareport.com/poor_black_lives_matter_to_capitalism_new_jim_crow
The U.S. mass incarceration regime measures Black lives by the value that can be derived from their imprisonment. “The ‘new Jim Crow’ is about disciplining a deindustrialized Black lumpen proletariat and turning it into a largely inert, deindustrialized profit-source whose 'value added' comes mainly from the mere fact of its captive existence.”
Saturday, February 27, 2021
Friday, February 26, 2021
Biden Continues in His Predecessors Time Honored Tradition of Imperialist War Mongering
First US military action under Biden draws criticism
Thursday, February 25, 2021
Yet Another Capitalist Debacle: This Time in Texas ~~ dmorista
Yet Another Capitalist Failure in Texas
~~ Written by dmorista ~~
Retracing Slavery’s Trail of Tears ~~ Edward Ball; Photographs by Wayne Lawrence
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/slavery-trail-of-tears-180956968/
~~ posted for Collectivist ~~
America’s forgotten migration – the journeys of a million African-Americans from the tobacco South to the cotton South
Monday, February 22, 2021
Texans exorbitant electricity bills after winter storm and His Lights Stayed on During Texas’ Storm. Now He Owes $16,752
~~ Two related articles posted for dmorista ~~
Sunday, February 21, 2021
Don't blame a lack of education — QAnon proves privileged white people are losing their minds too ~~ AMANDA MARCOTTE
~~ posted for Collectivist ~~
Saturday, February 20, 2021
Limbaugh’s Legacy: Normalizing Hate for Profit ~~ ANTHONY DIMAGGIO
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/02/19/limbaughs-legacy-normalizing-hate-for-profit/
Thursday, February 18, 2021
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Monday, February 15, 2021
Sunday, February 14, 2021
Lets Talk about Sex
http://spunk.org/library/sex/sp001711.html
~~~ Now I have your attention... hehe - The left is about freeing people from exploitation and oppression; having control over lives and work... Control over one's life also needs to include control over our own bodies and sexuality. This is the best part of this article: "We have produced this article to get the juices flowing. We don't want to control or put people's lives on guilt trips, like so many others - we do want to fight for a world where sex, like every other arena of our lives, is healthy, free of unnecessary confusion, and controlled by us, not the powers that be.", newestbeginning ~~~
Saturday, February 13, 2021
“The Pitfalls of Liberalism”, by Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael
(NB note - I would like to draw attention to the fantastic discussion of violence in this piece)
Friday, February 12, 2021
Thursday, February 11, 2021
Monday, February 8, 2021
Thursday, February 4, 2021
GM 1937, Amazon 2021: Which side are you on? ~~ Martha Grevatt
https://www.workers.org/2021/02/54228/
Bessemer, Alabama, sitting on the outskirts of Birmingham and with a population of 26,500 — about 75% African American — has become a central focus for the entire class struggle.
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
Monday, February 1, 2021
Sunday, January 31, 2021
Saturday, January 30, 2021
Against Loving Your Job ~~ Sarah Jaffe
https://inthesetimes.com/article/alienated-labor-capitalism-jobs-work
“We need a politics of time. A political understanding that our lives are ours to do with what we will.”
Alienation in capitalist society ~~ Paul D'Amato
https://socialistworker.org/2003-2/467/467_09_Alienation.php
(From the Meaning of Marxism)
THE TERM "alienation" in normal usage refers to a feeling of separateness, of being alone and apart from others. For Marx, alienation was not a feeling or a mental condition, but an economic and social condition of class society--in particular, capitalist society.
Friday, January 29, 2021
Thursday, January 28, 2021
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
The “Essential Worker” Swindle ~~ SARAH LAZARE
How this label is used to justify a social order in which workers are abused, discarded and left to die.
Tuesday, January 26, 2021
Monday, January 25, 2021
Sunday, January 24, 2021
Fascism ~~ Anaxarchos
Fascism ~~ Written by Anaxarchos (Marxist, labor organizer, writer, researcher)
Saturday, January 23, 2021
US Capitalism’s Decline and Desperate Efforts to Save It [January 2021]. ~~ Richard Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EC1KMfUECw&authuser=0
Essay to support Richard Wolff monthly talk for January, 2021 ~~ Written by dmorista
Friday, January 22, 2021
Developing working-class resistance to fascism ~~ Dianne Mathiowetz
https://www.workers.org/2021/01/54001/
~~ posted for collectivist ~~
These excerpts were taken from the Jan. 14 webinar, “Workers Can Defeat Fascism & Racism,” sponsored by Workers World Party. To view the entire panel discussion, go to tinyurl.com/y25tapr2.
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Monday, January 18, 2021
What Life Means to Me ~~ Jack London
https://www.marxists.org/archive/london/revolution/ch13.htm
First introduced to me by an old friend. This resonates to this day.
Bill Fletcher, Jr. on the History of Race and Class
https://vimeo.com/253197998/
~~ posted for collectivist ~~
Sunday, January 17, 2021
In a Crisis, a Compromise Solution Is Worse Than No Solution at All. ~~ Ted Rall
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/12/24/in-a-crisis-a-compromise-solution-is-worse-than-no-solution-at-all/
The raging argument on the left between progressives who argue for radical change and centrists who advocate incrementalism is hardly new. Nearly a century ago, progressive titan and Wisconsin governor Robert La Follette and FDR were often at loggerheads over the same question.
Turn Civil War into Class War ~~ Written by Collectivist
~~ Written by Collectivist ~~
The two major political parties in the U.S. are dominated by plutocrats and therefore should never be trusted. In the final analysis, no matter what is 'officially' pronounced by the DNC or the RNC, the overall policies and practices of both parties serve the domestic and foreign interests of predatory capitalism. Always have.
Saturday, January 16, 2021
Information, Propaganda, and Disinformation. The Battle over control of the Narrative of Jan 6th, 2021 and the Attack on the U.S. Capitol. ~~dmorista
Written exclusively for Leftist Politics, by Dmorista
Classic Case of Crisis Opportunism': Republicans in Three States Introduce Bills Criminalizing Protest in Wake of Capitol Attack ~~Kenny Stancil,
These proposed laws are "aimed at police brutality protests, not right-wing insurrection."
Police advance on demonstrators who are protesting the killing of George Floyd on May 30, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Progressives are sounding the alarm that a handful of Republican lawmakers are exploiting the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6 by an insurrectionist pro-Trump mob to push for anti-protest bills that critics say do not aim to stem the tide of right-wing extremism but instead criminalize dissent by those seeking social change and justice.
In the immediate aftermath of last week's invasion of the halls of Congress, GOP lawmakers in Florida, Mississippi, and Indiana introduced bills that "do not represent new strategies designed specifically to prevent future right-wing insurrections... [but] draw from a set of policies that numerous state legislators introduced [last] summer in order to appear tough on protests against police brutality," The Intercept reported Tuesday.
According to the news outlet:
Florida's and Mississippi's bills in particular represent a new brand of anti-protest laws on steroids, creating penalties for a wide array of activities, from damaging monuments to obstructing traffic. The bills include measures that could encourage harsh law enforcement responses to protests as well as provisions meant to prevent local governments from reducing police funding.
The narrower Indiana bill would broaden the definition of rioting—which the Florida bill did as well—and would criminalize camping at the Indiana state Capitol. The Mississippi bill would also allow the state to strip unemployment benefits from anyone who pleads guilty to participating in disruptive protests.
The Intercept noted that lawmakers are using last week's events as an excuse to build on earlier efforts to penalize left-wing civil disobedience. This is "a renewed push to criminalize certain kinds of dissent," including protests against police violence as well as the fossil fuel industry.
"Civil liberties advocates warn that the three bills are only the tip of the iceberg," The Intercept reported, stressing that the new bills should not be interpreted as straightforward responses to the assault on the Capitol. Instead, the news outlet said, this legislative push is an attempt to "rebrand" previous anti-democratic attempts to crack down on protests, taking advantage of outrage over the right-wing attack on the Capitol to inhibit demonstrations for progressive causes.
"Look closely" at the proposed laws, said Alleen Brown, who co-authored the article with Akela Lacy. "They're aimed at police brutality protests, not right-wing insurrection."
In a critique of what he called the "righteous bipartisan weaponizing of this crisis," journalist Christopher Cook argued on Tuesday in The Progressive that the tools we create in response to the January 6 insurrection "will certainly be used to tamp down mass protest from the left."
"It's easy to see the Trump-incited insurrection as sheer madness fueled by utter falsehoods, not genuine dissent or 'protest,' but that won't keep it from being weaponized to expand the policing of protest throughout the United States," he warned.
In fact, Cook pointed out, Florida's Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis "promoted a new bill 'cracking down on Black Lives Matter protests... [on] the same day insurrectionists were storming the Capitol." DeSantis used the riots in Washington, D.C., attended by several neo-Confederates, as a pretext to "make taking down Confederate statues a felony."
"When the acts of sedition spew from toy-soldier white supremacists and venomous self-proclaimed 'patriots' motivated by outright lies," it is easy to call for more surveillance, but "do we wish to... suppress every type of uprising, every act of sedition, no matter the cause or agenda?" Cook asked.
"We must remain vigilantly clear-eyed about protecting the right to nonviolent protest and dissent."
—Christopher Cook, journalist
"As the planet burns, our healthcare system crumbles, and our economy grows more vastly unequal and untenable, there may well be a need for some nonviolent rebellion from the left," Cook concluded. "We must remain vigilantly clear-eyed about protecting the right to nonviolent protest and dissent."
There is considerable overlap between critiques of crisis-driven attempts to criminalize dissent and warnings of the repressive implications of passing new laws targeting "domestic terrorism."
As Common Dreams reported on Monday, progressives say the federal government's failure to crack down on far-right extremists is a matter of insufficient will, not a lack of power. If law enforcement agencies are given an enlarged toolbox, critics say, those weapons will be used to stifle constitutional protections of free speech and the right to air grievances before the state.
Alluding to the significance and fragility of ongoing fights against Enbridge Energy's Line 3 project and against police violence, The Intercept's Ryan Grim noted that enacting "new laws criminalizing protest [and] expanding the definition of what counts as terrorism... [will] make pipeline companies" and Rep. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)—who last summer advocated for invoking the Insurrection Act and deploying the military to quash racial justice demonstrations—"very very happy."
Spencer Ackerman, a reporter at The Daily Beast, on Wednesday spoke with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) about the danger of allowing January 6 to be turned into a "new September 11" that is followed by a punitive curtailment of civil liberties. While the progressive lawmaker has demanded accountability and supports Rep. Jamaal Bowman's (D-N.Y.) efforts to launch an investigation into the right-wing insurrection, she warned against greenlighting an expansion of the national security state.
As "the first woman in Congress to wear a hijab, someone who came to Minnesota as a refugee from Somalia, Omar... embodies everything that people who wear Camp Auschwitz sweatshirts consider the imminent end of America: political power in the hands of a left-wing Black Muslim woman," Ackerman wrote.
He continued:
Trump, who is not incompetent when it comes to demagoguery, fed on a generation of security politics, regnant in both parties, that expressly demonized people like who look and worship like Omar. A rhetorical fixture at his rallies, his supporters would chant send her back. Omar's career shows the promise of American democracy despite such entrenched forces. But it also shows how a War on Terror is reactionary wildfire. Imagine for a moment what the mob would have done if the men who entered the Capitol brandishing zipties had gotten ahold of her...
[And yet,] Rep. Omar, with the weight of all of that on her shoulders, is warning against a domestic War on Terror.
Omar told The Daily Beast that notwithstanding the "traumatizing" nature of last week's events, "we must not give into fear or allow ourselves to be terrorized by those who seek to harm us. The answer is not a broader security structure, or a deeper police state."
"We should not lose sight of our disgust at the double standards employed against white protesters and black ones, or against Muslims and non-Muslims," Omar added. "But at the same time we must resist the very human desire for revenge—to simply see the tools that have oppressed black and brown people expanded."
Friday, January 15, 2021
Thursday, January 14, 2021
'That Is Not Justice!' Outrage as Snyder Hit With Just Two Misdemeanor Counts Over Role in Flint Water Crisis. ~~ Jake Johnson
The charges come as new reporting indicates the former Michigan governor was aware of a Legionnaires' disease outbreak linked to the water crisis months before he acknowledged it in public.
The Police Enabled the Far-Right Mob That Violently Stormed the Capitol Building ~~ Peter Gowan
https://portside.org/2021-01-06/police-enabled-far-right-mob-violently-stormed-capitol-building
The far-right mob that took over the Capitol never would have gotten in if the federal police hadn’t allowed them to storm in. The simple fact is that left-wing protesters get treated with brutality, while right-wing protesters get coddled
Details emerge exposing high-level coordination between fascists, police and Republican politicians ~~Jacob Crosse
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/14/burns-j14.html
~~ posted for dmorista ~~
More details are beginning to emerge confirming that last Wednesday's coup attempt was planned in advance in coordination with Republican officials, Capitol police and fascist sympathizers in the military-intelligence apparatus. At the same time, additional signs that far-right elements are planning a second coup in the lead-up to January 20 underscore the urgent necessity for workers and students to begin preparations for a political general strike.
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
New details about January 6 riot reveal need for full-scale investigation ~~ Eric London
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/11/pers-j11.html
~~posted for dmorista ~~
New information in media reports shows that Trump’s January 6 fascistic insurrection had high level support from within the Republican Party and critical sections of the police and military-intelligence apparatus. These revelations raise the need for a full-scale investigation into the plot to overthrow the Constitution and all those involved in it.
Monday, January 11, 2021
America through Nazi Eyes ~~ Omer Aziz
https://portside.org/2021-01-10/america-through-nazi-eyes
~~ posted for collectivist ~~
The most radical Nazis were the most aggressive champions of U.S. law. Where they found the U.S. example lacking, it was because they thought it was too harsh.
Sunday, January 10, 2021
Friday, January 8, 2021
Growing questions about police stand-down in January 6 coup attempt ~~ Jacob Crosse
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/08/coup-j08.html
~~ posted for dmorista ~~
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.
The fascist coup of January 6 ~~ David North, WSWS
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/01/07/pers-j07.html
~~ posted for dmorista ~~
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.
Fascist Violence and the Form of the State ~~ Sam Marcy
https://www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2021/01/07/fascist-violence-and-the-form-of-the-state/
~~ posted for Collectivist ~~
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.
Thursday, January 7, 2021
The Coup in Washington: Why is Anyone Surprised by Trump’s Fascist Politics? ~~ Anthony DiMaggio
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/01/07/the-coup-in-washington-why-is-anyone-surprised-by-trumps-fascist-politics/
~~ posted for collectivist ~~
Photograph Source: DrDannielle – CC BY-SA 4.0
Making Sense of the Terrible Events at the National Capitol Building Yesterday (January 6, 2021) ~~ Dmorista
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 >).
UPDATE II: News Reports Refute the Mandatory Optimism Cult's Claim the Nazis Lack Effective Leaders and Organization
By Loren Bliss
THE RATHER FORCEFUL assertion by disciples of the cult of mandatory optimism there is no proof of nationally effective ChristoNazi/Trumpite leadership, organization and solidarity – and that we should therefore stop fearing it and its armed rabble -- is refuted by local and national news reports.
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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