Yanath

A massive global uprising is what this situation requires, and that is very unlikely to happen in any kind of constructive way, especially when it requires giving up an economic system that (falsely) promises everyone it can indulge their greedy desires.

The 1st amendment applies to everyone, not just journalists. You don’t need special status.

That patently false sub-narrative really irritates me.

and support for universal healthcare, which everyone has “earned”. He should stick to the basics. This ‘issue’ seems like something Saagar would champion.

“If you are not dedicated to the destruction of empire and the dismantling of American imperialism, then you cannot count yourself as a member of the left, and you are certainly not a socialist. This is not a side issue; it is the issue.”

Liberals love them some capitalist empire.

It’s the catalyst for the denialism that prevents him from understanding that the entire capitalist system is violent, predatory, destructive and rotten to the core, and that it simply must collapse in order to address truly serious issues, like the rapidly degrading global ecology.

to that dingbat denialist and her ‘that’s just the way it is’ arguement, who said “Do you disagree, Alice?”.

She explained that she doesn’t disagree with the premise that our energy system is the cause of almost all of the wars in the world, but that the conversation about energy has to be couched as an immediate existential matter. I agree with…[Read more]

@earthartist

is simply a continuation of the fascist war against Russia (and leftist economic thought in general) that the US and it’s allies (including nazis) have been waging for more than a hundred years, nothing more. It’s sad seeing presumed progressives fall for that horseshit.

But on this record — while the government has established that China’s activities raise significant national security concerns”

Delusional establishment nonsense, but I guess you have to take what you can get.

while tens of millions are in danger of being homeless in the very near future, what we really need to know is, what Joe Biden can do for hedge fund managers, corporate executives and other millionaires.

Yikes.

Adherents to capitalist ideology don’t like that definition, but there it is, nonetheless.

Human nature renders it inevitable, by the way, with an economic ideology that rewards the indulgence of primal urges, like greed and fear.

I conclude that he is a capitalist, and that he does not oppose US imperialism on principle, but on the methods of imposing it. He actually said this in reference to the invasion of Iraq in one of his other articles: “In the long run I have faith in America’s ability to return to the path of rational and enlightened self-interest. My fear is t…[Read more]

@mikew285

“I also fear that there’s some American Exceptionalism here too. The two crashes that grounded the max “only” happened in Africa and Malaysia.”

AKA: white supremacy, which is integral to the capitalist empire, from the proclamation of ‘manifest destiny’ to the appeals for ‘humanitarian intervention’.

But certain ‘progressives’ don’t…[Read more]

“… the Taliban, Iraqi Sunni and Shia militias, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, the Islamic State, al-Qaida, and other combatants, governments, and actors”, are all elements directed associated with US interventionism, so in my opinion, the US pretty much bears sole responsibility for all of the turmoil in the ME currently.

Colombia has the…[Read more]

@ohiobarbarian

It’s almost always described as a permanent power system that perpetuates empire and capitalism. This is as good a definition as any:

“The term “Deep State” has now become a part of the mainstream political lexicon, largely thanks to Trump, but the term itself describes a pathology of the system we have already discussed at len…

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@jonlp

“No charges were made that the individuals involved gained access to classified material, though contacts were made with a former intelligence official and with a scientist involved in developing bunker buster bombs.”

Joe Biden said this about them, none of whom were convicted of espionage: “And the ten, they’ve been here a long time,…[Read more]

of enabling sociopaths to ascend to the heights of power within our society, with the promise of wealth for doing so. Do we really believe they will organize an egalitarian society for us, once they are there?

Opinions from the global south don’t matter to Pew. And the respondents love them some Obama. Also, they think China did a poor job of ‘handling’ the pandemic.

Ugh. The ignorance and inconsistency in thought is depressing.

@3fingerbrown

It’s rather amusing (not in a good way), watching Americans pretend their political power system isn’t as bad as the Third Reich.

@jonlp

Economics (for humans) is the conversion of organized labor and the earth’s resources into a system that provides goods and services to our society, which is completely devoid of ideology. Capitalism is an ideology that attempts to rationalize the personal enrichment of a minority of the human population from these two sources of energy.…[Read more]