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- The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that.
— Alan Greenspan, 13th chairman of the Federal Reserve - Why The Government Has Infinite Money
- Your [federal] Taxes Pay for Nothing
- What Caused Hyperinflation In Weimar, Zimbabwe And Venezuela? A lot of people point to Weimar, Zimbabwe and Venezuela as examples of the dangers of MMT, but let's have a closer look at hyperinflation in these three examples. All three had distinctly similar factors that lead to the spiralling devaluation of their currency. While they can teach us some lessons about hyperinflation, they're nothing to do with MMT.
Very few of Israeli Jews are actually Arabs. They are largely of European descent. So it is misinformation to characterize this as Arabs murdering Arabs. What this is is Western settler-colonialism.
You are living the meme 😂 All those articles are from US corporate and US independent left- to centrist-liberal sources
Unless I take the extreme measure of touching grass, social media will keep me apprised unbidden.
Unless I take the extreme measure of touching grass, social media will keep me appraised unbidden.
I use Lemmy’s search features to pull up my own past posts. For instance:
https://lemmy.ml/search?creatorId=1468481&q=russiagate
Stein is not now, and has not been for the last several elections, a serious contender.
I don’t know anyone who thinks that she is.
She exists simply to be a spoiler candidate for the left side of American politics.
The Democratic party is the spoiler for the left side of American politics.
This is coming from someone who […] understands the infuriating idiosyncrasies of the American electoral system.
Maybe you do, maybe you don’t 🤷
Putin getting his candidate elected
Trump, Putin’s candidate.
CIA "Cooked The Intelligence" To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016. Russia didn’t fear Hillary Clinton. “It was a relationship they were comfortable with,” some CIA analysts believed, but intelligence was suppressed. On the fall of the last great Russiagate myth.
Putin and his massive influence upon America’s marketplace of ideas.
- Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
- Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
- Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
- Washington Post: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters
- Jacobin: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election
- Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
- Jacobin: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
- MSNBC Repeats Hamilton 68 Lies 279 Times in 11 Minutes
- Jeff Gerth at Columbia Journalism Review on Russiagate: Editor's Note | Part one | Part two | Part three | Part four
- Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away
The Clintonian dynasty created this situation, because the worse the Republican candidate is, the less they have to promise—never mind deliver—to their constituency. How the Hillary Clinton campaign deliberately "elevated" Donald Trump with its "pied piper" strategy
The median age of first-time buyers also rose from 35 to 38, while the share of first-timers dropped from 32% to 24% of all buyers for the year ending July 2024. That marks the lowest percentage since NAR started tracking the metric in 1981.
The median U.S. home price is now $435,000, per NAR — up 39% since 2020 — while the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate has more than doubled to over 6% in that time.
An 18% down payment — the median percentage buyers put down, according to NAR — on a $435,000 home comes to $78,300. That’s a significant expense, nearly matching the annual U.S. median household income of $80,610, per U.S. Census Bureau data.
I thought it was the pubic wars, a hairy affair.
If Intel is so strategically important, then eminent domain it now while the stock price is in the toilet. No, just print money for a private company instead, which it’ll then use for stock buybacks to make the rich richer?
Mrs. Stein and Principal Putler were an the same table making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me!
Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Global rule 2
Good luck with that, reporter.
- 1896 CE: Theodor Herzl writes “The Jewish State”
- 1897 CE: Theodor Herzl writes “Mauschel”
Herzl believed that there were two types of Jews, Jiden (Yids) and Juden (Jews), and considered any Jew who openly opposed his proposals for a Zionist solution to the Jewish question to be a Mauschel. The article has often been taken, since its publication, to be emblematic of an antisemitic strain of thinking in Zionism, and has been described as an antisemitic rant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Herzl
Due to his Zionist work, he is known in Hebrew as Chozeh HaMedinah (חוֹזֵה הַמְדִינָה), lit. 'Visionary of the State'. He is specifically mentioned in the Israeli Declaration of Independence and is officially referred to as "the spiritual father of the Jewish State".
conflation of state and people that Hamas’s ideology clearly makes
A Document of General Principles and Policies
by largely targeting and slaughtering civilians in their homes
That is not what happened. That is what Western media said happened.
- The Intercept:
- Al Jazeera: Why did Israel deploy Hannibal Directive, allowing killing of own citizens?
- Electronic Intifada: How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October
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If Hamas wants to dismantle Israeli oppression through activism, negotiations, and political reform great.
- It has tried to do that for decades. The most recent significant attempt was Great March of Return, wherein the IDF slaughtered Gazans.
- Palestinians have the legal right under UN law to struggle against their occupiers by any means necessary, including armed struggle.
- Israel, as an occupier, has no right to “self defense.”
The US is run by the capitalist class, and from their point of view China is “authoritarian,” because the Chinese state isn’t allowing the capitalist class to run China.
That’s what Western governments and Western corporate media really mean by “authoritarian” & “totalitarian” governments: that Western capitalist neocolonization is being stymied by those governments.
The libs are gonna love these books. https://counter-hegemonic-studies.site/category/books/
Please understand the distinction between the destruction of the state of Israel and the destruction of the people of Israel. The example you were just given was the destruction of the state of South Africa.
a two state solution is fair and striving for peace and understanding between the two parties is desirable.
That sounds nice, but Israel wants no such thing and never has, despite its past claims to the contrary.
Victoria Nuland Preemptively Warns Putin Stole the Election
This is an “unlisted” YouTube video because it’s for paid subscribers. https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/victoria-nuland-preemptively-warns
>“It’s the third election in a row,” says Rachel Maddow with a told-you-so grin, “in which Russia has tried to interfere to try to get Trump into the White House.” > >“He’s at it again,” responds former State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland, the same smile on her face (it seems they’re struggling to hide their joy this time around). Nuland, who has worked for both George Bush and Dick Cheney, has become a go-to warrior for Dems as a leading pusher of stolen election claims as well as a driving force behind the Ukraine-Russian War. “This time [Putin’s] not even trying to hide his hand, and he has far more sophisticated tools.” > >Russia’s so-called tools in the past amounted to, as evidenced in the Mueller report and an FBI investigation, a few thousand dollars spent on social media posts, such as the ‘buff Bernie’ meme. This time, Nuland claims, Putin has a sophisticated new AI, plus $10 million spent on influencers to steal the election for Donald Trump. This accusation, of course, needs no further investigation from Maddow. > >Only another smile. > >On the other side of our terrible election, Donald Trump is making new threats against Iran that sound equally crazy. After his pet Sean Hannity asked why Kamala Harris is encouraging Iran to assassinate him (what?), Trump went on an unhinged rant about how the US should treat Iran. > >And when it comes to our terrible treatment of other countries, it’s harder to find a more one-sided relationship than the US-Ukraine alliance. And Ukrainian President Zelensky seems to be finally realizing that as well, calling out the US for pushing him into a needless war which has led to the deaths of countless Ukrainians. > >It’s a terrible week on corporate media as always. Watch with Katie and Aaron to hopefully laugh instead of cry at all of it. Thanks for supporting Useful Idiots, subscribe to watch the full episode here
Kit Klarenberg: Collapsing Empire: China and Russia Checkmate US Military
On July 29th, Pentagon-funded “think tank” RAND Corporation published a landmark appraisal of the state of the Pentagon’s 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS), and current US military readiness, produced by a Congress-created Commission of “non-governmental experts in national security.” Its finding...
>We have entered a strange, late-stage Empire era, comparable to the Soviet Union’s Glasnost, in which elements of the US imperial braintrust can see with blinding clarity Washington’s entire hegemonic global project is stumbling rapidly and irreversibly towards extinction, and announce so publicly - but their insight does not translate into evasive governmental action at home. The RAND Commission report elicited no mainstream coverage or comment whatsoever, proof positive there isn’t a concomitant effort to manufacture consent for its radical, far-reaching prescriptions. > >Were the Commission’s recommendations remotely plausible, a multipronged PR campaign would’ve immediately ensued to convince Americans of the righteousness of the Empire’s mission, and the necessity of investing in US “defense” to the tune of trillions. The media’s silence on the report’s damning findings definitionally reflects an omertà among the US political class. They well-know American reindustrialisation can’t happen. So, the fatal “disconnect” between Pentagon operational and industrial planning identified by RAND will endure, and with it ever-intensifying US military impotence. We’re spectating the Empire’s final acts in real-time.
JohntheDuncan: Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism
> While there’s a permanent crisis of the family, there’s also a permanent opportunity for capitalism to re-assert its power via the reconstruction of the family.
> Throughout the book, Cooper traces the ways in which neoliberal and neoconservative forces have united to essentially move the responsibility for social reproduction from public or state responsibility to private and market responsibility.
> But Cooper is also keen to point out that left-wing responses to the crisis of the Fordist family wage have often ended up falling into a conservative trap of actually reifying the family as a singular transhistorical construction.
Melinda Cooper’s book: Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism
Mia Khalifa: Good morning to everybody who is not in the US military
>I hope you go over there, get your little brain all scrambled up with PTSD, and then come back here and see how much the United States cares about you, pookie.
Today on CIAPedia
Meet Wikipedia’s Ayn Rand-loving founder and Wikimedia Foundation’s regime-change operative CEO
Katherine Maher has since moved on to become CEO of NPR. She’s a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. She’s got security state & military-industrial complex written all over her resume. “But NPR isn’t state affiliated media.” Uh-huh.
The People vs. Slavoj Žižek w/Gabriel Rockhill
Interview with Gabriel Rockhill about his article, Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek.
The interviewer doesn’t have much interesting to say IMO. I would skip over most of his segments.
>[The cultural imperialist project] polices the left border of critique, but it does it at an objective vs subjective level. And what I mean by that is that there are coordinates for what the dominant discourse is, and what people need to know if they want to be in these conversations. And it creates a reality, which was very much my reality coming up, where I was interested in radical theory, because I grew up as a farm kid working construction. I knew what exploitation was. I knew what oppression was. I knew a lot of horrible things about the world because I was living them in the capitalist empire. And I gravitated toward what I thought were the most radical things, but I was not aware of the objective conditions that structured that radical discourse in such a way that all of the real discourses—which were anti-imperialist and liberatory—were actually largely excluded from those debates. And so I read a bunch of Negri and Žižek and Badiou and all of these people, and eventually realized, well, I’m looking in the wrong place. I’m looking in the place that the empire tells me I should look for radical theory.
CRINK: It’s the new ‘Axis of Evil’
PATO: The Pacific and Atlantic Treaty Organization
>Their cooperation is forcing NATO to build closer ties with like-minded countries in the Indo-Pacific. For the first time, senior officials from Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan took part in a meeting with NATO defense ministers in Brussels on Thursday.
They baddies are “forcing” NATO into this. The poor imperial core, being dragged around again. #AlwaysTheSameMap
Citations Needed podcast: The Always Stumbling US Empire: "Stumbling", "sliding", "drawn into" war––the media frequently assumes the US is bumbling its way around the world. The idea that the United States operates in “good faith” is taken for granted for most of the American press while war is always portrayed as something that happens to the US, not something it seeks out.
Also, doesn’t “CRINK” already have a name, the Axis of Resistance?
Anyway, death to POTATO.
- The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
- CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance
- Noam Chomsky, 2023: NATO “most violent, aggressive alliance in the world”
- Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism
Greenwald interviews Mearsheimer: Israel NOT Going To Win In Lebanon
John Mearsheimer is a realist who’s still and always faithful to the liberal international order, unlike the also liberal Jeffery Sachs. All-In Summit 2024: John Mearsheimer and Jeffrey Sachs
BSer In Chief: How would it be if the United States were viewed by the rest of the world as interfering with the elections directly of other countries, and everybody knew it?
The USA interferes on every single election in the world. It is the destroyer of democracies and the creator of dictatorships.
A Critique of Sam Harris' "The Moral Landscape"
Philosophy professor Hans-Georg Moeller, author of A Moral Fool: A Case for Amorality
>For [Harris] the two things are the same: on the one hand objective moral truth (universal morality), and on the other hand scientific facts about what increases wellbeing and what doesn’t. […] I think the two things are very different from one another.
>Just as religion is not something that depends on the existence of god, but is a specific social practice, a specific form of communication that relates to a certain unrealistic assumption; likewise morality is a specific discourse, a specific way of acting, that relates to and derives from making unrealistic assumptions about something that doesn’t exist.
Follow-up video: If Morality Exists Everything Is Permitted.
Jonathan Cook: Monbiot is right about the wickedness of capitalism. Yet he acts as its propagandist
Capitalism is irredeemably destructive, warns George Monbiot. So why is he shilling for the Guardian, when its role is to create bipartisan support for crushing the anti-capitalist, anti-war left?
This article is a critique of Monbiot’s recent interview with Chris Hedges: The Secret History of Neoliberalism 📺
Hedges is also critical of capitalism, but, being an incorrigible liberal trapped in capitalist realism, the best he can imagine is worker coops or every person being their own petty bourgeois shopkeeper.
Amid economic decline and a struggling export market, its government sought to pitch skeptical venture capitalists around the world on the promised land’s tech scene.
Safari’s new “hide distracting items” is basically uBlock Origin’s “element zapper”
These are handy tools for bypassing soft paywalls, especially when Bypass Paywalls Clean fails you.
- Apple Support: Hide distractions when browsing webpages in Safari on Mac
- uBlock Wiki: Element Zapper
Some communist YouTube channels
- Actually Existing Socialism
- BadEmpanada
- Balkan Odyssey
- Boy Boy
- Critical Theory Workshop (Gabriel Rockhill)
- Dessalines
- The Deprogram
- TheFinnishBolshevik
- First Thought
- Geopolitical Economy Hour (Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai)
- Hakim
- JohntheDuncan
- Lady Izdihar
- Luna oi!
- Marxism Today
- The Marxist Project
- The Michael Parenti Library
- NonCompete
- PSL National
- Paul Cockshott
- Politics In Motion (David Harvey)
- Politsturm International
- Prolekult
- Richard Wolff
- Second Thought
- Socialism For All
- The Tricontinental (Vijay Prashad)
- YUGOPNIK
John Mearsheimer Is Not Very Impressed With Israel’s Shock and Awe Campaign Against Hezbollah
Not everyone, particularly some top Israel experts like John Mearsheimer, is convinced that Israel is on its way to a decisive win in Lebanon.
The Spectator interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_USzVCWzh10