05 April 2018

31 Mar-5 Apr 2018: Tyrannies, Teachers, Metaphors of Change


How Soon Will Imperial Warmongering Bring on the Apocalypse?
"The countries of the West are effectively heading for war with Russia but relatively few among the public seem to know or even care...With the reckless neoconservative warmonger John Bolton now part of the Trump administration, it seems we could be hurtling towards major war much faster than previously thought...Most of the public remains blissfully ignorant of the psy-ops being directed at them through the corporate media." See also: "a twenty-first-century version of the Cold War (with dangerous new twists) has begun and hardly anyone has even noticed." And this: "Russia is the only country that has put its military forces in the way of a U.S. program of regime change—indirectly in Ukraine, where Russia would not get out of the way, and directly in Syria..." Comment: the text mentions the offshoring of production facilities -- a perfect way to move manufacturing outside the U.S., so that when the country is rendered uninhabitable by retaliatory Russian and Chinese thermonuclear bombs, the Capitalists' losses will be minimal. And of course We the Surplus People will all be dead or dying. Not to worry, folks; its just Ayn Rand moral imbecility in action, with a big boost from apocalyptic JesuNazism as well. 

  
Is Blaming Russia for Skripal Poisoning a Warmongers' Hoax?
"It is now beyond any reasonable doubt that the claims of the Conservative government of Theresa May charging Russia with responsibility for the poisoning of the Skripals are fabrications." See also: Scientists at the U.K.’s Porton Down military laboratory have not identified Russia as the source of the nerve agent used in the alleged attempted assassination of former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia...(the) admission confirms that the British establishment is guilty of a criminal hoax, surpassing even that of the dodgy “intelligence” dossier manufactured to justify the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003...(Meanwhile) the U.S. and British media have been almost silent on (this development)." And this: "The United Kingdom unknowingly admitted that its government has been lying..."

         
Mainstream Media Propaganda Machine Hides Israeli Atrocities
"Major American media outlets, led by the New York Times, are treating the Israeli military’s mass killing and wounding of unarmed, peaceful Palestinian protesters in Gaza as a non-event." See also: "... you will search in vain for a statement condemning this or the previous Israeli massacres in Gaza from the Congressional Black Caucus or for the most part, its individual members."

      
Democrats Signal Tacit Approval of Trump's Anti-Immigrant Pogrom
"Without any opposition from the Democratic Party and little attention in the corporate media, President Donald Trump and his fascist advisors are quietly carrying out the most dramatic rightwing shift in US immigration policy...

(To read the rest, including an update on the spreading U.S. and international teachers' strikes, go here.)

01 April 2018

Weekend Update 31/3/18: Warfare at Home and Abroad

China Implicitly Warns Trump It Will Again Defend North Korea
"North Korea and China dramatically showed the two nations are close allies before President Trump’s planned meeting with North Korean President Kim Jong Un."

    
Desperate to Preserve JesuNazi Power, Trump Plans War at Home and Abroad
"Trump is preparing for an epic war over the future of his presidency. This has required purging naysayers from his Cabinet and White House staff, and replacing them with bomb-throwing advocates...Trump has made John Bolton his National Security Advisor not because Bolton has valuable insights about foreign affairs, but because Bolton – for years, an on-air fixture on Fox News – is a showman who knows how to sell big lies and crazy ideas, and thereby help Trump in the looming battles." Comment: I am no fan of Robert Reich, the pseudo-repentant neoliberal who showed his true colors by his fawning support for Goldwater Girl Hillary Clinton. But in this instance his message is a timely warning against an untold number of JesuNazi and fascist efforts to legitimize ever more tyrannical governance. See also: "John Bolton is a hawk’s hawk, a militarist who never saw a U.S. war of aggression he didn’t like."

   
Meanwhile, U.S. First Nations Women Suffer Highest Murder Rates
"For 80 miles across Montana, 19-year-old college student Marita Growing Thunder walked through cold temperatures, and a mix of wind and rain, on a march to raise awareness of the epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women...Native American women are murdered at 10 times the national rate in some parts of the country."


Judge's Death Allows Trump to Name JesuNazi to 9th Circuit Court
"Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals died Thursday of a heart attack at age 87...(creating) a vacancy in the judiciary  for...

(To read the rest and view a new photo of domestic strife go here.)