(2023-10-11). Ignoring Indian Fascism Will Lead to Blowback. fpif.org
(2023-10-11). Fascism Comes To America. popularresistance.org The parting gift, I expect, of the bankrupt liberalism of the Democratic Party will be a Christianized fascist state. The liberal class, a creature of corporate power, captive to the war industry and the security state, unable or unwilling to ameliorate the prolonged economic insecurity and misery of the working class, blinded by a self-righteous woke ideology that reeks of hypocrisy and disingenuousness and bereft of any political vision, is the bedrock on which the Christian fascists, who have coalesced in cult-like mobs around Donald Trump, have built their terrifying movement. | Trump, as the writer Jeff Shar…
(2023-10-11). El Conde: The Chilean dictator Pinochet and counterrevolution through the years. wsws.org It is a complicated, dark, disturbing film about fascism, bourgeois corruption and counterrevolution. The film is currently streaming on Netflix.
(2023-10-10). Chris Hedges: Fascism Comes to America. scheerpost.com 
(2023-10-10). El rostro del Che en la bandera de la lucha contra el fascismo. globalizacion.ca El 15 de abril de 1961, ante las milicias de Pinar del Río, Ernesto Guevara de la Serna (el Che), decía: ´Estamos frente al eco trágico de la guerra, los nuevos fascistas, los nuevos nazis del mundo, desencadenan otra vez…
(2023-10-10). Today's Republican Party Follows a Familiar Fascist Model. progressive.org Today's Republican Party is displaying an alarming number of characteristics described in Umberto Eco's essay "Ur-Fascism." It is necessary to recognize this trend in order to preserve democracy.
(2023-10-11). Suella Braverman's speech shows Tory culture wars' election strategy. internationalviewpoint.org "Anti-racism grew up in the 1970s in opposition to Powell and the fascist National Front and gave a voice to the lived experiences of many millions of people from multicultural communities and multicultural classrooms too." | – | / |
(2023-10-10). Suella Braverman's speech shows Tory culture wars' election strategy. internationalviewpoint.org "Anti-racism grew up in the 1970s in opposition to Powell and the fascist National Front and gave a voice to the lived experiences of many millions of people from multicultural communities and multicultural classrooms too." | – | / |
(2023-10-11). Yaroslav Hunka, Politico and the rehabilitation of Nazi war crimes. mronline.org 
The logic of the war in Ukraine requires the rehabilitation of the worst crimes of the Nazi regime.
(2023-10-11). Not Just Canada: The UK Has a Nazi Problem. libya360.wordpress.com Sonja van den Ende Hallmuir Ukrainian Chapel in Lockerbie, UK. We all remember the standing ovation in the Canadian parliament for Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian World War II veteran of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS. In Ukraine, which the Germans invaded during Operation Barbarossa, they found many Ukrainians sympathetic to the German Empire…
(2023-10-11). Sustained Peace With Russia? Is It Possible? libya360.wordpress.com Alastair Crooke Reinhard Gehlen, from Nazi criminal to "honorable" collaborator with the United States and NATO This Ukrainian identitarian 'play' has a crucial part in the story of why sustained peace with Russia is foreclosed. Few people even know the name 'Gehlen', yet Reinhart Gehlen and his SS men not only shaped politically the newborn…
(2023-10-11). Thursday 10/26: Exposing & Correcting Shameful Nazi Influence on Medical Textbook History. indybay.org Virtual event: museumoftolerance.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VDbTDQLcSzyS792W1frRJw#/registration…
(2023-10-11). Canadian politicians and media rally behind Israel's murderous response to Palestinian uprising. wsws.org Little more than two weeks after they rose in unison to applaud a Nazi war criminal, the leaders of all the parties in Canada's parliament have joined together to endorse the Israeli state's "right" to wantonly slaughter Palestinians and denounce opposition to Israeli repression as "anti-Semitic."
(2023-10-10). The Essential Facts Concerning Zionism and Palestine. dissidentvoice.org 
1. Doctrine. Zionism was devised by some middle-class Jewish Europeans (most prominently Lev Pinsker and Theodore Herzl) as one response to horrendous late 19th century anti-Jewish persecutions in Europe. Like many of their contemporaries among nationalistic privileged-class European intellectuals and like the Nazis who came later, the Zionists conceived of the world's Jews as a race. Moreover, they viewed the Jews as: (in their own words) a "parasitic" and "alien" presence within the gentile countries; and therefore a "Jewish problem", which could only be resolved by removing all or most Jews from the gentile co…
(2023-10-10). Getting Mad and Getting Even. tomdispatch.com The depths of depravity into which unvarnished capitalism can plunge mortal souls is incalculable. It should come as no surprise then that oil company executives and the officials of petrostates like Saudi Arabia have so assiduously lied to us about the catastrophic effects of climate change. After all, the executives of tobacco firms have been perfectly content to sell consumers a product long known and virtually guaranteed to cut their lives short, while lying about its harmful effects for decades. Likewise, the courts have now made the pharmaceutical industry's responsibility for and grasp of the opioid crisis…
(2023-10-10). MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: 9 to 5 (w/ Patricia Resnick). levernews.com On this week's Movies vs. Capitalism, hosts Rivka Rivera and Frank Cappello are joined by Patricia Resnick, screenwriter of the iconic 1980 dark comedy 9 to 5, for a deep-dive conversation about the radical pro-labor film.üéßLISTEN NOW by selecting your podcast player of choice: |
(2023-10-10). Is California's Climate Lawsuit Against Big Oil an Inflection Point? truthout.org The depths of depravity into which unvarnished capitalism can plunge mortal souls is incalculable. It should come as no surprise then that oil company executives and the officials of petrostates like Saudi Arabia have so assiduously lied to us about the catastrophic effects of climate change. After all, the executives of tobacco firms have been perfectly content to sell consumers a product long… |
(2023-10-10). Labor education starts in schoolÔøº. nationofchange.org Giving K-12 students the language, information, and tools they need to protect themselves from workplace exploitation is a critical tool to reversing the nation's capitalism-fueled inequality.
(2023-10-11). Canadian politicians and media rally behind Israel's murderous response to Palestinian uprising. wsws.org Little more than two weeks after they rose in unison to applaud a Nazi war criminal, the leaders of all the parties in Canada's parliament have joined together to endorse the Israeli state's "right" to wantonly slaughter Palestinians and denounce opposition to Israeli repression as "anti-Semitic."
(2023-10-10). The Essential Facts Concerning Zionism and Palestine. dissidentvoice.org 1. Doctrine. Zionism was devised by some middle-class Jewish Europeans (most prominently Lev Pinsker and Theodore Herzl) as one response to horrendous late 19th century anti-Jewish persecutions in Europe. Like many of their contemporaries among nationalistic privileged-class European intellectuals and like the Nazis who came later, the Zionists conceived of the world's Jews as a race. Moreover, they viewed the Jews as: (in their own words) a "parasitic" and "alien" presence within the gentile countries; and therefore a "Jewish problem", which could only be resolved by removing all or most Jews from the gentile co…
(2023-10-10). Getting Mad and Getting Even. tomdispatch.com The depths of depravity into which unvarnished capitalism can plunge mortal souls is incalculable. It should come as no surprise then that oil company executives and the officials of petrostates like Saudi Arabia have so assiduously lied to us about the catastrophic effects of climate change. After all, the executives of tobacco firms have been perfectly content to sell consumers a product long known and virtually guaranteed to cut their lives short, while lying about its harmful effects for decades. Likewise, the courts have now made the pharmaceutical industry's responsibility for and grasp of the opioid crisis…
(2023-10-10). MOVIES VS. CAPITALISM: 9 to 5 (w/ Patricia Resnick). levernews.com On this week's Movies vs. Capitalism, hosts Rivka Rivera and Frank Cappello are joined by Patricia Resnick, screenwriter of the iconic 1980 dark comedy 9 to 5, for a deep-dive conversation about the radical pro-labor film.üéßLISTEN NOW by selecting your podcast player of choice: |
(2023-10-10). Is California's Climate Lawsuit Against Big Oil an Inflection Point? truthout.org The depths of depravity into which unvarnished capitalism can plunge mortal souls is incalculable. It should come as no surprise then that oil company executives and the officials of petrostates like Saudi Arabia have so assiduously lied to us about the catastrophic effects of climate change. After all, the executives of tobacco firms have been perfectly content to sell consumers a product long… |
(2023-10-10). Labor education starts in schoolÔøº. nationofchange.org Giving K-12 students the language, information, and tools they need to protect themselves from workplace exploitation is a critical tool to reversing the nation's capitalism-fueled inequality.
(2023-10-11). The US Left Must Unwaveringly Stand for Palestinian Freedom. By: Carlos L. Garrido. midwesternmarx.com 
The US "socialist" left currently playing the bothsides-ism game with Israeli genocide of Palestinians in the name of some bullshit notion of 'nuance,' must remember the words of Howard Zinn: "You can't be neutral on a moving train."Nothing is accomplished with an abstract support of Palestine when it's convenient. It is when the empire's ideological apparatuses are pumping out atrocity propaganda to dehumanize Palestinian anti-colonia …
(2023-10-10). Friday 10/13: No to APEC — Yes to Global Worker Solidarity! indybay.org New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk Street (near Ellis St.), San Francisco | Seven blocks from Civic Center BART, on or near Muni bus lines #5, 19, 27, 31, 38, 49 ∑ wheelchair accessible | To attend online, register: bit.ly/No-APEC…
(2023-10-10). Planning the Future: Toward a Socialist Anthropocene. counterpunch.org 
It has been almost a year since OpenAI unleashed its ChatGPT program. Every day since the business press has been awash with stories of its effect, and the effects of AI in general. For instance, investors poured $40 billion worth of venture capital into AL start-ups in the first half of 2023, five times the
(2023-10-10). Planning the Future: Toward a Socialist Anthropocene. counterpunch.org It has been almost a year since OpenAI unleashed its ChatGPT program. Every day since the business press has been awash with stories of its effect, and the effects of AI in general. For instance, investors poured $40 billion worth of venture capital into AL start-ups in the first half of 2023, five times the
(2023-10-10). SEG and IYSSE hold public meeting ahead of New Zealand election. wsws.org Speakers presented a socialist program to unite the working class against war, austerity, and the racial divisions being whipped up by all the established parties ahead of the October 14 election.
(2023-10-11). Haiti Is The Victim Of Orchestrated Chaos. popularresistance.org Haiti was once self-sufficient in grain production. In the early 1970s, it produced almost 100% of what it needed. Five decades later, the country buys 82% of the rice its population consumes from the United States. The causes are the structural adjustment policies imposed on the country, which encourage imports and prevent the state from financing the peasant economy. Among the consequences is unemployment, which today affects 70% of the population. | This is the assessment of Haitian scholar Camille Chalmers, leader of the Rasin Kan Pèp la (Socialist Regroupment for a New National Initiative) party. According t…
(2023-10-11). No one should cheer the slaughter in Israel. peoplesworld.org 
Editor's note: Following is an editorial that appears today in Morning Star, Britain's socialist daily newspaper. Those Israeli families in their homes, the young people at the music festival deserve to be alive. The small Israeli boy taken hostage and videoed being tormented deserves to be home and safe. And when Jews are massacred indiscriminately …
(2023-10-11). The socialist solution to soaring prices of Zambia's staple food. peoplesdispatch.org The unchecked price rise of Zambia's staple maize meal is forcing a reduction of nutritional intake in a country with one of the highest malnutrition rates in the world…
(2023-10-10). Starmer sets out British Labour party's mission for government: authoritarianism, austerity and war. wsws.org Starmer's speech was a declaration of authoritarianism, celebrating the party's mass frame-up and ruthless purge of left-wing members. It was a speech that would be welcomed by dictators everywhere.
(2023-10-11). Thursday 11/30: Holocaust History Warns Us: When Extremist Ideas Are No Longer Considered "Extreme" indybay.org Virtual event…
(2023-10-10). A Crisis in the Palestinian Authority. counterpunch.org 
Israel and Hamas are at war, with many deaths on both sides being reported. Meantime, another crisis is brewing, within the Palestinian Authority (PA). Mahmoud Abbas, president of the PA since 2004, was widely condemned around the world in September for making antisemitic comments about the Holocaust in a televised speech to his party last
(2023-10-10). A Crisis in the Palestinian Authority. counterpunch.org Israel and Hamas are at war, with many deaths on both sides being reported. Meantime, another crisis is brewing, within the Palestinian Authority (PA). Mahmoud Abbas, president of the PA since 2004, was widely condemned around the world in September for making antisemitic comments about the Holocaust in a televised speech to his party last
(2023-10-10). Israel and Palestine. dissidentvoice.org This writer has been a student of the Holocaust since childhood, with my Poem/Plaque "Never Again" in the Wiesenthal Holocaust museum in Los Angeles. I recently found out, through Ancestry, that I am 12.5% Jewish, but that should not matter at all. Basically, one's sensitivity is either there or not. Another case in point regarding …
(2023-10-11). Defense firm delivers new batch of T-90M, T-72B3M tanks to Russian troops. tass.com "I would like to highlight the work of the enterprise's designers and engineers who continue improving the armor taking into account the experience of its combat employment," Denis Manturov stated…
(2023-10-11). Mayo Clinic to deploy and test Microsoft generative AI tools. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org ROCHESTER, Minn., and REDMOND, Wash. — Mayo Clinic, a world leader in healthcare known for its commitment to innovation, is among the first healthcare organizations to deploy Microsoft 365 Copilot. This new generative AI service combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with organizational data from Microsoft 365 to enable new levels of productivity in the enterprise. Mayo Clinic is testing the Microsoft 365 Copilot Early Access Program with hundreds of its clinical staff,…
(2023-10-11). Letter from London: Sat Sri Akaal. counterpunch.org 
There is a Sikh saying I came across last week in addition to the above 'Sat Sri Akaal' Punjabi Sikh greeting which means 'Truth is the Timeless One'. The saying is, 'If he who plays the tyrant is honored, then deem it to be the surest sign of the Dark Age.' Well, there were a
(2023-10-10). Oct 10, 2023. sitrepworld.info ‚ô´ Kenneth McKellar sings Ae Fond Kiss with Patricia Cahill What War Does to Us, by Bill Astore Gazans Break Out of World's Biggest Concentration Camp, by Kevin Barrett (Video) Israel to impose total blockade of Gaza as air strikes continue John Pilger & Ilan Pappé on Palestine (Video) Alastair Crooke on the Al-Aqsa Flood: Underlying context is everything, by Karl Sanchez The Duran: Biden, Netanyahu foreign policy blinders. Neocons push Iran escalation (Video) Hamas' Attack on Israel Is Puzzling, by Paul Craig Roberts Is Israel's "9-11" another Inside Job? (Matt Ehret on The Chris Smith Show, A…
(2023-10-11). Corporate Thievery in America's Mobile Home Parks. otherwords.org Over time, words with beautiful meanings occasionally get degraded into ugliness. "Gentle," for example. | Originally meaning good natured and kindly, it was twisted into "gentry" in the Middle Ages by very un-gentle land barons seeking a patina of refinement. Then it became a pretentious verb — to "gentrify" — meaning to make something common appear upscale. | And now the word has devolved to "gentrification," describing the greed of developers and speculators who oust middle-and-low-income families from their communities to create trendy enclaves for the rich. | The latest move by these profiteers i…