(2023-04-11). The Fishing Revolution and the Origins of Capitalism. globalresearch.ca
(2023-04-10). The Seven Loose Pieces of the Global Jigsaw Puzzle. indybay.org Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving buildings intact. During the Fourth World War, however, a new wonder has been discovered: the financial bomb. This new bomb destroys the polis (here, the nation), imposing death, terror, and misery .
(2023-04-10). The advance of the commune in Venezuela. peoplesdispatch.org On 20 October 2012, during the last council of ministers of the Venezuelan government attended by Hugo Chávez Frías, the then president pronounced what went down in history as the golpe de timón, the "change of direction" of the Bolivarian revolution's policy towards socialism. In his speech at the Miraflores Palace, Chávez called for self-criticism and higher efficiency of state management, not simply by increasing the financial resources and institutional power of the ministries, but by strengthening people's power through the comunas (communes). | The Bolivarian revolution was not to be limited to the seizure…
(2023-04-10). Black Unemployment Rate Hits Record Low of 5%. moguldom.com The Black unemployment rate sank to a record low in March, with Black workers seeing a first-ever labor force participation rate higher than whites. However, a recession could reverse the gains for Black workers who have historically been disproportionately impacted during economic downturns. The gap between the Black and white unemployment rate is a benchmark …
(2023-04-10). US Bank Bailout Benefited Billionaires, Exposing Corruption. popularresistance.org When current US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen served as chair of the Federal Reserve in 2017, she confidently predicted that there would not be another financial crisis "in our lifetimes". | Less than six years later, in March 2023, three US banks collapsed in just one week. | Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank were the second- and third-largest banks to go under in US history. And after they crashed, the government immediately bailed out their wealthy depositors. | Among the main beneficiaries of this bailout were billionaires and big corporations. | The government's Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (…
(2023-04-10). The Capital of the Multipolar World: A Moscow Diary. transcend.org 2 Apr 2023 – This global nomad now addressing you had the privilege of spending four astonishing weeks in Moscow at an historical crossroads, the Putin-Xi geopolitical game-changing summit at the Kremlin. In Moscow you feel no crisis. No effects of sanctions. No unemployment. No homeless people in the streets. Minimal inflation.
(2023-04-10). Northrop, Lockheed, Raytheon Team up on Navy's E-XX 'Doomsday' Plane. transcend.org 3 Apr 2023 – Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, and Raytheon Intelligence and Space are teaming up to bid on the Navy's next command-and-control aircraft, to be used if a nuclear war breaks out. The "E-XX" would replace the Navy's fleet of 16 E-6B Mercury aircraft.
(2023-04-10). OPEC: Saudis aren't afraid of US anymore. peoplesdispatch.org The surprise OPEC+ reduction consolidates the Saudi-Russian energy alliance, by aligning their production levels and placing them on equal footing. It is a slap in the face for the US…
(2023-04-10). US Bank Bailout Benefited Billionaires, Exposing Corruption. popularresistance.org When current US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen served as chair of the Federal Reserve in 2017, she confidently predicted that there would not be another financial crisis "in our lifetimes". | Less than six years later, in March 2023, three US banks collapsed in just one week. | Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank were the second- and third-largest banks to go under in US history. And after they crashed, the government immediately bailed out their wealthy depositors. | Among the main beneficiaries of this bailout were billionaires and big corporations. | The government's Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (…
(2023-04-10). The Capital of the Multipolar World: A Moscow Diary. transcend.org 2 Apr 2023 – This global nomad now addressing you had the privilege of spending four astonishing weeks in Moscow at an historical crossroads, the Putin-Xi geopolitical game-changing summit at the Kremlin. In Moscow you feel no crisis. No effects of sanctions. No unemployment. No homeless people in the streets. Minimal inflation.
(2023-04-10). Northrop, Lockheed, Raytheon Team up on Navy's E-XX 'Doomsday' Plane. transcend.org 3 Apr 2023 – Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works, and Raytheon Intelligence and Space are teaming up to bid on the Navy's next command-and-control aircraft, to be used if a nuclear war breaks out. The "E-XX" would replace the Navy's fleet of 16 E-6B Mercury aircraft.
(2023-04-10). OPEC: Saudis aren't afraid of US anymore. peoplesdispatch.org The surprise OPEC+ reduction consolidates the Saudi-Russian energy alliance, by aligning their production levels and placing them on equal footing. It is a slap in the face for the US…
(2023-04-11). Chile Pushes Authoritarian Police Law. orinocotribune.com Chile's neoliberal government is close to securing a new law that expands the right of security forces to use firearms against the population. The The law expands the definition of "privileged legitimate defense" to justify the use of deadly weapons by uniformed officers and plainclothes police ag…
(2023-04-10). Kiev's Audacious Plan for Crimea is Desperate Morale Boosting and Plea for Weapons. libya360.wordpress.com Ahmed Ade Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Ukraine unveiled a 12-point plan on April 2 which outlines how it plans to reintegrate Crimea back into the country after conquering the peninsula from Russia. Although Kiev repeatedly announces its plans to retake Crimea, originally given from Russia to Ukraine during the…
(2023-04-10). Peacenik Extremists And Liberal Warmongers On NATO Expansion. popularresistance.org We are one year on from the projected Ukraine-Russia peace deal. | Ukraine was to have become a neutral state, one unable to own nuclear weapons, with internationally guaranteed independence. It would have rolled back the Russian advance to February 23, for the loss of Russian Crimea and part of Donbas, which the Ukraine government had anyway bombed for years, killing thousands. | So, were a hundred thousand lives saved? No. Like a role-play US envoy, on April 9 Boris Johnson appeared on the scene and "urged" Ukraine not to negotiate because its Western backers were not ready for a deal. | As the US Democratic Pa…