The designation gives the Trump administration another justification for its “maximum pressure” campaign.
— Read on responsiblestatecraft.org/2020/02/21/trump-administration-pressures-global-financial-watchdog-to-blacklist-iran/
Month: February 2020
**Pandemic Imminent? US, Japan … Everyone is Screwing Up Coronavirus**
US: In the cruise ship in Japan, there are about 350 Americans, out of which 14 had the novel coronavirus. The US State Department decided to fly them all in one plane, even though the CDC strongly advised against it. To make things worse, the US put the sick and the healthy people together in a bunch of buses and made them sit inside for four hours, while waiting for the plane. Needless to say, a day after everyone landed, 18 tested positive — meaning that four people got sick during the trip back home.
The government is also not very transparent about how many confirmed and suspected cases there are in the US now. California alone has more than 7000 people under self quarantine. In Michigan, hundreds of suspected cases are asked to “do their best” to stay at home! In New York, 575 “medium risk” suspected cases have been asked to participate in “voluntary quarantine.” Hmm … honor system is a great way to control a dangerous virus! And there’s no central database for all the states either.
As for testing, only 3 out of 100 labs in the US have coronavirus diagnostic kits. The CDC sent a lot of non-functional (useless) kits to states all over the country. Hawaii got damaged and non-performing diagnostic kits, and is being told that they may not get new kits for a month. Thanks to tourism, what happens in Hawaii does not stay in Hawaii.
America is thus fudging and hiding the Coronavirus numbers by not testing people and by not including the thousands of people under quarantine. The current official number of 34 doesn’t even include the 18 people who returned from the cruise ship in Japan. It’s a clusterfu*k!
— Read on worldaffairs.blog/2020/02/22/pandemic-imminent-us-japan-everyone-is-screwing-up-coronavirus/
How Socialist is Vietnam?
Marx was a great analyst, but he never gave us a formula for running a country…socialism is whatever bring happiness to the people -Võ Nguyên Giáp
— Read on medium.com/@otelocarvalho/socialism-today-in-vietnam-ac22ce2edf47
[2013] On the Legacy of Hugo Chávez
Yes, the Venezuelan president could be a strongman. But he leaves behind what might be called the most democratic country in the Western Hemisphere.
— Read on www.thenation.com/article/archive/legacy-hugo-chavez/
[2013] Hugo Chávez kept his promise to the people of Venezuela
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera: The late Venezuelan president’s Bolívarian revolution has been crucial to a wider Latin American philosophy
— Read on www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/05/hugo-chavez-people-venezuelan-president
The fall of socialist Bolivia shows how crucial it is to create a dictatorship of the proletariat
After four months of racist terror campaigns, illegal seizures of power, and violent intimidation tactics from the police and the military, Bolivia has become a far-right dictatorship. Amid months…
— Read on medium.com/@rainershea612/the-fall-of-socialist-bolivia-shows-how-crucial-it-is-to-create-a-dictatorship-of-the-proletariat-e054a3e7b4bd
[2018] What about the Uyghurs? – STALIN’S MOUSTACHE
Further, for some international critics, the claim that radical Muslim Uyghurs are involved in terrorism is a smokescreen for the suppression of the Uyghur. But let us see how selective the terminology of ‘separatism’ and ‘terrorism’ is. From one perspective, the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York in 2001 is ‘terrorist’, while the efforts by some in Tibet and Xinjiang are peaceful and ‘separatist’, seeking independence. In short, any attack on western sites are ‘terrorist’, but any attack in other parts of the world – whether China or Russia or Syria – are ‘separatist’. From another perspective, the attempted suicide attack on a China Southern flight in 2008, threats to attack the Beijing Olympics in 2008, a car ramming in Tiananmen Square in 2013 and the deadly knife attack in Kunming railway station – all perpetrated by Uyghur radical Muslims – are ‘terrorist’ acts. To add a twist to all this, the Chinese government typically uses a three-character phrase, “separatism, extremism and terrorism,” which indicates that they see a continuum and not an either-or relation.
— Read on stalinsmoustache.org/2018/09/15/what-about-the-uyghurs/
[2015] The New Face of Global White Nationalist Terror
At times carelessly characterized as “right-wing extremism” or “organized racism,” white nationalism is a subculture unto itself. Though white nationalists often consider themselves heirs to the Southern Confederacy or the Third Reich, their agendas are fitted to the contemporary world. The movement’s core claim is that the global white population is being bred out of existence thanks to a confluence of multiculturalism, interracialism, and progressive social causes like feminism — all of which are usually seen as having been orchestrated by Jews. The movement calls on whites to overthrow governing regimes or withdraw into segregated all-white enclaves. White nationalism has never had a centralized organization, but was instead manifest in scores of small activist groups that sprung up throughout Europe, the Americas, South Africa, and Australia during the 1980s and 1990s. These groups often formed around a charismatic leader who would enforce both ideological dogma and order.
— Read on archive.is/AGCv3
For my own reference.
WAR FOR ETERNITY
A breathless account, with thick coats of conspiracy theory, of the doctrines that drive Steve Bannon.
— Read on www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/benjamin-r-teitelbaum/war-for-eternity/
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