Month: May 2021
This Asian American Hate Crime Bill Misses The Point By Prioritizing Policing
Court to Auction Shares Held by Unit of Fugitive Billionaire Guo Wengui
Federal Judge Dismisses Steve Bannon’s Indictment Due to Trump Pardon, But Not Without a Parting Shot
Before ending her ruling, Torres extensively cited case law suggesting Bannon’s acceptance of the pardon acknowledged the truth behind allegations that he conspired to defraud donors of the non-profit We Build the Wall and pocketing the loot through money laundering.
Quoting another 19th century ruling from the New Jersey Supreme Court, Torres wrote: “Pardon implies guilt.”
China, the U.S., and the Idea of National Competition
China, the U.S., and the Idea of National Competition
What appears to be meant in the U.S. by ‘competing with China’ can be inferred by the rising Pentagon budget, by the failure to raise the minimum wage, by hiring private corporations to get around restrictions on domestic spying, and by appointing a high-level administrator to shut-down inconvenient political opinions on the internet. The political parties are now balkanized to the point where their adherents trust members of their own party, but not the other. What this likely means is an iterative process between ‘wealth of nations’ style economic nationalism and neoliberal internationalism where the only constant is the consolidation of political control by oligarchs and corporate executives. I believe that Italians in the 1920s and 1930s had a name for this type of governance.
Substack’s success shows readers have had enough of polarised media
Substack’s success shows readers have had enough of polarised media
Glenn Greenwald, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who in October resigned from The Intercept, the online media platform he co-founded, citing “repression, censorship and ideological homogeneity”, has between 20,000 and 40,000 paid subscribers to his newsletter, each contributing at least $5 a month. Once Substack has taken its standard 10 per cent cut, and after payment processing fees, I calculate that Greenwald is left with between $80,000 and $160,000 a month, or about $1m to $2m a year. Not bad for a mere hack.
“It’s a lot,” Greenwald tells me. “It’s obviously way more money than I’ve ever made in journalism before, or than I ever thought I would make.”
If only I could write, still.
Who Is Roman Protasevich, the Captive Journalist in Belarus?
Who Is Roman Protasevich, the Captive Journalist in Belarus?
Who Roman Protasevich really is:
China beats USA by following Western classical economics!
DIVIDE, RULE AND PROFIT: THE INTERSECTIONAL IMPACT RACKET
DIVIDE, RULE AND PROFIT: THE INTERSECTIONAL IMPACT RACKET
“It is the sustainability goals that will open the door to smart city infrastructure with facial recognition, cashless economies, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence used to implement broad threat assessments; the threat of natural disasters as well as threats posed by individual dissidents and groups”.
I don’t think those things are necessarily bad, except that they’ll use them against ‘dissidents,’ such as antiwar or human rights activists (COINTELPRO comes to mind)! Plus, they’ve already been monitoring protests!
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The fact of the matter is that identity politics and reactionary ideologies such as intersectionality are not merely compatible with the needs of US imperialism and its institutions like the CIA; they are an essential tool utilized by the bourgeoisie to maintain its class domination over the working class by keeping workers divided along racial and gender lines.
“Humans of CIA” recruitment campaign sells youth “identity politics imperialism”
US PRISONERS ARE EXPLOITED SLAVE LABOR
The recent surge in labor performed in prison has led to more people laboring in captivity than were enslaved 200 years ago.
US PRISONERS ARE EXPLOITED SLAVE LABOR
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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