Tag: Neoliberalism

US government bailout of Silicon Valley and banks is $300B gift to rich oligarchs

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The US Federal Reserve printed $300 billion in a week to save collapsing banks and bail out Silicon Valley oligarchs. 93% of Silicon Valley Bank’s deposits were uninsured, over the FDIC limit of $250,000, but the government still paid them. 56% of SVB’s loans went to venture capitalist and private equity firms.

US government bailout of Silicon Valley and banks is $300B gift to rich oligarchs

Polish Ambassador in Paris: We will have no choice but to enter the conflict in Ukraine if this country cannot defend its sovereignty

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Polish diplomat Jan Rosciszewski actually dotted the “i” in terms of the entry of NATO forces into the territory of Ukraine. He holds the post of Polish ambassador in Paris.

Polish Ambassador in Paris: We will have no choice but to enter the conflict in Ukraine if this country cannot defend its sovereignty

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Polish Ambassador to France: Poland will be forced to enter war if Ukraine fails to defend itself

Smedley Butler on Interventionism

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Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

Smedley Butler on Interventionism

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War Is A Racket

“War Is A Racket” By Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, Read By Jon Gold

The Bipartisanship Racket: Fellow Centrists Warn No Labels 2024 Bid Would Just Hurt Biden

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

JEEZ, can’t we all just get along? Can’t we be civilized? Can’t we reach across the aisle, find common ground and get things done? Can’t we have a new Morning in America as clubby and chipper as MSNBC’s daily gabfest, “Morning Joe”?

The Bipartisanship Racket

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Fellow Centrists Warn No Labels 2024 Bid Would Just Hurt Biden

Yay! Another party to support the “bipartisan consensus” on Ukraine and China! /sarcasm (the yellow is for piss)

The More the Class Conflict Escalates, the More Important Anti-Imperialist Principles Become

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

*Trigger Warning*

Rainer Shea

“This war is not a war between Russians and Ukrainians,” says the Texan Russell Bentley in a documentary interview about why he came to help fight for the Russian side after 2014’s fascist U.S. coup in Ukraine. “It’s not a Ukrainian civil war, it’s really a war between good and evil. It’s a war between genuine Nazis, and normal people.”

The More the Class Conflict Escalates, the More Important Anti-Imperialist Principles Become

Mexico Pressured to Filter Immigrants to US: The Situation South of the Border

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Miguel speaks about Mexico’s growing role as a filter of South American immigration for the United States, and how unfair it is for Mexico’s limited resources to be pressured into that role, especially since they also suffer from the neoliberal policies that cause immigration in the first place.

“Mexico has been told to use its military against the Latin American siblings that have also endured the imperialist and neoliberal impositions which have produced the economic and political crisis that most of the South is currently suffering- undoubtedly the primary reason that these waves of migrants are traveling north.” – Miguel Robles-Durán

This is a clip from S03 E02 of Cities After… Neo-Imperialism & Neo-Fascism at the Border via Democracy At Work

Mexico Pressured to Filter Immigrants to US: The Situation South of the Border