Tag: prohibition
Intoxicating Hemp Product Ban Included in Deal to Reopen Government +
Rant 02-10-2025: Doveryai, No Proveryai
Pascal did it again! He keeps bringing on David Pyne, without disclosing that he’s a member of the hawkish group, Committee on the Present Danger: China. Pyne is far from neutral on the issue of China!
Related:
The US Scare Campaign Against China (History of the Committee on the Present Danger)
The following statistics are from the Cato Institute, which is affiliated with the Atlas Network via the Koch Network.
Cato Scholar Debunks Trump’s Fentanyl Figures amid Tariff Talk
Decades of drug war tactics have failed, merely shifting production of fentanyl precursors from China to India, Myanmar, other parts of Southeast Asia, and even Canada. Canadian authorities report “superlabs” are shipping fentanyl to drug dealers in Australia and New Zealand and, to a lesser amount, to the US.
Canadian-made fentanyl is an international problem, RCMP says
86.4% were United States citizens
U.S. Citizens Were 89% of Convicted Fentanyl Traffickers in 2022
Fentanyl Is Smuggled for U.S. Citizens By U.S. Citizens, Not Asylum Seekers
The Dark Alliance (PDF)
The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (PDF)
Internet Archive: Barry & ‘the boys’ : the CIA, the Mob and America’s secret history
A Return to Leftist Self-Defense
Communities targeted by escalating right-wing violence are learning from their own histories how to keep each other safe.
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“In moments where I have seen [community defense], it’s always been something that has been asked for explicitly,” says Snow. [Yellow Peril Tactical] YPT formed in 2020 amid a slew of anti-Asian hate crimes. Organizers from around the U.S. met through activist networks and began supporting each other not just in learning self-defense and firearms skills but also in creating more visible networks of care and connecting their ideas about community empowerment to international struggles such as supporting anarchists fighting Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Related:
California Gun Control: How Ronald Reagan and the Black Panthers Started a Movement
Russia Says Ban on Russians Bringing Cars, Some Goods Into EU Is Racist
Russia Says Ban on Russians Bringing Cars, Some Goods Into EU Is Racist
The annex referred to in the advice also appears to ban the import of a host of items which could be dual use alongside more mundane items such as make-up, toothpaste, deodorants, toilet paper and mobile phones.
WTF?!
Re-post of The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights (Reprise)
My personal notes:
Republicans will blame gun violence on mental health, psychiatric medications, or violent video games, yet they aren’t willing to support solutions, such as affordable healthcare, affordable prescriptions, or defund the military industrial complex! As for Democrats, all they will offer is banning guns!
Speaking of mental health, and psychiatric medications, Peace Labor May made some good points in her most recent YouTube video (you may have to turn your volume up).
Re-post of The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights (Reprise)
In light of the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, and because I’m a glutton for punishment, I’m re-posting a link to my left argument for gun rights from 2017. (One among many. See links at end of article)
Some points covered in the article:
The class concept of the state. It’s not a neutral arbiter to be trusted with a monopoly of armed power. “The concentration of wealth and the concentration of armed power in the hands of a few, are both bad ideas—and the one has everything to do with the other.”
The net effect of eliminating the right of citizens to possess firearms will be to increase the power of the armed capitalist state. Whatever strict gun-control regime is instituted, ruling-class families and institutions will still have all the guns they want.
But what about horrible mass shootings? Recognize that *gun homicides have declined even as gun ownership has increased,*. that mass shootings are a small portion of gun deaths in the US & a lousy index of the social problem of gun violence. But they do grab one’s attention.
For the full argument, go to the article:
The Rifle on the Wall: A Left Argument for Gun Rights
(Reprise)
Related (including some random archived links that I noticed were behind paywalls and/or 404):
A Marxist-Leninist response to Gun Control
Read More »“Saving Carthage”-The Class Formation of a Cold War Deep State (Part One)
Art Spiegelman on Maus and free speech: ‘Who’s the snowflake now?’
In 1985, at the height of popularity for the faddish baby dolls, the Cabbage Patch Kids, the cartoonist Art Spiegelman debuted a subversive line of trading cards, the Garbage Pail Kids.
Art Spiegelman on Maus and free speech: ‘Who’s the snowflake now?’
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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