ICE recruits civilians to role play as agents for a secretive public relations initiative that trains them to shoot firearms, conduct surveillance, and use lethal force.
A Secretive ICE Program Trains Civilians on Firearms and Surveillance, Documents Show
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I told myself that I wasn’t going to listen to these “think tanks” for a while. I guess I wasn’t ready, as the following angered me. This is just normal thinking inside “The Blob,” though.
Read More »Demonizing the enemy, demonization of the enemy or dehumanization of the enemy is a propaganda technique which promotes an idea about the enemy being a threatening, evil aggressor with only destructive objectives.
If you believe that Donald Trump & Co represent the working class, congratulations! They’ve successfully pulled the wool over your eyes! Trump’s tax cuts benefitted the rich and his tariffs (and Biden’s) hurt American consumers, not China!
The author is right about one thing—“fear”. The xenophobic fearmongering about illegal immigrants is outlandish, considering Biden has been deporting them on par with Trump (not to mention the ones being detained at GTMO)!
Another thing, for as long as I’ve been able to vote, neither party has represented the working class! Read about the Powell Memorandum!
The ‘scared majority’ could deliver a landslide victory for Trump
Read More »The government-funded research project’s mysterious removal of Azov’s profile was followed by a State Department decision to allow the controversial right-wing unit to receive U.S. military aid.
Neo-Nazi Azov Battalion profile quietly removed from Stanford extremist group list
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US Lifts Ban on Arming and Training Ukraine’s Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade
A little more than a century ago the world’s superpower was the British Empire. Despite being a constitutional monarchy where the aristocracy and monarchy still retained significant power, the British Empire was arguably the birthplace of the industrial revolution and it played a significant role in spreading capitalism around the world through colonialism. From around the 19th century until the early 20th century, many saw the British Empire as quite possibly the most affluent and powerful capitalist-colonial empire in the world. The British Empire as the capitalist-colonial hegemon extracts resources from its colonies, transforms them into commodities, and sells them for a profit that would go into the pockets of capitalists and royal colonizers alike. There were other competing colonizers such as France, The Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Japan, and the U.S., but none of them (except the U.S. in the late 20th century) could quite surpass the British Empire. The British Empire was the largest epicenter of world capitalist imperialism and being an anti-imperialist was almost (though not quite) synonymous with being against the British Empire. The geopolitical status of the British Empire is roughly or loosely analogous to the geopolitical status that the U.S. enjoyed since the late 20th century. Both the British Empire and the U.S. enjoy the status of being a hegemonic empire due to their overwhelmingly powerful military (especially their navy) and almost unparalleled economic power.
Marko Suprun, an influential NATO state-funded Ukrainian ‘fact-checker’ with close ties to Nazi activists, was taken into police custody in Washington, DC, after assaulting a contributor to The Grayzone at an event hosted by a neocon Beltway think tank.
Top Ukrainian ‘fact-checker’ arrested for assault on Grayzone contributor
This is another one that WordPress unpublished.
Wisconsin will now require Asian American history to be taught in schools
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Why are the Hmong in Wisconsin?
Unlike past immigrant groups, the Hmong were political refugees who fled their country because of war and persecutions. The Hmong refugees were legally admitted to the United States by the U.S. government and were initially resettled by church organizations such as Catholic Charities and Lutheran Social Service. Area churches sponsored Hmong families here in Wisconsin and other states in the U.S. The 2010 U.S. Census has shown that there are 49,240 Hmong Americans living in Wisconsin. Community with significant Hmong population include: Milwaukee, Wausau, Sheboygan, La Crosse, Madison, Eau Claire, Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, Manitowoc, Stevens Point, Wisconsin Rapids, Menomonie, and Fond du Lac.
A Look Back at the CIA’s Dirty War in Laos
Laos was (and remains) a very poor country that at the time of the encounter with the CIA was predominantly composed of illiterate peasants working the land in the form of subsistence agriculture. It was colonized by France in 1893; however, unlike in neighboring Vietnam, and to a lesser extent in Cambodia, there was hardly any investment or development of infrastructure or education in Laos. There was no Laotian “collaborating elite,” as was the case with French-speaking and French-educated Vietnamese Catholics. Furthermore, though a small place with a small population, Laos contains an estimated 49 different ethnic groups. A lot of the tension was more along tribal than ideological lines. The CIA, under the leadership in Laos of its highly strategically capable director, Bill Lair, chose to ally particularly with one of the tribes, the Hmong, under their charismatic but brutal head, Vang Pao. After the U.S. lost the war in Laos (at the time of the defeat by Vietnam, 1975), the promises made to the Hmong that they would be offered refuge and welfare in the U.S. were not kept. Though some did make it to the U.S., most Hmong today live in squalid conditions in camps in Laos or in neighboring Thailand.
Under what was code-named Operation Momentum, the CIA engaged in a sustained and relentless bombing campaign, starting in 1961. There was more bombing of Laos than there was of Germany or Japan during World War II. Throughout the war there was on average, the author states, one bombing attack every eight minutes. Ultimately, some 10% of the Laotian population was killed and 25% made refugees. The author reveals that according to a secret U.S. government assessment of the bombing campaign, 80% of all casualties were civilians. With much of the fighting concentrated in the Plain of Jars, he estimates that the population in the course of the 1960s declined from 150,000 to 9,000 in that region. But the narrative of the end of the war does not bring to an end the tragic story of the bombing: One-third of the bombs remained unexploded, and they continue killing and maiming to this day.
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Operation Momentum transformed the CIA from an organization that primarily gathered intelligence into one that engaged in killing and the covert overthrow of regimes considered unfriendly to the U.S. The CIA tried on a number of occasions to assassinate Fidel Castro. The overthrow of “unfriendly” democratically elected regimes included that of the prime minister of Iran, Mohammed Mossadegh. The CIA also provided political and military support to some of the world’s harshest dictators, such as Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in Iran, Rafael Trujillo in Dominican Republic, Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire (Congo) and Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines.
From his perch on a government commission, Jacob Helberg fearmongered about TikTok in Congress. He also works for a giant defense contractor.
TECH OFFICIAL PUSHING TIKTOK BAN COULD REAP WINDFALL FROM U.S.–CHINA COLD WAR
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Lawmaker Who Led TikTok Ban Bill Joins Private Surveillance Firm
Fascism is present even in the most progressive democracies; some points for identifying its component parts
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