EDITORS—The panel discusses how a Yemeni drone got through, considering that several neighboring countries, like Egypt and Jordan, not to mention US and EU assets, are often deployed to keep airstrikes like these from occurring. The West appears confused about Yemen’s capabilities; they certainly have great ability to hide their military assets, and absorb punishment.
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This better not be right: U.S. Government is set to win back control over Venezuela on July 28th.
by eric zuesse18 minutes readERIC ZUESSE—“Chavismo” (named after Venezuela’s former President Hugo Chavez) which Maduro represents, and which had been Venezuela’s Marxist (communist) independent Venezuela, will become past history, when President González will start his (six-year) term on 10 January 2025.
The reason why a vast majority of Venezuelans will be voting for González is that this will be the only way they can get the U.S. Government’s virtual blockade of sanctions against their country lifted so that maybe the enormous mass poverty that those sanctions imposed upon them will likewise end. However, that favorable outcome for the poor of Venezuela won’t happen, and here is why:
González is secretly committed to privatizing Venezuela’s gas, oil, and other resources, as well as a “broad program of privatization of companies and public assets,” including the currently entirely free-to-the-public educational system and pension system, all of the Government’s assets to be auctioned off to investors from throughout the world so as to produce profits from the poor to increase the wealth of investors throughout the world, and, so to increase yet further the economic-inequality indexes throughout the world.
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EDITOR—A thorough analysis of a major development in labor law affecting millions of people in the US working in the “Gig Economy”. Such people usually face low wages, no health or vacation benefits, and other perks that normally accompany a regular job with a stable employer, such as a big corporation. Sabby looks at the history of the Uber and Lyft drivers’ struggle, and how this court settlement may now reshape this market and other industries relying heavily on “gig” workers.
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MARK SLEBODA JOINS, RFK & JILL STEIN SUED, BLINKEN SHAMEFUL SPEECH, COURT DISMISSES TULSA LAWSUIT
5 minutes readEDITOR—A tour de force with compelling topics, anchored in Mark Sleboda’s expert analysis of US/Russia’s civilisational clash, at a point when the Ukraine War, thanks to the West’s ignorance and political corruption, and refusal to accept the rise of peer powers, is pushing the two blocs toward a possible Armageddon. Also discussed, the DNC’s lawsuits against RFK jr and Jill Stein, designed to block their running as Third Party candidates likely to steal votes from Biden. Sabby concludes with an examination of the almost forgotten Tulsa Race Massacre (May 31, 1921 – Jun 1, 1921), one of several savagely racist attacks that wiped out Black communities, especially those which had gained a measure of economic stability and even affluence.
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EDITOR—The main lesson of Covid, says Garland, is never trust the Government. Do your own research, do your thinking before adopting any position. Why should we trust a government, a ruling elite, that has committed enormous crimes in practically all continents and continues to do so, while lying through their teeth? Why should the American people think that a depraved ruling class that has engaged in many wars of choice, regime changes and so on, and is even now actively plotting more, causing incalculable suffering around the globe, all for self-enrichment, not the highfalutin ideals like “freedom” or “democracy” or “human rights” they always told the people, is going to suddenly become good and virtuous in their behaviour toward the American people? Why should a plutocracy, a bunch of billionaires with no real national attachment to any country, who follow nothing but the pursuit of wealth, be trusted with most of the major decisions in our lives? The Covid timeline alone should have alerted us, adds, Garland. But apparently it didn’t.