ERIC ZUESSE—America’s President Joe Biden has not only continued to supply to Israel’s Government even more weapons and ammunition and military intelligence assistance in order to continue this genocide, and refused to place any conditions upon Israel’s usage of this equipment and assistance, but has requested from Congress an additional $14 billion donation to that Government for added weapons and ammunition on an emergency basis — above and beyond the usual $3.8 billion in annual U.S. donations to that Government.
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The Genocidal Bombing of Gaza Into Rubble Indicts Israel’s U.S. Patron’s Corporate World Hegemony
26 minutes readJAY JANSON—Global corporate capitalism led by the hegemonic state, the United States, is a fundamentally immoral and irrational system. In capitalism, both states and corporations are designed to maximize short-term power and profits for the super-wealthy corporate elite.
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Losurdo, Chomsky, Brar: Highly Recommended Books & Documents
13 minutes readEDITOR—In Stalin: History and Critique of A Black Legend (2008), Losurdo stimulated a debate about Joseph Stalin, about whom he claimed is built a kind of black legend intended to discredit the whole of communism. Losurdo clearly saw that the nonstop demonisation of Stalin was simply the utterly cynical propaganda part of the West’s multidirectional war on the Soviet Union, a war that the collective West had been waging on the Bolsheviks from the moment the revolution came to power in 1917.
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EDITOR—The roundtable discusses the probability that the Venezuelan / Guyana clash over territorial rights, long outstanding, may ignite a regional war with US imperialist intervention. Few things would give the frustrated US more pleasure these days than to attack a rebel nation in its own hemisphere, and where war logistics might be easier to manage than in the Middle East, Taiwan, or Ukraine. Not to mention that the Washington planners and their masters, the Neocons in the Biden administration, may think they can easily topple the Bolivarian government and seize Venezuela’s enormous oil reserves.
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JOAN ROELOFS—”They may be off the bases, but they get grants from the military. And people are going to be silent about wars. I can talk a little bit about New Hampshire, where I live. BAE Systems, which is British-owned, is the largest military contractor, and there are quite a few other weapons producers, including Elbit Systems, which is Israeli-owned. But also, among the businesses that get contracts are parts suppliers including a firm called Warwick Mills, which produces technical textiles such as those used in body armor…”