Month: Aug 2023

Amid ‘staggering’ Ukrainian toll and souring US polls, Biden seeks $ 24,000,000,000 more for war profits

from thefreeonline on AUG 15, 2023, by Aaron Maté at  mate.substack shared with thanks!

The Zelensky government appears to be a willing partner in McConnell’s sacrifice ritual.

Ukrainian defence minister Oleksiy Reznikov is said to have told US officials that flooding Ukraine with weapons allows NATO allies to “actually see if their weapons work, how efficiently they work and if they need to be upgraded. For the military industry of the world, you can’t invent a better testing ground.”

As Ukraine faces “staggering” losses and US public mood shifts, the Biden administration seeks billions more to prolong the war.

The Biden administration is asking Congress for an additional $24 billion for the Ukraine proxy war, more than half of it in military aid. The request comes one week after a CNN poll showed, for the first time, that a majority of Americans oppose additional funding to Kiev.

For a White House committed to ensuring a Russian “quagmire” in Ukraine, public opinion is of secondary importance. Two months into a widely hyped yet now faltering Ukrainian counteroffensive, a fresh influx of NATO weaponry appears necessary to prolong the war.

Biden seeks $24 billion for Ukraine, testing bipartisan support in Congress

In one of several gloomy assessments to appear in US establishment media, a senior western diplomat tells CNN that the prospect that Ukrainian forces can “make progress that would change the balance of this conflict” is “extremely, highly unlikely.”

Russian and Ukrainian soldiers refuse to kill each other, but on different sectors of the front libcom.org

Ukraine’s “primary challenge” is breaking through Russia’s heavily fortified defensive lines, where “Ukrainian forces have incurred staggering losses.” According to Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley, US military assessments of the war are “sobering,” with Ukraine now facing “the most difficult time of the war.”

Continue reading “American Abbatoir:- US Regime knows Ukraine offensive is Suicidal – fuels it anyway for Obscene Profits”

from thefreeonline on 15 August, 2023 by Undercover1

Many mortgage payers – whether middle or working class – are facing financial ruin and/or loss of their home, thanks to Bank of England (BoE) punitive interest hikes.

The hikes are supposed to help bring down inflation. But some economists argue that these hikes are politically motivated and that inflation can be better curbed by very different means.

Another way

Howard Beckett of Unite the Union tweeted that the best way to curb inflation is by taxing the wealthy and by nationalising the energy companies:

The Bank of England has increased interest rates on 14 occasions.

The result. Mortgages are at their highest rates in 15 years. And inflation is still out of control.

There is another way. Tax wealth now. Nationalise energy now.

— Howard Beckett (@BeckettUnite) August 12, 2023

Meanwhile, economist Carsten Jung pointed out how inflation in Spain is only 2%, which is considerably less that that of the UK. He explains why:

Continue reading “Exposing the Bank of England scam that sees millions of people face possible financial ruin”

This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. The Environmental Protection Agency approved a component of boat fuel made from discarded plastic that the agency’s own risk formula determined was so hazardous, everyone exposed to the substance continually over a lifetime would be expected to develop cancer. Current…

EPA approved a fuel ingredient even though it could cause cancer in virtually every person exposed over a lifetime

In the latest update, a total of 45 countries are preparing to join the BRICS alliance weeks ahead of the summit. The new country that expressed interest and formally submitted its application to join the BRICS bloc is Palestine. A growing number of countries are showing discontent with the U.S. dollar and America’s control over global […]

45 Countries Prepare To Join BRICS Weeks Before Summit

We’ve all been told not to eat reheated chicken or undercooked chicken. But what about cooked sliced chicken in packets from the chilled section of a supermarket? Should we eat them? Nope or perhaps only with caution. This article briefly explains why. It includes a personal journey that could have led to my death. Unexplained […]

Eating this commonly sold food could lead to paralysis or even death: a cautionary tale

MADALDN writes on surviving gang violence in London, how she got out, and her later turn to music and activism.

Take me down but I’m back up again

Anarchism as a deepening of democracy

from thefreeonline on August 12, 2023 by Capi Vidal at kaosenlared.net translation thefreeonline

Inicio…. Opinión There is no more democratic way of life, in accordance with the concepts of liberty, equality and fraternity, than the anarchist one.

Anarchy is a deepening of democracy, so the libertarian movement must insist on penetrating the social imaginary to give true content to both terms.

If the word democracy has suffered the addition of various perverse names to cover up its authoritarian nature (popular, organic…), now it is important to take advantage of the gradual discredit of the so-called parliamentary democracy so that the idea does not end up succumbing to the interests of power.

We can see the origin of democracy in Ancient Greece, without forgetting the exclusivist nature of that system, throughout history it can be seen as an attempt to expand the number of participants in the government;

From this point of view, the social and political self-management that the system of anarchy supposes would be the most perfect form of self-government (if one does not want to definitively renounce the term ‘government’, associated with a minority that makes the decisions).

The term democracy, with which professional politicians fill their mouths, has come to have an abstract character and to cover subtle forms of domination, so it is the turn for anarchists to contribute a lot to the expansion and perfection of its meaning.

First of all, and also as a way of broadening the concept and our own vital and political horizon, as the anthropologist David Graeber maintains, it is necessary to deepen the debate on whether democracy is born exclusively in the West and whether it has anything to do with democracy. actually with the election of representatives.

Graeber defends, and we can only agree with him, that democracy and anarchism (when we talk about self-organization, voluntary association, mutual support, denial of the State…) should be identical; Of course, there is no consensus in the social movements in this regard, although it is more a terminological problem than a real one.

Be that as it may, the word democracy still has a powerful claim and we can give a broad definition, with which most people can agree, that it is the collective management by ordinary people of their own affairs;

A Discussion With Anarchist Activist and Scholar David Graeber

Graeber affirms that this conception already existed in the 19th century and that is why the politicians of the moment rejected the concept and then appropriated it by adapting history to present themselves as the legitimate heirs of a tradition that went back to Ancient Greece.

Continue reading “Why Anarchists don’t Vote – Deep Horizontal Democracy – Eng/Esp”