The High Priests of Economics tell us that "globalization cannot be stopped," much like the wrath of the Inca's Volcano God. We've been told that there is no alternative to neoliberal globalization other than utter ruin.
Richard D. Wolff argues that anti-communism was part of a strategy by big business, Republicans and conservatives to single out and destroy the members of the coalition that forced through the New Deal, namely organized labor, socialist and communist parties.
It’s only been 100 years
The Wall Street bombing occurred at 12:01 pm on September 16, 1920, in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. The blast killed 30 people immediately, and another eight died later of wounds sustained in the blast. There were 143 seriously injured, and the total number of injured was in the hundreds.
Jeff Sessions is no A. Mitchell Palmer and Christopher Wray is no J. Edgar Hoover but 1920 could be like 2020, and Warren G. Harding might resemble Dotard J Trump, if for no other reason than salaciousness and willful ignorance of corruption.
Deportation of terrorist immigrants was a result of the 1920 Wall Street bombing, amidst other actions.
Because America First...
The demonizing of immigrants and the role of the State in surveillance and repression should need no reminder in 2018 even as ICE and the Border Patrol are used as a gefälschte Gestapo.
Many lionize Robert Mueller even as domestic political intelligence has no different aims than in the very long heyday of the FBI as the enforcer against anti-capitalist threats as it still is. The MSM treatment of racial difference in domestic terrorist acts is no different than the treatment of postwar anti-communism.
More bizarre has been the exploitation of anti-Communism by gay RW men, but that’s for another diary on RW misogyny and gay KKK members.
More fascinating is the examination of a 1920s cold case that describes the emergent anti-communism, the FBI as fighting crime and communists while also fighting immigrants, and the increased class struggle as bombs and bonds intersect.
If you are like me, you probably thought the DNC fraud lawsuit was over last August when a Florida judge dismissed the class-action suit.
NOTE: The following is not aimed at anyone at Caucus99percent. I'd say the audience here is considerably more immune to bullshit than most – not that any of us are entirely immune. Some bullshit is obvious and some is sneaky – but it's every-fucking-where. This is just a riff on the subject. I'm publishing it here in the spirit of a Public Service Announcement...or for some other reason I can't remember.
February 26 is the 57th day of the year, there are 308 days left
Today's number is 26
First I wrote this up as a comment, but then it turned out a little longish, and therefore I put it up as a mimi-style essay, and hopefully one day I write another follow up to this one.
So, here it goes:
Does vitriol dissolve hailstones? Please read on and see if the chemical reaction progresses. Warning: for those who love Killary, please read something else. For those who are unsure of the depravity of the Democratic party, you may wish for some certification of your beliefs. For those of you middle grounder people, essentially neutral about Parkland Florida massacre, please read on.
Admonition: IHH.
Gov. Ricardo Roselló of Puerto Rico is on a mission to privatize the island.
At the center of this effort is Puerto Rico’s bankrupt public power utility, known as PREPA. What most people don't know is that PREPA was already partially privatized.
