The Evening Blues - 2-18-26

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This evening's music features blues and jazz guitarist Freddy Robinson. Enjoy!
Freddy Robinson with the John Mayall Band - Papa Ain't Salty
Someone on Twitter tried to cite Cuba’s floundering economy as evidence that socialism doesn’t work. I told him, “Believing capitalism is better than communism because the US was able to strangle the Cuban economy is like believing you’re a better person than your neighbor because you beat the shit out of him in his driveway.”
-- Caitlin Johnstone
News and Opinion
The Ticking Time Bomb Looming Over Gaza
One under-discussed ticking time bomb is the way Israel keeps saying it’s going to resume incinerating Gaza if Hamas doesn’t disarm while Hamas keeps saying it won’t disarm. Netanyahu’s office is saying that Hamas will soon be given a 60-day deadline to give up its arms, after which the full-scale bombing of the enclave will resume if these demands aren’t met.
A lot of people don’t understand that Hamas has never at any point agreed to give up its weapons. To give up its weapons would be to surrender, which is a very different thing from agreeing to a ceasefire. Israel’s demands and Hamas’ refusal are two diametrically opposed positions which put things on a collision course toward reigniting the Gaza holocaust at full scale.
Israel and its allies have no legitimate basis upon which to demand that Hamas surrender. All they can legitimately do is stop murdering and abusing the Palestinians. If Israel does resume the full-scale incineration of Gaza it will try to justify its actions, but those actions will be completely unjustifiable.
Aaron Maté : The Real Obstacle to a U.S.–Iran Agreement
Vance Says Iran Not Acknowledging US 'Red Lines'
Following indirect talks with US officials in Geneva on Tuesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said there was a “clear path” to a deal, though he stressed that an agreement wasn’t imminent and that more work needed to be done.
Araghchi told reporters that “good progress” was made and that the US was more “serious” this time than in the previous round of negotiations in Oman. “Finally, we were able to reach an agreement on a set of guiding principles based on which we will move forward and discuss the text of a potential deal,” he said.
US Vice President JD Vance later threw cold water on the idea that a deal could be reached soon, saying, “In some ways, it went well. They agreed to meet afterward. But in other ways, it was very clear that the president has set some red lines that the Iranians are not yet willing to actually acknowledge and work through.”
Iranian officials have previously said that the US dropped its demands for a deal to include zero nuclear enrichment and restrictions on Iran’s ballistic missiles, conditions sought by Israel that are designed to collapse diplomacy and ensure war. But US officials, including President Trump, continue to mention the demands when discussing what they want a deal to include.
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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : The Strategic Risks of Fighting Iran
Israeli DM Rules Out Withdrawal From Military Outposts Inside Lebanon
Israel continues to carry out strikes against southern Lebanon. After killing at least five people Sunday night into Monday, the strikes continued against the south and left at least two more people killed later on Monday, both involving attacks on vehicles.
The first strike targeted a car in the town of Hanin, killing one person within. A second strike attacked a van in Tallouseh, killing a second person. In both cases, the IDF claimed that the slain were “Hezbollah” members, but offered no evidence to support those allegations.
The rate of strikes against Lebanon have been on the rise for months, and seem to be escalating even further lately, with Israeli media suggesting the attacks are part of a planned prelude to a new war with Iran.
Trump SPUTTERS NONSENSE At Iran Amid WAR SPIRAL
Brother of No Other Land co-director injured as Israeli settlers again attack family home
The co-director of the Oscar-winning No Other Land has said his home and family have come under renewed attack, almost a year after the documentary on Israeli settler and army violence in the West Bank received an Academy Award. Hamdan Ballal said a group of settlers who had conducted a long-running campaign of harassment against Palestinian villagers came on Sunday to his home in Susya, in the Masafer Yatta area on the southern edge of the West Bank.
Ballal, one of the documentary’s four directors, said that since an Israeli court order two weeks before had banned non-residents from the area – in a rare legal victory for Palestinian villagers – he had called the police. Two soldiers had come instead, accompanied by a local settler leader. “The army came first and immediately raided our house, attacking everyone inside,” Ballal said, standing outside his small concrete home, set halfway up a rocky hillside.
Last March Ballal, 36, was injured in a settler attack shortly after No Other Land was awarded an Oscar. On Sunday he was not at home but the settler had instead targeted his brother Mohammed, he said. “He gave the soldiers the order, and then they called my brother and pushed him down on the ground asking for his ID,” Ballal said. “One of them held my brother round his neck and pushed very, very hard and so that my brother couldn’t catch his breath. His face turned blue and my nephews when they saw it were scared he would die, so they took him directly to hospital.” There Mohammed Ballal was put on oxygen and treated for trauma to his neck and bruises.
Relatives in a nearby village who got news of the attack and made their way to the Ballals’ house were intercepted by the army. Two of the director’s brothers, a nephew and a cousin were held in handcuffs and blindfolded for three hours in a nearby army base, Ballal said, before being released at night on a road used by settlers, putting them at further risk.
Trump: I am bought and owned by the world's richest Israeli, Miriam Adelson.
Trump: I advance Israeli interests in exchange for Zionist funding.
Person reading the Epstein files: I'm beginning to suspect some of our leaders may be covertly compromised by Israeli operations. pic.twitter.com/ryYHkkyB9O— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) February 2, 2026
US judge blocks deportation of Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi
An immigration judge has blocked the Trump administration from deporting Mohsen Mahdawi, a 34-year-old Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian activist who was arrested by federal agents last year during a US citizenship interview in Vermont. Lawyers for Mahdawi gave details of the decision in a court filing on Tuesday with a federal appeals court in New York, which had been reviewing a ruling that led to his release from immigration custody in April.
“I am grateful to the court for honoring the rule of law and holding the line against the government’s attempts to trample on due process,” Mahdawi, who is a permanent US resident, or green card holder, said in a statement. He continued: “This decision is an important step towards upholding what fear tried to destroy: the right to speak for peace and justice. Nearly a year ago, I was detained at my citizenship interview not for breaking the law but for speaking against the genocide of Palestinians.”
The judge, Nina Froes, had ruled last Friday that the evidence that the Trump administration had submitted to the court was not admissible, due to an inability to “meet its burden of proving removability”. According to the judge’s order, the government failed to properly authenticate a memorandum purported to be signed by US secretary of state Marco Rubio.
“This decision highlights the importance of federal court review of immigration proceedings, especially when first amendment and other constitutional violations are alleged,” said Brett Max Kaufman, senior counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)’s Center for Democracy, who represented Mahdawi alongside other groups. “Had we been unable to pursue Mohsen’s release in federal court, as the government is arguing should be law of the land, he would still be in detention today on a charge that the government itself couldn’t even bother to substantiate 10 months later with basic forms of authentication,” he added. “The government should take the immigration judge’s hint and drop this absurd case for good.”
Mahdawi was born and raised in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, and immigrated to the US over a decade ago. In 2021, he enrolled at Columbia University, in New York, where he was the president of the Buddhist association and co-founded the Palestinian student union. He was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in April last year and held in detention for over two weeks, based on the government’s citation of an obscure provision of immigration law that seeks to revoke the legal status of individuals deemed threats to US foreign policy. He was never charged with a crime.
Europe Has Become a War Project — Can It Be Stopped? | Yanis Varoufakis & Jeffrey Sachs
Russia threatens to deploy navy to protect vessels from ‘western piracy’
A senior Russian official has said Moscow could deploy its navy to protect Russian-linked vessels from potential European seizures, raising the prospect of retaliatory action against European shipping as pressure on the Kremlin’s so-called shadow fleet intensifies. Nikolai Patrushev, a former FSB director who heads Russia’s maritime board, said on Tuesday that the country’s navy should be ready to counter what he described as “western piracy”.
“If this situation cannot be resolved peacefully, the navy will break any blockade and move to eliminate it. And let’s not forget that many vessels sail the seas under European flags – we, too, may take an interest in what they are carrying and where they are headed,” he told the Russian newspaper Argumenty i Fakty.
Patrushev added that any attempt to impose a maritime blockade on Russia would be illegal under international law, claiming that the EU’s use of the term “shadow fleet” had no legal basis. ... The term shadow fleet refers to an estimated 1,500 ageing or lightly regulated oil tankers operating under opaque ownership structures to help Russia export crude to buyers such as China and India while circumventing western sanctions. More than 600 vessels have been targeted by sanctions from the EU, UK and US. These measures have helped curb Russian oil revenues.
Despite growing political pressure, European governments have struggled to develop a coherent legal mechanism for physically stopping or confiscating the ships, relying instead on sanctions, insurance restrictions and inspections. Western allies have warned that vessels lacking proper documentation may be treated as stateless ships, potentially widening the scope for intervention at sea.
Rubio WOOS Europe With OPENLY SUPREMACIST Munich Speech
Forget Maga. Welcome to Mega: Make Empire Great Again
Fresh from toppling the president of Venezuela and taking control of the world’s largest oil reserves, the Trump administration’s top diplomat arrived at the Munich security conference on Saturday with a rather new and very disturbing message for European governments. Empire is great. Empire is back. Empire is American. The US secretary of state delivered what can only be described as a 22-minute ode to empire. A love letter to conquest and colonialism. A proud defense of the west’s territorial expansion.
That secretary of state was, of course, Marco Rubio – the longtime foreign-policy hawk who is now one of the most influential voices in a Maga-dominated Republican party that once pretended it wanted to end “forever wars”. In his speech, Rubio went way beyond offering the typical defense of US “leadership” or a muscular foreign policy, as so many of his predecessors, both Republican and Democratic, have done before him. Rather, he issued a full-throated endorsement of empire – and he did it at exactly the moment the United States, under his boss Donald Trump, is openly engaging in the kind of territorial and extractive imperialism that most western European governments spent the last 80 years renouncing.
In Munich, in Germany of all places, Rubio delivered an encomium to five centuries of the west’s “missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers, its explorers, pouring out from its shores to cross oceans, settle new continents, build vast empires extending out across the globe”. He lamented the “contracting” of the “great western empires” in the wake of the second world war. He decried the “godless communist revolutions” and “anti-colonial uprisings” which, for the record, helped free 750 million people across 80 former colonies since the founding of the United Nations in 1945.
And the response to his remarks? Europe’s elites gave him a standing ovation, as if he’d just announced a cure for cancer rather than the literal return of empire. And in doing so, they made themselves shamefully complicit in the Trump administration’s rewriting not just of US history, but European and world history too.
Trump STILL BOMBING Boats Even AFTER Maduro Kidnapping
US says 11 people killed in latest strikes on alleged drug boats
US military officials have said American forces launched assaults on three alleged drug-smuggling boats, killing 11 in one of the deadliest days of the Trump administration’s months-long campaign against alleged traffickers. The military action on Monday brought the number of fatalities caused by US strikes to 145 since September, when Donald Trump called on American armed forces to attack people deemed “narco-terrorists” on small vessels. There have been 42 known strikes in notorious drug-trafficking routes such as the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, according to the Associated Press reported.
US Southern Command posted video to social media, showing this week’s strikes. Authorities insisted the boats transported drug-trafficking criminals but the video does not appear to provide information confirming this claim.
“Intelligence confirmed the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes and were engaged in narco-trafficking operations,” US Southern Command said. Officials added that four men were killed on one boat in the eastern Pacific, four on another vessel in the eastern Pacific, and three on a vessel in the Caribbean.
Palantir moves headquarters to Miami amid tech’s growing retreat to Florida
Palantir announced on Tuesday that it has moved its headquarters to Miami from Denver. The data analytics company, criticized for its role in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, joins a host of other businesses and billionaires that recently moved to Florida in search of a more business-friendly climate. Palantir’s move across state lines comes after its chair, Peter Thiel, announced on 31 December that he opened a Miami office for his private investment firm. Thiel already has a mansion in Miami Beach. The company, previously headquartered in Palo Alto, announced the move on X but did not provide further details or respond to a request for comment. Palantir’s stay in Colorado lasted about six years; the company exited California in August 2020 – with its CEO, Alex Karp, citing disagreements with the state’s values. ...
Palantir’s Denver office has frequently been the site of protest, as the company faces heated criticism for its involvement in the Trump administration’s push to deport immigrants. Tools and platforms built by Palantir have been used by the federal government in efforts to surveil and detain immigrants.
Many of California’s wealthiest billionaires seem to be considering a move to Florida – spooked by the state’s consideration of a billionaire tax. There has also been a concerted effort by the business leaders Ken Griffin and Stephen Ross to convince billionaires to move to south Florida and to bring their businesses with them.
James Fishback, a Republican candidate for Florida governor, wrote on X in response to Palantir’s move, saying he would ban Palantir from all government contracts if elected. “You are a threat to our civil liberties,” Fishback wrote. He had voiced the same position last month. Fishback’s commitment comes amid increasing pressure on lawmakers to evaluate their relationship with Palantir. The nationwide campaign Purge Palantir has been documenting politicians who received funds from the company’s executives and pressuring them not to accept their donations. The campaign has had some success so far. The Colorado Sun reported that the Colorado representative Jason Crow and Colorado senator John Hickenlooper planned to donate more than $50,000 each, in campaign contributions from Palantir, to immigrant rights groups.
New Mexico approves truth commission on alleged Jeffrey Epstein ranch abuse
New Mexico has approved a “truth commission” to investigate abuse on Jeffrey Epstein’s ranch outside Santa Fe, amid ongoing calls for transparency about the late sex-offender’s crimes. The move by legislators on Monday follows the justice department’s release of millions of investigative documents into Epstein last month, which has renewed interest into the financier’s Zorro ranch.
Multiple women and girls have said they were sexually abused on the roughly 10,000-acre (4,000-hectare) property. Law enforcement has paid little attention to activities there, however. Authorities have raided Epstein’s other properties – including his New York townhouse, Caribbean island, Palm Beach mansion and Paris apartment – but multiple state and local officials have said they were not aware of any federal search at the ranch.
Hector Balderas, who served as New Mexico’s attorney general at the time of Epstein’s July 2019 arrest, said in a statement that his office “investigated activity that occurred in New Mexico that was still viable for prosecution, including contact with multiple victims”. Balderas said his office backed off after federal prosecutors in New York handling the Epstein investigation “asked that we hold any further state investigation or prosecution of activity related to Epstein, as they communicated to us that they were already leading an active multi-jurisdictional prosecution”.
Emails released by the justice department in late January also state that Balderas’ office “agreed to cease any investigation into sex trafficking and share whatever they had gathered regarding sex trafficking activity with our office”.
Andrea Romero, a Democratic New Mexico state House representative who sponsored the truth commission legislation, said the committee will deploy subpoena power and testimony, as well as official records, “to put the whole story together”, Source NM reported.
Israeli Gov Installed SURVEILLANCE At Epstein Apt
Police probing claims that Epstein trafficked women through UK airports
British police have expanded their interest in the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s links to Britain, by admitting for the first time they are looking at claims he used dozens of private flights into UK airports to traffic women. It comes after former prime minister Gordon Brown said that documents about Epstein released in the US showed in “graphic detail” how the disgraced financier, with links to high-profile people including the former Prince Andrew, was able to use Stansted airport in Essex to “fly in girls from Latvia, Lithuania and Russia”.
In an article for the New Statesman last week, Brown said the Epstein files showed the financier’s jet making 90 flights to or from UK airports, including 15 after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a child. He said Epstein “boasted” about how cheap Stansted’s airport charges were compared with Paris. Brown said Stansted airport was where “women were transferred from one Epstein plane to another”, adding that “women arriving on private planes into Britain would not need British visas”. He said it seemed as though authorities “never knew what was happening”, referring to evidence uncovered by the BBC which showed “incomplete flight logs, with unnamed passengers simply labelled as ‘female’”.
In December, a BBC investigation found 87 flights linked to Epstein had arrived at or departed from UK airports between the early 1990s and 2018.
ICE cannot re-detain Kilmar Ábrego García, judge rules
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cannot re-detain Kilmar Ábrego García because a 90-day detention period has expired and the government has no viable plan for deporting him, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday. The Salvadorian national’s case has become a focal point in the immigration debate after he was mistakenly deported to his home country last year. Since his return, he has been fighting a second deportation to a series of African countries proposed by Department of Homeland Security officials.
The government “made one empty threat after another to remove him to countries in Africa with no real chance of success”, US district judge Paula Xinis, in Maryland, wrote in her Tuesday order. “From this, the court easily concludes that there is no ‘good reason to believe’ removal is likely in the reasonably foreseeable future.”
Ábrego García has an American wife and child and has lived in Maryland for years, but he immigrated to the US illegally as a teenager. In 2019, an immigration judge ruled that he could not be deported to El Salvador because he faced danger there from a gang that had threatened his family. By mistake, he was deported there anyway last year.
In her Tuesday order, Xinis noted the government had “purposely – and for no reason – ignored the one country that has consistently offered to accept Abrego Garcia as a refugee, and to which he agrees to go”. That country is Costa Rica.
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ICE reliance on Microsoft technology surged amid immigration crackdown
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deepened its reliance on Microsoft’s cloud technology last year as the agency ramped up arrest and deportation operations, leaked documents reveal. ICE more than tripled the amount of data it stored in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform in the six months leading up to January 2026, a period in which the agency’s budget swelled and its workforce rapidly expanded, according to the files.
ICE appears to be using a range of Microsoft’s productivity tools, as well as AI-driven products, to search and analyse the data it holds in Azure. Files suggest some of the agency’s own tools and systems may also be running on Microsoft servers.
The documents – obtained by the Guardian and its partners +972 Magazine and Local Call – raise questions about whether Microsoft technology is facilitating an immigration crackdown by an agency accused of conducting unlawful operations and using excessive force on a large scale. ... In July, ICE received a $75bn budget increase, making it the highest-funded US law enforcement body. With this unprecedented increase in funds, the agency has embarked on a spending spree on technology, awarding contracts to large firms such as Palantir alongside lesser-known providers.
ICE, which has been likened to a domestic surveillance agency, enjoys access to vast troves of data on people living in the US. It has a growing arsenal of surveillance technology, including facial recognition apps, phone location databases, drones and invasive spyware. As the agency expanded through 2025, it boosted spending on cloud computing. Amazon and Microsoft, both longtime providers to ICE and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), have emerged as beneficiaries of deals worth tens of millions of dollars struck by third-party resellers.
The leaked documents do not specify the kinds of information stored by ICE on Microsoft servers. However, they indicate the agency has used Azure services including “blob storage” of raw data, as well as AI tools that analyse images and videos, and translate text. ... It’s unclear from the files whether ICE is using Azure to store or analyse information collected through any of its surveillance or intelligence gathering activities, or whether the cloud platform supports other functions, such as the running of detention centres or deportation flights. ICE did not respond to a request for comment.

Colbert accuses Trump administration of censorship after CBS pulls interview
Talkshow host Stephen Colbert has accused the Trump administration and CBS of censorship after he said the network told him not to air a television interview with a Texas Democrat running for Senate. On his show, Colbert told viewers of the Late Show that network lawyers told him he was also prohibited from talking about their refusal to air his interview with James Talarico, a Texas state representative seeking his party’s nomination to challenge the Republican incumbent, John Cornyn, for a Senate seat in November.
“He was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert said, stemming from a concern that it would trigger a legal requirement to provide equal access to Talarico’s campaign rivals.
In the end, the interview was instead broadcast on Colbert’s YouTube page, which is out of the remit of the Federal Communications Commission. The agency recently issued a guidance re-iterating that broadcast television networks need to abide by the equal time requirements that stem from the Communications Act of 1934, with daytime and late-night talkshows a particular focus of potential violations.
Colbert has accused the Trump administration of censoring critics and has been particularly critical of FCC chairman Brendan Carr. “Let’s just call this what it is,” he said Monday. “Donald Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV, because all Trump does is watch TV.” The episode comes amid a renewed crackdown on media freedoms by the Trump administration, which in recent weeks has included an FBI raid on the home of a Washington Post reporter, and the arrest of Don Lemon, an independent journalist and former CNN host, covering a protest against immigration enforcement in Minnesota.
RENT FREEZE: Zohran Does EXACTLY What Doubters Said He Couldn't

Bayer agrees to pay $7.25bn to settle Roundup weedkiller cancer lawsuits
The agrochemical maker Bayer and attorneys for cancer patients announced a proposed $7.25bn settlement on Tuesday to resolve thousands of US lawsuits alleging the company failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer.
The proposed settlement comes as the US supreme court is preparing to hear arguments on Bayer’s assertion that the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of Roundup without a cancer warning should invalidate claims filed in state courts. That case would not be affected by the proposed settlement.
But the settlement would eliminate some of the risk from an eventual and uncertain supreme court ruling – both for Bayer and for patients seeking damages. The settlement still needs the court’s approval.
Winter storm brings ‘very heavy’ snow and more rain to California
The University of California Berkeley’s Central Sierra Snow Lab, near Donner Pass, reported 28in of snow on Tuesday, with another 3ft expected in the next two days. I-80 is closed from Colfax to the Nevada state line due to snow. The Sierra Avalanche Center issued an avalanche warning for the Central Sierra Nevadas through 4am on Wednesday. In a statement it said: “A widespread natural avalanche cycle is expected over the next 24 hours.”
Two Pacific storms are expected to bring more than 3ft of snow to the Sierra Nevadas and heavy rainfall to lower elevation parts of the state, including Los Angeles and San Diego, where flooding could occur in recent burn scars. The National Weather Service predicts “multi-day, very heavy snow totals of more than a foot” through the southern Cascades down to southern California and east into the Rockies. The heaviest snowfall is predicted in the Sierras.
Heavy snowfall of up to 3-5ft was predicted for locations above 6,000ft elevation, with snowfall up to 7ft expected at higher elevations, according to the National Weather Service Hanford office’s winter storm warning for regions near Yosemite national park. The warning was in effect until 10pm local time on Thursday.
Yosemite national park remains open, with tire chain requirements and road closure warnings, although visitors hoping to see February’s Firefall at Horsetail Fall may be disappointed. The fleeting moment when the waterfall blazes golden in the rays of the setting sun will probably be obscured by weather conditions.
In southern California, the National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard office said heavy snow was “possible” along the I-5 and I-14 corridors, with wind gusts “up to 60 to 70mph possible”. Flood watches were in effect in Los Angeles, where the county had issued an evacuation warning in regions affected by the Palisades, Eaton and other fires because of potential flooding in the burn scars.
Cyprus appeals to residents to cut water use by two minutes a day amid drought
Authorities in Cyprus have urged residents to reduce their water intake by 10% – the equivalent of two minutes’ use of running water each day – as Europe’s most south-easterly nation grapples with a once-in-a century drought.
The appeal, announced alongside a €31m (£27m) package of emergency measures, comes as reservoirs hit record lows with little prospect of replenishment before the tourist season starts.
“Everyone has to reduce their consumption,” said Eliana Tofa Christidou, who heads the country’s water development department. “Whether that is in the shower, brushing their teeth or using a washing machine. Times are critical and every drop now counts.”
It was, she told the Guardian, the Mediterranean island’s worst drought in living memory with dam inflows at their lowest since 1901, when hydrological records first begun. Vast tracts of land across the country have been baked dry, with prime forest areas desiccated and dying fast.
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A Little Night Music
Freddie Robinson - The Creeper
Freddy Robinson - Smoking
Freddy Robinson - Go Go Girl
Freddy Robinson - The Hawk
Freddy Robinson - I Found My Soul Last Night
Freddy Robinson - Off The Cuff
Freddy Robinson - The Buzzard
Freddy Robinson - Caprice's Green Grass
Freddy Robinson - Bluesology
John Mayall & Freddie Robinson - Country Road


Comments
As regards capitalist realism --
As regards a previous discussion of capitalist realism and of Mark Fisher, here at Caucus99percent, this meme --
It appears that what constrains the opponents of the imperialism-only strategy pursued by the capitalist elites today, more than anything, is that even the so-called "communists" believe in more capitalism...
"You exclude the poor, not necessarily by disenfranchising them, but by giving them nothing to vote for. By giving them two candidates who are both members of the oligarchy." -- Michael Parenti
evening cass...
funny, mankind somehow got by for thousands of years before the dawn of industrial capitalism. i wonder how much i can get for a sumerian cylinder seal.
Hey, joe!
John Cornyn was a judge in Houston. His terms of probation for a sex offender was to force them to put on hardboard signs on their chests proclaiming heir crimes and on their backs and walk back and forth on busy Houston street esplanades for hours a day. While I am not a fan of sex offenders, I am a fan of appropriate punishment.(I was almost abducted just standing on one to cross the street!)
I am also not a fan of religion-focused elected officials, but I look forward to Cornyn losing and going back home, and being out of sight. I will vote for the Presbyterian democrat. Thanks for posting the interview with Colbert. It's like taking baby steps.
Enjoy some sleep, dear friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
evening otc...
i'd be delighted to see cornyn get to take some time off of his busy schedule of being an idiot in the senate to go home and pester his relatives for six years.
have a good one!
The Houston legal community
did everything they could to keep him from winning his elections, but at the end of the day, he won, went to Washington, and didn't put any more people at risk of violent deaths, so they were glad, So now, he is spreading his sadistic tendencies
over the US. He should retire to Costa Rica. Enjoy the beach and palm trees, good coffee.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981