One step forward, two steps back
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 11/11/2019 - 1:26pmBy now you are familiar with the depressing events in Bolivia, so I won't spend time on it.
Instead I want to talk about the good news in Chile.
Monday OT: It's 11-11, do you know where your troops are?
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 11/11/2019 - 5:00am
November 11 is day 315 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Setting Orange, The Aftermath 23, 3185 (discordian),
And let us not forget 13.0.6.17.16 by the Mayan Long Count
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Watch JFK argue for universal health care
Submitted by snoopydawg on Sun, 11/10/2019 - 4:38pmJFK argues for medicare for all pic.twitter.com/kmN6tXhZiR
— Secular Talk (@KyleKulinski) November 10, 2019
The Weekly Watch
Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 11/10/2019 - 8:21am
Escaping Capitalism?
Human survival requires escaping capitalism according the latest United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report … “The world’s top scientists just gave rigorous backing to systematically dismantle capitalism as a key requirement to maintaining civilization and a habitable planet.” Capitalism has never factored in the environmental costs of our activities. It has one goal - profit. It is past time for a broader look at priorities. Not only do we need to stop the degradation of our ecosystems, but we must begin the long term task of restoration. We have much to do, and that's one reason I support Bernie's guaranteed jobs program over Yang's UBI. Today I want to touch on the role agriculture can play in reversing our climate catastrophe, and touch on the insanity of a capitalist health care (or better stated -disease and perscription) system. We'll also take a stroll through some of this weeks news cycle.
A color revolution in Bolivia
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 11/09/2019 - 12:26pmIt appears that the neoliberal imperialist project in Latin America is about to score another victory.
Welcome to Saturday ...
Submitted by smiley7 on Sat, 11/09/2019 - 4:15am
“Child, child, have patience and belief, for life is many days, and each present hour will pass away. Son, son, you have been mad and drunken, furious and wild, filled with hatred and despair, and all the dark confusions of the soul - but so have we. You found the earth too great for your one life, you found your brain and sinew smaller than the hunger and desire that fed on them - but it has been this way with all men. You have stumbled on in darkness, you have been pulled in opposite directions, you have faltered, you have missed the way, but, child, this is the chronicle of the earth. And now, because you have known madness and despair, and because you will grow desperate again before you come to evening, we who have stormed the ramparts of the furious earth and been hurled back, we who have been maddened by the unknowable and bitter mystery of love, we who have hungered after fame and savored all of life, the tumult, pain, and frenzy, and now sit quietly by our windows watching all that henceforth never more shall touch us - we call upon you to take heart, for we can swear to you that these things pass.”
~ Thomas Wolfe,
~ Thomas Wolfe,
Bernie for the win
Submitted by gjohnsit on Fri, 11/08/2019 - 10:12pmThis recent NY Times article about how Trump is beginning to lose the independent voters that made all the difference in 2016, references a survey by Marquette University.
Friday Photography - Random Images
Submitted by janis b on Fri, 11/08/2019 - 4:49pm
The Evening Blues - 11-8-19
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 11/08/2019 - 3:20pm
Greetings Comerades!
Submitted by ek hornbeck on Fri, 11/08/2019 - 1:12pmWe are so very pleased and excited your Unindicted Co-conspirator Bottomless Pinocchio has decided to join us celebrating the great successes of the Soviet Working Classes Rapacious Oligarchs Benevolent Capitalist system under our virile and handsome leader, Vladimir Putin.
You see, May Day is not just a parade of potentially Potemkin propaganda but probably not Troops, Tanks, and honking great ICBMs down heavily reinforced military supply routes designed to support urban "kill zones" during rebellions and invasions, but a recognition of Workers all over the World for the productive labor that supports our Parasitical Police/Military/Industrial Complex lavish and luxurious lifestyle of Criminal Racketeers equitable economy which provides each citizen with his barest needs.
I personally have lobbied long and hard for United States recognition of May Day as a symbol of Worker Solidarity and Socialist/Anarchist Identity. Unlike what some people think I'm a pragmatist and I'll make do the best I can with our inferior and deliberate substitute 'Labor Day' but I don't stint recognition of my International Brothers and Sisters.
It IN FACT bothers me a good deal to have a great idea (hey, even better relations with Russia is not such a terrible idea, but that is not what is happening) debased this way however I'm not going to let better get in the way of 'progress of a sort' and if I am ever put on the spot to name one positive thing I suppose I might use this as not being as bad as most.
Stop looking at me that way. You'd think I was coming out in favor of Bloomberg.
