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When democracy is threatened by its own media Those who have power over the media not only gain control over public opinion, but also have the incredible power to gain public approval for decisions that are irrational and dangerous to society, making it appear as if it is the will of the majority that nonsense and devastation occur. Modern media has given rise to a new form of sham democracy....
Posted: Mon, Sep 22, 2025 4:25pm PDT
Free Speech Under Attack - How We Got Here Censorship Is a Structural Problem: Huge Corporate Power, Not Just a President, Is Muzzling Comedians...
Posted: Fri, Sep 19, 2025 9:24am PDT
USA: No sympathy, please! The Winding Up of the Aid Organization USAID The Agency for Effectiveness DOGE, led by Elon Musk until his departure, investigated USAID for wasting public funds because Musk was convinced that it was “a criminal organization” [1]. Donald Trump had declared that this agency was run by “a group of insane radicals” [2]. The global aid organization USAID, founded by Pres. Kennedy, distributed over $35 billion in aid worldwide in 2024....
Posted: Mon, Sep 15, 2025 4:43am PDT
Against homeless people, not against homelessness In the US, 8.2 percent of the population, or around 27 million people, have no health insurance. Access to adequate health care is completely inadequate, especially for mental health problems. But even in cases of chronic pain, for example, many people are left to fend for themselves....
Posted: Sun, Sep 14, 2025 8:22am PDT
Inequality is violence when it causes significant harm Distributive injustice is represented in its own way in all crises. This is very striking in the climate crisis and in the economic division of labor. When it comes to climate change, future generations are completely powerless against us. Young people are also largely unable to act against the concentrated established power of the older generation....
Posted: Sat, Sep 13, 2025 2:11am PDT
Defeating a Bloc Ginned up on Delusion and Hate Democrats don’t really believe their claim that Trumpism is a dangerous threat to US democracy. Only a radical contingent that opposes MAGA across the board, promotes grassroots protests and defiance by elected officials, and offers a vision of transformative change can catalyze and cohere a winning resistance movement....
Posted: Sat, Sep 13, 2025 1:30am PDT
The new Trumponomics In order for the capitalist system to continue functioning, the US must export financial securities and allow others to gain the upper hand in traditional industries. In the first decade of the 21st century alone, the US share of global industrial production shrank from 28 to 18 percent. Currently, it is around 15 percent. This process of deindustrialization has decisively changed the social structure of the US....
Posted: Fri, Sep 12, 2025 10:37am PDT
Times of Twilight The global economy is being converted to a war economy at horrendous cost because Russia and other major Eastern powers allegedly pose a threat. Arbitrariness and violence reign supreme. Russia has always been a thorn in the side of the capitalist system. But the peoples are not responsible for the wars; human nature is peaceful. The only ones to blame are the ruling classes....
Posted: Wed, Sep 10, 2025 2:16am PDT
Right-wing extremism and Pepperland The Beatles in 1964 warned us about Pepperland, anti-music people and the Blue Meanies. Trump with his draconian immigration policy shows us the bestiality of the Blue Meanies, sweeping up workers from hospitals and shopping centers and
locking them up in detention centers!...
Posted: Mon, Sep 8, 2025 2:44pm PDT
Would Be Kings - Curtis Yarvin Curtis Yarvin is an avowed fascist and a danger to society and humanity....
Posted: Thu, Sep 4, 2025 2:23pm PDT
Cruel and Deadly: Another Life Tragically Lost to Immigration Detention Florence, AZ, September 4, 2025 — The Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project and Detention Watch Network are mourning the tragic loss of Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, 32, affectionately known as "Lenchito,” a beloved son, brother, and friend who died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody on Sunday, August 31, 2025. ICE had detained Mr. Batrez Vargas at Central Arizona Correctional Complex in Florence, Arizona and has reported that the cause of his death is currently unk...
Posted: Thu, Sep 4, 2025 1:32pm PDT
From hegemon to blackmailer Local economists largely agree that Trump's protectionist policies are deeply irrational. There is a lot of truth in this: the constant back-and-forth in his tariff policy is destabilizing the global economy and also placing an enormous strain on the US economy...
Trump's policies are a symptom, not a cause, of the crisis of globalized capitalism....
Posted: Sun, Aug 31, 2025 9:06am PDT
The new Trumponomics Trumponomics represents something of an attempt by the leading capitalist power to find an emergency exit from the order it created itself, based on the free movement of goods and capital. The fact that the dollar will probably lose its previous function as a safe haven for private money capital seeking investment is not only accepted by many Trump advisors, but also desired....
Posted: Sun, Aug 31, 2025 8:50am PDT
The fascist legacy The resurgent Poor Peoples Campaign calls for a moral reorientation of the US, where exploitation, social warfare against the poor, and real warfare over resources and power are currently part of “business.”...
This market fundamentalism is destroying society....
Posted: Sat, Aug 30, 2025 3:08pm PDT
The strong weak man One could ask to what extent Donald Trump's intellectual deficits play a role in this whole disaster. The man does not seem to be very well-read, nor does he appear to have a minimum level of general or political education... And so we are left with a sobering realization: the “most powerful man in the world” is even further from being able to exert a constructive influence on geopolitics....
Posted: Sat, Aug 30, 2025 2:46pm PDT
The spirits he summoned To prevent parliament from deciding to release the Epstein files, House Speaker Mike Johnson sent lawmakers into an early summer recess. However, when it comes to child abuse and sex with minors within their own ranks, the US right wing in particular often becomes very quiet very quickly. This also applies above all to Trump....
Posted: Fri, Aug 29, 2025 3:42pm PDT
The hegemon at an impasse Trump's tariff concept is a defensive battle, a rearguard action against an economically increasingly powerful China, a more or less orderly retreat from the global market. The tariffs are an admission that this competitive struggle has been abandoned because it cannot be won. The aim is to at least be able to hold on to one's own bastion, the US market....
Posted: Wed, Aug 27, 2025 8:46am PDT
Worse than evil People who are trapped in functional stupidity believe that they are doing good, which makes them completely resistant to correction. In such an environment, those in power no longer need to actively suppress information. They only need to create conditions under which honest information processing becomes impossible....
Posted: Mon, Aug 25, 2025 1:56am PDT
Santa Cruz County proposal could allow the destruction of homeless RVs Santa Cruz County proposal could allow the destruction of homeless RVs
Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors meeting
9 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 19, online or at 701 Ocean St., room 525, Santa Cruz.
Join on Zoom or call 669-254-5252, meeting ID 160 123 6676. To comment ahead of the meeting, email BoardOfSupervisors@santacruzcountyca.gov by 5 p.m. monday...
Posted: Mon, Aug 18, 2025 12:45pm PDT
ICE detention will double capacity to detain more than 100,000 people this year ICE detention, the largest detention system in the world, will double capacity to detain more than 100,000 people this year...
Posted: Sat, Aug 16, 2025 6:10pm PDT