US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts
You want them all to die for your evil cause.
TBF, most Westerners are misinformed about why the US wanted this war, so I usually don’t accuse them of being aligned with those interests. They usually imagine Ukraine as Western corporate media want them to imagine it: as a peaceful, monocultural European liberal democracy which was suddenly invaded unprovoked by an imperialist autocrat bent on conquering all of Europe.
Which Ukrainians?
- The oligarchs?
- The Banderites?
- The eastern & southern Ukrainians, who, after the Maidan coup, declared independence from an unelected government, and were subsequently terrorized by the Banderites for nearly a decade, with tacit and overt support from the Ukrainian and US governments?
- The men being pulled off the streets and pushed to the front lines against their will?
When you have to go back 93 years to the Great Depression to find an example, you’ve made my point.
FDR did what he did to save capitalism from the threat of socialist revolution, and politicians have spent the last three generations clawing back the concessions he had made to socialist & labor agitators. They also purged socialists from labor unions, and they purged and even assassinated communists, to avoid any such thing happening again.
Chris Hedges, America: The Farewell Tour:
The New Deal, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, saved capitalism. It was put in place because socialists were a strong and serious threat. The oligarchs understood that with the breakdown of capitalism—something I expect we will again witness in our lifetimes—there was a possibility of a socialist revolution. They did not want to lose their wealth and power. Roosevelt, writing to a friend in 1930, said there was “no question in my mind that it is time for the country to become fairly radical for at least one generation. History shows that where this occurs occasionally, nations are saved from revolution.” In other words, Roosevelt went to his fellow oligarchs and said, “Hand over some of your money or you will lose all your money in a revolution.” And they complied. That is how the government created fifteen million jobs, Social Security, unemployment benefits, and public works projects. The capitalists did not do this because the suffering of the masses moved them to pity. They did this because they were scared.
I just think its swell that leftist is now cisgender heternormative and white.
If you’d developed class consciousness, you’d understand why neither party enacts progressive policies despite their popularity. Previously:
The US government was never not captured by the bourgeoisie, because the US was born of a bourgeois revolution[1]. The wealthy, white, male, land-owning, largely slave-owning Founding Fathers constructed a bourgeois state with “checks and balances” against the “tyranny of the majority”. It was never meant to represent the majority—the working class—and it never has, despite eventually allowing women and non-whites (at least those not disenfranchised by the carceral system) to vote. BBC: [Princeton & Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy
I will gladly be a communist liberal.
It is impossible to be a communist/anarchist/socialist/leftist liberal, because communism/anarchism/socialism/leftism are diametrically opposed to liberalism.
I enjoyed the time I got that feedback from my manager in my first performance review for my menial bullshit job.
I especially enjoyed my manager’s reaction to my cheery acceptance of her evaluation. She really thought she was going to pull off some reverse psychology on me.
Classic BlueAnon Russiagate conspiracy theory.
- Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
- Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
- Washington Post: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters
- Jacobin: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election
- Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
- Jacobin: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
- MSNBC Repeats Hamilton 68 Lies 279 Times in 11 Minutes
- Matt Taibbi: WMD, Part II: CIA "Cooked The Intelligence" To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016
- Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away
- BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
- Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
- Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
- The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
- The Guardian, 2017: 'I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video
- WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
- Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
- The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
- openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
- Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
History of Fascism in Ukraine: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV
They did not all re-win their primaries. See Bernie Sanders, Cory Bush, and Jamal Bowman. And you can’t win a primary when the DNC undemocratically cancels it, as it did last year.
📺 Why the Democratic Party CANNOT and WILL NOT be Reformed
Democrats would rather lose to a Republican, to a conservative, to a fascist, to Trump, than address the material conditions of the American people.
This “superposition” tactic has a name: Motte-and-bailey argument
Wisecrack is Dead
Michael Burns’ new channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelOBurns
Archiveorg isn’t a paywall bypass. Archivetoday is:
http://archive.today/2025.04.21-012339/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/hegseth-yemen-attack-second-signal-chat.html
Maybe someone should create a relationship advice community, because [email protected] isn’t supposed to be that. It’s supposed to be an r/AskReddit clone.
I’ve never run into one myself. ProleWiki/Lemmygrad user Wisconcom was before my time.
A self-proclaimed Hoxhaist (although he would later start calling himself a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, anti-revisionist, or a Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist... and eventually claimed he was never a Hoxhaist as Hoxhaism “does not exist”) […]
This is probably better asked at [email protected], where people may have informed opinions. Asking it here will likely get you mostly uninformed & misinformed opinions.
I’ve never come across anyone who calls themselves a “Stalinist.” Maybe that’s what some horseshoe theorists call Marxist-Leninists.
US officials admit they ran the Ukraine war, and risked a worse one
From a military base in Germany, the US planned Ukraine's war strategy and guided strikes on Russian targets -- at the knowing risk of "World War III."
Full text of the paywalled article:
During a recent visit to Washington – the most high-level by a Russian official since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 – Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev heaped praise on Donald Trump’s efforts to end the Ukraine war.
“President Trump's administration has made tremendous progress” toward peace, Dmitriev said, and moreover, has “stopped World War III from happening.”
In response, an indignant Michael McFaul, the hawkish former US ambassador to Russia, chided what he called “hyperbolic threats about World War III,” which he dismissed as “complete nonsense.”
While Dmitriev’s claim of Trump’s “tremendous progress” on peace in Ukraine may be premature, his invocation of World War III does not seem so objectionable in light of new revelations about how Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, escalated the conflict.
According to a [lengthy account in the New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/in
JWZ weighs in on Signal again
Because of the ongoing fucktastrophe, the cries of "Use SIGNAL!" are constant and unavoidable. And I get it, it may be the least-bad option in a sea of terrible options. If, that is, you choose to ignore the advice of "don't use your phone for that shit" (the Stringer Bell Rule). But out of curiosit...
Bo Burnham: How The World Works
No one has yet updated Wikipedia to reflect this new information. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Hungary
CIA was completely surprised by the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
Right, the CIA was completely surprised by a fascist counterrevolution of their own device 🙄
- Operation Gladio
- Operation Condor
- The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discreetly Internationalized It
- The blueprint of regime change operations How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent
- Foucault, Anti-Communism & the Global Theory Industry: A Reply to Critics
Unable to immediately expel Gazans en masse, Israel seems intent on forcing them into a confined zone — and letting starvation and desperation do the rest.
Why Liberals Claim to Be Leftists
Natalie Wynn aka Contrapoints aka Natalie Clinton seems very worried about "The Left" always losing and "The Left" criticising her. She can't stop talking about this in her videos which come out three times per decade. Why does she do this, and why do others like her do the same?
On Euope’s military Keynesianism gambit: “Prof. Michael Hudson: Economic Collapse in Europe”
Glenn Diesen interview.
Micheal Hudson is a renowned economist, addresses why Europe has set itself on a path to economic crisis and collapse
https://michael-hudson.com/
Read part two of this post here
One of the most common refrains now, extending from liberals to conservatives, is the reference to “agency” and its supposed denial by anyone who brings attention to imperialism and the acts of Western states. “Oh, you’re pointing to the CIA’s influence in that coup? Well have you considered you’re denying the AGENCY of the people of that country when you say that? CHECKMATE!”
There’s this implication that you’re somehow nefarious, racist, xenophobic, chauvinist when you deny this “agency”, a brilliant reversal of the pro-imperialist’s position. You see, they’re not engaged in denying “agency” and all the bad things that come with it, no it’s you who are doing so.
There is no singular “agency” at play in any event, at any given time, in any given society. There is a wide variety of “agencies” at play, and when someone says you’re denying it in this or that case, they’re obfuscating the fact that they’re picking and choosing which particular “agency” they believe is most importa
Constitutional Collapse
Found through an American Prestige podcast interview, “The Constitutional Order Leading to Trump w/ Aziz Rana” (paywalled). 🏴☠️ version: https://files.catbox.moe/cir0in.mp3
To understand what is unfolding, it is necessary to grasp the content of the US constitutional order. This includes a series of ideological and institutional components, in line with what Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal in 1944 famously labelled the ‘American creed’ – the idea that the United States stood for the promise of equal liberty for all. At a time of global rivalry with the Soviet Union over a decolonizing world, national elites explicitly rallied to this creedal constitutional frame. Its constitutive elements encompassed a reading of the Constitution as committed to the steady amelioration of racial inequality grounded in principles of anti-discrimination; a
Yemeni Armed Forces target US carrier E-2 AEW aircraft
The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) successfully targeted an E-2 command and control aircraft belonging to the US aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, a senior Sanaa government source told Al Mayadeen on Sunday.
According to the source, "The Truman lost command capabilities following the attack, while both the White House and the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) have launched an investigation into the incident."
Details on the targeted E-2 aircraft
The targeted E-2 aircraft is designed to provide critical intelligence on potential threats faced by the warship during military operations. While it does not directly participate in attacks, it plays a crucial role in surveillance and tracking.
The aircraft, operated by a five-member crew—including two pilots and three radar specialists—lost its defensive protection, making it more vulnerable to attacks from Yemeni miss
Modern Money with L. Randall Wray
If you’re trying to understand modern money theory or you want to explain MMT to others, this is the episode. Economist L. Randall Wray explains the basics and debunks the myths that hold us back.
Steve’s guest is noted economist L. Randall Wray, one of the early developers of modern money theory. As many times as this podcast has talked about MMT, it’s always topical. In fact, just last week, Elon Musk discovered 14 magic money computers in government agencies!
So, Trump had to hire the richest man in the world who hired who knows how many hundreds of young tech kids to discover what we’ve been saying for 30 years, which is that Congress appropriates money, and then the computers keystroke it into people’s accounts.
There’s no mystery about this at all, but they think they’ve discovered not only something that people didn’t know, but something that’s, oh, it’s so scary. It’s nefarious that the government uses computers to increase the size of people’s accounts. Well, that’s spending. That’s the way it’s done.
Clearly, this is a good time to revisit the valuable insights of MMT and look at the implications for building a society that serves its people.
This episo
Vance hightails it out of Greenland after three hours without ever leaving the military base
What's the End Game for Ukraine? (w/ Kit Klarenberg)
GrayZone UK Chief Investigator and Co-Founder of Active Measures investigative project, Kit Klarenberg, joins Bad Faith to talk about the impact of the new administration on the Ukraine/Russia war, recent developments, and what the ultimate end game is likely to be. Also, he speaks to the authoritarian crackdown on pro-Palestine speech from his personal experience being detained in the U.K. for his reporting on Ukraine.