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By Vijay Prashad and Carlos Ron
On December 6, the Venezuelan people will vote for a new National Assembly. Ordinarily, there is nothing unusual about this, nor would this be newsworthy outside Venezuela. But, these days, even the holding of an election is a contest between the Venezuelan people and the United States government.
December 5, 1907: Birthday of Comrade Lin Biao, commander of the Chinese Peopleâs Liberation Army and co-leader of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
Sam Marcy: The Cultural Revolution and the Fall of Lin Piao
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a really depressing thing to me is how just blatantly stupid the âblame covid on chinaâ strategy of the west was, and how much it still worked even among âprogressivesâ. I had an argument the other day where I said china handled the pandemic well (cause they did) and my friend was like âbut they unleashed it on the world!â. no the fuck they didnât, they just found the first well known cases, and research now is suggesting it had already spread across eurasia before anyone had caught it. its just so fucking dumb and racist.
Any US military action against Iranâs civilian nuclear facilities would be a massive war crime.
By Juan Cole
Eric Schmitt, Maggie Haberman, David E. Sanger, Helene Cooper and Lara Jakes at the New York Times get the scoop. Their sources in the White House tell them that last Thursday, in a meeting with his senior advisers, Trump abruptly asked them if there were options for a US strike on Iranâs civilian nuclear enrichment facilities.
They say that vice president Mike Pence, secretary of state Mike Pompeo and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff Gen. Mark Milley all sought to dissuade Trump from this course of action, on the grounds it could kick off a major war in the last weeks of his presidency. They are alleged to have come away from the meeting convinced that they had succeeded.
Some commentary on this story:
First, it should be noted that Iran is not engaged in illegal activity. Its right to enrich uranium for civilian electricity production was acknowledged by the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or nuclear deal signed with all the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany. Iran has only departed from that agreement in very minor ways, and mainly as a way of putting pressure on Europe to defy the US severe economic sanctions, which contravene the treaty. It is Trumpâs Washington that has behaved illegally, not Iran.
So there is no casus belli and any US military action against Iranâs civilian nuclear facilities would be a massive war crime.
Further, the authors do not say anything about the likely consequences for Iranian civilians of such a strike.
It is possible that such a US strike on active nuclear enrichment facilities could kill as many Iranians as did the use of an atom bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, which killed between 90,000 and 145,000 people over four months.
By Scott SchefferÂ
On Oct. 9, China announced that it has joined about 160 other countries in a pact to ensure that COVID-19 vaccines and treatments will be distributed equitably around the world. The aim of the agreement is to provide two billion doses of vaccine to vulnerable populations and health care workers, especially in poor countries.
The U.S. is among the few countries that have rejected taking part. The richest country in the world has snubbed the idea of joining forces with other countries to help stop a deadly virus from ravaging poor populations throughout the world.
americans are so weird. literally all of you, even the ones who are good, are always poised right on the bring of doing or saying something thatâs absolutely deranged and none of you realise it.
By Greg Butterfield
People in the Democratic Peopleâs Republic of Korea celebrated the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Workersâ Party of Korea on Oct. 10, 1945. The WPK is the communist party that leads the building of socialism in the northern part of Korea.
In Pyongyang, the capital city, a mighty military parade was held to show the Trumps of the world that the DPRK is always prepared to defend its people and their socialist system from the aggression of capitalist powers.
Kim Jong Un, chairperson of the Workersâ Party, expressed his gratitude to the people for their perseverance. âThe secret of how our Party, which has followed the revolutionary road, most arduous and beset with trials, has adorned this bloody road with victory and glory is that our people have sincerely trusted and supported it and defended its cause.â
Lemanjah by Brazilian artist Marcelo Jorge ⊠Lemanjah is the Queen of the Sea
This is literally the first time I have ever seen cellulite depicted on someone in a painting
The U.S. Agency for International Development has made several payments in recent weeks to
The U.S. Agency for International Development has made several payments in recent weeks to "institutions" that the State Department uses to spearhead its subversive policy against the island.
âThe British medical journal, The Lancet, estimated that over a million Russians died âdue to the economic shock of mass privatization and shock therapyâ in the decade from 1991 to 2001. Life expectancy for the Russian male was 65 in the last days of the USSR, but it collapsed to 60 a decade later. Inequality and sorrow returned to the new republics that emerged out of the USSR. No wonder then that polls routinely find that more than half of the Russian citizens dream of a return to the days of the USSR.â
â Vijay Prashad, Red Star Over the Third World
@vehumet also incarceration rates. LT has the highest incarceration rate in europe outside of Russia, Georgia & Turkey
The entry of the socialist country into trade relations with capitalist countries is a most important factor ensuring our existence in such a complex and absolutely exceptional situation.
I have had occasion to observe a certain [American socialist] who has reproached usâand has quoted the fact as evidence of the complete collapse of communismâfor speaking of transactions with capitalist powers. He has written that he cannot imagine better proof of the complete collapse of communism and the break down of its programme. I think that anybody who has given thought to the matter will say the reverse. No better proof of the Russian Soviet Republicâs material and moral victory over the capitalists of the whole world can be found than the fact that the powers that took up arms against us because of our terror and our entire system have been compelled, against their will, to enter into trade relations with us in the knowledge that by so doing they are strengthening us. This might have been advanced as proof of the collapse of communism only if we had promised, with the forces of Russia alone, to transform the whole world, or had dreamed of doing so. However, we have never harboured such crazy ideas and have always said that our revolution will be victorious when it is supported by the workers of all lands.
Lenin, 1920
âMining companies buy land in Greenland with the knowledge that melting ice will reveal new mineral and oil reserves. Private security firms prepare to defend wealthy clients from civil unrest caused by droughts, floods, and famines. Dutch engineering companies sell flood-management expertise and plans for floating cities. Wealthy investors buy vast swathes of farmland in the Global South in hope of cashing in when droughts make arable land scarce. Many millions will die from the effects of global warming and capitalists are counting on it.â
â Kai Heron and Jodi Dean, Revolution or Ruin
âHours before polls opened in Bolivia, de facto Interior Minister Arturo Murillo launched a massive military show of force, praising securit
Hours before polls opened in Bolivia, de facto Interior Minister Arturo Murillo launched a massive military show of force, praising security forces for removing "dictator" Evo Morales from power in 2019.
@MaxBlumenthal reports from the capital La Paz. (Video by @BenjaminNorton) https://t.co/PeIlBkwwTQ
