MARK TAYLOR—Israelis are learning no matter how racist and entitled one may be, you cannot create a safe haven by creating a catastrophe for other people. • One thing the US/Israeli genocide in Gaza — and now the West Bank — has shown is just how lied to we have been about the true fascistic nature of Israel and the death grip the big money Zionist lobby has on the government we finance. It’s time for Americans to step up and learn the true history about the truly evil nature of the foreign fascist government that now runs the White House, Congress, State and War departments.
AMERICAN PROPAGANDA
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‘It’s Time to Take Medicare Advantage Off the Market’
18 minutes readDAVID HIMMELSTEIN—The plans really trick the system in a couple of ways. One is that they seek out healthy, low-cost enrollees who are going to be inexpensive for them to cover. So they get the lump sum payment from the Medicare program, but the insurance company doesn’t actually need to pay for care. In fact, for 19% of Medicare enrollees, they cost nothing in the course of a year. So when an insurance company enrolls them, they get something like $10,000 or $12,000 a year, and they pay for no care at all. So that’s one thing—enroll healthy and inexpensive people and avoid sick ones.
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US Role in Deadly ATACMS Strike on Crimean Beach & Why Ukraine Calls Crimeans “Civilian Occupiers”
4 minutes readBRIAN BERLETIC—A deadly ATACMS strike on a Crimean beach left several civilians dead including children, followed by Moscow blaming Washington for the attack; Senior Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak refused to apologize for the attack, instead insisting civilians are considered “occupiers” and that signs of peaceful life on the peninsula cannot be allowed. The US provides Ukraine with all targeting data for HIMARS/M270 strikes for both shorter range guided rockets and longer range ATACMS according to the Washington Post. Leaked audio between senior German military officers reveal that all NATO long.range weapons require NATO mission planning and targeting data transferred to Ukrainians, with the addition of US and British personnel on the ground helping prepare weapons for strikes; . The deadly attack is only the latest in a long line of atrocities enabled by US.NATO support of Ukraine’s various governments following the US overthrow of Ukraine’s elected government in 2014.
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GARLAND NIXON: BBC PRESENTER SAYS BIDEN SHOULD TAKE OUT TRUMP PLUS BIDEN TELLS EXTINCTION LEVEL LIES
75 Mins readGARLAND NIXON—Using their immense media/cultural power, the liberal establishment in the US, Britain and other “developed countries” in the West, have redefined the meaning of “the Left”. The upshot is a huge cultural and political theft. The “left” nowadays does not resemble the real, historical, Marxist or even liberal left at all. Today’s fake left is packed with zealous warmongers, compulsive free speech witch-hunters, it hates socialism, despises trade unions, can’t tell what a man or a woman is, and embraces all the core tenets of libertarianism, a form of latter-day Calvinism on steroids. The upshot is the disaster we witness today: society is disintegrating, war—including nuclear war—looms in every corner, the culture is desiccated and mostly uncreative, controlled by Wall Street bean-counters; artists, instead of rebels are cowards, sellouts, and conformists; and the political class is rotten to the core.
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EDITOR—The panel discusses the delicate situation engulfing the EU and the United States, where the anti-immigrant issue has gathered considerable momentum, presenting difficult problems (and opportunities) for the reigning oligarchy. It’s noteworthy, says Dust James, that in both the US (capital/imperial core) and Europe (the periphery, where a “labor aristocracy” developed) the capitalists are drifting toward fascism. In America, where the economy continues to worsen for the working class, and the immigration issue (exploited mercilessly by Trump), adds fuel to the flames, such situation could easily drive some sort of fascistic movement forward, even if Trump himself may not be fully aware (or concerned) about the chaotic consequences of his careless opportunism. Mass immigration is an issue with no easy answers, notes Billy Bob; socialists could arguably defend or oppose either side of the equation. There is no doubt, however, that lowly paid Americans—including many Latinos—are fiercely hostile to “illegal immigration”, since any mass influx of undocumented workers will inexorably depress wages.