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Techno-Financial Capital and Genocide of the Poorest of the Poor
James Petras
‘The war and its results have turned Yemen back a hundred years, due to the destruction of infrastructure . . . especially in the provinces of Oden, Dhalea and Taiz.’ - Izzedine al-Asbali, Yemeni Human Rights Minister
‘Yemen is devastated. There are no roads, water or electricity. Nobody’s left but thieves.’ - A resident of Sana (Yemen)
Introduction
The Euro-American and Japanese ruling classes, as well as their collaborators in the Afro-Asian and Latin American countries, have accumulated vast profit. This has occurred through a complex stratified system re-concentrating the world’s wealth through: 1. The exploitation of labor in the First World (North America and Western Europe); 2. super-exploitation of labor in the Second World (China, ex-USSR); 3. dispossession of peasants, native communities and urban dwellers to grab resources, land and real estate in the Third World; and 4. wars of genocide against the poorest of the poor in the ‘Fourth World’. Besides all the forms of brutal exploitation and dispossession, which enrich the Euro-US ruling classes, by far the most sinister and threatening to humanity is the concerted worldwide effort to literally exterminate the poorest-of-the poor, the hundreds of millions of people no longer essential for the accumulation and concentration of imperial capital today.
A Terrible Beauty White denial in the face of overwhelming evidence is a sight to behold
By Daniel Patrick Welch
First of all, spare me any #notallwhites vitriol because *you* haven't personally lynched any black people today. [Incidentally, it may be a frivolous aside, but can there be any more depressing harbinger of non-change that this--Lynch--is the last name of the newly installed Attorney General?] If that is your initial reaction, you have already missed the points I haven't even made yet. You might want to stop reading here (though you in particular should probably read the whole thing). It is a thing of sheer beauty--terrible, evil beauty to be sure. But beauty nonetheless in the way that a near perfect, almost poetic conflation of hubris, hyperbole and hypocrisy can be admired for its boldness and bluster: Resistance to oppression is required to be polite, and to conform to standards of politeness set by the very oppressors themselves and their allies, witting or un-. FUCK YOU. The youth of Baltimore are rising and expressing a pent up rage that is centuries in the making. It is not for me to tut tut and impose my idea of political organization. The left needs to watch, and learn. Look at who is protecting whom, who is threatening whom, who is siding with whom. Judge the media. Judge the police state. Judge a white supremacist society in all of its tentacles that shape our perception and experience in so many fields. This is the lens through which to understand what's going on.
Anniversary of Last May's Odessa Massacre
by Stephen Lendman
What happened reflected Kiev ordered no-holds-barbarism - an atrocity committed by a US-installed, Nazi-infested fascist regime against anti-Maidan Odessan civilians wanting to live free.
Nazi Right Sector thugs murdered hundreds of defenseless victims in cold blood.
What happened was far worse than reported. Massacring people reflects the worst of fascist viciousness. Mass murder was planned in advance. Hundreds of anti-regime Odessans sought shelter in the city's Trade Union House (TUH) building.
Right Sector thugs awaited them inside - armed and dangerous. Mass slaughter followed.
Nearby tents used by peaceful protesters were set ablaze. Doing so preceded a well-planned operation.
Police stood by and did nothing. They conspired with fascist killers. So did Odessan firefighters. They only appeared after massive TUH entrance doors burned through.
KIev's Poroshenko Vows Continued War
by Stephen Lendman
He lied agreeing to Minsk ceasefire terms. He violated them straightaway.
He has no intention of observing them. Washington won't permit it. Obama wants escalated conflict. He's readying Ukrainian forces to launch it full-scale.
He deplores peace and stability. So does Poroshenko. He's beholden to Washington controlling his geopolitical agenda. On state-controlled television, he said "(t)he war will be over only when Ukraine regains control of Donbas and Crimea."
Obama Fights to Spread GMO Foods Throughout Europe
Eric Zuesse
One of the major barriers blocking U.S. President Barack Obama’s campaign for his mammoth international trade deals — the TTIP with Europe, and the TPP with Asia — is: other countries want the freedom to make up their own minds about the safety or dangerousness of the foods they allow to be sold within their borders.
The Obama Administration is insisting that no nation have that freedom. In fact, all participating nations would be removed from that responsibility and authority. The Obama trade deals propose to replace that national authority, and basic national sovereignty on these important matters, by decisions that would instead be made by international panels, whose members will be appointed by international corporations, which have their own profits at stake in these matters. Consumers and others will be ignored: they will not be represented in the proposed panels. Nor will any government be represented there. That soverignty will instead be transferred to the billionaire families who control and derive their income from these corporations.
Hillary Veers Left, to Head Off Sanders
Eric Zuesse
In order to attract some of the liberal support that would otherwise go to Bernie Sanders, who is her new challenger for the 2016 Democratic Presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton is announcing that too many people are in U.S. prisons, and that this nation should let lots of them out.
Amanda Terkel at Huffington Post headlines about it, "Hillary Clinton To Call For 'End To The Era Of Mass Incarceration' In Major Speech.” As reported there, this speech will call for "an end to a system that disproportionately targets black men.”
Hillary Clinton needs the votes of America’s Blacks, and is therefore going to campaign against the institutionalized racism of American society, so that she can get into the White House and serve the Wall Street, GMO, Big Oil, and other financial backers of her political career, especially Wall Street, such as is shown here:
More Evidence of Ukraine's Reign of Terror
by Stephen Lendman
Oles Buzina
A previous article discussed how Obama-installed fascist thugs eliminate anyone opposing their ruthlessness.
They're harassed, brutalized, imprisoned, disappeared or murdered in cold blood - including assassinating political opponents reported as "suicides."
Independent journalists, human rights workers and democracy advocates are vulnerable - anyone criticizing regime policy.
CyberBerkut is a Ukrainian hacker collective. It hacked into Kharkov regional state administration deputy head Vyacheslav Abbakumov's emails.
It reported the following, saying:
"We, the CyberBerkut, hereby present for public access materials confirming that the physical liquidation of public and political figures opposed to the Kiev Junta was authorized by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), and was supervised by the Kharkov political elite; the 'cleaners of Free Ukraine' turned out to be Kharkov-based nationalist groups."
Trojan Horse Highlights Opposition To Fast Track Of Secret Deal
By Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers, and Kelsey Erickson of PopularResistance.org
Escalation of Protest Against Fast Track for the TPP Comes at a Time When Congressional Leadership Admits it Does Not Have the Votes to Pass Fast Track
Report: Up to 75 House Republicans Oppose Fast Track, Almost All Democrats Oppose, Fast Track is Dozens of Votes Short of a Majority
Don't Travel to Israel Ever for Any Reason!
by Stephen Lendman
Doing so could be nightmarish - especially for anyone wishing to visit Occupied Palestine.
What French music students Philomene Constant and Bastien Anthoine experienced could happen to anyone.
Mondoweiss published their horrifying account. Israeli hospitality reflects police state viciousness.
Stay far away from its borders. Warn others against traveling there. Jewishness is no protection.
Beginning in September 2013, Philomene and Bastien spent a year in Occupied Palestine.
"We gave and attended music classes (violin and flute) at the Edward Said National Conservatory in Ramallah and helped to create a music school in Jericho," they said.
Obama Wars Rage at Home and Abroad
by Stephen Lendman
Endless Obama wars of aggression rage in multiple theaters abroad and at home against ordinary Americans.
Yemen is his latest imperial atrocity using regional proxies to do his dirty work. A nation is being systematically destroyed.
Its entire population is threatened by terror-bombing, ground conflict, war related violence, starvation, overall deprivation and appalling human misery.
Ukraine threatens to explode in escalated war - at Obama's discretion. Hundreds of US, UK and Canadian combat troops are readying its Nazi-infested National Guard and likeminded paramilitary battalions to wage greater terror-war without mercy than already on Donbass residents wanting to live free from the scourge of US-imposed fascist dictatorship.
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