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The Mexican Stand-off. Who blinks first?
Putin has said he will consider a military response if Russia feels threatened by Nato, in a sign that he is not ready to de-escalate tensions over a potential invasion of Ukraine.
“If our western counterparts continue a clearly aggressive line, we will undertake proportionate military-technical countermeasures and will respond firmly to unfriendly steps,” he said in televised remarks. “I’d like to stress that we are fully entitled to do that.”
Iran has held an air defence drill in the vicinity of its southwestern Bushehr nuclear power plant amid ongoing tensions
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/12/20/iran-holds-air-defence-drill-over-bushehr-nuclear-plant
Pentagon officials issued detailed new rules Monday prohibiting service members from actively engaging in extremist activities.
The new policy lays out in detail the banned activities, which range from advocating terrorism or supporting the overthrow of the government to fundraising or rallying on behalf of an extremist group or “liking” or reposting extremist views on social media.
https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-military-extremism-02c18e646805ede69802644e44aeb37a
Isn’t value as described by Marx an abstraction…socially determined as LBird says but unable to quantify?
Diana Neslen regularly attends her local synagogue and keeps a kosher home but has been accused of antisemitism.
Neslen is a member of Jewish Voice for Labour. The group estimates that more than five times more Jewish than non-Jewish Labour members have faced actioned complaints of antisemitism.
Chile Votes for Socialism
And when Boric fails, it will be socialism that gets the bad name
Build Back Better dead in the water
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/19/joe-manchin-biden-build-back-better-no-fox-news
Vice-President Kamala Harris was asked which Joe was the “real” president, Biden or Manchin
“C’mon, Charlamagne,” Harris snapped. “It’s Joe Biden. No, no, no, no. It’s Joe Biden…”
I think we know the right answer.
And as for the real vice president, not Harris but Krysten Sinema
From my exchanges on CRT, what is always missing is the understanding that class is always absent from the discussions.
American schools don’t debate labour union history, much less the stories of the left-wing. They may know of the Red Scare of McCarthyism because it attacked Hollywood movie stars but, the Sedition Act and persecution of the IWW and Debs the SPA the Palmer Raids, the criminal syndicalism acts, the Alien act and the deportations of foreign-born radicals, the strike waves of the 1930s and the rise of the CIO.
Once upon a time Eugene Debs’ ‘Appeal to Reason’ sold more than a million copies a week in the years before the First World War.
At its peak in 1912, the radical, if still reformist, Socialist Party of the USA organised 118,000 individual members, published no less than 323 different publications with a combined readership of over two million, polled 900,000 votes in that year’s Presidential election, and elected 1,200 office-holders in 340 cities, including 79 mayors in 24 states.
Morris Hillquit ran for Mayor of New York on an anti-war platform in August 1918, called for a negotiated peace, and polled 146,000 votes. Victor Berger was elected and re-elected to Congress.Opposition to the USA’s entry into the war in 1917 brought a total of 2,100 people arrested and indicted for opposing the war, and over 1,000 convicted, with over 100 of them receiving prison terms of 10 years or more. Debs, the 64-year-old party leader, was sentenced in 1918 to 10 years in jail and was not released until 1921, long after the war was over. 17 COs were sentenced to death (commuted), 142 to life in prison, and 345 to prison terms that averaged 16 years.
CRT should be renamed Class Remembered Theory.
Imagine the outrage if anti-zionists made similar statements as Trump did.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/israel-had-absolute-power-over-154439528.html
Russian jets in the Belarus sky
https://apnews.com/article/europe-russia-ukraine-moscow-belarus-d5a87da9e35af0929f62fdb0a2624118
20,656 ballots against recalling Sawant and 20,346 in favor—a victory margin of 310 votes.
Anti-5G necklace shown to be radioactive
My understanding is that Florida, following the example of Texas on the abortion issue, will permit parents to sue school boards if they teach CRT which is so very loosely defined, that a history lesson describing the ending slavery and the introduction of Jim Crow laws to foil ex-slaves from benefiting from the Reconstruction would be CRT
Russia has put forward a highly contentious list of security guarantees it says it wants the west to agree to in order to lower tensions in Europe and defuse the crisis over Ukraine.
The eight-point draft treaty was released by Russia’s foreign ministry. The demands include a ban on Ukraine entering Nato and a limit to the deployment of troops and weapons to Nato’s eastern flank, in effect returning Nato forces to where they were stationed in 1997, before an eastward expansion.
