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Do you find it strange the silence of the media over Israeli attacks on Iranian ships yet highlights a suspected attack on an Israeli ship by Iran
at least a dozen ships en route to Syria during the past two years, most of which have been carrying Iranian oil, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing US and regional officials
Under capitalism, nuclear power is no answer.
https://www.dw.com/en/nuclear-climate-mycle-schneider-renewables-fukushima/a-56712368
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/11/video-shows-israeli-troops-detaining-palestinian-children
Settlers complain so Israeli army arrests children for foraging for wild food
3.2 million households in the UK have acquired a pet since the start of the pandemic. That means the country now has 17 million pet-owning homes.
The RSPCA said the boom in pet ownership could turn into a “crisis” for those animals once their owners returned to work after lockdown.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56318576
Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has told the BBC that a clash between the US and China is more likely than it was five years ago. The prime minister said if both nations continue to take a hard line because of domestic considerations, they could easily find themselves at an impasse.
However, he maintained that the odds of military conflict are “not yet high”.
Prime Minister Lee said “The US is still number one but number two [China] is not so far behind,” he said. “That is what is difficult for the US to accept.”
Sabre rattling from the US
Admiral Philip Davidson, head of Indo-Pacific command, said, “The military balance in the Indo-Pacific is becoming more unfavorable for the United States and our allies. With this imbalance, we are accumulating risk that may embolden China to unilaterally change the status quo before our forces may be able to deliver an effective response,” adding that “I cannot for the life of me understand some of the capabilities that they’re putting in the field, unless it is an aggressive posture.” He continued that he is concerned China would invade Taiwan within the next six years. By 2025, China will be able to deploy three aircraft carriers
Ooops..5th of March was also the 150th anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg’s birth which we were amiss in commemorating
What happens when the progressives shifts the Democrats to the left? Look at Nevada.
Sanders-aligned progressives backed by the Democratic Socialists of America won the State party’s top leadership posts. The results prompted resignations of the party’s staff and consultants straight after they transferred $450,000 from the state party’s campaign accounts.
As with Corbyn, the Party machine operatives would rather sabotage the actual Party than cede power to any radicals.
Gorter declares, “…Our intention is to give the working class the certainty that it has the truth, and confidence in its mental powers…”
Have you addressed the issue i put before you, LBird, that your own form of individualism is the antipathy of social action with you deliberate distancing from contributing to the purpose of transforming fellow-workers into combatants in the class war, preferring to engage in the mere contemplation of philosophical nuances.
Some of my comrades may find your fixation with Marx and material idealism would disturb the harmony of Party life but i’m not known for always seeing eye to eye with others in the Party about a number of questions. We do have room for members presenting contentious opinions. I myself am proof of that.
Or are you happy to continue to condemn yourself to your self-imposed political exile and take little or no participation in the self-emancipation of your class?
The oft-neglected Blanqui once said, “The new social organism cannot be the work of one single person, nor of a few people…It is the work of everyone…The river thus slowly takes shape from the confluence of a thousand springs, of billions of drops of water.”
2,000 people have been arrested and the death toll has climbed to more than 60.
Hundreds of soldiers and police were deployed to Ma Hlwa Gone railway station and its staff housing compound early Wednesday morning where about 800 workers are participating in strike action.
“We are united,” railway workers chanted
The purpose of the Socialist Party is not that complicated to comprehend and a 1939 article explains its role.
“The material world demands critical analysis in order that social problems are understood. The solution to those problems must be explained in unambiguous and practical fashion. Working-class problems are material; their solution, Socialism, consists of material proposals.”https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2021/03/has-christianity-solution-for-social.html
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/03/09/the-internal-feud-that-may-doom-scottish-nationalism/
Much of this venom is driven by a desperate effort to damage the SNP before the May election for the Holyrood parliament in which, at the time of writing, the SNP is set to win a narrow majority. It would interpret this as giving it a popular mandate for demanding a second referendum on independence. Since the popularity and competence of Sturgeon is the SNP’s biggest asset at the polls, anything damaging to her – even if it does not destroy her politically – could stall the advance towards a pro-independence vote.The Prince Harry-Meghan Markle revelations were boring, uninspiring, tedious, self-promoting celluloid slush.
Boring Revelations and Fanciful Victimhood: The Harry-Meghan-Oprah Show
