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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/08/ztkk-s08.html
The bogus claims by US President Trump that his economic agenda, based on a tariff war against the rest of the world, would bring a new “golden age” for American capitalism are being ripped apart by jobs data for the economy as a whole and the emergence of mounting sackings across US industry.
Figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Friday showed that job creation in the US economy has stalled, with only 22,000 new positions created in August. The number of jobs created in the previous two months was revised down by 21,000. This confirms the trend revealed in the data for July, after which Trump sacked the BLS chief, claiming the figures were “rigged.”
‘Devastating’ New Jobs Report Shows Labor Market ‘Cracking’ Under Trump
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/04/yssj-s04.html
Trump’s Caribbean massacre: A naked crime of US imperialism
The African roots of the Argentenian Tangos ( Shango ) and the Milonga Racism is not only a phenomenon of the USA, Europe, and South Arica, it is also a Latin American phenomenon.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Shango. Shango is an African deity which is also part of the Cuban religion known as Santeria but in Cuba and Puerto Rico the african roots are not hiden
They have hiden the African roots of the Argentinian music, and black are invisible on the television, radio and public life, but they do exist in the Argentinean soci3ety, they speak Spanish and they have the same accent of the white European population.
They removed the Bongos, Congas and the African hat, and they introduced Europeans musical instruments, the same process took place in Chile
Most famous composers in Latin American music have been peasants and most did not have any musical background, such as Rafael Hernandez, Pedro flores, in Mexico the composer Alvarez Carrillo is not shown because he is mixed with African from cuba and natives, and Tona La Negra is from Haiti and Maria Luisa landin is mixed with African and they were famous singers
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/02/nx-s1-5525984/venezuela-trump-drugs-caribbean
Trump confirms U.S. strike on alleged Venezuelan drug boat
————————————————————————————————————-The US government is an expert sinking ships in order to find excuses for a war.
How can we know that the ship was carrying drugs ? There are a lot of fishing ships in that area.
How drugs cartels are going to send a ship with drugs in the middle of a military fleet ?
The USA government has always said that most drugs come inside the US thru the border, and most drugs and they have thousands of troop to the border
Legal port of entry for drugs are used by US citizens, they are not used by immigrants .
This situation sounds like Iraq weapons of mass destruction
Peoples in the Caribbean are saying that the best drug cartel is the US DEA
The bourgeois press is not telling the truth to their readers
Iran was caught off guard during the first strike by Israel, they were counting on a meeting that they were going to have with the US, and many of his officials and scientists slept in their own private residence and were killed. They did the same attack as the Japanese in Pearl Harbor which was also a surprise attack .
The USA knew in advance about the attack and they provided logistic information to the Israeli army, and Iranian air defense were not completely destroyed and the damages were immediately repaired
The Iranian missiles which are hypersonic missiles were able to penetrate and avoid Israel air defense system and they were able to destroy many military targets including air defenses, F-35 aircrafts, and they were able to prove that Israel system have weakness and that their famous air defenses are not so effective and that their supply of missiles is limited compared to thousands of missiles that Iran has in reserve,
They need the military backup of the US because they can be defeated by the advanced Iranian forces and they can run out of missiles.
It is not true that the Iranian people want to overthrow the government, on the contrary, they do not trust the US or Israel and they might end up providing support to the actual government, and some Iranian government enemies might become their friends.
The US government is holding a hot potato in their hands because this war can become a regional war and their forces can be also attacked and can be destroyed by islamic terrorists, in fact, the US has 40,000 troops in different military bases around the area.
The US has already dispatched a battalion to the Middle East of aircrafts carriers, destroyers, warplanes, bombers and troops.
There are some reports indicating that Chinese airplanes were flown to Iran probably carrying military hardware, and it is known that Russia, China and Iran have signed a treaty of military collaboration.
The US was defeated in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan by a less professional army compared to the Iranians, and Iran is not the same as Libya, Grenada, Haiti, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, and others countries that the US have invaded, and the attacks that Israel carried in Egypt, Lebanon and others countries where they obtained a victory were also done by surprise and they were also weakened.
The geography of Iran is different to others countries in the Middle East and they have high mountains and its army have been trained in guerrilla warfare and they have a population of 90 millions and the size of the country is closer to the size of Eastern Europe, and the US army and the Israel army is not prepared to confront that type of war–
Por una sociedad sin clases, sin estado, sin sistema monetario, y sin líderes = socialismo/comunismo
Most of those anti Trump groups are very superficial, they never go to the real roots of the problem, they and several others leftists and Leninists groups think that the problem of the US is Donald Trump and his cabinet, and that by placing Trump instead of Kamala Harris was not the solution.
Kamala Harris was going to continue Joe Biden policy and the economic was not promising was they were projecting, if the situation was so good for the workers why they vote for the economic instead of Harris ? Donald Trump was a much better snake oil salesman, the economy was in bad shape already and she was going to continue the wars and tensions with Russia, Iran and China
Both represented the same interests and Trump is the continuation of several policies established by several presidents before him uncluding Joe Biden, Barrack Obama, George Bush, jr and Sr, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, the only difference is that Donald Trump is doing it in a more open way
All those measures lately established by Donald Trump were also done by prior presidents from both political parties, and in some way he is re establishing some measure done during the presidency of Roosevelt and John F Kennedy, trying to do regime change and sending troops and warship to Latin America is nothing new, JFK asked several presidents to resign or to be killed, and Johnson sent troops to different countries.
It was part of the gunboat diplomacy and Monroe doctrine, and Jimmy Carter established the Carter doctrine in the Middle Easta, and since the very beginning George Washington wanted to occupy Haiti and send slaves that they were not able to control to Haiti.
Barrack Obama and Joe Biden deported more foreign workers than Donald Trump, even more Obama was called the deportee in chief, and Joe Biden approved thousands of temporary workers because there was a shortage of labors and during the 1930 thousands of US citizens were deported to Mexico and the depression was blamed on them, and Ronald Reagan approved an amnesty because there was a shortage of agricultural workers
He is not the first one to impose tariff, the tariff system was imposed by the congress in 1789 and Mckinley was called the Tariff man of 1890, all of them passed in order to produce income and revenue for the state and to protect US goods from English importation and others countries, and to reduce taxation on the capitalist class.
He is not doing anything new, the only difference is that his government style is chaotic, but it is part of the actual situation of world capitalism, there was a prior presidential candidate who tried to be friendly with the Soviet Union and he lost the nomination and a warmonger was elected .
The best way to understand that is by reading and studying the real history of the USA written by progressive Historian, and the main problem is not racism, the main problem has been capitalist development all the time and the employment of cheap labor force to produce large amount of surplus value
Most presidents since George Washington have followed the same policy, the problem of the USA started since the very beginning that it was formed as a capitalist nation, therefore the main problem is capitalism, and they can replace Trump and the new president will continue with the same policy and will uphold many of his policies
Amtrak is the US government railroads transportation system. It was already in the hands of the state.
Years ago most “public” transportation was done by trains
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Across_the_United_States_by_train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz9I-Px67rA. Back to the 1800 with more modern trains
Pure ignorance or opportunism. Going back to the old days of Roosevelt’s new deal who also expropriated several capitalist properties into the hands of the state, and shared ownership with several corporations.
The state is becoming a corporation able to run business to produce profits. Nothing different to Soviet and Chinese state capitalism.
They run a campaign against the so called big government, but they are increasing the size of the state apparatus, it shows that the state must always participate in the economic affairs of the society
They are taking over the control of Washington DC railroad stations which means that they are taking possession of the system of “public” transportation, another state capitalist measure, it was also done by Domingo Peron in Argentina.
They are going to continue expropriating many economic sectors, voters have been fooled again. That is what some media reporters call corporate/ welfare socialism
Chickens are coming home to roost
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/27/trump-dc-union-station-takeover/85846895007/. DC union station takeover
The War department of the Department of war was the original name for several decades and the person in charge was the Secretary of war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_War. No more secretary of the defense, now it is going to be the secretary of the offensive. The Secretary of war negotiating a peace agreement might sound contradictory . The war budget is one trillion.
He is doing the same thing of the Spaniards, when they arrived to the Americas, they changed the names to everything that had already being named, the name of North America was the turtle island and The Americas was Abya Yala, and the South West was called Aztlan
He should call the White House the black house because it was built by black slaves
https://www.leftvoice.org/trump-cannot-deliver-lasting-peace-in-ukraine/
Trump cannot deliver lasting peace in Ukraine
They want to dissolve NATO or leave it, and to run the show by themselves, to take the natural resources of Ukraine or share temporarily it with Russia, like Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin did on the Postdam treaty after World War 2, and two factions took over the whole world and the fight continued
On his first term he said that NATO was only needed in order to confront the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact, although the Soviet Union pact was formed as a response to NATO and the militarization of Europe and Germany by the Western Powers and the USA, and then he said that he wanted them to pay more by buying USA weapons
Donald Trump is a very unstable political leader, he always changes his mind, he is a business man, he is not a politician, the real politician is Joe Biden who has been a politician for almost 50 years, and he is like a chameleon, he adapts himself to any situation and he is more diplomatic, they placed him next to Barrack Obama because he had more experiences.
The main source of Russian income is oil and weapons manufacturing ( specially oil ) and they continue doing that with others countries like China, India and Latin America, therefore those sanctions are not going to affect them, at the present time BRICS has control of the biggest world population and the biggest world market and the USA can not control them
The US Congress can pass any act or any law and he will violate it, that is toilet paper for him, he is a typical capitalist who just want to produce profits at all cost . Later on he will change his stand regarding Russia peace agreement and ceasefire
That is the problem of following leaders like sheep, they can not change anything to please the working class, they are changed by the market system and the logic of capitalism, but the majority of the workers do not see that, they think that capitalist leaders are going to resolve their problems and like a pendulum they oscillate from left or right or viceversa.
The left wingers do not understand that either because they are leaders followers too, and they think that their leaders will do a much better job, and both sides are the same, they are irrelevant, they are two wings of the same bird known as capitalism, and in the case of Ukraine/Russia they do not understand that this an inter class conflict, one group support the Ukrainian leaders and another group support the Russian leaders and for them Putin is a working class leader fighting against fascism, the same old stalinist/ troskyist stand.
In the website and forum of RT ( formerly Russia Today ) they are insulting each others without any political substance, they are unprincipled, empty suits, propagating many conspiracies theories.
Only a class consciousness working class can resolve all world conflicts, but sadly the working class is not ready yet
Ironically, now the real warmongers are the Democrats leaders and the European leaders. Donald Trump wants to sign a peace agreement with the Russians in order to split among them the natural resources of Ukraine.
We know that peace agreements and ceasefire among the capitalists can be violated, and they have done that all the time
The Russians already have the best part of Ukraine, and they have Crimea which gives them access to the seas for their naval fleet.
The Russians do not want NATO to be their closer neighbor either, trying to weaken Russian did not work out and trying to bring Russia to their sphere of influences did not work either.
The BRICS conglomerate is getting stronger and getting more members and Russia and China are part of that commercial cartel
Roosevelt New Deal was state capitalism, and during the war he expropriated/leased lands, farms, factories, yachts and boats
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/19/nwmp-a19.html
Divisions between NATO and the USA
Crisis summit at White House over Ukraine war riven by divisions
