Thomas_More
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Europe going to war.
We still use the phrase “sold down the river”, which originated with slaves in border states (north of the Dixon Line) being threatened to be sold down river – i e. sold south, where conditions were harshest.
The report.
Apparently the US has demanded of the interim president to stop trading with Russia, China and Cuba.
I can’t see the US releasing Maduro, though Russia has insisted it do so. Will this bugger the talks with Putin over Ukraine too?
True, all of what is happening in the world is the normal functioning of capitalism. What is different is that now it is more naked. The old lies of “freedom/democracy” vs “evil commies” etc. have largely been discarded, and all should now be able to see resources and profits as the real reason for conflicts. (Many still remaining such brainwashed passive consumers of govt media that they don’t). But even those who do see through capitalist propaganda still feel hopeless and powerless in their alienation from one another, paralysed, despondent and resigned. The fact that large numbers of young workers assume a nuclear holocaust will wipe them out at some time, and just resignedly carry on with “life” under ‘capitalism eternal’, tells us how powerless they feel, opting for distractions “in the meantime.”
