Interview: Knesset member Ofer Cassif: "Psychopath Netanyahu is Poisoning the country"
The Knesset voted to suspend Cassif for six months for his "denunciation of the genocide in Gaza & his criticisms of his own country’s fascist government."
Ofer Cassif joins Mehdi to discuss his suspension from the Knesset, his denunciation of the genocide in Gaza, and his criticisms of his own country’s “fascist” government.
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Well, ain't this weird. The Swedish prime minister Ulf Kristersson (also known as Uffens-Fuffens or Ulf in Sheep Clothing) both called and sent a written congratulations to Trump, but apparently what they spoke about is so sensitive that the transcription had to be redacted.
Trump and his allies disavowed Project 2025 during the campaign. But now transition officials are utilizing its extensive personnel database for potential hires.
"Pete Hegseth, when he was at Princeton, published an article that said that women who are raped while they're passed out actually, that's not really can't consent, if they're not aware of what's happening to them, that's not rape."
The cryptocurrency industry spent almost $200 million to influence the outcomes of the 2024 United States elections. Let's talk about where the money came from, where it went, the cryptocurrency industry's political goals, and what’s next.
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HuffPost obtained a White House message to senators ahead of a crucial vote on sending the Israelis more arms amid the Gaza and Lebanon wars. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is helping the administration shield the policy.
It's not “just that these people are not qualified enough" or even "totally unqualified," warned Timothy Snyder, who said their selection aims to do one thing.
Well, I guess Donald Trump is going to kill any international student participation in US colleges. On the whole? It’s probably a good idea because I wouldn’t wanna be stuck at the United States with what’s going to happen.
If you’re applying to colleges internationally, reconsider the US just skip us over. It’s not gonna be worth it.
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November 20, 2017 – “Donald Trump took steps to close his charitable organization one year after he had promised he would. The org explained that they could not shut earlier because they were technically still under investigation for “self-dealing”—a prohibited practice where the owner of a charitable organization secretly funnel money from the charity into their own bank account. Trump violated this rule in 2015.
After Trump decided to end the Temporary Protected Status program in his first year, Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen wrote over Twitter, “I traveled to Haiti after the earthquake in 2010 and after hurricane Matthew in 2016. So I can personally attest that Haiti is not prepared to take back nearly 60,000 TPS recipients under these difficult and harsh conditions.”
November 20, 2017 – The Trump administration chose to end the Temporary Protected Status program for 59,000 Haitians, forcing them to leave the United States by July 2019 or face deportation. After the Haitian earthquake in 2010, millions of Haitians lost their homes. A massive outbreak of Cholera endangered hundreds of thousands more during recovery from the hurricane.
In 2011, the Obama administration deemed the situation in Haiti precarious enough to grant Temporary Protected Status to Haitians staying in the U.S., allowing these Haitian citizens to live in the U.S. while conditions remained dangerous in their homeland. Obama renewed their TPS status multiple times during his time in office, through his final year when Hurricane Matthew decimated the island again.
The US is preparing to announce a $275 million military aid package for Ukraine
This package is expected to include HIMARS ammunition, artillery shells, and Javelin missiles, among other equipment.
The announcement comes as the Biden administration aims to expedite the delivery of approximately $7 billion in military aid to Ukraine before President-elect Trump's inauguration, amid concerns that the incoming administration may halt future weapons shipments. #AureFreePress #News #press
The U.S. gov. has tried to silence photographers before.
"It hired famed photographer Dorothea Lange to take pictures as 110,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans were removed from their homes on the West Coast and interned at remote military-style camps throughout the interior.
The agency had hoped Lange's photos would depict the process as orderly and humane.
But the hundreds of photos that Lange turned over did the opposite."
Slavery continues to be the main driver of right wing #uspol at all levels.
The most salient horror for a lot of people is abortion access. Forced birth is literally "involuntary labor." Forced reproductive labor is simply corvée (temporary de facto slavery) enforced by the state.
Forced birth serves at least 3 purposes related to slavery. It forces women, especially black and brown women, to stay in low wage jobs. Black and brown women are the basis for the service industry. Forced birth is a mechanism to enforce wage slavery.
Wealthier people tend to be able to circumvent laws against forced birth, so it's really about targeting people who are already disadvantaged. Families who can't plan birth are more likely to reproduce generational poverty.
When combined with the push to strip away support, children of forced birth are more likely to themselves be in poverty. Two pipelines exist to siphon forced birth children in to other forms of slavery: school to military, and school to prison.
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Slavery continues to be the main driver of right wing #uspol at all levels.
The most salient horror for a lot of people is abortion access. Forced birth is literally "involuntary labor." Forced reproductive labor is simply corvée (temporary de facto slavery) enforced by the state.
Forced birth serves at least 3 purposes related to slavery. It forces women, especially black and brown women, to stay in low wage jobs. Black and brown women are the basis for the service industry. Forced birth is a mechanism to enforce wage slavery.
Wealthier people tend to be able to circumvent laws against forced birth, so it's really about targeting people who are already disadvantaged. Families who can't plan birth are more likely to reproduce generational poverty.
When combined with the push to strip away support, children of forced birth are more likely to themselves be in poverty. Two pipelines exist to siphon forced birth children in to other forms of slavery: school to military, and school to prison.
Folks who don't have military family may not realize that the military is a form of slavery in the sense of people being owned. Some military jobs can pay a lot. They can lift people out of poverty. There is a reason people join the military, beyond adherence to Americanism. But none of that makes it not slavery. If you get a hand tattoo, you are charged with "damaging government property." Soldiers are government property. It's pretty literal.
Prison labor is a pervasive element in the US economy. Basically all major corporations use it. While folks may say that the things I've talked about so far are not literally slavery, or may contest my use of language, prison labor is often explicitly slavery justified by the gap in the 13th amendment ("except as punishment for a crime").
Those who aren't siphoned off generally remain in poverty to perpetuate the next generation of this system.
Now, the thing about slavery us that the point isn't actually the free labor. In terms of labor, these pipelines are actually more expensive (to society) than just having a free society. Just think about it. Chattel slavery required a massive portion of the society to suppress slave revolts. Police, today's slave catchers, are *by far* the largest part of any city budget and prisons are incredibly expensive. The "free labor" that corporations get is really massive subsidization. The point of slavery is to maintain social stratification.
All wage workers are, in a sense, kept (to lesser and lesser degrees) in subjection by the threat of more extreme forms of slavery. The high wage worker obeys because they are afraid of becoming a low wage worker. The low wage worker obeys because they are afraid of being houseless. Houselessness is made illegal so they can be swept in to prisons and enslaved. The entire capitalists system is built on increasing threats of subjugation and violence, where stratified classes are aligned more and more with the dominant class and have more and more incentive to enforce it's will on other subjugated people.
It's slavery all the way down.
Malcolm X was taking about this structure in 1963.
Elon Musk, very much a product of apartheid South Africa, uses Tesla to destroy mass transit because he and other oligarchs are afraid to be in stabbing distance of the poors.
You are forced to use a car because (1) the capitalist class uses cars to keep themselves safe and (2) having the world behind a paywall makes you easier to control.
Pay attention to how afraid people are of using mass transit. That anxiety is not just fear of safety, it's also fear of being perceived as lower class. It's class anxiety trained in to people to align them with the interests of the ruling class against the interests of everyone.
"Oklahoma is the only state where every district voted for Trump, and Massachusetts is the only state where every district voted for Harris. Yet, Massachusetts leads the country in quality of life and in almost every category of wealth, health, and education, while Oklahoma, on the other hand, is last or almost last in those same categories.
“President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is bypassing traditional FBI background checks for at least some of his Cabinet picks while using private companies to conduct vetting of potential candidates for administration jobs, people close to the transition planning say,” CNN reports.
Planned replacement of up to 50K career civil servants with pol appointees loyal to T:
This position is at odds with American public opinion. A survey from last Mar: 87% of said that 'having a nonpartisan civil service is important for having a strong democracy.'
"There're good reasons to doubt that" Trump can fire tens of thousands of federal civil service workers. "Statutorily," the civil service as we know it today was created in 1883 by the Pendleton Act..." #USPolalternet.org/trump-project-202…
One of the many controversial proposals in Project 2025 — the Heritage Foundation's widely criticized 920-page blueprint for a second Trump Administration — is firing tens of thousands of federal government employees and replacing them with an army o…
RFK Jr. was always a populist, and the transition from the populist left to the populist right is seamless. They don't even have to traverse the center to do it, either.
![A transcription of a call between Swedish Primeminister Ulf Kristersson and Donald Trump (also known as Fascist in Command) congratulating him on him being elected president. Most of the call has been redacted for security reasons.
The rest of the contents:
Regeringskansliet
Statsrådsberedningen
D-post-R: SB/2024-11-18/1814
Statsministerns samtal med Donald Trump
[Gratulationssamtal i positiv ton.]
Nedan från samtal nyss mellan SM och Donald Trump. REDACTED
Samtalet varade en dryg kvart och fördes i positiv och hjärtlig ton.
SM framförde gratulationer för valsegern. REDACTED](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/3390449 "A transcription of a call between Swedish Primeminister Ulf Kristersson and Donald Trump (also known as Fascist in Command) congratulating him on him being elected president. Most of the call has been redacted for security reasons.
The rest of the contents:
Regeringskansliet
Statsrådsberedningen
D-post-R: SB/2024-11-18/1814
Statsministerns samtal med Donald Trump
[Gratulationssamtal i positiv ton.]
Nedan från samtal nyss mellan SM och Donald Trump. REDACTED
Samtalet varade en dryg kvart och fördes i positiv och hjärtlig ton.
SM framförde gratulationer för valsegern. REDACTED")
