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October 27, 2023 "From the Encyclopaedia Britannica…the term “Semite,” was given to a member of any people who speak one of the Semitic languages, a family of languages spoken primarily in parts of western Asia and Africa. The term therefore came to include Arabs, Akkadians, Canaanites, Hebrews, some Ethiopians and Aramaean tribes. When people use the term “Anti-semite,” to mean prejudice of ONLY those of Jewish origin, its ….ummm Bullshit! Now that we got that little fun fact out of the way… “As of today - Palestinian Officials have stated; that between October 7 and 26th, 2023 7,028 Palestinians were killed, including 2,913 children…The ministry said the actual number of dead is likely to be much higher than stated in the report...” https://www.britannica.com/topic/Semite https://consortiumnews.com/2023/10/20/israels-war-is-not-just-against-hamas/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=36f4b363-ca29-4307-8237-74b2480c8185 https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/we-have-political-cowards-at-a-time?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1336368&post_id=137993900&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=5p7oj&utm_medium=email https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/we-have-political-cowards-at-a-time

https://councilestatemedia.substack.com/p/will-you-condemn-israeli-war-crimes?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1336368&post_id=137798842&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=5p7oj&utm_medium=email https://www.patreon.com/cemedia https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Palestinian-Israeli-Conflict-Phyllis-Bennis/dp/1623719879#:~:text=With%20straightforward%20language%2C%20Phyllis%20Bennis,Hamas%20to%20the%20Goldstone%20Report

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May 7, 2023 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/04/28/dtuv-a28.html?pk_campaign=newsletter&pk_kwd=wsws “Republican House bill on debt ceiling sets stage for bipartisan assault on social programs” https://realprogressives.org/taxes-dont-fund-federal-spending/ “Taxes Don’t Fund Federal Spending” https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/debt-ceiling-congress/ “The Debt Ceiling Explained. Once More, With Feeling…”

April 30, 2023 Written in September of 2021, titled “Through Pluripolarity to Socialism,” I figured, what better way to jump back into my second year of this podcast than reading some excerpts from the manifesto itself, on May Day. People’s and Peoples’ Demands for Socialism Today: Capitalism long ago ceased to be historically progressive. Humanity faces the task of wrestling the world-girding socialization of production from its control right on the verge of a new industrial revolution involving robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, quantum computing, biotechnology, the Internet of Things, 3D printing and the like. Capitalism cannot develop their full potential while China leads the way, increasingly gaining control over their standards, intellectual property and associated rents from the capitalist world and challenging the cyber supremacy of the US security state. Today a number of peoples are already building socialism, but most are left paying the price of keeping declining and extortionate capital in control. It is high time all working people began building socialism by forming themselves into a ‘class for itself’, overthrowing the capitalist class and taking political power. Of course, we will reach communism – a society that produces use values, rather than (exchange) value, and distributes the social product by taking ‘from each according to their ability’ and giving ‘to each according to their need’ – only at the end of a long road. We must traverse several stages of socialism – increasingly socialized production, distribution and outlook – before our productive capacities, our societies and our cultures become capable of relating to other individuals, groups and societies in solidarity, whilst living harmoniously with other species and the planet. In doing this, the key is seizing control over the state from capital. The role of the public power, the state, is essential and distinctive and control over it should be in the hands of working people. Though capital may rule over considerable private enterprise, particularly during the early socialist stages, a socialist state must progressively subject all production to social ends through planning for the general interest. Whether to socialize given means of production will be a contextual and often pragmatic decision. Each country, with its historical configuration of productive development, social organization and culture, will proceed along this path with its own pace and pattern. Some may join the journey late, some may take interesting detours and some, likely a small number, may not join in anytime soon. The overriding principle of ‘people and planet over profits’ implies the following major demands of people and peoples struggling for socialism: 1. Physical, economic and emotional suffering during the pandemic makes the full socialization of health care, with universal access free at the point of use, the lever that opens the gates to socialism. It must include community-based public health systems extended to the remotest districts and villages capable of offering the best prevention and treatment approaches for present and future pandemics. Such healthcare systems are possible in poor countries as well as rich and have two further advantages. Their need for skilled medical practitioners will expand public education, training and research in prevention and cure, offering high quality work for many. Their need for an active public authority strongly committed to social welfare is just what is objectively necessary for the transition to a socialist society. If such a public health system proves possible, if not wholly at least substantially, people will clearly see, demand and be willing to work towards, extending its model to other cognate spheres, such as education, child and elder care or housing....

https://www.workers.org/2023/01/68784/

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/personal-finance/snap-emergency-boost-ending/ https://frac.org/programs/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/02/02/hxip-f02.html?pk_campaign=newsletter&pk_kwd=wsws https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/02/fed-raises-borrowing-costs-with-another-jumbo-interest-rate-hike.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock#:~:text=Nixon%20issued%20Executive%20Order%2011615,of%2010%20percent%20was%20set. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/27/business/job-insecurity-of-workers-is-a-big-factor-in-fed-policy.html https://abcnews.go.com/Business/fed-unemployment-rise-economists-lose-jobs/story?id=90375709 https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2022/07/11/CF-US-Economy-Inflation-Challenge https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/cpi-report-today-january-2023-inflation/card/to-save-money-maybe-you-should-skip-breakfast-fSd6mz0miaAPhUFb2jgy https://theconversation.com/extra-snap-benefits-are-ending-as-us-lawmakers-resume-battle-over-program-that-helps-low-income-americans-buy-food-199929

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/02/09/making-taiwan-the-ukraine-of-the-east/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=32b91ed8-54a5-4708-809c-f23fb608c353 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/02/01/owfy-f01.html?pk_campaign=newsletter&pk_kwd=wsws

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/02/04/pomo-f04.html?pk_campaign=newsletter&pk_kwd=wsws https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hconres9/BILLS-118hconres9ih.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Labour_Front#:~:text=On%202%20May%2C%201933%2C%20trade,to%20cooperate%20with%20the%20Nazis. In an article from the World Socialist Web Site titled: “The specter of socialism haunts US Congress” Last week, as the US Congress discussed approving billions more dollars in weapons for the war against Russia and began negotiating cuts to social programs in advance of the debt ceiling expiration, the House spent three days discussing and adopting a resolution denouncing socialism and pledging to reverse all the social gains made by the working class on a global scale in the century since the Russian Revolution of 1917. The media presents the passage of the resolution as nothing more than a propaganda ploy by the far-right Republicans, but it is much more than that. By dedicating a substantial portion of its legislative agenda to a condemnation of socialism, the US Congress expresses the fear within the ruling class that a powerful socialist movement will take root in the working class and orient the emerging wave of strikes and social struggles in a revolutionary direction. The three-page resolution, titled “Denouncing the Horrors of Socialism,” recites a century of lies about socialism promulgated by fascist White Russian émigrés, Hitler and the John Birch society. The vote was overwhelming, with 328 voting in support and 86 against. Republicans voted 219-0 in favor of the resolution and were joined by a majority of Democrats, 109 of whom voted in favor with 86 against....

https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/us-surrounds-china-with-war-machinery?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=82124&post_id=100767866&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email https://6abc.com/second-chinese-spy-balloon-latin-america-surveillance-china/12768114/#:~:text=The%20Pentagon%20has%20confirmed%20to,spotted%20transiting%20over%20South%20America.

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/01/17/more-austerity-means-more-protests-in-2023/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=0bacefe6-0b3c-4ba3-b467-b667404936ce https://apnews.com/article/france-retirement-age-limit-protests-866eb86aea5cf0d39894b96d2888c26f https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uk-nurses-strike-strikes-pressure-national-health-service-inflation-economy/ https://www.axios.com/2022/12/19/worker-strikes-surged-in-2022

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/01/22/ellsberg-losing-1st-amendment-reverses-war-of-independence/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=2f7b1d16-dd94-4292-af27-2946bd62417d https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange https://stfrancislaw.com/blog/10-most-famous-whistleblowers/ A transcript from Daniel Ellsberg address to the Belmarsh Tribunal in an article from Consortium News titled: Ellsberg: Losing 1st Amendment Reverses War of Independence January 22, 2023 Daniel Ellsberg says using the Espionage Act against journalist Julian Assange in blatant violation of the First Amendment means the First Amendment is essentially gone. For those who are not familiar with Daniel Ellsberg here is a little background: Ellsberg is an American political activist, and former United States military analyst. Employed by the RAND Corporation, Ellsberg precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of the U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post and other newspapers. On January 3, 1973, Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 along with other charges of theft and conspiracy, carrying a total maximum sentence of 115 years. Because of governmental misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering. (I’m going to read this in first person. For the complete article and Ellsberg’s video, I placed it below in the description) One of the foundation stones of our government here in the United States, for democracy and a republic, is our First Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids any law by Congress or the states abridging freedom of speech or of the press, along with freedom of religion or of assembly, that precluded the passage of a British type Official Secrets Act, which most countries have. Almost no other country has a law singling out the press as protected by our freedom, by the First Amendment and the British type Official Secrets Act, which criminalizes any or all disclosure of information protected by the government executive branch. Even disclosure to the public or to the press or to Congress or Parliament is criminalized and subject to prison. Julian Paul Assange is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. WikiLeaks came to international attention in 2010 when it published a series of leaks provided by U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.[a] These leaks included the Baghdad airstrike Collateral Murder video (April 2010),[4][5] the Afghanistan war logs (July 2010), the Iraq war logs (October 2010), and Cablegate (November 2010). After the 2010 leaks, the United States government launched a criminal investigation into WikiLeaks.[6] In November 2010, Sweden issued a European arrest warrant for Assange over allegations of sexual misconduct,[7] which he denied and said that the warrant was a pretext for a further extradition to the United States over his role in the publication of secret US military documents.[8][9] After losing his battle against extradition to Sweden, he breached bail and took refuge in the Embassy of Ecuador in London in June 2012.[10] He was granted asylum by Ecuador in August 2012[11] on the grounds of political persecution and fears he might be extradited to the United States.[12] Swedish prosecutors dropped their investigation in 2019, saying their evidence had "weakened considerably due to the long period of time that has elapsed since the events in question".[13] In April of 2019, Assange's asylum was withdrawn following a series of disputes with Ecuadorian authorities.[17] The police were invited into the embassy and he was arrested.[18] He was found guilty of breaching the Bail Act and sentenced to 50 weeks in prison.[19] The United States government unsealed an indictment charging Assange with Conspiracy to Commit Computer Intrusion related to the leaks provided by Manning.[20] In May 2019 and June 2020 the United States government unsealed new indictments against Assange, charging him with violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and alleging a history of conspiring with hackers.[21][22] Editors from newspapers as well as press freedom organisations, criticised the government's decision to charge Assange under the Espionage Act, characterising it as an attack on freedom of the press.[23][24]

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/01/16/oamp-j16.html?pk_campaign=newsletter&pk_kwd=wsws https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/debt-ceiling-congress/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avdsPqQRI2Y Blowing the lid off the Debt Ceiling, Davos and Biden Once again, Michelle W. John K. and Steve G. discuss the debt ceiling narrative as it resurfaces for the nth time in the last 20 years. Listen to how this deflection and misinformation on how money and their government really works to further maintain the capital order. You too will soon have a deeper understanding that the debt ceiling is a made-up consensus that has no real purpose under a fiat money system decades later after the deterioration and dismantling of gold standard lunacy. MMT activists have chipped away at its effectiveness each time it is manifested on command by the neoliberal establishment. Other topics discussed include Biden’s classified documents scandal and its impact on his potential 2024 run, as well as the World Economic Forum in Davos, and how mega corporations like Microsoft and Amazon laying off thousands of their workers. Be sure to check it out! https://realprogressives.org/

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/01/17/mufg-j17.html?pk_campaign=newsletter&pk_kwd=wsws https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/survival-richest https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/621477/bp-survival-of-the-richest-160123-en.pdf For more in depth analysis I suggest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YL_iAA06nY Richest 1% took 2/3rds of global wealth since 2020 - twice as much as 99% of population earned - Geopolitical Economy Report - Ben Norton

I/15/2023 Taxes for Revenue are Obsolete! https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2015/08/18/taxes-for-revenue-are-obsolete/ https://www.thebalancemoney.com/what-is-the-history-of-the-gold-standard-3306136 https://stephaniekelton.com/about/ https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/45731395-the-deficit-myth "In my previous episode titled “Gold, Sanctions and De-dollarization,” I talked about how the global economic system is changing. From the dominance of the US dollar as the currency used for all global trade, into a multi-polar system where countries are aligning to go around the dollar mostly due to US sanctions..."

"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Holding-Venezuelan-Gold-in-the-Bank-of-England-is-a-Robbery-20220804-0005.html "British Judge Cockerill's decision prevents the Venezuelan State from accessing 32 tons of gold that have been held in the Bank of England since 2018." https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/01/05/muwf-j05.html?pk_campaign=newsletter&pk_kwd= Today, I would like to talk about gold. I’m going to read a decent amount of this article, not the whole thing, but enough so that people will understand what is happening in the global economic system of which seems to be bifurcating or splitting apart into a multipolar system away from the US dominated hegemonic system. The full article will be in the description below. So, an article from the World Socialist Web Site titled: "Central bank gold purchases highest in more than half a century" "It has not attracted much attention in the financial press but the World Gold Council (WGC), a think tank and lobby group for the industry, has reported that purchases of the precious metal, once the basis of the international monetary system, were the highest in 2022 for 55 years."

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/15/zvav-d15.html?pk_campaign=newsletter&pk_kwd=wsws An article from the World Socialist Web Site Back on December 14th 2022 Titled: "Fed lifts rates and indicates they will remain higher for longer"

"Cathy Vogan, the executive producer of Consortium News‘ webcast CN Live!, recently coined a new term to describe rule by psyops, or psychological operations: psyopcracy. According to Wikipedia: “Psychological operations (PSYOP) are operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. The purpose of United States psychological operations is to induce or reinforce behavior perceived to be favorable to U.S. objectives.” William Casey, C.I.A. director under Ronald Reagan, said: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” Thus the American people are continuously subject to a number of psychological operations otherwise known as “the news.” U.S. intelligence officials feed journalists disinformation to create a false narrative that is intended to mislead the public and cover-up what is actually taking place. The constant reinforcement of these lies becomes entrenched in the public mind and after time comes to be accepted as unquestionable truth..." https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/27/fighting-the-psyopcracy/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=fa21f63f-6253-4b20-b139-093061113246

Dec. 4th 2022 In my “Breaking it down episode # 4” We talked about inflation. How corporations are raising prices because of the false narrative that they need to keep up with a “tight labor market” which is causing wages to rise and therefore corporations need to increase prices to keep up with this “Wage Price Inflation!” This couldn’t be further from the actual reason for inflation. What we are being told is a lie. “Wage increases have not even kept up with inflation. Most workers’ paychecks are shrinking in terms of real purchasing power. Rather than causing inflation, wages are actually reducing inflationary pressures. The underlying economic problem is profit-price inflation. It’s caused by corporations raising their prices above their increasing costs.” (price gouging!) “Corporations are using those increasing costs – of materials, components and labor – as excuses to increase their prices even higher, resulting in bigger profits. This is why corporate profits are close to levels not seen in over half a century.” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/25/inflation-price-controls-robert-reich In an Opinion piece in the Guardian by Robert Reich in September, titled: Corporate greed, not wages, is behind inflation. It’s time for price controls So, how are corporations, the insanely rich donors of all the capitalist countries governments countering the global unionizing and strikes around the world to prevent the working class from making any progress to overcome the corporate profit price inflation? One way was increasing the interest rate by central banks, a direct attack on the working class. Since that hasn't stopped unionization and cross union solidarity, and strikes…. laws have been created to beat down workers into submission! https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/03/grbw-d03.html?pk_campaign=newsletter&pk_kwd=wsws https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/03/ontario-doug-ford-strike-fine-bill-28-canada https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/12/02/athe-d02.html?pk_campaign=newsletter&pk_kwd=wsws

Outrageous Brainwashing Event—Sponsored By Bush Institute and CIA-Backed National Endowment for Democracy (NED)—Deliberately Falsified History to Inflame American Hatred Against Russia and China https://covertactionmagazine.com/2022/11/22/outrageous-brainwashing-event-sponsored-by-bush-institute-and-cia-backed-national-endowment-for-democracy-ned-deliberately-falsifies-history-to-inflame-american-hatred-against-russia/?mc_cid=0f0d777ca4&mc_eid=4804cdcbd0 https://multipolarista.com/2022/06/30/nato-eurasia-us-hegemony-mike-pompeo/ Into music by Fear Factory - Monolith from the album Aggression Continuum

Hello and welcome again to “LEFT to it ALL,” I am your host C.M. Phillips and this is “Breaking it down” a half and hour show to discuss important current events that are happening in the world. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/11/12/ycnq-n12.html?pk_campaign=newsletter&pk_kwd=wsws https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/25/inflation-price-controls-robert-reich

Hello again and welcome to LEFT to it ALL. I am your host C.M. Phillips. Today we will be doing something different on the show. I am bringing on a friend from Twitter to interview and share his concept of MAGA/ Communism. We have discussed this concept a bit on Twitter and even though I am not educated enough in it, I truly believe that for the majority of people…the working class and the poor, to overcome the oppression of the rich ruling elite we must come together as a society to change our circumstances for the better! So today my guest is Valedictorion, the man who is most hated by the CIA, and 1776 lover: Napoleon. I will put his Twitter handle in the description, below. So, Napoleon, welcome to left to it all! https://showinfrared.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-maga-communism?utm_source=direct&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web So you sent me an article on Sustack called: The Rise of MAGA/Communism Something has been awakened. And it's only the beginning. “All political strategy begins, as an almost axiomatic premise, with an understanding of ‘right-wing’ and ‘left-wing’ forces. Thus, one often gets views as the following: Should we vote for Biden? It depends, can we push him left? He is more to the left than Trump… Voters in America didn’t like Bernie, because he was too far to the left, and Americans are currently very right wing. How can Nazism come from the Democrats? The Democrats are not as right wing as the Republicans, and Nazism is far right. Of course, this neglects to explain how supposedly ‘right wing’ forces appear to outflank leftists all the time, assuming positions, successfully at that, that appear to be associated with the extreme-left, like the unconditional anti-interventionism espoused by figures like Ron Paul, or the discourse against free market neoliberalism associated with the nascent 2016 Trump campaign. The contrary is also true. If Breitbart were to release an article expressing a favorable view of eugenics, it would be derided as a form of far-right Nazism. But if MSNBC were to release that same piece, attempting to rehabilitate it from the perspective of climate change, it would pass under the radar of ‘leftists’ without question. Such unthinkable scenarios happen all the time. The Western Left routinely defends arming Ukrainian Neo-Nazis (i.e. as in, some don’t even deny they are Nazis, but defend arming them anyway) with high-grade military equipment, as the lesser of two evils in the face of Russia.”

Labor, unionization, global strikes..... Music by fear Factory Monolith.