“Since arriving, he has worked tirelessly to build a stable life, following every legal step toward citizenship.” …. But the Jew Nazi Glosser-Miller writes our laws.

Paulo Kirk

Jul 25, 2026

Oregon county adopts anti-sanctuary resolution, aligning with Trump immigration agenda despite state law

A representative with a statewide coalition supporting immigrant rights warned the county would face legal action if it attempts to implement the resolution.

The lengthy resolution, which was crafted by Commissioner Chris Boice, expressed the board’s opposition to any Oregon laws that contradict the federal administration and its current immigration enforcement crackdown. It also says the county, located in southwestern Oregon, can cooperate with federal authorities.

The resolution caused outrage among some county residents who told The Oregonian/OregonLive that it was problematic for several reasons, among them that it had not been listed on the meeting’s agenda and the public wasn’t allowed to comment. They said the board also painted a false picture at the meeting of undocumented immigrants being cartel members and drug dealers.

However, some community members who attended the meeting also appeared to be supportive of the resolution. Several people could be heard clapping after its approval.

[Commissioner Chris Boice]

County resident Melissa Sherwood, who attended the meeting, said Boice blamed drug trafficking in the county “on brown people without providing any evidence.”

“It’s pretty sickening. It’s pretty despicable,” she told The Oregonian/OregonLive. “But what I find incredibly upsetting about all of this is the underhanded nature in which it was done. They purposefully did not put it on the agenda, meaning we, the people, did not have a chance to comment on it.”

BOICE = Send his fucking ass back to France, UK, Ireland, that is, parts of his body in boxes, man!!

• French/Normandy: Derived from the Old French word bois (meaning wood or forest), given to people who lived near wooded areas.
• English: Brought over by the Normans after 1066, appearing early on in land rolls as del Bois or de Bois.
• Irish: Sometimes used to anglicize the Gaelic surname Ó Buadhaigh, meaning “descendant of the victorious one”.

In February 2025, Coos County commissioners rejected a proposal to allow federal immigration officials into their jails after hearing that the measure could place the county in legal jeopardy. A few months later, Yamhill County officials deleted mention of immigration enforcement in a draft agreement with the U.S. Marshals Service after community members raised concerns.

Jess Montoya, network director of Oregon for All, a coalition of organizations in Oregon that advances immigrant justice, said the county’s resolution is in “direct contrast” to the state’s sanctuary protections.

“Our state laws are not optional,” she told The Oregonian/OregonLive. “If Douglas County attempts to implement this, this would be a violation of Oregon law, and legal action would follow.”

But it’s not clear what, if anything, the resolution will do. During the meeting, Freeman clarified it was not an ordinance, simply a resolution with the board’s opinion.

“This resolution feels like political theater,” Montoya said.

[fucking slave patrol, Douglas County.]

Lori Kuebler, who has lived in Roseburg for 16 years, said she believes the commissioners drafted the resolution carefully by saying it’s their “opinion” to protect themselves legally, while still potentially providing leeway to the county’s sheriff to work with federal authorities.

She said her undocumented neighbors are productive members of society.

“We have a Mexican bakery here in town. I’m friends with those people,” she told The Oregonian/OregonLive.“I worry for those people now.”

Lies your greenwashing pornographer told you . . .

The nascent chemical recycling industry – in which plastics are broken down into oils or constituent monomers to be remade into new materials – is contracting across Europe and the US as recyclers call for policy stability to make the industry investable.

Recent closures, postponements or project cancellations ‘reflect the broader structural crisis facing the whole of Europe’s plastics recycling industry (both mechanical and chemical),’ says Maria Vera Duran, policy director at industry body Recycling Europe.

Not concerned citizens or adults who don’t want peeping Toms in the neighborhood, but rather “Vigilantes”?

Inside the growing vigilante movement to knock out Flock surveillance cameras

An underground network of privacy activists is disabling or destroying the ubiquitous surveillance devices sprouting up across the USA.

FUCK mainscum NEWS writers (ChatGPT).

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While the pedophile JEw in Chief and his Minyan and Gullible Goyim set the country and world on fire, we have so so much to learn….

In 2012, an angler pulled a brown bullhead out of Lake Memphremagog with what looked like tar smeared across its skin. He brought it to Peter Emerson, a fish biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, who had surveyed the lake since 2009. Emerson had never seen anything like it.

Within three years, the black growths were on a quarter to 40 percent of the lake’s bullhead. This week researchers at the University of Vermont reported in Nature that the melanoma is contagious, spreading from one fish to another as living cancer cells.

It is the fourth type of transmissible cancer known to science, the first in a fish and the first in freshwater.

So Julie Dragon, the associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics who directs that core, went looking for a shared mutation instead. In an ordinary cancer each tumor is a close genetic relative of the animal it grew in, and a family tree of cancers and non-cancerous tissue puts every tumor next to its own host. The Memphremagog trees came out the other way around: all the tumors in one cluster and all the fish in another, with hundreds of thousands of mutations shared across cancers in different fish and absent from the fish carrying them.

“It’s a clonal cancer,” Dragon told me. “It’s not driven by a bacteria or a virus. It’s the infectious agent itself, and it’s moving from fish to fish.”

FASCINATING, absolutely FASCINATING, but in a mixed mugged and mauled MMA society, this is it:

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Absolutely KEY to understanding the dirty USA, the dirty vassals like Taiwan and Philippines and South Korea, man, but not in White Claw CUNTRY.

Regularly $43.99! Listen up, stupid Americanos….

WATCH:

Japan is swiftly remilitarizing, the US is funneling weapons to Taiwan, and the military encirclement of China is only escalating. Is the US driving Asia into war with China?



Tings Chak, researcher at the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and organizer with the Hands Off Asia campaign, joins Amanda Yee to discuss the alarming moves on the part of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to move the country away from its post-WWII pacifist principles – and how it fits into Washington’s preparations for a major military confrontation for China.



Chak explains the US’s “architecture of militarization” surrounding China and how it threatens the entire region. But she also explains how people and movements in Asia are fighting back through the Hands Off Asia campaign.

That White Claw HELL:

A Southwest Airlines flight attendant who allegedly overstayed his visa was arrested by federal immigration authorities earlier this month while at work, officials said.

Lorenzo Thompson, a Jamaican citizen, was arrested July 14 in Nashville, Tennessee, according to local reports.

Thompson first entered the United States April 17, 2021, on a visa that expired Oct. 16, 2021,

House niggers found everywhere . . . the way……

• Aaron Moten as Knowls, the former slave who works with Fassel and Harrington capturing runaway slaves, whom Peter calls “the worst kind.”
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Back on the Pedophile Front . . . Trump Calls Out Canada For ‘Disinviting’ U.S. From Gordie Howe Bridge Opening Amid Trade Row.

We are one disunited Continent . . .

Jenna Ghassabeh, a spokesperson for Canadian Infrastructure Minister Gregor Robertson, told TIME in an emailed statement on Wednesday that the joint ceremony had been canceled, stating “in light of trade action threatened by the United States earlier this week, it would be inappropriate to proceed with a celebratory event between the two countries.”

“We remain committed to opening the bridge on July 27th, and to celebrating this milestone among Canadians on July 24th,” she added.

Time Magazine is definitely feces-laden.

Fucking Mercenaries, another “free get out of jail PTSD card” for the disservices . . . .

The Trump administration wants soldiers to consider becoming truck drivers when they leave the military to help replace the tens of thousands of immigrant drivers who lost their licenses in a crackdown this year.

A new campaign launched Friday will promote programs that let veterans who recently drove large military vehicles skip the required skills test for a commercial driver’s license. Other soldiers can attend a commercial driving school during their last six months of active duty. The GI Bill will also pay for 100% of commercial driver’s license training and for some people even pay a housing allowance while they are in school.

The campaign will be part of a broader interagency effort to help veterans find good civilian jobs that the White House plans to announce on Monday.

The Transportation Department began enforcing existing English language requirements for truckers last summer. Concerns about truck driver qualifications then took on more urgency after an August crash in Florida, when a truck driver performed an illegal U-turn that killed three people. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said that driver, who is from India, should never have been licensed in the first place.

26,000 drivers have been pulled off the road for failing to demonstrate English proficiency, and the Transportation Department said 30,000 commercial licenses were canceled because they were issued illegally. The federal government has tried to withhold millions of dollars of highway funds from California and New York for failing to comply and revoke thousands more licenses, but that has wound up in court. Several other states — including Pennsylvania, Minnesota and North Carolina — have been warned they are at risk of losing funding.

“We are removing more and more dangerous foreign drivers off our roads every day and restoring the integrity of America’s trucking industry,” Duffy said. “Our new Freedom Haulers campaign will help build on these successes and get the word out that there’s never been a better time for America’s former service members to get behind the wheel of a big rig.”

COMPLIANT CUNTS OF USA, versus . . . .

How many will get into this shit, though?

Lockheed Martin unveils counter-drone system that can ‘neutralize up to 50 enemy drones in a single mission’ — sensor-agnostic system uses High Power Microwave to purge enemies from the sky

This portable one-to-many system is reusable and recoverable for a low cost per kill.

Duh….

Led by scientists from Oceana, the Center for the Ecology and Sustainable Management of Oceanic Islands, and the Center for Advanced Studies in Arid Zones, the study used the remotely operated vehicle SuBastian aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel R/V Falkor, to survey four seamounts around the Juan Fernández Archipelago.

Three of the seamounts had a history of bottom trawling. A fourth, ecologically similar seamount called Solito, had never been trawled, providing a baseline for comparison. Solito supported thriving deep-sea coral gardens, abundant sponges, and rich invertebrate diversity. The previously trawled seamounts showed lower live coral cover, reduced biodiversity, simplified habitat structure, and clear signs of seafloor disturbance.

“This study demonstrates that the impacts of bottom trawling on deep-sea ecosystems can persist for decades,” said Dr. Ignacio Petit, Oceana scientist and lead author of the study. “Although fishing ended more than 25 years ago, recovery remains extremely limited because many affected species, particularly deep-sea corals, grow very slowly and can live for hundreds, or even thousands, of years.”

Deep-sea corals act as ecosystem engineers, their structures providing shelter, feeding grounds, and nursery habitat for fish and invertebrates. Corals that take centuries to build can be destroyed by trawling in hours.

“The presence of living corals supports higher invertebrate biomass, including commercially valuable crustaceans such as the Chilean golden crab (Chaceon chilensis) and the Juan Fernández spiny lobster (Projasus bahamondei). Conserving seamount ecosystems therefore also helps sustain local artisanal fisheries,” said Dr. Javier Sellanes, co-author of the study.

Out of Sight, out of the Minds of room-temperature IQ legions.

Fucking blame Canada, Pedophile ZTrump….

Firefighters on Friday are bracing for the possibility of continuing growth of the Aspen Acres fire, warning that storms moving into the area could fan flames with high winds.

The region has received rain, though lightning and “erratic winds” from storms have created conditions for increased fire activity and the potential for new fires to ignite, according to a Friday morning update.

The Aspen Acres fire, southwest of Pueblo, is holding steady at 101,546 acres burned with 61% containment. It remains the state’s largest fire and the seventh largest in Colorado history.

Firefighters on Thursday attacked a new fire, dubbed the Salt fire, that spread across one-fourth of an acre near the Aspen Acres fire. Helicopters transported firefighters to the new fire to build berms.

“raking” and “cleaning” of forests — DJT

Scientists have reacted with incredulity after Donald Trump accused Canada of “poisoning” the US’s air with smoke billowing from a slew of forest fires and threatened sanctions upon the country’s northern neighbor.

The US president has said that he raised the issue of smoke wafting into the US from nearly 1,000 Canadian wildfires with Mark Carney, the country’s prime minister, at the weekend’s World Cup final.

“I told him, you got to stop these fires from coming in and poisoning our air,” Trump said. “If we can help them, we’ll help them. But maybe they should pay us some damages or something, or we should do some tariffs.”

Trump, who has previously advocated the “raking” and “cleaning” of forests to prevent major conflagrations, this week announced 50% tariffs upon Canada, a long-term US ally that he has previously threatened with annexation. The US is being “unnecessarily invaded by filthy, polluted and unhealthy air”, Trump claimed last week.

With palls of wildfire smoke causing unhealthy, hazy skies in cities including New York, Washington DC, Detroit and Toronto in recent weeks, some Republicans in Congress have issued further threats against Canada. Bernie Moreno, a Republican senator from Ohio, said he will introduce legislation to sanction Canada for the “atrocity” of not managing its forests properly.

WHAT??? MAGA states??

Conservative states criticize USDA probes to uncover fraud in SNAP

Blowback from Ohio and Georgia casts doubt on the credibility of USDA’s anti-fraud narrative as the federal government scrutinizes the country’s signature nutrition assistance program.

“In terms of lumping everything under fraud, I’ve never seen it done the way it’s being done right now,” said Alan Shannon, a former USDA employee who worked as a SNAP payment accuracy specialist for more than two decades. “This is highly unusual, and it’s unusual that they would be doing [press] releases on it, and that they would be calling all of this fraud, particularly when that is incorrect language to be using.”

Everything tied to Ztrump is FRAUDULENT.

“After looking at the most comprehensive set of data and after removing duplicates, we found that most of the anomalies flagged by the OIG were properly issued,” Ohio Department of Job and Family Services spokesperson Bill Teets said in a statement.

The difference between OIG’s estimate of Georgia’s SNAP fraud and the state’s own claims was even starker. The USDA watchdog initially concluded there was nearly $300 million worth of potential SNAP fraud in the state, the former employee familiar with the evaluation said.

“There was quite a bit of conflict, actually, between Georgia and the OIG around their initial findings,” the former employee told POLITICO. “Initially it was $280 million, and then after Georgia went through it, it was reduced by like 95 percent.”

We know how fucking SLOW Trump is…………………………….

“As we continue to fact check the report, we unwaveringly attest that it does not fairly or accurately characterize the full body of work at the Smithsonian.”

Paulo Kirk

Jul 24, 2026

• The Photograph: Taken during a Union Army medical examination in Louisiana, the famous image was called “The Scourged Back” and published in Harper’s Weekly.
• The Escape: He fled a Louisiana plantation, used onions to throw off bloodhounds, crossed dangerous swamps, and later joined the Union Army.
• The Impact: The graphic photo served as undeniable proof of the cruelty of slavery and helped boost the abolitionist movement during the Civil War.

A cunt tree of room temperature dangerous kkk rebirthers of a nation / cesspool.

Will Smith is on the hit list . . .

Trump directed federal officials on Friday to ‌install signs outside the Smithsonian’s flagship National Museum of American History to reflect his administration’s criticism of how the institution portrays the United States.

Trump’s executive order cited a White House Domestic Policy Council report accusing the museum of “thinly veiled anti-Americanism” and “extreme political activism.” He said he directed officials to install temporary signs on sidewalks maintained by the National Park Service to correct “inaccurate information presented in the ⁠Museum.”

Trump’s move follows a report released July 4 by his Domestic Policy Council saying leaders of the Smithsonian and its National Museum of American History don’t tell history “in a way that is inspiring, unifying, and worthy of our great republic.”

The president lacks authority to quickly fire the Smithsonian leadership or to order changes to exhibits, so his executive order targets the sidewalks out front, which are maintained by the National Park Service. His executive order calls for signs telling visitors about the White House report and directing them to resources for what he calls “accurate information regarding America’s history.” It also calls for a temporary exhibit that corrects information he deems inaccurate.

Smithsonian officials declined to comment on Trump’s order.

Anthea M. Hartig, director of the American history museum, pushed back on the White House report during congressional hearings this week.

“As we continue to fact-check the report, we unwaveringly attest that it does not fairly or accurately characterize the full body of work at the museum,” she told lawmakers. “There is always room for improvement. But I also know the beauty and the inspiration and the expertise that lies in our collections, our exhibits, and our programming.”

The Smithsonian operates outside the executive branch and museum directors report to Secretary Lonnie Bunch, who is subject to oversight from a Board of Regents.

Trump’s escalating effort to force changes at the Smithsonian marks the Republican president’s latest move to transform cultural pillars of society, such as universities and art, that he considers out of step with conservative sensibilities. Trump had himself installed as chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts with the aim of overhauling programming, and his handpicked board voted to add his name to the building, only to have a federal judge later order the signs to be removed.

Trump has also imposed changes on historical sites beyond Washington, including in Philadelphia, where the administration won a court ruling last week allowing it to reinstall interpretive panels that critics say whitewash the history of slavery at the site of President George Washington’s home. Advocates, academics and officials have been concerned for months that the version that complies with Trump’s order could give a history that plays down the pain in the nation’s past in favor of a more triumphant view.

Trump in March 2025 revealed his intention to force changes at the Smithsonian Institution with an executive order that targeted funding for programs that advanced “divisive narratives” and “improper ideology.”

Rebirth of a Nation?

There is a dangerous method to Trump’s racist madness

But there is also a more complex rhetoric of nationalism in play, one that is authoritarian, neo-fascist, but also potentially inclusive, of a segment of the white population that does not identify with Confederate symbols, neo-Nazi symbols, and Q-Anon paranoia, but does identify with “American Greatness;” and even including some people of color who support him (“I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks,” he has said repeatedly, oblivious to the racism of this very formulation).

In the face of the extraordinary spread of BLM protests, Trump tweeted that he has “done more for Black Americans, in fact, than any President in U.S. history, with the possible exception of another Republican President, the late, great, Abraham Lincoln … and it’s not even close.” In a follow-up interview the next day with Fox News, he equivocated slightly on Lincoln, saying: “let’s take a pass on Abraham Lincoln because he did good, although, it’s always questionable, you know, in other words, the end result.” All of this was predictably denounced by commentators, politicians, and activists rightly outraged by Trump’s “questionable” comment, and by the undeniably racist character of Trump’s entire public persona. The notion that he has done more for Black people than anyone but Lincoln is a most atrocious form of gaslighting by a malignant leader who has turned gaslighting into an evil art.

But while the “Never Trump” partisans of the Lincoln Project are unquestionably correct about the distance separating Trump from Lincoln, it is nonetheless true that Trump does sometimes appeal to a certain version of Lincoln, as defender of “the nation” and as strong leader capable of defeating his enemies and of superintending “the blacks” who apparently need a Strong White Father.

It is this combination of racism and nationalism that is so dangerous. And Trump’s version of it has striking parallels with what is perhaps the single most important racist cultural production in the twentieth century American history: D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of the Nation.”

The film was a groundbreaking development, the first full-length feature film widely distributed in U.S. history, and a box office blockbuster. It was a widely-viewed and hugely influential cultural representation, and it reflected, and reinforced, what became the conventional historical narrative during the Progressive era, which was an era of both racism and nation-building.

Based on a racist novel called The Clansman, the film’s narrative is straightforward, compelling, and propagandistically effective (as film critic Richard Brody observed in a 2013 retrospective, “The Worst Thing About ‘Birth of a Nation’ is How Good It Is”). In brief: the Civil War was an unfortunate War between the States that greatly disrupted American history, pitting brother against brother and “chum” against “chum.” Lincoln understood this, and wished for nothing more than to effect a quick and complete reconciliation between North and South (“with malice toward none, with charity for all”). But poor Lincoln, “friend of the South,” was killed, and the federal government came under the control of Radical Republicans who hated the Southern Way of Life, were power-hungry and arrogant, and who, egged on by nefarious “mulattoes,” used Reconstruction as a way to empower and to use ignorant, gullible, and licentious “Negroes,” who proceeded to attack civilization, form gangs, commit crimes, especially the rape of virtuous white women, and to turn the South upside down. Fortunately, these evil white carpetbaggers and the Negro tools they had empowered were resisted by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who helped to bring Reconstruction to an end. The white people of the North and South could thus be reunited in holy matrimony and fertile union; the Negroes could be intimidated from voting and put back “in their place” where, presumably, they could themselves be more productive, better patronized, and thus happier. A new nationalism—indeed a white Christian nationalism– was born.

The communicative power of this narrative was brilliantly analyzed by Michael Rogin in an important 1985 essay entitled “’The Sword Became a Flashing Vision’: D. W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation.” As Rogin points out, Griffith himself explained that he titled his film “Birth of a Nation”: “because it . . . the Civil War was fought fifty years ago. But the real nation has only existed in the last fifteen or twenty years . . . The birth of a nation began . . . with the Ku Klux Klan, and we have shown that.”

White Man Cometh….. Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him.

The white slavers chaser, running us all down.

Key Takeaways

• Flock Safety CEO claimed cameras only capture static images, contradicting his own prior statements.
• Flock’s deleted blogs and Condor service confirm live video streaming was built into existing hardware.
• Five law enforcement agencies secretly piloted live ALPR video before Flock quietly discontinued the feature.

When LAPD allowed its Flock Safety contract to expire, CEO Garrett Langley went on ABC7 with a reassuring message. “A car drives by, we take a picture,” he said. “It’s a static picture of a car, and then we read the license plate.” Simple. Harmless. Except roughly a year earlier, Langley told Forbes something quite different: in a 911 scenario, Flock would “just open up the five nearest cameras in real time and say, here’s what’s happening right now.” That’s not a static picture. That’s live video.

[White House app transmits 77% of network requests to third-party companies

• GPS coordinates tracked every 4.5 minutes during active app usage
• JavaScript code stripped cookie consent banners and bypassed GDPR protections]

The slave patrols . . .

Five agencies quietly tested live video on Flock ALPR devices before the feature was discontinued for law enforcement with no public explanation.

Five law enforcement agencies ran a “limited pilot” for live video on ALPR devices, a Flock spokesperson confirmed after 404 Media pressed for answers. The feature was quietly tested and then discontinued for law enforcement in March. No public announcement accompanied the rollback — the kind of quiet Google-killing-a-product move that tends to resurface later in a different form.

The ACLU has documented a broader pattern. Flock previously told city officials it didn’t create “heat maps” of vehicle movements, then later admitted it does, according to ACLU reporting. The organization has characterized Flock’s expansion as a troubling move into traditional video surveillance and audio analytics. Meanwhile, city FAQs in Bartlesville, Woodburn, and Cheyenne still tell residents Flock cameras “do not record video” — language that traces directly back to Flock’s own talking points.

Your neighborhood almost certainly has these cameras. The underlying hardware capability is unchanged, and a software update already turned live video on for at least five agencies. What keeps it off now is a company policy — from a company whose public statements have repeatedly needed revision.

Sure, Jews are LOSING….. NOT.

Greece has approved the purchase of a multi-layer air defense system worth up to €3.5 billion ($4 billion) from Israel, several types of drones and Embraer’s C-390 military transport aircraft, its defense minister said on Thursday.

The country’s security council, KYSEA, gave its initial approval earlier this year and approved the procurement contracts on Thursday, Nikos Dendias told journalists.

Jews are in on it………. It is no accident that Secretary of State Marco Rubio was among the first to embrace a hemispheric variation on the most famous slogan in American politics: “Make the Americas Great Again.”

What reads at first as wordplay in fact carries considerable weight, because it names something that has rarely been harder to deny. The agendas of the U.S. and much of Latin America are advancing, increasingly and perhaps inevitably, in the same direction, closing gaps that have often widened in the past.

The vastness of stupidity . . . Poll: Republicans’ gas price problem is even worse than it seems

Three in five Americans believe gas prices in their area have risen by more than they actually have, according to a POLITICO analysis.

Of the 46 percent of Americans who said gas prices will have an impact on their vote, just under 40 percent said they are considering voting for a different party than they normally would, including 49 percent of MAGA Republicans and 57 percent of non-MAGA Republicans.

“Three quarters of the country is confronting higher gas prices and feeling it,” said longtime Democratic strategist Jesse Ferguson. “That leaves them … very vulnerable to the economic pain and very vulnerable to the economic argument the Democrats are going to make.”

Dirtiest cuntry in the world dong what? Elections where?

Slavers . . .

You fucking White WHores of the USA . . . Why Venezuela can’t access $4 billion in gold that could help with earthquake recovery

[A Roman gold bar from the 4th century is handled by curator John Keyworth in front of replica modern bars at the Bank of England museum on May 12, 2006.]

White slavers NRA . . . .

Slaver Cunt-Tree:

Trump has once again inspired anger and confusion in US allies and trading partners as he imposed a wave of tariffs on more than 80 countries, replacing an expiring global duty introduced earlier this year.

The new measures effectively replace blanket 10% tariffs that Trump imposed in February. The US supreme court ruled many of those were illegal. The new levies come in at between 10% and 12.5% on countries including the UK, Mexico, Canada, Australia, India, China and the 27 countries that make up the EU.

They are imposed under section 301 of the US Trade Act of 1974, and the Trump administration has said the new measures are due to the dozens of countries failing to enforce bans on goods produced by forced labour.

The imposition of the new tariffs led to Asian stock markets taking a hammering overnight.

“If you compare our ‌labour laws to the ones of the United States, I mean, we have paid vacations, we have very good labour conditions for our employees, so ‌it’s not really grounded.”

Fifteen years ago today, during one of our country’s worst economic crises, Americans saw the last federal minimum wage increase. Since then, we’ve experienced costs skyrocket across the board, far outpacing the minimum wage – yet there’s been no meaningful action from Republicans or this Administration to make life more affordable. The American people deserve policies that lower costs and make their lives better, and that starts with the money they take home. I will continue fighting for these long overdue, commonsense economic reforms so our neighbors can not just get by, but get ahead.

A fucking War is a Racket Example Blast from the Past: How the U.S. Purchased the 1990 Nicaragua Elections (written July 1, 1990)

Brian S. Wilson: *Photo: Here I am pictured with President Comandante Daniel Ortega as he was campaigning for re-election in the 1990s. The U.S. sabotaged the electoral process and for 16 years Nicaraguans suffered under neo-liberalism.”

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Clinton can’t escape blame in Haiti’s failed recovery from the earthquake, critics say

Paulo Kirk

Jul 24, 2026

ruthless economic systems, colonial resource extraction, and military priorities directly caused or severely worsened mass starvation. Critics and historians label these events as “human-made” or “artificial” famines because sufficient food existed globally or locally to save the victims, but political decisions blocked its distribution.

Clinton is an Oxford man: Five years ago . . . . .Rhodes Scholar Talbott’s Hand Revealed in Russia Gate, The Only Foreign Interference America Should Worry About is British

Talbott himself may be American by blood, but thoroughly British in spirit. Both he and Clinton were Rhodes Scholars at Oxford in the 1970s and were joined by dozens of other Rhodes Scholars who flooded into the White House in 1992.

While appearing on the surface to oppose the brute force approach of the neoconservative Straussians, the Rhodes Scholar nests have distinguished themselves over the past century by promoting a world order that saw a more technocratic/Malthusian system of controls with the USA playing a subservient position in the Great Game. The Straussian neocons on the other hand aimed at a post-nation state world order with America acting as the lead and monetarism serving as a ruling religion. The differences between these two outlooks differs only superficially, as both plans involve a global bankers dictatorship controlled by the City of London and both demanded divided world of war, poverty and resource monopolies by an elite that have no allegiance to the USA or any sovereign nation state, per se.

This outlook was expressed by Talbott in a most visceral manner in 1992 when he said:

All countries are basically social arrangements…. No matter how permanent or even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary…. Perhaps national sovereignty wasn’t such a great idea after all…. But it has taken the events in our own wondrous and terrible century to clinch the case for world government.

Ain’t no real journalists in this pile:

University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax, who has a history of making inflammatory and racist statements, is drawing public ire again.

[Amy Wax is a tenured professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School who frequently identifies herself as a white Jewish woman.] Another hemorrhoid Jew.

Driving the news: In an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson last week, she said “non-Western peoples,” and specifically Black Americans, harbor resentment and shame over Western achievements.

• She then went on to disparage Asian and South Asian doctors at Penn Medicine, singling out Indian women.
• “They are taught that they are better than everybody else because they are Brahmin elites, and yet on some level, their country is a s–thole. … They’ve realized that we’ve outgunned and outclassed them in every way,” she said.

Controlled, man, fucking multimillionaire white shit

“He can stop all legal immigration on his own discretion.”

Judge Andrew Napolitano analyzed President Donald Trump’s immigration pause from developing nations on Monday’s “National Report.”

• Napolitano has stated he has never voted for Trump and has not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan in 1984. [1]

Hmmmm: We Are Living in the Most Corrupt Democracy That Could Be Imagined

On June 30th 2026, the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representative of the American Congress held a Hearing entitled Mind Control and Accountability: Uncovering the Truth of the CIA’s MKULTRA Project. The hearing was led by republican Anna Paulina Luna. In her opening speech she stated:

“This hearing is about the crimes committed by the Central Intelligence Agency against the American citizens and the decades of secrecy used to conceal them.

The American people deserve a complete and truthful record. The victims and their families deserve acknowledgement, and this Congress has a constitutional obligation to ensure that full declassification is not delayed any longer.“ (19:59)

The witness testifying in the hearing Tom O’Neill, the author of the book “Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties“ stated that renowned American psychiatrist Dr. Louis Jolyon West was working for the MKUltra project. In his career he was examining the assassin of the assassin of John F. Kennedy, Jack Ruby. After his examination, Jack Ruby had suffered an acute psychotic break after which he was no more able to give testimony to investigators and never explained why he killed Lee Harvey Oswald. This psychotic break lasted until his death in 1967.

I’ll take the dirty work of Freud and Bernays any day” =

Edward Bernays defined the concept in his 1947 essay The Engineering of Consent, stating that shaping public opinion is vital for society.

• “The engineering of consent is the very essence of the democratic process, the freedom to persuade and suggest.”
• “Any person or organization depends ultimately on public approval, and is therefore faced with the problem of engineering the public’s consent to a program or goal.”
• “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.”

Core Ideas

• Persuasion as a Tool: Bernays viewed persuasion not as a threat, but as a necessary part of a free society.
• Scientific Approach: Action must rely on research and a clear understanding of the public.

Ain’t no House Negro here = THINK JEW Trained.

Buck-Dancing for Zion: Byron Donalds

A DEI hire for the optics, a Zionist errand boy for the donors—inside Byron Donalds’s real agenda.

José Alberto Niño

Like most Republicans in Congress, Donalds is an ardent Zionist. Donalds went to the George Washington University encampment in spring 2024 alongside Lauren Boebert and other House Republicans, confronting demonstrators directly and pressing the university and city officials to clear the site.

He set out his view of the alliance early. In a November 2020 interview with JNS, weeks after his first election to Congress, Donalds said the American relationship with Israel “is the most important one in the region, probably the world.” Israel, he added, “is the one standing country that comports with our values as Americans, and that’s why [the relationship] is vertical.” Pressed on whether that squares with an agenda built on putting American interests first, he argued that “having a strong relationship with Israel is critical for our national security interests as well,” then asked, “I mean, who are we going to share interests with? The Iranians?”

My man, my man:

Rubio said the president is pursuing a head for an eye policy after Iranian attacks killed four US service members, three in a July 17 missile and drone strike on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan and a fourth the next day during a controlled detonation of a downed Iranian drone in Iraq. Rubio said Iran will pay a very heavy price and claimed the regime is begging the US for a new deal. The US has surged additional fighter jets, troops, and support personnel into the Middle East and used a B1 long range bomber in combat operations against Iran this week. Explosions were reported Thursday in multiple parts of Iran, including Qeshm Island, Ahvaz, and near Bandar Abbas, following another wave of US strikes.

• The Origin: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated that Iran’s defense doctrine against aggression is “an eye for an eye”.
• The U.S. Response: Rubio replied that President Trump’s approach is “a head for an eye,” meaning any harm or provocation from Iran will be met with much harsher and more destructive force.

MONSTERS of every size:

Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., wants voters to see her as the woman who told ICE “not one penny more.” But as you’ll read below, her anti-ICE position is newfangled. Before opposing ICE was cool, Stevens voted multiple times to support the rogue agency terrorizing American communities.

On the other hand, Stevens’ opponent in the Michigan Senate primary, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, has opposed ICE from the jump; but his is a position untested by any voting record. That is, El Sayed’s never had a job that required him to chose Aye or Nay on things like, say, federal appropriations for the department of Homeland Security. Stevens has that job and like many Democrats, voted Aye for ICE until it was more popular to vote Nay.

Beginning in 2024, Stevens voted yes on House Resolution 1102, a $1.2 trillion omnibus that kept the government open and funded the Department of Homeland Security — ICE included — through the fiscal year.

In June 2025, she was one of 75 House Democrats to back a resolution condemning the Boulder, Colorado, terror attack that also thanked ICE agents by name for “protecting the homeland.”

And this May, according to El-Sayed’s campaign, she joined 203 House Republicans to pass the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act — legislation that hands ICE a national intelligence hub and sweeping new authority to collect Americans’ personal data under a shoplifting pretext.

Stevens has an answer for the Boulder vote. In a 2026 debate, she called the ICE language “a cynical point” Republicans slipped into a bill about condemning antisemitic violence. “I am always going to stand up to violence,” she said, “and I just wish my opponent wouldn’t pursue the cynical approaches of Republicans.” She has not offered a comparable public defense of the retail-crime vote.

WHAT is the fucking point of interviewing the interviewer?????????

Over and over until the flank steak is so overdone that shoe leather tastes BETTER.

ANd so Marvel Comics is coming to us SOON:

What is missing for the Third Temple in Jerusalem? Did amateur archaeologist, Vendyl Jones, find the Keteret incense, the sacred fragrance of the Holy of Holies, near Qumran in 1992? In this Nelson Walters Bible Study with his expert guest Eliyahu Adam Berkowitz, we examine the religious implications of this holy incense on prophecy, especially in Revelation 8.This presentation examines the 1992 discovery of a substance weighing half a ton, rumored to be the legendary Keteret incense. If confirmed, this would represent a significant archaeological find linked to the Holy of Holies. We review the timeline of the Qumran discovery and assess the claims surrounding this mysterious substance. We examine the religious implications of holy incense.

ANother Comedy SPecialist:

Double Vision:

Now when the Jewish State unveiled its true genocidal nature you want to watch Yoav Shamir’s Defamation. The documentary is a spectacular dig into the depth of the tribal collective psychosis, the role of the holocaust indictrination. This film is really a must watch at this point in time.

Gilad: Finally I find myself agreeing with an Israeli headline. I would just tweak the content slightly:

“Mamdani’s Israel stance sends a warning to Jews” globally: humanity sees us for what we are. There is no way back from a genocide and we are credited with the worst documented one in the whole of human history.

“Mamdani’s call to arrest Israel’s prime minister highlighted a growing divide between” a corrupted and treacherous political class and the global awakening to the lethal danger entangled with our Choseness.

The moral awakening in the face of our human sacrifice orgy in Gaza “raising broader concerns among Jews about the normalization of” humane and ethical discourse amongst goyim in America and beyond.

I guess it will take a while before I am asked to accept the Ynet’s chief editor position.

Gilad: Witness the speed in which they shape-shifting from the ultimate aggressors (credited with the worst documented genocide in human history) into a bunch of a ‘persecuted minority’ /victims … who is going to buy this crap except themselves?

Versus . . .

Jodi’s Voice

It’s terrifying.

In such a short period of time, we have gone from hearing accusations against Israel about Gaza, “genocide,” and “occupation” to something even darker: the open dehumanization of Jews, the revival of blood libels, and now even public calls for “Jew hunts.”

The recent incident in Italy, where people were encouraged to identify and report Israelis and Jewish Italians, is deeply disturbing. It is symbolic of a much broader trend. The lines between “Israeli,” “Zionist,” and “Jew” are increasingly being erased, with hostility directed at Jews simply because of who they are or because of an assumed connection to Israel.

The speed at which this hatred is escalating is deeply alarming. What was once whispered is now shouted. What was once socially unacceptable is increasingly said without shame, consequence, or restraint.

None of us can predict exactly where this leads. History never repeats itself in exactly the same way. But history does teach us what can happen when hatred is normalized, when lies become accepted as truth, and when society looks away.

Many Jews are asking difficult questions. Will this pass? Is it time to leave? Should we stay? No one can answer those questions for another person.

But I will say this: we all buy life insurance, health insurance, home insurance, flood insurance, and theft insurance. We prepare for events we hope never happen.

Perhaps it’s also time for Jews around the world to ask: What is my contingency plan? What are my options? What is my family’s backup plan if circumstances change?

Some countries will undoubtedly be safer than others. Some communities will face greater challenges than others. But making a plan is not panic. It’s prudence.

Our grandparents and great-grandparents left us many lessons. One of the most important was this: don’t wait until you no longer have choices.

I sincerely hope those preparations are never needed. But hope has never been a strategy.

Ultimately, only victims in the history of the universe + Chosen People supremacist self-worship in their apartheid stolen nation = psychopathic levels of sadistic hate against anyone who dares inconvenience them by simply existing. By the way, how is it the fault of Palestinian Muslims and Christians that their brutal oppressors happen to be Jewish? How does this make them antisemitic? We all saw how the Israelis laughed like hyenas as they starved babies and forced little girls to be amputated without anaesthetic and as they burnt journalists alive and raped doctors in their prisons and as they SLAUGHTERED THIRTY THOUSAND CHILDREN.

An eye for a fucking coven of Jews:

At least four Palestinians have been killed and several others wounded after Israeli settlers, backed by Israeli forces, carried out a series of violent attacks on the occupied West Bank town of Tal, southwest of Nablus.

Jews are the scourge, man: ‘Nowhere is safe’: Fear and mourning inside the West Bank villages where Israeli settlers went on the rampage.

Jews everywhere need their fucking necks sliced and Mercedes burned.

The fresh grave of 17-year-old Omar Hamed, shot dead by settlers at Beitin.

Go find a Jew, hug her or him, and slip them a nice belly-splitting knife.

Pick your fav…..

Old ones?

Pretty beaded ones?

Curvy?

200 years ago, the slaves of Haiti defeated Napoleon’s armies in the historic revolution of 1791-1804. One of their weapons was the very tool they used to work the land: the machete. Papa Machete explores the esoteric martial art that evolved through this victory through the practice and life of a farmer named Alfred Avril. The short film documents his proud devotion to his heritage in the face of bitter poverty, and his efforts to keep this mysterious art alive.

Dirtiest fucking scum on earth . . .

They ALL part of an age-old continuing criminal enterprise . . . .

Paulo Kirk

Jul 23, 2026

Kuhn, Loeb, Bernard Baruch, J.P. Morgan, Eugene Meyer;

Paul Warburg, Max Warburg, Jacob Schiff, Louis Brandeis, Alfred Rothschild

’Twas a long, long Money Trail a-winding

Well, Spritzler got it right today: SOrt of!

Robert Reich is the spearhead of ruling class propaganda that is intended to persuade the most anti-establishment and pro-egalitarian people to get behind demands that do not in any way challenge the power of the ruling billionaire plutocracy.

I have written here about how Reich does this with his effort to get us to demand “Equal Opportunity” instead of No-Rich-and-No-Poor.

Today I want to focus on Reich’s call to “Get money out of politics,” which came to me as one of his many emails that I copy in full for your convenience in the footnote below.¹ Reich says:

Tell Congress: It’s time to get billionaire wealth out of politics! Overturn Citizens United, tax billionaires’ wealth, and enact meaningful election reform.

As Robert Reich knows damn well, as long as there are billionaires then their money will be in politics no matter what campaign reform laws are passed.

Billionaires have power in our society (that’s what “politics” means: power) because our society is based on money (which is a bad thing for it to be based on as I discuss here) and because in such a society money is power, and billionaires have it and ordinary people do not, duh.

There is not a single major institution in our society—for-profit corporations, not-for-profit corporations, universities, hospitals, newspapers and radio stations and large circulation magazines, the military, Hollywood, and on and on, not to mention the government itself—that billionaires do not control, directly or indirectly.

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My comment . . .

Demons, man, DEMONS . . . Paul Moritz Warburg, a German-Jewish immigrant who was one of the founding fathers of the U.S. Federal Reserve, had a fervent wish that his creation would be seen as one of America’s great monuments — “like the old cathedrals of Europe.”

Warburg’s dream that “the Fed” would become a cherished American institution has never looked more in doubt. The Federal Reserve, which was enacted by Congress in 1913 and set up shop the following year, is today an institution under siege. More surprising perhaps is that the Fed is refighting partisan and ideological battles that Warburg and the other founders thought they had settled a century ago.

Dirt:

Ben Bernanke: Served as Chair of the Federal Reserve from 2006 to 2014.

Alan Greenspan: Served as Chair of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006.

Eugene Meyer: Served as Chair of the Federal Reserve from 1930 to 1933.

Janet Yellen: Served as Chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018.

Henry Morgenthau Jr.: Treasury Secretary, Board of Governors, 1934 – 1936

So much dirt . . .

Joseph Eugene Stiglitz

Milton Friedman:

Paul Samuelson.

Kenneth Arrow

David Ricardo:

Daniel Kahneman

Claudia Goldin

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The problem is, if GENOCIDE happens in 2026, all over, but with this burning water and sewage and electrical plants in Iran and the daily murder of Gazans, Palestinians, then all bets are off.

RIP:\

Michael Parenti was an American Marxist historian, political scientist, and prolific author whose work focused on class struggle, media hegemony, and anti-imperialism. Best known for seminal works like Democracy for the Few and Blackshirts and Reds, Parenti was a leading “people’s intellectual” who famously bridged the gap between academia and the labor movement. His analysis consistently exposed the capitalist state’s role in managing both domestic exploitation and global empire, making him a central figure in modern Marxist-Leninist and anti-war thought.

Works

The Bogey of the Revolution [Commonweal Magazine Vol.88 No.14] (June 21, 1968)

The High Cost of Empire [Original PDF] [The Progressive Magazine] (November 1981)

Is Nicaragua More Democratic Than the United States? [Original PDF] [CovertAction Information Bulletin No.26] (Summer 1986)

Bush’s Splendid Little War [Original PDF] [CovertAction Information Bulletin No.36] (Spring 1991)

Kozy with the Klan (1992)

Dividends Are Not Royalties: The SAT and Surplus Value [Monthly Review Vol.45 No.5] (October 1993)

Imperialism 101 (1995)

Myths of “Humanitarian” Intervention [Against the Current No. 59] (November/December, 1995)

Free Speech – At a Price (1996)

Hidden Holocaust, USA (1996)

The JFK Assassination: Defending the Gangster State (1996)

Rational Fascism (1997)

Keeping the Rich Invisible: How Census Bureau Hides the Super-rich [Against the Current No. 74] (May/June, 1998)

Yugoslav Sojourn: Notes from the Other Side (January 2000)

The Super Rich Are Out Of Sight (January 2000)

The Media and their Atrocities (May 2000)

Defying the Sanctions: A Flight to Iraq (January 2001)

Monopoly Media Manipulation (May 2001)

Terrorism Meets Reactionism (October 2001)

Global Rollback After Communism [Original PDF] [CovertAction Quarterly No.72] (Spring 2002)

Exposing The Terrorism Trap [International Socialist Review Issue 24] (Jul 20, 2002)

Media Moments (December 2002)

To Kill Iraq (May 2003)

The Demonization of Slobodan Milosevic (December 2003)

Empires, Old and New [ZNetwork] (Feb 19, 2004)

Are Heterosexuals Worthy of Marriage? (Sep 14, 2004)

Good Things Happening in Venezuela (May 2005)

In the Reactionary Era of “No Alternative” [Monthly Review Online] (Jul 26, 2005)

How the Free Market Killed New Orleans [ZNetwork] (Sep 3, 2005)

Right-Wing Judicial Activism [ZNetwork] (Oct 13, 2005)

Government by Giveaway [ZNetwork] (Dec 31, 2005)

Interviewing Michael Parenti about The Culture Struggle [ZNetwork] (Feb 19, 2006)

Custom Against Women [ZNetwork] (Mar 2, 2006)

The Hidden Politics of Deficit Spending [ZNetwork] (May 11, 2006)

Still Soft on (Corporate) Crime [ZNetwork] (Jun 9, 2006)

Gender Savagery in Guatemala [PDF] [ZNetwork] (Jul 9, 2006)

Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World [ZNetwork] (Sep 28, 2006)

Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth (January 2007)

The Stolen Presidential Elections (May 2007)

Globalization and Democracy: Some Basics [Common Dreams] (May 25, 2007)

Mother Teresa, John Paul II, and the Fast Track Saints [PDF] (Oct 22, 2007)

Bad Boys, Nasty Boys: Out of the GOP’s Closet [Common Dreams] (Feb 06, 2008)

Dubious Design [Common Dreams] (Apr 11, 2008)

Afghanistan, Another Untold Story [PDF] (Dec 02, 2008)

Capitalism’s Self-Inflicted Apocalypse [PDF] [ZNetwork] (Jan 19, 2009)

Economic Crisis the Inevitable Result of ‘Capitalism’s Self-Inflicted Apocalypse’ [ZNetwork] (Mar 14, 2009)

North Korea: “Sanity” at the Brink [PDF] (Jun 20, 2009)

The Honduras Coup: Is Obama Innocent? [PDF] (Jul 08, 2009)

Italian American Identity: To Be or Not To Be [PDF] (Aug 27, 2009)

The Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia (2010)

What Do Empires Do? [PDF] (Feb 13, 2010)

Cuban Prisoners, Here and There, with Alicia Jrapko [Monthly Review Online] (Apr 15, 2010)

Pedophiles and Popes: Doing the Vatican Shuffle [PDF] (May 10, 2010)

Death and Profits: The Utility Protection Racket [Common Dreams] (Oct 14, 2010)

Money Is Still the Name of the Game [PDF] (Dec 9, 2010)

The Mafia and Me [PDF] (Jan 20, 2011)

Profit Pathology and Disposable Planet [PDF] (Feb 27, 2011)

Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy [ZNetwork] (Jul 3, 2011)

The September 11 Orgy (Sep 12, 2011)

Class Warfare Indeed [PDF] (Oct 02, 2011)

The Face of Imperialism: An interview with Michael Parenti [rabble.ca] (Nov 2, 2011)

Occupy America [PDF] (Nov 09, 2011)

Free-Market Medicine: A Personal Account [PDF] (December 2011)

Must We Adore Vaclav Havel? (Dec 19, 2011)

An Opinion About the Opinion-Makers (2 Jan, 2012)

Iran and Everything Else (2012)

Free Market Health Care: True Stories (January 2012)

Reflections on Politics and Academia: An Interview with Michael Parenti (June 2012)

The Nobel Peace Prize for War [PDF] (Oct 18, 2012)

A Terrible Normality (Jan 30, 2013)

Requiem for a Dominatrix (April 2013)

Eating Horses in Paris (Feb 28, 2013)

The Sarin Mysteries [ZNetwork] (Oct 2, 2013)

I Have a Dream, a Blurred Vision (November 2013)

The JFK Assassination: Defending the Gangster State (November 2013)

What’s A Slum? (2014)

Ukraine and Regime Change (2014)

85 Billionaires and the Better Half [Common Dreams] (Feb 18, 2014)

1918: On When a War Ended (Though Others Would Follow) [PDF] (Oct 27, 2014)

A Long Time For Killing [ZNetwork] (Sep 23, 2015)

The Lost Women [ZNetwork] (Dec 26, 2015)

Secondary Literature

The Time Has Come: End All Aid to Apartheid Israel [Signatory] (Socialist Action Vol.6 No.4, April 1988)

Hoist on their own petards, by Dragan Plavsic [Book Review] (International Socialism No. 91, Summer 2001)

Roman history from below?, by Neil Faulkner [Book Review] (Summer 2004)

Michael Parenti, The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome, by Chris Gray [Book Review] (Revolutionary History Vol. 8 No. 4, 2004)

External Links

The Michael Parenti Political Archive [Personal Web Archive]

The Michael Parenti Library a video collection of speeches and lectures [YouTube]

Twelve years ago:

February 18, 2014 by dandelionsalad

85 Billionaires and the Better Half by Michael Parenti

by Michael Parenti

Writer, Dandelion Salad

February 18, 2014

The world’s 85 richest individuals possess as much wealth as the 3.5 billion souls who compose the poorer half of the world’s population, or so it was announced in a report by Oxfam International. The assertion sounds implausible to me. I think the 85 richest individuals, who together are worth many hundreds of billions of dollars, must have far more wealth than the poorest half of our global population.

How could these two cohorts, the 85 richest and 3.5 billion poorest, have the same amount of wealth? The great majority of the 3.5 billion have no net wealth at all. Hundreds of millions of them have jobs that hardly pay enough to feed their families. Millions of them rely on supplements from private charity and public assistance when they can. Hundreds of millions are undernourished, suffer food insecurity, or go hungry each month, including many among the very poorest in the United States.

Most of the 3.5 billion earn an average of $2.50 a day. The poorest 40 percent of the world population accounts for just 5 percent of all global income. About 80 percent of all humanity live on less than $10 a day. And the poorest 50 percent maintain only 7.2 percent of the world’s private consumption. How exactly could they have accumulated an amount of surplus wealth comparable to the 85 filthy richest?

Hundreds of millions live in debt even in “affluent” countries like the United States. They face health care debts, credit card debts, college tuition debts, and so on. Many, probably most who own homes— and don’t live in shacks or under bridges or in old vans— are still straddled with mortgages. This means their net family wealth is negative, minus-zero. They have no propertied wealth; they live in debt.

Millions among the poorest 50 percent in the world may have cars but most of them also have car payments. They are driving in debt. In countries like Indonesia, for the millions without private vehicles, there are the overloaded, battered buses, poorly maintained vehicles that specialize in breakdowns and ravine plunges. Among the lowest rungs of the 50 percent are the many who pick through garbage dumps and send their kids off to work in grim, soul-destroying sweatshops.

The 85 richest in the world probably include the four members of the Walton family (owners of Wal-Mart, among the top ten superrich in the USA) who together are worth over $100 billion. Rich families like the DuPonts have controlling interests in giant corporations like General Motors, Coca-Cola, and United Brands. They own about forty manorial estates and private museums in Delaware alone and have set up 31 tax-exempt foundations. The superrich in America and in many other countries find ways, legal and illegal, to shelter much of their wealth in secret accounts. We don’t really know how very rich the very rich really are.

Regarding the poorest portion of the world population— whom I would call the valiant, struggling “better half”—what mass configuration of wealth could we possibly be talking about? The aggregate wealth possessed by the 85 super-richest individuals, and the aggregate wealth owned by the world’s 3.5 billion poorest, are of different dimensions and different natures. Can we really compare private jets, mansions, landed estates, super luxury vacation retreats, luxury apartments, luxury condos, and luxury cars, not to mention hundreds of billions of dollars in equities, bonds, commercial properties, art works, antiques, etc.— can we really compare all that enormous wealth against some millions of used cars, used furniture, and used television sets, many of which are ready to break down? Of what resale value if any, are such minor durable-use commodities? especially in communities of high unemployment, dismal health and housing conditions, no running water, no decent sanitation facilities, etc. We don’t really know how poor the very poor really are.

Millions of children who number in the lower 50 percent never see the inside of a school. Instead they labor in mills, mines and on farms, under conditions of peonage. Nearly a billion people are unable to read or write. The number of people living in poverty is growing at a faster rate than the world’s population. So poverty is spreading even as wealth accumulates. It is not enough to bemoan this enormous inequality, we must also explain why it is happening.

But for now, let me repeat: the world’s richest 85 individuals do not have the same amount of accumulated wealth as the world’s poorest 50 percent. They have vastly more. The multitude on the lower rungs—even taken as a totality—have next to nothing.

Michael Parenti is an award winning, internationally known author. His two most recent books are The Face of Imperialism (a critique of the U.S. global empire; 2011) and Waiting for Yesterday: Pages from a Street Kid’s Life (an ethnic memoir about his early life in Italian Harlem; 2013). For further information about his work, visit his website: www.michaelparenti.org.

See also:

Global wealth: 1% own 48%; 10% own 87% and bottom 50% own less than 1% by Michael Roberts

OH NO, the JEW has a new book, and he lives in Jew York City, and he is bound to get plenty of bookstore assists.

[Pragmatic stance: Finkelstein has long characterized the two-state settlement (aligned with pre-1967 borders) as the practical, achievable compromise supported by the international community to end immediate suffering.

• Personal ideals: He has described himself as preferring a broader humanist or “no states” outlook rather than identifying strictly with state-based nationalism]

Israel’s genocide in Gaza is heavily dependent upon rhetorical obfuscation of facts. From the highest echelons of international institutions and their officials to international human rights organisations, Palestinians in Gaza have been betrayed on several levels.

Norman Finkelstein’s latest book, Gaza’s Gravediggers: An Inquiry into Corruption in High Places (OR Books, 2026) meticulously dissects reports and rhetoric to expose a corrupt web of impunity — one which would shame the UN, were it not an instrument of enabling, rather than preventing, Israel’s colonial violence.

Finkelstein commences with historical and political details that place Gaza under continuous scrutiny.

Noting Gaza’s obliteration since October 2023, Finkelstein writes, “But since Gaza emerged as a distinct entity after Israel’s ethnic cleansing in 1948, it’s always been a forbidding place.”

This detail in the book’s prologue is a stark reminder of how Gaza is perpetually portrayed. The more Gaza was portrayed as isolated, the easier it was for Israel to launch its periodic bombardments, which, as the author notes, each “typically picked up where the last one left off except at a qualitatively higher level of death and destruction.”

While Israel carried out its periodic ethnic cleansing, it was also able to sustain its narrative of Hamas as a threat, despite its attempts at diplomacy, cooperation with international law and endorsing popular peaceful resistance.

“By 2023, Gaza had vanished from the stage of international politics,” Finkelstein writes.

Yet what happened since October 2023 would see the continuation of an international endeavour that protected not only Israel’s fabricated security narrative, but also its genocide in Gaza.

From false claims to mellowing genocide into war and violations, international institutions and human rights organisations carried out a large-scale diminishing of Israel’s genocidal atrocities and promoted fabricated claims and assertions, even as the evidence inside Gaza continued to pile up.

One example is the UN’s endorsement in a 2024 report of Israel’s very early, unfounded claim that Hamas used rape as a weapon of war on 7 October 2023.

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• Perverted Fantasies: Following the revelation that the book was fictional, some literary critics accused Kosiński of using the historical backdrop of the Holocaust as a shield to write pornographic and sadomasochistic fantasies involving children.
• Plagiarism Accusations: His literary reputation was further damaged by a famous 1982 exposé in The Village Voice, which accused him of plagiarism and using uncredited ghostwriters to compose his books.

Graphic Content: The boy witnesses and is subjected to extreme depravity, including torture, bestiality, incest, rape, and pedophilia.

Spend a few minutes reading this… Lying for the cause, inventing a past that fits with their present aspirations is a kosher adventure..

On a funny note, doesn’t he look a bit like Elie Wiesel? He clearly performing a similar affinity- selling fictional narratives as history…

Edward Reid

I recently came across someone sharing “The Painted Bird” as fact and a story of survival against savages, I’d like to clarify a few things and discuss the truth of his life and how lies can shape reality, history, and perceptions:

“I remember, many years ago, speaking with a Jewish lawyer from New York about Kosinski’s book The Painted Bird. This lawyer, based partly on the book, held the firm belief that Poles were almost sub-human. When he mentioned Kosinski’s description of eyes being torn out in a scene that would seem ‘appropriate’ in a Polish household, I responded, much to his discomfort, that such a scene would be as out of place in a Polish home as it would be in an American one. I added that the only Poles I had ever known were intelligent, civilized, and cultured. He didn’t respond, but his expression suggested that I had just told him something entirely impossible.” – James Park Sloan

Kosinski’s “The Painted Bird” portrayed Poles as inhumane, savage beings, which was and is a horrendous misrepresentation of the very people who risked their lives to save him. The real issue with the book? It’s full of lies, and unfortunately, many bought into it. Many in the Jewish community and Americans in general became captivated by Kosinski and his narrative of wartime suffering at the hands of the “Polish beasts.” The book became a bestseller, shaping the perception of wartime Poland and how Jews were allegedly treated.

The truth is starkly different. Kosinski’s experiences, as he wrote them, were fabricated. Siedlecka, a Pole who knew him and his family personally, reveals that Kosinski spent much of the war living in relative safety and comfort, thanks to the help of Polish families. She describes his father as a crafty survivor (whose life was saved by Poles) with little moral compass, willing to do anything to stay safe, including collaborating with the Germans. After the war, at the liberation of Dabrowa, Kosinski’s father collaborated with the NKVD and the Red Army, sending those who had helped him to Siberia for minor offenses like hoarding.

Still, the real tragedy lies in the actions of Jerzy Kosinski himself. He turned his back on the Polish families who had sheltered him and vilified them, as well as the entire Polish nation, to the world. According to Siedlecka, during the war, young Jerzy Kosinski spent his time enjoying the comforts of sausages and cocoa, luxuries unavailable to his neighbors’ children, within the safety of his home, far removed from the hardship endured by those who risked everything to protect him.

Sadly, Kosinski’s fabricated portrayal of wartime Poland became the narrative many people accepted about the country under German occupation, shaping perceptions for an entire generation. At the peak of his career, some even predicted that Kosinski might win a Nobel Prize. The German edition of his book was an immediate success.

So, if you’re curious about how history becomes shaped by misrepresentation and how stereotypes are born, you can look at people like Kosinski. But I assure you, he was not the only one responsible. It’s crucial for everyone to exercise due diligence before accepting such accounts as factual or forming opinions about an entire group of people.

“The Painted Bird” unfairly and falsely portrayed Poles, shaping a distorted and harmful narrative that still shapes perspectives today

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Moving on . . .

“They’d (U.S. backed opposition candidates) love to win elections so they can profit from selling off the schools. But they can forget it. There won’t be any more elections here, no more elections for them to try and seize the government, to seize power … We are going to work, with the National Assembly and the relevant organizations, on the laws, because we need to create laws that will put up a wall, a barrier, against the coup-plotters, against those who sell off their country, and no matter how much money the Yankees give them, they won’t succeed! They won’t succeed! They won’t succeed!”

Nicaraguan co-president Rosario Murillo further clarified that what Ortega was referring to was preventing foreign interference in Nicaragua, not cancelling elections altogether, saying:

The history of the electoral processes here was established, designed, directed, and guided by the United States. That is history. That is the kind of election that will never return to Nicaragua.

That kind of election that goes against the people will not come back, will never return to Nicaragua. Elections, yes, but our own elections, and when we say our own, we mean elections of our blessed people, designed and organized based on our national sovereignty, based on our national dignity, to elect the best Nicaraguans, those who know about struggle and honor. Blessed, free, dignified, sovereign elections

In his speech, Daniel Ortega accused the U.S. deep state of conspiring with opposition figures in the United States to interfere in Nicaragua, saying, “Don’t think that just because there’s no war we’re at peace… No! They’re constantly conspiring, organizing, looking for a way to create political parties so that in an election they’re supposed to hold, those parties will win. And here this is the end of the history of parties installed by the Yankees, installed by the Somoza regime supporters, ever coming back to power”.

Ortega’s accusations were outright confirmed by Damon Wilson, the current head of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a cutout of the CIA’s regime change arm.

He admitted that the National Endowment for Democracy was actively “supporting” Nicaraguan opposition figures and will continue to do so, saying:

NEDemocracy will continue supporting those who peacefully defend fundamental freedoms and the right of every Nicaraguan to choose their own leaders and determine their country’s future.



The Ortega-Murillo regime may seek to abolish elections, but it cannot abolish the Nicaraguan people’s desire for democracy. We will stand with them until that right is restored.

And I WANT to live in Nicaragua, and this is the Jewish Rubio Plan . . . again and again?

During the NED sponsored coup in 2018, journalist John Perry on the ground wrote, “Public buildings and the houses of government supporters were burnt down by protesters; shops were ransacked; most businesses and all banks and schools were closed. The main secondary school for 3,700 pupils was burnt out twice. The police station was under siege for 45 days, so no police were on patrol. No cars or taxis could use the streets; passing the barricades on foot involved being checked by youths with weapons and on occasion threatened. Dissent was met with violence (before the barricades went up, I took part in a “peace” march which was pelted with stones). At first protesters had homemade mortars, but later many acquired more serious weapons such as AK-47s; paid troublemakers manned the barricades at night-time. A police official captured nearby was tortured and then killed, his body burnt at a barricade”.

2018 John Perry to the Syphilitic Guardian . . .

“I live in the city of Masaya, which was under opposition control for three months, with the streets blocked by hundreds of barricades. Here, briefly, is what happened.

Public buildings and the houses of government supporters were burnt down by protesters; shops were ransacked; most businesses and all banks and schools were closed. The main secondary school for 3,700 pupils was burnt out twice. The police station was under siege for 45 days, so no police were on patrol. No cars or taxis could use the streets; passing the barricades on foot involved being checked by youths with weapons and on occasion threatened. Dissent was met with violence (before the barricades went up, I took part in a “peace” march which was pelted with stones). At first protesters had homemade mortars, but later many acquired more serious weapons such as AK-47s; paid troublemakers manned the barricades at night-time. A police official captured nearby was tortured and then killed, his body burnt at a barricade.

Although the police, who regained control of the city on 17 July, were well armed, there were only three casualties, including a policeman. People came out on the streets, dancing, singing and offering the police food and drink (similar scenes occurred elsewhere). Of course, the community remains very divided but, contrary to your reports, Masaya is far more peaceful than it was when under the control of the protesters. Before April, indeed, Nicaragua was one of the safest countries in Latin America; we look forward to it recovering that status very soon.” — John Perry, Masaya, Nicaragua

Oh god, Mehdi, the fucking crackpot calling the kettle black . . . .

[Mehdi challenges Mark Warner, the pro-Israel vice-chair of the Senate Intel Committee, on why he won’t say genocide, the future of ICE, and whether the Dems should be the ‘antiwar party.’]

After months of Donald Trump claiming that he would end the illegal war in Iran within two weeks, the U.S. and Iran are once again trading strikes as nuclear deal negotiations have collapsed.

And to make matters worse, this war – like most of Trump’s claims – is based on a lie.

Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee and Virginia Democratic Senator Mark Warner tells Mehdi: “I’ve seen all the intelligence. There was no imminent threat [from Iran]. And this was a war of choice.”

As Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took to Capitol Hill this week to beg for a near $70 billion in additional funding for the war, Sen. Warner sounds the alarm on just how inept Donald Trump has been at handling the conflict: “There’s not been an organized, straightforward plan, and his unwillingness to come before Congress or go to the American people and say, ‘Here’s what I want to do with this war’ is crazy.”

But Iran isn’t all the two discuss. In this wide-ranging interview, Mehdi also presses Sen. Warner on:

• Whether he regrets his vote for Marco Rubio as Secretary of State
• His recent vote in favor of selling bombs to Israel while opposing the sale of bulldozers
• Whether he believes Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza
• The Sudan, Rohingya, and Uyghur genocides, in comparison to Gaza
• Why he still takes AIPAC money
• Trump’s bogus election interference claims and the ‘five-alarm fire’ about ‘corrupt’ elections
• And his position on the future of ICE.

Paid subscribers can watch the full 27-minute interview above, while free subscribers can access a two-minute preview. Consider upgrading your subscription to never hit a Zeteo paywall again!

[Oh, my, oh, my, two minutes is all you fucking NEED!]

Over 4,200 Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa , , , Drop Site Daily: July 23, 2026

Look closely — Sean Penn, Sandler, Ben Stiller, you name the fucking whore face, they will be seen here. What’s the fly’s name? The other fucker? All fucking Jewish Settlers.

Is that Che there?

Ahh, is Iran now off limits, in terms of calling out the terror campaign of fucking USA mercenaries?

A new wave of U.S. strikes hit sites across Iran starting on Wednesday night, killing at least two and striking additional civilian and energy infrastructure.

• A U.S. missile destroyed an asphalt storage depot in the western Iranian state of Khuzestan on Wednesday night, and explosions were reported around Ahvaz.
• A U.S. missile also hit the Shalamcheh border crossing, at the Iran-Iraq border, according to Iraqi officials, killing two people in a nearby rest facility. Iranian officials said the border crossing, used frequently by religious pilgrims, remained functional.
• Several explosions were heard in Ziyarat, near the southern coastal city of Sirik, according to Tasnim, with additional explosions heard in Bandar Mahshah.
• Iran’s Health Ministry reported on Wednesday the death toll from U.S. airstrikes since June 6 had risen to 53, with 592 people wounded. Among those killed were six women and three children.

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I’m getting this from a Substacker . . .

I’m not too sure the idea of fighting a rich man’s war is in their minds. I would think that if that were the case, they would not have joined. But they are there to fight for their country and all the BS the country is supposed to stand for. They know that this is not what this war is about.

If they refuse to go, there’s a nice fat court-martial awaiting them. If they go AWAL (AWOL), that will follow them the rest of their lives. If they sabotage the ship and start a laundry fire, someone’s head is gonna roll. If they hide in their barracks or hotel rooms, they will be labeled cowards. If they write their congressperson, they will be ignored. If they blow the whistle on how they are not being protected, they will face fierce punishment. (I just saw a video of an Iranian missile attack posted supposedly by a U.S. soldier).

Video descriptions: Insane close-range footage filmed by a U.S. soldier captures Iranian missiles slamming into Muwaffaq Salti Airbase in Jordan.

Company morale is in the toilet. I feel for them. My heart aches for them. I shed a tear for them. They are blatantly being used as cannon fodder for the rich a-holes who do not care about them at all. These a-holes are making big money trading on the petro-dollar.

The soldiers? Well, they are between a rock and a hard place at this point.

No amount of BS coming from Hegseth, Trump or anyone else who is calling them heroes is gonna change that for them on the ground. No medal of honor will erase the pictures in their heads of their fellow soldiers being blown to bits in front of their eyes. No medal of honor will restore their lost limbs, cure their traumatic brain injuries, overcome their PTSD, heal their family relationships, keep them from being homeless begging in the streets, stop them from hiding during the fireworks displays, keep them from having suicidal ideations, pay for their exorbitant medical bills, stop them trembling through the night due to a barrage of nightmarish dreams or any of the other consequences of the hell they face while fighting these rich man’s wars.

The Navy beat its recruiting goal for new sailors this year, signing up 45,000 new recruits. The service announced the milestone earlier this month. It’s the highest number of people signing up for the Navy in roughly two decades.

“Today’s Navy is stronger because tens of thousands of Americans chose to answer the call to serve,” Rear Adm. Jim Waters, the head of Navy Recruiting Command, said. “Reaching this milestone is not simply about achieving a recruiting objective – it’s about delivering the talented Sailors our Fleet needs to maintain readiness in an increasingly complex security environment.”

“Coast Guard exceeds fiscal year 2025 recruiting goals, achieves highest numbers since 1991”

Some of us WANT 10,000 coffins draped in US China made flags….

Here’s Caitlin, who has banned me….

Then, the Sustacker gives us this?

More Reading:

Another American War of Choice https://www.spykmancenter.org/another-american-war-of-choice

Iran: America’s Next War of Choice by Douglas Macgregor, James Carden | Dec 18, 2024 https://ronpaulinstitute.org/iran-americas-next-war-of-choice/

The Netanyahu Gambit: How Trump Walked America Into an Iranian War Trap https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/03/02/the-netanyahu-gambit-how-trump-walked-america-into-an-iranian-war-trap/comment-page-2/

The Netanyahu Gambit: How Trump Walked America Into an Iranian War Trap https://www.theburningplatform.com/2026/03/02/the-netanyahu-gambit-how-trump-walked-america-into-an-iranian-war-trap/comment-page-2/

Trump the Demented Felon and his Illegal War of Choice- Ridiculous, deserves no respect https://scsalon.org/index.php/2026/03/03/trump-the-demented-felon-and-his-illegal-war-of-choice-ridiculous-deserves-no-respect/

Mission in Iran war has pivoted toward ensuring oil flow, Trump official says https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/19/trump-official-iran-war-oil-flow-strait-hormuz

The Case Against Trump’s War of Choice in Iran https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-case-against-trumps-war-of-choice-in-iran/

Warner: Trump’s ‘War of Choice Has Been a Disaster’ https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/07/19/warner-trumps-war-of-choice-has-been-a-disaster/

Iran expert says Trump’s ‘war of choice’ has morphed into a ‘war of necessity’ March 17, 20266:27 PM ET Heard on Fresh Air Terry Gross https://www.npr.org/2026/03/17/nx-s1-5750397/iran-war-trump-karim-sadjadpour

Might as well get your news from Hartmann: LOOK at all those BOOKS!

Trouble’s brewing inside the Trump White House, with staffers leaking details of growing friction between the president and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin. One Republican senator is now publicly admitting that Trump’s war with Iran has left America worse off and that his party will “probably” pay for it in November. Mitch McConnell’s hometown paper just published a pre-obituary laying out why the 84 year-old senator will be remembered as one of the most destructive figures in American politics. And a rural Texas border town is now suing the Trump administration, arguing its border wall could ruin the entire community.

Heroes fuckers like Thom would never admit to: Encelia sent a distress call reporting it had been struck by a missile off Jizan, on Saudi Arabia’s southern Red Sea coast near the Yemen border. British risk firm Vanguard said the ship was hit on its right side, about 80 miles southwest of Al Shuqaiq, another Saudi coastal city.

• Ansarallah strikes two tankers in the Red Sea: Ansarallah forces said on Thursday they had struck two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea with ballistic and cruise missiles and drones, setting both vessels on fire.
  • The group identified the tankers as Encelia and Layla, saying they had violated its ban on Saudi-linked shipping. Saudi Arabia later confirmed the attack on the Encelia.
  • UKMTO separately confirmed a tanker had been struck by an unknown projectile 70 nautical miles southwest of Al-Shuqaiq, Saudi Arabia, causing an onboard fire. No casualties or environmental damage were reported.
  • Ansarallah also claimed roughly 10 ships have already turned back since it imposed a blockade on Saudi ships, vowing to continue enforcing its “siege with siege” policy.
  • At least nine vessels have made U-turns to avoid the Bab al-Mandab strait as a result of Ansarallah’s blockade, according to the AFP.
  • Reuters reported on Wednesday that five vessels, four of them oil tankers, changed course in the Red Sea on Wednesday.

You’re in the Army NOW:

• House narrowly passes $95 billion budget for Iran war: House Republicans narrowly passed their $95 billion budget blueprint 216 to 214 on Wednesday to fund the Iran war and impose new voting restrictions, with two Republicans—Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.), Warren Davidson (Ohio)—voting against it.
  • The measure will provide up to $73 billion in additional military funding for the U.S. campaign against Iran, with $12 billion allocated for farmers and $10 billion for Trump’s voting restrictions.

You’re in the Israeli Offensive and Occupation Murder Forces NOW, you fucking American incels…

• House passes NDAA: The U.S. House of Representatives passed the $1.1 trillion National Defense Authorization Act 216–212 on Wednesday, with six Democrats—Henry Cuellar, Don Davis, Jared Golden, Vicente Gonzalez, Adam Gray, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez—voting yes and seven Republicans voting no. The measure includes Section 219, which more tightly integrates the U.S. military intelligence and the defense industrial base with Israel.
  • The bill makes U.S. military support for Israel easier and more institutionalized. It creates a Pentagon office tasked with accelerating U.S.-Israeli military technology cooperation, including joint R&D, testing, co-production, data sharing, and moving jointly developed technology into procurement.
  • Separately, it extends through 2029 an existing authority allowing the U.S. to transfer weapons already stored in its War Reserve Stockpile in Israel. That authority can permit transfers without Congress voting on each shipment, with Congress only receiving notification under the underlying law.

By 1914, as we have already seen, the interests of Britain and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company had become inseparable, and British foreign policy and the Rothschild Banking family foreign policy became one and the same. During this period of purported U.S. neutrality from 1914 to 1917, American sentiment was shifted gradually but inexorably toward a pro-Ally, pro-war position, first because of the sophisticated British propaganda campaign, and later from the increasing pressure from business and corporate elite on both sides of the Atlantic who had a financial and commercial stake in a British and French victory.

American business was soon booming from the war in Europe. Between 1914 and 1917, the American GNP was up 20% and manufacturing was up 40%. Allied Powers purchased over 3 billion dollars in wartime orders and borrowed over 2 billion dollars in bonds, compared to twenty million in Central power bonds. The British surface naval blockade of Germany ensured that American trade was almost exclusively with the Allies.

As early as 1915, the United States, not yet involved in the War, had loaned France and Great Britain millions of dollars through American banks. Had Germany won, those bonds held by American bankers would have been worthless. By the spring of 1917, American bankers had loaned the Allies almost $3 billion dollars plus another $6 billion for exports, and the steel, munitions, chemical and agricultural industries had all become dependent on the war for profit. Lastly, some of the democrats (and Woodrow Wilson’s biggest financial backers) had vested personal financial interests with Britain and France. How did this happen?

The financial aspect of the conflict which became known as World War One is too vast to relate here with the respect the subject deserves, but let it suffice to point out that World War One elevated approximately 21,000 US investors into the brackets of millionaires and billionaires. The Rockefellers alone, who displayed great eagerness for the US to enter World War One on the British side, made in excess of $200,000,000 from that conflict, and in just one afternoon during the war, Bernard Baruch, Wilson’s Czar of American Industry and part of the commission that handled all purchasing for the Allies during the war, made a personal profit of $750,000.

The Federal Reserve System, which began operations in 1914, was the vehicle which in effect forced the American people, without them even knowing it, to lend the Allies twenty-five billion dollars in loans which went unpaid, although the interest on the loans was indeed paid… to New York bankers. The cartel of the Rothschilds and the Bank of England and other London banking houses which ultimately controlled the Federal Reserve Banks through their controlling amounts of bank stock (along with that of their subsidiary firms in New York, J.P. Morgan Co. and Kuhn, Loeb & Co., etc.) directed the successful campaign to have the plan enacted into law by Congress. These very firms had their principal officers appointed to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Federal Advisory Council in 1914.

The banking and business elites salivating for war included J. Henry Schroder Banking Company, the Rockefellers, the Eugene Meyer family, J.P. Morgan, Alex Brown & Sons, Kuhn Loeb & Co., the Rothschilds, the Warburgs, the Baruch and Guggenheim families and a few others who weaved a tightly connected web of power, money, arms and influence for their own financial gains. Their mutual influence on world affairs often crossed as they financed all sides for a continual, profit rendering conflict.

J. P. Morgan, Jr., one of the signatories to the establishment of the Federal Reserve in 1913, played a prominent role in the financial aspects of war-mongering. It was he who made the first loan of $12,000,000 to Russia, and in 1915, a loan of $50,000,000 to the French Government. All of the munitions purchases in the United States by the British were made through one of his firms, and he organized a syndicate of about 2,200 banks and floated a loan of $500,000,000 to the Allies.

J.P. Morgan also received the proceeds of the First Liberty Loan to pay off $400,000,000 which he in turn advanced to Great Britain at the outbreak of war. By 1917, the Morgans and Kuhn, Loeb Company had floated a billion and a half dollars in loans to the Allies. The bankers also financed a slew of pro-war (disingenuously named “peace”) organizations which prodded US citizens to become involved in the War. The “Commission for Relief in Belgium” made up grisly atrocity stories against the Germans, while a Carnegie organization called the “League to Enforce Peace” (later, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) agitated in Washington for US entry into war.

Sometimes, the bankers financed both sides. The Rothschilds’ agents, the Warburg banking house, were financing the Kaiser. Paul Warburg, a naturalized citizen from Germany who had been decorated by the Kaiser in 1912, was vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. He had also handled large sums furnished by Germany for Lenin and Trotsky while his brother Max (who was Kaiser Wilhelm’s personal banker) was the leader of the German espionage system! It was this brother, Max, who authorized Lenin’s train to pass through the lines and execute the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Jacob Schiff, like the Warburgs, also had two brothers in Germany during the war, Philip and Ludwig, who also were active as bankers to the German Government.

The Rothschilds meanwhile bought the German news agency, Wolff, to further control the flow of information to the German people and what the rest of the world would hear from inside Germany. One of the leading executives of Wolff was none other than Max Warburg! The Rothschilds would later buy an interest in the Havas news agency in France and Reuters in London. The tentacles of the banking families reached deep into the power elites: Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg, was the son of Moritz Bethmann from the Frankfurt banking family of Frankfurt, a cousin of the Rothschilds.

Kuhn, Loeb & Co. represented the Rothschild interests in the US, and along with the Harrimans, the Goulds and the Rockefellers, became the dominant powers in the railroad and America financial world while they war-mongered to fatten themselves even more. The first available appointment on the Supreme Court of the United States which Woodrow Wilson filled was given to Kuhn-Loeb lawyer Louis Brandeis who had been selected by Jacob Schiff to carry on war agitation. Through marriage, the Kuhn Loeb Company managed to twine itself throughout the U.S. Food Administration, the British Secret Service and the Wilson White House. And on and on and on it went, like a ball of twine, tangling and tying the bankers, their progeny and their friends together for war and profits.

On October 13, 1917, Woodrow Wilson stated: “It is manifestly imperative that there should be a complete mobilization of the banking reserves of the United States. The burden and the privilege (of the Allied loans) must be shared by every banking institution in the country. I believe that cooperation on the part of the banks is a patriotic duty at this time, and that membership in the Federal Reserve System is a distinct and significant evidence of patriotism.”

That “patriotism” served the bankers and their cronies well, although it did little for the people of America who sacrificed their sons, fathers, brothers and husbands to a bloody, needless war.

The Lusitania: The Ship That Helped Launch Millions of Deaths

When the Lusitania was launched, she was intended to be the largest, fastest ship ever built, doing better than 25 knots at top speed. Britain had enjoyed naval superiority since 1815, but was gravely impacted by the popularity and financial success of the German luxury liners of Hamburg-Amerika and Norddeutscher Lloyd, and she hoped that Lusitania would restore her sagging reputation. Her maiden voyage was on September 7, 1907 and for the next nine years, the Lusitania crossed the Atlantic 100 times. Her 101st voyage on May 7, 1915 would be her last.

In 1903, British Prime Minister Balfour had authorized the 20-year loan for £2.6 million at 2.5% interest for Cunard to construct both Lusitania and Mauretania. When they were completed, Cunard was given a subsidy of £150,000 for maintaining both ships in a state of war readiness.

Under the command of Captain William Thomas Turner, Lusitania sank within an astonishing 18 minutes of being hit by a German U-boat. Over 1,000 people aboard died because of the quickness of the sinking, including 124 out of 159 Americans on board. There were greater maritime tragedies, but none provided such a perfect opportunity for pro-war propaganda, and probably never before had the innocent dead been as quickly and blatantly exploited. Sir Gilbert Parker, the member of the British propaganda bureau in charge of information and propaganda aimed at the USA, used the occasion to rush the infamously dishonest “Bryce Report of German Atrocities” into print within five days after the sinking, with the sole aim of bringing the USA into the war on Britain’s side.

The American media parroted British reports that the Germans had fired two torpedoes at the ship without any prior warnings. There had been clear, repeated warnings beforehand, however, and even on April 24, 1915, German officials had published notices in forty US newspapers that a state of war existed between Germany and Britain and that passengers would be travelling at their own risk. The public had no idea that British passenger ships would also be carrying implements of war intended for use against Germany, thus making them targets.

From the onset of war in 1914, Britain’s horrendous blockade on Germany under First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill prevented even food from being imported into Germany and brought death, starvation and malnutrition to thousands of people. The British blockade violated the tenets of generally accepted international law which had been codified by several international agreements of the previous two centuries and is believed to have caused up to a million German civilian deaths. U.S. Senator Robert LaFollette pointed out, in vain, that food blockades violated international law and struck at America’s rights as a neutral power. LaFollette even cited an admission by Lord Salisbury, one of England’s prominent statesmen, that “food for the civilian population was never contraband… a principle that the English were callously ignoring in their blockade of Germany.”

Not only were the British employing the blockade to stop, destroy or confiscate ships carrying cargo to Germany, they also disguised warships as merchant ships, used neutral flags as cover (Q-ships), and armed merchant ships, giving them orders to ram German U-boats. This turned every British merchant ship into a warship in the opinion of Germany, who had objected to this policy in vain. The Royal Navy showed its own disregard of civilians by loading passenger ships with weapons.

Come on Ansarallah! More wrecks for fucking divers like myself to enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Discussion about this post

And yep, my Snakes US Passport already has the Homeland Security red flags, so, what would I expect going to Scotland to see a cousin, or buddy in Spain, upon my return?

Paulo Kirk

Jul 21, 2026

• Adely, Suzanne: The president of the National Lawyers Guild who participated in the Nuestra América Convoy and who, the report notes, praised Venezuela’s 2024 elections.
• Amazon Labor Union: A labor union founded by Christian Smalls that participated in the 2026 Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba.
• Antifa: A decentralized group of self-described “Anti-fascist” political activists
• Assata’s Daughters: A Chicago-based Black Lives Matter abolitionist offshoot that trains young activists in the radical spirit of Assata Shakur.
• Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees (AIPAC): A California-based umbrella nonprofit that funds left-wing media and delegations to Cuba and Venezuela.
• Bass, Karen: The current Mayor of Los Angeles and former Congresswoman who was a Venceremos Brigade organizer in the 1970s.
• Benjamin, Medea (Susan Benjamin): A co-founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange who organizes Cuba solidarity efforts.
• Black Alliance for Peace: An activist group that maps U.S. military bases and police training facilities as targets for radical agitation.
• Black Lives Matter (BLM) (including Global Network Foundation, Grassroots, and at School): A sprawling racial justice network whose leaders and offshoots, the report says, have expressed solidarity with Cuban regime and radical figures like Assata Shakur.
• Boudin, Chesa: The former District Attorney of San Francisco and son of Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin.
• changingFrequencies: A Black Queer Feminist-led abolitionist project aiming to disrupt waht it calls the “Medical Industrial Complex”.
• Claudia Jones School: A Washington, D.C.-based organizing collective that conducts popular education and, the report says, pro-Cuba lobbying.
• Code Pink: Women for Peace: A left-wing protest group that describes itself as anti-war and organizes solidarity delegations to Cuba.
• Cohen, Ben: The co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s who attended the wedding of Neville Roy Singham and Jodie Evans.
• de la Cruz, Claudia: The co-founder of the People’s Forum, IFCO executive director, and 2024 presidential candidate for the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
• De Los Santos, Manolo: The co-founder and head of the People’s Forum who the report says maintains deep relationships with Cuban regime elites.
• Democratic Socialists of America (DSA): A major socialist political organization that has organized official delegations to Cuba.
• Ensler, Eve (V): A prominent playwright who attended the wedding of Neville Roy Singham and Jodie Evans.
• Equality for Flatbush: A Brooklyn-based Black Lives Matter abolitionist group fighting gentrification, police, and ICE.
• Evans, Jodie: The co-founder of Code Pink who married Neville Roy Singham.
• Floyd, George: A Minneapolis man whose 2020 death sparked nationwide uprisings that the report notes were praised by Cuba.
• Garza, Alicia: The co-founder of Black Lives Matter who credited Assata Shakur as a key influence in her organizing work.
• Goodman, Amy: The host of Democracy Now! who the report notes attended the wedding of Neville Roy Singham and Jodie Evans.
• Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees: An activist group led by Black women that organizes to defend Black migrants and block deportations.
• Hirsi, Isra: A campus activist and daughter of Ilhan Omar who was suspended from Barnard College for organizing anti-Israel encampments before traveling to Cuba.
• IFCO / Pastors for Peace: An ecumenical foundation that organizes aid caravans to leftist regimes and serves as a fiscal sponsor for numerous radical U.S. groups.
• Larudee, Paul: A U.S. citizen based in San Francisco who serves as the North American coordinator for the pro-Iranian “Resistance Axis” coalition Al-Tajammu.
• Mamdani, Zohran: Mayor of New York
• National Lawyers Guild (NLG): An association of radical lawyers that provides legal defense and “legal observers” for various left-wing groups
• National Network on Cuba (NNOC): A coalition of over 60 American groups dedicated to lobbying for Cuba and coordinating nationwide direct actions.
• Omar, Ilhan: A Democratic Congresswoman and mother of campus activist Isra Hirsi.
• Party for Socialism and Liberation: A leftist political party that fielded a 2024 presidential candidate and conducts protests.
• People’s Forum, The: An activist hub for anti-ICE and pro-Cuban agitation.
• Piker, Hasan: A streamer and left-wing political commentator who, the report notes, traveled to Cuba to film a documentary and participated in the Nuestra América Convoy.
• Pressley, Ayanna: A Democratic Congresswoman who, the report notes, publicly praised convicted murderer Assata Shakur upon her death.
• Singham, Neville Roy: A Shanghai-based American technology magnate who funds various left-wing activist groups.
• Smalls, Christian: The founder of the Amazon Labor Union who participated in the 2026 Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba.
• Thousand Currents: A progressive nonprofit that served as the fiscal sponsor for the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.
• Villaraigosa, Antonio: A former Mayor of Los Angeles and Speaker of the California Assembly who was a Venceremos Brigade alumnus.
• Viva Palestina US: The American branch of an international network that, the report says, previously provided convoys and funds to Hamas.
• Waters, Maxine: A Democratic Congresswoman who, the report notes, once wrote a letter urging Fidel Castro not to extradite fugitive Assata Shakur.
• Wilson, Diane: A co-founder of Code Pink.
• Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective: An organization that runs recurring solidarity delegations to Cuba.

Ahh, from another Jewish liberal:

Guilt by association at its finest. But what exactly are they guilty of?

What the report shows isn’t that any of these people are knowingly taking directions from a foreign power — only that they disagree with the U.S. government on Cuba policy (or at most, agree with Cuba).

Their views can be wrong — aggressively, offensively wrong even — but it’s their goddamn right as Americans to hold them.

U.S. and Iran trade strikes for 9th day. Israel has killed at least 1,158 Palestinians in Gaza since the so-called ceasefire deal was signed, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Middle East Eye reports Israeli minister “Smotrich says U.S. fighting Iran is ‘best for us’ and Israel will not join … Finance minister says the war serves Israeli interests while American troops and households bear its mounting costs.” AntiWar.com is reporting “Nearly 100 U.S. Troops Injured This Month”.

Words, man, this shit hole’s White Man’s House of the Minyans . . . .

Luna Amendment to #1394 The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)

Jul 21

Written By A New Policy Staff

Date last updated: Jul 21, 2026

Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL-13) introduced Amendment 1394/320 to the H.R. 8800 (National Defense Authorization Act) on July 20, 2026.

Related legislation: H.R.8800; S.4784

Bill Summary: The Luna Amendment strikes 7 words, including four instances of the word “integration/integrate” from Sec. 219 of the NDAA, the section that creates the U.S.-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.

Context: The changes made by this Amendment are entirely cosmetic. The Amendment is a cosmetic cynical ploy and bad faith politics on the part of REP Luna and the Republican Majority to muddy the waters around this section. Specifically, the Amendment:

• Does not strike the most important instance of the term ‘integration,’ which occurs in Section (a)(1), as follows:

identifying jointly developed or Israeli-origin technologies with operational utility for potential integration into United States systems and programs of record;

• Would not have any meaningful impact on the overall direction of the Initiative – it would not remove the directive for integration of Israeli tech into U.S. weapons systems; would not substantively change the 10 areas of emerging tech collaboration, would not impact the directive to expand coproduction, and would not remove the directive to appoint an Executive Agent in DOD to see the program forward.

A New Policy’s Recommendation: OPPOSE

A New Policy opposes the amendment as it is a cosmetic change to section 219 and bad faith politics, and A New Policy is urging Members to OPPOSE the Luna Amendment on that basis. Had the Majority wished to have a real debate on this issue, they could have advanced the Massie-Khanna Amendment to strike Sec. 219 entirely. The fact they did not tells you everything you need to know about this Amendment.

BENJAMIN FREEMAN, wrote the pieces “Congress quietly moves to integrate U.S. and Israeli militaries“ and “Congress blocks Massie-Khanna effort to kill U.S.-Israel integration“ for Responsible Statecraft. He is director of the Democratizing Foreign Policy Program at the Quincy Institute. He is also co-author of the The Trillion Dollar War Machine.

He said today:

“Congress has once again defied the will of the American people and moved us one step closer to fusing our military industrial complex with Israel’s. Even worse, they’re not even willing to have an honest, public debate about the issue. They just keep pushing this dangerous proposal forward behind closed doors. And, the reason they’re doing this is painfully obvious: they know the American people don’t want it, but they’re too scared to stand up to the Israel lobby. But, enough is enough, it’s well past time that Congress puts the interests of the American people above the interests of Benjamin Netanyahu.”

What the fuck? China Rejects U.S. Allegations of Foreign Military and Intelligence Facilities in Cuba.

On Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian rejected U.S. allegations about the presence of foreign military and intelligence facilities in Cuba.

FUCK AMERIKKA:

Yeah, Wolff and Sachs and other Jews yammering about the end of Imperial AmeriKKKa. I want some of that HOPEIUM they snort.

Denouncements? We need to start training folks how to pick up a gun, how to make gasoline and fertilizer bombs, and how to remote detonate them, motherfuckers:

A strange strange world indeed: DICTATORS!

On Wednesday, the Guatemalan government unveiled the design for the funerary monument that will house the remains of writer Miguel Angel Asturias, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Literature.

The repatriation of Asturias’ remains from France is scheduled for October, while Minister of Culture Luis Mendez explained that the memorial will be located in the gardens of the Miguel Angel Asturias Cultural Center in Guatemala City, as a permanent tribute to the writer.

The design, by Guatemalan architect Alejandro Paz, consists of a contemporary pavilion with twin reinforced concrete beams, a metal roof, and marble elements, respectfully integrated into the existing heritage site.

Meanwhile, the Miguel Angel Asturias Cultural Center is internationally recognized for its organic architecture, which blends structures with Guatemala’s topography and volcanic landscape.

There’s a certain confusion about this novel, to which Asturias himself contributed. At the time, he championed social and protest fiction, the kind that revealed the horrors that Latin American dictators had committed. On many occasions, he claimed that his book belonged to the genre of politically engaged novels.

Undoubtedly, this is one important aspect of Mr. President. The novel deals with prototypical Latin American realist or local color themes, based on the dramatic historical circumstance that dictators ruled most Latin American countries.

In an unnamed country, an egomaniacal dictator schemes to dispose of a political adversary and maintain his grip on power. As tyranny takes hold, everyone is forced to choose between compromise and death. Inspired by life under the regime of President Manuel Estrada Cabrera of Guatemala, where it was banned for many years, and infused with exuberant lyricism, Mayan symbolism, and Guatemalan vernacular, Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias’s magnum opus is at once a surrealist masterpiece, a blade-sharp satire of totalitarianism, and a gripping portrait of psychological terror.

Miguel Ángel Asturias’s Nobel Lecture, 12th December 1967

(Translation)

The Latin American Novel: Testimony of an Epoch

I would have preferred this meeting to have been called a colloquium instead of a lecture – a dialogue of doubts and assertions on the subject that concerns us. Let us start by analysing the antecedents of Latin American literature in general, focusing our attention on those aspects that have most connection with the novel. Let us follow the sources back to the millenarian origins of indigenous literature in its three great moments: Maya, Aztec and Inca.

The following question arises: Was there something resembling the novel among the indigenous peoples? I believe there was. The history of the original cultures of Latin America has more of what we in the Western world call the novel than of history. It is necessary to bear in mind that the books of their history – their novels we would now say – were painted by the Aztecs and Mayas and preserved in a figurative form which we still do not understand by the Incas. This assumes the use of pictograms in which the voice of the reader – the indigenous do not distinguish between reading and reciting since for them it is the same thing – recited the text to the listeners in song form.

The reader, reciting stories or ‘great language’, the only person who understood what the pictograms meant, carried out an interpretation, recreating them for the enlightenment of those who listened. Later, these painted stories become fixed in the memory of the listeners and pass in oral form from generation to generation until the alphabet brought by the Spanish fixes them in their native tongues with Latin characters or directly in Spanish. In this way, indigenous texts come to our knowledge with very little exposure to European corruption. The reading of these documents is what has allowed us to affirm that, among the native Americans, history has more of the characteristics of the novel than of history. They are accounts in which reality is dissolved in fable, legend, the trappings of beauty, and in which the imagination, by dint of describing all the reality that it contains, ends up re-creating a reality that we might call surrealist.

This characteristic of the annulment of reality through imagination and the re-creation of a more transcendental reality is combined with a constant annulment of time and space as well as something more significant: the use and abuse of parallel expressions, i.e., the parallel use of different words to designate the same object, to convey the same idea and express the same feelings. I wish to draw attention to this point – the parallelism in the indigenous texts allows an exercise of nuances that we find hard to appreciate but which undoubtedly permitted a poetic gradation destined to induce certain states of consciousness which were taken to be magic.

If we return to the theme of the origin of a literary genre, similar to the novel, among the pre-Colombian peoples it is necessary to link the birth of this novel form with the epic. The heroic legend, exceeding the possibilities of historical fiction, was sung by the rhapsodists – the great voices of the tribes or ‘cuicanimes’ who toured the cities reciting the texts in order that the beauty of their songs would be disseminated among the peoples like the golden blood of their gods.

These epic songs that are so abundant in pre-Columbian literature, and so little known, possess what we call ‘fictional plot’ and what the Spanish friars and missionaries termed ‘tricks’.

These fictional tales were originally the testimony of past epochs; the memory and fame of high deeds that others on hearing, would desire to emulate. This literature of reality and fable is broken in the instant of servitude and remains as one of the many broken vessels of those great civilisations. Other narratives will follow – in this same documentary form – recounting not the evidence of greatness but of misery, not the testimony of liberty but of slavery, no longer the statements of the masters but those of the subjects and a new, emerging American literature attempting to fill the empty silences of an epoch.

However, the literary genres that flourished in the Iberian peninsulas – the realistic novel and the theatre – were not to put down roots here. On the contrary, it is the indigenous effervescence, the sap and the blood, river, sea and mirage that affects the first Spaniard to write the first great American ‘novel’ for the ‘True Story of the Events of the Conquest of New Spain’ written by Bernal Diaz del Castillo deserves to be called no less. Is it not rather bold to describe as a ‘novel’ what that soldier called not history but ‘true history’? But are not novels frequently the true history? I repeat the question: is it really boldness to describe as a novel the work of this illustrious chronicler?

To those who might call me daring in my description, I would invite them to enter the cadenced and panting prose of this versatile foot soldier, and they will notice how – on entering into it – they gradually forget that what happened was reality and it will seem to them increasingly a work of pure imagination. Indeed, even Bernal himself says no less, next to the very walls of Tenochtitlan: “this seemed to be the work of enchantment that is recounted in the book of Amadis!” But this is the work of a Spaniard – it will be said – although the only thing Spanish about it is its having been written by a ‘peninsular’ resident in Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala – where that glorious manuscript is kept – and its having been composed in the old language of Castile although it partakes of that masquerade characteristic of indigenous literature. To Don Marcelino Menendez y Pelayo – this expert in classic Spanish literature – the taste of this prose is strange and the fact that it has been written by a soldier he finds surprising. It escapes this eminent writer that Bernal, at the age of eighty, had not only heard many texts of indigenous literature being recited, being influenced by it, but through osmosis had absorbed America and had already become American.

But there is another more impressive parenthesis. In their last sorrowful cantos, the indigenous peoples – now subjugated – call for justice and Bernal Diaz Castillo expresses his deepest feelings in a chronicle which is a howl of protest at the oblivion into which they fell after being “fought and conquered.”

As from this moment, all Latin American literature, in song and novel, not only becomes a testimony for each epoch but also, as stated by the Venezuelan writer Arturo Uslar Pietri, an “instrument of struggle”. All the great literature is one of testimony and vindication, but far from being a cold dossier, these are moving pages written by one conscious of his power to impress and convince.

Will the south give us a mestizo? The mestizo par excellence since – in order for nothing to be lacking – he was the first American exile: Inca Garcilaso. This Creole exile follows the indigenous voices already extinguished in his denunciation of the oppressors of Peru. The Inca offers us in his magnificent prose not only the native American – nor only the Spanish – but the mixture materialised in the fusion of the bloods, and in the same demand for life and justice.

To start with, nobody discerns the ‘message’ in the prose of Inca. This will be clarified during the struggle for independence. Inca will then appear with the dignity of the Indian who knew how to make fun of the empire of “the two knives” – that is to say, civil and ecclesiastical censorship. The Spanish authorities, slow to fathom the message containing so much spirit, imagination and melancholy, wisely order the confiscation of the story of Inca Garcilaso where the Indians have “learned so many dangerous things.”

Not only poetry and works of fiction bear witness. The least expected authors such as Francisco Javier Clavijero, Francisco Javier Alegre, Andrés Calvo, Manuel Fabri, Andres de Guevara gave birth to a literature of exiles which is – and will continue to be – a testimony of its epoch.

Even the Guatemalan poet Rafael Landívar has his form of rebellion. His protest is silence – he calls the Spanish ‘Hispani’ without qualifying the adjective. We refer to Landívar because, despite being the least known, he should be considered the standard-bearer of American literature as the authentic expression of our lands, our people and landscapes. According to Pedro Henriquez-Urena, “among the poets of the Spanish colonies he is the first master of landscape, the first to break definitively with the conventions of the Renaissance and discover the characteristic features of nature in the New World – its flora and fauna, its countryside and mountains, its lakes and waterfalls. In his descriptions of customs, of the crafts and the games there is an amusing vivacity and – throughout the poem – a deep sympathy and understanding of the survival of the original cultures.”

In 1781 in Modena, Italy, there appeared under the title of ‘Rusticatio Mexicana’ a poetic work of 3,425 Latin hexameters, in 10 cantos, written by Rafael Landívar. One year later in Bologna, the second edition appeared. The poet, called by Menendez y Pelayo ‘the Virgil of the modern age ’, proclaimed to the Europeans the excellence of the land, the life and the peoples of America. He was concerned for the people of the Old World to know that El Jorullo, a Mexican volcano, could rival Vesuvius and Etna, that the waterfalls and caves of San Pedro Martir in Guatemala were the equals of the famous fountains of Castalia and Aretusa and referring to the cenzontle – the bird whose song has 400 tones – he elevated it above the realm of the nightingale.

He sings the praises of the countryside, of the gold and silver that was filling the world with valuable coins and the sugar loaves offered at royal tables.

His poem is not short of statistics concerning the riches of America. He cites the droves of cattle, the flocks of sheep, the herds of goats and pigs, the sources of medicinal waters, the popular games – some unknown in Europe – and he does not hide the glory of the cocoa and chocolate of Guatemala. But there is something that we should be aware of in the song of Landivar; namely his love of the indigenous. The Indian, for Landivar, is the race that succeeds in everything; he describes the marvels of the floating gardens created by the Indians; he holds them up as examples of charm and skill without forgetting their great sufferings. In this way he imparts poetic substance – in naturalistic poetry far from symbolism – to a fact that has always been denied: the superiority of the American Indian as farmer, as craftsman and worker.

To the image of the bad Indian, lazy and immoral that was so widely propagated in Europe and accepted in America by those who exploit it, Landívar opposes the picture of the Indian on whose shoulders has weighed – and continues to weigh – the burden of labour in America. And he does not do it by simply stating it – in which case we would have the right or not of believing it. In his poem we see the Indian on board his charming canoe, transporting his goods or travelling and we admire him extracting the purple and scarlet, laying out the snowy worms that produce the silk, holding on stubbornly to the rocks in order to remove the beautiful shellfish, patiently and doggedly ploughing, cultivating the indigo plant, extracting the silver from his native mines, exhausting the golden veins… The Rusticatio of Landívar confirms what we have said of the great American literature – it cannot accept a passive role while on our soil a famished people live in these abundant lands. In its content it is a form of novel in verse.

Fifty years later, Andres Bello was to renovate the American adventure in his famous ‘Silva’, an immortal and perfect work in which the nature of the New World appears again with maize the leader – as haughty chief of the corn tribe – the cacao in ‘coral urns’, the coffee plants, the banana, the tropics in all their vegetable and animal power, contrasting the impoverished inhabitant with this grandiose vision ‘of the rich soil.’

Bello recalls Inca Garcilaso in his role as an exile; he is of the American lineage of Landívar, both represent the brilliant start of the great American odyssey in world literature. As from this moment the image of nature in the New World will awaken in Europe an interest but it will never attain the incandescent fidelity that is achieved in the work of Landívar and Bello. A distorted vision of the marvels is offered us by Chateaubriand in ‘Atala’ and ‘Les Natchez’.

For the Europeans, nature is a background without the gravitational force achieved by Creole romanticism. The romantics give nature a permanent presence in the creations of poets and novelists of the epoch. This is exemplified by José María de Heredia singing of the Niagara Falls and Esteban Echeverría describing the desert in ‘La Cautiva ’, to mention just two.

Latin American romanticism was not only a literary school but a patriotic flag. Poets, historians, and novelists divide their days and nights between political activities and dreaming their creations. Never has it been more beautiful to be a poet in America! Amongst the poets influenced by the Patria converted in Muse are José Mármol, author of one of the most widely read novels in Latin America – ‘Amalia’. The pages of this book have been turned by our febrile and sweaty fingers when we suffered in our very bones the dictatorships that have plagued Central America. The critics, when referring to the novel of Mármol, point out inconsistencies and carelessness without realising that a work of this type is written with a madly beating heart – pulsations that leave in the sentence, in the paragraph, on the page that abnormal heartbeat reflecting the distortion of the life force that troubled the entire country. We are in the presence of one of the most passionate examples of the American novel. Despite the years, ‘Amelia’ – the imprecations of José, Mármol – continues to move readers to such an extent as to represent an act of faith.

It is at this very moment that the voice of Sarmiento is heard posing his famous dilemma at the threshold of the century: ‘civilisation or barbarism’. Indeed, Sarmiento himself will be startled when he becomes aware that ‘Facundo’ turns his arms against him and against everyone, declaring himself to be the authentic representative of Creole America, of the America that refuses to die and attempts to break – with a breast already hardened – the antithetical scheme of civilisation and barbarism in order to find between these two extremes the point where the American peoples are able to find their authentic personality with their own essential values.

In the middle of the last century another romantic, no less passionate, appears in Guatemala: José Batres Montúfar. In the midst of tales of festive character, the reader feels that he should forget the fiesta to listen to the poetry. The immortal José Batres Montúfar, with abundant charm tinged with bitterness, was able to get to the core of issues that already – in the middle of the past century – were highly charged.

Another voice was to ring out from north to south, that of José Martí. His presence was felt, whether as an exile or in his beloved Cuba, the fre of his speech as poet or journalist being combined with the example of his sacrifice.

The 20th century is full of poets, poets who have nothing more to say, with very few exceptions. Among the latter stand out the immortal Rubén Darío and Juan Ramón Molina from Honduras. The poets flee from reality, maybe because this is one of the ways of being a poet. But there is nothing living in much of their work, which instead tend towards garrulity.

They are ignorant of the clear lesson of the native rhapsodists; they are forgetful of the colonial craftsmen of our great literature, satisfied with the bloodless imitation of the poetry of other latitudes and ridicule those who sang the bold gestures of the liberation struggle, considering them dazzled by a local patriotism.

It is only when the First World War is passed that a handful of men – men and artists – embark on the reconquest of their own tradition. In their encounter with the indigenous peoples, they drop anchor in their Spanish home port and return with the message that they have to deliver to the future.

Latin American literature will be reborn under other signs – no longer that of verse. Now the prose is tactile, plural and irreverent in its attitude to conventions – to serve the purpose of this new crusade whose first move was to plunge into reality not so as to objectify but rather to penetrate the facts in order to identify fully with the problems of humanity. Nothing human – nothing which is real – will be foreign to this literature inspired by contact with America. And this is the case of the Latin American novel. Nobody doubts that the Latin American novel is at the leading edge of its genre in the world. It is cultivated in all our countries, by writers of different tendencies, which means that in the novel everything is forged from American material – the human witness of our historic moment.

We, the Latin American novelists of today, working within the tradition of engagement with our peoples which has enabled our great literature to develop – our poetry of substance – also have to reclaim lands for our dispossessed, mines for our exploited workers, to raise demands in favour of the masses who perish in the plantations, who are scorched by the sun in the banana fields, who turn into human bagasse in the sugar refineries. It is for this reason that – for me – the authentic Latin American novel is the call for all these things; it is the cry that echoes down the centuries and is pronounced in thousands of pages. A novel that is genuinely ours; determined and loyal – in its pages – to the cause of the human spirit, to the fists of our workers, to the sweat of our rural peasants, to the pain for our undernourished children; calling for the blood and the sap of our vast lands to run once more towards the seas to enrich our burgeoning new cities.

This novel shares – consciously or unconsciously – the characteristics of the indigenous texts; their freshness and power, the numismatic anguish in the eyes of the Creoles who awaited the dawn in the colonial night, more luminous however than this night that threatens us now. Above all, it is the affirmation of the optimism of those writers that defied the Inquisition, opening a breach in the conscience of the people for the march of the Liberators.

The Latin American novel, our novel, cannot betray the great spirit that has shaped – and continues to shape – all our great literature. If you write novels merely to entertain – then burn them! This might be the message delivered with evangelical fervour, since if you do not burn them they will anyway be erased from the memory of the people where a poet or novelist should aspire to remain. Just consider how many writers there have been who – down the ages – have written novels to entertain! And who remembers them now? On the other hand, how easy it is to repeat the names of those amongst us who have written to bear witness.

To bear witness. The novelist bears witness like the apostle. Like Paul trying to escape, the writer is confronted with the pathetic reality of the world that surrounds him – the stark reality of our countries that overwhelms and blinds us and, throwing us to our knees, forces us to shout out: WHY DO YOU PERSECUTE ME? Yes, we are persecuted by this reality that we cannot deny, which is lived in the flesh by the people of the Mexican revolution, embodied in persons such as Mariano Azuela, Agustin Yanez and Juan Rulfo whose convictions are as sharp as a knife; those who share with Jorge Icaza, Ciro Alegría, Jesús Lara the shout of protest against the exploitation and abandonment of the Indian; those who with Romulo Gallegos in ‘Done Bábara’ create for us our Prometheus. Here is Horacio Quiroga who frees us from the nightmare of the tropics, a nightmare that is as peculiar to him as his style is American. ‘Los ros profundos’ of José María Arguedas, the ‘Rio oscuro’ of the Argentinian Alfredo Varela, ‘Hijo de hombre’ of the Paraguayan Roa Bastos and ‘La ciudad y los perros’ of the Peruvian Vargas Llosa make us see how the life-blood of the working people is drained in our lands.

Mancisidor takes us to the oil fields to which are drawn – leaving their homes – the inhabitants of ‘Cases muertas’ of Miguel Otero Silva… David Vinas confronts us with the tragic Patagonia, Enrique Wernicke sweeps us along with the waters that overwhelm whole communities while Verbitsky and María de Jesús lead us to the miserable shanty towns, the Dantesque and subhuman quarters of our great cities…

Teitelboim in ‘E1 hijo del salitre’ tells us of the gruelling work in the saltpetre mines while Nicomedes Guzman makes us share in the lives of the children in the Chilean working class districts. We feel the countryside of E1 Salvador in ‘Jaragua’ of Napoleón Rodríguez Ruiz and our small villages in ‘Cenizas del Izalco’ of Flakol and Clarivel Alegria. We cannot think of the pampas without speaking of ‘Don Segundo Sombra’ by Guiraldes nor speak of the jungle without ‘La voragine’ of Eustasio Rivera, nor of the Negroes: without Jorge Amado, nor of the Brazilian plains without the ‘Gran Sertao’ of Guimaraes Rosa, nor of the plains of Venezuela without Ramón Díaz Sánchez.

Our books do not search for a sensationalist or horrifying effect in order to secure a place for us in the republic of letters. We are human beings linked by blood, geography and life to those hundreds, thousands, millions of Latin Americans who suffer misery in our opulent and rich American continent. Our novels attempt to mobilise across the world the moral forces that have to help us defend those people. The mestizo process was already advanced in our literature and in rediscovering America it lent a human dimension to the grandiose nature of the continent. But this is a nature neither for the gods as in the texts of the Indians, nor a nature for heroes as in the writings of the romantics, but a nature for men and women in which the human problems will be addressed again with vigour and audacity.

As true Latin Americans, the beauty of expression excites us and – for this reason – each one of our novels is a verbal feat. Alchemy is at work. We know it. It is no easy task to understand in the executed work all the effort and determination invested in the materials used – the words.

Yes, I say words – but by what laws and rules they have been transformed! They have been set as the pulse of worlds in formation. They ring like wood, like metals. This is onomatopoeia. In the adventure of our language, the first aspect that demands attention is onomatopoeia. How many echoes – composed or disintegrated – of our landscape, our nature are to be found in our words, our sentences. The novelist embarks on a verbal adventure, an instinctive use of words. One is guided along by sounds. One listens, listens to the characters.

Our best novels do not seem to have been written but spoken. There is verbal dynamics in the poetry enclosed in the very word itself, and that is revealed first as sound and afterwards as concept.

This is why the great Spanish American novels are vibrantly musical in the convulsion of the birth of all the things that are born with them.

The adventure continues in the confluence of the languages. Amongst the languages spoken by the people, in which the Indian languages are represented, there is an admixture of the European and Oriental languages brought by the immigrants to America.

Another language is going to rain its sparkle over sounds and words. The language of images. Our novels seem to be written not only with words but with images. Quite a few people, when reading our novels, see them cinematically. And this is not because they pursue a dramatic statement of independence but because our novelists are engaged in universalising the voice of their peoples with a language rich in sounds, rich in fable and rich in images.

This is not a language artificially created to provide scope for the play of the imagination or so-called poetic prose; it is a vivid language that preserves in its popular speech all the lyricism, the imagination, the grace, the high-spiritedness that characterise the language of the Latin American novel.

The poetic language which nourishes our novelistic literature is more or less its breath of life. Novels with lungs of poetry, lungs of foliage, lungs of rich vegetation. I believe that what most attracts non-American readers is what our novels have achieved by means of a colourful, brilliant language without falling into the merely picturesque, the spell of onomatopoeia cast by representing the music of the countryside and sometimes the sounds of the indigenous languages, the ancestral smack of those languages that flourish unconsciously in the prose that is used. There is also the importance of the word as an absolute entity, as a symbol. Our prose is distinguished from Castilian syntax because the word – in our novels – has a value of its own, just as it had in the indigenous languages. Word, concept, sound; a rich, fascinating transposition. Nobody can understand our literature, our poetry if the power of enchantment is removed from the word.

Word and language enable the reader to participate in the life of our novelistic creations. Unsettling, disturbing, forcing the attention of the reader who – forgetting his daily life – will enter into the situations and personalities of a novel tradition that retains intact its humanistic values. Nothing is used to detract from mankind but rather to perfect it and this is perhaps what wins over and unsettles the reader, that which transforms our novel into a vehicle of ideas, an interpreter of peoples using as an instrument a language with a literary dimension, with imponderable magical value and profound human projection.

Translated by The Swedish Trade Council Language Services.

From Les Prix Nobel en 1967, Editor Ragnar Granit, [Nobel Foundation], Stockholm, 1968

Copyright © The Nobel Foundation 1967

The Old Song of the Blood

My mother’s milk fed me no Castilian

when I came into this world.

My language was born among trees,

it holds the taste of earth;

my ancestors’ tongue is my home.

And if I use this language that is not mine,

I do it as someone using a new key

to open another door and enter another world

where words have other voices,

a different way of feeling the earth.

This language holds the memory of pain,

and I speak it without fear or shame

because it was paid for

with the blood of my ancestors.

In this new language

I show the flowers of my song,

bring the taste of other sorrows,

the shades of different joys…

This tongue is just one more key

for singing the old song of my blood.

Humberto Ak’abal (1952–2019) was a K’iche’ Maya poet from Guatemala. His book Guardián de la caída de agua (Guardian of the Waterfall) was named book of the year by Association of Guatemalan Journalists and received their Golden Quetzal award in 1993. In 2004, he declined to receive the Guatemala National Prize in Literature because it is named for Miguel Ángel Asturias, whom Ak’abal accused of encouraging racism. Ak’abal, a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, passed away on January 28th, 2019.

ICE has been touting record-high arrest numbers this summer—and they are not wrong. The daily rate of ICE arrests in June was over 1,300, the highest month of the Trump administration, and in July that number increased again to a record 1,474 arrests per day for the first 11 days for which we have data. This reverses a trend we saw since the early fall where overall arrest numbers had actually remained fairly consistent or declined. The purported shift in ICE tactics—from the manic Kristi Noem months that cost the lives of two U.S. citizens to the less spectacular tactics under Markwayne Mullin—has effectively led to more arrests without as much popular backlash. The rising death toll of ICE detention, not to mention the deadly shooting of Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine, hardly points to a more disciplined, less rogue agency.

Of those people held in detention, the largest group continues to be immigrants with no criminal history whatsoever, reinforcing the now longstanding observation that the agency is not targeting the worst of the worst. In fact, the percentage of people in detention with nothing more than an actual or alleged immigration violation (with all of the utter meaninglessness that this administration has made of that category) continued to grow since April while the percentage of immigrants with charges or convictions declined as a percent of the total. These crude categories do not tell the whole story of the lives of people in detention, but I continue to present this as an important contextualizing data point.

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Drawing on his personal experiences under the reign of Estrada Cabrera, Asturias explored the nature of a totalitarian state and how it annihilated human dignity and spirit.

[CABRERA’S 22-year rule (1898–1920) is widely documented as a “reign of terror” responsible for thousands of casualties.]

My father was one of the victims of the man for whom all the torments of Hell are waiting—Colonel Parrales Sonriente— that hired assassin whose deeds will some day figure in history, if there is anyone prepared to dip his pen in snake-poison to write it.

At the behest of the all-controlling dictator, the police and the judicial system work in tandem to frame two innocent public figures who can be a threat in the future for the President – ‘the indictment charging Canales and Carvajal with sedition, rebellion and treason, with all possible aggravating circumstances.’

The scene of Carvajal’s trial is a classic:

“The table round which the tribunal sat was covered by a flag, as prescribed by the regulations. The beggars were sitting in the witnesses’ seats. Carvajal turned and looked at the members of the tribunal, searching for signs of wisdom and judgement. The first one his eyes encountered was as drunk as it was possible to be. And the President (of the tribunal), who was giving the most finished performance of them all as an alcoholic, seemed on the point of passing out.”

Carvajal is neither given adequate time to read the ninety-one pages of the indictment nor allowed to defend himself against the charges. Since the tribunal knows that he is innocent, this is considered waste of time and an exercise in futility. The tribunal has been meticulous, however, to ensure that “the sentence had been drawn up and written out in advance” – and it is now served on him. Carvajal is executed the next morning.

In a totalitarian state corruption always seeps from top to bottom. Asturias amplifies it with the description of the judge advocate general, the highest judicial authority in the state who has swindled a brothel owner of ten thousand pesos, and is all too willing to prostitute his office to serve the tyrant. When Carvajal’s widow comes to his house to know where the body of her husband is buried the judge’s servant sympathises with her, only to be chastised by his master when he learns about it:

“When will you understand that you mustn’t encourage people to hope? In my house the first thing everyone, down to the cat, has to learn is that there are never grounds for hope of any description for anyone. It’s only possible to go on holding a position like mine if you obey orders; the President’s rule of conduct is never to give grounds for hope, and everyone must be kicked and beaten until they realise the fact.”

The Fortune

Miguel Ángel Asturias

To give is to love,

To give prodigiously:

For every drop of water

To return a torrent.

We were made that way,

Made to scatter

Seeds in the furrow

And stars in the ocean.

Woe to him, Lord,

who doesn’t exhaust his supply,

And, on returning, tells you:

“Like an empty satchel

Is my heart.”

Caudal

Dar es amar,

dar prodigiosamente

por cada gota de agua

devolver un torrente.

Fuimos hechos asi,

hechos para botar

semillas en el surco

y estrellas en el mar

Y ¿ay! del que no agote,

Señor, su provisión Y al regresar te diga:

¿Como alforja vacía

está mi corazón!

DICTATORS……

Uncovering the Killing of 168 Children in a U.S. Strike on an Iranian Primary School

Sky News spent four months pulling apart the bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab — the strike that instantly became the most notorious moment of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. It happened on day one. The school was hit again and again, and 168 children were killed, along with teachers and staff whose identities were traced through painstaking open‑source work. Most of the dead were girls between seven and twelve. Their families have waited four months for the U.S. investigation that was promised, and nothing has been released.

With Iran’s internet shut down and travel into the country nearly impossible, Sky News’ Data and Forensics team turned to whatever evidence could be gathered remotely: satellite archives, CCTV, witness videos, old maps, school records, anything that could be verified. They worked with Forensic Architecture to rebuild the school in 3D and reconstruct the attack second by second.

What they found wasn’t a mystery. It was a failure that had been built into the system long before the missiles were launched.

The Pentagon had satellite imagery of the site going back to 1987. They had decades of overhead surveillance showing exactly what the compound was. They had images from December 2025 where you can literally see children’s shadows in the playground. The school had been walled off from the adjacent IRGC naval base since at least 2015, with its own perimeter, its own website, its own public footprint. Any analyst with basic tools could have confirmed it was a civilian school in minutes.

But on February 28, three Tomahawk missiles were fired from the USS Spruance, roughly 716 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea. CCTV shows the compound being hit nine times at 11:22 a.m. The school itself was struck about ten seconds after the first impact. Witnesses say the second missile landed exactly where a teacher had moved surviving students for shelter, killing nearly everyone who had taken cover there. A third strike followed on the same spot. The crater matches a Tomahawk. The pattern of impacts matches a Tomahawk. The launch platform matches a Tomahawk. There is no serious doubt left about what was used or who fired it.

This pathological psychopath is their president. This tells you everything you need to know…

Dictators of a many colored Feathered Yemukle

Israel Delays Release of Gaza War Crimes Investigations Again

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