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🇺🇸 Debt Slavery: The Inevitable Collapse of American Hegemony
As Washington entertains the extension of the 2017 tax cuts in the face of spiraling deficits, the U.S. teeters on the edge of a fiscal abyss. With the national debt already surpassing $34 trillion and the Congressional Budget Office projecting the federal debt-to-GDP ratio to soar to a staggering 172% by 2054, surpassing even the dire levels of World War II, America's march toward fiscal Armageddon is not just imprudent - t’s an act of outright betrayal against its own citizens. This reckless financial course locks future generations into a relentless cycle of debt slavery, a grim legacy of economic mismanagement and corruption.
Meanwhile, the relentless pursuit of 'forever wars' has drained trillions from the U.S. treasury, achieving nothing but global disdain and an obliterated reputation. Millions dead in "collateral damage" serve as a brutal testament to the human cost of these failed 'interventions'. Each failed military escapade deepens the quagmire, leaving the U.S. with a litany of geopolitical failures and a populace burdened by a suffocating debt load.
This fiscal recklessness showcases a stark reality: the U.S., once a symbol of economic strength, now parades its vulnerabilities openly, a hegemon weakened by its own elite’s short-sighted greed and disastrous policies. As the empire crumbles, it offers a stark warning - the ‘cost’ of unchecked arrogance and military overreach inevitably lead to downfall, leaving nothing but the ashes of a once-great power.
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As Washington entertains the extension of the 2017 tax cuts in the face of spiraling deficits, the U.S. teeters on the edge of a fiscal abyss. With the national debt already surpassing $34 trillion and the Congressional Budget Office projecting the federal debt-to-GDP ratio to soar to a staggering 172% by 2054, surpassing even the dire levels of World War II, America's march toward fiscal Armageddon is not just imprudent - t’s an act of outright betrayal against its own citizens. This reckless financial course locks future generations into a relentless cycle of debt slavery, a grim legacy of economic mismanagement and corruption.
Meanwhile, the relentless pursuit of 'forever wars' has drained trillions from the U.S. treasury, achieving nothing but global disdain and an obliterated reputation. Millions dead in "collateral damage" serve as a brutal testament to the human cost of these failed 'interventions'. Each failed military escapade deepens the quagmire, leaving the U.S. with a litany of geopolitical failures and a populace burdened by a suffocating debt load.
This fiscal recklessness showcases a stark reality: the U.S., once a symbol of economic strength, now parades its vulnerabilities openly, a hegemon weakened by its own elite’s short-sighted greed and disastrous policies. As the empire crumbles, it offers a stark warning - the ‘cost’ of unchecked arrogance and military overreach inevitably lead to downfall, leaving nothing but the ashes of a once-great power.
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Forwarded from Steve Sweeney Journalist
🇦🇺 WHISTLEBLOWER JAILED FOR EXPOSING WAR CRIMES
David McBride has been jailed in Australia for 5 years 8 months, with no parole for 2 years 3 months for exposing war crimes committed in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile those who committed the war crimes remain free. This is democracy and justice Western style.
#FreeDavidMcBride
David McBride has been jailed in Australia for 5 years 8 months, with no parole for 2 years 3 months for exposing war crimes committed in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile those who committed the war crimes remain free. This is democracy and justice Western style.
#FreeDavidMcBride
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An interesting article about the birth of a young estate. The infamous Norris Green. A place I know very well.
https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/the-norris-green-estate-liverpool-living-among-decent-people/
https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2013/12/10/the-norris-green-estate-liverpool-living-among-decent-people/
Municipal Dreams
The Norris Green Estate, Liverpool: ‘Living among decent people’
The Norris Green Estate in Liverpool has been in the wars. If you’ve read some of the press coverage over recent years, that might seem an almost literal statement but the reality is that the Esta…
Forwarded from Red Rick
Here is the second part of the story of Norris Green which chronicles the slow collapse of the social housing structure, alongside those cheaply built prefab, pre-war, homes. The myriad of new style private enterprise "housing associations" taking the mantle, and the profits, of running estates such as those in Norris Green, Liverpool.
https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/the-norris-green-estate-liverpool-terrible-types-are-being-given-the-houses-nowadays/
https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/the-norris-green-estate-liverpool-terrible-types-are-being-given-the-houses-nowadays/
Municipal Dreams
The Norris Green Estate, Liverpool: ‘Terrible types are being given the houses nowadays’
We left Norris Green last week in the early 1970s as one of ‘the most stable and respectable’ of Liverpool’s council estates. (1) Some people think that paints a rather rosy picture of an already …
The trifecta of problems of the British high street:
Internet shopping - Rents - Business rates. All three are issues of profit over productivity and consumer needs.
https://youtu.be/YR5pmC0innQ?si=CNlyC8Yaq6N-lWDQ
Internet shopping - Rents - Business rates. All three are issues of profit over productivity and consumer needs.
https://youtu.be/YR5pmC0innQ?si=CNlyC8Yaq6N-lWDQ
YouTube
Is There Really Nothing Left In Nottingham?
https://www.patreon.com/WanderingTurnip https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wanderingturnip The 15th episode of the Death of the High Street - NOTTINGHAM/SHIREI am...
Forwarded from The Middle Aged Revolutionary
He sold our gold and wrote the cheques which paid for the imperialist slaughters in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. If Brown is Bacon’s idea of a thoroughly decent person, I’d hate to see what his idea of a complete bastard is.
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Amidst the approaching elections, the recurring pattern of Labour's deceptive pledges and their persistent attribution of every societal challenge to the Tories prompts us to reshare this article.
Why We Attack The Labour Party – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/04/18/why-we-attack-the-labour-party/
Why We Attack The Labour Party – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/04/18/why-we-attack-the-labour-party/
Class Consciousness Project
Why We Attack The Labour Party
A position that seems to boggle the minds of the modern left is why communists of our persuasion constantly attack the Labour Party. We are looked at strangely when we don’t feel compelled to join …
An interesting article breaking down the different clubs under 777 umbrella.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5495332/2024/05/16/777-everton-standard-vasco-genoa-hertha-red-star-victory?source=user-shared-article
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5495332/2024/05/16/777-everton-standard-vasco-genoa-hertha-red-star-victory?source=user-shared-article
The Athletic
How the crisis gripping 777 Partners is affecting the clubs in their portfolio
777's financial issues could have far-reaching effects with potential repercussions to be felt at the group's seven clubs around the globe
Forwarded from Marx Engels Lenin Institute
Let us face the facts, comrades, the education of the masses is a large and strenuous task, but there can be no communism until the masses desire Communism and act Communism. We cannot take part in the work of education till we are ourselves deeply imbued with the Communist ideal and unless our thoughts and our desires are constantly turning towards it.
Sylvia Pankhurst
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King Charles' portrait has created some serious questions about how uncomfortable it is to look at.
It wasn't too long ago we were discussing his mortality after a cancer scare, now the conversation is about this portrait.
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2024/02/15/king-charles-and-the-nhs/
It wasn't too long ago we were discussing his mortality after a cancer scare, now the conversation is about this portrait.
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2024/02/15/king-charles-and-the-nhs/
Forwarded from Red Rick
How many wars have started, and how many people have died, due to the privatisation of the military? The great American capitalist machine has become so corrupted by the pursuit of profit that even genocide has become a profitable venture.
https://youtu.be/Aycfr8Jcqb4?si=-lKlWLxsXl3hnxOQ
https://youtu.be/Aycfr8Jcqb4?si=-lKlWLxsXl3hnxOQ
YouTube
How the US privatized WAR
The ways of war are changing. Artificial intelligence is used to bomb families in Gaza. Flying drones are deployed to track down refugees on the US-Mexico bo...
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Forwarded from Hüseyin Dogru Journalist / red. media founder
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What would happen if Venezuela arrested thousands of students and raided their campuses? President Maduro points out the hypocrisy of international organizations that supposedly promote human rights but are now silent in the face of repression carried out by Western governments against their own populations that are protesting for Palestine.
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Forwarded from Marx Engels Lenin Institute
The Tories fantasies about the trade unions being led by modern day Arthur Scargill's would be amusing were it not so tragically far away from the truth. In reality the bulk of the trade union leaders collaborate with the Tories with leaders like Scargill and the late Bob Crow standing out precisely because they did not.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13418677/KEMI-BADENOCH-Unions-want-undo-work-14-years.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13418677/KEMI-BADENOCH-Unions-want-undo-work-14-years.html
Mail Online
KEMI BADENOCH: Unions want to undo all the work we have done
A well-functioning economy is one that finds the right balance between employees and employers. The right to strike must be balanced by our rights to go about our lives safely, without being put at risk.
Forwarded from Marx Engels Lenin Institute
Egotism has no place in communist organising. What you have done is only important in terms of how you have connected with the masses, how you have brought workers towards scientific socialism and how you have built up a Communist Party as a disciplined, militant workers organisation. Our individual contributions are not part of a CV or reputation building exercise. We rely on the work of our comrades who came before us, those who struggle with us in the same cause today and those who may be unknown to the class but whose contribution makes our work possible. Pride in our work is important but it is never about us as individuals nor should we ever make it so. Bourgeois egotism is the enemy of communist discipline and we should work to remove it from out individual psychology. Take pride in your work as an expression of the collective effort, known that you did your work well but that your work was dependent upon the actions of many other comrades. That is the way to avoid a collapse into petty outbursts of vanity which most workers will be repelled by.
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Forwarded from Joti Brar
It may be true that all this theatre about 'will they won't they' send Nato troops to Ukraine is just a cover for the fact that the decision has already been taken. But if that is true, I'm not convinced it means automatic nuclear armageddon.
Judging from how the war has played out so far, it seems more likely to me (speaking as a non-military observer), that, as was the case with the tanks, long-range weapons and fighter jets the Nato countries were also NOT going to send (allegedly out of a desire not to escalate the war into a direct confrontation), any troops that arrive in Ukraine from other Nato members (most likely more disposable east Europeans or other foreign forces like the French foreign legion or Britain's Gurkhas) will be destroyed as they get there, having little or no chance to impact the battlefield.
What the lunatics in Brussels, Washington, Paris, Berlin and London cook up after that in their desperate quest to keep the show on the road is anyone's guess. Whatever they try though, it's clear to anyone with eyes they can only postpone the end-by date so far.
The war is lost. They just can'e bear to face up to what that means.
http://www.defenddemocracy.press/us-chairman-of-the-joint-chiefs-of-staff-says-nato-will-deploy-troops-to-ukraine/
Judging from how the war has played out so far, it seems more likely to me (speaking as a non-military observer), that, as was the case with the tanks, long-range weapons and fighter jets the Nato countries were also NOT going to send (allegedly out of a desire not to escalate the war into a direct confrontation), any troops that arrive in Ukraine from other Nato members (most likely more disposable east Europeans or other foreign forces like the French foreign legion or Britain's Gurkhas) will be destroyed as they get there, having little or no chance to impact the battlefield.
What the lunatics in Brussels, Washington, Paris, Berlin and London cook up after that in their desperate quest to keep the show on the road is anyone's guess. Whatever they try though, it's clear to anyone with eyes they can only postpone the end-by date so far.
The war is lost. They just can'e bear to face up to what that means.
http://www.defenddemocracy.press/us-chairman-of-the-joint-chiefs-of-staff-says-nato-will-deploy-troops-to-ukraine/
www.defenddemocracy.press
US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says NATO will deploy troops to Ukraine | Defend Democracy Press
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Smoke and Mirrors in Palestine – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/10/20/smoke-and-mirrors-in-palestine/
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2023/10/20/smoke-and-mirrors-in-palestine/
Class Consciousness Project
Smoke and Mirrors in Palestine
Workers should reject imperialism in all its forms! As an ardent anti-imperialist, as any working-class man should be, I have been following the Palestinian struggle against the Israeli occupiers. …