Eine KI schreibt für den «Blick» Artikel aus anderen Zeitungen um. Obwohl die Ergebnisse mangelhaft sind, hat Ringier damit ehrgeizige Pläne. https://www.woz.ch/!92CQSTBZ4TT4

Yesterday, a Trump-appointed judge threw out the entire classified documents case against Donald Trump, defying over half a century of legal precedents. This should give those who marched with signs reading "no one is above the law" cause to reflect.

What is law, anyway? And who does it serve?

Law is not an impartial institution that inherently serves to keep tyranny at bay. It is a weapon in the hands of the ruling class. It is chiefly used against poor people and activists; when it plays a role in internal conflicts within the ruling class, the outcome generally shows the balance of power between the factions.

In this context, promoting obedience to the law as a good in itself means accepting that might makes right. All the legitimacy that Biden and his supporters have invested in the legal system have only made it a more dangerous weapon for Donald Trump to employ, should he return to power.

As we move into an era in which the court system will serve the most authoritarian elements in our society, the argument that it is necessary to obey the law will be used to excuse complicity in more and more egregious crimes against humanity.

Instead of saying "no one is above the law," we should say, with Hannah Arendt, “No one has the right to obey.” 🏴

Our analysis on this subject from 2018 remains evergreen:

https://crimethinc.com/abovethelaw

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On this day, 17 July 1936 a Spanish military uprising began in Morocco as right wing generals declared war on the new Republican government. The rising had been due to begin at 5 AM on July 18, but the plot in Melilla, Spanish Morocco, had been uncovered, and so a local military officer decided to initiate the coup attempt a day early.The rebel officers arrested loyal officers, seized all the public buildings in the city, as well as the aerodrome, and made lists of union members, left-wing activists, Republicans and Freemasons, and arrested them all..Some residents in working class districts attempted to resist, but they had no arms, and so were quickly overcome. Anyone who resisted was summarily shot, including the mayor and the loyal local general. Rebels in Melilla then telephoned plotters in Ceuta and Tetuán, who then initiated their rising as well, resting or executing anyone who resisted.The following day, workers across Spain began to go on strike and requisition weapons to defend themselves and the Republic, even though the Republican government would refuse to give them arms.These events marked the beginning of the Spanish civil war. In the coming days, full-scale social revolution would break out which would set the Spanish working class, and volunteers from across the world, against the combined might of the bulk of the Spanish military backed up by Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. Our podcast episodes 39-40 give an overview of the conflict: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/ To access this hyperlink, click our link bio then click this photo

Joe Biden is considering backing a host of reforms to the US Supreme Court including ending lifetime appointments, according to US media.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6p25e0pej3o

“The IMF and the World Bank are here to take over [our] land.” – A protester was killed in Kenya’s resurgent anti-government uprisings during the country’s worst political crisis since independence from British colonial rule in 1963. Several concessions from President Ruto have failed to appease the tireless protesters, who have vowed to “finish the mission,” in other words, Ruto must go.

The IMF-backed tax reform bill that sparked the protests in the first place was canceled by Ruto, but the IMF said it would press for reform plans anyway, which has left at least 50 killed and hundreds injured. Earlier, the IMF urged the government to ignore the protests and hold on to the unpopular neoliberal reforms.

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TIL that in 1949, Wernher von Braun wrote a science fiction novel in which he named the leader of Mars "Elon" [source, comments]

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Good Idea: Understand the effects of poverty

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1238041

Poverty can make people think and act in less capable ways because worrying about money takes up a lot of mental energy. For example, people perform worse on cognitive tests when they are thinking about their financial struggles. This effect is temporary, as seen in farmers who show better cognitive performance after harvest when they have more money compared to before the harvest when they are poorer. This shows that poverty can temporarily reduce a person's cognitive capacity by occupying their thoughts with financial concerns.

Tedtalk: https://www.ted.com/talks/rutger_bregman_poverty_isn_t_a_lack_of_character_it_s_a_lack_of_cash

Nur 3-4 von 10 Superreichen haben ihr Vermögen selbst erwirtschaftet:
https://www.watson.ch/schweiz/wirtschaft/669708888-studie-meiste-schweizer-reiche-sind-nicht-wie-p-spuhler

The pressure to immigrate to the United States is itself the consequence of US foreign policy and worldwide neoliberal economic policies that have impoverished millions, forcing them to flee war zones and economic crises. Soon, we will see even more people displaced by environmental disasters caused by industrially produced climate change.

Again, these are the fault of the ruling class, not the poor.

By immiserating both overseas populations and residents of the United States while suppressing anti-capitalist protest movements, neoliberal centrists created a situation in which fascists can pretend to be the only ones offering an alternative. But the supposed alternative represented by politicians like Donald Trump will only speed up the process of wealth concentration that caused this problem in the first place.

Organize to resist fascism and abolish capitalism and the state.

More on capitalism:

https://crimethinc.com/work

More on the scapegoating of immigrants:

https://crimethinc.com/borders

Top UN court says Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal

The United Nations' highest court said on Friday that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories and settlements there are illegal and should be withdrawn as soon as possible, in its strongest findings to date on the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

The advisory opinion by judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), known as the World Court, was not binding but carries weight under international law and may weaken support for Israel. read more