"Liberals" in the U$A and the DNC in particular, are waaay to The Right of liberals elsewhere and the Democratic Party's "lesser of two evils" political strategy has long been shown to be retarded and self-defeating but tbh, the DNC mandarins don't care - just as long as people like Bernie and AOC etc. are kept from any real leadership! OWS knew this and it's why Bernie should've gome "3rd Party" over 12 years, and 4 PotUS (s)elections ago. Just look where the US 99% would be now, IF that had been the case! Decent minded Democrap voters, must never be equated to the Dem/DNC leadership btw. Now we have a situation where BOTH cheeks of the same backside are beholden, and captured by .. such as this sad, mad n' bad reality, described,
"Pair testify that Pretti did not hold weapon, & was trying to help woman federal agents had shoved to the ground"! The Overton Window in the US has shifted so far to The Right, that people have lost any clear sight of where their old 'middle' once was!! I can easily blame Republicvnts for this, but we can't absolve The Democrap Establishment, Hellary Killtons et al - for their criminal enabling of all of this, & Occupy Wall Street knew this in 2011 and soon after the 2008 Bankers' Bailout!!!
RIP Michael Parenti (30th September 1933 - 24th January 2026) died today. Parenti has .. as his son Christian said, "Gone to the Great Lecture Hall in the Sky". He was socialist from early into his life until the very end, Michael Parenti wrote in a feisty way & he spoke bluntly the truths - that were not always easy to digest in U$A's wretched capitalist system. He was a fierce critic of imperialist wars, & suffered the consequences of this because he couldn't keep and then hold academic jobs, even in liberal states such as Vermont. He was a great man, and I am very surprised not to find an old forum-post dedicated to him, hence this old post of mine re. a documentary he featured in. The 'vimeo' link above still works!
"Zionism was a niche, radical movement founded by elite financiers & intellectuals and was rejected by most Jewish groups across Europe & around the world"!!!
"Here is the story of how Zionists colluded w/ the Nazis, in order to help colonize & populate Palestine"!!
NOT sure that tRUMP being under Putin's (blackmail?) thumb is the most serious problem that U$A's 99% has to face at this time, to be honest!!! And just how long has this been going on?!!
And NB - "The World Economic Forum wasn’t simply the brainchild of Klaus Schwab, but was actually born out of a CIA-funded Harvard program,headed by Henry Kissinger and pushed to fruition by John Kenneth Galbraith and the “real” Dr. Strangelove, Herman Kahn. This is the amazing story behind the real men who recruited Klaus Schwab & who helped him create the World Economic Forum, and who taught him to stop worrying and love the bomb."
"The American Jewish community is in open crisis over its support for Israel after two years of genocide in Gaza. The key issue in the crisis is a topic once considered too taboo to criticize: The Israel Lobby"!!!
From which .. "The US administration has unilaterally announced a so-called “Board of Peace” for Gaza led by President Trump - in a statement that completely omitted any mention of Palestinians. This board is packed with Israel-First politicians and billionaires, and installs an Israel-biased former UN envoy who is controlled by the UAE's despotic regime, as the colonial viceroy of the illegally occupied Gaza Strip & who'll be supervising - a “technocratic” Palestinian committee. The Palestinian BDS National Committee, the largest Palestinian civil society coalition leading the global BDS movement, condemns & rejects this thinly-veiled attempt to normalize Israel's ongoing genocide, rehabilitate its genocidal regime - and to try to rescue it from its global isolation. The Indigenous Palestinian people will never give up our inalienable rights."
And as: "The International People’s Tribunal on Palestine held in Barcelona presented striking evidence of Israel’s forced starvation of the Palestinian people & deliberate destruction of food security in Gaza"!!
As .. "The Security Council's backing of the Trump plan for Gaza ignores international law, punishes the Palestinians, and rewards those responsible for genocide."
As ... "Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old. While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the "Poor People’s Campaign" - to address issues of economic justice. Dr. King was also a fierce critic of U.S.A's foreign policy and the Vietnam War. We play his “Beyond Vietnam” speech, which he delivered at New York City’s Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 as well as his last speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” that he gave on April 3, 1968, the night before he was assassinated."
"Harriet Malinowitz’s new book - "Selling Israel: Zionism, Propaganda, and the Uses of Hasbara" reveals how Israeli propaganda, and public relations promoted Zionism, while concealing Palestinian oppression and dispossession." This situation won't be changed, by Larry Ellison's purchase of CBS!!! Also consider
& NB - "Israel's (Forgotten) Founding Father"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOffulGxl9M [29m of rarely discussed historical information, with clear relevance to this very day, and in future]
"For Palestinians in Gaza, Phase 2 of the ceasefire offers little hope that it will fundamentally change the status quo Israel has now established over the past three months,which many refer to as "a new form of genocide."
Yes "Mussolini said Fascism should be called Corporatism because it's a marriage of corporate and state power" and so, when the U$A has become a fusion of The State and "The Military Industrial Complex", with the "Prison Industrial Complex", with a Paramilitary Multiple Law Enforcement Complex, all backed by the Private Banking cabal, then the US is a 'democracy' in name only .. now with a clearly fascistic PotUS, and his ideologues .. eg. Stephen Miller! Hitler was "voted in" in 1930s Germany btw & furthermore it was based on the demonisation, and 'othering' of others! Now please try to also consider
So "DO PALESTINIANS HAVE A RIGHT TO RESIST ACCORDING TO THE UNITED NATIONS? Yes, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has explicitly affirmed the right of Palestinians to resist Israel’s military occupation, including through armed struggle. This right was affirmed in the context of the right to self-determination of all peoples under foreign and colonial rule."
"The right of Palestinians to resist their occupation - is enshrined in international and customary law, a fact that is denied and violated by Israel and wilfully overlooked by the rest of the world."+Further note:
"President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars .. outlines why Israel has NO defence against the charge of genocide in Gaza"! Furthermore now consider:
ALL people deserve their freedom; whether in Iran, US/UK/EU, ISR - or anywhere else but somehow simply pretending that this isn't also about Central Banking and PetroDollars - is extremely naive!!!
Iran's people know their history and remember Mossadegh. Can the Pahlavi pretender and wannabe Shah do as King Juan Carlos did after General Franco's Fascist regime in Spain in 1970s? We wait!!
Which ends .. "For years ICE has been accused of violating human rights while avoiding transparency & accountability, including within its notorious jails,where at least 32 people have died while in ICE custody since Trump took office. Trump has now transformed the agency .. into an authoritarian weapon that can be deployed into any community across the United States - and against anyone perceived to oppose his regime." Meanwhile ...
"Renee Good, like many Palestinians before her - died because authoritarian forces decided she did not deserve to live, and because the entire legal and political structure - exists to ensure those agents never face meaningful consequences for murder."
"When state authority stops serving the people but instead lords over them, stops being questioned by the media and the people & stops fearing consequences - because it lives behind a shield of immunity, (consider) a police state is inevitable."
As - "The agents who shot Renee Nicole Good shot her because they knew they could; they shot her because the Trump administration has specifically and purposely empowered law enforcement to act without impunity or care"!
Per the OP & behind what you rightly say, is the fact of USA's MASSIVE military economy, where the real fusion of Corporations & State,ie. Fascism, is manifest, per Mussolini's definition of the 'F' word!!
The US and its citizens, are now at an inflection point but citizens are so dumbed down that it's scary and intentionally so,due to a complicit & wholly corporate owned & Con'troll'ed Main Stream Media!!!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 7 hours ago
"Liberals" in the U$A and the DNC in particular, are waaay to The Right of liberals elsewhere and the Democratic Party's "lesser of two evils" political strategy has long been shown to be retarded and self-defeating but tbh, the DNC mandarins don't care - just as long as people like Bernie and AOC etc. are kept from any real leadership! OWS knew this and it's why Bernie should've gome "3rd Party" over 12 years, and 4 PotUS (s)elections ago. Just look where the US 99% would be now, IF that had been the case! Decent minded Democrap voters, must never be equated to the Dem/DNC leadership btw. Now we have a situation where BOTH cheeks of the same backside are beholden, and captured by .. such as this sad, mad n' bad reality, described,
here ... https://electronicintifada.net/content/trumps-board-peace-billionaires-cronies-and-genocidaires/51179 - & then consider how this fascistic reality has now come to pass too:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/24/alex-pretti-killing-witness-testimony as ...
"Pair testify that Pretti did not hold weapon, & was trying to help woman federal agents had shoved to the ground"! The Overton Window in the US has shifted so far to The Right, that people have lost any clear sight of where their old 'middle' once was!! I can easily blame Republicvnts for this, but we can't absolve The Democrap Establishment, Hellary Killtons et al - for their criminal enabling of all of this, & Occupy Wall Street knew this in 2011 and soon after the 2008 Bankers' Bailout!!!
ad iudicium?
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 day ago
RIP Michael Parenti (30th September 1933 - 24th January 2026) died today. Parenti has .. as his son Christian said, "Gone to the Great Lecture Hall in the Sky". He was socialist from early into his life until the very end, Michael Parenti wrote in a feisty way & he spoke bluntly the truths - that were not always easy to digest in U$A's wretched capitalist system. He was a fierce critic of imperialist wars, & suffered the consequences of this because he couldn't keep and then hold academic jobs, even in liberal states such as Vermont. He was a great man, and I am very surprised not to find an old forum-post dedicated to him, hence this old post of mine re. a documentary he featured in. The 'vimeo' link above still works!
https://www.michael-parenti.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Parenti
https://x.com/SizweLo/status/2015010940236828680 (MP on Capitalism; 2m 31s video)
https://x.com/DrBlobb/status/2015142171377033226 (2m vid of MP re Conspiracy Theory)
https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/1qltpnw/michael_parenti_just_passed_away/
requiescat in pace et per ardua ad astra ...
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 day ago
"Israel’s Genocide against Palestinians in Gaza - continues unabated despite Ceasefire"!!!
multum in parvo!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 days ago
So consider "‘Trump Has Already Rigged the 2028 Presidential Election’: US Defence Insider"!!!
"Regardless of how people vote - the chances of a Democrat Government coming to power in 2029, is now virtually nil, argues Brynn Tannehill"!!
et caveat actor!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 days ago
"Zionism was a niche, radical movement founded by elite financiers & intellectuals and was rejected by most Jewish groups across Europe & around the world"!!!
"Here is the story of how Zionists colluded w/ the Nazis, in order to help colonize & populate Palestine"!!
SO ... DARE WE WATCH THIS?
[-] 1 points by agkaiser (2593) from Fredericksburg, TX 3 days ago
ImNotMe points out [below] that the Trump/Putin relationship is the tip of the Iceberg that the worldship is steering into at full speed.
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 days ago
NOT sure that tRUMP being under Putin's (blackmail?) thumb is the most serious problem that U$A's 99% has to face at this time, to be honest!!! And just how long has this been going on?!!
So calmly n' cooly consider this short exchange: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SIDo_XtaIR4
& furthermore ... please also consider this information: https://youtu.be/j08OuyTg1Yc [11m 37s]
q. e. d. ?!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 4 days ago
"Dr Klaus Schwab; or How the CFR Taught Me to Stop Worrying & Love The Bomb" J.Vedmore
And NB - "The World Economic Forum wasn’t simply the brainchild of Klaus Schwab, but was actually born out of a CIA-funded Harvard program,headed by Henry Kissinger and pushed to fruition by John Kenneth Galbraith and the “real” Dr. Strangelove, Herman Kahn. This is the amazing story behind the real men who recruited Klaus Schwab & who helped him create the World Economic Forum, and who taught him to stop worrying and love the bomb."
respice, adspice et caveat!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 4 days ago
"The Israel lobby is melting down before our eyes"! Philip Weiss, a longtime US Jewish Anti-Zionist:
"The American Jewish community is in open crisis over its support for Israel after two years of genocide in Gaza. The key issue in the crisis is a topic once considered too taboo to criticize: The Israel Lobby"!!!
From which .. "The US administration has unilaterally announced a so-called “Board of Peace” for Gaza led by President Trump - in a statement that completely omitted any mention of Palestinians. This board is packed with Israel-First politicians and billionaires, and installs an Israel-biased former UN envoy who is controlled by the UAE's despotic regime, as the colonial viceroy of the illegally occupied Gaza Strip & who'll be supervising - a “technocratic” Palestinian committee. The Palestinian BDS National Committee, the largest Palestinian civil society coalition leading the global BDS movement, condemns & rejects this thinly-veiled attempt to normalize Israel's ongoing genocide, rehabilitate its genocidal regime - and to try to rescue it from its global isolation. The Indigenous Palestinian people will never give up our inalienable rights."
ad iudicium?!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 4 days ago
"International tribunal finds Israel Guilty of Genocide, ecocide ... and the forced starvation of the Palestinians in Gaza"!
And as: "The International People’s Tribunal on Palestine held in Barcelona presented striking evidence of Israel’s forced starvation of the Palestinian people & deliberate destruction of food security in Gaza"!!
As .. "The Security Council's backing of the Trump plan for Gaza ignores international law, punishes the Palestinians, and rewards those responsible for genocide."
Also "Israel & Its Leaders Are Still On Trial For Genocide"! https://jacobin.com/2025/12/israel-gaza-genocide-icj-icc
Furthermore, please try to consider the information here: https://msf.org.uk/issues/gaza-genocide
also note - https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/19/israels-crime-extermination-acts-genocide-gaza
Finally NB: "From Palestine to Minneapolis, ICE and Israel use the same violent playbook"! by Ahmed Ibsais ... https://mondoweiss.net/2026/01/from-palestine-to-minneapolis-ice-and-israel-use-the-same-violent-playbook/
et veritas vos liberabit!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 5 days ago
"MLK Day Special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words"
As ... "Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old. While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause of the poor and organized the "Poor People’s Campaign" - to address issues of economic justice. Dr. King was also a fierce critic of U.S.A's foreign policy and the Vietnam War. We play his “Beyond Vietnam” speech, which he delivered at New York City’s Riverside Church on April 4, 1967 as well as his last speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” that he gave on April 3, 1968, the night before he was assassinated."
respice, adspice, prospice et spero meliora ...
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 6 days ago
Now consider "How Zionism was sold to the world"! by Eleanor J. Bader
"Harriet Malinowitz’s new book - "Selling Israel: Zionism, Propaganda, and the Uses of Hasbara" reveals how Israeli propaganda, and public relations promoted Zionism, while concealing Palestinian oppression and dispossession." This situation won't be changed, by Larry Ellison's purchase of CBS!!! Also consider
"Israel’s Genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues unabated despite Ceasefire" https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/israels-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza-continues-unabated-despite-ceasefire/
& NB - "Israel's (Forgotten) Founding Father" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOffulGxl9M [29m of rarely discussed historical information, with clear relevance to this very day, and in future]
And furthermore closely consider this information "Ms Rachel ATTACKED BY Pro IDF Zealots"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm2GIyt4M5E (49m)
& NB "This is why they attack her"! https://x.com/AssalRad/status/2011537676164604206 [1m]
Finally note "The U.S. has announced ‘Phase 2’ of the Gaza ceasefire. Here’s why it doesn’t matter for Palestinians"! .. https://mondoweiss.net/2026/01/the-u-s-has-announced-phase-2-of-the-gaza-ceasefire-heres-why-it-doesnt-matter-for-palestinians/ - by Q.Muaddi & from which, this:
"For Palestinians in Gaza, Phase 2 of the ceasefire offers little hope that it will fundamentally change the status quo Israel has now established over the past three months,which many refer to as "a new form of genocide."
e tenebris, lux?
[-] 1 points by agkaiser (2593) from Fredericksburg, TX 1 week ago
Pretty hi. Pretty hi. Pretty bye, bye, bye.
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
Yes "Mussolini said Fascism should be called Corporatism because it's a marriage of corporate and state power" and so, when the U$A has become a fusion of The State and "The Military Industrial Complex", with the "Prison Industrial Complex", with a Paramilitary Multiple Law Enforcement Complex, all backed by the Private Banking cabal, then the US is a 'democracy' in name only .. now with a clearly fascistic PotUS, and his ideologues .. eg. Stephen Miller! Hitler was "voted in" in 1930s Germany btw & furthermore it was based on the demonisation, and 'othering' of others! Now please try to also consider
"The deaths came as the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement, detaining a record number of people"!
fiat lux, respice, adspice et caveat emptor!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
"He Studies Fascism. Is He Now Living Through It?" by Schuyler Mitchell:
"After death threats for his work on antifascism .. a Rutgers University professor fled the United
States. “It’s too late for preventative antifascism” he said. “I think we’re in a new era.”" Very sad.
et caveat ...
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
"PALESTINIANS - AND THE RIGHT TO RESIST"! In the light of tRUMP's "Hell to Pay" to Hamas!!!
So "DO PALESTINIANS HAVE A RIGHT TO RESIST ACCORDING TO THE UNITED NATIONS? Yes, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has explicitly affirmed the right of Palestinians to resist Israel’s military occupation, including through armed struggle. This right was affirmed in the context of the right to self-determination of all peoples under foreign and colonial rule."
"The Palestinians’ inalienable right to resist"! -- https://www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/the-palestinians-inalienable-right-to-resist ... by Louis Allday (June 2021)
"The right to resist in occupied Palestine: denial and suppression"!! https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/north-africa-west-asia/right-to-resist-in-occupied-palestine-denial-and-suppression/ by Poorna Mishra (March 2015) & from which ...
"The right of Palestinians to resist their occupation - is enshrined in international and customary law, a fact that is denied and violated by Israel and wilfully overlooked by the rest of the world."+Further note:
"President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars .. outlines why Israel has NO defence against the charge of genocide in Gaza"! Furthermore now consider:
as the "Ex IDF soldier - and son of an Israeli General, Miko Peled explains the situation inside the Gaza concentration camp pre Oct 7."
As "We are living in denial and in that denial we gave ourselves a license to do anything.” [Gideon Levy]
respice, adspice et spero meliora ...
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
Meanwhile: "Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship Seeks to Further Codify White Supremacy"!
"A Supreme Court case that could potentially undo and restrict citizenship rights shows that the border is everywhere."
MULTUM in parvo ...
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
Indeed & further: "“Empire in Decline”: Historian Alfred McCoy on U.S. Aggression in Venezuela, Iran and Beyond"
prospice et caveat!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
ALL people deserve their freedom; whether in Iran, US/UK/EU, ISR - or anywhere else but somehow simply pretending that this isn't also about Central Banking and PetroDollars - is extremely naive!!!
Iran's people know their history and remember Mossadegh. Can the Pahlavi pretender and wannabe Shah do as King Juan Carlos did after General Franco's Fascist regime in Spain in 1970s? We wait!!
via: https://x.com/Shadz66Shadz6t6/status/2010864290035867835 [+ note the quote therein!]
& note Chomsky here https://x.com/aaronjmate/status/2010829598443929781 [1m 34s video]
Further consider - this information: https://x.com/Megatron_ron/status/2010821377796735375
which is corroboated by .. https://x.com/Tracking_Power/status/2010822100169154608 et al!!!
Meanwhile - finally reflect on this info too .. https://x.com/caitoz/status/2010835424844148797
et respice, adspice, prospice ...
[-] 1 points by agkaiser (2593) from Fredericksburg, TX 1 week ago
I'll turn 80 in April. I will keep that question open until ...
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
"Oil Companies Are Key Partners in Trump’s Imperial Plans for Latin America"! .. D.Seldman
"Stocks in Exxon-Mobil, Halliburton & ConocoPhillips surged the day after Trump’s illegal attack on Venezuela." Meanwhile ...
"'It was a massacre against defenseless people', a mother of three said of USA operation to abduct Maduro."
fiat justitia - ruat caelum!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 weeks ago
"ICE’s Murder of Renee Nicole Good was not an aberration; It's The New Normal"!! - Mike Ludwig:
Which ends .. "For years ICE has been accused of violating human rights while avoiding transparency & accountability, including within its notorious jails,where at least 32 people have died while in ICE custody since Trump took office. Trump has now transformed the agency .. into an authoritarian weapon that can be deployed into any community across the United States - and against anyone perceived to oppose his regime." Meanwhile ...
"JD Vance Says Americans .. Should Actually Thank ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good"!!! https://truthout.org/articles/jd-vance-says-americans-should-actually-thank-ice-agent-who-killed-renee-good/ by Sharon Zhang
Further, also try to consider - https://www.commondreams.org/news/renee-good-protest-weekend
Finally NB "From Palestine to Minneapolis, ICE and Israel use the same violent playbook"!! https://mondoweiss.net/2026/01/from-palestine-to-minneapolis-ice-and-israel-use-the-same-violent-playbook/ by A. Ibsais
"Renee Good, like many Palestinians before her - died because authoritarian forces decided she did not deserve to live, and because the entire legal and political structure - exists to ensure those agents never face meaningful consequences for murder."
et caveat!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 weeks ago
"Renee Good Died From the Kind of State Violence Our Founders Warned Against"! ... by Thom Hartmann:
"When state authority stops serving the people but instead lords over them, stops being questioned by the media and the people & stops fearing consequences - because it lives behind a shield of immunity, (consider) a police state is inevitable."
ad iudicium?
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 weeks ago
Consider "ICE Is a Domestic Terror Threat"!!! by Jordan Liz:
As - "The agents who shot Renee Nicole Good shot her because they knew they could; they shot her because the Trump administration has specifically and purposely empowered law enforcement to act without impunity or care"!
Per the OP & behind what you rightly say, is the fact of USA's MASSIVE military economy, where the real fusion of Corporations & State,ie. Fascism, is manifest, per Mussolini's definition of the 'F' word!!
The US and its citizens, are now at an inflection point but citizens are so dumbed down that it's scary and intentionally so,due to a complicit & wholly corporate owned & Con'troll'ed Main Stream Media!!!
ergo, caveat emptor ...
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 weeks ago
"Venezuela and the Return of Empire" by Jawad Khalid [incl.an audio option]
As "The global rallying cry of the Global South should, by now, be unmistakable.
Down with imperialism: not as a slogan of nostalgia, but as a political necessity."
Furthermore - please consider this 19m DemocracyNow! video w/Mehdi Hasan:
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/6/maduro_venezuela_mehdi_hasan :-o
respice; adspice; prospice ...