Morning Comrades! Plenty to talk about today, a few words on the German Election, manipulation and straight up propaganda from the irks of the New York Times as well as Nazi era racism from parts of the US government and their mouth piece Fox, the CIA doing what the CIA does as well as a damning take on post-Brexit UK. Before that, I have decided to drop a Long Sleeve T-shirt this weekend whose profits are once again entirely going to Doctors Without Borders. It features one of my favourite pieces of brandalism I have done and this will be available Friday.
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A few words on this, because enough of you from outside of Germany have reached out and asked about this. No, Germany is not getting a Socialist government, it never will and this so-called Social Democrat Party is anything but Socialist. I really do not want to bore you with the insane detailed nuances of German politics but essentially, “nothing will fundamentally change”- or actually, they will, and they will just like in the US and elsewhere get fundamentally worse for anyone not in the 1%’er club, no matter who wins what election. Our particular “red” party that won this election, one that still has to form a coalition with two other parties, is as radically committed to capitalism as any other party here, is as radically committed to corruption, a violent, racist police state, stopping any and all actual solutions to climate change and upholding the racist, sexist, christian, white male society that allows them to play boss for a few years.
This is all just based on their previous record, especially our apparent new Chancellor. No, nothing is fundamentally going to change and the actual work that we do will remain what it is: Supporting and using our privilege to help any and all marginalized members of our communities with their consent and guidance. Bettering the material conditions of our community through Mutual Aid. Eroding this death cult from the inside out by creating alternative power structures, de-centralized affinity groups and teaching, by example, the youth that there is a genuine alternative to capitalism’s version of reality.
I will touch on Berlin referendum to “seize” housing in tomorrow’s subscriber only email, because, man, there were a lot of wrong takes on this one floating around the last couple of days.
This is one of the best, and most damning articles on the current reality of post-Brexit Britain I have read in a long time, especially since all mainstream media from the UK is essentially censoring any and all talk of Brexit these days. Read this and specifically, focus on the conclusion.
Eventually, Britain will probably find ways to get a little more bread and beer and so on. But they won’t be European. They’ll come from America, probably, and if you like American beer and bread, my friend, I feel a little sorry for you. Britain will eventually end up something like America’s 51st state — it’s NHS and BBC owned by American hedge funds, its people eating American diets, their minds poisoned by American junk culture.
America’s a vastly poorer society than Europe. Americans live worse lives in every possible way — from health to wealth to trust to intimacy to stability and safety to basic decency and thoughftulness. Britain’s only real destiny left at this point is to be Americanized. That was always the endgame of Brexit — to sell Britain off to American capital. But American capital has made paupers — literally, they’re lifelong debtors, without a penny to their names, most of them — of Americans.
If you have ever wondered what a real-time brain washing of a populace looks like, go no further. Granted, the NYT had, by the time it sold and printed all of Bush / Cheney’s lies about Iraq nearly 20 years ago, lost all of its remaining credibility but their bubble remains strong and influential and hence worth watching. The points proven here did quite shock me and I do think this is worth your time. ACAB. All Day, Every Day.
Whilst it is truly no surprise or news for that matter that Fox “News” is a thoroughly racist mouthpiece for the truly despicable, this not only is on the same level of insanity we dealt with in Germany 100 years ago but it is also being picked up and spread, without a fight by anyone in “charge”, by members of the Republican party. No need for a history lesson here, except know full well, that this time around there will not be a Red Army sacrificing 20 million plus lives to rid the world of another Fascist Empire.
On that note, do read this excellent piece by Popular Info that points you to the US corporations paying for this Racist, Fascist bullshit to be brought into your homes.
Last, but certainly not least, yeah- thanks to a wonderfully and accurately put together story by journalists at Yahoo News the 2011/12 allegations from Assange that the CIA literally had a Kill-Team waiting on him can now be certified as true. Mad as that may make some readers, but this has little to do with Trump or Obama, both were highly involved in this and signed this off but just another piece of the actual reality we “westerns” need to acknowledge when we talk about bombing another foreign country into a parking lot for the sake of freedom. This is a riveting read and vital to anyone wanting to understand the hypocrisy of our so-called democracies.
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