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… if Congress fails to prosecute the powerful and tear down this system today, they are not only failing to prevent the next Jeffrey Epstein from coming around, they are using federal policy to build and maintain his trafficking machine.

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Noam Chomsky’s life and work cannot be understood without taking into account his militarily-funded linguistics research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)…

Wanted to see what y’all think of this one. I recommend reading the last paragraph first, since that’s almost certainly their thesis statement.

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/149963

Thank you, Ken Klippenstein.

America loves a good illusion. It loves the performance of generosity from people who built their fortunes on systems that leave everyone else scrambling. That’s why the country is celebrating Michael and Susan Dell dropping $6.25 billion into “Trump Accounts.” Twenty-five million kids will get $250 each in a special savings account that they can’t touch for almost two decades. It sounds like generosity. It plays like hope. It sells like opportunity. But it isn’t any of that. It’s a corporate heist dressed up as philanthropy, and America is too exhausted or too desperate to notice.

America loves a good illusion. It loves the performance of generosity from people who built their fortunes on systems that leave everyone else scrambling. That’s why the country is celebrating Michael and Susan Dell dropping $6.25 billion into “Trump Accounts.” Twenty-five million kids will get $250 each in a special savings account that they can’t touch for almost two decades. It sounds like generosity. It plays like hope. It sells like opportunity. But it isn’t any of that. It’s a corporate heist dressed up as philanthropy, and America is too exhausted or too desperate to notice.

Cross posted from !lefty_news@ibbit.at

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/88452

Spoiler: it was American private equity, as usual.

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/80541

The hasbara’s greatest weapon is controlling the media, reframing narrative and selective memory. It seeks to decontextualize memory and conceal the structural violence that made October 7, inevitable. To remember the 28,000 days that preceded it is to expose the ongoing injustice at the heart of this so-called war: a colonized, besieged people struggling for survival against an occupying power that insists on their permanent subjugation.

“[People] make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.”

Why Roadless Areas Matter for Wilderness Preservation

We seem to think it’s hunky dory that 8.2 billion Homo sapiens would rely on the Earth’s resources to reach a standard of living that’s well beyond our due.

Related to Transnational Cinema Solidarity Chilean Exile Film and Video after 1973

https://archive.ph/aXpVd

Her latest report, ‘From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide,’ submitted to the UN Human Rights Council on July 3, marks a seismic intervention. It unflinchingly names and implicates companies that have not only allowed Israel to sustain its war and genocide against Palestinians, but also confronts those who have remained silent in the face of this unfolding horror.

Her latest report, ‘From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide,’ submitted to the UN Human Rights Council on July 3, marks a seismic intervention. It unflinchingly names and implicates companies that have not only allowed Israel to sustain its war and genocide against Palestinians, but also confronts those who have remained silent in the face of this unfolding horror.

Sinwar had reasons for his grievances against the occupation. He was born into a refugee camp in Khan Younis, the child of parents whose home had been stolen by Zionists during the Nakba.[7] In 1967, when Sinwar was four years old, Israel took command of the Gaza Strip after the Six-Day War. Thereafter, Sinwar and his family were subjected to the daily humiliations of life under Israeli occupation.

The fight for economic justice–which is why labor unions exist–is inextricably linked to the fight for racial justice. It is no coincidence that Dr. King, one of the most iconic civil rights leaders, was assassinated while preparing to march with sanitation workers in Memphis who were on strike; in his last speech, “I’ve been to the mountaintop,” Dr. King implored collaboration and solidarity: “either we go up together, or we go down together.” Nor is it coincidental that the unrealized ‘racial awakening’ of 2020 was accompanied by a renewed energy for workplace unionization. Unions were designed to combat economic injustice–to redistribute wealth and power to those most marginalized in the workplace: workers.

One of NIOSH’s core responsibilities is to test and certify personal protective equipment (PPE) — especially respirators like N95s — through its National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory. NIOSH certification ensures that PPE protects wearers from airborne hazards under real-world conditions. Though PPE is the last resort in the hierarchy of controls, it is often the only thing standing between workers and serious harm when other protections fall short.

Article misstates this in spots as $10T over 10 years, but still extreme expense.

Welcome to America: Imperial core. Festival of insanity.

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