Daily News Thread 5/10

Israel launched a barrage of airstrikes on 50 Iranian targets in Syria — a massive escalation that could lead to all-out war

Israel's military launched a barrage of missile strikes on Iranian targets based in Syria early Thursday morning, a massive retaliation in an ongoing conflict between the two bitter enemies.
businessinsider.com/israel-admits-to-airstrikes-in-syria-iran-most-extensive-in-decades-2018-5
bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-44063022

US treasury issues new sanctions against Iran

The US Treasury has blacklisted six individuals reportedly associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and three related business entities, just days after the US withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal.
rt.com/usa/426396-us-iran-new-sanctions/

Trump-Kim Jong-un summit set for Singapore on 12 June

US President Donald Trump will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore on 12 June, he has said.
bbc.com/news/world-asia-44074257

30,000 protest as German police granted powers to open mail under new laws

Thousands of people have gathered in the center of Munich to protest against the introduction of sweeping new surveillance powers, including the opening of mail, for German police.
rt.com/news/426353-german-surveillance-powers-protest/

Merkel Says Europe Can't Count on U.S. Military Umbrella Anymore

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe can no longer count on the U.S. for military protection and must “take its destiny into its own hands.”
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-10/merkel-says-europe-can-t-count-on-u-s-military-umbrella-anymore

Saudi Arabia threatens to build own nukes if Iran does

US ally Saudi Arabia has reiterated that it will build a nuclear bomb if its regional enemy Iran ramps up development of a weapons program. The country welcomed Washington ditching the nuclear deal with Tehran.
rt.com/news/426305-saudi-iran-nuclear-tension/

Nicaragua protests: Tens of thousands in new anti-government rallies

Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have taken part in fresh anti-government protests in the capital, Managua, and in Matagalpa y Chinandega.
bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44066877

Northern Labour MPs are rebelling against Jeremy Corbyn to demand a second Brexit referendum

The row over Jeremy Corbyn's approach to Brexit has exploded after five MPs from the party's northern heartlands broke ranks and openly demanded a new referendum on the UK's withdrawal deal.
businessinsider.com/labour-mps-north-east-england-second-brexit-referendum-2018-5

Orban Vows to Transform Hungary in Push Toward Illiberalism

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said his new government would enact “big changes” over the next four years and he saw no need to revisit his controversial break with liberal democracy, which has roiled the ex-communist nation’s relations with the European Union.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-10/orban-vows-to-transform-hungary-in-push-toward-illiberalism

Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad sworn in after shock comeback victory

Mahathir Mohamad has been sworn in as prime minister of Malaysia again after a shock election victory, 15 years after he stood down.
bbc.com/news/world-asia-44063675

Trump Voters Would Be Hit Hardest by GOP’s Food Stamp Work Rules

A House Republican plan to set stricter work rules for food stamp recipients would disproportionately affect low-income residents in states that supported Donald Trump for president and may imperil passage of farm legislation.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-10/trump-voters-would-be-hit-hardest-by-gop-s-food-stamp-work-rules

Gina Haspel hearing: 9/11 'mastermind' asks to share information

The self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks has asked for permission to share information about Gina Haspel, nominee for CIA director, at her confirmation hearing.
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44058047

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rt.com/news/426311-immortal-regiment-world-victory/
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-10/yale-officers-admonished-white-student-for-calling-police
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/is-capitalism-a-threat-to-democracy
socialistworker.org/2018/05/10/why-north-carolina-teachers-are-walking-out
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novaramedia.com/2018/05/10/why-did-the-greens-pick-up-votes-in-the-local-elections/
nakedcapitalism.com/2018/05/links-5-10-18.html
apnews.com/193c6f3bda0b46e6b718b88c622dfc99/Insight-or-influence?-Trump-attorney's-business-scrutinized
thehill.com/policy/national-security/386998-nunes-gowdy-to-get-classified-briefing-on-mueller-documents
thehill.com/policy/international/387330-pompeo-offers-economic-aid-in-exchange-for-north-korean-nukes
afp.com/en/news/2265/nasa-program-track-greenhouse-gas-canceled-doc-14r7ar7
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Ahed Tamimi's Brother Arrested by Israeli Army in Dawn Raid

Now half of the Tamimi family is in prison.
telesurtv.net/english/news/Waed-Tamimi-Brother-of-Ahed-Arrested-on-Overnight-Raid-by-IDF-20180510-0003.html

Immortal Regiment marches across the globe – from Germany to Thailand

Thousands of people took to the street across the globe on Victory Day to commemorate the heroes who defeated Nazis in WWII, with Immortal Regiment events staged in Germany, Canada, Thailand and many other countries.
rt.com/news/426311-immortal-regiment-world-victory/

Yale Responds After Police Called on Black Student Napping in Her Dorm

Yale University police officers who responded to a call about a black graduate student who had fallen asleep in the common area of a campus residence admonished the white student who reported it, a university administrator said Thursday.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-10/yale-officers-admonished-white-student-for-calling-police

Is Capitalism a Threat to Democracy?

Today, as in the nineteen-thirties, strongmen are ascendant worldwide, purging civil servants, subverting the judiciary, and bullying the press. In a sweeping, angry new book, “Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?” (Norton), the journalist, editor, and Brandeis professor Robert Kuttner champions Polanyi as a neglected prophet. Like Polanyi, he believes that free markets can be crueller than citizens will tolerate, inflicting a distress that he thinks is making us newly vulnerable to the fascist solution.

“Basically there are two solutions,” Polanyi wrote in 1935. “The extension of the democratic principle from politics to economics, or the abolition of the democratic ‘political sphere’ altogether.”

In other words, socialism or fascism.

newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/is-capitalism-a-threat-to-democracy

OP/ED

Why North Carolina teachers are walking out

The teacher rebellion has spread to the Tar Heel state. Hundreds of schools across North Carolina are set to close next Wednesday as teachers use personal days to rally at the state Capitol in Raleigh.
socialistworker.org/2018/05/10/why-north-carolina-teachers-are-walking-out

Why are US cities still so segregated?

aeon.co/videos/why-racial-segregation-is-a-design-feature-not-a-bug-of-us-cities?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=atom-feed

Why Did the Greens Pick Up Votes in the Local Elections?

There’s been a lot of post-match analysis following last week’s election results – much of it quite spectacular in its inaccuracy.
novaramedia.com/2018/05/10/why-did-the-greens-pick-up-votes-in-the-local-elections/

Links 5/10/18

nakedcapitalism.com/2018/05/links-5-10-18.html

we going /reactionarydictatorship/ lads, buckle up

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How long before "the putin model" becomes a commonly used phrase?

Will they stop sucking america's cock if they get nukes?

As someone who lives in a rural state, I cannot wait for these conceited rednecks to get the backstabbing they so rightly deserve.

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Oh I cant wait.

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Why do you oppose a popular leader democratically elected by the working class?

The Axis of Evil: Burgerland, Israel and Saudi Arabia. Fuck them to oblivion. WW3, just start already!

hmmm yes, really, why would I ever oppose Orbán?

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also pic related

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Stalin was too gentle.

Insight or influence? Trump attorney’s business scrutinized

apnews.com/193c6f3bda0b46e6b718b88c622dfc99/Insight-or-influence?-Trump-attorney's-business-scrutinized


Warren G. Harding here we come.

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Look. I think the orban panic is exaggerated but he didn't get elected on democratic means. He reformed some laws and basically is allowed to govern without opposition even if he has something like the 30% if not less

You mean voted by Lumpenproles.

I'd also like to add that Hungarian workers are possibly the least class concious in all of Europe (Poland might beat us, but not sure). The word of a not class concious worker is utterly worthless.

The question is how you oppose them not why. If Hungayrian comrades think that rallying behind the neolib parties (the ones that basically created Orbán) as a second worst option a lá Macron, they should read some god damn books.

Nunes, Gowdy to get classified briefing on Mueller documents

thehill.com/policy/national-security/386998-nunes-gowdy-to-get-classified-briefing-on-mueller-documents


Can't wait for the inevitable leak.

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Is anyone else not able to read the Bloomberg articles? It says I need a subscription.

There are bad (underorganized, theoretically underdeveloped) communists, and no (inherently) bad workers.

That's almost half the country.

I don't have any socialist friends who went to any of the protests. But the thing is that, as a socialist it's borderline impossible to oppose him. Tbh it's borderlie impossible to do anything. Both sides of the mainstream political spectrum dismisses you, and doesn't hold you credible in any debate because "muh Recsk". At this point it's easier to just lay low sit and wait like a good leftcom. Because I either go to prison in two years, or I wait for the inevdiable collapse of this oligarchich tyrant.

didn't say they were bad people. Even FIDESZ voter workers are decent people, no matter what anybody tells you, but they ARE acting against their own self interest and they'd be happy to have communists executed.

SIX MILLION WAS NOT ENOUGH

You can use archive.is for paywalled articles from sites like NYT, The Economist or Bloomberg, I do it all the time. Alternatively, if you're using firefox, you can usually circumvent it with reading mode.

STOP BULLYING ISRAEL, LEAVE ISRAEL ALONE!!!!!

t. Nikki Haley

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I still can't believe she said that…

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It's bittersweet, on one hand yes pleny of racist conservatives are going to get their just deserts, on the other hand plenty of children and a political proles will get hit too.

People will learn the only way they know how - the hard way.

It's funny until you realize they don't care. American conservatives fetishize their societal ass fucking, they literally see it as virtuous to not be enough of a man to demand a fair living standard.

This
I've lived in Burgerland almost my whole life and as long as blacks are worst off then whites they'll take the class fucking gladly.

bump, thanks for the news briefing

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OH NO NO NO NO NO

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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what is wrong with burgers

You could just ignore the sleepy sleeper or be a minor dick, wake them up and tell them to leave, but no. You just fucking have to ascend beyond standard security-calling dickness, and go alert the fucking cops.
At least the fucking pigs didn't go and arrest to poor tired sod, as would be expected from American donut-hogs.

>"Siyonbola, who said in the videos that the same student had called police months earlier on a friend who had gotten lost in a stairwell of the building…"
Oh, for fig's sake.

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The third map has barely any correlation. The majority of welfare users are white, which is only a surprise to idiots.

People abuse emergency lines for literally anything in the US. Google "florida man calls 911".

t. Trump supporters are too rich to be on food stamps, therefore his supporters aren't really working-class in the first place

What? That has nothing to do with what I said.

This is hard truth about rural America. They're completely happy living in ghetto-tier poverty as long as they believe someone is worse. I'm certain this is why the majority of them hate Obama with passion, since he broke the delusion of their racial superiority.

Honestly, the only way to get them to shake this belief is with a huge demographic shift, which is already happening thanks to economics. Whites are leaving for the better paying jobs in the cities, browns are migrating for job security to the prairies. Grandma whitey can scream about the "DE EVIL MUSLIMS" all she wants, but her physician will be Dr. Muhammad.

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Rural America is mostly landowners and other petite bourg garbage though. That's why they tend to be so insanely reactionary. It's their class interest.

It's a mix of that for sure, ranches and such, and absolute, grinding developing world level poverty. Run-down houses on stilts with Confederate flags flying in the yards and packs of dogs roaming around. My grandfather retired in one of these hovels and after he died, my dad inherited the house (not worth much). The neighbors told him that if he rented or sold it to any colored people they'd burn it down.

Not joking. But this was done in a "nice" way and done implicitly, not explicitly. Like some of the neighbors hanging out and having a beer with him in the yard, yup yupping, then "well we just wanted ya to know, if any colored people move in here, you just need to know that… well… it wouldn't be surprisin' if the house caught fire, and I heard the volunteer fire department, well they ain't be in a hurry to put that kind of thing out. Alright, have a good one!" They don't wear white hoods anymore but it's old-style Klan tactics.

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Campus police, they aren't gonna be as trigger happy as city/county/state cops.

Rural America consists of land owners and people who think they're land owners.

death by cop expectations

Pompeo: US will help North Korea's economy if it forfeits nukes

thehill.com/policy/international/387330-pompeo-offers-economic-aid-in-exchange-for-north-korean-nukes

Of course, Kim has absolutely no intention of giving up nukes, so the US would just be building a stronger, more threatening Korea.

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he better fucking not, having no nuclear weapons is the same as becoming a burger colony

NASA program to track greenhouse gas is canceled
afp.com/en/news/2265/nasa-program-track-greenhouse-gas-canceled-doc-14r7ar7

He didn't necessarily win a majority. He was appointed chancellor and Hindenburg died so he took over as Fuhrer. He did get a lot of seats but not necessarily a majority.

yaaaay the EU managing its own gigantic military industrial complex pushing into the budget and forcing more fucking austerity

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MORE LIBERAL BULLSHIT THAT SOUNDS INNOCENT BUT IS VERY MUCH EVIL

I mean, it's not the end. We still have the EU and the other space programs, China's, Japan's, India's, etc.

They still monitor Greenhouse Gas, especially China, Japan, and the EU.

It'll be a while before the US starts demanding other nation's space programs stop doing what they don't like. Maybe someday, but not today.