News 10/25

Pentagon to send ‘several hundred’ troops to US-Mexico border
Several hundred troops are being sent to beef up security at the US’ southern border with Mexico, the Department of Defense said. It comes as a caravan of several thousand migrants makes it way north through Mexico.
Defense Secretary James Mattis is expected to sign an order sending at least 800 troops to the border in anticipation of the caravan’s arrival, a government source told AP.
rt.com/usa/442266-pentagon-troops-mexico-border/

Saudi Arabia Now Says Khashoggi Killing Was Premeditated
Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor said Thursday that the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in their consulate in Istanbul was premeditated, reversing course yet again on the Saudi account of what happened.
npr.org/2018/10/25/660506863/saudi-arabia-now-says-khashoggi-killing-was-premeditated

China says military will act 'at any cost' to prevent Taiwan split
China’s military will take action “at any cost” to foil any attempt to separate the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own, the country’s defense minister said on Thursday.China has been infuriated by recent U.S. sanctions on its military, one of a growing number of flashpoints in Sino-U.S. ties that include a bitter trade war, the issue of Taiwan, and China’s increasingly muscular military posture in the South China Sea….
reuters.com/article/us-china-defence/china-says-military-will-act-at-any-cost-to-prevent-taiwan-split-idUSKCN1MZ05L

Gaza militants launch rocket, Israel responds with airstrikes
Gaza militants launched a rocket from Gaza into Israel on Wednesday night, prompting airstrikes by the Israeli military.Israel's Iron Dome aerial defense system was activated and launched an interceptor missile, but no interception took place, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). No one was injured by the rocket.
cnn.com/2018/10/25/middleeast/gaza-israel-violence-intl/index.html

Soros university says it being forced out of Hungary, mulls move
Hungary’s Central European University, a graduate school founded by U.S. financier George Soros, said it was being forced out of the country by the nationalist government and would switch to enrolling new students in Vienna if it did not get guarantees of academic freedom by Dec. 1.
reuters.com/article/us-hungary-soros-ceu/soros-university-says-it-being-forced-out-of-hungary-mulls-move-idUSKCN1MZ1TY

Maduro blasts ‘crazy extremist’ Pence over claim Venezuela funded US-bound migrant caravan
The Venezuelan leader has lashed out at US Vice-President Mike Pence, labeling him “extremist,” and dismissed “laughable” allegations that Caracas is funding the migrant caravan heading to the US from Honduras.
President Nicolas Maduro appeared incensed by Pence’s accusation that the Venezuelan government is backing hundreds of mostly Latin American migrants who are seeking to enter the US through the Mexican border.
rt.com/news/442212-maduro-pence-crazy-extremist/

Indian police detain thousands of striking Tamil Nadu auto workers
On Tuesday, police arrested over 2,000 striking auto workers from the Oragadam industrial hub near Chennai, the capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.The arrested workers, who are employed at the Yamaha India, Royal Enfield and Myoung Shin India Automotive (MSI) plants, were detained in three wedding halls in the town of Oragadam. They were released without charge in the evening.
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/25/mass-o25.html

Koreas, UN finish removing firearms from border village
The rival Koreas and the U.S.-led U.N. Command finished removing firearms and troops from a jointly controlled area at a border village on Thursday, as part of agreements to reduce decades-long animosity on the Korean Peninsula.
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Bolsonaro's anti-China rants have Beijing nervous about Brazil
The Chinese government is trying to make peace with Brazil’s leading presidential candidate, Jair Bolsonaro, whose China-bashing threatens to chill a profitable trading relationship that has benefited both countries.
reuters.com/article/us-brazil-election-china-insight/bolsonaros-anti-china-rants-have-beijing-nervous-about-brazil-idUSKCN1MZ0DR

Two packages sent to Joe Biden, one to Robert De Niro match other mailed pipe bombs
Two suspicious packages found Thursday addressed to former Vice President Joe Biden and another sent to Robert De Niro at his office in downtown Manhattan are similar to the pipe bombs sent to political and media figures in the past few days, according to the FBI….
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UAE Contracted An American Hit Squad to Kill Political Figures And More in Yemen
he founder of a U.S.-based private military company, as well as a former employee of the firm, say the United Arab Emirates hired the group to supply what amounted to a death squad to assassinate members of a Yemeni Islamist political party.
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Justice Department says businesses can discriminate against transgender employees
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that it is lawful to discriminate against transgender employees based on their gender identity, according to Bloomberg Law.In a brief to the Supreme Court, the DOJ wrote that federal civil rights law banning sex discrimination in the workplace does not extend to transgender people.
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Russia will target European countries if they host U.S. nuclear missiles: Putin
President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia would be forced to target any European countries that agreed to host U.S. nuclear missiles following Washington’s withdrawal from a landmark Cold war-era arms control treaty.
reuters.com/article/us-usa-nuclear-putin/russia-will-target-european-countries-if-they-host-us-nuclear-missiles-putin-idUSKCN1MY2FO

Thousands strike in Glasgow for equal pay
Over 8,000 low-paid, mostly female care and learning support workers at Glasgow City Council (GCC) and its care services agency, Cordia, struck October 23 and 24 in pursuit of long-standing demands for pay equality.Most of the city’s early years schools and mainstream primary schools, as well as its additional support for learning facilities, were closed in the largest strike over equal pay since the Equal Pay Act of 1970
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/25/glas-o25.html

Prolonged market slump could bruise U.S. economy: Fed's Mester
A “prolonged” fall in U.S. stock markets could eventually begin to weigh on the U.S. economy, though there are no signs of pinched credit or a pending recession so far, Cleveland Federal Reserve President Loretta Mester said on Wednesday.
reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-mester/prolonged-market-slump-could-bruise-us-economy-feds-mester-idUSKCN1MY2L9

There’s a Tax Ax Poised to Fall on China’s Wealthy
Meat and poison: Tax cuts for some in China are coming back to bite as levies increase on others.The slowing economy has prompted Beijing to announce a series of reductions this year, ranging from the value-added tax on goods and services to personal income levies. The government also promised a sweeping overhaul of import duties to counter the escalating trade war with the U.S.
bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-10-24/the-rich-will-pay-more-tax-as-china-cuts-corporate-rates

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Jugendwiderstand: Long Live the 50th Anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines!
Following the call of the Philippines revolutionary movement to all artists to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the CPP’s re-establishment, young street-art propagandists in various parts of Germany took markers and spray cans in hand to give to proletarian internationalism color and expression…
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Business as usual: US INF pullout will delight arms industry as it threatens to reignite Cold War
Trump has been tearing up treaties since taking office, from halting negotiations on the TPP to NAFTA, but his latest threat to pull out of the nuclear deal, negotiated by President Reagan in the 80s, may be his biggest mistake.
rt.com/op-ed/442257-nuclear-inf-war-weapons/

New York Times celebrates downfall of 201 “powerful men:” The ugly face of the #MeToo campaign
The New York Times published a crude and revealing article October 23, “#MeToo Brought Down 201 Powerful Men. Nearly Half of Their Replacements Are Women.”The piece, credited to seven authors, inadvertently points toward an important truth: the #MeToo campaign is fundamentally an effort by a layer of upper middle class women to advance their economic interests at the expense of their male rivals.
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/25/powe-o25.html

Lyft Is Not Your Friend
Lyft is the latest brand trying to build market share by posing as a “progressive” corporation. But the fight can’t be good corporations against bad ones — it's working people against capitalism.
jakkkobinmag.com/2018/10/the-myth-of-the-woke-brand-uber-lyft-capitalism

Pension Fraud: How PBS’s Frontline Let the Clinton Democrats Off the Hook
On October 23, 2018, PBS, a television network that takes public money to finance operations and programming, aired a Frontline documentary titled THE PENSION GAMBLE, produced by Marcela Gaviria, Martin Smith, and Nick Verbitsky. I decided to watch it because I have been reporting on and off for the past several years on the Rhode Island pension fund, which was invested into hedge funds in the aftermath of the 2008 crash, resulting in the largest loss of money in the history of the state according to financial forensic investigator Ted Seidle.
counterpunch.org/2018/10/25/pension-fraud-how-pbss-frontline-let-the-clinton-democrats-off-the-hook/

Such pure propaganda. It’s actually insane that the US is trying to impose a war on China that will certainly become nuclear if it goes hot (this is not hyperbole, every China war games scenario predicts this and it is the purpose of pulling out of the INF). Unlike the last two world wars, there is no “inevitably” here. It would be easy to reset and normalize China relations and construct a diplomatic framework to resolve all of its territorial disputes, but that’s exactly what the US is working against. Pure imperial hubris married to plain old racism. Easily the worst thing happening in world affairs right now and has the full support of the western media complex.

Either this will deter the caravan or we’ll get to see them mass-detained or disbursed. Who thought that Trump’s optics on the border could get even worse after the family-separation policy

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The caravan isn’t going to make it to the border. This isn’t the first such caravan and they just don’t make it. They fall apart long before they get to anywhere on the border.

is k-on brezhnev bros?

slavs, translate

Yes, that's Tsumugi's father. Too bad we didn't see the garage part of the Mansions during the anime.

The living will envy the dead.

never seen the anime but i hope they at least have this scene

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Welcome to Capitalism. It makes wars inevitable.

That is quite literally the exact opposite of 'fundamentally'. The movement may have been 'co-opted' but it isn't fundamentally about that.

I don't believe it does. Or at least, this isn't a feature of capitalism (capitalist countries can coexist easily) but of the US foreign policy "blob", which is a feature of Empire, which cannot coexist. It's Pentagon and Beltway synergy that the capitalist class is largely uneasy with. Prior to pulling out of the INF the US has absolute global nuclear supremacy. They had more modernized nuclear missiles that were faster with vastly higher accuracy, longer range, and greater numbers. Russia and China has mostly neglected their nuclear arms with only limited modernization happening in Russia. NO European ally thought this was necessary to counter Russian arms. The US is offering a single, ungenuine reason to pull out of the treaty in order to justify putting a different class of nuclear arms in Asia, so that they can begin to quietly discuss the Nuclear First Strike. They are afraid that they cannot control the whole continent with air craft carriers forever, and have no plan that doesn't involve American domination.

What are the chances of the U.S. open firing on the caravan at this point?
Every news outlet I see has been labeling them as "invaders"

The caravan is likely to disperse long before it reaches the border. It is more likely that racial and nativist violence will take root on our soil. There is no possible victory here. It's like the country getting arthritis.

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Haha cool I guess

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You're right. I only say that because in my lifetime and from my experience it has been a peaceful and safe country. But the most extreme of the alt-right guys say they want to start killing my neighbors, and they are getting influence. It's hard to imagine random attacks could kill people on my street who I've known my whole life. If it turns out the attackers are also my neighbors, I would be afraid to live here. But I do live here, and I don't have a choice.

But they can't. We have the whole 20th century to demonstrate this. Look at US - it is practically always at war, and it is primarily Capitalist countries it wages wars against.

But all Capitalist nations develop up into Empires (provided they have the opportunity). What rich Capitalist nation did not start exploiting other - poorer - nations? Every single European nation (other than Germany, which emerged as proper nation only in 19th century) had colonies.


Once Capitalists can no longer profitably invest into industry, they start investing into into government (lobbying; i.e. corruption) - which is used as a leverage to further interests of Capitalist on both home ground (against foreign Capitalists) and foreign (improving positions of local Capitalists on foreign markets).

Inevitably, Capitalist nation comes into conflict with the other nations and either subjugates them peacefully (by turning them into actual or effective colonies), or attempts to subjugate them violently. Hence, inevitable wars. Once powerful Capitalist nations face off against each other, we get world wars (both WW1 and WW2 were directly caused by Capitalism).

What.

Because US would get it's collective panties in a twist, if Poland or Germany would decide to make some nukes.

It's not because EU is non-violent - look at Libya, as an example. If not for Italy checking France, French army would be invading directly, outside of NATO framework.

Which is how every major Capitalist nation functions. It's just after WW2 only US had survived unscathed, thus we ended up with US alone playing in major leagues against Soviets - and when USSR went down, US stood alone at the top, making Imperialism seem as a quality unique to US.

Cops already shoot unarmed kids at the border, they've been doing to for a while now. The US/Mexico border is such a barbaric place.

The countries that the US does not wage way with are primarily capitalists. A Baysean analysis is necessary here, and it will show you how likely you are for the US to wage war with a capitalist country vs a socialist country. You've failed to refute the point but just reiterated your own. I'll reiterate mine: the US wages war everywhere because it is an Empire.

The parenthetical is doing "a lot of work here". There have been some communist countries that certainly acted like an Empire.


No this is totally wrong. Capital has no nation.

The capitalist class has failed to enthusiastically embrace the trump administrations foreign policy, because it is highly disruptive.

Because US would get it's collective panties in a twist, if Poland or Germany would decide to make some nukes.

It's not because EU is non-violent - look at Libya, as an example. If not for Italy checking France, French army would be invading directly, outside of NATO framework.

I never said the EU was non-violent, or anything about germany getting nukes? what? That's a sequitur. The EU didn't want to pull out of the INF because the Russian "violations" had zero strategic impact and an intermediate range weapons ban was essential to their nuclear security and nuclear posture.

I called it US Imperialism. I did not call it unique to the US.

The real nightmare would be if the US military has calculated that they have to strike China now, because at this time they lack both conventional superiority and large numbers of tactical nuclear weapons. If China were to lose, say, a confrontation in the Taiwan Straight, they can only really retaliate against countervalue targets because it has (or rather is believed to have) a very limited nuclear arsenal at this time. As time goes on, this US conventional advantage will go away though, so use it or lose it…

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Your own Baysean analysis should suggest that it is not an argument, as most nations are primarily capitalist.

Then provide it. Saying that you might have a good argument is not an argument itself.

Firstly, you need to explain what "socialist" means. Some people would call US Socialist (not to mention VUVUZELA). AFAIK, only USSR, DDR, and Cuba, (arguably, also Albania and DPRK) count as Socialist. I.e. - in my opinion - 100% of nations US invaded were Capitalist (or Feudal/Tribal), while none of Socialist nations were invaded (after they transitioned to Socialism).

If you accept my interpretation of "Socialist", it doesn't even matter how you distribute probability weights (it's kinda weird to expect US to invade strong or unprofitable nations), as Baysean analysis will only provide support for my point. The only question is how strong or weak it will be.

I demonstrated that being capitalist does not protect you from being invaded by capitalist nations - which was implied by "capitalist countries can coexist easily".

Not that I'm aware of. Though you also need to explain what "acted like an Empire" means, as I rely - by default - on Marxist interpretation of Imperialism (ex. from Lenin's "Imperialism").

If you mean direct military intervention, then none of aforementioned Socialist nations waged wars against each other.

>> [national Bourgeoisie defends it's interests on foreign ground]
What "Capital" are you talking about? I was talking about Capitalists. And they definitely engage in trade wars and promote actual wars to further their interests. Hitler literally sold the idea of WW2 to German Capitalists as necessary for economic development of Germany (Lebensraum meme).

You need to elaborate.

Some Capitalists vocally oppose it, yes. But if it is capitalist class as a whole has to be proven (by demonstrating actual mechanism of Trump's foreign policy harming all capitalist profits).

As it is, I can see only one group of Capitalists fighting against another group of Capitalists. It's not like Trump doesn't promote interests of some Capitalists. Given diverse nature of US economy, it's hardly surprising that not all are affected equally by changes on international scale. But, as situation develops, it will collapse back into the old pre-World War "Empire-versus-Empire" situation, with finance being equally threatened by foreign nations (China/Russia/Iran/[whoever]), as industry.

I.e. xenophobia of Trump is the inevitable future. Though, I would expect rhetorics (justifications) to change from pussy-grabbing and "I have bigger button" to more "progressive".

Non-sequitur, I guess. I may have misread this bit.

May I remind you:
What I'm suggesting is that Imperialism is inherent to Capitalism: strongest capitalist nations inevitably become Imperialist and start using wars to further interests of their Capitalists.

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Useful corrective: if they can further their interests with means less than military, they will do that first. See Germany using the EU against Greece, Spain, Italy, or famous IMF reform measures offered to poorer countries. In most cases the imperialism does not require a shot being fired.

True. Path of least resistance is followed.

Initially, yes. But, sooner or later, all easy options will be exhausted (marginal utility on global scale), the world will be divided between the strong nations, and everybody will start playing the international game of "chicken" - with each "patriotic" choice having a non-negligible (and increasingly valid) threat of escalation from stern words, to diplomatic actions, to economic sanctions, to covert or over interventions into internal affairs of other nations, to limited "military solutions", and, eventually, to unlimited total war.

There is no way out without creating major investment opportunities for Capitalists (such as collapse of major nation; ex. USSR&Warsaw pact) which can only postpone the inevitable return to the game of "chicken" for a decade or two.

Seems about right. At the even of WWI, all the world was divided between the great powers of the time - Japan, Euro Empires, and the US (save China which was never wholly swallowed up). No room to spare between them. Then that great conflict proceeded to smash apart the Russian, German and Austrian empires, with WWII being mostly about the settlement of those spoils. Then WWII busted up the French, British and Japanese empires. All of that debris was cannibalized during the Cold War. Then the USSR collapsed and we again had a scramble for all the new markets opened up. But now we're again getting to a point where no expansion is possible - EU/NATO is butting up against Russia after absorbing the Warsaw pact; China US and Europe are rubbing shoulders in Africa; and China is rapidly integrating the entire Eurasian space.