Truckloads of civilians leave Islamic State enclave in Syria Trucks loaded with civilians left the last Islamic State enclave in eastern Syria on Friday, as U.S.-backed forces waited to inflict final defeat on the surrounded jihadists.Reporters near the front line at Baghouz saw dozens of trucks driving out with civilians inside them, but it was not clear if more remained in the tiny pocket. reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-islamicstate/truckloads-of-civilians-leave-islamic-state-enclave-in-syria-idUSKCN1QB0N2
Closing nuclear facility on table as US-NKorea summit nears The Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center, the heart of the North’s nuclear development and research, is Kim’s biggest carrot as he tries to win security guarantees and free his country from the U.S.-backed trade sanctions that are hobbling its economy. apnews.com/af6c3b5de6ef4bfeb676b9fb29884a85
Where are the ‘empty shelves’? Max Blumenthal tours Caracas supermarket (VIDEO) Corporate media grieve for the barren shelves and empty bellies in Venezuela, but are the alleged food shortages real? After touring a supermarket in Caracas, Max Blumenthal found plenty to buy – even craft beer. rt.com/news/452158-blumenthal-venezuela-supermarket-shelves/
China bars millions from travel for ‘social credit’ offenses Forgot to pay a fine in China? Then forget about buying an airline ticket.Would-be air travelers were blocked from buying tickets 17.5 million times last year under a controversial “social credit” system the ruling Communist Party says will improve public behavior. apnews.com/9d43f4b74260411797043ddd391c13d8
Trump says he'll maintain some troops in Syria, media says 400 ‘peacekeepers’ to stay The US plans to keep a total of 400 troops in Syria, half in the Kurd-held northern part of the country and half at the southeastern border, at Al-Tanf base, a media report says citing an administration official. rt.com/news/452200-syria-troops-stay-more/
Millions of forest-dwelling indigenous people in India to be evicted Millions of Indians face eviction after the country’s supreme court ruled that indigenous people illegally living on forest land should move.Campaigners for the rights of tribal and forest-dwelling people have called the court’s decision on Wednesday “an unprecedented disaster” and “the biggest mass eviction in the name of conservation, ever”. theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/22/millions-of-forest-dwelling-indigenous-people-in-india-to-be-evicted
North Korea faces food crisis ahead of landmark summit North Korea has warned that it is facing a food shortfall of some 1.4 million tonnes this year, forcing the regime to almost halve rations. An undated two-page memo from the North Korean mission to the United Nations, seen by Reuters, blames the shortages of rice, wheat, potatoes and soy beans on soaring temperatures, drought and floods that damaged crops last year. telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/22/north-korea-faces-food-crisis-ahead-landmark-summit/
What Do You Need to Know About Sunday's Cuban Referendum? On Sunday, Feb. 24, the Cuban people will participate in a referendum to approve the Republic's new Constitution, a text that modernizes the current one through 760 modifications, which range from the elimination of articles, phrases and words to additions of new laws. telesurenglish.net/news/What-Do-You-Need-to-Know-About-Sundays-Cuban-Referendum--20190222-0014.html
Regarding the Max Blimenthal video(mods pls don't ban me)i've seen some guy say when the guy in the video finally says the price of something it is expensive as fuck because people are "hoarding olive oil to make a quick buck"
How do you respond to that?
AGAIN DON'T FUCKING BAN FOR FUCKS SAKE IT'S JUST A QUESTION i'm not even on his side, i just wonder what his argument it's implying and if it's true
Ryan Powell
Why does India's modernization seem so sad?
Joshua Thompson
Reactionaries are going to run mental gymnastics around this to suit their narrative. No matter what you tell them. The point is exposing this type of stuff to liberals, centrists and succdems who are products of porky's mainstream media network. Show them that this is the reality.
Joseph Hughes
Don't be scurred.
Eli Ross
Max Blumenthal's main point is that the goods are there, but the prices are inflated and that the VU economy is inflating due to speculation.
One narrative that persists about VU is the old anti-socialist one - the idea that socialist countries underproduce and thusly actually lack basic items. Max points out that this market is capitalist and suggests that the inflation is related to this. Max actually addresses the hoarding - he's suggesting the scarcity is artificial, which casts doubt on how effective food aid would even be.
Anthony Jackson
Democrats howl after Bernie Sanders refuses to recognize Guaido as Venezuela’s leader Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has refused to recognize Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s ‘interim president,’ calling instead for new elections. His comments have enraged Democratic lawmakers who are pushing for regime change.Sanders is widely seen as a top contender to take on Donald Trump in 2020, but his views on the current political crisis in Venezuela have put him at odds with the Democratic Party. rt.com/usa/452141-sanders-venezuela-guaido-maduro/
Time's Up chief resigns after assault allegation against her son Time's Up president Lisa Borders stepped down after allegations of sexual assault were made against her son, the group has announced.Borders revealed she was leaving the anti-sexual harassment movement on Monday, four months after taking the job of president and chief executive officer. telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/22/times-chief-resigns-assault-allegation-against-son/
North Carolina orders new U.S. House election after 'tainted' vote North Carolina’s elections board on Thursday ordered a new election for a U.S. House seat after officials said corruption surrounding absentee ballots tainted the results of a 2018 vote that has embarrassed the Republican Party reuters.com/article/usa-election-north-carolina-idUSKCN1QA1W3
Police are investigating an alleged assault that reportedly left a conservative activist with a black eye on the UC Berkeley campus Police are investigating the alleged assault of a man who was helping recruit members for a conservative organization at UC Berkeley in California on Tuesday afternoon.Hayden Williams, a member of the conservative Leadership Institute, said he was invited to the campus by Turning Point USA, a pro-Trump student advocacy group, to "help organize and train conservative activists." businessinsider.com/uc-berkeley-assault-hayden-williams-allegations-tpusa-2019-2
Powerful support for Oakland teachers’ strike Nearly all 3,000 teachers in Oakland, California went on strike Thursday in their first walkout in over 20 years. Like the other teacher strikes that have swept across the country over the last 12 months, Oakland teachers, who are fighting for increases in pay and school funding, reduced class sizes and against threatened school closures, have won popular support from parents, students and other workers. wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/22/oakl-f22.html
How Amy Klobuchar Treats Her Staff .As Ms. Klobuchar joins the 2020 presidential race, many of these former aides say she was not just demanding but often dehumanizing — not merely a tough boss in a capital full of them but the steward of a work environment colored by volatility, highhandedness and distrust. archive.is/MIAYX
Cold War is good for business: US contractors rejoice at the new Red Scare US politicians and media peddling scary stories about Russia and China may have a more pedestrian motive than defending 'American values and way of life' – a return to the halcyon days of the Cold War and the Pentagon gravy train.If there's one thing mainstream Democrats and Republicans agree upon, it's that Russia and China are the new global threat. rt.com/news/452196-cold-war-good-business/
Trump's proposed car tariffs could trigger a global growth recession, BAML says President Donald Trump has doubled down on threats to levy duties on car imports from Europe, a move that analysts warn could lead the world economy toward a sharp downturn in growth."If we don't do the deal, we'll do the tariffs," the president said Wednesday of broader negotiations with the European Union. His administration has wielded protectionist policies in an effort to win concessions from trading partners. markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/trump-tariffs-cars-could-trigger-global-growth-recession-baml-2019-2-1027973273
Lucas Harris
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Jack Rogers
OP/ED
Trump or Clinton, Brexit or Remain, Maduro or Guaido? They are both worse! (by Slavoj Zizek) These days, popular media and political elites like to "big up" only wildly opposing alternatives. Thus, better alternatives rarely get an airing.When I read about the United Kingdom's ongoing Brexit struggle, my first association is always with Stalin. Back in the late 1920s, the Georgian was asked by a journalist which deviation is worse, the rightist one (of Bukharin and company) or the leftist one (of Trotsky and associates), and he snapped back: "They are both worse!"Indeed, it's a sad sign of our predicament that, when we are confronted with a political choice and must take a side, even if it is only the less-bad one, quite often the reply that imposes itself is: "But they are both bad!"This, of course, does not mean that both poles of the alternative simply amount to the same. In concrete situations, we should, for example, conditionally support the protests of Yellow Vests in France or make a tactical pact with liberals to block fundamentalist threats to our freedoms (say, when fundamentalists want to limit abortion rights or pursue openly racist politics).However, what it means is that most of the choices imposed on us by big media are false choices – their function is to obfuscate the true option. And there is a sad lesson to be drawn from this: if one side in a conflict is bad, the opposite side is not necessarily good. rt.com/op-ed/452178-zizek-worse-venezuela-trump/
Dead Center Nearly four years ago, the United Kingdom went to the polls. At the time, living in south London, I weighed up the options on my ballot paper. A Labour Party selling mugs with the slogan, “Controls on Immigration,” not traditionally a stirring socialist phrase; a leader who’d campaigned in front of an absurd eight-foot high concrete slab that ended up functioning as his own political tombstone; and a local candidate so center-right I ended up spoiling my ballot. The country seemingly felt similarly: what should have been an easy win for Labour instead became a victory for the Conservatives, and caused such turmoil in Labour that Jeremy Corbyn secured a surprise and thumping victory in the race for the party leadership.The local candidate I deemed so undesirable as to deny him my vote this week left the party and created a new outfit that he insisted wasn’t a party: Chuka Umunna joined with seven Labour MPs and three Conservatives to forge a centrist party no one had asked for. jakkkobinmag.com/2019/02/dead-center-independent-group-labour-defectors
Donald Trump’s National Emergency Is The Exact Same As Barack Obama’s National Emergency Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency is being framed as an unprecedented step towards authoritarianism, a unique proclamation against Latinas and Latinos, and even a sign that we should have elected racist hawk Hillary Clinton. Happy President’s Day to Ms. Clinton, by the way. In the age of Trump, words tend to be used in unconventional ways, are forgotten quickly, and mean little to nothing in relation to fact. The exact declaration of national emergency was used by Barack Obama less than three years ago.Obama’s national emergency is relevant to the present moment for a number of reasons. First off: his definition of a national emergency is the same as Trump’s. Mr. Obama did not see the climate apocalypse—which is destroying every piece of life on earth as a national emergency. He like Trump, saw much more danger in working class Latinas and Latinos putting food on the table. Secondly, Barack Obama’s declaration of a national emergency was in regards to a very hot topic in our political climate: the socialist government of Venezuela. counterpunch.org/2019/02/22/donald-trumps-national-emergency-is-the-exact-same-as-barack-obamas-national-emergency/
Angel Long
You'd think that this is RT doing its spin on the facts, but in reality this is the fucking truth and EVERY news outlet should be calling out Guaido for what he is.
Cameron Nguyen
It was bullshit, but not really the same. Foreign policy 'national emergencies' are very common, whereas domestic 'national emergencies' for non-emergency political funding are probably unconstitutional. It's not really wrong to point this out - if things go well, it stops another bullshit national emergency. If they go poorly, we can point to the government actively undermining the constitution (again), point to how frequently this has been happening, and use the issue as a symbol to bolster questions of state legitimacy.
David Martinez
Can we stop listening to this fucking SHITHEAD already? Zizek deserves the wall.
Josiah Jackson
wtf, i'm a sucdem now
Andrew Nguyen
Bernie is often unfairly demonized as pro imperialist here, but imo his actual record is head and shoulders above most American politicians, even if it leaves a lot to be desired.
Brody Wilson
We'll he is right in the sense of claiming that Venezuela is not socialist in a Marxist sense His Anti-Maduro stance is unfortunate though
Tbh until Zizek endorses intervention, or even fails to explicitly denounce it, he’s still fine in my books. “Maduro sucks but hands off Venezuela” is an acceptable stance imo, although I think Maduro is a 5/10 leader at worst.(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
Michael Turner
… Ok, but what if Zizek liked Maduro but also supported intervention at the same time?
Not my stance, as I oppose intervention, but wouldn't it be zany if Zizek said something like that?
Btw, IMO Maduro's 10/10, maybe even 12/10. Arguably 100/10, actually. Great guy. Best leader in South America, better than Evo and if anyone tries to fuck with VU I will personally strangle them as an act of self-defense because I will be preemptively running around the entire Venezuelan border really fast so nobody can get through.
Dylan Martinez
I'd prefer if he nationalized the entire economy, and culled all those counter-revolutionaries.
Ryan Ortiz
are these 1 second bands or are the mods this fucking sensitive?
Luis Gomez
bans*
Evan Foster
Look at the no entry sign at very top of the page, it goes to the ban list.
You'll see that Wobbly in a week.
Evan Anderson
That's excessive beyond comprehension holy shit
Thomas Kelly
this is what all 'modernization' is like you rube, it's the grinding up of life in the machine read uncle Ted etc etc etc
Daniel Richardson
No wonder there was a fucking split and a coup if mods are this shit
Jordan Gutierrez
the fire rises
He’s wrong, left is always better. Bukharin was a fascist who wanted to restore capitalism, how any socialist could put him on the same level of bad as a revolutionary hero (Trotsky) is beyond me.
What India is doing isn’t different from what Britain did in the 1600s in the enclosures of the commons. It might be sad, but it’s nessicary so it should be supported.
Mods = fags
David Adams
(me) of course it was a fucking 7 day ban from the BO
Jose Rivera
This is why Zig Forums exists.
Charles Brooks
we don't want shit either, mods are fags but no mods=all fags
William Kelly
truly a wonder, the authoritarian mind
Benjamin Rivera
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Jose Harris
If your a Dengist mabey.
Sebastian Russell
From Ismail's mouth: "As I wrote a few days ago: "I'm a Marxist-Leninist. I think China is socialist. If 'Dengist' means someone who regards Deng as a Marxist who did more good than bad, then yeah the description fits, but I'm not going around exalting the genius of Deng Xiaoping Theory or whatever."
To my knowledge the CPC itself doesn't try to "export" Deng Xiaoping Theory, nor Three Represents, Scientific Development Concept, or Xi Jinping Thought. They're viewed as part of efforts to build socialism with Chinese characteristics, not take hold of the entire world (as opposed to, say, Juche which the DPRK does try to promote all over the planet.)"
I love how Ismail is so retarded that he actually thinks stuff such as Deng Xiaoping Theory, Three Represents, Xi Jinping Thought, etc. are actual developments of marxist theory rather than meaningless ad-hoc justifications for whatever the current leader actually wants to do that is then elevated to the position of official ideology by state media in a blatantly transparent attempt to make it seem like there's continuity.
It'd be like looking at Amerikkka and thinking "Make America Great Again" is the latest development in Ronald Reagan Thought and the theoretical successor to "Hope and Change". Completely, hilariously, wrong.
Jason Lewis
Whoops, wrong quoted post.
Joseph Murphy
lol
Isaac Richardson
This thread is full of CIA.
Anthony Johnson
Kim confirmed burger stooge.
Jayden Torres
hilariously accurate, if anyone doubts this, just read Xi's book, it's just a bunch of platitudes
Jose Sullivan
Dengoids deserve the wall as well.
Lincoln Anderson
What about Juche? Is it well developed and consistent enough to consider it valuable theory wise?
Aaron Reyes
yes
Luis White
At least it’s actually socialist.
Andrew Robinson
Rofl imagine thinking there was some continuity between Ronald Reagan, Neoliberalism and Make America Great Again
Wyatt Richardson
Actually they have markets and private enterprises.
Nathaniel Nelson
Ye. People are hungry in Venezuela because they can’t afford food, not because there isn’t enough food. The US delivering 200 tons of cooking oil and flour, along with a few hubdred assault rifles, won’t help because the country’s supermarkets are full of oil and flour. That’s not the cause of the lack.
Thomas Butler
Imagine being this biased. I mean it's not like the United States hasn't been trading partners with Saudi Arabia for decades now.
Oh god another fucking ultra who doesn't understand dialectics or fucking Marx.
Daniel Hill
I'm a marxist but I would literally cream my pants if Bernie beat out Kamala Harris or whatever. I logically know that he's not really going to change anything in the long term short of establishing a vanguard socialist party or whatever or just like pulling the plug on America, but I really want him to win out of spite for democrats/journalists and me being programmed. Can anyone else here relate lol
