by Scott Creighton
For those looking to communicate with me you can't. Phone dead. Helped neighbor I guess the weight of the freezer I took out of his car crushed my phone screen and it's completely dead somehow (not broken at all though?)
Anyway, if you need to communicate with my use DM on Twitter or my email address.
from Black Agenda Report
The nationalist passions that overtook Italy and Germany in the 20th century, leading to World War II, are often described as “the triumph of the irrational.” Indeed, studies of the literature produced by Nazis and Italian fascists, like Ludo Abicht’s The Sword, the Pen, and the Swastika, reveal emotionally charged collections of symbols with little logical connection and little purpose but to drive the reader into irrational frenzy. Like the marches and flags, they channeled the innately human longing to be part of something larger than oneself into extreme violence and ultimately, global catastrophe.
In Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism, the late Dr. Michael Parenti demonstrated that fascism was and is actually very rational. It very rationally serves the interests of capital, as it did in both Italy and Germany, where capitalist elites were struggling to maintain rates of profit and the threat of socialist or communist revolution was greater than elsewhere in Europe.
Italy’s corporate capitalists needed to push back the gains achieved by workers movements. They needed state subsidy and tax exemptions instead. Irrational nationalist fervor and military mobilization enriched war profiteers, and turned working people away from organizing in their own real interests. The “triumph of the irrational,” was just as much the triumph of capitalist propaganda. ..
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from Common Dreams
A coalition of free speech organizations, progressive lawmakers, and antitrust advocates gathered outside the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC on Thursday to protest a private dinner hosted inside the building by Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison, who is seeking regulatory approval from the Trump administration for a megamerger of his company and Warner Bros. Discovery.
The invite-only dinner was billed as an “intimate gathering in celebration of the First Amendment honoring the Trump White House”—which has waged war on press freedom—“and CBS White House correspondents.” Norm Eisen, co-founder of Democracy Defenders Action, said during Thursday’s protest that the dinner “resembles the First Amendment in the same way that a book burning is a celebration of the written word.” President Donald Trump attended the dinner, which critics dubbed the “Paramount Corruption Gala.”...
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from Daily Sabah
An Israeli attack on a group of civilians in southern Gaza's Khan Younis Thursday killed one and wounded three, after overnight strikes killed five more, according to local medical sources.
A source at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis told Turkish Anadolu Agency (AA) that the body of Yahya Abu Shalhoub and three wounded people arrived at the hospital after an Israeli drone strike targeted them in the al-Maslakh area south of the city.
The incident comes amid ongoing Israeli violations of a cease-fire that took effect on Oct. 10, 2025, following a genocide that killed more than 72,000 Palestinians and wounded over 172,000, most of them women and children.
Israeli artillery also shelled areas east of Khan Younis on Thursday, while Israeli military vehicles opened heavy fire in eastern parts of the city and in the al-Mawasi area northwest of Rafah, local sources said.
Witnesses told Anadolu that Israeli forces carried out large-scale demolitions of homes and facilities in areas of their deployment east of Gaza City early Thursday, alongside artillery fire and gunfire in the surrounding area...
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from PressTV
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei has lauded the profound impact of the Iranian nation’s extraordinary unity, saying that it has inflicted a significant fracture on the enemy while urging practical gratitude to forge even stronger national cohesion.
"Due to the remarkable unity created among compatriots, a fracture has occurred in the enemy," the Leader stated in a message published on the X network on Thursday, highlighting how this unprecedented solidarity has disrupted the calculations of those seeking to undermine the Islamic Republic.
Ayatollah Khamenei emphasized the need to express gratitude for this divine blessing through concrete actions, affirming that such efforts will render national cohesion “greater and more steely,” while leaving the enemies “more wretched and diminished.”
The Leader also drew attention to the enemy’s ongoing psychological warfare, warning, “The enemy’s media operations, by targeting the minds and psyches of the people, intend to undermine national unity and security; may our negligence not allow this sinister intent to come to fruition.”...
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by Scott Creighton
These people don't care about you or your quality of life or the hope your children have of a better future for themselves and their families.
These people... these neoliberals, libertarians, free marketeers and Zionists.
These people:
They ONLY care what you THINK and that's because if they don't create YOUR OPINIONS FOR YOU... they will eventually lose.
So we keep doing what we do as best we can in spite of their money and threats and hatred.
by Scott Creighton
Say what you will about Tucker Carlson, and I have said it all myself... but this certainly helps and it's damning for the Jewish Supremacists we call Zionists.
from al Mayadeen English
Al-Akhbar correspondent Amal Khalil has been martyred in the town of al-Tayri in the Bint Jbeil district of South Lebanon, following a deliberate Israeli pursuit that unfolded over nearly two hours.
The sequence of events on Wednesday afternoon reveals the intentionality of the attack.
At 2:45 pm, an Israeli drone bombed a civilian vehicle travelling ahead of Khalil and her colleague, journalist Zeinab Faraj. The two journalists immediately sought shelter near a tree, while emergency contacts were made with Red Cross teams and Lebanese army intelligence.
At 2:50 pm, Khalil called colleagues to tell them she was hiding from the bombardment.
by Scott Creighton
Watched Thom Hartmann for about 7 minutes yesterday. He finally figured out the Project 2025 guys and the Trump regime have been demoing the economy on purpose so they can remake the government in their neoliberal/free market image (like we have done to countless nations over the past 70 years or so)
Was going to post his video until he started going off on evil Russia. Said Trump was out of his mind for siding with Russia over glorious Zelensky and the Nazis of Ukraine.
Of course... keep in mind... Hartmann knows we regime changed the country under ObamaGod and Ukraine is one of the most corrupt governments in the world second only to Trump and just barely ahead of Milei in Argentina.
But that doesn't matter. ObamaGod did it so it must be OK.
However... Trump turned off the lights in Cuba so he could send in the Chicago Boys and try to chop up the nation and hand it over to his country club Epstein-class buddies while Russia... well... Russia turned the lights back on.
In the end, Hartmann, like Bernie Sanders, is paid to promote neoliberal regime change operations to the alt-left like the ones in Ukraine and Russia and even by extension, Cuba and Venezuela.