Meanwhile on Chinese TV: "I visited California in the 80s. They were promising high-speed rail. China didn't even have highways."
40 years later, they have built zero. China: biggest high speed rail network.
"The superiority of socialism is clear."
This is what Bolivia's highways look like at the moment.
Each town & village blocks their stretch, and the union members in each community take turns at the barricades. This is part of the general strike against neoliberalism. Now entering week 3.
If Bolivia was still run by socialists targeted by Langley and Foggy Bottom for regime-change, the usual western media-NGO-human rights networks would activate to flood our brains with “Save the Bolivian People!” But since this is capitalism doing its usual repression—crickets
My favorite James Baldwin line: "There is a reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as an ancient friend."
They sabotaged Iran’s economy into collapse, infiltrated and armed protesters to riot and create mass casualties. Then inflated those numbers 10x to start an illegal war of destruction.
These aren’t conspiracy theories. These are confirmed facts and statements by officials.
Capitalism was kept in check by the Soviet Union till the 1990s.
So many nice policies that western governments in Europe and US implemented were out of fear of communism, fear that people may revolt. Once that threat was gone, the politicians started favoring corporates more and more. Ever since then, capitalism has slowly become completely unhinged because of zero competition.
The world needs a strong pushback against these monopolist corporate powers.
The shaded green area is pure asset inflation following the Wall Street takeover of the Federal Reserve in 2008. Anyone who thinks this represents real economic growth has never set foot in America or walked around our stagnant cities, decaying towns, and shuttered factories.
Iranian media figured out the pattern:
Trump's threats spike every weekend when financial markets are closed. Monday morning? Calming tweets.
"We are dealing with a very sophisticated psychological operation with an economic dimension."
Reuters confirmed that the elementary school in the Iranian city of Minab was bombed TWICE by the US military, 40 minutes apart.
This was intentional. You don't "accidentally" bomb a school TWO TIMES.
168 children and 14 teachers were killed. It was a massacre.
The most brutal takedown of the U.S. government ever broadcast on TV:
“The U.S. government is a vicious imperialist government that attacks other countries and kills little children. Iran understands it is fighting the Epstein class that either rapes little girls or bombs them.”
Bombing Iran in the middle of negotiations, while starving Cuba, while genociding Palestinians, while threatening to invade Greenland… the US and Israel are the single greatest threat to humanity and it’s not even close. We are all forced to live in the nightmare they create.
If there is one lesson to be drawn from the Epstein files it is this: The capitalist ruling class is openly and consciously waging total war against the world's oppressed.
It is a war of rape and abuse, cultural distraction and technological engineering, regime change and privatization, debt traps and honey traps. It is a war whose goal is destruction. A disintegrating state is fertile terrain for the predators that feed on its cheapened resources and wasted lives.
One sentence from the disclosures, for example, makes abundantly clear whose interests NATO's proxy war in Ukraine serves. "Ukraine upheaval should provide many opportunities," Epstein wrote in an email to one of the Rothschilds. The message would be ominous enough if it were not followed by scores of other emails with photographs of young Ukrainian women presumably offered for sale to this sadistic cabal.
Since the state exists as an instrument of class rule, the Western ruling class has every tool at its disposal to protect and expand its monstrous dominion: the police and the courts, the newspapers and social media platforms, and even the armed forces of Great Britain, which facilitated Epstein's visits to the British royal family. That is why these people can rape and torture and disappear human beings with impunity.
Its stated adversaries — the leaders of China, Cuba, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela — are hated precisely because they defend spaces of sovereignty where the imperialist ruling class cannot reach. It is no secret that, under US rule, Cuba was treated as an island brothel and casino. Or that half a million Russian women were trafficked into sexual slavery when the Soviet Union was defeated.
The ruling class is serious about global class war. The only way we survive is if we learn to take it as seriously as they do.