< Back New Atlas LIVE: US Builds Consensus for War with China & a Closer Look at Taiwan w/Carl Zha New Atlas Apr 22, 2023 New Atlas LIVE is a weekly stream for discussing current events, connecting with the New Atlas community, and more. Q&A is open the entire time, please write "QUESTION" or "Q" and then your question so we can more easily spot it. Today we talk with Carl Zha about the US manufacturing consensus for war with China and take a closer look at Taiwan. Where to find Carl Zha’s work: Twitter: https://twitter.com/CarlZha Patreon (Silk and Steel Podcast): https://www.patreon.com/silknsteel YouTube: / @carlzha We do not do super chats or monetize YouTube videos, if you would like to contribute, please check out the following options below: How to Support my Work (and thank you!): Buy Me A Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/TheNewAtlas Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/landdestroyer PromptPay: 0851547235 Cryptocurrency Donations: Ethereum (ETH): 0xee6ed93c3adc474450011e9af22939a0b9b312c7 BitCoin (BTC): 1AfGnbmHxA6cy9YKUSxysXvpJPyecpBKrr Monero (XMR): 845TCXx3pchSBXuDL7FHG679gbWD2wkHS6MJxuq7jFVsVFj7T6xsry747uhhGZUdkaRXbbrMfo5c8RnGfzGZ13KxQUdHVLR Follow Angelo Giuliano here: YouTube: / @angelogiulianoz Twitter: https://twitter.com/Angelo4justice3?s=09 (@Angelo4justice3) Where to Find My Work: Website: https://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/ Telegram: https://t.me/brianlovethailand Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianJBerletic Odysee (YouTube alternative): https://odysee.com/@LandDestroyer:8 Rumble (YouTube alternative): https://rumble.com/c/c-1459863 Weibo: https://weibo.com/u/7726044004 ไบรอัน แฟนคลับ (Facebook): https://facebook.com/BrianThaiFanclub/ Line Group: https://lin.ee/JIxTpKe Gab: https://gab.com/BrianBerletic VK (Facebook alternative): https://vk.com/brianberletic Previous Next

< Back YEMENI PEOPLE ONCE AGAIN TAKE TO THE STREETS IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE Carlos Cabrera Jun 15, 2024 The demonstrators reiterated their permanent commitment to defending the Palestinian cause. A new mass march took place this Friday in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, as well as in other regions of the country to reaffirm its solidarity with the Palestinian people and the condemnation of the genocide carried out by Israel. For 35° weeks in a row, protesters took to the streets chanting “firm with Gaza. Resisting all conspiracies,” and stressed that they will remain committed to defending the Palestinian cause. During the march in Sana’a, support was reaffirmed for Yemeni military operations against the US-British coalition, as long as the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip continues. The marches were replicated in Saada Square, Raymah, Maarib, and several districts of Amran, Ibb, Taiz and Al Jawf provinces. The leader of the Ansar Allah movement, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, asserted that the United States is trying to force Yemen by its position and stressed the indestructible obligation of the nation to defend the Palestinian cause. Palestinian health authorities have reported that, since 7 October, more than 37,200 people have been killed, most of them women and children. Republished from https://www.telesurenglish.net/ with thanks Previous Next 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

< Back THE KPRF, PUTIN, AND MULTI-POLARITY Marx Engels Lenin Institute Jun 1, 2024 In this edition of the program, Alex of Marx Engels Lenin Institute looks at a recent speech given by KPRF leader Gennady Zyuganov and the the Russian Communist Party view on multipolarity. Be sure to check out the MELI website where you can find the latest articles: https://marxengelsinstitute.org/ You can also find more of their work on their Patreon page. https://www.patreon.com/marx_engels_lenin/posts?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator If you want to support the work they do here then you can also donate using the link below: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ptrgd1917a If you want to contact them you can do so on the following email address: editor@marxengelsinstitute.org Previous Next

< Back LA County Cancelling the Term "Homelessness" While Perpetuating It Susan Banaszewski Sep 13, 2022 Let them eat person first language. On August 22, 2022, the LA Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) tweeted an infographic urging its followers to adopt "person-first language" to refer homeless people. It offered a list of acceptable terms, including "people experiencing homelessness," "people who are unhoused," or "people living outside" in place of "the homeless," "homeless people," and "the unhoused." The infographic instructs us to "acknowledge a person's individuality" before we describe their status as homeless. Twitter users soon swarmed and "ratioed" the post. Some pointed out that the very name of the "LA Homeless Services Authority" violates their own guidelines. Many current or formerly homeless people chimed in. One user wrote that when they were homeless, they were lucky to be called "homeless" instead of "bum" or "wino." Another pointed out , "homeless are living outside, when they are also dying outside..." Several other respondents suggested language linking homelessness to crime or declining standards of living. The tweet also spurred several articles with click-bait titles such as NewsPunch's " Los Angeles Attempts To Solve Homeless Crisis By Banning the Word ‘Homeless’ ." Person-first language is a construct that originated to refer to disability. The National Institute of Health (NIH) style guide now recommends person-first language when discussing someone's disease or disability because it is "what the person 'has' rather than what the person 'is.'" However, this proved to be a controversial statement for some in the disabled community. These people argued that the new language implies that disability is a shameful condition that must be talked around, rather than an accurate descriptor or even something someone could be proud of. After all, we don't feel the need to talk this way about other groups -- we don't call a gay person a "person who seeks relationships with the same sex," for example. Insisting on person-first language seems particularly inconsequential when describing someone's housing status, as it is not permanent or even inevitable. Is it "dehumanizing" to describe someone as a homeless person? Or is the dehumanizing part when a person to have so few supports from society that they live on the street and without safe, permanent, and private shelter--often also without adequate access to food or other things essential to living with dignity, like hygiene products, plumbing, or a comfortable place to sleep? Roughly 2,000 homeless people (5 - 6 a day) died in the United States in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic , primarily from suicide or heart disease. While the LA Homeless Services Authority woke-scolds us on Twitter, it has itself fallen far short on its responsibility to LA County's huge homeless population. LAHSA counted 66,433 people experiencing homelessness in the county in 2020, an increase of 13% from 2019. The first report since 2020, released this month , indicated a 4.1% increase for a new total of 69,144 homeless residents in LA County. In January 2022, the US Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found that the agency "did not fully meet the goals and objectives of the program and did not always follow program requirements," leaving unused millions in federal grant dollars for Continuum of Care (CoC). The CoC program was designed to enable local governments to create initiatives to end homelessness, quickly rehouse people, and support rehoused individuals and families in becoming self-sufficient. The grant was meant to help address LA's homeless crisis. But $3.5 million in CoC grant awards were never used and expired, while the agency also failed to meet the requirements for grant planning or performance reports. The OIG recommended that LAHSA amend its policies to prevent future failures and use non-Federal funds to support its services or repay the grants. LAist reported that LAHSA funding is funded mostly by Los Angeles County and the City of Los Angeles, with just 5.7% of it coming from federal CoC funds. But it's not as though homeless residents of Los Angeles had all they needed and there was simply no use for the expired, "surplus" $3.5M. The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, which receives funding and referrals from LAHSA, has remained been chronically understaffed and flooded with new referrals, consistent with the status quo for our country's social services. Misuse or "nonuse" of funding are not the only factors perpetuating the crisis at the housing authority. Entrenched bureaucracy also plays a significant role. According to a report by The Los Angeles Times, LA's infamous skid row is currently the opioid/fentanyl overdose epicenter of our nationwide opioid epidemic. Skid row residents are left to find methadone treatment centers located miles away from the community. While strategically-located local treatment centers would reduce overdose deaths and improve addiction treatment and recovery rates, an opaque and multi-tiered approval process for building new centers constrains local efforts. In another report from LAist, a man living at a Hollywood homeless encampment recounted the burden of securing transportation for various appointments and meetings in order to access support, and wished social workers and facilities were closer. He also expressed that he wanted "real" housing, not temporary solutions. And he is not alone. Many is not most homeless people prefer tents or vehicles to shelters while waiting for permanent housing, and even the temporary housing can feel undignified and dehumanizing. The report notably did not mention a request from any encampment residents to use a preferred term to describe their housing status. In April 2022, the LAHSA's commissioner Heidi Marston resigned. She posted an open letter arguing that LAHSA's ability to reduce homelessness has been severely restricted by policies and decisions of the City and County of Los Angeles, resulting in under-funding for service providers and restrictive rules and bureaucracy for frontline workers. She highlighted the discrepancy between what these policymakers say they want and what they do: Leaders at the helm of the homelessness crisis are quick to state they want to end homelessness. But, when given the opportunity to create housing security, I have watched those same people refuse to make the sacrifices necessary to effectuate that change. Decisions to obstruct basic equity principles like fair pay illuminate the fundamental gap between stated values and demonstrable action. In this writer's experience of working in social services, language and laws constantly change per state, federal or local law or policy change, requiring new or more extensive documentation, paperwork, and training on topics such as being 'person-centered' and 'person-directed.' Ensuring that those receiving services are treated as individuals and that they are the ones making informed decisions about their lives are very important principles. But these lofty goals crash into the reality that many who know exactly what they want or need are merely informed that the law, a funding shortfall, or limited service-provider availability means they will unfortunately continue to go without for another month or year (and must undergo another lengthy bureaucratic process). The workers implementing these policies are often reminded to embody the twisted logic of that lambasted LAHSA tweet: we should look a person in need in the eyes and use language that reflects that we appreciate their dignity and individuality as we deliver the bad news that our system is unable to help in any substantive way. For the powerful, it is simpler and easier to ask us workers to change our language, learn new paperwork, or take new training than it is for them to adopt--even for a moment--a "person-first" perspective, let alone actually start fighting for the needs of the poor and working people they purport to represent. 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< Back Fiorella Isabel on Censorship, Twitter Suspensions & War Propaganda (clip) | Tara Reade Tara Reade Oct 1, 2022 Fiorella Isabel is an RT International anchor/correspondent and the Co-Host/Journalist for The Convo Couch, an independent talk show discussing and analyzing the daily news cycles and introducing new grassroots personalities. Twitter: https://twitter.com/FiorellaIsabelM Telegram: https://t.me/fiorellastele Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiorellainm ... Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fiorellaisabelm The Convo Couch on Rokfin: https://rokfin.com/TheConvoCouch The Convo Couch on YouTube: / theconvocouch Please follow Tara & support her work - here are all the links: https://www.linktr.ee/tarareade Twitter: https://twitter.com/ReadeAlexandra Telegram: https://t.me/TaraReade YouTube: / tarareadeauthor Rokfin (Ad-Free Video!): https://rokfin.com/TaraReade Rumble: https://www.rumble.com/TaraReade Substack/Podcast: https://tarareade.substack.com/ Twitch: https://twitch.tv/TaraReadeAuthor Tara is a member of the Indie News Network family of content creators. Follow all the network channels and meet all the members at http://indienews.network ( https://twitter.com/GetIndieNews ) Previous Next

< Back LABOR AND UKRAINE | THE REPUBLIC FALLS TO FEED THE EMPIRE Midwestern Marx May 14, 2024 Tonight Midwestern Marx first speaks with the Institute's chief-labor-analyst, Kyle Pettis, about the Volkswagen UAW victory and the labor movement in the U.S. They then discuss the proxy war against Russia with Slava the Ukrainian Socialist of The Revolution Report. Previous Next

Editor Don Courter talks to citizens of the USSR about their experiences of the state < Back Does Socialism Work? Editor-In-Chief Don Courter speaks with citizens of the Soviet Union TRR Staff Jun 14, 2022 When young people in America begin to discover their revolutionary potential and develop an attraction to Marxist ideas, it often happens that older people stuck in the mentality of cold-war anti-communism loudly interject with: “Everyone who ever lived under socialism was desperately trying to escape! How could you support such totalitarian ideas?” Well, the truth of the matter is quite different than this overused cliche. In his second episode of the “Does Socialism Work?” series, Editor-In-Chief and host of TheRevolutionReport Don Courter collects and translates interviews with people who actually lived in the Soviet Union. What they have to say is sure to surprise anyone born and raised in the West. Previous Next 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

Live From Moscow - What Is Going On With Wagner PMC? (Plus Q&A) < Back Live From Moscow - What Is Going On With Wagner PMC? (Plus Q&A) The Revolution Report Jun 24, 2023 Please support TheRevolutionReport on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheRevolutionReport Check out TheRevolutionReport's Newsletter and political analyses there: https://www.the-revolution-report.com/ Follow TheRevolutionReport on Telegram! https://t.me/therevolutionreport We are also on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therevolutionreport_/ https://www.instagram.com/donnunism Follow Donald and TheRevolutionReport on Twitter: @DonaldCourter @TheRevolutionR1 Previous Next 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

< Back HIDDEN CRIMES AND OPEN CRIMINALITY Alexander McKay Dec 1, 2023 The question of medical experimentation, organ harvesting and other such ghoulish practices came up recently in a discussion and the question was raised as to why such things (along with torture) were hidden and why (more recently) they have been acknowledged and become standard practice. Both the question of medical experimentation and torture were affected very much by the Nuremberg trials and the revelations of the full depth of the Nazi depravity. We must remember though that those trials came about largely as a result of Soviet pressure the British imperialists certainly didn’t want most of the German high command to be put on trial because they knew very well that they fought wars in much the same way as the Nazis did, especially when it came to supressing revolts in the colonised nations. On the matter of medical experimentation the Nazi crimes (Mengele and co being the most prominent) that it forced these matters underground but it did not eradicate them. Forced sterilisation of those regarded as “undesirable” continued in the certain states of the USA was a practice that was carried out in California for many decades. The post war era and the revulsion against the crimes of the Nazis forced a change, again this is largely driven by the USSR and progressive movements that drew strength from it. The question of torture is similar in that it was always denied, even though it was practiced by many state agencies in the imperialist countries. The British certainly used torture to interrogate Irish republican prisoners though this was never “official” policy. The change to an open endorsement of torture was brought in with a great deal of cultural programming to justify it, think Jack Bauer in the “ticking bomb” scenario on ’24’. What has occurred really since the 1970s is a regressive shift of ever greater justifications being made by the ruling class for deadly applications of state violence. The ruling class in the USA saw a war be lost and multiple domestic revolts in the 1960s and decided that they were not going to allow any further “drift” and so as part of their counter offensive since the 1960s they have been seizing every opportunity to increase the power of the state agencies and their ability to violate the rights of US citizens. This could not be done all at once however, it had to justified and support had to be built for it within the petit bourgeoisie especially and this is why you have the manipulation of public concern over crime waves to justify the creation of a vast prison complex (one of Bidens legacies) and the systematic demonisation of large segments of the US population (super predators as a failed Presidential candidate once said). The point of all this is to increase the ability of the US bourgeois state to effectively to carry out large scale repression. This relates to torture in the post 9/11 world as it is easier to justify the torture and even murder of those who have been legally deemed to be without rights. The purpose of the special regime constructed for “terrorists” after 2001 and the hidden prison systems the US operates across the world was to construct a legalistic way to remove rights from people. This was of course trialled on groups who large sections of the US population would be either indifferent towards or would be actively cheering for their physical destruction. As always though the trial of something that could be done to those outside of the imperial core is always going to be brought back into these nations as repressive measures to be applied to the domestic working class. The question of medical experimentation follows a similar trajectory in that the US has been forced to conduct a lot of its most criminal work outside of the USA, hence why you have a network of bio-labs in places like Ukraine. These are placed in areas of the world where the US ruling class believes that it exercises such total control of the local comprador regime that it can do anything it like to the working class in these nations and no one will complain. The peripheries of the imperialist bloc also provide opportunities for such heinous trades as organ trafficking and there are many accusations of such operations being run in Kosovo, Ukraine and Israel. All of these follow the same principle in that they are places with “disposable” populations which can be abused without any question being raised domestically in the United States.Without constraint this is how the imperialist countries work because this is the nature of their systems. The working class is merely a commodity to be used and disposed of when no longer convenient and any concession that has been made has only been done when the ruling class were afraid of the consequences. They have already brought back many of the practices of the fascist period, they have just hidden them outside of the imperial core but make no mistake they will find ways to bring it right back into the homeland again if allowed to. Now that imperialism is rotting away it is in a much more dangerous phase and all manner of cruelties and crimes will be engaged in by the ruling class as they seek to defend their system. Previous Next 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

< Back STUDENT INTIFADA SWEEPS US CAMPUSES The Electronic Intifada May 7, 2024 Across the US, and around the world, students and faculty have been engaging in a wave of protests, demonstrations and encampments on their campuses to demand that their institutions divest from companies that profit from Israel's apartheid and genocide. Guests: - Bryce Greene, student organizer, Indiana University, writer at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) - Dr. Bikrum Gill, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech - Sherif I., organizer and filmmaker with Columbia University Apartheid Divest - Samuel Ahmed, Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA - Jake E., Students for Justice in Palestine at California State Univ. Los Angeles (📸 Chine Nouvelle / SIPA / Newscom) Your gift supports The Electronic Intifada's independent journalism on Palestine: • Donate by credit card or PayPal via Network for Good: https://bit.ly/GivetoEI • Donate by credit card, ApplePay or US bank account via Kindful: https://bit.ly/EIKindful Gifts are welcome from anywhere and are tax-deductible for US taxpayers as allowed by law. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐚𝐝𝐚 Visit their website for more reporting: http://electronicintifada.net Facebook: / electronicintifada Twitter: / intifada Instagram: / electronicintifada Soundcloud: / intifada Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7g2IMlN ... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast ... #TheElectronicIntifada #TheElectronicIntifadaPodcast Previous Next 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

US Commands - Colonies Obey: Venezuelan Plane + Crew Detained In Argentina On Yankee Orders < Back US Commands - Colonies Obey: Venezuelan Plane + Crew Detained In Argentina On Yankee Orders The Revolution Report Aug 19, 2022 Donald Courter is an international journalist & political analyst living in Moscow. He is a 21st Century Marxist-Leninist exposing Western lies about the history of socialism across the former Soviet Union. Please support TheRevolutionReport on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheRevolutionReport OFFICIAL WEBSITE: Check out TheRevolutionReport's Newsletter and Donald Courter's political analyses there: https://www.the-revolution-report.com/ Follow our Telegram channel! https://t.me/therevolutionreport We are also on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therevolutionreport_/ https://www.instagram.com/donnunism Follow Donald and TheRevolutionReport on Twitter: @DonaldCourter Previous Next 2022-2024 The Revolution Report

< Back DO UKRAINIANS REALLY HATE THE USSR & RUSSIA The Revolution Report Aug 18, 2024 Yuri and Olga are two former USSR citizens, now citizens of Russia. Having spent much of their lives in Soviet Ukraine, they shared with us their perspectives on the current conflict, life in the USSR, and how they view Russia. What they have to say is likely not what you might think! 🎥💥 Link to our award-winning documentary "8 Years Before": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM0VYkL_UI4 ================================================================================= 🤝 Please support TheRevolutionReport on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TheRevolutionReport ================================================================================= 📜 OFFICIAL WEBSITE: Check out TheRevolutionReport's Newsletter and political analyses there: www.TheRevolutionReport.org ================================================================================= 📸 Follow our Telegram channel! t.me/therevolutionreport ================================================================================= ⌨️ We are also on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/therevolutionreport_ https://www.instagram.com/donnunism ================================================================================= 🐦 Follow Donald and TheRevolutionReport on Twitter: @DonaldCourter @TheRevolutionR1 ================================================================================= Find us us on Vero and Rumble: https://vero.co/therevolutionreport https://rumble.com/therevolutionreport Previous Next