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Biden tells 22 million Americans that 2-state solution is necessary, Gaza occupation must be avoided and laws of war respected; US once again the arsenal of democracy; Avoid US mistakes of post-9/11; $106 billion in aid for Israel, Ukraine, border, and Taiwan; $100 million in humanitarian aid for Gaza, where partial lifting of blockade is expected for weekend;
Current administration is indispensable defense against fascism foreign and domestic;
How to hug Bibi so tightly he can’t follow warmonger demagogues Smotrich and Ben Gvir; Problems of weakened post-Arab Spring leaders dealing with mob rule in the Arab street; Loss of Abbas-Biden summit a tragedy;
Not clear how small Hamas or Islamic Jihad Qassam or Katyushka/Grad rockets could create the atrocity of Episcopal Hospital in Gaza; Publish the evidence and appoint an independent international commission if you want credibility; NBC recalls Israel’s tradition of lying about atrocities; Truce and end of blockade remain fundamental;
Lesson of Yom Kippur 1973, when nuclear war danger emerged just 18 days after fighting started is end the fighting before it spreads; We are now 15 days into current emergency; Cease-fire now!
In early outing against invaders, US ATACMs delivered to Ukraine destroy 25 helicopters in Berdiansk and Luhansk;
More news from inside a dying political machine: GOP congressmen enraged by death threats from backers of MAGA hooligan Gym Bag Jordan; he faces increased defections and is dumped as candidate by GOP caucus after third ballot; No MAGA fanatic can be tolerated just two heartbeats from presidency and no ally can trust him;
House rules are not a suicide pact: replace parliamentarian and/or reform rules to pass the June budget deal and emergency military aid; Try a discharge petition;
Trump’s legal defense front collapsing as Sidney Powell, Chesebro, and Michigan fake elector cop pleas to testify against Don; NY Justice Engeron slaps MAGA boss with $5k fine, more to come over intimidating court personnel; Who will be next to defect from kamikaze mission?;
Will Gaza become the Sarajevo of the twenty-first century?
This is lesson of Kippur War of October 1973, when Egyptian moves to end Sinai occupation took the world to the brink of thermonuclear World War III between US and Soviets! Biden, Blinken, and Austin must impose respect for Geneva Convention and laws of warfare, which are compulsory for all nations;
Israeli ultimatum to evacuate 1.1 million Palestinians to south Gaza is tantamount to genocide and must be rescinded, while lifting blockade on food, water, fuel, and medicine for 2.4 million people!
Blinken meets Palestinian Authority President Abbas in Amman; Bibi has for years built up Hamas crazies to sabotage moderate and constructive PLO;
US government must make 600 Palestinian-Americans and c. 20 US hostages in Gaza top priority; Smotrich doctrine of cruelty and contempt for lives of hostages must be formally repudiated;
Netanyahu is dishonest devious intriguer who has long sought to dupe US into catastrophic war with Iran; Bibi is obsessed with preventing peace settlement including Palestinian state under Abbas and PLO; Bibi has sacrificed national unity to stay out of jail; He is pro-Trump, anti-Biden, and utterly unprincipled; His aggression is a threat to Biden’s re-election!
Last week’s war crimes by Hamas terrorist killers are rapidly being eclipsed in infamy by this week’s war crimes by Netanyahu; International anarchy could supplant the UN Charter and Geneva Conventions to the advantage of aggressors Putin over Ukraine and Xi over Taiwan;
Bibi’s planned Gaza bloodbath will enrage Arab public opinion across the world, impelling Iran to unleash Hezbollah against Israel with 100,000 fighters and 150,000 missiles; Netanyahu will then demand US unleash catastrophic war (possibly nuclear) against Tehran; Putin and Xi will pick up the pieces; Israel bombs Damascus and Aleppo airports, skirmishes with Hezbollah:
Netanyahu’s failures of intelligence and readiness have decimated his base of support: 24 IDF battalions were deployed on West Bank to repress PLO, but only 6 battalions defended against Hamas;
On Friday evening Oct. 7, IDF and Shin Beth execs got signs of suspicious activity by Hamas, but decided NOT to put the Gaza front on alert (Axios); On Saturday, Norm Ornstein tweeted that Netanyahu had danger signals but did nothing; Late Friday night, Israeli intel monitored an upsurge of Hamas chatter and sent an alert to Israelis near Gaza, but no action ensued-Israeli relied on Bibi’s high-tech superfence, which proved fatally vulnerable to drone attack (NYT); Hamas conducted public dress rehearsal of destroying a border gate and attacking nearby towns and IDF posts, which was posted Sept. 12 (The Hill); Based on data from Israel, US intelligence issued three warnings of possible Hamas escalation between Sept. 28 and Oct. 6 (CNN);
Netanyahu’s quest for dictatorship via the courts had created a powerful mass movement for his ouster during 2023; He may have reasoned that a only shocking defeat and war emergency might help him retain power; This was the approach of France’s Marshal Petain, who used military defeat by Nazis to create the Vichy fascist dictatorship in May-June 1940;
Will Gaza become the Sarajevo of the twenty-first century?
Republican Party has no platform or unifying ideology and thus stands for absolutely nothing, leaving it a mere battlefield for rival gangs;
Democrats should ready a rapid maneuver to secure 6-8 GOP votes to install Hakeem Jeffries as Speaker on a reform program;
US public will not tolerate a Speaker who voted for Trump’s coup, enabled pedophiles, or supported white supremacy groups; Mobilize XIV Amendment NOW to stop Trump as Speaker of the House today and presidential candidate later;
Origins of Gaetz’s pseudo-reforms: single-subject spending bills are straight out of Confederate Constitution of 1861; Motion by a single member to oust Speaker recalls the practice of exploding the Polish parliament, when one disgruntled petty nobleman could veto a law or even send everyone home for a few years;
Models of extinction for political parties in US history:
For degenerate plutocratic Federalists, end came through New England secessionism after the 1815 Hartford Convention; Monroe enabled an Era of Good Feelings as Federalists collapsed and disappeared;
Whigs disintegrated after splitting over the odious Fugitive Slave Law in the Compromise of 1850 and losing the 1852 election with Winfield Scott;
Xenophobic Knownothings evaporated after losing the 1856 vote with Filmore over Douglas’ squatter sovereignty and the Kansas-Nebraska Act; The 1857 Dred Scott decision and the rise of the Republicans completed the rout;
MAGA GOP spreads chaos in House with Gaetz and the anti-Ukraine clique, in the Senate with Tuberville’s sabotage of miliary personnel, and in the Supreme Court with the corruption of Thomas, Alito, and others;
Voting rights, abortion, gun control, Ukraine, student loan debt, immigration, public health, minimum wage, the social safety net, public education, low-income housing, law and order: whatever your issue, real solutions must always include liquidating the Republican Party!
Breaking: How will RFK Jr. and Cornel West respond to Russia’s latest war crime, the massacre of Ukrainian civilians at Hroza? Will it be more appeasement?
Trump horrifies nation with call to execute Gen. Milley for disloyalty to him; First session of Comer’s impeachment probe dissolves amid guffaws;
Biden speech at McCain Library is clarion call for the defense of constitutional democracy, with direct attacks on MAGA boss: ”Trump says the Constitution gave him the right to do whatever he wants as president”; President sets new aggressive tone for coming year of campaigning; Biden now joins FDR as the two most pro-labor presidents in US history; At Milley’s retirement, Biden slams Tuberville’s ”outrageous” sabotage of military promotions;
In farewell to arms, Milley joins in stressing Constitution as touchstone of American life, noting that American soldiers swear oath neither to a dictator nor to a ”wannabe dictator”;
Looming expropriation of fraudulent oligarch could have ramifications in many directions; Voters should brace for further tantrums;
As shutdown looms, 21 crazed House sectarians torpedo McCarthy’s short-term spending bill with 30% spending cuts, demanding even more killer austerity; Trump wants shutdown to promote chaos, paralyze courts, and smash the state;
MAGA on the wrong side of history: violent reactionary anarchists seek to roll back modern state into dark ages oligarchy, aborting process that began in Italy in 1300s;
UAW President Fain starts long-overdue discussion of class as auto workers fight for labor rights;
Breaking: WaPo reports anti-McCarthy putsch plot by MAGA extremists to install Majority Whip Tom Emmer, seen as more likely to deliver killer cuts
TECHNICAL NOTE: We’re aware of the audio problems in this week’s recording. It has been addressed for future episodes
Surveys of scores of 2023 state-level special elections show Democrats overperforming recent results by 8% to 10%; Tired demagogy of inflation and Biden’s age falls flat with voters: UNH-CNN poll shows Biden leading Trump 52% to 40% in New Hampshire, with 94% of Democrats committed to voting for Biden;
Garland’s duty is to defend US government against going fascist assault, not to curate his own inflated reputation for rectitude; Indictment of Hunter Biden reeks of dirty politics of bothsidesism Garland could stop if he wanted to;
Biden pledges vital ATACM missiles and $325 million to Zelensky; White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients must now assure rapid delivery; Ukraine hits Russian naval HQ for Crimea in Sevastopol; Is Russia on verge of a new warlord era?
After demanding end of US Constitution and pledging to have DoJ arrest opponents, Trump orders House MAGAts to paralyze government and stop his prosecution by Feds; reactionary anarchists rush to obey; Qevin sabotages support for Kyiv, but Ukrainian APCs are now operating south of Surovikhin line; Putin continues to bet everything on Trump’s return to power;
Ramaswampy demands scrapping of XIV Amendment, fruit of Union sacrifice in Civil War; Haley and Scott spearhead GOP scab attack on striking UAW; Don’t be a chump for Trump, no matter what he promises;
Musk probed by Senate committees over taxes and his Starlink sabotage of Ukraine’s defense measures in occupied Crimea; The erratic billionaire says he wants a modern American version of Lucius Cornelius Sulla, the bloody-handed leader of the oligarchical party in the late Roman Republic c. 80 BC who started and won a civil war, becoming the gravedigger of the republic; What are we to make of this strange remark?
President supports UAW strike against selected Big Three plants in Michigan-Missouri-Ohio, noting that record profits must lead to record contracts; He sends Secretary of Labor Julie Su and White House adviser Gene Sperling to Detroit to promote fair solution; Sen. Peters walks picket line; Biden backs union view that auto executives must share the bounty reflected in their salaries of $20 million per year plus;
Anti-tax hysteria of oligarchs explains much of absurd anti-Biden propaganda by corrupt corporate media;
MAGA GOP revealed by impeachment and shutdown demands as moribund anti-Constitution gang of extreme right-wing anarchists intent on destroying US government; Hurry them down the path to oblivion trod by the Federalists c. 1820;
Best legal experts agree: NEVER in recorded judicial history of US have federal courts prosecuted inaccurate statement on gun purchase papers as a stand-alone felony; Weiss indictment of Hunter Biden represents sleazy prosecutorial misconduct as triple jeopardy and selective, vindictive, and malicious accusations; case is politically motivated overkill in service of MAGA; Comer’s ”whistleblowers” are disgruntled misfits;
Jack Smith asks Judge Chutkan to stop Trump’s slanders and threats to judge, prosecutor, jurors, and court officers in upcoming January 6 election interference trial;
Is White House chief of staff Jeff Zients filling the bill? Questions multiply;
New Axis of Aggression formed by weakened Putin and Kim, with Xi as silent partner and all striving to restore Trump to power to wreck US and NATO; Zelensky to visit Washington; German Foreign Minister Baerbock slams Putin and Xi; Sanctions vs Russia are working; Thrust towards Tokmak gains ground, with Russian supply line almost within range; Ukrainians destroy two major Russian warships, smaller patrol craft, naval repair facility, ball bearing plant, and high-priced S-400 air defense system; Top officials in China and Russia keep disappearing; Chechen pro-consul Kadyrov gravely ill;
Happy New Year to those celebrating Rosh Hashanah!
Russia is already spreading confidential information about Atlanta trial over the dark web; Prigozhin had confirmed that Russia has meddled, is meddling, and will meddle in US democracy, validating Mueller report despite MAGA lies;
Ukrainian forces advance south towards Tokmak on road to Sea of Azov, a point at which artillery interdiction of Russia’s east-west rail and road supply line will become feasible;
Musk, brazenly usurping exclusive presidential powers over foreign policy, cut off Starlink access last year to sabotage Ukrainian attack on Russian Black Sea fleet that would have prevented missile slaughter of civilians and kept grain supplies moving; Vigorous application of Defense Production Act and Logan Act is urgent;
CNN sample for latest anti-Biden poll contained 60% Republicans, raising myriad suspicions;
As her price for funding government, MAGA pasionaria MTG demands impeachment of Biden, defunding DoJ, no Covid vaccine or masks, and betrayal of Ukraine to appease Putin; Tuberville cripples US chain of command; Our nation can dispense with such disloyal opposition;
MAGA GOP dissolving into Texas-style warring factions and lack of funds; Jack Smith is following the money; Pro-Trump dupes reduced by 700 years of jail time exacted from January 6 insurrectionists;
Breaking: Mark Meadows bid to move his RICO case to federal court rejected by federal judge, sinking his hopes for immunity; White House has no role in administering state elections; Trump & Co. options for evading Fani Willis dwindle!
Despite wretched defeatism of controlled corporate media, defenders register ”notable progress” against invaders over last 72 hours; Large Russian anti-tank ditch now within striking distance south of Robotyne; West Point Professor Jan Kallberg writes that ”victory is closer than you think”; Time to deliver armored vehicle launched assault bridges to Kiev;
Neoliberal ideologue Larry Summers freaks out over Bidenomics, says he’s ”profoundly concerned by the doctrine of manufacturing-centered economic nationalism that is increasingly being put forth as a general principle to guide policy,” in contrast to policies of Clinton and Obama; Summers doesn’t like compulsory labor standards built into federal funding, and views offshoring of 10,000 US factories as a golden age;
For Labor Day, White House proposes raising eligibility wage level for overtime pay rates to $55,000 per year;
If he wants to fight immiseration and despair, singer Oliver Anthony should support Biden’s anti-globalization revolution in trade and industrial policy, the only detailed reform plan that goes beyond crass platitudes;
State officials across US are evaluating throwing Trump off their presidential ballots based on XIV Amendment’s section 3, participation in rebellion;
Success of US system requires constitutional democracy with due process and representative government; But a rising standard of living is also indispensable, in line with FDR’s dictum that needy people cannot be free people; Biden gets it;
Conviction of Trump would deprive Putin of any hope of prevailing in Ukraine through US betrayal of Kyiv; defeat of Putin can dissuade Xi from aggression while isolating North Korea and Iran;
Getting right with Lincoln at the start of a decisive world historical year.
84 years ago, Hitler attacked Poland under cover of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, starting World War II in Europe.
Three Trump co-defendants allege he ordered their misdeeds, foreshadowing flipping to come;
Activating Fourteenth Amendment ban on insurrectionists holding federal office rapidly gains prestigious bipartisan support from scholars and elected officials; Need legal action now by states to banish Don from ballot well before primary voting starts in January 2024;
Prigozhinshchina ends as homicidal monster and his top staffers fall victim to assassination Putin’s secret police; Wagner mercenary units, Putin’s Foreign Legion, decapitated and in disarray; Prigozhin’s epitaph is statement admitting that there was no NATO threat to Russia on eve of February 2022 invasion-an embarrassing fact for Mearsheimer, Chomsky, RFK Jr., Wagenknecht and other avid appeasers;
Ukrainian forces capture Robotyne on road to Melitopol and Sea of Azov, widening the breach in the first Russian defense line; Repeated strikes on Moscow and targets inside Russia; Debate on how many axes of attack are optimal;
BRICS may be viewed as a pressure group, a propaganda agency, a school of rhetoric, a brand of nostalgia, or a photo op, but they are incapable of joint action: no joint currency to challenge US dollar and no moral standing as they support the butcher of Ukraine who is making them starve;
GOP debate shows absolute depravity of this moribund party;
60 years since Martin Luther King’s ”I have a dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial;
Trump’s rogue’s gallery photo depicts cornered kingpin snarling into the abyss.
Fani Willis’ landmark fourth indictment of Trump and 18 accused RICO accomplices hailed as most aggressive prosecutorial response to the shameful chapter of January 6; Clear potential exists for GOP extinction; Justice delayed is justice denied;
Judges must impose zero tolerance for death threats to courts, juries, and witnesses, no matter who the perpetrator;
Biden joins with leaders of Japan and South Korea at Camp David to proclaim new tripartite Pacific Charter to deter CCP, DPRK, and Russia;
Trump wants to postpone answering January 6 charges until April 2026, otherwise known as the Twelfth of Never;
WaPo showcases defeatist voices on Ukraine offensive from inside Pentagon: They may be holdovers from the Kashyap Patel-Gen. Charles Flynn era; US must expedite delivery of ATACMs and F-16s to interdict Kerch bridge and four other spans, cutting supplies for invaders; Convoys with NATO escorts on Black Sea are needed at once to guarantee grain shipments to stop genocide in Africa;
Prof. Robert Reich brands Trump as worse than authoritarian: ”He is a fascist!”; Attention to class nature of fascism in supporting oligarchy proves essential;
Breaking: Trump attorney Cheseboro identified at Capitol on January 6, linking insurrection dupes with MAGA bigwigs; Don plans to snub GOP’s Milwaukee primary debate on Wednesday and instead play softball with Tucker Carlson; NBC News reports Trump will surrender at Fulton County jail next Thursday or Friday
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