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Flurry of articles and broadcasts now discusses looming threat of fascism, although in-depth historical understanding of Mussolini and Hitler is often inadequate; Nazi enabling act of March 1933 set up dictatorship by allowing Hitler to rule by decree and approve treaties without parliament (Reichstag) and to violate the Weimar constitution;
MAGA saboteurs in House Traitorville block funding for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and border personnel; New questions about possible Russian influence on Speaker; Probe MAGA Mike for his obstruction of blurring faces; Why have Garland and Smith not indicted the GOP Congress members complicit in Trump’s January 6 coup?
With ouster of Santos, departure of Qevin, and other changes, House MAGA majority could soon dwindle to a single vote; Dems must prepare for quick and decisive motion to vacate the chair making Hakeem Jeffries the new Speaker, and then repeal the ”debt limit”;
To restore order in House, Garland must enforce federal law against 4 MAGA scofflaws who defied subpoenas from January 6 committee and investigate the half dozen who wanted pardons from Trump; House members must respect their oaths of office;
Israeli Ambassador Pincas denounces Netanyahu’s plan to activate infamous Breakaway Ally scenario, attempting to dump the opprobrium of his own failures on US and Biden; US should promote ouster of desperate demagogue Bibi and his coalition of fascist settlers;
US veto of UNSC ceasefire resolution is tragic blunder leaving this country isolated; Biden must urgently shift policy to favor armistice; US airlift needed to saturate Gaza with humanitarian supplies at rate of 250 truckloads per day, on scale of Berlin airlift;
Hunter Biden is targeted with draconian indictments for many of same offenses for which Trump ally Roger Stone got off scot free;
With 199,00 new jobs in November, Bidenomics racks up new record of 14 million jobs created so far during presidency!
Netanyahu brags to supporters of his ability to manipulate and dupe US public opinion;
State Department readies travel ban for armed fascist settlers of the Smotrich-Ben Gvir faction seeking US visas; Save the next rejection slip for Netanyahu!
US, UK, EU should fast track an Emergency International Peace Conference on the model of Madrid 1992 to enact a solution based on two sovereign states;
US media omit the late Henry Kissinger’s implication in the 1977 demise of Italian PM Aldo Moro; Moro’s widow said Henry had threatened her husband; Kissinger’s China card has boomeranged into today’s greatest threat to future of US; He presided with Nixon over the August 15 1971 wrecking of the Bretton Woods currency system, triggering decades of parasitical speculation; The 1971 Tilt crisis, which threatened to expand an Indo-Pakistani war into a US-USSR nuclear confrontation while 3 million died in Bengal; His role in Vietnam, Cambodia, Chile, the 1973 Kippur War; His brief interlude advising the JFK White House; How he set the stage for the Watergate Plumbers; The passing of a cynical nihilist and Spenglerian pessimist;
June 1990: Secretary of State James Baker reads the riot act to shifty, duplicitous Israeli PM and Netanyahu/Likud precursor Shamir over his refusal to start a peace process with Palestinians-a memorable example!
Netanyahu, Gallant, Smotrich, Bengvir & Co. bitterly insisted on endless war until Biden shut down Bibi’s impossible conditions;
Next task is to render ceasefire permanent, with abundant humanitarian aid, followed by release of all hostages on all sides;
When messianic Israeli warmongers demand resumption of bombing & killing, they must face the veto of US, EU, Arab League, & civilized world; Concerns about Hamas bigwigs are legit & can be handled by Mossad’s well-known traditional methods of targeted assassinations by highly trained hit teams and countergangs as frequently seen over decades; Never forget that some 60 hostages alleged by Israel have already been slain by relentless IDF carpet bombing; Where are the Americans?
Grave danger now is provocations to sabotage ceasefire carried out by armed fascist settlers in West Bank areas;
World public opinion must press for immediate convocation of an Emergency International Peace Conference with agenda of lasting armistice, world humanitarian mobilization, two-state solution, economic reconstruction & development;
Fratricidal progressive sectarians in US must turn away from irresponsible rhetoric; As Biden notes, starting with nothing but demands for ceasefire might never have produced such progress as has been attained;
Arab-Americans & youth foolishly threatening to desert Biden next year must also contemplate Trump’s likely program of giant concentration camps, massive deportations, & endless anti-immigrant raids, with Moslems & Arabs obviously among priority targets; RFK will be nothing but a spoiler & otherwise irrelevant, and is anyway backing Bibi to the hilt;
Extensive think-tank planning underlines that crushing MAGA fascist dictatorship will be on the ballot next November; Persons of good will must fight it out for freedom on this line over the next twelve months;
Failure to support Biden at this rendez-vous with destiny will disgrace anyone’s biography, as per Friedrich Schiller’s 1786 prophecy ”World history is the world court”!
The parable of Palestinian diplomat Issam Sartawi (1935-1983) and the terrorist countergang Abu Nidal, the precursor of Hamas.
Echo of Hitler’s rhetoric finally breaks media reluctance to condemn MAGA fascism;
Outburst follows raving threats to suspend Constitution, deploy Department of Justice to indict political adversaries, impose citizen’s arrest of prosecutors, and exact ”retribution”; 60 years after Dallas assassination, recalling Weimar pattern of defeated putschists morphing into the political assassins of the Consul Organization;
Over 75 think tanks, law firms, and quackademics prepare plans for replacing constitutional government with MAGA dictatorship; Likely measures include activation of Insurrection Act on January 20 2024, end of Civil Service system, government packed with MAGA hacks and cretins, killer austerity and deregulation, no birthright citizenship, no XIV Amendment, sweeping and continuous anti-immigrant raids, giant concentration camps, mass deportations, and unitary executive under Gleichschaltung of centralized control, including states; Garland and Wray must get ahead of this conspiracy by launching a task force investigation NOW!
In summit with Xi, Biden successfully implements One War at a Time strategy to keep Xi out of Ukraine (the central issue now) and away from Taiwan; Weakened Chinese dictator faces demographic cliff, labor shortage, bankrupt real estate sector, youth joblessness, slowing growth, exit of factories, declining foreign investments, reduced growth rate; Military communication promotes deconfliction to rule out war by miscalculation; Anti-fentanyl efforts can mitigate deadly opioid epidemic;
Ukraine liberates more territory on east bank of Dneiper River, keeping initiative by opening new path to free Crimea; 48% of Russians said to want an end to war; Russian draftees prepare protest demonstrations for Sunday, November 19;
Sec Def Austin warns Israelis not to provoke wider war with Hezbollah and Iran, alluding to Netanyahu’s notorious plan to embroil US in conflict; Israel threatens to bomb all of Gaza, despite assurances to refugees; Allegations of secret terrorist HQ under Shiva Hospital remain wholly unproven as Gaza death toll nears 12,000, including 5,000 children; Israeli opposition leader Lapid issues his first call for Netanyahu to step down as prime minister, marking a watershed; Macron of France calls for CEASEFIRE in Gaza;
Soution to crisis requires a ceasefire to enable an Emergency International Peace Conference to launch humanitarian aid, postwar reconstruction and development, and the two-state solution with an independent sovereign state under the Palestinian Authority as demanded by Biden;
Billionaires deploy phalanx of third-party fakers to replicate Weimar landscape of forty political parties against Biden to elect Trump and end democracy!
Breaking: Fani Willis requests August 6 start date for Georgia RICO election interference trial; MAGA lawyers howl!
Corporate pollsters continue to use bankrupt and corrupt Red Tsunami methods to brainwash, disorient, demoralize, gaslight, deceive, and manipulate electorate in service of finance oligarchs, who are their owners; No more credence for such polls! Objective reality always preferable to radical subjectivism;
New York Times poll fiasco does yeoman service for Wall Street plutocrats who hate Biden as advocate of progressive taxation, unions, regulation, social safety net, and civilized progress; Lester Holt of NBC suggests that polls are metaphysically real, while real-world vote tallies are misleading! How much payola has been at work in failed and inaccurate polls of 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2023 ?
Strike wave supported by Biden is winning victories for workers, raising real wages, and bringing the globalization era to an end!
Trump announces plans to activate Insurrection Act on Inauguration Day for violent suppression of mass demonstrations to resist his odious dictatorial rule; A grotesque menagerie of monarchists, fascists, and assorted Nietzschean crackpots furnish ideology for MAGA incendiaries;
Pressure for ouster of Netanyahu is approaching critical mass as his failure to free hostages adds a new dimension of fiasco to his responsibility for October 7; Eminent diplomat Yossi Beilin endorses opposition leader Yair Lapid as replacement for Bibi capable of leading nation into two-state solution for peace;
Gaza death toll exceeds 10,000 as calls for ceasefire multiply worldwide; Arab governments warn US of dire political consequences;
Biden wants a multi-day bombing pause and the two-state solution, but Bibi is fighting to stay out of jail; In Tokyo, Blinken tells G-7 US demands no forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, no use of Gaza for terrorism, no reoccupation, no blockade or siege, no reduction of territory;
Deputy Premier of NATO and EU home base Belgium calls for sanctions against Israel for war crimes, including probe by International Criminal Court;
MAGA chaos in House as government shutdown is less than a week away: Bungling MAGA Mike fails twice to pass appropriation bills owing to conflicts inside GOP caucus;
Insane voices from inside a dying party: Scott wants attack on Iran, DeSantis talks like Duterte, Haley wants to exhume the full neocon endless war program;
105th anniversary of World War I armistice recalls wisdom of Lincoln’s great maxim of One War at a Time
With 9,000 dead Palestinians, US can no longer tolerate IDF atrocities; Settler fanatics Ben Gvir and Smotrich rule in Jerusalem, but Israel is bound by UN Charter, UN Declaration of Human Rights and Geneva Conventions; US political ground shifting rapidly in favor of Gaza ceasefire as Durbin, Murphy, and Sanders demand bombing halt;
Biden reportedly sees at most a few months of political survival for defendant Bibi, resented by voters for his dictatorial plans and abject intel and military debacles; US eyes Gantz, Lapid, and Bennett to form next government;
After Oct. 7, Biden’s goals had to be avoiding mass deportations of Palestinians into the Sinai and Transjordan deserts or the use of nuclear weapons, while maintaining alliances intact; Priority now to increase humanitarian deliveries, save hostages and free foreign citizens from Gaza captivity;
Fourteenth Amendment embodies Lincoln’s New Birth of Freedom and the Second American Revolution; It must be applied to remove Trump from all state ballots across the nation for blatant MAGA insurrection;
Tlaib and other fratricidal ultralefts foolishly want to punish Biden for Gaza tragedy: their tactics help only Bibi’s friend Trump, whose hostility to Palestinians is sinister and limitless; No calamity coming out of the Middle East can exceed the threat to humanity posed by a Trump-MAGA dictatorship in US, so vote accordingly;
MAGA Mike’s theocratic attack on the Gelasian foundation of western civilization in the distinction between political-military and spiritual and political-military powers i.e. between church and state; Security alert: with such a figure two heartbeats away from the Presidency, pay special attention to reports that MAGA campaign slogan is now ”Come retribution,” the Confederate code word for the plot to assassinate Lincoln!
UN General Assembly demands immediate, durable, and sustained humanitarian truce by large majority; US humiliated as part of minority of 14 in embarrassing defeat for Blinken’s misguided diplomacy; Thoughts and prayers not good enough;
Biden must veto further Israeli attacks and blockade in the name of some 20 US hostages and 600 Palestinian Americans he is pledged to protect, lest they needlessly perish; Hamas claims 50 hostages already slain by bombing;
IDF escalates attacks from air and land; Deed done in dark of night with no phones, no internet, no visibility; Iran issues threats and warnings; 82% of Americans are wary of Bibi’s war; Israelis now 50-50 on more attacks;
Tragic history of strategic blank checks, featuring German Kaiser’s infamous blank check to Austria-Hungary in July 1914, which played a key role in triggering World War I with 20 million dead;
Palestinian dead near 8,000; For danger of wider war, watch Israeli border with Hezbollah/Lebanon and Strait of Hormuz;
Dear Abby’s grandson wants to challenge Biden in New Hampshire; RFK Jr.’s backers attempt to rehabilitate appeaser of fascism and coward Joseph P. Kennedy as peace angel and precursor of his illustrious grandson;
What fresh hell: Meet austerity ghoul MAGA Mike Johnson, the sinister fanatic who is now just two heartbeats away from the presidency! Trump legal defense front disintegrates as Meadows joins anti-Don defectors;
Bidenomics generates stunning 4.9% rise in GDP; Labor renaissance continues with UAW contract for 25% wage hike, cost of living escalator, thanks to political strike support!
If Biden is not sure of Palestinian death count, fire White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients, responsible for managing intelligence flow to President!
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?
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