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Mark Watson retweeted
The reason the mainstream media is so angry about the Green Party talking about economic issues is because they would like to pretend the Green Party is a little fringe group of middle-class voters who want to save the trees.
Turns out the Green Party wants to save society too.
Mark Watson retweeted
We want the UK Government to launch an inquiry into any British involvement in Israeli operations in Gaza.
This petition is so close to the 100,000 needed to be considered for a debate in Parliament.
Please sign & share - let's get it over the line!
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Mark Watson retweeted
Israel is BLOCKING humanitarian aid from Gaza
Israel is BLOCKING international journalists from Gaza
WHY ARE YOU SILENT @andyburnham @Ed_Miliband?
AND when will you report the GENOCIDE in Gaza without fear or favour @BBCNews?
Mark Watson retweeted
I know many of us have our reservations re the Greens because of all the traitors who sold us out in Labour but listening to Zack Polanski, I can’t see he is going to backtrack on his beliefs that the Israelis are carrying out a genocide. I think it’s time to back him.
Mark Watson retweeted
See BELOW
I live in the UK
The UK HAS A RESPONSIBILITY
WHAT are you doing @andyburnham @Ed_Miliband?
What would you do if this was happening in France or Italy or anywhere where the people look like us?
DO THAT NOW
Mark Watson retweeted
Caravans into Gaza NOW.
Caravans into Gaza NOW.
Caravans into Gaza NOW.
Caravans into Gaza NOW.
Caravans into Gaza NOW.
Caravans into Gaza NOW.
Mark Watson retweeted
For last 24 hours I’ve seen footage of horrific scenes from Gaza, just absolute human misery. Yet..it’s not there on any news outlet’s home pages, not discussed on our witless political shows. We’re just going to ignore it? Is that the plan?
Mark Watson retweeted
@Ed_Miliband and @andyburnham WHAT are you doing about Gazans starving and weeping in the rain? Your silence is a crime against humanity.
Mark Watson retweeted
🇬🇧 “Is it now the Labour position that a genocide is not racist?”
Green Party leader Zack Polanski confronted Conservative and Labour politicians at the London Assembly on Thursday after Conservative Susan Hall introduced a motion condemning the Greens’ decision to define Zionism as racism.
Hall called the Green Party’s position “abhorrent” and argued it threatened Jewish Londoners.
Polanski, who is Jewish, accused Hall of weaponizing antisemitism and challenged Labour members over their government’s continued military support for Israel amid the genocide in Gaza.
The Assembly passed Hall’s motion 19–3, with just the three Green members voting against it.
Mark Watson retweeted
The BBC’s veteran World Affairs Editor has made a remarkable discovery: Israel’s strategy is ethnic cleansing and land theft.
I hope the BBC is paying him well. It takes real investigative talent to uncover these things.
Mark Watson retweeted
Hi @bbclaurak,
Zionism has resulted in the bombing of children & the killing of tens of thousands of innocent people in Gaza.
Again - the actual controversy is the Labour Government are arming that & the BBC 'debate' if it's racist.
How's that for answering the question?
Mark Watson retweeted
How it works:
In 1988 Foreign Office minister David Mellor MP described conditions in Gaza as "shocking and inhuman", "an affront to civilised values" and confronted the IDF in public.
His career ended when secretly taken recordings of his sex life were published in the media.
Mark Watson retweeted
Bullshit.
Nationalise them, you coward.
Mark Watson retweeted
Let's be precise about what the Epstein network actually was.
Not a "sex scandal." Not a tabloid story about a weird billionaire and his famous friends. Not a trafficking case in the sanitized, clinical language that makes it sound like a logistics problem.
It was a blackmail infrastructure for the ruling class.
Epstein didn't accumulate powerful men by accident. He accumulated them by design.
The private island. The private jet logs. The hidden cameras. The underage girls.
This was an intelligence operation.
A systematic, decades-long project to compromise the people who run governments, banks, media companies, universities, and courts.
And when he was arrested the second time, when it was finally impossible to make it disappear:
He died in federal custody.
Suicide, they said.
In a cell where the cameras malfunctioned.
With guards who had both fallen asleep.
After his previous suicide attempt had already put him on watch status.
The medical examiner hired by his brother found evidence consistent with homicide. The official medical examiner ruled it suicide.
And the name list, the full, unredacted list of everyone Epstein brought to that island and those houses and those parties, remains sealed.
Protected by the same judicial system that is supposed to protect you.
This is not a conspiracy theory.
The documents, the flight logs, the depositions, the testimony, all of it is real, much of it is public, and what it shows is a power structure that protects itself from accountability at every level.
The people on that list run your country.
They run your media.
They run your courts.
They are still running everything.
And they will call you a "conspiracy theorist" for noticing.
Mark Watson retweeted
Ok, enough time has passed since the US elections for us to gently move beyond the liberal self-congratulatory burlesque, and deal in some harsh, cold truths. Here is my version of where we stand right now (which I may or may not share in a few months as an 'I told you'):
1. The US elections is a sideshow to the war in Iran and the turmoil in Europe. The empire has not been canceled, the Pentagon has not been dissolved and no one was fired at the CIA or any other shadowy agency. The progressive achievement symbolizes good general trends, but it is strictly a symbol. Actual power has not been transferred or qualified in any way.
2. The Democratic Party has 3 principal commitment:
A. Israel
B. The Democratic Party apparatus
C. The two-party system (aka the status quo)
First, the Democratic Party is Israel. It is run by Zionists at every level, everywhere in the US. To maintain their control, these Zionists now need to
- Separate Zionism from 'the Israeli government'
- Co-opt the Palestinian cause and make it about 'the two-state solution' and 'settler violence' once again. This will give Israel enough time to ethnically cleanse Palestine completely till Republicans win power again.
To support Israel in the current atmosphere they need to pretend to embrace some of the criticism ('it is sad when Palestinians suffer and die') while denying and nullifying its essence (Zionism is a great evil that must be eradicated in the name of humanity).
Zionists own and operate the Democratic Party. They will continue to support Israel. And, while we're at it, what they are most likely to do is finance and expand a war that the Republicans started.
After many soldiers die and West Asia becomes destabilized, the war will be about the future of the world and the region, and Democrats will be used to fake a wider (fake reluctant) American consensus for it. A big painful false flag or two will definitely help.
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The Democratic Party apparatus does not want to become too popular: it is too much responsibility. So they will aim for losing, compromising and failing while having a fake robust debate. This is how they keep the apparatus strong and sheltered from both expectations criticism.
This is also how they prevent the possibility of serious action against Israel.
Additionally, by making the Republicans look stronger than they really are, they paint their uselessness in heroic hues. Which leads us to the next part.
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In the two-party system, the two sides are always needed to maintain the false impression of a healthy and natural pendulum swing. So the Democrats will do their best to look stupid and disconnected on a couple of key issues to keep the Republican brand alive and Americans caught in the grasp of the system, which is mainly done by always giving one segment of society the false hope of change through the system in the future (forever alternating between Democrats and Republicans for just enough people so that no one side is actually ever responsible or accountable for anything).
The fake promise is the heart of the American political system (and the American experiment in general).
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The Democrats exist to maintain the status quo on all issues. The main tools in its disposal are deceit and manipulation (cooptation, pretend solidarity, feigned ignorance, fake empathy, flattery, playing both sides, distraction, obfuscation, misrepresentation and so on). Expect a ton of those, as the radical tones of election day give way to fake sobriety and the intricate needs of the process and the standards and traditions (yada yada).
3. Democrats will continue to serve the long-term interests of the empire, corporate America and Israel - all wrapped in just enough partisan lingo to keep liberals the right mix of deluded, angry and afraid to do or demand nothing concrete while remaining committed to the party. This is all they need to do to maintain their power, and all they care about. And this is what Israel and their corporate owners push them to do as well.
4. For Trump, this is an ideal scenario: he was at once removed from all responsibility for the state of the USA. Whatever gets fucked from now on will be blamed of the Democrats (a game they willfully participate in to keep the two-party deceit going).
Now he is free to do what he enjoys: play bully and victim, and create noise and distractions by constantly fighting with everyone and using his platform to insult them and deflect from his failures, all while enjoying the generous attention and coverage the Democrat-controlled media space will continue to afford him as part of the big deception.
The coming economic crises will be blamed on the Democrats and their obstructionism: many supposed liberal pundits will support this view - again, to keep the lie going.
Trump has two main goals for the rest of his term:
A. Create a big mess the Democrats will not be able to solve, which will make the Republicans looking good in a couple of years. A war with Iran could be just that (and if that sounds absurd, remember Trump himself ran on ending wars that another Republican president started, and Democrats continued: the same could happen again in 6 years with another Trump after Democrats, shockingly (!) choose to continue the war/s).
B. Amass enough money for himself and his kids to never be bothered again by anyone.
And also have fun making a mockery of everything and everyone - which the Democrats will help him with, for reasons I already explained.
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Real life is about to bring this fuzzy phase to an abrupt and likely violent end. After that, we'll have the same old, only dumber and faker.
Nothing happened but an indication of a trend. Power-wise, this means absolutely nada.
Liberals are hopeful, but not even as hopeful as they were when Obama was elected. We all know what happened next.
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Only Iran can save the US, and that's by handing it a catastrophic, traumatic defeat. Everything else is cosmetics: easily nippable buds.
Nothing has changed yet.
Mark Watson retweeted
It’s a long read. But well worth it. Well done Dan.
Mark Watson retweeted
The Bank of England has raised interest rates to 4%, supposedly to tackle inflation.
There is just one problem with this decision. The Bank knows that much of the inflation we are suffering is being driven by rising oil and energy prices, largely resulting from conflict in the Middle East.
It also knows that raising interest rates cannot reduce those prices.
So why is it doing this?
The answer is that the Bank believes it must suppress demand elsewhere in the economy to compensate for rising energy costs.
In other words, it is deliberately making mortgages more expensive, increasing business borrowing costs, discouraging investment and reducing household spending power.
And all this when people are already struggling with higher energy bills. That is problem number one.
There is, however, another problem. Higher interest rates increase costs for businesses, which can then feed through into higher prices. They can, in that case, add to inflation rather than reduce it.
The Bank is imposing economic pain to address a problem its chosen policy cannot directly solve.
That is not sound economic management. It is the consequence of an economic dogma that refuses to recognise the difference between inflation caused by excessive demand and inflation caused by supply shocks.
When will we learn?
Mark Watson retweeted
The Democrats may have taken control of the House and the Senate, they may have humiliated Donald Trump and the Republican Party, but the real fight is only beginning. It is not simply a battle to hold the corrupt Trump regime to account, something that can only be done if the Democrats are willing overcome their reluctance to carry out impeachment proceedings against the president. It is also a battle to sweep away the corporate-indentured hierarchy of the Democratic Party, including Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries.
The Democratic Party since the presidency of Bill Clinton, who gave us the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the greatest betrayal of the working class since the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, and gutted New Deal-era welfare programs such as the Aid to Families with Dependent Children, is a more polished version of corporate and oligarchic rule, abjectly subservient to the war machine, the Israel lobby and their funders in the billionaire class.
The country is broken. Corruption, in both parties, is endemic. Federal agencies have been hollowed out and destroyed. The courts, including the Supreme Court, have been handed over to right-wing ideologues. The working class is crippled with debt peonage and substandard wages. Constitutional norms and protections have been erased. Billionaires, including Trump, pay little to no income tax. The 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court ruling, which allows big business to fund their hand-picked candidates, sustains a system of legalized bribery.
The public may clamor for a raise in the minimum wage, Medicare for All, regulation of the big banks and private equity firms, an end to arms shipments to Israel and campaign finance reform, but no one in the leadership of the Democratic Party listens or cares. They serve their paymasters.
Will cutthroat capitalism, sold to us under the sanitized name of neoliberalism, be allowed to continue to impoverish the citizenry and funnel wealth upwards into the hands of the 1 percent? Will corporations be regulated and policed? Will corporate criminals be brought to trial? Will our democracy be restored? Or will the grotesque sight of a trillionaire, Elon Musk, gutting federal agencies and pouring hundreds of millions into elections to try and control the outcome be normalized?
The handful of politicians who attempt to confront the corruption and the devastation visited on the American working class through deindustrialization and deregulation, such as Bernie Sanders, see their campaigns sabotaged by the Democratic Party leadership, including Barack Obama.
We must demand that progressive candidates, including Michigan senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed and Maine’s Troy Jackson, build coalitions to oust the Democratic Party leadership, raise the minimum wage, enact universal health care, prosecute corporate crime and impeach Trump. It will be up to us.
The Democratic Party hierarchy will see the results not as a repudiation of Trump, but an endorsement of the flaccid and ineffectual position of a party that stands for little and fights for less. This would be yet another betrayal by the Democrats of voters. It would keep alive the very real prospect of another fascist, one better organized and more intelligent, taking the White House in two years.
Of course, this fight will mean not only jettisoning a corrupt Democratic Party leadership, but turning on the mega-donors, lobbyists and corporations that fund and control the Democratic Party.
The effort to wrest the party back from the hands of corporations and oligarchs will be vicious and difficult. It will require us to rely on the power of mass movements to sever these bonds. Nothing else will work.
If we fail, our anemic democracy will not be saved by these midterm elections, but doomed.
