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The Myth of the Free Market

How some liberals/neo-Keynesians are digging to justify why governments should play a big role in the economy. A ‘new’ form of capitalism is a necessary in order to get out of the crisis and prevent any possible social unrest.  What 2008/09 and the pandemic have demonstrated is that monopoly capitalism has to change for the system to survive. That Biden, for example, has introduced a big stimulus package and revoked Trump’s cuts in corporate tax reflects the uneasiness of the ruling classes and that a few things have to be done. The Woman Who ‘Shattered the Myth ’

HRW’s Report on the Israeli Occupation

A very belated report by Human Rights Watch. Let’s read it and see how much ‘antisemitism’ in it! “ Laws, policies, and statements by leading Israeli officials make plain that the objective of maintaining Jewish Israeli control over demographics, political power, and land has long guided government policy. In pursuit of this goal, authorities have dispossessed, confined, forcibly separated, and subjugated Palestinians by virtue of their identity to varying degrees of intensity. In certain areas, as described in this report, these deprivations are so severe that they amount to the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution.” Israel called into account A Threshold Crossed :  Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution

Standing up to Censorship

One Man Protest at Google, London