cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1786089

Ajamu Baraka just does not miss. Some choice excerpts from these musings (though I exhort you to read the article yourself):

It is important to keep in mind that the foundation for Russiagate was erected on the repressive legislative superstructure under the Bush and Obama Administrations. The result? Today, opposition is systematically criminalized in the U.S. The indictments of the Uhuru 3 for opposing Ukraine war, charges of domestic terrorism and conspiracy in the fight against Cop-City, and the ongoing attempts to extradite Julian Assange represent the consolidation and normalization of bipartisan totalitarian power.

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There is something to what I call the psychopathology of white supremacy. It is a “racialized narcissistic cognitive disorder that centers so-called white people’s and European civilization and renders the afflicted with an inability to perceive objective reality in the same way as others. This affliction is not reducible to the race of so-called whites but can affect all those who have come in contact with the ideological and cultural mechanisms of the Pan-European colonial project.”

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Sanders demonstrates why he was revealed as the sheepdog that he was. He was never committed to struggling for real power in the democrat party. That is why he sold out his supporters and surrendered. Sanders is nothing more than an opportunist democrat and a fraud.

Posted here, because y'know what? Climate change is an issue that the whole globe will have to deal with if these sociopathic Amerikan energy execs aren't handled.

“No more drilling on federal lands. Period.^1^ Period.^2^ Period.^3^ Period.^4^” --Joe Biden February 9, 2020

(^1^ lies, ^2^ more lies, ^3^ damnable lies, ^4^ farce)

The duopoly’s good cop/bad cop routine is quite predictable. Republicans pledge to drill for oil and proclaim their disdain for environmental concerns by opting out of international climate accords. Democrats join the climate accords and claim they will work towards a fossil free future, as Biden did during his 2020 campaign. But once in office they do what Republicans do. The U.S. is now producing a record 12.8 million barrels of oil per day , more than any other nation. Democrats are the worst liars in this regard, as they are well aware that their voters want action on the environment, but their bread is buttered by big oil.

But the corporate uniparty's two kayfabe-assed wrestling divisions aren't rawdogging us the exact same way, right? Mmmmh.

Biden has issued more permits for oil drilling on federal land than Donald Trump did. He approved the Willow Project on federal lands in Alaska, a project which is estimated to produce more than 239 million metric tons of greenhouse gasses over the project’s 30-year life.

But, 'vote blue no matter who', right? Mmmmh.

The much vaunted Inflation Reduction Act , presented as a path to a fossil free future, actually ties renewable energy programs to oil and gas drilling. The IRA prohibits leasing of federal lands and waters for renewable energy projects such as wind and solar, unless the government has offered at least 2 million acres of public land and 60 million acres in federal waters for oil and gas leasing during the prior year. Any environmental benefits are outweighed by acquiescence to corporate interests that are jeopardizing all life on the planet.

But the only way we can save the country and save our 'democracy'(fuckin lmao) is if we throw away our ballots on the same people charbroiling the planet, right? Mmmmh.

Not only has Biden backtracked on campaign promises, but U.S. inclusion in the Paris climate accords doesn’t amount to very much. The Paris Agreement makes reporting on military CO2 production voluntary. NATO member nations may report on their CO2 emissions but NATO-led operations and training exercises are excluded from any reporting.

Okay, that one's not a surprise. The west would sooner collectively Christ-Bearer themselves than give up their toys of mass war crime, or provide any kind of meaningful transparency on said toys.

The fact of the matter is, everything we're doing regarding energy is entirely unsustainable; and I'm honestly at a point where if we can't disarm and pop our collective mouth off the titty of crude oil and fossil fuel of our own volition, I don't have a single issue watching the country cave in on itself. Why should I humor your corrupt blue-ties when they'll cook the planet same as the Trump family cultists? Why should I believe in electoralism, when electoralism is what gave us this absolutely-fraudulent commissioner of skullduggery Biden?

We need a new way forward. An organized way forward. A powerful way forward. All with sense know what power doesn't grow out of.

The Africa Team of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and the U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) condemn the threats of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to lead a military intervention into Niger. We believe this would be an act of subservience to U.S./EU/NATO interests. As Western imperialism seems to be losing its neo-colonialist grip on Africa, it is trying to expand its use of puppets and proxies to undermine resistance.

No compromise; no retreat. Peace, y'all.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1057413

What do the Washington Post, Rainer Shea, and Youtube all have in common? Your first two guesses are free.

Now, I'm not going to say I particularly trust Dr. Cornel West-- I'd have to do more research into him as a person before I did as a candidate; but I do rather like the way this article draws up the settler-liberal efforts to sideline him the same way publications like BAR, or channels like BPM and RBN have been getting sidelined and silenced by Youtube.

The man whose politics have been described as fascistic, who has been labeled as the most racist president, is one whom they cannot defeat politically. That is because the Democratic Party isn’t really much different. And so they are at a loss as to how to secure victory without silencing anyone who might expose their fraudulence. So it is the liberal class which has led the fight to silence the left.

This conundrum explains why the Cornel West candidacy is so dangerous as are the outlets which allow him to speak about the issues that matter to millions of people, issues they’re told can’t be addressed. And so the corporate media and the liberal class join in condemning his candidacy. The Nation magazine, allegedly left, asks West to run as a Democrat, a sure way to be the latest sheepdog, the latest person to sacrifice the needs of millions of people to prop up what can’t be propped up. And that is why it is important to silence outlets like Black Power Media and Revolutionary Blackout Network. It is Black people who still keep the Democratic party together and who must be convinced that they can’t stray from its orthodoxy. (emphasis mine)

Black people who assert their rights to be sovereign and liberated have always been treated as enemies to be silenced or destroyed. Even enslaved people who sought to escape from bondage were labeled as sufferers of “drapetomania.” The effort to pathologize and stigmatize the fight for freedom never ended. To this very day Black liberation is diminished and discredited as being wrong headed or dangerous.

It continues to this day. We see it in the way the Uhuru House wasn't allowed to protest the war effort without literally getting raided and incarcerated as "Russian disinfo agents". We see it in the way that online settler-liberals can't help but slander any criticism as "bot farms". We see it in the way that when one of our Misleaders thrives on the malicious philanthropy of the settlers(*cough* CLARENCE *cough*), nothing resembling legal consequences ever seems to happen to them.

"Sell out to us and we'll uplift you, at the cost of your community". This is the byline of the Amerikan Dream offered to us. "Sell out to us, and you'll be comfortable. Sell out to us, and we won't send stochastic crackers to gun you down in broad daylight."

That's all it is. And when you don't comply, you're "a Russian" in need of silencing. In need of incarceration. In need of assassination.

The fear also explains why the forces arrayed against us continue their fight. Black liberation is dangerous to them. Anti-imperialism is dangerous to them. Challenging the political duopoly is dangerous to them. Allowing any counter narrative to thrive puts the system at risk.

I struggled for a couple minutes on how to end this; cause ending with a quote makes it feel like an eternal pause-- so I'm going to end it by telling you to get armed. Arm up, learn your tool, practice with it. The hard days are coming; and it's better to have and not need, than to need and not have.

What they fear is that the revolutionary nationalist will engage in the same savagery that has marked the European’s “national conquest”. They fear a reverse “Manifest Destiny” or the brown-black version of the “White Man’s Burden”.

Post this link the next time a settler starts getting buck around the concepts of self-determination. The only place I feel this article falls short is that it makes very little mention of our Indigenous comrades, who in many respects, have been dealt a much harsher hand in comparison to what we've gone through. Things that comrades here have given me pause on; with regard to concepts like the Black Belt Republic being a practical nonstarter given that's not even the settler's land, that was always someone else's.

While I see actual Panafricanism as a viable road for Black comrades, in Amerika at least, we can't forget that we're not the only ones wronged here; and any liberation we reach means nothing if it's not together with the other colonized subjects-of-empire on this landmass, is where I want to get off this soapbox.

I'm betting in the next couple weeks, someone's gonna try this over the MOVE bombing too, and I'll still be in the same state of fuckin' facepalm. Just once, I'd like to see the settlers own up to the fuckery they committed with their whole chests, like "Yeah, we did that; and it was fuckin wrong"-- but I'm not holding my breath.

This country will fall, balkanize, and fall again before the settlers admit any culpability.

While what [Morant] did is not illegal in the state of Tennessee, that is not the authority under which this penalty comes. The NBA Players Association collectively bargained to give the league a great deal of latitude to discipline players for conduct “unfavorable” to the league. This is a dog whistle clause that really means the conduct scared the hell out of the predominant white fan base.

This Ja Morant incident should be a salient, timely reminder that the only reason that the NRA even formed in the first place was as a check to the Panthers. Keep arming up. Keep learning your tools. The settlers getting the HOA scared out of them is immaterial to our own liberation; and in this country, power grows out of only one thing.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/642436

This has actually been something weighing on my mind for a long time now. You talk about leaving, trying to get to Cuba, or Venezuela, or Colombia, or insert a nation you'd roll bones on being better than Amerika; and here comes a paternalistic cracker on their redwinged blackbird dive-bombing shit "you know they're racist as shit, yeah? you know they don't like Blacks over there, yeah? you know you're better off right here ~~where we can keep our thumb on you~~ yeah?"

Next time the mayonnaisians hit you with that, just ask one simple question: "How are you any better? How is your nation any better?" Because it really ain't.

If you can afford to cut a check right now, there's proper Black socialists staring down the barrel of carceral slavery; hit their legal fund. Or if not theirs, hit the ATL Solidarity Fund.

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/617666

"...Well, well, well. The party that we were supposed to align with to stop nuclear war comes right out and answers the question I asked in my article and in the video that Blumenthal posted on Twitter to claim I was saying something I was not, and that question was: 'Let’s say nuclear war is avoided by this rally, will these people fight with us to end the oppression of marginalized people? No.'"

"NO THEY WILL NOT. The Libertarian Party will NOT fight with us to end the oppression of marginalized people, because as I made clear in the original article and as the LP itself has made clear over and over again and once more for good measure on April 13, they will oppress people when they have the power to do so!"

One day, we'll learn that the master's kids will not tear down the master's plantation.

Insert 'pithy' joke about "free markets" riiiiiiiiiight here. The past year, year and a half, has been little more than Amerika brazenly displaying its 'grade schooler at recess' mentality with regard to taking every single under-handed trick to attempt to maintain hegemon over China and Russia.

The decline is happening all around us, and we have the forces of Red Scare-goggled reaction to thank for it.