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Right, Russia bans independent media, while those in the free EU can go read https://www.rt.com ... oh yaa, the EU blocks that web site.
The word national security used to mean protecting a country just invaded, then moved to troops on the border looking like they'll invade. Now you've stretched it to the government doing mass surveillance on its citizens (and storing it forever). During COINTELPRO, Hoover and his secret political police in the FBI spied on and worked to anonymously disrupt feminist groups and other political organizations, and this is just a continuation of that - set up in secret incidentally. I don't see how some elite trying to set up a police state to exert political control has anything to do with national security. Luckily the FBI raided Trump recently, so Republican wariness may have them go back to that old idea of a Republican secretary of state that "gentlemen do not read each others' mail".
Right like Clinton and the US congress cheering Yeltsin bombing Russia's elected parliament.
The British empire has now turned its attention from Ireland to Russia and has been sending weapons abroad in order to kill Russians. So Russian warships sailing past Britain is natural enough.
I hope they do fire on Britain in order to not only stop the weaponry killing Russians, but to weaken Britain so the Irish can be free of Britain's military occupation.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-navy-vessels-aircraf...
The people held at Guantanamo Bay are not considered POWs by the US, nor have they been given a trial. They're held in violation of even US law. The US has let some go saying they picked up the wrong person. Who determined they are responsible for what you say they are responsible for? Even the US doesn't agree as they say they picked up some in error and let them go.
On top of this - for over half a century the country of Cuba has demanded the US withdraw its military base from Cuban territory. As US presidents piously intoned about Russian troops in Donetsk, that a sovereign nation wants US troops out of its territory is considered so unimportant it is practically unknown.
The US has released some people from Guantanamo, saying they picked up the wrong person. Of course such things happen when people are imprisoned without trial, which is against even US law. They have never been given a trial, nor are they considered POWs, and some have been released when the US realized they got the wrong person, yet you piously and sanctimoniously desire to punish them even beyond the illegal punishment they've been meted.
I've been immersed in shortages for the past two years (try to go buy a car for MSRP), why some UK paper is writing about some far away, long ago shortage I don't know (well actually I do know).
The government subsidizing a more educated US workforce is a "giveaway", but you don't hear that word applied to the tens of billions Lockheed Martin and Ukraine get from the US taxpayer.
This article on the 2008 financial crisis has lots of interesting references to government data. Then you can see if you reach the same conclusions as the authors.
https://monthlyreview.org/2008/12/01/financial-implosion-and...
Dick used to write letters to the FBI in the 1970s urging them to investigate fellow science fiction writers like Thomas Disch or professors like Fredrick Jameson. He was a participant in (delusionaly?) ratting people out to the secret police. I'll leave it to others to forecast a dystopia, he seems to forecast a dystopia he is trying to build.
It's beyond even that. The English spent the nineteenth century deindustrializing India - textiles, steel etc.
Does that include when he had fled to Italy in 1953? The reports were he had little desire to go back to Iran, and the CIA and SIS met trying to figure out how to get him to go back to Iran
> the Iranian military were ones who ultimately removed him
That's how it usually happens, the military elements with contact with foreign powers are usually who do in the local nationalists.
Mossadegh wanted a secular independent Iran, England empowered the mullahs and worked for decades to destroy the secular left in Iran (along with the US). Eventually even the mullahs and bazaari turned against western colonialism.
The west also worked against Nasser's secular pan-Arab socialism, including the French/English invasion of the Suez.
"Go through your science and find your errors" is science. Commendations to Chomsky for advancing science in this instance.
Your cited studies show a 10-37 average increase, which means some prep improves half the preppers even more.
> Also, “hundreds of dollars” as a one time expense per kid isn’t unaffordable even for poor people.
Saying this shows how out of touch you are. Speaking of New York, the recent under-10 chess championship was won by a refugee in a homeless shelter. Yes, hundreds of dollars is out of range for his family.
> The selective admissions schools in NYC are full of poor Asian immigrants
Middle class in Asia can be poor in New York City.
We workers are bombarded consistently with whining about estate taxes, carry interest and that sort of thing. Actually the recent senate bill was held up over the fight over carried interest, a fight which was won by the funds.
However when the workers who create all the wealth press for their interests, it is "whining".
Insofar as the afterwards, to quote Malcolm X "anywhere is better than here".
An employer does not give a raise and disposable income to a worker. The worker is the creator of wealth, and the heirs collecting dividend profits are who are being given to. Your confusion about the directionality of created wealth within the relations of production is the whole point of the article.
It is about the expropriation of a worker's surplus labor time by the heirs. It is about control of all the worker's work time (surplus and non-surplus) by the heirs.
> #1 - we do, we can quit anytime we want and find another place to work for.
We change who controls our labor by making those who control our labor us, the workers creating wealth, not the heirs who own companies and expropriate our surplus labor time via dividend profit checks.
The idea that a worker controls his own labor seems to be the one idea that is alien to your prescription.
Insofar as radical Islamists, the English sided with and supported radical Islamists in Iran against Mossadegh and then against the secular left under the Shah. The English supported Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Watch Lawrence of Arabia, they do it and celebrate it. The English saving secular socialist pan-Arab nationalism against radical Islamists? Please.
The real destruction of artifacts was the destruction of Iraq Museum during the UK's unprovoked invasion of that country. Which they of course blamed on Iraqis. These people are transparent.