⚖️🌐 A better world is incompatible, indeed is impossible under the reign of U.S.-led capitalist dysfunction and destruction.

That the world is on the rack of tumultuous times is widely agreed. The immediate turmoil comes from the global economic impact of soaring inflation in the price of basic consumer goods. Of priority concern is food insecurity and hunger for billions of people on our planet, and not just for those nations considered low-income and underdeveloped. Poverty has hit record levels in so-called “rich nations” where many citizens are finding it harder to put food on the table for their families.

All this is an expression and condemnation of historic failure in the Western economic system. The system of private profit over human need is increasingly seen to be totally inadequate and obsolete. Moreover, it is increasingly seen to be deliberately subjecting people to poverty and crisis which makes it all the more condemnable. Corporate capitalism has created dire problems facing the planet and is exacerbating these problems, not alleviating them. The system itself must be repudiated for something more democratic, sustainable, and effective in delivering human needs.

But on top of the inherent economic failings of the Western system, we should add the abject failure of ideologically driven politics.

The present growing economic crisis has been intensified by specific policy choices made by corporate-controlled governments and their unelected grossly overpaid bureaucrats.

Laughably, the Western mis-rulers have sought to shift the blame onto Russia.

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⚔️ The possibilities of non-confrontation arrangements among nations lie more on diplomatic engineering of checks and balances that are able to tie up and suppress the violent behaviors of the countries than on the real possibility of eliminating religion, geopolitics, and capitalism.

Recent events concerning some speeches of international authorities might help to understand heavier social dynamics regarding the reasons for the war in Ukraine.

💬 Writes Mauricio Metri

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🕹🌐 “If you would know who controls you,” Tacitus, the Roman historian and politician once advised, “see who you may not criticize.”

For a long time that unspeakable persona was none other than the billionaire financier George Soros, and despite the fact that his political protégés have gone on to radically alter the political landscape of the country.

Now, as cracks are beginning to appear in the foundation of his vast franchise, dissenting voices are becoming more commonplace.

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😱 The horrendous death toll in the U.S. and Europe has been caused not so much by a virus but by an underlying disease of capitalist psychopathy.

The death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States is now well over 1.1 million. New mass infections and the proliferation of immune-resistant virus variants indicate the death toll will continue to rise as the third winter of the pandemic hits.

Europe faces a similarly bleak outlook of mounting sickness and deaths from the novel coronavirus known as SARS-Cov-2, which has undergone numerous mutations since the world pandemic was declared in early 2020. This is while Western governments pretend that the pandemic is over and adopt a policy of their populations “living with Covid”.

Let’s put these figures in perspective. The worldwide total deaths from the disease are estimated at 6.6 million, according to the authoritative Johns Hopkins University. The U.S. death toll of 1.1 million (and counting) represents over 16 percent of the world’s total even though its national population is only about 4.2 percent of the globe.

China’s deaths from Covid-19 are around 5,200, according to the same database. That is an astounding three orders of magnitude smaller. Even though China has a population nearly four times that of the United States, its mortality figure is less than 0.5 percent of the U.S.

China’s population of 1.4 billion people is about 18.5 percent of the globe. That means its death toll from Covid-19 is approximately 0.00006 percent of the global deaths from the disease. Again, the U.S. Covid death toll is nearly 16 percent of the world.

Surely, any rational-thinking person would want to explore the reasons for such a vast disparity. But not, it seems, in the West where the corporate media’s function is to stifle critical thinking.

The stark and shocking contrast in these U.S. and China figures is down to the difference between capitalism and socialism 🏟

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#Capitalism #China #Pandemic #UnitedStates

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🗽Daniel Lazare is a journalist, author and commentator who specializes in critically analyzing the politics and Constitution of the United States. He has authored several books, including The Velvet Revolution and the Decline of American Democracy.

Daniel Lazare in this interview with Finian Cunningham says that the United States of America is locked in a fateful political and economic crisis that will produce either of two outcomes. Either the country is heading towards more authoritarian rule or there will be a second American revolution.

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🤑 Pay Gap Between U.S. CEOs and Typical Workers

CEO pay, including stock awards and options, is up 1,460% since 1978, an Economic Policy analysis found. This increase was not matched by increased pay for typical workers, as the chart below shows.

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🍏 Apple has its latest iPhones 12 and 13, and since this year also iPhone 14, finally assembled in the South Indian special economic zone Chennai in the state of Tamil Nadu.

Numerous Indian electronics companies are established here, supplying Western car companies such as BMW and Ford, and digital companies such as Nokia, Dell, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft and Apple.

In the U.S., the Western world’s best-looking, best smartphone from the “world’s largest democracy” costs from $1,500 — up to $2,099 depending on the model.

For this Apple has contracted Taiwan’s Foxconn.

🏭 Foxconn is the world’s largest organizer of barracked lowest-wage labor, especially in microelectronics. Foxconn uses subcontractors to recruit young women from poor rural areas. They can be fobbed off with particularly low wages, working eight hours, six days a week, spread over three shifts. They do not have a regular employment relationship, but a contract for work that can be terminated at any time.

Is the assembly of Apple iPhones in India “good corporate governance“? 🍎

💬 Werner Rugemer writes

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🌐 Nobody with an IQ over room temperature will expect Davos this week to discuss any aspect of the NATO vs. Eurasia existential war seriously.

Have fun with the Davos freak show 🤡

💬 Pepe Escobar writes

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🪙 Western capitalism and its supposed democracy are in terminal crisis as increasing numbers of people reject the system’s abysmal economic failure: record levels of poverty, inequality and relentless militarism and warmongering.

Professor Jodi Dean, the author of The Communist Horizon (Verso), says we are living in a rare historic situation of social, economic and political turmoil where breakthrough revolutionary change can happen.

People are increasingly realizing that “Western-style democracy” and its much-vaunted “values” are a grotesque illusion. In reality, what we have is a “dictatorship of billionaires” that is brutally oppressive and destructive ❌

Increasingly, people and workers are taking to the streets in protests and in industrial strikes, from Europe to the United States, because they have “had it” with capitalist exploitation and militarism. This is a formidable sign of positive change, says Dean in this wide-ranging interview on the prospects of a socialist alternative.

She points out that the massive bailouts of banks and private corporations by the state, both in the U.S. and Europe, clearly demonstrate to people that socialist control of the economy is actually viable and doable, only instead of “socialism for the rich” we should implement socialism for workers, the vast majority of society.

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