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Tue, 18/04/2023 - 20:07

A polling firm found that Peru’s coup-plotting, right-wing-controlled congress has 6% approval and 91% disapproval. Unelected leader Dina Boluarte has 15% approval and 78% disapproval. But they have the full support of the US, Canada, and foreign mining corporations.

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Tue, 18/04/2023 - 20:03

By Paul Street / CounterPunch The Capitalist Democrats… The Democratic Party is a militantly capitalist entity and always has been – and not just in the neoliberal era. The much beloved New Deal Democratic president Franklin Roosevelt, himself a wealthy member of the capitalist establishment, boasted that he had saved the US American profits system by overseeing […]

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Tue, 18/04/2023 - 13:12

By SP Staff Last week’s Scheer Intelligence podcast featured a headline inspired by the late comedian George Carlin. The headline serves as an excuse to revisit his 2005 HBO special “Life is Worth Losing,” where Carlin includes one of his most iconic bits critiquing America’s consumerism, education, politics and the myth of the American Dream. […]

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Tue, 18/04/2023 - 09:30
One of the right’s top hitmen seems to be one… The following is probably way too much information for some of you but I can’t resist. Ali Alexander and Milo Yiannopoulos are alt-right icons. Alexander is one of the big organizers of the Stop the Steal insurrection and Yiannopoulos has been hanging around Roger Stone for years and was most recently working with Marjorie Taylor Greene. These are people with access to the highest reaches of the GOP, including the Dear Leader. Oh, and they’re all affiliated with the Nazi Nick Fuentes and Kanye West. This is just … amazing: A key figure in the pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” campaign has apologized after being accused of asking teenage boys for sexual pictures. Ali Alexander has become one of the most ubiquitous figures in the MAGA movement. Trump himself reportedly requested that Alexander speak at his rally before the riot, with his appearance only quashed by a last-minute intervention from Trump’s aides. But this week, Alexander stands at the center of a scandal that raises questions about how powerful men in the far-right treat their younger acolytes.