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Trump’s Slush Fund For The January 2021 Rioters: Flushing Needed Funds Down The Toilet  By David Starr The Trump regime’s list of crimes has gotten obscenely long. One could count the many ways that this is the case. But, instead, I will focus on one action by the regime that adds to the obscenities. That is Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” which would waste $1.776 billion on the fascist rioters  who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. This would be funded by taxpayers’ money. The stench of Trump’s corruption is an insult to the U.S. population, in particular the real victims of the Capitol riot. There were Capitol police  who suffered injuries or faced death  because of the rioters. And the rioters, egged on by Trump, are one of the reasons the U.S. population at-large is threatened through violations of the U.S. Constitution by the regime. According to  Democracy Forward ,  the reasons for the slush fund  were “established through a privat...

  Is China the Demon Western Media Makes It Out to Be? By David Starr A strictly B/W, hopeless scenario. That’s how the Western media reports on the People’s Republic of China (PRC). And it’s not surprising, not because the media is telling the whole truth, but because China has committed what could be called a “sin” in the capitalist world. Implementing and practicing socialism.  That’s the bottom-line reason.  Not that China has exactly been a workers’ paradise. But it has had positive achievements. Essentially, the government and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)  have lifted about 850 million people  out of poverty over the years.  And I would say it has practiced its own version of democracy, which is somewhat contrary to the bourgeois version of democracy. And I would say that both versions have had positive results.  There have, of course, been the negatives. China has historically resorted to repressive measures. But so has the United States. A...

  Death Dealers: Parasitical Profiting Off of War By David Starr As if nothing could get more immoral, disgusting, and criminal, individuals are betting on what the outcomes of wars would be. This goes hand-in-hand with the moral bankruptcy of the Trump regime. It has allowed– and Trump and his cronies have participated in–the most corrupt and fraudulent actions. Here are  three recent examples  in June published by  representUs :  June 16, 2026 – “Earlier this spring, the Trump administration gave a no-bid contract to a firm tied to a long-time supporter of the president to clean the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool. Since work was completed, the pool has seen green algae blooms that have turned the water green.” June 16, 2026 – “Records reveal that taxpayer dollars will fund half the costs of the White House ballroom, despite earlier assurances from the president that private donors would pay for the construction.” June 3, 2026 – “Peter Navarro, the president’...

  U.S. Racism: a Major Influence on the Nazis By David Starr If one researched the history of U.S. racism up to the present time, and compared it with the racism of Nazi Germany, one would find disturbing similarities.  U.S. racism is a strain of U.S. ultranationalism, a precursor to the Nazi version. Particularly, in the 1890s going into the 1900s, U.S. ultranationalism erupted on the world stage characterized by the eugenics movement, the Spanish-American War, and the Philippine-American War. All three were brutally barbaric, reflecting the accusations made by the perpetrators who, ironically, thought of people of color as “barbaric.”  In the U.S., although slavery was officially abolished after the Civil War, residues of slavery continued in the form of racism against people of color by ultranationalist whites, i.e., those who thought they were the “true Americans.” A book review  by Rebecca Brenner Graham in  Black Perspectives  looks at  Hitler’s ...

  The Christian Nationalist Freak Show By David Starr In a fit of totalitarian intoxication, Christian nationalists have tried repeatedly to impose an agenda that is straight out of the Medieval period. It has been lacking in intelligence and full of mythological euphoria. Christian nationalists, or more directly put, religious fanatics, are hellbent on trying to portray the United States as a “Christian nation.”  A manifestation of this perversion was a rally held by Christian fanatics to commemorate the 250 anniversary of the founding of the United States. It was held at the National Mall in Washington D.C. It was called the “Rededicate 250” rally. Reporting for   MS Now , Guthrie Graves-Fitsimmons writes, “This is what theocracy looks like.” Graves-Fitzsimmons quotes the stated purpose of the rally, which is to “rededicate our country as One Nation Under God.” Religious fanatics like House Speaker Mike Johnson, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Department of War Crim...

Pro-Israel Supporters: Denying Israel’s attempted Genocide By David Starr The genocide denial from Israel’s supporters has been prevalent even before the October 2023 Hamas attack in Israel. It actually goes back to 1948, when the British empire  helped to establish  Israel. Nowadays, the genocide deniers still don’t learn from history and its connection to the present time. They are still out there, apologists for Israel no matter what it does. It’s somewhat like a mental illness. They fanatically hold on to the myth that Israel is innocent of committing war crimes against its neighbors. And they desperately hold to the idea that Israel is immune from criticism because of its  myths of religious supremacy . The Israeli right-wing and its supporters appear hellbent on establishing a “Greater Israel.” But that is also something that hasn’t existed…and won’t. There are unfortunately many examples of genocide deniers and apologists for Israel. But they further discredit them...

The Rabid Right-wing Attack on Education in the United States By David Starr To be ‘woke’ is to be committing a ‘sin,’ as the right-wing in the United States have gone  on the attack against being woke  and in turn dissing the awareness and knowledge associated with it. Education is a prime target of the right-wing because it hates and fears students actually learning about such things as racism, religious fanaticism, etc. The right has become intoxicated with its warped agenda which fuels hate and fear. Putting it a little more directly, the Zinn Education Project (named after Howard Zinn, author of ‘A People’s History of the United States,’) published an informative piece called ‘Teaching in Perilous Times.’  It starts out this way : ‘Educators are teaching in perilous times. We face a white supremacist backlash – funded by billionaires – against the 2020 uprising for Black lives, when tens of millions built a multiracial movement against systemic racism.  ‘In resp...