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  Profiting Off of Death and Suffering: The Merging of the Arms Industry and the U.S. Government   By David Starr   The United States’ imperial foreign policy has been evident ever since day one; but especially starting with the Gilded Age and the arrogant doctrine of Manifest Destiny of the 1890s – early 1900s. The imperial “cause” continued through the decades leading up to today.    And today, the U.S. arms industry and the U.S. Congress have a reciprocal relationship. Because of this relationship, it can be said truthfully that members of Congress have  profited off of the arms industry  in, for example, the realm of foreign policy.    The Russia-Ukraine conflict has presented yet another opportunity for profiteering off of war. The arms industry is certainly making big bucks, with policies that fuel the conflict with the selling of an array of weaponry. There are politicians who have  bought stock  in the arms industry just bef...

  The Madness of Marjorie Taylor Greene By David Starr   Plenty of epithets can describe Marjorie Taylor Greene, and with good reason. Someone who accuses Jews of using space lasers to start wild fires in California is mad and in the habit of saying ridiculous things.    And that ain’t all.  Greene called Washington, D.C. a “gulag.” If only she knew what a gulag really is, given the consequences of Stalinism. Greene wallows in ignorance.   Greene also made a remark about Nancy Pelosi’s “Gazpacho Police.” It’s a pathetic play on the word Gestapo. (Gazpacho is actually a cold soup.) Greene rhetorically accuses these “police” of spying on Congressional members.    Vice President Kamala Harris was also a target. Harris said that people of color are impacted more by natural disasters and are “impacted by issues that are not of their own making.” Greene remarked in a Tweet that “Hurricanes don’t discriminate. And neither should the federal government [g...

United States Hypocrisy Evident in its Violations of International Law By David Starr The U.S. South in particular has a problem regarding human rights. Historically, this problem has existed for about two centuries, when looking at overt racism (or slavery) and systemic racism (still evident today despite social reforms). The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has not only documented these rights violations , it has provided documents to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). The CERD’s report, according to the SPLC, is a “serious rebuke and a wakeup call for the Biden administration.” The SPLC also stated that the report reveals the U.S. has a “longstanding failure of taking compliance with the treaty on racial discrimination seriously.” In a press release , the SPLC focused on the criminal legal system in the U.S. South, the information of which was submitted by the SPLC to the CERD, which stated that “the widespread, disparate harms...

  Send in the Conservative Clowns, Never Mind They’re Already Here By David Starr Politics in the United States nowadays has produced lowered expectations. There are quite a number of individuals running for office that are grossly unqualified. And they are mainly from the Republican camp. To name all the individuals would be a marathon endeavor. So, this article will look at five of the worst. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a real piece of work . She doesn’t seem to possess the ability for civil discussion. Greene is so full of accusations against Democrats, she has been called a conspiracy theorist and a serial liar. (Not that the Democrats are totally innocent.) Greene, like other followers of the MAGA cult, has repeatedly claimed that Joe Biden isn’t the legitimate president; that election fraud was committed on his behalf. This in the face of overwhelming evidence that the 2020 U.S. presidential election was conducted fairly. But Greene and the other MAGA followers are so h...

Stalinism Does Not Equal Socialism By David Starr Over the decades, Stalinism came to be associated with socialism. Stalin’s brutal rise to absolute power unfortunately set a precedent for how socialism, as well communism and Marxism, came to be identified. First of all, communism has not really existed because an epoch perhaps takes decades or centuries to be established and developed. The Soviet Union existed for about 74 years, which is not enough time for communism to exist. Besides, communism has not been mapped out and that makes sense. But there are clues to what a future communist society could be based on the writings of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: “an association of free producers” and the more well-known slogan, “from each according to his ability to each according to his needs.” (The latter does not mean that people will simply get free stuff, since they are earning through their ability, skills or labor.) Regarding Marxism, it is originally a dynamic ideology ...

  The U.S.’s Moral Bankruptcy With Its Embargo Against Cuba By David Starr “El Bloqueo” (The Blockade) is what Cubans call it. It is a 60-year-old abomination. It is the U.S. embargo against Cuba. Imposed by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1962, the embargo has and continues to be an utter failure in its objective. That is, trying to fuel a counter-revolution within the island nation; or more politely put, “regime change.” Contrary to U.S. media and government propaganda, the 1959 Cuban Revolution has achieved some accomplishments in its changing of pre-1959 Cuba, when it was virtually a neo-colony. An example of that propaganda came from the New York Times . Stansfield Smith, an anti-war activist, wrote that the newspaper “still asserted Cuba is a mismanaged anachronism, that the average Cuban has no say-so, that the government does not permit public dialogue on its policies. This is arrogant nonsense to anyone knowledgeable about Cuba.” (Stansfield Smith, Monthly Review...