Socialism_Is_The_Alternative

It's a gloomy time for US imperialist warmongers -- humanity is uniting together to protect themselves from this threat. Snip:

The bilateral treaty, signed in June during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to North Korea, establishes a comprehensive strategic partnership between Moscow and Pyongyang based on the principles of mutual respect for each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity. The document also emphasizes the importance of non-interference in one another's internal affairs and the desire to create a just and multipolar world order.

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According to Article 4 of the agreement, should one of the parties be subjected to armed aggression by any state or a group of states and find itself in a state of conflict, the other party shall immediately provide military and other forms of assistance with all available means in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter and in accordance with Russian and North Korean laws.

The anti-democratic "Democratic" Party political machine has created numerous "ballot access" laws to make it extremely hard for left-wing opposition candidates to even appear on the ballot. Despite this, several left-wing presidential candidates (Jill Stein, Claudia De la Cruz, and Cornel West) have managed to secure ballot access in numerous states. I have the maps showing where you can vote for each tomorrow.

Jill Stein: https://www.jillstein2024ballotaccess.com/

Cornel West: https://www.cornelwest2024.com/ballotaccess

Claudia De la Cruz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_De_la_Cruz_2024_presidential_campaign#/media/File:Claudia_De_la_Cruz_2024_ballot_access_Oct_04_2024.png

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United by shared values like opposition to war for empire, a commitment to Black liberation, and determination to build an alternative outside of the two-party system, the two progressive third-party campaigns announced that they would be urging their supporters to vote for each other’s tickets in selected states where one has ballot status but the other does not.

The Justice for All presidential campaign of Cornel West and Melina Abdullah, and the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s ticket of Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia, have announced an agreement to cooperate in a number of states. The Claudia/Karina campaign is calling on its supporters to vote for West and Abdullah in Alaska, which is in turn calling on its supporters to vote for Claudia and Karina in Florida, Hawai’i, New Mexico, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

In Alaska the West/Abdullah campaign has ballot status but De la Cruz and Garcia do not, and the opposite is true in the states where West/Abdullah is calling for a Claudia/Karina vote. Because of the undemocratic obstacles third party candidates are subjected to that Democrats and Republicans are not, both campaigns have had to carry out massive petition-gathering efforts and then defend their ballot status in extensive court battles amid challenges brought by Democratic Party-affiliated lawyers. This agreement aims to maximize the ability of voters to send a clear message that they reject the twin parties of war, racism and Wall Street.

Party for Socialism and Liberation presidential candidate Claudia De la Cruz said, “The country has two ruling parties equally devoted to Empire and Wall Street — that is who we have been running against, not other progressives. We call on all people of conscience to only cast votes for campaigns that have taken a clear stand to end the dictatorship of the ultra-rich, to stop the war on Black America, and who pursue a foreign policy based on peace and solidarity. The Vote Socialist campaign wants to unite with all those who share these goals in order to build a lasting movement to transform this country.”

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"If a journalist reads questions supplied by a political party to a candidate during the course of an interview, the journalist has an obligation to reveal the source of the questions. Tavis Smiley did so, to his credit. Other journalists who've posed similar questions to Dr. Stein haven't, which makes them mouthpieces for the DNC," said Joseph Naham, co-chair of the Green Party of the US.

"We've decided to employ the DNC's strategy, except we're doing it publicly and transparently so journalists can maintain their integrity," said Naham.

Greens suspected that coordinated manipulation was happening in certain news media, because of the similarity in attempts to misrepresent, discredit, and smear Dr. Stein.

Questions for Kamala Harris

1. You've repeatedly called for a ceasefire in Gaza. If you're truly disturbed by the Israeli Defense Forces' extermination of innocent civilians, why haven't you sought a cutoff of US weapons for Israel to force a ceasefire?

2. Why haven't you called Israel an apartheid state, in agreement with the assessment of over 156 other world leaders and the International Court of Justice?

3. As senator, you supported the Green New Deal, which was originally proposed by the Green Party, including a carbon tax and bans on fracking and offshore drilling. Why do you now endorse fracking and more drilling as the global climate crisis worsens? Why did you boast during the September 10 debate that the Biden-Harris administration has facilitated "the largest increase in domestic oil production in history"?

4. How do you plan to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement and the previous commitment of the Biden-Harris administration to reduce US greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030, which is now only six years away?

5. As senator you co-sponsored a bill setting a schedule to increase the percentage of zero-emission vehicles. As vice presidential candidate you said you would reinstate federal emission rules for vehicles that would lead to 100% of cars sold in 2035 having zero emissions. Why have these positions disappeared from your campaign?

6. Democrats had over 50 years to codify Roe v. Wade. Instead, President Obama declared it "not the highest legislative priority" in 2009 and Hillary Clinton chose an anti-abortion running mate in 2016. Why did Dems wait until 2020 to decide that protecting women's reproductive rights is urgently important?

7. Dr. Stein has rejected an endorsement from rightwing extremist David Duke. Will you reject the endorsement you received from former Vice President Dick Cheney, whose role as mastermind of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and deceptions to win public support for it led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians and thousands of US troops?

8. Many Democrats have expressed outrage over support by some Republicans for Dr. Stein's campaign. Is this outrage fair when the Harris-Walz campaign has accepted endorsements and generous contributions from Liz Cheney, her father, former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson, and other Republican leaders and PACs?

9. As senator you called the border wall proposed by Trump "un-American" and said you wouldn't vote for it "under any circumstances." Why, as vice president, did you support a Senate bill to fund a wall? Why do you support tighter rules on asylum claims? Why have your positions on immigration moved closer to Trump’s?

10. Given your experience working at McDonald's, why don't you support a livable $25/hour federal minimum wage for American workers including fast-food employees?

11. You co-sponsored Medicare for All legislation as senator and promoted it as vice-presidential candidate. Why did you abandon your support for Medicare For All? What is your plan now to cover 27 million uninsured Americans and protect us from financial ruin because of a medical emergency?

12. Why haven't Democrats in the US Senate used their power to block Republican presidents' extremist appointees to the Supreme Court, as Republicans have done to Democratic presidents' appointees? An example is Judge Amy Coney Barrett, whose confirmation Dem Senators including you could have prevented using the same procedural tactics that Sen. Mitch McConnell employed to obstruct an Obama nominee.

13. If Trump wins on November 5, who will Democrats blame the most to deflect attention from their failures? Jill Stein? Muslim voters? Black and Latinx men? Vladimir Putin? Susan Sarandon?

Note, this is just based upon the losses that the fascist Tel Aviv regime has actually admitted to. Snip:

Official figures have revealed that Israeli military forces engaged in ground offensives in the northern side of the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon have suffered dramatic loss amid strong resilience by resistance fighters, and the Tel Aviv regime has recorded its worst month for military deaths this year.

According to the figures, at least 62 soldiers have been killed since the start of October, making this the deadliest month for the Israeli army since last December when 110 soldiers were killed at the height of the genocidal war on Gaza.

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Information about casualties is austerely controlled in the Israeli-occupied territories, where the media is subjected to strict military censorship.

This has raised the question that the official figures are under-reporting the real scale of losses suffered by Israeli forces in Gaza and Lebanon.

The fascist Tel Aviv regime just carried out another genocidal attack on Gaza today. This one targeted a residential high rise building in northern Gaza's Beit Lahia, massacring 109 civilians (mostly refugees sheltering there). Meanwhile, US liberals offer virtually no criticism of this fully US-backed genocide (or if they do criticize, they do so in a way that carefully shields the White House and the "Democratic" Party political machine).

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Israeli warplanes have bombed a residential building sheltering displaced Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip, killing scores of people and trapping many others.

At least 109 civilians, including women and children, lost their lives in the Israeli airstrikes that flattened the five-story building in the city of Beit Lahia on Tuesday.

Reports said dozens of people are still trapped under the rubble as rescue workers continue operations to find survivors and retrieve the bodies of the victims.

Meanwhile, Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, the director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital, told Al Jazeera TV channel that dozens of the injured have arrived at the facility and that many any of them may die because of the lack of resources.

Russian military and FSB border guards eliminated a group of Western mercs yesterday that attempted attacking Bryansk oblast. The news link contains (18+) video evidence. Snip:

"On October 27, officers from the FSB Border Service in the Bryansk region, together with units of the Russian Armed Forces and the Russian National Guard, thwarted an attempted state border breach by a sabotage-reconnaissance group in the Klimovsky district," the security agency stated.

According to the FSB, "four saboteurs were eliminated in the clash, while the remnants of the retreating group were hit by missile and artillery strikes, resulting in further losses."

The FSB added that "the eliminated saboteurs were found with foreign weapons, equipment, communication devices, and personal items indicating ties to third countries (a Canadian flag, a prayer card in Polish, and a notebook with tactical training notes in English). A tattoo of the 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, US Army Airborne Reconnaissance Regiment, was found on the body of one of the eliminated individuals."

The Zionist attacks on Iran only did minor damage. Snip:

Iran’s air defense force has confirmed Israeli attacks targeting positions in Tehran, Khuzestan and Ilam provinces, saying the offensives have caused limited damage.

“Despite the previous warnings of the officials of the Islamic Republic to the criminal and illegal Zionist regime to avoid any adventurous action, this fake regime attacked parts of military centers in the provinces of Tehran, Khuzestan and Ilam this morning in a tension-causing action,” the air defense force said in a statement on Saturday morning.

It further said that the country's integrated air defense system successfully intercepted and countered the act of aggression.

The attacks caused limited damage in some locations and the dimensions of the incident are under investigation, the statement added.

Lebanese resistance forces continue successfully repelling Zionist attacks on southern Lebanon. Tel Aviv's losses are growing. Snip:

“The enemy's losses, according to what the Islamic Resistance fighters monitored, amounted to more than 70 dead and more than 600 wounded officers and soldiers of the Israeli enemy army,” the statement said.

It adds that 28 Merkava tanks, four military bulldozers, an armed vehicle, and an armored troop carrier were destroyed by the Lebanese resistance.

The toll “does not include the Israeli enemy's losses in military bases, sites and barracks in the north and depth of occupied Palestine.”

The statement confirms that Israeli forces have not been able to establish control over or occupy any villages and that the troops have only been able to advance short distances into southern Lebanese villages, given the intensity of the resistance’s operations.

Things aren't going so well lately for CNN/BBC style propagandists. Snip:

The Guardian argues that "Putin returned to the world stage by hosting 36 leaders at the BRICS Summit". However, this "return" exists only in the "parallel reality" of the political West's microcosm. In our actual timeline, the Russian president never left the stage. He was always there, meticulously (re)building Moscow's connections with the actual world (also known as the "jungle" in the European Union). And while the political West keeps blaming Putin for everything, its warmongering oligarchies fail to realize that, by escalating the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict, they only accelerated multipolarity. With the US-led power pole's almost universal aggression against the entire world, much of that same world realizes that BRICS, SCO and similar organizations offer not only a viable alternative, but a truly different, sovereigntist future devoid of (neo)colonialism.

This is precisely why the mainstream propaganda machine is so desperate to denigrate the BRICS Summit, as well as those who participate in it. Even the Western-controlled United Nations is under fire, as its Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is attending the summit. Bloomberg, Time and CNN all had no choice but to admit that Putin is "far from isolated" and that Russia is "not a pariah". And while the mainstream propaganda machine is busy with damage control, the whole world sees the power of multipolar unity in Kazan. Namely, Moscow successfully mediated between Beijing and Delhi, bringing an official end to the conflict in the Himalayas, one of the most persistent obstacles to the cohesion and growth of the multipolar world. With India and China finally reaching a peace agreement, both Asian giants are on the path to resolving their long-standing border disputes.

The latest genocidal plot against Gaza involves the direct involvement of US mercenaries. Snip:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet is expected to approve a plan to establish concentration camps in Gaza, operated by mercenaries from a private security firm run by former US and Israeli intelligence officials and special forces commanders, Yedioth Ahronoth reported on 22 October.

The US security firm, GDC, plans to establish “humanitarian bubbles” in Gaza. The Israeli army will be tasked with “clearing” any such bubble of Hamas fighters and erecting a separation wall around it within 48 hours.

Entry to these compounds will be prohibited except for residents who live in the neighborhood and submit to biometric identification.

Regarding the plan, US journalist Dan Cohen reports that “the Biden administration has approved the deployment of 1,000 CIA-trained private mercenaries as part of a joint US-Israeli plan to turn Gaza’s apocalyptic rubble scape into a high-tech dystopia.”

Far from being "invincible," the IDF's morale is broken. Snip:

After a year of committing genocide in Gaza, more and more Israeli soldiers are quietly refusing orders to return to the strip to fight, saying they are depressed, worn out, psychologically damaged, and unmotivated, according to a report by Ha-Makom magazine published on 20 October.

The ultra-Orthodox-oriented magazine interviewed multiple soldiers and parents of soldiers who refuse to return to Gaza. When a platoon of 30 soldiers of the Nahal Brigade was recently ordered to enter Gaza for the latest of several tours, only six reported for duty.

“I call it refusal and rebellion,” says Inbal, the mother of one of the soldiers in the platoon.

“They return to the same buildings that they cleaned, each time trapping them anew. They have been to Al-Zaytoun neighborhood three times already. They understand that it is futile and pointless.”

Although they had only a fifth of their personnel, the commander still insisted they enter Gaza.