New York Doctor indicted in Louisiana for abortion pills. Trump exercises dictatorial power, shuts down USAID. And Elon Musk has your Social Security Number now.

1]- If Louisiana can get their hands on her, the doctor  faces 15 years in a medieval type Louisiana prison and a $200,000 fine. The mother of the teenager who needed the abortion faces that fate.

2]- Trump shut down an agency created and funded by Congress, which he has no right- or legal authority- to do. Elon Musk, his de factor right hand man, called it a "criminal organization," and "radical left," -insane bullshit- and motivated Trump to take the illegal action. Trump said USAID "is run by radical lunatics." Of course it is an arm of U.S. foreign policy, that provides the parsimonious amount of NON-MILITARY foreign aid the U.S. provides. The agency goes back to 1961. The idea that ANY part of the U.S. government employs left-wing radicals is as preposterous as Hitler's claim that Germany didn't lose World War I, but was stabbed in the back on the home front.

One of the last hospitals in Gaza is shutting down- it received USAID funds.

20 million people around the world with AIDS are kept alive with medicines paid for by USAID. Maybe some other nation or nations or international organization will step into the breach. They better do so quickly, or there will be sicker people- and deaths.

Not that the white racists Trump and Musk care about murdering Africans.

These are just 2 of the important stories from the headlines feature of democracynow.org

For ten minutes, 5 days a week, of your time, you will be vastly better informed than you can be from relying on the power establishment's propaganda system if you follow headlines there. Plus they have longer stories on various topics. The website is very well oaid out, and their archive goes back years and the search function works very well- much better than I've experienced at the New York Times or the New Yorker, for example. 

Don't make me have to inform you of what's going on. Take responsibility for knowing what's going on in the world YOU LIVE IN.

Obviously the remedy here is impeachment and removal from office of Trump. But the Republican Party controls both houses of Congress, and the Republican Party has degenerated into a political cult with Trump at its head.

Some think mass protests are somehow the answer. In his last round as president, Trump ordered then Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to have troops shoot protesters in the legs. Esper refused. But Defense Secretary this time, Peter Hegseth, will be glad to. In fact, this time the order will probably be to aim at heads and chests.

Too bad the lame and feckless Democratic Party helped allow this situation. The Biden regime could have indicted Trump in early 2021 for the failed coup and theft of a massive amount of classified documents. Instead they dragged their feet for several years, by which time Trump rebuilt his popularity and the Republican-controlled Federal judiciary effectively stalled the cases until they were killed or dropped. 

For the story about Elon Musk, here's the link:

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/3/elon_musk_gov#transcript

 For more on the shutdown of USAID, go to:

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/2/3/usaid_shutdown

 

 

 

U.S. Media Obsession Of The Day: Military Helicopter Causes Fatal Airline Crash In Washington, DC

I say "causes," because a Blackhawk helicopter has no business "training" next to a very busy airport, where it collided with an American Airlines plane coming in to land. Both craft landed in a freezing cold river. There were no survivors. The U.S. media didn't say "caused," even though it obviously did. It's "under investigation." 

For many years now, the U.S. military can do no wrong in the eyes of the U.S. corporate propaganda system. 

And once again, I am struck by the contrast between the obsession with a relatively minor tragedy befalling some Americans (33 people on the airliner, 3 on the "chopper") and the ongoing atrocities being inflicted by Israel upon Palestinians. Which total U.S. support makes possible.

For one thing, there's the sham "ceasefire" in Gaza. Israel continues to murder Palestinians there, including young children.  (Democracynow.org reports these murders, as do other non-corporate media which are not part of the U.S. power establishment.) And there is no "ceasefire," not even the pretense of one, in the West Bank, where an ongoing pogrom with "ethnic cleansing" (a euphemism for violent expulsion of a population) is invisible in the U.S. propaganda system. Over the last 15 months, this campaign of Israeli annexation has killed close to a thousand Palestinians (men, women, children, the elderly- there are no exemptions), destroyed or stolen Palestinian property, crops, olive trees, sheep, homes. Cynical Joe Biden made a symbolic move about that- putting empty "sanctions" on a few notorious Israeli "settlers" (most of those creeps are from Brooklyn, NY), but since they doubtless have little or no U.S. assets and don't move capital through the international (U.S.-controlled) financial system, these putative sanctions are devoid of effect. Trump cancelled even those pretend sanctions immediately upon taking office again.

And in case you believe there's a "ceasefire" in Lebanon, I must inform you that like all Israeli ceasefires these days, it is one-sided. Israel lashes out violently whenever it feels like it. Having decapitated Hezbollah and devastated southern Lebanon (a recurring habit of Israel's) Lebanon is virtually defenseless against Israel the bully nation. (Oh, Israel keeps gobbling up more pieces of Syria too. Or weren't you informed by American "journalists"?)

The only response to any of the facts by the U.S.-Israeli power establishment is to brand their victims "terrorists" and people who mention the facts "anti-Semites." We're dealing with closed-minded imperialist fanatics, fanatics who are incorrigible.

 

 

MARA- Make America (More) Racist Again

Trump cancelled an executive order of president Lyndon Johnson from 1965 to finally end racist discrimination in Federal hiring. So we're back to the era of Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic Party president (1913-21) and arch Southern racist who purged the Federal government of black employees. 

Trump has already done a lot of harm to the U.S. government and American society. He's revoked long-standing Federal government ethics rules, paving the way for his pre-planned tidal wave of corruption to enrich himself and the billionaire scum who toadied up to him, and bribed him with millions of dollars. [1]

The worst thing Trump has done is release 1,500 fascist terrorists from prison, mostly the mob of his stormtroopers who occupied the Capitol on January 6, 2021, seeking to maim or kill Nancy Pelosi and hang Trump's vice president on his instigation, Michael Pence. Two  of those freed were guilty of seditious conspiracy, the leaders of two violent stormtrooper-type organizations with a history of beating up small groups of progressive protesters with police complicity (who stand by smiling or simply do nothing) and genuine journalists (not establishment media propagandists who don't cover such protests. These two, Enrique Tarrio and Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, led respectively the violent fascist gangster groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, who in addition to storming and semi-sacking the Capitol on January 6, 2021, specialize in beating up defenseless gays, anti-war protesters, real journalists, and assorted other objects of their hate, with complicity from police and prosecutors who allow it. This is the same situation that prevailed in the Weimar Republic, which paved the way for the Third Reich.

Now the U.S. is entering a phase parallel to the Third Reich. Six million Jews won't be murdered, but millions of Palestinians might be. Trump has called for Gaza to be "cleaned out" ( of its human filth, the Palestinians) and is trying to coerce Jordan and Egypt to take them. After that, he and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, want to "develop" Gaza as a tourist destination, as their comments have made clear. Of course, the Palestinians could do this if Israel and Egypt didn't run Gaza as an open air concentration camp, blocking virtually all entry and exit. The Nazis also had schemes to deport Jews to Madagascar, but ultimately opted for extermination. If deportation of the Palestinians doesn't pan out, extermination, which can be accomplished by disease and starvation as well as by "kinetic" means, will be the only way left to "develop" Gaza for Trump, Kushner, and Israel.

1] Elon Musk, the South African apartheid racist, spent $250,000,000 to help elect Trump. Amazon boss Jeffrey Bezos, and Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg, each gave $1,000,000 to Trump's "Inauguration Committee." That entity took in a total of $250 million. Of course only a small fraction of that got spent on the one day inauguration. The bulk of it can be used for any purpose Trump desires, as no law controls its use. Not that Trump would obey any law. He has already trampled several laws in just his first few days in the White House. He fired the Inspector Generals of over a dozen Federal agencies and Departments, in violation of the law requiring Congress be given 30 days prior notice. He has fired civil servants illegally. He dismissed the top four officials in the Immigration court system. Indeed, he is living up to his threat to be a dictator- and for more than "one day," which he cynically said he would be when asked about it.

 

 

All 9 Supreme Court Justices Rule Against Free Speech Of 170 Million Americans

The Court, including the three "liberals," all upheld the law demanding that TikTok's owner, the Chinese company ByteDance, sell TikTok by January 19, 2025, or it will be forcibly shut down. Fines for violations are $5,000 per use. This forces Apple and others to deactivate the TikTok apps.

As usually happens when there is a conflict between power and rights, rights loses. There are numerous major legal cases in U.S. history where this is true. Understand, they don't say "power," they say "National Security." That is a euphemism, code words, for U.S. national power. That's what happened in this case, where the government invoked "national security" and all nine Supremos ruled that power trumps rights. And never mind what it says in the U.S. Constitution, the basic law of the nation, specifically the First Amendment, that "guarantees" freedom of speech. A phony guarantee with no actual assurance. For example: during World War I, the regime of Woodrow Wilson got Congress to outlaw opposition to U.S. entry and participation in the war. Some dissidents who threw anti-war leaflets off a roof were criminally convicted and imprisoned. The Supreme Court ruled that the vaunted First Amendment didn't protect them from being incarcerated. There are many other examples of how all the blather about American "freedom" and "liberty" and "free speech" is so much gaslighting propaganda. Basically the rulers tolerate some speech but certainly not all, and when the chips are down during times of "national emergency" (like the U.S. wants to fight a war somewhere, or is conducting a domestic political purge) the repression increases.

The Democrats are having second thoughts about pissing off 170 million people in this country who use TikTok. Many people make a livelihood from their TikTok videos. The Democrats' leader in the Senate, Charles Schumer, is now saying let's give ByteDance another 90 days to seek a buyer for TikTok. And incoming U.S. emperor- ahem, "president"- Donald Trump has reversed his earlier hatred of TikTok and now claims the power to unblock the ban. Except that the day before he becomes president on January 20, TikTok legally is taken offline in the U.S. And Trump can't order U.S. hosting companies to ignore the law and put it back on. Even if his Justice Department doesn't prosecute them, within the statute of limitations (seven years for most Federal crimes) a future regime could.

Surprisingly, I haven't heard of any organized movement among these 170 million people whose rights were violated, whose freedom was raped, developing. This is an example of the extremely low level of political consciousness in the U.S. population generally, notwithstanding the minorities that get agitated over, say, a genocide in Gaza, or a video of a black man being slowly executed on the street by Minneapolis police.
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DROPSITENEWS has these details about the TikTok ban: 

"Congress moved to prohibit Americans from visiting the number one site in the world, TikTok. But the “TikTok ban” bill goes much further than prohibiting Bytedance, TikTok’s parent company, from controlling the app in the United States. The measure gives new power to the president to determine which social media platforms from around the world are permitted in the United States.

"Signed into law in April of last year and upheld by the Supreme Court on January 17, H.R.7521, not only prohibits TikTok starting January 19, 2025—it gives the president authority to prohibit any foreign-owned social networking app through a simple two-step process. [My emphasis. Part of the process is the president submitting a CLASSIFIED annex to Congress of what he wants banned- that is, a SECRET list. The excuse for this repression is "threat to U.S. national security," the usual magic wand phrase that unlocks magical powers to brush aside any and all rights.]

[dropsitenews describes how giant U.S. tech corps ganged up on TikTok to eliminate a successful rival. The tech giants always either buy out or use market muscle to kill smaller successful companies that come up with new digital services and platforms. Forcing a sale or closure of TikTok accomplishes that anti-competitive, monopolistic goal using state power.]

"Ahead of the ban, Tik Tok’s U.S. based competitors actively lobbied for the bill. The strategy for large tech firms and social media companies has been to rid the market of competition, known as “catch and kill.” Facebook’s parent company, Meta, paid a consulting firm, Targeted Victory, to run a nationwide media campaign bashing Tik Tok. According to internal emails, leaked to the Washington Post in March of 2022, the firm was hired to “get the message out that while Meta is the current punching bag, TikTok is the real threat especially as a foreign owned app that is #1 in sharing data that young teens are using.”

"Tik Tok was only the bill’s first target. H.R.7521, the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” specifically determines “ByteDance, Ltd.; TikTok” is a “foreign adversary controlled application.” In accordance with the bill, it will be unlawful to “distribute, maintain, or update” Tik Tok in the United States 180 days after the bill’s enactment. Unless, of course, TikTok is under new ownership and determined by “the President… through an interagency process” to no longer be controlled by a foreign adversary.

"The bill is sweeping, prohibiting any “covered company" that is “controlled by a foreign adversary” and is “determined by the President to present a significant threat to the national security of the United States.”

"H.R.7521 places a shocking amount of power in the hands of the President, allowing them full power to determine which foreign-owned social media platforms live or die in the United States. The hyperfocus on Tik Tok may be a red herring, distracting from the sweeping impact of the measure: Ushering in a new era where the commander-in-chief decides who Americans are able to connect with around the world—potentially sowing deeper divisions among the U.S. and its foreign adversaries."

In other words, a state of quasi-war.

When it comes to Israel, the U.S. is a totalitarian society.

 That is, dissent from the official pro-Israel anti-Palestinian propaganda is actively suppressed. There is no tolerance whatsoever for the "free speech rights" of anyone who wants to describe the agonies of Palestinians under Israeli rule, Israeli aggression, or the actual history of Israel.

Here's a video from 2015, which sounds like what's happening today. This video describes the kind of repression of dissent from Zionist propaganda, and the forbidding of truth about Israel's repression and the Palestinian people, and the activities of Israel's fifth column in the U.S., the so-called "Pro-Israel lobby." 

The speaker, Dr. Alice Rothschild, is Jewish. She details numerous incidents, some personally experience, of the overt repression of dissent from Israeli propaganda in the U.S. Her examples come from the school system, academia, and medical institutions. 

The campus institution of organized Zionist Jews, Hillel, claimed that Dr. Rothschild's mere presence to give a talk made "Jewish students feel unsafe." Exactly the same bogus claim shouted today by agents of Israel in the U.S. and politicians in Congress and elsewhere. 

Mere facts are taken as "anti-Semitic" when the facts show the reality of life under Israeli oppression. For example, a photo in a poster of the wall Israel built to imprison the entire Palestinian population is evidence of anti-Israel "bias."

The New York City school system unofficially bans any mention of actual history, as one of Dr. Rothschild's anecdotes illustrates.

Dr. Rothschild traces the forceful suppression of deviation from Israel's propaganda creation story to 1948.

Today we see University presidents purged after being accused by reactionary Republican politicians of being insufficiently repressive towards any expression of sympathy in their institutions for the Palestinian victims of Israel. Such sympathy is referred to as "anti-Semitism." Thus regarding Palestinians as human beings entitled to human rights is twisted into a form of bigotry against Jews. 

What a vile and grotesque political transmogrification! 

Ignore The Fake Election Cliffhanger Bullshit- The Republicans Will Still Rule The House Of Representatives

As of this writing, the GOP (Gang Of Plunderers) has won 215 House districts, the Democrats 206. That leaves 14 districts where the votes are still being counted. There are 435 House seats. 218 constitutes a majority. So the Republicans just need to win just 3 of the remaining 14 districts to retain their control of the House.

This is over.
 
Given that the Republican Party now is a cult with a Leader, Trump, who has virtually total domination of the party, the U.S. government as of January will be in Trump's hands. The Congress, the Executive Branch, and the Republican Judiciary. Even when he was out of office, that Judiciary bent over backwards to shield him from prosecution for his crimes. His hand-picked Federal District Judge, the lawless Aileen Cannon, had control over the criminal case arising from his theft of a large quantity of classified documents. This criminal judge delayed the case for years, then suddenly this year dismissed the charges on the spurious grounds that the special prosecutor was illegally appointed. (A completely ridiculous assertion with no basis in law or precedent.) This meant that there would be no trial (assuming the prosecutor got the charges reinstated in the Trump-aligned judiciary). Federal Judges at the Appeals Court level and the Supreme Court dragged their feet on ruling on appeals (spurious ones by Trump's lawyers, meritorious ones by special prosecutor Jack Smith) and threw up roadblock after roadblock to bringing the criminal Trump to justice.

The Republican Supreme Court even issued a gratuitous and shocking ruling, out of the blue, that presidents are IMMUNE FROM PROSECUTION for ANYTHING they do in office "in their official capacity." A meaningless qualifier, since all presidents always claim that everything they do is part of their official duties.

Some people, both establishment types and some aspiring to be establishment types, not unreasonably fretted that a president could order a Navy SEAL team to murder a political opponent and be immune. But that sort of thing already happens. It just happens to people that "respectable" bourgeois types don't care about. Trump sent a U.S. Marshall's death squad to murder Michael Reinoehl, an Antifa activist who shot and killed a fascist stormtrooper type. [1]

 
And under Obama the government murdered journalist Michael Hastings in California and Black Lives Matter commentator Sandra Bland in Texas. Obama ordered weekly murders of "terrorists," and we are supposed to believe all were overseas. Many were by no reasonable definition "terrorists." such as farmers, peasants, and children.

Obama gifted Trump and all future presidents with the power to imprison American citizens in the Guantanamo Bay torture center or any secret site without charges and with no legal recourse. He did this by attaching a new legal authority to the "Defense" budget one year. Some leading dissidents brought a lawsuit, which they won in a Federal district court. The Obama regime filed an "emergency" appeal the same or next day and got the Federal Appellate court in New York  City to throw out the case entirely, claiming the dissidents didn't have "standing," - because they hadn't yet been rendered to a secret torture center! (Of course once they are, they'll be helpless to communicate with the outside world. How's THAT for a Catch-22?)

Obama fatuously reassured the public not to worry about this new anti-human law, because HE wasn't going to use it. What about future presidents, asshole? What a loathsome jackass. 

1]  Trump was very briefly asked about this assassination by a reporter, and Trump said something like "You had to do it," kill Reinoehl. That answer was considered the end of the matter by the murderous corporate propaganda system.

BIDEN-HARRIS WRITE OFF AMERICANS IN LEBANON, & A LESSON IN U.S. 'DEMOCRACY' & HOW THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TREATS ITS BASE LIKE AN ABUSED SPOUSE

 

 

 

 

Some necessary explanatory notes, and a correction to what the woman panelist said.
Matt Miller is the chief U.S. State Department propagandist ("spokesman"), a completely immoral creature who covers for the U.S.-Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people, parrying questions, creating a fog of gaslighting. He's not even a human being, but an ANTI-human being.

Jamal Khashoggi was a Saudi who wrote op-ed columns for the Washington Post, a major media organ of the ruling class. Khashoggi occasionally criticized the Saudi dictatorship run by "Prince" Mohammed Salman. Salman found this intolerable, so Khashoggi was lured to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, in October 2018, where he was murdered, his body sawed into pieces, and the pieces smuggled out and made to vanish. After the Turkish government exposed this crime, there was a period where U.S. politicians waved their arms and waxed indignant, proclaiming the crime to be "unacceptable." Eventually the furor blew over. The Saudi dictator scapegoated some hapless government operatives and that was the end of it.

The woman on the panel attributes the U.S. abandonment of Americans under Israeli bombardment in Lebanon to the Biden regime being  "rudderless." That's not it. The reason is callousness for the victims.

The U.S. government has an ingrained habit of siding with Israel whenever it murders Americans. The reason is that the U.S. political system at the highest levels has been colonized by Israel through its fifth column in the U.S., which includes organizations like AIPAC, the ADL, Christian Zionists, with the establishment media long acting like they are Israeli propaganda mouthpieces.

The callousness of U.S. politicians and government for American victims of Israeli violence has a long history, going back to the attempted sinking of the U.S.S. Liberty in 1967, and even earlier to Israeli secret police bombing U.S. facilities in Egypt in the 1950's under "false flag" operations designed to lay the blame on Egyptians, and forward to the murder of Rachel Corrie, who was run over by an Israeli bulldozer when she tried to stop the demolition of a Palestinian family's home, the murder of a passenger on a relief convoy in international waters by Israeli commandos to stop it reaching Gaza, and the murder of star Al Jazeera reporter by an Israeli army sniper in May 2022, in Jenin, West Bank, Palestine. And just to show they had total impunity to murder journalists, two weeks later the Israelis murdered another journalist. They didn't have to wait for a scandal to blow over. They wanted to make it clear to reporters who covered their crimes that their lives could be snuffed out at any time with no consequences to Israel.

Here's the link to the episode of Sam Seder's "The Majority Report" from which this is excerpted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvlVFMvN1d0

Here's an interesting example of youtube political interference. I searched on youtube the title of the show, and it only came up with some shit about Israeli terrorist prime minister Menachem Begin. I had to search OUTSIDE of youtube to get the youtube URL link! Not the first time I've had to do that. I knew when Google bought youtube it would spoil it. Google, now under the corporate umbrella of Alphabet, was a joint project of Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and the NSA and CIA at Stanford University. And it shows.

Brown University Affirms Support For Genocide

The "Corporation of Brown University" voted to retain its investments in companies supporting Israeli crimes and Israeli companies.

The University's chancellor and president issued this statement in justification:

University Chancellor Brian T. Moynihan and President Christina H. Paxson said that with a majority vote to accept ACURM’s recommendation, the Corporation — Brown’s highest governing body — stated its clear position opposing divestment, and accordingly, the University will not divest.

“In particular, Corporation members noted ACURM’s finding that Brown’s exposure to the 10 companies identified in the divestment proposal is de minimis, that Brown has no direct investments in any of the companies targeted for divestment and that any indirect exposure for Brown in these companies is so small that it could not be directly responsible for social harm, as defined in ACURM’s charge,” they wrote in an Oct. 9 letter to the Brown campus. “These findings alone are sufficient reason to support ACURM’s recommendation.”

The Brown officials claim the investments are "de minimis," meaning of very slight size and value. Which means the financial sacrifice of selling the shares would be insignificant! But they wouldn't sell nevertheless.

Because they are stubbornly IN SUPPORT of Israeli genocide. They won't even take the MOST MINOR STEP to mollify people suffering the emotional pain of witnessing Israel's genocide, and caring.

Meanwhile numerous other U.S. "institutions of higher learning" are repressing and persecuting students and faculty who try to protest the Israeli-U.S. genocide of the Palestinian people.

What callous scum run U.S. "institutions of higher learning." These assholes need to learn about morality and basic human decency.

Brian T. Moynihan. He plays rugby, he wants you to know!

 

Christina H. Paxson. And she looks so NICE! 

 

[The University statement is at https://www.brown.edu/news/2024-10-09/divestment-decision]

You're In Luck: In Most States, Your Vote Against Trump Doesn't Matter

 That means you are free to vote for whomever. In CA, NY, NJ, CT, and other non-"battleground" states, there is no contest. Kamala Harris is going to win 100% of the Electoral College vote in those states. Every single Electoral College vote. 

In states that are a lock for Trump, the same logic applies. Trump will win no matter what, so voters there need not feel trapped inside the two-party straitjacket. Especially for people who would vote Democratic, which is futile.

In 2016, Donald Trump got 62,979,879 votes, but Hillary Clinton got 65,844,954 votes, 2.9 million more than Trump. So how did Trump become president? He won in the Electoral College, 306 to 232. Hillary Clinton got more votes than any other losing presidential candidate in US history. 

In 2000, George Bush got 50,456,002 votes, Al Gore got 50,999,897 votes, 543,895 more than Bush. Bush became president, elected by the Electoral College, 271 to 266. (Ralph Nader received 2,882,728 votes nationally, but ZERO Electoral College votes. That's fair, right?)

Except for Nebraska and Maine, every state gives ALL their Electoral College votes to the winner of the "popular" vote in the state. They do NOT divide their Electoral College votes among the candidates in proportion to how the PEOPLE of the state voted. 

So your vote for Harris does NOTHING to defeat Trump. Harris is going to get ALL the Electoral College votes in your state, the votes that actually elect the president.

You don't have to vote for an accomplice to genocide and horrific crimes in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Yemen, where Israel is attempting to create another mass starvation by bombing the sole port through which food enters Yemen that is the difference between life and death for the people there.

For as long as I've been alive, the Democratic Party has practiced a politics of extortion. You "have" to vote for them or you get something worse, the Republican. It has worked for decades to force people to vote for them, and then the Democrats most often turn around and betray the promises they made. 

We live in a two-party dictatorship, a cartel controlled by two parties that on the basic fundamentals are in agreement- support corporate oligarchy (each party has its billionaire supporters) and imperialism as foreign policy. Breaking the stranglehold on power this political cartel has is an uphill struggle. But for people in non-"battleground" states, the choice to break free is actually easy. YOU WON'T BE HELPING ELECT TRUMP IF YOU DON'T SUBMIT TO EXTORTION BY A SUPPORTER OF MASS MURDER.

I recommend you go on youtube and watch interviews of Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Stein and the Green Party represent decent human politics, which neither of the two parties of the establishment's political cartel do. An alternative can only be built slowly, with persistence.

[Five times in U.S. history, so far, the loser got to be president: 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000, 2016. The U.S. is unique in the world. Yet it constantly boasts that it is the World's Best Democracy, indeed stands as the very SYMBOL of democracy.]

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 'ANTI-SEMITISM' WITCHHUNT, 2005

                                                      

Yes, 2005. What we're seeing today in 2024 is nothing new. Israel's American supporters and unregistered agents of influence are constantly working to ban anyone who is not fond of Israel's crimes against humanity from colleges and elsewhere. 

Then as now, the pattern is well-honed and easily recognized. A Jewish student indoctrinated in Zionist ideology and brought up on the story of Jewish persecution for millennia culminating in the Holocaust, thus having a persecution complex, will deliberately sign up for a class by a Palestinian professor or a professor targeted as unfriendly to Israel, and bait the professor with outrageous remarks designed to emotionally upset the professor. Then the student, backed by outside organized Jewish Zionists, brings a complaint to the university administration claiming the professor is anti-Semitic. 

Obviously this is a plot hatched in advance. Students don't naturally sign up for classes they expect to dislike, with professors they are hostile to. The premeditation is obvious.

The way these things unfold is the university administration doesn't defend the targeted professor, but lets him or her twist slowly in the wind. At a minimum, the targeted educator suffers some reputational damage. When you hurl mud at someone, some of it sticks, no matter the untruthfulness of the smears.

I'm reminded of an anecdote about Lyndon Johnson. Johnson wanted to make an outrageous accusation against a political opponent. One of Johnson's minions said he couldn't do that, it wasn't true. "But let the son-of-a-bitch deny it," Johnson evilly replied. In other word, get the smear out there, put the victim on the defensive. Denying a vile accusation is what people expect a guilty person to do, same as an innocent one. As long as some people believe it, or are merely influenced by it subliminally, the tactic can be effective. Richard Nixon is a politician who rose to power by smearing people he ran for Congress against as Communist "fellow travelers" or tainted with socialistic tendencies.