Sunday, January 28th very pro-Israel Nancy Pelosi said in the media that the FBI should investigate supporters of a Gaza ceasefire for links to Russia. I'm not sure if she has formally requested an FBI investigation, and I don't know that the FBI would do it without a formal request, but they might already be targeting the movement supporting Palestinian national liberation. The Biden-Harris administration used similar allegations of Russian influence to justify heavily armed raids against the African People's Socialist Party/Uhuru Movement in multiple states July 29, 2022. Earlier the Freedom Road Socialist Organization was the target of secret police spying and multi-state raids here in Durham and elsewhere September 24, 2010, during the Bush-Cheney administration [correction: this was of course during the Obama-Biden administration, which also moved against the Occupy movement; Bush-Cheney also targeted the left, religious institutions, and Muslims in general, though off the top of my head I can't recall any well-known FBI raids against left parties like what happened under Obama and Biden; maybe I've forgotten. There was Sami al-Arian (born January 14, 1958 in Kuwait; indicted February 21, 2003; his case brings to mind what Pelosi advocates doing now), etc. Back to FRSO in 2010:], over allegations that they had provided material support to US government non-state enemies abroad, though there hasn't been any attempt at prosecution since the raids. In addition the Biden-Clinton-Obama wing of the Democratic Party likes to accuse other Democrats and other political enemies of being Russian agents, with little or no evidence to back up their claims, but the mainstream media goes along.
An article by Defending Rights and Dissent; they also sent a similar letter to Pelosi: rightsdissent.substack.com/p/pelosis-calls-for-the-fbi-to-investigate
[2/12: I hope to put up a new post shortly, but to note before then then – there will be votes on Gaza ceasefire resolutions in Durham and Denver, CO today, February 12th? – robertjprince.net/2024/02/12/palestine-tet-104-denver-colorado-to-vote-on-a-ceasefire-proclamation-today-monday-february-12-2024/ There will be a Balance and Accuracy in Journalism (BAJ) meeting the evening of the 13th in Chapel Hill, I think also regarding Palestine.]
[2/7: According to a February 6th Substack article from Defending Rights and Dissent, there is now a recording of Pelosi saying that protesters calling for a ceasefire should "go back to China where your headquarters is," so her warmongering McCarthyism has gotten worse.]
Semi-related – two (white?) former SC state senators on NPR's Morning Edition on how their state and the Democrats there are "conservative" and "moderate" (meaning rightist) and the Democrats who proposed to defund the police, etc. caused them problems, but don't worry, Biden's self-serving South Carolina-first primary plan will keep the radicals down from now on, and the Democrats will gain more power now (and if that fails, send in the neo-McCarthyist FBI, CIA, and NSA, whichever party is in the White House). I don't recall the interviewer asking anything to 'push back' on this. Vote for reactionary Democrats, or else. For years some people have talked about how Trump will target the left if he gets a second term, and maybe he would – following the example of Bush, Obama, and Biden.
On Sunday's Morning Edition another South Carolina (Black?) Democrat was on to praise Biden and say that the youth should get with the program, for gun control, etc., and have no other choice anyway.
Only now is the mainstream media (Jonathan Blitzer of the New Yorker) considering the role of US foreign policy in causing the immigration crisis, being used by Trump and the 'authoritarian populists' whatever, and they are mostly limiting it to the Reagan era and further back? Last week they were no doubt throwing dust in the air about the war in the Middle East, with David Sanger of the New York Times, and they got their cause for war in the attack on the Tower 22 base in Jordan on the 28th: www.npr.org/2024/01/30/1227857779/new-yorker-writer-traces-the-current-u-s-boarder-crisis-back-to-the-cold-war and www.npr.org/2024/01/25/1226856416/how-the-war-between-israel-and-hamas-widened-into-a-regional-conflict
The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War began around now in 1968 and lasted for months, and Hamas' al-Aqsa Flood operation has been compared to it. This is also around the anniversary of vandalism of a Vietnam War monument or memorial in Durham.
[At 12pm ET on January 31st there will be an Electronic Intifada livestream on Israel and company's attack on UNRWA (they want to destroy this lifesaving UN aid organization for what ~12 current and now former employees, out of a workforce of ~13,000, are accused of having done, by a partisan in the conflict?), the false rape charges in the New York Times (more false charges in the 'paper of record' for war?), etc.: www.youtube.com/watch?v=THGfP0HMklk ]
[An on-going Durham Public Schools labor picket by many staff and teachers is moving to the DPS HQ building at 2pm January 31st? It might have started at a staff development center and it resulted in something like 12 school closures this morning. There have been many actions in recent years and in 2024 there is a payment dispute after an apparent overpayment error.]
[The Celtic holiday of Imbolc or Imbolg and related Irish Saint Brigid's Day is February 1st, Candlemas is February 2nd, Japan's Setsubun is supposed to be February 3rd this year, with following Risshun February 4th, among spring holidays, and the East Asian Lunar New Year is supposed to be February 10th in 2024.]
The Torch
The January issue of The Torch, newspaper of the Independent Workers' Party, has been published and will be available online at: www.independentworkersparty.org/ This is a united front and welcomes anyone who agrees with the basic principles listed on the website (according to the organizing initiative board, contact at: editor at independentworkersparty...). People can contribute articles, poetry, and photos; donations and volunteer distributers are also needed. The IWP has held webinars on the second Great Depression and the continuing struggle in Haiti (available on YouTube, in French and English, www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jSqjdJGlH4 ).
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