Taking Video Of Police Illegal In 12 U.S. States
Posted on 05. Dec, 2011 by Cameron in US politics
Here’s what Trotsky said about the rise of Fascism.
At the moment that the “normal” police and military resources of the bourgeois dictatorship, together with their parliamentary screens, no longer suffice to hold society in a state of equilibrium — the turn of the fascist regime arrives. Through the fascist agency, capitalism sets in motion the masses of the crazed petty bourgeoisie and the bands of declassed and demoralized lumpenproletariat — all the countless human beings whom finance capital itself has brought to desperation and frenzy.
From fascism the bourgeoisie demands a thorough job; once it has resorted to methods of civil war, it insists on having peace for a period of years. And the fascist agency, by utilizing the petty bourgeoisie as a battering ram, by overwhelming all obstacles in its path, does a thorough job. After fascism is victorious, finance capital directly and immediately gathers into its hands, as in a vise of steel, all the organs and institutions of sovereignty, the executive administrative, and educational powers of the state: the entire state apparatus together with the army, the municipalities, the universities, the schools, the press, the trade unions, and the co-operatives. When a state turns fascist, it does not mean only that the forms and methods of government are changed in accordance the patterns set by Mussolini — the changes in this sphere ultimately play a minor role — but it means first of all for the most part that the workers’ organizations are annihilated; that the proletariat is reduced to an amorphous state; and that a system of administration is created which penetrates deeply into the masses and which serves to frustrate the independent crystallization of the proletariat. Therein precisely is the gist of fascism….
Sound familiar?
No Illusions Podcast #41
Posted on 30. Nov, 2011 by Cameron in Podcast, US politics
News updates from around the globe. Includes the following stories:
Former Tasmanian MP found guilty of having sex with a 12 year old girl, but gets no jail time.
Time Magazine Doesn’t Want To Show U.S. Citizens Pictures Of Revolution.
U.S. Senate Are Voting On Legislation That Allows Their Military To Arrest Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime, and in Any Country. Including the U.S.A.
More US Soldiers Committed Suicide Than Died in Combat
US Military Manipulates the Social Media
U.S. Army and Psychology Largest Experiment Ever
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Time Magazine WTF?
Posted on 29. Nov, 2011 by Cameron in US politics
Revolution? In the U.S.A.? It’s not happening. It’s not happening. It’s not happening. It’s not happening. It’s not happening.
No Illusions Podcast #40 – Doug La Follette, Wisconsin Secretary of State
Posted on 25. Nov, 2011 by Cameron in Podcast, US politics
Doug La Follette (born June 6, 1940) is an American academic, environmental activist, and politician from the state of Wisconsin. A Democrat, he is the current Secretary of State of Wisconsin and has served in that role since 1983. He is also a Fulbright Distinguished American Scholar and the author of the 1991 book The Survival Handbook: A Strategy for Saving Planet Earth.
I had the chance to chat with Secretary La Follette this morning for an hour about the attempts to recall Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, President Obama’s track record in his first term and the trend of U.S. politics since Reagan.