A couple of months ago, US export administration chief admitted that keeping China from achieving what it has now publicly revealed was a matter of "life or death".
nostr:npub14c320gf9ts4nrwmwles5tmy8smp2uf3waq5marpnxagnsgd0y5yszhfgw5 the simple answer is decades of relentless propaganda
nostr:npub1wz0heczkhrsa80m4e9qy3dkl9hwqqy9x5m4kzr9nurptr0qe7lkq93ja3l yeah the fediverse is a breath of fresh air, it works the way the internet was originally meant to work before it got hijacked by megacorps
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nostr:npub1xtguejmenk9qwd4n2yvpuax2tq4f6rr2jejazgfd2zaffvyu9j4slvxfsf I also have absolutely no idea what any of this has to do with Putin. The only thing that's actually responsible for US coming ever closer to a civil war is the capitalist system in US that continues to erode the material conditions of people living there.
Latest New York Times/Siena College poll finds that 37% of registered voters in #US say the problems are so bad that the country are in danger of failing as a nation.
Majority of respondents thinks that the country is headed in wrong direction.
#uspol
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/upshot/poll-republicans-democrats-pessimism.html
nostr:npub1kvwdazx7s93dfj8hgl3w3uuy7x00ydmaxrduxvvdxl924vp7t8gsen5jv7 oof that really suck sucks, my parents got covid last year, but luckily didn't hit them as hard, they also say their blood pressure is all over the place though :(
turns out that inflation figures reported by the media can easily be manipulated
Crime is so bad near S.F. Federal building employees are told to work from home, officials said. #US is turning into a real life cyberpunk dystopia before our eyes. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/drugs-crime-nancy-pelosi-federal-building-18292237.php
Vijay Prashad writes on why the recent wave of coups in West Africa must be understood in the context of widespread discontent with the ruling elites and their collaboration with imperialism
#FranceDégage #Niger
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/15/whats-happening-in-niger-is-far-from-a-typical-coup/
The #US occupied #Hawaii, banned Hawaiian language, let people die in Maui fires, devastated universal healthcare, & illegally occupies Hawaii to this day. Here's how native Hawaiians feel about the occupation.
Investors turn gloomy over Europe’s economic outlook https://archive.ph/sWZBB
If our backs are their table, what happens when we stand up?
Bank of #China starts nationwide move to reduce salary gap among employees, manager levels https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bank-china-starts-nationwide-move-104057286.html
56% of borrowers in #US will have to choose between groceries or their student loan debt when payments resume