Comments by "Kim O\x27Brien" (@kimobrien.) on "Democracy Now!" channel.

  1.  @gloriamartinez4371  "...they don’t do what the US wants..." Sure they do. The New York banks though the International monetary fund and the World bank demand payment on loans and so demand cuts in social services just like the capitalist state and federal government do here in the US. Isn't nice to lend money and get paid back with interests on national and state debt instead of having to pay taxes. You call it a Free Market. I call it being made into a government controlled over taxed debt slave.
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  2. Russian and Chinese capitalist are both competitors and supporters of capitalism. In all various trading bloc agreements govern who can sell and buy what where. This is what the Trump trade initiatives involve. He seeks better trade deals at the expensive of the EU, Mexico, Canada, China and other trading blocs like the TTP.
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  3.  @nunamorais4392  National "Frame Job" Security.
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  4. I don't have to demonize Stalin. The Khrushchev revaluations of 1956 did that. They were an admission by Stalin's close if not closest ally. That the 1930's purges included loyal communists. You want to buy into the theory that Lenin surrounded himself with fascists to make the second socialist revolution that's your choice not mine. As for the 60's generation I'll take Malcolm X over Angela Davis any day.
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  5.  @MaloneMantooth  When the US government gives help it comes with strings attached. They provided lots of military aid, military training and sales to friendly dictatorships like Saudi Arabia and to the old Latin American dictatorships. Other countries asking for help like the US installed puppets in Vietnam and Korea.
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  6.  @MaloneMantooth  Who asked for help and what kind of help did they get?
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  7.  @cidsapient7154  They don't pay income taxes because they own property and take out loans based upon collateralize debt. That is why many big companies no longer pay dividends but do stock buybacks and make the value rise. Which would you rather do take out a loan based upon collateral or sell property? Pay interest or Pay the tax. Now remember that property value rises with inflation unlike wages in fact if wages are held down profits rise but instead of paying dividends they do stock buybacks. Federal taxes are only collected on income and capital gains when property is sold. so a tax is paid by those who sell their property not those who buy.
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  8.  @teriturkett1  He took an oath to Defend the Constitution of the United States which is more than Democracy Now which accepts without question the FBI spy agency actions now.
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  9. Stalin the only reason you won and Hitler lost is because you hadn't finished another deadly purge. This time of Red Army officers before Hitler broke the pact dividing Poland between you and him. If you had finished the purge early or Hitler could have waited a month or so Hitler's armies would have marched all the way to Vladivostok. The smell is so bad I can only conclude that someone must have opened your casket by accident.
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  10.  @frankiliano7656  Simple Trump has no internal opposition in North Korea that he can use to maneuver against Chairman Kim. Maduro refuses to lead a revolution to overturn capitalism in Venezuela instead he like Chavez thinks Social Democracy is the correct route to follow by leaving the Venezuelan capitalists in power with regulations and state interventions. You can't have a 1/2 socialist and 1/2 capitalist country. . Maduro has allowed the capitalists to trade Bolivars for Dollars at a below market rate which is now creating even more problems with corruption and inflation. This is an example of the worst Utopianism of Social Democrats with their foolish policies of uniting with 'progressive' capitalists. Today the Generals are with Maduro. Tomorrow another Pinochet may seize power and destroy all the gains the Venezuelan working class has made.
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  11. The 'tomato' alliance was always one that promoted the containment of communism and the possibility of rolling back communism. Now that Soviet Union no longer exists it has taken on the role of advancing the interest of the US Empire up to the Russian border. Trump's decision to make other powers pay for the military aspect show as a desire to place costs of Empire upon other junior partners while realizing Russia is just another capitalist competitor nation.
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  12. The US will only accept reunification on terms that would allow US troops on the Yalu river. The North will not accept US troops in any reunification deal. China will not abandon N Korea because it won't accept US troops on the Yalu river either. The masses of people in the South don't want another war. Japan isn't suppose to have an army except as defense force after WW2 so even if they wanted to impose their will in Korea they can't. The only ones who are reckless enough to see war as a solution is the United States ruling class.
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  13. There may be a few liberals who toy with the idea of reunification and withdrawal of US forces but the reality is otherwise. How many bases has the US left without a big movement to see them out. France is a Nuclear power so it could leave NATO, Vietnam forced them out militarily while big protest movements forced them out of the Canal Zone and Subic Bay the Philippines. In fact they got a new agreement to begin returning to Subic bay.
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  14. Free GAZA from Hamas!!!
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  15. Stalin biggest enemy wasn't Hitler, Franco, Mussolini, or Tojo. It was paper, ink, the pen, the typewriter, the mimeograph and printing press. His idea of revolution was to be the losing player in a game of whack a mole where the revolutions were the moles and the imperialists the winning wackers.
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  16. End the US Blockade of Cuba!!!!
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  17.  @HildaKeating  Let Hamas bring in the hostages its holding.
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  18. Weill Cornell West admits to the bankruptcy of Gandhism and the nonviolent MLK approach vs the Malcolm X defensive approach. "We were there to get arrested but the police pulled back, we couldn't get arrested and then we needed the protection of Antifa and Anarchist folk because the Fascist were coming." "The KKK are just police in different uniforms." Malcolm X.
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  19. What's important isn't the oppression of the working class but our ability to combine and fight back. We are the revolutionary class not the middle class with its petty privileges and prayers for salvation.
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  20. Stalin you and your gang of corrupt bureaucrats are the reason the Soviet Union collapsed and the Chinese announced the victory of a new Social Democracy complete with a stock market. You dug your own grave and no one wants a corpse as a leader. If you actually read the article you boast about you'd see that on a per capita basis the Black community, over whelming working class, receives about twice the rate of food stamp help that all other races receive. You like your mentor are complete idiots.
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  21. Stalin go back to the grave you body smells bad. You died on a floor because no one including you trusted bodyguards wanted you to wake up and order another deadly purge.
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  22.  @hughjassle5876  Anyone who puts confidence in Democratic Party liberals and police to stop fascism is a complete idiot.
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  23.  @guilhermeperazzini  Sorry but some of us "Rich Guys" actually have responsibilities that keep us from just leaving the trailer park and jet setting around the world.
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  24.  leonardimas1  Forget about boycotting Israeli products. Their is nothing progressive about Hamas. In Israel itself we are seeing joint strikes being carried out dispute nationality. Boycotting Israeli products is counter productive since no significant section of the working class leadership wants it. Hamas is a reactionary Islamic sect.
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  25.  @j7db  Get a subscription to TheMilitant.com newspaper and join the socialist/communist movement to end capitalist rule.
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  26.  @roymaddocks3184  Democracy Now joins the "National Security" "frame job" railroad "Trump" express.
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  27.  @cidsapient7154  What makes him worth more his money, his TV fame or his education at an elite university? Inquiring minds want to know? What makes Queen Hilary the choice of most of the elite and "educated" in the suburbs? Clinton went to the girls finishing school Wellsley college and graduated Yale law spending 15 years defending big business at Rose law. Sourse WSJ.
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  28. It's out of control authority yet it is even more out of control when the person is black. Having Back policeman on the force doesn't make it any better. Cops know Black people don't have the same resources to fight back unless they are organized. How the cops act is determined by the number of mercedes in a neighborhood.
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  29. Nevertheless the cops do kill some caucasians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ooa7wOKHhg Right now these killings however usually occur as a single person at a time. When multiple people are killed at a time it is usually in the context of a political one. The killing of four caucasian students at Kent State was done by national guard and resulted in a nationwide student strike. The Black movement to overturn jim crow discrimination in the south and discrimination by custom in the north faced a much greater use of police violence that compares only to attacks waged upon the labor movement as a whole.
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  30. Ten people were murdered on memorial day 1937 in Chicago when cops opened fire on unarmed striking steelworkers another 50 were victims of gunshot wounds and another 50 were severely beaten by the cops. How many were people of color? I couldn't find that stat. Remember this was before the second mass migration of Black people to the industrial cities of the north starting with WW2 and the preceding military buildup. This was more unarmed protestors murdered by the cops or klan in single day then any day of unarmed civil right protests after WW2.
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  31. If anyone is dividing people it is the police by the actions they take and the politicians who refuse and delay seeking justice for those unjustly killed by police. Corporate media must report or see themselves out reported on social media.
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  32.  @1Dark.Paradise.Lost1 Tell Hamas to release the hostages it is holding.
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  33.  @damienhaydon2703  Just another member of the Boss Class who committed treason by making the Democrats and Rhinos look like the first class idiots they are.
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  34.  @damienhaydon2703  No that is not the way the system works the people who will get taken to the cleaners are those with liile because all the rest have lawyers to hide behind.
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  35.  @damienhaydon2703  They way the avoid taxes is not to take an income or claim a capital gain instead you take out loans secured by stock Sp ypu never pay a tax on debt and only interests as you gi buying money when needed.
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  36.  @cidsapient7154  Sure you can because taking on debt is not the same as income. I have to sell the property before a capital gain occurs. You have collateral a bank is happy to lend you pay NO tax on a debt.
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  37.  @m6a1u57  Why sell property if you can take out a bigger loan to repay the loan. You pay only interest on a loan you never have income because you take out loans and the value of property rises deflating the value of the money and loans. Would you rather pay interest on loans or taxes on income? Put up property for collateral or sell property for a capital gain? Upon death you lose the property as collateral. Nothing is a certain as death and taxes. When I say property I mean any kind of property not necessarily real estate. This is why some companies don't pay dividends. They do stock buy backs to boost the value of the property so they can take out loans instead of declaring income. Amazon has never paid a dividend.
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  38.  @m6a1u57  Look over now!!!
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  39.  @m6a1u57  Why do you think Elon Musk brags about a one dollar salary?
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  40.  @thomasjosullivan9179  Why call a ceasefire on Hamas which started the war and is a NAZI like group that tolerates no disent in GAZA. Israel is NOT South Africa. Jews are a majority in Israel and had their land stolen from them in both Europe and the Muslim countries.
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  41. @Edilio A Cuba just had elections.
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  42.  @annfrancis6287  The Jews bought a lot of that land from Arab landowners. Jews in Arab states were driven out and into Israel. Lets not forget the reactionary role played by Arab landowners and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who sided with Hitler and Raised a Muslim Militia for Hitlers final solution. Twenty percent of Israel's population are Arab citizens. They go on strike together, that didn't happen in South Africa before the end of Apartheid, and an Arab medic stayed behind at the music festival only to be murdered by a Hamas terrorist while bandaging the wounded. After Hamas won its election in Gaza it fought a civil war to murder its opposition. Teachers striking for back pay were fired. Calling Hamas a NAZI like organization is not rhetoric but truth. They aren't interested in developing the economy of Gaza they have their billionaire leader hiding out in Qatar. They are investing in war and political terrorism for their stated goal of a Jew free world. They killed 25 Jews in Argentina. Hamas murdered all political opposition so why do you want to leave them in custody of the innocent people in GAZA? How do you propose to remove them? with a die in for palestine protest? Why do you go to them waving a white flag and see how long you last?
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  43.  @katespinosa3561  Are they their now? Where did the 148,000 in 1948 go to and how many are left? The British and French Imperialism played a reationary role everyone knows that. Anyone who actually owned a farm in a village before the 1948 "Nakba" is to old to do any farming. Workers don't own anything anyway we end up leaving home and going elsewhere anyhow.. The people spewing all the venom are the middle class who think they can get rich by playing the victim card. Hamas leaders and Iranian government investing in arms and attacks upon the rights of their own working people. Why should we support them?
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  44.  @mariahewitt9787  Hamas bosses Khaled Mashaal and Ismail Haniyeh are worth an estimated $4 billion each, and political bureau leader Mousa Abu Marzouk is worth $3 billion. They live in Luxury in Qatar! Iran provides them with weapons and the steal humanitarian aid for weapons. Hamas murdered all political opposition in Gaza. in Israel you can cricise politicians and workers both Arab and Jew can and do go on strike together. No such freedom in GAZA. Hamas is responsible for Israeli attack in Gaza!!! It said it was going to win a great holy war and told believers ti go to Mosque. because Israel was going t be destroyed.
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  45.  @AHappyCub You've noticed one of my weaknesses English language spelling.
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  46.  @alexandrasymeon5893  You can bet the racial characteristics of Jews who lived in Muslim lands was very similar to their Muslim neighbors. Hamas, the NAZI like prison guards of Gaza are waging a holy war that they call upon all Muslims to fight to destroy the Jews in a genocide. The leaders of Hamas are Billionaires living in luxury in Qatar.
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  47.  @taxpert2999 Before 1948 Zionist settlers purchased lands from from Arab landowners. The British and French controlled the Arab territories as colonial powers. With the end of the war the Jews were left as displaced person in the concentration camps and housed in Italian and German military barracks. Zionism became popular because the US/UK had refused the Jews of Europe Asylum and Hitler's rise to power was made possible by Stalin's misleadership of the Communist International. The Jews were a majority in Jerusalem. The end of the war sawc the creation of many new states and new borders including both those of the Arab, Muslim, Jewish, Hudu, and European lands. Arabs states decided they would not accept the lines drawn for the partition of Palestine/Jordan. They tried to use war or politics by other means to win their objectives and lost because they could not put forward a program of socialism of justice for the masses of Aranb workers and farmers. Instead now you see a corrupt Muslim leadership of capitalists businessmen and landowners wanting more for themselves.
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  48.  @johnathandoe9804  That's because you live in capitalist society towards the end of capitalism. You have a ruling class that owns everything and gives orders based upon making profits. Big business doesn't work the same way small businesses do. They want to hide the truth abut how it works and even to themselves because if they told the truth it would be revolutionary because truth is always revolutionary. So they give orders and comannds that don't make sense because they are always try to cut cost and save money for themselves. They create massive debts and demand payment when the debts can no longer get paid. They shut things down so they can save money while producing more but then we can't buy back all that can be produced.
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  49.  @shadowzach00  No the American Imperialist never consulted the American Irish when dealing with the British Imperialists or any ozther sub national group when making foreign policy. They will change course when they realize there hostile policy is a complete failure and will then try and kill the revolution with kindness.
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  50.  @bebetterthanyesterday7  The leaders of Hamas are billionaires living in luxury in Qatar. There riches depend upon creating sympathy for the refugees created by wars the Arab leaders fought to wipe the Jews and Israel off the map . The goal of Hamas is endless suffering caused by wars to gain more UN aid which they can steal for use in more wars which cause endless suffering. Hamas clearly states that the Refugees are the UN's problem not there's.
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