They build the armored cars too.

It seems to me that we've only been talking about privatized spaceflight for the last ten or fifteen years. It makes me wonder why, because NASA for example has never manufactured anything of its own, it's a project manager and a research facility. It was always a part of the MIC, yet another means to get government funds into the hands of private capitalists. Many NASA projects only got off the ground because there was a military/intelligence application, and/or because some MIC capitalist stood to benefit greatly.

I think the best part about alienating Russia and China with regards to space exploration is that the US has unilaterally declared a new space race to the moon, and China is going to get there first even though they're not playing along with that silly game. It's also telling that China has opened their programs to collaboration with anyone, whereas the US has made it illegal to collaborate with China on space topics.

To be fair, he was a US soldier.

After reading the article and looking into this Dr. Busby I feel like caution is necessary.

While I wouldn't put it past the imperialists to use nuclear weapons, the author has taken some questionable positions in the past. The again said positions are merely not in line with the narrative the imperialist project presents, so maybe there's nothing to be concerned about here.

The UN for example stated in 2006 that his claims of DU munitions being used In Kosovo and Iraq (part two) are empirically false, but since then the US and NATO have admitted to it.

He has a very strange theory of radiation effects on humans, one which doesn't at all match with long established evidence, the mainstream theory, nor more modern theories.

He also claimed the Fukushima disaster (and Chernobyl) was much worse than it's generally agreed to be, and was selling some sort of anti-radiation pill of questionable effectiveness to Japanese people in the area.

The people who already mentioned cold fusion in this thread have made good points as well. I can't find much on this Del Guidice character but there's a bit in the German Wikipedia entry noting that his and his collaborator Giuliano Preparata's ideas on cold fusion and the "memory of water" were not well accepted amongst peers.

I couldn't agree more.

Something something Parenti quote...

Some more crucial context:

https://orinocotribune.com/essequibo-and-other-border-issues-venezuelas-territorial-losses-to-imperialist-powers-through-the-centuries-part-1/

https://orinocotribune.com/essequibo-and-other-border-issues-venezuelas-territorial-losses-to-imperialist-powers-through-the-centuries-part-2/

As long as classes exist, a state will exist, and that state will naturally have a monopoly on what is (legally) allowed to be published

If that statement is based on the assumption that there are still classes in socialist states too, I fully agree with it.

It's actually based on the opposite. Marx discussed this in depth and Lenin clarified and expanded on it in State and Revolution, which is honestly a must read and is really quite brief and a lot of fun to read.

The state arises from class antagonisms. The state is a means with which one class oppresses the others. The withering away of the state can only be achieved by reducing and ultimately eliminating classes and thus the class antagonisms which gave rise to the state in the first place.

What a nascent socialist state must do therefore, is establish the working class as the dominant class, and work to eliminate class antagonisms through, among other things, the elimination of private property and the class it creates. Preventing reactionaries from having a platform is one of the tools a state can and must use to help achieve this goal, just as the violent silencing of the working class in capitalist regimes is a tool used to maintain the hegemony of the capitalist class.

The ship has long sailed on that one. Helping out Zionist occupation forces is just standard operating procedure for the boots of the empire.

That doesn't even make any sense.

Russia's primary concern since 1991 has been NATO expansion eastward. One of the reasons for the SMO was to prevent the build up of a hostile and well armed comprador state on its border.

NATO membership in exchange for Donetsk and Luhansk is completely absurd. If this isn't a silly negotiating tactic the managers of the empire are more dumb than I already thought.

These would be problems if China had a liberal economic model. Fortunately they have whole process workers democracy, and these things aren't really problems at all.

I've been working with such a poorly documented application that five minutes of debugging can save me hours of reading documentation. Thanks Microsoft.