Some updates.

capitalism_doesnt_work.md

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 - [An outline of the US's biggest human rights failings.](http://download.people.com.cn/waiwen/eight15840920921.pdf)
 - [More here.](https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrocities.md#workers-and-the-poor)
 - In 2022, [the US supreme court overturned Roe V Wade](https://www.npr.org/2022/06/24/1102305878/supreme-court-abortion-roe-v-wade-decision-overturn), ending a constitutional guarantee to the right to have an abortion, in place for over 50 years. In response, [26 US states are expected to ban abortion in their state.](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-24/republican-strongholds-immediately-ban-abortions-post-roe-ruling) Women who become pregnant in red states, [will now have to drive an increased average of over 200 miles to an abortion clinic.](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/22c32c14-c1e8-44f9-9c4b-24f270c251b9.jpeg) [Protests erupted in hundreds of US cities](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62109971), decrying the decision.
+- [Unsolved killings reach record highs as of 2020](https://www.npr.org/2023/04/29/1172775448/people-murder-unsolved-killings-record-high), with the US being unable to solve half it's murders: the lowest in the developed world.
 
 Capitalist hegemony has short-circuited people into buying wildly illogical and ridiculous propaganda like: "_Lift yourselves up by the bootstraps_" (which shows the almost religious power of capitalist propaganda, that the impossible can become possible), or "_Communism doesn't work_", when in fact **Communism did work extremely well.**
 

dessalines_marxism_study_plan.md

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 - [The quotations of Chairman Mao Zedong "the little red book"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotations_from_Chairman_Mao_Tse-tung). A greatest hits of Mao's wisdom on many subjects.
 - [Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin America](https://www.amazon.com/Open-Veins-Latin-America-Centuries/dp/0853459916/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485894404&sr=8-1&keywords=open+veins+of+latin+america) A history of imperialist exploitation of latin America by Europe.
 - [Daniel Immerwahr - How to hide an empire: A history of the greater United States](https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374172145) . [Audiobook](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:f9a1c6d9302b2a0de71ebe40eedf74ec0c3dbfff&dn=How%20to%20Hide%20an%20Empire%20by%20Daniel%20Immerwahr). Excellent expose of the US's empire outside its continental borders, including the Phillipines, Puerto Rico, and Guam, which had at times a larger population than the US itself.
+- [Assata Shakur - autobiography](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:025372fdb0eca162348dc9d9185f7cd8820945bb&xt=urn:btmh:12200a14d2408e951b8f15a7219478e23899cd10bb1d89c50fe0c89c36d9180fead3&dn=Assata%20Shakur%20-%20Assata%20%5baudible%5d) . An enthralling story told by one of the most persecuted black revolutionaries in the US.

socialism_faq.md

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 - [If China Is Anti-Islam, Why Are These Chinese Muslims Enjoying a Faith Revival?](https://time.com/3099950/china-muslim-hui-xinjiang-uighur-islam/)
 - [A New York Times "expose" of re-education centers in Xinjiang lied and mistranslated every claim.](https://www.quora.com/What-would-be-the-consequences-of-the-New-York-Times-expose-on-Xinjiang/answer/Jamin-Chen-1)
 - [Reddit holds an AMA](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/e9ad4n/i_am_rushan_abbas_uyghur_activist_and_survivor_of/) for an "Uyghur Activist", who turns out to be [Rushan Abbas](https://web.archive.org/web/20181207031224/https://www.isi-consultants.com/rushan-abbas/), a CIA agent who worked for Homeland Security, Department of Defense, Department of State, Department of Justice, and various U.S. intelligence agencies, and even worked at Guantanamo bay, the US muslim torture camp. [1](https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitLiberalsSay/comments/e9crzq/shit_liberals_do_claim_to_be_an_uyghur_survivor/) [2](https://medium.com/@rsahthion/a-reddit-ama-claiming-to-be-a-uiyghur-quickly-exposes-a-cia-asset-slandering-china-1d667c098b77)
-- [Reddit holds yet another AMA with Sophie Richardson, the "China director" at the US soft-power regime-change agency Human Rights Watch. The comments expose her as not speaking chinese, and spreading blatant lies about China.](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/hwi7ub/i_am_sophie_richardson_china_director_at_human/)
+- [Reddit holds yet another AMA with Sophie Richardson, the "China director" at the US soft-power regime-change agency Human Rights Watch. The comments expose her as not speaking chinese, and spreading blatant lies about China.](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/hwi7ub/i_am_sophie_richardson_china_director_at_human/) [2](https://web.archive.org/web/20200924183937/https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/hwi7ub/i_am_sophie_richardson_china_director_at_human/)
 - [Reddit holds another AMA with a grifting author, Amelia Pang](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/m99tvp/im_the_author_of_made_in_china_a_prisoner_an_sos/), who wrote a NYTimes best selling book about going undercover into an Uyghur prison. It turns out that she worked for the Epoch Times for many years, and also never visited or talked with a single prisoner. Her book is based on extrapolations from a 1991 film. She leaves the AMA after leaving all the top questions unanswered.
 - [A case study in Anti-Chinese racism.](https://medium.com/@rsahthion/a-case-study-in-racist-anti-chinese-sentiment-fuelled-by-american-bots-and-western-propaganda-f0a69978d568)
 - [Debunking an article from the intercept about Uyghurs.](https://twitter.com/RodericDay/status/1355383514137554944?s=20)
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 - ["Denazification should begin in russia", writing for radio free Europe.](https://www.rferl.org/a/zizek-interview-russia-denazification-ukraine-war/32204259.html)
 - [Zizek - Capitalism's court jester](https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/02/capitalisms-court-jester-slavoj-zizek/)
 - [He's anti-USSR, anti bolivarian revolution, supported the coups in Ukraine and Libya](https://alphonsevanworden.tumblr.com/post/146430343445/the-protocols-of-the-learned-lacanian-of)
+- ["The left must embrace law and order".](https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2023/07/age-of-anarchy-slavoj-zizek)
 - [More here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Marxism/comments/dlz8me/zizek_criticizes_european_leftists_who_reject/f4yl11f/)
 
 ### What's wrong with Barack Obama?
 
 #### Imperialism
 
-- After winning the Nobel peace prize, he dropped an [average of 30k bombs / year during his presidency, mostly on Muslim countries](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/america-dropped-26171-bombs-2016-obama-legacy), [2](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-bombed-iraq-syria-pakistan-afghanistan-libya-yemen-somalia-n704636), [3](https://twitter.com/wallacemick/status/1261744000396152842?s=20). In 2016 alone, dropped [26,171 bombs in the Middle East and North Africa](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-president-barack-obama-bomb-map-drone-wars-strikes-20000-pakistan-middle-east-afghanistan-a7534851.html), up 3000 from the previous year. The countries bombed include Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, [Pakistan](https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/world/asia/04drones.html?smid=tw-share), Libya, and [Somalia](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/03/07/u-s-drone-strike-kills-more-than-150-in-somalia/?utm_term=.fbeafe46df71).
+- After winning the Nobel peace prize, he dropped an [average of 30k bombs / year  (80 per day) during his presidency, mostly on Muslim countries](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/america-dropped-26171-bombs-2016-obama-legacy), [2](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-bombed-iraq-syria-pakistan-afghanistan-libya-yemen-somalia-n704636), [3](https://twitter.com/wallacemick/status/1261744000396152842?s=20). In 2016 alone, dropped [26,171 bombs in the Middle East and North Africa](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-president-barack-obama-bomb-map-drone-wars-strikes-20000-pakistan-middle-east-afghanistan-a7534851.html), up 3000 from the previous year. The countries bombed include Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, [Pakistan](https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/world/asia/04drones.html?smid=tw-share), Libya, and [Somalia](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/03/07/u-s-drone-strike-kills-more-than-150-in-somalia/?utm_term=.fbeafe46df71).
 - Began a campaign of drone assassinations in the Middle East and Africa, in which **90% of those killed were not the intended targets, but [innocent civilian bystanders](https://theintercept.com/drone-papers)**, including women, [children](https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/manhunting-in-the-hindu-kush/), and US citizens. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_US_drone_strikes). Drone strikes are used by the military and the CIA to hunt down and kill people the [Obama administration](https://prod01-cdn07.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/2015/10/KC_Heads01.png) has deemed — through secretive processes, without indictment or trial — worthy of execution. He authorized [10 times more drone strikes](https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2017/01/17/obamas-covert-drone-war-numbers-ten-times-strikes-bush/) than George W Bush, [2](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-president-barack-obama-bomb-map-drone-wars-strikes-20000-pakistan-middle-east-afghanistan-a7534851.html). The Obama assassination program is detailed in the [drone papers](https://theintercept.com/drone-papers).
 - On 3 October 2015, he ordered a United States Air Force AC-130U gunship to attack the [Kunduz Trauma Centre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike) operated by Doctors Without Borders, in northern Afghanistan. The attack killed 42 people and wounded 30 more. The airstrike constitutes a war crime (attacks on hospitals are considered war crimes), and is the first instance of one Nobel peace prize winner (Obama) bombing and killing another (Doctors without borders). CNN and the New York Times deliberately obscured the US's responsibility for the bombing, with the headline, "US is blamed after bomb hits afghan hospital". [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike),[2](https://theintercept.com/2015/10/05/cnn-and-the-nyt-are-deliberately-obscuring-who-perpetrated-the-afghan-hospital-attack/)
 - In 2010, President Obama [directed the CIA](http://www.salon.com/2010/04/07/assassinations_2/) to [assassinate an US citizen](https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/obama-killed-a-16-year-old-american-in-yemen-trump-just-killed-his-8-year-old-sister/) in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, despite the fact that he had never been charged with any crime, killing him [with a September, 2011 drone strike](https://www.theguardian.com/world/blog/2011/sep/30/anwar-al-awlaki-yemen-live). Two weeks later, a separate CIA drone strike in Yemen [killed his 16-year-old American-born son](http://www.salon.com/2011/10/20/the_killing_of_awlakis_16_year_old_son/), Abdulrahman, along with the boy’s 17-year-old cousin and several other innocent Yemenis. In a predictable display of bipartisanship, in January 2017, Trump ordered a SEAL strike, and reports from Yemen [quickly surfaced](http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-yemen-qaeda-idUKKBN15D094) that 30 people were killed, including 10 women and children. Among the dead: the 8-year-old daughter of Anwar Awlaki, sister of the 16 year old killed by Obama. [1](https://theintercept.com/2017/01/30/obama-killed-a-16-year-old-american-in-yemen-trump-just-killed-his-8-year-old-sister/)
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 - [Omar](https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/ilhan-omar-backs-israel-lobby-campaign-against-iran) [2](https://twitter.com/hansalexrazo/status/1258473006419959808?s=20), [3](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ilhan-omar-says-her-political-role-model-is-inspirationally-bold-margaret-thatcher), [4](https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1362154968883503106?s=20)
 - [Bordiga](https://libcom.org/forums/history/bordiga-leninist-who-put-his-hopes-axis-27122017)
 - CPUSA [1](https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/bidens-crisis-presidency-and-potential-for-transformative-change/), [2](https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/biden-and-sanders-establish-task-force-to-unite-party-on-progressive-agenda/), [3](https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/a-clear-shot-shows-diversity-on-police-forces-a-good-thing/)
-- [Ziq](https://web.archive.org/web/20180405002453/https://raddle.me/f/lobby/28422/i-m-stepping-down-as-admin-because-of-some-shit-i-did-emma) [2](https://archive.is/THMIk)
+- [Ziq](https://web.archive.org/web/20180405002453/https://raddle.me/f/lobby/28422/i-m-stepping-down-as-admin-because-of-some-shit-i-did-emma) [2](https://archive.is/THMIk) [3](https://www.hexbear.net/post/272574)
 - [Robert Evans](https://twitter.com/hegellacan1/status/1536090225092374528?t=gOVNa1-sKTgihX4OnDEw_A&s=19), [2](https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1288116233133424648) [3](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/XwBw0R0M59.jpg)
 - Paul Morrin - [China is imperialist](https://twitter.com/LurkerUntamed/status/1372732445146165251?s=20), [Cuba, China, the DPRK, and the USSR are "social imperialist".](https://twitter.com/ANTICONQUISTA/status/1375213633186193413)
 - [Blackredguard](https://twitter.com/BlackRedGuard1/status/1383849476863844359?s=20)