Some updates.

README.md

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 ## Links
 
+- [ProleWiki - The Proletarian Marxist-Leninist Encyclopedia](https://prolewiki.org)
 - [Marxist.space - A great collection of resources](https://marxist.space/)

audiobooks.md

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 - [Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin America, Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3cc58222c97db89a139260f0ca11368671bea60)
 - [Marx and Engels - The Communist Manifesto](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7428b83a5f9a51885e12166c0895a41f7f05396a&dn=Audiobook+The+Communist+Manifesto+by+Karl+Marx+and+Friedrich+Eng)
 - [Fidel Castro - My Life](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:22156961fcefdb4b9cc4ab458f4c60b0fd186761&dn=Fidel%20Castro%20-%20My%20Life)
-- [Robert Cialdini - The Psychology of persuasion](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:cf297031c653f986999ca7a978b8e2f55a792ef1&dn=Influence%20The%20Psychology%20of%20Persuasion)
+- [Robert Cialdini - The Psychology of magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e23a07e07eea40cb172625b03253b6484fb27e2f)
 - [Walter Rodney - How Europe underdeveloped Africa](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:C8EA24A6B93F427D17585CBDE9F31EE2F5ACF2EB&dn=Walter+Rodney+-+How+Europe+Underdeveloped+Africa+%5Baudiobook%5D+audible)
 - [Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - An indigenous peoples history of the US. ](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1ae24bda86bd23da6edad32568ad5ff574663f88&dn=Roxanne%20Dunbar-Ortiz%20-%20An%20Indigenous%20Peoples'%20History%20of%20the%20United%20States.mp3)
 - [Autobiography of Malcolm X - as told to Alex Haley](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4e1ba39a81f987fddf7e6abf9e49e2a0c8490168&dn=Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X)

capitalism_doesnt_work.md

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 - [Empty homes outnumber the homeless by 6 to 1](http://archive.today/2014.05.23-032153/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-skip-bronson/post_733_b_692546.html). Bank foreclosures and housing speculators have left 18.9 million empty homes. [2.5 million **homeless children**, or ~1 / 30](https://www.newsweek.com/child-homelessness-us-reaches-historic-high-report-says-285052). In the UK, [there are 10x more empty houses than homeless families](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/housing-crisis-10-empty-homes-5008151). In [Christmas, 2019, more than half a million homeless people across the US.](https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/24/pers-d24.html) [In 2019 in Los Angeles,  ~60k people are homeless on any given night.](http://www.laalmanac.com/social/so14.php)
 - Rising Housing prices from real estate speculation have skyrocketed to the point that an epidemic of [hidden homeless](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/los-angeles-hidden-homeless-priced-out-cbsn-originals/) has arisen: families who live in their cars, or on the street, but who still work. In most US cities, such as LA, it's illegal to sleep in your car overnight. 1/3rd of all renters pay half their income towards landlords. Even mid-size cities like Boise Idaho are experiencing a [surge of homelessness as of 2019](https://www.kivitv.com/news/state-of-208/affordable-housing-crisis-leading-to-rise-in-first-time-homelessness-in-boise).
 - [80% of US workers live paycheck to paycheck](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/29/us-economy-workers-paycheck-robert-reich), 40% cannot cover a [$400 emergency.](http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/federal-reserve-more-than-4-out-of-10-americans-do-not-even-have-enough-money-to-cover-an-unexpected-400-expense)
+- [Low-income renters can't afford rent in nearly 45% of America's largest metro areas](https://phys.org/news/2022-06-low-income-renters-rent-america-largest.html)
 - [The bottom half of US citizens have a combined negative net worth.](https://www.timesunion.com/technology/businessinsider/article/One-brutal-sentence-captures-what-a-disaster-13882763.php) [Average US household carries ~$140k in debt. Median household income only $60k](https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2017/11/18/a-foolish-take-heres-how-much-debt-the-average-us-household-owes/107651700/).
 - [52% of young adults live with their parents, for the first time since the great depression.](https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-of-young-adults-in-the-u-s-live-with-their-parents-for-the-first-time-since-the-great-depression/), [1](http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/goodbye-american-dream-the-average-u-s-household-is-137063-in-debt-and-38-4-of-millennials-live-with-their-parents) Younger generations, with dwindling opportunities, feeling disposable and unwanted under late capitalism, suffer from a [burnout epidemic](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work). Many have [stopped pursuing romantic relationships](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex), and [having children.](https://www.curbed.com/2019/7/19/20700379/raising-kids-cities-family-friendly) [Deaths of despair have skyrocketed, especially among those who never went to college.](https://archive.is/XSvWD)  [2](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/hikikomori-japan), 
 - [~ 1/4th of US workers are trapped in the gig economy as of 2019.](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/02/gig-economy-us-trump-uber-california-robert-reich) [Update: 1 / 3 as of 2021](https://www.vox.com/recode/22651953/americans-gig-independent-workers-benefits-vacation-health-care-inequality).
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 - Despite the corona-virus killing over 30k people as of May 2020, [Far right protesters in several US states demanded that their states end lockdowns](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/trump-supporters-protest-coronavirus-orders).
 - [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. 
 
 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.**
 

crash_course_socialism.md

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 ### Psychology
 
-- [Robert Cialdini - The Psychology of persuasion](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:bad0ad6cca5c00ba8d1f8e8c4e5962f6d611f381&dn=Influence_%20The%20Psychology%20of%20Persuasion%20by%20Robert%20Cialdini) (not explicitly Marxist, but a great breakdown of the main psychological tactics used by exploiters to manipulate us)
+- [Robert Cialdini - The Psychology of persuasion](magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e23a07e07eea40cb172625b03253b6484fb27e2f) (not explicitly Marxist, but a great breakdown of the main psychological tactics used by exploiters to manipulate us)
 
 ### Fiction
 

recipes/cold_brew_coffee.md

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 # Iced filtered coffee 
 
-- 32.5g ground coffee -- 500ml total wates
+- 32.5g coffee/500ml
 - 200g ice
-- 300g 90degree water
-- 90ml bloom (45sec)
+- 300g hot water
+
+1. 97g bloom (45sec) stir bloom
+2. pour remain water in 2:30 to 3 minutes
+3. stir once circular motion once in opposite motion
+4. after drawdown, swirl canister to melt ice
+5. serve on fresh ice
 
 # Cold Brew Coffee
 

socialism_faq.md

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 * [Did Lenin say anything about Market Socialism, or productivism?](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateCommunism/comments/quevn9/what_are_actually_existing_socialist_countries_as/hkqprfx/)
 * [Vijay Prashad - Is China capitalist?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X7U2W6ryjE)
 * [Why do Chinese billionaires keep ending up in prison?](https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/01/why-do-chinese-billionaires-keep-ending-up-in-prison/272633/) [Why are many billionaires and CEOs going missing?](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/china-billionaires-ceo-disappearing-missing-station-sanctioned-abductions-beijing-security-agencies-a7564896.html) [China sentences Ex-Chairman of a major bank, guilty of embezzling ~$100M USD, to death in 2019.](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-27/china-sentences-ex-chairman-of-troubled-hengfeng-bank-to-death)
+* [China cracks down on billionaires - Ben Norton interviews Ian Goodrum](https://youtu.be/TiJ2-Uw_0tA)
 * [Do capitalists control the communist party? No](https://medium.com/@leohezhao/the-long-game-and-its-contradictions-8ff92823cf68?postPublishedType=repub), [pic](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2087/1*A-SuzTx-HlyvrIPKaOTOHA.jpeg)
 * [How the State runs business in China.](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/china-business-xi-jinping-communist-party-state-private-enterprise-huawei)
 * [50% of the economy is in the socialist public sector and directly follows the plan (40% if you ignore the agricultural sector). 20 to 30% is inside the state capitalist sector, which is the sector partially or totally owned by domestic capitalists but run by the CPC or by local workers councils. The rest is made up of the small bourgeois ownership like in the NEP.](https://chinareporting.blogspot.com/2009/11/class-nature-of-chinese-state-critique_26.html)
@@ -743,6 +744,7 @@
 - [Citizens of Xinjiang Speak](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkbOIKUddMBtp0_xEFqn4zey48kkgJq5w)
 - [The Xinjiang Atrocity Propaganda Blitz](https://redsails.org/the-xinjiang-atrocity-propaganda-blitz/)
 - [World Bank Statement on Review of Project in Xinjiang, China](https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/statement/2019/11/11/world-bank-statement-on-review-of-project-in-xinjiang-china)
+- [Breaking down another 2022 BBC "leak" of Uyghur oppression.](https://mobile.twitter.com/Cinqscories/status/1529035490032340993)
 - [More sources debunking this here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XiHrkJ_zudQZP1hBIBCgJKKAfAILxEG0cmQGrNH8pIU/mobilebasic). 
 
 ### What about the Falun Gong?
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 - [He attempted to rape one of his first courtships: "Previously the young couple had kissed, but now, during a late summer walk, he had wanted more. At only five feet to his six feet and four inches, Jacintha had shouted, screamed and kicked before running home with a torn skirt and bruised hip. It was "this" rather than any gradual parting of the ways that explains why Jacintha broke off all contact with her childhood friend, never to learn that he had transformed himself into George Orwell."](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/feb/17/georgeorwell.biography)
 - [Redsails - On Orwell.](https://redsails.org/on-orwell/)
 - [Rainer Shea - Orwells 1984 - Anti-communist propaganda.](https://medium.com/@rainershea612/orwells-1984-is-a-deeply-paranoid-piece-of-anti-communist-propaganda-15a741c85d9a)
-- [Orwell worked as a British imperial cop in Burma for 5 years](http://factsanddetails.com/southeast-asia/Myanmar/sub5_5e/entry-3083.html). His short story, [Shooting an Elephant](http://www.denisedrespling.com/review-shooting-elephant-george-orwell/), uses ethnic slurs and denigrates burmese people. 
+- [Orwell worked as a British imperial cop in Burma for 5 years](http://factsanddetails.com/southeast-asia/Myanmar/sub5_5e/entry-3083.html). His short story, [Shooting an Elephant](http://www.denisedrespling.com/review-shooting-elephant-george-orwell/), uses ethnic slurs and [denigrates burmese people.](http://exiledonline.com/big-brothers-george-orwell-and-christopher-hitchens-exposed/) 
 - [A reddit thread on George Orwell](https://www.reddit.com/r/communism101/comments/797lnl/as_a_communist_how_do_you_feel_the_works_of/), [Thread #2](https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/7dhx99/for_those_on_the_right_who_think_orwell_wrote/dpy4zik/).
 
 ### John McCain
@@ -988,6 +990,7 @@
 - [Supports US imperialism](https://leftistcritic.wordpress.com/2017/01/31/bernie-sanders-an-imperialist-worth-despising/). [2](https://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernie-sanders-troubling-history-supporting-us-military-violence-abroad)
   - [Voted for US intervention](https://i.imgur.com/HCvaDLp.jpg) in the following nations: Afghanistan, Lebanon, [Libya](https://www.leftvoice.org/not-on-our-side-on-bernie-sanders-and-imperialism), [Somalia](http://votesmart.org/bill/2732/7934/27110/bernie-sanders-voted-yea-passage-with-amendment-s-j-res-45-authorization-for-use-of-%20us-armed-forces-in-somalia#7934), Syria, Yemen, [Yugoslavia](http://www.libertyunionparty.org/?page_id=363),[2](http://votesmart.org/bill/2808/7948/27110/bosnia-troop-deployment-resolution#.Ve5QZkvJyhG), Bosnia, Haiti, Congo, Liberia, Sudan, and Ukraine.
   - [Warmongers on the Bill O'Reilley show for the US to intervene against Russia, Syria, and China.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO4Ko-v-q0g&feature=youtu.be&t=2m12s)
+  - [Votes with the rest of the US senate to send $40B in weaponry to Ukraine.](https://mobile.twitter.com/mtracey/status/1527359801746853902)
   - [Supports drone bombing: "They have, at times, been effective."](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bernie-sanders-people-responding-message/story?id=33413601). Another interview: ["Drones have done some good things. They've been selective; they've taken out people who should be taken out"](https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Bernie-Sanders-Drones-Have-Done-Some-Good-Things-20160330-0006.html)
   - Staunchly supports Israel in their displacement of Palestinians (while blaming hamas for the conflict). [Says he will not move back the US embassy in Israel back from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, after Trump moved it the previous year.](https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/why-bernie-sanders-still-encouraging-israels-crimes)
   - [Supports GW Bush](https://i.imgur.com/tHN9DzG.png). [Supported warmonger John McCain after his death.](https://i.imgur.com/R3cAhdC.jpg)
@@ -1166,6 +1169,8 @@
 - [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)
 - [Thinks socialism died a long time ago in Cuba, that everyone lives there because of a misguided devotion to Castro, and thinks the bolivarian revolution will soon fail.](https://inthesetimes.com/article/the-left-fidelity-castration-slavoj-zizek-fidel-castro-cuba-che-communism)
 - [Defines Marxism: "Marx wanted a return to traditional values."](https://youtu.be/YTCiVDwmZ6U?t=147)
+- [Comes out in favor of NATO against Russia, in the 2022 Ukraine conflict.](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/23/we-must-stop-letting-russia-define-the-terms-of-the-ukraine-crisis)
+- [Argues for a stronger NATO to fight against Russia and for Ukraine.](https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/21/pacificsm-is-the-wrong-response-to-the-war-in-ukraine)
 - [More here](https://www.reddit.com/r/Marxism/comments/dlz8me/zizek_criticizes_european_leftists_who_reject/f4yl11f/)
 
 ### What's wrong with Barack Obama?
@@ -1410,14 +1415,19 @@ Much credit to [David Kinder's current affairs article, the rise of the Ruth Bad
 - [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)
-- [Robert Evans](https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1288116233133424648) [2](https://communism.lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/XwBw0R0M59.jpg)
+- [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)
 - [A response to David Harvey's theories of Imperialism by John Smith.](https://urpe.wordpress.com/2018/01/11/a-critique-of-david-harvey-on-imperialism/)
 - [Is signal secure? Yasha Levine](https://yasha.substack.com/p/signal-is-a-government-op-85e)
-- Belarus: [1](https://np.reddit.com/r/EuropeanSocialists/comments/i8cf4z/nazi_roots_of_symbols_of_the_belarusian_opposition/), [2](https://thegrayzone.com/2021/05/26/belarus-roman-protasevich-plane-nazis-ukraine/), [3](https://www.rt.com/russia/525032-protasevich-arrest-neo-nazi-links/)
+- Belarus: [1](https://np.reddit.com/r/EuropeanSocialists/comments/i8cf4z/nazi_roots_of_symbols_of_the_belarusian_opposition/), [2](https://thegrayzone.com/2021/05/26/belarus-roman-protasevich-plane-nazis-ukraine/), [3](https://www.rt.com/russia/525032-protasevich-arrest-neo-nazi-links/). https://cprf.ru/2022/05/in-ukraine-russia-is-fighting-neo-nazism/
 - [The Fort Dietrich virus](https://twitter.com/ProPeace97/status/1420657562618318850)
 - [Cory booker](https://twitter.com/Remroum/status/1425296761820786688?s=20)
 - [Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag Archipelago](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenZhou/comments/pd01t7/how_reliable_is_this_anticommunist_defense_of/hamp4mz/)
 - [The white chauvinism of Howard Zinn](https://anti-imperialism.org/2011/09/19/the-white-chauvinism-of-howard-zinn/)
 - [What is whataboutism?](https://blackagendareport.com/praise-whataboutism)
+- [A Marxist analysis of the 2008 financial crisis](https://twitter.com/LeninBol/status/1535120492775976967?t=VQXCwkpunYl4adK11n381A&s=19)
+- [Gabriel Boric](https://orinocotribune.com/gabriel-boric-lashes-out-at-cuba-and-venezuela-at-summit-of-the-americas/)
+  - [Responding to a polcomp tweet in which he calls himself a libertarian socialist](https://mobile.twitter.com/gabrielboric/status/1249811334058979328) 
+  - [Demanding that the PCCh retract their support of Daniel Ortega, claiming he's an illegitimate president](https://m.elmostrador.cl/dia/2021/11/12/yo-invito-al-pc-a-retractarse-boric-sale-al-paso-de-la-declaracion-de-sus-socios-a-favor-de-daniel-ortega-por-elecciones-en-nicaragua/)
+  - [Calling Venezuela a failure and a dictatorship](https://www.infobae.com/america/venezuela/2022/01/22/gabriel-boric-venezuela-es-una-experiencia-que-ha-fracasado-y-la-principal-demostracion-son-los-6-millones-de-venezolanos-en-diaspora/)

us_atrocities.md

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 - On February 3rd, 2022, US troops [murdered 6 children and 4 women](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/03/us-special-forces-kill-suspected-jihadists-in-north-west-syria-raid) during a raid in Syria.
 - On December 2021, [The New York Times published *the Civilian Casualty Files*](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/civilian-casualty-files.html#credible-reports). [These](https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/12/23/pers-d23.html) [files](https://frontline.thehindu.com/world-affairs/the-civilian-casualty-files-expose-the-pentagon-killing-fields-in-west-asia/article38197303.ece#!) reveal that the US military, under the Obama and Trump administrations, deliberately killed civilians, including children in Iraq and Syria and that the US military systematically covered it up. The Times reported that they uncovered “the deaths of thousands of civilians, many of them children.” The data in the Pentagon reports claimed that children were killed or injured in 27 percent of air strikes that resulted in civilian casualties; The Times' on-the-ground verification found the number was 62 percent. For example, more than 120 civilians were killed in a single airstrike in July 2016 in the hamlet of Tokhar in northern Syria. The US military claimed it was targeting ISIS, but confronted with evidence that the victims were innocent farmers. The military report on the slaughter at Tokhar found “no evidence of negligence or wrongdoing” and that “no further action” was necessary. The reports reveal that the US military deliberately chose to drop bombs on children they saw on camera. In a particularly powerful segment of her article on the “human toll,” Khan describes how the US military knowingly bombed children playing on a roof, killing a family of 11. There was no ISIS presence.
+- On August 17th, 2021, the US government seized [$9.5B dollars of funds belonging to the Central Bank of Afghanistan](https://archive.ph/Jfudb), claiming that the frozen assets will [now be used to satisfy lawsuits over the September 11th, 2001 attacks, which Afghanistan had nothing to do with.](https://www.reuters.com/markets/funds/afghan-central-bank-says-us-plan-frozen-funds-an-injustice-2022-02-12/).
 - On February 25th, 2021, in his first month in office, [Biden bombs Syria](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-bombs-facilities-syria-used-iran-backed-militia-n1258912), killing at least 22 people. Pentagon press secretary John Kirby called the bombing “proportionate” and “defensive.” [2](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/25/us-airstrike-syria-iran-militia)
 - On November 27th, 2020, Israel [assassinated Iranian nuclear physicist Moshen Fakhrizadeh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohsen_Fakhrizadeh) via a satellite controlled vehicle-mounted machine gun, which then self-detonated after killing him. The attack was likely commited by Israel with US help and foreknowledge.
 - In 2020, former US drone operator [Brandon Bryant revealed the full extent of his work piloting drones in Afghanistan](https://archive.is/K8LF7) from his workspace near Las Vegas, from 2006-2011. He reached his breaking point with the US military after killing a child in Afghanistan that his superiors told him was “a dog.” He recalls the moment: After firing a Hellfire missile at a building containing his target, he saw a child exit the building just as the missile struck. When he alerted his superiors about the situation after reviewing the tape, he was told “it was a f***ing dog, drop it.” During his time in the Air Force, Mr Bryant estimates he contributed directly to killing 13 people himself and says his squadron fired on 1,626 targets including women and children. Mr Bryant quit the military and began speaking out against the drone program, and calls the US worse than nazis.
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 - Since 2013, The US has intervened militarily in the ongoing [Syrian Civil War](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Civil_War#Western_coalition), with airstrikes, naval bombardments, and funding and training Syrian Islamic and secular insurgents fighting to topple the Syrian government. Many have labeled the struggle as a proxy war between US and Russian interests in the Middle East, in a highly unstable region. Between 500-700 civilians [have been killed by coalition airstrikes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-led_intervention_in_Syria#cite_note-airwars.org-328), and over 50,000 [ISIL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant) militants and pro-bashad fighters have been killed. [1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-led_intervention_in_Syria)
 - From 2011 up to the present day, the US ousted Mummar Gaddafi in Libya, and began conducting an extensive bombing campaign (>110 tomahawk cruise missiles) in the [Libyan Civil Wars of 2011 and 2014](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%93present)). This includes 7,700 air strikes, resulting in 30,000 -100,000 deaths. Loyalist towns were bombed to rubble and ethnically cleansed, and the country is in chaos as Western-trained and armed Islamist militias seize territory and oil facilities and vie for power. The Misrata militia, trained and armed by Western special forces, is one of the most violent and powerful in the world.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War_(2014%E2%80%93present)) The country has since collapsed into a chaos of child soldiers, [slavery](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/10/libya-public-slave-auctions-un-migration), and violence between extremist groups, a haunting repetition of what US imperialism has left in its wake in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. [An interview with Gaddafi's former spokesman about the US overthrow of Libya.](https://www.rt.com/news/470321-libya-gaddafi-spokesman-interview/).
 - US drone operator turned whistleblower [Brandon Bryant](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-military-drone-nazis-brandon-bryant-a9324011.html) told stories about his time as a drone operator in Afghanistan from 2006-2011. He estimates that he contributed directly to killing 13 people himself and says his squadron fired on 1,626 targets including women and children. He tells of one instance of killing a child, with his superiors telling him "it was a f**** dog, drop it". “That image on the screen is still in my head. Whenever I think about it, it still hurts me,” Mr Bryant said. “When I pulled the trigger, I knew that it was wrong. When the missile struck I knew in my soul I had become a murderer.” He tells of how his superiors would ridicule, punish, and threaten legal action against anyone who had misgivings about their orders. He believes that the US military is "worse than the nazis."
+- In 2010, as part of a program by the Bush and Obama administrations to hinder the development of Iran's nuclear program, US NSA and cyber-command operatives, working with Israeli counterparts, developed the [Stuxnet Virus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet). The virus was originally designed to infect siemens microcontrollers, that controlled the rate of spinning gas centrifuges, causing them to spin out of control and explode, leading to a temporary setback in Iranian nuclear fissile material production. In a classic case of blowback, Stuxnet also infected nearly all computer networks around the world, including in the US, threatening [critical infrastructure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_infrastructure), such as water, electricity, telecommunication, transportation, and health networks. By releasing stuxnet, the US and Israel initiated the first use of, and began an arms race for this new type of war weapon: cyber-attacks that can harm critical infrastructure. A more comprehensive plan to destroy all of Iran's critical infrastructure via a country-wide cyber-attack, called [Nitro-Zeus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitro_Zeus), was also developed, and exposed by whistleblowers in the Alex Gibney documentary: [Zero Days](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Days), which details the history of the Stuxnet virus.
 - In 2010, Chelsea Manning's leak of the [Iraq War Logs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_documents_leak) revealed US army reports on civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan; [66,081 out of 109,000 recorded deaths were civilians](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War). They show that US authorities failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse, torture, rape and even murder by Iraqi police and soldiers, and that US troops killed almost 700 civilians for coming too close to checkpoints, including pregnant women and the mentally ill, and countless other atrocities.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War_documents_leak)
 - From 2000 up to the present day, the US has been carrying out a campaign of drone strikes and asassinations in the Middle East and Africa, including Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Somalia, resulting in thousands of civilian deaths, 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. Drone strike targets are usually pinpointed through cell phone usage. The Obama asassination complex is detailed in the [drone papers](https://theintercept.com/drone-papers).
 - On 3 October 2015, a United States Air Force AC-130U gunship attacked and killed 42 people and wounded 30 more in the [Kunduz Trauma Centre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike) operated by Doctors Without Borders, in northern Afghanistan. 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/)
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 ### Women
 
+- 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. 
 - US police officers routinely commit sexual assault and rapes: most go unreported, but over [1200 incidents, including over 400 rapes were committed over a 9 year period from 2005-2013.](https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/19/us/police-sexual-assaults-maryland-scope/index.html)
 - In the period following WWII, the US capitalist-controlled media, advertising, and consumer products industries propagandized and glorified the ideal of the housewife-consumer, in order to sell products, make labor space for returning soldiers, take advantage of women's unpaid labor in the home, and to help build a new workforce and potential army to combat the soviet union. This sparked an era of regression with respect to the feminist victories of the previous 50 years, and caused psychological damage and demoralization to an uncountable number of women. Women who remained in the labor force were primarily only allowed in subordinate positions such as secretaries, cleaning women, elementary school teachers, saleswomen, waitresses, and nurses. This is chronicled in the [Feminine Mystique](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feminine_Mystique). 
 - In September 2020, it was revealed that [ICE had performed mass hysterectomies on immigrant women in several detention centers,](https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/like-an-experimental-concentration-camp-whistleblower-complaint-alleges-mass-hysterectomies-at-ice-detention-center/) reminiscent of the long-standing [US policy of sterilization of black and brown women.](https://theintercept.com/2020/09/17/forced-sterilization-ice-us-history/) [2](https://newrepublic.com/article/159390/immigration-detention-hysterectomy-forced-sterilization)

zak_cope_divided_favorites.md

@@ -12,7 +12,11 @@ For Lenin, superprofits derived from imperialism allow the globally predominant
 
 > In all the civilised, advanced countries the bourgeoisie rob---either by colonial oppression or by financially extracting "gain" from formally independent weak countries---they rob a population many times larger than that of "their own" country. This is the economic factor that enables the imperialist bourgeoisie to obtain super-profits, part of which is used to bribe the top section of the proletariat and convert it into a reformist, opportunist petty bourgeoisie that fears revolution.
 
-There are several pressing reasons why the *haute bourgeoisie* in command of the heights of the global capitalist economy pays its domestic working class super-wages, even where it is not forced to by militant trade-union struggle within the metropolis. *Economically*, the *embourgeoisement* of First World workers has provided oligopolies with the secure and thriving consumer markets necessary to capital's expanded reproduction. *Politically*, the stability of pro-imperialist polities with a working-class majority is of paramount concern to cautious investors and their representatives in government. *Militarily*, a pliant and/or quiescent workforce furnishes both the national chauvinist personnel required to enforce global hegemony and a secure base from which to launch the subjugation of Third World territories. Finally, *ideologically*, the lifestyles and cultural mores enjoyed by most First World workers signifies to the Third World not what benefits *imperialism* brings, but what capitalist industrial development and parliamentary democracy alone can achieve.
+There are several pressing reasons why the *haute bourgeoisie* in command of the heights of the global capitalist economy pays its domestic working class super-wages, even where it is not forced to by militant trade-union struggle within the metropolis. 
+- *Economically*, the *embourgeoisement* of First World workers has provided oligopolies with the secure and thriving consumer markets necessary to capital's expanded reproduction. 
+- *Politically*, the stability of pro-imperialist polities with a working-class majority is of paramount concern to cautious investors and their representatives in government. 
+- *Militarily*, a pliant and/or quiescent workforce furnishes both the national chauvinist personnel required to enforce global hegemony and a secure base from which to launch the subjugation of Third World territories. 
+- Finally, *ideologically*, the lifestyles and cultural mores enjoyed by most First World workers signifies to the Third World not what benefits *imperialism* brings, but what capitalist industrial development and parliamentary democracy alone can achieve.
 
 In receiving a share of superprofits, a sometimes fraught alliance is forged between workers and capitalists in the advanced nations. As far back as 1919, the First Congress of the Communist International (COMINTERN) adopted a resolution, agreed on by all of the major leaders of the world Communist movement of the time, which read: