I do believe that there is no other single organization in the world which has supported the state of Israel more, financially and morally, than the AFL-CIO and its affiliates.
- George Meany, AFL-CIO President
NYPD Assistant Chief James McCarthy is assisted after being affected by a chemical irritant. Video of the incident appears to show McCarthy deploy his pepper spray - possibly injuring himself.
May 11, 2024 in New York City. For
@gettyimages
🚨 Starbucks hired CIA/State Department officer and Pinkerton Amanda Stanfill in March as the manager of Global Intelligence for retail operations
Wonder what Amanda thinks about
@SBWorkersUnited
?
Australian Federal Police spent over twelve months driving a 13yo autistic boy’s fixation with Islamic State, actively encouraging him, and then waiting until he turned 14 to charge him.
All done after his parents came to them for help. Appalling.
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Starbucks hiring a CIA officer/Pinkerton during a massive unionization effort is only one example of the intersection of the national security state and union busting. Here's a few more cases
Amazon worker interrogated by an FBI agent turned Amazon regional manager
National Labor Relations Board found Amazon regional manager, who said he was former FBI agent, illegally interrogated Jonathan Bailey, an Amazon worker and organizer of walkouts at facility in Queens, New York
SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher helped raise $60 million for the IDF in 2018
Picture shows Drescher with then Ambassador to the United States and Likudite Ron Dermer. Dermer is currently the Ministry of Strategic Affairs for Israel
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Today is Michael Hastings' birthday. He was only 33 when he was killed in a 2013 car crash that screams of an assassination
Like Gary Webb, Hastings was one of the few journalists that wasn't afraid to go after the dangerously powerful
From an interview with True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto
"Most crime in America looks to me like class warfare, the same way WWI just looks like class warfare to me, the upper classes sending the lower classes to slaughter."
In light of the recent events in Israel, the
#PeaceTower
is illuminated in the colours of the Israeli flag, and the National Flag of Canada is flying at half-mast from now until sunset tomorrow.
Amy Schumer is probably a literal Pentagon propaganda asset: at a Senate subcommittee meeting Bono suggested recruiting her to “defeat ISIS”; a Senator responded that “It’s one of the things we’re looking at;” & Schumer reacted publicly with excitement
Bayard Rustin is a labor and civil rights hero.
As one of the chief organizers for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Rustin's determination to achieve equal opportunity was matched only by his personal courage.
#BlackHistoryMonth
“If the left wants to combat right-wing extremism, it needs to be in the business of winning elections.” explains Alex Garland, writer and director of ‘Civil War’.
New pod:
There's more, just gonna leave this here. Btw unionize your workplace
Checkout
@iww
@organizeworkers
@labornotes
for unionization tips and trainings. Just remember workers deserve the world, not just a few more crumbs. Don't let anyone tell us otherwise
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Starbucks hiring a CIA officer/Pinkerton during a massive unionization effort is only one example of the intersection of the national security state and union busting. Here's a few more cases
Amazon worker interrogated by an FBI agent turned Amazon regional manager
Interested in working at the Solidarity Center? We're hiring a Campaign and Media Communications Officer!
Check out the job description and apply here: 👉
Weird Scenes Inside the Angst
James Harper Grohl, father of Dave Grohl of Nirvana and Foo Fighters, shakes hands with Nancy Reagan. James was a special assistant to Senator Robert Taft, political consultant, "journalist", and an editor of Stars and Stripes during the 60s
Great, now a bunch of indie videojournalists have to pay to go watch
@a24
’s CIVIL WAR to find out if they used our footage that was stolen by far-right freak (and frequent video stealer) Andy Ngo.
SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher helped raise $60 million for the IDF in 2018
Picture shows Drescher with then Ambassador to the United States and Likudite Ron Dermer. Dermer is currently the Ministry of Strategic Affairs for Israel
“SAG-AFTRA deplores and condemns the horrific acts of aggression against the Israeli people,” a statement from the union says, “The attack was a fundamental violation of human rights and dignity"
Here are nine more US soldiers, all in their 20s or 30s, who recently died at Fort Bragg from “undetermined” causes, or after being discovered “unresponsive” in their bunks.
How can the US Army not know what is killing these soldiers?
No comment from Fort Bragg.
If you find this interesting just wait until you hear about Will and Jada Smith's bodyguard Randy Bowie
He worked for Les Wexner and was in Epstein's black book
🧵 Today is the birthday of Walter Reuther who was assassinated on May 9, 1970
His plane crashed due to sabotage, killing him and several others on board
The most likely culprit for this murder is the CIA
EXCLUSIVE: James Franco will play Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Miguel Bardem’s ‘Aline of Cuba’ with Mía Maestro set to play Natalia “Naty” Revuelta, the Cuban-born socialite he has a passionate love affair with
Greek Life is a gaggle of little fascist cults maintained by secrecy, abuse, bigotry, blackmail and involved in organized crime operations which helps prep them for their future careers in Amerika
“The labor-hater and labor-baiter is virtually always a twin-headed creature spewing anti-Negro epithets from one mouth and anti-labor propaganda from the other mouth.”
MLK at the 1961 AFL-CIO Convention
Honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we reflect on the enduring impact of his vision for equality and justice in our communities and workplaces.
Michael Hastings said that in response to the governments war on journalism, journalists should "declare war" on the government by withdrawing "all cooperation and publish everything we know"
Sounds like a motto any real journalist should live by. Rest in power Michael
Remembering also that NPR had PSYOP personnel from Fort Bragg working as interns in their DC newsroom during the Kosovo War
From The CIA as Organized Crime by Douglas Valentine
Remembering the time NPR's ombudsman defended its use of military consultants as analysts after being identified as one of the media companies targeted in the Pentagon's Iraq War propaganda campaign
🧵 Today is the birthday of Walter Reuther who was assassinated on May 9, 1970
His plane crashed due to sabotage, killing him and several others on board
The most likely culprit for this murder is the CIA
His name is Yair Agmon and is associated with the Nazarian Center for Israel Studies at UCLA, which is headed by zionist Sharon Nazarian from the wealthy family that created the center
Nazarian is on the BOD of the ADL and BOT of Freedom House
This year, we will celebrate 75 years as the Central Intelligence Agency. To commemorate our upcoming anniversary, we will share stories of our mission all throughout the year.
Stay tuned!
#DiscoverCIA
Bob Roberts is a movie about a far right Pennsylvania politician with intelligence connections running for president who fakes an assassination attempt against himself
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In April 1980 the Klan marched in Kokomo Indiana. This was a few months after the Klan, with law enforcement help, committed the Greensboro Massacre
Chief of the police in Kokomo that protected the Klan as they marched was Rodger Fain, father of UAW president Shawn Fain
Seems like accused Gilgo Beach killer Rex Heuermann was in a larger network of predators. A NYPD cop picked up victim Karen Vergata, brought her to Heuermann's home for a "swinger" party, and left her with Heuermann despite her fleeing the home naked.
President of Mexico AMLO: "Your media doesn't even mention US cartels. They just don't talk about it. It's as if the drugs arrived by Martian balloon, as if people ordered drugs online via an invisible network, as if there were no drug traffickers in the US. How do the drugs get
Remember when the AFL-CIO via the AIFLD worked with the CIA to overthrow João Goulart paving the way for the military dictatorship that Lula organized against
About two months before the FBI seized Eric Adams phones and iPad in November 2023, Adams gave Diddy a key to the city during a ceremony in Times Square
The FBI also raided the home of his top aides and a campaign office
Here's Hastings pointing out that David Petraeus was arming death squads in Iraq and that the media, which helped build up Patraues' career, are essentially Pentagon stenographers
Diddy's father, Melvin Combs, was a business associate and close friend of heroin trafficker Frank Lucas. Lucas became a DEA informant after his arrest
It's hard to believe Lucas wasn't a CIA asset given his connections and the amount of drugs he's alleged to have moved
This new rebranding that P. Diddy is doing is exactly what Robert Allen spoke about in “Black Awakening in Capitalist America”; it’s the idea of conflating Black Power with Black capitalism and we must resist that kind of talk at every turn.
Bill Maher on Mary Kay Letourneau, a pedophile who had children with her 14 yr old student, it's "unorthodox" but "she's in love"
When a panelist calls it rape his response is literally, "raped, c'mon"
Letourneau's father was congressman and John Bircher John G. Schmitz
Darren Seals & other Ferguson activists, Judi Bari, Tupac, Gary Webb, Michael Hastings, Paul Wellstone, Kurt Cobain, Maura Clarke & other clergy, Harvey Milk, Aaron Swartz & other hactivists, Greensboro Massacre, MOVE bombing, the whistleblowers & revolutionaries dying in prison
@or_kend
@Der_Parrot
Genuine question,can you name an american activist that the US assassinated in the last 20 years?30 years?40?And if you have to go back to Fred Hampton or MLK then do you recognise that the political system in the US changed since then because similar events don’t happen anymore?
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I've never shared this with anyone. When working at a well known company in customer service as the lead in house organizer, and after the company found out about our union campaign, I had man come to my register wherein he described the make & model of my then partner's car
friendly reminder that no matter how many pro-labor photoshoots and speeches a politician may give, when it comes down to it the u.s. government will happily arrest, shoot at, assassinate, and even bomb (yes literally bomb) union members that threaten the status quo
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On 10/16/2000 Senator Mel Carnahan (D) and 10/25/2002 Senator Paul Wellstone (D) both died in plane crashes weeks before elections
We're told officially these two Senators died in plane "accidents". Didn't something else with planes happen between their deaths?
If someone tries to kill or maim you all bets are off, and not doing something emboldens them and makes it even more dangerous for everyone going forward
Start fighting back
After the murder of Tyre Nichols by several MPD Scorpion Unit cops, former MPD sergeant Mark LeSure was surprisingly candid with reporters about the unit
He was found dead yesterday on his front lawn. 3 days ago the city filed a motion of dismissal
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Amazon hired the spook law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth. Hunton was exposed years ago for conspiring with the Chamber of Commerce, Palantir, and other private intelligence firms to spy on and run dirty tricks campaigns against labor unions and others
"I don't think I could quite wrap my head around everything that had happened until I started putting it down on paper."
Michelle Zauner (
@Jbrekkie
) offers her
#BriefButSpectacular
take on writing her best-selling memoir "Crying in H Mart."
Gary Webb worked for the California state government's Joint Legislative Audit Committee's investigation into Governor Gray Davis' $95 million no-bid contract to Oracle in 2001
Davis is the grandson of William Rhodes Davis, oil businessman and agent for Nazi Germany
US TikTok data is stored in the US on Oracle servers. Oracle began as a CIA project & the CIA was their first client. It was founded by Larry Ellison who also attempted to build a massive biometric database to surveil Americans after 9/11. Ellison also helped Musk buy twitter
Alexey Navalny’s movement attempted a kind of mass mobilization rare among earlier liberal dissidents. He resisted the effort to stifle Russian society — an act of defiance for which he was killed.
One of the funders is Peter Coors, son of Holly and Jeffrey Coors of the billionaire Coors family
The family has a history of funding fascist groups, including pro-apartheid ones in South Africa
A far-right activist group that is doxxing college students who engage in pro-Palestinian protests revealed that it is funded by top Republican political donors and nonprofits backed by wealthy business leaders, a tax return reviewed by CNBC shows.
Rick Braziel, UCLA’s new associate chancellor, is the same person who investigated Uvalde and found no fault in officers.
How did he come to be selected for this position? Literally 19 students were killed and 2 teachers. Braziel found NOT A SINGLE OFFICER AT FAULT.
Leno scabbed during the 07-08 WGA strike and is worth half a billion dollars
This is what happens when class consciousness and struggle has been systemically purged from the unions
Hours before his death Hastings sent an email saying the FBI was interviewing his close friends and that he was gonna “go off the radar for a bit.” He was working on a “big story”.
HBO was formed as byproduct of a larger psyop in the 1980s & 90s that saw US imperialists & the gangsters they worked with, including pornographers & Phoenix Program administrators, build huge markets for a slew of Western propaganda in Eastern Europe
The
#CIAkilledJFK
hashtag was originally suggested by
@UnionBustingBot
. I'm proud to have helped get it trending yesterday, but I did basically nothing. It reached so far not because those of us who used it are crafty Putin-funded trolls but because the message is literally true.
"At 12:30 a.m. on the morning he died, an agitated Michael Hastings went to his neighbor and friend Jordanna Thigpen and asked to borrow her car. He said he was afraid to drive his own car, because he believed that someone had been tampering with it."
One bizarre incident from the Greensboro Massacre was the use of hypnosis on a reporter present at the shootings. Under hypnosis, they said the communist organizers brought the attack on themselves. This testimony was allowed in court and helped the KKK/Nazi murderers get off
Former NSC and cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke said that "in the case of Michael Hastings, what evidence is available publicly is consistent with a car cyber attack."
53 years ago today Walter Reuther was assassinated for exposing the CIA's role inside the labor movement
53 years of ongoing silence and continued collaboration by many so called labor leaders with Amerikan imperialism
🧵 Today is the birthday of Walter Reuther who was assassinated on May 9, 1970
His plane crashed due to sabotage, killing him and several others on board
The most likely culprit for this murder is the CIA
Union buster Richard Branson did roll out the red carpet one time for his former Necker Island gardener, Errol Arthurton, by having him flown to the UK for medical treatment
Two prison guards also accompanied Arthurton because he is a convicted pedophile
Interview with Gerald Horne suggesting Biden's document scandal is possibly a cover by a faction inside the ruling class to get Biden out of office, and open up the Democratic primaries
He specifically notes billionaire J. B. Pritzker as a candidate
No. What they mean is they love Amerika. Love the military. And love their super wages no matter how many Palestinians are murdered
It's literally in their press release
When the ILA says that they will continue to handle military cargo during this strike, what they mean is that they have 16 military contracts that contain a No-Strike Pledge, a contractual clause that prohibits any work stoppage. Violation of which would mean loss of employment.
The FBI denied Hastings was under investigation and ignored FOIA requests for any files it may have had on him. They later admitted to having files on Hastings and released them
Four days ago the FBI declassified its "Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide".
The latest date referenced on it appears to be June 2021, meaning this document was produced under the Biden administration