Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Some Tweets from Joseph Kishore

Joseph Kishore is the presidential candidate of the Socialist Equality Party.



  • 🇺🇸 backs Turkey as border clashes mount with 🇸🇾 and 🇷🇺 Ankara’s appeals to D.C. for military support underscore the growing and very serious danger that the bloodshed in 🇸🇾 could escalate into a direct military confrontation between the NATO and 🇸🇾 🇮🇷 🇷🇺
  • Fight the media blackout. Spread the . The time has come for . This is fundamentally a political struggle against the Democrats, the billionaires that pay for them, and the bipartisan $738 billion war budget.
  • The Lancet () publishes letter from 117 doctors (): “End torture and medical neglect of Julian Assange”
  • As the wealth of the financial elites is boosted by the rise of the stock markets, fuelled by the provision of trillions of dollars from the world’s central banks, and the promise of still more to come, the working class is being made to bear the burden.
  • Oh, and by the way, Bloomberg gave $5 million to Abrams' Fair Fight Political Action Committee.
  • Video of police assaulting and arresting UC-Santa Cruz grad students demanding an increase in wages and COLA. Current pay does not even cover rent.
  • Abrams on Bloomberg's billions: "I think that for once we actually know where the money is coming from." I guess real democracy will come only when billionaires are allowed to run for office?
  • Abrams, who said their were "intrinsic differences" between the races and denounced politics based on “the catchall category known as ‘the working class.’” The logic of identity politics...
  • Ex-DP Gubernatorial candidate (and possible Bloomberg VP nominee?) Stacey Abrams on Bloomberg's spending: "Every person is allowed to run and should run the race that they think they should run, and Mike Bloomberg has chosen to use his finances. Other people are using their dog."
  • Correction, Bloomberg has now spent $400 million to buy the Democratic primaries. How much was it that the Russian's allegedly spent on Facebook ads in 2016? $100,000?
  • Great turnout Saturday in LIC Queens in defense of Julian Assange. The outcome is truly the future of investigative journalism.
  • Replying to 
    Thank you, , for publishing our letter concerning and calling for an end to: - the torture of Julian Assange, as documented by the SR on Torture ; and - the violations of his right to health. We invite doctors to join us at:
  • Bloomberg has spent $300 million on ads, just in the first stage of the Democratic Party primary. But yeah, it's the Russians who are "meddling" in the elections and subverting "our democracy."
  • All too true. In 2 weeks, , the & allied media have done more to prove the marxist critique of liberal identity-politics capitalism than 1000 academic analyses. "What dominates the ...is the politics of oligarchy. It is naked and shameless."

  • The US-backed Saudi war has produced the worst humanitarian catastrophe on the face of the planet. 10 million Yemenis are living on the brink of famine, while roughly 80 percent of the country’s 24 million people are dependent upon humanitarian aid.
  • This sums up the : “Being a right-wing, dictatorial, foul-mouthed, racist, sexist billionaire is not a problem for the DP establishment, as long as the billionaire’s money finds its way into their own pockets.”
  • The most significant aspect of the US intervention at the Munich Security Conference was that Pelosi et al. stood side-by-side with Trump officials against China. What's a little impeachment between friends (i.e., representatives of American imperialism)?