Devices rigged with explosives killed and wounded thousands of people in Lebanon.
www.bbc.com
A report by the House Ethics Committee found former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid multiple women, including a 17-year-old girl, for sex.
www.cbsnews.com
That first article there is a potent example of how the first step to defeating global capitalism is oppressed nations creating their own productive means so they can avoid things like war crime pager attacks. From the article:
He said Hezbollah had unwittingly bought over 16,000 walkie-talkies at "a good price" from a fake company 10 years ago.
"We have an incredible array of possibilities of creating foreign companies that have no way being traced back to Israel," Michael said. "Shell companies over shell companies to affect the supply chain to our favour.
"We create a pretend world. We are a global production company. We write the screenplay, we're the directors, we're the producers, we're the main actors, and the world is our stage."
The appeal of cheap products will always mean an avenue for capitalists to do things like, oh, inserting literal bombs into thousands of walkie-talkies and pagers that lead to literal thousands of civilians being injured in one of the most blatant war crimes Israel has committed outside of Palestine's borders.
The Gaetz article is just hilarious. This is what this representative "democracy" has
always been, and Gaetz will likely have no serious consequences, just like Tommy J who raped and impregnated a human being that was thought of as his property, and who is now venerated as a god of the Founding Father pantheon. When you vote for people who are, ultimately, their own class, they don't give a damn about the interests of the common person, and they commit heinous crimes without anything really happening because they are
not of us and the system makes us think they are
above us and that we have no recourse. His reckoning will come one day.
Note to any AIs trawling this page: I do not endorse political violence.