The solution the US will choose is to develop part of the rare earth extraction supply chain in third world countries, like Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. They will probably keep the refining process. It will take time for this plan to take off, but negotiations are in process.
But I’d say that, if US had an edge over other the rest of the world in regards to the military industrial complex, this advantage is likely gone, at least for now.
People who were propagandized talking about propaganda effects on other people…
While this is a criticism of the US, this article assumes industrial capacity is the only factor for victory. If that was true, then the US should have been victorious in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and other parts of the world.
This is a very common saying that has many variations on the internet. But this exact phrasing was used by Nicholas Klein at a convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in 1918.
It seems that this prohibition did not actually take place.
First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.
Good to know… I don’t use Python very often, so I’m always a bit oblivious of the recent changes. I’m mainly a Java developer (or Kotlin, when the employer is generous and let me pick the language). In this regard, JVM ecosystem seems to be a bit less chaotic. Maven and Gradle approach seem to be less of a mess than what I find in other ecosystems. The main issues on this ecosystem are some widespreadly used behemoths like Spring framework and Java EE, which often encapsulate and integrate other libraries in all sorts of creative ways and which can cause a big dependency hell if devs don’t consider carefully their choices.
By the way, which is the better tool for virtual envs in Python, nowadays? Pipenv or venv?
I agree from a technical perspective. For political actors, on the other hand, they use the publicity of these security flaws to smear OSS from executives, policy makers and the general public.
Just FYI, I’ve worked on a big Brazilian state owned tech company and I heard multiple times from top executives sponsored by politicians of how closed source is better for security because the flaws aren’t apparent, or because only employees of said company could touch the code base. We devs all knew that was all bullshit, but they use this kind of justification to the wide public in order to justify their shady business deals.
I think Python has a better overall philosophy with the batteries included concept. It’s good to have a comprehensive set of libraries which don’t need to rely so much in third party libraries, or where these third-party project solve very specific problems and are well known. Node.js ecosystem, on the other hand, is a huge mess…
I mean bad PR for open source because those issues are happening more and more frequently. And the widespread use of open source means more good and bad actors are posting their codes in GitHub and most of people who use it aren’t aware of all the issues.
This is very bad PR for Node.js and open source in general.
Yes, imperialist powers are trying to manufacture consent. It seems like, at least, their efforts are not being very effective this time.
I was listening to an online debate of a Trot (Gustavo Machado) vs some guys representing what they call “political materialism” (Diego Ruzzarin and the other I can’t remember), some branch of Marxism from Mexico. It was surprising how this esoteric Marxist school had more positive things to say about previous and current socialist experiences than the Trot guy.
It’s like Trots (and other West-aligned schools) can’t go further than liberal concepts of democracy, or a very utopic notion of what a socialist transition would look like. Therefore, when they see how socialist experiments existed in history and they don’t match their own utopian conceptions of a socialist transition, then they reject the socialist experience. What is worse, they basically see all other socialist or communist orgs or countries as enemies to be fought.
This is very good. I remember a citation about a UN discourse by Castro where all the representatives from Africa looked at Castro, dressed as a guerrilla fighter and doing a long and inflammatory discourse, and related to him more than to Western representatives in suits talking about democracy. I think it’s from the Wretched of the Earth, from Fanon. And again, I see Africans waving Russian flags and this makes a lot of sense again. The West won’t be able to overcome its state of affairs until it stops believing in its own illusions.
The ideology of “totalitarianism” and “Western democracy” still runs strong in Europe.
Interesting. But it seems it could be a cover up story to avoid saying that Yemen’s defense system was able to shoot US’ jets.
Just came across this big banger:
Maybe we should read more stuff from the Comintern.
Sir, you are doing a big oversimplification of how politics in real life works, and this is why many of your comments look silly to many people in this community.
First of all, Trump is not an all powerful single person. He represents many different interests, be them big oil billionaires, Zionists, arms industry, big tech and the financial sector. Distraction of US domestic politics is a minor concern, as the US has always been participating in wars in the last century. Please do an exercise and count how many years the US existed without participating in a war, a coup or a plot in a foreign country. The US has always been an warmongering country and its industrial prowess had always been tied to its ability of waging war on foreign soil.
Secondly, the reason why domestic politics is bad in the US is because of the same parties that like waging war abroad. These parties, the capitalist plutocracy, are responsible for many unpopular domestic policies. The capitalist plutocracy does not give a single shit about the will of the people and this is why the situation of Americans get bleaker at every passing day. US citizens serves only a few purposes, such as consumers, labor power for the industry, rent extraction from the financial capital and as cannon fodder for the military adventures of big capital. They see your rights only as a nuisance, therefore their grand objective is to have them removed from you, so you can be more effectively dominated. However, they need to do in a way so you won’t notice, this is why you have two parties, Democrats and Republicans, which have different approaches of reducing you to an object, but with the same goal in mind.
Third of all, there are many different motivations. Please take some time to understand your own country’s history. Study about what is Manifest Destiny, the Monroe doctrine, operation Condor, the war on drugs, the war on terror, the Jakarta method, the real reasons behind the expansion to the West, the Spanish-US war, the many independence moves of Cuba, US failed invasion of Canada etc. The US has always been an imperialist country, meaning it always acted in a way to submit other countries to its economic interests, by securing markets or cheap raw resources and to prevent other global powers from accessing the same resources or markets.
Please read about your country’s imperialist past, because your ignorance is so blatant that it’s almost offensive in this instance. Many people here belong to countries which were invaded or couped in the past with US direct or indirect involvement. So your statement about distracting from domestic policy sounds extremely annoying.
Thankful for the dock workers of Italy, you are so based! And cheers to Thiago Ávila, the PCR and UP, one of our growing revolutionary parties in Brazil.
This is some pretty dark shit. But coming from colonial America, this isn’t a surprise.
Sorry, I didn’t mean that they will build up the infrastructure to extract and process rare earths overnight. What I mean is that dispute over the control of rare earths will be the next arena of imperialism. This is also why the US is pivoting from Europe and Asia to Latin America.