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Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Koch Foods, a giant chicken processor that supplies Burger King, Kroger and Walmart (not affiliated with the Koch brothers) lost no time in replacing the five busloads of undocumented workers taken from its Mississippi plants this month due to an ICE raid. It is already holding “job fairs” to replace the workers. The August ICE raids on chicken slaughter plants in Mississippi raise an issue that traditional media like to ignore. Undocumented immigrants keep the US in cheap meat. Few to no Americans want slaughterhouse jobs like knockers, stickers, bleeders and tail rippers. Employees fleeing poverty and violence, on the other hand, will work such jobs with no complaints. Last year, Counterpunch told you about a raid on undocumented workers at the cattle slaughterhouse Southeastern Provision, in Bean Station, TN, who supplied Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell and the US government, leaving a workforce of only three. Southe...

What Would It Take To Build A World Without Globalists?             Wednesday, 14 August 2019 16:13 Brandon Smith You can bet that whenever you find people analyzing the root of a problem you will also find other people trying to derail those efforts with dishonest arguments. For reasons that we can guess at but are rarely able to confirm, there are some folks out there that get rather agitated at constructive discussion among their fellow humans. One of the most common tactics for hijacking the discussion of a problem is to suggest that it is “all pointless” unless those same people can offer a grand solution to the problem. This is Alinsky-style disruption 101. The reality is that most problems can only be solved once at least a portion of the public is made aware of them. Action can only take place AFTER understanding is achieved, otherwise we find ourselves swinging wildly at shadows. With that said, many in the liberty moveme...

The Yin and  the Yang of It The New York Times  staffers wanted to change the paper’s longstanding motto,  All the News That’s Fit to Print , to something more cutting edge, more of-the-moment, more congenial with the crypto-gnostic social justice impetus to change human nature in order to make the world a better place. My personal suggestion was  All the News That’s Fit to Print for Angry, Hysterical Women and Their Intersectional Allies , since  The New York Times  is now an advocacy rag, but the staff choice apparently is  The Truth is Worth It  — or perhaps  The Times  paid some Madison Avenue logo engineers for that. And one is prompted to ask: worth what, exactly? If “truth” actually amounts to “lived experience,” as  The Times  insists, then truth can be whatever you say it is — the bedrock ethos of all tyrannical political movements. To me,  The Truth is Worth It  sounds suspiciously like  T...

The threat of totalitarianism is ubiquitous in modern political rhetoric. The term has almost become a banality. With everything from Tucker Carlson and his guests discussing the squad to the TPUSA mantra that college campuses are islands of totalitarianism , it’s shocking anyone still regards the term with any seriousness. Most conservatives denounce totalitarian regimes without hesitation—as they ought to. However, most conservative critiques use left-leaning, communist regimes as their point of departure and disregard others that do not fit their narrative. Perhaps most disastrously, conservative pundits and intellectuals within the US seem to rarely engage in serious criticism of the totalitarian tendencies ascribed to the socio-economic system within which we live: capitalism. In his 1964 work One-Dimensional Man , German-born American philosopher Herbert Marcuse presents his observations of post-Enlightenment industrial society and discusses the compatibility of capit...