Highlights from Our October Print Edition
We hit the streets this week with the October issue of The Indypendent. In this issue we take stock of the rise and fall of Eric Adams and what comes next.
“For now,” writes John Teufel, “let’s try and remember the fools, cowards and freaks who helped Adams to the top even when they knew he was a scam artist of the first order, and for the worst reason: because they wanted to protect cops from accountability.”
Speaking of the police, Adrita Talukder looks at plans to build a Cop City in Queens that is a perfect expression of the Adams era – a giant waste of money in the service of expanding the NYPD’s presence into every sphere of our lives.
And while we’re talking about giant money pits, the U.S. spends over $900 billion per year on military-related expenses while sponsoring proxy wars in places like Gaza, Lebanon and Ukraine that have left hundreds of thousands of people dead. In a deep dive piece, The Indy’s John Tarleton explores why, amid a crumbling public infrastructure and an increasingly dire climate crisis, the military industrial complex continues to suck up enormous resources with the full support of both major political parties.
In this issue, we also profile an NYC activist who became the “unsung hero” of the successful campaign to free Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, look at how pro-Palestinian students are grappling with a new McCarthyism on college campuses, meet climate activists who are pushing a solution that is at the scale of the problem, speak with economist Branko Milanovic about capitalism and the growth of economic inequality, and we travel to the border city of Rafah, which has served as Gaza’s only escape hatch to the outside world for decades.
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Why Eric Adams Rose So High by John Teufel He made it easier for Centrist Democrats to Ditch Black Lives Matter.
Eric Adams Is a Deadbeat Dad by Nicholas Powers NYC’s mayor let down the working class people of color who trusted him to improve their lives. Worst of all, he made it easy for racists to demean Black people.
After Adams, What Next? by John Tarleton Will the Andrew Cuomo revenge tour be coming to a mayor’s race near you?
The Policification of Everything by Adrita Talukder The Adams administration is pushing a Cop City complex in Queens that would train personnel from 16 city departments.
Fighting for the First Amendment by Theodore Hamm How Randy Credico became the ‘unsung hero’ of the campaign to free Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
The Economy of War by John Tarleton Why the military industrial complex wins every election.
Campus Crackdown by Adrita Talukder In the wake of the encampment movement, a big chill spreads across universities nationwide.
Rafah, Gateway to Gaza by Amba Guerguerian Israel seeks to choke off Gaza’s only portal to the world.
Public Power by Nancy Romer New York climate activists are pushing hard for a solution that begins to meet the scale of the climate crisis.
America’s Age of Inequality by Bennett Baumer An interview with economist Branko Milanovic about visions of inequality from the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War.
Power-Hungry Christian Nationalists by Eleanor Bader Bringing Donald Trump back to the White House would empower a Christian nationalist movement that is ruthless in its desire to use the power of the state to advance its agenda.
Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo resigned in August 2021 over sexual harassment allegations by 11 former staffers and his mishandling of the Covid-19 outbreak in nursing homes that led to the deaths of 12,000 elderly patients. Five months before his fall from grace, we previewed his demise with an iconic cover illustration by Leia Doran and cover story by John Tarleton that looked at what it is about New York’s political and media environment that repeatedly promotes the rise of corrupt, autocratic figures like Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Andrew Cuomo and now Eric Adams. Full Issue PDF here.
Why Cuomo Has to Go: He’s Toxic and He’s Been a Drag on New York for Years
By John Tarleton
On this week’s Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM, we had reportbacks on demonstrations across the city on October 7 to mark the one-year anniversary of the Gaza genocide. We then opened the phone lines and received a torrent of spirited phone calls from our listeners. You can listen to all the fun here. We’ll be back on the air on Tuesday from 5-6 pm on 99.5 FM and streaming on wbai.org.
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Liking how you cover most issues of our times, but PLEASE WAKE UP TO THE HORRENDOUS CLIMATE FRAUD!
Anyone with 2 brain cells would know that 'NET ZERO' is an utterly insane off the charts idiocy, an absolute mathematical, physical, statistical and practical impossibility that can never be achieved or exist in reality!
Electricity has to come from somewhere, and the only reliable sources are coal, oil and gas (nukes don't cut it, the radioactive waste is too poisonous).
The 'CLIMATE CHAOS' fraud is the excuse and propaganda misdirection justifying attacks on farming and food, concealing a profoundly inimical globalist genocidal enslavement scheme.
Do you want to live in the squalor and drudgery and misery of the pre-industrial age? HELL NO!
HANDS OFF MY GAS STOVE! I LOVE MY GAS STOVE! Ever try to cook on an electric stove - absolute nightmare!
Can't say this often enough! CLIMATE CHANGE IS AN EVEN WORSE FRAUD THAN THE PLANSCAMDEMIC! SO-CALLED GREEN TECH IS A GIGANTIC SCAM! MINING AND MANUFACTURING 'GREEN' PRODUCTS NEEDS COAL, GAS AND OIL AND MINING RARE MINERALS IS MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY TOXIC AND DESTRUCTIVE THAN LEGACY PRODUCTS. SCREW YOUR DAMNED GREEN GRIFT AGENDA! https://climateviewer.com
It's always since the dawn of history, been about using knowledge for power and control by the psycho portion of the human population that learned how to manipulate 'normies' to obey them in their power-mad power trips.
In these modern times, this evil has become TECHNOCRACY, the vilest threat to the existence of all life on earth since forever!
EW! GROSS! HELL NO! https://www.technocracy.news
NOT MY BRAIN/MIND! NOT MY BODY! NO WAY, NO HOW, NOT PLAYING YOUR AI QUANTUM STUPID-ASS VIDEO GAMES! I AM LIVING IN THE REAL WORLD CREATING ART AND PERFORMANCES!
The more I learn about this stuff, the more sickened, nauseated and horrified I get, and I wonder what kind of inhuman psychopath loonies make this crap and want to use it!?
THIS IS PURE SATANIC EVIL! IT IS MEANT TO DESTROY BILLIONS OF YEARS OF CREATION IN THE ATTEMPT OF TOTAL SLAVERY CONTROL BY POWER-MAD PSYCHOS!
I DO NOT COMPLY! NEVER HAVE, NEVER WILL! May more and more wake up and resist and cultivate their health.
There is a fate worse than death - I would rather die than be a robotized slave of technocratic overlords! This is my hill to die on!
I have a landline and a wired laptop and a wired monitor screen, all the tech anyone should ever want or need. I never had and refuse to ever have one of those infernal mobile devices that are designed to enslave you.
My loathing of AI and all things NANO and digital knows no bounds!
SCREW THE FEAR FAKERY! NO TRUSTING THE WEF RULING CLASS EVER!
Reiterating for the sake of newbies and to support this post.
I have no fear of 'germs' or 'viruses'. One of the best places to go for reality: https://virustruth.net
I try to live without fear! Fear is the mind-killer!
PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGNS BY POWERFUL, WEALTHY CRIMINALS WITH EVIL INTENT CAN CAUSE ALL KINDS OF HAVOC! QUESTION EVERYTHING!
And these, the criminals behind the NAC and all the other schemes will use hypochondria hysteria and 'climate' hysteria to propagandize the gullible 'sheeple' into complying with TOTAL ENSLAVEMENT which is what this is really about!
A vast majority of so-called leaders and Public 'Serpents' around the world have been bribed, blackmailed/coerced into serving the interests of their technocratic New World Ordure parasite masters and not We the People.
GREED is behind every evil assailing us in the world!
The demonic despots of Davos at it again! They are behind everything bad! At it for decades and cronies like The Rothschilds and the Black Nobility and The Khazarian Mafia have been plotting planetary domination for centuries! ALL BECAUSE OF AVARICE!
We the People must try harder to live by The Golden Rule, doing so would solve most problems!
THEY can't get rid of the 'useless eaters' fast enough! Mistakes were not made, it was always malice aforethought.
AUTISM TSUNAMI/SADS/TURBO CANCER/BIZARRE TERMINAL ILLNESSES: More tragic victims of the ruling parasite genocidal enslavement agenda, sacrificed on the altar of psychopathic greed and hatred of humanity.
Migrant/Entrant Invasion/Infrastructure Attacks - all part of the destructive plot to achieve total slavery!
Apoplectic livid rage hardly describes the intensity of emotions I have had and am having over what these malignant globalists are perpetrating!
There is no noxious crime that the evildoers desiring to lord it over us won't commit to maintain their stranglehold on power. A groundswell critical mass resistance to their murderous enslavement plans is needed urgently!
Creative performing arts, fine arts and literary arts are the best part of being human and the thing the globalist predator technocrat megalomaniac total slavery control freaks most want to destroy.
Too many 'sheeple' are brainwashed to blindly obey authority figures on the media or in daily life in corrupt system ruled by control freak psychopaths who use propaganda lies to enslave their subjects and they are dumbed down to be obedient by 'education' institutions. Fortunately I was raised to question everything. This transcends party lines. We need a system that punishes psychopaths and rewards compassion and sharing, we need a system that actually follows The Constitution in reality.
Kudos to The Indypendent's heroic efforts and success in the struggle. We the People must always be aware of the existential threats lurking behind this fight!
How I stick my thumb in the eyes of the grotesque billionaire bastards pushing their enslavement agenda and how I embrace being fully human.
Fighting the globalist predator technocrat psychopath megalomaniac TOTAL SLAVERY AGENDA one performance at a time!
Amazing Amy: Eccentric Yoga Entertainer!
As an entertainer, I have been devastated and practically destroyed by the closure of all performance venues and then when they reopened, because MY BODY, MY CHOICE - being made a total untermenschen pariah outcast in NAZI NIGHTMARE LAWLESS 'SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS' JAB CROW APARTHEID/DISCRIMINATION/SEGREGATION HELL NYC WHERE THE MAD/DRUNK WITH POWER TYRANT POLS DOUBLE DOWN ON THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES. I am trapped here with zero financial resources to leave or do anything else about this 'wish I were dead' endless misery life has become. The tragic irony is that my SPREAD THE YOGA LOVE performances are all about health, miraculously overcoming age (69) and injury to achieve feats of flexibility few can attain at any age. So BIG PHARMA who wants to addict every person on the planet to their toxic products hate people like me who prove that we do not need them if we eat healthy organic food and exercise daily!
https://www.reverbnation.com/artist/amazingamycontortionistuniqueyogadancer
I try and live and embody the creative performing artistic world and life I so fervently want existence to be about.
They can stick their f*cking damned NANO, Digital IDs, AI, jabs and chips up their asses where the sun don't shine!
All manner of lies and propaganda spew forth from the upper echelons in governments worldwide who are completely intertwined with the global criminal ruling class that wants to commit the worst atrocities imaginable and suffer no consequences. And their corruption slithers down the chain of command creating petty tyrants everywhere.
We the People are facing HORRIFYING TECHNOCRATIC PSYCHOPATHY TO DESTROY HUMANITY AND ALL NATURAL LIFE!
It was NEVER about health! The Powers That Should Not Be were ALWAYS about they want you DEAD or a SLAVE! This is a painful truth to accept but we the people must wake up and fight back!
We must never lose sight of the larger picture of the vile malignance we are fighting against.
There is an insidious global ruling class plot to enslave all life on earth behind all the madness and suffering inflicted on We the People.
How to fight back against this TOTAL SLAVERY!
RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! DITCH THE DAMNED 'SMART' PHONES AND THE DAMNED QR CODES AND GO BACK TO LANDLINES OR FLIP PHONES AND USE CASH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE! INSIST ON CASH! CBDC IS TOTAL SLAVERY!
Other than getting rid of nuclear weapons which I support 100% the rest of the anti-nuclear peace movement and CLIMATE CRISIS propaganda is parroting UN utter GARBAGE, a complete surrender to the ENSLAVEMENT AGENDA by the diabolical despots of Davos - ruling class criminals who lust for total power and control and all of whom should be tried and jailed for life and their malign organizations dismantled: the UN, the WEF, the IMF, the WHO, the BIS, NATO, Blackrock, Vanguard, The Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, The Bilderbergers, the CFR et al.
There is an evil predator globalist technocratic elite agenda of eugenics/depopulation/genocide using bioweapon poison jabs, war, geoengineering, EMF radiation, starvation and economic collapse - THE GREAT RESET/AGENDA 2030/4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION to get rid of billions of 'useless eaters' and to use nano tech to turn the survivors into ROBOTIZED COMPLIANT SLAVES! WAKE UP AND RESIST! DO NOT COMPLY! These are psychopath megalomaniacs who want to play god by turning all life into digitized metaverse mechanistic synthetic biology to be manipulated by their AI algorithms. A more demonic sickening idea is nearly impossible to imagine!