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SABBY SABS—Sabby discusses the expanding protests in France, now engulfing most cities, large and small, and showing no sign of disbanding. The French are clearly setting an example that Americans, in particular, show follow. Democracies, as Jefferson warned, need periodic rebellion, or vigorous protests, and certainly an alert citizenry to survive.
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CALEB MAUPIN—Attacks on infrastructure like power plants have been a serious concern in the United States in recent months. January 18th saw attacks on power substations in North Carolina. The Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center reported that attacks on electric facilities in the United States had increased by 71% in 2022 over 2021. At a time when serious fears that critical infrastructure across America might be targeted and the public put at risk, US officials are laughing off serious allegations that they went and destroyed a natural gas pipeline, hurting not just Russia, but countries they are in alliance with.
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GARLAND NIXON—Every now and then, a con man gets so bold that he flaunts the gullibility of his mark. No one really knows why and, in fact, it’s a very risky move. Teasing the mark is a questionable strategy, if it’s even a strategy at all. I would propose that the con man, a narcissistic machiavellian, does it just to feel the power. What else would explain a person who is on the verge of executing a perfect strategy to fleece a sucker deciding to risk it all with no clear advantage to be had.
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P. GREANVILLE—As far as the Western elites are concerned, such adjustments have to be made soon, or else cataclysm may ensue. Time is short on every front—political, economic, ecological— and the proper and fair solutions are rather obvious. The people have had enough. Especially in the Global South, but now also across the “Golden Billion”. As events in France, Czechoslovakia, and even Germany and Britain show, the signs are multiplying that the Empire is losing its grip over much of its captive populations. The people are done with the “neoliberal” model of governance and its repugnant hypocrisy and sociopathy.
