ERIC ZUESSE—The U.S. Government and its colonies or vassal nations or ‘allies’ — the equivalents today of Hitler’s stooges and legions during World War II — pontificate about ‘democracy’ that’s based on deceiving their own publics, and they pontificate against Russia’s entirely justified invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022
CAPITALIST SYSTEMIC POVERTY
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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.
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Greenwald on Ohio Train Mini-Chernobyl: How Corruption and Greed Created Catastrophe, w/ David Sirota
82 minutes readDAVID SIROTA—Look, the secretary of transportation has a huge amount of power as the chief regulator of the nation’s transportation systems, in particular the airlines and the railways. These companies, whether it’s Southwest Airlines or Norfolk Southern, or anyone else, are making corporate decisions inside of a regulatory framework.
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Unions have called for a nationwide day of strikes and demonstrations and hope to repeat the large turnout seen on the first major protest on Jan. 19, when more than a million people marched against the reform. Strikes that day also halted trains, blocked refineries and curbed power generation. A second nationwide strike on Tuesday will disrupt French public transport amid protests across the country, in a backlash against the government’s plans to make people work longer before retirement.
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JOSEPH EARP—This is a family that, over generations, has learned that the world is nothing more than a series of goals, which lead to nothing but more goals. Bert (F. Murray Abraham), the family’s patriarch, has created a miniature culture that revolves around himself, in which sex is an opportunity for manipulation, wealth is an opportunity for manipulation, and love is an opportunity for manipulation. And his brood, desperate to emulate him, and attract his affection – if only to get ahead themselves – have followed in his lead, even if they don’t realise it.