And here he is, everyone: Lee Camp, with his report on the California fires:
Never speaking the words “climate change” while whole towns literally go up in flames is like covering the drowning death of someone and never mentioning he was being waterboarded at the time. The real cause of these fires is at least half the story, if not more.
You may have noticed that the cheerleaders for capitalism ran a victory lap recently.
Well, that's the headline. It's a blog entry critiquing a paper for the UN’s 2019 Global Sustainable Development Report. Here is the key sentence:
If the whole capitalist system seems more predatory and unsustainable than ever, it's because it is. The destruction of the middle class in the U.S. is the capitalist system eating its seed-corn.
The McResistance may oppose Donald Trump, but they love that big capitalist donor money.
Maxine Waters made it clear today where her loyalties lie.
So all of a sudden the Rip van Winkles of American politics, having been asleep during the Obama years, are now awake and yelling "Fascism." Trump is a Fasc
The experts have been asking these exact same questions for at least five years, maybe longer.
At a certain point any unbiased critique would have to conclude that the experts either don't care what the answer is (in which case they aren't experts at all), or they are completely incompetent (in which case they aren't experts at all).
This is well worth the time if the subject interests you -- And It Should!! I found it interesting it anyway.
This isn't the first time democracy and capitalism have clashed, but rarely has it been so obvious and with such high stakes. This is late stage capitalism, and the mask is off.
