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Just in case the world doesn't end tomorrow, September 23, 2017, something big still might happen.

Defcon One
-COCKED PISTOL
-Nuclear war is imminent
-Maximum readiness

Sometimes you never realize how broken something is until you try to fix it.
That's what happened when Bernie Sanders finally addressed foreign policy today.

North Korea is playing the Long Game and has scored a significant victory against the US. Trump is ill suited to be running US foreign policy at this time. Any competent leader would understand the situation and negotiate a face-saving long term treaty for peace on the Korean peninsula. Instead, Trump is blustering and threatening and in the long run will have to declare bankruptcy, screw his creditors and claim victory... as usual.

Russia warns US it will strike back if militia attacks in Syria don’t end

Moscow has warned the US that if militias it supports in northeast Syria again attack positions of pro-government forces backed by Russia, the Russian military will use all its force to retaliate.

This is the picture of the capitalist system given us in Paul Street's most recent salvo, Capitalism: The Nightmare. I'd recommend a read before going further.

The Montana Supreme Court has ordered the Office of Attorney General Tim Fox (R) to rewrite language for the ballot statement and fiscal note associated with an anti-transgender ballot initiative that voters will decide on during the 2018 election.

The establishment's response to Bernie Sanders' Medicare-For-All proposal has gotten hysterical. A good example is the opening sentence to this article.