So I was watching John Oliver do a decent episode on America's opium epidemic. While he did a good take-down of the drug makers, I kept waiting for him to mention the most important element in the epidemic - where the opium comes from - but he never did.
Are we talking about acts of war?
Should America launch retaliatory measures?
Such is the patent nonsense we've been hearing lately in the MSM that way too many former Bernie supporters have been taking way too seriously.
For the record, what is the actual truth we are dealing with?
Information Alert in case you haven't heard. The vote is expected to take place this Thursday. Mostly it's the little guys taking on the big guys.
I happened to be reading this article about the horrific state of personal finances in Detroit, when this graph caught my eye. Notice the last item.
CORRUPTION
The fraud, corruption and wasteful mismanagement is so deeply ingrained in the present capitalist system that it can make a person "insane" trying to follow up the politicians of both parties, the large corporate charities, the bankers, transnational corporations and media cronies as their corruption poisons the world.
This election is being portrayed as an existential choice-- Do we want democracy? Or do we want fascism? The problem with this framing is that it presents a false choice. Democracy isn't actually on the table.
Princeton released a study characterizing the US as an oligarchy. And our political elites--those we charge with protecting democracy--agree.
Johns Hopkins Medicine became the first academic medical center to perform gender-affirming surgeries for transgender people back in 1965. But shortly after breaking ground, the center reversed course, halting the surgeries and taking a controversial stance on transgender health.
--Erin Rook, LGBTQ Nation
This was a strategy to get Bernie supporters to come on board with Clinton - yes, they think THIS little of us:
It should feel almost like “we got together and decided to do this on our own”.
A couple of days ago, I was discussing with some friends how would we describe the situation in the Labour Party; was it a movement, a revolution, how could we describe it? I am not comfortable with the term “revolution” as I think it plays into false usage of the term; it is a much misused term being used to describe almost any change that occurs.
