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MEP Mick Wallace: “What are the working-class people of Ukraine dying for?”
Colin Todhunter: Irish MEPs Mick Wallace and Claire Daley have been staunch critics of the EU stance on Ukraine … “The damage to Ukraine is devastating. Towns and cities that endured for hundreds of years don’t exist anymore. … The pro-Western government opened the doors wide for massive structural adjustment and privatisation programmes … Over three million hectares of agricultural land are now owned by companies based in Western tax havens. Ukraine’s mineral deposits alone are worth over $12 trillion. Western companies are licking their lips. … Read here …
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OceanGate and How the Wealthy Kill
Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report: A mass attack of derision occurred when the facts about the Titan submersible were revealed. Laughter at the expense of an incompetent rich man is understandable but skirts the issue. The rich get many people killed and they do it by design. … The concentration of wealth grows more and more extreme and depends entirely upon exploiting millions of people and putting their lives at risk. … Poverty itself is the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. … Read here …
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Our View of Nature Is the Cornerstone of Our Worldview
Martin LeFevre: Our view of nature establishes our worldview, and our worldview determines our view of nature. They are not the same thing however. One’s worldview flows from one’s ideas or insights into human nature, while one’s view of nature reflects one’s ideas or insights into life, truth and God. And ideas and insights are […]
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55 Years After the Launch of the Poor People’s Campaign, Taking Stock of Interlocking Injustices
Sarah Anderson: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders launched a Poor People’s Campaign in 1968 to tackle what he called the “Triplets of Evil” — systemic racism, poverty, and militarism. … y many indicators, from voting rights to mass incarceration to wealth inequality, these systemic problems had deepened since 1968. … Pandemic relief policies temporarily lifted the load of poverty, proving that poverty in the richest country in the world is a policy choice. …We all do better when we all do better… Read here …
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Three Kinds of Singularity
Martin LeFevre: There are three meanings to the word “singularity” – cosmological, technological, and psychological. The first and last are real, while the second is the fever dream of technophiles. The cosmological singularity, which gave rise to the misnomer of the Big Bang, is the originating point of the universe, in which “the entire universe […]
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Ukraine Stays with the West But Russia Is Winning and Has the Receipts
Margaret Kimberley: A delegation of African leaders travelled to Ukraine and Russia to help broker peace. But the collective west insists on prolonging the conflict. … Not only is Ukraine a de facto U.S. colony which lives and dies by Washington’s whims, but it is also a deeply racist country. … Much of its population is still attached to Nazi ideology and the politics of World War II collaborator Stephan Bandera. … Nazi salutes, swastikas and other insignias are common there. … Read here …
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It’s All In Our Heads?
Martin LeFevre: In the old days it used to be said of the newspaper business: “Don’t pick a fight with an industry that buys ink by the barrel and paper by the ton.” With regard to psychiatry, one might say today, “Don’t pick a fight with an industry that pushes antidepressants by the billions.” Even […]
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The Pentagon’s $52,000 trash can
Connor Echols: With military spending at record highs, many contractors have hiked the cost of relatively simple items. … Leading military contractors jacked up the price of several everyday products after receiving non-competitive contracts, costing taxpayers more than $1.3 million in apparently unnecessary markups, according to Pentagon contracting data … Read here …
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Orcas and Orcus
Why are the orcas attacking the ships? The orca, Descended from Orcus — God of the underworld And death — Who punishes Breakers of pledges and oaths Has orcas sic and seek out those Of course, the orcas are eager to help After all that they’ve suffered And witnessed As well Their habitats poisoned Who […]
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Big Pharma and Direct-to-Consumer Advertising
Mickey Z: Since 1997, the U.S. is one of only two countries (the other being New Zealand) that allows direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising for health products like medications and procedures. … Keep this in mind: the main purpose of DTC drug advertising is to sell a product, not educate consumers. … About 4,500 FDA-approved medications and devices are pulled from the shelves each year because they’ve been found to be neither safe nor effective. … Doctors and medicine are now the top cause of death in the United States. … Read here …
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An Explanation, Though It Won’t Change the Explained
Martin LeFevre: A friend writes asking to inquire together into an essential question: “I deeply question myself and with friends, what is the root cause of this disastrous course of humankind?” I understand her to mean, “when and why did man make the “wrong turn?” and “what is the root cause within us of humankind […]
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Trump Indictments Subvert the Legal and Political System
Margaret Kimberley: The recent indictments of former president Donald Trump are political acts intended to keep him from becoming president again. But the impact of dubious legal precedent should be of greater concern than helping the democrats achieve electoral victories that rarely benefit the people. … The crimes he committed on behalf of the U.S. are never called into question and like those of other presidents will never be punished. … It is ironic that Trump used the very problematic Espionage Act while he was president. It was a means of indicting Julian Assange and others … Read here …
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A Criminal Presidency
Thom Hartmann: If previous Republican presidents had been held to account for their crimes the way it appears Trump is about to be, Trump may well have not been as brazen in everything from his violations of the Hatch Act to the Espionage Act to his explicitly asking Vladimir Putin to intervene in the 2016 election. … Nixon’s double-dealing (reached out to the South Vietnamese ambassador offering inducements to pull out of the peace talks) … the Reagan campaign worked out a deal with the leader of Iran’s radical faction — Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini — to keep the hostages in captivity until after the 1980 presidential election … Read here …
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The Democratic Party, Donald Trump and the Espionage Act
Eric London: There is no lack of political and constitutional reasons for prosecuting Trump. … ran roughshod over the population’s most basic democratic rights … an attempt to overthrow the Constitution … a Hitlerian initiative to separate immigrant children from their parents … pardoned war criminals, declared that “torture works,” … However, the Democratic Party-led prosecution of Donald Trump addresses none of these crimes … the Justice Department’s indictment of Trump focuses solely on his transgressions against the national security apparatus … Read here …
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Don’t Be Afraid to Embrace the Utopian Spirit
Liza Featherstone : Review of Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life by Kristen Ghodsee … people have been experimenting with alternatives to the individualist, patriarchal order for thousands of years, often successfully, and are doing so still … our inability to look beyond the nuclear family leaves us isolated, working hard all by ourselves at tasks that could be better shared by many adults … The ruling class does not want us to dream of a better life, or to realize that there are alternatives to the status quo … Read here …
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