The United States is losing the capability for reasonable political debate and regard for science. Politicians, media and public discourse have been contaminated by lies, conspiracies, racial stereotyping of countries like China, and rampant hostility. The World Health Organization seems to have succumbed to U.S. pressure to falsely incriminate China over the Covid-19 international pandemic. […]
Great swaths of the American workforce are already on strike or slipping away from the dead-end treadmill. America’s labor shortage is complex and doesn’t lend itself to the simplistic expectations favored by media talking heads. The Wall Street cheerleaders extol the virtues of “getting America back to work” which is Wall-Street-speak for getting back to […]
Peter VAN BUREN Here’s a tale of two cops and two murders, Derek Chauvin and George Floyd, and John Doe* and Ashli Babbitt. Two cops, two unarmed citizens killed. One you care about, one you don’t. Even murder is politicized these days. It is hard to imagine anyone needs much of a recap on Chauvin-Floyd. […]
As the chart listed below on ‘how systems collapse’ highlights, the loss of supporting buffers goes undetected up until the entire structure collapses under its own weight. Disruptive extremes of weather: examine Rising geopolitical tensions without any diplomatic resolution: inspect Multiplying shortages in necessary commodities: examine Domestic disorder speeds up as extreme positions harden into […]
Maintaining the illusion of confidence, permanence and stability serves the interests of those benefiting from the bubbles and those who choose the security of the herd, even as the herd thunders towards the precipice. The misunderstanding that collapse is an all or nothing phenomenon prevails: Either the system rights itself with a little bit of […]
By Elena SÁNCHEZ NICOLÁS Roma neighborhood members have called on EU leaders to speak up against the harsh death of Romani guy Stanislav Tomáš in the Czech Republic last month, offered its parallels with to the killing of George Floyd in the US. Video footageof his arrest, which went viral on social media, shows a […]
Afghanistan is often described as the graveyard of empires. However in America’s case, it also dug its own tomb. Joe Biden, the 4th U.S. President to oversee the American war in Afghanistan, announced this week completion of that operation. He claimed with an impossibly straight face, “the United States did what we came to do […]
So proceed and state whatever you desire around all your networked gadgets, but don’t be shocked if bad things start taking place. I got another “Our Terms Have Changed” e-mail from a Huge Tech quasi-monopoly, and for a modification I really read this one. It was a revelation on several fronts. I’m reprinting it here […]
Perhaps we need to update Marie Antoinette’s popular quip of cluelessness to: “Let them consume area tourist.” As billionaires waste enormous resources on self-glorifying space flights, the corporate media is nothing short of worshipful. Countless average citizens, on the other hand, want the self-glorifying billionaires had taken themselves and all the other parasitic, tax-avoiding, predatory […]
Corporate America compromised national interests in service of greed, and so did the U.S. government. As we all know, the source of Corporate America’s unprecedented surge in revenues in the 21st century is the offshoring of making to China. If you question this, please research study the chart listed below of corporate revenues. Apologists claim […]
