A year that began hopefully is ending grimly. Western political elites, unable (and perhaps unwilling) to turn a deadly pandemic and climate crisis into a life-preserving opportunity, have only themselves to blame.
The West’s wasted crisis
Tag: Green New Deal
With Bezos at the Helm, Democracy Dies at the Washington Post Editorial Board
CONFIDENTLY WRONG
In the Soviet Union, everybody was aware that the media was controlled by the state. But in a corporate state like the U.S., a veneer of independence is still maintained, although trust in the media has been plummeting for years.
With Bezos at the Helm, Democracy Dies at the Washington Post Editorial Board
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‘Divisive’: How Corporate Media Dismiss Ideas Unpopular With Elites
AOC panders to Israel lobby
USA Today Makes Major Contribution to Foreign Policy Debate
USA Today Makes Major Contribution to Foreign Policy Debate
In it, Biden spokespeople suggest that he will move the US away from militarism and toward caring for human and environmental needs.
It would be nice if this fit the evidence thus far of a broken promise on Afghanistan, a halfway and unclear broken promise on Yemen, no movement on shifting military spending to peaceful projects, a broken promise on the Iran agreement, weapons deals to brutal dictatorships including Egypt, continuing warmaking in Syria, Iraq, Iran, refusal to take troops out of Germany, backing for a would-be coup in Venezuela, nomination of numerous warmongers for high office, continued sanctions against the International Criminal Court, continued courting of the Saudi royal dictator, no prosecution of any pre-Biden war crimes, continued exemption for militarism from climate agreements, etc.
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