http://rabble.ca/columnists/2019/01/los-angeles-teachers-win-victory-against-school-privatization
For many years, the quality of American public schools has been going down. But that may now be turning a corner.
Now, if we could only improve the quality of universities....but that's a long story - and one that universities are not interested in.
________________________________________________________________
Billionaires are routinely handed out huge sums of money by our governments. (Funny how there's so much they can't afford on their own.) To add insult to injury that money cannot come from their taxes because they don't pay any. That's our money - money that we need for hospitals and schools - and food - and housing.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/cathy-crowes-blog/2019/01/homelessness-requires-state-emergency-response
______________________________________________________________
Get used to this. We have no choice.
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-our-eating-habits-wont-change-so-process-must
________________________________________________________________
It is surely astonishing that we permit billionaires to pay no income tax at all. As well, they commonly get huge breaks in property taxes - and they get free handouts from our tax money every year.
In return, they use our money to pay for their wars; in the U.S. most Americans simply give up on medical care; schools make do with overstuffed classrooms; universities are wildly expensive so that most of the population simply can't afford them ... and at that they are hopelessly underfunded. (When I taught elementary school, I was swamped with classes of 30 and more. In university, I routinely taught 75, and knew faculty in other universities who taught classes of 600. Students don't learn much in any of those situations.)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/24/warren-forces-issue-massive-economic-inequality-2020-debate-ultra-millionaire-tax
_____________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/border-patrol-guatemala-dictatorship/
For over a century the most vicious, murderous force in South America has been American capitalism. Funny how so few of our news media have noticed that.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/venezuela-coup-guaido-maduro/
________________________________________________________________
Seventy-five years ago, it was goodbye British empire. Now, it may well be goodbye Britain.
https://www.thenation.com/article/britain-brexit-corbyn-labour-may/
______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/26/full-trajectory/
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/25/the-yellow-vests-the-crisis-of-the-welfare-state-and-socialism/
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/25/how-the-organization-of-american-states-became-an-agent-of-regime-change/
___________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50968.htm
These aren't experts? You mean they ain't smart like Donald Trump?
___________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50966.htm
When was the last time a Latin American country invaded the U.S.?
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The American government accuses Cuba of being anti-democratic, and brutalizing its own people. Right. This is the American government that forced one of the world's most brutal dictatorships on Cuba for some 30 years, making it a favourite holiday spot for American gangsters, and a pot of gold for American capitalists looking for really, really cheap labour.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50959.htm
After the U.S. thugs were kicked out, and even after the U.S. punished Cuba with trade sanctions, Cuba has been a much happier country.
Cuban's aren't dumb enough to believe these American government stories. Alas. Many American people are.
______________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50971.htm
John Bolton is a very dangerously unstable man.
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2019/891-democracy-or-extinction.html
And who are the people who are preventing any serious dealing with this crisis? Why, they're those very nice rich people who make billions upon billions out of letting the planet be destroyed.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/01/25/opinion/trudeaus-oilsands-supply-outlook-reflects-future-doesnt-exist
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/01/25/opinion/foreign-funded-environmentalists-and-other-red-herring
_________________________________________________
https://off-guardian.org/2019/01/26/africa-shifts-to-putin-not-the-other-way-around/
____________________________________________________________
https://off-guardian.org/2019/01/26/mobilize-and-defend-venezuela/
It's not as if this were new. The major western powers have been murdering and plundering all over the world for centuries. (except it was called glorious.)
________________________________________________________________
https://off-guardian.org/2019/01/25/syria-then-and-now-liberated-of-western-backed-terrorism/
______________________________________________________________
Don't hope for any significant change to come from the Democrat party. Since World War Two, it has been almost identical to the Republican party. What can you expect? Both parties are owned by the billionaires who pay their bills.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-democratic-party-is-further-to-the-right-than-most-voters/
_-------------------------------------------------------
Sometimes, there's nothing more to be said.
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/26/cfpb-mulvaney-discount/
________________________________________________________
A very depressing day of blog writing. Not only have we abandoned all that we said were were fighting World War Two for. We have become the Naziis in our behaviour. That's true even of the Israelis though, in fairness, my impression of North American Jews is that they remain faithful to Judaic principles - something Israelis abandoned long ago.
For the last twenty years in particular, the U.S. and Britain have been throwing the middle east into a place of horror. (They had been doing that at least since World War One - but it has become much worse thanks to the behaviour of Israeli, British and American greed for ever more control.)
Latin America? It may simply collapse into a final chaos as American billionaire greed leaves it with no choice.
We have allowed capitalism to go wildly out of control so capitalists now dominate in world and national affairs. They have also largely destroyed our access to information and understanding.
The path we're on is destructive, fatally destructive. Of course it is. One cannot allow such forces to dominate the world - and expect survival. As it is, we face either the instant destruction of the greatest war ever seen - or the slower and lingering destruction of a complete social collapse.
We have created a world in which there is no morality, no social objectives....
And we aren't going to change this by sitting around and letting it happen.
In
For many years, the quality of American public schools has been going down. But that may now be turning a corner.
Now, if we could only improve the quality of universities....but that's a long story - and one that universities are not interested in.
________________________________________________________________
Billionaires are routinely handed out huge sums of money by our governments. (Funny how there's so much they can't afford on their own.) To add insult to injury that money cannot come from their taxes because they don't pay any. That's our money - money that we need for hospitals and schools - and food - and housing.
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/cathy-crowes-blog/2019/01/homelessness-requires-state-emergency-response
______________________________________________________________
Get used to this. We have no choice.
https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/dyer-our-eating-habits-wont-change-so-process-must
________________________________________________________________
It is surely astonishing that we permit billionaires to pay no income tax at all. As well, they commonly get huge breaks in property taxes - and they get free handouts from our tax money every year.
In return, they use our money to pay for their wars; in the U.S. most Americans simply give up on medical care; schools make do with overstuffed classrooms; universities are wildly expensive so that most of the population simply can't afford them ... and at that they are hopelessly underfunded. (When I taught elementary school, I was swamped with classes of 30 and more. In university, I routinely taught 75, and knew faculty in other universities who taught classes of 600. Students don't learn much in any of those situations.)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/01/24/warren-forces-issue-massive-economic-inequality-2020-debate-ultra-millionaire-tax
_____________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/border-patrol-guatemala-dictatorship/
For over a century the most vicious, murderous force in South America has been American capitalism. Funny how so few of our news media have noticed that.
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.thenation.com/article/venezuela-coup-guaido-maduro/
________________________________________________________________
Seventy-five years ago, it was goodbye British empire. Now, it may well be goodbye Britain.
https://www.thenation.com/article/britain-brexit-corbyn-labour-may/
______________________________________________________________
https://countercurrents.org/2019/01/26/full-trajectory/
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/25/the-yellow-vests-the-crisis-of-the-welfare-state-and-socialism/
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/01/25/how-the-organization-of-american-states-became-an-agent-of-regime-change/
___________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50968.htm
These aren't experts? You mean they ain't smart like Donald Trump?
___________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50966.htm
When was the last time a Latin American country invaded the U.S.?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The American government accuses Cuba of being anti-democratic, and brutalizing its own people. Right. This is the American government that forced one of the world's most brutal dictatorships on Cuba for some 30 years, making it a favourite holiday spot for American gangsters, and a pot of gold for American capitalists looking for really, really cheap labour.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50959.htm
After the U.S. thugs were kicked out, and even after the U.S. punished Cuba with trade sanctions, Cuba has been a much happier country.
Cuban's aren't dumb enough to believe these American government stories. Alas. Many American people are.
______________________________________________________________
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/50971.htm
John Bolton is a very dangerously unstable man.
_________________________________________________________________
http://www.medialens.org/index.php/alerts/alert-archive/2019/891-democracy-or-extinction.html
And who are the people who are preventing any serious dealing with this crisis? Why, they're those very nice rich people who make billions upon billions out of letting the planet be destroyed.
_________________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/01/25/opinion/trudeaus-oilsands-supply-outlook-reflects-future-doesnt-exist
_______________________________________________________________
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/01/25/opinion/foreign-funded-environmentalists-and-other-red-herring
_________________________________________________
https://off-guardian.org/2019/01/26/africa-shifts-to-putin-not-the-other-way-around/
____________________________________________________________
https://off-guardian.org/2019/01/26/mobilize-and-defend-venezuela/
It's not as if this were new. The major western powers have been murdering and plundering all over the world for centuries. (except it was called glorious.)
________________________________________________________________
https://off-guardian.org/2019/01/25/syria-then-and-now-liberated-of-western-backed-terrorism/
______________________________________________________________
Don't hope for any significant change to come from the Democrat party. Since World War Two, it has been almost identical to the Republican party. What can you expect? Both parties are owned by the billionaires who pay their bills.
https://truthout.org/articles/the-democratic-party-is-further-to-the-right-than-most-voters/
_-------------------------------------------------------
Sometimes, there's nothing more to be said.
https://theintercept.com/2019/01/26/cfpb-mulvaney-discount/
________________________________________________________
A very depressing day of blog writing. Not only have we abandoned all that we said were were fighting World War Two for. We have become the Naziis in our behaviour. That's true even of the Israelis though, in fairness, my impression of North American Jews is that they remain faithful to Judaic principles - something Israelis abandoned long ago.
For the last twenty years in particular, the U.S. and Britain have been throwing the middle east into a place of horror. (They had been doing that at least since World War One - but it has become much worse thanks to the behaviour of Israeli, British and American greed for ever more control.)
Latin America? It may simply collapse into a final chaos as American billionaire greed leaves it with no choice.
We have allowed capitalism to go wildly out of control so capitalists now dominate in world and national affairs. They have also largely destroyed our access to information and understanding.
The path we're on is destructive, fatally destructive. Of course it is. One cannot allow such forces to dominate the world - and expect survival. As it is, we face either the instant destruction of the greatest war ever seen - or the slower and lingering destruction of a complete social collapse.
We have created a world in which there is no morality, no social objectives....
And we aren't going to change this by sitting around and letting it happen.
In
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