Nicolas Cusanus, introduction to Learned Ignorance, "The US Bubble of Pretend," Patrick Lawrence
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It should be encouraging to all Americans to see unionized workers going on strike for better wages, benefits and working conditions. -- blj
3-27-22
Associated Press
California grocery workers vote to authorize strike
yesterday
https://apnews.com/article/covid-business-health-california-strikes-4286...
Yesterday (March 21, 2022) Thom Hartmann wrote a terrific essay, titled “Is America facing the ‘Doom Loop’ of democracy?”
Is America Facing The “Doom Loop” of Democracy? (hartmannreport.com)
It is an essay about the present state of political affairs in both the US and Russia, which are both dominated by factions bought by a wealthy few, “oligarchs” or “plutocrats,” who use factions of bought-and-sold “elected” politicians to form governments for their donors/owners.
3-8-22
Glenn Greenwald
Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has "Biological Research Facilities," Worried Russia May Seize Them
The neocon's confession sheds critical light on the U.S. role in Ukraine, and raises vital questions about these labs that deserve answers.
Glenn Greenwald
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/victoria-nuland-ukraine-has-biological?s=r
“Rational argument can be conducted with some prospect of success only so long as the emotionality of a given situation does not exceed a certain critical degree. If the affective temperature rises above this level, the possibility of reason’s having any effect ceases and its place is taken by slogans and chimerical wish fantasies. That is to say, a sort of collective possession results which rapidly develops into a psychic epidemic.” --CG Jung
3-8-22
The Casualties of Empire
3-4-22
Asia Times
The gaping hole in Western sanctions on Russia
US and EU sanctions have cynically left Russian energy exports untouched over fears of economic disruption at home
By ANDREW SALMON
https://asiatimes.com/2022/03/the-gaping-hole-in-western-sanctions-on-ru...
Consortium News
Ban on Russian Cats
March 3, 2022
This is the extent of voluntary reaction to events in Ukraine.
By Joe Lauria
Special to Consortium News
The International Federation of Felines (FIFe) on Tuesday ordered a ban on the importation of Russian-bred cats, presumably anywhere in the world.
“No cat bred in Russia may be imported and registered in any FIFe pedigree book outside Russia, regardless of, which organization issued its pedigree,” the FIFe board said in a statement.
5-2-1998
Foreign Affairs; Now a Word From X
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/02/opinion/foreign-affairs-now-a-word-fro...
Three of the smartest commentators on the world situation, the Saker, Pepe Escobar, and Michael Hudson, combine here to give us a lucid description of whjere the Ukraine conflict is actually going. Let us remind ourselves for the second time what real smart Americans are thinking about this:
Now the Christian church was founded on blood, strengthened by blood, and augmented by blood; yet nowadays they carry on Christ‘s cause by the sword just as if He was defends His own by His own means had perished.