Public Infrastructure Around The World Is Facing

Ever Since Steve Bannon Was Demoted, And Drama Started Playing Out Between Bannon And Jared Kushner And The Firing Of Comey And "is He Going To Get Impeached?" We Have Been Trapped In A Classic Survivor Reality Tv Show, Like, "who's Going To Get Voted Off The Island?" And This Has Every Single News Show Enjoying Ratings Never Seen Before. And It Physically Pains Them To Talk About The Stakes Of This Administration, Whether It's Health Care Or Climate Change Or The Deregulation Of The Financial Sector Or Social Security. None Of It Can Compete With This Reality Show.

It (the Chinese Move To Embrace Capitalism In 1989) Is A Mirror Of The Corporatist State First Pioneered In Chile Under Pinochet: A Revolving Door Between Corporate And Political Elites Who Combine Their Power To Eliminate Workers As An Organized Political Force. The Creation Of Today's Market Society Was Not The Result Of A Sequence Of Spontaneous Events But Rather Of State Interference And Violence.

Protected Businesses Never, Never Become Competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, Kpmg, Rti, Blackwater And All Other U.s. Corporations That Were In Iraq To Take Advantage Of The Reconstruction Were Part Of A Vast Protectionist Racket Whereby The U.s. Government Had Created Their Markets With War, Barred Their Competitors From Even Entering The Race, Then Paid Them To Do The Work, While Guaranteeing Them A Profit To Boot - All At Taxpayer Expense.

Terrorism Doesn't Just Blow Up Buildings; It Blasts Every Other Issue Off The Political Map. The Spectre Of Terrorism - Real And Exaggerated - Has Become A Shield Of Impunity, Protecting Governments Around The World From Scrutiny For Their Human Rights Abuses.

It Is Our Great Collective Misfortune That The Scientific Community Made Its Decisive Diagnosis Of The Climate Threat At The Precise Moment When An Elite Minority Was Enjoying More Unfettered Political, Cultural, And Intellectual Power Than At Any Point Since The 1920s.