Until the public recalls what could have been, we will never build what can be

https://www.rt.com/shows/redacted-tonight-summary/545435-capitalist-system-worst-problems/     —-Lee Camp looks at how the capitalist system sits at the heart of the worst problems facing society. In this history lesson, Camp takes you back to the feudal system, to the creation of corporations and currency, to the modern system that’s destroying the lives of the poor today. The ruling class don’t even try to hide the inhumanity that keeps the system running anymore, now that it has become almost impossible to ignore. This leaves it up to popular movements to end the capitalist system and create something new. —-end of leecamp info–
Nurses continue to request of the public, pressure on the Biden Administration to support a profession that is required by the public.  The public surely supported many nurses unions during the Presidential campaign of 2020, with voters recognizing and appreciating the strong policies from Bernie Sanders on the topic of the need for a 1-payer comprehensive health care system that would be more efficient and less expensive.  The meritorious Jim Clyburn stepped in to bamboozle the Democratic Base into support for a private-industry system that in 2022, seems to be on the verge of collapse.  Voters have much to answer for.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?517090-5/washington-journal-jean-ross-discusses-efforts-nurses-safe-coronavirus-pandemic   — JANUARY 11, 2022 | PART OF WASHINGTON JOURNAL 01/11/2022

Washington Journal

Jean Ross on Efforts to Keep Nurses Safe During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Jean Ross talked about the U.S. coronavirus response and efforts to keep nurses safe.–end of c-span info–
http://healthjusticemonitor.org/   —Summary – Last week saw the release of a tax plan to finance California’s single payer legislation, AB 1400. It was immediately attacked as a tax increase of $12,250 per family. Hey, wait, don’t premiums and cost-sharing disappear under single payer? Yes indeed! The typical family saves money. Health insurance guaranteed, with savings. And no more medical debt or bankruptcy.–end of hjm info–

An electorate that would choose against their interests in order to be part of a clique may also choose as their future demands, flying cars over a 1-payer comprehensive public health care policy—–https://www.treehugger.com/best-of-green-awards-eco-trends-2022-5215213?utm_campaign=treehugger&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cn_nl&utm_content=26324599&utm_term=       –The future we want is not one filled with robot housekeepers and flying cars. The future we want is filled with things like fewer greenhouse gas emissions, less plastic pollution, clean water, and a planet not in peril. Is that too much to ask?!With this in mind, for the January edition of our Best of Green Awards, we thought we’d put a spin on the standard. Rather than looking at all the things we’ve tested and reviewed in the past, this time we will be celebrating the concepts that are heading where we think the future needs to go. Think of it as awards meet a 2022 trends piece meets a “how to save the world” story.–end of treehugger info–
A huge majority of Representatives of the People who voted excessive funding for the Pentagon in 2022, rather than to promote the interests of the American public, also hold power due to the electorate.  The result is predictable——https://countercurrents.org/2022/01/hey-hey-usa-how-many-bombs-did-you-drop-today/      –The Pentagon has finally published its first Airpower Summary since President Biden took office nearly a year ago. These monthly reports have been published since 2007 to document the number of bombs and missiles dropped by U.S.-led air forces in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria since 2004. But President Trump stopped publishing them after February 2020, shrouding continued U.S. bombing in secrecy.Over the past 20 years, as documented in the table below, U.S. and allied air forces have dropped over 337,000 bombs and missiles on other countries. That is an average of 46 strikes per day for 20 years. This endless bombardment has not only been deadly and devastating for its victims but is broadly recognized as seriously undermining international peace and security and diminishing America’s standing in the world.–end of countercurrents info–

Such voices such as the President and media talking heads are sounding warnings about fascism in the USA.  The Nazis seemed to function as fascists, says history.  The USA fought a war to stop fascism and the Nazis.  The USA didn’t suffer the atrocities from the Nazis, as did, for example, Russia.  That Russia watches as fascist growth, admitted by the President and the media, in the USA, is skeptical about US involvement in the Ukraine, should be understandable.  Meanwhile, we in the USA could have a discussion about the reason we must be acquiescent to Nazis, when we fought a war against the aggressive character of fascism.
https://popular.info/p/author-of-anti-crt-bill-tells-teacher?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMTU0NTE0LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0NjkyMTAxOCwiXyI6Im1NbU8xIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQxOTE0NzczLCJleHAiOjE2NDE5MTgzNzMsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xNjY0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.9Pyi5M4w1J7ry-gAG3z0L_4-H6w89kjlQJPuRYKfeFM     –In Indiana, State Senator Scott Baldwin (R) has introduced sweeping legislation that Baldwin says is designed to ban Critical Race Theory (CRT) and related concepts in K-12 education. During a committee hearing on the bill earlier this month, Baldwin told a high school English teacher that he should be “impartial” when discussing Nazism. It is a case study about how the frantic efforts to ban CRT can quickly lead to absurd outcomes. –end of popular info–
Russia seems skeptical of nations exhibiting national characteristics by which, in the past, they so singularly suffered.  China was not far behind Russia in suffering.  –https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/world-war-two-casualties-by-country     —

Top 10 Countries with the Highest Total Casualties in World War II:

1. Soviet Union — 20 million to 27 million
2. China — 15 million to 20 million
3. Germany — 6.9 million to 7.4 million
4. Poland — 5.9 million to 6 million
5. Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) — 3 million to 4 million
6. Japan — 2.5 million to 3.1 million
7. India — 2.2 million to 3 million
8. Yugoslavia — 1 million to 1.7 million
9. French Indochina (Laos, Cambodia, part of Vietnam) — 1 million to 2.2 million
10. France — 600 thousand

–end of worldpopulationreview info–
The USA threatens sanctions against Russia when the USA could better address sanctions that seemed to have been placed on the USA by China; one example is computer chips.  Many more examples are imaginable.
Talk of sanctions against Russia seem to deflect from the questionable foreign policy and economic globalism that US politicians have wielded over decades under the influence of American oligarchy controlling our government byway of Citizens United and www.alec.org..
CRT is relevant, but silly in light of the intense ignorance by some residents of the USA on the topic of world history.  The result is foreign policy that doesn’t relate to reality.  
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More Than Ever, Food Not Bombs Needs To Become A Reality

US War Lobby Fuels Conflict In Russia, Ukraine, And Syria

Building Communities For A Fascist-Free Future

NYC Enacts Law Allowing Over 800,000 Immigrants To Vote In Local Elections

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In NYS corporations are buying up private-practice veterinary hospitals, as reported by personnel of said previously-privately-owned veterinarian offices.  This, they inform, is the reason for the price hike and one will not be able to find an unfixed facility in the area….so they said.  This doesn’t feel like free trade—-https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/ivy-league-cartel-sued-for-price?  Here is another version—token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMTU0NTE0LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0NjkwNzA2MCwiXyI6Im1NbU8xIiwiaWF0IjoxNjQxOTE3MTg5LCJleHAiOjE2NDE5MjA3ODksImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xMTUyNCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.-_4rcEdA6QT8Udp4yFqL-sBMDblFrc89AObmKtbJ9GI            –Last April, Sam Haselby and I wrote a piece titled “Break up the Ivy League Cartel,’ offering a history of the elitism of top universities in America. For hundreds of years, these top schools have policed the moral, cultural, and economic boundaries of what forms the American elite, and in the post World War II era, the global elite. They are in many ways a cartel of institutions that share strategy on endowment funds, academic trends, cultural capital and student management.But it’s not just this informal elite-production model that makes such universities a cartel; they are also an *actual cartel.* Today, a group of class action law firms sued 16 universities for price-fixing against low-income students in the admissions process, which is the key gatekeeping mechanism designed to enhance prestige.–end of mattstoller info–

We deserve better.      https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/league-refuses-help-perpetrate-fraud–LEAGUE REFUSES TO “HELP PERPETRATE A FRAUD”

WITHDRAWS SUPPORT FROM FINAL PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE–end of lwv info–Murray Bookchin, who founded social ecology, a theory that strongly influenced early Green Socialist thought, strongly advocated the discussion and study group as the first step of any revolutionary movement. A group of individuals meets to expand their knowledge of radical thought and form a radical intellectual community; through the give and take of discussion, can eventually form ideas for next steps in organizing and political activity. According to Bookchin, study groups help create solidarity and a shared language — with a shared coherent vision — for building a mass, organizing, political movement!
Along with Climate Change, many people oppose the imperialism of the USA under control of the Republican/Democratic duopoly.  Use of the wealth of our nation should be to enhance quality of life for We The People rather than for imperialism.  Some people vote accordingly.I———————–That “we are a 2-Party system” is a fabrication of the Republican/Democratic duopoly and spread by MSM.  In FACT the majority of voters aren’t either registered Democratic or Republican.  The censorship about this info must be envied by bureaucrats of the Former USSR and their simplistic style of 1-Party elections.  

Regardless of which character sits in the Oval Office, We The People have work to do to maintain principles of our democratic (small d) Constitutional republic.  Several items to challenge—*We need the integrity of ranked-choice voting so voters won’t feel compelled to “hold your nose and vote”*Censored debates must be stopped.  The Democratic/Republican duopoly pretends to legitimate debates in what is nothing other than another campaign show.  Independent debates run by uninterested sponsors such as The League of Women Voters, must be restored.  (Access www.debates.org to understand the extent of duopoly control).  The so-called Debate Commission is a corporation to promote the Democratic corporation and Republican corporation, not to inform We The People*Challenge and stop gerrymandering that is a trick especially of the Republican branch of the duopoly.*Stop voter suppression by political Parties, and especially confront and stop Party suppression, which is the over-arching approach to voter suppression.  Party suppression seems to have been the responsibility of the Democratic corporation*Promote by law ranked-choice voting, so we won’t be told again, by D&R duopoly, to “hold your nose and vote”
If these issues are handled, our next elections can be honorable. 
*******************************************************************https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx—-Political Party affiliation of voters.