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What
is neoliberalism? To start, it is not new, and it is not liberal. It is
predicated on prioritizing the private sphere over the public sphere;
i.e., allowing the so-called free-market to decide. Hence, the role of
the government is to be minimized, with privatization, cutting social
programs, deregulating finance, and imposing austerity prescribed.
As
extreme temperatures, the rate of sea ice melt, the collapse of
Greenland glaciers, the thawing of Siberian and Canadian permafrost and
increased evaporation in the Arctic drive cold snow storms into Europe
and North America, and as hurricanes and wild fires affect tropical and
semi-tropical parts of the globe, it is becoming clear Earth is entering
a period of uncontrollable climate tipping points consequent on the
shift in composition and thereby the state of the atmosphere-ocean
system.
The
question is why does the US political system bemoan the frequent
occurrence of mass shootings, and yet turn around and endorse the
political process that makes these killings possible? The size, scope
and duration of massacres requires that we examine the large-scale,
long-term systemic features of the US political economy.
The
withdrawal of Soviet aid in 1990 left Cuba’s economy on a knife-edge.
Cubans lost all their markets in sugar. They ceased to receive
foodstuffs, fuel, wood, soap, raw materials. Calories and protein intake
were reduced by half. Plans for nuclear energy had to be abandoned. The
US intensified its blockade, passing the Helms-Burton Act. It was a
case of adapt or die.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet U.S. PresidentDonald J. Trump to
discuss what has long been in the works, war. A war against Syria,
Hezbollah, Lebanon and eventually its main target, Iran. Another issue
will be discussed is the U.S. embassy move to Jerusalem (which in my
mind will lead to the Third Intifada).
A
child horrifically injured by soldiers was arrested and terrified into
signing a false confession that he was hurt in a bicycle accident. A man
who, it was claimed, had died of tear-gas inhalation was actually shot
at point-blank range, then savagely beaten by a mob of soldiers and left
to die. And soldiers threw a tear gas canister at a Palestinian couple,
baby in arms, as they fled for safety during a military invasion of
their village.
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