Where Is Politicians’ Urgency Over Donald Trump’s ICE Raids?

Why aren’t more elected officials turning Donald Trump’s assault on the basic rights of both noncitizens and citizens into a major national scandal?

In Spain, Farmworkers Are Dying in the Heat

Three migrant farmworkers died from heatstroke in Spain this summer. Largely ignored by media, their fate illustrates how the effects of the climate crisis are offloaded on the least visible workers.

Economic Populism Is Powerful, but Democrats’ Brand Is Toxic

Populist economic policies grounded in the value of work and commonsense notions of fairness may be able to win over constituencies that have abandoned Democrats in recent decades. There’s a problem though: the Democratic brand is trash.

Are you a #republican that wonders what ever happened to the whole "we need to balance the budget, and that means the government has to be smaller" thing?

Are you a #democrat who looks at the history of #socialism and #marxism around the world, the famine and despair and mass murder it has caused, and finds yourself horrified that some people in your party promote those ideas?

Do you believe that human #freedom is the best path to human flourishing?

You might be a #libertarian.

Remember, #eattherich isn't hyperbole or a figure of speech. Some people literally want to dehumanize and consume people simply out of hatred. And some have:

"The cases of cannibalism had nothing to do with a lack of food, and recorded cases differ from those written up during the 'three years of disaster' after the Great Leap Forward (1958-61) when China had fallen into famine and starving people ate human flesh out of desperation."

https://www.rfi.fr/en/asia-pacific/20160522-cannibalism-china-publication-official-records-50-years-after-cultural-revolut

#marxism #socialism #communism

Cannibalism in China 50 years on

This week fifty years ago the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution started in China. With the “May 16 proclamation” Mao Zedong directly attacked his political opponents.

RFI
Why Trump’s Attempt to Bully Brazil Is Falling Flat

In solidarity with the recently imprisoned former president Jair Bolsonaro, Donald Trump levied tariffs of 50 percent on Brazil. He is quickly learning that the US’s influence is weaker than he thought, thanks largely to Brazil’s growing ties with China.

Big Pharma’s Legal Escape Hatch

Women say Pfizer has failed to properly warn them about a link between birth control shot Depo-Provera and brain tumors. The pharmaceutical giant is now attempting to use a powerful legal maneuver to try to silence them.

Transitioning Out of Capitalism Towards a Green Future

A conversation with the authors of "Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green Democratic Future" about what it will take to build a livable world for all.

In These Times
France Is Experiencing a Full-Blown Regime Crisis

France has just seen the third resignation of a prime minister in less than a year. What is at stake is not merely short-term instability — it is a crisis of the entire Fifth Republic political regime as it enters a new phase in its history.

When a Superpower’s Decline Disintegrates a Sense of Reality

When the Soviet Union fell, Russians lost their sense of past and future at once. Collective hallucinations flourished in the void. Now, in the United States, our reality is disintegrating in a similar way.