I believe the link between poverty and TB was made a long time ago. What wasn’t clear is the link between neo-liberal economics (feed the oligarchs, let the benefits “trickle down”) and poverty. Now we know. But we still vote for those who curry favour with the oligarchy ?

#cdnpoli #uspoli #rupoli #poverty #TB #oligarchs https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/01/03/nx-s1-5246014/tb-tuberculosis-brazil-poverty-cash-transfer?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=npr/magazine/Health

“These lessons are all the more important now…as ..Trump prepares to reenter the White House.
As we learned from his first term in office, Trump thinks he knows everything about everything...
We are in a lot of trouble.”

As long as the experts of empire “know it all” the world, including USA, has been & is “in a lot of trouble.” With Trump, as with Hitler, no veil of “benevolence.” The only question, How many years of suffering are ahead?

#fascism #freemarkets #cdnpoli #uspoli #rupoli

An excellent read!
Consider this: the “free-market-at-all-costs” that cost USA a real opportunity to support democracy in Russia also created the economic & political conditions for anti-democratic forces in USA. Putinism the contemporary Russian fascist variant. Trumpism the American variant. Poilievrism, Canada’s variant. The “free” market leads to social disruption, fertile ground for fascism with its all/nothing us/them “solutions.”

#rupoli #uspoli #cdnpoli https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/12/russia-news-ukraine-cold-war-foreign-policy-history.html?via=rss_flipboard

A Newly Declassified Document Suggests Things With Russia Could Have Turned Out Very Differently

This remarkably prescient document holds several lessons about how to run foreign policy.

Slate

Via the #KyivIndepedent

« #Canada announces new #sanctions against #Russia.

Canada announced new sanctions against Russia on Feb. 23, targeting 10 individuals and 153 companies on the eve of the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of #Ukraine. »

#StopPutin #CANpoli #RUpoli #GloryToUkraine #SlavaUkraini

https://kyivindependent.com/canada-announces-new-sanctions-against-russia-to-mark-2nd-anniversary-of-full-scale-invasion/

Canada announces new sanctions against Russia

Canada's new sanctions will target those who provide Russia with military equipment, offer services such as insurance to Russian soldiers, and otherwise help support the finances and logistics of the Russian state

The Kyiv Independent

Via #MediaMatters

««Q: In your interview with Putin, you didn’t talk about freedom of speech in Russia, you did not talk about Navalny, about assassinations

Tucker Carlson: Leadership requires killing people»»

Shaking my fü¢k¡ñg head. Still have doubts #TuckerCarlsonIsARussianAsset?

#Putin #TuckerCarlson #Navalny #AlexeiNavalny #assassination #RUpoli #StopPutin #Moscow #Kremlin #Russia #RussianAsset

"died", my åss!
That fü¢kër had #AlexeiNavalny MURDERED!!!

«Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of #Russian President #VladimirPutin who crusaded against official #corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison Friday, Russian authorities said. He was 47»

#Moscow #Kremlin #Russia #Putin #Novichok #PenalColony #assassination #DmitryPeskov #Navalny #StopPutinNOW #RUpoli
#politics

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/alexei-navalny-the-fiercest-foe-of-russia-s-putin-dead-at-47-russian-authorities-1.6771551

Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russia's Putin, dead at 47: Russian authorities

Russia's prison agency says that imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died. He was 47.

CTVNews