The rich care about you, and all the trials and tribulations of your working-class life in exactly the same measure the average American cares about the homeless encampments growing in every city in the country. They have their jokes and memes about your complaints about not being able to afford food and healthcare, too. ManyContinue reading “Do the wealthy care about you?”
Monthly Archives: May 2020
Do you want to fight, or fold?
This nation once fought a terrible civil war over the concept of human chattel slavery in which poor, working class white males from the North and the South gathered into armies and killed 850,000 of each other on behalf of wealthy, slave-holding plantation owners, who enjoyed a very low, low bottom line on their laborContinue reading “Do you want to fight, or fold?”
Cuban embassy in Washington attacked? Internet awash with propaganda? Just another day…
The US media, for a little while anyway, missed that a crazed Texas man from Mexico with ties to extremist Christian sects traveled to Washington, D.C. and shot up an embassy with an AK-47 or replica AK — the communist’s favorite rifle — in an attempt to murder Cuban diplomats inside. The man also claims,Continue reading “Cuban embassy in Washington attacked? Internet awash with propaganda? Just another day…”
Heroes?
Or uncompensated, at-risk workers being used by a system that refuses to pay them adequately or staff their organizations properly to handle surges in workload? Under capitalism, one must stop and ask oneself this question.