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Racist incidents after the US election

dimanche 4 décembre 2016 à 01:00

In the 10 days after the election the US had a high rate of racist incidents.

It's clear that the bulk of them were inspired by Trump.

Haitians protest election rigging

dimanche 4 décembre 2016 à 01:00

Haitians protested massively, claiming the presidential election was rigged.

With just a million people voting out of a population of 10 million, the election was surely no good.

The previous "president" Martelly was imposed by the US, not honestly elected. I would guess that Moïse was also imposed by the US.

Urgent: Oppose 21st Century Curse bill

dimanche 4 décembre 2016 à 01:00

US citizens: call on Senate Democrats to oppose the 21st Century Cures bill.

It was written to improve health care, but corporate lobbyists hijacked it and converted it (in substance) into the "21st Century Curse Act".

Some details are in this article whose main point is how US "patient advocacy" groups have been paid by big pharma to lobby for that hijacking.

The 21st Century Curse Act would allow drug companies to make secret payments to doctors.

Drug companies have gone to great lengths to corrupt the medical system, even going to the point of making phony "scientific journals" to publish resmercials that praise their products. It is not a mere possibility that these secret payments would be in exchange for prescribing their drugs.

Urgent: Oppose appointing Ebell

vendredi 2 décembre 2016 à 01:00

US citizens: call on Trump not to appoint Ebell.

Economic reforms in Cuba

jeudi 1 décembre 2016 à 01:00

Raúl Castro has made some economic reforms in Cuba but has not increased human rights.

I think Cuba deserves human rights, but must be careful about how far to permit private business.

Cubans deserve democracy but have no experience in running democracy. They could easily fall into the plutocrats' trap. Even US voters, with much more experience have made the mistake of electing politicians such as Clinton, Dubya and Obama that have surrendered their countries to global business. How, then, to lead Cuba to a democracy that won't allow multinationals to take power?
As long as businesses are small, and have no political power, they are safe and useful -- though it is necessary to police them carefully so that they don't think they can get away with stealing workers' pay and other abuses.

Perhaps the Cuban constitution should prohibit in a broad way the operation of foreign companies in the country. Buying and selling foreign goods, ok; letting a large multinational actually operate in the country, no.