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Trade war

dimanche 13 juin 2021 à 02:00

The UK and the EU are headed for a trade war.

Bogus Johnson saw a collision coming, and pretended for political purposes that it would magically go away.

*How Tories changed their tune on Northern Ireland protocol.*

Sri Lanka pollution ship disaster

dimanche 13 juin 2021 à 02:00

The Sri Lanka pollution ship disaster can be traced to the country's debts, which forced it to lease its ports, long term, to foreign investors that didn't care about safety.

Right-wing trumpery

dimanche 13 juin 2021 à 02:00

Right-wing trumpery: running ads on Facebook for Green Party candidates in the hope of dividing Democrats, and pretending not to be who they really were.

Exacerbated effects of PTSD

dimanche 13 juin 2021 à 02:00

The effects of PTSD on US war veterans are exacerbated by the fact that the US doesn't want to be a society which cheerfully accepts killing. We want to be a society that fights wars only when just. Thus, veterans feel guilt about what they have done in war.

This makes a paradoxical contrast with the fact that the US fights so many avoidable wars that one can hardly keep track of them all. For most of these wars, there is no possibility of real victory, which means the US has to choose between indefinite prolongation and politically unacceptable voluntary defeat.

Perhaps the best way to reduce the harm done to Americans by PTSD is by learning to be less ready to fight a war. If we only fought when there was a reason to be proud afterward of having fought, perhaps we would fight fewer wars, fewer veterans would suffer moral injury, and those who did could be welcomed back and healed.

Other countries have similar problems. Samantha Crompvoets interviewed Australian veterans about war crimes, and stated conclusions that the Australian government would rather silence.

Urgent: Fire and replace a USPS board member

dimanche 13 juin 2021 à 02:00

US citizens: call on Biden to fire and replace one of the USPS board members, to assure the firing of DeJoy.