George Monbiot: *If Americans are not polarised against plutocrats, they will be polarised against each other.… Obama’s attempt to reconcile irreconcilable forces, to paper over the chasms, arguably gave Donald Trump his opening.*

Billionaire donors' money doesn't reliably bring mainstream Democrats victory but does reliably keep them useless.

Glenn Greenwald describes the mainstream media effort to suppress and even condemn journalism about the Hunter Biden laptop leaks.

The laptop leaks story itself is not of high importance, in my view. Even if it proved corruption on president-elect Biden's part — which it does not — that corruption would be nothing compared with the corruption Trump displays daily. If I had intended to vote for Biden before reading this, this would not have changed my mind. He would still be the lesser evil. So I have ignored that story.

However, it is peculiar that so many news sites have ignored it.

Bogus Johnson is behaving like the king of the United Kingdom, and has just dismissed his favorite (Cummings), after previously overriding laws to protect him. Naturally the king does not disclose why he has sent a favorite away.

Belarussian thugs arrested a beloved teacher while he was protesting. Next thing, he died of a brain injury.

He was attacked before his arrest, too, by people who may or may not have been official thugs.

The strength and intensity of this year's hurricanes, and amount of rainfall, is a symptom of global heating.

Hurricanes also gain intensity faster than before.

The hurricane flooding has destroyed crops, and this has driven 250,000 people to flee Honduras for the US. Except they usually can't get in.

This will get a lot worse in the next few decades.