Nine months after many New York City thugs attacked peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters, only two thugs face some sort of legal proceedings.

But these legal procedings are not real criminal charges. The thug department will hold a hearing to decide whether to punish them. Perhaps they will get slaps on the wrist.

Around 180 more cases are still being investigated, slowly, but unless their acts of violence are taken more seriously than those two, thugs in NYC will continue to feel perfectly safe punching and kicking protesters.

Arguing that the US owes reparations to Iraq for the damage it has done.

I agree that the US owes reparations for damages, but I disagree on some secondary points.

The US did occupy Iraq for many years starting in 2003, but what the US military has done in Iraq in recent years was help to defeat PISSI. The US government has not controlled the Iraqi government for a long time — reportedly it has been friendlier to Iran than to the US.

Paying to rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure is not as simple as it sounds. This is not very different from the "nation building" activities that the US made for some years after the conquest in 2003, and those funds were mostly siphoned off to corruption.

Funding the rebuilding of infrastructure in the US without having the funds dissipated uselessly cannot be taken for granted. To do so in Iraq would be an amazing achievement.

Maybe the US could rebuild Iraq's medical system successfully. That may be the most important infrastructure system to rebuild.

*The planet cannot survive our remorseless pursuit of profit.*

*All Health Is Public Health. The pandemic has blown up the myth that our health is largely a product of individual choices and personal responsibilities.*

I agree with this proposal, more or less. However, if we make national sovereignty a foundational principle, we must recognize that the rulers of countries can do things very badly. The US was ruled until January by a covidiot who acted intentionally to spread Covid-19. Tanzania's late president was a Covid-19 denier and may have died from the disease he refused to recognize.

Wealthier countries will not stand for funding the medical system of a country which does not seriously aim to protect people's health.

National sovereignty and democracy don't guarantee that a system will treat all the country's citizens with equal effort. Prejudiced majorities can be found in many countries.

Finally, plain old corruption can occur anywhere.

These potential problems do not constitute a reason to reject the overall idea of the article. But a proposed world medical system must have a structure designed to reduce its vulnerability to these problems — to discourage them rather than play into their hands.

Biden is extending the drugged war by pressuring Colombia to spray glyphosate on coca farms.