Plutocracy in the US is crushing essentially all rural communities.

"Financial uncertainty, disappearance of their social systems, lack of access to basic services, isolation, and emigration."

The right-wing politicians that have done this distract the people of those communities by demonizing scapegoats, and via religion. Meanwhile, as they drive more people out of those places, ever tinier fractions of the US get to elect a senator.

In the 1980s, when Democrats were not yet plutocratists, it was the Republicans elected by rural America that helped banksters take away most family farms.

Democratic Rep. Bustos, head of Democratic Party fundraising for congressional candidates is attacking Medicare for All on the usual false grounds of its cost.

Her position, in effect: "We can't afford 32 trillion — we must insist on paying the 50 trillion that the current system will cost."

Most other Democrats in the House of Representatives are still taking the plutocratist side. We need to try to replace them in 2020 with progressives.

The multinational mining company Glencore funded since 2017 an international anti-environmentalist campaign to protect coal mining. It included trying to get dirt on organizations such as Greenpeace and 350.org to try to weaken them, as well as false accusations.

They seem to work with a group of planet-roaster Australian politicians who set up the "Mon-ash forum". Is Mon ash as toxic as coal ash?

There is no room in a democracy for companies powerful enough to do things like this.

The US held a nuclear war game in 1983, but its use of encrypted messages and readying actual nuclear forces led the USSR's leadership to think it was a real attack.

The war game included firing a single nuclear missile at Kiev, as a "signal". The outcome of the game was a general nuclear war that, we now know, would have caused a nuclear winter and destroyed civilization.

The US deportation thugs specifically surveilled activists that opposed the bully, hoping to deport them.