How "Don't tread on me" sank from a slogan for resisting power to a slogan for petty jerks that want power over those weaker than they.

Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez are going to Kansas to campaign for progressive candidates in Democratic primaries.

Ortega's unofficial armed forces are attacking students that occupied their university.

A deadly scorpion now inhabits Brazil's cities.

The scorpions eat cockroaches. Efforts to cut down on the food for cockroaches might cut down on scorpions.

Greece is nominally about to emerge from the "bailout" of its creditors. This will change nothing real; Greece will still have to squeeze Greeks to the bone to pay them.

The people interviewed in the main body of the story are advocates of the EU dominion, so they paint everything with a rosy glow. The "reforms" they talk about are reductions in wages and workers' rights. The "democracy" that has survived has no power over anything important, like the "democracy" that is crushing Puerto Rico and the "democracy" that crushed Detroit.

The "surpluses" they speak of refer to the tribute for the creditors that today's Greeks will serve for the whole of their lives.

The banksters that directed and direct the creditor organizations deserve to spend their lives in prison for this.