Plutocratist politicians are not interested in keeping Social Security and Medicare going. We need a progressive victory.

The plutocratists would rather simply pull the plug on the increasing fraction of Americans they deem surplus.

Argentines are aware of how the IMF will crush them, and protested massively, but couldn't stop right-wing President Macri from putting their country under IMF power.

Brazil has imposed 100% voting by computer, totally unverifiable.

Dictator Kim turned out to be just Trump's kind of guy.

The agreement they made doesn't commit either side to much.

Some rebuke the bully for giving Kim a kind of legitimacy and getting no practical concessions in return.

However, denying Kim legitimacy was doing nothing to win any concessions from him, so the leverage that the US has forfeited was not worth much. Changing to a friendly tone might achieve some progress toward peace, and that progress could make possible concrete deals that are impossible today.

Or it might backfire and trigger a resumption of hostilities when the expectations of either side are disappointed.

History of US-North Korea Deals Shows Hard Part Is Making Them Stick.

US citizens: call on Senator McConnell to allow a vote on protecting Mueller.