Various methods of estimation suggest that at most 15% of aid funds are diverted to corruption.

Which means that 85% contribute to the intended activity.

US aid to Afghanistan and Iraq are a special case.

Those handouts were not supervised carefully.

Both (all?) sides in the Central African Republic use rape as a tool of of intimidation, and enslave captured women.

Many of these women contract HIV from rape.

No treatmentd is available for them.

Republican Senator Calls Health Care, Food, And Shelter a "Privilege".

It is an arrogant veiled way of saying, "Poor people, drop dead."

The idea that economic growth would enable more Americans to afford the essentials of life is based on fallacious economics. In our current economic system, extreme capitalism, growth goes almost 100% to the rich, who can already afford food, shelter and medical care.

A prediction that the American empire might collapse very swiftly.

The reason banks want to impose forced arbitration on customers is that they know they can rip off their customers for hundreds of millions of dollars that way.