> .. the author and political activist #BarbaraEhrenreich, who has died at the age of 81 after a career exposing #inequality and the struggles of regular people in the United States.
“She’s really one of the towering figures of the radical and progressive movement in America, and it’s a tremendous loss, not only to her family but to all who knew her and benefited from her work,”
#JuanGonzalez
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/9/6/author_barbara_ehrenreich_dies_at_81
#DemocracyNow #AmyGoodman

> .. this new call for $33 billion in aid that President Biden has made to Congress for Ukraine, this is an astounding amount of money..U.S. foreign aid to the entire #LatinAmerica and #Caribbean region has averaged, over the last 60 years, about $3 billion annually. And yet many Americans are so worried about the increasing flight of so many people from Latin America across the U.S. border.. yet somehow we come up with $33 billion.
#AmyGoodman #JuanGonzalez

'Even if we were able.. to shift from #FossilFuels to #RenewableEnergy, wouldn’t there still be the problem of this, the #OverProduction of capitalism.. the problem.. of having to deal with the e-waste, of.. the batteries for the electric cars.. changing of our batteries every year because the companies have to keep producing new models and keep the #consumption flow going? '
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/10/the_nutmegs_curse
#JuanGonzalez #AmitovGhosh on the need for #DeGrowth ?
Thanks to @cocoron for a good link.

'... there’s a saying that NATO exists to deal with the instability that its own existence creates... it’s a horrible tragedy of the — you know, all these refugees, I mean, and as I’m glad you pointed out, in sharp contrast to the way people from the Middle East and, you know, nonwhite or, what have you, non-European refugees have been treated by the Poles and the EU generally.' https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/1/nato_expansion_ukraine_russia_crisis
#AlexanderCockburn #JuanGonzalez #DemocracyNow #Ukraine #Poland #EU #NATO #refugees #racism

"... it took three weeks for the U.S. and British to reach Baghdad, and most of the time they were advancing across desert. But this looks like a sort of — really like a lighting blitzkrieg in comparison. And, obviously, it’s also correct, as you say, that the Russians, Putin didn’t really — didn’t want to sort of permanently alienate the Ukrainian population..."
https://www.democracynow.org/2022/3/1/nato_expansion_ukraine_russia_crisis
#invasion of #Iraq and #Ukraine #AlexanderCockburn #JuanGonzalez #DN! #democracynow