> As terrible as the ongoing burning of LA continues to be, if we don’t radically change course as a society, the future is absolutely guaranteed to be astronomically worse.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/01/13/the-coming-fires/
#LaFires #DavidRovics #CounterpunchOrg

> .. fewer than half of Americans believe that the US is democratic; is a democracy. The reasons given against the US being a democracy are 1) corruption (73%), followed by 2) corporate control of the political system (72%). In other words, the reasons for this missing democracy are economic.
> From the advent of neoliberalism in the mid-1970s to today, the US has been systematically deindustrialized...
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/09/11/will-it-be-socialism-or-barbarism-for-the-twenty-first-century/
#uspol #USADemocracy #RobUrie #CounterpunchOrg