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Jo Waller's avatar

Trump will not end war with Russia by speaking to Putin! It's all theatre. The US has run out of weapons, they want a Minsk 3.0 so they can rearm. Putin isn't that stupid. This will end entirely on Putin's terms, even if Trump manipulates the EU into putting boots on the ground. He's already got them upping military spending to buy US based arms. Trump doesn't want peace. He wants the EU to foot the bill so he can focus on Iran and China. Don't fall for the propaganda.

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Amos's avatar

Really enjoyed this article, thanks!

“We are picking the most important fights and lying down on the train tracks on those fights."

They’re fucking obsessed with the trolley problem! The trolley problem is an out-of-the-box thinking challenge. The correct solutions are to untie the people from the tracks or stop the trolley.

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gerald f dobbertin's avatar

Mr.Kaufman, perhaps it is time to pull the Marxist critiques off our shelves and reread them.

It seems so obvious that capitalism has successfully resisted any attempts to "regulate" it.

Capitalism is now, finally being revealed as the virulent, anti-human form of social organization that some of us have claimed it to be all along. We are seeing this now on a world scale.

Capitalism has enshrined two elemental commandments as though they were handed down to Moses from on high:

1) Private ownership of the means of production

2) "Free Enterprise"

While, the elements we should be analyzing are:

1) Raw Materials

2) Labor

3) Markets

2) "Money"

Everything else is a distraction, the function of which, is to distract our attention from the grotesque, cruel treatment of human beings by the capitalist system and acceptance of the distorted human monsters it has created and placed at the apex of power.

You have done a great job, as usual. I shall continue to look forward to your essays.

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SJWise's avatar

Great post. Thank you.

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Kevin Flynn's avatar

It’s hard to argue with anything you’ve said, in fact you’re exactly correct.

If you’d like to get at the root of these problems and examine both their causes and solutions it would be good to take my “course”.

My “course” is like examining or planning a road trip where it’s important to determine the desired destination. It’s important to recognize what to try to avoid in order to reach that destination. It’s important to come up with both a route that’s the most efficient way to get to that destination. And it’s also important to determine what the best vehicle is to get you to your desired destination.

That’s what my “course” does for the human race as a species…

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