Month: February 2021

Nobody’s Feet are going to be held to the Fire (part 2)

Two different economic systems in the World Arena.

(continued from part 1.)
According to the official “Summary of the U.S. 2018 National Defense Strategy”:

“the Department of Defense will be prepared to defend the homeland, remain the preeminent military power in the world, ensure the balances of power remain in our favor, and advance an international order that is most conducive to our security and prosperity.”

To the Empire, the mass starvation of children via sanctions is merely another tool of war under the banner of human rights and a “rules-based international order.”

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Nobody’s Feet are going to be held to the Fire (part 1).

2021 is the year the shit is going to hit the fan.

As bad as 2020 has been, there is still a heavy backlog of bills (financial and political) that are coming due.  Hunger and homelessness rise inexorably, as does long-term unemployment.  Loss of medical insurance will leave millions at the mercy of overcrowded Emergency Rooms, as the Covid-stressed medical system continues to break.  Corporate profit-seeking has stalled the emergency vaccination plan.  Unpaid rent and mortgages will put legions more on the street.  They’ll keep cranking up war hysteria.  Oh, did I forget the coming across-the-board breakdown of state and local governments, and their accompanying safety net?

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Rev. Bruce Wright — Rest in Power

Said Bruce Wright, running for Pinellas County Shadow Sheriff in 2013: “I know what evil lurks. So whenever any politician, like Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, spouts their usual bullshit, such as announcing that he is handing complete control of Safe Harbor, a shelter for the homeless, to a private security firm, I, the Shadow Sheriff, will have something to say about it.”

— Rose Roby

This has been a hard piece to write.  I’ve spent over a week starting and stopping and deep down I know why – because I never wanted to write a memorial to my friend and one time co-chair of the Pinellas County Green Party, Rev. Bruce Wright.  I still keep expecting to find links on my facebook page from him.  I keep expecting to see another text.  And more than anything I keep wishing I had spoken to him at least one more time.  But I got busy, as we all do, and after all, he’d be there, he was always there.  And so in writing this I have to come to terms with his untimely death and I’ve put it off as if to stop it all from being true.

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