EDITORS—The Paris Olympics, with its outrageous illogic of banning Russia and Belarussia, countries which are merely defending themselves from Western assault, but admitting mass-murdering Israel to the games proves the advanced social and cultural decomposition of the West, notes Joti Brar, and we all agree. Joti then explains why capitalism, and its offshoot, imperialism, cannot be fixed, and how all efforts by its current pathetic leadership to “fix the problem” can only lead to disasters and delay the inevitable. From Ukraine to Gaza and beyond, the US empire is showing everyone that its appalling corruption. irrationality, hypocrisy, and structural disease cannot be cured or covered up any longer by a prostituted media or political class.
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ERIC ZUESSE—In other words, while adopting advanced manufacturing technologies would fulfill the purpose of the US Department of Defense, it is not profitable for private industry to do so.
Despite virtually all the problems the report identifies stemming from private industry’s disproportionate influence over the US DIB, the report never identifies private industry itself as a problem.
If private industry and its prioritization of profits is the central problem inhibiting the DIB from fulfilling its purpose, the obvious solution is nationalizing the DIB by replacing private industry with state-owned enterprises. [In both Russia and China, the weapons-manufacturers remain under majority control by the Government, so that the top motivation for each one of those firms is to fulfill the Government’s national-security needs — NOT the desires of any private investor.]
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BRUCE LERRO—Holistic thinking and analytic thinking each have their pros and cons. In holistic thinking, we have a wide, diffused lens. We see the forest but the trees are blurry. In analytical thinking we have tunnel vision. We see the detail of the trees, but miss the majesty of the forest. This attention to detail leads analytical thinkers to imagine that the whole of the forest is nothing more than an aggregate of individual trees. In holistic thinking the entire forest system is more than the sum of the trees.
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EDITORS—Her prosecutorial reign in California was a disgrace. Now Kamala Harris may bring her dubious talents to the top office in the nation, even though the job is all pomp and no substance, as all the big decisions are made elsewhere, in the true corridors of oligarchic power hidden from the public’s view.
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EDITORS—We know that America has been fighting the Battle of the Bulge for a long time, and losing, but its usual partner in crime, Britain, is also afflicted by the fat epidemic. In this powerful documentary we get an inside look at the NHS hospital fighting the obesity epidemic in the UK. Subscribe to Our Stories: https://bit.ly/3lzSXhv One of the UK’s biggest and busiest obesity units opens its doors to allow an exclusive insight into the battle with the bulge. Sunderland Royal Hospital is at the heart of one of the fattest places in the country and deals with thousands of patients turning to surgery to beat their obesity. But before they go under the knife, they need to come to terms with why they’re overeating. At 47 stone, 29-year-old Terry is one of the biggest patients the unit has ever treated.
